“When my family hosts a banquet, I take the food home and cook it myself for guests.”
Give me everything you have, I'll calculate it all together.
Chen Yifei calculated that he definitely couldn't get all these things for five yuan. He calculated the selling price, the buyback price, and the profit and cost.
Of course, we can't let the old men who farm the land suffer.
"I probably have about three or four donkey cartloads of this kind of vegetable left. Do you want them all?"
"You take my donkey cart over first, and then I'll bring the vegetables over and leave them here."
"You have to give me back my car in the end!"
"Can."
He gritted his teeth and said to the old man, "Fifteen yuan, I'll buy it. What do you think?"
The old man was overjoyed: "Fifteen yuan?! Fifteen yuan is great!"
"Okay, I'll give you a five-yuan deposit first."
"Around six o'clock tonight, right here, I'll return the tricycle to you, and then I'll give you the remaining ten yuan, how about that?"
It's alright that he received five yuan; he probably wouldn't even sell five yuan worth of goods in a whole day at his stall.
The old man looked at him and said, "I need to know your basic information. If you run away, who should I call the police?"
Chen Yifei wasn't afraid. He wrote down his name and home address and handed it to him.
“I’ll be setting up a stall here often in the future, I’m definitely not lying to you. You can tell from my accent that I’m a local.”
Then Chen Yifei handed his old bicycle to the old man. "Or you can sit here with my bicycle, and I'll come over before six o'clock."
This one is more reliable; the old man can finally rest easy. These days, people who own bicycles are generally quite wealthy.
He certainly wouldn't covet his donkey cart. He nodded and found a shady spot to sit down.
After handing the old man five yuan, he still had eight mao (0.8 yuan) that his older sister had given him that morning in his pocket.
This 80 cents is still useful!
Chen Yifei remained calm and unhurried, pulling the donkey cart with a pile of vegetables behind him. Instead of rushing to find a place to sell the vegetables, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative first.
Pointing to the Silver Elephant cigarette, he said, "I'll take it."
These Silver Elephant cigarettes are neither more than a dollar nor as cheap as two or three cents.
It was exactly seventy-eight cents, and Chen Yifei also happened to have eighty cents.
The prices of cigarettes like Daqianmen and Feima are around three cents each, and many people smoke these cigarettes regularly. So if he wanted to please people, he couldn't buy those; he had to buy the slightly more expensive ones.
The saying goes, "First is Yunnan, second is Guizhou, third is China; so-so is Ashima; on Hongta Mountain is Huangguoshu, and under Huangguoshu grows camellias."
After acquiring the Silver Elephant, he planned to collect them one by one, and take them out whenever needed.
Offering cigarettes is an essential part of doing business.
I quickly rode my bike to a residential compound, which seemed to be the compound for the employees of a cotton mill.
He started his business here in his previous life and became familiar with the old gatekeeper, which is why he had the idea to come here directly now.
Seeing the familiar gatekeeper, before his little donkey cart had even stopped, the old gatekeeper came over carrying a stick: "What are you doing?"
"Selling vegetables is not allowed here! This is the residential compound for textile factory workers. Don't go to the wrong place, or you'll get arrested for speculation!"
He looked fierce and menacing, and didn't give Chen Yifei a friendly look at all.
Chen Yifei got off the donkey cart.
Smiling broadly.
As the saying goes, you can't hit someone who's smiling at you!
Without any hesitation, he put a hand on the old man's shoulder; he was incredibly outgoing and assertive.
"Uncle, I know the rules here are strict, it's all thanks to your good management! I'm just too tired. You see, I can't sell them all, so I'll take a break."
"Young people face a lot of pressure; if you don't have money, you can't get a wife!"
He remembered that the old man's son was over thirty years old and still hadn't gotten married. The family was poor, and the son was lazy. This was the old man's biggest worry.
When I was bragging in my past life, I always heard the old man talk about it.
Hearing this, the gatekeeper agreed. He nodded: "Young people really do need to be bold and decisive! That's what they always say in the newspapers!"
After the old man said a few more words, he felt there was hope.
At this moment, she took out a cigarette and handed it to him: "Here, Uncle. Have one."
"Relax, relax."
I wasn't really keen on accepting, but I've never smoked Silver Elephant cigarettes before!
As a seasoned smoker, he cleared his throat, but ultimately couldn't resist the temptation and took it.
I lit it and took a puff.
Hmm, not bad.
I've come to like this kid now.
Chen Yifei didn't give him a second one; it was too expensive, and he had to give it to other people later.
The two chatted for a while. This young man had a sweet tongue, and every word he said touched the old man's heart.
Chen Yifei didn't bring it up himself.
The old man said, "Alright, you can go in by yourself now. I'll let you in, sell your wares and then come out."
"It's nothing serious. I'll help you with this."
Upon hearing this, Chen Yifei was deeply grateful and showered him with flattery.
"Uncle, meeting you is truly like meeting a benefactor."
"Whether I can get married depends on you. If I make money in the future, I'll buy you a cigarette!"
"You're really praising me to the skies!" The gatekeeper was overjoyed; he'd never been praised like that before!
"Go quickly, go quickly."
As he spoke, Chen Yifei quickly rode his bike inside.
He came in a short while ago and started calling out, "Vegetables for sale! Fresh vegetables!"
"Just picked from the field, so fresh and clean!"
Upon hearing that the fruit had just been picked from the field, many people peeked out and came over to take a look.
“My son has been preparing for the college entrance examination recently. Now that he can take the exam, I thought I'd buy some fresh vegetables to cook for him!”
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