Chapter 1338: To be the boss, you have to be tough
The Spring Festival is the most important festival for flower growers, and for flower growers living in a foreign country, its importance is several times greater.
People who miss their hometown will stubbornly adhere to all customs that can strengthen their memory, so as to avoid forgetting what their roots are like after being overseas for a long time.
The inspection team also attached great importance to this festival. They stopped their external inspection work a few days in advance and began various preparations to celebrate the Spring Festival.
"There are three kinds of dumplings: cabbage, leeks, and shrimps. Hey, you never expected that I could get leeks here. I thought people in Suzhou didn't eat leeks! But I heard the price is not cheap, almost catching up with the price of caviar."
"That's definitely not cheap! I think we should just follow the local customs. Caviar, beef, mutton, and that fish, half a person's height, it must be delicious."
"Tsk, is it considered Chinese New Year if you don't eat dumplings? Then you can eat caviar and give me your dumplings."
"Okay, after we finish eating, I'll go to Liang Si to complain that you stole my dumplings. I'll have to punish you."
"I'll screw you! Go chop the stuffing."
When it comes to food, flower growers are the best and no one dares to claim second place. Otherwise, there would not be the phrase "it's hard to satisfy everyone".
If it's like in some countries where there are only two or three flavors in total and three large pots of it are served, how could it be difficult to prepare?
In Moscow, it is not easy to get all the dumpling fillings that everyone likes.
Moreover, not all members of the inspection team are northerners who are used to eating dumplings. There are also southerners who are used to eating glutinous rice balls and rice cakes.
Sister Yan, the head of the financial team who had just arrived in Moscow, found Li Ye and said with a smile: "Li Ye, we want to steam rice cakes. Can you and Sun Xianjin get some sesame seeds?"
"Sesame? I'll try it!"
Li Ye grinned, a little unsure. After all, sesame is a tropical and temperate plant, and is definitely a rare commodity in this bitter and cold Su'e area.
"It's okay if you don't have it. In fact, we already have the main ingredients, rock sugar and ham. The only thing missing is sesame seeds. The taste won't be much different."
Seeing Li Ye in trouble, Sister Yan felt a little embarrassed. She was urgently dispatched to Moscow to check the accounting of the "barter" model of the inspection team.
So these days Sister Yan and others have also come into contact with Bian Jingjing and Jin Peng, and know that they are definitely top foreign trade businessmen in Moscow, and the materials they have are more abundant than most of the Soviet government departments, so she really didn't expect that Li Ye would have a headache because of a small matter.
Seeing Sister Yan was embarrassed, Li Ye and Sun Xianjin felt bad instead. Sun Xianjin hurriedly said with a smile: "Don't worry, if one ingredient is missing, then the taste will be missing by three points. We will go to heaven and earth to find it."
"To the heavens and the earth? Hahahaha, not really, not really. Li Ye, please don't get me wrong. It would be best if we can find one, but it's okay if we can't."
"Okay, okay, I'll go out and look for it."
Li Ye smiled, reported to the group, and then went out with Sun Xianjin to look for sesame seeds.
Even if you can't find it, you should at least go out for a look before coming back to say you can't find it. If you say you can't find it without even looking for it, wouldn't that be giving people a lack of face?
In a group, the most difficult thing to grasp is your own face and the face of others.
As for Sister Yan, if she is fair, it's fine. But if she has a little bit of feminine pettiness, the price of "barter" can be deviated by thirty miles with a crooked pen.
Something that costs one dollar at the flower grower's shop can be worth three dollars or even five dollars in Moscow. Who can you complain to?
It doesn't matter to Li Ye, as his family is rich and powerful. He can just consider it as a contribution to the rejuvenation of the Flower-Growing Family. However, if Bian Jingjing earns 3 percentage points less in profit, Sun Xianjin will be so angry that he will die.
The two men left the hotel and went straight to Jin Peng and Bian Jingjing's residence. But when they heard that they wanted to find sesame seeds, these two tycoons were scratching their heads.
Picking up a sesame seed and losing a watermelon, they sound like insignificant little things!
"Let's go! Let's go ask Lao Mao! He's a picky eater, maybe he has some stock."
