Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 197: Monopterus eels are out of stock

People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. After returning from the city center, Luo Cheng had several extra sets of clothes. They are all suit types. Suits are divided into formal and casual styles. I bought them all.

Once he puts on this suit, Luo Cheng's figure is really good, at least he can maintain his posture. People who wear suits should not be too short. If they are thin, it will be difficult to stand up in formal clothes. Most of the suits worn by thin and wealthy people are specially customized by someone. In a clothing store, you should immediately buy clothes that suit you. They are generally people with relatively standard figures, and the clothes match the person, not the clothes.

Those who always praise you as if your clothes are tailor-made, and you look like a traitor if you don't have a good look or figure and wear regular army clothes. Don’t watch too many TV shows and think that buying clothes that fit you is easy. Most people have trouble buying clothes that they can wear themselves and others think they look really good on.

I bought four sets of clothes, two sets each of formal and casual clothes. They cost tens of thousands of yuan, and they were from one brand. Any one item costs thousands, and there are many that include shirts in one set. After buying this dress, I also need to buy shoes. Leather shoes can be paired with a suit. Casual suits can also be paired with casual leather shoes.

A pair of shoes costs several thousand yuan, and the sum of several pairs of shoes costs close to two yuan.

For this purchase, Zhou Meng just took Luo Cheng to some brand stores, and the prices were actually only mid-range. For truly high-end products, it means paying brand tax. After all, this is real life, and you won’t think like in the TV series, where you meet someone with a little money, and the clothes and shoes are expensive no matter how expensive they are.

At this level of consumption, Zhou Meng's legs felt weak. Although the money was only tens of thousands, Luo Cheng didn't think much about the price. The payment was straightforward. Although he didn't spend a penny on her, he might not be able to develop a relationship with Luo Cheng in the future. But if you know more rich people, you will have more connections.

Even if they are just normal friends, in this day and age, rich people have high-quality connections. In the future, if you want to do some business, or help others attract some investment. Maybe just mention it and a little 'little money' will be enough.

For someone like Luo Cheng, who is willing to spend fifty or sixty thousand to buy clothes, and some who invest hundreds of thousands, it's not easy as long as he is interested.

For Zhou Meng, it was a pity that Luo Cheng did not deliberately hide the fact that he had a girlfriend. I'm not afraid of having a girlfriend, I'm just afraid of not hiding it. That shows that Luo Cheng is not too carefree, and Zhou Meng is confident in his appearance. It would be difficult for some scumbag men to resist a pure and lustful woman like her.

In fact, Zhou Meng is not short-sighted, and her glasses have no prescription. Glasses are also one of her image accessories. Nowadays, many men do this. Some people may say that she is a bit degenerate. She is a college graduate and also has a job. There is actually some such mentality in private.

But Zhou Meng is just an ordinary university student. So what if he can find a job? It costs thousands a month. Just like what was said on the Internet, Qin Hanchuang studied hard for ten years, how could he surpass the efforts of three generations of others? What's more, many college students really just "study hard". Like some ordinary universities, it is actually easy to get into it, and there are many students who are just dawdling.

If Luo Cheng didn't have a girlfriend, Zhou Meng wouldn't mind having a sibling relationship. But for now, let's develop a good relationship first. If Luo Cheng breaks up with his girlfriend, the opportunity will come.

After buying the clothes, Luo Cheng invited Zhou Meng to have something to eat and then left. Luo Cheng and Zhou Meng felt very comfortable together, and the other party was very good at talking according to his own wishes. It's just that he didn't expect that the other party would follow him like this because the balance in his mobile phone was seen by the other party.

Otherwise, a woman like Zhou Meng would be a goddess in school, and simple handsome boys would be attractive to her. But these days it’s hard to win over some women just by being handsome.

While there was still time in the afternoon, Luo Cheng took a taxi and went to the eel breeding shed in the suburbs. There are not many breeding sheds left on the site here. All the ponds in his time were emptied, and the eels and soft-shell turtles were put here. Even the big eels and soft-shelled turtles were brought in.

The few greenhouses left now are used to raise eels and soft-shelled turtles. The greenhouses used to raise small eels are actually not small, but are a bit smaller than those of large eels. Recently, I cleaned out every greenhouse I sold out, and directly hired someone to build a chicken coop.

This time Luo Cheng came to the suburbs to see the situation in the greenhouses, intending to clear out all the smaller eel sheds and inform Liu Xiaofei's relatives that there would be no wild eels for sale in the future. If they want to continue selling, they can only go to the wholesale market to buy farmed products. There is a lot of profit, but they are definitely not as easy to sell as wild products.

Moreover, he obviously sells eels and the business was good at the end of last year. He also likes to pay on credit, as if he doesn't feel comfortable if he doesn't owe a little money.

