Chapter 212: Using the System Space to Make Some Money
In recent months, Deng Shirong has not been a matchmaker for two main reasons: first, the income from matchmaking is not enough for Deng Shirong now.
Second, matchmaking is related to the lifelong happiness of both men and women. He is not like the protagonist in the book "I Don't Comply with Anyone When It Comes to Matchmaking" he read in his previous life, who has a matchmaking system that can see the marriage matching values of men and women and make both parties happy with his eyes closed.
He does matchmaking purely based on his own decades of life experience. He doesn't dare to guarantee that the men and women he brings together will be happy after marriage, so he can only make sure before taking action, rather than acting blindly for the sake of system rewards, which might ruin other people's marriages.
If he doesn't work as a matchmaker for the time being, his only source of income will be the tile factory.
The tile factory is doing very well nowadays, bringing the owner an average income of around 600 yuan per month, which is extremely impressive in the countryside.
However, the income from the tile factory alone was still not enough for Deng Shirong.
After all, he now owes the bank a huge sum of 806,000 yuan. Although in this era, as long as he is thick-skinned, he doesn't have to pay back the money he owes to the bank, Deng Shirong is a reborn person after all, and he won't be so miserable that he will definitely pay back the money.
Now that a restaurant is under construction in the county, Deng Shirong has no idea whether it can make money. If he opens a supermarket, he is confident that he can make money, but the time is not yet ripe for opening a supermarket.
It is said that those who do not plan for the future will have immediate worries. Deng Shirong felt that he could not pin all his hopes on the restaurant in the county. He had to find a way to make some money from a side job first. That way, even if the restaurant really lost money, it would not affect their family's quality of life.
As for what side job to do, Deng Shirong thought about it for a while and finally decided to use his system space to make some relatively safe money.
In fact, the easiest way to make money is smuggling. With the powerful weapon of system space, if Deng Shirong really wants to engage in smuggling, it is estimated that no one can compete with him. However, he is not willing to take the risk to make this kind of money. His idea is to purchase some fruits and store them in the system space, and then make a little money by using the geographical differences.
Of course, you can also take advantage of the time difference to earn more.
Moreover, fruit is not a state-controlled product and there is no such thing as smuggling. As long as he is not greedy and can keep a low profile, he can make money without anyone noticing.
After determining the money-making plan, Deng Shirong began to screen the fruits.
The first choice is lychee. It is not easy to keep lychees fresh. If he uses the static function of the system space to keep them fresh, he can make a lot of money even if he doesn't create a time difference, but only a geographical difference.
Apart from anything else, the money saved on transportation alone is not a small amount.
But after thinking about it, Deng Shirong decided to rule out lychees.
The reason is simple: it's too eye-catching.
After all, lychees are notoriously difficult to keep fresh, and this local variation is not so easy to overcome.
Not to mention the time difference. If you sell lychees from summer in autumn, winter or even the spring of the following year and they are still as fresh as if they were just picked, it would be too eye-catching. If you are caught, it would be a waste of time.
Finally, after much consideration, Deng Shirong chose the longan fruit.
In later times with advanced preservation technology, longan has been sold all year round. The preservation technology of today naturally cannot compare with that of later times, but even if longan is preserved normally, it can last for ten days or so, which is much better than lychee.
Deng Shirong planned to purchase a batch of longan trees and store them in the system space, and then take them to the capital to sell them. He believed that he could sell them at a high price.
Thinking of this, Deng Shirong could no longer sit still and rode his bicycle towards Baiping Farm.
Baiping Farm is one of the five agricultural reclamation farms run by the autonomous region. It is located in Tanlian Brigade of Songshan Commune, with a total land area of 46,314 mu, including 137 mu of paddy fields, 477 mu of sloping land, and 45,700 mu of mountainous land.
There are 22,800 mu of rubber trees (284,200 plants), 970 mu of sisal, 250 mu of tea, and 3,033 mu of fruit trees such as lychee and longan.
Among the 3,033 acres of fruit trees, longan accounts for at least 2,800 acres, making it the farm with the largest number of longan trees in the county.
Naye Village is not far from Baiping Farm. Deng Shirong arrived at his destination in less than half an hour by bicycle.
I asked someone and within two minutes I met the farm manager in the office.
The manager’s surname is Li, and he is a middle-aged man about the same age as Deng Shirong.
Baiping Farm is a farm run by the autonomous region. It not only has a red brick factory, a clinic, and a store, but also has a primary school and three junior high school classes. The total area of the farm is 50,600 square meters, including 19,900 square meters of dormitories, 6,674 square meters of workshops, and 24,000 square meters of other houses.
The entire farm has more than a thousand cadres and workers, which is indeed a large scale. Being able to be the farm manager here, it can be seen that Manager Li is quite awesome.
After greeting each other, Deng Shirong explained his purpose and said, "Director Li, I came here today to discuss a business deal with you. I wonder if your farm has signed a purchase contract with the supply and marketing cooperative for this year's longan?"
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Upon hearing this, Director Li looked at Deng Shirong in surprise and said, "Not yet. Comrade Deng, do you have any ideas about the longan in our farm?"
Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Yes, I would like to purchase the longan from your farm. Is that possible?"
Manager Li said, "Of course, that's fine. Comrade Deng, how many longans do you want to buy?"
Deng Shirong said: "Of course we will buy as many longans as we can."
Director Li reminded him, "Comrade Deng, the production of longan on our farm has exceeded 60 tons in the past two or three years. Are you sure you want to buy so much?"
Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Director Li, I am sure that no matter how many tons the output is, I will buy it all."
Hearing this, Director Li couldn't help but look up to Deng Shirong. In this day and age, it was extremely rare for a private business to be so big in a place like the countryside. He personally poured a cup of tea for Deng Shirong and asked, "Comrade Deng, how much can you offer for the purchase?"
Deng Shirong made an offer: "The purchase price is one cent higher per pound than the supply and marketing cooperative. What do you think, Director Li?"
He had thought about the price on the way here. He didn't expect to compete with the supply and marketing cooperatives with the same price. After all, why wouldn't they trade with the supply and marketing cooperatives they had always cooperated with, but choose to trade with him? Isn't this a waste of time?
But if the purchase price is one cent more per kilogram, it will be a different story. Don't underestimate this mere one cent. Based on 60 tons of longan, that is 1,200 yuan. Even the wealthy Baiping Farm will not ignore this income.
(End of this chapter)