It takes more than 20 minutes to walk from the brigade to the commune even if you walk faster.
Jiang Wanyue sighed once again. Their fishery was really too poor. They couldn't afford to buy bicycles or install telephones, making it inconvenient to do anything.
Wait until I make money... Oh, there are so many things to do, I don’t know what rank the task of installing a telephone is, let’s talk about it later.
As I was daydreaming, I soon arrived at the commune.
Although she was anxious to return the call, Jiang Wanyue still went to Secretary Qin's office first. First, to express her gratitude to the commune for notifying them, and second, to apologize. Because Xiaojing Brigade did not have a telephone, the customer's call could only be made to the commune, which caused the commune a lot of trouble.
"What kind of trouble is this?" Secretary Qin said with a smile, "I have no other requests, just remember to pay taxes."
Jiang Wanyue said loudly: "Secretary, rest assured, our fishery is very formal in accounting, and will report and pay taxes according to the requirements. We will definitely not lag behind our Hongqi Commune!"
Secretary Qin waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and get busy. Don't keep people waiting."
Jiang Wanyue then turned around and went to the telephone room.
After she called back, she was connected shortly. It was a special operator who answered the call. After hearing her purpose, he asked her to wait for a moment and then went to call someone.
After a while, a voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ms. Jiang, I'm Section Chief Zhou from the county department store."
"Hello, Section Chief Zhou." Jiang Wanyue's voice made people know that she was speaking with a smile. "Section Chief Zhou called me, are you talking about the crispy fish fillets from Xiaojing Fishery?"
Section Chief Zhou said truthfully, "You came to the department store before to promote your crispy fish slices. After a thorough investigation, our department store decided to put your crispy fish slices on the shelves. Is it convenient for you?"
At first, he looked down on the products produced by a makeshift stall in the countryside, but for some reason, many people came to the department store in the past few days to ask if there were any crispy fish fillets.
He originally thought that the other party had deliberately sent someone to inquire, but after some investigation, he found that among those who came to inquire, there were cadres from the Education Bureau, workers from a printing factory, and workers from a candy factory, textile factory, paper mill... He didn't know where the workers from these factories heard about this crispy fish fillet, and they came every day to ask when it would be on the shelves.
There was no choice but to bow his head and seek cooperation.
At first, he was the one who rejected the other party. Now, he took the initiative to seek cooperation. He was actually a little worried that the other party would put on airs and deliberately make things difficult for him.
Unexpectedly, a woman's enthusiastic and cheerful voice came from the phone: "Thank you, Section Chief Zhou, for being willing to investigate our crispy fish slices. If Section Chief Zhou needs further investigation, he can come to our Xiaojing Brigade to inspect the production line in person. Although it is simple, it is absolutely qualified in terms of quality and hygiene."
"The inspection can be postponed." Section Chief Zhou said, "Let's talk about the price first."
Jiang Wanyue knew that the deal was already done, because only those who wanted to cooperate would be eager to know the price increase.
She smiled and said, "Our fried fish slices are priced at 20 cents to the public, and we give the department store a base price of 18 cents. What do you think, Chief Zhou?"
Section Chief Zhou nodded: "Okay, let's make it like this. The department store wants 10,000 bags for now. When is it convenient for you to deliver the goods?"
Department stores put crispy fish fillets on the shelves not to make money, but to make people feel that the department stores do not have something that can be bought elsewhere.
"It will be tomorrow." Jiang Wanyue said cheerfully, "People from the fishery will take the earliest bus tomorrow morning and arrive at the department store around ten o'clock. Chief Zhou, please arrange for someone to pick them up."
The two of them reached an agreement.
The heavy stone in Jiang Wanyue's heart finally fell to the ground.
Although she always appears to be calm and composed, as the person in charge of the fishery, it is impossible for her to be without pressure.
Now that we have sold 10,000 packages of crispy fish fillets, we have taken the most difficult first step. Every step forward will become easier and easier.
After returning to the team, Jiang Wanyue told everyone the good news.
"Xiangbei, you go to the county to deliver the goods." She said, "Lin Jin, you can come with us, but you will go to the county to transfer to the city. The channel of the city department store will be left to you to open up. Do you have confidence?"
Lin Jin was full of confidence: "Don't worry, if I can't accomplish this, I won't come back."
Last month, she received a commission of 20 cents, and her monthly salary was only 6.2 yuan. If the fishery did not provide meals, she would starve to death with this little money.
And this month, she hasn't achieved any sales results at all.
Now, Jiang Wanyue has opened up the situation. On this basis, if she still can't sell it, she might as well quit her job.
That night, Mr. Lu and Mr. Li began to prepare the goods. Ten thousand packages of crispy fish fillets sounded like a lot, but when put into snakeskin bags, they only filled up two large bags.
The next morning, Zhao Xiangbei pushed the cart, Lin Jin brought the funds, and Jiang Wanyue, the three of them walked towards the commune station together.
The two snakeskin bags were bulging and somewhat conspicuous, but there were always all kinds of goods on buses these days, so the bus driver didn't say anything.
After the car left, Jiang Wanyue pushed the empty cart back.
Everything in the fishery was busy and orderly. Those who were strong went to cut grass for the fish, and the rest were feeding the fish.
In the past, there were few people and the fish in the fish pond were only fed once. Now there are enough people, so Jiang Wanyue arranged shifts for everyone, feeding the fish once in the morning and once in the evening every day to form a routine and let the fish get into a habit, so that the grass carp will grow fast and healthy.
Although the eleven men in the bullpen were busy all day long, they were no longer as weak as before.
There were two meals a day, and although there were only black sweet potatoes, these two were staple foods, which were much better than the river clams, snails and grass roots they used to eat. Even Mrs. Li, the weakest woman, had a rosier face, and she could work without stopping.
Mr. Lu stopped what he was doing and walked over: "Deputy Party Secretary."
When he was at work, he always called Jiang Wanyue "Deputy Branch Secretary", and only called her Wanyue in private.
"I just took inventory in the warehouse. There are still more than 300 kilograms of rice bran and more than 100 kilograms of wheat bran. Some are insufficient, and the village cannot collect them for the time being." Elder Lu said, "There are 20,000 grass carps in the fish pond now. The consumption of fish food is increasing day by day. This inventory is only enough to last for two or three days."
Jiang Wanyue said, "Didn't Lin Jin reach a cooperation agreement with the tofu shop, and buy bean dregs and the like as fish food?"
"Not enough, far from enough." Mr. Lu shook his head. "The daily output of bean dregs is only about 30 to 40 kilograms, and sometimes even less."
"Okay, I understand." Jiang Wanyue frowned and said, "I will solve this matter as soon as possible. Mr. Lu, please go and do your work first."
Grass carp changes every day. It grows faster if it eats more, which is a good thing.
But food is indeed a big problem.
Since the rice bran and wheat bran of Xiaojing Brigade have been collected, we can only go to other brigades to collect them.
However, if it involves other brigades, the commune must issue a note before they can collect it, otherwise it will be easy to be reported to the Revolutionary Committee for violating regulations.
When it was getting dark, Zhao Xiangbei came back with an excited look on his face.
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