As the Spring Festival approached day by day, the firecrackers brought by Zhou Wei's father and his colleagues through the locomotive every day were no longer enough to sell, and Zhang Jiaming was a little anxious.

At half past eight o'clock in the morning, my sister Zhang Jiali had not gotten up, Zhang Jiaming went out after eating the breakfast that his mother had made before going to work, and walked to the corridor on the first floor, Zhang Jiaming found that there was a letter in the mailbox, and took it out to see that it was sent to Liu Tengda by Yangjiang Daily, and the back of the envelope also used a pen to write the word "rejection", Zhang Jiaming looked at no one around, so he quietly stuffed the letter into his schoolbag.

Zhang Jiaming came to the store of the post and telecommunications bureau near his community, and he decided to make a long-distance call to the Chunguang Firecracker Factory to ask if the remittance had been received.

"Hey, hello comrade! I'm Zhang Jiaming from Yangjiang City, please ask, did I receive the 500 yuan deposit I remitted to your factory the day before yesterday? ”

"Well, I just received it, and I'll ship it early tomorrow morning." A man with a Central Plains accent on the other end of the phone replied.

"Comrade, I want to ask for an extra 20,000 firecrackers, is it okay?"

"Medium! No problem! ”

Thinking that the two people from the cannon stall opposite had booked 10,000 firecrackers from themselves, Zhang Jiaming estimated that 10,000 was not necessarily enough, so in order to leave enough margin, Zhang Jiaming ordered an extra 10,000 for them.

"Comrade, let me ask again, when will your delivery car arrive in Yangjiang City tomorrow?"

"It was about one o'clock in the afternoon."

"Thank you, comrade, no problem."

Zhang Jiaming went out of the door of the post and telecommunications bureau and rushed directly to the Dongcheng farmers' market, the two people who had an awkward relationship with him had moved here yesterday, and when they saw Zhang Jiaming coming, the two of them said with a sad face: "I didn't expect that there are five or six guns selling guns here, and they all sell the same guns, the competition is too fierce and the business is not easy to do!" Now your eldest brother and your sister-in-law are waiting for your electric cannon to arrive. ”

Zhang Jiaming smiled and said: "I will tell you a good news, the 10,000 firecrackers you want will arrive tomorrow afternoon, but I don't pay on credit, you have to prepare cash." ”

"Great!" The two of them jumped up and down happily, "Brother, don't worry, my money is ready, and when the time comes, I will pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." ”

Zhang Jiaming chatted with the two for a while before getting on the bus to Lu Xiaokun's house.

When Zhang Jiaming arrived at Lu Xiaokun's house, Lu Xiaokun was pushing a tricycle and preparing to go out, and in the tricycle was a box of firecrackers sold last night.

Zhang Jiaming stopped Lu Xiaokun, "Xiaokun has no time to come out of the stall this morning, the firecrackers I ordered from the factory will be shipped over at noon tomorrow, we have to quickly clean up an empty house and use it as a warehouse tomorrow." ”

There was no dog barking in the courtyard, and Zhang Jiaming guessed that Lu Xiaokun's grandfather went out to walk the dog again.

Lu Xiaokun pushed the tricycle back into the courtyard, took out the key to open the doors of those rooms, and saw the room full of sewing equipment and backlog of products, Zhang Jiaming had a headache, so many things, when did he have to pack up the two small bodies of himself and Lu Xiaokun alone?

Lu Xiaokun said: "Jiaming, wait a minute, I'll go out and find a few people to help." ”

Ten minutes later, Lu Xiaokun came back with one or twenty children, ranging in age from five or six to twelve or thirteen, Lu Xiaokun pointed to a house and said, "Brothers help me move all the things in this room to other rooms, and if you do a good job, each of them will be rewarded with a double yellow salted duck egg." ”

These children were willing to come to help Lu Xiaokun, but they didn't expect that there would be salted duck eggs to eat after work, so their emotions rose even higher, and under Zhang Jiaming's methodical command, it only took more than an hour to vacate a house.

