My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 246 Buying Water
After attending the wedding, Xu Dong was dragged into the vegetable garden by his wife.

"What's wrong?" Someone was confused.

Yang Lina pointed to a field of vegetables and said, "Help me pull out all these vegetables, and only leave a small piece."

"Honey, these green vegetables are growing well, why do you have to pull them out?" Xu Dong, who is the least wasteful, asked with a frown.

"You think I think so!" Yang Lina smiled wryly and shook her head, "The water in the water tank is not enough, and if you don't pull it out, it will eventually wither."

"Will the water be cut off again in the city?" Xu Dong asked in surprise.

"It's not that the water is cut off, it's that the water restriction is too severe. Now there is only half an hour of water supply every day, and the daily water at home is barely enough. Otherwise, what else can I do?"

Moreover, the water supply time is only half an hour, the flow rate is very slow, and the water output is not large. After half an hour, at most, it can only be filled with two or three buckets of water, which are still the kind of buckets that hold water in barrels.

Xu Dong hurriedly called to his wife: "Wait, don't pull it out yet. I'll go to Panjiayuan to see if I can buy some water."

"Buy water? How to buy it?" Yang Lina doubted.

"Go and ask and you'll know, my wife, wait for my good news." Xu Dong seemed confident.

In the previous life in Luyang, selling water was a big business. It didn't make sense that Yanjing didn't have it here. As the saying goes, if there is demand, there will be a market.

Half an hour later, Xu Dong drove a pickup truck to Panjiayuan.

After making some inquiries, he quickly found a merchant selling water, but the location was not on Panjiayuan's side, but on the side of the East Fifth Ring Road.

There are only a few large-scale pure water production enterprises in the urban area, and the factory area is very large, covering an area of ​​at least [-] mu by visual estimation.

Park the car and come to the gate.

"Master, can I ask you something?" Xu Dong stepped forward and handed him a cigarette.

When the gatekeeper saw the cigarette, he suddenly regained his energy. He took it carefully, put it under his nose and smelled it again and again, but he was reluctant to put it in his mouth.

"Brother, tell me, what do you want to ask?"

"I want to buy some bottled water from your factory, but I don't know who to turn to?" Xu Dong asked directly.

The uncle shook his head: "The water in our factory is only sold to agents, not separately. You are looking for the wrong place."

"Then do you have the agent's phone number here? My home is in the East Third Ring Road, the closer the better."

After speaking, he quickly handed over another cigarette.

For the sake of the cigarettes, the uncle made a phone call and quickly got the agent's phone number.

Xu Dong saved the number and immediately thanked him.

Another half hour passed, and according to the address given on the phone, he came to a street-facing shop on the edge of the third ring road. All five frontages in this row were rented out by agents.

Stores are filled with bottled water.

"Hello, I just called..."

"You are Mr. Xu, please sit down."

The receptionist is very enthusiastic, but the water price is high now, and the bottled water business is not easy to do.It has only been better in the past month, and it is still thanks to the water restriction policy.

Xu Dong came to the other party's desk and sat down, then asked, "What's the price of the bottled water here?"

"We have a uniform price in the urban area, 100 yuan a barrel." The receptionist replied with a smile.

"Why is it so expensive?" Xu Dong asked in surprise.

According to the current water price, a ton of water is about 100 yuan, and a barrel of water is less than 40 catties, which means that a ton of water can fill a full 50 barrels.

Calculated in this way, the cost of a barrel of tap water is only two yuan, while the price of bottled water has increased by 50 times.

It should be known that the water from the desalination plant is directly drinkable, and even if production costs and transportation costs are added, the price should not be so outrageous.

The receptionist quickly explained: "Mr. Xu, to tell you the truth, the price we get from the factory area is also high. They are a large state-owned factory, so they directly set the price to death, and there is nothing we can do about it."

"I buy a lot at once, can it be cheaper?"

"May I ask, how many barrels do you need to buy here?"

"I want to buy 300 barrels."

Xu Dong had already figured it out, 300 barrels of water was enough for their family to use for a month.

The receptionist was taken aback. He didn't expect to encounter a big order, so he quickly replied:

"If it's 300 barrels, we can give you five yuan per barrel."

"What about 300 barrels per month? I can order for a long time." Xu Dong asked again.

The receptionist's attitude became more enthusiastic: "If you are willing to sign a three-year long-term contract, we can give you another five yuan discount."

"Can the price be fixed?"

If the price can be fixed, Xu Dong doesn't mind signing a ten-eight-year contract. According to the experience of his previous life, within ten years, the supply of fresh water resources will be in short supply.

"You're making it difficult for us. We don't have pricing power. Fixing the price is too risky for both of us."

"Okay, three years is three years." Xu Dong said bluntly.

After signing the contract, I paid 54000 yuan in one lump sum.

Half of it is the water fee this time, and the other half is the deposit.

The weight of 300 barrels of water is close to six tons, which is still relatively large. Xu Dong refused the other party's request for door-to-door delivery, and chose to pick up the goods in person instead.

Once a week, 75 barrels each time.

This is better and the water quality is fresher.

……

The shop was not far from the courtyard house, only ten minutes' drive away. Xu Dong soon returned with a week's worth of bottled water.

"Husband, how are you? Have you bought water?" Seeing her husband coming back, Yang Lina ran over and asked.

The vegetable garden was her painstaking effort, and if possible, she would not want to destroy the fruits of her labor with her own hands.

"I got it." Xu Dong nodded, and opened the door of the pickup truck after speaking.

Yang Lina glanced into the carriage: "Why is it bottled water? How much is this water?"

"90 yuan a barrel, you should save some money." Xu Dong replied truthfully.

"What? 90 yuan, this is too expensive!"

Xu Dong sighed: "No way, the market price is like this, the original price is still 100 yuan, I bought more and it was 300 yuan cheaper. I have already signed the contract, and there will be [-] barrels every month from now on."

"Wouldn't the water bill be 30,000 yuan less every month?" Yang Lina said distressedly. If it was before, this money could cover their family's living expenses for a year.

"Don't worry, this small amount of money is nothing, your husband and I can earn decades of water bills just by doing business." Xu Dong comforted.

In the previous imperial goose meat business, he earned two tons of rice at once, converted into money, it is worth about a million yuan, and if the price of bottled water does not increase, it can at least cover the water bill for 30 years.

Yang Lina also knew that her family was not short of money, but she was inexplicably distressed, probably because she was used to saving.

Next, Xu Dong spent more than an hour pouring all the bottled water into the water tank of the concierge, which is more convenient to use.

After finishing the work, he was exhausted to death.

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