"Mom, please don't slander me! You are slandering me, don't you know..."
Unfortunately, Ye Zhiqiu's words had no credibility! Wang Xiaolan ignored him and said impatiently, "Don't try to trick me, you little bastard. You're just as perverted as your father, always peek at people taking a bath!"
Ye Tianya was dumbfounded. He quickly reached out to cover Wang Xiaolan's mouth and said with a wry smile, "Stop talking about these nonsense, wife. Do you still want to know why I'm helping to sell fish for my son?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded repeatedly. This topic had to be changed. However, he also heard something. This cheap father must have gotten his cheap mother in this way...
He straightened his expression and explained to the two people, "They are not helping me, but themselves! You know, they told the villagers that if they want to sell so many fish at once, they have to reduce the price to 35 cents per pound.
Because the villagers were anxious to split the money, they agreed without much thought! But in reality, I had to pay them 40 cents per pound. Now you can understand why they were willing to sell fish to me!
Ye Tianya and Wang Xiaolan exchanged a glance, and he muttered, "So that's how it is! This is the same approach our village chief and his men take!"
Wang Xiaolan said to Ye Zhiqiu, "Boss, you don't know that the old village chief and his men are really not good people! They sell things from the village for kickbacks. They always say that they are doing it for the good of the village, and if they don't sell quickly, there will be enough money. It's really true that all crows are evil!"
Ye Zhiqiu saw Ye Bailu dozing off on the table, so he picked her up and said, "I'll send my younger sister back to sleep first. Tell me later how you knew they were taking kickbacks!"
After that, he carried Ye Bailu back to her and Lao Er's room, but Ye Wubing was already asleep and snoring. After he drove away the mosquitoes for Ye Bailu and put up the mosquito net, the girl had already fallen asleep.
When Ye Zhiqiu returned to the living room, Wang Xiaolan was no longer there. He asked curiously, "Dad, did Mom go back to sleep?"
"Didn't you bring back sweet potatoes? She said she got up early to cook, so she went to ask your Aunt Liu to come over and start making vermicelli!"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded, then asked curiously, "Dad, tell me how the old village chief and his men took kickbacks? Maybe I'll need this information when I go shopping in the future!"
Ye Tianya thought about it and realized that the boss would go to the countryside to purchase goods in the future, and maybe he would really need to do these things.
So he nodded and said, "You know I was assigned to Kaoshantun by pretending to be a poor peasant for three generations. Since I am a poor peasant for three generations, I naturally cannot read!
So the old village chief and the old accountant took advantage of the villagers' illiteracy and modified the account books without any scruples! Although some people could definitely read, they probably had the same concerns as me and pretended not to be able to understand the written account books.
Later, when we launched a literacy campaign, they became more obedient and switched to using waste and changing the weights. A 100-jin (approximately 100 kg) of pork would only come out as 80, and they would pocket the 20-jin difference.
When they take chickens, ducks and geese to sell, they just say how many of them died, or sell them by weight, in order to get kickbacks.
If you do this in the future, it will be like trading in the ghost market. When shaking hands with people, gesture to offer a kickback, and if they agree, they will naturally sell you things.
According to my observation, the general kickback for food supplies is half a percent, and you have to bend your pinky finger. If it is 10%, you shake hands and extend your pinky finger, and 20% is the pinky and ring fingers.
Generally speaking, if they agree to your commission, they will shake your hand again as a signal. If they don't shake your hand, you can see from their gestures whether they are bargaining.
Ye Zhiqiu was a little dumbfounded. Is it that simple? He thought it was so mysterious!
But if you think about it carefully, Cheap Dad felt that he had never been to the ghost market and definitely didn't understand the ins and outs of these gestures, so he explained them in such detail.
However, there was one thing Ye Zhiqiu was a little confused about, so he asked curiously, "Dad, this 50%, 10%, or even 20% refers to the purchase quantity or the price?"
"Of course it's the quantity! You can just offer the normal purchase price, but you have to help them conceal the weight, so you have to prepare different weights!
In fact, if you buy something in bulk, for example, if you buy flour from someone, you'll get half the amount for one jin, five liang for ten jin, and five jin for a hundred jin. You'll have to pay at least two or three mao for the flour, which is a two or three yuan kickback."
Ye Zhiqiu was speechless. So, they had to go through so much trouble just to embezzle a few dollars? Compared to what was going on here, it was much worse!
Ye Tianya seemed to have noticed it, and he asked with a smile: "Boss, you don't like this little price difference? But do you know that based on the number of transactions I saw!
"The old village chief and the accountant, just from taking kickbacks like this, each of them gets at least 70 or 80 yuan every year! Over the course of ten years, they've made an extra 700 or 800 yuan out of thin air. Do you still think that's too little?"
Ye Zhiqiu nodded. After calculating it this way, it was indeed a lot of money!
Ye Tianya sighed and said, "Alas, I actually think that our family's work points can only be exchanged for such a small amount of food and oil, but they were divided up by the two families!
As for us moving to the city, they don't envy us at all. After all, they can get a lower salary without doing hard work."
Ye Zhiqiu slapped his thigh, and then he realized why the old village chief was making things difficult for his family!
He cursed, "That old bastard! I finally understand why he wants to make things difficult for our family! The old man wants to make our family resent and hate the villagers!"
As long as our family never returns to the village, we won't know how much their work points are worth this year! That bastard can just swallow them all and deduct our share!
Ye Tianya was stunned for a moment, then he finally understood why, not only did he not lend the ox cart, but he also deliberately arranged for all the villagers to go to work! He even refused to help those who wanted to move. It turned out to be such a thing.
He thought of something more important and said gloomily, "That old bastard is so calculating, no wonder he won't let us go get food! And what about the rumor that we reported it to the police and caused a bad influence on the village? Maybe they spread it!"
Ye Zhiqiu was no longer angry after scolding him, because he had taken away the most valuable property in the village. The livestock and poultry were enough to make up for the Ye family’s losses a hundred times!
He advised, "Hey, Dad, don't be angry. I actually think this is a good thing! If they have no food to eat in the future and someone comes to our house to borrow money or food, you must refuse them!"
"Boss, are you so sure that there will really be a severe drought and the villagers will not have enough food to eat?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com