In the evening, at dinner time, the family sat together again. Today's dinner was not meat like yesterday, a bowl of peanuts, a stir-fried loofah, a cold tofu, and sweet potato porridge.
For Li Jianren, who is used to having meat, he really has no appetite. But there is nothing he can do. The family has such conditions, so the requirements cannot be too high for the time being. When he makes money, he must improve the food for the family.
During this period, Li Jianren said: "I made an appointment with my classmates to go to the county tomorrow and buy some things. My classmates' house is near the county seat. If it's late, I might sleep at their house that night."
Li Aiguo asked, "If you don't come back tonight, which classmate are you? It's not a good idea to trouble others."
"As for my classmates in the third grade of junior high school, you don't even know me. It's okay. We have a good relationship. We are close buddies."
Li Aiguo was silent for a moment, "Try not to trouble others. If you want to go, bring fruits to you. This is etiquette. You should understand this when you are older."
Li Aiguo set the tone, and the others said nothing more.
After eating and finishing his work, Li Jianren returned to his room and began to think about tomorrow's trip to Yiwu. After considering everything, he began his torturous journey again, doing mathematics, physics and chemistry...
At around five o'clock the next morning, Li Jianren got up. After washing up, he went to memorize English for a while. After finishing breakfast, he drove his father Li Aiguo's car to the road at the entrance of the village and waited for the minibus to the county seat.
After Li Jianren got in the car, Li Aiguo went to work with confidence.
When he arrived at the county station, he saw that it was almost 8 o'clock on the big clock at the station. Li Jianren walked into the station and bought a ticket for Lin'an City. Since there was no direct bus to Yiwu City, he could only go to Lin'an first and then transfer. After all, Lin'an is a city
As the capital of Zhijiang Province, there should be more buses to Yiwu. Fortunately, I got a bus at 8:30. So I bought a few newspapers, Financial Times, Yijiang Evening News, etc. to pass the time on the road.
After a while, I got on the bus. I asked the driver and found out that it would take about 4 hours to reach Linjiang. So, Li Jianren read the newspaper. The uncle next to him was surprised when he saw a young man reading the Financial Times.
Li Jianren didn't want to pay attention to it. He now really needed to absorb information from all aspects. Especially for the current stock market information, he needed to compare it with his previous memories and understand the current policies.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to know too much through just one newspaper. I still have a certain impression of a few stocks, but more information is needed to support it. However, there is no need to be too hasty, there is still a long time before entering the stock market in 1996.
For more than a year, as long as the two stocks in my memory continue to exist, then it is certain to make money, it is just a matter of more or less.
During the four-hour journey, it felt like every minute and second of progress was slow and arduous. He had already read several newspapers, and Li Jianren was just holding on for time. The bumpy road always makes people want to stop, and the taste in the esophagus
The food always feels like it's about to burst out.
Feeling dizzy, he finally arrived at Lin'an Station. Li Jianren took his luggage bag and rushed out of the car. He finally vomited it out with a "wow" sound, and his splitting headache was finally relieved slightly.
After finding a corner, Li Jianren rested for a while, then went to buy two rice dumplings to satisfy his hunger. Finally, he went to the station to buy a ticket to Yiwu. It was already around one o'clock in the afternoon.
After getting in the car, Li Jianren sat down. Next to him sat a middle-aged aunt, carrying a small fabric satchel and looking out the window with a natural expression. When he saw Li Jianren sitting over, he glanced at her without saying anything. Li Jianren rushed to her.
She smiled slightly and nodded. The aunt was a little surprised. The young man looked young, but he was very polite! So he started chatting: "Is the young man going home or visiting relatives?"
When Li Jianren saw his aunt speaking, he responded politely: "Hello, aunt, I'm going to the small commodity wholesale city to buy some things. I need to buy some goods for my store at home."
"How old are you? You go out to buy goods alone, and your family doesn't care?" The aunt was very surprised.
So, along the way, Li Jianren and his aunt started chatting. With his sweet and polite words, he asked about the general situation of the wholesale city. Even where to stay, the aunt also recommended a place, saying it belonged to his cousin.
The small hotel he opened was not far from the wholesale city, so it was convenient to stay there. Li Jianren accepted the aunt's kindness and decided to go to the wholesale city to have a look first, and then decide whether to stay there.
