"I guess it hasn't reached our place yet. Brother, the old man wants to watch this "Conquering the Dead Zone", saying it is a film about demining on the Sino-Vietnamese border."
"Then let's find a place to park. Brother, you go buy a ticket. Do you two want to watch?"
"No."
"No."
"You young people, why are you not patriotic?"
"It's patriotic to watch a movie, and we're going to go shopping."
"Okay, we'll accompany you two to the mall and let the old man watch a movie."
Ah Fu bought high-priced scalper tickets and let the elderly go in to watch the movie. The four of them walked into the shopping mall below the cinema. When Beifeng and Liu Xia entered the shopping mall, they felt like children walking into a zoo. They walked around one store after another. Not tired at all. Yang Liufang found that the shopping mall here was similar to the Xiguan Cross Underground Shopping Mall in Xizhou. It was a combination of boutique counters and boutiques. Perhaps in that era, shopping malls across the country were almost the same.
Northwest Feng thought that Liu Xia spent nearly 30,000 yuan to buy jewelry for her, and this time she would do anything to repay this future sister-in-law. Although his salary was not high, he now had 10,000 yuan as a gift and a gift from the Yang family’s parents, so he took Liu Xia to the counter of foreign imported goods and finally spent 9,999 to buy Liu Xia a watch. I had no choice but to accept it. In this way, the relationship between the two became better, but they forgot about the two men who accompanied them shopping.
The two of them gave each other a reference when buying clothes. Wenzhou is a famous city for shoes and clothing. In recent years, many big European and American brands have also come here for OEM, and local factories have also learned a lot. Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu also looked at it, but unlike Northwest Feng and Liu Xia who tried it on and asked the salesperson to pack it up when they found something suitable, they looked at the styles of leather clothes and leather goods here. The dazzling array of novel designs dazzled them. Compared to them The old-style leather jackets and big-toe shoes produced in Xizhou, the leather jackets sold here are well-designed and fashionable. Whether it is a short bomber jacket or a long leather windbreaker, they all give people a very high-end feel.
However, the price here is much higher than their leather jackets, and their practicality is not as good as theirs. Because their leather jackets are very warm, and they are not the sleeveless sheepskin jackets or vest-type jackets sewn by herdsmen themselves. Therefore, among the middle-aged and elderly men in the northwest and northeast, their factory's leather jackets are almost available to everyone. This is also their factory's largest source of income besides car seats, but the profit margin is indeed very low. Through comparison, the two understood that they still need to work harder on design and strive to create their own brand.
Liu Xia and Bei Xi Feng were quickly overwhelmed by the large and small bags, so they had to call Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu for help. However, they not only bought it for themselves, but also bought each of the two men a khaki windbreaker to reward the two men who carried the handbags. Although the black woolen coats they wore were also very high-end in Xizhou, Compared with the new designs in Europe and the United States, the designs here pale in comparison. The two of them looked much more handsome in their new coats.
Shopping seems to be a woman's nature, and the two of them followed behind carrying large and small bags. Although the storekeeper carefully prepared rest seats at each store, they still felt tired, but the two ladies enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. Try everything that suits you. If Yang Liufang hadn't stared at his watch and realized that it was the end time of the movie and he had to pick up four old people at the exit of the cinema, the two beauties would still be shopping. After receiving the four parents who were coming out of the movie, the family came out of the White Deer Cinema. It was almost noon. I was looking for a place to eat, but I walked into several restaurants and there were always people waiting in line. I didn’t expect that restaurant business would be so booming during the Spring Festival. Li Tongfu remembered the small restaurant where Master Liu Fang invited them to eat the year before last and thought it tasted pretty good, so he suggested going there to have a look.
Master said that the hotel was in the suburbs and it would be a long way to go by car. Yang Liufang simply called one of the council members of the Chamber of Commerce and asked about the famous food in Wenzhou, and wanted to take the elderly at home to try it.
"The five flavors are harmonious."
"Oh. Do you and the five of you know?"
"Oh, it's a nice place there, a time-honored brand." Master has heard of it even when he lives here.
"I like sorghum meat, the famous snack Chuxu duck tongue, Tengqiao brand, salami, fried rice candy..." Liu Xia also agreed, and talked about a lot of famous snacks, which made Yang Liufang greedy. Gotta drool. He also thought that Xibei Feng had been here for so many days. Apart from cooking at home, he had never tried the snacks in his hometown. This time he could finally make up for his shortcomings.
"When did you come?" asked the master's wife.
“When I was in middle school, I would come here with my classmates to buy snacks after school at noon.”
"Let's eat secretly, then let's go there."
"Walk."
The family quickly reached an agreement, and now Li Tongfu drove in the front, and Liu Xia followed in the car, avoiding the crowd and driving towards Wuma Street, the old commercial street in Wenzhou City.
