Chapter 52 After buying those 200 masks, we...
"Panpan, why are you coming from the other side?"
Seeing Chen Pan coming from the opposite side, Yang Xiaomei, who was wearing a red and white plaid shirt and black trousers, immediately came towards her with a smile.
"I woke up early in the morning and decided to make some money instead of wasting time, so I went to the small commodity wholesale market."
Chen Pan smiled and grabbed the other person's hand, and then the two of them walked hand in hand towards the People's Park, which was three stops away.
In the past, whenever Chen Pan and Yang Xiaomei went shopping, or even when Chen Pan went into the city with Grandma and Grandpa Chen, they would basically go to the People's Park in front first, then come to the food street in front of the North City Farmers' Market to have a meal, walk around for a while, buy some vegetables and fruits in the last vegetable market, and then go around to the station in front to go home.
Anyway, at this moment, there was no need for them to say much. They tacitly walked directly towards the People's Park where Chen Pan had just come out.
"The small commodity wholesale market in the west of the city? I didn't see you buying anything. If you wanted to go there, why didn't you wait for me? You can buy my pants and shoes there, too. They have more stuff there and the prices should be cheaper than here."
When Yang Xiaomei heard Chen Pan mention the wholesale market, her eyes widened and she spoke loudly.
"Stinky Xiaomei, why are you only half-obedient? Didn't you hear what I said before about making money? I just went over there to wholesale some balloon masks and golden hoop sticks and sold them at People's Park. Now I've sold everything except two masks. I originally had one balloon, but a kid's mother bought it cheap on the bus just now."
Chen Pan said excitedly, then let go of her good friend's hand and quickly opened her cross-body bag for him.
On the busy street, Yang Xiaomei subconsciously followed her instructions and took a look into the bag.
Then, when Yang Xiaomei, who had dark and healthy skin, saw the ten or two cents in her schoolbag, she immediately jumped up excitedly.
"Ahhh, why are there so many--woooo"
Chen Pan quickly tugged at her bag and quickly covered the other person's mouth. In the end, the excited Xiaomei could only whimper excitedly like a dumb kitten.
"I know you're excited, but please don't get so excited right now. What if you yell and scream and attract thieves?"
He wiped his right hand on the other person's body, then Chen Pan smiled and pretended to make a deal.
"Go to hell!" She slapped the other person's hand away, then Yang Xiaomei, who was carrying a barley wine bag, grabbed Chen Pan's right arm. "How could I possibly resist something like this? Did you really earn that bag of money, Panpan, from buying balloons and masks just now?"
"Of course, didn't you see there are two more masks inside? I'll give you Sun Wukong's mask and give me Zhu Bajie's mask. We'll wear them too when the time comes."
Subconsciously raising his arm, Chen Pan hooked the other person and slowly continued forward.
On the way forward, Chen Pan told the other party everything that happened this morning, and also told him how she made eight dollars in just one morning with the five dollars in her pocket.
"Eight yuan in one morning? My sister and I went to the mountains to pick patchouli for ten days, and after drying it, we made a total of twenty yuan. My mother wanted me to use this twenty yuan to buy all the shoes and white shirts my sister and I need for National Day next semester. She also said that if there is any money left, she wants me to buy my brother a pair of the cheapest white sneakers."
The two grew up together. During the holidays, they often made appointments to herd cattle together, dig wild vegetables and look for herbs.
Seeing that Chen Pan had earned eight yuan in one morning and was willing to tell her about it, Yang Xiaomei immediately stopped and said, "Pan Pan, why don't we go to People's Park now? I won't use my money to buy shoes and shirts right away. You take me with you, and we can go to the wholesale market to buy some more of the things you sold this morning. Let's take this opportunity to make some more money."
Chen Pan was waiting for her to say this and nodded immediately. "Okay, you have 20 yuan and I have 13 yuan. This is our first time doing business. Just in case, we'll each contribute 10 yuan so we don't spend all the money at once."
"Okay, that's what I thought!"
Although Yang Xiaomei spoke boldly, she was actually very worried and scared. Now that Chen Pan said that the two of them only had to take out ten yuan, her worries suddenly disappeared a lot.
In this way, Yang Xiaomei, with excitement in her heart, followed Chen Pan and boarded a bus to the West City Small Commodity Wholesale Market again.
In the car, Chen Pan asked why the other party's sister didn't come over.
Yang Xiaomei looked around before vaguely telling Chen Pan that when the two of them were about to go out together, her father scolded them and left her sister Yang Xiaofang at home to tutor her brother.
"Well, it's a good thing that you are slightly worse at studying than your sister, otherwise you might be the one left behind today." Chen Pan didn't know what to say to the other person's father, so she could only say this in the end.
"Yeah, by the way, how did you do on the final exam? Did you come in first or second like before?" Yang Xiaomei didn't care at all about Chen Pan's words. When the topic of their studies came up, she immediately asked Chen Pan about the final exam. She had never forgotten her promise to Chen Pan, and she always took studying very seriously.
"Not as good as before, and I think I only got first place once before!"
Feeling a little embarrassed, Chen Pan immediately told the other party his test results and subconsciously asked about the other party's test results.
