Chapter 44: Night Knocks
The young man in the cadre uniform heard Ji Yuanhai's assurance, and carefully looked at his appearance.
Seeing that his eyebrows are handsome, he is not as flattering as he is in ordinary business; Thinking of so many people lining up to buy his flowers and plants, the young man also looked up to him and wrote down his appearance and the name of the shop.
"Okay, since you promise so, then I believe you once."
"Anyway, your store can't run, so it's impossible to cheat with me."
Ji Yuanhai nodded: "Well, just rest assured, you won't make a mistake."
He asked the young man again: "Is it inconvenient to leave a name?" ”
The young man looked at him, "What do you want my name for?" ”
Ji Yuanhai took out a register and showed him: "All those who asked me to help feed or return the goods have left their names to facilitate any communication in the future." ”
"Leave a name, and when it's inconvenient for you to pick up flowers, you can also ask someone else to say your name to pick up flowers."
The young man suddenly said, "That being said, I don't need it. ”
"I sent this pot of flowers, and I have to take them with me; The elders in the family are strict and do not allow others to interfere. ”
Ji Yuanhai nodded slightly: "That's okay, I remember you anyway; Come back next week and take your flowers with you. ”
The young man nodded, and before leaving, he looked at Ji Yuanhai: "Be sure not to make a mistake!" You can't feed this potted flower, but you can't fool me! ”
After Ji Yuanhai answered, he left in a hurry.
Ji Yuanhai continued to sell flowers, and only in the evening did he entertain all the guests in line, and more than half of the flowers and plants in the store were sold, making more than 2,000 yuan.
After the Epoch Customs Gate, he did not go back immediately, but put all kinds of flowers and plants into flower pots to replenish the stock. Cut a section of flowers and plants, and grow quickly after cuttings to replenish the stock, that is, the Era Sea can work.
However, this also takes time, in order to let the flowers and plants grow overnight, Ji Yuanhai will continue to earn one or two thousand yuan tomorrow, and it will be impossible to go back to live in the small courtyard tonight.
Moreover, the flower soil is running out of soil, and the flower pots are running out of flowers......
According to the progress of today's sale, tomorrow will definitely be barely coping, and people will have to help buy flower soil and flower pots.
Ji Yuanhai thought, his hands and feet quickly cut all the cuttings of flowers and plants, and poured water again, and finally he was busy, and it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening.
Look at the time, the Epoch Customs went to the door of the store - if he didn't go back to live, he had to tell Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun that he couldn't just stay like this.
Walking into the dark alley, Ji Yuanhai faintly heard a sound of footsteps behind him.
If you listen carefully, there are indeed two people following you, and I don't know if it's a coincidence or a premeditation.
Sensing the surrounding plants and plants, although there are not many, it is better than the darkness at this time, and the era sea can just urge with all his strength, and can arrange it under his feet.
He stopped, turned around and took a flashlight, and the two young men covered their eyes and shouted, "What are you shining?" Lend your flashlight to shine! ”
Ji Yuanhai asked, "Where do you live?" ”
"We're staying here!" A young man said.
"Oh, stay here...... Which one do you live in? I'll send you home. Ji Yuanhai said.
As soon as he finished speaking, two young men also took out flashlights and shone them into his eyes.
While taking a look, he walked towards Ji Yuanhai, and said in his mouth: "Are you kid trying to find trouble!" ”
Obviously, Ji Yuanhai wanted to "send them home", and immediately made them speechless and exposed.
Seeing that their true forms were revealed, Ji Yuanhai also sneered: "Okay, if you are young and don't do your job, I have to arrest you and send you to the police." ”
When the two young men heard Ji Yuanhai's words, they were a little hesitant for a moment.
The deterrent effect of the "public security" on them is quite large.
It also reveals that they are not veterans.
Ji Yuanhai looked at it and was also strange: "What do you two mean?" Do you want to rob money? Or did someone else ask you to come to me for trouble? ”
After Ji Yuanhai finished speaking, one of the two young men stretched out his hand to him: "We want a box of cigarette money, give face, and make friends." ”
Just for the money of a box of cigarettes? Is what is said true or false?
Ji Yuanhai said in his heart: Whether what these two people said is true or false, they were actually intimidated by their own use of public security. If it were a woman and a girl who worked the night shift and were followed by them, what good could these two people do? If he had been subdued by the two of them just now, would the two of them only take cigarette money?
