Chapter 336 335 When Zhetong arrived, the bosses selling wires made a lot of money
The news spread quickly. After all, the village is very small, and many people have been watching Zhetong’s young men work in the past two days.

This has been a long-awaited event for them, and it is also novel enough, so they are naturally paying close attention to it.

According to the arrangement of Team Leader Liu, their power team will start from the power station and extend outward to build power supply lines.

Under such circumstances, the power supply lines for at least a dozen households can be completed every day.

If traditional power companies, such as power plants, could achieve this, they would not be able to provide normal power supply. Basically, they would have to wait until the lines in a large area were built before they could provide power.

But Zhetong Power is different. With the convenient power supply facilities of Volt Ant, Zhetong Power can provide electricity wherever the lines are.

This can be done as long as the store team members strictly follow the instructions in the operating manual and work safely.

That means that tonight, about ten to twenty households in this village will have access to electricity.

This news is naturally gratifying to most people.

Whether it is today or tomorrow, new users will join every day. They can use it after the meter box is installed and the circuit is connected.

So especially the people living near the small house near the power station rushed to the town to buy some electrical appliances and so on.

As for large household appliances like refrigerators and televisions, they will have to wait, but light bulbs must be taken home today.

Apart from anything else, as long as we have light bulbs, life at night will be much more convenient when electricity is available.

For example, you don’t have to fumble with a dim kerosene lamp when reading or doing other things at night, and the same goes for getting up at night.

The light from kerosene lamps is really too dim. Not only can you not see clearly, but it is also very tiring for your eyes if you use it for a long time.

The students in the village had a relatively difficult situation, and most of them went to the county town to get glasses.

The reason for this is naturally that the children here have been using kerosene lamps for a long time to do their homework, so their eyesight is naturally poor.

Although it doesn’t get dark here until 10 o’clock in the evening in the summer, children are still playful and some of them start to get anxious before bedtime.

I took out the kerosene lamp and started to catch up on my homework under the lamp.

But this problem becomes easy as long as we have light bulbs and study lamps.

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In the town, the boss is a foreigner named Wang, who came here more than ten years ago.

He started out as a business owner, then gradually settled down here and married a beautiful girl.

There are not many customers at this time in the afternoon. After all, there is a market in the town every three days. Only when the market is held will people from the surrounding villages come to the town to buy some daily necessities.

There are naturally more customers at that time, and naturally fewer people on non-market days.

It’s nice to lie on the recliner behind the counter, crack some melon seeds and read some picture books.

Although there are private power stations in the town, they only generate electricity at night and are very expensive, costing about RMB 1.5 per kilowatt-hour. This is higher than the price of industrial electricity in big cities.

Moreover, electricity is only supplied to the area in the center of the town. If the area is a little further away from the town, electricity is not provided. It is quite inconvenient.

So Boss Wang did not install televisions or anything like that in his own store. After all, it was just a hardware store, so there was no need to be so particular.

It’s not like those shops specializing in lighting in county towns. The lights used for display inside those shops are enough to dazzle people’s eyes.

Just when I was bored, a few people came to the store door.

As soon as I walked in, I asked what home appliances the store had.

To be honest, it was just like a skit many years ago, where they asked if there were any electrical appliances at home, and the answer was yes.

What is that? It’s just a flashlight.

It’s the same here. There is no electricity in the village below, so electrical appliances are naturally useless. So Boss Wang subconsciously pointed directly to the shelf next to him.

“I just got a new flashlight. The battery is big and lasts a long time. It’s also energy-efficient. It’s a brand name product!”

If this happened in the city, I’m afraid these flashlights would be “extinct” except in outdoor specialty stores.

But here it is one of the commonly used commodities.

……

Hearing this, the guests who came simply smiled and shook their heads.

“No, like a light bulb or some cheap little appliance or something?”

Hearing this, Boss Wang sat up from his chair.

Of course his store has light bulbs and other things, and if it comes to small appliances, it would probably be electric kettles.

But some of these people looked unfamiliar. This town is quite small, and basically even if I didn’t recognize them, at least they looked familiar. They should be from the village below.

The village down here doesn’t even have electricity? Why are they buying this?
With this question in mind, Boss Wang spoke directly.

“Which village are you from? There is no electricity in this village. The things you bought don’t work. We won’t refund them unless there is a quality issue.”

Although he hoped to sell his goods, Boss Wang still asked just in case.

After all, it would be troublesome and upsetting if people ask to return the goods.

……

“No electricity? Our village will soon have electricity.”

After that, several people picked together. Each person bought several light bulbs and longer household electrical sockets, as well as a kettle.

There are no larger home appliances in the town, so you have to go to the county town.

Besides, electricity is not available in my home yet, so I just need to use a few small devices to get a feel for it first.

After paying the bill, several people walked out of the store with their things.

After these people walked out, Boss Wang was still quite surprised. As far as he knew, there was no place with electricity in these villages within a dozen miles?
These guys said their village will soon have electricity? Which village is this?
After thinking about it, Boss Wang came up with his own answer. He guessed that it was because one of the villages below had become developed.

Here, that’s the only possibility.

For example, if a large mine is discovered in a village, or a large company comes to invest, then electricity will definitely be available.

After all, the operation of those large enterprises and factories cannot be separated from electricity, so the village can also benefit from it and use the electricity supply.

So Boss Wang’s first reaction was that their village must be lucky to have some industry.

Although such situations are rare, they do exist.

This is a good thing. I can sell more items in my store.

Thinking of this, Boss Wang couldn’t help but sigh. It would be great if other villages could also “prosper”, or if some big company or group could come to their town, so that at least everyone would have electricity.

