Chapter 460 462: Is there anyone who thinks the money is too much?
"My Chunyan came up with this idea. It's a must-have bag to prevent thieves!" Zhou Huaian put on the waist bag, stuffed it into his pants, patted his waist, and said proudly, "Who can tell that I carry so much money!"
Zhou Yiding felt it was too much to bear, so he patted him and said, "Let's go, our family is waiting for us to take the change back!"
"That's great!" Zhou Huaian straightened his clothes and said, "Doctor Xiao Wang, let's go!"
"Be careful on the road!" Wang Zhen smiled and sent the two to the gate of the courtyard.
The two men waved their hands, carried the bamboo baskets out and put them on the tractor, then headed towards the farm where they deposited the money.
Zhou Yiding said, "Youngest, we collected more than 3,800 kilograms of fresh goods and more than 900 kilograms of dried goods. The loss is still a bit high!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "First- and second-grade goods are still better. You can get one kilogram of dry goods for less than four kilograms of fresh goods, and third-grade goods require at least five kilograms to get one kilogram."
Zhou Yiding: "If you calculate it this way, the cost of 4 kilograms of first-grade meat is only 4 yuan, and the cost of 5 kilograms of third-grade meat is only 2.5 yuan. On average, the profit is more than half."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Two dollars and a half is just the cost of the truffles. With the labor costs and charcoal expenses, it's more than that. If you are a little more ruthless and lower the purchase price, you can make more money.
But it would be a shame for everyone to earn just a little by digging truffles in the woods in such a cold weather."
Zhou Yiding did some calculations and said, "Yes! Including Aunt Jiang and the other four, there are 18 of us in total, and the daily expenses are less than 50 yuan. Alas! In fact, labor is the least valuable."
Zhou Huaian hugged him and said, "So you have to do business to make big money. If you want to get rich by selling your labor, you can only survive by starving!"
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding thought about it and sighed, "It would be great if this business could continue forever."
"We got the upper hand, but who can predict what will happen in the future?" Zhou Huaian patted him on the shoulder. "All we can do is to do the things in front of us well and make sure to give good things to others."
"You're right. As long as they are satisfied with the goods we deliver, they will probably give us a chance even if someone else competes with us in the future."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "We're here."
Zhou Yiding touched his stomach and said, "Let's change some change and have a bowl of rice noodles before going to the coal mine?"
"We've run out of peach cakes at home, and your sister-in-law is getting hungry. Let's go buy her some cakes first."
"That's right!"
The two men came out of the bank and returned to North Street, driving the tractor away from Deshengtang. Not long after, Xiong Laoya came out of the Chinese medicine hospital opposite and entered Deshengtang.
"Hello, Doctor Wang!"
Wang Zhen glanced at him and said, "Do you have a cold or..."
"Doctor Wang!" The youngest Xiong sat on the wooden chair opposite Wang Zhen and said sincerely, "I came to see you the other day. Please give me a chance. I will definitely do better than Zhou Huaian."
"I remember you!" Wang Zhen frowned at him and said calmly, "Comrade Xiong, I don't understand what you are talking about?"
The youngest Xiong seemed not to notice his indifference at all, and said in one breath: "Doctor Wang, I saw with my own eyes that Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding delivered the truffles to your house."
"As long as you are willing to give me a chance, I will sell it to you at half the price he gave you."
Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows, "Why do you offer such conditions?"
Zhou Laoyao, that stupid pig, even if they were given one or two dimes per pound, they would still dig for their lives. But he actually gave one or a few dimes per pound, his brain was stuck in the door!
"Doctor Wang, you know that the truffles in the mountains are usually eaten by wild boars or soaked in medicinal wine. How can something worthless be worth a dollar or a few cents per pound?"
The youngest Xiong glanced at him and continued, "As long as you are willing to let me do it, I can definitely save you more costs and let you make more money."
It’s a good thing that such people don’t become officials, otherwise the common people would suffer.
Wang Zhen's eyes flashed with disgust. "Then in your opinion, how much is our truffle worth per kilogram?"
After hearing what he said about us, Xiong Laoyao thought there was hope, and said without hesitation: "If Zhou Laoyao hadn't raised the price so high right from the start, we would have no problem giving those people one or two dimes per pound at the beginning."
"But now they know the price. If Dr. Wang takes it back and gives it to me, I can lower the price of first-class goods to 50 cents per pound, and second- and third-class goods to 20 or 30 cents per pound."
Wang Zhen raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "Comrade Xiong, aren't you a native of Funiu Village?"
He changed the subject so quickly that the youngest Bear was stunned for a moment, thinking that he wanted to inquire about his background.
"Yes! My family has been farmers for generations. My husband came from the mountains in Funiusha Village. He settled down in Funiusha Village after marrying my mother. I am the youngest of four brothers. I joined the army in 1977 and returned to the village last year."
He is a retired soldier! He has been in the army for so many years and still hasn't learned how to be a good man!
Wang Zhen smiled faintly and said, "I thought Comrade Xiong was a city dweller! He didn't understand how hard it was for the mountain people to dig truffles in the cold winter, which is why he said such a thing."
The youngest Xiong was confused: "..." Isn't it true that the more money you make, the better? Is there anyone who thinks that too much money is not enough?
