18. Chapter XVIII
At about half past 4 in the afternoon, Zeng Tong received a call from Xiaojuan, although he was mentally prepared, but he was still a little surprised to hear Xiaojuan say that it was almost sold, and Zeng Tong took a car to the farmers' market after hanging up the phone.
When I arrived at the store, it was almost 5 o'clock, and there was only a small number of leafy vegetables left on the booth in front of the store.
"Sister Tong. Xiaojuan greeted Zeng Tong and moved the frame to let Zeng Tong enter the store.
"Business was good today. Zeng Tong said with a smile.
"Yes, it's good to start business this morning, there are more people at noon, I guess after yesterday, everyone knows to come early. Xiaojuan smiled and reported to Zeng Tong.
Zeng Tong looked around the store and found that 2 electric fans had been installed on the wall, and the location was similar to what she had explained before.
"There's nothing wrong with these two fans, right?"
"It's all normal, I specially asked the master to wait for half an hour, and it was no problem to let them leave after trying it. ”
"That's okay, the bills and everything are collected, right?"
"Well, it's all in the desk drawer, you see. With that, Xiaojuan walked into the small room and took out the warranty card and other bills to show Zeng Tong.
"These are well kept, and if there is any problem call them. Zeng Tong instructed.
"Understood, put some Sister Tong. ”
While the two of them were talking, the remaining leafy vegetables on the booth were also sold out, and Zeng Tong and Xiaojuan were counting today's turnover in the small room inside.
After counting and sorting out, Zeng Tong found that today's income was more than yesterday, a total of more than 1,600, and the net income was about 1,400 yuan.
Zeng Tong thought regretfully: "If we can increase production, we should be able to earn more every day!" But I only have one person, so I can only do this for the time being. ”
If you grit your teeth and increase your production regardless of your body, you may be able to increase your daily income, but this style of action is not something Zeng Tong will do. She is a person with no big ambitions, and she only plans to be a small owner of a vegetable and fruit store in a magical space, and it is estimated that Zeng Tong is one.
After cleaning up the storefront, Zeng Tong asked Xiaojuan to get off work first. Then I closed the door inside, put the new food I bought today into the space with the food box in the store, and came out to lock the door and left.
When they got home in the evening, Zeng Tong's family discussed at the dinner table and went back to their hometown to drink wine on the weekend. It was similar to what Zeng's mother said at noon, when Zeng's father drove and the whole family went back together.
According to the custom of the hometown, Sunday noon and evening are two wedding banquets, at noon in the man's house, invite the man's neighbors, go to the restaurant in the evening, and invite relatives and friends on both sides.
If there is a time inconvenience, it is okay to go for a meal. Zeng Tong's family, as a family member, needs to be present for 2 meals if there is no accident. Of course, it is enough to have 1 or 2 representatives in a family, so it doesn't have much impact if Zeng Tong didn't go in his previous life.
Zeng Tong thought, I don't know if the mobile phone signal is good when I go back, otherwise it will be troublesome to contact if there is something. After all, he is also developing his career now, although his career is a small fruit and vegetable store.
After dinner, Zeng Tong entered the space, and the first thing he went to was the watermelon field, and he touched and patted it again, feeling a little more ripe than at noon, but it was not yet time, Zeng Tong walked away with anticipation.
Since he plans to return to his hometown on the weekend, there will be at least 2 days to supply to the store, Zeng Tong thought, no matter how those 2 days are arranged, the most important thing is to stock more goods in the space. Before returning to your hometown, prepare as many vegetables as you can for the store.
Now there are still some vegetables stored in the hut, and Zeng Tong only gives about half of the inventory in the store every day, so as to ensure that Zeng Tong does not need to harvest a large amount at one time and is too tired.
After calculating the growing period of melons and fruits planted in the previous two days, the harvest can start before the end of the week, so that the inventory can be increased a lot. These melons and fruits have just been taken by Zeng Tong to take a look, and they have begun to grow vines, so let's put a scaffold for them tonight.
The newly opened land is about 300 square meters, half of which is newly planted all kinds of melons, which is almost 150 square meters, and it doesn't take much time to set up a scaffold, about half an hour later, Zeng Tong has made a bracket for these melons.
The other half is cabbage and cabbage, and although the area of these two vegetable varieties is relatively larger than the previous leafy vegetable field, when it is ready to be harvested, the area of a single vegetable is not small, so in general, the yield is not large.
In the leafy vegetable field, after these two days of harvesting and replanting, it is still lush and green, and it seems that it is no problem to continue to harvest these leafy vegetables in the past few days.
The sweet potato leaves next to it have also grown, and it is okay to harvest them, but Zeng Tong plans to wait until tomorrow morning to harvest them, and they can grow again. After the harvest, Zeng Tong also wants to increase the planting area for them, as long as the thick vines are cut, they can be planted in the open space for them to continue to grow. In this way, if you can produce sweet potatoes, you can increase the yield a lot.
On the side of condiments, although the shallots do not need to be replanted, but celery and coriander must be replanted, there are many empty places in the field here, Zeng Tong found the corresponding seeds, replanted some, and avoided the real shortage at that time. The ginger grew as tall as Zeng Tong's thigh, squatting down and slightly turning over the soil on the surface, you could see the full ginger roots below, Zeng Tong thought about it, and it seemed that he could also pull it out.
