Zhang Chi scratched his forehead and held the phone in one hand with a look of disbelief on his face. He really didn't understand why the Sichuan Fritillary Loquat Cream was sold out.
The last time he went to buy it, the shop owner still had two full boxes. There were Chinese here, but there shouldn't be so many, and he knew almost all the Chinese. There were at most two or three like Li Qiao who had just moved here.
Apart from the people who have slipped through the net for a long time, there should be no one else.
Cannon walked in at this time and was about to go to the coffee machine to get a cup of coffee.
Seeing the sad look on his boss's face, after he put down the phone, he asked: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Zhang Chi said: "It's strange that one thing is sold out."
"What's so easy to sell?" Cannon said.
Zhang Chi replied: "Nothing, just syrup for cough relief."
"Oh, is it the syrup made in China?"
Seeing Zhang Chi nodded, Cannon smiled and said: "That's too normal. There are many people buying this thing now, and a bottle has been sold online for 70 US dollars."
"Even you know?" Zhang Chi asked.
Cannon said: "I also heard from a friend that he bought several bottles at one time. He likes it now and has a spoonful every time he eats."
"You can eat it even if you don't get sick?"
Zhang Chi felt that there was something wrong with Cannon's friend.
But after thinking about it for a while, I can figure it out. Foreigners generally have a sweet tooth, and unlike foreigners, we Chinese also have a sweet tooth in many places. It’s not strange to eat a spoonful of syrup every day.
But Zhang Chi still felt weird after taking a spoonful of medicine every time.
Cannon walked to the coffee machine and took a small pot of coffee. Seeing that Zhang Chi was about to make a call, he said, "Can you help find syrup?"
"Do you have to look for them? Several children here are sick. If they ask me for help, I have to help." Zhang Chi took out his mobile phone and started to make a call.
First call your aunt and ask her if she still has this thing at home.
"Yes, I still have two bottles at home. If you want them, come and get them." As soon as my mother-in-law heard that Zhang Chi wanted this, she immediately remembered that she still had two bottles at home.
Two bottles are not enough!
"Then I'll get your two bottles later. I'll call and ask others. The children here are all coughing. I need at least three or four bottles," Zhang Chi said.
"Then ask your Aunt Phil, she usually likes to plan for a rainy day." Gu Ying thought of her friend.
Zhang Chi said: "Okay, then I'll call Aunt Phil right away. Okay, I won't talk to you anymore...".
"Don't worry yet, I have something else to talk to you about," Gu Ying said immediately upon hearing this.
Zhang Chi replied: "You said it."
"Are you still short of manpower?" Gu Ying asked.
After hearing this, Zhang Chi asked: "Mother, are you asking because someone wants to work?"
Gu Yingdao: "I have a distant nephew here who just graduated from college this year and wants to find a job. If he finds a job, he can stay. If he can't find a job, he has to go back. He doesn't want to go back, but the restaurant here is not suitable for me either.
, so I asked you if there is still a shortage of manpower there."
Hearing what my aunt said, Zhang Chi had to say he was lacking even if he was not lacking.
"Mother, I'm really short of people here, but are you sure that he, a college graduate, is willing to work here?" Zhang Chi thinks this is a bit impossible. A college graduate comes to work on his own ranch? That's not the case.
Is it overkill or underutilized?
When Gu Ying heard what his nephew said, the stone in his heart finally fell: "Isn't that your ranching company, and the university he went to is not a serious university... Also, the kid is a little stupid, but he works
diligent".
"Mother, please stop talking. I want this person." Zhang Chi said after a while and then said: "But the salary here is not high. I can't afford a high salary. I can only earn 700 or 800 yuan a month."
, any more will not be appropriate.”
Seven to eight hundred a month is not considered a low salary for a cowboy. It is impossible for Zhang Chi to pay a newbie more than Cannon's salary, nor can it be paid to someone who is related to him.
After hearing this, Gu Ying said: "That's enough. He can't find a job. Let's stay here first and then talk about it."
"Okay, just ask him to come directly," Zhang Chi said.
After chatting with his aunt for a while, Zhang Chi called Aunt Phil.
When I got a call, Aunt Phil was feeding her pigs.
Aunt Phil is so diligent. She is busy all day long. She never has a moment of free time. She is busy from the moment she wakes up until dusk. Although she has gained some weight and is not very good-looking, such a woman will be Zhang Chi in the future.
What are the standards for finding a wife?
In Zhang Chi's opinion, it doesn't matter whether a wife is good-looking or not. The important thing is to be able to run a family. Marrying a good wife will make you rich for three generations, and marrying a bad wife will make you poor for three generations!
"I really don't have one here. I used to give a few bottles to people around me. Why do you want this over there?" Aunt Phil felt strange.
Zhang Chi said: "As for the children nearby, if they weren't children, I wouldn't help. The medicine prescribed by the doctor doesn't work, and the child has been coughing for several days."
"The doctors here are all useless snacks. Who cares about this?" Aunt Phil began to vomit about the doctors.
Everyone knows what's going on with the doctors and hospitals here. As long as it's a fatal disease, you have to queue up, and there's a fixed number of patients a doctor can see every day. Don't think that like in our country, you can queue up several times in a morning.
