After the disaster

On the night of Christmas, Ah Chang returned home in a hurry after school, had dinner, took a shower, dressed neatly, and went shopping with Qiu Cheng in the supermarket.

Because of the opening of Xinnan Shopping Mall, Xinnan City is much more lively than usual on this day. There are many brightly colored banners and balloons in front of the mall, and there are many colorful scraps of paper on the ground. People are coming and going in the mall. .

Ah Chang was full of anticipation at the beginning, but after going in for a couple of rounds, he lost all interest, because there is no food section in such a huge shopping mall.

Qiu Cheng felt a little amused seeing him looking downcast, and they didn't spend much time in the supermarket. Soon, Qiu Cheng took Ah Chang to the jewelry area on the fourth floor.

There are several shareholders in this Nancheng shopping mall, all of whom are leading figures in Xinnan City. Ai Wenhai is one of them. The pig farm looting incident did hit Ai Wenhai to a certain extent, but it was far from fatal. Ai Wenhai rose up during the most difficult time in Xinnan City, and after years of development, he is now deeply rooted.

Before, Qiu Chengcheng learned through the "eyes of heaven and earth" that the entire jewelry area on the fourth floor was almost divided up by these few shareholders. They had collected some good things in the past few years, and now they are almost It's time to put it up for sale.

After Qiu Cheng took the elevator up to the fourth floor, he went straight to a counter in the northeast direction, which was also the place he had chosen early in the morning.

"Hello, welcome, sir, do you want to see jade or gold and silver?" the sweet-looking salesperson asked enthusiastically.

"Do you buy jade here?" Qiu Cheng asked her with a smile.

"Yes, we also buy jade here. Where is the thing you want to sell, sir, can you show it to me?" the salesperson asked.

"Yes." Qiu Cheng put the black handbag in his hand on the glass counter, then unzipped the chain on the handbag, and showed the salesperson the batch of jade he brought out today.

The salesperson took a look, and was immediately taken aback. She just saw that Qiu Cheng had no airs at all, and from his clothes, words and deeds, he didn't look like a particularly rich man. A handbag full of jade stones came to sell, and even if she didn't look carefully, she felt that the quality of these jade stones was unusual.

"Please come to our reception room and sit down. I'll invite the manager over right away." Such a large transaction must not be done at the outside counter. The salesperson quickly invited Qiu Cheng and the others into the reception room, and then Went to the other side to find their manager.

Soon, a middle-aged man in his 50s entered the reception room, and Qiu Cheng knew that he was the manager here.

"I heard that you have a batch, so you want to sell it?" As soon as the manager came in, he began to call Qiu Cheng and A Chang in a large number quietly. Sitting in his position, although the salary is good, the responsibilities are also very heavy. Heavy.

"Yes." Qiu Cheng didn't say much, opened the handbag, and dumped all the jade stones on the coffee table with a few bangs.

"Take it easy, take it easy." The manager saw him coming up and dumped things on the coffee table. The jade hit the glass coffee table with a "ping-pong" sound, and quickly reached out to close the door of the reception room.

"Look at the things first." Qiu Cheng motioned him to look at the fineness of this batch of jade.

The manager sat on the sofa opposite Qiu Cheng without saying a word, and casually picked up a piece of jade the size of a palm and examined it carefully. Check it out.

"What price do you plan to sell?" the manager asked Qiu Cheng.

"I just want food, see how much you can give." Because he will buy another batch of lambs, Qiu Cheng is also relatively short of food now.

"Five hundred catties?" said the manager.

"Look at my jade, one piece is only worth more than a dozen catties of grain?" Qiu Cheng smiled.

"Then what do you mean?" His offer just now was originally just a test.

"Five thousand catties of cornmeal, don't want old goods." Qiu Cheng said.In the past, it was outrageous that such a large piece of jade was only sold at such a price, but now that food is expensive, the market for jade is still in a slump.

"Wait a minute, I'll ask the boss what he means." The manager couldn't decide on such a big deal. It just so happened that today was the opening day of the Xinnan Mall. Tonight, several shareholders of the mall had a party upstairs. Their boss is among them.

"Okay." Qiu Cheng nodded and agreed.

After the manager went out, Qiu Cheng turned his head and saw Ah Chang sitting upright on the sofa next to him, so he couldn't help but reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Relax."