This is of course impossible.
"I don't have any money here." Ji Yuanhai said.
Because of these words, the two young men seemed to have obtained steps, muttered "No money, what bother", put away the flashlights and turned away.
This time, Ji Yuanhai said a word, so they didn't dare; The next time I don't know when, I'll do something impulsively.
This is a hidden danger to public security, the number of idle people in cities and villages has increased, and it is still increasing, but the work of iron rice bowls is limited......
Ji Yuanhai watched the two young men go away, and his heart was even more concerned about safety.
Go to the door of the courtyard and knock on the door.
After a while, Wang Zhuyun asked, "Who?" ”
"I, Ji Yuanhai." Ji Yuanhai replied.
"You're back!" Wang Zhuyun opened the courtyard door to let Ji Yuanhai in, and explained to him at the same time, "I don't know what's going on in this place, someone knocked on the door at eight o'clock in the evening and asked who was outside, but he didn't speak." ”
"I had the audacity to shine a flashlight outside, and the knocker left."
"The more I and I think about it, the more wrong it becomes, you came back late today, and the two of us are afraid and don't dare to sleep."
Lu Heling also nodded: "Zhuyun and I are both waiting for you to come back." ”
After hearing this, Ji Yuanhai couldn't help frowning.
"The current law and order situation is really getting worse, you must be careful."
"On my way here, two men followed me and said that they were asking me for cigarette money, and I don't know if what they said was true or not, but I was sure that if they had the opportunity to commit a crime, they would do it."
"When you come back, we will be relieved." Lu Heling said.
"I'll say hello when I'm back, and then I'll have to go back." Ji Yuanhai said, "Today, Fangcao Xuan queued up to buy flowers and plants, I opened it every other week, plus the quality of flowers and plants was good, it was a gimmick, and I earned more than two thousand in one day." ”
"Tomorrow, I estimate that I can earn another one or two thousand, I feel that this opportunity is a pity that I missed it."
Hearing that they had earned so much today, Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun were also quite happy.
However, as soon as she thought that Ji Yuanhai was leaving, Lu Heling inevitably frowned slightly.
Seeing her expression, Ji Yuanhai groaned slightly, and said with a smile: "You are here, I really don't feel at ease, you all come with me to Fangcao Xuan tonight." ”
"Tomorrow is the right time to do me a favor."
Fangcao Xuan is the layout of the room in the front and the back of the shop, and the mattress inside has long been replaced by a new one, and it has never been used, and now it is just for Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun to live.
Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun both looked a lot more relaxed suddenly.
The three of them closed the door of the house and the courtyard door, walked out of the alley, and returned to Bird and Flower Street.
After that, Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun cleaned up in the back room and began to rest.
The Epoch Sea is right in front of the shop and the flowers and plants sense each other, so that they can grow as well as possible.
Early the next morning, not long after Ji Yuanhai opened the store, there was another queue.
Naturally, the Era Sea began to get busy again.
In addition to being busy, Ji Yuanhai asked Wang Zhuyun to invite Yuan Zhonghua over, and he had something to tell Yuan Zhonghua.
When Yuan Zhonghua came here, he couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the long queue: "Xiao Ji, your business is really good!" ”
"Since yesterday, I have been listening to sour words at the entrance of Bird and Flower Street. The guy told me, you're making a lot of money. ”
"I also reprimanded him at the time, I said Xiao Ji, you open two days a week, and don't open at other times, how can you make money?"
"Come and see it today, good guy, you're really going to make a lot of money - so many people are lining up to give you money."
Ji Yuanhai said with a smile: "Brother Yuan, my money is not earned in vain, it also has a cost. ”
Yuan Zhonghua smiled: "That's the same." ”
He said, "You called me over today, do you have something to say?" ”
"Well, Brother Yuan, I want to ask you to help me take a look at the gate of my yard." Ji Yuanhai said, "At eight o'clock last night, someone knocked on the door of my small courtyard, I can't figure out what the way is, please Brother Yuan, go over and see what's going on." ”
After Ji Yuanhai finished speaking, Yuan Zhonghua nodded: "Okay, help you take a look." ”
didn't mention the money, just said hello and left.
