Upon hearing Huang Qinqin's question, the brigade secretary gently nudged Village Chief Huang and gestured with his eyes: "You're more familiar with Qinqin, so you go first."
Village Chief Huang glanced disdainfully at the brigade secretary, thinking, "At his age, he's still so timid."
Then he turned around and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I just wanted to trouble you to take these things to my Guiming."
"And I also prepared some things for you, Qinqin, you can take them back with you."
The brigade secretary was afraid that Huang Qinqin would refuse if they spoke together, so he remained silent, intending to observe Huang Qinqin's attitude before making a decision.
Upon hearing Village Chief Huang's words, Huang Qinqin did not immediately agree. She planned to take a look at what was inside before deciding whether to take it or not.
She saw that the items were mostly dried vegetables, and the most valuable one was a piece of cured meat, so she decided to accept it.
"Okay, thank you, Secretary and Village Chief."
"I have something I'd like to discuss with you, Secretary. I wonder if this is a convenient time for you?"
Grandma Huang was a little surprised to see that Huang Qinqin was willing to accept it. Based on her understanding of Huang Qinqin, she shouldn't have accepted it.
However, the brigade secretary and Village Chief Huang breathed a sigh of relief. When they heard that she had something to say, they quickly replied, "It's convenient."
"How about we talk here, or go to the office?"
Huang Qinqin thought for a moment and felt that there was no need to avoid this matter, so she smiled and said, "Let's talk about it here. Secretary, village chief, please sit down first."
"Well, you should have received orders from the department store in the last couple of days, right?"
The brigade secretary and Village Chief Huang both nodded nervously: "Yes, has there been any change in this order?"
They hadn't initially taken this order seriously, even though it was a last-minute addition, as the department store had placed similar orders before.
So they didn't really feel anything about the department store adding 3,200 bottles to their order.
But when they heard Huang Qinqin mention the order, they became nervous. Could it be that the department store had decided to cancel it at the last minute?!
"Oh no, the order hasn't changed. Do you know who placed this order?"
Village Chief Huang and the others shook their heads: "Isn't it what the department store wants?"
"No, this order is for foreigners, and the quantity here is only for two orders."
Huang Qinqin originally wanted to say there were 6 people, but then she thought about it and realized that the Koreans had placed the order together, so she decided to count it as one person.
She thought that would sound more impactful.
As expected, both the brigade secretary and Village Chief Huang were stunned: "Two, two people?!"
"You mean two of them bought three thousand three hundred bottles of pickled vegetables?!"
They were so shocked by the two people's situation that they didn't react at all, especially since Huang Qinqin mentioned that they were foreigners.
"Yes, and they were two foreigners."
"A foreigner?!"
Seeing that Village Chief Huang and the others had finally noticed, Huang Qinqin smiled and nodded: "Yes, they are foreigners."
"The main reason I said this is to tell the Party Secretary and the Village Chief that the village's pickled vegetable workshop is likely to receive more and more orders in the future."
"If we continue with the current model, there is a possibility that supply will fall short of demand in the future."
"So I applied to the department store leaders to ask them to help bring electricity to Huangjia Village."
"In that case, the village can arrange for people to work in the workshop at night, and during the spring and autumn harvests, they can catch up on the progress at night."
What do you guys think?
Village Chief Huang and the brigade secretary exchanged a glance, both seeing the word "heart flutter" in each other's eyes.
but...
"If there's electricity, will the electricity bill be expensive?"
They also knew that having electricity would make things much more convenient for the village.
But no matter what, the most crucial point is still money.
The villagers wouldn't be willing to pay if the electricity bill were too high.
When it comes to electricity bills, Huang Qinqin knows the most crucial point is coming: "Electricity bills are indeed not cheap. I went to ask, and they said that we can pay according to the bill for the entire village."
"If the entire village pays the fee, it will only cost ten yuan a month for electricity."
"Ten yuan a month?!"
"Ten yuan a month?!"
Huang Qinqin seemed oblivious to the exclamations of Village Chief Huang and the others, and calmly continued, "Well, this is already the discounted price I managed to negotiate."
“If we charge each household separately, each household would have to pay 50 cents, which would add up to far more than that.”
Village Chief Huang shook his head vigorously: "Qinqin, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that the other villagers wouldn't be willing to pay this money either."
"Let's not talk about anything else. Just ask your grandma. She probably wouldn't agree to it."
Although Grandma Huang didn't want to embarrass Huang Qinqin, she still nodded honestly: "If you asked me to give you 50 cents a month, I definitely wouldn't agree."
Village Chief Huang helplessly spread his hands at Huang Qinqin: "Look, 50 cents a month is a considerable burden for most villagers."
"As for whether this will lead to a supply shortage, I was actually planning to talk to you about this in the next couple of days."
"I was thinking, how about we get the other villages in the second brigade involved as well?"
After listening, Huang Qinqin frowned slightly. She was not in favor of involving other villages.
"We'll leave aside the question of whether or not to involve other villages for now."
"If the villagers don't have to pay for their own electricity, village chief, would you agree to bring electricity to Huangjia Village?"
"Of course I agree! But is there really such a good thing?"
Village Chief Huang didn't believe that the city would directly waive their village's electricity bill, which was ten yuan a month!
Huang Qinqin smiled mysteriously and said to Village Chief Huang, "Village Chief, come a little closer."
After Village Chief Huang approached, Huang Qinqin whispered in his ear, "You should do this then..."
The more Village Chief Huang listened, the brighter his eyes became; he truly admired Huang Qinqin more and more.
“Great idea! I’ll call the villagers together for a meeting after lunch to discuss this matter.”
Seeing the village chief's expression, the brigade secretary was extremely curious. He also wanted to know what good method Huang Qinqin had given the village chief.
However, neither Huang Qinqin nor Village Chief Huang came to answer his questions.
After resolving the issue of providing electricity to Huangjia Village, Huang Qinqin prepared to continue their previous conversation.
She asked, somewhat puzzled, "Secretary, Village Chief, I'd like to ask, why do you want the other villages in the brigade to participate in the pickled vegetable workshop?"
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