Chapter 15
"Comrade, don't you have your ticket? I saw it all just now," the waiter said. "I can't sell you so much without a ticket."
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "My brother is going on a long trip, and I exchanged the ticket for him. Big sister, can you be flexible? Didn't you just say that if there's no ticket, you'll be charged eight cents?"
The waiter said unhappily, "How would I know you wanted so much? No, no, we have a set amount of food coupons to hand in every month. Without them, we can't give you so much."
“How many tickets can I buy without one?”
"Two, do you want one?"
"Big sister, can you add a few more? Five is ok?"
I just asked this question, thinking I could save some money, but it turns out I can't.
In the end, I managed to get three without any tickets, and the rest required tickets and money.
The basket Zhou Jiani was holding was the one Zhao Mei usually used to store dry food. It could hold twelve pieces, so she simply asked for two more.
After coming out of the restaurant, Zhou Jiani walked for a while with the steamed bun on her arm before finding a place to scan it into the warehouse, took out a braised egg, opened it, scanned the packaging into the warehouse for destruction, and then wrapped it with the paper she had used to wrap the roasted meat and put it in her pocket.
He took out the woven bag from the morning, rolled it up, tucked it under his arm, and went to the supply and marketing cooperative.
The price of straw hats is the same as in the village, but there are more models with five-pointed stars printed on them.
"Serve the People" is written on the brim of the hat, and a bright five-pointed star is printed next to it, which looks pretty good.
Zhou Jiani asked the waiter to bring it over for her to look at while muttering, "This shouldn't get damaged if I send it over, right?"
The waiter glanced at it and said casually, "It won't break, but it will deform. You can fix it yourself. Do you want it?"
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Yes, of course." She pointed to the goods behind the counter, "Five five-pointed straw hats, five bamboo hats, and a few teacups."
There's really not much fun these days, and the waiters are all extremely gossipy. The woman behind the counter asked curiously, "Why do you need so much? Who are you buying it for?"
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "Send it to my sister and the others."
While serving her food, the waiter pressed her, "Judging from your accent, you're from out of town, right? Do you work here or are you here in the countryside? Is your sister..."
"I'm here working in the countryside," Zhou Jiani replied evasively. Seeing that the people next to her weren't paying attention, she passed a braised egg over the counter and interrupted her quietly, "Sister, I braised it at home. Try it. Um, I want to ask you something."
The waiter's attention was immediately diverted. He took it, opened it, and took a look. He could even smell the aroma of marinade. He thought that this girl was quite rich. She even put the ingredients of stewed meat in an egg. He put the egg in his pocket and changed his address to Zhou Jiani: "Sister, you can ask me anything. But let's be clear, we still have to pay for what we owe. We don't have that much power."
"Sister, you misunderstood me. I wanted to ask if we have any extra scraps of cloth here."
The supply and marketing cooperative should have scraps of cloth, but you may not be able to buy these scraps of cloth without some connections.
"Sister, you came at the wrong time. The scraps of cloth we collected last time were taken by our colleagues, and it won't be my turn the next time they collect them. If you need them urgently, take a bus to the county. There's a garment factory there. Give the security guard two eggs and he'll definitely get them for you. No ticket required."
Nowadays, waiters may have bad attitudes, but if you strike up a conversation with them, they will be quite enthusiastic.
Zhou Jiani said sweetly, "Thank you, sister. You have shown me a clear way. I will go and have a look when I have time."
As the relationship improved, Zhou Jiani bought two more straw hats, a total of seven straw hats, four with words and three plain ones; five bamboo hats, six enamel pots, and three industrial coupons.
I also bought a stack of straw paper and straw ropes to wrap cakes.
During the process, Zhou Jiani cleverly resolved some of the elder sister's curious questions.
After shopping at the grocery counter, I went to the cloth counter next door and bought cloth and hemp rope for making shoes.
He stuffed the things into a woven bag, carried it out to find a place to store it in a warehouse, and then started strolling on the street holding the empty bag.
At the rate she was doing business now, the money her family had given her would definitely not last long. She planned to try her luck on the black market, spending a little more money to buy some fine grains and save them, so she could find a chance to make her own steamed buns.
It would be even better if I could get more tickets.
The town is not big, and the place where people exchange supplies privately is not big either. There are not as many people as Zhou Jiani imagined, and there are not many things.
After a cautious round, I only received two industrial coupons. The other party asked for one dollar and eighty cents each, and I bargained down to one dollar and fifty cents.
