Chapter 52, Vulnerable Groups
"Nansheng, are you at home?"
Nan Yi was playing with the flowers and plants he had rearranged in the yard, when someone shouted outside the gate.
"The door is not closed, just push it in."
With a creak, the door was pushed open, and Han Guoren walked in, followed by Xian Weimin.
"The cigarettes are on the stone table. Get them yourself."
"Nanyi, when did you get this stone table? It wasn't there last time I came here."
"Just made it."
Xian Weimin touched the surface of the stone table and said, "You didn't grind this tabletop by hand, did you?"
"Otherwise, the brigade doesn't have any grinding tools."
"You are really willing to work hard."
"Come on, let's not talk about this. Kreia, if you have anything to do, just tell me." Nan Yi waved his hand and asked Xian Weimin to stop talking.
"Nansheng, it's like this. Bell-bottom pants are very popular outside now, and the factory also made a batch of them, but the supply and marketing cooperative won't accept them at all."
Xian Weimin said: "Let me handle this matter, Nanyi. That's it. People from the supply and marketing cooperative say these bell-bottom pants are immoral and they refuse to buy them. What I mean is, should we wholesale them ourselves? Now, bell-bottom pants I really don’t have to worry about selling.”
"Yes, but you need to make some preparations first. Find a newspaper and publish an article in the newspaper.
The general meaning is this:
The Wenchangwei Production Brigade responded to the country's call to vigorously develop agricultural and sideline industries and established a collectively-owned garment factory owned by the production brigade. After more than a year of development, the income of the members has been increased and their lives have been improved.
Recently, we learned that millions of educated youths have returned to the city, resulting in millions of unemployed young people. The country will have great difficulties in resettling them.
In order to reduce the burden on the country, the Wenchangwei Production Brigade is now recruiting a large number of temporary supply and marketing personnel from the society. The job function is to sell the bell bottoms accumulated by garment factories to department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives across the country;
The treatment will be favorable, and priority will be given to educated youth who return to the city.
It should be noted that we are recruiting temporary workers, and the words "flared pants" must be clearly stated.
By writing like this, people with smart minds can know that we have bell bottoms in Wenchangwei, a large number of bell bottoms. When someone comes to ask, our people will explain to them that this job is very free.
Depending on their abilities, temporary workers can take away any number of bell-bottoms as long as they pay a certain deposit.
After the bell-bottoms are sold, they can come back to our staff to collect them again, settle the wages and commissions of the previous batch, and report to the supply and marketing cooperative or department store in which city the last batch of bell-bottoms were sold.
By the way, two people are required to distribute salary commissions and register sales areas. The person responsible for registration should find an older, deaf, and illiterate person in the team."
"I understand, Nanyi, what you mean is that we treat those who come to wholesale as temporary workers in the garment factory. The deposit is actually the wholesale payment. If you find an illiterate person to register, you can ask the temporary workers to register on their own.
In this way, we just hire a group of temporary workers to help us sell clothes to the supply and marketing cooperatives, but do they really sell the clothes to the supply and marketing cooperatives? Since we are farmers and uneducated, we respect the literate people quite a lot, and we don't have much respect for the literate people. I don't think they will cheat.
If something happens in the future, let the registrant take the blame, remove him from his position, let him go home and continue to provide for his retirement, and leave Wenchangwei completely behind."
"That's pretty much what it means. We want to portray the image of the Wenchangwei Garment Factory as a bunch of idiots messing around here. A blind cat met a dead mouse and made some money. In fact, they don't know how to run an enterprise or do business at all.
In this way, we can put ourselves in the role of the vulnerable group and the victim.
By the way, go back and tell me that if a liar comes to deceive you, don't expose him and let him succeed in deceiving you. If you find out that you have been deceived after a while, go to the police station to report the case.
Find a reporter to report about being deceived and spread the image of us idiots. The more people know about it, the better."
"Play pig eat tiger?"
"It's not that evil. Sometimes the stupider you are, the more willing people are to do business with you. In short, whether we are suffering a loss or taking advantage, at first glance, it must be seen that we are suffering a loss."
Xian Weimin shook his head, "I don't know."
"Then go back and think about it slowly. If you don't understand it now, you will definitely understand it in the future. Okay, you two go back and start moving. You can probably eat bell-bottom pants for several years. Take good care of it."
"Okay, let's go."
"Nansheng, goodbye."
