Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 558 Sales

"Qingzi, tell me what's going on."

Xu Qing held the phone receiver in his hand, heard Li Guohua's words, and said concisely:

"Guohua, tomorrow weekend, we will meet at Quanjude at 12 noon."

"no problem!"

Li Guohua's voice came from the receiver, and then he said: "Did you call Er Niu?"

"Not yet. I called you first. I'll call him later."

"Well, that's it. I'll see you in Quan Ju De tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow!"

Xu Qing hung up the phone and called Erniu's work unit again.

At noon the next day, Xu Qing, wearing a suit, tie, and black leather shoes, went to Quanjude, asked for a private room, and then waited for Li Guohua and Er Niu to arrive.

As a result, the profits of meat processing plants will also increase accordingly in the future.

Li Guohua hummed, winked at Er Niu, and gestured to pour the wine.

However, thinking that Erniu and Guohua had achieved high status after years of hard work, they immediately felt relieved.

Sijiucheng is a municipality directly under the Central Government, and Erniu is the mayor. If it were to be transferred to a small county town, he would be the county magistrate and secretary.

Li Guohua has already become the second-in-command in his own unit.

"Qingzi, why don't you ask me and Erniu to come over today? It's not just for our old classmates to get together, right? Is there something going on?"

"Qingzi, Erniu is right. At the beginning of the year, we went to your house in the first month of the year and told you that if there was no market for the pork from your meat factory, we would give it to our units.

Li Guohua said with a smile: "Er Niu is right, what do we three brothers have to do with each other? Your business is our business."

Starting today, his meat factory has two more supply unit canteens.

The sun hung red in the eastern sky. Xu Qing first invited the two buyers into the office to drink tea and sit for a while, and then said to Er Mazi, who had just rode a bicycle and came to the meat factory a little later than him:

"Brother Mazi, please arrange for people to load the meat into the car quickly, one hundred and twenty kilograms each."

Erniu was a simple and honest man. He stretched out his hand to pick up the wine bottle and poured the wine.

Not long after, two slices of roast duck were brought into the private room. Xu Qing, Er Niu, and Li Guohua wrapped duck meat, shredded green onions, and cucumber strips in lotus leaf pancakes, and chatted while eating.

In terms of level, it is considered to be on the right track.

When Xu Qing saw his two old classmates saying this, he took a puff of cigarette and said slowly:

"Actually, it's not a big deal. Our meat processing plant will harvest more pigs in the second half of this year than at this time last year. I want to expand the market for pork."

This year, the country held a national clothing exhibition at the Forty-Nine City Exhibition Hall, triggering a wave of suit-wearing in the country.

Then, Li Guohua held his chopsticks and ate several plates of cold dishes brought by the waiter first, chewing and saying:

"Qingzi, is it still Er Mazi who helps you collect the pigs?"

But his ability is no longer what it was when he first started working in the county seat.

Fashion is like a gust of wind, it stays the same for a year or two.

Erniu laughed innocently, took off his suit jacket, put it on the back of the chair, took out his lighter, lit a cigarette for Xu Qing and said:

"Qingzi, whatever you say, as long as Guohua and I can do it, it will be done by both of us."

The three of them met without any restraint. They laughed and exchanged greetings for a while before ordering food. Then, while waiting, they drank wine and continued chatting.

When Li Guohua and Er Niu heard this, they suddenly understood. They nodded, raised their wine cups, and drank one with Xu Qing.

Living in this changing era, Xu Qing followed the trend and wore suits.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, suits have become a favorite among people again.

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As for you, you insisted on saying no, and you have been putting it off until now. I will say hello to my work canteen tomorrow, and from now on the pork will be supplied by your meat factory. "

Er Mazi stood at the door of the office. When he heard Xu Qing's words, he put down the door curtain that he had just opened, turned around and found someone to move the meat into the freezer in the storage workshop.

When it first opened, the fashionable attire was bell bottoms and toad glasses.

Xu Qing smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that I didn't want to do it in the first half of the year, it's that I couldn't harvest many pigs in the first half of the year. This is not recent. This year's pigs have been slaughtered on a large scale. There are more people raising pigs than last year. It's easier to harvest pigs than before. .”

Next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, Xu Qing had just arrived at his own meat factory in the suburbs from home, and saw the buyers from Li Guohua's unit and Erniu's unit already waiting for him in the factory.

"Hey, Qingzi, that's it. It's simple. You will deliver the pork from your meat factory to me and Guohua's work unit. After I go to work tomorrow, I will look for my old colleagues who used to work in the Second Commercial Bureau. Ask them to help you get a business license for retail sales, so that you can save yourself from the trouble that happened at the end of last year when your meat factory was reported."

More pork is sold every day than before.

Xu Qing couldn't help but smile in his heart, secretly feeling that Erniu and Guohua were really efficient at work.

