Chapter 7 Selling Fish
Gao Baosheng mortgaged his bicycle to a tricycle driver. Gao Baosheng spent five yuan to rent the tricycle. He rode the tricycle to a grocery store in the county town.
"Boss, how do you sell this thick plastic sheet?" Gao Baosheng asked.
"This thick one is of good quality, $1.80 per meter, and the thin one is only $1.00!" the boss replied.
"I only need two meters for this thick one. Boss, please cut two meters for me!" Gao Baosheng said.
"Two meters? It's so short, but you can't do anything! You can't cut it if you don't want to!" The boss said as he cut it with a "squeak" sound.
"Boss, is your scale accurate? How much does it cost?" Gao Baosheng asked, pointing to several steel scales placed at the door.
"Do you do business or use it for yourself?" the boss asked quietly.
"Is there...a difference?" Gao Baosheng asked in surprise.
"Everything sold is usually weighed at 8 taels, and there are also 7 taels. For the big ones, you can pay 45, and for the small ones, 28 will do!" the boss said.
"Boss, I don't have enough money... Do you have a weighing scale? I'll use it for a while. How about paying you rent?" Gao Baosheng looked at the boss and said.
"Young man! Okay, that old man has a full scale and it's twenty yuan. If you pledge twenty yuan and pay the scale today, I'll refund you nineteen yuan!" the boss said with the tone of a senior educating a junior.
"Um...boss, I only have twenty yuan in total. How about a deposit of sixteen yuan and four?" Gao Baosheng asked.
"Okay! Just remember to return the scale in the afternoon. I usually close the store at eight o'clock. If you do it tomorrow, you will have to pay for an extra day!" the boss said.
Gao Baosheng put the plastic sheet and scales on the tricycle and headed south to the egg market. There was a fish seller here. Gao Baosheng saw that the only two types of fish sold here were crucian carp and grass carp. Crucian carp costs 2.6 yuan per catty, and grass carp costs 1.8 yuan.
, but their fish are all alive. He compared the big fish in his warehouse and found that they were basically grass carp.
Knowing the price of the fish, Gao Baosheng rode a tricycle and headed west to a deserted place. He spread a plastic sheet on the bottom of the tricycle and poured more than fifty fish from the space [warehouse] into the carriage.
Arriving at the river in the park, Gao Baosheng used the [warehouse] to get some water from the river, poured it into the tricycle, and then stared at the tricycle as it arrived at the egg market just now.
"The fish is on sale, it weighs two pounds, and it costs one pound per pound!" Gao Baosheng arrived at the egg market and, like other businessmen, shouted loudly!
"Young man, where did you get this fish?" an old man walked by and asked.
"Uncle, I am from Gaojiawan Village, Mengjiawan Township. This fish comes from Green Sea Lake. The fish in the lake are getting fat just after the wind and sand. Please buy one, uncle!" Gao Baosheng promoted.
"Your fish is already dead!" the uncle said dissatisfiedly when he saw the fish.
"Can you sell it at this price if you don't die? These are all fish caught from the lake before dawn this morning. Look at the fresh gills! The price of one yuan and two is already very affordable!" Gao Baosheng does not look like an ordinary person.
The farmer, and he was very eloquent, quickly picked out a fish weighing more than two kilograms.
"Brother, your fish cleaning tools are useless, how about you let me use them?" Gao Baosheng received two yuan and fifty cents, and then realized that he didn't have the fish scale cleaning tools, so he turned to look at the fish shop behind him.
"I won't lend it!" the fish-buying boss simply said.
"Forget it if you don't want to borrow it!" Gao Baosheng turned around and shouted to the hardware store not far away. The boss quickly brought a small knife and a rough rub for scraping fish scales.
Maybe it's because Gao Baosheng's hawking voice is loud and resonant. This egg market has never stared at the fish sellers on tricycles. When everyone knows that the fish here only costs 1.2 yuan per catty, and there are other fish besides grass carp, Gao Baosheng
I started to get busy collecting the fish.
Although his technique is unfamiliar, people have a group effect. Seeing that there are so many people here, they all come over to take a look. It turns out that the fish here are only 1.2 yuan. Although they are dead fish, they have just died. Everyone starts to grab them.
"It's sold out, it's sold out! Everyone, please give in. There are still some tricycles that can't be pulled at once today. They will be back later!" Gao Baosheng saw that all the small fish in the carriage were sold out and pushed the tricycle to where he was just now.
, this time he pulled a car full of fish, about two hundred fish, and there were not many fish left in the [warehouse].
