Chapter 44: Carrefour

The matter of the warehouse can not be delayed any longer, Li Dong came to Dongying Wharf early the next morning, there are many trucks in and out here, and the warehouse is best selected in this area, so that it can be mixed up and convenient.

"Captain, do you know where you can rent a warehouse here?" Li Dong has been on a boat several times, and he is already quite familiar with the captain.

"You'd better go to the terminal operator and ask about this, it's in the southeast corner of the terminal, the red façade is very recognizable." The captain suggested.

"Thanks, Captain. By the way, tomorrow at 12 noon on time, don't forget. On the ship, Li Dong has already reached a transportation agreement with the captain, and the hovercraft part will be handled by himself.

"Don't worry, I can't forget, we signed the contract." The captain was not the least worried.

Along the southeast direction of the pier, Li Dong quickly saw the building with the red façade. In recent years, due to the shrinkage of the lake, there are still many idle warehouses in the operator's place. After screening, Li Dong finally rented a warehouse in a relatively remote location, 50 square meters, with a lease period of three years. Li Dong chose to pay it off in a lump sum, and the operator also gave a 20% discount, including management fees, and the last one was a total of 6,200 yuan.

After renting the warehouse, Li Dong bought more than 300 boxes from the operator and asked the staff to pile them in the warehouse. The rest of the time, Li Dong entered the space, and the space had just absorbed the pile of scrap iron from the recycling station a few days ago, and the area had expanded by more than forty acres, but there was a lot of empty land.

Next, Li Dong began a crazy time of picking vegetables. There are about ten acres of land planted in the space vegetables, and even if only one-fifth of them are mature, it is enough for Li Dong to be busy. In addition, the thin hose he bought last time has been transformed into a drip irrigation device, and the effect is not bad, and the growth of vegetables is obviously more pleasing than before.

In fact, if you take it seriously, only half of the real vegetables are used, and the rest is all corn. Li Dong's meeting was also for convenience, and he often poked holes in the ground with steel bars to plant corn when he had nothing to do, and planted this large area unconsciously.

was busy until noon the next day, and Li Dong did not finish it all, and barely picked most of it. The results are still very gratifying, these vegetables are full of more than 240 boxes, each box is an average of 30 catties, and the total is about 7,200 catties. Of course, corn alone accounts for 183 boxes, and the yield is much higher than that of vegetables.

Li Dong decided that the space in the future will be mainly wheat planting, after all, with agricultural machinery, whether it is sowing or harvesting, it is much more convenient, and it is more cost-effective.

I looked at my watch, and it was already half past eleven in the morning. Without taking care of lunch, Li Dong hired a small truck, found a few porters, and finally transported all the vegetables to the dock before twelve o'clock, and the captain had already arrived.

"Boss Li, these are your goods, and the amount is really a lot."

The captain was also taken aback, this was not the small list he thought he had, fortunately he had always been serious in his work, so there was no slackness.

"Small business, captain, it's not too early, do you think the loading will begin?" Li Dong said modestly.

"Okay, you come with me, and you can carry the cargo to the hold." The captain showed Li Dong where they were stacked.

Half an hour later, all the boxes were finally moved into the hold, and most of the cargo hold was piled up. Li Dong sent the truck away, leaving behind the porters, who would always help him carry the goods back to the store.

When he arrived at the floating dock at the junction, Li Dong contacted the captain of the hovercraft, took out the transportation permit issued by the neighborhood committee, and obtained the right of first refusal. Soon, the cargo was transferred to the hovercraft and transported twice before being transported back to the community. Before leaving, in order to establish a good relationship, Li Dong generously left a box of vegetables for the captain, which added a lot of points.

"Auntie, I'm back, the vegetables are back, open the door quickly." Li Dong shouted at the door of his house, this trip had exhausted him.

"Here we are."

Soon Lu Xiumei and her grandfather came out, and they were surprised to see this large pile of vegetables.

"Auntie, don't be in a daze, get out of the way, don't delay the workers going home." Li Dong teased.

