Chapter 20 Business Gets Better and Better
Business is getting better and better, and a bold idea came to my mind, I want to go to the chicken farm and buy eggs directly, so that I don't have to go through the intermediate links and can make more money.
I told Mr. Liu about this idea.
One weekend, Mr. Liu borrowed a car and took me to a chicken farm 40 kilometers away.
The boss knew what we were coming and took us to the chicken farm, where there were almost 5,000 chickens in a large woods.
"We supply all the canteens there, including the kindergarten canteen, and we used to pick up the goods at our local wholesale market, but today I came to you to have a look." Teacher Liu said
Boss Li: "You have a stable source of customers, and you sincerely want to wholesale, let's have a meal here with me first, it is commonplace, but you can just taste the taste of my eggs." "It's hard to resist, so we stayed.
Mr. Liu: "Thank you so much for your hospitality, we mainly want to know the wholesale price of eggs, and calculate whether it is cost-effective to run to your wholesale here." ”
Boss Li: "My wholesale price is the same for everyone, you can taste my eggs first." As he spoke, he brought the scrambled eggs to us.
Teacher Liu took a bite and happily: "You taste Lingling, I have eaten the taste of my childhood." He put an egg in my bowl and watched me eat it tenderly.
Boss Li smiled: "Boss Liu is also a favorite wife." ”
I quickly said, "No, no, no, he's my brother." ”
Teacher Liu's face flashed with an expression that I couldn't express.
"I'll tell you the truth, my chickens are not fed feed, they are all fed with grain, and they are free-range, they grow slowly, and their egg production is not as good as others, but other people's chickens can't produce my egg quality, and the price is higher, so the customers are too high, and there are few people who come to wholesale."
Mr. Liu calculated, "We wholesale here with him, and the price is the same as that of the wholesale market, but the quality is good, and we want to ensure the quality of the eggs." ”
I nodded.
"Boss Li, we won't tell you the price, but you guarantee that the quality of the eggs will be the same as today."
"I vouch for my character, and there will be no difference."
Boss Li said while opening the wine: "We are happy today, and the chat is also speculative, let's have a drink to celebrate." As he spoke, the wine was opened.
"Boss Li, you are too polite, I can't drink while driving."
"Let Lingling drink a little, we will cooperate for a long time in the future, understand each other, take care of each other, and achieve each other."
I was just going to say I don't drink.
"Lingling, drink a little, the business is bigger, and it is inevitable that you will have to socialize in the future."
As soon as I took one cup, I felt that my throat and stomach were hot, and I drank three cups, and the world was spinning. I couldn't hear what they were saying anymore.
They helped me to the car, and they hugged me warmly as they said goodbye.
Mr. Liu's social skills are not generally good, he is neither humble nor arrogant, generous, and does not have an inferiority complex for children from the countryside.
I drank too much and always wanted to vomit, Mr. Liu parked the car on the side of the road, helped me get out of the car and vomited, after spitting up, he gave me water to rinse my mouth, wiped my mouth, helped me to the car, let me lie on the back seat of the car, and he drove the car very slowly.
When I arrived in the community, I didn't dare to go home, for fear that my father-in-law and children would see and worry, my two children were well-behaved and sensible, especially Binbin, not only excellent academic performance, but also a real little man, not only had strong independence, but also followed the law very well, and Yiyi's feelings for him were better than for me.
"I can't go home, the elderly and children can't see it well."
"Shall you go to my house then?"
In this city, I have no friends, except for Zhang Xiaoning's family, I have no relatives, where else can I go? Hotel? No, a man with a drunk woman into the hotel, it is estimated that it will be news the next day, and there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door.
I hesitated for a moment, "Okay, that's all there is to it." ”
"My house is rented, I'm a bachelor, I haven't cleaned up much, don't dislike it."
Mr. Liu went downstairs to park the car and helped me upstairs, the house was not big, a little messy, but it was not as serious as he said.
He poured me honey water for me to drink, found a clean towel for me to wipe my face, I collapsed on the sofa, groggy and fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was already dark, but my head was splitting.
He saw me wake up: "I rolled out the noodles and gave you a bowl of noodles to eat, it will be better to eat." ”
"No, I have to hurry home, it's getting dark." Get up and feel light.
"It's better to eat something, it's going to scare the kids when you go back."
After a while, he brought out the beef noodles.
The soup is clear, the coriander and garlic sprouts are green, the noodles are thin, and the fragrance wafts through the house.
"Your beef noodles?"
"I did it, I went to school and lived in school when I was a child, and I cooked by myself, and I knew it from a young age."
He added vinegar to me.
I ate a bowl of noodles so beautifully that I finished the soup.
He was particularly pleased: "Delicious, right? ”
"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's the best bowl of beef noodles I've ever had."
He made me wash my face and comb my hair
"Better, huh?"
"Much better."
"Then hurry back, in order to avoid suspicion, I won't send you."
I hurried home.
Later, under the guidance of Mr. Liu, I signed a one-year contract with Boss Li.
This horse was bought, but what about the saddle? Gotta have a car, right? How many people do you have to take care of? I pondered.
"Lingling, I'm Sister Zhang, my husband is dying, and now I'm in the hospital, see if you can settle the money you owe, I'm sorry, it's not time to settle the bill, but I can't help it at the moment." Sister Zhang, who wholesaled eggs, said anxiously on the phone.
"No problem." I went to the hospital with the money.
Sister Zhang, the once neat and neat woman, with her hair disheveled, her face haggard, her face full of tears, sat helplessly at the door of the ICU.
I went over and hugged her: "Sister Zhang, you have to be strong, you have to hold on, why is it so sudden?" ”
"Pancreatic cancer, which was discovered six months ago, has metastasized."
We went to Beijing, to Shanghai, and even to the United States, but we still didn't get cured, and all our savings were gone.
I think of myself, today's Sister Zhang, yesterday's self.
"I'm from a place like you, be strong, and everything will be fine." I gave Wu Wanyuan to Sister Zhang: "You use it first, it's not enough to call me." ”
I left the hospital sadly, as if it was not Sister Zhang who was sitting there, but Zhao Lingling. When Zhang Xiaoning was rescued for the last time, my fear, my despair, played in front of my eyes like a movie.
reminds me of Su Shi's "Jiangchengzi"
Ten years of life and death, without thinking, unforgettable.
Thousands of miles of lonely graves, nowhere to talk about desolation.
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A week later, Sister Zhang came to me: "My husband is gone, my health is not good, I have no energy to take care of the business, I want to transfer the store." ”
"The deceased is gone, the living are like this, life has to go on, right?"
"I'm not in good health myself, I don't have energy. I see that you are a person who does things, you have the tenacity I had at the beginning, are you interested in buying my store? However, you have to accept a few of your brothers. They've been working with me for years, and I feel ashamed of them, and I think it's better for you to take over. ”
"I'll talk to you about it."
Looking at the lonely back of Sister Zhang when she left, life is so impermanent.
A few days later, I ordered Sister Zhang's shop and car, and took over his three buddies. I asked Sister Zhang to come to my store as a consultant, give us guidance, and give her a living allowance every month, and Sister Zhang agreed.
Boss Li's eggs are of good quality and are very popular with everyone, Sister Zhang has rich wholesale experience and has given me a lot of advice and help, and my business is getting better and better.