20. Harvest mushrooms
Back-to-school days.
Although Tang Wan told every student in the class to remember to come back to school before, there were only 11 students here today.
After the class teachers of each class and grade group announced the test results, Gong Liguo held a school meeting for the students on the playground, and he didn't say anything, just the safety issues of the summer vacation, such as students are not allowed to take a wild bath during the holidays, and they should pay attention to themselves and traffic safety when they go out, etc.
In short, it's all a piece of soup, and it's one thing for students to listen to it or not, and as a school, it must be explained clearly, one is where the responsibilities are, and the other is just in case.
After the school meeting, at nine o'clock, the school ended, and the students and teachers officially ushered in the summer vacation.
In the office, the other teachers had already left, Tang Wan was sitting there holding her chin in a daze, and Zhang Dongming was lying on the table and didn't know what he was writing.
Zhang Dongming stopped the pen in his hand: "Not leaving?"
Tang Wan came back to her senses, sighed softly, and said listlessly: "It's okay to go back." ”
Zhang Dongming got up and said with a smile: "Let's go, lead you to do something interesting." ”
"What?"
"You'll know when you're gone. ”
Zhang Dongming took the piece of paper he had just finished writing and pulled Tang Wan out of the office.
Today is the market, and ten o'clock is the time when there are many people, riding motorcycles, driving three-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles, driving donkey carts and carriages one after another.
Ten minutes or so, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan went to a copy agency on the street, Zhang Dongming had already come here yesterday to ask, this copy agency can copy color paper advertising leaflets.
At this time, there happened to be no one, and Zhang Dongming spent 40 yuan to copy 800 advertising leaflets.
The entrance to the bazaar.
"Great news: harvest mushrooms, harvest mushrooms, collect mushrooms at a high price......"
"Great news: harvest mushrooms, harvest mushrooms, collect mushrooms at a high price......"
In the crowded and noisy crowd, Zhang Dongming held a thick leaflet, shouting loudly while handing out advertising leaflets to people passing by.
Tang Wan's words were a little embarrassed at first, a little unable to let go, but she didn't speak with her stuffy hair leaflets, but then she may have been infected by the lively people around her, or she may have repressed emotions in her heart that needed to be released, in short, she suddenly let go, and she looked more energetic than Zhang Dongming.
In the process, in addition to some acquaintances, the two also met Sun Shufen, who happened to come to the market.
Sun Shufen really couldn't cry or laugh at these two children, just collect mushrooms, let's stop and stop, but the dignified middle school teacher actually ran to the gate of the market to hand out leaflets.
And then Xiaowan's child is too, a big girl, usually quite quiet, how can she follow the blind mixing, it seems that she has to talk about these two children when she goes back.
In more than an hour, the two of them finished sending out the advertising leaflet.
"What's going on?" asked Zhang Dongming.
"It's ok. Tang Wan said.
The two looked at each other and smiled, one holding a watermelon and the other carrying two catties of peaches and slowly disappeared into the crowd.
After lunch, at about half past one, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan went out.
When the two of them arrived at the door of the store, they found that there was already an aunt waiting here, this person Zhang Dongming still knew, it was the fat aunt he inquired about the mushroom situation before.
"Auntie, I'm selling mushrooms again. ”
"You're not the ...... that day"
"Yes, it's the flyer I handed out at the market in the morning, come on in. ”
took the key to open the store, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan helped the fat aunt bring in all the mushrooms, and it was estimated that there were twenty or thirty catties.
"Aunt Flyer saw it, I collect yellow mushrooms and red mushrooms, at the current market price, yellow mushrooms are fresh this year for 10 yuan a catty, dried mushrooms are 20 regardless of last year and the year before last, red mushrooms, 15 this year, dried mushrooms are also 30. ”
Zhang Dongming himself doesn't understand the mushroom at all, but since there is no problem on Liu Chuan's company's side, he has nothing to worry about here, no matter what year he has dried mushrooms, he will collect them all.
As for the price, because the basic price given by Liu Chuan's company is very high, he originally planned to raise one or two pieces above the market price of mushrooms in Beishan Township.
