Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

Chapter 149 Xu Jianshan

There are currently 8 people in the educated youth center in Xishui Village, including three female educated youth and five male educated youth.

Xu Jianshan originally lived in the same room with Wang Cheng, but Wang Cheng moved out after they got married. Now he also lives in a room by himself.

Xu Jianshan was one of the first people to go to the countryside. He had graduated from high school several years ago. He was busy working and earning work points in the countryside and had no energy to study. In addition, due to the prevailing trend in previous years, he did not dare to read books in his free time.

During this period, the educated youth site was inexplicably harmonious, without any noise or quarrels, and everyone had their own things to do.

Ever since Wang Xiangyu was taken away, there has been no one causing trouble anymore. Sun Qiu Shui rarely comes out now and stays in her room all day. It may be that the incident involving Wang Xiangyu was too much of a blow to her.

As for Bai Tiexin and Zhao Guan, they still don't have much presence. They are still living together, and apart from cooking and eating, they don't communicate much, which is in stark contrast to Lin Qingyan, Ye Yi and the others who are very energetic.

Gu Yizhou and Fang Yunxing. Although Fang Yunxing is always laughing, Xu Jianshan thinks that is his protective color.

In fact, these two people are the most mysterious. Sometimes they go out early and come back late, and sometimes they don't even come back all night. He once reminded them hintedly, but all he got in return was one sentence from Gu Yizhou.

"Don't worry, we know the severity of the situation. Just pretend you didn't see anything."

What else could Xu Jianshan do? He could only pretend that he saw nothing and knew nothing. It was also during that time that he saw Gu Yizhou reading a high school textbook.

He didn't ask any more questions, but just found a way to get a set and relearned the knowledge in the textbook. Compared with the ease of others, he had some difficulty reading the book and was now struggling with the knowledge points in the book.

When Lin Qingyan brought Ye Yi and Wang Lanlan to see him, he was reading a book.

Lin Qingyan raised her eyebrows and said to him with a smile: "Xu Zhiqing, are you busy?"

When Xu Jianshan saw several people coming, he quickly put away his books and stood up as if nothing had happened.

I said to them, "I'm not busy. Lin Zhiqing, do you want to talk to me about something?"

He knew that the leader was Lin Qingyan. After observing for some time, he found that the three people in front of him seemed to have gotten something from somewhere and were selling it secretly.

He was very envious of what he saw. The hard times in the past few years made him very envious of people who had some money in their pockets.

"There are some things I want to ask for your opinion on." Lin Qingyan and the others stood at the door, while Xu Jianshan stood inside the house.

Ever since the three of them came towards Xu Jianshan, the other people who were still at the educated youth point secretly opened their doors a little, preparing to eavesdrop.

Lin Qingyan saw it but didn't care. As for Gu Yizhou and Fang Yunxing, no one knew where they had gone and they didn't come back last night.

Xu Jianshang saw that they suddenly came to his house, and they must have something to ask him, which made him suddenly a little nervous.

He stood at the door and said to them, "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Can we go in and talk?" Wang Lanlan couldn't help but ask as she looked at them blocking the door.

Xu Jianshan seemed to have just noticed her. He glanced at her, then turned around and said to the others, "Let's talk inside."

Then several people followed him into the house.

Lin Qingyan did not lay too much groundwork and directly stated her purpose.

"We got some soy sauce and vinegar, the price is one cent per pound. We have a lot of stuff, so we plan to find some people to act as peddlers and sell them in other villages. However, the price we sell them at is cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative. We came here to ask you, do you want to do this?"

Xu Jianshan was stunned after hearing this. Is it finally his turn to have such a good thing?

Xu Jianshan was very smart and thought a lot in a moment. The soy sauce and vinegar from the supply and marketing cooperative were not expensive, 5 cents per pound. If he sold them in other villages, the price could not be higher than that of the supply and marketing cooperative.

