Negotiating a Business

Author: Er Meow Go to bed early

Negotiating a Business

Canned fruit?

When the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative heard what Xu Nan said, he quickly waved his hand, wondering what was useful about that thing:

"If you want to eat canned food, you can just buy it. I happen to have some in this store."

“It’s great to eat ready-made food, but it’s time-consuming and troublesome to make it, and it’s not necessarily delicious if you make it yourself.”

After saying that, he walked to the counter on one side, rummaged through it, and finally took out the last bottle of canned yellow peach from the shelf inside.

The old house was very dusty, and there was a layer of dust on the caps of the yellow peach cans.

The boss of the supply and marketing cooperative casually wiped the dust on the bottle cap with his hand, wiped the bottle cap clean, and then handed it to Xu Nan, saying with a smile on his face:

"Look how lucky you are. This is the last can on the shelf. If you come a little later, you might not be able to buy it. If you want it, I'll sell you this bottle."

"It's been quite busy lately during the autumn harvest. Our family is all busy harvesting rice, and there's no one in the store to take care of it, so I don't have time to go to the market to buy goods. You see, these shelves are selling out very fast these days.

Empty."

After saying that, he pointed to the last can of yellow peach on the table:

"Now these canned yellow peaches are in hot demand."

In the 1980s, supplies were scarce and transportation was underdeveloped. There were only a few fruits and other items that could be exchanged.

In this era, when people usually go to the hospital to visit patients or visit relatives during the New Year, everyone buys a few bottles of canned yellow peaches and brown sugar as gifts.

The boss of the supply and marketing cooperative was worried as he talked. Many daily necessities were almost sold out. When the rice harvest at home was finished, even the day lilies would be cold.

Xu Nan took the canned yellow peach from the owner of the supply and marketing cooperative, and realized later that he was not here to buy canned food.

It's off topic. It's off topic.

But now that there are no glass bottles, her plan to make canned fruits will be ruined.

She had a headache just thinking about the pile of fruits at home.

Xu Nan was holding the canned yellow peach, chatting with the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative, and looking at the goods in the supply and marketing cooperative to see if there was anything that could replace the glass bottles.

Xu Nan stared at it for a long time, and just when she was about to give up, she caught a glimpse of the large barrel used to store sesame paste in the grain and oil area. Next to the barrel was a large cardboard box with glass bottles of sesame paste inside.

In the 1980s, condiments were generally sold in bulk in large barrels.

Bulk liquor, bulk sugar in large bags, soy sauce and vinegar in barrels, and then people will bring empty bottles from home to buy.

Xu Nan walked over excitedly and took out a glass bottle from the cardboard box. Although it was a bit small, it should still be usable.

But can this bottle be sold?

It would be embarrassing if someone came over to make sesame paste and there were not enough bottles.

So Xu Nan held up the glass bottle and asked the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative:

"Boss, how many of these glass bottles can you sell me?"

The boss of the supply and marketing cooperative looked at it and nodded repeatedly. Look, this is just a glass bottle. He had forgotten about it.

He was thinking that there were no glass bottles for sale on the shelves.

Usually when he purchases a large vat of sesame paste, he will come with a box of glass bottles.

But most people come to make sesame paste and bring their own bottles. Over time, he accumulated a lot of sesame paste bottles here.

Seeing this, the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative asked Xu Nan:

"If you want as many as you want, you can use them. These things are free to begin with, so I don't mind taking up space if you put them here."

I just happened to take it to help him pack up his belongings.

Seeing this, Xu Nan lowered his head and glanced at the bottles in the cardboard box. He roughly counted in his mind that there must be more than a hundred bottles in it.

It would be fine if she only used three or two, but if she moved them all away, how could she do it without giving them money?

Xu Nan looked at the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative and said with a somewhat embarrassed tone:

"Brother, I want all of these. Please give me a price. I can't take your things for nothing."

Want them all?

The owner of the supply and marketing cooperative looked at Xu Nan with a cold look, thinking that there were so many glass bottles, how many cans would he have to make?

The boss of the supply and marketing cooperative organized his language, paused for a moment, and then asked:

"You want so many glass bottles, how many cans do you want to make?"

These more than a hundred, even if they are stored for a long time, can't be made so much. Even if they are eaten every day, don't they have to be eaten until the Chinese New Year?

Xu Nan saw the shocked look on the face of the boss of the supply and marketing cooperative, so he explained to him that he planned to take the prepared cans and sell them.

The boss of the supply and marketing cooperative immediately became interested when he heard this. He looked at Xu Nan and said to her with interest:

"Then when you finish it, I'll see how it goes. I happen to be out of stock of cans here, and I don't know when I can get them."

"If your cooking is delicious, then I will buy it from you. What do you think?"

Xu Nan agreed upon hearing this. With such a good opportunity, of course she had to seize it.

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After returning home, Xu Nan first boiled a pot of water, counted ten glass bottles bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, put them in and boiled them for a while to sterilize them.

Since it was her first time making it, she didn't dare to make it too much. If it didn't taste good, it would ruin everything.

She doesn't want to waste food!

Xu Nan took the boiled and sterilized bottles out of the pot and set them aside for later use, and then began to process the fruits.

She first peeled the peach and cut it in half with a knife to remove the core, then cut it into appropriate sizes and put the peach into a glass bottle.

Then he took out the lychees picked in the space today from the basket on the side.

Xu Nan opened one and planned to try it. The moment he peeled it open, the aroma of lychees filled the room. The white flesh was sweet and delicious. After eating it, he felt much happier.

Xu Nan thought, if lychees are not stored, it would be better to make a few more canned lychees.

She divided the remaining lychees into half and kept them for Lu Nanzhou and others to try when they came back. After all, it was not the season for eating lychees.

Let her make the remaining half into canned fruit, which can be stored longer.

Xu Nan basically cut a little of each kind of fruit she picked from space into cans.

After everything was done, Xu Nan poured an appropriate amount of water into the can, added rock sugar and soft sugar, placed the lid on the glass bottle without tightening it, and then steamed it in the pot.

After doing all this, as soon as Xu Nan took off his apron, the doorbell rang.

After hearing this, Xu Nan hurriedly ran over to open the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw Mother Lu standing at the door with an unhappy face, obviously in a bad mood.

Behind him, Father Lu stood aside with a stern look on his face.

How come I went to see Li Cuiqing and ended up looking like this when I came back?

Xu Nan was puzzled. After the door opened, Mother Lu saw that it was Xu Nan who opened the door. She didn't want to bring her bad mood to the home or in front of her children.

But the disgusting faces of Li Cuiqing and her family were really unbearable for her.

She gave Xu Nan a smile that was uglier than crying, and then she probably realized that she was trying too hard and became expressionless.

When they arrived in the living room, Mother Lu couldn't help but yelled at Father Lu:

"I don't care, I will go back to my hometown tomorrow!"

"I went to the clinic only because she is my mother-in-law. I went to see her out of love, not because I went there to be angry!"
Chapter completed!