Chapter 178 Xiongjia Village
Liu Wentao happily escorted Zhao Yi out of the alley, repeatedly assuring him that he would do a great job. He watched Zhao Yi's back gradually disappear in front of him before he went back home.
"Why didn't he invite his father, Comrade Zhao, to have a meal when he came home?"
Hong Mei looked at Liu Wentao and asked.
"Why didn't I leave any? They said they had already eaten."
Liu Wentao said with a smile.
"Comrade Zhao, what did you want to do?"
Hong Mei then asked.
Hong Mei and Peng Yiju have a very good relationship. They are master and apprentice, and the two families often visit each other. As a result, she has a good relationship with Zhang Jing as well.
It’s just that Zhao Yi rarely attended their gatherings with Zhang Jing.
"Please ask me to help you prepare the banquet. I'll pay you three dollars a day."
Liu Wentao smiled and said that some people would invite him to host banquets, but they would only pay him one dollar and fifty cents a day at most.
"Since they trust me, we have to help them get things done."
Hong Mei was also happy for Liu Wentao.
"Of course."
Liu Wentao said with a smile.
As soon as Zhao Yi walked back to the department store, he ran into Chen Yan. The boy was sitting at the door of Zhao Yi's house carrying a large backpack.
"Why are you carrying so many pine branches to my place? I don't lack firewood."
Zhao Yi joked with a smile, then opened the door and led Chen Yan into the house.
As soon as Chen Yan entered the house, he took away the branches covering the backpack. Inside were a few pieces of smoked meat and some dried pheasants and rabbits.
Ever since getting engaged to Zhao Yan, this guy hasn't gone out to work. He ran to Xiongjia Village in Hongqi Commune and tried to trick people into cooperating with him.
These things can be considered as touchstones. There are not many of them, but Chen Yan didn't spend a penny on them.
"Captain Xiong, people in the city deliver goods first and then settle the bill. Take a look at the letter of introduction they gave me. I'm a cooperative buyer. They run such a big restaurant, how can they owe you a few dollars?"
Chen Yan said to the captain of Xiongjia Village.
"Then you have to give at least a deposit. It's impossible that they didn't even give you ten dollars."
Captain Xiong looked at Chen Yan and said.
"Captain Xiong, I am helping with the procurement. I have to take this kind of meat to let them check if it is up to standard. Up to standard means whether it is qualified and whether they are willing to take it. If they are not willing to take it, I have to send it back to you. Besides, how dare I embezzle these things from you? This place is only a few steps away from Chenjia Village. If you chase me to Chenjia Village, I will lose face."
In fact, Chen Yan didn't have much money left.
He bought several sets of picture books and a lot of cloth to make clothes for Zhao Yan, and he only had a little over three yuan on him.
"Okay, I'll give you two days. If you don't see the money, you have to send the meat back to me. If you don't see anything, I'll bring people to chase you to Chenjia Village."
Captain Xiong had no choice but to agree to Chen Yan's request.
They wouldn’t be able to sell these things without Chen Yan.
After Zhao Yi weighed the smoked meat, there were a total of 50 kilograms. The price of pork has increased by 10 cents this year, so naturally the price Zhao Yi paid for the meat has also increased by 10 cents.
"Did your sister-in-law tell you?"
Zhao Yi looked at Chen Yan and asked.
"My sister-in-law didn't say anything. She just asked me to find a way to cooperate with the hunting village and get some meat to send over."
Chen Yan answered truthfully.
"Then let me make it clear to you. I charge 60 cents per pound for meat, but you can only charge 50 cents. So you have to pay 10 cents per pound for running errands. The air-dried pheasant weighs less than a pound, and you charge 60 cents per chicken. After all, there are not many customers who only drink chicken soup, so you still earn 10 cents per pound for running errands.
But you should buy fewer of these dried chickens. It’s best if they are alive. They cost $1.50 each.
Don’t collect the wild rabbits. If you want the live ones, take them back and return them. ”
Zhao Yi looked at Chen Yan and said.
Almost no customers order dried rabbit. As for dried pheasant, only when a baby is born in the family will someone come and order chicken soup to take back for the mother to nourish her body.
As for fresh pheasants and rabbits, there are many customers eating them, but there is not much dried meat and no one comes to the restaurant to enjoy the taste.
Although Zhang Xiang's cooking skills have improved a lot, they are still not as good as those of professional chefs.
Chen Yan happily hurried home with the money. He was so happy at that moment that he earned almost six dollars for each trip. If he was luckier and caught one or two pheasants or rabbits, the income for each trip would be at least eight dollars.
Chen Yan did not go home immediately, but went directly to Xiongjia Village.
"Captain Bear."
"Comrade Chen, please come in and sit down."
Chen Yan walked into Captain Xiong's house and took out the money from his pocket with a smile.
"You see, I told you that they don't buy all kinds of meat. They don't want wild rabbits like this. Smoked meat is 50 cents a pound, 50 pounds in total, 25 yuan. Ten air-dried chickens are 50 cents each, so they won't buy them for now. They'll let me know when they need them.
There is a total of thirty dollars here, please order. ”
Chen Yan handed over the money.
Captain Xiong looked at the thirty yuan in front of him and still felt it was a little unreal. The income of Xiongjia Village throughout the year was just the two old hens at home. If people from their village went to the commune or the county town, they would be checked most strictly by the red armbands. In general, the hunter villages were also strict.
"Comrade Chen, we still have a lot of smoked meat in our village. Do you think you can take it all away today?"
Captain Xiong came to his senses after a brief moment of distraction. He realized that he couldn't just make money by himself, as there were many people in the village who also had smoked meat at home.
"Let me make it clear first. They will accept the products if they have passed the inspection, and return the unqualified ones. You will only get paid for the products you accepted, but not for the products you did not accept. You can't ask me to pay for it first, and then you won't return the money to me if they don't accept it."
Chen Yan said seriously.
"That's natural, that's natural. We can't let Comrade Chen subsidize us."
Captain Bear said happily.
"We collect wild boar meat all the time. The more you have, the better. It's hot now. Just process it and make sure it doesn't go rancid within three days."
Chen Yan remembered what Zhao Yi told him before he left and then said.
"That's no problem. I promise to take care of it for you and not let you suffer any consequences."
Captain Xiong patted his chest and said that they naturally had their own ways to deal with these things. Those who had been hunting in the mountains for a long time did not have this ability, and the meat would have become smelly by the time it was brought out of the mountains.
Chen Yan returned to Chenjia Village carrying nearly 100 kilograms of smoked meat. After putting the meat away, he went to Captain Chen's home.
After handing in five yuan a month, you can get full work points without working. It seems that Zhao Laowu and his colleagues do the same. If you can run six times a month, you can earn nearly thirty yuan.
In the remaining time, I could accompany Zhao Yan to the commune to set up a bookstall.
After he had solved the problem of not having to work, Chen Yan lay on the wooden bed and smiled happily.
This area.
"Did this kid Chen Yan send this?"
Zhang Jing looked at Zhao Yi and asked.
"Yes, fifty kilograms of meat. I wonder if they can deliver it regularly. If they can, we can have more meat and vegetables every day."
Zhao Yi smiled.
"Why don't we just wait for him to come and ask for clarification next time? If he can't, we can sell more sometimes, and sell less if he doesn't have it."
Zhang Jing smiled.
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