The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 197: Procurement in Hong Kong
Jiang Cheng didn't know which bastard would marry Shen Li in the future, but she was definitely a little goblin.

"Brother Cheng, do you want me to get up and cook breakfast for you?" Shen Li gently moved her slender thighs, but did not move away from Jiang Cheng's part.

"It's too early. I'll sleep a little longer and then go out to eat. Then accompany me for a walk and I'll buy you a new set of clothes." Jiang Cheng said.

It was only five o'clock now, and some places might start unloading early at five o'clock. It was normal for Zhang Hao and his team to go to the bridge so early to wait for the recruiters to come.

When they need money urgently, it is not impossible to earn thirty or fifty yuan a day. Moreover, they are not newcomers. They will go to the dock to work. They are not willing to work because the wages are too low.

But why did Jiang Cheng get up so early? He had a plan for today. He wanted to understand the price and commodity differences in the Xiangjiang market and prepare to buy some things to sell back.

"Brother Cheng, I'll lie down with you for a while." Shen Li said.

After Shen Li finished speaking, Jiang Cheng also nodded. In this way, the two of them lied there, deceiving themselves. Jiang Cheng pretended not to know that the girl was rubbing his thigh. Shen Li also pretended that she did not deliberately touch Jiang Cheng's place. But such obvious actions were not exposed to each other.

After lying down for a long time, the two actually fell asleep for a while, and it was seven o'clock when they woke up again.

This time they got up on their own accord, washed up, went out to have breakfast, and then went to the vegetable market.

The reason why I go to the vegetable market is that vegetables in the mainland are cheaper. Some seasonal vegetables, such as winter Chinese cabbage, can be bought for free in the north.

After visiting the local vegetable market with Shen Li, Jiang Cheng was a little disappointed. The prices were a little higher than those in the mainland, but extremely limited.

There are few farmlands in Hong Kong now, but there are still many people growing vegetables in the villages. In addition, the mainland also imports a lot of storable vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and non-leaf vegetables such as beans. The price of vegetables here is really not much more expensive.

Of course, there is some profit from reselling, but Jiang Cheng doesn't think much of it.

In fact, Jiang Cheng went to the wrong place. The New Territories is the closest place to the mainland, and this is where there are the most vegetable fields in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is different from the mainland. There is no overall price control in Hong Kong. Different regions have different prices.

In the New Territories, a pound of cheap green vegetables may cost about 2 cents, and good vegetables are only 5 cent. According to the official rate in the Mainland, it is to cents, so it is not that expensive.

But in Mong Kok, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui, Central and other places, not only vegetables are expensive, but meat is also expensive. The reason is simple, the stalls and shops there are also expensive, if you don't sell vegetables at a higher price, how can you earn the stall fee?

After buying some vegetables, Jiang Cheng took Shen Li to buy clothes. She was at her aunt's house and didn't have any new clothes to wear. The clothes were patched, but they were clean.

In this era, it is actually popular in Hong Kong to find a tailor to make clothes. They can make clothes that fit well and are cheap. A good tailor can make a lot of money in Hong Kong. In addition to ordinary clothes, a good tailor can also make western suits, Zhongshan suits, cheongsams and dresses.

Shen Li didn't find anything she liked at the roadside stalls, and the clothes in the clothing store were too expensive. Finally, Shen Li took Jiang Cheng to a tailor shop and asked the tailor to make a set of ordinary clothes for him.

If you don't care about the fabric, you can save more money than the ones sold on the street stalls. But if you pay a little attention to the fabric, it's about the same.

The only trouble is getting clothes made at a tailor shop. They have to measure your body, pay a deposit after the measurements, and then you have to wait a few days before you can pick up the clothes.

When making clothes for Shen Li, Jiang Cheng asked the tailor where the fabric store in the New Territories was. After finding out, he told Shen Li to go back by herself later.

Jiang Cheng planned to buy some cloth to take back. In Baoan County BF, he found that someone was smuggling cloth from Hong Kong. This naturally meant that it was profitable to bring the cloth back.

After spending half a day finding the fabric store, I found that there were not only a wide variety of fabrics but also many varieties.

After asking about the price, I found that the fabric from Hong Kong is indeed cheap, and I even understood why it is cheap.