"Weimin, come to my place for dinner tomorrow night. I have something to tell you."
"Got it."
After Xian Weimin left, Nan Yi continued to tidy up his flowers and plants. The yard looked too monotonous, and he wanted to make the yard more lively.
According to Nan Yi's idea, plant two pieces of flowers and plants, expand the pond, install a rockery inside, plant a few water lilies, raise a few red carps in the pond, raise a few turtles, and put a snakehead or a snakehead in the pond.
Catfish in.
Find a mason and carpenter to build a pavilion in your yard.
Next year, we will expand the backyard and build a basketball court, a tennis court, and a swimming pool.
There is also a hilly land to the east of the house, where the stream is introduced, and various peach blossoms are planted there.
Peach trees, streams, horses, a woman in pink clothes playing in the water, peach blossoms falling one after another, what a beautiful scene it will be.
Nan Yi wants to grow peach blossoms by himself; he also plans to dig the streams by himself; of course, he has to find women by himself. To realize them all, Nan Yi plans to spend ten years turning this place into his own peach blossom land.
Bending down, Nan Yi poured nutrient soil into the flower bed that had been placed. Suddenly, there was a heavy weight on his back.
"woke up?"
"Well, Dad, I slept for three hours today."
"Little lazy pig, you eat more and more and sleep longer and longer." Nan Yi turned his head and said dotingly to Nan Ruoping: "Why is there sweat on your forehead and you don't turn on the fan?"
"It's not on. It wasn't hot when I first went to bed."
"Go get the basin and wash your face."
"Um."
Nan Ruoping let go of Nan Yi, walked to the kitchen, took out her washbasin, put it on the sink, turned on the faucet, took some water, rinsed the towel, and wiped it on her face.
The sink in the yard has two countertops, one high and one low. This was designed by Nan Yi considering Nan Ruobing's height.
There is no running water in Wenchangwei. The faucet is connected to the river water diversion pipe. The water is discharged based on the principle of drop and siphon. The water flow is trickling but not strong.
After washing her face, Nan Ruoping walked up to Nan Yi and said, "Dad, what snacks are you having today?"
"Shui Suo Noodles are on the table in the kitchen. You can eat them first."
"Dad, I want chili soup mixed with it."
"Then wait a minute. Dad will get it for you when he's done here. You clean up the peppers first."
"Um."
Nan Ruobin rushed to the kitchen excitedly, took out five or six small green peppers, washed them on the sink, cut the peppers into two pieces with a kitchen knife, and scraped off the seeds.
Follow the same method, clean each pepper, put them on the cutting board, and chop the peppers into small cubes.
"Dad, the chili is ready."
"Then go make a fire. I'm almost ready."
"oh."
Two minutes later, Nan Yi finished his work, washed his hands at the sink, then walked into the kitchen with the chopping board in hand, and put his hand into the iron pot to feel it. The heat was just right.
Use a kitchen knife to scrape the diced peppers into the pot, stir-fry for a few seconds, and then remove.
Pour a ladle of rapeseed oil into the pot. When the oil temperature rises, pour the diced chili peppers into the pot, stir-fry, add a little water, and then add salt and MSG.
Puff puff puff, wait for the water to boil for a while, then pour out the chili pepper water.
"Sneeze, whoosh..." Nan Ruobing sneezed, rubbed her nose with her fingers, and said, "Dad, the chili smell is so strong."
"Don't you like it?"
"Yes, I like it, let's eat."
He threw the tongs into the ash pond, jumped up from the low bench, ran to the table happily, and opened the vegetable cover.
On the table, there is an enamel bowl and a rice washing basket.
The enamel bowl is filled with brine, and the rice-washing basket is filled with water and rice flour. There are a handful of them on a plate, and each one is enough for a bowl.
Nan Yi put the chili water on the table, took two bowls from the drain rack of the cupboard, and took two pairs of chopsticks from the chopstick holder hanging on the left wall of the cupboard.
"Here you go, add the chili water yourself."
"Uh-huh."
Nan Ruoping took the bowl and chopsticks, picked up a stick of water-cooked powder and put it into the chopsticks, scooped out a spoonful of marinade and three spoonfuls of chili water, stirred the powder, and stuffed it into her mouth.
"Uh-huh, it's so delicious. Dad, everything you cook is so delicious."
"The little mouth is so sweet."
Nan Yi smiled knowingly, mixed his own rice noodles, and ate them slowly.
Chapter completed!