In the afternoon, Gu Meng walked out of the vegetable market with a bamboo basket on his back.

He Hongjun walked over from the opposite street with a figure-eight step, and asked with a smile, "Mengzi, how was my performance just now?"

"It's wonderful! The kid has a talent for acting, do you want to be a star in filming in the future?"

"Celebrities, I don't want to, I just want to catch a car!"

Now TV dramas and movies have not yet risen in small mountain villages, and everyone does not have much hope for stars, but Gu Mengke knows that this kid will also raise an eighteenth-tier starlet in the future, vividly interpreting what it means to be disabled Zhijian.

"Junzi, where's the guy who handed the stones?"

"That kid is a street boy, I know him, and he gave two cents and sent him away!"

Just now, the knife split the stone and cut the wire, in fact, there is moisture.

The pebble was deliberately found to be a more brittle stone, and a young man was arranged to send it over, if it was really a pebble, it would be cut with a brick knife that split red bricks, not to mention a thin kitchen knife?

There is also iron wire, originally He Hongjun was going to use a fuse, but Gu Meng was worried that people would see it, so he proposed to use a kind of iron wire with low carbon content and relatively soft, which could be cut with one knife.

The kitchen knife used for performance is also special, he sandwiched two strips of steel on the blade, the blade is very sharp, but it is relatively brittle, and it will collapse if you cut it a few more times, you can see it if you look closely, so Gu Meng didn't sell the kitchen knife.

"Gu Meng, will you sell it tomorrow?"

"Come on, today we have made a name for ourselves, and tomorrow we will be able to sell all these knives!"

"What should we do if we are doing a drama and someone finds out and comes to the door?"

"Afraid of a hammer? They bought a knife, and they didn't really use it to cut stones and wires, how could they find out?"

Gu Meng shook his head, "And my knives are indeed good knives, much better than stainless steel knives, I'm not afraid that they will come to the door!"

He is a serious businessman, and acting is also a way of publicity, but he is not cheated and abducted, and his knife is indeed more durable than the kitchen knife steel fire of the abrasive factory, and he is not afraid of people coming to fight fakes.

"Let's go, please have a big meal, treat yourself!"

"What a feast!"

"Old Zhang's spicy chicken!"

"Woo~, really, I drool when I smell his chicken!"

"Really, business is off to a good start today, call the mountain master, let's celebrate together!"

"Okay!"

......

In the next few days, Gu Meng has been selling knives in the vegetable market, performing stone chopping and wire cutting, and engaging in big reward activities.

At first, the publicity effect was very good, and I was able to sell five or six in a day.

After three days, it can't be sold, kitchen knives are not consumables, everyone has kitchen knives at home, and there are not many people who buy knives.

Everyone only watches the excitement and doesn't pay for it, and they are all the masters of white prostitutes.

There was no way, Gu Meng could only move his nest, he and He Hongjun acted separately, focusing on restaurants, slaughterhouses, butcher shops, and hardware stores.

In the end, there were still more than a dozen left unsold.

Gu Meng gritted his teeth, ready to sell knives in the most primitive way.

"Sharpen the scissors and the kitchen knife!"

In this era, knife sharpeners are all craftsmen, and they rely on technology to eat, which is not speculation.

It's just that the social status of this type of work is not high, running around, the profits are thin, and there are not many people doing it.

Gu Meng uses slogans to attract people, and if someone sharpens his knife, he can sell his own products by the way.

"Sharpen the scissors and the kitchen knife!"

"Sharpening the kitchen knife, wait a minute!"

As she was shouting, a fat lady walked down from the building with two bright kitchen knives.

The eldest sister's whole body is as thick as the bottom, and her face is full of horizontal meat, and she is violent, like Sun Erniang, who makes human meat buns.

"Sister, do you want to sharpen the kitchen knife?"

The eldest sister glanced at him and frowned.

"Mountain baby, when you come out to run the rivers and lakes at a young age, you can sharpen a kitchen knife?"

Seeing his immature face, the eldest sister questioned his craftsmanship.

"Eldest sister, let me tell you the truth, my ancestors were iron-struck and could make all kinds of knives, I have practiced sharpening knives since I was a child, and I promise to sharpen your kitchen knives like new. ”

This is not a lie, generally those who strike iron will sharpen their knives, and if they don't sharpen their bright ones, they will not look good.

