Chapter 21: The Commissary
As she spoke, Zhou Xiaomei let go of Zeng Yirou and opened a cabinet door.
Zeng Yirou's eyes suddenly lit up like a 100-watt light bulb, stared at the boss, took two steps forward, and looked at the neatly hung cheongsams in the cabinet one by one, with plastic bags on the outside.
She stretched out her hand, wanted to touch it but didn't dare to touch it, shrunk into a fist, put it down again, turned around, and asked without saying anything: "Grandma Zhou, ,...... these cheongsams?"
"These cheongsams are beautiful, aren't they?" Zhou Xiaomei caressed the clothes rack and said with feeling, "This is the job I took this year, that is, these seven or eight pieces." When people are old, their eyes and hands are useless, and no matter how much work they have, they can't do it.
Don't say these frustrating words, that is, you moved back early this year, and in half a month, you will all be handed over and taken away, you just want to open your eyes and have nothing for you to see. ”
Zeng Yirou didn't know how to express her feelings in words, so she could only watch blankly, wanting to get closer but didn't dare.
Zhou Xiaomei wanted to show her today, so naturally she wouldn't just have a good time, so she took off a cheongsam and put it on the table in front of the window.
"Quick, don't be stupid there, come and take a closer look."
Zeng Yirou slowly regained consciousness, her legs and feet floated over lightly, and with Zhou Xiaomei's introduction, she settled down and listened carefully.
Two people, one speaking attentively, the other listening carefully, time passed unconsciously.
What broke this calm was the movement at the gate.
It turned out that more than two hours had passed unconsciously, and Zeng Ruolan and Qian Yiming had already bought a stove and came back.
Zhou Xiaomei and Zeng Yirou hurriedly went out to help.
The stove was more than a meter high, shaped like a cannonball, and it looked quite weighty.
Zeng Yirou moved the stove to the living room of the East House with Zeng Ruolan and Qian Yiming, and everyone wiped their sweat.
When the stove is bought, you have to buy a cigarette tube, you have to burn it, you have to buy charcoal, and there are a lot of trivial things.
Zeng Ruolan listened to Zhou Xiaomei's words and said, "Auntie, you don't have to buy charcoal." I met an uncle from my former family at the boiler factory today, and he said that there is a way, and tomorrow someone will send a ton of smokeless charcoal for us to burn. The price was also negotiated, only 300 yuan. I heard that there is a village with a coal mine to distribute it to each household, and if I can't use it for my own family, I ask someone to sell it outside. ”
Zhou Xiaomei nodded and said, "Well, it's not expensive, your relative is still quite reliable, but I use it to see if it's warm or not." Some people like to mix a lot of stones in good coal, which can't be burned, and it is easy to break the furnace. ”
These are the experiences of the old man, Zeng Ruolan's mother and daughter listened carefully and kept in their hearts that these things they had not been exposed to in the past ten years.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark, Zhou Xiaomei simply took Zeng Ruolan to buy a cigarette tube, the quality of this cigarette barrel is different, the caliber is different, the wrong one was bought, it can't be used, and it is easy to leak smoke, causing gas poisoning. directly frightened the mother and daughter, and they were hesitating whether to use the fire.
Zhou Xiaomei said funny: "Do you stop eating because you are afraid of choking on food?" Be careful when you use it, it's not easy to have an accident, don't you see that I'm okay after using it for so long? ”
Zeng Ruolan was afraid that in case, the cigarette pipes were the most expensive ones to buy, and their mother and daughter were left in their family, and they really couldn't stand the toss at all.
Qian Yiming and Zeng Yirou were not idle.
Zhou Xiaomei asked Qian Yiming to take Zeng Yirou to a brick factory not far from the county seat, and the two used a tricycle to pedal some discarded bricks back, and sent coal over tomorrow so that they could use these bricks to fence it off.
The next morning, it was again to sort out the coal, and to burn the fire.
This kind of life is simply too ...... Busy.
The shop was finally sorted out and opened.
The surrounding neighbors were very powerful, and they all ran over to see the excitement curiously. It doesn't matter if you are watching, the two sides of the buyer and seller find that each other's living habits are different, and the needs and supplies are somewhat unequal.
For example, in Guxian at this time, everyone was still beating vinegar pound by pound, and there were too few bagged vinegars.
Not only vinegar, but also edible oil.
Tobacco and alcohol are too high-end, and no one buys them, and everyone wants to buy them at the low-end, which can be used daily.
All kinds of snacks are very popular, but they are limited to a few cents, and they sell very slowly for one or two yuan.
And customers often come to buy some needlework or something, but they don't have it here.
In short, in a word, the level of consumption here is too different from that of Ishihara City, and each other needs to adapt to each other.
In order to better integrate with the life of Guxian, Zeng Yirou was kept watching in the shop, and by the way, there was nothing to review and review the materials.
Zeng Ruolan, on the other hand, was busy running in the large and small markets in Guxian County, and went to a lot of small shops to inquire about the market. If you find a suitable one, you will sell it wholesale to your own store.
After this round, when the small shops were gradually localized, Zeng Ruolan was already very familiar with the wholesale points in Guxian County, and she also had an understanding of the price level.
She casually jotted things down in one of her notebooks, comparing the gap between Ishihara City and Guxian.
It really made her see some doorways.
For example, the wholesale price of daily necessities, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar and other things in Guxian is higher than that in Ishihara City, and it should be another layer of dealer relationship from prefecture-level cities to counties and cities. When there is less wholesale, there is no feeling, and when the volume is large, there is a gap.
For another example, Ishihara City has a lot of varieties of goods, that is, snacks for a few cents for children, and the ones in her store are more complete than those in wholesale outlets, and they also look high-grade. After a few things were sold out, many children came to ask if they were available and when they could buy them again.
Surprisingly, several big brands of sanitary napkins were sold out of stock after only a few days.
Moreover, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so you should buy more tobacco and alcohol, and you should also buy some firecrackers and couplets for the New Year.
Although Zeng Yirou is mostly focused on learning, her sensitivity to small business for many years still makes her aware of business opportunities.
I discussed with Zeng Ruolan and asked her to go to Ishihara City a year ago, in addition to looking at the situation of house sales, that is, to sell more good things in wholesale, and to bring more cheap daily necessities.
If those wholesale points have contact information, you can leave one for them, and when they want the goods in the future, let them go directly through the provincial bus station, let the long-distance bus come over a little, and they will pay for the freight and pay after receiving the goods. Of course, this is limited to very familiar and talkative merchants. In this era, there is far from the saying of home delivery.