The next day, before dawn, Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling took fourteen pots of orchids with a rickshaw and arrived at the road outside the exhibition hall.

As the brother Niu who works in the exhibition hall said, on this day of the flower exhibition, the people in the flower and bird market in the provincial city went out early, found a good place, and put out flowers, Shoushan stones, and even parrots and starlings.

They are also particular about the places they are looking for.

Although the sun has not yet come out, when the sun comes out and the sun is strong, it will not shine on their flowers and birds.

When Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling arrived, there were already stalls set up under the trees on both sides of the road to the exhibition hall, and there was almost no open space.

The three of them got together in twos, making each other smoke, talking and laughing.

When he arrived at Ji Yuanhai to find an open space, he put down a hemp bag and spread it out as a stall, and fourteen pots of orchids were laid out in turn.

These people who obviously know each other, or have familiar faces, can't help but look at them.

A young couple who set up a stall to buy orchids, looking at the face.

But then they withdrew their gazes, whispered a few words, and laughed quietly.

In the place where the sea of the era is picked, there are no trees in front of them, and there are no trees above the head.

As soon as the sun comes out, it will shine on the orchids.

However, orchids are flowers that cannot be directly exposed to the scorching sun...... This young man doesn't understand anything.

These people who play with flowers and birds are all veterans, and there is no shortage of experts among them, so when they look up, they feel funny - that clearing is a good place, but why don't so many people go, and you two can occupy a place? It's all young and inexperienced that they will suffer this kind of loss.

The Epoch Sea had already sensed the subtle changes in this.

He could see that the location these people had chosen was beneficial, and of course he could also see that the place he was in was a bit disadvantageous.

But...... He really didn't care.

A little sunlight is nothing to his orchid.

The east is turning white, and the sun is slowly rising.

The stall owners of each stall, who should say hello, naturally looked at each other coldly if they had a little grudge, and they all finished socializing, and they went back to their stalls.

A middle-aged man was on the right hand side of Ji Yuanhai's stall, fiddling with flowers and plants unhurriedly, feeding his own starling a meal of bird food, and teaching starlings to speak by the way.

"Thunder Monkey! Hide from Xianghou! Catch Gahou! ”

"It's enough!"

Ji Yuanhai vaguely heard Cantonese, glanced at it, and then couldn't help but smile.

After the middle-aged man saw it, he was not in a hurry, and looked at the flowers and plants and his starling.

It took a while before he came over.

"Little brother, what do you call it?"

"The surname is Ji, you can call me Xiao Ji." Ji Yuanhai had a polite smile on his face, "What do you call my brother?" ”

"The surname is Shan, it's okay to call Lao Shan, it's okay to call me Brother Shan." The middle-aged man also said with a polite smile.

"Well, hello Brother Shan." Ji Yuanhai said.

The middle-aged man surnamed Shan smiled: "Xiao Ji, I haven't seen Ling much before, and the accent doesn't look like a provincial city, where did you make a fortune?" ”

"Brother Shan, what about you?" Ji Yuanhai didn't answer, but asked.

When the middle-aged man surnamed Shan heard this, he immediately laughed: "Xiao Ji, you will show your face when you say this." But if you often go to the provincial city of Flowers and Birds, you have to meet me a few times, how can you not know where I am? ”

Then he said to Ji Yuanhai: "I'm on Bird and Flower Street, doing a small business. ”

"Xiao Ji, you're not from the provincial capital, are you?"

"Brother Shan, your eyes are bright, and your heart is also bright." Ji Yuanhai said with a smile.

The middle-aged man surnamed Shan smiled a little smugly: "It's okay, walking the rivers and lakes, relying on a pair of eyes, can see what others can't see, that's earning." ”

Ji Yuanhai smiled and said, "What else can Brother Shan see besides these?" ”

The middle-aged man surnamed Shan smiled: "Then I'll take a look?" ”

As he spoke, he began to look: "The dress, temperament, and conversation of the two of them just now are not rural people, not workers. ”

"If you don't read much, your family is poor, you don't have any self-confidence and confidence, and you don't have Xiao Ji's demeanor."

"Xiao Ji, you work in the unit, right? I still work in a non-local unit. ”

Ji Yuanhai smiled, and didn't say whether he guessed right or wrong.

