Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 177 The days gradually become dull

Over at the new store, Liu Xiaofei is going to do some cleaning today and is starting to recruit people again.

But if you want to do this business like Laojie this time, you have to make long-term preparations. Because just as Luo Cheng and the others had guessed, the aquatic products here are all in a group, and the prices for the same type of products can be unified. But if you want more customers, you can use less. If you want to engage in vicious price competition, then everyone will target you.

Therefore, in terms of price advantage, Luo Cheng no longer has the advantage, so he relies on wild eels to sell his products. The color is a little more yellow. In addition, you can get some big eel first to attract business there, and let some old customers who are near the farmer's market go there to buy big eel.

At the farmer's market, sell slowly, and people who know the goods will naturally show the advantages of wild products. In the shops on the old street, the price of smaller eels will not increase. In a month or two, when the price of eels is going to rise, the price will gradually increase in both shops.

From now on, not to mention it will be more expensive than farmed ones, at least the prices will be similar. From now on, a pound will cost five yuan. There were so many eels and loaches in the pond in Luo Cheng's time, so he could earn millions more.

Now Luo Chengde is considering opening a few more business locations, or selling a small number of stores slowly.

In the morning, Luo Cheng and Xiao Fei went to the new store to do some cleaning. A recruitment advertisement for eels was also posted at the door of the store. I bought some air pumps for loaches. They are closed today. In the afternoon, Luo Cheng will use a tricycle to spread the goods. Tomorrow, the two of them will come here to open the business.

As for the cashiers, Liu Xiaofei is secretly contacting people again, but this time not all of them are younger sisters. After all, a suitable younger sister must be at least sixteen years old. But there is no age limit for older sisters. If they are older sisters, they are less easy to fool.

But with the cooperation of Zhou Ruoyu and Liu Sixin, they had good food and good housing. In addition to getting up early for work, they came to follow Liu Xiaofei. It's really good. In terms of fruits, Liu Xiaofei always gives them to everyone, and there is basically a constant supply of fruits at home.

So let alone my cousin being deceived, my cousin has been breached by Liu Xiaofei and will be here in a day or two. Luo Cheng and Liu Xiaofei were planning to look for a new place to live. It was easier to find a house here, but Liu Xiaofei wanted to find a first-hand landlord and a better-decorated house. At least the appliances are complete, so I don’t care if it costs two or three hundred dollars.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Luo Cheng and Liu Xiaofei went back, and she was going to get food. On the way back, Liu Xiaofei wanted to pick up the electric scooter to take Luo Cheng, but then she broke it again and sat back with her butt. She also asked Luo Cheng why he didn't imitate the ambiguous movements in the video and didn't even know how to pretend to shake.

There were pedestrians on the road, and Luo Cheng couldn't do that even if he was wearing a helmet. After Luo Cheng returned, he drove a tricycle to a private house. He first went to the wholesale market to bring eggs back. The tricycle can hold six baskets on one floor and pull twelve baskets on two layers at a time. The total cost for adding baskets was more than 1,600.

Luo Cheng planned to pull another cart in the afternoon. Since he had more time at noon, he took a cart of loaches and eels to the farmer's market.

In the afternoon, after Luo Cheng finished all the goods at the farmer's market, he went to the wholesale market and bought another cart of eggs. He also bought a bag of rice there. There was no need to buy flour. When shopping for the shops on the old street, , but there were five or six bags of flour left.

As for coarse grains, Luo Cheng couldn't find a feed store near him, so he ordered feed online that was said to be made from pure corn cobs. This can be fed to fish, pigs, chickens and ducks. Even though it didn't say it could be eaten by humans, Luo Cheng still felt a little guilty when he ordered this because it was all for feeding animals. It was not written that people should eat it, but Luo Cheng brought it back and not only gave it to people to eat, but also seemed to give it to people close to him.

I bought this online, and Luo Cheng couldn't tell whether it was the same kind of stick noodles as he had in his time. If that doesn't work, you can buy it and feed it to eels and loaches in your own time. Eels and loaches are omnivores, so they can eat some of this.

