Chapter 47: Zhao Xi, whose business is not going well
Seeing that Concubine Zhao was silent, Jiang Jiuling did not speak, but stood aside to watch TV with her.
In the nineties, TV was not rare in big cities, and families with okay conditions basically had it, but there was a difference in the price of old-fashioned black-and-white or new-style color TVs.
But Jiang Jiuling doesn't have it at home, and here without a mobile phone and can't access the Internet, watching TV is the best information fun that can be enjoyed.
Now the TV broadcasts Huaxia No. 2 Channel, also known as the comprehensive channel, which is mainly economic information at home and abroad, and some scientific and technological content.
Now it's advertising time, though.
"Changhong Red Sun.
It adopts a new generation of ultra-flat picture tube technology, which was invented and created by Shen Changhong, an extraordinary scientist.
Codex patent, long life, more realistic image, no distortion ultra-wide field of view, infrared remote control operation.
Changhong TV,Bring you the clearest Olympic picture enjoyment。 ”
The advertisement of good soil, Jiang Jiuling gave an evaluation in his heart.
The next ad opens with lively music.
"The crispy noodles of the little raccoon have a new flavor, barbecue flavor, spicy and crispy BBQ barbecue flavor......"
The third advertisement made Jiang Jiuling's eyes shine.
"It's easy to get dark spots when applying makeup and removing makeup, it's much better with night cream, Dabao~ is quite suitable for me.
Outdoor activities, easy to be damaged by ultraviolet rays, use day cream, sunscreen and skin care, Dabao ~ very good.
If you want good skin, use Dabao ...... in the morning and evening"
The appearance of several girls in this advertisement is good, especially the second female teacher who appeared, and her appearance is not worse than those Xiangjiang female stars.
There were some familiar advertising words in his memory, which made Jiang Jiuling's mood suddenly become happy. Because of this TV,It brought him a familiar feeling of modern technology society,Unlike in his own home,The only place that can be related to electronic products,Only the electronic clock on the wall。
After the commercials ended, talk shows began to appear on TV, and they were Olympic-type interviews.
The quadrennial Olympic Games are a global event, and there are still two months to go before the Olympic Games, and now Chinese athletes are actively preparing for the Olympics. The reporter interviewed the female swimmers and the men's table tennis players, who have the best hopes of winning gold.
When talking about how confident they are of winning gold at the Olympics, these athletes smile with confidence and humbly say that athletes from other countries are also very strong and will do their best to compete, but they are not sure whether they will win gold.
In addition to the Chinese players, the host of the show also talked about the gold-seeded players from other countries and analyzed who among these players is the most likely to defend the title.
This time, the Chinese sports delegation will send a team of nearly 400 people, which is the largest in the history.
Referring to the number of delegations, the moderator also listed a data provided by the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. The largest number of players are in the United States, and their basketball team members are known as the Dream Team, and the two legendary stars "Flyer" Jordan and "Magic" Johnson will team up on the court.
If there are the largest number of people, there will naturally be the least number of people.
When the host talked about South Siam, his tone became a little regretful, saying that South Siam, which has the smallest number of participants this year, has only one sports representative.
South Siam?
It sounds like the name of a country in Southeast Asia, but neither the historical name nor the alias is called South Siam.
Before I knew it, dozens of minutes had passed.
Concubine Zhao still ignored Jiang Jiuling while holding a blanket, but Jiang Jiuling kept seeing the talk show end.
"I'm leaving. Jiang Jiuling said softly: "I'll come to see you next time." ”
It took several seconds for Concubine Zhao to turn her face, her eyes were blankly looking in the direction of the TV, biting her thin lip and muttering a few times, and finally asked, "Xiaohong...... Did you find it?"
Little Red?
Jiang Jiuling thought for a long time before remembering that she was referring to the iron oxide pig, and it seemed that her father had told her the news.
Hearing her ask like this, Jiang Jiuling felt happy in his heart, it seemed that Concubine Zhao still cared about herself in her heart.
"I was looking for it the other day, and luckily I finally found it, and then I exchanged it for money. ”
Jiang Jiuling also asked her a question, "By the way~ Did you listen to that tape last time?"
That tape was the question that Concubine Zhao wanted to ask the most, but she couldn't save face and asked. She now knows the singer's name from her father, but when she asked him to buy Yukimi Nakajima's other albums, his father said he couldn't.
Zhao Xi said that he went to several audio and video tape stores, and only one of Miyuki Nakajima's tapes was sold, but there was only one, and that was the one Jiang Jiuling bought.
Concubine Zhao nodded a little embarrassedly, and asked Jiang Jiuling in a low voice where he bought the tape, can you ask if there are any other albums of Yukimi Nakajima?
"Aunt Nakajima's songs don't seem to be much. Jiang Jiuling recalled the scene in the department store, and Aunt Nakajima's tapes were indeed not many.
"Aunt Nakajima?"
Concubine Zhao was very strange about Jiang Jiuling's title, "Is she very old?" ”
Jiang Jiuling accidentally said the nickname of the later generations, it is now the nineties, and Aunt Nakajima's age should be close to forty. It's right to call aunt to other women, but for her, it's really a bit wrong to call auntie.
"I'm not old at all, I've seen her poster, it's beautiful. Jiang Jiuling scratched his head with a smile, and said: "The matter of finding songs is wrapped up in me, in addition to her songs, I will find some other good songs." ”
Aunt Nakajima has sung so many songs that Jiang Jiuling can't count them, and the nineties are the peak of her creation.
