Rebirth 1979: Marrying a poor girl at the beginning

The late emperor died before he could even start his career! Lin Zhengjun was unwilling to accept this, so he could only smile and say, "I'll leave now. I want to go to the toilet, is that ok?"

"Go east, there is a toilet..." the guard pointed.

Lin Zhengjun put down the maltose and walked towards the bathroom reluctantly.

At this time, a staff member hurried to the entrance of the purchasing and sales department and shouted loudly: "Director Hao, the foreign language teacher of the county high school suddenly had heatstroke and was admitted to the hospital. He only translated a fertilizer manual and then quit. Let us find a solution ourselves!"

"What should we do? This batch of imported fertilizers and pesticides will be put on sale soon, but there are no instructions for use. How are the members going to use them?" Director Hao's worried voice rang out.

At that time, the domestic chemical industry had a weak foundation and large quantities of fertilizers and pesticides had to be imported.

Recently, the county supply and marketing cooperative coordinated a batch of nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides imported from the United States from the superior state-owned chemical foreign trade company and happily shipped them back.

Who knew that the Chinese instruction manual was lost by a careless driver, leaving only the English version.

In recent years, foreign language education in China has stagnated and foreign language talents are extremely scarce. After asking around for a long time, the supply and marketing commune found out that only an English teacher in the county high school could translate.

Who would have thought that he had heatstroke and was hospitalized before he even finished translating. This was really bad news!

"It has delayed the application of fertilizers and pesticides to crops in autumn, affecting agricultural production. Who can bear this crime?"

"Oh! It's all the fault of those useless people in the transport team. Report the truth to the head office leaders. We can't let our purchasing and sales department take the blame anyway!"

“Can we find someone to translate?”

"Where can we find it? These English letters and scribbles make me dizzy just looking at them!" Several colleagues looked worried, and Director Hao was also at a loss.

At this moment, a voice sounded at the door: "How about I try to translate?"

Director Hao looked at Lin Zhengjun in surprise: "Do you know English?"

"Well, I learned English when I was in high school, and I have memorized the English-Chinese dictionary!" Lin Zhengjun said confidently.

"Okay, you try to translate this first!" Director Hao handed an English instruction manual to Lin Zhengjun doubtfully.

Lin Zhengjun sat down at the table, picked up a pen and paper, and began to translate sentence by sentence.

In his previous life, Lin Zhengjun worked in foreign trade and often read foreign language materials. He did not need a translator to negotiate with foreigners, and translation was not difficult at all.

The instruction manual for the nitrogen fertilizer was not long, only about three hundred words, and Lin Zhengjun finished translating it quickly.

Director Hao was cautious because the instructions for use of the nitrogen fertilizer had been translated by a teacher from the county high school, so he immediately compared the two translations.

Lin Zhengjun's translation is exactly the same in meaning, and the wording is even more precise, and the overall translation is more fluent and smooth.

"Okay, okay, the translation is good. I didn't expect you to be a talent in foreign languages. Hurry up and translate it!" Director Hao couldn't help but look at Lin Zhengjun with admiration and handed him the English version of the pesticide instructions.

Lin Zhengjun took ten minutes to complete the translation and handed it over.

"Hurry up and print it out, and stick one copy on each bottle of pesticide!" Director Hao handed the translation to his colleague.

He shook hands with Lin Zhengjun with a beaming look on his face. "Oh, Comrade Zhengjun, you have helped us a lot. Thank you so much! How much do you want for the translation?"

"Director Hao, no need, it's just a piece of cake!"

Lin Zhengjun said with a smile: "How about, Director Hao, take a look at the candies I made, maybe they can meet your requirements!"

"I'm sorry for being slow to treat you just now. Please bring it to me quickly!" Director Hao's emotions were visibly high.

Lin Zhengjun grabbed a handful of maltose and placed it on Director Hao's desk: "Try it."

“It turns out to be maltose!”

Director Hao picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. His eyes lit up and he said in surprise, "Hmm! Not bad, very sweet, and not greasy, it tastes better than fruit candy!"

Adhering to the principle of equal treatment, Lin Zhengjun let several other staff members taste it.

“Delicious, crispy, and bursts when you chew it!”

“It’s not only sweet, but also has the aroma of sesame and rice flour. It tastes great!”

"The color is beautiful, bright white, and very appetizing at first sight!" Several colleagues praised it highly.

Director Hao smiled and said, "Comrade Zhengjun, you have good skills. Why didn't you do it earlier? Our supply and marketing cooperative has been short of sugar."

