That was 10,000 yuan in 1986!

There was no electronic payment back then, and the cashiers in the store would almost get cramps in their hands from counting the money every afternoon when they started to check the accounts.

Having learned from the lesson when Hu Qiongfang was robbed by a motorcycle gang last time, Jiang Tian was more cautious this time.

She gave Jiang Chaosheng and Zhao Liangjun each a bicycle. At three o'clock every afternoon, the two of them would ride their bicycles to the bus station to help the store deposit the money received that morning into a nearby bank.

Then he went back to the hotel and accompanied Hu Qiongfang to the bank to deposit money.

It’s no wonder that with these two powerful bodyguards, both stores have never been robbed by biker gangs again.

Jiang Tian's Dragon Boat Festival rice dumpling gift boxes are selling like hot cakes. The happiest people are not Grandma Hu and Jiang Tian, ​​but the family of Zhao Yongfu, the village chief of Nanqiao Village who is responsible for supplying them with the goods and weaves bamboo baskets.

The last time Jiang Tian asked the village chief's son to order 200 bamboo basket gift boxes, they were not enough and were not enough for her to sell on the first day of opening.

Fortunately, Jiang Tian informed Village Chief Zhao in advance and purchased three thousand bamboo baskets in one go!

Now, it was obviously too late for the village chief and his family of three to weave baskets.

Zhao Yongfu discussed with his son and decided to set up a small basket-weaving workshop in the village. He recruited a dozen skilled basket weavers to help, and took samples to several nearby villages to seek "external aid."

The bamboo basket gift boxes that the rice dumpling factory wants are different from the sturdy and durable bamboo baskets commonly used in ordinary people's homes that can be used for years without breaking. The production process is very simple. It is just a thin layer of bamboo strips, and the mesh of the woven basket is also very large - anyway, two sheets of printed paper are used as lining inside, and the rice dumplings are also large, so they will definitely not fall out.

A skilled bamboo weaving worker in the countryside can make more than twenty of these simple and crude bamboo baskets a day.

However, prices started to rise after the New Year, and Jiang Tian also raised the price of Zhao Dongliang and his friends' bamboo baskets. Now a bamboo basket costs 80 cents.

He paid his helpers piecework wages. The Zhao family workshop provided the raw materials, and for each bamboo basket made, the helpers could get 30 cents as labor fee.

Don’t underestimate these three cents. Zhao Dongliang has a skilled worker under him who is very fast at making bamboo baskets. The highest record is that he made 52 bamboo baskets in twelve hours a day, and his piece-rate wage for that day was 14.4 yuan!

You know, during the slack season, they have to carry cement and bricks for others, working very hard all day and only earning two or three yuan, which also requires money for a meal.

But it is different for Zhao Dongliang to do piecework. He works in the village. If he is too busy at noon, he can ask someone to go home and tell his family to send him food. After eating, he can continue weaving baskets without losing money.

Eating at home doesn't cost money.

If you can earn 14 yuan a day, then if you work every day, wouldn’t you be able to earn more than 400 yuan a month?

For a while, not to mention the bamboo weaving craftsmen, even many women and half-grown children came to the workshop, squatted beside and handed bamboo strips to the craftsmen, helped them, and learned from them.

Zhao Dongliang, the "temporary factory manager" who was forced to do things in a hurry, was very busy trying to complete Jiang Tian's order for 3,000 bamboo baskets as soon as possible.

After finally delivering the goods, he was just about to take a breath, go home to take a shower and have a sleep when the bodyguard Jiang Tian hired came riding his bicycle to Nanqiao Village to find him.

"Director Zhao, I'm sorry, but the county government office and Shuangfeng Town also want to purchase a batch of our Dragon Boat Festival reunion rice dumpling gift boxes as welfare. The fertilizer plant and textile factory have also added orders. Our boss Xiao Jiang said that you will have to work hard for a few days to produce another 5,000 bamboo baskets for us."

Zhao Dongliang's eyes went dark, and he gritted his teeth and asked him, "When will the delivery be delivered?"

The net profit of one bamboo basket is nearly 30 cents. With 5,000 bamboo baskets, you can make 1,500 yuan!

Even if he was exhausted and didn't sleep for three days and three nights, he had to take this order.

I just hope Jiang Tian can give him a few more days to deliver the goods...

Jiang Chaosheng smiled innocently: "Boss Jiang said that he doesn't want to put too much pressure on you, so we can deliver the goods in batches this time."

"A total of 5,000 bamboo baskets, delivered in five batches, with two days between each batch. Do you think that's okay?"

Zhao Dongliang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, handed Jiang Chaosheng a cigarette with a smile on his face, and insisted on inviting him to stay for dinner before leaving.

Jiang Chaosheng took the cigarette, put it behind his ear, waved his hand, and said with a wry smile: "Director Zhao, I've got your message. We won't have dinner today. Let's get together again when we're done with the Dragon Boat Festival and have some free time!"

As they were both comrades who had retired from the army, they didn't hesitate to exchange greetings. They smiled at each other and went about their own business.

Although I have left the fighting team, but in this long life, where is not a new battlefield?

Even in a new battlefield, they still have to carry forward the fine traditions of the army, overcome all difficulties, and make sure to deliver the orders placed by customers on time and complete them on time and in quantity!

Although they were a little tired, the whole family of Village Chief Zhao Yongfu were in a particularly good mood during the period before the Dragon Boat Festival.

Needless to say, Zhao Yongfu's son has become more radiant since his family started supplying "Grandma Hu's Big Meat Zongzi". Now he is known as "Director Zhao" by the villagers.

Seeing that as long as his son seizes this opportunity and builds a career, he will not have to worry about the rest of his life, how can Zhao Yongfu not be happy?

My wife Chen Sanniang is in much better spirits than before.

There were many experienced craftsmen in the bamboo weaving workshop of her son. Some women in the village who wanted to learn bamboo weaving but were too embarrassed to go to the workshop would go to the village head's house with a few eggs or a basket of vegetables, and beg Chen Sanniang to teach them too.

Now everyone in Nanqiao Village knows that the village chief's son collects bamboo baskets all over the village. As long as you learn this craft, you can go to the village chief's house to get some split bamboo strips, weave a bamboo basket, and you will be paid 30 cents for the labor.

They had also seen the bamboo baskets. The craftsmanship was very crude, but as long as they learned how to do it, it should not be a problem to weave ten or so a day.

Thirty cents each, ten is three dollars!

You can't find such a good job even as a part-time worker.

They don't even have to go out. They just need to take the bamboo strips home and make them at home. They can also look after their children and cook at the same time.

Since Chen Sanniang became disabled, when did she become so popular in the village?

At first, she was a little overwhelmed, but now, every day, listening to the chattering of sisters-in-law and girls in the yard, the smile on Chen Sanniang's face is growing more and more.

Zhao Yongfu saw it, his eyes were as soft as the spring river water in May.

very nice!

His wife looks so beautiful when she smiles!