So Jiang Jiuling didn't worry about finding a song at all.
......
When Zhao Xi went home, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.
He was a little tired.
Things in business did not go well, when the concubine had an accident before, he lost his business and accompanied the concubine in the hospital for more than a month. It wasn't until she was completely out of danger that Zhao Xi put things back on the business.
He is in the green tea business, selling Wucheng's specialty Biluo spring tea to Japan, which loves green tea.
Zhao Xi took the boutique route, and the top of the Biluochun tea is of course Dongting Biluochun, the history of this tea was famous as early as the Sui and Tang dynasties. At that time, the Japanese who admired Chinese culture could deny their relatives for a small pot of tea.
Because at that time, the value of a can of famous tea passed down from China was high enough to help more than a dozen homeless people buy a house, land and a wife.
Of course, the modern situation is different, on the one hand, Japan grows a lot of tea itself, and on the other hand, the whole world grows tea, and tea has long been not a scarce product.
However, Zhao Xi's business is still doing well, and the authentic Dongting Biluochun is only produced in the Dongting area of Wucheng, and there are many tea lovers in Japan, and they have a soft spot for fine tea in China.
However, since last year, Zhao Xi has found that Japan's consumption power in high-end tea has greatly declined.
I heard from the dealers in Japan that it was because of the agreement signed with the United States that the Japanese economy had a huge decline, and many of the successful people who liked to drink good tea were chased around by the bank to collect debts.
On the other hand, there are far fewer tea drinkers in Japan who like Biluochun than those who like oolong tea and barley tea.
The business was delayed for more than a month, and when Zhao Xi specially collected some new tea of the highest grade and sent it to Japan for distribution, by the way, he would talk about the supply of tea in the second half of the year.
The dealer told him that Dongting Biluochun was already a little unsellable in Japan.
It is not impossible to continue to cooperate, the share of Dongting Biluochun will be reduced by half, and the price of ordinary Biluochun tea will be suppressed.
The suppliers over there are business partners who have been working together for a long time, and they don't mean to embarrass Zhao Xi, but the entire high-end tea market in Japan is shrinking, and all the tea merchants in China who distribute goods there are facing this situation.
Tea picking time is often concentrated around the Qingming Festival, Zhao Xi and the local tea farmers are very familiar, the tea here is picked and fried, there he will take the money to buy the tea, and then sell it to Japan one after another.
At present, more than half of the tea purchased at a high price cannot be sold to Japan to earn foreign exchange, and even if it is disposed of to domestic tea merchants, it is difficult to deal with it.
Because the Japanese drinking tea is different from the Chinese habit, they like to make the tea powder and boil it to drink. This kind of tea has one more processing process than traditional tea, that is, after the tea is fried, it is naturally dried for a few days and then baked.
Even if these tea leaves have not been ground and are specially fried for Japanese taste, domestic tea customers will feel "inauthentic".
No matter how bad the business is, Zhao Xi will not bring this emotion to his home.
When he entered the door, Zhao Xi had already put on the same smile as usual, and when he heard the movement outside, Aunt Xu also greeted him, ready to say hello to Zhao Xi and go back to his house.
"Is the concubine asleep?"
Aunt Xu nodded and said that she had just slept for a short time, and the concubine was not in a mood today, and the young man named Jiang Jiuling came here in the afternoon.
"Ah~ Did the concubine say something unpleasant?" Hearing that Jiang Jiuling had come, Zhao Xi was inevitably a little nervous.
He was afraid that he would not be there, and the concubine would say something more hurtful like the previous times.
Jiang Jiuling has a good temper, but he is still a young man, no matter how good his temper is, if he eats a closed door here with Concubine Zhao five times, he will definitely have a mustard in his heart.
didn't play a round by himself, what if Jiang Jiuling was angry with the concubine in the future?
During the time when the concubine was discharged from the hospital, her former good female classmates and teachers in the class also came to visit. It's just that they came twice, and after seeing that the concubine had been as cold as an ice cube, they slowly became estranged.
Now that Jiang Jiuling, who is both sensible and patient, has finally appeared, where is Zhao Xi willing to let the concubine lose this only friend?
"Ugly words?" Aunt Xu smiled, "Look where you think of your daughter." ”
"Even if a child has an emotional relationship with his friends, how many days can he make trouble?"
"This afternoon, Jiang Jiuling watched TV with his concubine for a long time, and when I went up with the fruit, I heard the two of them talking about what singer. ”
Zhao Xi was stunned, "Really...... Really?"
"Of course it's true. ”
Aunt Xu felt that the main family was too much of a fuss, she had lived in the countryside for many years, and it was not without young girls in the village who had an accident and were left disabled for the rest of their lives.
At the beginning, everyone must be looking for death and life, and they feel that they will definitely not be able to live in the future.
But after a while, don't you have to go on with the days you should live?
The concubine is a city girl, and it is normal for her temper to be a little longer than that of a rural girl. At first, the concubine was so angry that she wanted to throw her sleeves back to the vegetable market to continue selling vegetables, but now she is not slowly getting better?
"Great, great. Zhao Xi kept shaking his hands excitedly, but he was afraid that he would be too loud and wake up the concubine who was resting upstairs.
This kid really has a set!