Ten people, each doctor here only has about ten patients a day, which is still a lot.
As long as the illness does not endanger your life immediately, most of the time you will go home and wait, and at most you will be prescribed some medicine.
This is a public hospital. Of course, if you are rich, the United States will have the best medical conditions in the world, and doctors can carry hospital beds to your home to treat you.
Zhang Chi knows all this, but complaining is useless. It is better to make money steadily.
After hanging up the phone with Aunt Phil, Zhang Chi placed his last hope on Li Qiao.
Zhang Chi really found him.
"We have this thing at home. Later, I'll ask your sister-in-law to see how many we have at home." Li Qiao was a little surprised when Zhang Chi called him and asked for Chuanbei loquat ointment, but he waited until Zhang Chi told him the reason.
Got it.
For such minor ailments, doctors here usually prescribe small medicines for you. They don't seem to care too much whether it is cured or whether it relieves the condition, so Chinese families usually keep some medicines on hand.
"If you want it, drive to my house now. Your sister-in-law has stocked up a lot. I'll give you four or five bottles."
"Hey, Brother Qiao, you are really busy with me." Zhang Chi smiled happily when he heard this.
After hearing this, Zhang Chi drove to the city.
I first went to my aunt's place and got two bottles, and then gave her fifty dollars.
"You kid, what are you giving me these for?" My mother-in-law looked a little angry.
"If I want it, I won't give you any money you want from me. But now that someone else wants it, I still have to give it to you. It's not much money. Twenty-five dollars a bottle is your guarantee."
I asked Li Qiao for a bottle of Twenty Five and Zhang Chi, so I gave it to my aunt at that price.
"It's expensive. This thing is not that expensive. It only cost a few yuan when I bought it." Gu Ying said she would not accept the money.
The few dollars Gu Ying mentioned are in U.S. dollars. This stuff is not expensive in China, only about 30 RMB per bottle.
But what does it mean that things are expensive when you leave your hometown, but people are cheap when you leave your hometown?
That's it.
It costs more than 30 RMB in China, but if you don’t have access to it here, you can buy it online for only 70 US dollars a bottle.
"A few dollars is worth a few dollars. I also have to collect people's money here," Zhang Chi said.
When dealing with Americans, don't do what we do in China. It's best to clearly mark the price of things that involve money, and don't worry about face, favors, etc. There are no such things here. If you talk to Americans
Speaking of this, most Americans may think that you want to cheat them of more money in the future, but they may not dare to ask for it.
In short, it's very simple. Don't be embarrassed to talk about money with Americans. Talk with confidence and boldness. This is their habit.
I gave the money to my aunt, and got into the car with two bottles. It didn't start, so my aunt chased me out again, opened the door, and put a bag of things in the car.
"Forgot, I prepared for you, braised fat intestines, pig's trotters and some belly."
"Okay, thank you, auntie, I'll leave first."
"Drive carefully on the road!"
The aunt gave another instruction.
"knew"
After Zhang Chi finished speaking, he stepped on the accelerator and the car entered the road.
Arriving at Li Qiao's house, Zhang Chi found that Li Qiao's house was not small.
This is Zhang Chi’s first time visiting Li Qiao’s family. Li Qiao’s family is located in the east of the small town. The city is small and there are no rich areas such as slums or the like. The rich here generally have farms and pastures and do not live in the city.
What matters is quietness, unlike us Chinese who like to get together.
Li Qiao's home has two floors, with an area of at least more than 200 square meters. It is a standard middle-class residence. His lawn can be seen from the roadside, and the lawn of more than 200 square meters stretches all the way to the door.
A row of small white picket fences surrounded the home.
The house has a gray roof and white walls, with a two-car garage.
The houses here are all similar. Houses that live together or in a small community usually don't differ much. Zhang Chi knew at a glance that this house had at least five rooms, and maybe there was a swimming pool behind the house.
Zhang Chi parked the car on the side of the road.
When Li Qiao's wife Li Qin saw Zhang Chi's car, she walked out of the house and stood at the door.
"Zhang Chi".
"Sister-in-law, I'm here to trouble you." Zhang Chi got out of the car, reached out to open the fence, walked into the yard, and said with a smile to Li Qin at the door.
"Li Qiao told me, come in, things are ready for you." Li Qin smiled and welcomed Zhang Chi into the door.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Chi found that the living room of Li Qiao's house was quite large. The living room alone was almost seventy or eighty square meters. Opposite the living room was an open kitchen with a workbench in the middle, which was several square meters larger.
The ground is not paved with solid wood floors, but with parquet tiles. The parquet tiles are not European style, but fresh and simple graystone-colored tiles. With the decoration, you can tell at a glance that this family has a good aesthetic taste.
"Sister-in-law, your home is so beautifully decorated."
When praising a woman, in addition to praising her beauty, there is nothing wrong with praising her for her beautiful dress.
Besides, praising my sister-in-law for her beauty is always weird for us Chinese.
As expected, Li Qin became very happy: "I picked these all, Li Qiao doesn't understand anything."
"This has to be done by a lady. This gentleman knows nothing about aesthetics." Zhang Chi was a little shameless and sold the man off easily.
Li Qin felt even happier when he heard this. He felt that the fat man in front of him was more pleasing to the eye.