272. Go to town(1/2)
A month later, Han Che received a call from Xiang Jin.
"Xiang Jin, you can do it. You actually opened a braised pork shop to the provincial capital. But to be honest, the braised pork tastes really good, especially the braised beef, and braised pork heels braised pork ears. I really like it."
"Thank you for sure, thank you for sure!" Xiang Jin smiled loudly from the end of the phone.
Then Han Che said, "To be honest, the business of your braised meat shop is really good. There are long queues for people to buy every day. I am envious of..."
Xiang Jin said, "There is nothing to envy. Isn't your Chinese restaurant also doing a good business?"
Han Che said, "It's good, but I still envy your family. You don't know that the braised pork in your house is now famous in our slice. I guess almost every family has bought it and eaten it."
"Is it?"
"Really, I won't lie to you. If you don't believe me, please ask Yan Chen. The store was opened by you and Yan Chen. He should know the business conditions inside the store best. But you are really notified. You didn't even notify me of opening the store, and just opened the store quietly. Otherwise, I could join you in a group?"
Hearing his sour tone, Xiang Jin's eyes smiled and fell into a slit, "We are just a small business, not a big cooperation project, how can we disturb you? Besides, isn't there a Chinese restaurant in your house running? You have to study and take into account the business in the store, so how can you have the time and energy to take into account a braised meat shop?"
Han Che said, "Excuses are all excuses. You just didn't think about working with me. Yan Chen also had to study. He also opened a store and a hot pot restaurant, and bought a large area of land to grow greenhouse vegetables. He has limited time and energy than me, so why do you just ask him to cooperate without working with me?"
After hearing what he said, Yan Chen answered the phone directly from Xiang Jin, "I am not in the provincial capital, and I don't personally participate in business management. I just need to invest in some investment and keep abreast of the business conditions of the store. Why is the time and energy less than you?"
"Why are you?" Han Che suddenly changed the person who answered the phone. On the other end of the phone, he shouted in surprise, "Yan Chen, where is your uncle, where is Xiang Jin?"
"Why isn't it me? Han Che, you are really promising. If I hadn't happened to hear it, I wouldn't have known that you were so dissatisfied with me?"
Han Che said, "I am not dissatisfied with you. Don't I envy you for starting so many businesses silently?"
"How many businesses are there? Aren't you just opening a hot pot restaurant and a braised pork shop?"
Han Che said sourly, "There are also the greenhouse vegetables. What a good guy, the greenhouse vegetables in your house are now famous throughout the provincial capital. Many people go to your house to buy vegetables. I tell you, our school and the people in the army go to your vegetable fields to pick up vegetables. I am envious of it?"
"There is nothing to envy. I invested a lot in the greenhouse vegetable field and I may not be able to recover the cost in a few years. However, your Chinese restaurant is now in the condition of opening a branch, so why don't you open two more branches?"
The topic suddenly moved to Han Che, and Han Che said a little discouragedly, "I want to open a branch too, and I have mentioned this to my second uncle more than once, but my second uncle is still a little hesitant. He is afraid that he will not be able to take care of it by then and will also destroy the business of our current store."
Yan Chen mentioned him and said, "Han Che, when doing business, you don't have to do everything yourself. After all, our energy and time are limited. Some things must be done by yourself, and some things are not necessary. We only need to be a business manager and a decision-maker to grasp the direction of the development of a situation. As for the specific operations, we can implement them below.
Your second uncle likes to do everything himself, but I think you should not follow your second uncle's style and thinking. Doing business is definitely risky, but it also has rewards along with risks. Sometimes you have to take action when it is time to take action. When the opportunity comes, you have to seize and seize it, otherwise you will regret it when the opportunity slips away.
Of course, this is just some of my personal suggestions. As for what to do, it depends on your own. Xiang Jin wants to talk to you."
"Han Che, in fact, you can also write the braised pork in our house into your recipe. Of course, don't get me wrong. I won't tell you how to make braised pork, but can we cooperate?