The business in his hardware store will also improve a lot, which is a good thing for businessmen like them.

I can also sell more of the electrical wires, sockets, light bulbs, kettles and other items in my store.

Let’s not talk about other things, such as electrical sockets. The last time I purchased a batch of them was more than a year ago. They have been gathering dust in the store, but the sales volume is pitifully low.

There is no way to do this. After all, there is no electricity. How can we expect people to buy this kind of thing? Even if they buy it, they can’t use it.

In other words, this type of product basically has no shelf life as long as there are no quality problems. Even if it is a little dusty, as long as it is not damp, the quality is completely fine.

After all, this is Xinjiang Province, and there is no such thing as moisture here.

The dryness here is so exaggerated that there is no need for anything like a dryer.

You don’t even need to take off the freshly washed clothes. They can be completely dry in just one morning by hanging them outside.

A blogger even made a video showing how potato chips were opened and placed indoors. The next day, they tasted even crispier than when they were first opened.

Including things like mummies, only here can the conditions for preservation be met.

There is simply no comparison to anywhere else.

If we replace them with other items and they haven’t been sold for so long, these boxes of goods will have to be thrown away.

Boss Wang took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit it, and then staggered back to his chair. He was in a good mood today.

Not to mention, he felt like he had made some money after selling this stuff.

After all, although there is no problem with the quality, if it cannot be sold after three to five years, it can only be kept for family use.

Some staff from other places came to check and decided that the goods that had been there for three to five years should indeed be thrown away.

Therefore, Boss Wang was actually prepared to throw away these things, as they would basically be a loss-making business.

It’s just like lending money. If you lend it to someone for a long time and they don’t pay you back, as long as the amount is not too large, they will forget about it over time.

But if one day your friend suddenly comes to you to pay you back the money, you will probably feel that the money was picked up for free.

Although you don’t get anything in the process, and even if you don’t lend it out you can still deposit it in Yu’e Bao or a bank and earn a little interest, considering inflation and other factors you are still losing money.

But as long as you have imagined in your mind that the money cannot be taken back, it will feel like picking up money.

That’s what Boss Wang is doing now. He originally thought that the unsold goods would rot in the warehouse, but today a few people came and bought a lot of them at once.

Even if I have recovered the more than two hundred yuan, I still feel like I have picked up money, so I feel very comfortable.

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But just when Boss Wang hadn’t finished smoking his cigarette, another person came into the store.

“Boss, do you have any sockets, wires, light bulbs, etc?”

Upon hearing this, Boss Wang became excited and immediately dropped his cigarette and went forward to meet him.

“Yes, yes, yes. I have them all here, my friend.”

This made Boss Wang very happy. Apart from anything else, he was happy to have business coming to him, especially since it was goods that he was planning to not sell.

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After a busy day, several hundred dollars’ worth of goods were sold, and Boss Wang was so happy that he was about to burst into laughter.

Which village is this underneath? That’s good.

Then several waves of customers came, and it was the same for them all. Boss Wang was completely delighted as he watched the electrical sockets and other items on the counter being sold.

Just saw off a group of guests, and here comes another one.

This trend also made Boss Wang ashamed. After asking around, he found out that it was a village below that came directly to the power company.

They said that they have started to lay power lines in the village, so they came to the town to buy some electrical sockets and other things to use.

Boss Wang was quite shocked after receiving the news. Then he asked around, and the people in the village didn’t know why Zhetong Power would provide electricity in the village.

This still made Boss Wang curious. After all, he had asked and found out that there were no mines in the village and no big companies had built factories there.

What is the purpose of this power company providing electricity in the village?
However, although he was curious, Boss Wang was still quite happy. He made more than one thousand or two thousand yuan a day, which was equivalent to making money.

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On the other side, Team Leader Liu and his team had already planned the route, heading directly to the east end of the village and repairing it that way.

In fact, this thing, starting from the central power station to build the line, whether you build the east line first or the west line first is the same.

In practice there is no difference, in theory they are the same.

But the five members of the power team reached a consensus that they should first repair the road towards the east end of the village.

The reason is simple, it’s because the branch secretary lives at the east end of the village. This has nothing to do with any interests or anything, it’s mainly because the branch secretary is a nice person.

The young men from Zhetong accepted the favor and decided to repair the power supply to the person’s home first.

Anyway, this does not affect the company’s various rules, and doing so will not harm anyone’s interests, it’s all the same.

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By the afternoon, the five-member power team in Zhetong had installed electricity meter boxes for seven households, so they can use bright electric lights tonight.

There may have been a few people in the village who didn’t know the news yesterday, but today it has spread to several surrounding villages.

There were even people from other villages coming here to watch the fun.

Because it gets dark later here, the power team in Zhetong also starts working later. And they don’t work for the company or anything, they work for the enthusiastic local villagers.

If we do more, the villagers here will have access to electricity sooner.

On the other hand, Boss Wang, who was very happy at the beginning, could no longer sit still, as the plug cords and other items in several large boxes on his counter were almost empty.

So many were sold in just one day that Boss Wang was so curious that he couldn’t help it.

After all, this stuff is almost sold out, should I buy it or not?
If we don’t import, people won’t be able to buy things in the store. If we import, if the whole village has bought almost all the goods, the goods will be piled up in the store again.

Boss Wang is in a dilemma now and has no idea what the situation is.

After thinking about it, Boss Wang decided to go down and see for himself what was going on.

If the power company really has no idea what’s going on and wants to provide electricity to these villages, I’ll have to purchase the supplies overnight!
(End of this chapter)