Era: Start as a buyer

Anyway, just because of the rain this month, I will lose a lot of money at the construction site. When it doesn't rain, and if I have to miss something for a day or two, I will only earn seven or eight thousand in a month. This is still the case when there are construction sites in progress. When changing construction sites, if things don’t go well, it can take more than half a month to find a suitable construction site.

Excluding food and drink, I really can’t save much money in a year. Nowadays, some factories with good results are really better than construction sites, but they just don’t need older people.

I received more than 300 yuan in the morning. It was normal for the workers at the construction site to complain because the rain had delayed their earning. Luo Cheng didn't complain because his mind was no longer on the construction site.

When he finished work at around 11 o'clock, Luo Cheng still had a packed lunch, although Liu Xiaofei responsibly asked him on the phone if he would be back for lunch. But Luo Cheng didn't plan to go back. He wanted to go to the street with many restaurants and ask if he wanted eels, turtles, loaches and the like. Cicada will also ask in passing.

Regarding the door-to-door inquiry about whether he wanted something, even though Luo Cheng was from the mountains, he didn't think he had the guts to come to the door and ask for the first time. A person who can go to the black market to sell things is at most a little nervous, but he still dares to ask.

When he reached the street, he noticed the street sign this time, which was called Renmin Middle Road. Riding a bicycle, looking at the signs of each store, I really didn’t dare to ask if I wanted those things. I feel like if I had those things in hand, I might not be nervous and could introduce them more easily.

But come and go, giving up is not Luo Cheng's character. In this future time and space, he is really alone. In my own era, you can at least ask your father-in-law for help with some things. Even if you help a lot, you already have a wife and you have something to rely on in your heart. In fact, when he is really desperate, maybe he will still place his hope on his parents.

After riding his bicycle almost twice, Luo Cheng stopped at the home-cooked restaurant where he treated his coworkers to dinner last time. I can't go any further and ask people if they want anything. Will it kill them?

"Boss, please order. The food in our store tastes good."

"No, I want to ask something, do you want to buy loaches, eels and the like here?"

"I'm a seller. I'm just the cashier in the store. You have to tell the boss. The boss who was here just now must have gone to the kitchen."

"Then can you shout for me, thank you."

The word "thank you" is a polite word. To be honest, Luo Cheng rarely said this word since he was a child. It feels formal and awkward. In fact, not only him, but also the rural people of his time were not very polite. Like 'Hi', 'Thank you' or whatever.

People in the village talk to other people in the village very naturally and directly. But if a city person comes and speaks politely and uses polite expressions at all times, rural people will be less able to talk to each other. It seems that rural people are clumsy-mouthed and unable to speak.

"Just wait a moment, the boss should come out soon."

Luo Cheng nodded. This was the first step, and he felt much more relaxed.

After waiting for a while, the owner of the store came out, a middle-aged man in his forties. The cashier at the counter told the boss that the man standing next to the counter was selling eels and loaches and wanted to talk to the boss.

"Selling eels and loaches?"

"Yes, boss, you want it at the hotel."

"How much does it cost per pound and how big is it?"

"This~~, I caught it myself. The small ones in the market are 20 to 31 jins, and the big ones are 30 to 40 jins. Regardless of the size, I sell them all at 21 jins or not."

Luo Cheng's image at this time was very simple and honest, and he was originally wearing dirty construction site worker clothes. This made the restaurant owner believe Luo Cheng's words more, and he even instantly figured out that this was a person who went to a field far away at night, took a flashlight, and caught eels at twelve o'clock at night.

As for loaches, you can get some in a day by placing some ground cages beside the ditches in some fields. In his restaurant, there are also scattered lobster sellers who cooperate with him. I don’t know where they get it. The lobsters in the market cost more than ten yuan a pound, but they only sell them for eight yuan.

The boss thought for a while and realized that not many people who come to the restaurant here order loach and rice eel. The size of the rice eel on the market is not mentioned, even if it is medium, it weighs about 31 kilograms. explain.

