Chapter 50 At this moment, looking at the yellow-clad...
The Qin family’s grocery store doesn’t look big from the front, but it’s actually very big inside.
If you include the small house next to it, this store looks as big as the supply and marketing cooperative in Qingshui Village.
However, the supply and marketing cooperative has shelves against the wall at the back, a whole row of glass shelves in the middle, and the front is almost empty.
The Qin family's small shop had been remodeled to resemble a city supermarket. Aside from the entrance and two rows of glass shelves at the back, the rest of the space was lined with supermarket shelves. There was even a stainless steel grid against the back wall, where clothes were hung. Customers could select their items and then pay at the cashier near the entrance.
While others were buying instant noodles, ice cream, biscuits and melon seeds, some were taking the opportunity to stock up on rice, cooking oil, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.
While waiting, Chen Pan focused on the clothing and shoe section of the Qin family, as well as the hoes, whetstones, nails, hammers, sickles, hoes, rakes, sprayers and other items in the back corner, which obviously had little market in this place.
Yes, Qin Yang’s shop still has some of these things.
Even though they had neatly arranged these things and placed them on the shelf in the far corner of his house, they still looked a bit out of place with the clothes and shoes a few meters away, and with the neatly arranged Coke, Sprite, peanuts, sunflower seeds, instant noodles, malted milk, eight-treasure porridge, cigarette and alcohol gift boxes on the front shelf.
As Chen Pan was slowly observing the old things and artifacts in the Qin family's grocery store, the phone on the counter at the front door finally rang.
“Panpan——”
Qin Yang, who was settling accounts with a client in front, called out immediately. Chen Pan sighed and then hurried over.
When she answered the phone, she heard her good friend Yang Xiaomei's voice. Chen Pan immediately smiled and told the other party that she would have time to go home starting tomorrow.
"Don't go home yet. It happens that I want to take my sister to the city tomorrow. How about we go shopping together in the city? You can accompany us to the city to buy clothes and pants tomorrow, and then we can take the bus home together after shopping, okay? When we go back, we can go to the market together the day after tomorrow. I know you want to come back. Besides wanting to see me, you must also want to go to the market."
Yang Xiaomei's always energetic voice came clearly through the receiver.
When Chen Pan heard her voice, he subconsciously narrowed his eyes: "Okay, then we will wait for you at the North Station bus stop at ten o'clock, okay?"
The bus from Chenjia Town arrives at their village at 6:20 PM, the earliest bus there. After that, a bus leaves their village at 7:00 PM for another town. Besides these two buses, their village also has a bus that arrives at the supply and marketing cooperative at 9:00 AM, and finally arrives at Longcheng North Station around 10:00 PM. There aren't many buses between 9:00 and 10:00 PM, and the drivers usually drive very fast, usually arriving at the North Station bus stop around 9:50 AM.
So, in the past, Chen Pan and Yang Xiaomei would take this bus to the city to play. Later, whenever Chen Pan made plans to meet her, they would also meet at the same bus stop at ten o'clock. And then, Chen Pan's best childhood friend in the world was completely gone. Even if Chen Pan returned to Longcheng, he would never again have someone he could simply meet up with to go shopping at Chengbei Market.
"Okay, okay. I just happened to make a lot of money picking herbs recently. I'll treat you to ice cream and sour plum soup when we meet tomorrow."
The other party was happy, and Chen Pan also shook his body happily: "Okay, okay, then you can treat me to ice cream and sour plum soup, and I will treat you to spicy hot pot and grilled sausages!"
After the two of them discussed everything, they quickly hung up the phone.
But after the call ended, Chen Pan did not leave immediately.
Looking at the things behind the Qin family shop, Chen Pan hesitated for a moment and walked towards that place again.
All business happens in waves, at least that's the case with small shops.
Seeing that only mother and daughter were left in the shop from this wave of customers, Qin Guihua, who had been standing with her son for a long time, could no longer bear it and immediately said, "Son, you stay here first. Mom will go sit upstairs. If there are too many people in the shop, you can call me."
"Well, Mom, you go upstairs and have a rest. You don't have to bother with dinner. I'll go to Sister Yang's house and get some noodles."
The customer in front was still hesitating about which shoes to buy for her child. Qin Yang replied to his mother, then subconsciously looked at Chen Pan not far away.
"I'm sorry, I have a lot of things on hand today, so I won't buy anything for now."
"Okay, then come over when you have time that day."
The mother who had been hesitating finally decided not to buy it for the time being.
After Qin Yang politely sent the other party and his two children away, the shop, which had been a little noisy just now, suddenly became completely quiet.
"Panpan, what can I do for you?"
The money for the initial call had already been placed on the counter. Subsequent calls were from the other party's friends, so Chen Pan didn't need to pay any more. Given this, Chen Pan hadn't left yet, so he must have something to discuss with him.
"Brother Qin Yang, can I talk to you about something?"
Chen Pan, who had been standing at the back for a long time and had been thinking about this matter for a long time, turned around and asked immediately when he saw Qin Yang asking the question.
"Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
Realizing the other party's seriousness, Qin Yang walked around the counter and subconsciously walked to the back.
"There are a lot of fairs and flower shows happening around June 6th these days, and I'd like to take advantage of that to make some extra cash. But I don't have any capital or anything to sell, so I'd like to borrow some of your stuff. Here are some of these, could you please list them all and lend them to me to sell? Once I've sold them all, I'll give you the capital back. But for anything that doesn't sell, I'll return it to you unopened. Is that okay with you?"
Chen Pan pointed to the special shelf in the corner of the Qin family's house and asked seriously, turning around and looking seriously at Qin Yang who was gradually approaching.
Chen Pan seemed to be asking, but in fact the answer was already obvious.
Everything was destined to happen since the Qin family's Happy Shop had made a lot of money recently by using the membership cards and promotional methods mentioned by Chen Pan.
As long as Qin Yang has a little bit of gratitude in his heart, as long as he wants to listen to Chen Pan's "casual talk" in the future, he must agree to Chen Pan's unreasonable request at this moment.
"Okay, but how are you going to take these things to the market? Are you going to ask your uncle to come over and take them again?"
Looking at the huge wall-mounted shelves he made himself, Qin Yang directly asked the key question.
If Chen Pan had wanted to bring other goods from his shop today, Qin Yang might have hesitated for a second or two. But for the things behind, he didn't hesitate at all. To be more precise, he was even a little impatient. Even so, Qin Yang was worried about how Chen Pan would transport these things.
"Hey, don't you have a blue tricycle in your garage? Can you rent it to me? I'll pay you the rent when I make money later. Is that okay?"
Chen Pan smiled brightly upon hearing that the other party was willing to sell the goods to her, and then she repeated her request. In fact, Chen Pan was just asking casually. After all, even if most people are willing to let others sell the goods in their store, they may not be willing to lend their cars to others.
Besides, the tricycle in the Qin family garage looked very new and much larger than the average tricycle. It was a three-wheeled truck unique to the 1980s and 1990s, not the small tricycle Chen Pan had driven in his previous life, so Chen Pan was just asking casually.
Chen Pan asked casually, but after she finished asking, Qin Yang nodded without hesitation as before: "Okay, does anyone in your family know how to drive this kind of car?"
"You really agree?" Chen Pan's eyes widened in surprise, but then she reacted and quickly said, "Can I try? I want to drive it myself!"
"You can't do it?" Qin Yang was really surprised this time.
"You drive the car out and let me try it out. If it works, it's fine. If not, I won't lend it to you."
The real reason Chen Pan wanted to try this was because she had ridden tricycles like crazy in her past life, from the manual tricycles she used to run her stall to the electric tricycles she later rode. Plus, before she got sick, she had successfully obtained a driver's license.
So to be honest, Chen Pan was not afraid of the slightly larger tricycle in the Qin family garage.
"That won't work, right? My tricycle is different from ordinary tricycles, and even more different from bicycles. If you only know how to ride a bicycle or a human-powered tricycle, you may not be able to drive this one."
Qin Yang felt that this was not going to work, but even so, at Chen Pan's insistence, he immediately found the garage key and drove the car for Chen Pan while no one was in the store.
This diesel tricycle was bought by his grandparents specifically for picking up goods and farming. According to them at the time, they couldn't afford a four-wheeled tricycle for the time being, and one-wheeled or two-wheeled tricycles were not very useful to their family, so they finally spent more than 5,000 yuan to buy a three-wheeled one.
But in fact, since buying this thing, his family has stopped farming, and he and his mother don't like driving this thing to pick up the goods. Instead of driving it and burning gas to pick up the goods, they feel that it would be better to just spend money to rent a small truck or van and have someone deliver the wholesale goods directly to them.
Anyway, ever since his grandparents passed away, his family has been driving the car less and less often.
There was still diesel in the tricycle. After Qin Yang drove it out, he started teaching Chen Pan right at the door of his house.
It was a little after four in the afternoon, and the few elderly men and women who had been sitting outside Chen Pan's shop basking in the sun that morning had long since left. Grandma Chen hadn't watched TV in days, and now that she had a rare moment of leisure, she stared intently at the TV in the shop.
Grandpa Chen went to buy ingredients for the next day and took the opportunity to do some shopping.
Since there was no one outside and even fewer cars, Chen Pan sat on the Qin family's blue diesel tricycle and drove slowly according to Qin Yang's instructions.
"Yes, don't be afraid—take it slow at first, if—"
Qin Yang, who was standing next to Chen Pan, wanted to tell Chen Pan to take his time and not to rush or act too aggressively. He had even made plans to take them over if Chen Pan couldn't learn to drive a tricycle.
But after a while, looking at Chen Pan who was driving slowly at first but became more and more skilled and steady as time went on, all the words Qin Yang wanted to say got stuck in his throat.
At this moment, looking at Chen Pan, who was wearing a yellow dress and driving a tricycle steadily beside him, Qin Yang felt that he had no idea how to react and felt that he was completely intimidated by her.
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