Chapter 24: Rushing to the Market
Lin Caiwei saw that some people on the road were using flat poles to pick vegetables to sell, if it wasn't for the fact that she was going to sell yellow eels and fish, it was estimated that the parents of these vegetables would have to pick up two loads of vegetables to sell in the market, and there were too many things to sell, so they could only go to her uncle's house to borrow a tricycle. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Women who often do farm work in the countryside don't look tall or strong, they often do farm work, they are also a lot of strength, so the mother who is less than 1.6 meters tall can really pick up two loads of vegetables, Lin Caiwei tried to pick up two empty vegetable baskets with a flat shoulder, she felt uncomfortable on her shoulders, let alone a vegetable basket full of vegetables.
There are also some people who go with carts, and a very few people who go with ox carts or horse-drawn carts or mule carts, and they are much more relaxed, and they only need to prepare some rations for these horses, cows, and mules.
By the time Lin Caiwei and her parents arrived at the place where they had a special gathering, it was already six o'clock in the morning. It's not quite bright yet, but there are lights everywhere, so it doesn't feel dark. When she saw it, there were still a lot of people, it was quite lively, and people she knew greeted each other.
There are almost no people who come to buy groceries, and everyone is busy finding a good place to put the vegetables they want to sell.
Let his wife and daughter guard the tricycle, Lin Aiguo went to find a place by himself, Lin Aiguo finally found the place where a person flowed in and out of the market entrance the most, and ran over to ask his wife and daughter to push the car over together.
Lin Caiwei observed left and right and said to Lin Aiguo, "Dad, let's go to the middle or the front third of the place to set up a vegetable stall." ”
"What do children know, they are placed here, and as soon as others come in, they can see our food, and there are more people who buy it," Lin Aiguo explained.
After speaking, he was about to unload the vegetables on the tricycle, but Lin Caiwei raised her hand to stop it, and said, "Dad, Mom, when you go to buy vegetables, do you buy them as soon as you enter the vegetable market and see them, or do you go in and buy them again?"
"Of course, I went in and bought it", Guan Lanfen replied without hesitation after listening to her daughter's question.
"Then after going in, the price of the same dish is almost not much different, so do you choose the middle, the front, or the back?", Lin Caiwei then asked.
"Naturally, choose the middle or the back, generally choose the middle, because the market is too big, generally too lazy to go to the end, after all, the price is not much different, and the vegetables are also the same, too lazy to go to the front to buy, buy early and go home," Guan Lanfen continued.
After she finished speaking, she finally reacted to what her daughter's proposal just now, looked at Lin Aiguo and asked, "Aiguo, do you want to go?" What Wei Wei said makes sense. ”
"Go, let's try it, the loss is a little money, just sell some later", Lin Aiguo decided to believe his daughter's words and try it.
Lin Caiwei was also very happy to see that she had persuaded her parents, and pushed the car in the back with her mother, and at this time everyone went to compete for the position in front, so there was no one here, and it was easy to find a middle position.
After Lin Aiguo and Guan Lanfen unloaded the baskets of vegetables in the car, Lin Caiwei spread the plastic woven cloth on the ground on the side, and then sorted the dishes with her parents.
Lin Caiwei seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around and pulled back on the tricycle a few times, and found what she wanted, a sign with the price of each dish written on it.
She put it in a conspicuous place, so that everyone can save some time, and there is no need to always ask how much this and that, although many old people are illiterate now, but such as Lin Caiwei's parents, the post-60s and post-70s, most of them have received primary school education, and they still know the basic words.
Lin Caiwei explained to her parents why they put up a sign with a price on it, and they didn't say anything, they just felt that this child was weird and smart, and thought that it was their own child.
When all this was done, the sky was also white, the starlight gradually faded, and a cool wind blew in her face, Lin Caiwei felt hungry.
She hadn't eaten after a busy morning, so she said hello to her parents, asked them what they wanted to eat, and went to look for something to eat.
Lin Caiwei walked around, there were a lot of people who set up breakfast stalls, some bought fried dough sticks and soy milk, various flavors of noodles, as well as pancakes, steamed xiaolongbao and steamed dumplings, boiled corn cobs and eggs, and specially bought steamed buns.
Seeing that she swallowed her saliva and wanted to eat it, she had to eat two of them for a bun and eight dimes, not to mention her father, plus her mother, Xiaolongbao was three yuan a cage.
Think about it, forget it, eat the cheapest and cost-effective, a small bowl of noodles, a medium bowl and a large bowl of noodles, a total of three yuan five, enough for Lin Caiwei and her parents to eat full.
Because it was not far away, Lin Caiwei first went to ask her mother to come over to eat together, and asked her father to guard the vegetable stall, and now the people who buy vegetables have hardly come.
Eating a powder, Lin Caiwei feels so satisfied, the authentic taste of her hometown, how can you eat it outside.
After finishing the meal, Lin Caiwei and her mother went back to change their father to eat, and when Lin Aiguo also finished eating breakfast, it was already past seven o'clock, and some purchasers began to appear in the market one after another.
This bazaar is very large, the south side is to sell all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits; the west side is to sell all kinds of game, dry goods; the north side is to buy pork, mutton, beef; in the east is to sell all kinds of live poultry, chickens, ducks, geese, fish, retail people need to buy their own slaughter, and there is a façade can be slaughtered and cleaned on the spot; in the middle buy all kinds of cooked food, roast sheep, roast duck, roast chicken, all kinds of marinated cold vegetables, as well as pickled vegetables and pickles, and there are scattered shoes and clothes, underwear and socks around.
