country made

This summer is particularly sultry, and the season is bitter, so I try to move as much as I can.Today, I forced myself to get up early in the morning for the sake of helping, and Song Jining knew him best, seeing how he was struggling to lift his spirits, he immediately took Ji Zhu home, spread a mat on the floor of the living room, and put an electric fan , let Ji rafter lie back to catch up on sleep.

It was already noon when Ji Yu woke up, and lay down in a daze for a while, only when he heard the sound of the kitchen, did he realize that he was at Brother Song's house.Get up and go to the kitchen, see Song Jining is cooking.

"Are you awake? How about eating cold bitter gourd today?"

Ji Yu nodded: "Do you want my help?"

"No, it'll be ready soon, you take the porridge out."

The porridge was put in a rice bowl and placed on the water basin, which was already cold.Ji Yu brought the porridge to the dining table, and Song Jining also came out with two plates.His cooking skills are not very good, he only scrambled a plate of eggs, and a plate of cold bitter gourd.

The bitter gourd was not cooked well, and it was very, very bitter in the mouth. Song Jining frowned and said, "I heard that this stuff reduces fire, even if it is bitter, you should eat a few more bites."

Ji Yu had no choice but to eat a few more yuan with a bitter face, and his little face wrinkled into the appearance of a bitter gourd.

Song Jining patted him comfortingly: "It's okay, I will do it a few more times in the future, and it won't be hard after I get used to it."

"Then don't look for me until you're proficient." Ji Yu was ungrateful, his mouth couldn't stand the bitterness.

Song Jining couldn't eat it himself, so he said helplessly, "Okay, I'll do something else for you in the future."

Not long after the two finished their lunch, the friends came back.Those defective products were all covered, and there were a few things left in the end, so they simply sold them at a low price.After such a morning, I actually made more than five yuan today, a pure profit.

Although it wasn't enough for each of them to share a piece, they basically didn't do anything, just sat there and chatted, not tired at all.Calculated in terms of labor force, it is more profitable than Song Jining's home appliance repair. When Song Jining repaired home appliances, he had to walk around the streets and shout non-stop.

"Xiao Song, here, this is today's income." They didn't covet this little money, and gave it to Song Jining.

Song Jining did not delay, and wrote a list, asking them to use the money to buy things on the list.

"Brother Song, what do you want to do?" Ji Yu asked curiously.

"I finished reading Uncle Ji's "The Autobiography of Iacocca" some time ago. I found it very interesting and wanted to give it a try." It was a story about a talented salesman, and it was also the autobiography of a CEO of an automobile dynasty.There is no bragging content in the story, plain and simple, with successes and failures, honesty and cunning, which opened the door to the capitalist world for Song Jining.

Originally, Song Jining was just thinking about what he would do if he was given a chance, but suddenly everyone in the town ran to do business, and his friends also wanted to do business, so he thought he might as well try it out during the summer vacation.Anyway, it's a small-cost business. If you succeed, you count it as an experience, and if you fail, you don't lose anything.

Friends bought back the colored paper and bamboo branches that Song Jining had specified, and Song Jining took them to cut bamboo and make toys.

Although Ji Zhuan couldn't stand the heat, he cheered up to help.However, he didn't even have ordinary life skills, let alone bamboo weaving. He helped cut a few pieces of bamboo, and his fingers were scratched by bamboo branches.

"hiss--!!"

Bamboo shavings pierced into the meat, Ji Yu hissed, and was about to get it out, when Song Jining had already come over: "Don't move."

He grabbed Ji Zhuan's hand, pinched the fingertips lightly, and pulled out the bamboo chips with tweezers. Seeing the blood dripping out, he put Ji Zhuan's fingers in his mouth and licked them, because he was worried that there were still bamboo chips in his fingertips , he licked his fingertips with the tip of his tongue for several days, and asked Ji Yu, "Do you still feel pain?"

Ji Yu shook his head in a daze, the finger dust that had been licked seemed to be numb.

"Is there any pain?" Song Jining gently pinched Ji Yu's fingers and asked.

"Nothing."

Song Jining let go of Ji Yu and rubbed his hair: "You should help us cut paper!"

In addition to their poor academic performance, the little friends have perfect manual skills, ranging from electrical and electronics to hand-knitting, they actually know everything!

"What's the matter, things like bamboo frogs, we used to play with them when we were kids!"

Even the carefree Ji Yong is very good at it. Seeing Ji Yu's stunned face, Brother Ji expressed his pettiness arrogantly.

"I made you a grasshopper when you were a child!"

Song Jining led everyone to weave a lot of toys with bamboo branches and grass leaves. Although these things looked good, they were only good, and they couldn't compare with the toys produced by the toy factory.Of course, there are still children who like it. Based on the current prices, one can sell for a dime or two?

Ji Zhuo helped paste the toy with paper, the appearance looked more delicate, but it was not better.

Everyone is not a professional, so many people work together, and only one basket of hand-woven products can be done.

"Do you want to sell these, or keep trapping them?"

someone asked.

"No need."

This time Song Jining only took Ji Yu, Ji Yong, Zhou Chong, Pan Zhijie and a few others, and drove to the city together.

"I remember there was a Friendship Store in the city?"

