Chapter 112: The Chen Family's Future Business
Chen Qi's method is very simple, that is, he made two drying racks on the sidewalk outside the store, and put a thick bamboo in the middle.
Then on the pole, all the pheasants, wild ducks, hares, and old grain chicken legs were hung out.
In the upper and lower rows, dozens of various colors of preserved sauce were hung there, which instantly attracted the attention of the crowd coming and going on the road.
While the silly eldest sister and Chen Qi were busy hanging out the cured meat, Lan Lijuan was helping to write promotional slogans on a piece of red paper.
Lan Lijuan is also worried that her words are too ugly, after all, she has not systematically learned brush characters, but what Chen Qi wants is this kind of "simplicity".
You must know that the advertisements put out by the Chen family's shop are self-produced and sold, and if you make it too formal, it will be troublesome for the red sleeves to come to the door.
Now the neighbors know that the new family is from the mountains, and they have bought a house with the help of relatives, so it is normal to sell some local products now.
Chen Qi knew that these neighbors must look down on their own family in their hearts, so their own family would simply go home.
Soon, Lan Lijuan's promotional slogan was written:
"Self-produced and self-sold, authentic game, not much in quantity, until sold out."
As soon as the red paper was pasted at the door of the store, a group of middle-aged women gathered around, pointing at the preserved chicken and duck hanging at the door, and sniffing it twice from time to time.
"Hey, how do you sell these cured chickens and ducks?"
The silly eldest sister didn't know how to write the three words embarrassed, so she stood up and said with a smile:
"Auntie, this is made of authentic pheasants and ducks, we want the price is not expensive, pheasants and ducks are 2 yuan a catty, and hares and old grain chickens are a little more expensive, 2.5 yuan a catty."
2 yuan a catty, this is Chen Qi's careful consideration, this year's first catty of pork costs 1.5 yuan with a ticket, and if you go to the black market to buy the price, it is about 2 yuan.
The same is true for chicken and duck meat, fresh ones are 1 yuan and 6 cents, and a chicken weighing three or four catties is at least 5 or 6 yuan in the market.
And because the cured meat is dehydrated after pickling, the amount is reduced a lot, so with the salt money, the pickling process money, and the freight add up, it is not expensive to sell it for 2 yuan a catty, not to mention that this is still game.
Sure enough, these aunts became interested as soon as they heard that it only cost 2 yuan a catty.
As mentioned earlier, the taste of Vietnamese and Chinese people is salty, and they especially like cured sauce, which not only tastes good, but also because of its saltiness, it is especially good for rice.
So immediately an aunt brought out a preserved chicken that she was satisfied with:
"Come, girl, help Auntie weigh how many catties this chicken has."
In order to make it convenient for the silly eldest sister, Chen Qi deliberately bought a scale, put the goods on the pallet, hang the scale, as long as the scale is moved laterally, how many portions are clear at a glance.
The scales in the eighties, which are all standard scales, will not be 5 catties of goods in the market, and only 4 catties of a scale when you return home.
The silly eldest sister was very happy when she saw that there was a business just after it opened:
"Auntie, look, this chicken has a total of 2 catties and 7 taels, I will be 2 and a half catties, and I will charge you 5 yuan, how about it?"
The aunt was happy when she heard it, she had a small advantage and paid 4 cents less, so she immediately took out the money happily:
"Okay, my aunt will steam it tonight, if it tastes good, I'll help you sell it."
"Okay, Auntie, you can take the things, welcome to come back next time."
In the blink of an eye, a deal was sold, which made Chen Qi stunned next to him, he was worried that the stupid eldest sister lacked brains, and it was not necessarily suitable for business, but now he found that the clown was himself.
The eldest sister has a somewhat social character, and at first glance she is a straightforward character, which is very easy to gain the trust of small citizens, and she is born to do business.
The stupid eldest sister took the money, and the 5 yuan note was looked at again and again, and it was very beautiful in my heart, and then carefully put it in the drawer.
Seeing that there was the first transaction, those aunts all flocked to pick up the cured meat they liked and were about to buy it.
Seeing the bustling crowd, and then seeing the silly eldest sister in the middle of the crowd greeting and weighing things happily, Chen Qi also relieved himself.
Finally found something to do for the eldest sister, and it was still a business to make a small fortune.
Lan Lijuan was surprised to see that the bacon business was so good, she was also from the mountains, of course she knew that this kind of cured chicken and duck was not worth much in the mountains at all.
After all, they are all hunted or caught by traps, and if you want to talk about the cost, the big deal is the cost of salt, and how much is this?
As a result, the food of the mountain people was sold at a "sky-high price" when they were brought to the city, which made her eyes shine all the time.
If she can take out the bacon at home and sell it, or go to the village to collect some cured goods to sell, can she also make a sum of money for the family, so that her younger siblings can return to school? Can it make mother's life less stressful?
"Squad Leader Chen, eldest sister, how much profit do you say will be in this business?"
Chen Qi saw that there was no one left and right, so he said softly:
"The profit scared you to death, just say that the wax ** just now, I received it in the village for 1.5 yuan, this price didn't make the mountain people suffer, right?"
Lan Lijuan nodded, a chicken is 1.5 yuan, which is definitely not cheap in the mountains, you must know that the monthly work was only 10 yuan before.
"I received 1.5 yuan for a chicken, the weight is 2 and a half catties, then I sell it for 5 yuan, so there is a net profit of 3.5 yuan. You see that the old grain chicken leg that the aunt wants to buy is at least 7 catties, and 2.5 yuan per catty costs 17 yuan, and my purchase price is only 5 yuan, and the profit is 12 yuan. ”
Lan Lijuan's eyes are about to burst into little stars, and her monthly subsidy is only 10 yuan.
"Wow, squad leader Chen, how profitable is it? It's incredible. ”
Chen Qi shook his head:
"That's me, and other people can't do business like that. Our family has its own store to save rent, the eldest sister is a salesperson to save workers' money, and there is also a large head of transportation. You have to find someone to pick it out from the mountains, and then transport it to the city by boat in Keqiao Town, do you calculate, how much does it cost? ”
In any business, logistics is the big head, and this phenomenon has not been solved even in 2022.
Many agricultural products are rotten in the ground in the place of origin, and no one buys them for a few cents and a few cents a pound, while people in the city need a few yuan a pound to buy vegetables, and even dozens of yuan a pound during the epidemic, and they can't buy them.
This is the reason why the intermediate logistics cost is too high and the transportation is difficult, resulting in such a huge price disparity between the two ends.
Doing business, it is this difference in price that is earned.
Of course, Chen Qi likes money, only when he has money, can he have the confidence to refuse the invasion of sugar-coated shells in the future, and can he not forget his original intention and be a good doctor, not a red envelope doctor.
The small shop of the Chen family on Lu Xun Road has opened lively, but in the conference room of the People's Hospital, it is silent.
Everyone sat in their respective positions and swallowed the clouds, only Qi Damin, the head of the medical department, was emotional:
"This kind of unhealthy trend must be persistently opposed and severely punished!"