Chapter 56 Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative [VIP]
Huang Dongsheng walked into the backyard of Baohe Hall with a huge sum of three taels of silver and told Chen Yao about his plan.
Instead of making a profit at a high price once, it is better to sell it to Manager Ren at six cents per pound and strive for long-term cooperation opportunities with him in the future.
On the other hand, it was also because the three managers were fighting in front of his stall today, and he couldn't afford to offend any of them.
Money is a great asset to people's lives. Although he was short of money, he didn't want to bring disaster to his family.
It is better to make money slowly and steadily.
Chen Yao naturally agreed with her cousin's understanding, and also told Huang Dongsheng that the three taels of silver could be used directly to open a supply and marketing cooperative.
Huang Dongsheng didn't refuse and nodded in agreement. "I'll go sign the contract with Shopkeeper Ren later. Then I'll go back to the city to look for a suitable shop."
Chen Yao then asked if she wanted to accompany him to sign the contract.
Huang Dongsheng waved his hand to indicate that it was not necessary. Manager Ren would not cheat him for the sake of his cousin's face.
"Then after you sign, ask your uncle to build the cabinet when you return to the village." Chen Yao stood up and went to the front to borrow a piece of paper from the medicine boy. She used charcoal to draw a picture of a supermarket vegetable cabinet on it and showed it to Huang Dongsheng.
Huang Dongsheng carefully understood the plan and put the blueprint away. "There's still a lot of lumber left over from building the village school. I'll go back and talk to my uncle and have him discuss with the villagers about using that lumber to make containers."
Both the brother and sister were full of energy. Chen Yao assigned tomorrow's homework to Huang Dongsheng, and then asked about the situation at home.
When talking about his family, Huang Dongsheng talked freely.
Everything is fine at home, and the elderly people in Wanhe Township are also doing well. Everyone is busy with their work in an orderly manner.
My eldest uncle, my second uncle and his father take turns to go to the quarry to take care of my cousin's husband. When they have free time, they help the family grind soy milk, make tofu, make bean curd sheets and weave baskets.
My uncle would sometimes go to the wheat fields to check.
Brother Baolai was out collecting dry goods during the day and brought back a pound of cotton last night. The elders asked my cousin to change out of his reed jacket first.
Huang Dongsheng was very cautious when he said this, fearing that his cousin would be unhappy.
Chen Yao pushed his face away and asked, "Did Wenying soak the bamboo I brought back in the river? Did my father say when we can go up the mountain again?"
I don't know if the trap caught any prey.
Huang Dongsheng saw that his cousin was not angry, so he continued talking.
Wenying was now very cautious in her work. She was afraid that the bamboo would be damaged by the prisoners in Liuying, so she tied stones with hemp ropes and dropped them underneath to sink the split bamboo to the bottom of the water.
Besides, the lake is frozen now, and no one goes to the river, so it can't be found at all.
As for when my uncle will go up the mountain, he will have to go back and ask.
After Chen Yao had asked everyone in the family, including which students had made progress in their studies and which had fallen behind, Huang Dongsheng came over again with a mean look on his face.
"Cousin, why don't you ask your cousin-in-law?"
Chen Yao pursed her dry lips, her eyes fell on the medicine furnace, and asked casually, "Then, how is his recovery going?"
Huang Dongsheng pretended to sigh and shook his head.
Chen Yao's heart skipped a beat. "Why, he's not recovering well? That medicine isn't working?"
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"So what? Who are you trying to drive crazy by just sighing and not saying anything?" Chen Yao raised her hand and was about to pull his ear.
Huang Dongsheng immediately blocked her outstretched hand, "Cousin, why are you so anxious? Are you worried about your brother-in-law? He only injured his right arm. Coach Xing told him to rest and recuperate, so he doesn't have to pick up stones anymore."