"What else? Brother Shan. ”

Brother Shan smiled and said, "Are you - follow the unit to the flower exhibition, and then you have a lot of flowers, take them out and sell a little, and make some extra money to go home?" ”

After finishing speaking, he looked at Ji Yuanhai's expression, and saw that he didn't look like he was being said at all, still with a polite smile, and suddenly he was a little unconfident.

Did I guess wrong?

No, his appearance, dress and temperament are definitely not ordinary workers and peasants.

It would be wrong to say that he was selling flowers and plants from other places and moved to the provincial capital to do business.

He didn't have the smiling look of bending over to do business, and he even picked the wrong location of the flower and plant stall.

Ji Yuanhai didn't let him speculate any more, but talked about his move to teach starling Cantonese just now.

"Brother Shan, what you taught Starling just now, you are also quite careful."

"It's holding back, and it's going to make a lot of money."

"Oh? You know this, huh? Brother Shan looked at the sea again.

"I've heard a little." Ji Yuanhai said.

Brother Shan smiled, but didn't say much, and slowly walked back to his stall.

He held back his strength and trained a starling to make him speak Cantonese to beg for lip service.

How can people in the north have much money now?

The rich people are all big bosses from the south, and they all speak Cantonese, and Brother Shan used to learn a few words of Cantonese from others, and he used them at this time.

As long as the big boss in the south can see it and throw down the three melons and two dates, his efforts will not be in vain.

Ji Yuanhai saw that he didn't want to say more, and seemed unwilling to divulge the secret, so he didn't talk to him again.

There are many rules for playing flowers and birds, and sometimes if you say a word, you can complain that you don't understand the rules.

Not to mention, this middle-aged man surnamed Shan taught a bird, ready to use it as a good thing to attract the southern boss - if Ji Yuanhai went over to speak, and something suddenly went wrong with this bird, it might be on Ji Yuanhai.

The sun was getting brighter, and the stalls facing the Epoch Sea were already shining through.

A few stall owners were already smiling and looking at Ji Yuanhai's stall, ready to watch the excitement.

But when they looked closely, they were all dumbfounded.

The sky was not clear just now, and they didn't look at the varieties carefully, but now this look: good guys, there are a total of fourteen pots of flowers, except for Chunlan Songmei, it is Longchangsu!

All of them are slender, elegant and smart, like the beauties of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.

The main thing is that this kind of elegant and tranquil feeling is really rare.

In the south, it is not easy to cultivate orchids in this condition, and it needs to be carefully cared for and the size of the leaves is controlled; In the north, in addition to raising orchids to live, it is even more difficult to grow them like this.

The people who came to set up the stalls today are all knowledgeable, and the more they look at it, the more rare it feels.

Why are these fourteen pots of flowers and plants so different?

An old white-haired stall owner couldn't help it, and came over and said, "Young man, where did you get these orchids?" It's okay to watch. ”

Ji Yuanhai smiled: "Do you want it?" ”

"What price?"

As he spoke, he put his hand in his sleeve and handed over the sleeve.

Negotiate the price in the sleeve and don't let outsiders know.

This is also the habit of some of the older generations.

Negotiation depends on ability, no one can know whether to buy high or low, and don't regret it.

If you don't know enough about the market, you deserve to suffer, and you don't have the ability to blame others.

Ji Yuanhai put his hand into his sleeve, touched two old fingers, and immediately smiled, and was about to withdraw his hand.

Two hundred bucks? This is not the price that the Epoch Sea wants.

This is a provincial capital, and it is impossible to take away a famous orchid of this kind for 200 yuan.

The white-haired old stall owner hurriedly grabbed his hand: "Let's talk again!" ”

One more finger.

Three hundred, this price is barely okay, but Ji Yuanhai doesn't want to sell it at this price.

Seeing that Ji Yuanhai still didn't make a bid, he was about to withdraw his hand and leave, but the white-haired old stall owner hurriedly stopped him: "There is no such thing!" You make a bid! ”

"Make a bid! Let's make a bargain! ”

Ji Yuanhai nodded, and his palm made a chick pecking rice gesture in his sleeve, which means "seven".

The white-haired old stall owner immediately lowered the price: "This can't be done, it will never be done...... How can a pot of flowers be priced like this, it's too high! ”

The fingers made a "four".

Ji Yuanhai shook his head with a smile.

