Chapter 052 Selling Cherries in the Tested Waters
The two middle-aged women were even more angry: "Then you might as well sell it for two yuan a catty, so you can make a few bucks, I think you are a fool." ”
Bai Mengdie sighed exaggeratedly: "The price offered by this fool of mine must be a sincere price, you still have to bargain at such a low price, you are even a fool!" ”
The two middle-aged women had nothing to say, and they wanted to buy Bai Mengdie's red cherries, but Bai Mengdie refused to give an inch.
In the end, the boss of the two unhappily weighed half a catty, and each of them grabbed a few cherries when he left.
Bai Mengdie shook her head when she saw it, some middle-aged women were not greedy for cheap things and had trouble sleeping and eating.
She will become a middle-aged woman in the future, and she must be an elegant aunt!
When the old man saw that the two aunts were gone, he continued the topic just now, and said in embarrassment: "...... I don't have enough money to go to the provincial capital. ”
Bai Mengdie remembered that the old lady only gave the old man eight yuan, and each person from the town to the county had to pay three yuan for the journey, but now it has cost six yuan, and she bought soy milk for the milk doll to drink, and there are no two yuan!
Although I sold cherries for three yuan just now, I can get seven yuan for a person to get a fare from the county seat to the provincial capital, which is far from enough.
Bai Mengdie thought for a while and said, "Grandpa, let's go to the county department store to see if we can sell a few catties of fruit, let's go to the provincial capital with a travel fee." ”
The old man was surprised for a few seconds, he had never seen anyone go to the door of the county department store to sell fruits, could he sell it?
He hesitated and asked, "Fluttershy, do you dare to go to the county department store alone to sell fruit?"
Our grandfather and grandson are sold separately, so we can save all of them from selling together, and we can't sell them all, which delays our efforts! ”
Bai Mengdie sneered disapprerovingly: "What don't you dare to do, pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other!" Then I'll buy a dozen plastic bags of cherries to sell. ”
After Bai Mengdie finished speaking, she ran over to several stalls selling plastic bags and asked how to sell plastic bags.
The old man was afraid that Bai Mengdie would suffer a loss, so he hurriedly followed with the basket on his back.
It is not easy for rural people to make money, so they spend money very carefully, for fear of spending the wrong penny.
I didn't expect Bai Mengdie to be quite good at bargaining, and the price of the plastic bags she bought was super low.
The old man is very happy, this child follows her parents, and her head is good!
Bai Mengdie was about to fill the plastic bag with red cherries according to the size of her hand, but she didn't know how heavy it was to grab a handful of cherries, so she grabbed two handfuls of cherries and asked the old man to help her weigh them with the scales she carried.
Bai Mengdie is a typical girl's hand, soft, soft and small, and she only grabs two handfuls of about three or two.
Bai Mengdie is priced at five yuan a catty, and three taels is a piece of five.
The old man hesitated a little: "A pound of cherries only sells for three yuan, and you now ask for three taels of cherries for a piece of five, is it too expensive, will anyone buy it?" ”
"Let's try it first, I'll lower the price if no one buys it." Bai Mengdie continued to pack cherries in small plastic bags.
"That's it!" The old man has big hands and doesn't dare to help her pack cherries, for fear that she will lose money if she pretends too much.
Bai Mengdie packed ten bags of cherries, and hurriedly ran to the county department store, and the old man found a place to squat down in the farmers' market to sell plums.
Within five minutes of squatting down, a market manager came and asked for a one-dollar booth fee.
The old man stared at the market administrator for several minutes, and then helplessly took out a dollar.
The market administrator took the money, tore up a receipt for him, and left.
The old man was a little depressed, and he had already paid a dollar before he sold a plum.
Bai Mengdie ran to the door of the county department store in one breath, and shouted in Mandarin with her throat: "Cherries, home-grown foreign varieties of cherries, red and sweet, a piece of five-day bags, everyone buys bags and tastes fresh!" ”
Because it is the pearl of his parents' palms, coupled with Tian Chunfang's good skills in making clothes, the skirts made for Bai Mengdie are all made of good fabrics and novel styles.
And the white dream butterfly that crossed over has the foreign temperament of a metropolis girl, she shouted in Mandarin, and the return rate is not high.
In addition, cherries are really rare to see in small counties, and fruit sellers will not transport such expensive fruits to small counties to sell, and their consumption power cannot be increased, so who will they sell them to?
So seeing Bai Mengdie shouting that she had cherries for sale, and it was a foreign variety, many people gathered around to see what foreign varieties of cherries looked like.
Someone curiously asked Bai Mengdie: "Are you really a foreign variety of cherry?" ”
Bai Mengdie lied without blushing: "Of course it is!" Look at how big my cherry is, there are no such big varieties in China! ”
It is true that the cherries of this cherry tree planted by the original owner's mother before her death are large cherries, but at that time, it should be impossible to get foreign varieties of cherry saplings.
Bai Mengdie guessed that it should be a northern variety.
All the big fruits of the white dream butterfly are always considered to be northern varieties, and the northerners are big, and the fruit should also be big and sweet.
She insisted on saying that her cherries were foreign varieties, not because she wanted to add a gimmick to sell them.
Who said that the Chinese people generally have a psychology of admiring the foreign and flattering the foreign, as if the moon in a foreign country is rounder than in their own country!
In this era, many people in small counties have never even seen what domestic cherries are, and how can they have seen foreign varieties of cherries, there is no way to compare them, Bai Mengdie said yes, they can only be suspicious.
However, the price of a five-day bag is not too expensive, and the local fruits are almost a dollar a catty, and it is also quite cost-effective to buy a bag of cherries for a piece of five, and you can boast to your relatives and friends that you have eaten foreign varieties of cherries all year round!
But when those customers who want to pay for it find a bag of cherries, many of the older ones immediately turn around and leave!
it! So expensive who can afford to eat!
But those young people still have people to buy a bag to try it, especially those young couples in love, the man will buy a bag for the woman.
So in less than a quarter of an hour, the ten bags of cherries packed by Bai Mengdie were all sold, and the travel fee to the provincial capital was no problem, and she ran all the way to the farmers' market to find the old man.
Seeing that Bai Mengdie had sold it for fifteen yuan in such a short time, the old man was a little reluctant to go to the provincial capital to sell fruits, so he discussed with her: "Xiaodie, since we can sell fruits at the door of the county department store, we will all go there to sell them, okay?" ”
"No!" Bai Mengdie shook her head like a rattle and refused without thinking, "My red cherries are sold at the door of the department store, that's because there are no red cherries sold in the county, and some people will buy a bag if they want to try it." ”
She glanced at the old man's basket full of plums: "But grandpa's plums are almost rotten on the street, and I am afraid that there are not many people who buy them when they are sold in department stores, and the price is low."
Grandpa, don't hesitate, let's hurry up and take a long-distance bus to the provincial capital to sell fruits, which will definitely sell at a high price. ”