Chapter 29 How much is a pound?
At the intersection of Chang'an Fruit Wholesale Market, Leng Yuhu guarded four sacks of cantaloupe melons, with a little confused and timid look in her eyes.
According to Lin Tao's words, Leng Yuhu got on the train very smoothly. After giving the conductor a bag of specialties, Leng Yuhu was not interrogated along the way. He successfully spent two days and two nights away and arrived in Chang'an. After getting off the train, he saw what Lin Tao said about horse-clubs, spent 30 yuan, hired three people to help him carry the sacks out of the station. He ignored a few scammers like Lin Tao said. He spent ten yuan to find a tricycle to deliver himself to this market.
So far, the journey has been extremely smooth.
However, Leng Yuhu had no money. He sat here for an hour. Because he didn't know what was going on in the market, he asked the tricycle to unload the sack on the roadside outside the market. According to Lin Tao, there was a small hotel nearby, and one person would only cost ten and twenty yuan a night.
But Leng Yuhu was quite anxious, so he sold melons three times, and one of them was wholesale to others. He didn't make much money in total, because his family had already had an objection to his approach, so he couldn't wait to come out.
So far, more than 100 yuan has been spent on the train ticket, and the remaining money is not enough to stay in the hotel for one night.
Never done business, Leng Yuhu originally planned to hang out at the door of this market to at least earn money from eating and staying in a hotel. But when he got here, he looked at the strangers around and the whizzing cars, and the words of hawking reached his throat, but he couldn't shout it out.
I really don’t do this job!
Lin Tao has explained the matter so clearly, why can’t he do it?
Leng Yuhu thought to himself: No wonder he was able to go to college, he just graduated from junior high school. If he knew Lin Tao’s idea of selling fish, he would earn 3,000 yuan a day, would he be more inferior?
The aroma of food floated from afar, and Leng Yuhu felt a little hungry. He subconsciously stood up and wanted to eat a bowl of noodles. Then he sat down again. After thinking about it, he opened a sack next to him, picked it up inside, took out a cantaloupe that had obviously been bumped and had a soft skin, then took out a folding knife, cut the melon, and looked around. There was a pile of garbage not far away, and there was no garbage bin nearby. He ran over and scraped down the melon seeds and other things, then he took the melon back to the edge of the sack, wiped his hands on the sack, then peeled off a piece of cantaloupe and started eating.
This is a ripe cantaloupe. Although it does not have the crispness of cantaloupe, it has more aroma and is extremely sweet when eaten.
"Hey!" As he was eating, a greeting came from his face: "Cut a piece for me to taste!"
Leng Yuhu looked up and saw that it was a middle-aged man wearing a shabby imitation camouflage uniform. Leng Yuhu remembered him. This was the owner of the first store in the fruit market. Leng Yuhu saw him appearing in the store more than once, unloading goods from the truck, and selling fruit to customers.
"Give it." Leng Yuhu didn't know that this person was attracted by the fragrance of his cantaloupe. He was a little timid. Thinking that he was a local snake, just try it!
"Crack!" Liu Jiacheng bit a piece of melon and his eyes lit up: This is obviously different from the melons he entered! Not only is it sweet, but also fragrant!
After eating the melon in three bites, Liu Jiacheng pointed to Maba and asked, "Are they all your melon?"
Listening to the other party bringing the Shaanxi dialect, Leng Yuhu melon stopped eating and asked vigilantly: "It's my melon, what's wrong?" He thought the local snake came over to prevent him from putting the melon here.
"How to sell?" Liu Jiacheng looked at Leng Yuhu, but he didn't expect the other party to react so much. He was stunned for a moment before asking, "What's the price?"
Leng Yuhu was a little excited when he heard this question. He thought about it. At home, the melon dealer originally sold melons for a few cents, but now it is almost out of season, and it has increased to one yuan per kilogram. Lin Tao said that Hami melons here are rare goods and they must not be sold at a cheap price. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Three yuan." He thought, if the other party bargained, it would be sold at two yuan and five yuan, but it could not be cheaper anymore! No matter how cheap it is, it would not be guaranteed. He would have to earn back the round-trip travel expenses and expenses.
"Three dollars?" Liu Jiacheng thought for a while and said it was a little expensive. Although this price was worth it, if you bought it yourself and then sold it, there would be no profit. Unless you gave it to your brother-in-law, go around the streets and cut it into small pieces to sell, you would earn some money, but the payment would be slow.
But is it all of this quality?
Liu Jiacheng pointed at Mabata and asked, "Are they all so sweet?"
When talking about the quality of the melon, Leng Yuhu became confident: "It's all the same. If you want to buy it, choose any one and I'll cut it for you!"
Liu Jiacheng took no hesitation and picked one from another sack. Leng Yuhu cut it open quickly, cut it into pieces and handed it to Liu Jiacheng. After Liu Jiacheng tasted it, it was indeed the same good!
"This is a tribute melon given to the State Guesthouse!" Leng Yuhu made the first advertisement for his cantaloupe, "On average people can't eat it!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Jialiang made up his mind: "Two six, oh, I'll have it all!"
Leng Yuhu thought about it and finished the deal!
Liu Jialiang pushed the scale, and the four sacks were 268 kilograms in total except for four kilograms of leather.
Leng Yuhu took the 1,400 yuan handed over by Liu Jialiang, and was stunned.
Shouldn't it be seven hundred yuan?
He took the money and looked up at Liu Jialiang with some confusion.
"What? Not right?" Liu Jialiang looked at Leng Yuhu's appearance and thought he doubted his arithmetic, so he explained angrily: "Look, 268 kilograms are 536 kilograms, right? One kilogram and two kilograms, this is a calculator. Look, this is a multiplication... less than one thousand four, I even cut you a melon and put it together. How about it?"
"Yes, yes!" Leng Yuhu replied repeatedly, "That's right!"
My mother! It turns out that two yuan and six yuan are a pound... When did you use pounds in the Western Regions?
"In the future, if you have melons, just come to me directly!" Liu Jialiang has a large business volume, and he has not taken a lot of attention to this little product yet, but the brand of the tribute goods in the State Guesthouse must be held in his hands. In addition, the quality of this melon is too good, so he set the foreshadowing: "The price is easy to negotiate, and I also know that it is about to be out of season. If you can come a few more times, I can raise the price for you next time!"
"Okay!" With money in hand, Leng Huyu also became confident, "I'll come to you next time!" He decided to go back directly after a walk in Chang'an, and strive to come twice before Hami melons go down the market. This opportunity cannot be missed by making money!
Although it is hard, it is really worth it!
Chapter completed!