[5] Sold at a loss

It is said that Xiaoqiang went to bed early but couldn't wake up for a long time, and he took a very lazy sleep before he stopped. It was nearly eleven o'clock when Xiaoqiang was woken up by the express delivery call, and people who lost too much blood in the short term were indeed very sleepy.

After receiving the express, Cao Xiaoqiang opened all the watch boxes and confirmed them very uneasily. The seller really did not leave a piece of paper according to the agreement, and there was no trace to see that this was a 2010 Chinese product, even if it was used to deceive the foreigners of 2010.

Looking at the watch box that had spread out a bed, Xiaoqiang quickly cleaned up and put it all into a cardboard box. Looking at FIYTA on his wrist, it was close to two o'clock in the afternoon in a blink of an eye. Xiao Qiang felt his stomach growling, so he hurriedly made the same way and first put on a cup of Ejiao blood tonifying granules. Xin said: "Seeing that there is another task, from now on, three meals a day, each time I drink double - two full bags." ”

The body is the capital of the revolution, and Xiaoqiang continued to go to the restaurant as usual. I went out and ordered a fried sauce noodles in the nearby Lao Beidu fried sauce noodles, plus I brought myself a plate of fried cucumbers with eggs and a belly. Outsiders think that people in the northern capital eat fried noodles like eating a bowl of beef ramen, but they are wrong, this famous chain store in the city, the fried noodles sold are really not cheap, Xiaoqiang used to only occasionally reward himself for eating here, and he just ordered noodles to eat.

This foodie went straight to the supermarket after eating to his heart's content, and with the experience of the first two times, Xiaoqiang felt that it was a good idea to bring some food to the past, otherwise he was not familiar with life, where to fill his stomach? So whether it was chocolate, biscuits, drinks or even toilet paper, he spent more than 300 to buy two large packs.

Back at the residence, Xiaoqiang changed into that suit again, but this time he added a woolen sweater and a down coat on the outside, otherwise he really couldn't stand the cold of 1949. When he was dressed up, he tossed and stuffed four large cardboard boxes and food into his FAW Jiabao micro noodles.

Cao Xiaoqiang pulled the door and sat in the cab, drove to the gas station to fill up the gas, and by the way, bought an iron 20L spare oil drum at the gas station, and also filled up the oil and stuffed it into the butt of the car. According to the map of the old northern capital he found, he drove to the southern suburbs, drove through the Dahongmen overpass of the Fourth Ring Road, and found an open space.

After a period of uncomfortable dizziness in my mind, the car stopped in a farmland, fortunately it was autumn, the farmer had just finished harvesting wheat, the field was empty, and the surface was relatively strong, it seemed that there had been no rain in Beiping recently, and the car did not sink into the farmland. Xiaoqiang turned on the headlights and quietly left in gear.

Just arrived at the Yongdingmen Bridge, I saw a roadcard in front of me, at this time there are still many lurking spies in Beiping, in order to prevent spies from sabotage, after nightfall, all major entrances and exits in Beiping have card inspection procedures, seeing the roadcard, Xiaoqiang is really a little panicked.

"I didn't think about it before, I should have stopped by the wheat field for the night, and then entered the city after dawn, it was not so dazzling." Xiaoqiang thought.

After settling down, Xiao Qiang rolled down the window, looked at the officer on duty and said: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army, I came to the northern capital from Tianjin to transport goods, if you are not at ease, you can check it." ”

At this time, the ID card did not exist, and the inspection of personnel mainly relied on the experience of the inspectors, but Xiaoqiang's goods were too eye-catching, and it was obvious that the officer in front of him who was dressed simply did not believe it.

"We're going to do a routine check, you get out of the car first."

Faced with four large boxes full of watches, the officer was completely stunned, he had never seen so many watches in his life, under the illumination of the headlights, dazzling, no! It should be said that it is overflowing with light. But how else can we say that the PLA is a people's army and a well-disciplined army. Looking at so many expensive "imported" watches, the eyes of this simple soldier were not cloudy except for surprise and admiration. If this is the Kuomintang army in the old society, Xiaoqiang will have to be plucked by the geese, and it is not uncommon to be ruthless and kill people directly.

