Courtyard Houses: Starting as a Purchasing Agent

"All things have a spirit!" The leader nodded heavily and said, "Young man, let me give you a piece of advice. If you're going to eat this, a three-foot grass carp would be enough for you. It's best not to kill this dragonfish... It's not easy for such a thing to grow to this age; it must have been at least two hundred years!"

"Yes!" Old Qiu said, "Young man, why don't you sell your fish to us, and I'll find it a good place to keep it!"

The senior leader and Lao Qiu both looked intently at Liu Aiguo.

Liu Aiguo smiled.

Do you think I'm fishing for attention?

No, no, no... I was just trying to hook you guys.

I have plenty of these fish in my system.

Chapter 037 Supplying Watermelons to the State Guesthouse

"Hehehe..."

Liu Aiguo smiled and said, "Sure... if you like it, sir, just name your price!"

"Let me get some water for the fish first!"

Liu Aiguo took a military shovel from the driver, Xiao Li, and then, taking advantage of the terrain by the river, dug a shallow pit and put the big fish in.

Fish can't swim in the pit.

However, this way, they won't die.

Everything is in place.

The group sat down on the shore.

"Come on, let's talk under the tree first, young man!"

Liu Aiguo, Yu Li, the senior leader, and three others all came to the big tree this time.

"Are you sure you want to sell?" the senior leader asked Liu Aiguo.

Liu Aiguo nodded.

The high-ranking leader pointed at Yu Li and asked, "Aren't you going to discuss this with your wife?"

Yu Li's face immediately turned red, but she was also a capable person, and immediately replied, "I'll listen to my husband, whatever he says goes!"

These words reached Liu Aiguo's ears and immediately pleased him greatly.

“Young man, you know this too!” Old Qiu took a sip of water and said, “In this market, carp, grass carp, and black carp are all common fish in Beijing, not rare fish.”

"The market price for live fish is about 40 cents per pound!"

"But then again, with fish, you get what you pay for!"

"The heavier and bigger it is, the more valuable it is!"

"A ten-pound fish will cost about the same as pork, six cents a pound!"

"Once it reaches thirty pounds, it will probably cost eight mao!"

"You have about eighty pounds of this. I'll give you two yuan per pound... how about it?"

Hiss, hiss, hiss...

As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Li gasped.

Two yuan per pound.

One pound of this stuff can be exchanged for three pounds of pork.

This……

Eighty jin, one hundred and sixty yuan?

This……

That’s a lot of money!

"Furthermore!" Old Qiu said with a smile, "I'll give you another hundred catties of meat coupons, or you can choose to have grain coupons, vegetable coupons, cloth coupons, or even bicycle coupons, I can give you one!"

Liu Aiguo smiled.

The price Lao Qiu offered was indeed not cheap.

But...

Liu Aiguo wouldn't care about a mere 160 yuan.

I'm here to fish for people, not for money.

"The price is very reasonable!" Liu Aiguo nodded with a smile.

Old Qiu and the top leader also nodded.

But the next moment, Liu Aiguo asked in return, "This leader, you're not going to go home and eat this fish, are you?"

"How could that be?" Old Qiu said angrily, his beard bristling. "Do you think I'd be short of food? Don't worry, I won't kill you..."

"Then you'll release them?" Liu Aiguo asked again.

Old Qiu said, "I won't release it. I'll send it to the zoo in Beijing and let the people there see it. A hundred-year-old carp, isn't that a rare find?"

"You want to go to Fang Zoo?" Liu Aiguo was also taken aback.

“That’s right!” Old Qiu said, “When you go to the zoo later, you’ll see that I wasn’t lying to you!”

“That won’t do!” Liu Aiguo’s expression turned serious.

Old Qiu and the big leader immediately frowned.

They thought Liu Aiguo was going to back out!

But to everyone's surprise, Liu Aiguo said, "What kind of person do you two take me for?"

"If you buy my fish and donate them to the zoo, wouldn't that make me, Liu Aiguo, look petty?"

"How about this?" Liu Aiguo said, "Since it's being donated to the zoo for the people of Beijing to see, I can handle this. I'll give it to you for free!"

"This……"

Old Qiu, the big boss, and Xiao Li were all stunned.

Even Yu Li's mouth dropped open.

A moment later, the big leader suddenly burst into laughter and said, "Good, good, good... Young man, you're really something... I've never seen a young person these days with your kind of courage!"

Do you have a job?

The senior leader stared intently at Liu Aiguo.

He hasn't seen many young people like this.

However, as a high-ranking leader, how could he possibly take advantage of Liu Aiguo for nothing?

If Liu Aiguo is unemployed, he thought of arranging a job for him, so that the young man wouldn't suffer a loss.

Liu Aiguo said, "I have a job, boss. I'm a purchasing agent for the steel rolling mill, hehehe..."

"Oh?"

Seeing that there was no food to assign Liu Aiguo to work on, the senior leader pondered for a moment and said, "Then, were those watermelons you just bought?"

"Yes……"

Liu Aiguo said with a smile, "I got all of this from my fellow villagers' homes!"

"Give them some money and they'll sell me some!"

"Good!" the senior leader said, "How much per kilogram did you pay when you made the purchases?"

Liu Aiguo said, "Regardless of the weight, the larger ones, around twenty pounds, will cost fifty cents!"

Fifty cents is a lot; one watermelon can be exchanged for five eggs.

It costs about two or three cents per pound.

The high-ranking leader said, "Send some to the state guesthouse later. These watermelons are quite good and can be used to entertain foreign guests. They consume a lot of them there. Even if you send a hundred of these watermelons every day, they can all be used up."

"As for how much you can send, that depends on your abilities!"

"Oh, right... five cents a pound!"

The top leader immediately wrote a note to Liu Aiguo.

He couldn't let Liu Aiguo suffer a loss, and he was prepared to earn it back for Liu Aiguo.

To everyone's surprise, Liu Aiguo said, "I won't do such a thing... From what you just said, I know you are a leader, right?... In front of your leader, I certainly can't do something like making a profit!"

"If you want some from the state guesthouse, I can deliver it to you for three cents a pound. I'm not making any money; I'm just serving the leaders..."

No one expected Liu Aiguo to say such a thing.

Of course.

It's not Liu Aiguo being silly.

Honestly, there's no point in transferring this money.

How many watermelons can you deliver?