Chapter Fifty-Six: Settling In
Xie Bo stood outside the gate, pressed his right hand lightly on his chest, and bowed in greetings:
"Getting the expectations and satisfaction of our customers is the greatest success of our chamber of commerce. The things Mr. Fan ordered were computer-related books, Chef Ho's lifetime contract, and a one-year employment contract for nine other people...... We all brought it as promised. ”
"Great, I've got the funds ready and can trade now." Fan Bei was very satisfied.
"Well, the way of the transaction, I hope you can replace some of the purchase funds with food and water, I believe it will be very beneficial to you." Xie Bo suggested sincerely.
When Fan Bei heard this, he nodded and said, "Manager Xie really thinks for customers, so be it, I don't know how much you need, and what the purchase price is." ”
Of course, he has no shortage of drinking water, and there is a spring in this shelter, which is absolutely clean and unpolluted.
There is also a lot of food in stock, but the production cost is too high, and it may not be worth selling it.
Xie Bo quickly took out a price list and put it under the camera, allowing Fan Bei to take a picture and look at it slowly.
Fan Bei carefully scanned the price list screenshotted, the last time he contacted the Silver Chamber of Commerce to order goods, the other party gave him a detailed explanation of a list of services, including the service of selling food.
Comparing the two, he found that the other party's selling price was more than 3% more expensive than the purchase price. This is normal, after all, the opposing caravan travels to and from various settlements, relying on buying low and selling high to make money to maintain.
He thought for a while and said, "I can only sell food in small quantities, and I can manage enough drinking water, after all, the production cost of food is actually very high in my place." ”
"So you need to open up fertile land outside, this valley is very good, as long as you clean up the evil spirits, you can open up a lot of fertile land," Xie Bo immediately continued, "Relying on electricity to supply solar lamps to maintain agriculture is bound to be expensive. The purchase price we can afford now is barely enough to cover your costs, and if you choose to farm in its natural form, it will be very profitable to sell our food. ”
"What I said is that Manager Xie really never forgets to plan for customers." Fan Bei said sincerely.
"That's natural, real business, is the customer and we make progress together, if the customer suffers, the business will not last long, win-win is the king." Xie Bo said seriously.
That's right, if you could wash your hands clean, I'd believe it.
Fan Bei thought like this, the three brothers surnamed Liu, who took advantage of the evil tide to raid before, finally died in their own hands, isn't it a way for the other party to destroy evidence?
As long as there is no evidence, no matter how many rumors there are, they are just rumors, and for a high-level chamber of commerce like Xie Bo, they can no longer constitute real harm.
Thinking of this, he then labeled the other party as "hypocritical and cunning, requiring high vigilance" in his private diary.
After doing this, Fan Beicai said: "Very good, then we will start trading now, and give me a quantity of water and food you need......
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An hour and a half later, Fan Bei and Chef He drove two small transport trucks from the shelter and sold five truckloads of drinking water and half a cart of food to Xie Bo's caravan.
Plus some gold, worth 5,000 silver coins, which was also given to the other party.
After paying for these things, the books that were preserved, Chef Ho's lifetime contract, and the nine people and their one-year employment contracts were purchased.
As Lang Sheng said, the whole process was uneventful, and the Silver Chamber of Commerce was very abided by the general business rules on the bright side.
Fair trade, not shoddy.
Chef He has recognized them one by one, all of them are on the list, and there are no pretends.
Fan Bei has read those computer books roughly, there are more than 120 books, basically all of them are the latest, and the publication date is within two years.
In the end, he, Chef Ho, and the nine people stood at the gate, watching the other party's convoy leave.
This time, there were not many vehicles from the other side into the valley to trade, only a dozen, and according to Xie Bo, most of the convoys were parked on the road outside the valley waiting to reunite.
Waiting for the convoy to move away, Fan Bei turned to the crowd: "My name is Fan Bei, and I am the current owner of this Vault 364. From today onwards, we are all part of this shelter, and I hope that everyone will unite and build our homeland well. ”
After saying this, he swept the expressions of the crowd.
9 people, 6 men and 3 women, all of them looked very grateful at this time, and promised in unison.
