Chapter 39 The best sister-in-law in the 1980s (39)
Sister-in-law Xu was also very surprised when she saw Xu Yin bringing back five pieces of cloth.
“Yinyin, have you found the wholesale market?”
“Well, in the north of the city, the road is a bit far and requires two transfers.” Xu Yin told her sister-in-law the route.
He also took out all today’s spoils and showed them to his sister-in-law.
Sister-in-law Xu was surprised: "So much? How much does it cost?"
When Xu Yin told the price, Sister-in-law Xu was so surprised that her jaw dropped to the ground: "Is it so cheap?"
Xu Yin laughed: "Sister-in-law, I had the same reaction as you, as if I had picked up money. But if you think about it carefully, department store counters require rent and employees require wages. If the sales are not more expensive, what do they earn? We want I opened a store to do business, so I thought it was a good deal to buy more at once. But if I just made a skirt for myself, why would I need ten meters? Besides, I looked at the wholesale market. There are really few colors of soft yarns. Except for lake blue and red, the others are not Black is gray. I guess department stores have priority in purchasing from cloth factories. Small quantities and good-looking designs and colors are picked out by them in advance, and the rest are put into the wholesale market.”
After Xu Yin’s analysis, Sister-in-law Xu calmed down.
Just now I felt a rush in my head, and I almost wanted to take all the money at home and go straight to the wholesale market to buy Rouzi yarn.
There is also a special price of 30 meters of foreign cloth, which only costs 20 yuan.
Even with the ridiculous price difference of Rouzi Yarn in front of me, I am much calmer than before, but my hands are still shaking a little.
I have never been to the wholesale fabric market before, so I didn’t know that the wholesale price was so cheap.
Families of the workers in the neighboring houses formed a team to look at the five pieces of cloth that Xu Yin brought back.
Many people backed off after learning that the fabric was on sale with some flaws, but some also asked about the price:
“Sister-in-law, my eldest son will start elementary school in September, and I am planning to make him some new clothes. If you sell the cloth, it will save me the trouble of going to the city.”
Sister-in-law Xu had already discussed it with her sister-in-law and quoted a price immediately.
When everyone heard that it was only one yuan and three dollars, those who had originally backed down came back.
After all, when department stores were dealing with defective fabrics, they grabbed them. The cheapest ones were only 1.5 yuan, and the designs and colors were leftovers selected by in-house staff, which were far less beautiful than these pieces.
So, you took three meters and I grabbed five meters.
I didn’t plan to buy it at first, but I couldn’t resist the low price, so I bought it for a few meters.
In the end, these five pieces of defective cloth were digested internally by the family members in the building before the tailor shop opened.
Five pieces of cloth made a net profit of ninety-five yuan. Sister-in-law Xu could not believe it.
Xu Yin generously divided her into fifty pieces.
Sister-in-law Xu waved her hands away. She did nothing but quote a price to the family.
“Sister-in-law, take it! If I didn’t have the fifty yuan you gave me, I wouldn’t have gone to the north of the city to wholesale wool.”
Xu Yin pushed the money into her hand.
“That’s too much! I’ve made more money than I’ve earned.”
“It will get better and better in the future.”
In half a day, I made dozens or even hundreds of profits by buying and selling. It's a pity that the special price of cloth is not available every day, otherwise Sister-in-law Xu would be interested in doing cloth business.
However, thinking that she still had a few pieces of regular-priced cloth in her hand, especially the Rouzi yarn, which had been bought at such a cheap price, she discussed with her sister-in-law that before the tailor shop opened, she would go to the north of the city and buy some other designs and colors to sell.
She believes that with these soft yarns in place, the tailor shop's business will be booming.
In the next few days, both my sister-in-law and sister-in-law were very busy.
She spread a blue-printed coarse cloth on the ground, and placed mountain products such as mushrooms, fungus, and dried bamboo shoots on the left; kelp, shrimp, seaweed and other seafood on the right; and placed several jars of canned fruits and ancient brown sugar in the middle.
Canned goods and brown sugar are the largest stocks in the system warehouse besides rice, flour, grains and oils. They don’t need much as favors and gifts, so they can be mixed in and sold to get some cash.
On the first day, there were more people watching than buying.
At the beginning, the most purchased items were neither seafood nor mountain products, but brown sugar and canned fruits.
There are two hospitals not far from the square. Families of patients often come here to buy fresh food. Brown sugar and canned food are popular souvenirs for visiting patients.
But gradually, everyone’s attention fell on mountain products and seafood.
Tongcheng is located in the plains. In addition to growing food, rural people also raise chickens, ducks, vegetables, and catch river fresh food to sell in the city. Mountain products and seafood are really uncommon.
It is rare to see someone setting up a stall to sell this. Regardless of whether they are sincere in buying it, they will curiously ask the price.
“What is this? Kelp? The price is quite cheap, but the question is how to eat it?”
Many people didn't know kelp, but Xu Yin taught them how to eat it, so they weighed some and went back to stew pork ribs.
The sales of mountain products such as mushrooms, fungus, and dried bamboo shoots are okay, but before nine o'clock, all the products are sold out.
The prices of bamboo fungus and russula are high, and no one is patronizing them for the time being.
Xu Yin was not in a hurry. If she couldn't sell it, she took it back to her sister-in-law to make soup.
On the first day of closing the stall, Xu Yin made a small profit of fifty after deducting costs.
When I went back, I brought a crispy roast duck. I asked my sister-in-law to steam a dozen sheets of dough that were almost as thin as cicada wings, cut two shreds of cucumbers and green onions, mixed a dish of secret sauce, and taught everyone how to eat sliced duck.
Doudou ate so much that his mouth was full of oil. After dinner, he went out to eat. He couldn’t wait to share the delicacy of the duck with his friends. Soon, there were sounds in the corridor of various skinned boys being beaten.
Xu Yin: "..." She really didn't want to stir up trouble.
The next day, before she spread out the burlap and laid out wild products and dried seafood, she was surrounded by nearby residents.
“Little boss, do you still have the kelp from yesterday? I want two kilograms, some shrimps, some dried bamboo shoots, and some mushrooms. Is it cheaper to buy so much?”
“Little boss, I also want two kilograms of kelp, and weigh half a kilogram of drunken crabs for me.”
“Little boss, do you still have the mud snails from yesterday? Is there any bigger ones? I’ll give them to others. And how do you eat these dried razor clams? Can you make soup or stir-fry? That’s good, here are two pounds.”
“Little boss, how do you sell these red mushrooms?”
“Little boss,…”
Xu Yin was a little confused: “…”
what happened?
It turns out that the people who bought wild products and dried seafood at her stall yesterday made soup that night and found it extremely delicious.
Thinking that these things are usually hard to come by, I might as well stock up on them. Anyway, they are either dry goods or pickled goods, which are durable. So I got up early and came here to wait.
These old customers are like living advertisements, motivating other passers-by to follow suit and start buying.
It made other vendors jealous.
After only one day here, it has become the most popular stall in the city square. Who wouldn’t be jealous?
Is there any solution? They have unique products in the entire square, so it's not easy to lower prices to grab business.
Fortunately, the quantity of mountain products and dried seafood brought by this girl was limited. They sold out on the fourth day and said they were gone. If things continued like this, their business would definitely be affected.
(End of this chapter)