Chapter 268 The secret of Hezibao was completely exposed.
Attention, villagers of Hezibao! Attention, villagers of Hezibao! We will be holding a meeting at 2 PM this afternoon in Ditang to discuss the sale of this year's harvested mushrooms. Please inform each other and make sure you attend! Attention, villagers of Hezibao...
Important things should be said three times, and this especially important thing should be repeated for five minutes on a loop!
After setting the recording to loop, Li Sixin was about to review the main points of the 10 o'clock meeting again when his phone suddenly rang.
Beep beep—beep beep beep—
Is this... someone sending me a message on QQ?
Currently, only two people contact me via QQ: Xu An and Xu Dongliang...
Li Sixin casually picked up his phone, pulled down the notification bar, and sure enough, it was a message from Xu An.
[From 8 PM last night until now, the total sales in the past twelve hours are...]
Because the notification bar has a limited length, all the important content that follows is missing.
Upon seeing the words 'total sales,' he instantly realized what the message was about. He quickly clicked on the message, and his phone immediately redirected to the QQ chat window, where the complete message appeared before Li Sixin's eyes.
"Fellow villagers, good morning! Today, we've convened this meeting on short notice because there's nothing bad to announce to you!"
"You took so few mushrooms from us, what's a few pounds of snacks? Just give them away! But, are two or eight pounds enough?"
“The small business owner in Haishi understands that you have a small production of potatoes and peanuts but haven’t found a suitable sales channel. He wants to take advantage of the recent cold season for mushrooms to send some local specialties to customers to try. He needs about a few hundred catties. Each of us can contribute two or eight catties. Is that alright?”
Therefore, on that occasion, Hezibao didn't say any high-sounding platitudes and went straight to the point.
"The reason the next meeting was called so slowly is because two small business owners from Haishi came to visit. Could it be that there's nothing bad to announce this time?"
"Li Sixin, shut your mouth! Spit it out and say it again!"
But Li Tiejun and some other villagers were quite flamboyant and boastful.
As soon as I said that, all the whispering people fell silent and stared at Hezibao, waiting for me to continue.
When it comes to money and income, even villagers with the worst relationships will defer to each other. As for designating who will participate later, that would be a subject of gossip. Therefore, Ge Shiya used the most complicated selection method: drawing lots!
"If this is really bad news, then it's really bad! Guess what? They probably found a company to buy our peanuts and potatoes. These potatoes have been sitting in the cellar for almost two months now. If we sell them now, we'll just have to eat them ourselves."
Thinking of that, the villager hurriedly walked back to his village, made his way to the village office, and, still catching his breath, said in a low voice, "Village chief, a small business owner named Li Tiejun from next door came and bought over a thousand catties of mushrooms in just one day!"
While the villagers were chatting and laughing, Ge Shiya coughed loudly twice before picking up the megaphone under the table, attracting the attention of a small group of people.
Yes, it's fine. Whether it's true or not, we must go back and tell the village chief immediately!
Those who are quick-witted and discreet will carefully find an excuse to get away with it; those who are discreet but slow-witted will simply pretend to be deaf and mute, and not utter a single word...
The moment the words left his lips, several hands reached out towards Ge Shiya...
Due to the long distance and the lack of space and manpower, Xu An entrusted Hezibao with the task of recruiting workers to sort, process, and pack the purchased mushrooms.
Ge Shiya hurriedly shouted a few times through the megaphone, barely managing to get everyone's attention back to what was below her, before continuing to speak upwards.
But I saw cars and trucks passing by today... Could it be in a few days...? If it's in a few days, then there are only those two small business owners from Shanghai... Could it be that it wasn't those small business owners from Shanghai who made the acquisition?
The mountains in the distance belong to the government, and the villagers in the surrounding villages also live outside those mountains. When they suddenly saw Ge Shiya, young and old, women and children all coming out and retreating from the mountains in a grand manner, they naturally felt strange and gathered around to ask what had happened.
Processing those nearly 1,000-pound mushroom soup packets, which can be divided into tens of thousands of servings, is a complicated task; not to mention that Xu An wanted to pre-sell them and ship them out immediately on the same day, which required a lot of manpower.
"Now tell me the seventh thing! The family's been quiet for a while now, and there's still no seventh piece of bad news! No bad news yet! Don't get excited, let me finish!"
After returning to the village for so many years, Hezibao deeply realized a principle: when holding meetings outside the village, if there's nothing to discuss, get straight to the point and don't ramble on. Otherwise, the villagers will get impatient and just stay put to sleep, which is considered giving them face. No one will just pack up and leave.
Those who drew blank slips of paper stood happily in front of Hezibao, while those who received blank slips of paper could only curse inwardly and hurried home.
"Hey, I didn't tell him enough. You need to hurry up and grab a spot. There are so few people, you'll miss out if you go too late!"
"What? Is it true?" Village Chief Liao was startled upon hearing this. He patted the man's arms with both hands and asked slowly, "Where did he hear this news from?"
"Remember!"
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