Hong Kong's industry and clothing manufacturing industry are now quite good. In addition to importing fabrics, they also import a lot of chemical fiber fabrics. For example, the "Dacron" currently produced in China is a chemical fiber fabric, which was originally introduced from Hong Kong.

Domestic Dacron can only be purchased internally, and its price is more expensive than cotton. Because it has brighter colors and is more wear-resistant and durable, although it has other disadvantages, for people who don't wear new clothes for several years, durability is more important than anything else. But in Hong Kong, Dacron is an industrial fabric that can be mass-produced, and the raw materials are easy to obtain and the price is low. This has a low production cost and has also seized the market share of clothing fabrics in Hong Kong.

Because Hong Kong has chemical fiber fabrics and Hong Kong people have no shortage of clothes to wear, the "Dacron" fabric is not only cheap, but also lowers the price of other fabrics.

So in Hong Kong, cotton fabrics are the same as in China, and no cloth coupons are needed. Dacron is even cheaper, because only the rich in Hong Kong would not wear it.

In fabric stores, in addition to cheap cotton and chemical fiber fabrics, there are also cheaper processed fabrics and tail-end fabrics. Processed fabrics are similar to domestic defective fabrics, with color deviations and the like. Tail-end fabrics are fabrics that are processed at low prices due to overproduction or cancelled orders. This type of fabric basically has a relatively simple style and is not very popular in Hong Kong.

"It seems like Zhu Lan, the deputy director of the supply and marketing cooperative, can finally be put to good use." Jiang Cheng thought to himself as he looked at all kinds of cheap fabrics in the fabric store.

But in Hong Kong, Jiang Cheng didn't have a car, so it was difficult to take the things he bought away. Even if he wanted to put them in the space, he had to at least take them to a secret place first.

At the fabric store, Jiang Cheng saw some tailors or apprentices riding bicycles to get fabric. This was a good idea. He couldn't buy much fabric with his current money. In addition, he wanted to buy some cakes and cheap watches in Hong Kong, so a bicycle would be enough.

If you have a bicycle, it is also convenient to go to the beach and come back from the beach.

So Jiang Cheng went to a bicycle shop and found that a bicycle cost only 200 Hong Kong dollars. If the official exchange rate was not used, it would actually be just over 100 yuan, much cheaper than in China, and no tickets were required.

There are also imported bicycles here that cost more than 500 yuan, and the designs are also nice, but they are not necessary for Jiang Cheng.

After buying the bicycle, Jiang Cheng went back to buy fabric. He bought more than 1,000 Hong Kong dollars worth of processed fabric and leftover fabric in two batches, focusing on the price.

After getting the fabric, Jiang Cheng rode his bike back. It was almost noon.

When I rode back, I found that Zhang Hao and his friends had returned and were sitting in the living room playing cards.

"Brother Cheng, you're back and you got a bicycle."

"Brother Cheng~~."

As soon as Jiang Cheng came back, Zhang Hao and the others put down their cards and greeted him. Shen Li, who was busy cooking in the kitchen, heard the voice and came over to call him.

"Why didn't you find work today?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"I had work to do. I carried rice at the dock for the whole morning. I finished work at around ten o'clock, so I came back." Zhang Hao said.

Jiang Cheng nodded. This was not bad. Seeing them here, he thought they had not found any work in the morning. Jiang Cheng pushed the car in because it was unsafe to park outside. Once the car was pushed in, everyone would naturally see it.

"Brother Cheng, do you want to play a few games?" Zhang Hao said invitingly.

"No, you guys play, I rarely gamble." Jiang Cheng said.

Zhang Hao and his friends were playing three cards, or poker. If it was a puzzle game like competing for the top, it would be worth playing occasionally to kill time.

But when playing three cards with Jiang Cheng, he could change the cards without anyone noticing, and win all the money earned by the three of them. The key is that there is space, and it is difficult for Jiang Cheng to control himself from cheating.

　I'm not saying I want to write about pure love. I think even if many people are open in this regard, they should have the strongest control when they first get married, and they are the least likely to have other thoughts. How many people lose control and have sex with other women after only two or three months of marriage?

　　Just like when you want something very much and then you get it, you won’t cherish it at all. Even if you like new things and dislike old things, new things will eventually become old.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)