Chapter 33 I'm here to discuss business!
Ye Ying kept crying out: "Brother, you are innocent. How could I know they were getting divorced? I simply thought Sun Lin was in trouble and wanted to comfort her."
"Now you know."
Ji Lianqi turned around to put away his tools, and after a quick look, he confirmed that there was no broom in the house.
"The 28-bar has been repaired. And I will get a broom later."
Ye Ying nodded happily and asked him to take the key and prepare to go to the ice factory.
Ji Lianqi glanced at her and said, "The car is not locked. It's parked downstairs."
Ye Ying immediately went downstairs to get the car. When she passed by Sun Lin's house next door, she could faintly hear sobbing from inside.
Ji Lianqi was still here, and he had just given her a vaccination, so it was not convenient for her to go look for Sun Lin again.
So I thought about waiting until he was not around to find this girl and ask her what was going on.
Ye Ying thought so and ran downstairs.
When I ran to the yard, a bucket of water splashed down from the upstairs behind me.
If she had come out a step later, she would have been in trouble now.
Ye Ying vaguely felt that the lucky card seemed to have been helping her all the time.
As she thought about this, she mounted her 28-bar bicycle and headed straight out of the compound.
But as soon as she walked out the door, she was already in trouble.
There were no smartphones with navigation in the 1980s, so she had no idea how to get to the ice cream factory. She could only ask people along the way with the address.
By the time she finally reached the gate of the ice factory after great effort and asking n+1 passers-by, it was already past one in the afternoon.
The weather was hot. Ye Ying had been riding her bike all the way and had not eaten anything since this morning. She felt thirsty and hungry.
I still feel a little weak, it seems I have low blood sugar.
She's in desperate need of a sugar boost!
Looking around, there is no place to eat in front of the ice factory except for a small shop.
Ye Ying rode her bike to the small shop and went straight to the freezer, instinctively wanting a bottle of iced Coke.
At this time, a bottle of ice cola can not only quench your thirst and cool you down, but also replenish your sugar intake.
But she searched the entire freezer and didn't find any Coke.
The shop owner was a little unhappy when he saw her rummaging around in the freezer: "What do you want to buy?"
"Coke." Ye Ying said without raising her head.
"No!" The shop owner got even more impatient when he heard this: "What's so good about that foreign stuff? And it's so expensive."
Ye Ying's hand that was rummaging through the freezer suddenly stopped.
By the way, it is the 1980s now, and Coke only re-entered the Chinese market in 1979.
But now it is 1986. How come there is no Coke for sale in roadside shops in 7 years?
At this time, the boss urged impatiently: "I said, are you going to buy it or not? If not, close the freezer quickly and stop wasting my electricity."
"Who said I won't buy it!" Ye Ying was annoyed by the urging, so she simply took a bottle of the most popular drink in the freezer - Arctic Ocean.
Arctic Ocean was probably the mainstream soda on the market in the 1980s, and it was still on sale as of 2023.
The boss opened the bottle of Arctic Ocean for her with a bottle opener and asked, "Can you take the bottle with you?"
This question made Ye Ying a little confused: "What do you mean?"
The boss looked at her like she was a fool: "15 cents with a bottle, 10 cents without a bottle."
So that's what it is!
Ye Ying understood.
To save 5 cents, she didn't take the bottle.
The boss simply poured the Arctic Ocean into a plastic bag, inserted a straw into it, and asked her to drink it.
Although the taste of the Arctic Ocean decades ago was not as good as it is now, it was still very refreshing after taking a bite.
Ye Ying lingered in the small shop for a while and bought two packs of the best-selling Red Plum cigarettes. After she calmed down, she pushed the Erba Gang to the entrance of the ice factory.
The full name of the ice factory is Datian Ice Factory. As soon as the doorman saw Ye Ying approaching, he was ready to stop her.
The doorman looked Ye Ying up and down and asked in broken Mandarin, "Miss, what are you doing here?"
Ye Ying took out a pack of Hongmei cigarettes from her pocket, quietly handed it to the doorman, and said with a smile: "Master, I'm here to see your factory manager. I want to discuss some business!"
"Oh, you're here to see the manager!" The doorman put the cigarette in his pocket.
"Are you here to see Manager Li or Manager Zhang?"
"Well...I'll go talk to Manager Li."
Ye Ying didn't know either of these two people. It didn't matter to her who they were in charge of sales.
The gatekeeper said "Oh" and enthusiastically made way for Ye Ying to enter the factory. He then pointed to a white building:
"Girl, I won't take you in. I have to guard the door. Manager Li is on the second floor of this building, in the last office on the left."
Ye Ying didn't expect this trick to be so effective, and she got in easily.
Following the instructions of the concierge, she went to the last office on the second floor of the white building and successfully found Manager Li.
When Manager Li heard Ye Ying say she was here to discuss business, he thought she was in for a big event, so he warmly invited her in to sit down and even poured her a glass of water.
After chatting for a few sentences, as soon as he found out that Ye Ying was here to sell popsicles wholesale, his attitude immediately turned cold, and he asked her to go to the first floor to find the wholesale department, saying that he only dealt with large customers.
Ye Ying was not stupid. She knew that Manager Li would definitely not be interested in her small business, so she didn't waste any time and went directly to the wholesale department on the first floor.
The big sister in the wholesale department on the first floor seemed to be accustomed to people like her coming to wholesale popsicles.
Without asking, he just threw a big empty basket over.
"You can choose for yourself. The prices are marked on each freezer."
Ye Ying held the foam box and picked out half a box of popsicles.
Today was her first time selling, so she didn’t dare ask for too much, fearing that she would end up with a lot of money if she couldn’t sell it all.
When checking out, Ye Ying tried to negotiate the price with the lady in the wholesale department, hoping to get a cheaper price.
Because at the current wholesale price, you can only make a little more than one and a half or two cents from selling a popsicle.
Even if all the boxes shipped that day were sold out, the maximum profit would be a little over one dollar.
Even if you calculate it this way, it seems that you can earn about 30 to 40 yuan a month.
But it's not enough to do anything.
At this moment, she remembered a very appropriate saying: Money is hard to make and flying is hard to eat.
It's so fitting.
The older sister frowned and glanced at her half box of popsicles, complaining that she had taken a small quantity and the price couldn't be lowered any further, so she had to pay her the same price as she paid to others.
Seeing that the negotiation failed, Ye Ying did not force it, because the quantity she bought was indeed small.
The popsicle wholesale business is all about small profits but quick turnover, and volume is king. Just because you can’t get the best price today doesn’t mean you won’t get it in the future.
Ye Ying paid the money and asked the lady in the wholesale department for two ropes to secure the foam box to the back seat of the 28-bar truck.
Then he took a piece of white paper, wrote the word "popsicle" on it and stuck it on the foam box, then rode out of the Datian Ice Factory.
Perhaps because of the pack of Red Plum cigarettes, the doorman was extremely polite when he saw Ye Ying coming out. Before leaving, he smiled and said, "Come again next time."
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