60s: I have a store

Chapter 8 Section Chief Wang's Surprise
"Hmm? Jerky?"

Soon, Wang Weimin discovered that there was dried meat under the shopping basket.

Zhou Yimin explained with a smile: "I met a fellow villager. His relatives in the prairie sent him dozens of kilograms of beef jerky. He couldn't finish it, so I accepted it, but the price was a little high."

Wang Weimin was overjoyed and waved his hand: "It doesn't matter if the price is a little higher."

It is an unwritten rule that when they purchase materials outside of the plan, the price will be higher than the normal purchase price.

Note that this refers to the normal purchase price, not the market price. The purchase price of the rural supply and marketing cooperatives is lower, so many villagers like to sell to the buyers of these large factories.

This is jerky! It's hard to come by.

Even if the steel plant doesn't want it, their purchasing department can take it.

Who doesn’t need meat?

"Chief, can we keep some?" Someone was drooling at the pile of dried meat and had already started to make plans.

Withholding a little bit is one of the unspoken rules of the purchasing department. It is not taking it for free, but using the purchase price to buy some of it and take it home. This is allowed internally.

Of course, once it is registered in the warehouse, it cannot be moved.

"No dried meat, but you can keep about one pound of eggs for each person, and give the money to Yimin." Wang Weimin is not a rigid person.

Everyone felt a little bit sorry, but it was good to have eggs.

In the end, they each picked ten eggs, about one pound, and gave Zhou Yimin 3 cents.

Wang Weimin took the dried meat and the remaining eggs to register and account for them. The dried meat was 2.5 yuan per pound, and the eggs were 4 cents per pound.

Nowadays, beef and pork are almost the same price, or even lower, unlike later times, when the price of beef was three or four times that of pork. However, it usually takes three pounds of beef to make one pound of beef jerky.

Therefore, 2.5 yuan per pound of beef jerky is reasonable.

Zhou Yimin went to sign and collect the money. The beef jerky cost 125 yuan, and there were only 40 kilograms of eggs left, which cost 16 yuan, a total of 141 yuan.

If you sell it on the black market, you will definitely get much more than this amount, and it is no wonder that so many people like to sell things on the black market. But selling on the black market is troublesome and risky, so Zhou Yimin considered it seriously before deciding to sell it to the steel plant temporarily.

Let’s talk about it later after we have a clear understanding of the black market situation. There is no rush.

Zhou Yimin was not in a hurry to put all the money into the store in his mind, he had to keep some for spending in reality.

At noon, he had a meal at the factory. The food was really ordinary and he couldn't get used to it at all.

In the afternoon, Zhou Yimin slacked off in the factory.

In Zhoujiazhuang, the villagers who had gone into the mountains came back. From the expressions on their faces, one could tell that the trip was not in vain and that they had gained a lot.

Two wild boars were carried out, each weighing more than 100 pounds.

"Yimin has returned to the city? Okay, I'll organize some people to send him over." The old branch secretary said with a smile.

He had no intention of leaving any meat for the village.

What else to eat meat?

Wouldn’t it be better to change to sweet potatoes?

The two pigs weighed about 280 kilograms, and the net weight should be about 200 kilograms, which could be exchanged for nearly kilograms of sweet potatoes. That amount of sweet potatoes was enough for their village to survive until the grain harvest.

At dusk, the people of Zhoujiazhuang finally delivered the wild boar to the courtyard where Zhou Yimin lived.

"Is this Yimin's house in the city? That's great. I wish I could live here." A young man said enviously.

"Did you call me Yimin? You are so disrespectful. What are you daydreaming about? You still want to live in the city." The middle-aged man patted the young man on the head.

An old lady from the courtyard came out and asked, "Fellow villagers, what are you doing..."

"Hello, comrade! We are from Zhou Yimin's hometown."

Upon learning that the other party was from Zhou Yimin's hometown in the countryside, the aunt immediately let down her guard and became much more enthusiastic.

