17. Chapter XVII

After tidying up the store, Zeng Tong asked Xiaojuan to get off work first.

After putting away the vegetable frame and locking the door of the store, Zeng Tong came to a nearby shopping mall to buy an electric fan.

Just in the small room, Zeng Tong began to sweat after sitting for a while, and when he turned his head and thought about it, there was no fan installed in the store. Other stalls basically have electric fans, this kind of weather, there is wind at the door and it is okay, and the small room inside is not hot without wind.

In the end, I chose 2 wall fans installed on the wall, and the ceiling fan could not be installed on the top because of the installation of lights. Generally speaking, ceiling fans are powerful and windy, but they can't be installed in the store now, and wall fans are also a good choice. One of them should be facing the door of the small room, so that the wind can blow in the small room in the future, and the outside one is facing the position where Xiaojuan is standing. After paying the money, Zeng Tong filled in the address and asked the mall to arrange for the master to install it tomorrow, and then went home.

When I got home in the evening, Zeng Tong, who had dinner, entered the space, sat in the hut and thought slowly, according to today's situation, the store needs more vegetables, but the space is only worked by himself, and the supply exceeds the demand.

After last night's harvest, the amount of labor is indeed a bit big for me, and every day like this, it does not meet my expectations. Although it will be hard to develop a career, this kind of simplicity is physical work, which is not what Zeng Tong wants.

After thinking about it, Zeng Tong still felt that in the future, he would try to enter the space once in the morning, noon and evening. Planting and watering at noon, and the two trips in the morning and evening are mainly for harvesting, so that the vegetables can be harvested to the maximum, and no more will be enough. Now this volume, there is no way to sell out early, if someone asks, just like what I said to Xiaojuan today, on the pretext that the supplier cannot provide more for the time being, presumably others can't have any opinions.

Moreover, if the amount of vegetables sold by oneself is fixed, the impact on other vendors selling vegetables in the same market will not be too great, and the attention of others is not so focused on themselves, which also greatly reduces the possibility of exposing space.

Thinking about this, Zeng Tong will no longer be entangled in the matter of low output.

Coming to the edge of the field, Zeng Tong began today's harvest.

The leafy vegetables on the ground can be harvested such as water spinach and small greens, and the amaranth that was replanted the night before has already had 5 or 6 leaves, and it will be eaten almost the next day.

Now there are bees in the space, and pollination is not a problem, so tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, bitter gourds and peas also continue to grow fruits, and it is basically no problem to harvest them once a day.

The condiments in the field also grow to be about the same size as those sold on the market, and Zeng Tong can harvest a small amount of this kind of condiments every day. Although the shallots need to be uprooted every time, they will divide themselves as they grow, and as long as they are broken, a bush can be divided into 5, 6 or more parts, and replanted in the open space next to it to continue to grow, and there is no need to replant often.

In the melon field, watermelon and cantaloupe are the size of footballs, and it is estimated that you can pick one in 2 days to try the taste.

The night before, the newly planted cabbage and cabbage didn't need to be taken care of, and those melons had just emerged with 2 leaves.

Fortunately, the store is making money now, and the turnover of these 2 days, Zeng Tong collected the big tickets by himself, and the other scattered ones were all put in the coin purse prepared for Xiaojuan, which had almost 5 or 600 in it.

In addition to the cost of buying a fan today, Zeng Tong still has a small 1000 in his hand, and he has a little money in his hand, so he doesn't need to worry about expenses such as buying materials in the future.

After harvesting everything that could be harvested, Zeng Tong tidied up the vegetable patch, collected vegetable stalks and old leaves to feed the fish, and moved the harvested vegetables back to the hut with a small cart.

After putting these dishes away, Zeng Tong stood up, looked inside the hut, and found that the vegetable frame on the ground was not enough, and now he uses this kind of box to move fresh vegetables to the store every day. According to today's sales, at least a dozen boxes of inventory will have to be moved out at a time in the future, so that there will be less use in the space, and the vegetables harvested by themselves will also use these boxes, and it seems that tomorrow I will have to buy more vegetable boxes.

The next morning, Zeng Tong arrived at the store, closed the door first and took out the prepared dishes, this time the amount was a little more than the previous day, and there was not enough on the ground, so he could only occupy a small room inside.

When Xiaojuan came to work, Zeng Tong left the bill for the fan, and asked Xiaojuan to pay attention to the master who installed the fan, and the installation should be matched at that time. I briefly explained the location where the fan needs to be installed, and left.

Then Zeng Tong came to the store where he had bought a cart before, and bought another 30 vegetable boxes with the boss. Zeng Tong didn't plan to put it into the space this time, but just asked the people from the cart shop to help deliver it to the D017 Food Good Fruit and Vegetable Store, and then called Xiaojuan and told him that he would put it in the small room at that time. These boxes are currently empty, and they will not take up much space when they are stacked and put up, so Zeng Tong asked them to deliver them to the store.

By the way, I asked the owner of the cart shop where there are farmland scaffolding materials for sale nearby. It's a bit too far from the farmers' market to the flowers, birds, fish and insects market, and I also promised my mother to bring vegetables back, and my mother will worry about it late, so Zeng Tong won't go to the flowers, birds, fish and insects market to buy scaffold materials this time.

The owner of the cart shop also knew some shops that sold materials, so he introduced Zeng Tong's family to a hardware city not far from the farmers' market. Zeng Tong followed the guidance of the owner of the cart shop and found a shop that sold materials.

This shop is more miscellaneous, and there are fewer materials specifically used to build scaffolds for plants. Because the main materials used in the nearby farmland are locally sourced, the bracket is a thin bamboo produced nearby, although it is not very durable, it can only be used for 1-2 years, but it does not need to spend money, and you can take a knife to cut bamboo nearby.

