It was just dawn, and there was a hint of fish belly white in the east.

Meng Chuntao pedaled a bicycle, carrying two buckets of eels, and drove all the way to the provincial capital.

For fear that the money in her pocket would be used up like yesterday, she also deliberately took ten yuan from home and put it in her pocket.

Fortunately, she asked for the road clearly yesterday, and today she did not delay at all on the road, and arrived at the provincial capital in more than two hours.

She left home at half past four, and arrived at the provincial capital at exactly a quarter past seven.

The provincial capital is much more lively than the county seat, the road surface is more spacious, and the houses on both sides of the road are lined up one after another. The stalls along the street are also much bolder, and it is not uncommon to shout along the street.

She didn't go far before Meng Chuntao smelled the aroma of food.

Compared with the county town, there are only wontons and dumplings to eat, and the things in the provincial town are much richer, such as donkey meat roasted, mutton stewed noodles, haggis noodles, spicy soup, soup dumplings, dumpling boxes and other special snacks. Fritters, spring rolls, rice dumplings, steamed buns and other common ones are not a problem.

After riding for more than two hours, Meng Chuntao was already hungry, so she went to the nearest shop selling spicy Hu soup by cart.

She asked for a bowl of spicy soup, and asked for a drawer of soup dumplings. After eating and drinking, the temple of the five internal organs was appeased.

After eating, Meng Chuntao asked the boss about the situation in the provincial capital again.

The boss was a chubby middle-aged man, glanced at the two large buckets of eels brought by Meng Chuntao, and instantly smiled: "Comrade, do you want to know where the eels are sold?" ”

Meng Chuntao smiled and nodded, "Yes, boss, you are really smart." ”

"If you don't dare to do it, you can walk east along this street and you will see the farmer's market, but you have to pay a booth fee to sell things in it. Diagonally opposite the farmer's market, there is a domestic eel silk noodles, and sometimes there are more than ten or twenty catties of eels a day when the business is good. The middle-aged man said.

Meng Chuntao thanked the boss who sold spicy soup, turned around and pushed the cart to find the place the boss said.

Meng Chuntao first went to the place where eel silk noodles were sold, and the boss looked at the eels she brought, all of them were thumb thick, nodded with satisfaction, and immediately asked for twenty catties.

The price that Meng Chuntao sold to the owner of eel noodles was calculated at 1.1 yuan a catty, and the cost of her purchase was only 7 cents a catty, and the profit of a catty could be 4 cents, which was higher than the profit of other types of fish she sold. It's only June, and the eels won't be able to catch them until November, but it doesn't matter, she'll be in the business for at least four months.

Although the price of pork has risen to 1.3 yuan a catty, compared with 1.1 pounds of eel, people in the county still prefer to eat pork, at least with a lot of oil and water.

The provincial city is different, at least this eel silk noodle seller will need twenty catties in one breath to explain the problem.

Meng Chuntao smiled and bent her eyes, took the money and said casually: "Thank you, boss, business is prosperous and money is rolling." From now on, I will come to sell eels every day, and come to me if I need them. ”

Who in business doesn't like to listen to auspicious words, the boss who sells eel silk noodles immediately agreed with a smile.

Meng Chuntao brought the rest of the eel to the farmer's market, which was very large, similar to the vegetable market of later generations, and only needed to pay a three-cent stall fee from the administrator.

The farmers' market is bustling with people.

Meng Chuntao paid the money quickly, walked to the designated location to set up a stall, and as soon as it was cleaned up, someone came to buy eel.

The thirty pounds of eels were sold out in a short time.

Meng Chuntao was closing the stall, and when he met the person who had just arrived and was about to buy eel, he looked at the empty bucket with a lost face.

Meng Chuntao hurriedly said, "I'll come back tomorrow, how much do you need, I can leave you some tomorrow." ”

After appeasing the guests who didn't buy eels, Meng Chuntao wandered around the farmers' market, thinking about it in his heart.

All the 52 catties of eels brought today were sold, and the profit could be about 20 yuan after excluding the cost. Although the profit is good, Meng Chuntao has experienced a wave of wind before the Dragon Boat Festival, and the income of that day can be thirty or forty yuan, and these twenty yuan are obviously not enough.

But if you can sell more than 100 catties a day, you can have a net profit of at least 40 yuan a day. However, the eel is not so easy to catch, even if you come to the provincial capital once every two days, you can make a profit of five or six hundred yuan in a month.

Thinking that he could get five or six hundred in a month, Meng Chuntao suddenly smiled like a spring breeze. However, after less than three seconds of joy, Meng Chuntao immediately sobered up and poured cold water on herself.

The premise is that so much can be sold every day, a small amount is OK, and a large amount must have a quantitative supply channel.

Meng Chuntao walked around slowly, walked to a handmade weaving shop and stopped, she saw that there were cages selling eel catches inside.

The two cylindrical cages are folded together at 90 degrees, and an earthworm is grabbed and inserted with a bamboo skewer inside, and then the eel cage is thrown into the water. The cage was taken back the next day, and there were basically eels in it, and if you were lucky, there were occasionally fish and shrimp mixed in.

The eel cage is not cheap, one costs 2.3 yuan, and Meng Chuntao bought ten in one go. She figured out that since she planned to start an eel business for a long time, she had to have tools.

Besides, not every household in the village has an eel cage, so she can use the eel cage to rent it to the villagers, charging five cents a month interest, and she will be able to return the capital in a few months.

Anyway, her family is now buying eels on a large scale, and others must go to the cage if they want to make money, and they are not afraid that no one will rent it.

It is no wonder that the ancients said: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!" ”

The vernacular is 'sharpen the knife and don't mistake the woodcutter!' ’

After buying the cage, Meng Chuntao continued to push the cart forward and saw a stall selling clothes.

There were a few women in the stall who picked and disliked the clothes, but their hands honestly rummaged through other clothes that had not been touched, and stroked on their bodies, and they felt dissatisfied and put them down.

The stall owner's eyes widened: "I am a Yangcheng product, how can I have such a price in the department store?" What's so wrong with this? ”

When the women saw the stall owner say this, they all tacitly put down the clothes in their hands and turned their heads away, only the stall owner scolded and packed up his clothes.

Meng Chuntao's footsteps paused slightly, and his mind moved.

The wave of reform and opening up has just begun, and Yangcheng has initially established a wholesale market for clothes, where the wholesale of clothes is very cheap. If you retail here upside down, the price difference is as high as two or three floors.

Meng Chuntao was a salesman in her last life, and she came into contact with several self-made figures in the 80s, and several of them were reselling clothes. In their words, the profits are really gone.

It's a pity that she has to have the capital to make clothes, and she doesn't have enough money to stuff her teeth. Meng Chuntao secretly kept this in his heart, and it was not too late to go back and wait for the money to get it.

Besides, according to her vision, if she goes to Yangcheng to wholesale clothes, her taste will definitely be stronger than the clothes bought at this stall.

The stall owner saw that Meng Chuntao had been standing in front of her stall for a long time, and said with a smile: "Our clothes are from Yangcheng, the price is affordable, come and have a look?" ”

Meng Chuntao shook her head and hurriedly pushed the car away.