Courtyard Houses: Starting as a Purchasing Agent

Courtyard Houses: Starting as a Purchasing Officer (Author: Desperate Three Seconds)

After moving through a traditional courtyard house, Liu Aiguo became an ordinary purchasing agent in the logistics department of a steel rolling mill. He said he was living a very leisurely life.

Every day, he would run around the countryside to help the factory buy eggs, chicken, and live sheep for hospitality purposes. The work was easy, and sometimes he could even make a little extra money.

Did Qin Huairu break off her engagement and marry Jia Dongxu?

Haha... I couldn't be happier, the further away vampires are from me, the better.

Yi Zhonghai said I was heartless and ungrateful?

Okay... I have to promote your kind and righteous act!

Liu Haizhong is badmouthing me?

Go clean the toilets!

Did Jia Zhangshi and Banggeng steal my eggs?

Eat more, and then go to the hospital right away!

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Chapter 001 Steel Rolling Mill Purchasing Officer, Using a Chicken to Spin Eggs

The midday sun was so intense it could practically melt you.

Wearing a straw hat, Liu Aiguo walked on foot along the country lanes on the outskirts of Beijing, skillfully passing through each household, and finally arriving at a large red gate.

Although the gate was red, it was indeed very simple.

A door frame, two doors, and fences around the doors.

You can see inside the yard at a glance without even having to cross the gate.

"Bang bang bang..."

Liu Aiguo knocked on the door forcefully.

A woman in her forties rushed out of the house to open the door. Seeing it was Liu Aiguo, her face lit up with joy, and she said, "Purchaser Liu, you're here..."

"Hmm..." Liu Aiguo nodded with a smile and said, "Aunt Wang, it's been a week since I last came. How are you? How many eggs do you have at home? I guess about twenty, or maybe nineteen?"

Liu Aiguo looked at Aunt Wang, the woman in front of him.

Aunt Wang said, "Wow...you really are amazing, exactly twenty, no more, no less...come on, come on..."

As they were talking, Aunt Wang invited Liu Aiguo to her home.

Take out the snow-white eggs, exactly twenty.

“One egg costs five cents… ten eggs cost fifty cents, and you have twenty eggs, so that’s a dollar in total… right?” Liu Aiguo took out a one-yuan banknote.

Aunt Wang said, "I can't count or do accounting, but I trust you, you won't cheat me... One yuan is one yuan, hehehe... But can you give me back my grain coupons instead of the egg coupons?"

"Row!"

Liu Aiguo smiled and handed three jin of grain coupons to Aunt Wang: "Here you go!"

In the 1960s, you needed ration coupons to buy things.

That's right!

This is the era.

Liu Aiguo, who was about to graduate from university, was so angry at the plot of a TV show in a courtyard house that his liver hurt. After a moment of dizziness, he was transported into the TV show's plot.

The world of courtyard houses!

Here, he is a purchasing agent in the logistics department of the Third Steel Rolling Mill.

His task was a bit special: to purchase ingredients for the hospitality event.

Every major factory needs to entertain guests, but at this time the country's supply of materials is limited, especially for entertainment supplies, which are hard to find.

As a result, every major factory tried to develop its own procurement system, specifically purchasing items such as eggs, live chickens, live sheep, and live pigs from rural households.

However... in most cases, it can only be fed eggs.

Forget about live sheep and pigs; if there were one or two of them, they would all be taken by the production team and then handed over to the state for unified distribution.

As for live chickens.

Not many, it depends on luck.

Especially old hens, nobody in the village is willing to sell them!

To put it bluntly, the family's daily expenses depend entirely on these eggs!

What's the difference between selling hens and killing chickens for their eggs?

In the countryside, people don't have grain ration coupons, and the amount of grain they receive each year is very limited. Qin Huairu, who lives in a courtyard house, earns only 27.5 yuan a month and constantly complains that she can't make ends meet.

In fact, looking at it from a historical perspective, their family's living conditions are a hundred times better than those of ordinary people in rural areas.

At least, their family receives a monthly allowance based on the number of people in the household, and they can eat cornmeal.

However, the people in the countryside can only eat cornmeal for half the year; the rest of the time, they fill their stomachs with sweet potato flour.

The problem is that Liu Aiguo has quotas; in addition to purchasing eggs, he also has to purchase live chickens.

"Aunt Wang, could you sell me one of your chickens?" Even though he knew it was impossible, Liu Aiguo still asked anyway.

"No sale!" Aunt Wang's face darkened. "The hen is laying eggs, how can you sell them..."

“A rooster will do!” For Liu Aiguo, a rooster was fine too; he could take it back and use it as a dish for entertaining guests.

"We sold all the roosters to you... We only kept one for the hens to use for pressing eggs!"

Liu Aiguo was still unwilling to give up: "Then... in your village, is there anyone who wants to sell a hen?"

There will always be days when you can't get through them.

Guo Ran, Liu Aiguo was lucky this time.

Aunt Wang said, "Old Yang's family at the village entrance is sick, and I heard they don't have money for medicine... I'll go ask them for you..."

"Okay, okay..."

Ten minutes later, Liu Aiguo paid two yuan and eighty cents and ten jin of grain coupons in exchange for a thin hen.

Although he was very thin, Liu Aiguo was still very happy.

After visiting the Red Flag Commune and collecting about a hundred eggs, Liu Aiguo picked up his load and left.

When they reached a secluded spot in the fields...

call out……

next moment!

The carrying pole and eggs in Liu Aiguo's hands all disappeared.

This isn't magic; it's the system.

That's right...

As one of the many transmigrators, Liu Aiguo had just activated the system the day before yesterday.

Super Farm System.

There is a small world in the system, and in the small world there is currently one acre of farmland, one acre of pond, and ten acres of woodland!

After two days of exploration, Liu Aiguo discovered that his system world was quite magical. The wheat seeds sown on that acre of land sprouted in ten seconds, grew taller in ten seconds, headed out in ten seconds, matured in ten seconds, and were automatically harvested in ten seconds.

After being harvested, it turned into countless wheat grains that fell into his system space.

Moreover, this land can be planted once a day.

One hundred fish were put into the pond, and they grew into big fish in an instant.

As for that ten-acre mountain forest, it was all primeval forest, with all kinds of wild animals, but no ferocious beasts.

This time, Liu Aiguo got a hen and released it into the mountains.

Although the hen was thin, it quickly searched for food in the forest after entering.

The forest is full of various plant seeds, rotten fruit, and insects; food is everywhere!

After eating its fill, the hen started laying eggs.

Wave...wave...wave...

One, two, three, four, five...

In less than half an hour, a mountain of food had piled up in front of Liu Aiguo.

Egg Mountain!

A full thousand.

After laying a thousand eggs, the hen stopped laying any more.

The system message is: The hen's egg-laying potential has been exhausted.