When he was receiving his salary, he saw Meng Qiao again. Although he came to the magazine because of Meng Qiao's introduction, he and Meng Qiao were not in the same business group, and everyone ran their own routes every day, so they never saw it. Today's salary was paid, and everyone returned to the club, so they met.

Meng Qiao saw Ye Ziyu holding a flat salary envelope in his hand, and then looked at Ye Ziyu's expression, he knew that he hadn't pulled in business this month. However, he himself is no better than Ye Ziyu.

Although Ye Ziyu was sad and worried about the living expenses next month, when he saw Meng Qiao, he remembered that Meng Qiao invited him to eat a bowl of noodles last month, and felt that today's salary, no matter how much, he had to invite him back. It was he who greeted Meng Qiao, and after work, he invited him to a small restaurant, ordered two dishes, and asked for two beers to drink. The beer was a little cold and I drank it in a few sips. Meng Qiao felt that it was not enough, and said that it was winter, and he had to drink Erguotou, which was a famous wine in the capital, and it was not expensive. So the two of them put on a small bottle of two pots.

This wine has a high alcohol content of 56 degrees. After drinking it, I feel that my body is warmer and my brain is more flexible. Meng Qiao said: "Seeing that Christmas is coming, why don't we wholesale some roses and sell them near Shuang'an Shopping Mall?" There are many entertainment venues and colleges there, so I can earn a few dollars to subsidize them. ”

Ye Ziyu thought about it for a while, and asked Meng Qiao: "Do you know where to wholesale?" ”

Meng Qiao patted his chest and said, "Of course, I have been in the capital for three years, and I went to the flower wholesale market near the Blue Island at the East Gate to buy it, and it was cheap there." ”

In this way, the two agreed to buy roses on Sunday afternoon and come back to sell, with half of the cost and equal sharing of profits.

On that day, the two met at the agreed location and got on the bus together to go to the wholesale flower market. Meng Qiao negotiated a good price with the proprietress at a stall and chose 40 roses, including 20 red roses and 20 yellow roses, which were originally one yuan each, but Meng Qiao insisted on pestering the proprietress who sold flowers to let another yuan, and paid a total of 39 yuan. After going back, it was late at night, Meng Qiao called Ye Ziyu together, broke off the thorns on the rose branches first, and then said: "Put it in the water pot for one night, tomorrow the flowers will bloom more vividly, we will ask for five yuan a flower, and sell it for four yuan." ”

Ye Ziyu hesitated and asked, "That's fine, don't get a plastic paper for packaging?" ”

Meng Qiao shook his head and said, "No, just sell it like this, don't increase the cost." ”

The first snow had already fallen in the capital, and the cold wind at night had become biting. The next day, after the two got off work, one of them held 20 original roses, and went to stand on the overpass at the entrance of the mall.

Imagination is always beautiful, reality is always cruel. Ye Ziyu held the flowers and looked at the crowd coming and going, only to realize that he was really not this material. He simply couldn't stop pedestrians from peddling. It is estimated that many people saw him standing on the bridge with a rose in his hand, and thought he was waiting for his girlfriend. As for himself, the sentence "Hello Sir, buy a flower, or Hello Miss, buy a flower" turned in his throat countless times, but he couldn't spit it out. At that time, he felt that he was like Sanmao in "Sanmao's Wanderings", and he was at a loss for anything.

Ye Ziyu dangled on the bridge for 40 minutes, and didn't buy a single one. He was so cold that he ran down the bridge to find Meng Qiao. Just now, the two of them sold flowers in two lots. He searched for a long time before he saw Meng Qiao leaning behind the curtain of the mall, looking dejected. Ye Ziyu stopped him in the past, and Meng Qiao said to him helplessly, it seems that he made a mistake in judgment yesterday. Originally, a few people wanted to buy his flowers, but they thought he didn't have the packaging, and in the end there was no deal.

