Chapter 11: The Collapse of the Plot
After a night of nothing, Li Yi got up early the next morning!
Because today I have to not only set up a stall to sell cold skin, but also go to the city to sell mushrooms, so I have to get up early.
In view of the booming business yesterday, Li Yi specially prepared some more noodles today.
After reconciling more than 30 catties of noodles with a familiar car, and then making more than 150 pieces of cold skin, and bringing the washed and cut side dishes, Li Yi drove the big red mule to the county seat again.
Since mushrooms will lose a lot of water once they are exposed to the sun, Li Yi decided to sell the mushrooms in the first city and set up a stall in front of the sugar factory.
Li Yi did not choose to sell mushrooms in the street vegetable market, but went straight to the state-run restaurant in the center of the county.
As far as Li Yi knows, in this era of scarcity of materials, the vast majority of people still like fatty meat slices, and few people like to eat mushrooms.
If his mushrooms were put on the streets, they wouldn't sell for much at all.
But the state-run hotel is different, where it is usually hosted by either leaders or wealthy people, who are very rare for wild mushrooms.
In recent years, state-run hotels will go to the countryside to collect mushrooms from time to time, and the price is also very good, and even five or six cents a pound can be given at the highest time, but they don't accept everyone's mushrooms.
Therefore, Li Yi decided to try his luck at the guest house first, maybe he could become their mushroom supplier!
The state-run hotel is located on Xinglong Street, not far from the county government, which is also the most prosperous street in Qingshan County.
Although it is only ten o'clock in the morning, it is already crowded, and I don't know where so many people come from in a small county town with a big fart.
After coming to the state-run hotel and tying the mule to the big poplar tree at the door, Li Yi walked towards the hotel.
As soon as he came to the door, he was stopped by a girl with two braids: "Comrade, who are you looking for?" ”
Li Yi hurriedly said: "Hello, I am from a nearby village, and I heard that your guest house collects mushrooms, so I came to ask!" ”
"Harvest mushrooms? Why haven't I heard about this? The girl said with a frown.
"It doesn't matter if you don't know, you can ask your leaders, if you really don't accept it, I'll pull it somewhere else, in a word, you say!"
The little girl is also a kind-hearted person, looked at Li Yi, who was in the dust, and hesitated slightly, but still nodded.
She first asked Li Yi to wait at the front desk, poured him a cup of hot water, and then walked quickly upstairs.
Soon, the girl came over with a middle-aged man in a tunic suit.
Before and after Li Yi came to him, the middle-aged man said directly: "Comrade, my name is Liu Jingshan, I am the director of the state-run hotel, I heard that you are here to sell mushrooms?" ”
"Well, authentic wild pine mushrooms, and some horn mushrooms!" Li Yi said.
"Can you show me your goods?"
"Absolutely!"
With that, Li Yi took Director Liu to his mule cart and lifted the two large baskets covered with straw curtains.
When he saw the mushrooms in Li Yi's frame, Liu Jingshan was slightly surprised.
It's not that Li Yi has many mushrooms, but the mushrooms in his box are obviously processed, and the soil and impurities on each mushroom have been cleaned up, so they look very attractive.
Over the years, there have been occasional people who bring the mushrooms they have picked to the restaurant to sell, but the mushrooms they bring are full of dirt and weeds, which looks dirty, and it is difficult to clean up in the kitchen.
"How much are you going to sell it for a pound?"
"How much can you give?" Li Yi asked rhetorically.
Liu Jingshan thought for a while and said: "At present, the price of fresh mushrooms on the market is mostly four to five cents a catty, and the fluctuation will not exceed five cents. Your mushroom is in good condition, it is obviously carefully selected, I will give you 7 cents a catty, what do you think? ”
"So high!"
"I see that your mushrooms have been processed, they are uniform in size, and all the soil impurities have been removed, and two catties of mushrooms may not produce a catty of high-quality products, right?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "You are really as wise as a torch and know the goods!" ”
"Let's go over the scales!"
Subsequently, with the help of several staff members of the hotel, two large baskets of mushrooms were directly weighed on the scales.
57 pounds, a total of 39.9 yuan!
Liu Jingshan is also a bright person, and directly gave Li Yi 4 pieces of unity!
After the transaction was completed, Li Yi drove the mule cart out of the state-run hotel in a good mood!
