9. Speculation
The things that Pan Yang put out sold quickly, and before the morning market was dispersed, Pan Yang's stall was empty, and he counted the money on his body, and sold a total of eight yuan and six cents, plus six catties of food stamps, two of which were national food stamps.
I don't know if I don't count, but I'm shocked when I count it. You must know that the ten yuan that Zhang Xuelan stuffed in her pocket was already almost all the belongings of the Pan family, but she only sold it for one morning and it was close to ten yuan.
Don't sell things to make money too fast!
Today and in the next few days, everything Pan Yang sells will be her pure profit, but she knows that selling the things she has saved alone is not a long-term solution, and sooner or later she will have to sell out, and now that she has the capital, she must do her best to find a sustainable path.
After cleaning up the stall, Pan Yang went to the place where she and Liu Tiezhu had made an appointment, but she didn't see Liu Tiezhu, so she guessed she was still selling it in the market. Pan Yanggan was bored waiting, so he simply went to the market to find Liu Tiezhu to see how he was selling.
After looking for a while, he finally found Liu Tiezhu next to a stall selling meat, he squatted on the ground, there were still two pheasants left in front of the stall and no one bought them, seeing that the morning market was about to disperse, and there were fewer and fewer pedestrians, Liu Tiezhu's face was anxious, and he rubbed his hands.
Pan Yang walked a few steps quickly to Liu Tiezhu, stretched out his hand and patted Liu Tiezhu's shoulder, "Big brother, how is it selling?" โ
Liu Tiezhu sighed, "The rabbit was bought, and no one was willing to buy pheasants, and those who came to see it said that they were too thin and had little oil and water." โ
Pan Yang understands that this era is no better than her era, people eat less fat in this era, and things like big fat meat and fat old hens are extremely rare, like lean meat, almost no one wants to buy them, pig trotters, pork ribs, pig water, etc., are even less popular.
Liu Tiezhu's pheasant should be placed in her era, which is rare for many people, but for people in this era, it is indeed too thin, and when the boiling water is scalded and the hair is plucked, it is estimated that there are only a few taels of meat left, which is really not cost-effective.
"I really can't sell it, so I'll take it back and raise it, one of them laid eggs yesterday, and it's okay to make up for the child." Liu Tiezhu was ready to pack up and go home.
Pan Yang looked at the two that were tied together, and asked Liu Tiezhu, "Both are females?" โ
Liu Tiezhu looked at Pan Yang like a monster, as if saying that roosters and hens can't tell the difference?
Pan Yang touched her nose weakly, she didn't know how to distinguish between male and female hens, especially pheasants, she rarely saw them, let alone distinguish male and female.
Liu Tiezhu said, "Both of them are female, and when they go back to be raised for a period of time, it is estimated that they can lay an egg every day." โ
Pan Yang's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a few radish heads at home who were stretching his body, as well as Pan Hengchun, who was old and needed to eat something high-protein to make up for it.
Pan Yang asked, "Big brother, how much are the two pheasants, Brother Pan stayed." โ
Hearing this, Liu Tiezhu said, "Then how can I do it, Brother Pan, I can't sell it, forget it, how can I harm you, you can sell it for some money so easily, how can you buy me again." โ
Pan Yang smiled, "Don't worry, big brother, I don't suffer a loss, I want to buy it and lay eggs for the children to eat." โ
Liu Tiezhu was skeptical, "Really? โ
Pan Yang said, "Hey, I can't tell a lie, really, let's make a price, how much does the big brother buy." โ
Liu Tiezhu said briskly, "Since it was bought by Brother Pan, it is not a valuable thing, so take both of them for one dollar." โ
Pan Yang said, "It's only one dollar, so how can I do it, I can't let the eldest brother lose money." โ
Pan Yang didn't want to take it, next to Liu Tiezhu, he was a pork seller, and he sold a pound of pork for seven cents, and he sold her two chickens for only one piece, which was obviously worth the money.
Liu Tiezhu was forced into Pan Yang's hands, "Brother Pan, don't say that, this pheasant is not domestic, I don't have the capital to go up the mountain and catch it alive, and if Brother Pan doesn't buy it, I have to take it back, I can't make a penny!" โ
Hearing Liu Tiezhu say this, Pan Yang was a little relieved and accepted the two pheasants.
The two went out of the morning market together, and they didn't eat anything in the morning, and the two of them were so hungry that their stomachs growled, but unfortunately they didn't see a company selling breakfast.
