The problem of making soap was solved, but the next problem was how to sell it. As mentioned earlier, it was not allowed to sell a few eggs laid by one's own chickens, so it was obviously even more impossible to sell this kind of industrial product openly.
But everything was within Qin Huai's expectations. As a reborn person who understood the characteristics of this era better than the people of this era, he had his own way of selling goods.
Maybe it was because of the good food in the past two days, the lameness in his legs was obviously much better, and he walked much more briskly. He arrived in the city at dawn, and instead of going to the market, he went to a textile factory staff compound in the south of the city.
Eliminate the middleman and directly face the end user.
He arrived early, before work hours had even begun. There were a couple of country folk selling vegetables at the door. Most of the people from the family compound were elderly. He looked around to see if there was anyone suspicious. He opened the basket and put out the soap. Before he could even call out, two elderly women came over and said, "Hey, is this soap? Do you want to sell it?"
"Yes, ladies, please take a look. This soap makes a lot of dust and foam when washing clothes."
He was well prepared before coming. He prepared a wet cloth and took out half a piece of soap and rubbed it with soap in front of the two old ladies.
The old lady said, "How old are you? You call us auntie and grandma. Your soap looks really good."
People these days are not like those in Qin Huai's previous life. They are not young anymore but still act like little girls. If you call someone young when they are older, people will think you are teasing them. So Qin Huai immediately changed his words and said, "You really can't tell the ages of these two grandmas."
The old lady loved to hear good things after all, so she laughed and said, "We are already over 60, how can we still be young?"
He picked up the soap, smelled it and said, "This soap has a fragrance. It's better than the ones in the department store."
"Well, this is what my relative brought back from a business trip in Haicheng. I couldn't use it myself, so I exchanged it for some money."
Haicheng was the place that people envied the most at that time. The two old ladies asked, "Give us two pieces. How much is it?"
"If you don't want a ticket, it's one dollar. If you want a ticket, it's the same as the department store, eighty cents."
"Soap tickets are rare. Who can have one? We don't have any."
"Kerosene coupons, meat coupons, grain coupons, anything will do."
The two old ladies laughed and said, "You wish! The ticket is so expensive. We will buy it with our own money." Sure enough, they took out a dollar and bought his soap without blinking.
Qin Huai wrapped the soap in paper and handed it to the two old ladies. They stood up and said, "Soap seller, please leave later. Several families in our yard want some. I'll go and ask for you."
"Thank you so much, grandmas! I was just wondering how I was going to sell all these."
The old lady asked him to wait outside. Qin Huai was worried that they would do something bad, so he said, "I will go with the two grandmas to save everyone from running away."
The old ladies were not as complicated as he thought. Maybe they really thought his products were good and cheap, so they started to promote them for him. Sure enough, housewives were the target customers for daily necessities. When they heard that Qinhuai was selling soap without a ticket, many housewives came out to see.
This family compound is not small. When I saw the soap Qin Huai brought, I heard the two old ladies say that the things were brought back from Haicheng. There were not many things, so they had to use money from home to buy them.
In such a short time, Qin Huai sold twelve pieces, and with the ones bought by the two old ladies, only five pieces were left.
Qin Huai was happy, it seemed that a family compound could consume all the soap.
He was happy too early.
A woman in half-new green clothes came over with a stern look on her face and asked angrily, "Which unit are you from? Who asked you to sell things here?"
Qin Huai saw that the situation was not good, so he put away the soap and said, "Then I'll leave."
The woman in green clothes stepped forward to pull his basket, but Qin Huai took a few steps back to avoid her and said, "What are you doing? Do you want to steal something?"
The man in green clothes laughed contemptuously and said, "I will rob you. I think you are engaging in speculation and profiteering. Bad elements like you should be arrested and given ideological education by the general public."
The women who hadn't bought any said, "Su Qin, we brought back some soap from Haicheng on a business trip. If you don't want it, we still want to buy it."
Su Qin Lengxia said, "I think all of you have problems with your thinking. You believed his nonsense. Speculation and profiteering are disrupting the market order. If I don't intervene, there will be big problems."
Qin Huai was originally standing at a distance waiting to see who would gain the upper hand before deciding whether to stay or go. However, when he saw that the women were no match for Su Qin, he turned around and ran without hesitation.
The women didn't expect Qin Huai to run away so easily. They stopped arguing and stared at Qin Huai disappearing.
Su Qin ran away, shouting, "Catch him! Catch the profiteer!"
As soon as Qin Huai heard this, he ran as fast as he could, all the way out of the textile factory's staff quarters. After running for another five or six minutes, he slowly stopped when he could no longer hear any sound, cursing in his heart: If it weren't for that little bitch Su Qin, all the soap would have been sold out today.
Touching the twelve yuan in his arms, he felt that the money was heavy. If he had not been smart, he would have been killed by the bad woman Su Qin.
However, risks come with benefits. In this era, if you use these twelve yuan sparingly, a family of four can eat for half a month.
He couldn't go to the textile factory anymore, so he walked for a while and then headed towards another large yard.
This time, just like last time, he showed the soap but didn't dare to shout out his sale. He waited patiently for customers to come.
It was getting late and there were more and more people at the door. A few women came out and their eyes lit up when they saw Qin Huai's things. They walked over and asked what they were. Qin Huai told them that it was soap from Haicheng.
Just now in the textile factory dormitory, he left the wet cloth he used for advertising there and didn't have time to pick it up. Now he can only rely on talking.
However, his soap was better than the ones sold in the department store. Several women were attracted by it and said to one of them, "We are in a hurry to go to work. Wait a minute and I will ask someone to come back and buy some."
When the women saw a boy coming out, they told him to go back and ask the elderly people at home to come out and buy soap.
Qin Huai said, "You better hurry up, or the red armbands will see me and arrest me."
A woman said domineeringly: "Don't worry, I'm standing here. I'll see who dares to cause trouble for you."
The woman next to him said, "The director's wife is here, so you can relax."
Qin Huai hurriedly thanked her and said, "Thank you very much. I'm so sorry to be arrested for these bars of soap."
After a few words, the boy came out with several elderly people. The woman said, "Mom, I think this boy's soap is good. You can buy one. I'm leaving first."
The remaining five bars of soap were finally dealt with.
Qin Huai carried a small basket to a secluded corner and counted today's harvest: four kerosene tickets and seventeen dollars and fifty cents.
Kerosene is kerosene. There is electricity in the city, but this thing is most practical in the countryside and also the hardest to get.
He smiled as he counted the bills.
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