Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

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After a night of silence, Li Yi got up early the next morning!

Because today I not only have to set up a stall to sell cold skin, but also go to the city to sell mushrooms, so I have to get up early.

In view of the boom in business yesterday, Li Yi prepared more noodles today.

Li Yi, who was familiar with mixing more than 30 kilograms of noodles, made more than 150 pieces of cold skin, and took the washed and cut side dishes with him. Li Yi once again drove the big red mule to the county seat.

Since mushrooms will lose a lot of moisture once exposed to the sun, Li Yi decided to go to the city to sell the mushrooms and then set up a stall in front of the sugar factory.

Li Yi did not choose to sell mushrooms at the street market, but went straight to the state-owned hotel in the center of the county.

As far as Li Yi knows, in this era of scarcity, most people like meat slices full of fat, and few people like to eat mushrooms.

If these mushrooms of his were set up on street stalls, they wouldn't be able to sell for much money at all.

But state-owned hotels are different. They usually receive either leaders or wealthy people, and these people are very rare for wild mushrooms.

In recent years, state-owned restaurants have occasionally gone to the countryside to collect mushrooms, and the prices they offer are also very good. At the highest, they can even give you five or six cents a pound, but they don't collect everyone's mushrooms.

Therefore, Li Yi decided to try his luck at the guest house first, maybe he could become their mushroom supplier!

The state-owned hotel is located on Xinglong Street, not far from the county government. This street is also the busiest street in Qingshan County.

Even though it was only after ten o'clock in the morning, it was already crowded with people. I don't know where such people came from in such a small county town.

After arriving at the state-owned hotel and tying the mule to the big poplar tree at the door, Li Yi walked towards the hotel.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he was stopped by a girl with two braids: "Comrade, who are you looking for?"

Li Yi hurriedly said: "Hello, I am from a nearby village. I heard that your guesthouse collects mushrooms, so I came to ask!"

"Harvesting mushrooms? Why haven't I heard about this?" the girl frowned and said.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know. You can ask your leader. If you really don't accept it, I will take him to another place. It's just a matter of words, what do you say?"

The little girl was also a kind-hearted person. She looked at the dusty Li Yi and hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.

She first asked Li Yi to wait at the front desk, poured him a glass of hot water, and then quickly walked upstairs.

Soon, the girl came over with a middle-aged man wearing Chinese tunic suit.

When he came to Li Yi, the middle-aged man said directly: "Comrade, my name is Liu Jingshan, and I am the director of the state-owned hotel. I heard that you are here to sell mushrooms?"

"Well, authentic wild pine fungi, and some trumpet fungi!" Li Yi said.

"Can you let me see your goods?"

"of course can!"

With that said, Li Yi took Director Liu to his mule cart and opened two large baskets covered with straw curtains.

Liu Jingshan was slightly surprised when he saw the mushroom in Li Yi's frame.

It's not that Li Yi has many mushrooms, but the mushrooms in his frame have obviously been processed. The dirt and impurities on each mushroom have been cleaned away, so they look very attractive.

Over the years, people occasionally bring mushrooms to restaurants to sell, but the mushrooms they bring are full of dirt and weeds and look dirty, making it troublesome for the kitchen to clean them up.

"How much do you plan to sell for a catty?"

"How much money can you give?" Li Yi asked.

Liu Jingshan thought for a while and said: "Currently, the price of fresh mushrooms on the market is mostly four to five cents per catty, and the price will not exceed five cents. The mushrooms you have are of good quality. They are obviously carefully selected. I will give them to you." 7 cents per pound, what do you think?"

"so tall!"

"I think your mushrooms have been processed. They are uniform in size and all soil and impurities have been removed. Two pounds of mushrooms may not produce one pound of high-quality mushrooms, right?"

Li Yi smiled and said: "You are really discerning and knowledgeable!"

"Get weighed!"

Later, with the help of several hotel staff, the two large baskets of mushrooms were directly weighed.

57 pounds, a total of 39.9 yuan!
Liu Jingshan is also an open-minded person and directly gave Li Yi 4 great unity cards!