The eldest sister will be suspicious, "How much money does it cost to sharpen a knife?"

"A dime!"

"Expensive!"

"Hehe, a small business, eldest sister, you take care of me. ”

The eldest sister didn't say anything more and handed him the kitchen knife.

The eldest sister's kitchen knife is a stainless steel kitchen knife produced in the factory, the knife is very light, the blade is very thin, I don't know what was cut, and the gap on the blade is the size of a sesame seed.

Gu Meng didn't say anything, he put the basket under the shade of a tree on the side of the road, took out a whetstone, an abrasive cloth, a planer, and a jar of cold water from it, and began to sharpen the knife.

"Eldest sister, your cooking skills are very good!"

The eldest sister watched from the side, and he took the initiative to provoke the topic.

"How do you know?"

"From the kitchen knife. ”

"What do you think?"

"Hehe, the sharpening of the kitchen knife is the same as the person who repairs the shoes, the shoe repairer can see whether a person is in good health through the wear and tear of the shoes, and the same is true for the sharpening of the knife, through the scratches on the knife body, as well as the two tips before and after, I can see that the eldest sister's knife work is very good, the kitchen knife is used well, and the cooking skills are croaking!"

"Haha, I'm okay cooking, there are people in the community who like to ask me for help when they have happy events. ”

"Ahh

"Haha, what a chef!"

The eldest sister smiled heartily, watched Gu Yong sharpen the knife with a snort, and sighed: "It's a pity that the quality of the knife now is not as good as before, not to mention that the bones can't be chopped, and the number of times I cut vegetables is too much, and it is not good to ask for it." ”

"Yes, the current knife, pay attention to good steel used on the blade, after a long time, the good steel on the blade has worn out, this knife is naturally not good, and it will be completely scrapped if it is sharpened again, and it needs to be re-melted. ”

"Scrap it, scrap it, next time go buy a good knife. ”

As the saying goes, a good horse deserves a good saddle, and a good cook should use a good knife, eldest sister, I have a good knife here, and I am sure that it can match your good cooking skills, do you want to take a look?"

Gu Meng took the opportunity to take out a kitchen knife from the back basket and started to sell.

He confidently said that the Gu family's ironware is a century-old brand, with the Gu family's inscription on it, and it will definitely appreciate in value in the future.

Moreover, the steel fire of this knife is good, durable and wear-resistant, and he also found bones on the spot for experiments, and his knife cut off the bones, leaving no gaps at all.

The eldest sister is also a knowledgeable person, and she happily bought a round-headed kitchen knife and a bone chopping knife.

Gu Meng opened his mouth for five yuan, and the eldest sister was only willing to give out three.

In the end, I bargained for a while, and only bought two for eight yuan.

The money for sharpening knives was also waived.

When the eldest sister buys a knife, the woman passing by will also stop to take a look and comment on the kitchen knife.

The eldest sister is well-known in the community, an opinion leader, she said that the knife is good, and other women attach great importance to her opinion, and they also pick and choose and buy one.

I sharpened my kitchen knives once and sold four kitchen knives.

In the next few days, Gu Meng traveled around, shouting and sharpening knives while selling his own knives.

There are not many people who buy knives, but there are many people who sharpen scissors and kitchen knives.

In three days, he sharpened dozens of scissors and kitchen knives before he could barely sell the last ten kitchen knives, and five of them were sold at a reduced price.

I was busy for more than a month, first buying coal and iron, then smelting iron, and running around to engage in sales, so I earned more than 200 yuan, which was a small loss.

Gu Meng is also very helpless, at present, the domestic factories are running again, the market economy has begun to crush the small-scale peasant economy, and he cannot make a fortune by striking iron to grow crops.

Now there is still a market for self-made iron tools, and in a few years, steel mills and abrasives factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and can produce better and cheaper iron tools, at that time, folk blacksmiths have no way to live, and a large number of blacksmiths have to dismantle the furnace and find their own jobs.

Gu Meng doesn't have the strength to set up a factory, and he doesn't have that policy now, so he has to plan ahead and do something else.