Huaibian County is located in the southern part of the Central Plains. It is not a beet or sugarcane producing area and there is no sugar factory locally. The supply and marketing cooperative needs to coordinate sugar from other regions and supply it with tickets. There has been a long-term shortage of supply, and the citizens have great dissatisfaction.

"The situation was tense before. Even if the brigade started a collective sideline business, some people would accuse it of being productivity-oriented and forgetting about struggle, let alone starting a family sideline business."

Lin Zhengjun smiled and said, "The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was successfully held, announcing the lifting of the ban on rural industry and commerce, and family sideline businesses and rural trade markets were recognized. Only then did we dare to develop family sideline businesses!"

"Understand, understand."

Director Hao smiled and said, "I plan to buy all of this batch of hemp candy. What do you think is a suitable price?"

"Director Hao, 80 cents per pound." Lin Zhengjun said with a smile.

"Expensive!"

Director Hao said frankly, "The fruit candies produced by the state-owned factories in the supply and marketing cooperative are priced at 1.1 yuan per pound, and the mixed candies are 1.2 yuan per pound. After all, your sesame candies are produced by a small family workshop, so I'm afraid they can only be priced at 1 yuan. In this way, the profit of the supply and marketing cooperative is only 20 cents. What's your cost? I guess it's only 30 or 40 cents."

"It should be appropriately high."

Lin Zhengjun opened his mouth and said, "I just started making sesame candy. The process is not mature, and I wasted a lot of food to make the first batch of products. The total cost is actually about 60 or 70 cents!"

"Besides, I am a small individual workshop after all. I am penniless and have to buy food on credit. As the saying goes, workers and farmers are one family. You have to give me some support!"

"You are such a clever talker."

Director Hao clapped his hands and laughed, "Okay, then I'll buy it at 80 cents per pound. But when your craftsmanship matures, you have to lower the price for me!"

"must!"

Everyone first carried the maltose to the warehouse for weighing, a total of 120 kilograms. After the warehouse signed for it, Director Hao took Lin Zhengjun to the accounting office.

Lin Zhengjun signed and received 96 yuan.

Lin Zhengjun felt very happy.

40 kilograms of wheat, combined with 200 kilograms of corn, cost a total of more than 22 yuan, and the profit is more than three times, which is simply a huge profit!

The key is that there is no risk, and you can also make friends within the system like Director Hao, killing two birds with one stone.

"Thank you, Director Hao!" Lin Zhengjun thanked Director Hao with a smile after returning to his office.

"Brother Zhengjun, you're welcome. I also want to thank you for solving my urgent problem."

Director Hao poured tea with a smile: "From now on, we are friends. If you need my help, just let me know!"

Lin Zhengjun handed Director Hao a Mudan cigarette and said with a smile, "Director Hao, to be honest, I really need your help with something!"

"Speak! I like straightforward people!" Director Hao said with a smile.

"My family hasn't had meat for half a year. I want to give my parents a good meal. I also want to buy some toothbrushes, towels, soap and other things, but I don't have any tickets..." Lin Zhengjun said.

These days, you need tickets to buy almost everything, from rice to refined salt, from towels to batteries, from iron pots to umbrellas, from radios to luggage, and even manure.

Especially for large items, such as bicycles, not only bicycle tickets are required, but also industrial coupons.

Industrial coupons are issued based on the proportion of wages, with an average of one coupon for every 20 yuan, and have a wide range of applications.

In fact, these tickets are just a kind of purchase voucher in a tight economy, which means that you are qualified to buy things, and you still cannot pay a penny less when buying things.

But some people need these tickets, and some people have surplus, so some people will resell them. As for the price, that depends on the market.

"It's rare that you are so filial. I don't have anything else, but this is what I have in abundance." Director Hao laughed and took out a stack of tickets from the drawer and let Lin Zhengjun choose.

Lin Zhengjun picked some and said with a smile, "Director Hao, how much is it? I'll give it to you."

"Zhengjun, you are cursing me! We are friends, yet you still argue with me about money!" Director Hao pretended to be dissatisfied.

"Okay, Director Hao, I'll remember this kindness in my heart." Lin Zhengjun didn't act pretentiously.

He has been doing business all his life and is very experienced in dealing with people.

Knowing that insisting on giving money will only make the relationship estranged, the better to keep in touch with others as normal, there will naturally be a chance to repay the favor.

"now it's right!"