"Huh..." Ah Chang let out a breath, and his straight back suddenly fell down: "When are you leaving?"

"Wait a little longer, I'll earn some food later, and I'll buy you cakes to eat." Recently, someone opened a cake shop at the night market, attracting many children to watch outside every day, but few people could afford it, because that The shop owner doesn't charge money at all, only some flour and eggs, which can be used to make cakes.

"Big one." Ah Chang licked his lips and said.

"Row."

About ten minutes later, the manager came back with an old woman in her 50s. This woman's hair was half gray and she was very fat.

After she greeted Qiu Cheng, she sat down on the sofa opposite Qiu Cheng, took out a pair of glasses from her pocket, put them on, and observed these jades carefully.

"You said that these jade stones will sell five hundred catties of cornmeal newly crushed this year?" After viewing the goods, the bargaining began.

Qiu Cheng had already checked the situation before coming here, and knew that the other party was one of the several giants in Xinnan City. At present, apart from farms and land, the main business items were buying and selling some gold shareholders, etc. The person with the most food in Xinnan City, the combined granaries of the city government and the military do not have as much stock as hers.

But this person is still very stingy, just like now, even a pound of cornmeal had to be ground with Qiu Cheng for a long time. After more than an hour, the jade was finally sold for 920 pounds of cornmeal, and Qiu Cheng put it on the spot. The jade was handed over to them, and then the other party issued a receipt. After two days, they sent the batch of grain to the fish farming factory in the south of the city, and the transaction was considered complete.

"The fish farming factory in the south of the city? What is your relationship with Shen Xing?" The other party was also a little surprised when he heard that Qiu Cheng asked to send the food there.

"Partner." Qiu Cheng smiled, picked up the receipt issued to him by the other party, and left with Ah Chang.

Speaking of Shen Xing, in fact Qiu Cheng has already regretted it now, and he should have given this kind of bargaining work to Shen Xing if he had known earlier, if he had given it to her, he might be able to sell an extra hundred catties of grain back.

"Boss Ding, drink tea." In the reception room just now, the previous manager had already offered their boss a cup of hot tea.

"Oh, I'm getting older, and I can't stand the kung fu now." The woman called Mr. Ding patted her waist and sighed.

"It's been almost two hours." At the beginning, the manager thought that Qiu Chengsi was so gentle and gentle, and thought he was not good at bargaining, but he didn't expect that he could hold on for so long when facing their boss Ding.

"What is this? He's ready to talk." At this time, Mr. Ding picked up another piece of jade on the sofa, looked at it, and then laughed: "Not bad, this thing is not bad. Fortunately, it came today." It's not Shen Xing, otherwise we will really have to fight a tough battle."

After a while, Mr. Ding went back upstairs. The party was not over yet. Seeing her radiant face, everyone knew that a big deal must have been made. This was the first day of the mall's opening, and it was of great significance. , So they all started to ask her what kind of deal it was.

Regarding the business, Mr. Ding didn't say much, but he casually brought up another topic: "Shen Xing has a partner, do you know?"

"I've heard a little bit about it, why, you just told him about the business today?" someone asked.

"Yes." Boss Ding nodded.

"Who is that person?" someone asked.

"I heard it's a young man named Qiu Cheng." Once again, he knew the truth.

In fact, it is very simple to investigate this matter. As long as there is a little relationship, check who owns the Chengnan Fish Farming Factory, and then check his personal information through the police station.

It's just that none of them noticed the existence of Qiu Cheng before. Even Shen Xing, who is the manager of the fish farming factory, they only heard about it recently. On the other hand, it is her relationship with Shen Dingjun.

"Oh? We still have such young talents in Xinnan City. Why haven't we heard of them before?"

"You can see it at the New Year's Eve party in two days. They have also received invitations."

"Qiu Cheng?"

At the table on the other side, Ai Wenhai remembered who Qiu Cheng was. Recently, he had a lot of things to deal with because of the pig farm, and he was not as concerned about these things in the city as before. The young man who delivered the potatoes by himself now has such strength.

"Qiu Cheng?" On Shen Dingjun's side, his face was already dark. He had always looked at that kid as not pleasing to the eye. Sure enough, now he and that girl came together to resist him. He has been busy arranging troops recently. It is only now that Shen Xing has received the invitation to the New Year's Eve party.