Chapter 168 Backpack Business Opportunities
Yike and Liu Baoer returned home and saw the old man drinking tea in the courtyard with the old man they met on the road just now.
"Baoer, Yike, is everything done?" Liu Baoer's grandfather looked up and asked when he saw two people pushing the door open.
"Okay, Grandpa, you and Grandpa Liu can drink your tea slowly. My cousin and I will go to the room." Liu Baoer pulled Yi Ke anxiously towards her bedroom.
Yi Ke smiled at the two old men, and the old man sneered, "You are so old, but you are still so impetuous. Go, go! You young people go and have fun."
Yike followed Liu Baoer into the room, and was asked to sit down at a long table by Liu Baoer. Then she took out a notebook and a pencil from the drawer of the table.
Liu Baoxin stared at Yi Ke with sparkling eyes and said, "Cousin, please draw. Let me see your skills."
Yike looked at the student's exercise book in front of him, thought for a while, and then drew a sports mountaineering bag from his previous life, a backpack used by a middle school student, a mini backpack used by an elementary school student, a large handbag and a waist bag.
"Cousin, I call this bag a mountaineering bag. This is the waist belt, buckle it on the protruding position of our hip bone, so that we can effectively use the skeleton of the hip to support the weight of the backpack; this is the shoulder strap, try to adjust the shoulder strap in advance. This is the chest strap, when you put on the backpack, tighten this strap, the chest strap can not only tighten the backpack, but also prevent the backpack from slipping off the shoulders due to excessive weight. Usually, when we carry a lot of things, we use a backpack, which is uncomfortable and tiring, and our physical strength will be consumed faster. This mountaineering bag can solve these problems." Yike explained the usage and functions of the mountaineering bag one by one.
Liu Baoer said excitedly, "Oh! Oh!", and after Yi Ke finished speaking, she still wanted to say, "Cousin, continue, I'm listening."
"I've finished talking about the mountaineering backpack, cousin." Yi Ke looked at Liu Baoer speechlessly.
Liu Baoer exclaimed, "Is this the end?"
"That's it. No matter how much I talk about it, it's better to do it and recite it yourself to know the effect."
"Okay, then let's make one right away. Let's make a backpack first, a simple one. We can make a mountaineering bag next time. Then I'll take it to our director to discuss the purchase price."
"This shouldn't be traded privately, right?"
"Yeah, so what do you want to do?"
"I don't know either. How about we make a sample first?" As they were talking, they realized that they couldn't do the transaction privately and became a little discouraged. However, Yike was thinking that he would arrange someone for Ziyi to sell it on the black market in the provincial capital, so he decided to forget about the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Cousin, did Tang Jianguo contact you? Didn't you want to purchase that canned food?"
"Yes, but Comrade Tang said that we can't trade openly because it's hard to reveal the source. We can trade some privately."
"So do you guys still have a deal?"
"Yes, the director said that he doesn't care about the source. As long as we can sell it, it's fine. Of course, he can't give me a reward openly. But the director said that I have the priority to choose the products that the supply and marketing cooperative will sell this year."
"No one else has any objections?"
"No, everyone gets to share the money after selling the canned goods, so who would say anything? If they have any objections, they can go get the goods. Don't you know that the supply and marketing cooperatives in other towns are jealous?"
"You're so beautiful."
"That's not it. Hey, cousin, do you want some cloth to make clothes? I can help you choose the processed cloth. It's cheap and doesn't require cloth coupons. Do you want it?"
Yike thought that she would need a lot of cloth to make a backpack when she got home, so she agreed to ask for it. Then Yike and Liu Baoer went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy processed cloth.
Some of the processed cloth is still in good condition, except that some threads are scratched, or the color is different shades. The worst cloth was not only not soft but hard, and the colors on the cloth were all mottled (some were dark in color, some were light in color, and some looked like they were splashed with ink). These cloths only cost ten cents a foot, and no tickets were required. They were really cheap. I bought all the processed cloths and spent a total of 35 yuan. Yike also asked Liu Baoer to take him to the tailor shop to buy a bag of scraps of cloth that the tailor had not used. They cost one cent per pound, and Yike bought all the scraps of cloth in the tailor shop.
After the two returned to Liu Baoer's house, Liu Baoer immediately asked Yike: "Cousin, why don't you just buy those processed cloths? Why did you buy so many scraps of cloth? What a waste of money!"
"Don't worry, cousin. When I finish making the things, you will know whether there is any waste. You won't understand even if I tell you now."
"You are the only one with many evil ideas. If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me."
"How about we go cook? Auntie will come back at noon to give her a surprise."
"But I can't cook?"
"It's okay, I'll do it and let you taste my cooking skills."
"Really? Can you do it? I remember never seeing you cooking at your house. It was always your brother-in-law who did it."
"Who are you looking down upon? Just watch if you don't believe me."
In the kitchen, Yike seriously put her cooking skills from her previous life into practice. This was mainly because there were enough and complete ingredients in Liu Baoer's kitchen, giving her room to show her skills.
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At noon, when Zhong Tongxin and her husband Liu Yuhao stepped into the courtyard, the smell of fragrance made them drool. They both swallowed at the same time and walked quickly towards the main room.
"Baoer, Baoer, what are you cooking that smells so good?" Zhong Tongxin shouted loudly before she even stepped into the main room.
"Mom, Dad, you're in for a treat this afternoon." Liu Baoer stuck her head out of the kitchen and said with a giggle.
Once inside the house, the aroma became even stronger. Zhong Tongxin couldn't bear it any longer, so she strode into the kitchen and saw Yike busy at the stove.
"Aunt, you and uncle-in-law wash your hands first, we'll be ready soon." Yike glanced at Zhong Tongxin and calmly put the vegetables in the pot into the plate.
"Oh, it's Yike. I said it, how could Baoer, that girl, cook such delicious dishes! I'll go wash my hands then. Haha, I'm in for a real treat today." Zhong Tongxin and her husband went to wash their hands, and Yike and Liu Baoer put all the dishes on the table.
The old man looked at the delicious dishes on the table, and urged everyone to sit down and eat quickly with chopsticks. Before everyone was seated, he reached out and picked up a piece of braised pork and put it in his mouth. After swallowing it, he exclaimed: "Fragrant! Smooth, soft but not overripe, tender. Delicious! The little girl is a good cook! Your husband is blessed."
Yi Ke blushed with embarrassment: "Grandpa, you are too kind. This is just a home-cooked dish."
"This is a skill only a great chef can have, so don't be too modest. Your grandfather usually doesn't praise others, but he praises you because you are a really good cook." Liu Yuhao also picked up some braised pork and ate it, then nodded and praised, "It's really delicious. I'll have to eat a few more bowls of rice for this."
"Yike, your cooking is so delicious that the rice at my aunt's house may not be enough." Zhong Tongxin joked.
"Hey, you can't just praise your cousin Yike, I also did a good job, and I also had a part in making these dishes. You can't stop kissing me just because you have a cousin, or I'll be jealous." Liu Baoer's look of begging for attention and touch made everyone at the table laugh...
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