After asking Xiaoqiang to go to the Delong Commercial Bank on Qianmen Street to deliver goods, the officer instructed the soldiers to remove the wooden shelves on the road card and let them go.

At this time, it was already seven o'clock in the evening, and most of the shops on Qianmen Street were closed. Xiaoqiang saw that there was still light in a shop called Xianghe Noodle Restaurant at the intersection, and there were voices coming from inside, and the door panel was stacked at the door of the store, and it seemed that it should still be in business. Xiaoqiang parked the car on the side of the road and locked it, pushed open the thick cotton curtain and walked in.

"Sir, you're here, please come inside, what do you want to eat?" The shopkeeper in homespun Tsing Yi grabbed an oily rag and greeted him quickly.

Xiaoqiang walked to the counter at the door of the store, staring at the small wooden signs with neat names of dishes neatly written with a brush on the wall, it seems that this noodle shop is famous for chicken, chicken soup, chicken liver, chicken intestines, chicken feet, chicken gizzards, all on the brand.

"Bring me a white-cut chicken, cut two chicken gizzards and two chicken livers, and warm two two two pot heads."

"Okay~~~, you sit here and wait." After the guy greeted Xiaoqiang attentively and sat down, he turned his head and shouted to the kitchen, "One white-cut chicken, two chicken livers and two chicken gizzards~~~!" ”

"Okay~~" echoed in the kitchen.

The shop is not small, the black lacquered counter is polished and shiny, and there are several black wine jars made of stoneware piled up next to it, on which are pasted with rough rough-edged paper, and the word "clay roast" is written.

In the center of the lobby, there are six wooden square tables, each table is placed next to four benches, there are two vermilion lacquer pillars on the left and right sides of the main wall of the front door, and there are two half-bamboo couplets hanging on them, respectively, "three glasses of light wine to reward guests, a coarse meal to feast on relatives", and an offering table is placed in the middle, on which there is a wooden Maitreya Buddha with a bare chest and belly. A corner door on the left leads to the kitchen in the back hall.

At a square table in the store, three intellectual-looking people in robes were eating and chatting.

"Professor Zhang, you are really willing to spend three hundred and five to buy a watch for your son." One of the young men said.

"Where, my son will graduate from college next year, and I haven't bought him anything decent in the past few years, so I have to give him a big one at a time, buy a watch and give it to him, hoping to remind him to know how to cherish time."

The man then said: "Professor Zhang, you said that this Olade watch is from the United States, I used to think that the most haode watches are from Switzerland, but now I have a long experience, I didn't expect that the United States can also make such a haode watch, and it really compares the European goods directly." ”

Cao Xiaoqiang listened to this conversation, and his heart seemed to have knocked over the five-flavor bottle. "His grandmother's, I sold it at eighty, and the old boy made a move of three hundred and five in a blink of an eye, which is too bullying, should I be SB."

The white-haired man known as Professor Zhang took a sip of wine, and then said: "Assistant Professor Shen, you see, the workmanship of this watch is too exquisite, it seems that the mechanical finishing level of the Americans has surpassed that of Europe, and the price of three hundred and five is really not expensive. I wanted to buy another one to wear for myself, and give this old one to my second child, but Boss Chen said that he only bought a total of forty watches, and on the same day, he notified a few big collectors in the city who played watches and some big families who were accustomed to fashionable foreign goods to see. Those big households didn't even blink, I heard that just the boss of Ji Ruichang Silk Village on Qianmen Street bought three yuan alone.

If I hadn't been so coincidental today, I would have missed it. You must know that there are still some big families who have not had time to come, and after tomorrow, they will come and have already sold out. You must know that this watch is not sold by Hendry Watch Store, and Delong is the only one. Boss Chen and I are old acquaintances, but he told me this personally, and there will be no fakes. After speaking, Professor Zhang took a sip of wine with a look on his face.

