Starting from selling lunch boxes at the construction site

Chapter 9 Anxin Food Processing Company
Xu An confided all his plans, and Uncle Dongliang nodded in agreement as he listened.

"Your idea should work. The construction site where I am working now has a conservative estimate of 600 people. In addition to the locals, there can be two to three hundred workers from outside.

They are not like us who can go home and have a good meal at night. They can only go to nearby restaurants to make do.As long as the box lunch you make is more cost-effective than the restaurant’s, and it’s not bad, then you’re going to be successful. "

After finishing speaking, he immediately added: "If you want to do it, you can go to my construction site and try it? When the time comes, uncle will pull a few people over for you, and you may not be afraid that it will not be sold.

That is, if it is not delicious, you can change to another place next time, and don't come here again.Otherwise, if they want to beat you up, uncle can't stop them.

Now there are more than [-] construction sites in the city, large and small, and each construction site can be sold for a month in a day.You stop when all the construction sites have turned around, and you can wait for the university to start to go to university with peace of mind. "

Uncle Dongliang's words clearly arranged Xu An's stall business from the first day to the end.Just shoot one shot for another, and leave as soon as the pit is over.

"However, if you make good lunch boxes, you can sell them at this construction site. Most of the nearby villages work on this construction site. You can sell lunch boxes honestly, and you can't stand bullying."

"Uncle Dongliang, what time will you leave work tomorrow? After work, go to my house to have a meal and see if I shoot one shot for another shot or stick to one place and sell it."

Xu An has confidence in his craft, but others don't know that Xu An's cooking is delicious.In the case of Xu An's family, everyone would not go to their house for dinner if they had nothing to do, and more often they asked Xu An and the others to eat at their own house.

"Okay, let's take it at noon tomorrow. It's too hot these days. I get off work at 03:30 noon, and I don't start work until [-]:[-] in the afternoon. I can just come back to have a meal and take a nap before going there."

After finalizing the time, Xu An said goodbye and returned to his home.Xu Kang and Xu Le slept peacefully in the bedroom, and he didn't realize that his brother had run out at all.

The next morning, Xu An still got up at four o'clock in the morning to pick vegetables in the vegetable garden. After all, he promised Guoqiang's second uncle yesterday to set up a stall together today.

Everything is not ready yet, and my sister-in-law will come to the house today, and the box lunch business will have to be arranged tomorrow, and today I have to honestly set up a stall to make more money.

There are not many dishes today, three catties of tomatoes, two catties of Chinese cabbage, two eggplants, and two catties of green peppers were all sold out, and a total of 23 yuan was earned.

Compared with yesterday, today's income is almost half off.

Xu An planned to go to the wholesale market in the town to find out the wholesale price, so he asked his second uncle to help him bring the baskets back, and left the vegetable market.

The wholesale market is on the northeast side of the town, with everything from daily necessities such as pots and pans to food items such as rice and vegetables.

While shopping, Xu An wrote down the wholesale prices and minimum purchase quantities of different foods.

For example, frozen chicken wings start at 14 catties for wholesale, and the wholesale price is [-] yuan per catty. The price of frozen chicken wings on the market is [-] catties, which can save [-] yuan per catty.

Frozen chicken legs are also wholesaled from ten catties, and the wholesale price is six yuan per catty.If you can wholesale fifty catties at a time, you can save another yuan.

Basically, the price in the wholesale market will be 2-5 yuan cheaper than that in the market, but the required quantity is relatively large, and there is no refrigerator at home, so there is too much and no place to store it.

Coming out of the wholesale market, as soon as I walked to the door, a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears came over, leaned over to Xu An and asked in a low voice: "The boss is here to wholesale ingredients, just now you are eating food Go around there. The price in the wholesale market is still high, I have cheaper ones here, do you want to take a look?"

Although this man looked simple and honest, but he gave people the feeling of being sloppy when he spoke, and he didn't seem to be doing serious business.

Xu An didn't talk to him, but distanced himself from this person, and waved his hand to express his refusal.

The man was not annoyed when he saw this, he took out a leaflet from his pocket and stuffed it into Xu An's hand, gave Xu An a look of 'you understand', and went to look for the next target.

After more than 100 meters away from the wholesale market, Xu An spread out the flyer in his hand, which was a flyer of a small food processing company.

Frozen chicken wings start at five catties, ten yuan per catty; frozen chicken legs start at five catties, three yuan per catty; frozen pork starts at five catties, four yuan per catty.

There are more than 20 kinds of food printed on the flyer, and the price is four or five yuan per catty cheaper than the price in the wholesale market.

The price is outrageously cheap!
But this low price really attracted Xu An. If he buys ingredients at this price, he can earn five yuan for a box lunch of eight yuan.

Let's go and have a look.

Xu An looked for it according to the address on the leaflet. It was not far from the wholesale market, and it took about ten minutes to walk there.

The environment here is much worse than that of the wholesale market with the naked eye. The sewage is flowing on the ground, and there are discarded and corrupt internal organs everywhere.As people walked, flies kept flying up and down, and maggots could be vaguely seen in some corners.

