My courtyard shelter

After returning from the wedding, Xu Dong was pulled into the vegetable garden by his wife. read

"What's wrong?" Someone was confused.

Yang Lina pointed to a vegetable field and ordered: "Pull out all these vegetables for me, leaving only a small piece."

"Honey, these vegetables are growing well, why do you need to pull them out?" Xu Dong, who hates waste the most, asked with a frown.

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"You think I do!" Yang Lina shook her head with a wry smile, "The water in the water tank is not enough. If you don't pull it out, it will eventually die."

"The city's water supply is going to be cut off again?" Xu Dong asked in surprise.

"It's not that the water supply is cut off, it's that the water restrictions are too severe. Now the water supply is only available for half an hour every day. The daily water supply at home is barely enough. What else can we do?"

And in this half hour of water supply, the water flow rate is not very fast. After half an hour, it can only fill two or three buckets of water, the kind of buckets that hold water in buckets.

Xu Dong quickly stopped his wife: "Wait, don't pull it out yet, I'm going to Panjiayuan to see if I can buy some water."

"Buy water? How to buy it?" Yang Lina asked doubtfully.

"You'll know if you go and ask. Wife, please wait for my good news." Xu Dong seemed confident.

In the previous life in Luyang, selling water was a big business. There is no reason why it is not available in Yanjing. As the saying goes, if there is demand, there will be a market.

Half an hour later, Xu Dong drove a minivan to Panjiayuan.

After asking around for a while, he quickly found a water seller, but the location was not on the Panjiayuan side, but on the edge of the East Fifth Ring Road.

There are only a few large-scale pure water production companies in the urban area. The factory area is very large, covering an area of ​​at least one thousand acres according to visual inspection.

Park the car and come to the gate.

"Uncle, can I ask you something?" Xu Dong stepped forward and said politely, then handed over a cigarette.

When the gatekeeper saw the cigarette, he suddenly became energetic. He took it carefully, put it under his nose and smelled it again and again, but he couldn't bear to put it in his mouth.

"Brother, tell me, what do you want to ask?"

"I want to buy some bottled water from your factory, but I don't know who to contact?" Xu Dong asked directly.

The uncle shook his head: "The water from our factory is only sold to agents and not sold individually. You have come to the wrong place."

"Do you have the agent's phone number here? My home is on the East Third Ring Road, the closer the better." Xu Dong quickly handed over another cigarette.

For the sake of the cigarettes, the uncle made a call and quickly got the agent's phone number.

Xu Dong saved the number and immediately thanked him.

Another half hour later, according to the address mentioned on the phone, he came to a street-facing shop on the edge of the Third Ring Road. All five storefronts in this row were rented by agents.

The shop was filled with bottles of water.

"Hello, I just called..."

"You are Mr. Xu, please take a seat."

The receptionist was very enthusiastic. The price of water is currently high and the bottled water business is not easy to do. It has only gotten better in the past month, thanks to the water restriction policy.

Xu Dong came to the other party's desk and sat down, then asked: "What's the price of bottled water here?"

"Our price is the same in the city, 100 yuan per barrel." The receptionist replied with a smile.

"Why is it so expensive?" Xu Dong asked in surprise.

According to the current water price, a ton of water costs almost 100 yuan, and a barrel of water weighs less than 40 kilograms, which means that one ton of water can fill 50 barrels.

Calculated in this way, the cost of a barrel of tap water is only two yuan, while the price of bottled water is a full 50 times higher.

You know, the water from the desalination plant can be drank directly. Even if the production cost and transportation cost are added, the price should not be so outrageous.

The receptionist quickly explained: "Mr. Xu, to be honest, the goods we get from the factory are also at high prices. They are a large state-owned factory and have directly set the price. There is nothing we can do."

"I buy a lot at one time, can it be cheaper?"

"I would like to ask, how many barrels do you need to buy?"

"I want to buy 300 barrels."

Xu Dong had already settled down, and 300 barrels of water was enough for their family to use for a month.

The receptionist was startled because she didn't expect to encounter a big order, so she quickly replied:

"If it's 300 barrels, we can give you a discount of five yuan per barrel."

"What about 300 barrels per month? I can place a long-term order." Xu Dong asked again.

The receptionist became more enthusiastic: "If you are willing to sign a three-year long-term contract, we can offer another five yuan discount."

"Can the price be fixed?"

If the price can be fixed, Xu Dong doesn't mind signing a ten-year or eight-year contract. According to the experience of his previous life, within ten years, freshwater resources will be in short supply.

"You are making things difficult for us. We have no pricing power. Fixing the price is too risky for both of us."

"Okay, three years, three years." Xu Dong said simply.

After signing the contract, I paid a one-time payment of 54,000 yuan.

Half of it is the water fee this time, and the other half is the deposit.

300 barrels of water is almost six tons, which is quite large. Xu Dong refused the other party's request for door-to-door delivery, and instead chose to pick up 75 barrels once a week.

This is better and the water quality is fresher.

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The shop is not far from the courtyard, only ten minutes' drive away. Xu Dong soon came back with a week's worth of water.

"Husband, how are you? Did you buy water?" Seeing her husband coming back, Yang Lina ran over and asked.

The vegetable garden was her hard work, and if possible, she would not destroy the fruits of her labor with her own hands.

"I bought it." Xu Dong nodded and opened the door of the pickup truck.

Yang Lina looked into the carriage: "Why is it bottled water? How much does this water cost?"

"It's 90 yuan a barrel, so you have to save some money." Xu Dong answered truthfully.

"What? 90 yuan, this is too expensive!"

Xu Dong sighed and said: "There is no way, the market price is like this, the original price is still 100 yuan, I bought more and it was ten yuan cheaper. I have already signed the contract, and there will be 300 barrels every month from now on."

"Then the water bill will cost 30,000 yuan a month?" Yang Lina said distressedly. In the past, this money could cover their family's living expenses for a year.

"Don't worry, this small amount of money is nothing. Your husband and I can earn decades of water bills from just one business trip." Xu Dong comforted.

From his previous emperor goose meat business, he made two tons of rice in one go. In money terms, it was probably worth a million. If the price didn't increase, it could at least cover his water bills for thirty years.

Yang Lina also knew that her family was not short of money, but she just felt distressed, probably because she was used to saving in the past.

Next, Xu Dong spent more than an hour pouring all the bottled water into the water tank in the concierge, so that it would be more convenient to use.

After finishing the work, he was almost exhausted.

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