There was an old lady who carried a basket of spinach, which looked quite fresh. It was two cents a pound, and there were more than ten pounds of it. There were about twenty eggs hidden under the spinach.
The old lady looked around nervously and said, "Girl, if you can also take the eggs, I will give you a discount of 2 cents on the spinach."
He spoke with a tremor in his voice, probably because he didn't often come to the black market to sell things.
Zhou Jiani accepted all of it and did not ask the old lady to give her a two cent discount.
After coming out of the black market, Zhou Jiani turned and went to the guesthouse. Before entering the door, she adjusted her expression and walked in with a weak look.
The receptionist glanced at her letter of introduction and asked in confusion, "You're from the Qianjin Brigade. It's not that far away. Why do you need accommodation?"
Zhou Jiani clutched her stomach and shook her head weakly, "Comrade, I don't want to stay overnight. I have things to do this afternoon, and suddenly... my stomach hurts, and I just want to lie down and take a nap. Comrade, could you please get me a room? I'll sleep for two or three hours and then leave."
Seeing her like this, the person at the front desk somewhat understood and quickly opened a room for her. He also asked, "Do you want me to bring you a pot of hot water?"
Zhou Jiani shook her head weakly and thanked him: "No need, comrade, when I have this problem, I can get better by sleeping for a while."
He entered the room, closed the door, pulled the curtains, and began to tinker with things energetically.
She first poured out her straw hat, teacup, bamboo hat and basket and took photos of them one by one.
The steamed buns were still in the basket. Zhou Jiani took them out and put them aside, then took out a few things from the shopping shelf - plastic wrap, shredded pork and shrimp paste.
This was gathered from the group yesterday and the day before yesterday.
Buying things in a group buying group is all based on luck and there is no way to search.
In these seven or eight days, together with the braised eggs, I made these three things in total.
She packed the steamed buns with plastic wrap, two in a pack and divided them into five groups. She kept two for taking pictures and broke one of them open to take a picture.
She kept these two for herself.
He unpacked a few more braised eggs, wrapped them in straw paper, and put them back into the warehouse.
Then tear off the wrapping paper outside the bottle of shredded pork and shrimp paste and throw it back into the warehouse for destruction.
After that, scan and collect all the stuff and prepare to start the group.
Straw hats, 14 plain ones, the cost price is 30 cents and 50 cents; the cost price of the ones with words and flowers is 1.2, a total of 12.
She wanted all the plain hats without tung oil paint, each costing 63 cents, and she bought five.
I collected ten enamel pots and bought them at the same price at two supply and marketing cooperatives, both for 37 cents plus half an industrial coupon.
There are twelve baskets of the two types in total, and the cost price is thirty cents.
She planned to keep the eggs she bought from the black market for herself and sell the spinach.
Zhou Jiani clicked on the group creation page and began to edit the content of the products to be put on the shelves.
[Original stock from Huilin Enamel Factory, brand new, old factory goods, quality guaranteed, limited group order, 12.9/piece, hurry up and you'll miss out. ]
[Nostalgic straw hats are now available! Remember the straw hats your grandparents wore as a child? This hat isn't just a memory, it's also a trendsetting sun protection item. Add some embellishments to create your perfect style. Limited quantity available! 5.9/piece without print; 6.9/piece with print...]
[Purely handmade bamboo hats are now in stock...6.9/piece.]
[Fresh from the small vegetable garden, pure green and pollution-free spinach group, grandma's own spinach is super delicious, limited group 4.9/portion, 1000g.]
[Handmade large steamed buns, with the wheat flavor of childhood...Limited to 1/portion, two.]
After the content is edited, a link will be automatically generated when it is sent to the group and attached to the edited content.
The group buying group is very conscientious. They will proactively check the set weight and issue reminders. Zhou Jiani only spent a little time on packing the spinach, and the rest of the portions and individual items were all done in one step.
In addition to this, you can also set the order of opening the group and the interval time between each type of goods.
After pressing OK to start the group, the group rules pop up on the interface, along with a friendly reminder for her to set her avatar and nickname.
For her profile picture, she chose the most beautiful picture of a straw hat, raised her hand and typed in her nickname: The old tree and dead vines are sprouting again!
The red envelope was worth five yuan.
I've earned nearly ten yuan just from grabbing red envelopes these days, so it's time to send one out.
Finally, press OK and your palm will vibrate.
Then, a string of straw hat pictures flashed through the group, and the content that had just been edited was automatically sent out.
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