Shiye Hui stood at the door and looked pitifully at Song TIANYAO. Song TIANYAO had complained about him too many times. When he first met song TIANYAO, if he scolded him, shiye Hui might be scared for a long time and dare not breathe. He went back and thought hard about how he made Secretary song unhappy, but after too many times, Shiye Hui himself is used to seeing song TIANYAO scolded every time. If song TIANYAO smiles at him and praises him for doing well, he will feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, song TIANYAO scolded him for not being able to observe his words and feelings and not doing well in delivering vegetables. He didn''t care at all. He covered his eyes and raised his head
"As secretary Song said, I went to xiyingpan barracks to deliver vegetables for the soldiers. I sent the vegetables to the barracks warehouse for cigarettes, wine and salt. After coming out, wow, not far from the barracks, I was stopped by a group of grannies, scolded me as an idiot, and said that I only took so little. What should they do in the future? Just after I distinguished a few words, an granny spit at me!"
"Did you beat that grandma?" song TIANYAO asked shiye Hui.
Shiye Hui lowered his head: "No, she spit at me. Of course I spit at her. Of course she''s not as bad as me when she''s old. Where did she spit at me? But just after I spit her, a rural man came out behind her. He was strong like a cow. He punched me and beat me like this. Most of the tobacco, wine and groceries were divided by those grannies."
"You are so sharp. I can spit on you with the old man, and even the goods can be robbed by the rural grandma." song TIANYAO grabbed his scalp, turned twice, and said to shiye Hui that he hated iron and steel.
During this time, he was ready to read and recharge, but Lou Fengyun, his parents, ah Shuan''s orphan and widowed mother, and the teacher Hui in front of him always had to do something. Although song TIANYAO could withdraw 8000 Hong Kong dollars a month from Guanya''s account at this time, it was more than enough to take care of these people, song TIANYAO didn''t want to let these people idle. It was not that he was reluctant to spend money to raise them Home, but he always feels that people will only be more idle and lazy. It''s better to do something busy to make themselves look more energetic.
Lou Fengyun now sits in the western medicine store every day, just like the big shopkeeper of the British and German western medicine store. She can count goods, keep accounts and collect money by herself. She lets song TIANYAO''s mother Zhao Meizhen hang the title of the nominal landlady. Every day, she only has to sit in the rain and rain corridor outside the door, play mahjong, chat and quarrel with the neighbors. She doesn''t even do three meals a day. Song TIANYAO and song Chunliang are even better I go to Liheng company once a week to buy goods. The rest of my time is sitting in a chair with the radio and listening to the radio. Song Wenwen is the most unhappy because she is responsible for cooking and cleaning up the housework for Lou Fengyun and her parents, who are rarely lazy.
Although Shuan''s wife, sister-in-law Fen, was placed in the one storey Tang building on Jordan Road in Kowloon by song TIANYAO and hired a maid, she was also born in a poor family and was not used to rich and idle people. When the Yingde western medicine store opened, she had repeatedly told Zhao Meizhen and even song TIANYAO herself that she wanted no salary and asked her to come to the western medicine store to help do things and run errands to express her intention Just fine.
Wu Xiuer has a maid to take care of her meals and housework every day. Seeing that sister-in-law Fen is really restless, song TIANYAO simply rented the store on the first floor of Tang building where sister-in-law Fen''s mother and daughter live in Jotun, Kowloon, and opened a small Wu Ji miscellaneous foreign goods store to take care of sister-in-law Fen. In this way, she lives upstairs and stores downstairs, and a woman doesn''t need to travel too far.
As soon as the store opened, shiye Hui rushed to the street and took the initiative to find song TIANYAO. He said that it was enough for his boss sister Yun to take care of the western medicine store alone. It was sister Fen''s woman''s house. She was an orphan and widowed mother. She didn''t know how to read. I''m afraid she was easy to be cheated. It''s better for him to help sister Fen take care of the foreign grocery store. That little joy hung on her face before she opened her mouth. She couldn''t hide.
