Chapter 20 - Pot of Gold
Early the next morning, Wan Feng got up and picked up the frozen fish.
When it was almost noon, he carried the rake again, and this time he really carried a straw bag to hide his eyes.
Because of yesterday’s experience, he fished a lot faster today than yesterday. He finished the fish in the water bay less than three o’clock and naturally put another sack in it.
Wanfeng roughly estimated that these two sack fish are estimated to be about 200 catties, and the lowest price can be sold for more than 20 yuan, which is basically equal to the half-year income of my uncle in the team.
In 1980, a four-room blue brick house was built for about 300 yuan. From this comparison, you can see what the concept of 20 yuan is.
The Gushan Grand Fair, which originally only had a market on the fourth lunar calendar, was changed to a four-eight fair before the fifteenth of the first lunar month. In addition to the fourth lunar calendar, it also became a market on the eighth day.
Tomorrow is the eighteenth of the first lunar month. Wan Feng decided to ask his uncle to help sell these fish to the market.
At dinner, he asked his uncle Zhuping: “Uncle! Can you not go to work tomorrow?”
Zhu Ping stared, “What are you doing?”
“I will hire you tomorrow to help me get some things at the Xiaogushan Fair, and I will give you five yuan for wages.”
My uncle twitched his mouth: “Where are you going to get five yuan?”
was despised by my uncle.
Wanfeng was not angry at all: “You just tell me to do it or not to do it. If you don’t do it, I will hire someone else, I don’t believe I can’t hire someone for five yuan.”
A worker in 1980 was no more than thirty or forty quick cash a month, and a worker in the production team did not know if he could make five yuan a month. Wanfeng really did not believe that no one would do it.
“What the **** are you going to do?”
“I have about two hundred kilograms of goods. Tomorrow you can use a two-wheeled cart to bring me to the market. Five yuan is the hard money. Only the one and two points of poker you played are enough for you to lose. Two months.”
My uncle goes to play four-to-one at the beginning of a penny every night. Even if he loses five dollars every day, he will lose for two months.
“Bah! Crow’s mouth, how do you know I will lose every day.”
“Don’t interrupt, do it or not?”
“Okay! I won’t go to work tomorrow, let me see what you can tinker with.”
On the morning of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhuping was dumbfounded when he saw Wanfeng’s two sacks of frozen fish.
“Where did you get so many fish?”
“Of course it’s in the big river, it can’t get out even on the mountain.”
Zhuping opened the mouth of the bag and looked at it. There were autumn fish in one water. This fish is very recognized by the locals, and it can be sold for a dime or a catty at the market.
Until then, Zhu Ping believed that Wanfeng really had the strength to afford five yuan.
After coming to Xiaogushan Market for the second time since the fourth day of the junior high school.
Zhuping went to borrow a two-wheeled cart and pushed the two sacks of fish to the market.
Although he arrived at the market, Zhuping was still very worried about whether Wanfeng could sell it.
This is the second time Wanfeng has come to the Gushan Bazaar in the rebirth. Last time he was just a spectator, but this time he became a stall owner.
There is a pocket on his chest filled with all the wealth he got from renting a book. Nearly five yuan of change is ready to be used for pocket money. He carries a scale borrowed from a neighbor’s house in his hand, just like a businessman’s face.
He spread the sack on the ground and arranged the fish neatly one by one, shining silver in the sun.
Soon after the stall was opened, someone came to inquire about the price, but the person who inquired about the price was not buying, but rather curious to see a child in Wanfeng who looked like a dog here.
“Child! Did you sell this fish?”
“Of course, authentic autumn fish at the head of the Yinna River, uncle! How many will you buy?”
“How much is it?”
“Eight catties!” Wan Feng replied arrogantly when he thought of the price he had shouted when he bought seafood on the fourth day of the first year.
“I can’t buy that much, how much do you cost a catty?”
“If you buy a dime and a jin, how many jin would you like?” Of course, retail sales are expensive. Don’t think I haven’t done any business.
The man thought for a minute: “Can I buy fifty cents for four catties?”
Wanfeng brushed up the scale and started to pick up fish on the scale: “You are the first customer to open the scale and give you a discount, or the price is guaranteed not to be sold. You are optimistic about the four kilograms tall, where are you going? Install.”
The man moved a pocket from behind and broke away, Wan Feng dumped the fish into the pocket with a crash.
This is the opening, smoothly exceeding Wanfeng’s prediction.
“Autumn raw fish in the first water is old and fat. If you eat it this time, think about the other time. The money is just right. Uncle, go slowly.”
Zhuping was sitting on the two-wheeler behind Wanfeng, his eyes were straight.
“Is there really someone buying it? I thought that ordinary people would spend money to buy it, besides, most people don’t eat fish in this river.”
Uncle, this is a typical peasant thinking, Wan Feng decided to teach him free of charge.
“Don’t think that if the people don’t buy it, no one will buy it. There are many people who eat commodity food in Gushan Commune, teachers, workers, and officials. Their monthly salary is about to catch up with what you earn in a year, and they are much richer than you. As for the food in the river and the sea, it’s up to everyone’s taste. You don’t like eating things in the river, but some people love… Auntie! Do you want to buy fish?”
Wanfeng went to greet the next customer before he finished speaking. If he didn’t want this greeting, he would never have time to chat with Zhuping.
Zhuping dementedly watched this nephew doing business, UU reading www. Uukanshu.com watched as the fish in front of him diminished.
This guy has a keen hand and a sharp mouth, and he doesn’t know where to get so many sets of ass. Some people didn’t plan to buy it at all, but he bought it for Fudge.
Zhuping is a little confused, when did he learn to trade? This looks like a veteran! Did he start trading when he was in Longjiang?
This is impossible! How old is he!
Compared with Zhuping’s leisure time, Wan Feng is busy enough, and he is not idle.
In the 1980s, the market was experimentally allowing individuals to do business. Because of the long period of cutting off the tail of capitalism, people’s consciousness has developed the concept that trading is speculative. Therefore, people’s subconscious look down on people who do business. .
This concept didn’t gradually change until 1988, and many people began to join the business world.
Now let alone children, adults are still dodging business, so when people see a twelve-three-year-old child selling things, they are all rushing to the novelty, so they all come together to watch the fun.
With a human field, it will naturally bring a money field. In addition, Wanfeng’s wise and martial arts and even bluffs make full use of people’s herd mentality. If there is one buy, it will follow.
Wanfeng’s fish was bought for only three catties and two catties.
Wanfeng worked for more than an hour and sweated, until there were only a few small fish left in front of him before he started to take his time.
The remaining ones are relatively small and a bit unsightly.
Wanfeng counted the money secretly and sold a total of 35 yuan and 40 cents.
The income is good.
Pork was more than seven cents per catty at the time, and Wanfeng could buy fifty catties of pork for the money.
This is the first pot of gold he found after being reborn.