Chapter 39 meets the director of the grain station
I didn't go to Hejiaji Town yesterday, seeing that the New Year was coming soon, Mingfang was eager to make money, she came back from Li's house, and rushed to Hejiaji with two hares on her back stepping on the snow. Against the cold wind, Mingfang wrapped the square headscarf on her head, tried her best to cover her face, only exposed her two eyes, and hurried hard.
Mingfang pondered in his heart while hurrying, relying on catching sparrows, hare to make money is not a long-term plan, firstly, the number of hunts is limited, and he can only earn some pocket money, and secondly, he wants to dig the first pot of gold as soon as possible and do big business.
Every time she sells sparrows and hares and comes to Hejia Market Town, she is willing to go far and wide, so as not to let acquaintances see it. If you go to Liujiapu, where the commune is located, it is only more than three miles, it will be much closer.
The last time she went to the supply and marketing cooperative, she looked for Li Shanling to sell rabbit skins, and after walking around and checking around, she was tempted. The highway crosses from Baoshi and runs east to Cangshi, and on both sides of the highway are communes, health centers, supply and marketing cooperatives, two socially-run factories, restaurants, grain stations, and a high school, which are generally state-run in those days. But I don't know when, not far from the state-run hotel, two private hotels have popped up, and they have the audacity to listen to the loosening of the national policy and take the lead. It was these people who quickly made a fortune in the eighties by taking advantage of the good policies of the state.
Ten years from now, there is no doubt that this will be a bustling town, with a row of bungalows and a large yard on the north side of the road, lurking huge business opportunities. If she buys it, she can run a hospital like in her previous life, build a supermarket, or simply rent it out, and then this place will be expensive.
It's just that this first pot of gold, how to get it, where to get it? In the 80s, the country had already implemented reform and opening up, but it would take some time for the spring breeze of reform and opening up to blow to the countryside and to this remote town where she lived.
But the most important thing right now is to eat a full stomach, and if you go further, ask your family to eat as well as possible.
When Ming Fang stepped on the snow and walked to Hejiaji Town, it was already more than ten o'clock. Walking to the door of the health center, Mingfang put the frozen hare on the snow. waited until noon to get off work, and the doctors and nurses did not come out, probably because it was cold and slippery, and the family ate in the hospital cafeteria. Ming Fang guarded the rabbit and stamped his feet in a hurry.
Three people came out of the courtyard, a man pushed the principal on a bicycle, and a woman behind him helped him and slowly walked out. It looks like he has just been discharged from the hospital.
Mingfang was looking around the street, hoping for a customer, when the headmaster, who was sitting in the back seat of her, shouted: "It's her, hey, little girl!
There were few pedestrians on the cold street, and Mingfang turned her head when she heard the shouting, it turned out to be Principal Wang, who didn't ask her to sell sparrows at the school gate that day.
"Headmaster, how are you?" asked Mingfang with concern.
Principal Wang jumped down from the bicycle and grabbed Mingfang's little hand: "Oops, I've been looking for you for days!"
"Is there something wrong with me?"
The principal shook Mingfang's hand and said to a man and a woman beside him: "Orchid, Erzhu, this is the little girl who rescued me that day......"
Orchid listened with a grateful face: "Thank you, little girl, you saved my family's old king, and you are our family's benefactor!"
In her previous life, there were too many scenes of rescuing patients from danger and meeting the patient's family to thank them, Mingfang had long been accustomed to it, she shook her head: "Yes, you're welcome." ”
The man called Erzhu smiled: "Brother, sister-in-law, since you are a benefactor, you have to thank you for it, it's just noon, my brother is cured, and the benefactor has also been found, I'll treat you, let's go, eat!"
The headmaster nodded, "Yes, yes." Little girl, would you please go down to the restaurant?"
Ming Fang shook his head: "No need, no need, my hare hasn't been sold yet!"
Only then did the three of them pay attention to the things on Ming Fang's side. Erzhu pointed at the rabbit: "This is your rabbit? How much is it, I want it all." ”
"Two dollars a piece. Mingfang was secretly happy, and the price doubled when he opened his mouth.
Erzhu took out two two-yuan tickets: "Here, little girl, can you eat with us now?"
Mingfang took the money and put it in her pocket, she said to the principal: "Principal, you don't need to eat, I want to ask you something?"
"You say?"
"My brother wants to go to university next year, he didn't go to high school, and he studied hard at home every day, and I don't know how to apply for the exam?"
The principal's eyes widened in surprise: "Your brother is homeschooling, why didn't he come to high school?"
Mingfang: "My family has no labor, he has to earn a job." If he wants to go to high school now, can he transfer to another class?"
The headmaster pondered for a moment: "That depends on his level of knowledge." If you don't study at school, you may not be able to apply?"
"He is now teaching himself Chinese, mathematics, physics and chemistry to the fourth volume. Mingfang gritted his teeth and said a little too much, "Headmaster, why don't you ask him to take the final exam of your school?"