Wang Zhuyun looked at it and was a little strange: "Ji Yuanhai, what did you ask him to watch in this broad daytime?" ”
Ji Yuanhai explained to Wang Zhuyun: "Just because it was daytime, I asked him to take a look. ”
"The person who knocked on the door yesterday, you feel strange, and I feel strange. It always feels like the kind of person who steals and stomps on the spot. ”
"But anything like this usually leaves a little inconspicuous mark."
"Brother Yuan knows more and more about these things, and it is more useful for him to take a look than for us to think about it ourselves."
Wang Zhuyun and Lu Heling suddenly realized.
After about half an hour, Yuan Zhonghua returned.
After Ji Yuanhai sold a pot of flowers, Yuan Zhonghua said to him: "Someone really noticed your yard. ”
"They made a mark, no one two days ago, someone yesterday."
"I erased their marks, and they didn't dare to make up their minds anymore."
Ji Yuanhai hurriedly smiled and thanked him, and asked Yuan Zhonghua to stay for lunch and drink some wine.
Yuan Zhonghua saw that Ji Yuanhai's business was booming, and he was about to leave directly.
"Brother Yuan, there is another thing to trouble you, where do the flower pots and flower soil in this vicinity come from?"
"I'm going to ask Lotus Ling to help me into a batch of flower pots and flower soil."
Yuan Zhonghua was surprised and said: "Just buy flower pots and flower soil, not flowers and plants? ”
"I can almost grow and pour it myself, and there are some flowers and plants in other places." Ji Yuanhai said, "I have to spend a lot of effort to cultivate other people's flowers and plants, so it's better for me to spend more time myself from the beginning." ”
"That's right, it's your own exclusive secret, and others can't learn it if they want to." Yuan Zhonghua said an address and said to Ji Yuanhai, "Just tell him, Lao Yuan asked you to come to Lao Li, and he will definitely give you a discount." ”
After Yuan Zhonghua left, Ji Yuanhai asked Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun to go to "Lao Li" to buy flower soil and flower pots according to his explanation.
Lu Heling and Wang Zhuyun went with 100 yuan.
The two found Lao Li and said what Yuan Zhonghua explained, and it was really a lot of discounts.
After paying the money, the two came back, and Lao Li delivered the goods to the door this afternoon.
The Anno Sea continues to sell flowers and plants.
At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Li really got a cart of flower pots and a cart of flowers and soil, and came in through the back door of Fangcao Xuan.
After unloading the flower pots and soil, Lao Li was sweating profusely.
Ji Yuanhai poured him two bowls of hot water, and he drank them all with a clatter.
"Lao Yuan doesn't often ask me to give discounts, this time he opened his mouth, this face must be given." Lao Li said.
He asked Ji Yuanhai again: "How is your business?" Would you like to introduce you to a few guests who like flowers and plants? ”
Ji Yuanhai said with a smile: "Business is okay, but I don't have many doors when I open the door, that is, I can barely make ends meet." ”
Lao Li laughed: "It's good to be able to make a living." In these years, isn't it just asking for a breadwinner? ”
Laughing, Lao Li took a look at the shop in front of him, and was dumbfounded when he saw the people waiting in line at the door of the shop to buy flowers and plants.
"What's your name, young man?"
"Ji Yuanhai, Brother Li, you can just call me Xiao Ji." Ji Yuanhai said.
"Xiao Ji, you call it barely making ends meet?" Lao Li said, "I can see it, Lao Yuan introduced me to a really capable person!" ”
"Xiao Ji, in the future, our flower pots and flower soil will be at this price, okay?"
"Of course that's great!" Ji Yuanhai smiled, "Thank you Brother Li for taking care of you!" Do you like flowers and plants? Pick a pot to raise at home? ”
Lao Li waved his hand: "No, no, no, I'm not that interested in flowers and plants." ”
"These flowers and plants in your shop are so good-looking, really beautiful, ...... water"
Until it was time to say goodbye and leave, Lao Li couldn't help but glance back at the people queuing up to buy flowers and plants in front of Fangcao Xuan - these people had taken Ecstasy, right?
Even if Xiao Ji has very good flowers and plants here, he still needs to line up like this, and come to buy them in a hurry? It's just flowers and plants, it's not that they don't exist anywhere else, and it's not that you can't buy them tomorrow!
