Chapter 90

Zhou Jiani’s path is paved very well.

After Liu Ailing came to her senses that day, she suddenly felt that she could change her place and follow Zhou Jiani's path.

But Zhao Weiguo had already backed out, so she had to think of other ways to make this path work.

If she had known that Zhou Jiani had this kind of brain, she shouldn't have been so impulsive at the beginning. She should have waited longer. Otherwise, if she made good use of it, she could achieve better results than she imagined. Isn't it clear from Zhou Jiani's current situation?

"call……"

Liu Ailing regretted it again, but it was too late to make up for it. She could only think of other ways to open this gap.

On the other hand, Zhou Jiani spent two days in the city's black market, visited the Second Department Store and the post office, and had originally planned to raid the city's supply and marketing cooperatives on the third day. However, when the front desk lady told her that there would be a big market in the morning, she decided to go to the market in the morning, look for the supply and marketing cooperatives in the afternoon, and take the bus back the next morning.

It’s great to go to the market. There are many stalls set up by local people and a lot of agricultural products. The more you buy, the happier they will be. You can also buy some vegetables from here and start a vegetable group.

It just so happened that someone had opened a group purchase for her last night on a portable scale, which came in two types: rechargeable and battery models. Zhou Jiani, holding a solar charging panel and a power bank, chose the more expensive rechargeable model without hesitation, spending over 40 yuan on it.

Last night I took out the packaged corn and weighed it, and it was quite accurate.

Now I'm feeling fresh, so I want to buy some things that need to be weighed and packaged to make her feel fresh.

I got some freshly boiled water from the boiler room the night before and used a slow cooker to stew some noodles. When I woke up in the morning, I found that they were a little too soft, but still edible. I opened a bottle of shrimp paste, scooped a spoonful of shrimp paste and stirred it evenly. I still had some braised eggs I bought earlier, so I peeled one and added it in. The taste was okay... but I still don't want to eat the stewed noodles a second time.

After dinner, I asked about the specific location and went to the market.

This market is much bigger than the one next to the county town, and it has a wide variety of items.

Strictly speaking, she didn't go shopping much last time, and it was almost time for the next episode by the time she finished selling the vegetables.

Zhou Jiani took a deep breath. She was so envious. But how many times would she have to pour it out so little by little? She really wanted to wave her hand and throw it all into her warehouse!

Suppressing her slightly excited mood, Zhou Jiani first walked around the area, found a suitable place to carry people, studied the route, and then returned to the market and plunged into shopping mode.

Vegetables are the most abundant and the easiest to buy. Zhou Jiani took out a straw hat and put it on her head, slightly covering half of her face, and began to use her small body to carry the big road to wealth. As long as the vegetables are good and the quantity is not too large, she will just collect them and carry them out in a woven bag.

Come out, put it away, and go around to the other end of the market to buy more.

After she finished shopping at the other end, she would go out and stay for a while before returning to the previous entrance. Even if some stall owners recognized her, they would not find it strange. Besides, after people started coming in, the stall owners would not pay any attention to her.

Vegetables were the most purchased items, and a lot of peanuts and walnuts were also collected, but this required taking the stall owner out to the market to trade. After the transaction, she would carry the goods away, make a circle, and then go back.

In addition to these, the others are large baskets woven by the old farmer herself, and brooms of various models. She can't tell whether they will sell well, so she only buys five or six to make up the number to test the waters. If the market response is good, she will have a purchasing direction when she goes to the market next time.

There was a blacksmith setting up a stall at the fair, displaying his forged kitchen knives. Zhou Jiani bought seven of them as she wished.

Dried cowpeas, various vegetable seeds, rice noodle wrappers, vermicelli noodles, sesame seeds, red dates, and eggs bought in secret...

The seller was also secretive.

She had to hide it. As Zhou Jiani was shuffling things around like a little mouse, a man pushing a cart of cotton was stopped by the administrator. They told him to either send someone to a designated purchasing point or confiscate the cotton. The old man selling cotton could only sigh and leave the market with his cotton.

Two young men who were trying to buy cotton nearby grumbled indignantly, "Why are the controls on Grade 4 and Grade 5 cotton so strict?"

They just went up to ask about the price of cotton, and after asking just two questions, they were interrupted by the manager.

