Chapter 237 Selling out the other side of my second brother
There are many kinds of medicinal materials in the medicinal materials area, and you can find most of them at the medicine fair.
There are many famous doctors in the pulse diagnosis area. An old doctor can set up a stall to diagnose and treat patients, and apprentices are busy preparing and boiling medicine. There are small stoves, medicine pots and steam rising from the air, and all kinds of medicinal smells fill the air.
These famous doctors are all experts in traditional Chinese medicine. Some are good at taking pulses, some are good at acupuncture, and some are good at setting bones. Each of them has his own specialties, and many people with serious illnesses come to them for help.
For mild cases, the medicine can cure the disease, and for severe cases, the condition can be alleviated.
There are also herbal medicine shops that specialize in bulk transactions, and the sounds of shouting, abacus, and accounting are endless.
As for the western medicine and medical equipment area, it is quieter. Western medicine has not yet been fully developed in China, and some production lines for basic western medicine have only been opened and put into production in recent years.
There is one thing about things in this area, they are expensive!
This was Xiao Jinfeng's first time attending the pharmaceutical trade fair. After listening to Gao Mingcheng's advice, he toured the entire pharmaceutical trade fair area and broadened his horizons.
When he returned to the rented stall, Gao Mingcheng was doing business, so he stood by and watched.
The buyer wanted yellow gardenia, the price was RMB 1.50 per pound, and he asked for as many as he could get.
Gao Mingcheng's purchase price of yellow gardenia was 40 cents per pound at the beginning, but later the quantity decreased and the price rose to 50 cents, but it was wet at that time, and now it is dry. However, the water content of yellow gardenia is not high, and after it is withered and dried, the weight is still okay. Now it is sold for 1.5 yuan per pound, which is still a good profit. The profit of other medicinal materials is roughly the same.
If the quantity is small, it will not be cost-effective, but if the quantity is large, you can make a lot of money on this trip.
Besides, half of Gao Mingcheng’s medicinal materials were obtained by himself in the mountains, so this part is pure profit.
Among Xiao Jinfeng’s goods, there is also yellow gardenia, because yellow gardenia is suitable for growing in their county. There are more or less wild yellow gardenia trees growing in every village.
And under the arrangement of the city leaders, the industry of artificially cultivating gardenias has begun to develop, so that there is now an abundant supply.
The reason for vigorously developing artificial cultivation is that in the medicinal materials trading market, the price of yellow gardenia from Jiangxi is much higher than that of yellow gardenia from Fujian. Therefore, the yellow gardenia from Jiangxi sold by Gao Mingcheng is very popular. After several customers inquired about the price, one of them proposed to buy them all.
Gao Mingcheng reported all the goods that he and Xiao Jinfeng had together, a total of 580 kilograms, of which Gao Mingcheng accounted for 400 kilograms.
"Okay, if the quality is the same, take them all." The buyer said generously.
The next step is to clear out all the gardenias, show them to the buyers, weigh them, and then make the reimbursement.
Gao Mingcheng knew that the yellow gardenias here were easy to sell, so he brought all the yellow gardenias here at the beginning. Now he just needed to open the bags containing the medicine and let people check it.
Gao Mingcheng's goods are all checked by him, and there are no defective products. As for Xiao Jinfeng's goods, they are not too bad either. His family has some power and connections in the county, so when his family receives goods, few people dare to fool them with bad ones.
Thus, the first big deal was made.
"Brother Xiao, you take care of the stall. I'll go get some more goods." Gao Mingcheng said, pushing the cart towards the parking lot.
The reason why he came to get the goods was because he knew which goods were easy to sell and which ones were in high demand. Therefore, he should get these goods first and sell them early so that the money can be safely in his pocket.
As for those that are in small quantities and difficult to sell, you can sell them slowly tomorrow.
Xiao Jinfeng had no objection. He stood guard at the stall, looking around at other people buying and selling goods. When someone came over to inquire about the price, he would tell them the price set by Gao Mingcheng. When people asked how many goods there were, he would also tell them the truth.
Gao Mingcheng wrote an account book, which contained the medicinal materials they had together, and recorded how much was sold and how much was left. One only had to take a look to know the status of the goods.
Gao Mingcheng and Xiao Jinfeng were busy the whole day. The pharmaceutical fair had a large flow of customers and a high business transaction rate. Although they were exhausted at the end of the day, most of the goods had been sold.
After recording the last entry in the account book, Gao Mingcheng stretched himself to relieve his sore muscles.
Normally he practices boxing and runs wildly in the mountains, but he is never as tired as he is today!
Keep doing repetitive mechanical movements, keep smiling and talking to people, and you will be exhausted physically and mentally at the end of the day.
But fortunately, a bulging wallet can soothe his busyness.
As it got darker, the number of people in the medicinal materials trading market gradually decreased, and everyone was packing up their stalls.
The remaining bags of medicinal materials were sent back to the car for storage.
After dinner, Xiao Jinfeng took the initiative to say, "I'll guard the car tonight, Mingcheng, you can have a good sleep."
He could see that Gao Mingcheng was tired, and he also knew that Gao Mingcheng must have not slept all night last night.
As for letting Gao Mingli guard the car, Xiao Jinfeng and Gao Mingcheng both disagreed.
Gao Mingli can guard during the day, but it would be too worrying to ask him to guard at night.
Gao Mingcheng was not being polite, he really needed a good night's rest, so he and Gao Mingli stayed in the hotel that night, while Xiao Jinfeng stayed in the car.
