Rebirth 84, starting from fish farming

Chapter 89 The pepper is found
Lao Lu wandered around Harbin for a few days, and went to several famous dried vegetable wholesale markets.

After all, it is a provincial capital city, and every market has more than 100 merchants, although most of them are state-owned sales points.

There are also some self-employed people here.

Wu Qiang is one of them.

His stall is at the very back of the market. Because it is so far away, most people can confirm their purchase intention by walking to the middle of the market, so the stalls in the middle and at the front are basically state-owned.It would be nice for a self-employed person like him to have a location, but he still wants a good stall?What about dreaming?
His parents are older and there are many children in the family, but it is not his turn to take over.

His incident affected the whole family.

If the two younger brothers hadn't left their jobs early because their parents had left early, would they still want to work?
Although the two younger brothers have taken over, the matter of this person has never been settled. The matchmaker asked several times and sent money. No one wanted their girl to marry into such a family.

After that, the matchmakers would always take a detour when meeting the Wu family, for fear of asking their own family to help introduce a partner.

There is one younger sister left in the family. She has just graduated from high school and is among the top three in her class in academic performance. However, because her eldest brother is a member of the labor force, she is not eligible to take the college entrance examination and cannot pass the political examination.

The head teacher sighed, what a pity!
Because of Wu Qiang, the family's work and life were affected.

Only when Wu Qiang returned home did he realize how much trouble he had caused!The fate of the whole family has been changed.

After coming back, I have to have a source of livelihood.

I had no choice but to find the street.

In line with the purpose of curing diseases and saving people, the street government granted him a self-employed license and allowed him to set up a stall in the dry vegetable market.

It can be said that Wu Qiang is tall and thick, but he is also attentive and has a flexible mind.

His stall is at the very back, out of reach of most people.

At this time, self-employed people have little strength, neither in terms of supply channels nor capital. At this time, the world is dominated by state-owned units.

Self-employed individuals can only order batches of dried vegetables and sell them in piles at state-owned wholesale outlets.

Prices at state-owned point-of-sale outlets are fixed, so there is no way to bargain and they are inflexible.

Many self-employed people just use their brains on prices and leave when they see a profit as long as they don't lose money.

Wu Qiang also followed suit.

Because of his position, he is at the bottom among the self-employed.

Every month, it’s just enough.

He persisted like this for several months and found that he couldn't do it anymore.

You have to find a way yourself.

You have to find the purchase channels by yourself, and you have to find different sources of goods.

So he suddenly thought that there were few people in the Northeast who ate chili peppers, so few units regarded dried chili peppers as their main product.

What would happen if you specialized in dried chili peppers from the South?
Although there are fewer people who eat spicy food, there are still some.

Especially in the past two years, many southerners have come to Harbin, and they are big patrons of spicy food.

Therefore, Wu Qiang went to Hunan last fall to investigate the pepper market.

Chili peppers are not worth much in these places.

Every household in the countryside has plants in front of and behind their houses. After drying the inexhaustible peppers in autumn, they keep them for dinner in winter.

Wu Qiang actually doesn't know much about chili peppers, but one thing is that chili peppers must be spicy. This is his most basic understanding.

He purchased more than 1000 kilograms of dried chili peppers at the price of five cents per kilogram.

The standards for inspection are that they must be dry and transparent, have no peculiar smell, and must be spicy when you take a bite.

The chili peppers at the moment are all spicy, so you don’t even need to bite them, you can tell by smelling them.

He checked these peppers back to Harbin from Changsha.

Shipping costs are much more expensive than chili peppers.

Thirteen hundred kilograms of Hunan peppers are piled on his stall, which is like a small mountain.

It looks very impressive.

But since the beginning of winter, there have been many people coming to see the fun, but only a handful of people buying.

Hunan peppers are too spicy.

Northeasterners sneeze when they smell spicy food.

His parents kept complaining that he was not good at business.

In this attempt, the payment was only 65, but the shipping fee was only 50. Plus his own food, accommodation and round-trip transportation, he spent a small [-].

These costs are spread over 1300 kilograms of peppers. Each kilogram of peppers costs [-] cents, plus a little profit, and they have to be sold for [-] cents.

But now the northern chili peppers sold by other stores in the market cost a fraction of the price, double the difference.

Wu Qiang was worried for several months.

One day, a middle-aged man came to his booth, with fair skin, tall and thin, and he spoke very politely.

"Master, this is chili pepper, Hunan chili pepper, nothing else."

"What? Hunan pepper? Really?"

The man was very surprised and said, "Bring one here, let me take a look."

Seeing that this person was interested, Wu Qiang picked one out of the chili bag and handed it to him.

The man looked at the appearance of the pepper, smelled it, then peeled it open, looked at the pepper seeds inside, touched it with his hand, put the tip of the pepper into his mouth, took a bite, and spit it on the ground.

"This chili is good, how can I sell it?"

"How much do you want?"

"Can we negotiate the price if we buy more?"