But no, the free market is all carried out secretly, who dares to open a restaurant blatantly? Except for the state, how dare private individuals do this, unless they don't want to get involved.
Pan Yang inquired with passers-by and found the nearest state-run hotel, and the two of them touched the state-run hotel, the door of the hotel was open, and it was cold inside, there was no guest, only a waiter who was sitting behind the counter and napping.
The waiter heard the movement, looked up at the two of them, didn't mean to greet them at all, and lowered his head again.
Pan Yang is used to this, this waiter is like the one in the supply and marketing cooperatives yesterday, who eats public meals and does not seek high performance, anyway, even if there is no customer for a day, he will not delay people to get their monthly salaries.
Working in such a dragged unit, you say that people can not be coaxed!
Pan Yang didn't take it to heart, but Liu Tiezhu was nervous and his palms were sweating, he was a rural person, and the number of times he came to the county town for half his life was limited, let alone eating in a restaurant, he never thought about it, and now seeing that the waiter ignored them, Liu Tiezhu looked down at the dirty clothes on his body, and there were broken patches, and then he looked at the clean and decent clothes on the waiter, and he felt inferior and helpless for a moment.
Pan Yang didn't know what Liu Tiezhu was thinking about in his heart, she patted Liu Tiezhu on the shoulder, asked him to sit first, and went to the counter by himself, ignoring the waiter's indifference, looking up at the wooden plate on the wall, and said to the waiter, "Two bowls of green onion noodles and two corn buns." โ
The waiter opened his eyes, glanced Pan Yang up and down, saw that she was wearing tattered clothes, stretched out his hand, and said lazily, "Pay the bill first, and then serve the meal." โ
Pan Yang resisted the urge to roll his eyes, and the wooden plate on the wall was clearly marked with a price, two cents for a bowl of green onion noodles, plus two taels of food stamps, one cent for a corn bun, and one tael of food stamps. Pan Yang took out a dollar, found six taels of local food stamps, and said to the waiter, "Find money." โ
The waiter slowly looked for her four cents, and then shouted behind him, "Master, two bowls of green onion noodles and two corn buns." โ
After ordering food, Pan Yang went to Liu Tiezhu to sit down, and Liu Tiezhu couldn't help muttering to Pan Yang, "The dog looks down on people, and it is obviously bullying us rural people." โ
For this phenomenon, not only now, but also in the future, the discrimination will be stricter, Pan Yang smiled and comforted him, "Regardless of her, it is important that we have enough to eat." โ
After a while, the waiter brought the meal, and the two were so hungry that they began to eat it. To be honest, for Pan Yang, who is used to eating all kinds of food, the taste of green onion noodles is not very good, and the quality of the noodles is not as good as what she sells, if it is not for being extremely hungry, Pan Yang will not be able to eat much at all.
But for Liu Tiezhu, this bowl of green onion noodles is a rare delicacy, he wants to eat slowly, so as to carefully taste the fragrance of green onions in his mouth, but his brain can't control his mouth at all, and he eats the noodles clean in three or two clicks, not even letting go of a little noodle soup, and pours it all into his mouth, and only smashes his mouth afterwards to recall the feeling just now.
When Pan Yang finished eating, Liu Tiezhu got up to pay, and said that he would invite Pan Yang to eat today, even if it was expensive, he would have to pay.
As soon as he got up, Pan Yang asked him to sit down, "I've already paid, let's go." โ
Liu Tiezhu looked at the waiter at the counter, and then at Pan Yang, his face turned red, and he said hurriedly, "I said that I invited Brother Pan, why did you let you treat you again." โ
Pan Yang didn't care much, wiped his mouth and said, "It's okay, whoever invites it is the same, since you call me Brother Pan, what is it for my brother to invite you to a meal." โ
Liu Tiezhu was unwilling, he wanted to pay Pan Yang for life or death, and the two pushed and shoved a few times in the restaurant, until the waiter shouted angrily, "What is the noise, when this is your house, you have to quarrel out, hillbilly!" โ
Liu Tiezhu's face turned even redder, the man who was more than one meter eight couldn't stand the waiter's contempt like this, and was so annoyed that he wanted to beat her, Pan Yang hurriedly pulled him out.
"Brother Pan, say okay, I must invite you next time, otherwise I won't have the face to see you again." When he came out of the hotel, he had walked far away, and Liu Tiezhu was still thinking about what had just happened.
