A man in his forties turned around and saw a young girl calling him uncle. He was very happy and felt that he was still young.

"Go straight back, the last two floors, room 203 on the second floor is it."

"Thank you, uncle!"

"No thanks, no thanks." The guard waited until Zhou Xiang was out of sight before he remembered that the logistics director had told people not to disturb him, so he said he was not there.

He wanted to stop the girl, but then he thought maybe she was a relative of the logistics director. Wouldn't this little girl be a bother to him?

Forget it, just accept the criticism!

Zhou Xiang found Room 203 and knocked on the door. An impatient voice came from the door, "What's going on? Didn't I tell you not to disturb me?"

Zhou Xiang didn't respond and continued to knock. The door suddenly opened. "Who is it? Are you annoying?"

Zhou wanted to see a tall man coming out, so he just looked up and didn't look down, so he went into the house.

Seeing no one outside the door, the tall man became even more angry, "Who is so boring? Don't you think I'm annoying enough?"

"What's bothering you?"

The tall man was startled and sat down on the ground next to the sofa. Fortunately, he was wearing more clothes in winter, otherwise, Zhou Xiang estimated that his butt would be broken in half.

The tall man looked at Zhou, who was sitting calmly on the sofa, and asked, "Are you a human or a ghost? How did you get into my office?"

"You open the door and I come in. Look at my shadow. Do you think I am a human or a ghost?"

The man looked down and saw the sunlight outside the window shining on the little girl, and then casting a shadow on the ground beside the sofa. He breathed a sigh of relief. It was a person.

The man stood up and brushed the dust off his butt, "Why are you coming to my office? Go play somewhere else." He wondered who brought a child to work!

"What were you worried about?"

"Little kid, stay out of adult business!"

"You look down on children? Perhaps if you tell them, they can help or come up with a solution?"

"Okay, since you're so confident, I'll tell you, I'm worried about the New Year's benefits. Can you help?"

Zhou Xiang was excited when he heard this. He caught a big fat sheep!

"I can get a batch of fruits and vegetables, I wonder if that could be of help to you?"

"You? Where are you going to get fruits and vegetables in the middle of winter? The apples in the fall are all dried up, who's going to eat them?"

Seeing that the man didn't believe her, Zhou Xiang took out a peach, a pear, and a rapeseed from his schoolbag.

The man saw the three things placed in front of him, rubbed his eyes hard, and opened them again, but they were still there.

"Is this, is this really fresh fruit?"

"Why don't you try it and know?"

Hearing this, the man took the peach from Zhou Xiang's hand and started to eat it. "Yeah, it's real, fresh, and delicious. It tastes better than in spring and summer."

"Can these be used as New Year's benefits?"

"Yes, absolutely. Who doesn't want to eat fresh food in the middle of winter? I'll take as many as you have."

"Can you tell me how much per pound?"

The man looked at the girl in front of him seriously, not daring to think she was just there for fun. "How much do you think it is per pound?"

"In spring and summer, big peaches cost 40 cents a pound, and they're not as sweet as this."

The man didn't say anything, just looked at Zhou and waited for her to continue.

"Peaches are one yuan per pound, and apples and pears are fresh and sweet, too, at eighty cents per pound."

The man took a breath. The girl was really bold in bidding. Usually, seasonal fruits were only 30 or 40 cents per pound, but she actually raised the price by two or three times!

"It's too expensive, I..."

Zhou Xiang raised his hand to stop him, "Don't bargain. If you dare, I'll raise the price. If you lower it by a dime, I'll charge a dime more. There's nothing like it in the world. I'm one-of-a-kind. How dare you bargain? My price is just over double. Is that too high? Doesn't the taste justify the price?"

The man was stunned by what Zhou Xiang said. He lowered the price, and she raised it? But seeing her serious look, she was probably not joking.

Seeing him stunned, Zhou Xiang grew impatient. "Do you want it? If not, I'll find another place. I don't believe it anymore. There's nothing out there in the world that no one knows about. If you didn't have too much and wanted to sell it all at once, I'd go to the market and sell it in small quantities. Those aunties would fight over it."

The man finally came to his senses and said, "Yes, yes, my dear, sit down and let's talk it over. I'll talk about the price you said."

Zhou Xiang sat down on the sofa again. "I'll only give you 500 kilograms of peaches, 1,000 kilograms of apples and pears each. As for vegetables, it'll be even less. Ten bunches of leeks, a few kilograms of rapeseed, and 30 kilograms of cucumbers and tomatoes each!"

The man was stunned again. Cucumbers and tomatoes? But this time he quickly realized that he couldn't let the little ancestor run away in a hurry.

"Yes, I want them all. I want as much as you give me. It would be great if you could give me more peaches."

"That's all. Cucumbers and tomatoes are 50 cents a pound. Leeks weigh two pounds a bunch, one dollar a bunch. Rapeseed is one dollar a pound. I don't have the invoice."

"Okay, I'll take care of the invoice myself. When and where do I pick up the goods?"

"What time do you go to work in the morning?"

"I start work at 8am and someone showed up at 7:30am."

"Okay, I'll bring it to the gate on a cart at 7:30 tomorrow, and you can get someone to carry it."

"Okay, okay, I'll be waiting at the door at 7:30 tomorrow."

Zhou Xiang heard this and said, "If I had said eight o'clock, you would have waited at half past seven. I would have piled the things at the door at seven o'clock!"

Zhou Xiang nodded and left.

It took the man a long time to realize that he was not dreaming. He had negotiated a business deal worth several thousand yuan with a girl who looked only seven or eight years old.

I pinched my arm again, hmm, it wasn't a dream.

Zhou Xiang went to the Education Bureau and used the same method and the same price to negotiate 300 kilograms of peaches, 800 kilograms of apples, 800 kilograms of pears, 20 kilograms of cucumbers and tomatoes, 5 kilograms of rapeseed, and 5 bunches of leeks.

There are not as many people working in the office of the Education Bureau as there are in the Finance Bureau. They are basically all teachers in the school. However, the amount is not small. I will deliver the goods the day after tomorrow morning. I think that I will be back a day late. I wonder if my mother will be worried. It is really inconvenient without a mobile phone. I have to speed up and make a convenient and fast life come soon.

I have ten yuan in my hand now, and I need to buy some wicker baskets. I don’t know if the farmers’ market in this city sells them. It’s already past ten o’clock.

Zhou Xiang took another rickshaw and arrived at the farmers' market. Well, there were still quite a lot of people in the farmers' market in the city during this time, unlike small places.

Zhou Xiang was strolling around and saw a shop selling buns. He remembered that he had not eaten yet, so he bought a big meat bun and started eating it. The meat buns cost 20 cents each, and Zhou Xiang was full after eating one.

No wonder many ordinary people can't afford to eat out! Just one steamed bun costs half a day's wages. Eating out is even more expensive, costing a month's salary.