"Hey, if you want everything covered, I'll pay you the cost price."

"I've paid for it, how much does it cost?"

"Just, just eighteen cents."

"What if I buy it for zero?"

“It’s only two cents if you buy it for zero.”

"Oh."

The man pondered.

When Wu Qiang saw this, he felt a little scared.

After such a long time, a buyer finally came. If he ran away, I would regret it to death.He was afraid that people would misunderstand that he was selling randomly, so he quickly explained.

"Master, it's not that what I sell is expensive, but the cost is really high. I personally went to the rural areas of Hunan to collect these peppers. I have inspected the peppers from each house. As you know, from Hunan to us, The freight is too high, plus the cost of my food, accommodation and transportation, I really don’t earn much from you, one pound is two or three cents, and there’s not much here in total.”

"How many are these?"

"About 1300 catties."

"Are you going to collect these after they are sold?"

"Oh, this is my first time to go to Hunan to collect peppers. Now I have lost all my money. I really don't dare to go there again."

"The peppers they dry are dried in the fall, and you can harvest them in the winter. In fact, they are only available during this time of the year, so it's useless to go there in the spring and summer."

"How about you make another trip and collect a few thousand more kilograms while they still have some inventory?"

"Ah? How many kilograms?"

Wu Qiang's eyes almost fell to the ground.

"Master, do you want so much?"

"I want it. In this case, let's give it [-] cents instead of [-] cents. I'll give you [-] cents per catty, and you can collect it. How about five thousand catties."

"Well, that's a good feeling!"

Wu Qiangle's mouth was twisted.

Lao Lu is now completely relieved.

He had been in Harbin for several days and visited several markets, but he couldn't find the peppers he wanted.

This made him anxious.

You must know that my son has already spent 5000 yuan on rent, and the subsequent renovation will cost more than [-] yuan.

All these costs have been thrown away. How can we open this fish house without chili peppers? !
It’s so damn hard to starve to death!
Today he finally saw the chili peppers he needed at the very end of the dry goods market.

I suppressed my inner joy and started chatting with the stall owner.

Only then did I realize that this person was also a random person.If it hadn't been for him, he might not have sold out all the peppers until next year.

Old Lu could see that the stall owner was frightened by this adventure.

If I didn't order chili peppers from him, this kid would never go to collect chili peppers again.

If he doesn't accept it, what will he use for it?
He twirled the pepper seeds in his fingers. Although he wanted to try planting some in the garden in the spring, it was not safe after all.

I don’t know if the peppers I grow will work. If they are no longer spicy, or if there are other changes, the gain will outweigh the losses.

That's why he raised the price and asked this guy to continue collecting to ensure the materials he needed for his fish house.

"Master, thank you for your trust in me. Don't worry, as long as you give me a deposit, I will make another trip."

"Okay, we have to make a contract."

"That's right, I'm equivalent to your buyer."

"This is 1300 kilograms of money. Please click on it."

Lao Lu counted out a stack of bills and handed them to Wu Qiang.

Wu Qiang took the banknote and felt happy.

I, Boss Wu, have finally made a fortune!
He trembled and counted the banknotes.

"Yes, 286 yuan, just right."

"5000 kilograms of peppers, the payment is 1100 yuan. I'll pay you 300 yuan in advance, and you can call me when you get back."

"300?"

When Wu Qiang heard this, he felt happy.

why?As long as this person comes to collect it, he will make more than forty profits. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a huge profit!

"Okay. Let's sign the contract."

In order to gain Lao Lu's trust, he also took Lao Lu to his home.

Knowing that Lao Lu is a merchant from Beining, the Wu family also warmly received him.

We also had a meal at Wu’s house.

The parties signed a supply contract.

I left the phone number of Director Huang’s office.

The chili peppers from the dry goods market stalls were consigned directly back to Bac Ninh.

Lu Changhua followed Director Wu to the industry and commerce department to go through the relevant procedures. It would take two days for the license to be issued.

He only got a receipt.

Regarding the name of Yufu, the Lu family and his son had a serious discussion.

Finally, it was named "Boiling Fish Village".

There are not many registered hotels these days, so this name was quickly approved.

In order to thank Director Wu for his help, Lu Changhua invited him to have a meal at Hongbin Building.

Director Wu is very satisfied with Xiao Lu's attitude. He is a good comrade who understands the general situation and knows how to handle things.

Lu Changhua was really worried because he didn't have the license, so he waited at the Red Flag Hotel for two days.

As soon as he got his license back, his father came back.

Now the hotel is the meeting place for father and son.

Lao Lu arrived in Beining first, and the consignment of goods would be about three days late.

"Changhua, we have to free up a warehouse. We are buying chili peppers."

"Ah, that would be great."

"I'm going to find Director Huang."

Upon hearing this, Director Huang readily agreed and gave him a key.

"This is the key to warehouse No. 8. It was vacated yesterday."

"Thank you, Director."

"Thank you, you're welcome."

(End of this chapter)