The time gradually came to eight o'clock, more and more people, generally come here to buy vegetables in addition to the people in the town, as well as the surrounding counties will also come, after all, it is cheap and reliable, and it is sold by locals.
There are also people coming to buy vegetables at Lin Caiwei's vegetable stall, and sure enough, there are more people buying than at the entrance, Guan Lanfen and Lin Aiguo are happy, and Lin Caiwei is smart.
After nine o'clock, there were the most people, Lin Caiwei saw that there were not many people, and her parents were still busy, so she said that she wanted to look around, Guan Lanfen thought that it was really a child who couldn't stay in one place, so she agreed.
Lin Caiwei, who got her mother's permission, walked around and saw a stall that bought the same vegetables as her own family, and she could ask about their price tag with her own small mouth, and she probably had the bottom of her heart after a circle.
When she returned to her vegetable stall, it was close to nine o'clock, just when there were more people, she told Lin Aiguo and Guan Lanfen about her findings and thoughts, and in view of the fact that she had just listened to her daughter's words, it was really better than before, and the couple decided to listen to their daughter again.
So there is the following scene, "Don't miss it when you pass by, buy more and give more", Lin Caiwei used some sales methods in later generations, not bargaining, it is the same market price as others, but people who buy more, she will give people a few green onions, a few chili peppers or something, so that people who buy vegetables and get benefits will buy them willingly, and sell them a lot faster, and sell out a basket and a half in a while.
In the past, at this point, only half a frame was sold, Lin Aiguo and Guan Lanfen counted the money, but they didn't lose money, the two looked at each other, wondering where did their daughter learn?
"Weiwei, how did you come up with the idea of selling vegetables like this?" Lin Aiguo asked.
"Books, Dad, don't I like to read, the last time I saw it in that magazine in the town's Fangcao bookstore, I thought about it and tried it," Lin Caiwei, who had prepared for a long time, replied.
"In this way, it seems that if you read more, you really know a lot, okay, Weiwei will study hard in the future, and Dad will support you!", Lin Aiguo said happily after listening.
"How do you sell this yellow eel?", someone suddenly asked?
Lin Caiwei turned around quickly, looking at the person who came without a trace, about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, medium height, dressed differently from the people in the town, and looked very formal.
The style, texture, and cut of the clothes are all relatively good, and he carries a briefcase in his hand, wears glasses, and his hair is meticulously combed, apparently carefully groomed with mousse.
She thought to herself, maybe it was a big customer, so she hung up a sweet smile and replied, "Hello uncle, my yellow eel is five yuan and five pounds."
"Hey, why is it so much more expensive than the one over there, people only sell it for four yuan and five pounds, little girl, don't you want to fool people, don't you care about your family?", the middle-aged man looked at Lin Caiwei suspiciously.
When Lin Caiwei heard what he said, she was not annoyed, she smiled without stage fright, and said patiently, "I can call the shots, uncle, if you know the price over there, then you still came to ask, you should be able to see that my yellow eel is of better quality, right? They're raised, naturally not as good as mine, because this is what my father and I caught from the field, it's purely wild, naturally it's more expensive, it should only be sold this time, it's hard to buy it if you miss it."
After she finished speaking, she observed that the expression of the person who came was obviously moved, it seems that he is indeed looking for a good quality yellow eel, and if he gives some discounts, it is estimated that he will loosen up and buy it.
"In this way, our hotel has to entertain some important guests recently, and we need such a good quality yellow eel, little girl, can't you see it less?", the middle-aged man began to loosen his mouth.
"Well, uncle, how much do you want? If you want them all, half of these fish will be given to you, and these fish are also wild, what do you think?", Lin Caiwei said with a pretending hesitation.
The middle-aged man hesitated, thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then so be it."
Lin Caiwei rolled her eyes, raised her head and said to the middle-aged man, "Uncle, your restaurant should also need to purchase all kinds of vegetables, you see if you buy all the vegetables in my house, I will give you all these fish."
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, thinking that the restaurant really needed to buy vegetables, and it was not enough to buy hers, but it was very cost-effective to be able to collect these fish, so he decided to buy all the yellow eels and vegetables.
When everything is weighed and calculated, Lin Caiwei's yellow eel earned one hundred and sixty-five yuan, and the vegetables plus the money sold before were three hundred and thirteen yuan.
"Little girl, I am so good at doing business at a young age, I will not be able to do business in the future, my surname is Fang, you can call me uncle, and I will have the opportunity to buy vegetables with your family in the future", the middle-aged man surnamed Fang said with a smile, and he was in a good mood when he bought the things that the leader asked him to buy.
"Okay, Uncle Fang, welcome to buy it later", Lin Caiwei also said happily.
And Lin Aiguo and Guan Lanfen stood next to them in disbelief, when did their daughter become so eloquent? And after selling for so much money, it was sold out so quickly!
"Weiwei - you", Guan Lanfen was just about to say something, but was interrupted by Lin Caiwei, "Mom, the money from selling yellow eels is mine, you promised it, and I have such a big credit today, you can't rob me."
The husband and wife, who had not yet eased their minds, were amused by their daughter, "Fart kid, I know, I don't rob you, thanks to you, I can go home early today to rest", Guan Lanfen scolded with a smile.
On the way home, the family laughed and laughed all the way, so unhappy.
Money can make your parents less hard and make them happy, so let's work hard to make money~ Lin Caiwei thought to herself.