Pan Yang was amused, but also moved by the honest behavior of the big man in front of her, she, I'm afraid she can only meet a down-to-earth and honest man in this era.
Liu Tiezhu sold something, and he was going back today, Pan Yang was not in a hurry to go back, it was not easy to come to the county seat, she wanted to stay for a few more days, so the two separated at the front gate and acted separately.
Pan Yang thought about going to Pan Guangchen's house, she was still carrying two chickens in her hands, and it was inconvenient to move, so she found a place where no one was, Pan Yang concentrated on putting the pheasants in the space, and then walked towards Pan Guangchen's house at Xiaoximen.
went to Pan Guangchen's house, knocked on the door for a long time before someone opened, it was Pan Guangchen's mother-in-law who opened the door, Wu Xiujuan's different temperament was very much like her mother, the old woman saw that the person who came was Pan Yang, the door was only opened, she blocked the gap, and said to Pan Yang with a smile, "Guangchen and his family went to work, do you have something to do with Guangchen?" โ
Having said that, there was no intention of opening the door and inviting Pan Yang in.
Pan Yang didn't plan to go in, he stood at the door and said, "I forgot to tell Brother Guangchen yesterday, I'm going to go back today, and I'm tired of telling Brother Guangchen that I've been here." โ
When the old woman heard that Pan Yang didn't mean to eat and drink at her house, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "That's it, you should go back, like you, you shouldn't come to the city, what can you do?" I don't have much culture, unlike my Guangchen, I can be a teacher, you guys, let's go back and farm honestly, at least you can eat with a mouthful of food, you say yes, it's better to be down-to-earth. โ
Pan Yang smiled on his face, didn't want to say more to the old woman, and said goodbye and left.
Because it's still early, you can't just wait for the morning market every day and then waste the whole day. Pan Yang wondered if he should take the initiative to go to a place with a lot of population flow and sell something.
In fact, she stored many things that might be used in the end of the world, in addition to rice, flour, grain and oil, there are also cooking pots, alcohol blocks, instant noodles, canned food, biscuits and ham and other foods that have been stored for a long time and are full.
Pan Yang looked around, there was no railway station in the small county, so the only thing with a large population flow was the school.
Pan Yang's alma mater, No. 1 Middle School, has a history of 70 years when she was in high school, which means that there is now a No. 1 Middle School in the county. Pan Yang touched her alma mater No. 1 Middle School according to her memory, at this time No. 1 Middle School was far from the scale of when she went to school, all large bungalows, dilapidated and low, with guards guarding the big iron gate, Pan Yang couldn't enter, so he could only wait quietly for class to end at noon.
At about eleven o'clock, the high school gate opened, and the high school students walked out of it in twos and threes, some of them dressed well, some of them poorly dressed, but their faces were full of blue and โกโก, as if they had assumed the hope of the whole nation in the future.
Don't look at their hard work now, this group of people will be big leaders from all walks of life in the future!
With a sense of awe, Pan Yang aimed at a young man who was better dressed, with a big back and leather shoes, and this kind of person was more likely to buy things. Pan Yang walked over to him, called out to his classmates, and walked side by side with him.
The young man turned his head to look at Pan Yang, but did not speak, with a curious look on his face.
Pan Yang said, "Do you want to buy snacks?" โ
Pan Yang took out a can of canned yellow peaches from his cloth pocket.
The young man just glanced at it, didn't show a fuss, but said to Pan Yangzhengse, "Comrade, speculation like this is strictly forbidden, I don't see you like a habitual offender, so I won't report you, I hope you can do it yourself, don't let me see it again." โ
Pan Yang was frightened, and secretly scolded herself for being careless, she actually wanted to sell things to these students, they are people who are brainwashed every day, and they are passionate about this country in their hearts, whether their family conditions are good or bad, they all have a little bit of Qinggao who doesn't know the suffering of the world, even if they starve to death, they won't do speculative things, sell things to them, isn't looking for death?
Pan Yang smiled wryly, and hurriedly collected the canned food and retreated.
I didn't know that she didn't go far, but she was stopped by a middle-aged man, Pan Yang turned around, the middle-aged man was carrying a briefcase, looking a bit like this high school teacher, and hurriedly walked towards Pan Yang.
"Comrade, you were going to sell canned food to students just now?"
Pan Yang looked at the middle-aged man in disbelief, not daring to speak, for fear that the middle-aged man would denounce her.
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man's next sentence was to secretly say to her, "How much can I sell canned food?" โ