Sail across the sea

Chapter 6 That's it...

In the green leather cars of this era, the seats face each other.In the era without mobile phones, passengers have no entertainment to relieve the boredom during the journey. Playing cards and chatting with neighbors are the most common ways to relieve boredom.

Opposite Gao Fan and the three of them, sitting by the window and in the middle is an old peasant couple. It is probably the first time they have taken a train, or even the first time they have traveled far. people talk.

Sitting near the aisle was the young man who struck up a conversation with Gao Fan and the others. He was about twenty-four or five years old, with a dark complexion and wearing a half-worn Chinese tunic suit. His eyes were quite lively, and he had social skills at first glance. It's extremely arrogant.

Hearing someone talking to him actively, Fang Rui froze for a moment, not knowing how to answer.Gao Fan is a time traveler, and his mental age is old enough, so he will not panic when encountering such a thing.He smiled and said, "Brother has good eyesight, we are all students, and we went to Ruizhang to participate in the chemistry competition."

"The chemistry competition, it's amazing, it's amazing, those who can go to the provincial capital to participate in the competition must be the top students in the school, it's amazing." The compliments from the young man's mouth flowed out as if they didn't want money.

"Brother is in business?" Gao Fan asked the young man instead of customers.

The young man said with a smile: "My brother has good eyesight. I'm just in business. I sell some small things I make at home. I just want to eat my fill. Our Shuinan is not as lush as yours. We have more mountains and more water there. There is little land, and farming alone can’t get enough to eat. No, now the national policy allows it, so I ran out to start a small business.”

"Business is good, you people from Shuinan are smart, and you are all good at doing business." Gao Fan said with a smile.

At this time, it was the beginning of the reform, the commodity economy was still immature, and the reputation of Shuinan people for doing business had not yet started.In a few years, the business of Shuinan people will be done all over the country, and then go to the world. In the end, whether the leader of the United States can win the general election depends on Shuinan's certain black index.

The Shuinan businessman naturally didn't know about these things in later generations. Hearing Gao Fan praised him, he hurriedly said humbly: "What kind of brains are there? It's all forced by life."

Gao Fan nodded, and then asked, "Boss, what's your surname, I don't know what kind of business you are in."

"Oh, what kind of boss am I? I'm just a countryman. My name is Chen Xingquan, and I'm from Shuinan Renqiao. If you want to talk about my business, it's this..."

Speaking of which, he picked up the travel bag that had been placed by his feet, unzipped it, and took out a bunch of colorful things from it, and placed them on the small coffee table between the two rows of seats.

"ah!"

As soon as the things were laid out, Huang Chunyan, who was pretending to bury her head in the book just now, exclaimed in a low voice, and then realized something was wrong, and quickly covered her mouth with her hand.

Fang Rui didn't exhale like Huang Chunyan did, but his eyes straightened.

Gao Fan felt the surprise of his two companions, turned his head to look at them, and then turned his head to look at the pile of things on the table, full of disdain in his heart:
That's it……

It turned out that what the little boss named Chen Xingquan took out was just a bunch of plastic products, including plastic meal tickets, plastic popsicle tickets, plastic vouchers, plastic bookmarks, plastic class schedules, plastic salary bags and so on.

These things are all made of soft polyvinyl chloride, and the colors are very bright. At first glance, they really have some visual impact.

In later generations, this kind of plastic products will be despised by people. If a product is evaluated as "plastic", it basically means that the product looks too rustic and inferior, and it is definitely not worth the price.

But in this era, plastics are far from popularized, and plastic products can always give people a high-end atmosphere and high-grade feeling.

For example, most of the meal tickets used in various units are made of paper, which will be damaged if they are stained with water, and cannot be cleaned if they are stained with oil.Generally, after a meal ticket is used for a period of time, it will become oily and twisted, and it feels disgusting to hold it in your hand.

But changing to a plastic meal ticket is different. If it gets dirty, you can just throw it in the water and rinse it, and it will be as clean as new after washing.It is this kind of plastic meal ticket, which is not used by several units in Cangtang County, because there is no fund to replace it.In this day and age, which unit changed the paper meal ticket to a plastic meal ticket is considered a big news in the county, and some people even go to this unit specifically to ask to see what the plastic meal ticket looks like.

Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory is a large enterprise in Cangtang County, and it was also the first to switch to plastic meal tickets.Because the exchange of plastic meal tickets is in charge of the administration department, and Gao Fan's mother Ran Yuying is a staff member of the administration department, so Gao Fan knows a lot about this matter.

From his mother, he knew that the people who came to sell plastic meal tickets were all from Shuinan Province, especially in the Renqiao area of ​​Shuinan Province.Those small traders in Renqiao, just like the small boss named Chen Xingquan in front of me, carry a big travel bag and sell to the unit door by door. The service attitude is also very good.

At that time, the Renqiao peddler who went to Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory to sell plastic meal tickets, in order to please the staff of the administrative department, gave each of them some small gifts, which were actually plastic products.Ran Yuying brought back a few plastic-wrapped book covers, which sparked a fight between Gao Min and Gao Fan.

People of later generations really cannot understand the scarcity of supplies in this era.

If it were Gao Fan before, seeing the pile of things put out by Chen Xingquan, he would probably make a fuss like Huang Chunyan and Fang Rui.But the current Gao Fan only feels cold when looking at these things.

"How about it? Is there anything you like? It's fate to meet you. If you like something, I can sell it to you at the ex-factory price." Chen Xingquan said, "By the way, if you want more, I can give you a few more. Here are the pieces for you, no money."

The secret of doing business is not to let go of every opportunity.In Chen Xingquan's heart, he felt that the students in front of him could go to the provincial capital to participate in the competition, and they might be some influential people in the school.Some of the things he sells are also aimed at the student group, such as curriculum schedules, bookmarks, and book covers.

If these few students think his things are good and they can go back to school and organize the whole class to buy them together, that will be a big deal.Even if they don't organize classmates, but just buy a few pieces by themselves, it can serve as a demonstration after they go back, which is equivalent to advertising him, and he is happy to see the success.

Of course, it doesn't matter to him if these students are not interested at all. Anyway, if they are idle by train, they will be idle, and nothing will be delayed.

"What is this for..."

It was Huang Chunyan who asked the question first.She reached out and picked out one item from Chen Xingquan's display, and asked Chen Xingquan.

(End of this chapter)