When he came to the breeding ground, there were six slightly older helpers helping him work. They used to help feed the eels and turtles, but now only two are responsible for this aspect, and the other four are responsible for feeding the chickens.

I checked the remaining small eels and found that they were no longer available for a few days. Some of my own restricted stores may not be able to sell it. Those big eels and soft-shell turtles can be turned into boutique wild aquatic products stores like those selling big lobsters and abalones.

Others are like those in farmers' markets, which stipulate that this row of shops can only operate something. Luo Cheng feels that there is no need to operate a place like that anymore, because few people who go to vegetable markets and farmers' markets can afford large eels and wild turtles. Like aquatic product boutiques, they can be operated in some street shops. What we sell is word of mouth, as long as people know it is wild, the location of the store is actually not important anymore.

The same is true for native chickens. It's really hard to distinguish between native chickens and domestic chickens. But once it gets a good reputation, it will still be sought after by some people who are particular about ingredients. You can't see it, but you can eat it. It is easy to be exposed if feed chickens are sold as native chickens.

The native chickens are just fed in different ways and at different times, but they are still raised after all. A native chicken weighs about three to five kilograms and can be sold for more than one hundred yuan. And those that can be fed in a few months cannot be sold at half the price.

This local chicken can be sold in vegetable markets and farmer's markets. Each one costs about a hundred yuan, and the key point is only about one hundred and fifty yuan. If there is a pregnant woman at home, they will buy several of them a month.

Luo Cheng plans to turn some shops without mandatory planning into local chicken shops, selling local eggs as well as chickens. This way there is no need to lay off workers.

In addition to selling eels and local chickens, Luo Cheng actually runs an ecological rice shop. He just tried to run it and sold it for ten yuan a pound. He had considered this price for a long time.

The only drawback of the rice he sells may be that the varieties grown are not as good as those of this era. The quality is a bit different, but apart from this and other advantages, the price is actually reasonable.

For example, the more expensive rice on the market now is Wuchang rice, but this Wuchang rice is also divided into organic and ordinary. Ordinary ones only cost four or five yuan a pound, and they also use chemical fertilizers and the like.

As for Wuchang organic rice, the price is expensive, ranging from more than ten yuan to dozens of yuan per pound, and it is not very popular and has a small output. There are a lot of fake products online.

Luo Cheng's rice was brought over from his time, and it was useless to use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Needless to say, the water quality was not polluted in those days. You can drink the stream water directly.

This is at least better than ordinary Wuchang rice, but worse than organic Wuchang rice. So we priced it at ten yuan per catty, focusing on whether you believe it or not, whether you want to buy it or not. Anyway, Luo Cheng is not afraid of testing or counterfeiting.

Rich people still pay attention to this. A bag of ordinary rice costs more than 100 pounds. It’s only 500 yuan a bag. Nowadays, people don’t eat much, and a family may only have one or two bags a month. For rich people, spending a thousand yuan a month on rice is nothing. The owner of Private Kitchen alone helped Luo Cheng recommend many customers, and Luo Cheng also developed a customer base and formed a group. And those customers are also willing to be included in a group, because most of the families who are willing to spend ten yuan to buy a pound of rice are wealthy. And some customers in the group actually took Luo Cheng's rice for appraisal. Apart from the price difference, this rice was actually AA grade and had no use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or insecticides.

This difference in taste has sometimes become a topic of conversation. There was a boss who bought a bag of rice from Luocheng and gave it to someone. They thought he was giving a bag of ordinary rice. The boss who delivered the rice assured me that although the rice looked ordinary, it actually tasted quite fragrant when cooked. It was authentic, pollution-free, organic rice. He also showed the report that someone in the group had identified it.

This rice is a bit interesting. It is inconspicuous at all and is very suitable for gift giving. Some people go to search or something, and if they see that the rice you eat is crystal clear and full of grains. Even if it uses chemical fertilizers, people will not believe that the rice is cheap. But this rice, anyone who takes a look at it, will feel that it is very ordinary.

But damn, it passed the Double A certification, and it still tastes delicious when cooked. Especially some older people still tasted the taste of 'back then'.

Therefore, the grain store in Luo Chengnong is very deserted on the outside and cannot receive many people every day. But door-to-door sales are huge every month. There are also many people who buy directly when they come, without stopping to look at more. They contact them online and sometimes drop by to pick them up. It’s nothing fancy, just a kind of rice with the same specifications and prices.

Now Luo Cheng's main business is eels, turtles, local chickens and local eggs, and the other is a rice shop. Occasionally, he would also do some side business. Wherever there were vegetables and fruits that were unsaleable, Luo Cheng would go for a walk. When vegetables and fruits are unsalable, selling them out of town is not enough to cover the shipping costs. Watermelons and vegetables are fed to pigs, or used as fertilizer in rotten fields.