In front of a one-story house, there was a whole row of faucets. Seven or eight people were washing the ingredients under the faucets, and various unknown smudges were floating on the water in the basin.

Xu An found the most honest-looking woman, and handed the leaflet to her: "Is this Anxin Food Processing Company?"

The woman looked up at Xu An, wiped her apron with her oily hands, and took the flyer: "You haven't been here before, I'll take you to see it."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but walk towards the bungalow with Xu An.

Red headlights were turned on in the bungalow, and many people shuttled through the rows of shelves, picking out the ingredients they wanted.

The woman took a form and a pencil from the wall and handed them to Xu An, pointing to an old man: "All the ingredients are here, you take this list, and tick it if you like it, Write down how many catties you want, and give it to the old man in the leather jacket, and he will pack the corresponding amount of ingredients for you."

After finishing speaking, the woman went out to continue her work, and Xu An walked to the shelf closest to the gate to check the ingredients.

Pork is placed on this shelf. At a glance, there are various parts of pork, and there are many pig offal.These ingredients were packed in red plastic bags and randomly stacked on the shelves, and a lot of blood dripped down the shelves.

Under the red lighting, the ingredients look fresh.But the smell in the air told Xu An that these ingredients had begun to spoil.

At this time, someone filled out the form and handed it to the old man in the leather jacket. The old man put on the military overcoat with the form, opened the curtain behind him, opened a heavy door and walked in.

It was only then that Xu An discovered that behind the old man in the leather jacket was a cold storage room.

He walked to the back of a shelf near the person who had just picked up the goods, pretended to be looking for the goods he wanted, and kept his eyes on the movement there.

The sound of heavy footsteps came, and the old man came out of the cold storage with a large basket of goods.Even in the military overcoat, it was still hissing from the cold.

The person who picked up the goods casually picked up two bags of ingredients to check, and suddenly yelled: "The date is wrong, didn't you say it was only half a year expired, it's been almost two years since it expired. Two years expired is not the price, you have to make it cheaper point."

"It's frozen in the freezer. There is no difference between half a year and two years of expiration. If you are not satisfied, you can go to another place. You can't find a place cheaper than mine in the city."

"Boss, I'm not greedy. It's one yuan cheaper per catty."

"It's not that you want cheaper ones. You see the ones on the shelves. They cost one yuan per catty, and you can take whatever you want."

"I'm already your regular customer, so I won't give you any discount."

"At this price, we are doing charity, just earning a lot of money. Look at how many workers are outside, no matter how low they are, they can't even pay their wages."

"All right, all right, pack the bags for me."

It turned out to be expired food, no wonder it was so cheap.

Xu An is not a person who is full of the heart of the Virgin, but he is not a person without a conscience either. He is just an ordinary normal person with his own conscience.

Most of the workers working on the construction site are the same age as his parents, if his parents are still alive, they should be one of them.

Many people in the village who have helped their families are also working on the construction site. Xu An can't buy the expired ingredients here to make box lunches and sell them to them.

At this time, another person went to find the old man to pick up the goods, and Xu An took this opportunity to leave here.

Unscrupulous money is easy to earn, but I still have a conscience, so I can't earn this unscrupulous money.It's just that I don't know where those ingredients will eventually flow to that store, what kind of food will be made, and eaten by those people.

When going back, Xu An entered from the north intersection of the village, went to Xu Guosheng's house first, and then walked towards the house.

Xu Kang and Xu Le squatted outside the courtyard gate and looked helplessly at the intersection in front of the house. Seeing Xu An's figure, they rushed over and hugged Xu An's calf.

"Brother, the old witch and the old demon king have come to our house."

"Yes, they also said that we are cute and gave us candies. Are they the kidnappers that my brother always said."

The old witch, the old demon king, isn't this the monster they dreamed about in their dreams? Why did they come to their home?

Xu An probed into the courtyard, there were seven or eight people in the courtyard, three of them were sitting with their backs to the courtyard door.

All of them took off their left shoes, stepped on the wooden bench with bare feet, stroked the feet with one hand, and waved the other in mid-air, saying that they could even see afterimages when they were excited.

There is only my sister-in-law's family in such a classic trio. This is my sister-in-law, my uncle, and my mother-in-law.

Xu An carried the two little ones into the courtyard gate, called out to the three of them politely, and found a corner to sit down.

The time gap is too long, Xu An only remembers that the three of them took Xu Kang and Xu Le away after arguing in the previous life, but I don't remember the specific details, so I just revisit it now.

Xu Kang and Xu Le seemed to realize something. After entering the gate, he hid behind Xu An, stuck out half of his furry head and looked at the three sisters.

Xu Le tugged at Xu An's clothes, motioned him to lower his head, and whispered to him, "The wrinkled one is the old witch, and the tall and thin one is the old demon king."

Well, Xu An always thought that the old witch and the old demon king in the two populations meant sister-in-law and uncle, but he didn't expect it to be uncle and his mother.

(End of this chapter)