Qin Xiaoxiao stared in shock at the pile of things and money on the kang (a heated brick bed).
Holy crap! How did I come back with so much stuff after just one trip?
"Honey, did you go rob a bank?"
Qin Xiaoxiao blinked, not daring to reach for it.
Su Lu chuckled and patted Qin Xiaoxiao's head. "Why are you robbing a bank? Why don't you wish me well? I still want to spend my whole life with you."
This is the money from selling the scarves and other things you gave me before. I also sold the ten watches you gave me, but you charged me one less watch and let me give it away.
One hundred silk scarves and nine watches—that's a lot of money, isn't it?
Qin Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes slightly, "Who did you give it to?"
Give her watch away? Does she want to die?
Su Lu smiled and hugged Qin Xiaoxiao. "Don't worry, I know what giving a watch means. How could I just give it to anyone? I gave it to the president of the provincial supply and marketing cooperative. I was lucky. On the way into the city, I encountered an old lady who had fainted. I was driving the last car and didn't even say hello to the cars in front of me before I took her to the hospital."
Later, when his son came, we chatted and I found out that he was the director of the supply and marketing cooperative.
Later, when they found out I was there to pick up some goods, they did me a favor and bought all our silk scarves. And the price... Honey, those scarves were really expensive. They sold them for twelve yuan each, even though they said they'd sell them individually for fifteen yuan.
Do you have any left? Let's sell as many as we can while we can, I'm afraid we won't be able to get a good price later."
When there are too many items, they naturally become less valuable. Su Lu saw that silk scarf and, given time, the textile factories in Suzhou and Hangzhou in the south could quickly develop it. As long as the raw materials could keep up, it would soon be distributed to supply and marketing cooperatives across the country.
He wanted to make as much money as possible while they were the only ones in the country that did this business.
Qin Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and counted the items in the space for a long time. After she finished counting, she opened her eyes and said, "Not many, there are still more than a thousand items."
"Then sell a thousand of them. You can keep the rest for yourself or give them away."
Qin Xiaoxiao thought for a moment, "Okay, if we sell a thousand, we'll still have three or four hundred left, that'll be enough."
Su Lu blinked and looked at Qin Xiaoxiao with a fawning smile, "Wife, how about we sell another three hundred? You can't wear three or four hundred by yourself!"
Qin Xiaoxiao replied without hesitation, "Sure, I don't like wearing them anyway, keeping a few dozen is enough."
It's better to keep the money as it is. There are only three years left before it can be freely traded, so time is of the essence. She needs to make more money to buy a house.
There are many antiques in the space, but they can't be converted into money for the time being. It will take another ten or twenty years or more to sell them for the best price. By then, the housing prices in Beijing will have increased many times over, so it's not worth it.
Su Lu wanted to tell Qin Xiaoxiao about everything in his pocket, but Qin Xiaoxiao stopped him, saying, "Eat first, we can talk while we eat."
She took out the steamed cake and placed it on the table, then asked Su Lu to wash her hands. She went to the kitchen and made a cucumber and egg soup, which she then served to Su Lu as soon as it was ready.
He picked up a piece of steamed cake and ate it, exclaiming, "It's sweet, did they put saccharin in it?"
Qin Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile, "Isn't it delicious? Auntie made it, and she put in a lot of saccharin. Let's buy some and make steamed cakes together."
Su Lu nodded. "Okay, buy it if you want to eat it, but it's best to add sugar. Too much saccharin is bad for you."
Qin Xiaoxiao glanced at Su Lu in surprise.
Surprisingly, her husband, who was only married to her, knew quite a bit about things, including that too much saccharin is bad for your health.
Su Lu ate quickly without saying a word, only watching Qin Xiaoxiao count the money with a smile.
The total amount of money was three thousand yuan, and there were also seventy-eight yuan and forty-nine cents in loose change. He put the change aside, put the three thousand yuan into his space, and looked at Su Lu with a puzzled expression.
"Why is there so much money? And there's change in it? What did you sell this time?"
Su Lu gulped down the last mouthful of soup and said smugly, "I got a ginseng on credit from the black market. Guess how much I sold it for?"
Qin Xiaoxiao shook her head.
Su Lu said smugly, "I sold it for seven hundred yuan. I found the captain of a truck team under the supply and marketing cooperative. When I went there last time, I heard that he was secretly buying medicinal herbs at a higher price than outside. Plus, it's the provincial capital, so I thought I could make a hundred or two hundred yuan from it. So I bought it on credit."
Fortunately, it didn't disappoint me. I bought this ginseng for 500 yuan and made 200 yuan profit. I was lucky; the head of the supply and marketing cooperative ran into it on our way back together. Otherwise, I would have sold it for at least 100 yuan less.
After saying that, he pushed a pile of food on the kang (a heated brick bed) in front of Qin Xiaoxiao, saying, "These things are from the two hundred yuan I spent. All the change I had left is here."
Looking at the pile on the kang (heated brick bed), there were four cans of malted milk powder, five bags of milk powder, four bottles of canned fruit, five boxes of canned meat, three boxes of canned fish, a bag of small abalone, a bag of dried scallops, a box of donkey-hide gelatin, and two bottles of honey.
Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes widened at the sight of all these things. "How come there are so many?"
Su Lu said softly, "These were all obtained for me by the head of the supply and marketing cooperative. I saw that they were all good things, so I took them all."
I didn't let him help for nothing; I gave him a watch, worth almost two hundred yuan.
Qin Xiaoxiao smiled, "He helped you with these things to thank you for saving his mother, but you gave him a watch in return. Now he owes you an even bigger favor, and he'll have to think of you whenever he gets something good."
Su Lu raised his chin proudly and said, "That's right, the favor from that watch alone is enough to repay him. But favors shouldn't be used like that. Next time I go there, I'll bring him a pack of cigarettes. I think he's quite addicted to cigarettes."
Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, "That's good, I have plenty of cigarettes in my space, but..."
Qin Xiaoxiao frowned again.
Seeing this, Su Lu asked, "What's wrong? Is it not appropriate to take it out?"
Qin Xiaoxiao nodded and whispered, "The outer packaging doesn't match the current cigarettes; many of them are no longer available."
Furthermore, the production dates don't match up; they're all from later periods. How can they be taken out like that? It would be impossible to explain if someone saw it!
Unless you unpack it first, it will be loose and probably not presentable.
Su Lu breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the kang. "Then we'll take them apart and send them over. I remember you have some boxes in your space that we salvaged from the junkyard. Pick a nice one, put the disassembled cigarettes inside, and give it to him."
I'll tell him then that it was obtained from higher up, a special supply of cigarettes.
Qin Xiaoxiao pondered for a while, then shook her head. "Let's not touch those boxes. They're made of good wood and will be worth a lot of money in the future. Giving them away would be a waste."
How about we make a new box and send it out?
Su Lu nodded, "That's fine, but it has to look nice, preferably with another layer of paint."
If it's not high-class, it's hard to fool people; if it's high-class, it's easier for me to deceive them!
Qin Xiaoxiao burst into laughter after hearing this, "You old fox, my husband is still the smartest."
Su Lu winked at Qin Xiaoxiao smugly, "That's right, don't you know who I am?"
The two talked for a while, mainly about what kind of box to make and which carton of cigarettes to give away.
You can't give someone the best cigarettes, but you can't give them the worst either. You have to make sure that they smell good cigarettes and that they're different from what they usually smoke. That's how you convince them.
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