Xu Qing saw that Li Guohua, who had experienced in municipal administration, was becoming more and more experienced, and said with a smile:

"Guohua, Erniu, brothers, I have something to tell you two."

Xu Qing responded: "Brother Mazi went to the countryside with me for two years and is familiar with the villages and towns around our 49th city. I didn't go to collect grain and pigs this year. He did it all by himself."

When Erniu and Li Guohua came to Quanjude, Xu Qing saw that two old classmates who worked in the government department had taken off their Chinese tunic suits and put on suits.

Er Niu heard this and immediately said:

Erniu was transferred last year and jumped from the Second Commercial Bureau to the top of the Market, Management and Supervision Bureau.

Li Guohua sat on the left side of Xu Qing and said. At the same time, he reached out and took out Chinese cigarettes from the lining pocket of his suit and handed them to Xu Qing and Erniu.

After Er Niu finished speaking, Li Guohua said calmly:

In the past one or two years, there have been few transfers and no promotions.

Xu Qing was sitting in the office, chatting with two buyers.

But this is not all the channels Xu Qing uses to expand the sales of meat joint factories.

He has not yet gone over to negotiate in the cafeterias of the second and fourth branches of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill.

After arranging things in the factory this afternoon, I plan to go.

Strike while the iron is hot and work hard to expand the sales of the meat joint factory.

Ten minutes later, Xu Qing walked out of the office to see how Er Mazi had arranged for the pork to be packaged.

"Brother Mazi, are you okay?"

Er Mazi held a cigarette in his mouth and said:

"Qingzi, it's almost done. We've just finished weighing. We'll start working together once it's moved to the car and installed."

Xu Qing nodded and raised his hand to tell the four workers in the feeding workshop not to rush to load the truck. He turned back to the office and called the two buyers out. After checking the weighing scale in person, he confirmed that there was no problem before letting the mover go. boarding.

However, as soon as the purchasers from Li Guohua and Erniu drove away from the meat factory, the purchasers from the canteen of the No. 3 Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant and the purchasers from the No. 5 Plant came to pull pork.

Xu Qing looked at Er Mazi and asked Er Mazi to arrange for people to continue moving meat out of the storage workshop.

At 9:05, the supply trucks of Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant No. 3 and No. 5, which specialize in purchasing vegetables and meat, drove out of the Meat Factory.

Xu Qing held the documents in his hand, took them back to the office, and put them in the drawer together with the documents given by the buyers from Guohua and Erniu.

These documents are all money, and they must be used to make accounts when receiving payment.

If one piece is missing, hundreds of kilograms of pork will be lost in vain.

In this crisp autumn weather, Xu Qing put away the receipts, recorded the accounts in a ledger, walked out of the office, and watched Er Mazi drive the factory's Jiefang truck and leave the factory to collect pigs in the countryside. The meat factory is now operating in an orderly manner.

Er Mazi is mainly responsible for collecting pigs and grain.

In the slaughtering workshop, Hui Dehai led his apprentice to kill pigs.

Over in the breeding workshop, four workers were busy feeding and caring for the pigs.

Two quarantine officers quarantined the pork slaughtered in the slaughterhouse.

Everything is in order and everyone is busy.

Xu Qing walked up to Old Sun Tou, the only free-spirited gatekeeper, and ordered a dry cigarette rolled in a newspaper. He sat in the gatehouse and started puffing smoke with Old Sun Tou.

These days, the country still regards tobacco as a pillar industry of the economy.

Planted every year in many places across the country.

Tobacco quality varies from place to place, and the taste of tobacco leaves varies due to climate, soil and other conditions and other factors.

Of course, there are also reasons for the different planting varieties.

Over the years, Xu Qing has gone from economic cigarettes to Daqianmen, Peony cigarettes, and then to Zhonghua.

I have smoked almost all cigarettes at various prices.

But I smoke less paper-rolled dry cigarettes, and in the past two years I often go to the countryside, so I smoke more.

When going to the countryside, it is inconvenient to buy ready-made cigarettes. People who smoke in rural areas often carry cigarette pouches with them, and the elderly still wear dry cigarette sticks on their waists every day.

Xu Qing has interacted with farmers a lot and gradually gained a deep understanding of tobacco.

The tobacco that Lao Suntou smoked was bought from Shandong by someone.

It is said that during the Republic of China, Shandong's 'Tuanziyan' was the most famous.

Er Mazi said a few days ago that he asked for a pound of shredded tobacco for Lao Suntou, but Lao Suntou was not willing to give it to him.

Xu Qing asked for one today and wanted to taste it.

However, after smoking one cigarette, I didn’t notice much difference from other cigarettes.

It actually tastes mellow and fragrant, and the strength is quite strong.

After Xu Qing finished smoking, he had a casual chat with Lao Suntou, then walked out of the factory and wandered around the warehouse of the Shangliang Station.