"Uncle He, you know all these people, and you will be responsible for the next thing in a while, and the accommodation will be arranged in the newly cleaned residential area." Fan Bei said another word, and left with Dabai, he still had to complete the daily plan.
And these people are a new test for Chef He.
After Fan Bei left, the nine people suddenly felt relaxed and talked to each other excitedly.
"Lao He, I thought I would never see you again with my daughter." A middle-aged woman in her 40s, with a wrinkled face and tears in her eyes, said.
Next to her, a young woman in her mid-twenties, each of them grabbed one of Chef He's hands and refused to let go.
"Dad, I'm not dreaming, am I? Can we be free again? The young woman threw herself into Chef Ho's arms.
She was dressed in ordinary clothes, gray shirt and blue pants, with a thin face and somewhat dark skin.
"Okay, okay, it's not safe outside, let's go in and settle down first." Chef He was also excited, but he still remembered what he had to do, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to walk through the door.
When everyone entered the bright passage, Chef He carefully closed the door and carefully inspected it, before leading everyone into the passageway that turned around and walked towards the residential area in the east of the shelter.
As he walked, he introduced the things to pay attention to to everyone.
"Now in the shelter, there is only Mr. Fan alone, and there is a very strange white dog. It's the one you saw just now, it's called Dabai, it's Mr. Fan's henchman, don't provoke it usually, it can understand people's words and won't hurt people. ”
The crowd followed, listening attentively.
"In addition, you usually don't go near the two important areas of the main control room and the generator room, and when you want to go to the agricultural area and the storage area to work, take another passage, and I will tell you at that time."
Chef He said tirelessly, fearing that the new family and friends would commit Fan Bei's taboo.
After all, he is a chef and has experience in how to treat people.
"Yes, what Uncle He said is, whatever you say, we will do it. Finally able to get out of that hell, no matter what, it's better than before. A young man in his twenties, dressed in tattered blue denim overalls, nodded repeatedly.
"Well, Xiao Gang, you are finally sensible," Chef He said with relief, "In this case, Lao Chen will not save you in vain." ”
The young man lowered his head and squeezed out two tears: "I was ignorant before, but in the future, I will listen to your life well, work hard to live, and no longer let my father be disappointed under Jiuquan." ”
"Okay, things are over, we all have to look forward, work hard to live, live well, Mr. Fan is a decent person, he will not embarrass us, as long as we work hard and don't cause trouble to others." Chef He comforted.
Everyone nodded yes.
After walking for half an hour, I finally came to the signpost of the shelter - the Grand Cross Corridor.
"Okay, from here all the way to the east, there is the residential area, and to the west is the main control room and where Mr. Fan lives, I just said, don't go near there without permission."
After Chef He emphasized it again, he led everyone through the Grand Cross Corridor to the residential area.
The street lamps in the residential area have been lit up, illuminating the rows of small buildings. There is a somewhat dilapidated sign hanging at the entrance of the community - "Happy Home".
After seeing the dusty but very wide and neat, two-story residential area full of small buildings, everyone was excited.
"Great, how many are there?"
"Finally, I don't have to sleep in bunk beds with anyone else."
Chef He waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said carefully: "There are 40 buildings here, each with 2 floors, and 5 to 7 rooms on the first floor, which are designed according to the scale of 10 to 15 people. ”
"Now there are only 10 people here, my family of three lives in one building, and you have 7 people, discuss it, familiar people live together, and try to arrange 2 buildings."
"Wife, it's a waste for 10 people to live in 3 buildings," Chef He's lover said, "There are only 10 of us in total, it's good to live in one building, so as to save people trouble, and they will definitely come again in the future." ”
"What Aunt Liu said is, Uncle He, it's better for us to live together and take care of each other." Someone chimed in.
Everyone nodded, although a few people looked at the many empty buildings and were a little greedy, but they all held back and didn't say anything.
"Okay, let's 10 of us live in the No. 1 building at the entrance of the community first. Big guy works hard, clean up, I'm going to bring you food. ”
"After settling in, I'll ask the master to help you solve the final problem."
Chef He arranged it in an orderly manner, and the light in everyone's eyes became vigorous little by little.