However, this will break the market balance, secondly, the mushrooms in Beishan Township are seriously unsalable, and thirdly, he is now basically a monopoly to collect enough, and he has no need to raise prices to gain market competitiveness.
Of course, in this case, he can actually further lower the price of the collection, but that would be too unkind, and the profit is already large enough at the basic price given by Liu Chuan's company, so there is no need to be so greedy.
"Auntie, your yellow mushroom is 14 catties fresh and 5 catties dry. 8 catties of fresh red mushrooms and 6 catties of dried mushrooms. After weighing the mushrooms for this fat aunt, Zhang Dongming got up and just wanted to calculate how much it was, Tang Wan said: "A total of 540." ”
Zhang Dongming smiled, but still used a calculator to calculate, it was indeed 540.
The fat aunt has a good idea of how many catties these mushrooms are, but she is still very happy to hear that she can sell them for this money, and she can't open her eyes when she laughs. Every time she rode a bicycle back and forth from more than 40 miles to the market, she couldn't sell a few catties in total, and she sold it all at once.
"That, big brother, are you going to go to the soil?"
"No, not much. Zhang Dongming handed the money to the fat aunt: "Auntie, you count." ”
The fat aunt counted it carefully twice, and looked at it several times one by one to see if the money was fake, and then she said, "It's just right, it's just right." As she spoke, the fat aunt turned sideways, half-unbuttoned her trouser pocket, put five hundred numbers into her panty pocket, and then carefully closed the zipper.
Tang Wan was a little embarrassed when she saw this scene, her face turned red, but Zhang Dongming was not surprised.
The fat aunt tidied up her clothes, prepared to leave, and asked, "Big brother, you open the door every day, I still have mushrooms at home, come back tomorrow." ”
Zhang Dongming said with a smile: "All are open, from nine to eleven in the morning, and from two to four in the afternoon." ”
As soon as this fat aunt left, there were two more aunts in the store, in fact, they can't be called aunts, they look a little old, and they are estimated to be in their thirties.
After receiving the mushrooms of these two eldest sisters, seven or eight more people came to the store one after another.
These people are the same as the fat aunt, they are all here to sell mushrooms, this time is scattered, they all came over, their mushrooms have not sold much, everyone has almost twenty or thirty catties.
Zhang Dongming went on the scale, and Tang Wan settled the account and paid.
After these people's mushrooms were harvested, the five thousand yuan prepared by Zhang Dongming was almost gone.
I looked at the time, and it was not yet three o'clock.
Tang Wan looked at the store, and Zhang Dongming went to the credit union to withdraw 10,000 yuan.
This is seriously beyond the scope of the capital set by Sun Shufen, but Tang Wan, as the acting supervisor, didn't bother much about this matter, and she was very happy to settle accounts there.
Today's situation is much hotter than Zhang Dongming expected, when the door closed at more than four o'clock, he received a total of 190 kilograms of fresh yellow mushrooms, 80 kilograms of dried yellow mushrooms, 110 kilograms of bright red mushrooms, and 90 kilograms of dried red mushrooms.
This is only the first half day of the advertising list, so to speak, it is just a warm-up. Zhang Dongming estimates that tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow will open again, and these three days should be the most popular three days.
Because the mushrooms at this time are all stored in people's homes before, when they learn that someone collects mushrooms, they must be eager to sell them, and after these three days, the situation should slow down a little bit.
After dinner, Zhang Dongming borrowed the tricycle of his neighbor Li Sanjia to go to the store to bring all the mushrooms to the house.
The main reason is that the door face is so big, and the mushroom takes up space, so it will definitely not be able to put it down at that time, so you can only pull it home first.
After finishing the matter, Zhang Dongming gave Li San 30 yuan, Li San said why not, Zhang Dongming said that if he didn't want it, then he would not be able to borrow a car in the future, so Li San accepted the money.
In the courtyard, the sky is full of stars.
"Mr. Tang has worked hard today. Zhang Dongming sat at the head of the garden wall, chirping and nibbling on watermelons.
