Gufeng County, by the Yangtze River.

A dilapidated courtyard next to the inner slope of the Yangtze River embankment.

The red brick wall encloses a courtyard, which is filled with two red brick and blue tile flat houses arranged in front of and back, each with a field in front of it.

It's just that these two houses look a little dilapidated, and it seems that no one has cleaned them for a long time.

A middle-aged man in his thirties wearing a gray shirt, blue trousers, and leather shoes, walked around with a few people inside and out, pointing and saying, "There are only more than 100 square meters of the field here, don't look big, but it is a cement floor with cobblestones as the bottom, that is, no one has taken care of it for a long time, some places have grown some moss, and some cars have more cracks, as long as they are cleaned and repaired a little, it will be the same as new, much better than the dirt floor." ”

With a cigarette in his mouth, he squinted at him, "Cement, you out?" ”

The man couldn't help but roll his eyes, "If you're not my brother, I'll slap you to death." ”

When he turned his head and saw Ye Shubao's stiff face, he immediately laughed, "Uncle Ye, I'm going to whip him, what are you nervous about?" ”

Ye Shubao laughed twice, but did not speak.

This person's name is Du Weilin, and he used to be a Shanghai educated youth who went to Nanhu Commune with security, but he went to the Red Star Brigade, and security went to Lujiawan.

Later, he had the opportunity to work in the county material bureau, but because he was still thinking about returning to Shanghai, he gave him this opportunity.

Du Weilin has always kept this favor in his heart, and later he also regarded safety as his own business, even more concerned about his own affairs.

It's a pity that he doesn't care about logistics in the unit, and his position is not very high, so he can't speak, otherwise the Material Bureau can become a big customer in Lujiawan.

However, he still helped to match, and helped intercede in front of the logistics section chief with a familiar face, and one of the units that signed the order agreement was the Material Bureau.

Originally, after signing the agreement, he should hurry back to stock up and send it, but Chen Fan said that he would build a cooked food workshop in the county seat, so that it would be more convenient to deliver goods to various units in the county or to open up the market of the prefectural committee in the future.

Poor Ye Shubao was targeted by Chen Fan before he could get rid of Qian Yanre, but thinking that what Chen Fan said made sense, he could only call the team, and after obtaining Secretary Yang's consent on the phone, he asked them to prepare the goods and send them over, and then followed Chen Fan to find a suitable house in the county.

When Du Weilin knew that they were going to build a delicatessen workshop in the county, he brought people here.

He continued to introduce to everyone, "This house is divided into three large rooms, each of which is more than 40 square meters, and the house in the back is exactly the same as this, the size and pattern are similar, but the backyard is a little smaller, only more than 80 square meters, barely enough to turn around." ”

After taking everyone around and coming to the front yard again, Du Weilin said with a smile,

"This used to be a warehouse of the Material Bureau, mainly storing some metal materials, because it is not far from the dock, and it is easy to enter and exit. The metal material has no smell and no chemical residue, so it will not affect your cooked food.

Later, we built a larger comprehensive warehouse on the other side of the wharf, which was left unused, and there were three smaller warehouses like this, all along the Yangtze River, which are now empty. Except for one that is not suitable for storing chemical materials, those two are no problem, if you need it, you can go to the logistics section chief Li to talk, and you can rent them all. ”

Ye Shubao and the others all looked at Chen Fan, waiting for him to decide.

Chen Fan smiled first, "Thank you, Brother Du." ”

Then he shook his head and said, "Our scale is not large, this place is very good, this is enough for the time being." ”

Hearing this, Ye Shubao, who was standing next to him, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that he would spread the stall too big all of a sudden, in case it didn't go well, it wouldn't end well.