The white-haired old stall owner opened his mouth to lower the price again, and Ji Yuanhai smiled: "You don't need to say it...... Let's just say that I have seen this flower, have you seen it from other homes? Is there such a good one? ”

"How long did it take me to raise it like this, and how much thought did it take?"

"Have you thought about it?"

"You want to feel expensive, I still feel cheap, I can't earn back my capital for so long!"

After hearing this, the white-haired old stall owner was also very embarrassed.

In all fairness, these orchids really don't have enough effort to raise them like this - but 400 yuan is really high, and it can be called sky-high.

How can it be higher?

Seven hundred dollars, isn't this going to break the sky?

Lu Heling listened to Ji Yuanhai's words on the side, and then looked at the white-haired old stall owner who believed it to be true, and was not surprised in his heart.

There were some things that she had long noticed that Ji Yuanhai was extraordinary.

These orchids, only she knows, are simply the ones that Ji Yuanhai has cultivated from the branches and leaves, and it is very unreasonable to grow like this in seven days.

She pulled the bloodstone seal she had with her from her pocket, rubbed it in her hand, and looked down at her mother's bracelet.

Mom and Dad, do you see?

My husband is not an ordinary person.

"But you have fourteen pots of ...... here," said the white-haired old stall owner.

Ji Yuanhai nodded: "Fourteen pots, all of them are high-quality, if you are willing to buy them, I will choose them." ”

The white-haired old stall owner hesitated for a moment, but finally felt that the price was high and shook his head.

I went back to my stall.

Ji Yuanhai didn't care either, he sat with Lu Heling, and when he saw that she was holding a bloodstone seal in his hand, he didn't bother her.

As the white-haired old stall owner couldn't buy it, the other stall owners guessed that the price of Ji Yuanhai must be extraordinary, so they didn't come over to ask.

Coincidentally, no one reminded Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling of the problem of sun exposure.

To be able to grow such a famous orchid with excellent quality, it is not like you don't know how to flowers, maybe what is the trick?

Someone thinks so.

There are also people who are still waiting to see the excitement.

Time passed little by little, and the exhibition hall had already opened its doors and started to get busy.

All units and some units in other provinces have sent carefully cared for flowers to the exhibition hall in advance.

Buses are also running.

Wang Zhuyun walked down from the bus, carrying a lunch box and steamed buns, and ran over quickly.

"Didn't eat, did you? I've brought it to you! ”

Wang Zhuyun smiled and opened the lunch box, which was filled with soy milk.

Ji Yuanhai said thank you and asked her if she had eaten.

"I didn't eat either." Wang Zhuyun said.

Ji Yuanhai couldn't help but smile and motioned to Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun to eat first.

After they had eaten, Ji Yuanhai ate the remaining buns and two fritters.

Forget about the soy milk, let the two of them drink it, Ji Yuanhai didn't touch it.

After eating, Wang Zhuyun and Lu Heling sat together talking and laughing, plus Ji Yuanhai is also a young man with handsome eyebrows, which is really different from the style of other middle-aged and elderly people who set up stalls.

I always feel that the three of them are invisible, filled with things that other stalls don't have.

Seeing the Brother Niu in the exhibition hall passing by the road from a distance, Ji Yuanhai hurriedly got up and greeted: "Brother Niu!" ”

Brother Niu: "Oh, you three are really here?" ”

"Well, Brother Niu, we're here." Ji Yuanhai said.

"Good job, I'm very busy today, I don't have time to greet you." Brother Niu said.

Ji Yuanhai nodded hurriedly: "Okay, Brother Niu, you go get busy first!" Let's talk again when we have time! ”

Brother Niu nodded and walked quickly to the exhibition hall.

The middle-aged man surnamed Shan who was setting up a stall on the side saw this scene and smiled smugly.

I guessed right.

This young man is a person from a foreign unit, otherwise how could he know the people in the exhibition hall?

But it's a little strange - where did he get this beautiful orchid?

Looking at the brighter and brighter sun, I am even more puzzled.

Will this Xiao Ji plant flowers, orchids are so dry, can it really work?

The middle-aged man surnamed Shan couldn't help but quietly peek at Ji Yuanhai and the two pretty little girls.

The one who was a little weak just now, and what he was holding in his hand was- hey, bloodstone?

The bracelet on the wrist seems to be very powerful?