"Looking for Yimin? He hasn't gotten off work yet, but he will probably be there soon. You guys have to wait a while."

Just then, Zhou Yimin, who had left work early, came back on his bike.

"Dagui, you are here?" Zhou Yimin greeted.

The middle-aged man who led the group, the one who had just taken the photo of the young man, was called Zhou Dagui, and he also had to call Zhou Yimin his uncle. "Uncle Sixteen, the old branch secretary asked us to send wild boars over." As he said this, he lifted the hay on the ox cart, revealing two wild boars that had already cooled thoroughly.

When an old lady saw this, she gasped.

Zhou Yimin was also slightly surprised. He didn't expect that the village could fight both sides.

"Dagui, you guys come to my house and sit for a while. I'll send the wild boar to the steel plant." Zhou Yimin arranged.

"Uncle Sixteen, let us help you..." The young man thought he was very sensible and volunteered.

The main reason was that he also wanted to go to the steel plant to broaden his horizons.

Zhou Dagui slapped him on the head again. The old branch secretary told him about the wild boar in exchange for sweet potatoes. To be able to exchange for so many sweet potatoes, it must be a private transaction between Uncle Sixteen and the factory, which cannot be made public.

In that case, the fewer people who know about it, the better.

What are you still doing following him?
No tact.

"Uncle Sixteen, we'll be waiting for you in the courtyard." Zhou Dagui said to Zhou Yimin.

"Hmm! Help me push the bike in. Here are the keys. There are some food in the cupboard. You guys can get some." Zhou Yimin handed over the key and turned to the auntie: "Auntie, please show them the way."

After saying that, Zhou Yimin covered the wild boar with hay again and drove the ox cart towards the steel plant.

Today the section chief told him that if he works harder to get some supplies back, he can be converted to a regular employee early and his salary can be increased to 28.5 yuan.

With these two wild boars, the turn is a sure thing.

Even if you only hand over one, it would be enough.

When we arrived at the steel mill, the security guard asked in a strange tone, "Aren't you off work?"

Zhou Yimin stopped and handed the other party a cigarette: "Get some good stuff, wait for the meat tomorrow!"

The guard's eyes lit up, he looked at the things on the ox cart, and quickly opened the door: "Go in quickly, go in quickly."

If you can bring back meat to the factory, you are the boss!

After entering, Zhou Yimin first notified his "boss" Section Chief Wang.

Section Chief Wang was both surprised and delighted.

"Two wild boars? Good boy, this is exactly what happened in the past two days. Come on, take me to see it."

He is not low-key and spreads the news along the way.

His men got two wild boars, and he was asked to keep a low profile? Impossible. It was finally their turn for the fourth section and the fifth unit to be exposed. Everyone must know about it.

People from other departments in the purchasing department were jealous.

What kind of luck is this?

Other section chiefs began to reprimand their purchasing agents, asking them if they still wanted to make progress, and if they did, they should work harder.

A large crowd of people came to watch, and some of them kept drooling as they looked at the two wild boars.

"Handle it quickly, weigh it, register it, and pay." Wang Weimin said to the person who received it.

Two burly men came to the canteen, holding butcher knives, and they expertly removed the hair and gutted the pig...

"Yimin, this is Section Chief Zheng from our Fourth Section." Wang Weimin introduced him to Zhou Yimin.

"Hello, Chief Zheng!"

Section Chief Zheng was in a good mood and patted Zhou Yimin on the shoulder to show his closeness: "Yimin, right? You have a bright future. Work hard!"

Soon after, the statistics came out and the net weight was 203 kilograms.

After Wang and Zheng fought for it, the factory recorded the price at 9 cents. This was a little higher than the market price of 8 cents per pound of pork, but no one said anything, after all, it was really hard to find meat now.

Not to mention 9 cents, the factory has to pay at least 1 dollar. There is no way they will let the meat slip away.

As a result, Zhou Yimin earned 182.7 yuan.

Adding the previous 141 yuan, the funds on hand exceed 300 yuan.

(End of this chapter)