Chapter 15 Earning $100,000 in 1979

Han Jiaojiao asked the security guard about the evening market last night.

It is called the night market, but in fact there are people doing transactions there from morning to night. As for what they are trading, it all depends on luck and connections.

She owns space in a hypermarket and is not interested in the supplies sold at the night market. What she is interested in are the tricks of the night market.

Shen Junshan refused to help her ask someone to arrange for her to transfer to another class, so she had no choice but to take the medical school entrance exam.

However, graduates from medical schools will be assigned to be nurses. Han Jiaojiao doesn’t look down on nurses, but she still wants to do the job she had in her previous life.

Besides, she felt sick at the thought of becoming Chen Xiaoying's junior.

If Shen Junshan really didn't want to help, she could only get more money. On the one hand, she could use the money to build connections. On the other hand, even if she couldn't build connections, she could use the money to study in a big city.

If all else fails, you might as well become a small rich woman, go directly to an adult university, and then pursue a master's or doctoral degree.

She had to save up her own little treasury without Shen Junshan's knowledge.

Han Jiaojiao stood in the corner of the alley, took out a few packs of Hongshuangxi from the space, peeled off the shells and took out the cigarettes inside, then wrapped them in brown paper and walked in.

As soon as I entered, a woman in her forties came up with a small bag and said, "Big sister, what's that in your hand? Can you show it to me?"

Han Jiaojiao looked at her carefully.

He was in his forties, looked smart and capable, and was carrying a large vegetable basket which looked full of vegetables, but he saw that they were only leafy vegetables, not heavy at all, and could cover up the contents of the basket very well.

Han Jiaojiao smiled and said, "You can't look at it here, but I can let you smell it. Smell it and see if it smells good."

The woman is also an old hand. She has been hanging around in this area for seven or eight years and can tell the good things from the bad.

She sniffed the scent lightly, and her eyes instantly became bright. She pulled Han Jiaojiao and went into the small shed in the corner.

I also looked around to see if anyone was following me.

"Girl, how can you do this?"

"I only sell loose ones, but I guarantee their authenticity. This package contains 100 sticks, and including the damaged ones there are more than 90 sticks. Thirty dollars is not too much, right?"

"Thirty..."

The woman looked embarrassed, and Han Jiaojiao knew that she wanted to negotiate the price.

She didn't indulge the other party and was about to leave with the cigarette.

The woman immediately stopped him when she saw him: "Thirty is thirty, I'll give it to you."

The woman gave her thirty dollars without saying a word, took the cigarette, opened it and took a look, then happily put the things into the vegetable basket and covered it with leafy vegetables.

"Girl, can you bring a box next time? A full box costs more!"

"My price for a full box is double, so if you buy them loose, they're cheaper, and you're making a profit."

Han Jiaojiao knew that this woman was a receiver. She bought things from her and then sold them through their channels to make a profit from the difference.

The woman also laughed: "People in this area call me Sister Juan, you can call me that too. Come to me next time you need cigarettes and alcohol, Sister Tong will be your wife for life."

"I do have cigarettes and alcohol, but I think they are not profitable. Can you tell me what is the best-selling product now?"

Sister Juan was stunned. She saw that Han Jiaojiao was pretty and well-dressed, so she must be from a wealthy family.

She guessed that Han Jiaojiao's family had powerful connections, so she said, "Besides alcohol and cigarettes, of course it's drugs."

"Medicine? What kind?"

"We have everything. Antibiotics, vaccines, high blood pressure, heart disease, and tetanus shots. People who work often get hurt. If they're not careful, they can get tetanus and die. This is in great demand. Oh, and we also have serum. I don't know why many people in the countryside have been bitten by snakes recently, but they don't want to go to the hospital for treatment. Even if they do go, many die before they can wait."

Sister Juan looked around exaggeratedly to make sure no one was eavesdropping.

She held Han Jiaojiao's hand and said, "The price of the serum is now 500 yuan per bottle. How can ordinary people afford it? Even if you sell your whole family, you still can't buy it. You can only wait to die!"

“Are there no measures to protect them?”

"It's out of reach. Yesterday, the secretary of Chunshan County, his wife's younger sister was bitten. They did get the vaccine in time, and their family could afford the money, but they quarreled over it. I heard that their family was about to be broken up." "The higher the technical content, the higher the selling price. This is not covered by the guarantee, which is a bit troublesome."

Han Jiaojiao narrowed her eyes thoughtfully.

Conventional pathological drugs such as antibiotics and hypertension are easy to come by, as they are available in her laboratory space, and even hypermarkets have anti-inflammatory drugs.

The difficult part is the serum.

Even though Chunshan County was considered a wealthy and advanced county in this era, in the context of the times, its medical talent and equipment levels were relatively low, making it very difficult for them to make snake venom serum.

Although she should be fine, the serum can also make her famous and maybe she can be admitted to the medical department of a prestigious university, but how can she explain this to Shen Junshan?

She has fallen in love with this husband she found for free and cannot scare him away.

After struggling for a long time, Han Jiaojiao decided to start by selling what she had on hand.

"Sister Juan, next time I'll buy two hundred cigarettes, a bottle of Moutai, and ten tetanus shots for five hundred yuan, okay?"

"Moutai? Tetanus shot? Seriously?"

A bottle of Moutai is sold for two hundred yuan. Rich people in the county town all look at it for gifts or banquets. It is the most sought-after item.

There are also tetanus shots. They only got five in half a year, and each one costs 80 yuan.

She only sold a bunch of her popular items for 500 yuan in total. It's hard to come by such a good deal.

Sister Juan didn't know for a moment whether it was smoke coming out of her ancestors' graves or she was hallucinating, so she asked Han Jiaojiao again and again to confirm.

"Five hundred dollars is not enough? You will definitely not lose anything."

"You misunderstood. That's not what I meant. I'm just a little worried."

Sister Juan was so happy that her face was deformed. She said in surprise: "Can you really get a tetanus shot? It can't be fake, right?"

"I can help you give the patient an injection. If anything goes wrong, blame it on me. It has nothing to do with you."

"Sis, if you say that, I have no reason not to believe you! I'll give you an extra hundred yuan, so I'll pay for the six hundred yuan."

"Give me five days to prepare. I will pay you and deliver you the goods in five days."

Sister Juan nodded quickly and ran away happily with the things in her arms.

Han Jiaojiao knew that the price she offered was very low.

She also has her own considerations.

First, she would open up the market with a few low-price transactions and create some noise in the evening market. After word spreads, bigger channel bosses will come to her.

By then, rice, meat tickets, and anything else can be traded for money.

It won't be long before she can save her first pot of gold.

Han Jiaojiao set a small goal for herself: to earn a small sum of 100,000 yuan in the summer of 1979!