Chapter 122: Collusion
At a meat and vegetable stall in a corner of the market.
Guan Lei and Liu Aidi are standing next to the potato stall.
Parked next to it was a broken rack truck with several folded nylon bags on it.
Liu Aidi is from Gujiatai. She is 35 years old. After her husband goes out to work, she takes care of her parents-in-law and four children at home.
Originally, Zhao Yang planned to let Guan Lei cook for the workers. After all, he could not get any profit from the wages, and he had already lost a lot of money.
He didn’t want to give the money to outsiders.
But Guan Lei felt that she could not bear the hardship, so she lied that she was pregnant. Zhao Yang had to send her back and then find a suitable candidate in Murakami.
Later I found Liu Aidi.
Liu Aidi is an honest person and is not good at words. She rarely communicates with the villagers on weekdays, but she is agile and works quickly.
In the past, for people like this, three to five yuan in wages would be enough, but not this time. This time she could get 20 yuan.
A full 20 yuan!
Just because this contract is special.
In this contract, although Zhao Yang is the contractor, the fees for all workers do not go through their construction company, Party B, nor through him, Zhao Yang. Instead, they are paid directly by Party A, Guan Youshuang. All workers.
Including the wages of the cooking aunt, the money for buying vegetables, etc.
Guan Youshuang gave Liu Aidi a salary of 20 yuan, and also asked her to be responsible for buying groceries. In addition to reimbursing the groceries, she also subsidized an additional 2 yuan per trip.
It can be said to be very good.
Zhao Yang was annoyed and angry, so he called Guan Lei and scolded her.
Knowing that she was in the wrong, Guan Lei found Liu Aidi and negotiated a deal with her.
She said that in the future they would go shopping together and she would be responsible for bargaining.
Liu Aidi was in a dilemma at first. If Guan Lei also went, would she get 1 yuan for her 2 yuan?
But she herself felt that Guan Lei was right. After all, bargaining was not her strong point, and according to her mother-in-law, people like her were easily deceived.
But Guan Lei seemed to have read through her thoughts and said, "Don't think too much, I won't share your money. I just want to help my sister save some money."
Liu Aidi felt relieved, and the two went to the market.
Liu Aidi pulled up her own carriage because she had heard from Zhao Yang that Guan Lei was pregnant. She was worried that Guan Lei would be tired if she walked too much, so she thoughtfully smoothed the nylon bag and let her sit on the carriage. superior.
Guan Lei was a little embarrassed at first. After all, only children usually get this kind of treatment, but Liu Aidi smiled and said, "It's okay. I pull the wheat sheaves and hand in the public grain myself every year." , It takes hundreds of kilograms every time."
When they arrived at the stall, Guan Lei pointed to the potato seller and said, "Let's go and look at the potatoes first."
Liu Aidi nodded. Head, parked the rack truck not far from the stall.
It is not the season for potatoes to mature now, and all the potatoes sold at the stalls are last year's old potatoes.
The stall owner is a middle-aged woman with wrinkles on her face. She smiled and said that potatoes cost 5 cents per pound.
Guan Lei glanced at the small potatoes sprouting in the corner and asked how much they cost.
"To tell you the truth, these are the potatoes from the year before last. If you want them, you can take them for 3 cents."
Guan Lei said with a smile: "We want more. If the price is right, I will take all of them.”
The stall owner was overjoyed. These potatoes were not sold the year before and last, and they weighed about a hundred kilograms. I raise a pig at home, and I eat it every day without finishing it. Seeing that this year’s new potatoes are about to fall, I keep them at home to take up space.
Today she originally wanted to take it to the market to try her luck, but she didn't expect that someone actually wanted it.
To ask for so much at one time, her family should run a pig farm.
She quickly said: "If you want it all, just 2 cents. The pigs in my house are also raised with potatoes and they have grown very fat."
Guan Lei was stunned. He smiled a little unnaturally.
The honest Liu Aidi originally wanted to explain, but Guan Lei coughed quickly and said: "Just 1 cent, if I can, I will take it."
"One cent is too little. These potatoes will grow smaller and sprout after being left for a long time, but the varieties are the same as the ones here. If you sincerely want them, just one and a half cents."< br>
“Oh, sister, you sincerely don’t want to sell it to me. You also know that potatoes are grown in every house. This year’s new potatoes are about to grow. I only come to buy them occasionally these days. Buy three or five kilograms. If I don’t buy your potatoes today, you will have to throw them away later, don’t you think?”
The stall owner simply said, “Okay, okay, okay. Then it’s 1 cent, have you brought a bag?”
Liu Aidi quickly took out a nylon bag from the rack truck, and the two of them packed the potatoes quickly.
Guan Lei looked around at other stalls, thinking in her mind.
The potatoes were filled into a large nylon bag. The stall owner and Liu Aidi lifted the bag to a large scale and weighed it. The total was 132 kilograms.
That is 1.32 yuan.
Guan Lei paid.
Then she pulled the stall owner aside, lowered her voice, and said, "Sister, I want to discuss something with you. We bought these potatoes for the engineering team and asked for invoicing. Can you On the ticket, do you understand what I mean?”
The stall owner was stunned for a moment, then deliberately pretended to be difficult and said: “You bought me so many potatoes, so I should help you.” It’s yours, but I’m also taking the risk, and it’s really hard for me to handle.”
Guan Lei whispered: "Don't worry, I will benefit you."
The stall owner's eyes lit up, he nodded knowingly and said, "Okay, how much do you think is appropriate?"
Guan Lei looked around to make sure no one noticed them, and whispered: "Let's do this, you write 200 kilograms of potatoes on the ticket, the unit price is 1 cent, the total price is 20 yuan, I will give you 2 yuan , how about it?”
“Okay, let’s do it.” The stall owner took out his notebook and started writing quickly.
"Sister, this dish is for workers. Can you promise there will be no problem?"
"Don't worry, we ate it ourselves a few days ago, so put it before eating Digging out the buds will be fine.”
After finishing writing, the stall owner tore off the ticket and handed it to Guan Lei. Guan Lei, who was also illiterate, looked at it pretendingly and put the ticket in. pocket, and then gave 2 yuan to the stall owner.
Liu Aidi looked at this scene in a daze, not understanding what was going on at all.
Guan Lei took her to buy 50 kilograms of Chinese cabbage, 30 kilograms of beans, 10 kilograms of pork and a 100 kilogram bag of flour.
They all follow this method, picking the cheapest and worst dishes. Anyway, they are stewed in a pot and there is no difference in the seasonings.
White flour is not easy to fake, so Guan Lei chose ordinary flour, which cost 30 cents per pound. After thinking about it, Guan Lei finally paid her boss to change the packaging.
Changed into a bag of the highest-grade high-gluten flour from Shandong. This kind of flour costs 80 cents per pound.
In the final reckoning, I spent a total of 59.6 yuan on grocery shopping this time, but the final price tag on the ticket was as high as 564 yuan.
(End of this chapter)