Volume 1 Spring Chapter 17 Carnations
At the Majia Ramen Restaurant, Feng Chunxi still ordered his favorite braised noodles, while Lu Qianyue gulped down a night of cold ramen. The female secretary, who usually looks dignified and generous, can't think of eating noodles and gobbling them up, and from time to time she praises the deliciousness.
Feng Chunxi asked tentatively, "Do you eat garlic?" ”
Lu Qianyue looked at the garlic cloves handed over by Feng Chunxi, hesitated for a second, and then took it a little shyly and said, "If you don't eat garlic when you eat noodles, the fragrance is less than half." Then he smiled and peeled off the garlic clove in his hand twice. Then, there was the crunch of garlic cloves being crushed.
After a full meal, Lu Qianyue chatted with Feng Chunxi about the recent situation of the gardening store. Feng Chunxi informed Lu of the idea of buying a batch of carnation potted plants before Mother's Day, and Lu was very supportive, but this time she could not support in the name of the community.
"When the time comes, I'll send a circle of friends to help you publicize it." Lu Tianyue assured.
"Then please, the carnation has sold very well on Mother's Day in the past two years, and I want to try the potted plant, but I don't know if it will work." Feng Chunxi said with a smile.
In recent years, Mother's Day flower delivery has become popular, and Ma Jing's flower shop is full of carnations and other flowers. Feng Chunxi also tried to buy one. The 100 pots of carnation potted plants, all of which are gallon pots, belong to the relatively high-grade flower seedlings. Since 1907, the world has begun to use pink carnations as a symbol of Mother's Day, and most of Feng Chunxi's purchases are also in this color, with only a small number of red and white.
Early in the morning of Mother's Day, Ma Jing placed wrapped carnation bouquets and flower baskets outside the flower shop, which was the result of her busy labor until the middle of the night. Bouquets range in size from 38 yuan to 168 yuan, attracting many customers to come and buy. In contrast, Feng Chunxi's bonsai carnations, although growing well, may not be suitable as gifts, and only one pot is sold within two hours of opening.
Because the two of them were selling goods outside the store today, occasionally when their eyes met, Ma Jing always smiled at Feng Chunxi, and Feng Chunxi's smile in response was a little embarrassing. In the blink of an eye, it was already ten o'clock in the morning, and Ma Jing's finished bouquet outside the store had been sold out. And the sales performance of Chunxi Gardening Store is still in the single digits.
Ma Jing wiped the sweat on her head with a tissue, and tried to smooth out her already messy hair, and walked towards Feng Chunxi with a smile, her busy posture in the morning made her walk look a little staggering.
"Hi, Haruki."
"Hello, Ma Jing. Is there something wrong? ”
"There's something I want to trouble you, my carnation flowers are less, you can't see that all the flowers have been sold out in the morning, and if there are customers in the afternoon, I'm afraid I won't have to sell, and then I can't buy at this time." How much do your potted plants cost, can you sell me some? Ma Jing picked up a pot of white carnations in front of her and was very satisfied with the quality of the flowers.
"30 yuan a pot, if you like it, I can give you a few pots, no need to pay for it. But are you going to use them as flowers? Thinking of Ma Jing taking care of lemons for herself, Feng Chunxi was still very grateful in her heart.
"Yes, I need to make a bouquet out of them."
Feng Chunxi's face was embarrassed, he didn't care about giving flowers to Ma Jing, even if he was shy now, but if he cut these carnations, it would violate the rules of Chunxi Gardening Shop, and he still refused after a little hesitation: "I'm sorry, I can't promise you." When my dad was alive, he said that you should treat every plant in the store like life, so I can't allow you to cut them off. ”
"Chunxi, wouldn't you be too rigid like this? If you look at the sunflowers in Little Rona, they are also cut bouquets. Ma Jing tilted her head, her expression a little helpless.
"It was to visit the sick, and my dad's rule was that the flowers in the store should not be cut, and he fully respected that others liked cut flowers."
Ma Jing also wanted to persuade Feng Chunxi, but his stubbornness came up, so he had to return to his store in a huff. After a while, Ma Jing came out of the store again, with a few more rolls of printed transparent wrapping paper and a dozen small flower baskets in her hand. Feng Chunxi didn't understand what Ma Jing meant, so he got up and went over to take the things.