After the transaction was completed, Li Yi drove the mule cart and left the state-owned hotel in a good mood!
Li Yi was not only happy that he earned 40 yuan from selling mushrooms, but more importantly, Liu Jingshan said before leaving just now that if Li Yi still has mushrooms of this quality in the future, they will all want them.It can be said that through this transaction, Li Yi found another way to become rich.

And unlike the solitary business of Liangpi, selling mushrooms cannot be done by him alone. He needs the help of his little brothers, so that he can also get rich together with his friends.

Li Yi, who was in a good mood, arrived at the entrance of the sugar factory soon. Even though it was not yet eleven o'clock, there were already many people gathered around. You could tell they were workers in the factory by looking at their clothes.

Seeing Li Yi coming, these workers quickly gathered around, shouting for Liangpi!
Li Yi didn't show any pretense, quickly set up the stall and started today's business!
Thanks to the workers' spontaneous publicity yesterday, many people in the factory knew about the delicacy Liangpi and wanted to come and try it, so business was booming from the beginning.

Although Li Yi had anticipated this situation and deliberately did a lot more, he still underestimated the enthusiasm of the workers.

In less than an hour, all 156 portions of Liangpi were sold out.

Moreover, there are still many people who did not buy it, and they all complained that Li Yi did not prepare more!

When Li Yi heard this, he could only keep bowing his head and apologizing, and promised that they would all be able to eat cold skin tomorrow before closing the stall and leaving!

After closing the stall, Li Yi came to the supply and marketing cooperative again.

But he didn't go inside immediately. Instead, he searched around the door.

Although today's profit was very good, he thought that the supply and marketing cooperative faced another problem when buying things, and that was the lack of tickets.

In this era where tickets are required to buy everything, money may not be easy to use.

The same pound of grain costs only a few cents for those with tickets, but doubles the price for those without tickets.

And if you don’t have a ticket, you can’t buy some things even if you have money, such as bicycles, sewing machines, watches and other industrial products.

However, there are policies and countermeasures, but there are always people who have tickets but no money, so a group of ticket dealers have been born.

They wander around the entrances of various supply and marketing cooperatives and state-owned restaurants, selling various bills to people in need.

Now Li Yi is searching for such a person, and he needs to exchange some tickets.

Soon, Li Yi's eyes were fixed on a young man in his twenties.

This young man was leaning on a telephone pole, holding a piece of foxtail grass in his mouth, and his eyes were constantly scanning the passers-by, quite like a thief.

After parking the mule cart, Li Yi strode towards the young man!
Li Yi didn't try in circles. When he arrived, he asked straight to the point: "Hello comrade, do you have a ticket?"

The young man's eyes suddenly lit up and he said hurriedly: "Yes, do you want food stamps, cloth stamps, or industrial stamps?"

“Can you get a bike ticket?”

"Yes, but it will take a few days!"

"How much is a piece?"

"10 yuan a piece!"

"Okay, I want one. In addition, I now need 50 kilograms of face stamps, oil coupons for 20 people, 2 kilograms of sugar coupons, five kilograms each of vinegar, soy sauce and salt coupons!"

Hearing Li Yi's words, the ticket seller was stunned.

How has his small business ever seen such a big customer? The most important thing is that he doesn't have so many tickets!
"Brother, I...I don't have that many votes!" the young man said truthfully.

Li Yi frowned, and then asked: "Tell me, what votes do you have!"

"40 catties of face stamps, 20 catties of rice stamps, 20 catties of meat stamps, more than ten pieces of cloth stamps, oil, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and salt. There are also some stamps, but not many!"

"I don't want the meat or cloth tickets. I want the rest. Calculate how much it will cost!"

"Well, I'll give you a zero, 5 yuan!"

To be honest, the price is really not cheap. After all, a pound of refined flour only costs 1 cents, and rice only costs 5 cents a pound. You can buy more than 30 pounds of flour for [-] yuan!

But he couldn't bear the need. If he couldn't buy condiments such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, etc., he wouldn't be able to go out and set up a stall tomorrow.

Compared to this loss, this little money is nothing!
"make a deal!"

After paying the money with one hand and exchanging the tickets with the other, Li Yi told the young man that he would come back tomorrow and deliver the tickets if he could still get them.

Later, Li Yi walked into the supply and marketing cooperative with a lot of food stamps and money!
(End of this chapter)