If it weren't for the fact that this was a pharmacy and Maizi needed rest, Chen Yao would have loudly refuted Huang Dongsheng. She was just afraid that the medicine she bought for Yang Jizong would be ineffective and a waste of money.
Huang Dongsheng saw through his cousin's sophistry but did not expose it, nor did he dare to provoke her again. They had lunch together in the pharmacy and went to Zhiweilou in the afternoon.
Manager Ren readily signed a one-year contract with Huang Dongsheng for the next year, and the price of buying edamame was one cent per catty in spring, summer and autumn, and six cents per catty in winter.
Huang Dongsheng carefully examined the characters on the deed. Although there were many complicated strokes that he did not recognize, he humbly asked Manager Ren for advice and then wrote his name crookedly.
The moment the fingerprint was pressed, Huang Dongsheng's face flushed with excitement.
"Manager Ren, if those managers knew I sold all the edamame to you, would they come and cause trouble for Zhiweilou?"
Manager Ren has made a lot of money recently. The hot drinks in the building alone have become a best-seller in the city.
Naturally, he knew how to deal with these wealthy people.
"Don't worry, they won't cause us any trouble."
After Huang Dongsheng signed the contract with Manager Ren, he declined his invitation to dinner and left Zhiweilou, then wandered around the city looking for a shop.
Good shops are hard to find. Huang Dong, either the orientation is bad or they are too remote. Some shops can barely fit two tables, which is not feasible.
So he had to go to the clothing shop to buy a plain white handkerchief and colorful silk threads, and then go to the pharmacy to show the contract to his cousin. After confirming that there were no problems, he carried his load back to the village.
Back to the village,
In the main house of the Shen family, everyone gathered under the oil lamp, listening to Huang Dongsheng
He was so thirsty from talking all night that he drank two bowls of wine.
Miao never thought that his son would one day be able to rent a shop in the city and become a shopkeeper. Holding his son's cheek, he looked so adorable.
It was such good news, but his father went to the quarry today and couldn't hear it. What a pity.
Miao slapped her son several times until his cheeks turned red and he cried out in pain. Only then did she let go, making sure that this was not a dream.
"My cousin said that our shop needs a name. Wenying, please write it down and I will take it to the city to make a plaque tomorrow." Huang Dongsheng looked at everyone.
Naming is such a big thing that even if the elders want to help, they are unable to do so.
So they all looked at the children who could read and write: "Think about it, Dongsheng, you are the shopkeeper, you think of one yourself."
Shen Qingshan and Tian Zhong were sitting in the house weaving baskets.
Huang Dongsheng scratched his head, unable to think of a good name.
Tian Baozhu was still helping her brother with today's homework and was too busy to think about it.
"How about we call it Huang's Supply and Marketing Cooperative? Everyone will know that the owner's surname is Huang?" Yang Wenying returned the container drawing drawn by Chen Yao to Tanaka Zheng.
Everyone applauded this proposal.
"Uncle, my cousin asked me to ask you when you will go up the mountain again?" Huang Dongsheng asked while holding the words written by Yang Wenying before leaving.
Shen Qingshan piled the woven baskets in a corner and replied without looking up, "I'll go tomorrow. Ah Yao is worried about the trap I set."
After hearing this, everyone laughed out loud and left the Shen family.
Yang Wenying brought the sewing basket back to the house and sat under the lamp thinking about what pattern to embroider on the scarf.
Huang Xing boiled some hot water in the kitchen, brought her half a bucket, and told her to wash up and rest early, and not to embroider too late.
The next morning, Huang Dongsheng carried his load into the city to do business and look for a shop.
Tanaka Masanori negotiated with the men in the village, wanting to use the leftover wood from building the school some time ago. When he was done, he would cut some more and return it to everyone.
Everyone was unhappy when they heard it.
These woods are placed there anyway, so just use them. What else can you do? Isn't this being too distant with them?
The villagers asked Tanaka Masaru again, what do you want to do with these woods, do you need our help?