Lu Xiumei didn't care about arguing with her eldest son, opened the door completely, and instructed the porters to start carrying vegetables to the store. Grandpa also wanted to go up to help, but was pulled by Li Dong and asked the second elder to watch the goods, so as not to miss it.

Because they were in a hurry to go home, the porters were very fast, and Li Dong paid them a salary, which was paid according to the standard of half a day, and also added the return travel fee. Lu Xiumei had a rare atmosphere, and before leaving, no one gave out a bottle of drink worth 1 yuan, and several people were reluctant to drink it, probably wanting to leave it to the children at home.

"A-Niang, I'm dying of hunger, hurry up and get me something to eat, it's not too late to deal with these vegetables." Li Dong said pitifully.

Lu Xiumei immediately put down the vegetables in her hand, blamed him a few words, and went upstairs to cook.

"Dongzi, where did you get this dish, it looks very fresh." Grandpa rummaged through a few boxes and asked curiously.

"I wholesale it from middlemen, and it should be grown by nearby farmers, and I just picked it for two days." Li Dong said that it was ambiguous, and it was completely pushed to the middleman.

From the afternoon, the family began to sort vegetables in the store. For the sake of convenience, Li Dong mixed the vegetables together, and some even brought a lot of soil.

Halfway through, Li Dong went to pick up the little girl and went home from school, the children were innocent, and they soon played together. Before Li Dong could speak, the little girl chattered to him non-stop, repeating the new things that happened this day several times.

I was busy until 11 o'clock in the evening, and finally all the vegetables were sorted and processed. The shelves are full and neat, but fortunately there is heating at night, and I am not afraid of freezing.

The corn was not peeled, otherwise it would not have been processed even overnight. And it's better to keep the corn fresh, and the skins are usually left to the customers themselves.

In the morning, everyone got up very early, and the little girl was sent to the kindergarten an hour early. At eight o'clock, Team Leader Zhou arrived with a group of people from the neighborhood committee, and Li Dong saw it and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Brother Zhou, you're here, I'll wait for you." Li Dong grabbed Team Leader Zhou's arm.

"Boss Li, come, let me introduce you, this is Director Ma of our neighborhood committee, I heard that your store is for the people to solve their worries, so I came here to take a look." Team Leader Zhou introduced to Li Dong.

"Where, welcome, welcome." Li Dong didn't expect that his small shop would actually fish out the number one of the neighborhood committees.

"Director Ma, this is what I told you about Boss Li Dongli, don't look at his young age, as soon as I heard that our community lacks vegetables, no, I opened the store at a loss." Li Dong was a little embarrassed to say this, but he was thick-skinned, and others couldn't see it.

"Boss Li, I thank you on behalf of the neighborhood committee, don't worry, if you have any difficulties, tell Team Leader Zhou, and he will help you solve them." Director Ma held Li Dong's hand and promised in person, and Team Leader Zhou also echoed on the side.

"It's easy to say, Director Ma, you see that you are also here, can you unveil a signboard for our store, and it is good to be extravagant." Li Dong pretended to have an embarrassed expression.

"Okay, it's all a gesture anyway, but you'll have to give me a discount on the vegetables later." Director Ma said humorously.

Li Dong immediately beat the snake with the stick, and proposed that in the future, all the staff of the neighborhood committee would go to their own store to buy vegetables, and they would all be 10% off. The VIP card was specially customized by him from the city, and it had A-Niang's signature on it.

"Crackling, crackling......"

Director Ma pulled down the red cloth covering the signboard amid the sound of firecrackers, and the three big characters "Carrefour" appeared in people's sight.

That's right, Li Dong is so shameless, he couldn't come up with a good store name himself, so he directly plagiarized the brand of his previous life. Anyway, hundreds of years have passed, and no one will pursue it, so there is no need to use it in vain.

"What a name, I didn't expect Boss Li to have such talent." Director Ma praised that it was simple and catchy, and easy to understand.

"When you see it, you just think about it casually, and it just sounds catchy." Li Dong said unashamedly.

Director Ma didn't stay long before leaving, but he left a deep impression on the store full of vegetables. Before leaving, Li Dong gave the VIP card to Team Leader Zhou and asked him to take it back and distribute it to everyone.