After another more than two hours of driving, we finally reached the end. Following the aunt’s instructions, I took the bus with my bag and headed straight to the wholesale city. At this time, it was already past four o’clock in the afternoon. Fortunately, it was summer and the sun was still shining.
, the wholesale city is still crowded.
Li Jianren then started his journey of asking prices. He had an idea of what he needed to buy. But when he compared shopping, he still had requirements for cost-effectiveness, and he didn’t want expensive ones. At present, the people’s needs are still cheap and good.
Li Jianren divided the items he needed to purchase into the 50-cent area, the 1-yuan area, the 2-yuan area, and the 5-yuan area. Keychains, face towels, bath towels, plastic cups, labor protection gloves, mosquito coils, soap, washing powder, nail clipper sets,
Various children's toys, etc.
I visited at least three stores for each product. After each store, I took notes on the product and price, and noted the approximate quality. After this visit, I realized that there were too many things I wanted to buy. It was not until 6:30 that the store began to close.
, Li Jianren had to leave.
After leaving the wholesale city, Li Jianren looked for the hotel introduced by the aunt in the car. On the way, he bought two rice dumplings and an egg-filled pancake, and ate them while walking. He found the Yuelai Hotel in less than fifteen minutes. It was said to be a hotel.
, it is actually three floors, divided into more than ten rooms.
After exchanging pleasantries, we moved in and were given two bottles of hot water for 10 yuan a night. Li Jianren was too tired to bargain anymore. The room was about 7-8 square meters, with a bed, a desk, a chair, and
Add a small electric fan.
Taking the basin in the room and the towel I brought, I poured half a basin of cold water, mixed it with hot water, wiped my body a little, then sat down at the desk and started sorting out the wholesale city purchasing data.
I originally had a total of 546.63 yuan, and I spent a total of 36 yuan on fares, 4.5 yuan on food, 10 yuan on accommodation, and I had to set aside 6.70 yuan when I went back.
In other words, when purchasing items, it is best to control them within 430 yuan. The main purchased items should be placed in the one-yuan area and the two-yuan area, and the prices in other areas should be as low as possible. The types of items are, in principle, consumables.
There are items that are in short supply or that you don’t see for sale in town, and there are also products with certain price advantages.
Li Jianren classified and then calculated the quantity of each product to buy, and finally distributed the 430 yuan. He was busy until after 11 o'clock.
Before eight o'clock the next day, Li Jianren hurriedly left the Yuelai Hotel and went to the wholesale city. As soon as the doors opened at eight o'clock, he rushed in and ran to several stores he had chosen, and the prices were all clear.
He directly reported the product and quantity, then checked out and left, heading to the next store. At this speed, it still took Li Jianren more than an hour. But he still miscalculated and bought hundreds of things, packing a large cardboard box and two
He couldn't take the snakeskin bag by himself. He had no choice but to find a tricycle, bargained for 5 yuan, and took it to the bus station.
In 1994, when the monthly salary of ordinary workers was about 300 yuan, and they only earned about 10 yuan a day, paying 5 yuan was obviously too high, but Li Jianren had no time to argue, because he was a foreigner and a young boy.
I arrived at the station, bought a ticket, and bought two packs of Hongmei cigarettes. The 10:20 bus was less than half an hour away. So I found the car, saw the driver, went over to say hello, and stuffed a pack of cigarettes. No.
The solution is that there are too many things and the driver has to take good care of them, otherwise he won't let you on, which will be troublesome.
At 10:20, we set off on time and finally took a rest. This operation made Li Jianren really feel like he was in a state of ecstasy. His whole body felt like he had been fished out of water. After more than two hours of driving,
Li Jianren slept all the way, snoring all the way. After getting off the bus in Lin'an, he transferred back to Luohe County and did the same thing again. He asked someone to help move things, bought tickets, found a driver, and got on the bus. Finally, he got on the bus before six o'clock.
At that time, we arrived at Luohe County.
When he got off the bus, Li Jianren felt a little emotional. It's not easy to make some money. Let's go, we still have to find a car to go home. We found a van at the station door and agreed to pay 10 yuan to deliver the goods home. We went back.
On the way home, Li Jianren was also thinking about how to explain these things.