It all depends on the mood of the administrator to decide which one to manage and which one not to manage.

Zhou Jiani didn't even dare to watch the excitement and left quickly.

There were many people coming to the market, including local residents, educated youth, and the most conspicuous were the workers in work clothes.

The scalpers mingled among them and accurately looked for their customers. Zhou Jiani also spotted them accurately and targeted a few of them. When she came back again with her sore shoulders shaking, she went to chat with the ticket scalpers.

After running around the market all morning, my legs became thinner, my soles ached, and my shoulders were burning with pain, but I gained a lot.

Fortunately, the warehouse shelves were large, so she could store goods as she pleased and buy as much as she wanted. However, the quantity she could carry was too limited, and her physical strength was too limited.

Zhou Jiani was thinking about whether she should get a small cart and put it in the warehouse. It would really save a lot of effort when encountering the current situation.

I bought a few sesame cakes and ate them quickly at the guesthouse. Then I rubbed my sore arms and opened the warehouse to admire the fruits of my morning's work.

When I was shopping, I felt like I bought a lot in each trip, otherwise I wouldn’t be so tired that my whole body ached.

But when it was placed on the shelf, it didn't look that full.

It is not clear how big the warehouse space is. I only know that the area on the left is the loading shelves, which are ten groups of twelve layers. Items placed on them can be picked up by clicking with your hand.

Her stuff only took up a corner.

There are only two groups of shopping storage shelves on the right, with a total of five layers. Now they are clean and empty. After all, there will be a fee if the time limit is exceeded. There are many empty shelves for stocking goods, so take out whatever can be taken and pour it to the left. However, you must be present in reality when taking the goods.

Pick out the vegetables and start packing them. Today I’ll pack the vegetables first, and then I’ll sort the other things out when I get back and sell them slowly.

There were a lot of vegetables today, but they weren't as clean as the last time she'd personally supervised the old educated youth picking them. In addition to cleaning the dirt from the roots, they also had to remove the yellowed and rotten leaves.

It’s a big project!

Zhou Jiani took out a small stool and sat down to clean up.

A total of 42 kilograms of spinach were collected from several stall owners. Seeing that there was not much difference between them, Zhou Jiani mixed them together and sold them in batches of 2 kilograms. Her handheld scale came in handy.

Although the weight can be measured using the background detection mode, if the fluctuation is too much, you have to pour it out and add or subtract. This small scale is more convenient.

Thirty kilograms of leeks, also two kilograms per portion.

There were 36 kilograms of loofah. When she bought it, her fellow villager also gave her seven or eight old loofahs. She put them on the roof to dry, kept the seeds, cut the pulp in half and sold them in the group buying group.

There were 34 kilograms of eggplants, 22 kilograms of peppers, 26 kilograms of cucumbers, and 12 kilograms of tomatoes. There were few tomatoes for sale, so Zhou Jiani took some out and looked at them, and decided to keep them for herself as fruit.

Kidney beans, cowpeas, lentils...

The vegetables were too green and contained several strands of protein, so Zhou Jiani scanned them directly into the trash can.

After packaging, two red envelopes were sent out to start a group sale.

Fresh Garden Spinach Bundle, pure green and pollution-free. It may not look pretty, but it's incredibly delicious, and it definitely tastes like the vegetables we remember from our childhood. PS: There are some minor insect holes, but no bugs. The group leader has checked for you, so please don't order if you mind. The opening price is 4.9 per 1000g serving.

[Fresh Vegetable Garden Series Sponge Gourd Rebate, old friends who have been to the group before know how delicious our sponge gourd is, limited to 3.99/piece, 1000g]

[Fresh chives from the vegetable garden, good chives with narrow green leaves...]

[Fresh eggplant, peppers, cucumbers, lentils, cowpeas, kidney beans...]

Select all links and transfer them to Group 2.

After finishing the link, he destroyed all the dirt and rotten vegetable leaves on the ground, took out an enamel basin from the warehouse, which was always half full of clean water, and washed the mud off his hands. Then he shook his arms, took out the thermos, drank water and took a rest.

