Chapter 257 A new way to make money
“That’s it! I thought you went upstairs to rest.”
“Come on, brother, come over for tea. Sister made a little too much tea. Let’s drink together,” said the second sister.
"Okay!" Li Jiayi was not polite.
More than half an hour had passed since the three siblings drank tea and chatted. At this time, Li Aimin and Ye Xin came back from get off work.
"Mom and Dad, are you back?" Li Jiayi quickly stood up and asked.
"Well! You didn't go out today?" Ye Xin asked, touching Li Jiayi's head.
Before Li Jia could speak, the second sister Li Jialin rushed to say: "How could he not go out? He just came back early today."
"That's it! I still have I thought the brat didn’t go out today.”
At this time, Li Aimin came over and asked, “Son, did you say you were going to get fish for the woolen mill last night?”
"Dad, I sent you there a long time ago. I guess Uncle Liao didn't come back with you, right?"
"Well! Your Uncle Liao did not come back with us."
"If you don't come back, then By the way, I got a lot of fish for the woolen mill, so I should be cleaning up the fish at this time!”
< br>At this time, Xu Wenwen came in from outside and asked: "Brother Li, sister-in-law, didn't Brother Kai come back with you?"
"Is Wenwen here? That's it, plus one for me The woolen mill sent a batch of fish over, and Xiao Kai should be packing the fish in the factory at this time.”
"Oh! That's it!"
"Come in and sit down. It seems that Xiaokai may not be back until very late. You can eat with us tonight!"
"No need, sister-in-law. I’ll just make some myself.”
“Hey, it’s just a meal. Why are you so polite? That’s it. I’ll go cook.”
“Sister-in-law, you really don’t have to. I..."
Before Xu Wenwen finished speaking, Ye Xin interrupted her and said: "Wenwen! Just listen to me, you are not worth burning the pot for once."
"Okay! Thank you, sister-in-law. , let me help you Let’s cook! It’s faster this way.”
“Okay, let’s go!”
With Xu Wenwen’s help, the cooking is indeed faster, and the dinner is quite rich. Egg.
While eating, Xu Wenwen said: "Sister-in-law, I really envy your factory. You can often eat meat, and there will probably be fish to eat tomorrow."
"Why, is the food in your factory cafeteria bad?"
Ye Xin knew that Li Jiayi had a good relationship with the bread factory. Even Xu Wenwen's job was obtained by Li Jiayi from the bread factory.
Since the relationship is so good, how could the son not provide pork or fish to the bread factory?
Ye Xin was wrong about this. Li Jiayi did provide supplies to the bread factory, but it was not meat or fish, but eggs.
But for bread factories, eggs are not ingredients, but raw materials for production.
They wanted to eat it, but if they did, the bakery would stop production.
"It's bad, it's too bad. I've never seen white flour steamed buns before. As for vegetables, let alone vegetables. It's either cabbage or radish."
Ye Xin turned her head. Looking at Li Jiayi, he asked: "Son, what's going on? Are you not related to the bakery?" Is that wrong? I haven’t sent any meat to them!”
“No.” Li Jiayi shook his head and said, “Mom, you’re wrong. I don’t have a good relationship with the bakery, but with the logistics department. The director has a good relationship.”
“Oh! That’s it!”
Li Jiayi touched his chin and said: "But it's not impossible to provide some meat or fish to the bakery."
Li Jiayi turned his head and looked at Xu Wenwen and said: "Auntie, do you want to be promoted to a higher degree?" Job?”
“Ah! I just joined the factory and I don’t have much time. It will take a long time, for the time being..."
"Auntie, you don't have to worry about this. You can ask Uncle Liao who you need to see tonight, and you will go find him when you get to the factory tomorrow. He will tell you that there is meat and fish that can be supplied. Canteen."
"Ah! This..."
Liao Kai knows who to look for better than Li Jiayi!
Li Jiayi went directly to Liao Kai to supply meat to the woolen mill.
"Well, I'll ask when your Uncle Liao comes back."
"Yeah!"
Li Jiayi doesn't know when Liao Kai will come back, because After eating, he went upstairs to rest.
A night of silence.
After dinner the next morning, Li Jiayi came out of the house and went to the small courtyard first, where he put some peanuts, melon seeds and beef jerky.
Then wait for the fat man to come over. The reason why he comes here every day is mainly to collect money.
More than half an hour later, the little black fat man came over and collected the money sold by the brothers yesterday, and Li Jiayi left the courtyard.
It is now mid-March, and the weather has gradually become warmer. Although it is still very cold in the morning and evening, the highest temperature at noon is already over ten degrees.
Li Jiayi drove a tricycle to the family area of the embassy, parked the tricycle, and took out a bagful of apples and sugar oranges from the box.
Five pounds per bag.
In fact, the price of fruits is not very high, and there is no way to compare it with food.