At this time, Chen Fan asked again, "Brother Du, I don't know how much the rent here costs?" ”

Du Weilin said without thinking, "I don't care about this, and I can't decide, I want you to talk to Section Chief Li yourself." ”

Safety dusted off his cigarette ash on the side and said, "Then you can always know an approximate number, so that we can have a bottom in our hearts." ”

Du Weilin glanced at him, thought for a while and said, "I estimate that ten or twenty yuan should be about the same." ”

As soon as he heard this, the security suddenly lost his voice and shouted, "Ten or twenty yuan? Why don't you grab it?! A class A house in Shanghai only costs 3 cents per square meter, which is a class A house and a building. The three rooms inside and outside the ordinary house are only more than two yuan a month. Just this place, this house, do you dare to say that it costs ten or twenty yuan? ”

Seeing that Security was so excited, Du Weilin was very calm, "What is it called, you know, I don't know?" ”

After a pause, he took out a cigarette and lit it before continuing, "You are talking about a residential house, my house is a 25-square-meter house, 2 yuan and 5 cents a month, my aunt's house is on the edge of Huaihai Road, and the 50-square-meter two-bedroom and two-living room is only more than 8 yuan, I know this better than you." ”

Then he exhaled a puff of smoke, and Zhengse said, "In Gufeng County, if you want to find a dormitory room, it's simple, two or three yuan a month, I can find you a spacious suite." ”

As he spoke, his tone changed, and he sighed, "But this is not a private house, and you are not used to live, but to engage in side businesses, so it can't be calculated according to the price of a residential house." ”

Chen Fan's eyes rolled slightly, and he suddenly said, "Then, what if half of it is used to live?" ”

Du Weilin looked at Chen Fan, a smile appeared on his face, and patiently explained, "That can only be calculated according to the business house, because almost all the rented houses have people living in them, and this cannot be counted separately." ”

Chen Fan laughed dryly twice and stopped talking.

Du Weilin glanced at everyone, pointed to the direction of the wharf not far away, and said, "Just when we came over just now, there was a blacksmith shop under the wharf slope, did you see it?" ”

Chen Fan reacted immediately, "Is it a repair shop in Guojia Village?" ”

Du Weilin nodded and smiled at him, "You can remember the signboard at a glance, it's really unusual." ”

He then explained, "The blacksmith in the repair shop is from Guojia Village, next to the county seat, and he asked the production team to open a side business certificate, and rented a shop of the water transportation company near the wharf, mainly to make horseshoes for pack horses."

His shop costs 8 yuan a month in rent, and he has to pay it for a year at a time. How big is that shop? There is not much place to set up a stove and a forging table, and even to sleep, you can only make two benches and put a wooden board to sleep like this, and put it away when you wake up. Look at it again, there are two rows of more than 100 square meters of big houses in the front and back, and there are two large fields,......"

Before he could finish speaking, Security muttered, "I said just now that the field was small, but now it's getting so big and it's becoming quite fast." ”

Du Weilin looked at him speechlessly, and did not speak.

Safety coughed dryly, "That person is still a shop on the road, and this place is not on the road." ”

Du Weilin was very helpless, "If this place is close to the road, it will be your turn to rent it?" It's been rented out a long time ago, okay. ”

Chen Fan held back a smile on the side, good guy, Shanghainese is in a hurry.

He raised his head and looked at Du Weilin, and asked with a smile, "Then, Brother Du, is there a shop next to the road for rent?" Preferably, it is close to a commercial or residential area, or a place with a lot of traffic. ”

Du Weilin turned to look at him, his face was quite surprised, "You still want to rent a shop?" ”

Next to him, Ye Shubao, Zhang Juemin, and Zhang Wenliang glanced at each other, and there was a little helplessness in their eyes.

That's right, the vegetable market company still hasn't talked about it after all.

When it comes to selling live poultry, people say sorry, we are a regular unit, and all commodities are purchased and sold, and foreign units are not accepted to sell here.

Supply? No, all of our products have fixed partners, and they have been approved by the Bureau of Commerce, and generally do not accept other units to cut the queue.

Unless the superior leader approves it!

Okay, then let's engage in differentiated competition, we sell cooked food to you, and you can make a cooked food stall to sell it yourself, so it's always okay, right?!

But they said again, I'm sorry, the vegetable market only sells fresh food, you want to buy and sell cooked food, you are in the wrong place, you should go to the county food company, see if they accept your cooked food!

Frankly speaking, Chen Fan was quite helpless at that moment.

In the past few months, he nested in Lujiawan, at most wandering around the town of Nanhu Commune, not to mention invincible, it was also smooth sailing, no matter what he did, he could get good cooperation.