Originally, Ye Ziyu was very uncomfortable on the bridge, but when he saw that Meng Qiao was also like this, his mood was better. As soon as the two of them combined, Meng Qiao thought again, there seemed to be a singing competition in Zhongyuan Hotel, so it was better to try it again. So the two rode to the Zhongyuan Hotel again. I don't know if Meng Qiao's news was wrong, or if they arrived too late, and the game had already ended. In short, after the two of them arrived at their destination, they didn't see a few figures, and the door of the hotel was quiet. This toss, the two of them were completely deflated, and the weather was so cold that they gritted their teeth, don't sell it, just go back to wash and sleep. In this way, not a single flower was sold, and the investment of 39 yuan was lost in vain, plus the fare of the two of them to Blue Island was 1 yuan, a total of 40 yuan.

When he walked back, Meng Qiao didn't even want to take the flowers, he asked Ye Ziyu, "Have you ever sent flowers to someone?" ”

Ye Ziyu was stunned for a moment, didn't understand what he meant, thought about it, he really hadn't sent flowers to anyone, so he shook his head.

Meng Qiao smiled: "This flower has to be left for two more nights, and it can't be sold." Simply, if you take it all and send it to Li Xin, it will definitely make her happy. ”

Ye Ziyu thought about it, and it happened that he was not far from the school. So after saying goodbye to Meng Qiao, he went to Li Xin's dormitory. When he walked into the school gate with 40 bright roses, he attracted a lot of attention along the way. People estimate that he came to confess to a girl with flowers, and only he himself has a bitter word.

When he came to the door of Li Xin's bedroom, he remembered the play he chased from the south last year, and he was a little embarrassed. Since then, the girls in this dormitory have treated him as a saint. Actually, he's really not that kind of person. But this time it was okay, after he knocked on the door, he found that Li Xin was the only one in the bedroom.

Li Xin was stunned by Ye Ziyu holding a large handful of roses, today is not an important day, what is he buying such a large bouquet of roses for? He had never bought flowers for her before? Ye Ziyu was honest, and directly told Li Xin about the fact that he went to sell flowers, but none of them were sold.

Li Xin listened, but was silent at first. Suddenly, he smiled faintly and said to Ye Ziyu: "Don't give me these flowers, I'll buy them all." ”

Ye Ziyu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what she meant. But seeing Li Xin turn around and walk to her bed, she took out five hundred yuan from under the pillow and handed it to Ye Ziyu, saying that her part-time company had paid her salary today, and Ye Ziyu would use the money first. Because she is still in school, her parents have sent her living expenses, and she can't use it.

Ye Ziyu didn't know what to say for a while, took the money, and took Li Xin in his arms. When he hugged her, he felt Li Xin's body tremble slightly. Ye Ziyu thought, what girl doesn't love beauty, this is the first time Li Xin has earned the money by herself, she should go and buy herself a dress or a bottle of perfume. But she gave him all the money. Alas, when you have money, you must be good to her.

This sale of flowers was the first time that Ye Ziyu partnered with others to do business, and it ended in complete failure.

Meng Qiao was obsessed with this. He was also very tight in money during that time, and this time he sold flowers to accompany 20 yuan, although it was not much, but it made him very faceless. He has always prided himself as the old capital in front of Ye Ziyu, and what he does is not very reliable. After almost a week, Meng Qiao came to find Ye Ziyu again, saying that he had contacted a good job this time and went together.

Ye Ziyu asked him what to do? Meng Qiao said that the day before yesterday, he saw someone doing a questionnaire survey on the street, so he took the initiative to go to the supervisor who led the team to ask. The superintendent was a woman of about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, surnamed Zhu. She told Meng Qiao that they are a research company under CCTV, and they often have a lot of projects to do surveys to consumers and pay them on a per-time basis. If Meng Qiao is interested, you can leave a contact information and notify him when there is business.

As a result, only a day later, a woman surnamed Zhu called, saying that there was a series of research on daily necessities, which would start in three days, and if they were willing, they would come to do training first. Meng Qiao naturally agreed. Ye Ziyu thought that this was much better than selling flowers, and agreed to go with him.