Chapter 8: Three thousand
Before dawn the next day, Zhou Yu went to Uncle Zhang's house, borrowed his family's electric tricycle, and asked Aunt Zhang to take care of his grandfather. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This electric tricycle is not expensive, you can buy it for two or three thousand. But Zhou Yu's family didn't. However, he made up his mind, and when he made money, he would skip the electric three-wheeler at one time and buy a car directly!
There is not much space for the tow bucket behind the electric three wheels, and five bamboo baskets can be placed on the tile. The other bamboo baskets are stacked on top of it. Five at the bottom, four in the middle, and two at the top. Seven of them are crystal plums and four are pears.
Zhou Yu left a basket of crystal plums and some pears and put them at home to eat by himself.
Everything else has to be sold in town.
Place the basket and wrap it tightly with hemp rope so that it doesn't fall off during the drive. I took the scales, the fruit knife, and the handy bag that I had prepared earlier. Step on the three wheels at the moment, Dididi, and drive away.
When we arrived in town, the sky was white.
Zhou Yu did not delay, went directly to the market, paid the money to the management staff, and got a piece of land to sell things. At the beginning, Qingshan Town, like other small towns, was full of vendors from the upper street to the lower street.
But with the arrival of the current mayor, this situation has been completely contained.
There is a special market for vegetables, melons and fruits, and there is a special market for chicken, duck and fish. If you want to do business, you have to do it in the market. If it is on the street, once it is discovered by the chengguan, it is terrible.
Although Zhou Yu came early, someone came earlier than him. Therefore, he did not occupy a good place, in a corner, not conspicuous.
In this regard, Zhou Yu was helpless.
I only blame myself for not understanding the Tao, and it's too late.
After parking the tricycle, he laid out a basket of plums and a basket of pears, put the scales in front of him, and took out a piece of cardboard that had been written long ago and put it up -- five yuan a pound for plums, six yuan for pears, and five pounds for pears.
This price, in this market, is already very high.
Zhou Yu understood that the prices of other pears and plums were several times cheaper. Plums are generally ten yuan, six catties to seven catties. And pears, especially those with tan skin like Zhou Yu, are priced at eight pieces.
The surrounding hawkers were happy when they saw Zhou Yu's price.
A person next to him smiled and said, "Young man, the price of your fruit is not cheap." ”
Zhou Yu nodded, and said as a matter of course: "Of course, I have grown this fruit by myself, I have never been sprayed with pesticides, the quality is good, and the taste is good, if there is no way, how can it appear here." ”
When the peddler heard this, he came over to take a closer look, and couldn't help but be surprised, and said, "It's really good." It's a pity to sell it here, you should take it to the supermarket, the price must be much higher than the price you marked. ”
This hawker has been in the fruit business all year round, and although it is small, the twists and turns in it can be understood that it is tight.
Zhou Yu chatted with him and the surrounding vendors for a while, and learned more information from the words, all of which he wrote down one by one.
By seven or eight o'clock, there were more people in the market.
On the fruit side, there are also customers.
Other vendors, one after another, have opened their businesses. Only Zhou Yu is here, no one cares.
When many people looked at the price on the cardboard, no one came over, which made Zhou Yu helpless.
He thought about it, pursed his lips, and finally held back a cry: "The best plums and pears, don't miss them when you pass by..."
This is attracting people's attention, but in the end, when people see the price, they don't come, shouting that Zhou Yu's mouth is dry, and it still hasn't opened yet.
Licking his lips, Zhou Yu couldn't help but take a plum to moisten his tongue.
As soon as you take a bite, the juice flows, and that one is refreshing, which is simply intoxicating.
At the same time, a fresh fragrance also vaguely wafted out.
An old woman walked here, seemed to ask about the fragrance, and couldn't help but step forward, looking at the fruit in the basket, and said, "Young man, how did you sell this plum?" ”
Zhou Yu immediately became happy when he saw that someone was interested, and hurriedly said: "Mother-in-law, I wrote on the cardboard, five plums, six pears, and five." ”
"So expensive?!" The old woman frowned: "They are only a pound more." That's not how business works, lad. I see that your plum doesn't look bad, or two pieces for a catty, and the old woman will weigh two catties. ”
Zhou Yu's happy face drooped suddenly, but his heart moved, and he said: "Mother-in-law, my fruit is grown at home, not wholesaled by dealers." I haven't been sprayed with pesticides, so it's beautiful and delicious. If such fruit is put in the supermarket, it will be as little as seven or eight yuan and ten yuan a catty. You buy it, don't lose money! ”
As he spoke, he picked up a plum, wiped off the hoarfrost, and handed it to the old woman: "If you taste one, you will know that I am bragging!" ”
The old woman will be suspicious, but there is something for nothing, if you don't eat it, you don't eat it, you take the plum at the moment, and bite it when you open your mouth.
"Hmm..."
The taste of plums conquered the old woman at once. After eating three or two bites, she couldn't help but smile: "It's really delicious, the young man didn't lie." ”
She hesitated for a moment and said, "But this price is still a little expensive, why don't you lower it again?" ”
Zhou Yu shook his head resolutely.