For example, if your family buys braised meat from us and puts it in your store to sell it, Yan Chen and I can give you a discount, and you can make a difference in the middle."
"Really?" Han Che immediately became interested on the other end of the phone.
Xiang Jin nodded at the end of the phone, "Of course," and then she looked at Yan Chen, and Yan Chen nodded to her.
Then Han Che clicked on the other end of the phone and asked, "Then how much discount do you give me?"
Xiang Jin covered the microphone and asked Yan Chen with his mouth. Yan Chen picked up a pen and wrote a number on a piece of paper, and then Xiang Jin said, "Eighty-five."
"It's only 15% off?" Han Che was a little disappointed.
Yan Chen answered the phone again, "Don't behave yourself when you get a cheap price. 85% off is the biggest discount for you. You don't do anything, you just need to take the braised pork back and put it there. If a customer buys it, you just need to cut it for someone to make a profit of 1.5% off. What else do you have to satisfy? We have to take everything free of charge, and the final result may not necessarily make a profit of 1.5% off."
"Okay, okay, I'm bored, but I'll talk to my second uncle a little later," Han Che said hurriedly.
Yan Chen said, "Okay, I'll greet my aunt later. If your second uncle has no objection, let him get the goods from behind and directly look for my aunt."
"good!"
Time flies, and a month has passed again. At this time, early summer has entered. People have taken off their heavy winter clothes and put on thin spring clothes or summer shirts. The weather is no longer thick, low, cold and humid, but light wind and clouds and clear air.
The flowers that Xiang Jin and his family had transplanted and picked up from Grandpa Zeng and others before have survived and grown new branches and leaves in their yard, like roses, have grown new buds, clustered clusters, waiting to bloom.
As soon as she stepped into the yard, Yan Chen saw Xiang Jin sitting in front of the stone table in the yard, holding her chin and meditating. Her eyes were facing a flower, but her eyes were empty.
"What are you thinking?" He walked over and sat down on the stone bench beside her.
Xiang Jin came to his senses, "Hey, why are you here?" Suddenly, he saw his backpack on the table again and asked, "Are you going to school now?"
Yan Chen said, "Go to the town and won't come back later. Just go there to school. Will you go?"
"Ah? Are you going to the town now?" Xiang Jin looked up at the sky and saw that the sun in the sky had risen to a high.
Yan Chen nodded, "Uncle Gangtao called and said that the profits of the hot pot restaurant and greenhouse vegetables last month had already come out, and he had arranged them to our cards, so we both took the time to check the arrival of the accounts, and then called him back."
"So that?"
"Well, these are your two sums," Yan Chen handed her a note.
Xiang Jin reached out to take it, then took a look, "It should be all here, but you can also check it directly on the phone at home?"
Yan Chen said, "The main reason is that I want to go to the bookstore to buy two books."
"oh!"
Yan Chen followed and said, "Let's go, you're at home anyway, so let's go early. When you go there, you can save a few hours to write your manuscript."
Xiang Jin was a little moved and looked down at her wristwatch. It was only ten o'clock now, and it was indeed a bit too early to cook lunch, but she really didn't want to move, didn't want to write articles, didn't want to think, just wanted to do it, just wanted to empty her mind while the sun was blowing and the breeze.
It's okay to go to the town, but she can repay Yan Chen with some money.
"Then wait for me for a while, I'll go and clean up," Xiang Jin said and stood up.
"good!"
Xiang Jin packed the things out as quickly as possible, and then shouted to the back of the house, "Grandpa, am I going to the town?!"
Her grandfather came out of the kitchen next to him and said, "Have you gone to town? No more lunch at home?"
Xiang Jin saw that his hands were stained with the white firewood ashes. It must be that her grandfather was cleaning the ashes from the stove and scattering them into the vegetable field.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, I won't eat at home. Let's wait and eat on the street. You can cook your and Xiang Lan's belongings at noon. We won't come back in the afternoon. Then we will go directly from the town to the school."
