The proprietress has already sold one-third of the tea, and it is estimated that all the tea will be sold out in another two or three hours.
Lin Mai was embarrassed to let the landlady keep selling by herself, so he planned to take over the selling by himself and let the landlady go to the stall selling snacks to warm himself up, so he learned a few basic Mongolian terms for doing business from the landlady.
She is talented in language learning, otherwise she would not have been able to learn English, Japanese and Korean so well in her previous life.
After studying with the landlady for just over a quarter of an hour, Lin Mai was able to do business with people in simple Mongolian.
Fang Zhuoran helped her. As long as anyone bought Lin Mai's tea, he would order the goods and deliver them to the buyer.
Probably because the two of them are good-looking, and the price of tea is slightly lower than the market price, business is actually better than when the landlady was selling it just now.
Just when the two were busy, the mother's husband came over and excitedly said when he saw them: "Two benefactors, why did you sneak away?
Fortunately you are still doing business in the market, otherwise I wouldn't have found you."
Fang Zhuoran and Lin Mai couldn't understand what the man was talking about, and they were both confused.
Tana's mother, who was squatting in front of the roast mutton stall and warming herself over the fire, saw this and walked over quickly to act as the translator for the two of them.
Only then did Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran know what the man said.
Fang Zhuoran asked solemnly: "Is the mother in bad condition?"
That's all he thought about, otherwise why would the mother's husband be so eager to find them?
The husband of the mother-in-law waved her hands repeatedly: "My daughter-in-law is doing well. I asked my mother and the neighbor's aunt to drive her home in a carriage.
I am looking for you because I want to invite you to my home to thank you for saving my wife and my son."
Fang Zhuoran smiled: "I'm a doctor. It's my duty to treat illnesses and save people. You're welcome."
The man didn't listen at all. He grabbed his and Lin Mai's hands and left.
Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran firmly refused on the grounds that the tea was not sold out and they could not leave.
The man patted his chest and said, "I bought all these tea leaves!"
Tana's mother was overjoyed and quickly translated what he said to Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran.
He also told them in Mandarin that this young Mongolian man was not an ordinary person. He was Hada, the son of Narisong, a large Mongolian livestock farmer.
His family was very rich, and he said that he would buy all the remaining tea leaves, which would not be a burden at all for his family's conditions.
Lin Mai does business without pretense.
Whoever buys her tea is not buying it.
Her tea is of high quality and reasonably priced. Even if Hada buys her tea to repay his kindness, he will not lose money.
Since his family runs a breeding farm, let's exchange tea with him for beef.
But you have to ask the person first if they have cattle.
Hada told her that they had both meat and milk.
Lin Mai discussed the business with him on the spot, planning to exchange tea for his family's beef cattle.
A trace of embarrassment flashed in Hada's eyes, but it was fleeting, and he agreed immediately.
Lin Mai was a businessman in his previous life.
A successful businessman is not good at observing words and emotions.
Lin Mai saw Hada's fleeting expression and knew that nearly eight thousand kilograms of tea was too much for him to eat.
Lin Mai smiled and said: "I thought about it, I'd better wait until I sell all the tea leaves and get money to buy your beef."
Hada thought for a while, nodded in agreement, and gave her a super low price.
The two parties agreed to meet again here tomorrow, pay the money with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other.
After another two hours of selling, all the remaining tea leaves were sold out, and it was past one o'clock in the afternoon.
Lin and Mai found a food stall, had lunch, and then returned home.
Although it was already five o'clock in the afternoon when he got home, Lin Mai ignored his tiredness and visited the village chiefs who asked him to exchange tea leaves for mutton. He wanted to know how much mutton they exchanged tea leaves for.
The results were disappointing. From yesterday to today, we only changed less than a thousand kilograms of sheep.
This is too slow.
Lin Mai decided to transport the tea to the border market to sell it, exchange it for money, and then buy sheep from local residents.
The next day, we set off at dawn as before.