Who is this?

There is really no shortage of money in this family!

The girl who came later was fair-skinned and had a lively and elfish temperament, not to mention, it was not what an ordinary family could have.

These three young people, it's really weird, what the hell are they doing?

Bloodstone, bracelets, such a good orchid...... It really can only make people think about the powerful place.

The more the middle-aged man surnamed Shan thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure out this kind of way.

It wasn't until someone stopped to ask the price that he suddenly woke up and began to concentrate on looking at his stall.

"Well, this pot of gentleman's orchid ......"

"Yes, that's the price, if you want to feel expensive, you can go to other places and ask......"

The number of people going to the exhibition hall is gradually increasing.

Some black sedans and jeeps began to rush to the exhibition hall one after another.

There are also those who come by bus and those who walk.

Most of the people who came here today are usually interested in flowers and plants.

Especially those who came by bus or on foot, and happened to see more than 20 stalls on both sides of the road, so I asked by the way.

When I asked the price, most of them shook their heads and didn't buy it, feeling that it was too expensive.

After all, these stalls are specially brought with some valuable things, and of course they are not affordable by ordinary wage earners, students, and grandfathers.

Only a few stalls are cheaper, and some people look interesting and want to buy, but they are also ready to wait until they see the flower show and come back to buy it.

All of a sudden, there were only two successful sales of these stalls on both sides of the road, which added up to less than ten yuan.

In front of the booth of Ji Yuanhai, there were the most people passing by, and there were many people asking for the price, and the people walked the fastest.

The most people pass by because Ji Yuanhai, Lu Heling, and Wang Zhuyun are too eye-catching, and they are completely different from other uncles, uncles, and old men.

And there is no doubt that these orchids are beautiful and watery.

Looking at it, it has more spirituality than other flowers and plants.

But as soon as you ask the price, you will go directly.

Ji Yuanhai didn't even tell them the price of seven hundred yuan, but said: "The price is hundreds, if you really want it, you can negotiate it." ”

This already scares people away.

Only two people tried to stay and negotiate the deal.

One is a middle-aged intellectual with glasses, gritting his teeth and gritting his teeth, and saying a high price of one hundred and fifty yuan.

Seeing that Ji Yuanhai didn't agree, he left with great regret.

And the other one, an old man.

The bid reached three hundred, but when I saw that I still couldn't buy it, I had to shake my head and sigh and go to the flower exhibition hall to watch.

After about half an hour, the old man returned from the exhibition hall.

Standing in front of Ji Yuanhai's stall, staring at a pot of Song Mei.

"What price do you want, young man? Three hundred is really a lot, isn't it? ”

Ji Yuanhai said: "Old man, I won't hide it from you, someone just offered four hundred, and I didn't sell it." ”

The old man shook his head, took two steps, and looked back at Ji Yuanhai.

Seeing that Ji Yuanhai didn't keep him, he scratched his face and walked back slowly.

"You say a price, I'll see if I can accept it."

Ji Yuanhai pondered and said, "Old man, if you really want it, bring six hundred yuan over, and I will give it to you." ”

At the price of seven hundred yuan just now, Ji Yuanhai had already left room for a counteroffer.

It's just that the white-haired old stall owner can only go out to four hundred, and Ji Yuanhai didn't agree.

When the old man heard this price, he grinned: "My one-year pension!" ”

"Young man, your offer is really ruthless!"

Ji Yuanhai repeated once again how difficult it was to raise orchids in the north, and how difficult it was to cultivate these orchids.

And because of the cultivation of these orchids, how many unqualified orchids are discarded in the whole process, how difficult it is.

The old man nodded: "If you say so, it is also true." ”

"You leave me the pot I just saw, I'll have to discuss it when I go home!"

"If you don't come at eleven o'clock, you're going to take it out, okay?"

"Okay......" Ji Yuanhai said, "Old man, I said some things in front, if someone wants to pay a higher price, I will sell it." ”

"Our agreement is not a dead end."

When the old man heard this, he immediately hurriedly took steps: "Okay, you wait, I'll come back as soon as possible!" ”

"Slow down, don't worry, my business hasn't opened yet." Ji Yuanhai reminded him.

When he turned around, he saw that the middle-aged man surnamed Shan was looking at him and asked, "Brother Shan, is there something wrong with you?" ”

(End of chapter)