Without filling the carriage with water, Gao Baosheng pushed a cart of fish directly to the spot where the fish was sold in the egg market, but his spot was occupied by a chili seller.
When the chili seller saw him coming back, he turned around and pretended not to see him. There were not many people left who had gathered just now. But when they saw Gao Baosheng pushing a cart of fish over again, they all gathered around him again.
"Everyone, wait a minute, I'll park the car on the side of the road, don't worry!" Gao Baosheng shouted, and soon more people lined up to buy in front of his fish stall.
Gao Baosheng has been busy, and buying fish can be considered a manual labor. He is so busy that he has no time to wipe the sweat off his head. The time has reached noon, and there are not many fish left in the carriage. At this time, a group of people wearing business management uniforms
People come over.
Many people quickly packed up their stalls and left when they saw this. The person from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau came to the egg market and greeted the business people enthusiastically, but there were people in the market who greeted him with a low smile when they saw this.
Gao Baosheng did not leave. He continued to sell his own fish. When he came to the market to sell fish, he would naturally pay the market management fee, and the entire market became much cleaner in an instant.
"The fish seller has to pay the management fee!" A man wearing business management uniform appeared in front of Gao Baosheng, picked up a ticket and started writing.
The other party wrote very slowly, and kept watching Gao Baosheng's reaction. The market management fees can have a wide range of activities, and as a future generation, Gao Baosheng also knows what to do.
"Comrades have worked hard. This fish was picked up early in the morning and transported from Green Sea Lake. This small business is not worth a lot of money. Let's take one home and try it!" Gao Baosheng said with a smile.
Although he is a reborn person, he does not have any invincible skills. It is better to do less than to do more. He does not know much about the social environment here, so it is better to be careful!
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It only sells for one yuan and two per pound. Although it is a dead fish, it is still a good price! I want this one!" The manager who took the lead took it from the carriage.
He picked up a small fish of about one pound, sniffed it under his nose and said.
Gao Baosheng cleaned and packaged the fish three times, five divided by two, and the man left with the fish!
"It's not easy for you people from the countryside. Please pay one yuan!" The person who issued the ticket tore up the ticket and issued a new one to Gao Baosheng. Gao Baosheng quickly paid one yuan.
Everything was normal in the market, but Gao Baosheng knew that there were rules here. He looked at the ticket that the administrator just threw on the ground. It was a ticket, and the fine was fifty yuan.
The reasons above are very clear. The fish have been sold for who knows how long, and the fish smell in the market is too strong. Of course, these are all false. Although the leader looks strong, he is not actually a bad person.
After noon, there were fewer people buying fish, and Gao Baosheng still had more than thirty fish left. At this time, the fish seller in the distance came to him.
"Brother, let's go! I have no business for a day while you are here, and I also need to support my family. How about you sell all these fish to me for one dollar a pound?" the boss said to Gao Baosheng.
"Okay, thank you, brother. I just finished my early work!" Gao Baosheng accepted the fish as soon as it was ready. He gave the fish shop a total of fifteen yuan for the remaining fish, and then left with a tricycle.
When this happened today, Gao Baosheng was not angry at all. Every place and every industry has its own rules. If he thought he could change these as a time traveler, that would be too naive!
After leaving the egg market, he saw no one around at a corner. Gao Baosheng took out all the remaining fish from his warehouse and started selling them on the street.
"Isn't the fish that costs $2 a piece smelly?" Passing by Jixiang Building in the county seat, which is the best restaurant in Yuyang County, a fat man walked down and asked.
"You just caught it from the lake, you'll know it just by looking at it!" Gao Baosheng greeted him hurriedly when he saw the business.
"They are indeed just dead. These big ones have been weighed by me. I don't want you to deal with them. How about one dollar a pound?" The fat man thought the fish was good and started haggling!
"Brother, this fish came from Green Sea Lake for fifteen yuan. How about I give you one yuan for the extra fish you want?" Gao Baosheng replied.
"It's a dollar for a dollar, but don't give me any trouble. I have a scale in the restaurant. Use my scale!" The fat man seemed to be a sensible person.
"Brother, this is a full scale, we don't make shady money!" Gao Baosheng said, putting the fish that Fatty selected on the scale, a total of 28 kilograms. Gao Baosheng received 30 yuan.
The fat man took the fish back. Gao Baosheng did not leave and waited downstairs. Five minutes later, the fat man came down.
"Brother, is the scale okay?" Liu Xin asked, looking at the fat man.
