Chapter 10 Set out on a long journey to find goods sources

  In the dead of night, Fu Xin dragged his exhausted and sleepy body back home, amidst Li Fanghua's worried expression. What happened during that time, no one knew, because Fu Xin didn't mention it to anyone, and the next day life went on as usual.

  Time is passing day by day, and the Spring Festival, which comes once a year, has passed. During this time, Fu Xin had a good year, Fu Zhenbang found coal and returned early, and Fu Jiu, who was studying in high school outside, also came back to spend the New Year.

  ……

  Time had come to March 1st, 1980, which happened to be the Lantern Festival.

  After having the reunion dinner on Lantern Festival, Pei Xin and his family sat beside the bonfire, chatting quietly. Tomorrow, everyone would go their separate ways, some to school, others to work.

  "Fuxin, have you really decided to go to the sea tomorrow?" Fu Zhenbang asked suddenly.

  "Uh, I've already asked Jiang Shu for a month's leave, this time, I have to go." Fu Xin said honestly, indeed, he had gone to ask Jiang Haiyang for leave two days ago.

  After the "fertilizer index" incident, there were basically no people in the factory who could rival Jiang Haiyang's power. Some of them had been subdued by him. For example, Lan Changzhang, after Jiang Haiyang "saved" his son, was grateful and never opposed Jiang again!

  So this time's request for leave was approved without any trouble.

  In fact, in Pei Xinnuo's original plan, he was supposed to go to Wuyang City, not Hai Shang Cheng.

  However, for some reason, the old Taoist learned about this and unexpectedly made a suggestion to Fu Xin, thinking that he was more suitable to go to Haishang City. Fu Xin also didn't know why, but he accepted the old Taoist's opinion and prepared to go to Haishang City.

  "Is your money well prepared?" Fu Zhenbang asked suddenly.

  "Don't worry about this, I'll bring a thousand yuan this time, it's definitely enough," Fu Xin replied.

  Ten tons of fertilizer, let Fu Xin and others not only earned back the principal, but also made a profit of over 80 large yuan, which is equivalent to having nearly 1,400 yuan. After deducting expenses, including part of Liu Yi's and Yang Guo's wages because they didn't get dividends, as they had to make a living, the group decided to pay them part of their wages, especially Liu Yi, who had let go of his work.

  This works out to over 1,000 yuan, and this time, Pufei brought exactly 1,000 yuan when he set out to find suppliers. At that time, the purchasing power of 1,000 yuan was quite sufficient. Take matches as an example: the ex-factory price was 13.15 yuan per box, with one box containing 100 packets and each packet having 10 boxes, which means the ex-factory price for 1,000 boxes of matches was only 13.15 yuan. The retail price was 0.02 yuan per box.

  Another very popular product is the flashlight, among which the representative model of the flashlight is No. 133#300 feet super bright rear collection light (horizontal garden line type) flashlight, with an ex-factory price of 1.44 yuan, a wholesale price of 1.57 yuan, and a retail price of 1.80 yuan.

  So a thousand yuan is enough to pay for the new goods, and this time he's not bringing a whole truckload of goods to sell, that would be too showy.

  After all, the market has not been opened up yet. Even if he is a store with government approval, if others want to make a fuss about it, it can still be considered as speculation and profiteering.

  "Uh, you go ahead and venture into business. I've thought it through, I'll prepare 200 yuan for you, just in case something unexpected happens, take it!" After saying that, Fu Zhenbang took out twenty 10-yuan bills from his pocket, handed them to Fu Xin with one hand, and grasped Fu Xin's hand with the other. Then he placed the bills in Fu Xin's hand and closed it, meaning he didn't want Fu Xin to refuse.

  Fu Xin didn't pretend, it was given by his father, and he didn't feel embarrassed to accept it. From childhood to adulthood, what parents gave was not a lot? If they also refused their kindness, haha.

  ……

  It was still that green train, rattling and clattering, after two days and three nights, the train finally stopped at Meilong Station. After getting off the train, a wave of old city's evening atmosphere hit me in the face, this is Puxi, Pudong has not been developed yet, the era of prosperity and great construction has not arrived yet.

  Before he left, the old Taoist gave Pei Xin an address and a note, telling him to go find that family with the note. That family were his followers, whom he had saved several years ago using his medical skills. With the note in hand, following the address on it, as long as he found them, they would definitely receive him.

  In fact, having a place to settle down is also the main reason why Pei Xing gave up going to Wuyang City and chose to come to Haishang City. When you are away from home, it's more convenient to have an acquaintance to take care of things.

  The address on the map, not far from Meilong Station, is just around here on Old Humin Road. Following the address, step by step forward, asking a few passersby along the way, Fu Xin easily arrived at the doorstep of this family.

