Chapter 14: The Four Little Monks
Lin Jing's matter was put aside like that, and as the year approached, there were exams one after another, so they didn't have time to think about it.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, all the subjects were finally completed, and the students of Shencheng No. 1 High School felt unprecedentedly relaxed, except for the third year of high school, because they were the latest to have a holiday, and the beginning of school was indeed the earliest. The students who have finished the exam are preparing to go home for the New Year, and Pu Jia and Lin Jing are no exception.
Pu Jia and Lin Jing were packing their schoolbags, and Pu Jia asked Lin Jing while packing: "What are you going to do during the winter vacation?" ”
"I don't know, I usually think about taking a long vacation when I go to school, and I feel so bored when I really take a long vacation." Lin Jing sighed as she spoke.
"I'm going to help my mom this year, we held a New Year's festival near the community, my mom also bought something, ready to sell it during the New Year's Festival, my sister is going to graduate next year, she wants to find a hospital internship, my brother and my dad go to work, it is estimated that it will not be a holiday until a few days before the New Year." In a large square not far from the Pujia community, the nearby merchants jointly held a New Year's festival to attract customers, and many people signed up to participate. Seeing this opportunity, Pu Ma also wanted to get closer to the little things and take the opportunity to earn some pocket money. I heard my mother say that if it is done well this year, it may be done every year in the future.
"I remember you said that your sister studied nursing, and she will be a nurse in the future, so envious! Nurse in white, how beautiful! Lin Jing looked yearning.
"You can like it, you can do it, nursing doesn't need a high cultural score!" Pu Jia said something to tease Lin Jing with a serious face.
"Okay, I didn't expect you to learn badly, you can flirt with people, I thought you were very honest when I first met you, hum!" Lin Jing pretended to be angry and said.
Pu Jia couldn't help but smile when she saw Lin Jing like this: "I still learn from you if I learn badly, I will have the most contact with you." ””
"I think you're bad in your bones, you were all disguised at first, and now you're finally revealing your fox tail."
"Yes, yes, I don't blame you, I blame myself." Pu Jia took the initiative to give in like Lin Jing.
"I'm not going to mess with you anymore, seriously, come and play with me on vacation." Pu Jia stopped laughing and said.
"Well, for sure, I'll go to that New Year's Festival when the time comes." Lin Jing said.
"Okay, I'll welcome you for the New Year's Festival first!" Pu Jia said with a smile.
After packing their schoolbags, the classmates went home, Pu Jia took the bus home, and Pu Jia's mother was calling to order. Pu Ma has already been to the wholesale market to see before, and the goods are being delivered before the start of the New Year's Festival, otherwise there will be no place at home.
After her mother finished calling, Pu Jia sat down next to her mother, "Mom, what are you going to buy?" ”
"Just enter some couplets, snacks or something take up too much space and can't be put at home." Pu Ma replied while flipping through the phone book.
"Oh," Pu Jia thought it was true, there was no place to put the bulky things at home. As soon as Pu Jia looked up and saw a ceramic villain ornament next to the TV, he thought of a good idea, and hurriedly said to his mother: "Mom, since we sell couplets, we can also get some more festive small ornaments and pendants by the way, the price is not expensive, and it will definitely sell well with the couplets." ”
"yes, why didn't I think of that? Or you young people have flexible brains! "Pu Ma thought about it and felt that what she said about going to Pujia was indeed very right, and she praised Pu Jia.
After listening to her mother, Pu Jia stood up and prepared to go back to the room, when she heard her mother say again: "When you buy the goods another day, you go with me, you know what style of ornaments are good-looking now, you look at it." ”
"Okay!" Pu Jia responded happily when he heard it. Girls like those gadgets, and Pu Jia is of course no exception, you can choose it yourself, and Pu Jia is of course happy.
At the beginning of the fifteenth day of the New Year's Festival, Pu Ma asked Pu Jia to accompany her to buy goods on the tenth day of the first month, and there were more items that could be picked up if she entered early. The couplet has been decided, and it can be sent directly to the wholesale market, and today I will pick up the small ornaments and pendants proposed by Pujia.
Pujia's neighbor sells vegetables in the vegetable market, and his family has an electric tricycle, which he goes to buy every morning before dawn, so he doesn't use it during the day. Pu's mother went to borrow his family's tricycle, so that the good goods could be pulled back directly.
Pu Jia and her mother rode their tricycles to the wholesale market, parked their cars outside, and went to pick up their goods.
This wholesale market is the largest wholesale market in Shencheng, divided into four districts, a gate is the flower and bird area, there are all kinds of plants, flowers, birds, fish and insects, you can smell the rich fragrance of flowers when you walk to the door, and hear the pleasant birdsong. In the middle is the food area, snacks, snacks, rice, flour, grain and oil, all kinds of spices, everything. The innermost part is the department store area, like couplets, clocks, pots and pans and many daily utensils, all of which are available here.
There was a road on the left side of the department store, and Pu Jia looked over there, and it looked like clothes.
"Mom, what's over there?"
"That's the shoes and clothing area, the shoes and clothing area accounts for one-third of the entire market, there are any styles of clothes in it, I heard that those who sell clothes and shoes come here to buy, and we will go to see it after a while, and buy a few new clothes by the way for the New Year." Pu Ma explained to Pu Jia while thinking about what kind of clothes are popular this year.