So, while Tanaka was talking with his fellow villagers, Huang Dongsheng's shop had not yet been found, but the name of Huang's Supply and Marketing Cooperative had already been spread.
Shen Qingshan went up the mountain with a machete on his waist, and saw his brother-in-law and fellow villagers moving wood in the drying yard.
When he arrived at the place where he had set the trap last time, he found that although there was blood on the trap, the prey had broken free.
So they followed the blood trail and set a trap deeper into the woods.
The days were getting colder day by day. After the snow melted, another heavy snow fell, and long icicles hung under the eaves.
While every household in the village was hibernating, the people of Xiahe Village were busy splitting boards, chiseling wooden troughs, and making containers under the command of Tanaka Masaru.
Did you ask them if they want wages?
Of course not. Making containers for Huang Ji means making them for themselves.
In the spring, they reclaimed the land and planted edamame. After A Yao harvested their edamame, he would send it to the shop to sell. It was a win-win situation for both of us, so how could he ask for wages?
Besides, it's just a matter of putting in some effort, and doing this little work can keep you warmer.
School is on holiday today, and the children are sniffling as they follow the adults, passing the boards.
The villagers were kind and righteous, so the Shen family would not let everyone work in vain. Every day they would cook two large pots of steaming tofu pudding for everyone to drink.
The children can also get a piece of soft steamed rice cake.
The container will be ready in two days.
In the late twelfth lunar month, good things happened one after another. Huang Dongsheng finally found a suitable shop on Yuqian Street and immediately took Chen Yao to see it.
The shop is on the street and was originally a noodle shop. The house is fully equipped with tables, chairs and benches. After all of them are moved away, the area is still large enough.
When I went out, there was a grain store on the left and a pastry shop on the right. The more I looked at them, the more suitable they seemed.
The price is just too expensive, the rent is about one or two hundred wen a month.
So the brother and sister played the good cop and the bad cop respectively, and signed the contract with a rent of one or two taels of silver per month.
Now that he had a shop, Huang Dongsheng called an ox cart and went back to the village to move the containers. After discussing with his family, he decided to open the shop on Laba Day.
So in the next few days, Huang Dongsheng privately promoted his Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative to the vendors he liked in the East Market.
You only need to pay fifty cents a month to reserve your own container at Huang Ji. You can put the things you want to sell in the container, and you no longer have to squat in front of the stall in the wind and sun. You can use your free time to do other things.
Some clever vendors calculated that this amount of money was cheaper than going into the city and the market, so they combined the two into one. After being taken by Huang Dongsheng to visit the Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative, several vendors paid the money on the spot and signed the receipt.
Huang Dongsheng naturally did not forget his brother Bai for such a good thing.
On the day when Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative opened, the Shen family members finally came to the city together.
On such an important day, everyone wore new clothes and new shoes, and you could tell at a glance that they were a family.
Everyone took off the red silk on the plaque, and the guests gathered in front of the door to discuss what the sign meant.
Chen Yao pushed Huang Dongsheng forward to explain to the guests and invited everyone to come in and take a look.
Eggs, cabbage, radish, tofu, bean curd sheets, bean sprouts, various dried vegetables and mushrooms are neatly arranged on the containers, and the prices are clearly marked.
In the basket next to the wall are farmers' woven palm-leaf fans, straw hats, pot brushes, wooden shovels, gloves, etc.
There were pickled cabbage in several small jars on the counter, cut into small pieces and put on bamboo sticks for people to taste.
What was particularly eye-catching was the half-boar meat spread out on the table on the other side, and the live pheasants and rabbits in the cage. Now everyone finally understood why this store was called a supply and marketing cooperative.
We sell everything and have everything.
The vendors who owned containers also came today. Looking at the furnishings in the house and the many customers, they kept congratulating Chen Yao and Huang Dongsheng.
Soon, Manager Ren also came with Managers Tong and Li to congratulate them, and everyone's faces were filled with joy.
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