Even if he is a home-cooked restaurant, he will sell at least forty-eight to sixty-eight. When many people go out to eat and see some dishes, they always refer to how much a pound costs in the market. This price is the easiest to accept. But the amount used in the restaurant is considered generous if they can give you half a catty of eel.

But even if the price of the dish is relatively high in his store, there will be fewer people eating it.

"You want them all to be small ones, but I don't want them at this price. The price you mentioned is originally the retail price in the market. The wholesale price is cheaper than the market price. You have to get some big ones. I want some at this price." Twenty kilograms is enough to sell it in my store for a few days. It's not small, so I want twenty kilograms."

"Boss, no matter how big you are, it's not too small. It's better if you have something ready-made."

"Come with me to the kitchen and take a look. If it's about the same size as the one I'm using now, I want it from you."

"Hey, let's go to the kitchen and have a look."

Luo Cheng didn't expect that the first one would go smoothly. As long as the size was right, it felt like it would be successful.

Follow the boss into the kitchen. There are a number of glass tanks in the kitchen, including fish, bullfrogs, lobsters, eels and loaches. Luo Cheng took a look and found that the eel he had was probably the type sold in the market for around thirty. Not very small, not very large. The loach was also average.

Restaurants generally choose medium-sized dishes. If they are too small, it will not be easy to sell if you take customers into the kitchen to order. In charge of home-cooked dishes, many people came into the kitchen to see the dishes and order.

Luo Cheng said it was not a big problem and he would have the goods delivered to him as soon as they were available.

"Boss, do you want wild turtles or cicadas? I can catch them all."

"I can't sell a few farmed turtles in a month, so forget it. It's too expensive. You can't sell it to me for ten or twenty yuan a pound."

It costs one to twenty yuan per kilogram, even though I know that I can't possibly sell it for such a high price in retail stores on the old street. But the price shouldn't differ too much. It's much easier to catch a pound of eels than a pound of cicadas.

Turtles are also too expensive. Luo Cheng sold three wild turtles for one thousand last time. Even though he knew that turtles were easy to catch in his own era, he didn't want to match the price of farmed turtles. It's not bad to be able to sell twenty kilograms of eels and loaches here.

With the success experience of the first company, even if it fails, I will not be timid about selling things. It's just that he wasn't familiar with some things, so he went to each store to inquire. As long as it was a place to eat, he went in, even a self-service store. Naturally, self-service shops don't want this thing. How can they feed customers loach and eel at a buffet that costs dozens of dollars per person?

And a hot pot restaurant was actually negotiated by Luo Cheng, who ordered ten pounds of eels. And the price is twenty-five pounds per catty, but they have to be big, not small.

There are two other restaurants that specialize in local cuisine, and one is a Gan cuisine restaurant. When I asked for loach, they asked for a small one. To stir-fry the loach, stir-fry it with chili after it is relatively dry. Big loaches are harder to handle.

An Anhui restaurant specializing in rice eel said that it could deliver twenty or thirty kilograms of rice eel. Anyway, the price was cheap and allowed for long-term cooperation.

But no one wants wild turtles or cicadas. Of course, the main reason is that Luo Cheng is not willing to sell wild turtles as ordinary turtles.

"Private cooking class food", Luo Cheng even said he came here to eat when he passed by his coworkers last time. But people said that the signature dishes of Private Kitchen were too expensive, so they didn’t eat them. I don't know if this store has loach or eel. Looking at the name of the store on the sign, Luo Cheng has some impressions of this store.

When I walked into the store, I looked at the walls. There were many pictures of dishes, but there were no prices marked on them.

"Hello, you are from this store~~~."

"You kid, you sold me wild turtle last time!"

It was obvious that Luo Cheng also looked familiar to this man, wearing glasses. If his clothes weren't different from last time, he would have immediately remembered that he was the one who bought his turtle last time.

Luo Cheng was still wearing construction site clothes, and he was immediately recognized by the other party.