Chapter 33 Cooperation
Lin Mei was unwilling to pack up her things and walked to the grocery store with a sad face.
"Uncle Jia, I'm sorry, if something happens, I can't ask for the beans I ordered yesterday for the time being, but you keep me first, and I'll pick them up in a few days, okay?"
Lin Mei's business is good during this time, and she came to buy beans again, and yesterday she agreed with Boss Jia to ask for another 200 catties of beans. As a result, he encountered these bad things, and saw that this business was about to go on, but he couldn't break the contract with Boss Jia, so he could only think of another way.
"Miss Meizi, what happened to you, tell me, I'll see if I can help." Boss Jia saw Lin Mei's sad face, so he asked with concern.
"Alas, that's the way it is......" Lin Mei told Boss Jia the truth of the matter.
"These black-hearted people, I have been doing business for so many years, and I have never heard of paying booth fees and protection fees. Sister rest assured, this is called Brother Qiang, his real name is Zhao Qiang, there is no one in the whole town who doesn't know him, so I'll ask someone to inquire about it to see who is behind it. Boss Jia said indignantly.
"Yo, is this Miss Lin who doesn't sell tofu, you also come to buy something, do you still have tofu today, bring me four yuan, there are guests at home, and I am so busy that I haven't had time to buy vegetables." The woman next to her said.
Lin Mei didn't expect the grocery store to meet an old buyer, and the embarrassing explanation was sold out.
The woman was a little regretful, and told Lin Mei to leave her some tomorrow.
This little episode made Lin Mei have an idea in her heart, so she discussed it with Boss Jia.
"Boss Jia, you see that I am a weak woman, if I hadn't met Ding Zhutou today, I wouldn't have been able to say what would have happened. But if this business is not done, my family will have to run out of food, not to mention for my brother to study, I want to cooperate with you, I will provide tofu sprouts, put them on consignment with you, and give you a percentage of the profits sold every day. Do you think so?
This made Boss Jia think about it and said: "This thing can't be released in the hot weather, if it can't be sold, won't you lose money." ”
This tofu is bad, but Lin Mei is not afraid, because it can also be made into stinky tofu and tofu. If someone helps with sales, then Lin Mei can concentrate on developing new products at home, and there is no need to waste so much time coming back to toss.
Lin Mei's eyes lit up when she thought of this, turned her sadness into joy, and said: "Oh, don't worry about this Boss Jia, if the business is good, I can also make some other soy products at home, such as bean skin, bean tendon and other dry goods can be stored for a long time." When the time comes, I will also put it with you for consignment. ”
Boss Jia didn't expect Lin Mei to be able to make bean skin, which is a rare commodity, and money may not be able to buy it. Generally, people who sell tofu have to save for a year and a half, and it is good to be able to supply three or four catties of goods.
If Lin Mei can really supply a large number of goods, then there will be more customers to the grocery store, and she can also bring other businesses, then the business of this grocery store is not thriving.
Boss Jia is also a cheerful person, so he made a decision immediately and wrote a contract with Lin Mei. I was afraid that Lin Mei would not be illiterate and wanted to read it, but when I saw Lin Mei pointing to the contract, she asked to clearly write the profit on the contract, Lin Mei got seven, and Boss Jia got three, and in an instant, I had a new understanding of this rural girl.
Seeing that the matter was negotiated, Lin Mei took the contract and reported the address of her home, and asked Boss Jia to take the time to send the beans to the house.
Boss Jia is a neat person, as soon as Lin Mei left, said hello to the guys in the store, and went out to find an old friend to inquire about the news.
Lin Mei went back, afraid that her family would be worried, so she saved a period of being embarrassed, and only said that she had talked about cooperation with Boss Jia, and she would not have to sell it by herself every day in the future.
Father Lin was skeptical of this statement, but he didn't ask anything.
When it was close to evening, Boss Jia and his men brought Lin Mei two hundred catties of beans, and also brought the news that he had just inquired about.
