Chapter 13: Do market research
Listening to Luo Xiaolan's footsteps gradually moving away, Luo Xiaoyu raised her head from the bed, wiped the tears hanging from her eyes, and showed a smile of conspiracy.
Luo Xiaolan shouldn't bother her to review for a long time.
fooled Luo Xiaolan, Luo Xiaoyu closed the book, in the long run, reading books is not a problem, but a month later, she wants to go to the city to take the exam, and she must be able to afford a train ticket.
Although her parents doted on her and would do everything for her to enter the city, Luo Xiaoyu was an adult and could not continue to be a parasite.
Change your fate, start by working hard to make money, in the previous life, you suffered too much loss due to lack of money, and in this life, you can't let fate repeat the mistakes of the past no matter what.
With the idea of making money, there is a direction.
"Sell bean curd, soy milk, and tofu!"
A shouting with a local accent that dragged out the end came from the yellow mud road, attracting Luo Xiaoyu's attention.
Baiyun Township is the day of gathering to do business on the first, fifth and eighth days, and today happens to be the twenty-fifth day of the lunar calendar, which is the day when the small rural market is thriving.
If you want to make money, you have to go to the place where the money is circulating!
In Luo Xiaoyu's last life, I heard that someone made a lot of money by reselling goods and became the boss.
However, in the 80s, the rural market economy was not well developed, and the supply and marketing cooperatives also contracted a large number of transactions, such as rice, flour, grain, oil, cloth, meat, and vegetables, and bills, which had not yet been completely withdrawn from the market.
Luo Xiaoyu can't make up her mind about what to sell, so she might as well put down her books and go to Polder Street.
Luo Xiaoyu came to the mirror, smeared a little tea oil on the grate, combed her hair into two big braids, one left and one right, put on a linen shirt, thick leg pants, and stepped on a pair of rubber sandals.
"Hey, Xiaoyu, why are you going? Don't review it anymore? As soon as I went out, I met Lan Zhaodi in the corner of the house with a basket of fresh miscanthus on her back.
She was still wearing a burlap cardigan, with patches on her shoulders and hem, her unkempt hair hung with blades of grass and dewdrops, and her waist was bent by a bamboo basket.
Luo Xiaoyu hurriedly grabbed the brakes and jumped off the 28 bars, "Mom, why are you carrying such a heavy miscanthus?" Come, I'll ship it back for you! ”
She reached out and helped Lan Zhaodi unload the miscanthus grass.
Lan Zhaodi's expression was a little confused, and she dodged her hand backwards, "Don't move, dirty!" Mom can do it! ”
"Dirty what? It's not a rich lady, where is it so delicate? ”
Luo Xiaoyu smiled and picked up the bamboo basket, removed it from her waist, and put it on the back seat of the 28 bars.
"Wait! The bamboo basket is dirty, don't get the car dirty. Lan Zhaodi said reluctantly.
"Oh, Mom, isn't it just a 28-bar car? Are people important, or are cars important? Luo Xiaoyu stopped her from removing the bamboo basket, pulled open the straps, pressed the bamboo basket firmly after dividing it by two, and walked in the direction of the cowshed in the west of the village.
Along the Yellow Ni Road, at the junction of the village and Tianlong Mountain, there is a small col with a flat land below.
Ten years ago, Luo Jianguo made adobe bricks out of mud and grass, and built three houses of sixty or seventy square meters one by one.
Because of its remote location, it was used as a cowshed and a firewood shed by Luo Qianqian.
With the help of the 28 bars, Lan Zhaodi was a lot more relaxed, and finally straightened her sore waist.
The villagers in the same village saw Luo Xiaoyu, who had always kept his fingers on the spring water, and actually carried the bamboo basket with 28 big bars, thinking that the sun was coming out in the west, and they stopped to watch.
"Yo, the top students of the Luo family have come out to work! What a rarity! A few little daughters-in-law who were hoeing grass in the field began to discuss.
The other little daughter-in-law lowered her voice, and her tone was quite ambiguous.
"I heard that last night, she was beaten by her grandfather! I'm afraid that my conscience has found that I know that reading is useless, and it's time to help with farm work. ”
A group of little daughters-in-law talked about the changes in the Luo family, and it was rumored that they had noses and eyes, which probably meant that Luo Qianqian and his wife were going to split up, kick the eldest family out of the house, and live another life.
Without the support of her elders, Luo Xiaoyu didn't want to go to any university, so she would simply become Chai Hegu with everyone!
Anyway, for hundreds of years, the women of Baiyun Township have come over like this!
How can Luo Xiaoyu get rid of his fate and become a city man that everyone envies?
Their voices were not small, and a few words drifted to their ears, Lan Zhaodi asked with a bitter smile: "Xiaoyu, do you hear it?" If you really don't take the college entrance examination, their spittle stars can drown you! ”
Luo Xiaoyu shrugged her shoulders indifferently and threw a comforting look at Lan Zhaodi.