"Okay, okay!" Her grandfather nodded and then asked again, "Would you like to bring some vegetables to you and I'll pick them for you?"
"No, no, I'll pick it myself, you're busy with yours," Xiang Jin waved his hand.
Her grandfather nodded, and then Yan Chen asked, "Do we still have vegetables today?"
Xiang Jin said, "Let's bring some. I won't bring it next time. Wait for two more weeks, and the seasonal vegetables will come out. Then we won't cook, so we'll eat them directly in the cafeteria. Now, in the cafeteria, either eating lotus white or dry vegetables every day."
"Then I'll go pick it with you!"
"Yes," Xiang Jin had no objection.
The two of them carried baskets into the greenhouse vegetable field, rushing for the picking that was enough to be put into place. They first picked cucumbers and eggplant, green beans and peppers, and tomatoes, and also chopped two lettuce and two lettuce.
Yan Chen was about to turn around and go out with a basket when he saw Xiang Jin actually pledged a few garlic seedlings and celery there, so he asked, "What are you doing for those?" Didn't they just put down noodles?
Xiang Jin looked at him with a sly look and said, "I will tell you, I brought sausage and bacon. Then, let Yang Hui and Yang Zhao steam some rice at noon. Let's cook at home?"
Yan Chen was simply a little amused and crying, "Don't you mind being troublesome?"
Xiang Jin shook his head, "It's not trouble. I never feel troublesome about tribute to my stomach. Anyway, I have to queue up to make meals in the school cafeteria.
Then we can come back from evening self-study and cook the sausage and bacon. When the last class the next day is over, we can just cook two dishes when we go back.
Let’s buy two more dried tofu pieces in the town later. I’ll tell you that I haven’t eaten dried tofu for a long time. Let’s make a dried tofu dish tomorrow.”
Yan Chen said, "Aren't you afraid of delaying your writing time?"
Xiang Jin said, "I'm not afraid. I'll cook and don't have to wash dishes at that time, and then I'll save time. I can eat delicious food without delaying my efforts. How great is it to kill two birds with one stone!"
Yan Chen said, "Then I will help you when the time comes, you cook and I will wash the vegetables."
Xiang Jin said, "I guess Yang Zhao will be sad again by then."
Yan Chen's mouth curled up.
"Xiang Lan?" The two went to the town. When they passed by Xiang Yao and their house, Xiang Jin saw Xiang Lan and several other peers at Wantou playing hopscotch at the yard of Xiang Yao and their house, so they waved to her.
Xiang Lan trotted to her, "Sister, are you going back to school?"
"Well, stop playing, go home, my grandfather is the only one at home. He will go to the field later. You go back and cook lunch for him. I cut the vegetables and meat in the morning. You can let my grandfather fry them later," Xiang Jin nodded slightly, and then explained to the lower girl.
"Oh!" the little girl responded obediently, and then she waved to Yao and the others, "Xiang Yao, am I back?"
"You're back, don't play anymore?" Xiang Yao shouted at her.
Xiang Lan said, "I won't play anymore, you guys play!"
Seeing that she was so obedient and sensible, Xiang Jin whispered to her, "When I left, I put two dollars in the Xinhua dictionary on your desk."
"Really?" The little girl immediately looked bright.
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, if you don't believe me, just go back and read it, but you must be obedient at home and don't always play around. Read the book at home in the afternoon and do your homework for a while."
"Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, thank you sister!" Xiang Lan nodded like pounding garlic, and then waved to them, "Goodbye sister, goodbye brother Yan Chen!" After that, he ran happily towards home.
After arriving in the town, the two went straight to the bank. It was almost noon and there were only a few people in the bank doing business.
Xiang Jin and Yan Chen first checked the arrival of their bank cards.
After a while, Yan Chen asked, "How is it, has it been received?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, it's here, wait for me for a while?" After that, she walked towards the counter.
About ten minutes later, Xiang Jin handed him a transfer voucher.
Yan Chen looked at her with a look of surprise and said, "You have such a high royalty income in the past two weeks?"
To be continued...