Luo Cheng just treated it as a ticket, collecting some every time he went there. Then he went back to Jiangcheng to wholesale it, and also kept some in his own time, and asked Hei Niu and others to help deal with some.

Luo Cheng wanted to get some people who could really help him in his own time. In fact, he just wanted to make some vegetables, and let them dig many cellars, store the vegetables, and process them slowly.

When he went to the suburbs, the clothes Luo Cheng bought were placed in the warehouse. When I came back, I thought about things to talk about and didn't have the time to show Liu Xiaofei her clothes.

Back home, it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon, and Liu Xiaofei was still lying on the bed playing mobile games. It can be said that she has fallen, and it can also be said that she is satisfied. He doesn't seem to be pursuing anything. Every day he is either at home holding his mobile phone or going out to play mahjong nearby, but the game is not big.

"Luo Cheng, you're back. Hurry up and double open. I've lost several games in a row."

"Stop playing around. You call your relatives who buy goods from us, including your parents, and come to the dining room to gather together in the evening. The eel is almost out of stock, and there will be no supply in the future."

"No supply? Are the people you know not going to catch eels this year? Or are they unwilling to sell the goods to you?"

"Wild ones, you think you can catch them if you want. They found a place where no one found them last year. I'm afraid that others will find out, so they were caught very cleanly. If I go to the same place again this year, even if they are found, they will be caught." There are very few. The people I know are going to fish elsewhere this year and will no longer come here. If there is any, they will not send it to us to sell."

"Then what should I do? The income from selling eels is so high, what should I do if I don't have any more?"

"Aren't there still local chickens for sale? There are still so many large eels and soft-shelled turtles. We can sell them slowly for a while."

"That's right, but without the little eel, my relatives won't be able to make much money."

"There are so many wholesale farmers and aquatic products sellers. Some businesses are doing well and they can make a lot of money a year."

"Okay, I'll call them now."

Liu Xiaofei lifted the quilt and was only wearing underwear. However, if you feel uncomfortable wearing clothes while playing with your phone under the quilt, you should take off your outer clothes.

The first call Liu Xiaofei made was to her parents. After her mother stayed here for a while, she learned that wild eels are really easy to sell. The business in Shencheng was stagnant, so her mother asked her father to transfer the store directly and bring her son over to sell eels together.

The third brother came here and made a lot of money. Liu Xiaofei's mother was playing cards with her third daughter-in-law, who was also a talker. In order to show that they are smart in business, they directly revealed at the card table that they were selling eels for a short amount of jinshaoliang. Especially at the end of last year, eels were selling for 40 to 50 yuan per catty. If you do something casually, the profit is really high.

Liu Xiaofei's second uncle's son, Liu Xiaofei's cousin, also opened a branch, and the business was also good. Like Liu Xiaofei's second uncle, he had no scruples in playing tricks on the scale from the beginning.

They all went on a blind date at the end of last year. The stingy family was actually willing to spend more than 100,000 yuan in gifts to find a partner for their cousin. The betrothal gift is neither too high nor too low, the main thing is that the person you are looking for is good-looking.

As for the cousin's partner's ability to agree to this marriage, it mainly depends on how well the cousin and his parents make a living and brag about it. Selling eels can cost hundreds of thousands a year. This is not a lie. The payment record on the mobile phone cannot be faked. It can be easily tens of thousands a month. He speaks with pride, has proof of income, and Liu Xiaofei's cousin is pretty good-looking.

They got married after just a month of dating. Now Liu Xiaofei's cousin's shop is considered a husband and wife team, and they are living a happy life.

The call was quickly connected, and Liu Xiaofei asked her father to come over for dinner in the evening and told her that the eel was almost out of stock. The second uncle asked her father to notify her, and her mother asked her aunts and uncles to notify them. In addition to these, there are several cousins ​​whom Liu Xiaofei is contacting. They all came to ask for help after hearing that they were making money selling eels.

Luo Cheng actually thought that in his own time, during the spring plowing this year, he could still catch a batch of eels. But there were many people fleeing the famine, and they ate whatever they caught. Luo Cheng couldn't say that he could bring the eel to the future and sell it at a high price, so he didn't bother with it.

There are so many relatives, not to mention that Luo Cheng's own store is also selling. Together, they can ship a lot of goods in one day. So even if we caught nearly a million catties last year, with so many people selling them, after more than half a year there would only be eels and soft-shelled turtles left. Moreover, the sales of large eels and soft-shelled turtles are still under control.

Liu Xiaofei couldn't explain a word or two on the phone, but the fact that the eel supply was about to run out was revealed. Once the matter was revealed, Luo Cheng had some other livelihoods anyway. It’s just that most of the current income is from rice eels. If the income from rice eels really disappears, Liu Xiaofei will also be very anxious. Her good days have just begun. Although she no longer has this big income, her other income is also very good, but no one wants to face such a situation where her good income loses a lot.

(End of this chapter)