Lao Li left Fangcaoxuan with wonder, and when he arrived at the intersection of Bird and Flower Street, he saw Yuan Zhonghua.
"Old Yuan!"
"Hey, Lao Li!"
The two laughed and said hello, and Lao Li couldn't help but say the question in his heart to Yuan Zhonghua.
"Old Yuan, tell me, is this matter strange?"
"Is it the one named Xiao Ji, who specially spent money to hire someone to make this strange appearance?"
Yuan Zhonghua smiled: "It's really not! ”
"The flowers planted by this Xiao Ji are good, they are beautiful, and there is really nothing else that can be bought, do you admit this?"
Lao Li thought for a while and nodded: "This, I really have to admit that his flowers and plants are indeed good." ”
"Those of us who don't like flowers and plants can see it in our eyes; Those who like flowers and plants look at the flowers planted by Xiao Ji, that is, it is better than the best, and they are reluctant to miss Xiao Ji's flowers. Yuan Zhonghua said, "Plus Xiao Ji is only open for one day or two days a week, you say, do they want to line up to buy?" ”
Lao Li suddenly understood: "Good guy! So that's what happened! ”
"This Xiao Ji is really capable, he only opens the door seven or eight days a month, and so many people are lining up to buy his flowers and plants?"
"This is unique in the provincial city of Bird and Flower Street!"
Yuan Zhonghua nodded: "Yes, it's like queuing up at the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives to do New Year's goods, it's so tight." ”
"Hey, that's amazing, that's amazing!"
Lao Li gave a thumbs up: "I have already told Xiao Ji that the price of flowers and pots in the future will be according to today." ”
Yuan Zhonghua laughed: "Today's price is my face; The price in the future is his own ability. ”
Lao Li nodded: "That's it, I am willing to make friends with capable people." ”
Yuan Zhonghua smiled: "So, I am also a capable person in your heart." Lao Li, come sit down and let's have some wine and talk? ”
Lao Li agreed with a smile, and the two stood across the cabinet of the consignment point, with peanuts and wine on the counter, and drank slowly.
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Busy until the evening, Parkview Green finally closed its doors and hung up a sign to open next Saturday.
Wang Zhuyun returned to the provincial university.
Ji Yuanhai and Lu Heling also took the bus and went back to the provincial university.
The two strolled along the tree-lined road of the provincial university, counting all their current assets.
There were 10,000 yuan in the passbook, and more than 1,000 yuan outside the passbook, but now after a few weeks of operation in the Ji Yuan Sea, there are more than 6,000 yuan in total.
More than 16,000 yuan, can buy a house, can do business.
In any city in the north today, it is a huge amount of money that makes the iron rice bowl workers feel jaw-dropping.
It's a pity that it still can't be compared with the explosive development of the south.
"Life is enough, but to call this money a career is far from enough." Ji Yuanhai said, "Let's run it first, if you can accumulate a little more, just a little more, it's good after all." ”
Lu Heling nodded, and said, "Yuan Hai, it's really a bit dangerous outside now. ”
"Those two who asked you for cigarette money, I don't know if they were deliberately looking for trouble; If our yard didn't have Brother Yuan's help, maybe one day we would be robbed. ”
Ji Yuanhai said: "Don't worry, as long as you and Wang Zhuyun follow me, it will be fine." ”
As he was talking, he saw Huo Lianshi coming from the other side, Ji Yuanhai raised his hand and greeted: "Brother Huo!" ”
Huo Lianshi stopped: "Heling, Yuan Hai, are you going outside the school for the weekend?" ”
Ji Yuanhai nodded: "Yes, Brother Huo, we went to the outside of the school to be busy. ”
"Sister Red is okay now, right?"
Huo Lianshi frowned slightly: "It's a little hard to say...... The person the widow was looking for at first was Pi San Monkey, and she wanted to calculate the red-clothed man; Hongyi is also experienced, and after being on guard, he didn't let him succeed in his calculations at all. ”
"Then, Hongyi and a few friends blocked Pi San Monkey and cleaned him up."
When Ji Yuanhai heard this, he directly shook his head slightly.
Not only did the matter not be resolved, but they also rushed to further feuds.
The affairs of the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes, what else can be said about the deep-rooted sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes like Xiao Hongyi?
(End of chapter)