Chapter 491 Make a sure profit without losing money
After the meeting, Xiao Jun nestled in the burning room of his father and mother Gu. Under the dim light, he carefully tore off a booklet given by An Zhixia and cut it into twelve parts.
He practiced the three slightly complicated window decorations with good meanings that he had just learned. Because the paper is small, his control of the scissors is more skillful and precise.
After ten sheets of paper, he could quickly cut it out without looking at the sample. The lines of the window grilles were even and smooth.
He was proficient in the most complicated one, and after cutting five or six pieces each of the other two, he was able to cut out the templates in one go.
The more Xiao Jun cut, the more he learned, and he actually derived more than ten kinds of patterns from those three!
Xiao Jun didn't sleep for long when he heard the sound of his rooster crowing in alarm.
He crawled out of the warm bed, shivering and got up to wash up. Then he took the scissors borrowed from Mrs. Gu in his bag and stumbled to the entrance of the village in the dark against the north wind, while the photographer and assistant People followed.
Xiangyang Village is very remote. Only when going to the market, the village will send ox carts to pull the villagers to the market. Usually, when an individual borrows a bullock cart, he either has to feed the cows well or deduct work points to pay for the feed.
For villagers who would like to break a penny into eight-petal flowers, they would naturally rather walk a few more steps by themselves than use an ox cart.
However, the residents in the town do not have fields and do not need to fertilize and cultivate the land. Therefore, each brigade negotiates and takes turns contracting the cleaning work of various large and small toilets in the town.
Today it was the turn of the brigade belonging to Xiangyang Village, and each village sent two ox carts.
When Xiao Jun and the others arrived, one cart was already full of mothers-in-law and wives, and the other cart was also half full. They hurried forward to sit down.
The familiar and faint fishy smell hit his nostrils along with the dry and cold air. Xiao Jun stopped and looked at the bullock cart with difficulty through the weak kerosene light.
However, it was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
After hesitating, the remaining positions were quickly taken by others who were a few steps behind.
Xiao Jun just shrugged his shoulders and followed the ox cart one step at a time. By the time the sun came up, he had already been jogging for an hour, and his whole body was warm.
He also saw clearly the appearance of the bullock cart, which was stained by years of stains and was rich in color.
Xiao Jun felt that the smell in the air was stronger, and the acid water in his stomach had a tendency to flow outward.
But when he saw the villagers in the car talking and laughing contentedly, he was quite touched.
If someone had told him before that he could still laugh while sitting on a excrement truck, then he must have thought that this person had a hole in his head.
In fact, these villagers have happiness on their faces even if they own a little bit of anything.
That smile was pure and passionate, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth because of the infection.
They arrived in the town two hours later. Xiao Jun made an appointment with someone to go back and walked around with his bags packed. The town is not big, with only two streets running across it, and you can almost see it in the end. It is not as big as his neighborhood.
Xiao Jun was a little confused. He came here full of enthusiasm, but saw such a depressed town.
But everyone is here, why should we try it?
He found the supply and marketing cooperative and walked in. There were only two rooms in total, with a full range of goods, but it seemed quite crowded.
“Children, do you need to buy anything?”
The publicity and management of the supply and marketing cooperative are still in place, and the salesperson is no longer as arrogant as he was a few years ago. He smiles and greets her enthusiastically.
Xiao Jun was a little embarrassed. He pinched the window grill cut out of white striped paper in his hand, handed it over with a smile and said, "Hello, sister, this is the window grill I cut, take a look."
The salesperson took it with some curiosity. On the palm-sized paper, a big rooster with a big and proud tail came to life. Some pictures and texts formed a flower group; some were a money bag; and some even cut out "1981 Chicken". "A happy year"; there is a set of four numbers 1981, but each number is a hollow peony pattern, and the character nine is in the shape of a Chinese knot, with a rooster crowing the dawn standing inside!
The pattern is novel and has a good meaning. The salesperson thought that if it was cut out of red paper, it would definitely look better!
There were only four salespeople in the store, and they gathered around curiously to look at the small window grilles.
“Ah, this style is so beautiful, I have never seen it in all these years!”
“Nowadays, most window grilles are pressed by machines, but I still like handmade window grilles!
Children, you are not selling window flowers to us, are you? "
“Little classmate, if you use red paper, how many more pieces can I buy? Otherwise, how many pieces of red paper can you buy first?” A younger salesperson couldn’t help but suggest.
Xiao Jun touched his ears and said sheepishly: "Sister, I don't have money to buy red paper.
I'm here to do some business with you. "
Several salesmen looked at each other.
The older man raised his head and saw that no customers had come in yet, so he asked funnyly: "Comrade, the supply and marketing cooperative belongs to the state, and we have no right to decide whether to do business with you."
“It’s okay for you to listen,” Xiao Jun curled his lips.
He has red lips, white teeth, and a slender figure with a bit of a ruffian air. Although he is not old, he has already begun to show his charm for both young and old.
The youngest salesperson nodded and agreed, "Yes, let's listen. There is no real loss."
The other salesmen looked at each other and said, "Okay, you go ahead.
But we can agree in advance. We are just small salesmen and cannot make decisions at all. "
Xiao Jun hummed, "Actually, I am also referring to the New Year sales promotion method of a supply and marketing cooperative in Dongcheng District of Kyoto that was on the verge of closing down a few years ago.
I will cut the window grilles for you on site as a gift. As long as the customer spends one yuan or more on something, he or she will get a pair of exquisite window grilles worth two cents!
I just want you to give me some red paper in return. "
Red paper is very cheap, one penny for a large sheet, and you can cut at least six ordinary-sized window grilles!
The profit for something worth one yuan is at least 40 to 50 cents, and the cost of publicity is 1.7 cents. As long as the publicity is effective, it is equivalent to a business that is sure to make a profit without losing any money!
The window grilles purchased by the supply and marketing cooperative are all mass-produced by machines, and the workmanship cannot be compared with manual cutting. The styles are also old, and there are only a few that come over and over. How can they be as novel and beautiful as those cut by Xiao Jun?
Furthermore, households in Shaanxi City, Western Province, have a particularly strong demand for Spring Festival couplets and window decorations, especially since the regulations were relaxed two years ago. People seem to want to make up for the lost years, and they have never been stingy in spending in this regard.
If you buy something and get window grilles as a gift, they can't guarantee it elsewhere, but these residents in the city absolutely can't resist this temptation, especially when Xiao Jun blows window grilles for two cents a pair!
The four salesmen saw surprise and excitement in each other's eyes.
(End of this chapter)