Let’s put it this way! When the fruits come out, one pound of fruit cannot be exchanged for one pound of cornmeal, not to mention one pound of white flour.
The main thing is that you can skip eating fruits, but you can’t skip eating.
Li Jiayi came over to sell fruit at this time, mainly to make the scarcity more valuable.
Yes, at this time, let alone the imperial capital, there are probably not many fruits for sale even in the south.
There are several kinds of fruits in the space, but he did not take out all of them.
Because there is no way to explain, such as grapes, the reason why I took out apples and sugar oranges was also after consideration.
Sugar oranges are still available in some places in the south. Apples can be stored for a long time. "Don't miss it when you're passing by! A bagful of fresh apples and sugar oranges only costs five dollars. You can't buy them at a loss and you can't be cheated."
When Li Jiayi shouted, many foreigners passing by looked over, including some who knew Li Jiayi.
You know, Li Jiayi sold a whole summer’s worth of juice here last summer!
“Give me a pocket of apples.”
“I want a pocket of sugar oranges.”
Li Jiayi originally just wanted to give it a try, but he didn't expect that fruit would be so popular in the imperial capital.
Actually, it’s normal. These foreigners are different from the Chinese! They will not be short of food.
And they don’t eat rations like the Chinese. There are grain and oil stores and supply and marketing cooperatives that specifically supply them.
These grain and oil stores and supply and marketing cooperatives have no restrictions on gringos. They can buy as much as they want.
Similarly, although these places do not require tickets, they only accept US dollars.
This can be regarded as a kind of special care for them!
They have no shortage of food, fruits are very attractive to them, and gringos also like to eat fruits.
The morning passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Jiayi couldn’t even remember how many bags of fruit he bought. Anyway, he knew that he had to sell a lot.
The embassy family area is full of gringos. As for how many gringos live here, Li Jiayi doesn’t know. Anyway, there are very few Chinese people here.
Because there was nothing to do, he had no intention of leaving.
When it was time to eat, Li Jiayi took out three lunch boxes.
Three lunch boxes, two lunch boxes are filled with vegetables, and one lunch box is filled with rice.
Two dishes, one is braised pork and the other is stewed beef brisket with tomatoes.
Because it was steaming just after being taken out of the static space, it was already very warm at noon.
It won’t happen that the food gets cold as soon as it is taken out.
However, Li Jiayi finished the meal quickly. After all, his food was too good to be seen.
Although Chinese people are rarely seen here, it is not impossible. Occasionally, Chinese people will pass by here.
In addition, there are police patrols here.
After eating, he put his lunch box into the space, and Li Jiayi sat on the tricycle to bask in the sun.
Not to mention, it was quite comfortable to bask in the sun today, and the sun was so warm on my body.
If he hadn't been worried about freezing when he fell asleep, Li Jiayi would have really wanted to take a nap.
There is no way, mainly because no one came out at noon. I guess these foreigners are taking a nap at home at this time.
At around 1:30 in the afternoon, people came out one after another, and Li Jia began to shout.
At this moment, two police officers came over on patrol, they were also old acquaintances.
They saw Li Jiayi when they were patrolling in the morning, but there were many people shopping at that time, so they just took a look and left.
"How's your business going?"
"It's not bad, let's eat some fruit." Li Jiayi pretended to take something from the box and took out two apples.
"No, no, no."
"You're welcome, I'm short of everything here, except fruit." After saying that, he put two apples into the hands of two people.
"This..."
"Okay, it's just an apple, and my apple doesn't need to be washed, you can eat it directly." After saying that, he took out one and took a bite.
Actually, Li Jiayi also likes to eat fruit, but he saw that there were a lot of fruits in it. He ate a little of this and a little of that, and he was almost full.
So you basically can’t see him eating fruit, because he eats in space most of the time.
"Thank you!"
"You're welcome. Come here if you want to eat fruit. Don't dare to say anything else. Fruit is enough."
"Then let's go on patrol first. If you have anything to say, please speak."
"No problem."
After the two police officers left, Li Jia began to greet the customers.
Li Jiayi felt that selling fruit was much better than selling juice.
Not only do more people buy it, but they also sell for more money!
Everyone who comes here pays at least five dollars, and someone who wants both fruits costs ten dollars.
So Li Jiayi already has a plan, but for the time being he will sell fruit for a few days.
First check whether the situation requires adding anything.
The sales continued until dark. When no one was left, Li Jiayi left in a tricycle.
And he didn’t go home, but went to the small courtyard over the black market.
Today is the day to supply the black market, that's why he sells so late, otherwise he would have left long ago.
Arrived at the small courtyard, Li Jiayi took out the key, opened the door, and drove the tricycle in.
I locked the door from the inside and entered the house.
Sure enough, there was a box of large and small yellow croakers, and a note.
The quantities requested this time are large, 10,000 jins of pork, 2,000 jins of beef, and 1,000 chickens, ducks and geese each.
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(End of this chapter)