"Like you, I also took the third place in the class this time. But even with this result, my mother praised me. However, my result is definitely still a little worse than yours. After all, the papers of your No. 6 Middle School seem to be notoriously difficult-"
"That's not necessarily true, but jumping from 90th place to third place in one go is pretty impressive. By the way, next time, write down all the vocabulary and ancient poems on your hand or a small piece of paper you can carry with you. You can take it out and memorize it while working or riding in the car. We still have a year left, so let's work hard together."
"Um!!"
The two chatted all the way to the small commodity wholesale market. When they arrived at the wholesale market, Yang Xiaomei followed Chen Pan in silence.
No matter how mature she behaves, she is still just a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.
When Chen Pan arrived at this place, he also paid special attention to the other party's feelings.
This small commodity wholesale market is a new wholesale market that was built not long ago in Longcheng.
The north part of the city is an old part of the city, and the residential buildings there are actually quite old. But here, everything is very new; even the wholesale market they entered is taller than the tallest buildings in the north part of the city.
When she arrived here, Yang Xiaomei, who had probably never been here before, seemed a little timid.
Then Chen Pan thought about the feeling of entering a big shopping mall for the first time, and took the other party to experience it seriously.
"This is the elevator. Just press this button. This button closes and this button opens!"
"This is an escalator. Did you see the sign above? The toy area is on the fourth floor. Let's just take this escalator to the fourth floor now."
"Don't be afraid. Take a ride a couple of times and you'll get used to it."
Holding each other, they explored carefully and became familiar with the place carefully.
At that moment, in Chen Pan's eyes, Yang Xiaomei wasn't really the Yang Xiaomei. Instead, she was the little Chen Pan who had followed her grandfather south at the age of fifteen, who hadn't known where the restrooms were on her first train ride, who hadn't known how to use the sensor faucet on her first trip to Shenzhen, and who hadn't even figured out which button to press in the elevator, so she subconsciously stood back and watched.
In his previous life, Chen Pan had learned all of this by himself, bit by bit.
At this moment, Chen Pan guided his good friend without hesitation.
When they arrived at the fourth floor of the wholesale market, Chen Pan took the other party to pick up the goods.
How to ask merchants for prices, how to ask wholesale prices, how to compare prices, and how to find a stall and bargain with the store owner.
Chen Pan showed all of these to Yang Xiaomei.
Seeing Chen Pan boldly asking about prices and negotiating prices with others, Yang Xiaomei showed admiration and enlightenment for the first time.
They were both dressed a bit childishly, but Chen Pan acted very sophisticated, looking like someone whose family had been doing business for a long time. The boss had also seen them asking prices from store to store, so after confirming that they were indeed buying wholesale, she actually gave them a slightly lower price.
That morning, Chen Pan went to another store to buy a golden cudgel for four cents, but the seller eventually gave them three cents each. Chen Pan also bought wholesale masks that morning, but everyone agreed that five cents was the lowest price, so they couldn't get any cheaper. As for the large balloons, they were still charged ten cents. But after some bargaining, Chen Pan finally got them a package of even cheaper small balloons, though they had to blow them up themselves.
Anyway, in the end they wholesaled sixty-seven three-cent golden cudgels, two hundred five-cent masks with different portraits, and eighty ten-cent balloons.
All these things cost a total of twenty yuan. They agreed on the price, and the wholesale store owner calculated it for them.
Seeing the receipt from the store, Chen Pan immediately took out ten yuan, and Yang Xiaomei also immediately took out her own ten yuan.
Then they came out with those things on their shoulders, looking very proud and confident.
Because the golden cudgel is made of plastic, the mask is also made of plastic, and the balloon is even more weightless.
So for the two people who work all year round, these things are no big deal except that the golden cudgel is relatively long and a little difficult to hold.
The owner of the wholesale store was also a very nice person. Knowing that they didn't have the tools to inflate balloons, she lent her tools to Chen Pan and them, and counted a lot of the balloons they had already inflated.
So at this moment, the two of them were walking out of the wholesale market, each holding a handful of balloons and carrying a large plastic bag of things.
Fortunately, it was eleven o'clock, which was not the peak transportation period.
The two chose a bus with fewer people on it, and the kind driver didn't say anything to them.
Then after staggering for about half an hour, they finally arrived back at People's Park at noon.
"Are you hungry?"
Looking at the sausage stall outside People's Park, Chen Pan asked subconsciously.
“I’m not hungry!”
Feeling that she had no right to eat without making money, Yang Xiaomei shook her head without hesitation, holding a balloon in one hand and a plastic bag of golden cudgel and mask in the other.
"Okay, then go in first. We'll eat after we sell the money."
Knowing what she was thinking, Chen Pan, who was only a little hungry, nodded immediately.
Then the two of them carried the things in their hands and went straight into the People's Park in front.
Longcheng People's Park is a place where all the people of Longcheng will come whenever they come to Longcheng.
As a native of Longcheng, this is my first choice when I want to go out for a walk in the city.
This place has an amusement park, an artificial lake, and many seasonal flowers planted in the park.
This place is always crowded during holidays.
But even though it is July now, the number of visitors here is still very impressive.