But as soon as I walked out of Lujiawan, I was still in the local county, and I ran into a full bag.

At first, the big customers who were very confident refused one after another, and then finally relied on his face in the health system and an "extra gift" article, and barely won a few big customers. The euphemistic refusal of other units directly caught him off guard.

Then the most confident went to the vegetable market to open a stall, and was also beaten back by the vegetable market company without hesitation, whether it was Mr. Chen's face or the official letter written by Secretary Qian of the commune, it didn't work.

This time, Chen Fan somewhat believes that those companies that reject him are not necessarily angry with themselves.

They just strictly abide by the "rules and regulations", always be vigilant and never cross the line, and do not do anything beyond the regulations and conventions.

It's so difficult to even do a small business in the name of the collective, I really don't know how the first batch of entrepreneurs in a few years later will fight their way step by step?!

Chen Fan put away his thoughts and emotion, and said to Du Weilin, "Yes, originally we wanted to open a stall in the vegetable market, but the vegetable market company did not agree, and later we went to the county commercial bureau and asked if we could open a few cooked food shops in the county in the name of the production team."

Only then did they say that they were in line with the regulations for the development of side businesses by the production team, and that we were allowed to rent a shop and open a store, but we were subject to the supervision of the food company and the health center. So the shop we are looking for must be clean and tidy, in case there is none, we can also decorate it ourselves, the key is that the location must be good. ”

Du Weilin crossed his waist with one hand, pinched the cigarette butt with the other, lowered his head and smoked a few puffs of cigarette, only raised his head after a while, and said, "There are many houses on the street, but most of them are private houses, and there are people living in them, and there are very few people who are willing to take them out and rent them out, mainly because they are afraid of causing trouble."

In addition to private houses, there are some houses under the management of the street office or unit, and there is no accurate information on this part, so you need to go to the street office and the logistics department of each unit to ask if there is a house for rent. ”

He threw the cigarette butt on the ground and smiled at Chen Fan, "I'll leave this matter to me, you first see if you want to rent here, if you think it's appropriate, go back to our unit, talk to Section Chief Li about the rental price, and then you clean up here, wait for two or three days, and there should be news from my side." ”

Chen Fan immediately shook hands and thanked him, "Then it's troublesome Brother Du." ”

Du Weilin smiled and waved his hand, "What's the trouble, you are also for the public, and you are Lao An's friend, so you should help with this." ”

Security smiled on the side, "After talking for a long time, I finally said something human." ”

As a result, Du Weilin rolled his eyes in anger.

……

After a brief discussion between Chen Fan and Ye Shubao, they decided to rent this courtyard.

Although it is not close to the road, it is not far from the main road, only more than 100 meters away, and there is a spacious gravel road at the door, which was specially built by the Materials Bureau in order to facilitate the transportation of cars and carriages.

And there are open spaces on both sides and behind, opposite the Yangtze River embankment, there are no other people's homes around, so you don't have to worry about the smell being too loud when slaughtering live poultry and cooking, which will affect the neighbors.

In addition, the two houses inside are also very much in line with their wishes, the front one can be used as a delicatessen workshop, and the back one can be used as a dormitory and warehouse, which is also very convenient.

In short, in every way, they are quite satisfied with this yard.

Now it's up to you to see if the price is right. Ten or twenty yuan is just Du Weilin's estimate, what if Section Chief Li opens his mouth?

The group came out of the courtyard and arrived at the pier in a short time.

Here is a comprehensive wharf, on the outer embankment of the Yangtze River, there is a three-story building, the outer wall is pasted with a layer of fine gravel particles, forming a layer of far look very smooth, close look uneven wall, with the high large glass window, look very foreign.

This kind of rubble wall was popular until the 80s, and by the 90s, it was still often seen on the buildings of the county, until it was replaced by mosaic walls.

On the roof of the building, there are three large characters more than one meter high, "Waiting Living Room".

This is the passenger terminal of Gufeng County, as long as you buy a ticket on the first floor of this waiting room, you can go up to Chongqing, go down to Shanghai, and the slightly larger wharves on both sides of the Yangtze River have docks, which can be said to be all-encompassing.