Wang Zhen stood up and looked at him calmly, "Comrade Xiong, the cooperation with Zhou Huaian was decided by the boss of the provincial capital. He and I are just running errands for the pharmaceutical factory in the provincial capital!"
The youngest Xiong advised unwillingly: "Doctor Wang, even if the boss in the provincial capital ordered it, it's so far away, they don't know the market conditions here!"
"As long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I guarantee that you will make more money than Zhou Laoya made when he cooperated with you."
People like this are obsessed with money. It seems that there are cunning and vicious people both in the city and in the mountains.
"Go away!" Wang Zhen pointed at the entrance of the clinic, "Don't come here again."
After hearing this, the youngest Xiong's face suddenly turned gloomy. He looked at him and walked out without saying a word.
He walked to the street and stood there watching the passers-by. He thought for a long time but still couldn't figure out why Wang Zhen didn't want to earn more money?
Why would he rather let Zhou Laoya pay a high price than accept his own conditions?
Could it be that he was the one who set the purchase price?
When he reached the outside of the mutton restaurant, he parked his bicycle, went in, ordered two taels of wine and a bowl of rice noodles, and started eating.
An hour or so later, he staggered out of the mutton restaurant.
Pushing the bicycle, he muttered as he walked: Zhou Laoyao, I don’t believe that you will have a smooth life. One day, I will make you look up at me.
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Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding were loading coal onto a tractor at the coal mine. They didn't stop until the tractor bed was full of coal. They then hit it hard with a crowbar a few times.
Zhou Yiding put down the crowbar and said to him, "Youngest brother, you go and shake it, and I'll drive it."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian picked up the crank and walked towards the front of the tractor. After a few strokes, the tractor made a rumbling noise. He jumped onto the driving platform holding the crank and said, "Let's go!"
It was just after ten o'clock when the two returned to Funiu. When they got home, they handed the money to Yang Chunyan and said, "We won't share the profits this time. We'll talk about it after we ship another batch of goods tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan nodded. "Not long after you left, Uncle Chen came with a dozen villagers. Each family weighed 80 to 90 kilograms. And Miss San and her friends brought a dozen people with them. Each family weighed 70 to 80 kilograms. Leave some extra money so that you don't have money to pay the bill later."
"Well! I'll go unload the coal first, you put the money away."
When the three sisters came, they started blabbering on and on about complaints.
Even Zhou's mother's family knew about the eldest brother's complaints about collecting truffles, but they didn't know about it. If it weren't for a woman from the same village who married here and brought a letter, they would still be kept in the dark.
The second sister said nothing, while the third sister said in a sarcastic tone that the second branch was now famous and looked down on them, her poor sisters.
“…”
Finally, the old man who was building a bamboo frame next door came over and the three of them stopped talking.
When Yang Chunyan put the money away and came out, she saw Secretary Xu walking into the yard. "Secretary Xu is here! Come in and sit for a while!"
"Is the youngest coming back?"
"I'm back, unloading coal in the backyard. Do you want to go to the backyard, or sit in the main room for a while and wait for him to come over and talk to you?"
"Call him over here. I have something to say to him."
"Please sit down, I'll go call him!" Yang Chunyan poured him some tea and left.
Secretary Xu looked at the coffee table and wooden sofa in the main room and said to himself, "It's quite Western-style."
After a while, Zhou Huaian came and looked at him with a smile, "The first batch of goods was shipped today, and I wanted to report to you!"
"Just do your thing!" Secretary Xu motioned him to sit down. "I told Fang Tian and Guanyin's brigade secretary yesterday that you are just helping Deshengtang collect the goods... Don't let anything slip."
Although Zhou Huaian didn't quite understand, he knew that he was doing it for his own good. "Don't worry, I told them the same thing."
Secretary Xu nodded and said, "I'm doing this for your own good. Think about it, your business makes thousands of dollars a day. If someone finds out and reports us for leaking the local product tax, all our work will be in vain."
Zhou Huaian gave him a thumbs up after hearing this, "Secretary Xu, only someone as knowledgeable as you can understand the ins and outs of this. I have to hide the account book."
"Stop flattering me!" Secretary Xu smiled and patted him. "Take a look at it yourself and make a new one. If someone comes to cause trouble, you will have something to deal with."
"I've got it in mind. I'll report to you!" Zhou Huaian went back to the room and got the account book. "The first-class fresh goods collected the day before yesterday afternoon were 764 kilograms, the second-class were 1,064 kilograms, and the third-class were 1,985 kilograms..."
He then handed him Wang Zhen's order, "We shipped the first batch of goods today, and sold a total of 6,182. After deducting the cost of 2,670, and deducting the coal and labor costs, the net profit is 3,400."
3,400 yuan is 340 yuan in dividends. My original capital of 500 yuan will be mostly recovered in a few days. By March next year...
Secretary Xu became happier the more he thought about it. He gave Zhou Huaian a thumbs up and said, "Great! You are really capable! If you keep going like this, I can sit cross-legged and play when I am old."
Zhou Huaian said embarrassedly: "It's not that I'm capable, it's that this business can make money no matter who does it."
Secretary Xu stood up and patted him on the shoulder. "You two are both kind people. If you have any problems in the future, come to Uncle Xu."
"Thank you, Uncle Xu!" Zhou Huaian agreed immediately.
"Okay, you go ahead and do your work. I'll go see your old man and the others." Secretary Xu said and left.
(End of this chapter)
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