Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

More than ten minutes later.

Li Youcai rode his bicycle and left the yard with a satisfied smile.

Early in the morning, when Li Youjie arrived at the factory.

I was shocked by the scene in front of me.

In the courtyard, more than a dozen people carrying shoulder poles were lined up.

His brother Li Youcai was pulling a cart full of ice cream and distributing it to these people.

Shocked, Li Youjie hurried over to Li Youcai and asked, "Brother, who are these people?"

“They all come here to buy goods.”

"Stop talking nonsense and go to the workshop to get some more ice cream." Li Youcai was busy stuffing money into the plastic bag and counting ice cream for the peddlers.

Li Youjie was a little dazed.

Yesterday he was still thinking about how to sell these ice creams, and he was already prepared to set up a stall in front of the factory gate.

Who would have thought that so many people would come to buy their ice cream so early in the morning? It’s really strange!

"What are you still standing there for? Go get it quickly!" Li Youcai saw his brother was stunned and kicked Li Youjie in the butt.

"Oh!"

Li Youjie came to his senses, hurried into the workshop and started moving the ice cream out.

The peddlers who came to deliver the goods asked for as little as twenty yuan and as much as forty yuan.

Li Youcai wholesaled all his ice creams to them at the price of one yuan per piece.

As for how they sell it later, that’s none of his business.

After sending away all the peddlers queuing in the yard, only a dozen of the 600 ice creams produced yesterday were left.

Looking at the empty cement platform, Li Youjie exclaimed and asked, "Brother, what on earth is going on?"

"Those people carrying shoulder poles are peddlers walking around the streets, right?"

"Why are they all coming here to buy ice cream?"

A series of three questions, like a rapid-fire barrage.

"First of all, these people are indeed peddlers who walk the streets. After buying our ice cream, they will go to the various communes and brigades below to sell it. The reason they come to us to purchase goods is because I found their leader and negotiated a cooperation with them."

"It's that simple." Li Youcai explained lightly.

Li Youjie had seen many peddlers, but he had never thought that these people had leaders and were actually organized.

"So you've decided from the beginning that wholesale is just for selling to these people?"

Li Youjie suddenly remembered why Li Youcai didn't make the ice cream into the kind sold in sticks in the market at the beginning, and even said that he wanted to do wholesale.

Combined with the current situation, Li Youjie suddenly realized that his brother had actually decided to do this a long time ago.

"What else can we do? How much can we sell if we set up a stall in such cold weather?"

Li Youcai smiled and took out the banknotes that the peddlers had given him from the plastic bag. The scattered money was almost all small receipts, not even enough for five pieces of land.

"Hurry up and count out this money, then go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy more sugar and corn starch. From now on, all the purchasing work in the factory will be handed over to you." Li Youcai said.

"Leave it to me?"

"Aren't you the deputy factory director? If not you, who else should I give it to?"

"I'll count now!"

Li Youjie was ecstatic. His title of deputy factory director finally lived up to his title!

I made a total of 600 yuan worth of milk brick ice cream yesterday. After deducting the few pieces they ate, there were still about ten pieces left.

A total of 573 yuan was sold that morning.

After deducting the cost, the net profit was more than 260 yuan.

Although it is far less than what you can earn from trading forest frogs and crickets, it is still a lot.

Most importantly, the ice cream business has a longer lifespan.

At 8: in the morning, Zhang Laoer and his family arrived at the factory early. When they saw the empty concrete platform, no one thought that so many ice creams had been sold out. They thought that Li Youcai had taken them to other places to store them.

After a whole morning, 600 pieces of fresh milk brick ice cream were still not frozen.

A large number of peddlers came to the outside of the factory.

Dangdang...there was a knock on the door.

Li Youcai came outside and saw that there were so many people, all carrying shoulder poles. There were more of them than the peddlers who came with him in the morning.

"Boss Li, we are here to buy ice cream, please open the door." A man who had bought goods this morning saw Li Youcai coming through the iron gate and shouted to the inside.

Li Youcai didn't dare to delay. There was such a large group of people gathered at the factory gate, all carrying shoulder poles. It was too conspicuous.

He hurried over, opened the gate and let these people into the yard.

"Didn't you just buy 30 ice creams this morning? Why are you back so soon?" Li Youcai also recognized the man and asked.

"Sold out, I'll buy another 50 yuan now!" The man's face was full of smiles. He made 6 yuan in just this morning. How could he not smile?

Sold out?

So fast?

"Come here, I want to ask you a few questions." Li Youcai pulled the peddler and walked to the side.

Li Youcai learned a little about the situation and realized that their milk brick ice cream was selling so well outside.

The peddlers picked out the milk brick ice cream and sold them for one yuan and twenty cents each.

They were sold out almost after just a few rounds of shopping.

I only make a net profit of two dollars from selling ten milk brick ice creams, and they are still so popular.

These peddlers made money from selling ice cream and informed their friends. As a result, more and more peddlers gave up their goods and turned to sell ice cream from Li Youcai's factory.

So we have the current scene.

Without refrigeration equipment, relying solely on cold weather to freeze the ice cream, it takes at least three hours from the time it is put into the lunch box to the time it is completely solidified.

600 lunch boxes can only produce 600 pieces in three hours.

As of now, this output cannot keep up with market demand.

It seems that I am still too conservative.

"I'm sorry everyone, we have to wait at least another hour for the next batch of goods. Why don't you come back later?" Li Youcai said.

"out of stock?"

"this···"

"We'll just wait here, one hour at a time."

"We'll wait too."

Each of these peddlers is very smart.

Li Youcai said that there was no stock, which only meant that the supply was tight. If they just left like that, with so many people in the hospital, they would probably be disappointed again when they came back.

It’s better not to leave and just wait here.

Li Youcai was helpless when he saw that these people refused to leave.

He turned around and went back to the workshop and asked someone to boil some more hot water to keep these people warm.

Li Youjie was also asked to quickly purchase more raw materials, and to strive to ensure that even if people have a break, the lunch boxes cannot, and that all efforts should be made to produce ice cream.

But even so, a batch of ice cream worth 600 yuan in three hours still cannot meet the sales of these peddlers.

There were always peddlers coming to the yard intermittently.

The number of people decreased until the afternoon.

After a busy whole day, including the 600 ice creams in the morning, a total of three batches of goods were produced.

Nearly 1800 blocks of milk-brick ice cream were delivered by peddlers to various streets, alleys and communes in Teng County.

The small bills were packed in two plastic bags. Li Youjie sat in the empty office with the money in his hands, his hands almost cramping from counting.

"Brother, look! It's only the first day, and you've already made so much money!"

Piles of bills, ranging from one or two cents to one or two yuan, were all divided up by Li Youjie.