Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

Without rushing back to the factory, Li Youcai followed Wang Qiang to the stronghold.

In just the morning, the brothers bought more than 1000 ice creams from Baldy Chen.

The price of 5 cents is cheaper than what Li Youcai and his team produce themselves.

In the yard, Wang Qiang's brothers were resting. They were all very happy to see Wang Qiang coming back with his men.

"Brother Qiang!"

"Brother Qiang is back!"

All the brothers stood up and looked at Wang Qiang and Li Youcai.

"Brother Cai, these are my brothers from the forest farm." Wang Qiang introduced them to Li Youcai.

They all have young faces, the older ones look about 23 or 24 years old, and the youngest are only 16 or 17.

They all wore patched cotton jackets.

In the 60s and 70s, the forest farm was a very powerful place with high wages and good benefits. Regular workers were also allocated public housing, all of which were red brick and tile houses and were quite spacious.

It is a place that many people envy, and young girls are willing to marry into the forest farm.

But as trainloads of timber were shipped south for free, the amount of aged timber left in the mountains became less and less.

Life on the forest farm was getting worse and worse.

With no trees to cut, the forestry workers can only tighten their belts to survive.

For families with many children, feeding becomes a problem.

In the summer, you can still pick some wild vegetables, but in the winter, you can only eat sauerkraut that has been pickled in advance. If you eat it for more than ten days in a row, your teeth will not be able to bear it.

After not seeing oil and water for a long time, they all look pale and thin.

"Qiangzi, it's not convenient for us to be too ostentatious at this stage, so let's not go to a restaurant for now. Go to the supply and marketing cooperative and get some more cooked food and some good wine, and we'll eat at home. Don't be afraid to spend money, just pick the good ones and buy more." Li Youcai said.

"Okay." Wang Qiang nodded in response.

Li Youcai took out some money and started distributing it to everyone in the yard.

One for each person, a symbol of unity.

This is their remuneration for the past two days.

"Take it." Li Youcai distributed the money to everyone one by one.

"Thank you, Brother Cai."

"Thank you, Brother Cai."

Everyone who received the money was very excited and thanked Li Youcai.

"As long as everyone works hard, I guarantee that you will earn more in the future." Li Youcai said with a smile.

After dividing the money, everyone was smiling.

Wang Qiang took the two people to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a lot of cooked food as Li Youcai said, and also bought two boxes of Red Star Erguotou.

There is simply no room for more than 20 people to sit at one table.

So no one came to the table.

Everyone just took a bowl, filled it with some meat, took a teacup with white wine, and found a place to sit and eat.

It has been a long time since I have eaten such hard meat dishes. The food tasted so delicious that the young people almost swallowed their tongues.

What you eat is beautiful.

Li Youcai, like these people, ate meat with a bowl in his hand, and from time to time he would hold up an enamel teacup and drink wine in big gulps with everyone else.

"Brothers, eat heartily! After you've had your fill, go back to the factory and bring back our goods!"

"Okay~~!"

In the factory.

Li Youjie and Zhang Laoer finished their steamed buns and pickles together, and then one of them took a walk in the courtyard to eat.

He was thinking in his heart that he hoped that Baldy Chen would be exhausted to death soon, so that he wouldn't have to be so worried every day.

He didn't see his elder brother Li Youcai the whole morning.

And there’s Wang Qiang, who goes out early and comes back late. We rarely see each other all day long, and I don’t know what he’s doing.

Da Zhuang came back from the restaurant across the street carrying a steaming enamel basin.

Li Youjie saw the two dishes, one vegetarian and one meat, and couldn't help but laugh, "Brother Dazhuang, how come you're eating alone too? You didn't even call me when you ordered?"

Da Zhuang smiled innocently: "This is for sister Wang Rong. She has asthma and can't eat anything too salty."

"That girl has asthma?" Li Youjie was a little surprised. Since Wang Rong came to their place, she stayed in the house all day and rarely went out.

Li Youjie thought he was just a bit of a loner, but it turned out to be because he had asthma.

The weather outside is so cold, people with this problem are really not suitable to stay outside.

"Well, you have to take medicine every day." Dazhuang said.

"Then go quickly, or the food will get cold." Li Youjie said.

Dazhuang carried the small enamel basin to the office.

Li Youjie only knew that Wang Qiang and Wang Rong were two orphans, but he didn't expect that Wang Rong was actually sick. It was quite pitiful.

At the same time, Baldy Chen was also eating.

The big pot outside never stopped cooking, making ice cream pot after pot.

Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in a hundred battles. Chen Tuzi also understood this truth, so he sent people to Li Youcai's factory pretending to purchase goods. On the surface, they were queuing up to purchase goods, but in fact they were secretly recording Li Youcai's daily shipments.

With the shipment volume, Baldy Chen can roughly calculate how much money the ice cream factory loses every day.

In one morning, Mr. Li sold more than a thousand ice creams, and he had to continue shipping in the afternoon.

Baldy Chen sneered, "The Lis are already living on steamed buns and pickles, which means they won't last much longer. Tell our people to keep a close eye on them. Not only should we monitor their sales, but we should also monitor their daily imports of raw materials. We must not let the Lis take advantage of any loopholes!"

"I got it, big brother. Don't worry, the brothers are keeping a close eye on it. There will definitely be no problems." said one person.

"And that ice cream maker, from now on, take your people to him every day to ask him again. He knows the situation best. Only when the information from both sides corroborates each other can we know ourselves and the enemy."

"Brother, you are so smart! I will take some people to stop the couple tonight."

That night, Du Yong and his wife were once again blocked by Chen Tuzi's men. This time, Du Yong and his wife cooperated much more than before. Without being threatened by these people, they directly told them everything about the situation in the factory.

The factory is now receiving less and less raw materials, and ice cream production is also constantly decreasing. The deputy factory director sighs all day long.

The situation described by Du Yong and his wife was similar to what the spies arranged by Chen Tuzi saw.

After corroborating the two facts, Baldy Chen came to the conclusion that Mr. Li must have run out of funds and was relying on the ice cream sold that day to make up for the loss.

The more you sell, the more you lose, and the less money you have.

At this point in the price war, Baldy Chen feels that the balance of victory is slowly tilting towards them!

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The ice cream factory is losing money, and Chen Tuzi and his team are also losing money.

The ice cream factory loses one or two hundred yuan every day, and they themselves also lose a few hundred yuan every day.

Chen Tuzi and his gang worked as peddlers, and all the wealth they had accumulated over the years had now been spent on ice cream.

Everyone is holding on, hoping to completely wear out the other party so that they can dominate the sweet ice cream market.

"Let's see how long you can hold on!" Baldy Chen's eyes flashed with coldness.