After Black Lotus became a reborn person, he went completely crazy

So every year before visiting relatives, everyone will communicate in advance and take things of the same price. I won't take advantage of your bargain, but I don't want to suffer a loss either, so I just want to be evenly matched.

In the original body's memory, visiting relatives with steamed buns and fried cakes continued for several years. It was not until the late 1990s that it evolved into biscuits, brown and white sugar, etc.

Things like visiting relatives with cigarettes, alcohol and milk are things of the new century.

The same goes for storing winter vegetables in my hometown. Cabbages are stored half in the cellar and half in the other. Various pickles and salted vegetables are also pickled in advance, and the quantities are particularly large.

For onions, you can buy several bundles at a time and store them in the cellar, which will last for several months. The same goes for radishes, which can be stored in half the cellar, or buried back in the soil after the harvest, and then dug out some when you want to eat.

To be precise, ordinary people needed to stock up food for the whole winter at one time, because greenhouse vegetables were not yet popular at that time. Especially in the northwest, you could not see other green leaves in winter except for the vegetables you stocked up.

No matter how difficult daily life is, the Spring Festival is definitely the time when everyone is most willing to spend money. Many people even work hard for a whole year just to have a happy life during those few days during the New Year.

Therefore, children especially like the Chinese New Year because they have new clothes to wear, candies and meat to eat. It is the happiest moment of the year for them.

No matter how bad the conditions are, people will still try their best to eat and drink well during the New Year, which is considered a good omen.

Meijuan still didn't understand and said, "A lot of food here is bought on the spot, except potatoes and cabbage. I can't imagine the situation you're talking about."

"It's normal that you can't imagine it because it's different in different regions. It's even more exaggerated in the Northeast. They stockpile even more things. They even make dumplings for the first month of the lunar year and throw them in the snow to freeze. When they're ready to eat, they just take them out and cook them. They use big jars to store the dumplings. Just imagine it."

Xia Ran heard several people from Northeast China say this themselves. She found it unbelievable at the time, because greenhouse vegetables had already become popular at that time. According to normal thinking, there was no need to make so many dumplings at one time. If you eat it every day, you will go crazy. It's fatal to think about it.

But this is the local customs and habits of the people. As long as the people are enjoying this kind of wintering life of hoarding goods, it doesn't matter what outsiders like her think.

Even Peng Bo was surprised and interrupted: "With so many bags, aren't you afraid they might go bad?"

"No, the temperature there is dozens of degrees below zero, so there is no need to worry about this. The outdoors is a natural refrigerator. Everything can be stored there. If you are lazy, you can just dig a snow pit and bury all kinds of things in it. They won't melt for a long time."

“It sounds very interesting.”

"Not only does it sound interesting, it's even more interesting when you're freezing. Not everyone can stand that kind of cold."

Seeing that the customer flow was not very large at the moment, Xia Ran went out with Peng Bo to look at the shop. Whether renting or buying, the shop had to be booked first.

In the following time, Xia Ran kept looking at shops, some for rent and some for sale, with good and bad locations. The prices were naturally low and high, and the price difference was particularly large.

The asking price is not very objective, it all depends on the landlord's anxiety and his or her psychological expectations of the house.

They looked at seven shops in total, and these were the ones that Peng Bo and his team had shortlisted. After much thought, Xia Ran decided that it would be more cost-effective to buy them directly, as renting a shop from someone else would involve too many variables.

Once the business becomes popular, it is easy to be maliciously rent-raised or be evicted. There are many such news reports. You cannot gamble with human nature at the cost of profit, or you will surely lose.

Originally, she had no plan to hoard houses, shops and land before the subscription certificate matter was completed, because the current rate of return on these items was not high and not very cost-effective.

It seems that it is no longer possible now. After much deliberation, Xia Ran finally decided to buy one so that she could use it with peace of mind.

After two rounds of negotiations, we finally decided on a two-story shop on Zapu Road, with an upper and lower floor area of ​​28 square meters each, and a small courtyard of 30 square meters with a well in the courtyard.

The total cost was RMB 900 per square meter on average. At that time, this price is not cheap at all.

Fortunately, the upstairs can be lived in directly and is divided into two small rooms.

Xia Ran had thought it through. There were two rooms upstairs. One would be used as a temporary warehouse, and the other would be for them to stay in while on duty. He could just order two bunk beds.

This shop used to sell clothes. The store is kept quite clean, with pure white walls. The owner of the clothing store has already found a new shop, and this shop has just been cleaned up and vacated, so it is currently vacant.

This is also one of the reasons why Xia Ran chose it. He didn’t want any disputes and wanted to get it right away.

In fact, there is a shop that is more cost-effective and cheaper than this one, but that shop cannot be vacated in a short time. The transaction does not break the lease, and the other party’s lease period has not expired yet.

Although the landlord said that he could negotiate to let the former tenant move out early, she couldn't wait and didn't want to wait. The New Year was a good time for everyone to make money. Why should she let others give up the benefits that were within their grasp?

It's not impossible to ask the other party to move out early, but they have to be compensated for the loss, which is another expense. It's better to buy something more expensive and less troublesome, which can be done in one go.

Of course there is another reason, that is, this shop has a yard and a well, which will be much more convenient to use, and it can even be demolished and rebuilt in the future, so Xia Ran is happy to spend a little more money.

According to the landlord, the female owner of the clothing store had originally planned to buy it for her own use and had already made a verbal agreement on it. However, when it came time to pay, the male owner hesitated and was unable to take out the money.

After asking in detail, I found out that the cash in the house was secretly embezzled by the male boss, and it seemed that he had spent it on his other brothers, resulting in the fact that he could not take out cash now. The couple even had a fight over this. The female boss almost went crazy on the spot, and finally they got divorced.

The landlord, Aunt Yang, also sighed repeatedly, "Hey, money still has to be held in your own hands. Look, none of these men are reliable. That Xiao Xue is also pitiful. He worked hard for several years, but the little money he earned all went into other people's pockets. Tell me, aren't you angry?" As she said this, she glanced at the landlord uncle next to her.

The landlord said with a strong desire to survive: "Look at you, you can talk about others, why are you glaring at me? Haven't you always been the head of our family? My pockets are cleaner than my face, this matter has nothing to do with me."

Xia Ran also nodded in agreement: "The financial power must be in one's own hands. It's not safe to give it to others, even if it's one's partner. Those who ignore their own family and care about others are all fools. There will always be a day when they will regret it."