  The door was knocked open, and a little girl with pigtails opened the door for Fuxin. The little girl must not have learned the story of Little Red Riding Hood. She wasn't afraid of Fuxin at all, smiled happily at him, and called out "Big Brother" in a crisp voice.

  The adults in the house heard the noise and immediately came out. They thought some guests had arrived, but hadn't received any notice. An old man walked to the door, looking puzzled, and asked Xin: "Comrade, what's going on?"

  Although Fu Xin lived to be nearly fifty years old in his previous life, his social skills were really not up to par. He was just a research fanatic, a research nerd. Not knowing what to say, he could only blush and hand over the note that the old Taoist had given him to the old man.

  The old man looked at the note and suddenly became excited, then he found Pei Xing, this shy young man, and immediately warmly invited Pei Xing into the house. There were two people sitting in the house, an old woman and a middle-aged woman who looked like a little girl's mother.

  The two saw the old man so enthusiastically inviting Fu Xin to his home, somewhat perplexed. The old man immediately showed them the note he had given to Fu Xin, and the two immediately dispelled their doubts, also warmly entertaining Fu Xin.

  What a lovely family, so grateful!

  The living conditions of this family look pretty good, and the old man sat down on the sofa with his grandson. Seeing that there were guests in the house, a lovely little girl next to him was very enthusiastic, crawling onto her grandfather's body, making funny faces at everyone from time to time, causing everyone who was chatting to laugh endlessly.

  After laughing, the old man suddenly turned to Pei Xing, who was also smiling on one side, and asked: "Young man, you're Pei Xing, right? How's your master doing now?"

  On that piece of paper, the old Taoist had roughly explained his new identity and why he came to Old Man's house, why he came to Shanghai, etc., without mentioning himself.

  "My master is doing well, with plenty of energy and spirit. He's currently living at Master Wuming's house, where he teaches me internal exercises every morning and other things in the evening." Fu Xin only vaguely mentioned what he was going to learn, but everything else was a truthful answer.

  "Hmm, your master is an old divine doctor, very good at taking care of his body. I guess he's also in the state of being full of vital energy that you mentioned." The old man seemed to be relieved a lot after hearing Pei Xin say that Lao Daoshi was doing well, and then sighed.

  "Ah, young man, your master wrote on the note that you came to Shanghai to buy some things. What do you want to buy? Xian's father went to work today, I'll ask him to take you to the City God Temple tomorrow to buy things. There are many kinds of goods there and they're cheap." The old man suddenly spoke up, guessing that Fu Xin was in a hurry to buy something to bring back, so he didn't invite Fu Xin to stay and play at Haishangcheng for a few days.

  The old Taoist didn't say on the note that Fu Xin was coming to Shanghai to find some goods to take back and sell, after all, this market has not been opened up yet. Even if you explain to others that you have government approval, they won't believe you, they will only think you are speculating, so the old Taoist didn't dare say it either.

  However, this old man, after all, at such an advanced age, has become more astute with time and had also guessed what Pei Xing was up to. But since the other party didn't say anything, he didn't go to expose him either. The old Daoist was his family's benefactor who saved their lives, and the benefactor's disciple wanted them to help out, and the benefactor even specially gave them a note. He couldn't very well oppose it, besides, the old man was an open-minded person, he didn't particularly object to Pei Xing's behavior either.

  As for Xianxian, she is the little girl in front of us. Of course, her father is the son of Old Master. From their conversation just now, Pei Xin knew that Xianxian's father, Fan Changhe, was a government employee. What kind of employee he was, they didn't say, but from this family environment, it can be seen that he was not a low-level employee.

  "Alright, I don't quite understand either, you arrange it and that's fine." Fu Xin nodded his head in agreement.

  He really doesn't quite understand, in his previous life, after retiring from the army, he went to university and then came to Beijing, later he came to this coastal city, also after graduating from university and having a job, he only came here for meetings, so he didn't have much understanding of this place.

  Later on, the Sea City was opened to the outside world and its construction got better and better. Pei Xing didn't know much about the good places to shop in Sea City anymore, after all, his status had risen and he no longer worked in this line, so he rarely went to understand.

  Fu Xin only knew that Jiuxing Village, one of the top ten famous villages in China's future, was a very large wholesale market and logistics market. But what is Jiuxing Village like now? Do you know?

  Anyway, Fuzhen is just a place that people remember for some reason. Now it's just a swamp where nothing can be grown. It hasn't even been developed yet, let alone having any wholesale markets.

  Cheng Huang Temple, this place, Fu Xin knows a bit about it and has been there before. It seems that not far from here, there is a wholesale market, but I don't know if it's been built yet. Let's just follow Fan Changhe for now, anyway he's not very familiar with Hai Shang Cheng either. Having a local guide will prevent us from getting lost.

  "Master has already entrusted himself with this family, and they are still trustworthy. Master would not deceive his own." Fu Xin thought to himself.

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