Chapter 198: Hit by a Pie

Chapter 198: Hit by a Pie

Chapter 198: Hit by a Pie

Boss Li came out of the processing room and saw Li Changle holding a small bag and looking at jewelry. He smiled and walked over to him, "Young man, I was right, wasn't I? Oyster beads are difficult to shape, and it's not easy to put together a set of oyster bead jewelry!"

Li Changle smiled, took down the army green cloth bag and put it on the counter, opened the lid and made a crack, and showed him the beads inside.

Boss Li took a look and saw that there were dozens of them, far more than the few he saw last time. His eyes widened in surprise.

Li Changle put away the bag and said softly, "Boss Li, your store is busy with people coming and going. For safety reasons, let's go inside to check out the goods. I'm afraid we'll be robbed later."

"follow me!"

After all, he was the owner of a large gold shop who was used to big scenes. After a moment, he calmly opened the cabinet door and took Li Changle to the reception room.

She politely poured him a cup of tea, took two plates from the low cabinet, placed them on the velvet-covered table, and motioned for him to pour the beads into them.

The pearls are sparkling and dazzling under the light, as soft as the moonlight of a full moon, making people unable to take their eyes away.

There were thirty-five beads in total. Zhou Ruonan picked out three pea-sized white beads and kept them. This time, there were a total of thirty-two beads.

There was still a package of unformed ones, and he planned to send it to a pharmacy to ask about the price, and if it was suitable, he would send it there to sell.

Boss Li suppressed his surprised expression, looked at the beads on the plate one by one, took a small scale, picked up a few beads and weighed them, confirming once again that these were all natural oyster pearls.

The beads delivered this time are so big that they are as big as five-cent coins.

Especially those golden beads and two black ones, they were so beautiful that he could not take his eyes away. He thought they had to be carefully designed.

He picked up the caliper and measured the beads of several colors, sorting them out and placing them according to size.

Li Changle saw Boss Li divide the thirty-two beads into three parts.

Three gold and three white beads make one portion, nine white, three black and another four gold beads make one portion, and two pink and the remaining white beads make another portion.

Ten minutes later, Boss Li looked up at Li Changle, pointed at three golden beads and three white beads and said:
"I'll give you the purchase price of two hundred and sixty per bead for these six, two hundred per bead for these fifteen, and eighty-one for the remaining ones."

Li Changle thought for a moment and put the three black beads together with the two hundred and sixty beads. He looked up at Boss Li and said:

"Boss Li, these nine will be 280 each, and the others will be at your price. If you think it's okay, we'll make a deal."

After a moment's silence, Boss Li nodded and said, "Deal."

The nine 280-yuan pills total two thousand five hundred and two, the twelve 200-yuan pills total two thousand four, and the eleven 80-yuan pills total eight hundred and eight, for a total of five thousand eight hundred yuan.

After the bill was settled, Boss Li stood up and shouted to the outside at the door. A young man came over. He whispered something in a low voice, and soon the young man came to the reception room carrying a bag.

Boss Li took the bag, took out the money from it, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Li Changle, "Xiao Li, count it."

"it is good!"

Li Changle counted the scattered banknotes before he began to count the new bundles of ten-yuan bills. After he finished counting, he said to Boss Li, "That's right."

Boss Li watched him pack the money and said, "Little Li, may I ask, is it still possible to collect oyster pearls like this?"

"It's difficult. The oysters that produced these pearls were found in an extremely hidden place. It should be difficult to find them anywhere else."

"If you find other good stuff, please send it to me later."

"Okay!" Li Changle put on his bag and suddenly thought of those unformed beads. "Boss Li, I still have a bag of unformed beads here. I want to find a pharmacy to sell them. Do you have any recommendations?"

"Turn right and walk about a hundred meters. There is a good Minsheng Pharmacy. I'll make a call for you later and you can go find them."

"Thank you!" Li Changle said goodbye. Boss Li sent him to the door before turning back.

Li Changle walked out of the gold shop with his bag on his back and walked about a hundred meters before he saw the Minsheng Pharmacy. When he went in and spoke, they knew he was there to sell oyster pearls.

After looking at the goods, he bought the oyster pearls at the price of ten yuan per two taels.

Li Changle put the 130 yuan he earned from selling beads into his trouser pocket. With such a huge sum of money in his pocket, he didn't plan to go out for a stroll and buy anything rare. He went out, hailed a rickshaw, got in the car, told the driver the address, and went straight to the old street.

After sitting for a while, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and leaned lazily on the back seat of the rickshaw with the cigarette in his mouth.

Looking at the gray buildings and passers-by on both sides of the street, and thinking about what I have done in less than a month since I came back, I still feel like I am dreaming.

I pressed the banknotes in my bag, thinking that after I go home and divide the money from selling the beads, I will have more than 2,000 yuan in my hand. While the price of boats is not high, I will go to the shipyard to inquire about how much it will cost to order a metal boat.

If the difference is not too big, just decide on the boat first. By the time the boat is built, the money saved should be enough.