Zeng Tong still planned to have durable materials, and finally chose a hard plastic bracket introduced by the boss, 1.8 meters long, the price is a little more expensive than the iron bar with rubber cover I bought last time, but the load-bearing capacity is not comparable to that material, as long as it is not fire or high temperature, this hard plastic bracket is not afraid of 10 years.

There are not many such materials in the store, there are about 100 in total, Zeng Tong wants them all, the boss said that the old friend introduced it, and he bought a lot at a time, so he gave a 20% discount, although it was not much cheaper, but Zeng Tong still thanked the boss, dragged this bundle of bracket materials and left.

Coming to the corner outside the hardware city, Zeng Tong took a closer look around, and found that no one was there, so he dodged into the space, put these bracket materials away, and went out to take the car home.

When I got home, I was half an hour later than usual. It was almost 9 o'clock, and Zeng's mother saw Zeng Tong coming back and asked, "Is it late today? Isn't it usually back at half past eight?"

"There was a bit of a traffic jam, and it was so hard for me to squeeze in to buy groceries today. Zeng Tong handed the vegetable bag in his hand to Zeng's mother.

Zeng's mother took the vegetables and walked to the kitchen, and after hearing this, she thought for a while and asked, "Is it difficult to squeeze in to buy vegetables?"

"Yes, the business is so good, I heard from the people who bought it, they didn't sell out yesterday afternoon, so they came early in the morning. ”

"Oh, I'll just say their food is good, everyone is rushing to get good things. ”

"I heard from the store that these are all new varieties, and they are still in the experimental stage, and the output is so much, and they are sold out every day, so there are only so many people this morning. Zeng Tong gave her mother a vaccination, saving her from not buying it next time she went late.

"Ouch, then I have to talk to Grandma Wang, don't be late next time. "My mother was amazed.

"Well, it's safer for them to go by 3 p.m. if possible. According to yesterday's sales, Zeng Tong built a way for his mother.

"Okay, your grandmother Wang is now mainly at home to buy vegetables and cook with her grandson, and there is an aunt to help, there is a lot of time, I saw her and told her. ”

Zeng Tong was sitting in the living room chatting with his mother, and suddenly Zeng's mother remembered something.

"By the way, I received a call from your second grandfather last month, and your little cousin is getting married. Your father and I are going to have a wedding drink, and this week, do you want to go back with us?"

In fact, Zeng Tong really didn't go in her previous life, and she traveled with her classmates during this time.

Zeng Tong thought, the little cousin used to love her a lot, this time I went back to drink the wedding wine and met the little cousin by the way, I have never seen it before.

"I'll go back with you, the class originally organized a tour, but I don't think what they said was interesting, so I just pushed it. When will you set up a banquet?" Zeng Tong said.

"This week, the wine will be set on Sunday, we will go back on Saturday, and then we will come back on Monday, and your father will be able to adjust one day of annual leave. Zeng's mother said it as planned with her husband.

"That's fine. Zeng Tong responded.

After eating at noon, Zeng Tong received a call from Xiao Pan, saying that the documents would probably be available tomorrow, and asked Zeng Tong to remember to go to her to get them. Zeng Tong hurriedly thanked Xiao Pan, and made an appointment to meet in the management department the next day before hanging up the phone.

Then I made a phone call to Xiaojuan, knowing that the newly bought vegetable box had been delivered and placed in the small room, but the master who installed the fan had not yet passed. Zeng Tong listened to Xiaojuan and probably learned about the situation in the store today, as Zeng Tong expected, after she left in the morning, there were soon repeat customers who came to buy vegetables, many of them were 5 or 6 catties, and there were not a few people who bought all kinds of vegetables and fruits, just in the morning alone, there was almost 800 yuan in the input.

Zeng Tong told Xiaojuan as usual not to rush when there were many people, and then he paid attention to the master of the shopping mall coming to install the fan, and after a brief explanation, he hung up the phone.

As for the news that he will not be in G City for a few days after returning to his hometown, Zeng Tong plans to talk to Xiaojuan on Wednesday or Thursday for 2 days. When I saw it, I prepared more goods and asked Xiaojuan to sell them in the store, or simply rested for 1 or 2 days.

Still taking advantage of Zeng's mother's lunch break, Zeng Tong entered the space.

First of all, after sorting out the stent materials, Zeng Tong used a cart to move the bundle of 100 hard plastic brackets to the newly opened melon field, and waited for 2 days for the newly planted melons to start growing vines and whiskers.

Then I came to the edge of the vegetable field and looked at the leafy vegetables that had grown again after the harvest last night, and some of the crowded ones were harvested first. On the bracket that was erected before, some of the grown melons and peas can also be picked.

Zeng Tong harvested everything that could be harvested, then watered it once, and no longer cared about the vegetable field.

There are already a lot of watermelons and cantaloupes in the field, and there are 2 or 30 of them that Zeng Tong has seen so far. Coming to the edge of the melon field, rummaging through the melons that had grown earlier, Zeng Tong wanted to see if he could eat them, but looking at it, this patted and that knocked, it felt like they were all raw melons. Let's take a look tomorrow, the time inside the space is 10:1 with the outside, and it's only 2 days to eat watermelon and cantaloupe, so you don't need to be in a hurry.

Before leaving the space, Zeng Tong fed the fish once as usual. These fish have been kept in the space for so many days, and if they want to eat, they can be fished, but now Zeng Tong has no tools to catch fish. And the fish sold in the market have stores to help deal with the internal organs, and it would be a little difficult for Zeng Tong to kill the fish by himself, first, he won't, and second, Zeng Tong is a girl, and he doesn't like to get a fishy smell.

Zeng Tong didn't think about the fish for the time being, and he would think about it when he wanted to eat it in the future.