"You are a real person. I am the chef of Jixianglou. Although your fish is dead, it is indeed wild. This fish costs at least three and a half yuan to live in our Yuyang County.
Let me weigh the rest! There is a wedding banquet in the restaurant tomorrow, so it would be perfect to use this fish. If there is such a fish again in the future, you can come to our restaurant and ask. If it is alive, I can give you two yuan.
Money, one and a half yuan per pound or less." The fat man said.
"Thank you, brother!" Gao Baosheng sold all the remaining fish to Jixianglou. He rode his tricycle to a shady place to count today's harvest.
[Warehouse] All the fish were sold out, and a total of 364.7 yuan was purchased. This is about two months' salary of ordinary public institutions in the county, which is already a lot of money.
Gao Baosheng came to the vegetable market and saw the big brother who was riding the tricycle still waiting. He was holding a piece of cornmeal cake and eating it slowly. When he choked, he picked up the military kettle next to him and took a sip of water. It looked like he was
Never left.
"Brother, where are you?" Gao Baosheng came to the side of Dengsanlun and asked with a smile.
"It's running out so quickly!" the other party asked.
"It's done!" Gao Baosheng got off the tricycle, folded the plastic sheet and put it behind his bicycle.
"We agreed on five yuan! Even though you didn't use it until five o'clock in the afternoon, it still counts as five yuan!" said the big man on the tricycle with a worried look on his face.
"That's natural, let's go!" Gao Baosheng took the scale in his hand and pushed his bicycle to the grocery store, where the boss was having lunch.
"Little brother, return the scale so quickly!" the boss looked at Gao Baosheng and asked with a smile!
"Yes, boss, how do you sell this plastic sheet?" Gao Baosheng asked.
"That's for building houses and waterproofing. It's not sold by the meter. It's 108 per roll." The boss said.
"Are there matching ropes, wires and nails?" Gao Baosheng asked.
"You need to go to the hardware store for nails. There are others. How many do you need?" Although the boss didn't know why Gao Baosheng suddenly became rich, he still said.
"How much will it cost to renovate all the roofs of four classrooms?" Gao Baosheng asked.
"For an ordinary classroom, two rolls are enough. A roll of No. 8 wire is 69. If the rope is not worth four yuan, just give it eight yuan! A total of 289 yuan!" the boss said.
"Boss, I won't bargain with you, just give me two hundred and six and help me deliver it to the corner of Mengjiawan Township in the north of the county!" Gao Baosheng said.
"It's okay to deliver it to the intersection, but the price...is at least 270, which is usually not cheap for me!" the boss said in pain.
"Okay! This is two hundred and fifty-four and six yuan, plus the fifteen yuan and four that you should give back to me is just right. You order a little!" Gao Baosheng took out a pile of change and counted out the two hundred and fifty-four and six yuan to the other party.
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"Brother, you have already counted. What else should I count? I will call you a tricycle when the things will be delivered!" The boss became enthusiastic all of a sudden. A store like his only makes a profit of 100 yuan a month. Gao Baosheng is doing this today.
One business deal kept him busy for several days.
"We have to wait a while. I'm going to buy some nails. We can't live without nails!" Gao Baosheng went to the hardware store and bought nails for thirty-seven yuan, so he only had seventy-three yuan in income today.
A dime!
"Brother, which country are you from? How is the tricycle business? Look, I've found another business for you right now!" Gao Baosheng was riding a bicycle, following behind the tricycle brother, staring at him as he worked hard. Tricycle said.
"I live in Wanghe Village next door. I can't earn any spare money by working in the fields. I only earn a few yuan a day. It's a tiring day.
The boss of the grocery store, Mr. Wang, is not a good person. Don’t look at his smiling face, but he has a dark heart! He has to carry so many things up and down by himself. He agreed to pay a dollar each time, but in the end he only gave 50 cents!" Brother Miwa said. complained.
It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, which was the hottest time of the day. When we arrived at the destination, the three-wheeled brother unloaded all the goods and then went back.
Gao Baosheng made sure that there was no one around on this hot day, and put everything into the space [warehouse], when he suddenly heard his stomach growling.
It had been nine hours since I had eaten in the early morning, and I was feeling hungry. Gao Baosheng rode to the entrance of Yuyang County High School and ate a bowl of sheep's blood. He remembered what his mother said in the morning, Shen Ruobing was so far away. If you support teaching in your own village, you should buy some food for her.
He went to the nearby store and bought a lot of cans, snacks, melon seeds, crispy rice, Garlic and other snacks. In the end, he spent twenty-two yuan!
Chapter completed!