"Oh, just talking about this gives me a headache."
Zhao Lijuan was just worried about having nowhere to talk, but when she saw her mother asked, she immediately started talking.
Zhao Lijuan is an employee of a nearby food factory and works as a salesperson.
As the name suggests, a food factory processes food and then sells it in bulk to supply and marketing cooperatives and some agricultural and sideline product stores.
Selling is easy, but now the biggest problem in the factory is the problem of food raw materials.
In order to process products, you need something to process them, right?
"This winter was too cold, and the farms that work with our food factory had a poor harvest, so they couldn't supply anything.
Therefore, the factory director asked our salesmen to go to the countryside and purchase grain from door to door, saying that they needed to process a batch of food before the New Year.
But the question is, how can it be that easy?
Oh, if things can’t be grown on the farm, then people can grow them in the countryside?
Every family lives a tight life. Even if they have some food, they keep it for themselves. We don’t know what the situation will be like in the early spring.
Besides, I really can't leave right now, and there's nothing I can do even if the factory director gives me new targets.
It’s really frustrating…”
Song Youyou asked, "The factory director asked you to go to the countryside to buy what?"
Zhao Lijuan: "There aren't any requirements... It's just that we salesmen need to discuss and unify the purchases. As long as the agricultural and sideline products are consistent, it's fine."
"So, we process whatever we have, as long as you buy in large quantities?"
"Yes, that's right, you summed it up so well!"
Song Youyou asked again, "What has your factory processed?"
Zhao Lijuan was a little surprised. Why was Song Youyou so interested in their factory? But she didn't ask and responded directly to her question:
“Our factory is small and flexible, and we process a lot of things.
Stable ones include processing fruits into canned fruits and processing wheat into noodles.
However, these are seasonal.
The rest of the time, the factory processes whatever is available, such as preserved fruits, multi-flavored peanuts, pickles, dried preserved vegetables...all these snacks have been produced.
In summary, when the farm can’t produce something, we process whatever we can get.
This time when I go to the countryside, I guess I can only harvest some sweet potatoes and make them into dried sweet potatoes, but there won’t be much more…”
Song Youyou listened quietly and felt a little moved.
Old pickled vegetables, dried preserved vegetables...
Isn’t this a good place for vegetables?
"Sister-in-law Lijuan...how about you just focus on taking care of Brother Yang and I'll go buy it for you?"
"What?"
Zhao Lijuan refused without a second thought. "How can that be possible? Going door to door in the countryside to buy things is not for humans. It's very hard work. I already owe you so much. How can I let you do this hard work for me?"
"It's not hard at all. Mainly, I enjoy doing this kind of acquisition work."
"……ah?"
Zhao Lijuan pondered her words several times before asking uncertainly, "You? Do you like acquisition work?"
Song Youyou nodded, "Yeah."
Zhao Lijuan: ...There is such a hobby.
"If you really like it, then... why don't you go and try it?"
"Well, okay. Don't worry, Sister Lijuan, I will do my best to complete the task."
Zhao Lijuan: ...
"You don't have to work too hard. Just give it a try if you like it. It's okay if you don't do well. Just think of it as a trip to the countryside. Your travel expenses, meals, and everything will be reimbursed by your sister-in-law.
Oh, and by the way, when you go shopping, if you need any food at home, you can use this as an excuse to buy some for yourself, okay?"
Zhao Lijuan didn't believe that she could acquire anything, but she now treated Song Youyou as her own sister, so she just wanted to coax her and paid for her to go to the countryside for a trip. She also asked her to find some benefits for herself and buy some food to take home for the New Year.
Song Youyou naturally saw that Zhao Lijuan was not optimistic about her acquisition, but she didn't care at all. After getting the salesperson's certificate and the letter of introduction from the factory, she went to several villages for a symbolic tour.
Then he came back and put all the vegetables in the space into a warehouse, and then brought Zhao Lijuan to see it.
When Zhao Lijuan saw the warehouse full of green vegetables, her eyes widened.
"Where did you get so many vegetables?"
It’s still winter vegetables!
Vegetables can be grown in winter, but generally only those who are particular about it will take the time to build a plastic shed to grow some. Who would grow them on a large scale?
"Sister-in-law, I promised the villagers who sell vegetables that I would keep this a secret... you see..."
Zhao Lijuan understood immediately and patted her chest to assure, "Don't worry, sister-in-law understands completely."
At this time, why can we take out such green vegetables?
It must be that some villagers planted it secretly!
Otherwise, how could they grow so much with the three mu of private land each family has?
"Sister, don't worry. When it comes to purchasing from the countryside, the factory is always responsible for receiving the goods. As for how they received the goods, that depends on the salesperson's ability and they don't ask.
You can reassure the villagers who buy vegetables from you, and if they find good things in the future, tell them to sell them to me!"
Zhao Lijuan didn't expect that she would receive so many good things and meet such capable villagers in just one visit.
She won’t have to worry about any more targets set by the factory in the future.
and……
"This villager is really good at growing vegetables. These four vegetables are the most suitable for processing. Sister, you are really a good sister sent to me by God!"
Zhao Lijuan was so happy that she couldn't help but hug her and almost kissed her.
Song Youyou's body suddenly stiffened.
Fortunately, Zhao Lijuan hugged her for a while and then let go, and Song Youyou finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The New Year is coming soon.
Everyone had heard that a large batch of dried vegetables, canned sour beans, and chili sauce had come out of the nearby food factory, so they all looked for people they knew and asked them to use their internal quota to help grab some.
Zhao Lijuan also grabbed some. In addition to the ones mentioned above, there were also items purchased and processed by other salesmen in smaller quantities... things like salted duck eggs and dried sweet potatoes. She also used her employee quota to grab some of them as if it were free.
Afterwards, Zhao Lijuan carried a lot of bags and went to Song Youyou's house.
"Wow, there are so many things here. Who are they for?"
On the way, I met someone.
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