At around eleven o'clock in the evening, Luo Cheng went to the house. The eggs were packed in plastic baskets. He had to put them in baskets and wooden basins. One basket of eggs weighed thirty kilograms, and twenty-four baskets weighed more than seven hundred. catty. It’s not very heavy, it just needs to be handled with care. It took a long time to put it away.

With the arrival of twelve o'clock, it is double twelve again on both sides, and you can place it with your thoughts. After Luo Cheng used his mind to send things to his own time, he suddenly remembered something and used his mind to control an egg into a plastic basket in the future era.

It's a bit silly~~ It's so hard to manually change the plastic basket containing the eggs into a back basket and a large wooden basin. In fact, it can be easily done at twelve o'clock with a few clicks.

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Waking up in his own time, Luo Cheng looked at the things placed on the roadside, if he wasn't afraid of making people suspicious. Even if it's not easy to put it in the room, Luo Cheng can definitely put it outside the door of his house. But when so many things were delivered, and they were delivered by car, it was impossible that no one in the town would wake up.

But it's past twelve o'clock in the morning, and Luo Cheng can't leave his things here and leave by himself. He had to ask someone to get a truck to transport it away. Anyway, there was something going on in the town, so Luo Cheng went to call his father-in-law to see if he was in charge of the matter. Luo Cheng could at most take away the rice and noodles he wanted to use.

The rice noodles were packed in big wooden barrels. After Luo Cheng picked the rice noodles back with a wooden stick, he went to accountant Zhao's house to wake up his father-in-law, regardless of whether it was midnight or not. The father-in-law did not shirk the matter because it was not under his jurisdiction, but took Luo Cheng directly to the deputy mayor.

This matter falls under the jurisdiction of the deputy mayor. As for whether he sends someone to guard it or transports it somewhere, even if it is late at night, it has nothing to do with Luo Cheng and Accountant Zhao.

When we arrived at the deputy mayor's place, he was sleeping soundly. It's not disturbing someone's sleep at night, but I heard a truck from a poultry factory in the city bringing eggs, unloading them on the side of the road, and then driving away. These eggs did not belong to one commune, but to more than a dozen communes around the county. He couldn't afford the trouble if something happened on the roadside.

He quickly put on his clothes and followed Luo Cheng to the roadside to see what was going on. When you see a lot of eggs on the roadside, they are precious things. Eggs are nutritional supplements.

Regardless of how late it was, the deputy mayor went to call for someone. Even if it didn't arrive at the commune tonight, someone would still have to be guarded. These eggs, not counting tickets, are worth more than four hundred. And it's the kind that money can't buy. More than four hundred is really a huge sum of money for a town.

Luo Cheng went back to sleep first. Accountant Zhao was temporarily guarding the roadside, waiting for the deputy mayor to call someone.

In the early morning, Luo Cheng was woken up by a shout. It was not that early, but he didn't go to bed until about one o'clock in the morning yesterday. The arrival of eggs is a big deal for the commune, even if a commune only has a few dozen kilograms.

According to the proportion, each commune actually harvested 30,000 to 40,000 catties. This is because the seedlings have been planted in the fields, and because many communes have not seen money or things, they lack motivation. Just send some people to fish at night, and one commune can get two to three thousand kilograms a day.

Thirty or forty thousand kilograms, only three to four hundred yuan. Then convert it to 30%, and you can give 100 yuan for eggs or chickens and ducks.

Luo Cheng will give each commune 20 yuan worth of eggs first, and others will take their time. Those who find the eggs too little can stop cooperating. The loaches and eels are all in the pond, and the poultry factory hasn't taken them away. Again, it's male versus female, so it's impossible to settle things quickly.

The eggs were moved to the cafeteria and living room by the people of the commune. When Luo Cheng went there, many leaders of the commune were there. How to divide and how much to divide is all decided by Luo Cheng.

Zhao Qian's sister-in-law was also there, holding an accounting book and registering the weights of eels, loaches and soft-shell turtles sent from various communes. Luo Cheng felt that there was nothing to calculate today. If we wanted to divide it according to the proportion of each commune, there would be more and less, not to mention that it was not settled. I told my sister-in-law about the idea of ​​dividing eggs that cost 20 yuan per catty to a commune. According to the calculation, the eggs cost 60 cents per catty, and the eggs to a commune would be divided into 33 catties.

