My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 52 I'll Treat You to Fish

Because it is obvious that what makes people like Weidong profit is the information gap. Although Aunt Wang, who is knitting, is not very active in her work, she also knows the ways of the world and never asks too many questions.

Why should people who get a fixed salary worry about this?

Secretary Xu tried every possible means to find out where Weidong's sales were going.

Weidong must be very disliked.

So I left the three country girls to my mother to make spicy hot pot. Two days after eating hot pot, I asked Weidong to take Goudan and the others away immediately.

What secretary? Just stay where you want.

Of course, another reason is that the sales of cameras in the area south of the river are not optimistic.

When setting up the Malatang stall and selling bacon, Weidong was asked to take the camera and sell it to young workers, police officers, and neighborhood committees. He actually sold seven or eight cameras at 30 yuan each.

Later, some people came to ask out of curiosity and bought more than a dozen units.

But that's about it.

Photography doesn’t seem to be as necessary as a tape recorder?

Although this was not the sales method Weidong had envisioned, the market clearly taught him a lesson: not everything can be sold as wildly as a 99-yuan tape recorder.

Even in the days when supplies were by ticket, cameras didn't seem so necessary?

Anyway, in the surrounding factories, if anyone buys one, a bunch of people around can borrow it. It's not like a tape recorder where everyone has to borrow money and pool their money to own it.

This made Dong Xueqing very anxious.

She watched with her own eyes as her brother-in-law spent nearly ten thousand yuan to buy five hundred cameras.

Now that it’s unsaleable, I feel like the sky is falling.

I wish I could hang up all the clothes and sell them on the streets every day.

Weidong held her back and said, "Be careful not to be caught as a typical speculator or seller of counterfeit products. I have a way. Just forget about it. Take the tape recorder and this camera and go back to school early."

Dong Xueqing is indeed different from her sister. She is very obedient: "Just tell me how you plan to sell it, and I will go to school without worry."

Weidong thought for a moment and whispered in her ear, "Think about this twenty or thirty dollar camera. Who would want to buy it the most?"

Without waiting for the technical secondary school student to respond, he started to talk himself out: "I'm a tourist. Who would normally want to take pictures whenever they have nothing to do, and wouldn't bother carrying a camera? But tourists definitely won't be stingy with these 20 or 30 yuan when they see the scenery, so I'm going to take them to West Lake to sell them."

Dong Xueqing's worried eyes instantly filled with stars: "Wow! You are so amazing!"

For the 99% of people who have never left their hometown, this is really a daredevil thought.

Wei Dong was still proud of his emotional value being maximized: "Of course! So your job now is to attract Secretary Xu's attention a little bit, so that he doesn't realize that our group has run away. Why should he know who I sold the things to?"

The technical secondary school student immediately went to find Secretary Xu and asked where there were fun things to do in Jiangzhou. Could Brother Xu take him to see it?

It is said that young men who have studied in Jiangzhou are still simple.

As soon as they left the house, seven guys and a few girls quickly loaded the titanium ingots into the car, along with the remaining dozens of kilograms of fresh bacon and more than 400 cameras, and set off at lightning speed.

Secretary Xu came back after an hour or so, only to see Lao Rang taking out a deposit slip for 34,000 yuan and asking him to notify the factory's finance department to collect the money.

Goudan could finally happily sit in the passenger seat, concentrating on observing Weidong driving. He even hoped that there would be some breakdown so that they could have the opportunity to learn how to repair the car.

Wei Dong was so angry that he almost kicked him down. You can't spit out gold from a dog's mouth!
He was assigned to the back and led the team to spread the titanium ingots all over the bottom of the cargo compartment, and then spread the straw on top, and hung up the bacon to dry.

As a result, Goudan happily told him that he asked his mother to give them a pressure cooker!

It doesn’t matter whether you use a pressure cooker to cook rice or stew soup. What matters is that this thing can carry the spicy hot pot base in a fully enclosed manner!
They can travel around the world eating spicy hot pot all the way.

Weidong felt that his mother was a genius.

There was no need for the eight young men, including him, to rush to eat like they did last time.

At night, we take turns to be on duty and sleep in the cargo compartment. In the morning, we can just buy some meat and vegetables, chop some firewood on the roadside and eat spicy hot pot at any time. It is simply the most luxurious enjoyment!
So along the way, we went through southern Hunan, Yueyang, Jiujiang, Huangshan to Zhejiang Province. Those who wanted to enjoy the scenery would only set out on the road after dawn, and would definitely stop in towns and counties before dark. It took us a full half month to travel.

In this way, we basically never encountered car thieves or road robbers. Even if we saw a big rock thrown in the middle of the road during the day and someone wanted to do something with it, the strong guys would stop the car with axes, hatchets, and steel pipes without any concealment.

Some people were looking around with binoculars, some got out of their cars and moved the trash away and cleaned it up, but no one dared to come up and cause trouble.

It doesn't matter who you rob, why bother with this tough guy who looks so difficult to deal with?

Last time, I was deceived by the girl sitting in the driver's seat.

Weidong simply started to teach Goudan and two of the others how to drive on some flat roads.

Because even he found that as long as he had a work permit, a letter of introduction, and vehicle documents, he would occasionally encounter armed police checking his car when crossing provinces, but no one would ask for his driver's license at all.