"Really? That's great! Pu Jia was very happy, no one didn't like new clothes, and Pu Ma was planning to buy a few.
"Yes, you can pick two for your sister in a while, you are about the same size, you can help her try it. She's about to do an internship, she can't wear too shabby, and girls have to find a partner after dressing up beautifully! Pu's mother thought that her eldest daughter had grown up, and she would soon find a partner to marry.
Pu Jia listened to her mother's words and thought of Shaoyang, I don't know what would happen if my mother knew about Shaoyang?
As they spoke, they found wholesale ornaments and pendants here, there are really a lot of things here, there are piggy banks of various materials and styles, villains and small animal ornaments, as well as ornaments dozens of centimeters high, and ornaments made of various red cloths hanging on the wall...... Pu Jia was dazzled by so many beautiful things, and when he was struggling with what to choose, Pu Jia saw several zodiac handicrafts on the shelves behind him. The tall ones are ten centimeters, and the smallest ones are four or five centimeters high, and they are all vivid and exquisite.
Next to the zodiac are the ornaments of four little monks, only about five centimeters high, not too large, wearing sky blue clothes, and a string of Buddhist beads around their necks. The four little monks meditated cross-legged, and the first little monk took a book on his mobile phone, tilting his head and thinking seriously about something. The second little monk held his cheek with one hand, as if thinking about something. The third little monk was holding the wooden fish in one hand and knocking on the wooden fish with the other. The fourth little monk closed his eyes tightly and folded his hands, thinking that he should be chanting scriptures. Although the volume is not large, every expression and every movement is so delicate, as if it were real.
"Mom, what do you think of this?" Pu Jia turned to ask her mother.
Pu's mother, who was looking at something else, heard her daughter screaming, and walked to Pu Jia's side to take a look, and it looked really exquisite. But Pu Ma is looking at the zodiac.
"Boss, how much is this zodiac, I am buying and selling, don't be expensive." Pu Ma asked the boss, people who are engaged in wholesale like this are very fine, if you are wholesale, he will give you the wholesale price, if you go to buy it in pocket, the price he will give you will be much more expensive, so Pu Ma first said that she is here to wholesale, so as not to make the boss expensive.
"Eldest sister, don't worry about this, we are definitely the real price. You want this zodiac, right, one is ten yuan, and if you want one set, it will be one hundred sets. "This boss is also a good businessman, and he takes the opportunity to let customers buy the whole set.
"This price is expensive, how can I sell it when I go back, that is, a small ornament, too expensive and people don't want it!" Pu Ma pretended to be embarrassed and said. Pu Ma knows that the asking price of this business is high, and she will definitely be able to cut a lot.
"Eldest sister, I'm all resinous and not fragile, and if you look at the eyes and nose of this little animal, you will definitely not lose it. You go back to twenty-one, and the whole set is about one hundred and fifteen and can be sold casually. "The boss's eloquence is definitely not covered.
"I can't just listen to you, I haven't sold it yet, what if it doesn't sell? You've got to get cheaper! Pu Jia watched her mother bargain with the shopkeeper, and secretly gave her mother a thumbs up, but she didn't expect her mother, who had never done business, to know so much.
The boss took the opportunity to introduce the golden pig ornaments on the shelf, because it is the Year of the Pig, so many people will buy a golden pig to put at home, and this golden pig is still a piggy bank. One thing is multi-purpose, and the price will naturally be slightly more expensive, twenty-one.
Of course, Pu Ma won't just pay for it, so she bargained with the boss.
Just went back and forth, and finally ordered a thousand golden pig ornaments at the price of fifteen, because this year is the Year of the Pig! At the price of eighty-one sets, two hundred sets of complete sets of zodiac ornaments were ordered.
"Mom, what do you think of this little monk?" Pu Jia saw that these little monks liked it very much, and wanted to buy it back and put it in his bedroom.
When Pu Ma saw that she bought a few monks for the New Year, how could she go back? "What kind of monk do you want for the New Year?"
"Eldest sister, you are not as good as this little girl's vision, these little monks are a set, and they are also made of resin, and they sell very well, you can buy a set and put it in the living room, bedroom, and study." The boss is pitching again.
Pu Ma listened to the boss's words, and saw that Pu Jia really wanted it, "Then take twenty sets and go back to try them first!" How much does a set cost? ”
"I'll tell you the truth about this, there will be no bargaining, fifteen sets." The boss was frightened by Pu's mother's bargaining posture just now, and he didn't dare to ask for more.
"Okay, let's take twenty sets of this and try it first, I think that little pendant is very good-looking, take a thousand each of the small lantern pendant, the little pepper pendant, and the little fish." Pu's mother ordered a few more boxes in one go.
"Eldest sister, you are so refreshing, this kind of pendant is just out this year, a string of six, six or six Shun, this is two strings and a pair, hanging at home on one side, festive." The boss flattered.
Those pendants Pu Jia also saw it, there were small red peppers, small lanterns, and small fish. It is made of red flannel, and then strung with six red threads in a string, and the bottom is made of red threads to make red tassels, which is indeed festive.