Chapter 50: Door-to-door sales
Especially in the dormitory where Tong Chen is located, he is the only one who does not smoke, although Tong Chen has chosen to reduce contact with them as much as possible, but in a room he looks down and does not look up, and it is not uncommon to talk without speculation, and after a long time, the contradiction will slowly appear.
It was difficult for Tong Chen to understand why they didn't study hard during their school days, but instead spent their time doing things that high school students shouldn't do.
Now Tong Chen understands a little, it turns out that his studies were not very good when he was in junior high school, and the high school he was finally admitted to was not a very good school.
In addition, the school can recruit any student for the sake of profit, and it doesn't matter if the score is not enough, as long as the money is in place.
"Zhao Teng?", Tong Chen's memory is the same as that of ordinary people, and it is not very good, he can't remember the names of some of his classmates in high school, but this Zhao Teng is in the same dormitory as him, and he is still more impressed.
"Brother Chen, I didn't expect you, an excellent student, to remember the name of my classmate, it's not easy", Zhao Teng said with a thorn in his words.
"Look at what you said, are you also here to buy vegetables?", of course, Tong Chen has also matured a lot with his growth, so he will not be angry because of other people's words.
Zhao Teng didn't answer this: "Oh, I said that you are one of the few people in our class who were admitted to college, why are you like this now?
Seeing that the three good students who were envied by everyone in the past and present had become a peddler, Zhao Teng felt a little happy in his heart, what happened to studying well? What happened to being admitted to university? No matter how much he took the lead, it was not as good as Lao Tzu!
"Sell some of your own eggs to make some money", Tong Chen naturally won't explain anything to this so-called classmate in the past, what others think, that's their business, care too much about other people's opinions, it will be too tiring, just insist on doing your own thing.
"Hahaha, Tong Chen, you are also going back more and more, it seems that it is in vain to read so many books, a college student can't find a job to sell eggs, hehe", Zhao Teng didn't care about other people's eyes and laughed.
You can be on your own, and you can find a different sense of accomplishment in me, a former classmate.
Zhao Teng squatted in front of Tong Chen and took a puff of cigarette: "If you can't find a job, you can find me, after all, everyone is still a classmate for several years, I still give this face, I am also making a small fuss now, starting a decoration team, there are still a lot of people in it, you can be a decoration worker under me, the salary must be much more than what eggs you are selling now."
Even if Tong Chen can't find a job anymore, he won't be a decorator under him, Zhao Teng then showed off for a while, and when he saw that Tong Chen no longer paid attention to him, he turned around and left slowly.
However, it is not easy to sell all the eggs, even if Tong Chen shouts loudly, until the end of the day, there are still four catties of his eggs left to sell.
Today he brought a total of twenty pounds of eggs, sold a total of sixteen pounds, income of eighty yuan, I have to say that the progress is not small, but Tong Chen is not happy in his heart, this is already the fourth day of the task, selling eggs for three days a total of one hundred and fifty yuan, from the goal of one thousand yuan is still far away, if you continue to sell eggs every day without security, it seems that it is impossible to complete the task.
"Son, you have almost sold all the remaining eggs in our family in the past three days, you shouldn't go to sell eggs tomorrow", Lin Wanru has a negative attitude towards Tong Chen's sale of eggs, in her opinion, although according to Tong Chen's statement, it is to deal with the remaining eggs at home, but a college student is not focused and quickly finds a new job, is it just like this to keep doing odd jobs?
Of course, Tong Chen knew what his mother meant, but how should he explain it?
"I don't think our eggs sell very well?", Tong Chen replied.
Lin Wanru sighed: "It's really not easy to sell, the price is more expensive on the one hand, on the other hand, other people have to know that you have this native egg, and believe you, now most people almost buy ordinary eggs, and doing business is also a process of accumulating popularity, everyone knows you, is familiar with you, and there are naturally more people who buy it."
Tong Chen suddenly understood a lot, but he was still very anxious, because he didn't have so much time to wait for others to get familiar with him, and he had to make changes next.
"In fact, it's really not expensive for you to price such native eggs at five yuan a catty, and some people in our village go out to sell them, and they sell them for at least seven or eight yuan a catty," Lin Wanru continued.
Of course, Tong Chen also knows this, but he is also helpless, five yuan a pound is not very easy to sell, and some people are still too expensive.
I have to say that since Tong Chen had a conflict with his father Tong Fucheng because of Wang Mengni's incident, there was a cold war between the two, and they avoided meeting each other, or they didn't say anything when they met, Tong Chen naturally didn't take the initiative to reconcile, and Tong Fucheng was the same, Lin Wan was anxious in her eyes.
After Tong Chen and Lin Wanru chatted about selling things for a while, they said a word before going back to his own house;
"I still have to sell eggs for a few days, and if we don't have them, I'll buy them from others and then sell them."
Lying on his own bed, although Tong Chen has been busy all day, his heart is like a mirror, and he does not feel sleepy at all, he feels that he is really under pressure, not only from the pressure of the task, but also from the doubts of his parents.
Tong Chen didn't know how long he had been thinking about it, until he warned himself in the second half of the night, hurry up and go to sleep, if you don't sleep tomorrow, you won't have the energy to complete the task, so he forced himself to fall asleep slowly.
Lao Zhang lives next door to Tong Fucheng's house, and not long after breakfast today, Tong Fucheng's son Tong Chen actually pushed open the door and came to his house, which makes Lao Zhang a little strange, you must know that Tong Chen usually does not come from his own home.
Lao Zhang was still quite envious of Tong Fucheng's son, after all, he was the only college student who was admitted to college back then, and now people's various rumors and rumors have also reached his ears, but he doesn't want to worry about that idle matter, and his own son can't take care of it.
"Ah, why did Xiao Chen remember to come over today", Lao Zhang said enthusiastically.
Tong Chen didn't enter the house, he stood directly in the courtyard and said straight to the point: "Uncle Zhang, I came here today to find you something."
"It's not too late to say anything about entering the house", Tong Chen couldn't help Lao Zhang and followed into the house.
"Shaojun, I haven't been back for some days", the Shaojun in Tong Chen's mouth is Lao Zhang's son, and Tong Chen and his brother who grew up together, according to what he knows, Zhang Shaojun was not admitted to university that year, so he went to a technical school to learn computer technology.
As soon as Zhang Shaojun was mentioned, Lao Zhang sighed again and again: "But isn't it, I haven't come back for nearly a year, how much I learned a craft back then, and then he finally found a job, but before he had to call home once a month at the latest, but now he hasn't called back for half a year, let's call over there, his phone is either not answered or the mobile phone is turned off, I and his mother are about to break their hearts, and I don't know what happened to him?".
Hearing this, Tong Chen's heart couldn't help but tighten, under what circumstances, he would forget to call home to report his safety, and what was even more strange was that no one answered the phone when he called it, pay attention, his phone was not turned off all the time, but sometimes it would be turned on, but no one answered the phone.