If you take the exam, you'll know how much you've learned!
The principal nodded: "Okay, the school's final exam is scheduled for the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and there are more than ten days to go, and on that day, you can ask him to come to me early, if his exam results are okay, he will come to the transfer class, there is still half a year before the college entrance examination, and it should be too late." ”
Mingfang's eyes lit up excitedly: "Great! Thank you, principal!"
Erzhu picked up the rabbit: "Little girl, you can get delicious food in the future, don't wait here stupidly, go directly to the grain station to find me!"
Orchid smiled at the little uncle: "You, the director of the grain station, I see, you don't have any other skills, you know how to eat!"
"Grain station, no matter anything else, just eat, wheat, corn, rice, millet, peanut oil, soybean oil, sesame oil, ......"
Mingfang's heart moved, she had already heard that the price of rice, flour, and edible oil on the black market was much higher, so she could get some of them?
"Director, I heard that the grain station also sells grain and oil at a low price under the condition of ensuring supply, right?"
Erzhu nodded: "Yes, the policy has been relaxed, but it is not determined, and when the documents are approved, we will sell a batch." Hey, I'm going to write today, and I'll export a batch of wheat tomorrow. ”
Mingfang excitedly grabbed Erzhu's arm: "Director, how much is a pound of wheat?" Can you sell me a little?"
Erzhu looked at her in surprise: "Wheat is a dime four, do you want to buy it?"
"A thousand catties, okay?"
Erzhu looked at the little girl suspiciously: "Little girl, although the state has relaxed the policy to allow the private economy, but you want so much at once, can you afford it?"
"That...... Aren't you going to sell it tomorrow, and I'll come to you tonight in the dark, okay?"
Seeing Erzhu, he nodded. Mingfang ran away, and the principal shouted at her to eat before leaving, and Mingfang had already run away.
1,000 pounds of wheat, 140 yuan!
It was past lunchtime, and although Mingfang was rumbling with hunger, she forgot about her hunger excitedly. Along the way, she only thought about it, these days she sells sparrows and hares, and her family has almost thirty yuan, and there is still a difference of one hundred and ten yuan.
One hundred and one dollars! If you want to make this deal, you have to raise this money!
Mingfang searched her intestines and scraped her stomach along the way, and thought about her relatives and friends, her uncle's family had many children, and she couldn't take care of food and clothing. Friend, after she was reborn in this world, she got acquainted with Old Man Lin and Fang Yuan, the educated youth Fang Yuan earned the same work as everyone in the countryside, his parents were squatting in the cowshed, and Fang's father was sick again, where did he get the money? Old Man Lin may have some money on him, but how can he be embarrassed to open his mouth to the old man? She thought to herself, if she really had no choice but to go to the forest farm.
Ming Fang passed by Liujiapu Town, and when she saw the newly opened Hongyun Restaurant, her eyes lit up and she walked straight in. It was the meal, there were really a lot of guests, and several tables were full of people. A man in his forties greeted with a smile on his face, and a woman sat behind the counter, counting the money with her head down, looking at the age that it should be his wife.
When the shopkeeper saw Mingfang coming in, he hurriedly came over to greet him warmly: "What are you eating?"
Mingfang: "I don't eat, I'll find the restaurant owner." ”
"What are you looking for me?" came to the restaurant not for dinner, and the man looked confused.
"I want to make a deal with you, I wonder if you are willing?
"My surname is Chen. You yellow-haired girl, you're trading with me, did I hear me right?" the man rolled his eyes.
Ming Fang pulled the other party's arm and walked to the counter, and whispered: "Boss, I have a batch of wheat in my hand, do you want it?" ”
The man's eyes lit up, and even the ears of the woman counting the money behind him straightened. The business of the small restaurant is booming, and the amount of flour required is quite large, so the two of them have a headache for purchasing flour everywhere.
"How many pounds do you have, and how much does a pound cost?"
Mingfang stretched out a finger: "I don't have too much in my hand, just now, Guoli Hotel asked for 800 catties, I see that your business here is so hot, I don't know how many catties you can eat? ”
Ming Fang had already inquired clearly, and the bargaining price of wheat was five jiao a catty. And private restaurants are in high demand, so it's so easy to buy affordable grain.
The man looked at his wife hesitantly, thinking that his wife was in charge. The woman stood up: "We haven't seen the goods either, we don't know the quality?
Ming Fang smiled: "The wheat is definitely from the regular channel, how much do you want?"
The woman raised her face with a condescending look: "We want a thousand catties for Hongyun, do you have it?"
"Yo, if you want so much, then I can only give Guoli next time. ”
"It's just a little cheaper!" the woman was shrewd.
"Four dimes a pound, it can't be cheaper. "Mingfang asked for four corners and five cents, and those five cents were reserved for others to bargain.
The two looked at each other, and the man nodded: "Okay! ”
Mingfang: "Let me tell you one thing first, you have to pay first. ”
The two of them widened their eyes when they heard this.