July in the Gregorian calendar is also June in the lunar calendar, a rare time when farming is not busy in Longcheng. Planting takes place in March and April, weeding and watering takes place in May, and simple crop spraying and pinching in June and July are sufficient. After these two months, it's time for the autumn harvest.
Add to that the June 6th Festival, and June in Longcheng is a rare time for farmers to find time for recreation. Add to that summer vacation, various flower fairs aimed at matchmaking, and Longcheng's relatively pleasant weather and stunning natural scenery in June and July. This season sees a surge in children traveling.
In rural areas, people may also go to the market.
But most city dwellers, or rural people who don’t want to go to the market, will give priority to coming to People’s Park.
And it seems that since outsiders who come to Longcheng are in the city, they all want to go to the best People's Park here.
So even though today is not a holiday or Sunday, there are still a lot of people in People's Park.
And now there are no people in People's Park who will drive you away if you set up a stall there.
Anyway, this time, after the two of them had been in there for only a few minutes, someone came over and asked about the balloons in their hands. Soon, neither of them shouted, and the business was officially opened.
After the two found a place and put down their things, people soon surrounded them.
"Big sister, the big balloons are 30 cents each, the small, uninflated ones are 10 cents each, the golden hoop stick and mask are both 10 cents each, you can choose the shape you want!"
Knowing that they still lacked a price sign or a small speaker to display the price, every time someone came to ask about the price, Chen Pan would answer loudly, trying to make sure that everyone watching nearby could hear him.
“That’s really not expensive!”
The price Chen Pan reported was actually the regular price for these things.
Seeing that they did not raise the price, many parents who were watching nearby immediately came over at the urging of their children.
"Little girl, I'll give you a golden cudgel and the money!"
"Bring me two masks, one for Sun Wukong and one for Zhu Bajie!"
"Dad, I want a Transformers mask!!"
"Mom, I want a balloon, I want Tom and Jerry!!"
"You can only buy one. Tell me which one you want."
"Then I want a cat!!"
In Longcheng, if someone were to pay twenty or thirty yuan, everyone would definitely feel it was too much, and five or ten yuan would hurt. But these days, people generally don't feel bad when buying small items worth ten or twenty yuan.
It's a rare trip, and anyone with children will buy a few small toys. If they have the means, they will even take their children to ride the Ferris wheel or carousel, which costs only one or two yuan.
At this moment, any children who were attracted by the balloons in Chen Pan and Yang Xiaomei's hands and the golden mask and golden cudgel in front of them would basically give in if everyone made a little noise.
Now one cent is the price of a vegetarian pancake.
Three cents is the price of the cheapest vegetarian noodles.
Since it's a rare opportunity to go out, everyone is willing to spend money. Even if the child asks for a big balloon worth thirty cents, everyone will generously pay for it.
Under such circumstances, the two of them quickly got busy without even shouting loudly.
Chen Pan was responsible for quoting prices and guiding customers to purchase. Yang Xiaomei squatted down and quickly got things for everyone, and occasionally gave everyone change.
At around four o'clock in the afternoon, they had sold out everything they had.
Even the two masks Chen Pan had left over from selling in the morning, she sold them cheaply to a family with many children.
Anyway, at around four o'clock, when the number of tourists in People's Park finally decreased a little, they had bought everything.
"Let's go over there and count the money!!"
Regardless of being hungry, Chen Pan immediately took Yang Xiaomei to the newly built high-end restroom in the nearby People's Park.
Then in the bathroom with a window, the two of them didn't mind the filthiness, so they locked the bathroom door and stood in front of the window together to count the money quickly.
One counted ten cents, the other twenty or fifty cents, and soon they had counted out all the money, a total of 51.4 yuan.
In fact, they can estimate how much money they can make today from the beginning.
"After we buy the two hundred masks, our twenty yuan investment will be out. The remaining sixty-seven golden cudgels and eighty balloons are our profit for today. The golden cudgels are six yuan and seventy yuan, and the eighty balloons are twenty-four yuan. So after deducting the twenty yuan we invested, we can make about thirty yuan. The extra one yuan or more should be from the small balloons given away by the store."
Taking out twenty yuan of capital from the fifty yuan, Chen Pan took ten yuan to himself and pushed the other ten yuan to his good friend.
After his good friend nodded in understanding, Chen Pan began to divide the remaining 31.4 yuan.
"How much do you—"
"Brothers should settle accounts clearly. Let's not say anything more. Let's just split it in half."
When Xiaomei opened her mouth to speak, Chen Pan immediately lowered his voice to stop her.
Then she pointed outside and quickly divided the money again.
In the end, each of them took another 15.7 yuan.
"Put your money in the innermost part of your handbag, not in your trouser pockets."
After putting all her money in her cross-body bag, Chen Pan immediately whispered a reminder when she saw the other person not wanting to use the handbag securely.
"Yeah, okay!"
Yang Xiaomei, with her cheeks flushed with excitement, immediately stuffed all the money she had into her round cloth bag purse.
Seeing this, Chen Pan stuffed all the remaining large black plastic bags they had today into the other person's handbag, filling it up in an instant.
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