"Mom, don't listen to their nonsense! In the future, I will definitely live better than them! ”
Seeing that her daughter is full of confidence and hope for life, and the image of being timid and sensitive in the past is like the two of them, Lan Zhaodi is both relieved and surprised.
"Xiaoyu, do you really think so?" Lan Zhaodi asked suspiciously.
"Of course! Mom, times are different. We have to take the exam, and we also want to make money! Believe me, with Dad's accounting mind and your hard-working, I will definitely be able to live better than them! ”
Luo Xiaoyu untied the bandage, carried the bamboo basket down, opened the cowshed, and neatly threw a basket of fresh grass into the cowshed.
A pale yellow cow with an unwound calf quickly approached and munched on the fresh grass.
Lan Zhaodi saw that her daughter was not sloppy at all, so she trusted her more and more.
After feeding the cow, Luo Xiaoyu stepped on the 28 bars and rode along the yellow mud road in the direction of Wei Street.
The morning sun is shining on the yellow road, the fields on both sides of the road are green, and an 18-year-old girl is riding a bicycle, running into the distance like the wind, which is quite a bit of a broad road.
Luo Xiaoyu's heart has opened up a lot.
Although Baiyun Township is a small town, it is connected to the three townships of Chongai, Shangmei and Shefu, there is a national highway passing by, there are gas stations and hotel services on the side of the road, and there are often long-distance buses and private cars from the provincial capital.
Entering the polder street, Luo Xiaoyu turned his attention to those small vendors.
Because she is just a poor student with a thin family background, if she wants to resell goods, any work that requires a lot of capital is not suitable for her.
Luo Xiaoyu ignored it directly and walked straight in the direction of the small vendor.
On both sides of the street are a variety of shopfronts, mostly teahouses, which also sell dim sum snacks, peanuts and melon seeds, as well as a few small restaurants, all of which are not cheap for travelers from the national highway and changing through the countryside.
Outside the store, there are all kinds of small vendors, including wrinkled, anxious and honest old country women, selling fresh melons and vegetables picked from their own vegetable garden.
It's May, and when the greens are scarce, all they have are beans, eggplants, peppers, and evergreen leeks.
Among the small vendors, Luo Xiaoyu also met several acquaintances in the same village!
The fat aunt sells her home-grown loofahs and buckwheat dug in the ground today.
"Fat aunt, how do you sell it? Is the price good? Luo Xiaoyu came to her side and asked.
The fat aunt was a shrewd woman, and when she saw her coming, she said, "You don't buy it." You don't have to know the price. ”
Luo Xiaoyu picked up the loofah and smiled, "How do you know I don't buy it?" ”
The fat aunt's eyes flashed with an elite light, and she said, "Cut, they are all from the neighbors, I have them, can you have them in the Luo family?" ”
This is right, the fat aunt will screen customers.
Luo Xiaoyu stayed by her side, and the fat aunt remembered what happened last night, so she asked, "Do you really want to break up?" ”
"True points." Luo Xiaoyu said.
"Hey, that's fine! Why can't your parents figure it out? The fat aunt said with some regret.
"About our family, Aunt Fat is a person who understands." Luo Xiaoyu showed a sincere smile.
The fat aunt likes to hear others compliment her the most, and she immediately became interested, "I have long been angry with your parents and let the family live on a new stove." ”
"Hey, my family is poor, how can I live?" Luo Xiaoyu intentionally or unintentionally picked up melons and vegetables and sold them to passers-by.
However, passers-by compared the melons and vegetables with the stall next door, and they had to pay for it, so they still went around to the stall next door.
"How's it going? That's it. The fat aunt did not have the frustration of not being able to sell at all, and continued to sell to passers-by.
"If this person doesn't buy it, there's the next one! What are you anxious about? ”
These words made Luo Xiaoyu look at the fat aunt with admiration, and felt that she was different from those long-tongued women in the countryside who loved to chew the root of their tongues.
The price of melons and vegetables is not good, only two cents a catty.
After working for most of the morning, he didn't get a penny, and there were too many competing products, so Luo Xiaoyu dispelled the idea of growing and selling vegetables.
Luo Xiaoyu excused himself to leave, and pushed the 28 bars to the greenhouse next to him.
The things sold in the greenhouse are very rich, the crowd is crowded, and the shops selling tea fruits and snacks on both sides are also crowded with people.
Among the many diners, Luo Xiaoyu found a quiet and unusual storefront: a coat shop!
Curious, she walked outside the store and found that it was full of plastic models, all dressed in beautiful, well-made fashion, and the price was high.
A woman with a water snake waist and eyebrows, when she saw her, she frowned and looked her up and down, and said coldly: "What are you doing?" If you want to eat, you have to go somewhere else! This is not the place for you! ”