Since most of the popular medicinal herbs had been sold and the ones left in the car were of little value, Xiao Jinfeng looked relatively relaxed.
Maybe because of the loud noise last night, everything is peaceful tonight. No one comes to steal medicinal herbs or gasoline.
But Xiao Jinfeng discovered that the Northeastern guys who had loaded a truck with ginseng and deer antlers were missing. He didn't know whether they had sold the goods and left, or what happened.
They were just chance acquaintances, so Xiao Jinfeng naturally had no intention of exploring further.
It was only the next morning that he told Gao Mingcheng the news. In the morning, Gao Mingcheng, who had gone out to investigate, told him that the two Northeastern guys had sold the entire truckload of goods at a low price, and then drove away in the afternoon.
Maybe the people who are targeting them secretly make them feel that they cannot afford to offend them, so they can only avoid them.
"They gave me a pound of red ginseng and deer antlers yesterday. Brother Xiao, take half of it later." Gao Mingcheng said.
Xiao Jinfeng said, "They only gave me this little? They are too stingy. You helped them recover a huge loss!"
Gao Mingcheng was more open-minded and said, "It's almost two hundred yuan in total, which is enough. It's just a favor after all."
To him, it was just a matter of convenience, so he did not think the gift from Wang Tiezhu and others was too small.
Seeing that he was open-minded, Xiao Jinfeng did not mention the matter again. However, Gao Mingli eavesdropped on it and, combined with what others had said before, he roughly figured out what happened on the first night.
When he found out, he couldn't help but be glad that he was not the one guarding the car, otherwise if something like that happened, he would have no idea how to resist.
Today all the goods on the truck have been moved to the medicinal materials trading market, so Gao Mingli no longer needs to guard the truck in a boring way. Instead, he can follow the truck to guard the stall and gain more experience.
Gao Mingcheng asked him to go around and he did so obediently. However, he was worried about getting lost, so he returned the same way he came, not daring to take a wrong step.
After walking around the entire pharmaceutical fair, he just looked at it for fun. He couldn't understand what many people were shouting. Fortunately, some shops had banners hanging, and through the words on the banners, he got to know a little more about the pharmaceutical fair.
By the afternoon, the number of people in the medicinal materials trading market gradually decreased.
By this time, most of what needed to be bought had been bought, and most of what needed to be sold had been sold. Some stalls only had a few medicinal herbs left, and most people had sold out and were packing up to leave.
Gao Mingcheng's goods were also sold out. This time, with the help of Xiao Jinfeng, the two of them worked hard and managed to sell out all of them. However, they did not make much money from the last business and even got some leftover scraps.
I don't want anything else, just the good fortune of short selling.
"Let's go and have a feast!" Gao Mingcheng said with a smile, shouting to let's go and have a feast.
Because of being busy with business in the past two days, several people did not eat properly. They just ate their food hurriedly and swallowed it as soon as it entered their mouths without even chewing. And the food was also simple.
At this time, you need delicious food to soothe your fatigue and the joy in your heart.
When I walked into the restaurant, I saw it was packed with guests. All of them were herbal medicine merchants who came to eat, and the dishes they ordered were very expensive.
When Gao Mingcheng saw that all the seats were full, he didn't plan to leave, because the situation in other restaurants should be similar, so he asked the hotel staff if there were any small tables left.
Generally when business is very good, the store will arrange a few small dining tables in the open space outside. There are only three people in their group, so the small dining tables are enough.
As he was asking questions, someone suddenly shouted at him, "Brother Mingcheng, you're here to eat too. Come to my table! There's still room!"
Gao Mingcheng looked in the direction of the voice and recognized it as the card player he had played cards with before.
The man transported a truckload of licorice, Cistanche deserticola, and Cynomorium songaricum, all of which were goods from the northern desert. They were extremely rare in the south, so they sold very well.
Seeing that there were indeed seats for two people there, Gao Mingcheng took Xiao Jinfeng and Gao Mingli over there. At this time, the man had already asked the restaurant to add another stool.
Gao Mingcheng and Xiao Jinfeng are both good at chatting and making friends. The whole dinner table was filled with laughter and they had a great time chatting with each other.
Only Gao Mingli was a person who didn't mind eating. He concentrated on eating the whole time. It wasn't that he didn't want to listen to their idle chatter, but he really couldn't understand.
Those local dialects sounded like fairy tales to him. Well, to put it more vividly, it was like a teacher teaching a math class. He could hear the sounds but didn't understand a word of what they meant.
But Gao Mingli was very satisfied with this meal.
Not to mention the rich variety of dishes, he also got to see another side of his second brother.
When he was at home, he just thought that his second brother was boring, didn't talk much and didn't do much. His parents also complained that his second brother was stubborn, didn't speak sweet words, and didn't know how to deal with things.
But now when he sees his second brother making friends with others, even though he doesn't quite understand what they say, he can tell that his second brother is very good at making friends, and others respect him very much.
He suddenly thought of Gao Guobing again.
In the eyes of the villagers, Gao Guobing is a high-ranking official, but even among people from the same village, he takes the most care of Gao Mingcheng. When other people come to Gao Guobing for help, small things can be done, but big things are hard to say.
But everything his second brother accomplished were big things!
Arranging for his third brother to work in a transportation company and choosing a factory for himself were things that Gao Guobing easily agreed to do after his second brother asked for it.
If it were someone else, Gao Guobing would definitely not do this. You know, it is so rare to have a job these days!
(End of this chapter)
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