Lin Mai returned to Grandma Fang's house from Tieniu's house. Grandpa Fang had already contacted the tractor and returned.
Grandpa Fang told her that a trip to the provincial capital would cost fifty yuan for shipping.
Lin Mai took out two hundred yuan and handed it to Grandpa Fang: "This is the money Grandpa paid in advance to help me buy chestnuts during these days."
Grandpa Fang waved his hand: "You don't have to be in a hurry to pay back my money. You have to consider whether you have enough capital to do business."
Lin Mai forced him to say, "That's enough. If you don't have enough, ask Grandpa for more."
He gave him another 400 yuan: "The 10,000 kilograms of chestnuts may not be collected at one time, so if they are collected twice and shipped, it will cost 100 yuan in freight."
The remaining three hundred yuan is the cost of collecting the first batch of chestnuts. When the first batch of chestnuts is sold out, the second batch of chestnuts will be collected."
After giving out the 600 yuan, Lin Mai only had a little over 100 yuan left on his hands, which was almost enough to buy iron pots, stoves, etc. for business, as well as daily necessities.
The next morning, Lin Mai still got up at six o'clock.
Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang haven't gotten up yet.
After washing up, she quietly walked out of the door and went to the back of Grandpa Fang's house.
About twenty meters behind his house, there is his vegetable patch.
Lin Mai picked some vegetables and washed them in the river before returning.
Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang also got up at this time.
Seeing Lin Mai coming back from outside, Grandma Fang said angrily: "Why don't you get some more sleep if you don't have to rush to the city to do business?"
Lin Mai smiled and said, "Sleep well." He rolled up his sleeves and started cooking.
What I made was a traditional local breakfast of rice with vegetables and kimchi.
After breakfast, Lin Mai will go out to buy chestnuts.
Grandpa Fang waved his hand and said, "You don't need to go. I can spread the news by going to the nearby village, and those who want to sell chestnuts will come to us and sell them to us."
Lin Mai smiled: "I'll go for a run too. I can't stay idle at home, and it's a bit early to go to the city."
When Grandpa Fang saw what she said, he didn't stop her.
In order to visit a few more villages, Lin Mai did not plan to take Doudou with him.
She squatted down to discuss with Doudou: "Doudou, mom has a lot to do today.
We have to notify others to sell chestnuts to us, and we also have to go to the city to buy a lot of things. It is inconvenient to take you here and there, and you have to walk a lot, and you will be very tired.
So mom wants to leave you at Grandma Fang’s house and go to the city on the tractor with Grandpa Fang to find mom in the afternoon, do you think that’s okay?”
In the past half month, both Lin Mai and Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang have given Doudou a sense of security.
After listening to Lin Mai's words, the little guy didn't insist on following her like last time.
He nodded his little head and responded with a sweet voice: "Mom, go out. I will listen to my great-grandma at home, and I will also help my great-grandma with work."
Lin Mai touched her furry little head happily: "We Doudou have grown up and become more and more sensible."
Then, under the watchful eyes of Doudou, he went out and went to collect chestnuts in the village that he had arranged with Grandpa Fang in advance.
She specifically told the villagers that she wanted 10,000 kilograms of chestnuts this time and asked them to call their friends to sell them to her.
Many villagers were shocked and envious: "Mom Doudou, your chestnut business is so good, but you actually need 10,000 kilograms!"
Lin Mai admitted generously: "It's certainly a good business to sell chestnuts near the railway station in the provincial capital, because there is so much traffic there!"
Then he sighed appropriately: "If Aunt Wu in town hadn't come with her son and daughter-in-law to steal business from me, I could have sold at least 50,000 kilograms of chestnuts at the provincial capital train station."
After hearing her words, many people were trembling in their hearts and tentatively asked: "How do you set up a stall in the city? Will there be a market law enforcement team to drive you away? Will you be detained at the police station?"
In the past, it was not uncommon for people to take risks and go to the city to do small business. Being chased away by the law enforcement team was considered the least serious matter. It was common to be detained at the police station.