"And then?" Tang Wan put the finished watermelon rind into a plastic bag.
"What?"
"Wages. ”
"I still have to pay for it, and I will count it together after the autumn. ”
"It's boring. ”
"Haha......"
In fact, from yesterday's cleaning up the house to today's busy mushroom harvesting, Zhang Dongming was a little surprised by Tang Wan.
The main reason is that these jobs are rough jobs for a city girl, and they are all quite buried, but Tang Wan did not show the kind of delicacy that a city girl should have, what to do, what to do.
Anyway, a city girl with such a good family background can be like this, Zhang Dongming really didn't expect it.
The next day, the two of them got up late, and it was almost nine o'clock after eating, Tang Wan called in her house, Zhang Dongming didn't call her, and went out to the store by herself.
When he arrived at the door of the store, Zhang Dongming was startled.
Good guys, so early, there were already more than a dozen people piled up at the door, and everyone was carrying more or less strings of mushrooms hanging in their hands or on the cart.
Looking at the impatient appearance of these people one by one, Zhang Dongming felt as if these people were all coming to him to pick up money.
In fact, it's pretty much the same.
Beishan Township is surrounded by mountains on three sides, prompted by such a resource environment, people's mushrooms are idle to go to the mountains to pick, in addition to their own usual cooking and eating, there is almost no place to sell the rest, and even many people do not think about what money can be sold.
Now that someone suddenly collects mushrooms, and the price is still so high, people are naturally in a hurry to sell them one by one, or what if they don't accept them one day.
There are so many people, maybe there will be more in a while, Zhang Dongming himself must not be busy, he first went to the store next to him to call Tang Wan, and broke two hundred change before coming back and opening the door.
"Auntie, you have 4 catties of fresh yellow mushrooms and 1 catty of dried red mushrooms, a total of 70, give. ”
"Sister, your red mushroom is 2 and a half catties, and the dry is 1 catty and 3 taels, a total of ...... 64, give. ”
"Brother, you have too much soil on it, and there are a lot of bad ones, I'll give you 1 pound of scales, a total of ...... 247。 ”
No matter how successful he was in business, Zhang Dongming had never done this kind of piecemeal small business after all, and there were so many people in the store, and he was in a hurry, so it was inevitable that he would be a little busy and dizzy when he was busy in the store alone.
More and more mushrooms were collected, and the money in the bag became less and less, but the people in the store have not been less.
Tang Wan finally came, and she was also shocked to see so many people.
With Tang Wan helping to settle the accounts and pay the money, Zhang Dongming was also a lot easier, at least it was not so messy, and he even wondered if he had calculated the wrong account for anyone before. Of course, it must be overcounted, and if it is undercalculated, no one can do it.
Get on the scales, settle accounts, pay, find money......
In the store, Zhang Dongming and Tang Wan were busy.
In the process, the money was gone, Zhang Dongming went to the credit union to withdraw 20,000 yuan, plus yesterday's 15,000, and saw that the capital of 35,000 went in.
Then Sun Shufen came again, and she was shocked when she saw so many people, of course this is not important, the important thing is that she is worried that Zhang Dongming's business is a bit too big.
Zhang Dongming comforted him for a while to no avail, and finally he took Tang Wan's mobile phone to call Liu Chuan, Sun Shufen asked Liu Chuan on the phone for a long time, and finally relieved himself a little.
It was almost eleven o'clock when Sun Shufen went back, and the door was going to close at this time, but there were still a lot of people, and finally Zhang Dongming closed the door at half past twelve.
In fact, mushroom sellers are still coming, but the door of the room is almost full of mushrooms, and the money in the bag is almost gone.
In the morning, yellow mushrooms and red mushrooms, fresh and dried, a total of more than 1,500 catties were collected!
Not only Tang Wan, but Zhang Dongming didn't expect it at all.
On the way back.
Tang Wan worried: "After receiving so much, what if something goes wrong and can't be sold?"
Zhang Dongming smiled and said, "Don't worry." ”