Chapter 81 Doing Business at the Base
The next day, Mu Jiu went to Sister Li's Chinese medicine clinic early in the morning to see how her injuries were recovering.
As a result, there was a group of people sitting in the store chatting. As soon as Mu Jiu walked in, he saw a bunch of familiar faces.
It turned out that all five people who had been in the same cell before were together, including Sister Juan who was wrapped in gauze.
Sister Li smiled and leaned on the makeshift bed to talk to everyone. It was obvious that her injuries had healed a lot.
Seeing Mu Jiu coming in, he quickly called her over.
Sister Li slowly pointed to the two large bags of supplies under the table at the door and said:
"Here are 100 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of frozen meat, which they bought at the market through connections.
I said I wanted to give it to you to thank you for saving my life.
Knowing that you live in the secondary resettlement area, they couldn’t get there, so they sent the things to me.”
Mu Jiu's eyes swept across the faces of these five people and said:
"I appreciate your kindness, but you can take the things back. At this time, no one has much money."
Qin Juan, with her head covered in gauze, quickly spoke:
"No! You have to take the things! Otherwise, we won't be able to ask you for help next time!"
Mu Jiu sat down beside Sister Li's bed and said, "Just tell me what you want me to do for you.
We can say that we don’t know each other until we fight. If we can help someone, we can help him even if we don’t accept the supplies. If we can’t help someone, we won’t help him even if we accept the supplies.”
Qin Juan and the other four looked at each other, and finally it was the leader Qin Juan who spoke:
“It’s like this, after we came out of prison, we had a lot more points on our Fire Cards.
It is definitely not a good idea to live off the savings, so I thought about finding something to do to support myself.
In fact, we are quite envious of Sister Li for being able to open such a small shop and support herself.
We had no capital before, and we had nothing or skills worth selling.
I can only go to the construction site behind to carry bricks. The work is hard but the pay is low, and I am easily harassed by the men on the construction site.
This is just perfect. Sister Li said that the shop next door is about to be sold, and we want to rent it to do business."
Mu Jiu listened and nodded, "That's a good idea. What kind of business do you plan to start?"
Qin Juan said a little embarrassedly:
“Originally, I hadn’t decided what to do, but this morning when a few of us were looking for people to buy food and supplies at the market, we discovered some ideas!
The grain dealer sold the grain at twice the price announced in the government hall.
The key is that there is no shortage of buyers. Two large bags of rice and meat were sold out as soon as they were taken out. We had to rob to get all the food!
We thought that since the profit from reselling food supplies is so high, we might as well do this.
It just so happens that I have this large amount of compensation points on hand, which should be enough to use as starting capital.
But... we have no way to buy food, so we wanted to get you to invest together.
We have already inquired and found out that there is a commercial cooperative in the secondary resettlement area where we can buy official food.
And the prices are exactly the same as the grain prices announced in the government hall.
If we can get the grain from the commercial cooperative in the second-level resettlement area and sell it in the third-level resettlement area, we can earn double the points in one transaction!
If you are willing to join our business, we will split the profits in half, what do you think? "
After listening to Qin Juan's words, Mu Jiu did not speak immediately, but thought carefully about what she had just said.
It is a good idea to start a grain resale business in the third-level resettlement area.
Food is hard currency in the end times. Even if you don't sell the food at double the price, you won't lose money if you hoard it. At least you can still digest it yourself.
There are now more than 200,000 permanent residents in the third-level resettlement area, and the second-phase resettlement area of the base, which is about to open, will accommodate another 500,000 people.
There are also Phase III, Phase IV and Phase V resettlement areas, and the base will eventually accommodate a population of more than 2 million.
Doing grain business is basically a sure-win business.
But whether this matter will succeed or not depends entirely on whether Mu Jiu participates.
Because only those with a Fire Card of level C or above can enter the business club.
However, commercial societies only exist in secondary resettlement areas, and only those with secondary residence qualifications can enter secondary resettlement areas.
Therefore, even if the people present worked together to accumulate points and exchange them for a C-level fire card, they would not be able to go to the next area to buy food.
This is a good business, maybe she can entrust it to the siblings Gu Yang and Gu Nuan to do it, so that they can earn some part-time money.
Anyway, their main job is only half a day, so it’s not a big deal to just deliver food over here.
Maybe after doing it for a long time, the points earned from this side job will exceed those from the main job.
"We can think about this. Tell me your specific plans first."
There was a sudden cheer in the store. After all, as long as Mu Jiu agreed, the matter would be half successful.
Then, Qin Juan took the lead and gave Mu Jiu a general introduction to the future planning and development of the grain store.
When Mu Jiu walked out of Sister Li's store, there was an extra 2,000 points on her A-level Fire Seed Card with 3 million points.
This was exactly the first batch of money that Qin Juan and four others transferred to her for her to buy rice and pork.
Of course, she was holding the 100 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of frozen pork that everyone insisted on giving her.
Mu Jiu found an empty corner, put the supplies into the space, and went home with light luggage.
Gu Nuan was on duty in the afternoon, so she knocked on the door of the Gu siblings' house before they went out and rested.
"Sister, we are having lunch. We made boiled fish and stewed cabbage for lunch. Do you want to join us?"
The Gu siblings immediately and warmly invited Mu Jiu to come in and sit down.
"No, you guys eat, I have something to discuss with you."
Even though Mu Jiu said she didn't want to eat, Gu Yang still brought a set of bowl and chopsticks to Mu Jiu and placed them in front of her. Mu Jiu smiled at her.
"What's the matter, sister? I see you've come back from outside. Did something happen?"
Mu Jiu then told the brother and sister in detail about the grain business that everyone had planned in the Chinese medicine store today.
Gu Yang immediately made the decision and expressed his full agreement!
"We haven't been to the third-level resettlement area yet, and we can do business freely there?"
The three of them agreed on this matter immediately. Since Gu Nuan had to be on duty in the afternoon, Mu Jiu took Gu Yang to the business company in the opposite building.
The commercial company is a small three-story building with a basement. It is not large, but most basic necessities for daily life can be bought here.
The first floor is an external shopping window, which is somewhat similar to the model of a government hall.
Customers coming in to shop have to line up in front of the window set up in the hall and use their fire cards to purchase supplies.
The mobile warehouse for supplies is underground, and the military sends people to transport supplies from the main warehouse every morning and evening.
The second and third floors are offices for the administration and leadership of the business company, and ordinary people cannot go up there.
Mu Jiu and Gu Yang chose a team with fewer people to queue up, and it took about half an hour before it was their turn.
The salesgirl, who originally had an impatient look on her face, immediately changed her attitude and put on a spirited smile after seeing the A-level fire card handed over by Mu Jiu.
"Hello, guest. All the supplies we have are printed on this list on the table.
What supplies do you need to buy?"
Mu Jiu glanced at the list and found that all the supplies on it were clearly priced.
Sure enough, the price of exchanging supplies for points was the same as the one given to her by the young lady in the government hall.
The base didn't make any profit from the price difference.
"Oh, 2,000 kilograms of rice." Mu Jiu blurted out without thinking.
The most cost-effective way to use these 2,000 points is of course to exchange them all for rice!
"I'm sorry, Miss Mu. The Base Commercial Society has a clear rule that basic food such as rice is limited to 100 kilograms per person per day."
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