"right."
Qiao Jiuru nodded to him with absolute certainty. After spending so many years together, she trusted Xiao Lei's character and personality, and wholeheartedly wanted him to help her.
“I’ve brought in several batches of goods from Shanghai and Guangzhou in the past two months, and they’ve sold quite well in Beijing. This time, my previous staff went back for the autumn harvest, and that’s when I thought of you.”
"Da Lei, I'd like to ask you to help sell clothes. I'll give you two yuan for every item you sell. I'll hand over the goods to you to sell, you don't need to put up any money."
Qiao Jiuru then told Xiao Lei her thoughts and plans, hoping that he would agree.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Lei couldn't help but gape in shock, staring at her in disbelief.
"Auntie, you mean I don't have to pay anything, you just let me take the clothes and sell them, and I'll get two yuan for each one I sell?!"
Did I hear that right?! Is that what Aunt Qiao meant?!
"Yes, you heard me right. Help me sell one piece of clothing, and I'll give you two dollars. The more you sell, the more you earn, with no upper limit. Even if you sell two thousand pieces, I'll still give you two thousand dollars."
Qiao Jiuru nodded to 놛 with a serious expression, showing no sign of joking.
Xiao Lei felt his heart pounding like thunder, his throat tightening, and then he became incredibly excited.
Having been involved in the black market for so many years, I know how high the profits are. Especially after the reform and opening up, and especially in the last few months, I've heard that selling clothing is extremely profitable.
Some people in the black market have started thinking about this too, because after the reform and opening up, the government allowed private stalls in 2017, and now there are already people who don't respect this. Xiao Hei has a feeling that the black market's role will become less and less important in the future, and maybe it will even become overt.
Moreover, and most importantly, who would want to stand in the darkness when they can stand in the sunlight?! The light is always better than the furtive.
"Auntie, shall I give it a try?!"
Xiao Hei thought it through and immediately agreed. He could set up a stall during the day and help out at the black market at night.
If setting up a stall is more profitable than working in the black market, then I won't need to work in the black market anymore.
"Okay, are you free right now? Let's go to my place together, I'll give you tomorrow's goods. Also, there's something else I need your help with, I need to go over there early tomorrow morning to help a relative deliver goods to the train station."
Qiao Jiuru immediately told Xiao Lei to go with the group, one to pick up the goods for the group, and the other to ask the group to help deliver Mai Nian tomorrow.
Xiao Lei was of course willing and followed the couple without saying a word.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the house where the goods were stored in the alley. Qiao Jiuru introduced Xiao Lei to Mai Nian and briefly explained Mai Nian's situation to Xiao Lei.
"Comrade Xiao Lei, there are far more people in Beijing than in Shijiazhuang, and they are also much richer. If it weren't for my wife going to university in Shijiazhuang, I would have preferred to come to Beijing to sell clothes."
Mai Nian said to Xiao Lei with an envious look, "Beijing has many factories, many workers, many units and many cadres. It also has the most wealthy people in the country, so they must be very willing to spend money."
"Brother Mai, even if it's not feasible now, maybe we can collaborate in the future."
Xiao Lei is good at reading people and already knows that this Brother Mai has been getting goods from Aunt Qiao to sell for the past two months of summer vacation. He must be making a lot of money to continue selling them.
Moreover, I just saw the goods that Brother Mai is going to ship to the train station tomorrow, a total of five large items. Clothing, and one pair of those aviator sunglasses.
Xiao Lei knew that aviator sunglasses were very popular in Kyoto recently; they were said to be the kind of glasses pilots liked to wear, and many young people in Kyoto now had a pair. He was surprised to find that Aunt Qiao had aviator sunglasses too.
No, those aviator sunglasses that appeared in Beijing last month, could they have belonged to Aunt Qiao and her ilk?!
"Haha, it's settled then. We can ask Auntie for advice later."
Mai Nian had heard Qiao Jiuru say before that if you had enough manpower, you could rent a shop and open a clothing store, where you could earn more than double the profit on each item, which is much better than setting up a stall.
Afterwards, Mai Nian and Xiao Lei discussed the departure time for tomorrow and also found a car.
Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan also picked out all the goods that were supposed to be given to Xiao Lei. They gave him five pieces of clothing and five pairs of sunglasses.
"Xiao Lei, a coat is 5.5 yuan, a trench coat is 5.5 yuan, a sweater is 3.5 yuan, and a pair of sunglasses is 8 yuan. However, we've sold them for 5.5 yuan before. So, if you're a regular customer, we'll give you 5.5 yuan. Also, I can only give you a 1 yuan commission on the sunglasses, and the clothing is still 2 yuan."
Qiao Jiuru took out the two half bags of goods and handed them to Xiao Lei, asking him to count them while explaining the contents.
In addition, she wrote a receipt listing the quantities of clothing and sunglasses, and then had Xiao Lei sign and put his fingerprint on it.
After reading the contents of the receipt, Xiao Lei signed and pressed his fingerprint without saying a word. He knew this was the rule and didn't think that Qiao Jiuru and the others didn't trust him.
He also asked Qiao Jiuru for paper and pen and wrote down the prices of the clothes.
Then, Xiao Lei counted the number of clothes and sunglasses, picked up his things, said goodbye to Qiao Jiuru and the others, and said he would come to deliver wheat early the next morning and leave after the New Year.
Neither Qiao Jiuru nor Su Huaiyuan knew that that evening, Xiao Lei went to the black market to ask for leave after returning home. After dinner, he took five pairs of sunglasses and his younger sister to the movie theater.
For the past two years, Xiao Lei's younger sister has been selling melon seeds and peanuts in front of the movie theater every evening. She knows the place like the back of her hand.
After the siblings arrived at the movie theater, Xiao Lei's sister laid out her own sunflower seeds and peanuts, while Xiao Lei took the initiative to ask the young people in the theater if they wanted sunglasses.
The influence of the "frog-eye glasses" has been quite significant in the past two months. When the young men who came to see the movie heard about them, those who didn't have "frog-eye glasses" immediately became very interested.
Before long, Xiao Lei completed his first transaction, selling a pair of sunglasses.
After getting off to a good start, things went much smoother, and several more sets were sold in quick succession.
By 9 o'clock, only one pair of sunglasses remained of the ones Xiao Lei had brought.
In just over two hours, Xiao Lei earned 1 yuan, more than Xiao Lei's sister, who sells melon seeds and peanuts.
“Little sister, come with me to sell clothes tomorrow. Auntie will give us two yuan for each piece. If we sell 10 pieces a day, that's 20 yuan. It's not only better than selling these snacks, but also much better than those workers.”
As Xiao Lei led his younger sister home, he told her that she and her brother would go out to set up a stall the next day.
If you have time, you can sell from morning till night. I don't believe that you can't sell a single piece of clothing in a day.
Little Lei spent the whole evening watching her brother sell sunglasses. She heard that he could earn a dollar for each one he sold. She even found out how many sunglasses he sold each night and how much he earned—more than she made selling snacks.
Now that she heard her brother wanted to go set up a stall with her tomorrow, how could she possibly disagree?!
"good."
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