Li Yi was not only happy to make 40 yuan by selling mushrooms, but more importantly, Liu Jingshan spoke when he was leaving just now, if Li Yi still had mushrooms of this quality in the future, they would all want them.
It can be said that through this transaction, Li Yi has found another way to get rich.
And unlike the solitary business of Liangpi, he can't do it alone, and he needs the help of his little brothers, so that he can also get rich with his friends.
Li Yi, who was in a good mood, came to the gate of the sugar factory after a while, although the time was less than eleven o'clock, there were many people gathered here, and they knew that they were workers in the factory by looking at their clothes.
Seeing Li Yi coming, these workers quickly surrounded them, shouting for cool skin!
Li Yi was not hypocritical, quickly set up a stall, and then started today's business!
With the spontaneous propaganda of the workers yesterday, many people in the factory knew about the delicacy of Liangpi and wanted to come and try it, so the business was good from the beginning.
Although Li Yi had anticipated this situation and deliberately did a lot more, he still underestimated the enthusiasm of the workers.
In less than an hour, all 156 servings of cold skins were sold out.
Moreover, there are still many people who have not bought it, and they complain one by one that Li Yi is not too prepared!
When Li Yi heard this, he could only keep bowing his head and apologizing, and promised that they would definitely be able to eat cold skin tomorrow, and then close the stall and leave!
After closing the stall, Li Yi came to the supply and marketing cooperatives again.
It's just that he didn't go inside immediately, but searched around the door.
Although today's income is very good, he thinks that the supply and marketing cooperatives still face a problem when buying things, that is, the lack of tickets.
In this era where you need a ticket to buy everything, money may not be easy to use.
For the same pound of grain, those who have a ticket only need a few cents, and those who do not have a ticket will have to spend twice the price.
And there are some things that you can't buy even if you have money, such as bicycles, sewing machines, watches, and other industrial goods.
However, there are policies and countermeasures, and there are always some people who have tickets but no money, so a group of ticket sellers have been born.
They roam the doors of various supply and marketing cooperatives and state-run hotels, selling all kinds of bills to those who need them.
Now Li Yi is looking for such a person, and he needs to exchange some tickets.
Soon, Li Yi's gaze was fixed on a young man in his twenties.
The young man was leaning on a telephone pole, holding a dog's tail in his mouth, and his eyes were constantly sweeping over the bodies of passers-by, quite a bit of a thief.
After parking the mule cart, Li Yi strode towards the young man!
Li Yi didn't go around in circles to test, and when he arrived, he asked straight to the point: "Hello comrade, do you have a ticket?" ”
The young man's eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, do you want food stamps, cloth stamps, or industrial stamps!" ”
"Can you get a bike ticket?"
"Yes, but it will take a few days!"
"How much is a piece?"
"10 yuan a piece!"
"Okay, I want one, and I now need 50 catties of noodles, 20 catties of oil tickets, 2 catties of sugar tickets, vinegar and soy sauce and salt tickets!"
Hearing Li Yi's words, the ticket seller brother was stunned.
He has never seen such a big customer in this small business, and the most important thing is that he doesn't have so many tickets!
"Big brother, I... I don't have that many tickets! The young man said truthfully.
Li Yi frowned, and then asked, "You say, what tickets do you have!" ”
"The noodle ticket is 40 catties, the rice ticket is 20 catties, the meat ticket is 20 catties, the cloth ticket is more than ten horses, and there are some oil, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and salt tickets, but there are not many of them!"
"I don't want meat tickets and cloth tickets, I want all the rest, you calculate how much you need!"
"Well, I'll give you a change, 5 bucks!"
To be honest, this price is really not cheap, after all, a pound of refined flour is only 1 cent and six cents, rice is only a dime and eight cents a pound, and 5 yuan can buy more than 30 catties of flour!
But he couldn't bear his needs, if he couldn't buy condiments such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, he wouldn't be able to go out to set up a stall tomorrow.
Compared to this loss, this amount of money is nothing!
"Deal!"
After paying the money with one hand and exchanging the ticket with the other, Li Yi told the young man that he would come back tomorrow, and if he could still get a ticket, he would send it over.
Subsequently, Li Yi walked into the supply and marketing cooperatives with a lot of food stamps and money!