Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 638: Grain Station News
This was the first time Wang Wenyuan came to the state-owned grain store. It was not that he did not want to come, but there was no need. He could buy grain anywhere, even fine grains. There were no necessary restrictions on grain at this time, but the authorities were still taking strong measures to crack down on those grain hoarding merchants with ulterior motives.

Wang Wenyuan searched Yan Jiekuang's memory and found that in 1953, Yan Jiekuang had no memory of the flour purchase certificate. Wang Wenyuan was very curious. There were several large houses facing the street, with a white sign with red fonts on it, which read "Jiaodaokou State-owned Grain Store".

There were not many people at the door and it looked deserted. Wang Wenyuan guessed that people nowadays still bought food in the old way and did not come here at all. Wang Wenyuan walked in with the little girl. It was better inside than outside, with two more sales clerks. Wang Wenyuan looked around and saw a woman in her forties leaning against the cabinet next to the counter, one hand on the counter and the other on her chin, dozing off with her eyes closed. The other was a young man in his twenties, who was sitting on a pile of food, staring at Wang Wenyuan who suddenly came in.

Wang Wenyuan smiled at him and gestured to the young man with the flour certificate. The young man came over and frowned at Wang Wenyuan. Wang Wenyuan handed him the flour certificate and asked, "Sir, do you know how to buy flour? How do you use this certificate?"

The young man didn't take it. He looked at it and said, "This is useless. It was originally given to the martyrs' families, but now the flour outside is cheaper than what we sell here, so this certificate is useless. It may be useful in the future, but I don't know about the rest."

Wang Wenyuan didn't understand and looked at the young man in confusion. At this time, the woman next to him said, "Brother, let me tell you the truth. This certificate is useless now. It was originally a discount for martyrs' families, but now the price of grain here is higher than that in the outside market, and no one comes to buy it. What's the use of your certificate? My child said the same thing. When the price of grain outside is higher than this, your certificate may be useful."

Wang Wenyuan understood that this was a useless certificate. He didn't know who had the idea to distribute some of the certificates to the martyrs' families when the state-owned grain store was established. This was why Feng's mother and the others were concerned about it. They probably had never used it once, which was why they asked him to come.

Wang Wenyuan looked at the grain inside and asked, "Is this all new grain this year? How are you selling it?"

Both of them were stunned and looked at each other, wondering if this guy was stupid. They had already told him that the price here was more expensive than the market, so why was he still asking? But they had to answer since he asked.

The woman said, "The grain must be new grain. The rice outside is now 7,000 yuan per catty, but here it is 7,500 yuan per catty. The flour is Shanghai flour. Outside it should be 4,500 yuan per catty, but here it is 5,000 yuan per catty."

Wang Wenyuan had a sudden idea. He had a lot of money in his savings and space. The food in his home was brought by Xiao Hei last time, and half of it had been used up. The reason for the lot of money was that Wang Wenyuan had a lot of gold in his space. When he had nothing to do, he would exchange it for money. This was also to respond to the call to hand in the gold. That's it. Less than one-fifth of the gold in his warehouse was sold out. During the chaotic period before liberation, he collected gold from a bank.

Wang Wenyuan gave the little girl a candy and asked her to sit on a stool at the door to eat it. The little girl smiled at Wang Wenyuan and went obediently.

Wang Wenyuan turned around and asked, "How much food do you have in total? I want all of it. By the way, what kind of oil is that? Do you want to sell it?"

The women were instantly excited. They also had sales, but because the price was higher than outside, they were worried that they couldn't sell it. So they said, "We have 1,000 kilograms of rice and 2,000 kilograms of flour. We have two barrels of oil, each weighing 500 kilograms. One barrel of soybean oil and one barrel of rapeseed oil. They are all good oils. The price of oil is 15,000 yuan per kilogram."

Wang Wenyuan smiled and said, "What's your name, big sister? My last name is Wang, Wang Wenyuan, deputy chief of the security department of the steel rolling mill. My home is at No. 93 Maoer Hutong. You can find someone to organize it, load it on a truck and transport it to me and put it in the warehouse. I will give you an extra 5,000 yuan. Please calculate the bill first."

The young man also understood what this strange customer meant, and immediately became as excited as the older sister. While calculating the bill, the older sister smiled and said to Wang Wenyuan: "My last name is Gu, and I'm the webmaster of this website. This is new, and you're the first person to support me. OK, come to me if you have any problems in the future, and I promise I won't be ambiguous."

After working for a long time, Sister Gu said, "The total is 19 million. The shipping fee is waived. Brother, you have supported my work. I can't thank you enough." Wang Wenyuan took out the money from his pocket, counted out 9.5 million and handed it over, then said, "Don't worry, men are always right. This is 9.5 million. You count it first as a deposit. You send it over and I will give you the remaining 10 million. Oh, you have to give me a receipt."

When Sister Gu heard this, she didn't hesitate to accept the payment and issued a receipt. She said, "Okay, wait at home. I promise to deliver it in an hour. Wait for you."

Wang Wenyuan smiled, took the little girl away, went out, went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and bought a lot of snacks for the little girl. It’s not that the snacks in private shops are not good, it’s true that the newly opened supply and marketing cooperative has a more complete range of things.

When I got home, I saw Mother Feng busy in the kitchen, so I told her about the flour certificate and how I bought grain to support the state-owned grain store. Mother Feng rolled her eyes and said, "You have so much money to burn, so I'll use you to support it. If it's expensive, just come back and it's fine. There's no need to make so much trouble."

Wang Wenyuan didn't care and said casually: "I've already bought it. Who else out there can buy such a large quantity? Just eat it slowly. It won't go bad."

Wang Wenyuan had not spoken a few words to Mother Feng when he heard the sound of a horse carriage outside. He ran out in a hurry and took a closer look. He really did not expect that Sister Gu was such a straightforward person. As soon as he arrived home, she brought people to deliver food, as well as the two eye-catching barrels of oil. Wang Wenyuan quickly ran to the gate of his yard, opened the door wide, and then guided the delivery people to move the things to his warehouse.

My own basement warehouse is still confidential, so I asked people to put the food in the corridor. It was very tidy and troublesome. People were busy transporting food here, and Sister Gu came over embarrassedly on the other side.

Wang Wenyuan thought he was asking for money, so he quickly ran to the study to get it. Sister Gu was stunned. When Wang Wenyuan came over with the money, she realized that Wang Wenyuan thought she was here to collect the balance.

Sister Gu pulled Wang Wenyuan and said, "Brother Wang, I'm sorry, look at the price of this oil barrel, I forgot to calculate it, it's very expensive, look."

Wang Wenyuan was stunned, then laughed and said, "Yeah, I forgot too. Tell me how much it is."

"Twenty-five thousand each, a total of fifty thousand. It's quite expensive, but we have no choice." Sister Gu said in embarrassment.

Wang Wenyuan smiled and said, "I know, don't be embarrassed, I know, this is a strategic material, this is 10 million, you count it first, this is 50,000."

Wang Wenyuan paid the full amount to Sister Gu, and after the goods were moved, Sister Gu and her people left happily.

But no one expected that this sale would lead all state-owned stores to introduce a policy of limiting quantities and not allowing individuals to buy in large quantities, which went against the original intention of setting up state-owned stores.

(End of this chapter)