My Siheyuan Shelter

Chapter 296 The Temptation of Sugar
As soon as Xu Dong came out of the warehouse, he ran into Uncle Chen, who was walking towards him with three women, holding a stack of woven bags in his hand.

"Uncle Chen!"

"Officer Xu, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Dong nodded.

Chen Bochao gave some instructions to the three people behind him, then sent them into the warehouse, and then brought Xu Dong back to the office.

"Tell me, what else do you want to do?"

Xu Dong stuffed the other party with a cigarette again, lit one himself, and then cut to the chase: "I want to buy some more fresh fish."

"Oh, do you have food?"

Uncle Chen expressed doubts, how much food can the other party bring with him when he came all the way from Yanjing?And they are public officials, which is not in line with their usual style.

Xu Dong shook his head: "No."

"Then you are talking nonsense, you can't buy fresh fish with money, even if you are willing to pay ten times the price, at least it won't work with me."

Ten times the price is definitely an exaggeration, and neither side will take it seriously. No matter how short Xu Dong is on meat, he can't be taken advantage of like this.

Seriously speaking, it's not that Uncle Chen doesn't want to make money.

Instead, he purchased these fresh fish with grain. If he sold them back for money, then his business would not be able to continue in the future.

That is, the so-called "capital" chain is broken!

Maybe the high price can indeed buy back some grain, but there are too many uncertain factors in it, he doesn't want to take a little risk, and it is the most reliable to barter, at least the drought and flood can guarantee the harvest.

"Don't rush to refuse. Although I don't have food, I have other things." Xu Dong explained.

"what?"

"Sugar."

"White sugar?" Uncle Chen suddenly became interested. This is a good thing. It just happens that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and white sugar is just needed, so he asked quickly:
"How much sugar do you have?"

"No more, no less, a total of [-] catties. In addition, I have some alcohol and tobacco. If you need it, I can also deal with it all for you."

Uncle Chen asked calmly, "How do you want to change?"

"I should be the one asking this question, right?" Xu Dong said with a half-smile.

"My old man doesn't know how to surf the Internet, so I don't know what the price of white sugar is now?"

Xu Dong took out his mobile phone, opened the online shopping app, and searched for the word "white sugar". There were a lot of transaction information on it, and the price was basically maintained at around 3000 yuan per catty.

With the approach of the Spring Festival, especially in the last month, the price of white sugar has risen sharply, and the quotation has almost doubled.

Uncle Chen glanced at the phone page, then frowned and said, "The price is also exaggerated."

"Uncle Chen, you pay 2400 yuan for a catty of dead salted fish. No matter what, I am no worse than you for a catty of white sugar. White sugar is scarce now."

"Let's exchange at a ratio of one to one, what do you think?"

"Is it a big yellow croaker or a small yellow croaker?" Xu Dong asked.

He heard from Uncle Chen before that the price of large yellow croakers is about twice as expensive as that of small yellow croakers.

The reason is that large yellow croaker has a higher fat content.

"Of course it's small yellow croaker, and a catty of big yellow croaker is exchanged for two catties."

Xu Dong shook his head: "It's not that good, this is the authentic hometown of yellow croakers, as the saying goes, the price of yellow croakers is definitely not as good as white sugar.

And a catty of fish can't be eaten for several meals, and even one meal is not enough if you let it go. On the contrary, white sugar is durable, and it will be fine if you save it for half a year. "

"Then how do you want to change?"

"We don't take advantage of anyone. I don't want small yellow croakers. What do you think of thirty catties of sugar for thirty catties of large yellow croakers?" Xu Dong countered.

Chen Bo shook his head again and again: "No, no, I'm at a loss in exchange for this, it's better to keep it for food!"

"Uncle Chen, I don't lie to you either. I can only stay with you until noon at most. After noon, you just want to change, but you have no chance." Xu Dong deliberately put pressure on it.

"What did you say?"

Uncle Chen was taken aback. Originally, he just wanted to lower the price, but he didn't expect to lose money by stealing chickens. Now the pressure is all on his side, which makes people caught off guard.

"It's past ten o'clock now, Uncle Chen, time is really running out."

"I'll make a phone call, just wait for me." Uncle Chen lost his sense of control.

"No problem, better hurry up."

After Uncle Chen left, Xu Dong took the opportunity to call Section Chief Li, preparing to report on his work.

As soon as the phone was connected, Section Chief Li's impatient voice came: "Xiao Xu, how are things going?"

"There shouldn't be any major problems with the company. Lao Wang and the others are watching, and the loading will be finished soon." Xu Dong replied.

"That's good, how about your side, how is our business going?"

"There is a bad news and a good news." Xu Dong deliberately put a pass on it.

"Then tell the good news first."

Xu Dong lowered his voice: "The good news is that I have already bought 850 catties of dried yellow croakers, which should be enough for everyone to share."

"Great, I knew Xiao Xu that you would not let me down, how much did you spend in total?"

Section Chief Li was overjoyed, the company only got 1000 taels, and this was air-dried fish, one catty was almost equivalent to two catties of fresh fish.

Make big money!

"2400 yuan per catty, a total of 200 million." Xu Dong replied truthfully.

"The price is okay, not too expensive." Section Chief Li said unexpectedly.

Xu Dong hurriedly reminded: "Have you heard the bad news yet?"

"Then why don't you tell me soon?"

"Yes, the bad news is that this batch is stinky salted fish, which is made from dead fish. It is definitely not as good as fresh fish in terms of taste and nutritional value."

"Dead fish?" Chief Li repeated.

Xu Dong added: "That's right, it's dead fish. You can see the signs of rot on the fish. The fresh fish here is not good no matter how much money you spend. You can only buy these defective products."

"It's a pity." Chief Li said regretfully.

"Uncle Li, you don't have to be too disappointed. Although the stinky salted fish sounds ugly, it doesn't affect the food. It can be eaten if it is cooked."

"What you said is also reasonable. I remember a famous dish called 'stinky mandarin fish'. You can eat stinky mandarin fish, but there is no reason why you can't eat stinky yellow croaker." Section Chief Li comforted himself.

Xu Dong admired Section Chief Li's spirit of Ah Q very much. He could say that he survived the dead, and it was too difficult for him.

"Uncle Li, you are so right."

Section Chief Li smiled wryly: "Don't flatter me, stinky salted fish is stinky salted fish, at least there are more than 800 catties! At that time, some will be given to Lao Feng and the others, and the rest will be shared equally by the three of us, which is enough for a whole meal." All year."

"Uh……"

"Stop uh, let the fart go."

"It's like this. Lao Wang and the others also want to buy some salted fish. I promised them before. After all, without their cooperation, this fish can't be bought." Xu Dong quickly explained.

"How much do they want?" Chief Li asked, frowning.

"I haven't had time to ask yet, but I guess they don't want much, probably not more than a hundred catties."

After all, the price is there.

"Leave this in advance, and you will tell me when you have the exact figures later."

"Ok!"

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