Now basically in larger cities, regardless of whether they have foreign friends or not, they have opened friendship shops, but the transaction still can only rely on foreign exchange certificates.There is a Friendship Store in Laijiang City, which is next to the department store.

The salesperson of the Friendship Store has undergone special etiquette training. He smiles when he sees people and is extremely polite: "May I help you?"

This made Ji Yong and the others at a loss when they came to the Friendship Store for the first time. They didn't dare to look around for fear of being treated as bumpkins.

Song Jining is very good at making friends, and chatted with the young salesperson in a few moments, so in the end, when he said he would send the basket of straw toys to the Friendship Store for consignment, the young salesperson was reluctant to refuse, and Song Jining said that he would give her a commission Finally, he readily agreed.

Ji Yong's eyes widened in confusion: "This, this kind of thing is sold in the Friendship Store?!"

You must know that the Friendship Store sells all high-end goods, such as cameras, radios, wine, Coca-Cola, etc., all of which are high-end goods. How dare they send these cheap bamboo items to the Friendship Store?

Song Jining looked calm. Seeing that his friends were anxious, he explained: "When Yuanyuan and I participated in the science and technology exhibition in Pubai City, the students there told a lot of interesting stories about foreigners. Among them, they said that foreigners are actually very I like handicrafts with ethnic culture, and I think they might like them."

"However, ours are not handicrafts!"

Zhou Chong looked terrified: "We didn't do very well, and we actually wanted to sell it to foreigners. Will we be scolded?"

"Who would scold you? Do they know you? Anyway, if no one wants it, at most the basket of toys can be thrown away, and it's worthless. There's nothing to worry about." Song Jining turned to Ji Yu: "Right, Yuan edge."

Ji Yu nodded: "Don't worry, I think someone will like it."

Even in the era before his rebirth, such small handicrafts were still very popular among foreigners. Now that the country has just started to contact foreign countries, I believe such small things should be more popular.

And as Song Jining said, if no one wanted it, they would just lose a basket of toys, so don't take it too seriously.

The friends decided that foreigners would not like these things, so they quickly gave up and continued to discuss what to do.Unexpectedly, within a few days, Song Jining went to the city and brought back a sum of money.

He didn't tell his friends, in fact, he ran to the city every day, secretly observed, and finally waited for a foreign couple.Song Jining took the initiative to talk to them in broken English, and made a dragonfly for them face to face, so the couple generously bought a whole basket of hand-woven toys.

Song Jining offered 50 yuan for a basket, but for the sake of his students, the couple didn't pay back a penny of the price, and gave him a tip of 2 yuan.

Of course, foreign exchange certificates are used.

On the surface, the exchange rate between foreign exchange certificates and RMB is 1:1. In fact, the black market has reached 1:2 or even higher.After Song Jining got the foreign exchange certificate, he immediately exchanged it with the shop's customers at an exchange rate of 1:2 on the spot, and instantly pocketed 104 yuan.

It was one-third more than he expected, and his psychological price was 30 yuan. He didn't expect foreigners to be so generous that they wouldn't even pay back the price.

No wonder everyone likes to do business with foreigners.

Song Jining, who brought the money home, did not share the proceeds. He called his friends to his home and said to them: "I remember, you should have learned a lot about electrical engineering and electronics, including the basics of robot manufacturing, right?"

All the friends nodded.

"I will give you one week to design a toy with the knowledge you have learned. There is no limit to the type and any shape. You can cooperate or design it yourself. Let me explain first that we will choose the toy you design. Make a few into real objects!"

Designing a robot and then making it into a real thing, the friends didn't think it was anything special.When they were in school, they often watched Ji Zhuan draw design drawings, and then made things out, and they often did it by hand!

However, it is the first time to design by myself, and the theme is limited to toys, which sounds very interesting.Let them make an electronic toy by themselves. Due to their level, they can’t do it, but they draw one by themselves and give it to Ji Zhuan. come out.

Ji Chen watched the friends laugh all the way home, and discussed what toy to design, then turned to look at Song Jining, and asked, "Little Brother Song, do you want to produce toys?"

"Think about it, if we can build a factory." Song Jining sighed, since Ji Yu used to be the factory manager to lure him, he thought about building a factory of his own, specializing in the production of things he likes.Such as radio, such as television.

It's a pity that after understanding it, I found it very difficult. Not to mention the capital and personnel. Now, except for the factories invested by Hong Kong and Taiwan in the south, all factories in China belong to the state. No more than 6 employees are allowed.

Isn't 6 people just a small workshop, not as many as his friends, what can they do?

"It's impossible to build a factory, but a small number of toys should be fine. Yuanyuan, do you have any toys you want? Do you want to design a few?"

Ji Chen waved his hand: "The only thing I can call a toy is the spider-shaped robot, which has been taken away by Grandpa Lu. Forget about the others. I don't know as much about toys as ordinary children."

Probably because the summer vacation was really too busy, and within a week, the friends handed in the toys they designed.According to Ji Zhuan's drawing habit, they also drew a detailed internal circuit diagram in addition to the exterior.

However, most of them have problems, either because the wiring is blocked, or because they look strange, and they are not things that can become commodities.