Chapter 78: Can do business
Su He arrived at the local supply and marketing department, found the non-staple food counter, saw that there was kelp for sale there, asked how much it cost, took out money, bought a pound, and also asked for a non-staple food ticket for a pound.
Next to the kelp, there is a stall selling dried seafood, but the variety is not that wide. There are dried shrimps, dried squid, and even fish maw.
Fish maw is a rare commodity. Buy some and make soup to nourish your skin and beautify your skin.
She asked about the price, and it was really not cheap, four yuan per pound. There was not much farming in this era, so it must be wild. Although this price was not much more expensive than pork, the cost of wild-caught fish was not cheap either.
So she first traded her cloth coupons for non-staple food coupons, then spent another 8 yuan to buy two kilograms of dried shrimp. She also bought a kilogram of dried shrimp. Dried shrimp are perfect for steaming eggs for the children. She was passing through town on her way to buy some more eggs from her fellow villagers.
After buying the items, she asked the salesperson, "Do you sell these things here? If so, how much do you charge per pound?"
The man looked at her for a moment and said, "Are you here to cause trouble? We don't have any sea here. If we really want to collect it, do you have any?"
Su He raised his eyebrows: "Hey, I tell you, if you still don't believe me, I'll show it to you!"
She took out some dry goods she had brought from home from the cloth bag and placed them on the counter for the salesperson to see.
The salesperson then realized that they did have some, but they were too few, only one or two of each kind: "But this is too little!"
Su He: "I'm just pretending, can you help me check the price first?"
"I have to ask the director. I can't make the decision on this!"
While waiting, Su He opened his own shopping mall in his mind to see what the prices of those dried seafood were.
With the experience of selling tomatoes and cucumbers last time, she was not surprised at the high prices this time. She sold half a piece of dried eel for 80 yuan, and a whole dried yellow croaker for 20 yuan... In short, a large amount of money was deposited into her system again. Together with the 1,000 yuan reward last time, she now has more than 2,000 yuan in pocket money.
That's right, it was her private money. Not only did she not tell the man about it, she couldn't explain where it came from, so he still didn't know about it.
Not long after, the salesperson came and told Su He the prices, and Su He wrote them down one by one.
After memorizing the prices, she roughly understood that she could just refer to the pork prices. It was similar to pork, except that pork tickets were limited to each household. The non-staple food tickets were relatively more frequently issued, because these non-staple foods were particularly popular as meat substitutes.
After asking about the price, she thought about calling her hometown and telling her sister Su Hong that she would be the one selling all these things in the future, and let her three sisters dry them themselves and not sell them to the local supply and marketing agency.
If my sister was smarter, she could go out and secretly buy other people's things and make a profit from the difference. But if she did that, the package she sent would be too big and too conspicuous.
Never mind, let’s do it this way for now. The three sisters can make a lot of it themselves. I guess it would be quite a bit. Last time, the three of them gave her more than ten yuan. This money is easy to earn, but the things are hard to buy.
Thinking of this, she felt grateful for her sisters' kindness and decided to buy some fabric from the system mall and send it to them to make clothes for the three sisters. She also decided to give some to her parents and her troublesome brother as well.
Su He thought about the situation in his mind, so he found a state-owned restaurant, bought a bowl of porridge and a meat-filled bun, and solved his lunch first.
These meat-filled buns didn't require meat coupons, only one or two grain coupons. She decided to buy a few more when she went out and bring them back for her family.
While sitting at the table eating lunch, Su He placed an order for three pieces of cloth from the system mall in his mind: a blue denim, a gray denim, and a light red corduroy.
The corduroy is more than ten feet long. Three feet of cloth is enough to make one piece of clothing, so this ten feet of cloth is just enough to make three coats.
She deliberately chose a light red color, which was too fresh and could only be worn by teenage girls. Even if Su Xiaodi wanted a red cloth for his wife, this color would not be suitable, as he would have to give her a bright red cloth when proposing marriage.
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