However, a lot of time is also wasted on docking, and if it can be directly reached, it can save a day.

A little upstream of the passenger terminal, there are three spacious cargo terminals, each with a long slope leading to the river, which is a transportation channel for cars, horse-drawn carriages and dump trucks.

Ships docked at the edge of the pier at the foot of the long slope, waiting in line to load and unload their cargo. A little further up, there was a row of empty boats waiting to be scheduled.

As for the water transport company, it is built not far from the waiting room, a large independent courtyard, and the dormitory area behind it is definitely a "treasured riverside mansion" after a few decades.

Chen Fan also came here the day before yesterday, but unfortunately he hit a soft nail.

There is a long slope in front of the waiting room, coming down from the embankment, you can enter the county seat along this road, Chen Fan and they walked on the road below the long slope, and the large and small trucks, carriages, and dump trucks rumbling slowly above their heads on the side, and there was an endless stream of people on the side of the road.

When the long slope came to an end, Chen Fan and the others also got on the road, and at this time, they could see a blacksmith shop opposite, in which a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties was naked, with only a towel around his neck, sweating profusely, holding the red iron with iron tongs with one hand, and swinging the hammer vigorously with the other hand, striking a little spark.

Zhang Wenliang walked and found that there was no one around, he quickly turned around, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and shouted loudly, "What are you looking at?" ”

The others also stopped when they heard the voice, and turned to look at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan reacted, walked a few steps forward, and then pointed to a shop that was four rooms away from the blacksmith shop and said, "Brother Du, there is still a signboard on the door of that shop, was it also a store before?" ”

Du Weilin looked in the direction of his finger, thought for a while and said, "It should be, otherwise there would be no signboard." ”

After a pause, he added, "I remember that this row of houses belongs to the water transportation company, and I'll ask when I go back." ”

He turned his head to look at Chen Fan, "What, you fell in love with this shop?" ”

Chen Fan was muttering in his heart, why was it so coincidental that he ran into a water transportation company again?

When he heard Du Weilin's words, he said with a smile, "I see that there is a lot of traffic here, and many of them are tourists, if you open a delicatessen here, business should be good." ”

Du Weilin nodded thoughtfully, he looked at the endless crowd on the road, and said, "You are right, in terms of the flow of people, there are more waiting rooms at the wharf than at the county bus station, and the county bus station only runs back and forth a few times a day, and often pretends to be dissatisfied."

It's different here, there are at least a dozen passenger ships docked here every day, each stay for more than ten minutes to half an hour, many people who don't come here, will also take the opportunity to get off the ship to carry out activities, if you open a shop here, there will definitely be a lot of people to buy. ”

Ye Shubao was still worried about Manager Zhao's warm hospitality that day, and when Du Weilin finished speaking, he immediately smiled and said, "If it is a shop of a water transportation company, it will be easy to do, we are quite familiar with Manager Zhao of the water transportation company, he is a very good person, go to him to rent a room, most of them can agree." ”

Hearing this, Chen Fan couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Still, there was hope in his heart.

has already reported and reported, everyone is even, so Manager Zhao shouldn't continue to embarrass himself. Anyway, there is still a little friendship between Zhang Wenliang and their door-to-door demonstration.

Even if you don't look at friendship, it's okay to do business.

With a little caution, Chen Fan followed Du Weilin all the way back to the Material Bureau, and then found the logistics section chief Li to discuss the matter of renting a yard.

Section Chief Li is also very easy to speak, and directly set a rent of 15 yuan a month, and it can be paid quarterly, Ye Shubao signed a rental agreement with the Materials Bureau on behalf of the Lujiawan production team on the spot, and then went to the street office for the record, and the right to use this yard is temporarily owned by Lujiawan.

After renting the house, several people went to the water transportation company again and asked Manager Zhao about the shop.

Du Weilin remembered correctly, that row of houses did belong to the water transportation company.

And this time, Manager Zhao didn't deliberately make things difficult for people, and generously rented the shop to them, as for the rent, like the blacksmith shop, it was 8 yuan a month, and there was no discount for a penny, which was also considered a business.

(End of chapter)