When shiye Hui opened his mouth, he thought song TIANYAO wouldn''t agree. Unexpectedly, song TIANYAO agreed to let shiye Hui help sister-in-law Fen. However, instead of running the grocery store, he went to buy the vegetables that the rural aborigines in the new territories wanted to sell in the city every morning, remember to weigh them, and then ship them to xiyingpan military camp on Hong Kong Island to exchange the tobacco, wine, salt and sugar in the hands of the British troops stationed in Hong Kong And so on, and then transported back to the grocery store for sale.
The reason why song TIANYAO asked shiye Hui to do barter in the British military camp in Hong Kong is not that he has the unreliable idea of reselling the British military funds in Hong Kong. Barter in the military camp is now one of the most common small businesses among the low-level people in Hong Kong.
The British garrison in Hong Kong received all kinds of materials from the huge base in Hong Kong when Japan surrendered, because after Japan captured Hong Kong, it built Hong Kong as a logistics supply base and a wounded sanatorium in Southeast Asia. In addition to the materials supplied by Japan, most of the materials looted after invading Southeast Asia were also transported to Hong Kong. After Japan surrendered, all these materials were cheaper British troops stationed in Hong Kong.
Baijiu troops pile up like a mountain hand, and they can''t handle ships, machines, rubber, kerosene and so on. They are helped by the colonial government of Hongkong to auction for money. But in addition to those rush supplies, all kinds of cigarettes, towels, liquor, sugar, salt and other materials still accumulate in more than 30 warehouses of more than ten barracks.
Most of these production dates are living materials seven or even ten years ago. Quartermaster officers in various British barracks are helpless. Towels, sugar and salt can still rely on the internal digestion of more than 10000 British troops stationed in Hong Kong. However, most cigarettes are Japanese cigarettes. In addition, they are stored for too long and lack of taste. They are even distributed as free benefits, What Baijiu people who smoke the British cigarettes do not want to come to collect. For liquor, let the British soldiers who drink the smoky whisky, or the fruit brandy or even the light beer to drink the pungent Oriental Baijiu is almost the same as forcing them to drink poison.
As the British Expeditionary Force stationed in Hong Kong in the Far East, these British soldiers enjoyed the privilege of accompanying their families after the war. As the children of their families with a population of more than 10000 went to Hong Kong, in addition to expanding the area of the camp, increasing the number of family houses and building kindergartens inside the camp, In addition to primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, restaurants, shops and other supporting facilities, various military barracks have fallen into a food and vegetable crisis. It is not because their families are with the army that the salaries of these British soldiers are not enough to buy vegetables and food. It is precisely considering that their families are with the army that this expeditionary force has increased their salaries, It is used to ensure that every British soldier''s salary is enough to meet the expenses of a family in the military camp.
The salary is indeed much higher, but the military camp does not have enough food and vegetables. The British troops stationed in Hong Kong should transport all living materials, including meat, wine and even flour, from Britain or Australia. The British military only ensures that these more than 10000 soldiers have enough living materials, without taking into account the needs of a large number of family members, The reason is that the salaries of these soldiers have been increased. The salary increase is to take into account the reasons for their families to join the army. What their families need can be purchased by themselves in Hong Kong.
However, Hong Kong does not have much land. Even the rice eaten by the Chinese themselves was imported from the mainland and Thailand. After the embargo was issued, the price of rice has risen a lot, causing complaints among the people of Hong Kong. As for the flour market in Hong Kong, it is monopolized by Australian and American companies. It is common for poor people to eat rice, but few can afford flour.
In the past, the vegetables of the British military barracks in Hong Kong were purchased by Quartermaster officers in the market. Now the families of the soldiers have learned to take money to buy vegetables and grain in the nearby market and cook by themselves. Often when the Quartermaster officers go to purchase vegetables, the vegetables have been purchased by the families of the soldiers. The Hong Kong people selling vegetables are ready to close the stalls, and there are no more than a few leaves left.
The number of British troops stationed in Hong Kong is only 12000, but the number of military families, including children, has exceeded 10000. The military families have a huge consumption of local vegetables, so they can''t make a simple vegetable salad for the soldiers now because there are not enough vegetables.