From a distance, he could see the crowds of people on Wuma Street. When they got closer, the car could not move at all. Yang Liufang saw that other drivers had parked their cars in a nearby open space, so he also parked there. Walking along the street, you can see all kinds of shops, which is dizzying to see. On the street, there are not only ginseng and antler medicine stores such as Laoxiangshan, Qianningzhai, Yuanchang, and Baoda, as well as large shops such as Xu Dechang, Zhengfenghe, and Tonghe, but also three century-old stores, Wuweihe, Jinsanyi, and Laoxiangshan. Simple buildings line both sides, bustling people are walking around Wuma Street, and the shouts of the waiters can be heard in every corner. There is a strong Spring Festival atmosphere everywhere. As I was walking around with the crowd, I saw a signboard with "Wuweihe" in black characters on a white background, and a bright red couplet banner that said "Omnivorous food with canned fruits from the north and south" and "Preserved seafood and various sauces and wines". There were no couplets like those from the north. Elegant, but delivering the goods it sells directly to customers also highlights the difference in business management methods between the north and the south.
There were three queues in front of the store, and Yang Liufang and his family had to wait in a long line like everyone else. It took nearly an hour for their turn to come. When they walked into the store, there was a buzz of people. The quaint Eight Immortals table was greasy, and I don’t know how much it has been used. After reading the introduction, I realized that the so-called five flavors are "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and salty". It is true that the five flavors are all about the taste of the world.
The children asked the elders to order, but the elders didn't know how to order. Finally, they handed it over to Liu Xia, who had been here before. She took a simple menu and ordered wontons, fish balls, handmade pasta, pig giblet noodles, and almond curd. , fried rice candies and a few snacks. The smart girl took into account the tastes of both the north and the south. The whole family had a great time eating. The old people also drank the sauce wine here.
After lunch, I took a walk along the street and reached the end of Wuma Street. There was actually an agricultural and sideline products market in a well-organized neighborhood. It is also a building with gray tiles and white walls, but underneath are vegetable stalls and fruit stalls neatly set up with gray cloth awnings. It looks more orderly than the ones I saw in Xizhou, where a random plastic sheet was spread on the ground. , some even put the vegetables directly on the ground, which is much more psychological. Because it was noon, there were a lot of people buying food, but it didn't look messy at all. Yang Liufang wanted to take a look. The old people may have been used to it. They didn't understand why Yang Liufang was suddenly interested in the vegetable market. Even Li Tongfu found it baffling. The family came all the way to Wenzhou to go shopping, not to buy vegetables.
Yang Liufang had another idea. Before the Spring Festival, the supply and marketing cooperative held a meeting and decided to try to build an agricultural and sideline products sales center in the north city supply and marketing cooperative, and made great efforts to clear out some merchants. However, there was no news about subsequent renovations and new investment, and the west There are many open-air vegetable markets in the state. This is the first time that this method of selling in the supply and marketing cooperative hall is used. It would be a good way to learn more from the sales methods in the south and serve as a reference for the Chengbei Club or the head office. So he asked Ah Fu to take his family shopping, and they agreed to meet at the parking lot at the end of Wuma Street and go to the vegetable market by himself.
Yang Liufang, who crossed the road and entered the agricultural and sideline products market, was not wandering aimlessly. He looked carefully at every stall he came to. Sometimes he would chat with the vegetable vendors at the stalls and ask how the business was. Whether the stall rental is expensive or not is like a government official paying a private visit incognito. Through communication with the stall owners, he learned that the stalls here are fixed, and the vegetable vendors rent them on an annual basis. Each stall has a management fee of 2 yuan per day. The market management provides corresponding supporting services, such as unified garbage removal and management. , equipped with a fair scale to avoid the occurrence of shortages and reduce disputes between customers who come to buy vegetables and vendors.
Yang Liufang remembered these details one by one, lest he forget anything, he also bought two out-of-season cucumbers from a vegetable vendor, and borrowed a pen and a piece of carbon paper for writing menus to record the key points. He didn't leave until evening, when more and more people came to make purchases.
By the time he got to the car, his family was already sitting in the car resting. On the way back, Yang Liu just told him the purpose of visiting the vegetable market in the car, and asked Beifeng and Li Tongfu to give him advice to see what areas needed improvement.
"Then after charging management fees and stall fees, the price of vegetables will go up."
"That's for sure, the wool comes from the sheep."
“How can this be avoided?”
"Brother, since it is a state-owned supply and marketing system, the venue fee should be free, right?"
"It's hard to say."
"Then you still worry about this."
"Hey, Xiaoxi, you can't say that. The new agricultural and sideline products sales center is close to the Eye City, and both glasses and home appliances are a bit semi-high-quality. If mixed with a vegetable market with the theme of citizens' life, it will inevitably appear nondescript and bring us down. The merchants may not be willing to use the layered feel of Eye City.”
"Yes, Adi, you still have to give suggestions to the club to avoid this situation from happening."
"Well, this is what I've been thinking about these days. It would be great if we could do the decoration. I just don't know how the club will organize it this time."
"With the current market-oriented reforms, even the director of this year's Spring Festival Gala is invited to bid. Does the company still dare to appoint it internally?"
"Let's prepare with both hands. President Li also has his own difficulties. The wholesale market leaked a few years ago, and he was affected to some extent."