Can't the master take the apprentice? Now it's all work skills training in the unit, there is no question of traffic safety driving license inspection.

It was not until just before entering Zhejiang City that he found a bathhouse in Jiangnan and took everyone to take a comfortable hot bath. They all changed into the new work clothes and cotton jackets they had bought along the way, and drove into a paradise on earth without any country atmosphere.

The reason for choosing this place instead of the Bund in Shanghai where Weidong and Goudan had taken photos before.

Besides the fact that the famous Oriental Pearl Tower on the Bund was still missing, it was also because, while working as a security guard, Weidong had seen numerous news reports and short videos on social media mentioning West Lake as a popular destination for tourists during the May Day and National Day Golden Week holidays. So, if he was going to visit, he'd go to the most famous place.

Moreover, he had been to both places before. The Bund is just a small section, and it is not allowed to set up stalls casually. The few vendors who take pictures to attract customers are no better than those who face a powerful enemy and report for destruction.

Having been caught selling melon seeds, he cares a lot about this aspect.

So we chose West Lake, and asked Weidong not to sell it himself. After arriving at the place, he drove the truck around the lake to inquire.

To be honest, from his perspective, the West Lake at this moment was nothing to him. The water was so green and sticky, with messy lotus leaves floating everywhere, and the surrounding temples and historical sites were even more dilapidated.

The pavilions and terraces on the lake are interesting, but I don't know where they got their beautiful name.

In short, there are so many people, crowded around the tourist attractions.

After looking around twice, I finally chose the area around Huagangguanyu, where the ticket price was five cents.

After parking the car, let the brothers get out to get some fresh air, but they must stay around the car to guard the goods.

He took two cameras himself and took the more clever military kid across the road to the lakeside grocery store where the most tourists were.

Just go up to the shop that sells film and ask: "Do you want to buy this camera? It's 29 yuan each. I'll take 24 yuan, and the other yuan is yours."

People were too busy to pay attention to the young man, but after taking a quick look, they laughed out loud: "Is this a camera? A toy? It looks just like the real thing!"

Weidong quickly took out the unpacked one and handed it over, then took out his own messy stack of photos and said, "As long as it can be taken, it's fine. It's only the price of a roll of color film. Do you think tourists will buy it?"

That’s a great question.

He instantly guided the other person's thoughts and nodded affirmatively: "Yes! Oh, you took a picture like this, hahaha! Quite interesting, quite interesting."

Weidong then made another move: "I've made an ad. Do you think it's suitable? I'll sell 100 of them here. I'll come back to collect the money in the evening. If I can't sell them, I'll move out and treat you to dinner."

A man who runs a small grocery store may never have thought that he would enjoy the treatment of a floor manager in a large department store on Sujing Road in Shanghai.

But in fact, it is said that the operating rights of the store at this location could be sold at a sky-high price, worth billions.

Wei Dong's long-term thinking, which is very familiar to netizens in later generations, and his arrogance of not caring whether these 84 machines would be cheated or how much money could be made, seemed so outstanding in .

The shop owner saw that Junwazi had immediately unfolded a large white cardboard made of newspaper, which had the words "Comrades, not 199, not 99, why don't you buy a color and black and white camera for 29 yuan?" There was a red cross through the numbers 199 and 99.

He immediately burst into laughter: "Okay, okay, okay, you are such a smart guy who knows how to do business, come on!"

He helped find a place to hang it above the most conspicuous door of the grocery store.

Rang Weidong waved his hand from a distance, and four young men immediately came over carrying two cardboard boxes.

He then casually bowed and said, "Then I'll leave it to you, Boss... Hey hey hey!"

Instantly, it was flooded with visitors: "I want one, I want one!"

"I want one, I want one, does it come with film?"

"You must be dreaming. A roll of film costs almost thirty. Are you giving me the camera for free?"

“I think this price is a giveaway!”

The shop owner, still standing on a stool hanging the white cardboard, was suddenly thrown to the ground. "Don't go! Young man, don't go! Help me... Help me!"

Wei Dong happily rushed over and gave the middle-aged man a princess hug around the waist.

The soldiers and their men were already helping to maintain order under his command.

A color film and a camera cost fifty-three yuan, while a black and white film only cost five yuan.

Weidong had to climb onto the stool himself, hold up the camera and explain how to load the film.

"You can buy a black-and-white film to practice first. The current film development fee in Zhejiang Province is two yuan, eighty cents for black-and-white, and fifty cents for each photo, and eight cents for black-and-white..."

No, if you want to visit West Lake, 50 yuan is no problem. Most of them have travel allowances. Taking a photo costs only two yuan. If you buy a camera, you can take unlimited photos in the future.

I'm going to buy a color camera to see what's new.

This temptation is really huge for tourists.

After Weidong shouted for a while amidst the noise, his throat felt a little sore and he wanted to change to someone else.

Impossible, no one speaks Mandarin as good as him. A few guys looked at him with admiration, and it was good enough that they kept order.

We ensure that all the more than 400 cameras are cleared out within two and a half hours!

The grocery store owner looked at the two thousand yuan bill that had inexplicably fallen into his hands and said, "I'll treat you to West Lake Vinegar Fish. You must immediately send me another batch of goods... No, a continuous supply!"

You are repaying kindness with enmity!

Weidong must have heard this vinegar fish joke.

(End of this chapter)