In desperation, quartermaster officers of several military barracks near the new territories, after asking for instructions from the chief, moved the mind of the Japanese army''s materials, took the lead in opening the material warehouse and engaged in barter activities with the local people. Vegetables and grain were exchanged for tobacco, wine, tea and sugar. Originally, vegetables and grain in Hong Kong were produced in the new territories. In their spare time, rural people would also go to the city to sell vegetables, Now when these people in the new territories see ghost guys trading cigarettes and wine for vegetables, they push wheelbarrows or pick up shoulder poles to fill their own vegetables and grain. They no longer go to the city and send them directly to the military camp. Exchanging two baskets of vegetables for two baskets of cigarettes is definitely a big profit for the people. To the quartermaster, those cigarettes and wine have lost their taste and occupy the warehouse, which is no different from waste products, It''s a great advantage to exchange two baskets of vegetables.
This happy barter soon spread from the new territories to Kowloon and then to Hong Kong Island. Quartermaster officers at various barracks said that we also have expired materials that are moldy in the warehouse and no one wants. Simply began to barter, vegetables and grain for materials.
However, the military barracks on Hong Kong Island have no advantage, because the people choose to barter the green vegetables produced in the new territories military barracks or Kowloon military barracks nearby, and they can exchange the same things. Of course, they will not run all the way to Hong Kong Island and pay for a ferry to send two baskets of green vegetables to the ghost soldiers who can''t afford green vegetables on Hong Kong Island.
The Quartermaster of the xiyingpan garrison, who was unwilling to exchange materials with himself, had to reduce the price. A basket of green vegetables was exchanged for a basket and a half of tobacco and wine. After the profit was slightly higher, some people were willing to get together and send green vegetables across the sea at one time.
What song TIANYAO asked shiyehui to do was barter with three military barracks on Hong Kong Island. His arrangement was to let shiyehui collect vegetables from rural vegetable farmers in the new territories at a price better than that of the military barracks in the new territories, and then use a minivan to take a cargo ship to xiyingpan military barracks on Hong Kong Island in exchange for tobacco and wine supplies.
In fact, song TIANYAO knows that with the trend of barter, the price of expired tobacco and wine exchanged from these military camps is worthless outside. It can even be said that the price is about to fall. It is not even as good as green vegetables. The reason is that those vegetable farmers blindly lower the price when they get tobacco and wine and don''t understand the market situation. The former vegetable farmer may sell a cigarette for HK $5, In order to get rid of it more quickly, the latter vegetable farmer can sell all the cigarettes on his hands for HK $4, followed by three yuan, two yuan and one yuan. After the initial huge profits, there is only a vicious circle of price depression and dumping.
Song TIANYAO didn''t want to hoard cigarettes and alcohol to make money. He always looked more far-reaching than those ordinary people. The British warehouse will always be empty one day. This kind of business will not last long. Instead, he should improve his relationship with the British garrison and make money and losses during the time when ordinary people treat British soldiers as idiots. He can afford to lose only thirty or fifty yuan a day, Compared with the money he lost, he hoped that he could use good business ethics to tie up the contacts of Quartermaster officers in various barracks, and the real business could be carried out in the unilateral procurement of the British army after the materials were empty.
Today, he asked shiyehui to try to barter with the barracks. Shiyehui was scolded by song TIANYAO. However, he insisted on standing still and refused to roll away as instructed. When song TIANYAO finished scolding, he spoke carefully: "Secretary song, why don''t you let the guy I rescued go with me to deliver vegetables? He has been hurt a lot and has nothing to do. Although he is lame, he has always boasted that he can play well and looks like a bluff. He will deliver vegetables with me to ensure that he won''t be robbed by grandma again."
"No problem. If you want someone to accompany you, you can stay away from me now. Hurry up, I don''t want to see you." song TIANYAO pointed to the stairs behind shiye Hui, said in a weak tone and numb expression.
With the consent of song TIANYAO, shiye Hui turned and ran downstairs. As soon as he passed the corner of the stairs, his face had turned into a rotten persimmon, holding a fist in his hand and talking to himself: "Pu you am''s death is a lame dragon on the street. He lames to catch eels all day. When he comes back, he surrounds sister-in-law Fen to please and turn around! This time, ask Secretary song to send you to deliver vegetables with me! Even Secretary song can''t guess what I think. I''m very sharp. I''ll tie you around me and watch you every minute!"
Who says little people don''t have great wisdom?