Chapter 75 Journey to Beixiao City
Silent night.
A figure flashed past the corner of an alley on Gulou East Street.
Su Mu had already made plans and did not go home after finishing his work.
Instead, he went straight to the Xiaoshi near Yonghe Temple.
Xiaoshi here is also quite famous.
The scale is almost on par with Xiaoshi in Deshengmen.
In the early years of the capital, Xiaoshi was divided into north and south, and before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was divided into east and west.
Among them, Nanxiao City was originally located west of Yaowang Temple outside Chongwenmen and south of Banbi Street. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was moved to the current Dongxixiao City Street.
It is also Dongxiao City where Su Mu often goes.
It is both Nanxiao City in the early years and Dongxiao City today.
Xixiao City was originally located on the edge of the Beihe River east of the bridge outside Deshengmen. Its current location is said to be near Duanjia Hutong outside the west wall of Prince Chun's Mansion.
Beixiao City is located near Yonghe Temple.
In fact, there are many Xiaoshis in the capital.
Under the shortage of materials and the planned economy model, the people have the need for "self-adjustment and bartering", and there will naturally be a market.
But the reason why Dawn Market is called a ghost market is that besides disappearing at dawn, it also means 'hidden'.
In addition to people living nearby, information sources are obtained through word of mouth through personal relationships such as colleagues, friends, and relatives.
Therefore, if you stay away from it, it is often the case that you don’t know its location after hearing its name.
Su Mu knew the 'allusions' of East, West, South and North Xiaoshi, but it was thanks to the industry.
People who work in the "Banyeer" circle are not like Sumu who spends three days fishing and two days drying nets. He travels through the streets and alleys of the capital all day long. It is not an exaggeration to call him a "Beijing expert".
After listening to all kinds of news, Su Mu deduplicated, arranged and summarized the information in his own mind to draw accurate conclusions.
Although the process is somewhat complicated, the results are quite accurate.
From the first step of climbing over the wall to entering the house, to the last moment when Su Mu left the private house, it took less than 10 minutes.
Efficiency is amazing.
It took almost 10 minutes to climb over the wall and arrive at Beixiao City near Yonghe Temple.
This is the result of Sumu running freely.
When he came to Beixiao City, Su Mu was a little disappointed at first sight.
Then, a sense of anticipation emerged from the bottom of my heart.
The scale of Xiaoshi in the Lama Temple area is far worse than that of Dongxiao City.
This can also understand why Beixiao City and Xixiao City not only gather twice a week, but also extend it by an hour.
The market needs it.
The existence of Xiaoshi is based on the supply and demand demands of ordinary people.
From a business perspective, the supply and demand of ordinary people is equivalent to the profits of businesses.
When the profit cannot meet the business psychology, the traditional method that can be adopted is to increase the operating cycle, that is, from once to twice a week, and from three o'clock to two o'clock each time...
When merchants cannot increase their product categories, in addition to extending the business cycle, there is another way to increase their profits, which is to increase the unit price per customer.
In other words, after Su Mu's first analysis, he was sure that the prices here were higher than those in Dongxiao City.
This is the insight of a businessman.
Finding a deserted corner, Su Mu took out his Xiaoshi special sack and dove in.
The atmosphere of Xiaoshi is one of the few places in this era that makes Su Mu feel more friendly.
Primitive and backward, good-looking but tangled.
The secretive bargaining method avoids transparency of price information.
The lovely group of "customer comrades" who are good-looking but inexperienced,
It also gave Su Mu the confidence to "take advantage of others".
A group of customers who could not hide their thirst for supplies met Su Mu, who had experienced many battles and was able to integrate the price of sitting on the ground into his bones... Su Mu raised his wrist, and the time pointed to three forty-five.
The hourly wage is 120 yuan, is that okay? After encountering queuing and buying at low prices and selling at high prices, Su Mu felt tired and distressed.
I feel bad that I lost at least [-]% of my profit in Dongxiao City some time ago.
All time and energy are wasted in the Red Sea market.
Walking from the west end to the east end, although Xiaoshi is not very long, but because I am buying and selling bulk goods to those in need, and I am buying some eggs and grains for trading, the delay is in Dongxiao Market. More than double.
Profits also increased by nearly [-]%.
The so-called cliff-like buying low and selling high means that the price difference is so large that it can be described as a cliff.
The profit was huge, increasing Sumu's profit by more than [-]%.
The rest is food.
Perhaps it is also because as time goes by, the news of severe drought this year and serious reduction in grain production has intensified, which has stimulated grain prices and transaction impulses.
Anyway, Su Mu made a lot of money from just this one trip.
Why do you say one way? Because he lingered and prepared for another round of sweeps.
Su Mu calmly left Xiaoshi carrying the big bag, followed by several longing, annoyed and complicated eyes.
Until Sumu's back completely disappeared into the dark corner.
Not long after, another young man wearing ordinary blue patched clothes blended in from the east end of Xiaoshi.
Well, Su Mu returned to space and changed into a set of clothes, and the makeover came again.
In his last life, he felt that he was born for real business.
But the period of his most energetic life happened to be at a stage when real estate, the Internet, and the short video industry, which was an extension of the Internet, were booming.
Taking advantage of short selling, he has been running his business life based on his own shortcomings.
Even though he had achieved some success, deep down in Su Mu's heart, he still felt that he was born at the wrong time.
Now, he feels that his ability to travel to this era may be God's 'compensation' for him.
Feeling like a fish in water, Su Mu felt more energetic every time after visiting Xiaoshi.
For many people, getting up early to visit Xiaoshi, feeling sleepy and nervous, jumps out of their comfort zone and comes to this strange and lonely environment, burdened with the burden of their family's livelihood.
For Su Mu, it was about escaping from the ordinary environment and returning to the business district that she was most familiar with and loved from the bottom of her heart.
Others have to come here just to make a living, and they are already resisting and rejecting them deep in their hearts before setting off. It is pure consumption.
Sumu is more like charging.
Recharge your life and your energy.
On this trip, Sumu's focus was mainly on selling stick noodles, supplemented by exchanges, in order to improve efficiency.
But even with such picky transactions, when he returned to Xitou again, he still completed the feat of 183 yuan and 5 cents.
Definitely a feat.
The figure disappeared into the night again.
And Su Mu, who was wearing black clothes and a hat, appeared in Xiaoshi again.
Dawn has broken in the distance, and the market is on the verge of dissolution.
Sumu's obsessive-compulsive disorder broke out.
He feels that he still needs to break through 500 yuan to make a profit, which is the most comfortable state.
So he came again.
After returning for the second time, many people thought that this person had gone back to collect supplies.
So those who had been hesitating before, or who had not been able to buy stick noodles because they met too late, all swarmed over.
In the darkest period before dawn, Xiaoshi's unspoken rules feel like they have been trampled on.
The sumac is sufficient to carry, and the sack can occasionally be filled with a little more, so even though more than a dozen people lined up to buy it, it was still easy to get rid of it.
Seeing the sky getting brighter, Su Mu escaped into the depths of the alley against the rays of the morning sun.
(End of this chapter)