However, this time it was just the truck driver, Lin Mai, and Fang Zhuoran, and they did not let the proprietress accompany them.
She runs a small restaurant and has business to be busy with, so it’s not good to keep taking up her time.
If it weren't for the difficulty of finding directions in the prairie, Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran would not even hire a driver and drive to the border market by themselves.
Today's luck was much better than yesterday. As soon as their truck stopped at the market, Lin Mai shouted twice and a bearded man from Su came over.
After seeing Lin Mai's tea leaves, he wanted them all with a wave of his hand, but there was a condition: they had to be cheaper.
Lin Mai did not understand Russian, but Fang Zhuoran not only understood it, but could also speak a few sentences.
The former students all studied Russian.
Fang Zhuoran bargained with the Su man in Russian, and finally sold all the tea at a relatively good price.
Suddenly having tens of thousands more in hand, Lin Mai felt a little uneasy, afraid of being robbed.
Hada hadn't arrived yet, so the two of them waited for a long time before Hada arrived in a truck loaded with beef.
He apologized and told them that the truck had had a minor accident on the road, so he was late.
Lin Mai checked the quality of the beef and found it to be very good. He immediately paid him and delivered the goods.
Lin Mai hired five or six burly men on the spot, moved the beef from Hada's truck to his own truck, and wanted to leave.
Hada took out a large bag of air-dried beef jerky and a large bag of black fungus from the cab, and laughed a few times sheepishly: "It's a little thoughtful, don't dislike it."
Lin Mai took it and said, "Why do you dislike it? These are all good things!"
Back in Hohhot, it was still early, so Lin Mai went to the train station to check in the batch of beef, and then called Tao Zhiyun and asked her to check it carefully in Jiangcheng.
It's winter now, and all the beef has been frozen outdoors all night and is hard.
Add some ice cubes during transportation to keep it fresh when transported to Jiangcheng.
Next, Lin Mai used the money from selling tea today to buy a large amount of mutton.
Two days later, the 10,000 kilograms of mutton purchased were also checked in, and it was time for Lin Mai and Fang Zhuoran to leave.
On the night before they left, Tana's mother made a table of delicious food for them to bid farewell to.
After finishing the delicious food, Lin Mai took out a stack of money and placed it in front of the landlady.
The landlady drank a lot of kumiss, and her chubby round face turned red.
She looked at the stack of money and asked puzzledly: "What are you doing?"
Lin Mai smiled and said, "This is my sister's reward for helping me sell tea."
The landlady suddenly became unhappy: "Why are you like this? Everything is calculated with money, do you still have any human touch?"
Lin Mai laughed along and said: "Sister, don't be so quick to get angry, just listen to what I have to say."
The landlady said angrily: "Then you say it."
Lin Maidao: "I'm not just buying your mutton and beef this time, I will buy it often in the future.
I want to ask my eldest sister to be my buyer and help me buy beef and mutton, and even milk powder, honey and meat products from Suzhou.
This is a long-term job, and I can’t help you in vain every time.
We Han people have a saying that brothers should settle accounts openly, so that the relationship can last long.
So you should accept the money that is due, otherwise I will not dare to ask you to do things for me in the future."
The landlady was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "That's okay."
Lin Mai stretched out a finger: "Starting from next month, the monthly basic salary is one hundred yuan. What do you think, eldest sister?"
"So many!" the landlady couldn't help but scream.
At this time, Inner Mongolia was much poorer than Jiangcheng.
Although the wages of workers in Jiangcheng increased in 1982, before they reached 40 yuan, the wages of government workers in Inner Mongolia were even lower.
The basic salary of one hundred yuan is not that high for the top leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative. How can I not make the boss lady scream?
The landlady waved her fat hands: "One hundred dollars is too much, I'll do it for fifty dollars at most."
Lin Mai couldn't laugh or cry.
Only these simple herdsmen would find it too much money.
She patiently explained to the landlady for a long time that the work she did for her was worth a hundred yuan.
The landlady then agreed to give Lin Mai a monthly salary of one hundred yuan.