Jin Peng led Li Ye and Sun Xianjin to the first floor to look for Lao Mao, but after knocking on the door, Li Ye and Sun Xianjin hesitated and did not go in.
Because they were counting money! Either the kind of money that people use to gamble, or the kind of money that people use to deposit money into a bank account.
Piles of banknotes were piled on the floor, in all colors and denominations, so colorful that they had to be packed in sacks.
"Hey, Boss Jin is here, please sit down quickly."
"Hey, hey, hey, keep counting your money. Don't make a mistake and count again."
Seeing Jin Peng coming in, the middle-aged man with frizzy hair in the middle hurriedly stood up to greet Jin Peng, but Jin Peng waved his hand and asked him to continue.
The old cat chuckled and said, "It seems that I can't clear up the injustice of not knowing how to count. Everyone knows that I can't count money. Why didn't I learn arithmetic properly back then?"
"Just forget it!"
Jin Peng laughed and scolded: "You are a profiteer. You can't make a mistake when collecting money, and you can't make a mistake when paying. If you don't change this bad habit, who will dare to do business with you?"
The old cat was not embarrassed at all, and said confidently: "Oh my, that was in the past! I have a big family now, how could I still be greedy for that little money? Who doesn't know that I, the old cat, am a righteous man now?"
"Alright, alright, I won't argue with you about this. I just want to ask you, do you have any sesame seeds in your hand?"
"Sesame? Sesame seeds?"
"Isn't that nonsense? Could it be the sesame seeds in the sesame oil?"
The old cat was stunned for a moment, then said, "I have sesame oil, but who would bother with sesame? People in Suzhou have a hard time eating flour, how can they afford sesame?"
A woman who was counting money said, "Perhaps the nobles of Su geese would like to eat them. Why don't we notify the country to get some! They are rare and can be sold at a high price."
The old cat turned around and cursed: "Selling a ball at a high price, you do business with the nobles, and they still give you money? Do you think you are as well-connected as Boss Jin?"
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After hearing what Lao Mao said, Jin Peng didn't plan to ask any more questions.
People like Lao Mao have their heads full of business acumen. They won't bother with anything that is not in high demand, or hard to sell or unsafe.
"Let's go to the market and try our luck. There are many of our compatriots there, and there are also farmers from Su'e coming to the market."
Jin Peng led Li Ye and Sun Xianjin out from Lao Mao's place, and simply went out, got in the car and headed straight for the market.
Li Ye thought for a moment and gently asked Jin Peng: "Brother Peng, last time I heard Xiao Qi say that your building does not accept unscrupulous businessmen, but that old cat deliberately miscounted the money to cheat people.
I don’t disagree with you making friends with the old cat, but you should be extra careful when you are out there, and don’t let yourself be dragged down by unreliable people.”
“Puff~”
Jin Peng couldn't help but laugh.
"Do you really believe what Old Cat said? When he first came here, he always miscounted the money because he was wrongly accused by the Su E people.
The Sue people gave him ninety-eight banknotes and insisted that they gave him a hundred. He counted them eight times and still got them wrong, so he could only say that he had counted wrong.
“.”
“Hahahaha~”
Li Ye and Sun Xianjin were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, laughing at the old cat for pretending to be rich.
If you are the boss, you have to be tough.
If the eldest brother gets beaten up and has a black eye, he has to stubbornly say that the other party has cut off his offspring, otherwise he will lose face.
Sun Xianjin laughed and said, "This is really a lifetime of reputation ruined in one day. Old Cat made a mistake in collecting money once, and he will be laughed at for the rest of his life."
Jin Peng glanced at Sun Xianjin and said dimly, "It's not just this one time that he made a mistake. Before I met him, he basically made a mistake every day."
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Sun Xianjin was stunned for a moment, and was silenced.
Today, when I saw the money all over the floor of Lao Mao, I always felt that making money was as easy as drinking water. In fact, who could know the bitterness behind it?
When the people of Su'e find him a weakling and start bullying him, who can stand by him?
Even though he is following Jin Peng now, there are some deals he still doesn't dare to touch.
Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of ropes for ten years. Which tycoon who looks glamorous on the surface does not have a few unforgettable and painful experiences in his heart?
(End of this chapter)
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