As a result, there are still more than two to three hundred kilograms of eggs. When the time comes for Hei Niu and the others to take them away, it will depend on their ability to handle the goods. The communes will count on Hei Niu to prepare the accounts and cash.

What's more, chickens and ducks are also given. The commune who came to collect eggs today asked the sister-in-law to inform them to deliver cages for chickens and ducks. The baskets for eggs are also ready. I can't give you things and put them in cages and baskets. Not only the commune wants to get cages and baskets, but Hei Niu and the others also need to buy them. Regarding the first equal distribution, it is difficult to negotiate with those communes, because according to the statistics of my sister-in-law, there are a total of fourteen communes including my own. This is not a county meeting, and Luo Cheng can't wait for them all.

I can only tell you that the strong side now is Luo Cheng, and those who have objections don't have to cooperate. Moreover, Luo Cheng's sales of eels, loaches and turtles in the future era were slow. He faced hundreds of thousands of catties of eels, loaches, turtles, and many were delivered every day. At present, more than a dozen simple reservoirs are not enough.

If we want to continue our cooperation, we have to continue digging ponds. There are so many eels, loaches, and turtles to raise, which puts a lot of pressure on Luo Cheng. In the future, a private house used as a garage will start to seem small. You have to rent a real small warehouse and build hundreds of baskets of eggs and dozens of cages for chickens and ducks.

Various feeding feeds and miscellaneous things can balance the operation of both sides.

Luo Cheng is a mountain man, just because he has little knowledge and does not know how many ways he can use the resources of his own era to make money in the future era. In fact, his desire for money is not high now, so he has this damn sense of responsibility as a man. He wants Liu Xiaofei's body just to satisfy his woman's material requirements.

But after spending so many days with Liu Xiaofei, I gradually understood the times. In fact, I think Liu Xiaofei is just affected by the environment. Not only her, but many girls want a better material life. But there is no problem in wanting it. The only difference is getting something for nothing and being willing to work together. If you just rely on men to bring you everything, you will do nothing and blame men every day. Even if Luo Cheng sleeps with Liu Xiaofei, he will be responsible for it, but at most he will take care of it if he is willing to live together, eat and drink, but if Luo Cheng has to pay a lot for the other party, he may not be willing.

Luo Cheng doesn't believe in bullshit love. In his concept of life, he doesn't know what love is from the beginning. Before getting married, when I see a good-looking woman, I don't think about how to please her or make her like her. What they want is to get the other person's health and happiness, and then live together.

But now Luo Cheng wants to satisfy what Liu Xiaofei wants, and by occasionally embarking on the road of selling eels, loaches, and turtles, he feels that he can also satisfy what she wants. In this way, he gradually expands without any big plans.

Luo Cheng did some calculations, and now that these eels, loaches, and turtles have been digested, his life will be worry-free.

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On August 8, 1958, Luo Cheng returned to the city again.

The rice bran grain station for raising chickens was delivered the next day, and Hei Niu was helping sell goods everywhere. If it weren't for selling as soon as possible, the eggs could be sold for one yuan a pound. Eighty cents per catty was the price Heiniu and the others paid directly to other black market managers they knew.

In the future, Luo Cheng's new store will open smoothly, and the manpower has been recruited, including two cashiers and two employees. But the business is very average. It is good to rely on the big yellow eel to attract customers, but without the price advantage, the big yellow eel cannot be sold freely. The advantage of wild products is that someone knows the goods. Anyway, there is a business, but the expenses are high. Four employees plus housing, water and electricity cost 20,000 yuan a month. If it were other stores, it would be a headache without hiring people.

Because the cashier hired was Liu Xiaofei's cousin, Luo Cheng and the others gave up the place they rented, and still rented a new house in the community. The decoration was pretty good, and the rent was 1,300 yuan a month.

August 11, 1958. Night, slightly cooler.

Luo Cheng was so frightened by Zhao Qian's question that he was so frightened that he even stopped contacting her by 10 or 20 centimeters.