Ginger is divided into tender ginger and old ginger, Zeng Tong's family generally still uses more old ginger, and now it is tender ginger that is plucked and eaten, and there are many people in G City who love to use this kind of tender ginger with a less strong ginger flavor. Pull out a little first and put it in the store tomorrow to sell, and wait for a while to grow into old ginger before receiving it.
After harvesting and feeding the fish, and watering the vegetables in each area, Zeng Tong went out of the space to get ready to sleep.
The next day, Zeng Tong got up early and came to the space to harvest sweet potato leaves, selling them with young shoots and young leaves, and the sweet potato leaves of about 10 square meters planted before accounted for most of the vegetable basket after harvesting. In addition, he chose some stout sweet potato vines, and Zeng Tong opened a new piece of land of nearly 20 square meters and planted these sweet potato vines. It is estimated that in just 2 or 3 days, the newly planted sweet potato leaves will be able to harvest young leaves.
After moving the harvested sweet potato leaves back to the thatched hut, sorting out the inventory to be given to the store today, and setting aside a part for his own family, Zeng Tong made the space and prepared to open a store at the farmers' market later.
When he arrived at the store, Zeng Tong took out the prepared inventory, today's amount is compared to yesterday, Zeng Tong has decided to sell this amount of vegetables and fruits every day for the time being.
When Xiaojuan came to work, Zeng Tong told her about the new sweet potato leaves and tender ginger, briefly explained the pricing, and after explaining some trivial things, Zeng Tong left first.
First, I went to the market management department to find Xiao Pan, and the two of them went together to get the completed documents, and then handed Xiao Pan and the agent a red envelope, and after Xiao Pan's guidance, they came to a shop that was framed, framed the certificate, and Zeng Tong hung it in the small room of the store.
Looking at this brand-new document, Zeng Tong breathed a sigh of relief. With this, I believe that some things will be much easier to do in the future.
With a relaxed mood, Zeng Tong went home. When he almost got home, Zeng Tong found an opportunity to take out the dishes prepared in the morning, and brought cucumbers, peas and sweet potato leaves to his home today, the sweet potato leaves were only harvested today, and the cucumber peas were picked the night before, and they have been placed in the space.
Sure enough, when I got home, my mother was very happy to see today's vegetables.
"I also have sweet potato leaves, it's so good, I love to eat this. Zeng's mother laughed as she walked to the kitchen.
"I also like to eat it, so I bought a handful of them when I saw them today. ”
"Okay, we'll fry a plate at noon. ”
"Then the peas and cucumbers will be left for the evening. Zeng Tong said.
"Okay, I'll have a pea with roast pork in the evening, your dad likes to drink this dish the most. ”
"I'm going to buy some other vegetables tomorrow, by the way, do you still have cabbage at home? If not, I'll have to take a small trailer tomorrow, because the cabbage is too heavy." Zeng Tong said half-truthfully.
Zeng's mother thought about it, rummaged through the refrigerator, and then said to Zeng Tong: "There is one more point, it's enough to eat, then remember to bring a trailer when you go out tomorrow." ”
"Well, the trailer can fit a lot more at a time. Zeng Tong was calculating in his heart what food he would bring to his family tomorrow.
After eating at noon, Zeng Tong entered the space again, and this time Zeng Tong mainly went to the watermelon. I came in 2 times before, but I didn't find a ripe watermelon that could be eaten, but this time I finally let Zeng Tong find one, which was the size of a basketball, and it was like a bang, and it was almost the same as what my mother said.
That's it, Zeng Tong cut off the melon handle with scissors, and walked towards the thatched hut with the watermelon.
On the table of the thatched hut, there is a watermelon knife that Zeng Tong bought before, with a long blade, which is most suitable for cutting large fruits such as watermelon.
When I cut it, the watermelon seeds were black and red, and the skin was white, with a thin layer of green on the outside, lined with water, and Zeng Tong was moving his index finger. Hurriedly cut into a petal, Zeng Tong grabbed a petal and bit it, the juicy watermelon pulp turned into watermelon juice and flowed into his throat without more bites in Zeng Tong's mouth. There is almost no scum in the watermelon in this space, which makes Zeng Tong very happy.
In previous years, the watermelons eaten at home were all bought outside, some were picked by Zeng's mother, and some were given by others. But there is no space for watermelons to make Zeng Tong love them, and he can hardly stop, one petal after another, and after a while, Zeng Tong solved half a watermelon by himself.
Watermelon accounts for most of the water, so even if you eat it all-you-can-eat, it will be easily digested. Zeng Tong wanted to eat half of it, but after touching his bulging belly, he thought about it and waited to eat it. Collect the spit out watermelon seeds with paper and take them outside to dry, so you don't even need to buy watermelon seeds in the future.
Zeng Tong, who had eaten the watermelon, was in a very happy mood, feeling full of energy, so he came to the leafy vegetable field and began to harvest.
After harvesting 2 plots of land in a row, the amaranth and water spinach were harvested, Zeng Tong stopped.
Looking at the sparse water spinach area and the amaranth area with only residue left after harvesting, Zeng Tong felt that this watermelon was better than coffee beans!