Thinking about the things that happened on the boat in my previous life, I feel that iron boats are better. Even if there are slightly bigger winds and waves, there is no need to worry about the boat being broken apart by the wind and waves. It can also go to farther seas for fishing. The fish caught can be dried and sent to Lucheng...

Thinking of this, he remembered his mother-in-law's salary again, and still felt that the salary for a month on the 28th was really too little.

Besides, his mother-in-law was willing to share the hardships with him only for their sakes. If it were just them, it would be fine. He would definitely treat her as his own mother.

But there are still three partners. My brother, sister-in-law and Awei must be grateful now. What if they take these gifts for granted over time?

Li Changle thought about it and decided to go back and tell An Nan about his idea, asking her to persuade his mother-in-law to wait until enough goods are stocked up, or to do as they had agreed before, to take a commission based on the sales.

"Young man, we're at the Old Street!"

The rickshaw driver interrupted his thoughts. Li Changle got off the rickshaw and paid the fare. He saw two children and a fat kid sitting on the ground playing chess. The container at the door was pushed back into the store for some reason.

"Dad!" Li Xiaohai shouted happily, "Abao's mother bought all the dried fish in our house."

Li Changle was stunned. He didn't expect such a thing to happen. "Does Abao have many family members?"

After saying this, I felt that I had asked a stupid question. No matter how many people there are, they cannot consume hundreds of kilograms of dried goods, unless they run a factory at home.

"My family isn't big, but my uncle's family is big." The chubby Yan Abao stood up and drew a big circle with his arms, looking at him proudly, "More than the kids in our class."

"Uncle Zhou, my mother needs more dried fish. Go home and dry the fish. Don't take Xiao Hai and Xiao Zhou with you. Let's play together."

"School is about to start. They have to go home to study and come back to play during the holidays."

Li Changle rubbed the heads of several children, went in to look at the empty containers, strode to the backyard, and waves of fragrant aroma filled his nose.

"You're back!" Zhou Ruonan, who was washing melons in the yard, looked at him with a smile, "Did you sell it? How much did you get?"

"The price is good, a total of more than 5,000!" Li Changle said as he took off the bag and handed it to Zhou Ruonan.

Zhou Ruonan and her mother looked at the big unity in the bag excitedly, "Great, we sold so many, and if we save some more, we can make you a metal boat."

"I'll go find out the price when I get back." Li Changle said, and then asked excitedly, "What's going on with the Yan family?"

Zhou Ruonan smiled and said, "As soon as you left, Granny He came to buy some dried shrimps, dried oysters, and mackerel heads. After a while, she came back with Lin Hui.
Lin Hui said she also wanted to purchase these things, and asked me to pack them all and weigh them, and also said that she would deliver the goods every two weeks in the future.

"Does his family run a factory or a school?" After Li Changle said this, he remembered that there should be no private schools in those days.

"His family doesn't own a factory or a school." Zhou's mother took over the conversation. "I never asked where Yan Zhenbang worked. I only know that his wife worked at the Normal University, doing purchasing."

As she spoke, she sighed, "No wonder the old saying goes, good deeds are rewarded. It was because you came to save Po last time that we have today's business. Everything has its destiny."

Li Changle didn’t know whether Yan Abao was saved in his previous life, but now he felt like he was hit by a pie in the sky.

Zhou Ruonan happily handed him a list, "Ah Le, Lin Hui asked us to prepare another 300 kilograms of dried eel and cuttlefish, 200 kilograms of dried shrimp, and 150 kilograms of green snapper."

"All I ask is that the hygiene must be guaranteed, the variety should be richer, and the pickles should not be too salty. The goods must be delivered once every two weeks. Send them directly to the Normal School and she will tell you the quantity you need next time."

Li Changle looked at the list, "What about the price? Have you agreed on the price with her?"

"She gave us the dried fish at the price we sold them for." Zhou Ruonan thought for a moment, "She also said that as long as the price of dried fish does not exceed 2.5 yuan per pound, she can send it to us."

Li Changle was pleasantly surprised after hearing this. "Did she say when she would receive the goods she wanted today?"

"The sooner the better!" Zhou Ruonan said, "It looks like I'll have to go to the dock to collect some when I get home so I can dry them out."

Li Changle calculated that to catch 300 kilograms of eels, nearly 1,000 kilograms of fresh eels would be needed, and there would be even more cuttlefish, at least 5 to 6 kilograms would be needed to produce 1 kilogram of dried eels.

"Let's take the 2 o'clock bus back and rush to the dock to collect a batch!"

"Business is more important!" Zhou's mother said cheerfully, "The dumplings have been picked out. You two sit down and eat. I'll go call Xiaohai and Xiaozhou back."

Li Changle thought about the salary and told Zhou Ruonan what he was thinking on the way.

"Yes, once the business is established, it will take more than a year or two. Your concerns are reasonable. I will talk to my mother."

"Now that we know how much profit we can make from a pound of dried fish, let's go back and talk to our eldest brother and the others, and discuss how much per pound we should give to our mother."

"Hmm!" Zhou Ruonan pushed Chuiyuan and said, "Eat. We have to go to the station later."

"There are still two hours left. Let's eat together when my mother comes."

(End of this chapter)