Zhao Qian asked a question. She seemed to have missed her menstrual period last month. Many people these days do not have this education. He also asked Luo Cheng if it was because he often did that shy thing that the blood couldn't flow out.

If it were Luo Cheng before, he wouldn't understand women's menstruation. Now when he talks about it, Luo Cheng thinks about pregnancy.

After one and a half months of marriage, as long as there are no health problems between the two of them, it is normal for them to get pregnant.

The next day, Luo Cheng took Zhao Qian for a checkup, but because there was no obvious reaction, the testing equipment was backward. Even if a Chinese medicine doctor took the pulse, it was too early in the pregnancy and the pulse could not be found. In addition, women's delayed menstruation is also caused by many other conditions, especially in rural areas. If men and women do not pay attention to hygiene when they are together, delayed menstruation is considered a good thing, and gynecological diseases are very easy to get.

So regardless of whether you are actually pregnant or not, treat the pregnancy first. If the situation of not getting pregnant appears in a few days, we will talk about it then.

Zhao Qian has always wanted to get pregnant, and of course Luo Cheng also wants to be a father. Having children is called having a wife. This is the mindset of people in this era. As for the birth of a child, how to raise it, how to cultivate it, how can it be considered so much? Raising a child these days is called raising a child until he or she is starved to death. With Luo Cheng's situation, it would be no problem for Zhao Qian to have four or five children.

August 16, 1958.

Luo Cheng organized another hunt at the town commune. It was already the middle of the month. He wanted to get some meat for the factory to improve the food supply. But I was unlucky. I organized people to go into the mountains for three consecutive days but failed to catch the big deal. In fact, I found traces but did not catch them. We shot a lot of pheasants and wild ducks. The wild ducks were not shot in the mountains, but by the reeds in the river below the reservoir.

In the future, feed made from corn cobs ordered online will also arrive, probably because it is used to feed various animals. It's not as finely ground as the stick noodles in Luo Cheng's era, but the texture feels right.

This kind of feed can be eaten as whole grains, and the price will be particularly cheap in the future. In addition to this, there are also silage feeds for chickens and ducks. In some wheat fields, an acre of wheat may be sold for only 1,500 yuan, and people have to be arranged to harvest it. But some people directly harvest the unripe green wheat and buy it directly as feed. They are paid one thousand and eighty yuan per acre without you having to harvest it.

If it were not for food security, it would actually be more cost-effective to use green wheat or even young corn stalks as feed. Luo Cheng ordered a lot of feed online to feed the chickens. We have also cooperated with many communes. Luo Cheng represents the poultry factory and cooperates with everyone to raise chickens. The chickens and feed are all produced by the poultry factory. The commune is responsible for the grounds and feeding.

In the future era, Luo Cheng's new store has also begun to show some improvement. Even if the price is the same, if Luo Cheng's eel is wild, even if it is a small eel, people will be more willing to buy it when they hear it is wild. Even though there is really not much difference between farmed eels and wild eels.

In order to do business better, Liu Xiaofei signed up at a driving school to learn how to drive and get her driver's license. In their spare time, the two of them were exploring new vegetable markets or farmers' markets.

In 1958, at the end of August, clerk Luo Cheng was raised one level. Although autumn had already begun, it was only now getting cooler at night.

Zhao Qian was also confirmed at the hospital that she was indeed pregnant. The days are getting better and better as the months pass.

Far in the north, some places are starting to get a little messy. It's still dry and corn can't be grown. I can't plant anything now, there's no hope. If it rains a little in the south, I can still plant something this month. It gets cold very quickly in the north. It's a crisp autumn day here in the south, but maybe it's really cold in the north.

Wait until next spring for plowing? The wait lasts for nearly half a year. How can we support the people living in these drought-prone areas? There is no collective canteen, not a cafeteria, and there is almost no food left to eat. People in the drought-stricken areas in the north began to beg for food and livelihood in nearby decent places.

In the autumn in the south, the weather in Luo Cheng's city was relatively smooth, which made many people breathe a sigh of relief. But many people feel a depressing atmosphere. They are living their lives normally, but suddenly they feel as if many things are gradually becoming scarce.

(End of this chapter)