The old woman gritted her teeth: "Okay, weigh me three catties of plums." ”
Zhou Yu finally smiled.
The old woman bought plums and gave Zhou Yu fifteen yuan, but she didn't leave immediately, looked at the pears again, and said, "Your plums are delicious, I don't know if your pears are delicious." ”
"Of course it's delicious." Zhou Yu said confidently, picked up a pear, cut it into four pieces with a fruit knife, and handed it to the old woman: "You can taste it and you will know." ”
The old woman ate the pears and was conquered again, hesitated for a moment, and bought two catties of pears.
Zhou Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief - since it is open, it means that this business can be done.
At that moment, he shouted and opened it, and took plums and pears, cut them into small pieces, and waited for others to taste them. I just gave the old woman a whole plum, and that's because of the first opening.
You must know that Zhou Yu's plums are big, one has three taels, and one catty is only three. A plum is worth more than a dollar!
As the old woman opened for Zhou Yu, people finally surrounded him one after another.
After tasting the small pieces of fruit, almost all of them were conquered, and soon, the hundreds of catties of fruit in Zhou Yu's car, like the melting of ice and snow, quickly decreased.
By noon, there were only 120 catties of plums and 30 catties of pears left.
It's September, but it's still hot at noon. There are fewer people here. Zhou Yu looked at it and felt that there was not much left, so he was not ready to continue selling and wanted to go back.
I saw an old woman coming over in a hurry, but it wasn't the old woman who opened it for herself.
"Young man!"
The old woman cried out, "Is there any fruit left?!" ”
"Some." Zhou Yu smiled and gestured: "There are still one or twenty catties of plums, and there are only thirty catties of pears." I'm about to go back, old woman, do you want more? ”
"Yes!"
The old woman hurriedly took out three Mao grandfathers: "I want it!" ”
"All of them!?" Zhou Yu was taken aback: "Can you take so much?" ”
"Don't say so much," the old woman's temper was irritable: "Hurry up and weigh it!" ”
"Okay," Zhou Yu smiled happily, and was about to weigh the old woman, but someone came again, it was familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, it should have been the same one who bought his own fruit before.
"Boss, is there any fruit left? Yo, and besides, I want ten pounds! ”
The man came up, didn't say a word, and directly asked for ten catties.
The old woman didn't do it: "Hey, that's not going to work. I will take all these fruits. ”
The man was a middle-aged man, in his forties, wearing glasses, looking like a successful person, and when he saw the old woman talking, he didn't listen to it, and said, "Auntie, you can't take so much, and you can't finish eating, so it's not a problem to give me evenly." ”
"No, no, no, I want it. My old man has always had a bad appetite, and today I ate this young man's fruit, and my appetite is so great that I have to buy it back! ”
The middle-aged man also said: "My child is a picky eater, and he also eats fruits and has a great appetite, and he still wants to eat it, but I can't help it!" ”
The old woman saw that the middle-aged woman also had a reason, so the two discussed it and agreed to divide it evenly.
Zhou Yu doesn't care, who buys it or not. As long as you give money, everything is easy to do.
I weighed it right away, and the old woman and the middle-aged man mentioned it separately, and they left with each other.
was packing up the bamboo basket, and someone came again, seeing that Zhou Yu had no fruit, they all returned disappointed.
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Riding an electric three-wheeler all the way home, Zhou Yu was in a very happy mood on the way.
I went to the market today to set up a stall, although there were some twists and turns, but the end result was good. More than 300 catties of plums and nearly 200 catties of pears, adding up to more than 500 catties, were sold out in one morning, which is already very remarkable!
Those hawkers can sell a hundred catties in the morning, even if they burn high incense.
Where can it compare to Zhou Yu?
Touching the bulging purse, Zhou Yu smiled even more cheerfully.
This is the first income from agriculture, although it is not much, only about 3,000 yuan, but Zhou Yu believes that it will be more in the future, 30,000, 300,000, and it is not a problem!
With the jade seal ball as the backing, Zhou Yu is full of confidence.
At the same time, after this experience of setting up a stall, Zhou Yu understood another truth - the fragrance of wine is also afraid of deep alleys!
Although the quality of his fruit is good, if you don't let people know how good it is, people won't buy it. Just like at the beginning, he was sullen and waiting for someone to come and buy it, but there was no one.
Later, he sold again, and the effect was not good.
It wasn't until people tasted the taste that business started to boom.
He realized that in the future, when doing business, he must make a name for himself. If there is no name, no matter how good things are, no one cares.
Of course, quality is fundamental. Zhou Yu also has a deep understanding of this.
If there is no nourishment of the jade seal, presumably these fruits at home are the same as ordinary standards, no matter how cheerful they are called and how many people taste them, the business will not be better than those hawkers.
Absorbing these experiences one by one, Zhou Yu felt that what he gained was more than just 3,000 yuan!
When I got home, I took out the harvest, which made my grandfather happy.
The grandfather and grandson had dinner happily and didn't say anything all night.