"Ma Jing, what are you?"
"This is the flower wrapping material I have prepared, give it to you. You wrap the pots in these transparent wrapping paper, tie a ribbon, tie a bow, and the potted plants are more like gifts. These are my flower baskets for flower arrangement, and they have a waterproof layer in them, and you can plant the whole carnation in the flower basket, so it will look much more advanced. As he spoke, Ma Jing cut off a piece of wrapping paper and showed it to Feng Chunxi.
In Ma Jing's hands, a pot of ordinary pink carnation potted plants was soon put on a transparent skirt, and it had a more commodity. And planting grass and flowers in the flower basket, Feng Chunxi occasionally makes such potted plants, but this time he did not prepare
The two of them worked together to quickly wrap the carnations in gift wrapping, which also directly attracted passers-by to stop and buy.
"How much am I paying you?" After selling more than a dozen pots of flowers in a row, Feng Chunxi remembered to ask Ma Jingqian about it.
"I'll give you these worthless flowers. As for these flower baskets, you can give them to me at the purchase price of 15 yuan each. Ma Jing did not shirk, generously accepted the flower basket money that Feng Chunxi gave her, and saw that Feng Chunxi had been able to skillfully pack the flower pots, so she returned to her store.
At noon, Lu Qianyue hurried to the gardening shop and picked out a basket of carnations. Seeing that there were still more than 100 pots of flowers in the store that had not been sold, he asked worriedly: "Chunxi, you still have so many, are they sold out in one afternoon?" ”
"After selling, more than half of it was sold in the morning, and that's all there is left." didn't want Lu Tianyue to see her predicament, Feng Chunxi lied.
"Okay, then I'll go first, I'll take a good picture of this pot of flowers when I go back, and then send a circle of friends to help you publicize it."
Sending Lu Qianyue away, Feng Chunxi went to the old horse head opposite to ask for a cold noodle, which is a new product of his family, cold noodles made with ramen, which are both filling and cool. Anyway, I still have to continue to work hard in the afternoon to sell all these flowers. Or try to sell as much as possible, at least sell the capital, and take good care of the rest of the flowers, which can be sold slowly. This is the advantage of green plants compared to flowers, even if they can't be sold, as long as they are taken care of, at least they are still there.
A bell rang, it was Xiao Ting from Roland Xianggu.
"Chunxi, I want your help with something!"
"What's the matter, you tell me."
"Can you put me in touch to buy a batch of carnation potted plants? On Mother's Day, the company wanted to give benefits to employees and send a bouquet of carnations to each person, but I forgot to do it and didn't make a reservation in advance. I just saw that the carnation potted plants in the Circle of Friends are very beautiful, can you help me buy some? For customers who visit in the afternoon, we would also like to give one as a small gift. Xiao Ting's words were earnest, and she seemed to be really anxious when she heard her voice.
Feng Chunxi was very happy, and was worried that these potted plants were not easy to sell, but the buyer took the initiative to come to the door, it seemed that he was really happy in spring, and immediately agreed: "How much do you want, I still have more than one hundred and sixty pots in the store, and I can sell them to you if you need them." ”
"In this case, you can send them all."
With three layers of shelves on the shelves of the three-wheeled electric vehicle, Feng Chunxi finally packed all the carnations, and then happily drove to the Roland Valley. When he returned, the car was empty, but Feng Chunxi's wallet became bulging.
When passing by Ma Jing's flower shop, Feng Chunxi subconsciously glanced in, Ma Jing was packing a bouquet for a guest, and what was inserted in a glass bottle was clearly two carnations. Feng Chunxi couldn't believe that Ma Jing could temporarily make up so many carnations on Mother's Day? Suddenly, an idea popped up in his head, could it be that there was no shortage of flowers in Ma Jing's shop, but he was worried that his potted plants would not sell, so he wanted to buy them and help him sell them. Feng Chunxi wanted to ask Ma Jing, but in the end he chose to leave quietly.
After Mother's Day, the clock is in June. The Chunxi Gardening Store will also usher in the first summer after its rebirth.