It turned out that Zhao Qiang had a concubine, known as Qiao Niangzi, who was quite beautiful, and he was widowed at a young age, with no children or daughters, and he didn't have a living all day, so he relied on his sister and brother-in-law to live. After a long time, I got together with my brother-in-law. Qiao Niangzi's sister hated this, but she was helpless.
It wasn't until Zhao Qiang's sister became a concubine for the county lord three years ago and was in the limelight in the town, that Qiao Niangzi's sister encouraged her sister to get along with Zhao Qiang for the sake of her own business.
Qiao Niangzi has never taken the initiative to pester her brother-in-law since she followed Zhao Qiang, Zhao Qiang is much stronger than following her brother-in-law, and her brother-in-law is still a pig killer, and the smell of pig on her body has long been unbearable.
It was the proprietress of the meat stall opposite, Jiang Qiao's sister, who made things difficult for Lin Mei.
The meat on the meat stall is fifteen yuan a catty, Lin Mei's tofu is only three yuan a piece, the customer who originally planned to buy one catty was also changed to half a catty, and the rest of the money can buy two more pieces of tofu, Lin Mei's business is good, which directly affects the business of the meat stall, Jiang Qiaoshi is very angry, and complained to her husband Jiang Butcher, but Jiang Butcher went back on the grounds that the business is doing its own business.
This annoyed Jiang Qiao's even more, and directly found Mrs. Qiao, saying that Jiang Butcher's heart was hooked up with by the young woman selling tofu opposite. Let Mrs. Qiao find a way to vent this evil breath for her sister.
When Mrs. Qiao heard it, she felt betrayed, so she blew the pillow wind in Zhao Qiang's ear. So it was a scene that happened during the day.
Lin Mei listened to the news that Boss Jia finally inquired about, and held a grudge against what this Qiao sister had done, but now is not a good time to seek justice, it is better to hurry up and earn money is the king.
Lin Mei now has a bunch of ambitions that need to be displayed with silver, and she has no time to take care of her sisters.
Boss Jia came in a carriage, Lin Mei took the opportunity to bring the bean sprouts at home and let him take them back, lest Lin Mei have to bring them back tomorrow, the price was sold before for five wen a catty, and now if it is still sold for five wen, it will be a bit of a loss, so Boss Jia will re-set the price himself.
Lin Mei was ruthless, turned grief and anger into strength, and soaked eighty catties of beans at once, of which forty catties were used to raw bean sprouts.
After thinking about it, he brought the wine sent by Xiao Qiming at home, took two taels of silver from the box, and went to Tian's house with the beans soaked in the morning.
"Uncle Tian, the stone mill I mentioned to you before, see if you can help me run in the next two days, I talked to someone about a tofu deal, and I am in a hurry to ask for the goods, see if you can help me get it out first, this is two taels of silver, when the time comes, you hire a car to go, and you can also bring this wine." Lin Mei put the wine and silver directly on the table.
"It's so urgent, okay, Uncle Tian, I'll help you run tomorrow, I'll collect the silver first, and I'll return it to you when I come back if I don't use it up."
The next day, according to the contract, Lin Mei prepared the tofu early, put it in the basket, and sent it to Boss Jia. The price is still three cents a piece, but it is called "Lin's Tofu".
He also asked Daddy Lin to engrave sixteen words "Lin's Tofu" on the tofu template. In this way, after the tofu solidifies, the words "Lin's tofu" will appear.
With the famous tofu, because it is tender and smooth, it has a sweet aftertaste, and the word of mouth has spread in Baishui Town at once, and many restaurants have gone to Boss Jia to order. The happy Boss Jia ran to Yangshu Village again with 200 catties of beans, urging Lin Mei to increase the daily supply, and even the bean money was settled at the end of the month.
This made Daddy Lin, who didn't expect to make a lot of money, also looked down on Lin Mei.