Compared with the mobile vendors in the city, he seems to be more "unstable", where there are exchange meetings, where there are stalls and markets, he will go where he goes, spend most of the time on the road, endure the pain of running, and going to various places to set up stalls has become his daily work.
Run seven or eight places a month, and don't go home for two or three months
On April 11, Qu Guojie returned to his hometown, just the day before, he was still in Xi'an Datang West Market to set up a stall, he was doing a literary and play business, processing and making his own, and selling his own stall. When the business is good, you can make some money, and when it is not good, you can't sell one for a long time.
"Saturday, April 10, is the time for Xi'an DatangXi Antique City Tony City Stall Market to open," Qu Guojie said, the antique market has a fixed time, after this time, you can't set up stalls, so he needs to run around.
Qu Guojie mainly sells turquoise jewelry, these literary and toy ornaments have a fixed circle of purchase, a small number of famous ethnic groups like to wear, so he goes to The Tibetan area the most, often tossing and turning in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo, Qingchuan and Tibet between the city sales, because it is not fixed, so he often runs seven or eight places a month, two or three months do not go home, only when close to home to return.
Qu Guojie had a workshop in Yongshou County, and when he returned home, he went to the workshop to be busy, and after staying at home for a while, he set off again. "Life is very stressful, and it won't be long before you have to set up a stall," Mr. Qu said.
He often went to various antique markets in various provinces, set up stalls for four or five years, where there was a market, what time there was an exchange meeting, he remembered it clearly, usually rushed to this time, participated in this and then set off to go to another.
In order to live, you have to continue to persevere
The days of running on the road are very hard, the wind and food are sleeping, sometimes you can't find a place to live, you have to rest in the car, Qu Guojie wants to end the life of running stalls around, and also thought of opening a storefront, but now the business is not good, and finally dispelled this idea, continue to set up stalls everywhere.
In fact, Qu Guojie has been doing this line of writing and playing for more than 20 years, the earliest time was in the south to do turquoise processing, four or five years ago began to do their own, good jewelry need to be sold, he went to various antique cities to sell, now more is his own stall sales.
Now he often goes to various places with his wife and wife to set up stalls, and at the earliest he could be alone, because people have many eyes and miscellaneous eyes, and things have been thrown several times, so they go everywhere in the back.
Talking about his entry, Qu Guojie said that because he had relatives doing it at the earliest, he also followed it, doing this line of work is to make a living, although it is very hard to run around, but he will only do this line, so he has to keep doing it.
Because of the need to run everywhere, sometimes people around them think that they can enjoy a lot of scenery on the way, but Qu Guojie said that occasionally he will go to the local scenic spots and monuments, more because of the hardships on the road, everything is for life.
Huashang Daily reporter Yang Ning Editor Zhang Panlong