Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 94 Build the house first and then apply for the license
Not only did Hu Jianjun spend a very low price and pick up several hundred kilograms of bananas, he also earned twenty yuan with the help of his elder brother. Jiang Tian couldn't help but admire his brain.
After this incident, Hu Jianjun completely believed what his niece said and once again strengthened his determination to build a house next to the provincial road.
As expected, wherever there is traffic, there is a chance to pick up money.
Let’s not talk about how much money you can make from those hundreds of kilograms of bananas. Even the twenty dollars for the trailer is actually just a little bit of diesel consumed, and the rest is profit.
Moreover, Tiantian is right. Nowadays, freight transport has to take national highways and provincial roads. If you meet a familiar driver, you can really ask him to help bring in some rare and scarce local items from other places.
Moreover, Hu Jianjun also thought that if they could ask the drivers to bring them local specialties from other places, then they could also ask these drivers to help contact some out-of-town buyers and sell the local specialties, right?
Hu Jianjun felt that his niece Jiang Tian was quite smart in business and couldn't help but share his idea with Jiang Tian.
Jiang Tian simply wanted to give her second uncle ten thousand likes.
So doing business is something that cannot be taught. Some people are born with such a keen business sense. Jiang Tian believed that even without her butterfly wings, her second uncle would be able to find other ways to make money.
The uncle and nephew were discussing something when Han Dajun came over.
He came to invite the Hu family to his house for a midnight snack.
"Originally, this dinner should have been arranged a long time ago. My wife said that your family has been busy these days, and the lunch box business is about to take off. We can't miss the important matter."
"You guys can't leave at noon and at night, so you must have time at night, right? Let's go! I specially asked the butcher in town to leave me ten pounds of bones, including tendons and meat. I stewed two large pots of them and made a few side dishes. Your sister Chunjuan said that you have been cooking for others these days, so I will let you have a ready-made meal tonight."
Since Han Dajun said so, Hu Qiongfang couldn't refuse. She didn't sell the one basket of buns left and just picked it up. She asked the neighbor across the street to help watch over the remaining red bricks, cement and other things in the yard. The two families walked towards Han's house under the cover of night .
When they arrived at the Han family, Wang Chunjuan had already prepared a table full of dishes.
In the middle is a large double-handled aluminum pot filled with large bones. The aroma of stewed bones can be smelled from a long distance away.
There were two plates of fried potato chips on the side, one sprinkled with chili powder and the other sprinkled with non-spicy pepper powder.
A plate of boiled peanuts in braised sauce, a plate of braised edamame, a dish of braised pork head, a dish of steamed eggplant with mashed garlic, and a dish of tiger skin green peppers.
This scale can be called a midnight snack, but it is not much different from the regular meals that people in the countryside entertain their guests.
Seeing that it was midnight snack time, Jiang Tian suddenly thought of all the various midnight snacks in later generations, such as barbecued and fried crayfish. Speaking of which, it has been a long time since she had grilled fish...
If you don't have grilled fish, stewed large bones are also delicious.
Although Wang Chunjuan’s braised big bones do not have the various fancy marinade ingredients of later generations, the raw materials used are genuine local pork and the taste is especially delicious!
Everyone was familiar with each other, so there was no need to be polite. Everyone held a big bone in their hands and chewed on it until their mouths were full of oil.
Han Dajun also got two kilograms of liquor and poured a bowl for the brothers Hu Jianguo and Hu Jianjun. The three men gnawed on bones and drank, and it was quite lively.
After eating and drinking, Wang Chunjuan didn't rush to pack up, but told the Hu Jianguo brothers the good news.
"Didn't you ask me to find out if there's any land for sale nearby?"
"I have been asking around for a while. I found out that many families in our area are like us and have never obtained land certificates."
Wang Chunjuan meant that the Hu Jianguo brothers should not waste their money and just find a place that no one was occupying and build the house first. Then they could give a gift to the town cadres in charge and get a new land certificate. It would be much more cost-effective than buying someone else's land.
"I'm not afraid to say this in front of Sister Qiongfang. When she wanted to buy the land, I thought so too. But then I thought, she's a woman with two children, and she's helpless. She can't keep the land if she occupies it. It's better to spend money to buy a licensed one, which saves a lot of trouble."
"You two brothers are different. If Sister Qiongfang can't defend the territory, can't you defend it too?"
Wang Chunjuan's words simply opened up a new world for the Hu family.
Every piece of land in the countryside has an owner. Each family guards their own homestead and farmland. They are not landlords or bullies. Who dares to occupy other people's houses and farmland by relying on their fighting skills? Aren't you afraid of being arrested by the police station?
I heard that houses in the city are also in short supply. Many families have been treating and giving gifts to various people in order to get housing from the factory. Some honest people have not been allocated a house even after working at the company for more than ten years.
However, no one has noticed that in the urban-rural fringe areas, on both sides of these newly built provincial and national highways, in addition to cultivated land, there are also some seemingly "idle" wastelands.
These wastelands were not arable land, so after the household contract responsibility system was implemented, some of them were reclaimed by nearby residents and used to grow grains and other things.
Some of the land that are far away from the village are simply left there abandoned.
This section of Provincial Highway 336 is located right between the market town and the township below, out of reach from both sides.
Ordinary people also have to consider the time cost when farming. If a piece of land is very close to home, even if it is wasteland, there will be people scrambling for it.
If a piece of land is two hours' walk from his home, do you think he will fight for it?
There were some people in the town who couldn't sit still and opened up some wasteland nearby to grow vegetables, but at that time the most valuable land was near the market town, and the wasteland along the provincial road was not valuable.
Otherwise, Xu Laoshi's family, who lived behind Hu Qiongfang, would not have been able to occupy such a large area to grow vegetables.
The idea that Wang Chunjuan gave to the Hu brothers was to let them search for some wasteland where no one was growing vegetables, build a house there first, and then find a way to use their connections to get the land certificate.
In fact, according to Wang Chunjuan's opinion, she didn't even want to spend the money to get the certificate. After all, she built the house with her own money, so who would dare to demolish her house?
But Wang Chunjuan was a very practical person. Ever since she accompanied Hu Qiongfang to buy the land, she had carefully observed and discovered that many people in the town who worked in the government had obtained land certificates for building houses.
Although she didn't understand what the meaning of this was, all officials had to apply for land certificates. What did this mean?
This means that this certificate must be very useful!
These days, while Hu Qiongfang was busy building a house and selling boxed lunches, Wang Chunjuan also did something big: she used her connections and gave gifts to get the land certificate for her own breakfast shop and the land in the backyard.
Although it cost a lot of money, she felt it was worth it.
At least, if the family needs money urgently in the future, this piece of land with a certificate will definitely be sold at a higher price than those without a certificate.
I almost forgot, if you don’t have a certificate, you can’t sell it. It can only be traded privately, and the government doesn’t recognize it!