In the warehouse of the grain station, Lao Wu and his workers were processing grain. Bags of wheat were ground by huge machines and turned into white and smooth white flour.

Xu Qing doesn't need to worry too much here. The grain station warehouse was built early and started operating early. Already on the right track.

At the moment, Xu Qing comes here every day to inspect and guard against workers secretly smoking.

After all, the biggest concern when processing food is explosion.

It's okay if nothing happens, but if something happens, it will be a big deal.

Fortunately, Xu Qing holds meetings with Lao Wu and other workers every month to emphasize safety hazards. Therefore, there have been no major accidents in the grain station warehouse since grain processing.

At noon, Xu Qing had lunch and rested in the office until two o'clock in the afternoon. After waking up and washing his face, he left the meat factory, rode his bicycle back to the city, and headed towards the Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant. Factory passed.

Although after Xu Qing opened the meat joint factory last year, except for Sancheng and No. 5 factories, the other branches did not mention the supply of pork, but the food in the canteens of the remaining branches was supplied by his grain station warehouse.

Therefore, Xu Qing went to several branches to finalize the supply of pork without even having a cup of tea.

When Xu Qing came out of the sixth branch of Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant where he last went, it was approaching night.

The dusk is dark, the sunset is shining, and the temperature is gradually getting cooler.

Xu Qing looked down at the radar watch on his left wrist and saw that it was past five o'clock in the afternoon.

He didn't go back to the suburban meat factory, but walked along the lively street and headed back to the compound where he lived.

The number of people doing business on the street is increasing day by day, and there are many more "banye" riding three-wheelers to help people pull goods than last year.

The colors of pedestrians' clothes become more and more fancy every year.

When it first opened, almost everyone on the street wore drab green military uniforms or gray or blue clothes.

But nowadays, clothes of various colors are dazzling.

There are not many styles, and the fabrics are mostly the same old ones such as denim and khaki.

But after all, the colors are much richer than before.

Xu Qing avoided the young man in front of him who was riding a tricycle to earn money, and quickly passed by on his bicycle.

The gangsters who used to hang out on the street still looked like idlers, wandering around. Xu Qing took a quick look and knew that the three young men riding bicycles passing by were all idlers.

After the reform, with the country's strong encouragement for economic development, the number of gangsters gradually decreased, but there are still some, but not as many as before the reform.

Most of the gangsters in the past were unable to find a serious job because of their bad background, and no employer was willing to accept them, so they could only hang around all day long.

But many years have passed, times have changed, and status is no longer an issue. As long as you work hard, don’t work in an office, and do some small business on your own, and the country allows it, you can earn money to support yourself.

Xu Qing rode his bicycle, weaving in and out of the crowds of people and cars, and slowly turned back to the alley of his courtyard.

In the courtyard, the three aunts and the eldest aunt in the front yard were sitting together making household chores and picking vegetables.

Xu Qing pushed his bicycle and said hello before heading back to his home in the backyard.

The first aunt watched Xu Qing enter the middle courtyard and whispered to the third aunt:

"Since our compound was renovated, it has become a backyard. Xiaoqing's life is getting better year by year, and we are doing business earlier. We opened a grain station and a meat factory. Last year, the motorcycle was taken away, but this year we bought one directly. truck.

Third aunt, you said why we didn’t catch up with Kaikai when we were young. "

"No, you're absolutely right," the third aunt slowly picked a handful of leeks in her hand and responded:

"Ever since Xiaoqing opened the grain station, I heard Liu from our backyard say that our family almost eats white flour steamed buns and stick noodles every day. Over the course of a year, it doesn't even last a month.

I opened a meat factory last year, and every week I can smell the aroma of meat wafting from the backyard in the front yard. "

The eldest mother continued:

"Hey, Xiaoqing is running a meat joint factory and a grain station. The focus is on eating. But you can always have white flour and meat. Hey, by the way, your boss has opened a restaurant. How is the business?"

The third aunt was stunned for a moment, a trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, and she sighed:

"Don't mention it. Even though I'm a mother, I haven't been there even a few times. My daughter-in-law there is so mean-spirited that she prevents me from going to their little restaurant every day."

When the aunt heard this, she didn't talk to her again.

After autumn, the weather turns cooler. With autumn rains one after another, the temperature becomes colder.

When the weekend came, Xu Qing wore a red sweater in the morning, knitted by his younger sister Xiaoya, and also by Aiguo and Fengming.

Xu Qing dressed neatly and rode his bike to the suburbs, to the meat factory, and returned to the compound around noon.

As a result, as soon as Xu Qing returned to the front yard, he heard the third uncle Yan Bugui say:

"Xiao Qing, what's amazing is that Lou Xiao'e, who divorced Xu Damao, is back with a child."

(End of this chapter)