Xiao Qiang is here, but he poured a mouthful of two pots, he is still a little unbalanced, it has only been less than three days, and all forty watches have been sold out. This thousand-year-old city really lives up to the name of the imperial capital, and its consumption power is strong enough. However, compared with Chen Weifang, he only made a small profit, and he was really panicked, and he blamed himself for not doing business, and he didn't inquire about the market in advance, but the dignified monopoly upstream supplier was slaughtered by a downstream retailer.

At this time in 1949, there were more than 26,000 shops of all kinds in Beiping, the most of which were concentrated in the three major commercial blocks, namely Qianmen-Dashilar Commercial District, Wangfujing Commercial District and Xidan Commercial District. Xiaoqiang made up his mind, and Ming'er would go to a few more stores and sell the goods he brought this time at a high price as much as possible.

Xiaoqiang pondered, then go to Wangfujing, at that time it was different from the Qianmen-Dashilar, Xidan two large commercial blocks, Wangfujing commercial block and the embassy area are very close, so it highlights the three characteristics of shops and commodities "foreign, high, new", there are Taoyuan, Meihua as the representative of the car shop, Hengdeli, Daming as the representative of the watch and glasses store. Xiaoqiang thought of this, so he made up his mind.

"Boss, get me a bowl of chicken noodle soup." Xiao Qiang shouted, after blood loss, the person felt very hungry, chicken gizzard and chicken liver plus a white chopped chicken under Du, Xiao Qiang still felt full. At this time, all of a sudden, Xiaoqiang thought of a serious problem - he didn't have any money on him! To be exact, I didn't bring the money of this era. At this moment, Cao Xiaoqiang was a little confused, he couldn't eat the overlord meal, right? With his small physique, he doesn't have that capital anyway, and he can't afford to lose that person.

It seems that I can only discuss it with this boss, this person has a round face, and the small eyes on it look smiling, maybe he is a good talker.

Xiaoqiang got up and came to the counter, and said to the shopkeeper with a smile: "Boss, you see it's really unfortunate, I just arrived in Beiping from Tianjin, but I didn't check the wallet when I went out, and I don't know if it's empty.

As he spoke, Xiao Qiang took off the FIYTA on his wrist and handed it over. The shopkeeper of this auspicious noodle restaurant took the watch, his eyes lit up, but his face showed embarrassment, "Sir, your foreign watch is too valuable, bet on the small shop, in case there is a mistake, the small shop can't afford to pay for it." ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Xiao Qiang waved his hand again and again, "If you think this watch is too expensive, I will change it to a cheap one for you, and I won't tell you that I am in the watch business, and I will deliver it to Beidu this time, you will come with me to pick up a piece." ”

As he spoke, Xiaoqiang walked out of the store, got into the micro-noodles, and took out a box of watches from the cardboard box that had been opened during the road inspection just now.

"Look, it's brand new, but it's not as expensive as the one I have, and I won't ask you to lose money even if you lose it. Let's open the door to do business, tell a letter, and never regret it. So he forced the watch case into the shopkeeper's hand. When I went back to the store, I ate his big bowl of hot noodles with bright yellow and bright chicken fat, and said, "It's so delicious!" It's really pure home care hen soup. ”

On the other hand, the guy was happy, "The guest officer is really good at laughing, the old hen in the world, that one is not domestic?" Hehe, but our peaceful old hens are carefully picked out one by one, that oily fat, ho! ~~ A pot can float half an inch when boiled. Xiao Qiangxin said, "People in this year have never seen the breeding chickens of later generations, let alone the mutant chickens used by KFC, isn't my complaint just nonsense." ”

The shopkeeper scolded the guy and said angrily: "Just your poor mouth, go aside." ”

Turning his head to Xiaoqiang and smiling, he said, "But what he said is true, sir, you want to eat chicken and drink chicken soup in the future." It's right to come to my peaceful noodle restaurant, which is an absolutely authentic three-year-old Luhua old hen. ”

"Hehe, good!" Xiaoqiang responded.