那就只能最高4分一斤，这样一斤能赚个3分钱，10斤3毛钱，100斤是3元钱。

Even if he spent frugally, the 3 yuan was barely enough for him to live on for a month, of course, provided he had food.

Besides, no matter whether he can make money this time, he has joined Lin Qingyan's small organization. If there are any good things or ways in the future, they can think of him. That's all.

His family can't help him, so he has to rely on himself, and he needs to save some money for himself.

No matter how excited he was at this moment, he did not show it too obviously, and asked rationally:

"Have you ever tried soy sauce and vinegar? Do they taste authentic?"

"Of course it's authentic. I just ask you if you want to do it. If not, let the villagers do it. I think they will be happy to do it."

Wang Lanlan didn't have much contact with Xu Jianshan, so when she saw good things happening to him, he was still asking other questions and became dissatisfied.

Xu Jianshan glanced at her. He knew the daughter of the village chief, but he had little contact with her.

He smiled and continued to say to Lin Qingyan: "Can I take a look at or taste the soy sauce and vinegar?"

"Okay, come with us."

When Xu Jianshan saw the two large jars full of soy sauce and vinegar, he asked Lin Qingyan another question:

"These soy sauces and vinegars are sold out. Do you have any more?"

"If you need it, I can get some here. And if you go to various villages as a peddler, I can bring you some salt and sugar."

Hearing this, Xu Jianshan nodded without hesitation, "Okay, I'll do this job."

Soy sauce and vinegar alone are not easy to sell. Buying some of these things is enough for a family to use for a long time. But if you add salt and sugar, it will be different. With more varieties, they can sell better.

Wang Lanlan only realized at this moment that there were sugar and salt.

"Qingyan, do you still have sugar and salt? I also want to go peddling, what should I do?"

"No, it's not safe for a little girl like you to be a peddler."

Ye Yi and Xu Jianshan spoke at the same time and looked at each other after they finished speaking.

"How can it not be safe? It's very safe in this new society." Wang Lanlan didn't find anything unusual.

"That won't work either. You can go for a walk in Xishui Village, but don't go anywhere else."

"Forget it. If I sell things in Xishui Village, believe it or not, someone will go to the commune to report my father before tomorrow." Wang Lanlan was a little discouraged.

Seeing that she had given up, Lin Qingyan said to Xu Jianshan:

"Xu Zhiqing, can you go to other villages by yourself? If not, you can ask other people to go with you, but it's better to ask them to be trustworthy."

Xu Jianshang thought about the two male educated youths at the educated youth center and shook his head.

Said to Lin Qingyan: "I can do it by myself. I will carry less every day. I have nothing to do now, so it's no problem to go to other villages."

"Just wait a moment."

Lin Qingyan thought of something and went to the kitchen. In fact, she used the kitchen to take two transparent white buckets from the space.

"This bucket can hold 10 kilograms. You don't have to worry about it falling when you use it on the road."

Xu Jianshan was just worrying about what to use for packaging, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this.

"This is the best outfit."

In front of them, Lin Qingyan filled two buckets with 10 kilograms of soy sauce and vinegar, and took out some sugar and salt from the box at the head of the kang.

Lin Qingyan bought the salt a long time ago and packed it in transparent bags. She wrote words on each bag, marking the salt and sugar to avoid confusion.

"Xu Zhiqing, take these first, and pay me after you sell them. I'll give you the vinegar and soy sauce at 1 cent per pound, the salt at 8 cents per pound, and the sugar at 5 cents per pound. The only requirement is that you sell them at a lower price than the supply and marketing cooperative. Is that ok with you?"

Lin Qingyan's prices were very low. No matter how much money she made in modern times, she didn't feel safe, so she changed it into supplies and sold it in the 70s.

She really wants to make money. She wants to wait until the market is liberalized and then make a lot of money directly, but not now. She just wants to do her best to help some people.

Xu Jianshan was no out-of-touch person, so of course he knew what the price was in the supply and marketing cooperative. He nodded and agreed without any hesitation.