Looking at the children who were washing their hands and faces in front of the faucet in the yard, Zhang Jiaming said: "Seeing that it is the Spring Festival, so many firecrackers are only relying on the two of us I am afraid that we will not be busy. ”

Seeing that these children were all washed, Lu Xiaokun came out with a basket of salted duck eggs, one for each person, and then according to Zhang Jiaming's requirements, he selected fifteen or sixteen children, and said: "Are you willing to follow me and Zhang Jiaming to the Xicheng Farmers' Market to sell firecrackers, and if you are willing, each person will be paid two yuan a day." ”

"Two bucks? So much! The chosen child shouted with sparkling eyes.

The children who were not selected looked at Lu Xiaokun with envy and begged to bring themselves with them.

Two yuan was indeed a lot at that time, and the average monthly salary of these children's parents was less than two yuan per day.

Lu Xiaokun asked in a low voice: "Jiaming, am I giving a little too high, why don't I give them another dollar every day?" ”

Zhang Jiaming said in his heart, I originally gave five yuan per person, but I didn't plan to change it when I saw that these children were very content, so he replied: "It's so decided, two yuan is two yuan!" Take them to familiarize themselves with the business today, and don't panic when they get busy in the next two days. ”

Zhang Jiaming, as the chairman, and Lu Xiaokun, as the CEO, were naturally invited to sit on the tricycle, and the stars around the two sat two or three children respectively, crowding the tricycle to the brim, and the remaining children were only to follow behind and push the tricycle.

More than half an hour later, a group of children surrounded by a tricycle came to the door of the Xicheng Farmers' Market, just put up the gun stall, there were customers who came to buy guns, Zhang Jiaming became the shopkeeper, let these children do sales in person, Zhang Jiaming stood aside and observed for half an hour, and finally selected five talents who can be reused.

By half past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the remaining box of firecrackers sold out yesterday was also sold out, and there was still an endless stream of customers who came to buy firecrackers, but they were told by a group of children that the firecrackers were sold out, and they would come back to buy them at three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

At noon, Zhang Jiaming managed rice, each person had a fragrant fire, plus a bowl of steaming bean brain.

After eating, Zhang Jiaming said to Lu Xiaokun: "Xiaokun, you take two people to Uncle Zhou's house to get guns, and I will stay here to make up for my winter vacation homework in the past two days." ”

"Okay!" Lu Xiaokun agreed, beckoning the two tall children to ride a tricycle together and leave.

It didn't take much time for Zhang Jiaming to make up for the winter vacation homework owed in the past two days, and then began to lower his IQ and chat with these children.

At half past three in the afternoon, Lu Xiaokun and the two children who went with him came back with five boxes of firecrackers, Zhang Jiaming called the five key training objects he had just selected, and took them as the center, each of whom took two people to set up five groups, each group received a box of firecrackers, and lined up along the entrance of the farmers' market, and officially began to practice stalls!

Lu Xiaokun said to Zhang Jiaming: "Uncle Zhou said just now that this is the last time to bring us artillery, and the leaders of their unit only held a meeting yesterday, and strictly forbade them, the train drivers, from carrying smuggled goods home from other places, otherwise they will be punished." ”

Zhang Jiaming replied: "It's not in the way, tomorrow our large number of firecrackers will arrive, and we can sell them openly in the future, and we don't have to worry about the lack of supply." ”

It didn't take much effort, and the five stalls were full of customers buying and running, and Zhang Jiaming and Lu Xiaokun, as mobile personnel, went to help wherever they saw that they couldn't get busy.

Because the Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the children's business is already ingenious, the five boxes of firecrackers pulled in less than three hours were sold out, Zhang Jiaming counted the sales of the five stalls, and found that there was basically no big difference, so each person was given two yuan, and the five team leaders were also given an extra yuan, which is called "duty allowance!"

Seeing that everyone had a satisfied expression after getting the money, Zhang Jiaming waved his small hand and shouted in a crisp children's voice: "That's it for today, go home for dinner, and continue to work tomorrow!" ”