The most horrifying thing is that some people were thrown into jails and held there for several years. The timid country people did not dare to take that risk.
But seeing Lin Mai, a teenage woman making a lot of money in the provincial capital, they were jealous, so they wanted to inquire about the risks.
Lin Mai deliberately spread the word that she was selling chestnuts at a stall near the train station and how good her business was.
I just want to encourage these folks to sell chestnuts near the train station and compete with the old scheming bitch's family, so that the price of their chestnuts will not be high.
Moreover, if there are too many unlicensed vendors on a street, the law enforcement team will focus on controlling that street. Then no one will be able to set up a stall on that street for at least a month.
Utilization is utilization, but the risks still need to be clearly explained to these folks.
Lin Mai didn't intend to trick anyone.
"If you want to set up a stall in the city, first of all, you have to find a house facing the street and rent the landlord's door to set up a stall.
As for whether there are any law enforcement teams to drive them away - probably it will be Chinese New Year soon. I have been setting up the stall for such a long time and I have not encountered any law enforcement teams to drive them away.
However, there must be a law enforcement team. If there are too many unlicensed vendors, the law enforcement team will take action.
But now the trend is different from before.
Although individual unlicensed vendors are still severely cracked down on now, the main focus is on evicting and confiscating items, and detention and jail time no longer exist.”
At this point, she didn't go any further. It was up to the villagers to decide whether they wanted to make a living or not.
In fact, after going around for a while, they will know that making money in the city is not as scary as they imagined.
So although there is an element of utilizing them, it also points out a way for them to make money.
Some villagers asked about the specific street where Lin Mai sold chestnuts. Lin Mai. Everyone knew everything and told them everything.
After running through several villages, it was already past nine o'clock. Lin Mai hurried back to Grandma Fang's house, picked up the chestnuts he had just harvested, and took the train to the city.
Although Grandpa Fang would follow the tractor to deliver chestnuts to her in the afternoon, Lin Mai likes to be as considerate as possible in everything she does.
If everything is arranged well in the city and there is still time, she can fry chestnuts and sell them, so that she will not be idle.
She is now a house slave and cannot afford to be idle.
After getting off the train and taking the bus, Lin Mai went to his new home in Sanyang Village.
Many villagers already knew that she had signed a house purchase contract with Qian Aiguo, and they all greeted her with a smile: "I will move in today."
Lin Mai also responded with a smile: "Yeah."
After putting the chestnuts into the house, she immediately went to the nearby black market to buy industrial tickets.
Then I went to the store and bought a big iron pot for frying chestnuts, a big spatula, a steel scale and two large iron stoves that burned wood.
He bought another set of bedding for her mother and daughter, and then bought dozens of kilograms of firewood from the villagers.
He also said that in the future, as long as there is firewood, he can sell it to her and buy it for a penny per pound.
Although there is a railway locomotive depot close to the 56th station of the Guangdong-Han Pier, where you can buy the broken coal left by the trucks that the railway family members picked up at the depot.
But considering that he was only going to be in the chestnut business for a month, Lin Mai didn't want to bother with that. It was so convenient to buy firewood from the villagers without having to run a step.
After buying firewood, Lin Mai went to the black market to buy a pallet truck and returned home.
When you go to the pier to set up a stall, you can't pull all the things you need to set up the stall at once without a trolley, so you have to buy this trolley.
It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon, and Lin Mai was too lazy to buy rice, flour, and oil. He planned to wait for Tieniu Ma to come and give her money and tickets to help her buy it.
She went to a state-owned snack shop on the street and bought a bowl of dumplings to eat.
The dumplings were generous in portion and delicious, and Lin Mai was very satisfied with them.
On the way back, I bought two packs of cigarettes and planned to give them to the tractor driver.
Although the freight is paid, the money belongs to the collective, and the tractor driver still has to spend it, otherwise Grandpa Fang will look bad.
After returning home, Lin Mai loaded the sack of chestnuts and the iron boiler for frying chestnuts onto a trolley and took them to the dock to test the water.
As soon as she pulled the cart out of the yard, a particularly wretched middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere and rushed to help her pull the cart.