In the afternoon, I ran non-stop to three supply and marketing cooperatives. When I returned to the guesthouse in the evening, I was so tired that I didn't want to move. I took a quick shower, closed the door and went to sleep. I took a bus back to town early the next morning.

When she got up, she felt so sore, her shoulders, arms, and legs ached. In the end, she didn't even want to hang the cloth bag on her shoulders. She took the bus back with light luggage. After getting off the bus, she found the bag and held it in her hand. She put half a pound of tea leaves in it and went to the state-owned restaurant.

It’s time for lunch, so I’ll stop at the restaurant and fill my stomach before going back.

Wang Liping and the others were very happy to see her and gave her a bowl of tomato and egg soup. Zhou Jiani gave them half a pound of tea leaves.

Zhao Mei came every day. Everyone already knew that the Qianjin Brigade was going to build a factory, and Zhou Jiani had become the section chief.

Privately, I also sighed that when Zhou Jiani used recipes to earn a meager income for fellow villagers in the village, who would have thought that she would lead the Qianjin Brigade to such great development in such a short period of time.

The formal contract with the Provincial Capital Department Store has been signed. I heard that some stools are also about to be introduced into the Friendship Store. Although it has nothing to do with them, I feel a little more proud for some reason because I know Zhou Jiani.

When Zhou Jiani left, she did not leave empty-handed. She asked for ten steamed buns made of two-grain flour and a bag of meat dumplings. She also agreed with the state-owned restaurant to buy four pounds of meat for her every two weeks and some dried kelp for her.

She didn't give tickets for steamed buns and dumplings, and as for meat, it would be best if she could buy it at a high price without a ticket. She could also provide tickets when necessary, depending on their indicators.

They also agreed that if she could get a big bone that didn't require a ticket, she wouldn't need to ask her if she wanted it, she could just ask Zhao Mei to give it to her and settle the bill the next day.

I didn't buy four pounds of meat at a time. In fact, two pounds were included for Qiu Zeming. If the three of them didn't want it, I would take it all.

Eating two kilograms of food in half a month is not particularly extravagant, and it is acceptable even if the villagers know about it.

If it's too frequent, she'll still worry about the negative impact.

I walked back to the brigade, took out the things I needed at the village entrance, and went to the village committee first. Unexpectedly, Comrade Xiao Qiu was there.

Seeing Zhou Jiani walk in unexpectedly, Qiu Zeming's heart moved uncontrollably twice, and he breathed a sigh of relief with a visible look. He smiled and said, "Section Chief Zhou is back?"

Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Did I disturb Director Qiu while he was working?"

"No, no, I just finished writing. Are you looking for the captain?"

Comrade Xiao Zhou suddenly went to the city alone, and he has been a little worried these two days.

It was different from the provincial capital, where she lived at home and that was the environment where she grew up. In Qiu Zeming's view, the city was a completely unfamiliar place for Comrade Xiao Zhou.

I have been sitting next to the phone working these two days, and the phone has rang twice. Once it was from the First Department Store in the province, and the second time it was from the Second Department Store.

Now seeing the person coming back, apart from being a little tired, there was a relaxed smile between his eyebrows, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhang Baosheng just happened to come in. Seeing Zhou Jiani, he immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Zhou is back? How's things in the city?"

"Great! Once our factory is built and production is up, we'll try to acquire the two department stores in the city." Zhou Jiani pulled out a few packets of tea leaves from her bag and said with a smile, "The workers in the processing workshop are working so hard, I bought three pounds of tea leaves and have everyone make a pot of tea after work every day."

The other few pounds were collected from the city’s Second Department Store and several supply and marketing cooperatives.

The state-owned restaurant kept half a catty of food. After all, she was asking someone to buy something for her, so it wouldn't be appropriate to just ask for it.

Although she had tea, it didn't matter if she kept half a pound of tea leaves for drinking and gave the remaining three pounds to the village. If she wanted to be reimbursed, she would get it reimbursed. If she didn't, it didn't matter either. She was quite willing to do a favor.

The tea leaves are not shabby at all. Didn’t you see that Zhang Baosheng’s eyes are shining?

Liu Tong, who blew in, asked, "Where are the tea leaves?"

Zhang Baosheng also uttered an 'ouch' and said happily, "Comrade Xiao Zhou, you are truly a good comrade of ours!"