Chapter 62 Waiting for the evening of the 7th, coming back early...
Thinking of the extremely terrifying crowds in People's Park during May Day and National Day, Chen Pan really wanted to do a super big one this time.
Starting from mid-September, Chen Pan started contacting people.
In addition to contacting Sister Xiufen to find someone, Chen Pan also contacted all the members of the Chen family.
The second grandmother who had experience last time, and the great grandmother and aunt who said they would come last time.
In addition to these three elders, Chen Pan focused on contacting all the younger cousins in their family, including her brothers Sanbao and Sibao, who were in high school and had a good relationship with her, as well as all the cousins in junior high and high school.
Chen Pan contacted everyone through his great-grandfather and second-grandfather. He contacted everyone in his family, from fourteen to eighteen years old, who was willing to come and earn money during the National Day holiday. He even called in Chen Laoshi, the fourth child of the clan leader's family.
Her great-grandfather had three sons, and there were eight older grandchildren, six of whom were willing to come. Including her great-grandmother and great-aunt, there were eight people from the main house who came.
My second grandfather's grandchildren were all quite young, and none of them were suitable for working outside. My two uncles and aunts were busy with the autumn harvest, so the last person to come was my second grandmother, who had visited last time.
Including Chen Laoshi who was contacted by chance, in the end there were also ten people who were able to make it through.
As for these ten people, Chen Pan contacted them again and again, and it can be said that all of them were contacted and confirmed by Chen Pan personally.
After confirming all the candidates who could come early, Chen Pan began to plan the quantity of goods to be picked up.
When Chen Pan and his friends were selling their wares, they'd always sell 600 masks, 250 golden cudgels, 300 large balloons, and 50 small frogs per stall, with the initial capital of around 80 yuan. Even though Second Grandma's stall would often have a few leftovers, the amount wasn't particularly large.
So this time, Chen Pan prepared this amount for each group.
Chen Pan plans to divide the twenty people she organized this time into two groups to do business.
The group split into four groups selling balloons, each with three people, for a total of twelve people. Chen Pan planned to split the remaining eight people, including herself, into four groups selling plum tea and orange juice. Four people would be responsible for selling the drinks, and four would be responsible for constantly transporting them.
Yes, in their time, this city also had its own unique Mixue Ice City. It was the three sour plum tea and orange juice shops inside and outside the Chengbei Food City. In Longcheng, these two drinks were now a must-buy when people went out. Chen Pan wanted to learn from others, be a natural porter, and try selling them.
Previously, Chen Pan's daily cost of goods for each stall was around 80 yuan. With four stalls operating for seven days, Chen Pan's final projected cost of goods was 2,240 yuan. Adding this to Chen Pan's daily labor costs of over 200 yuan, this meant she would have to pay 1,500 yuan to her staff. Adding to that the wholesale beverage price she'd reserved for under 300 yuan per day, Chen Pan's initial investment cost came to just over 5,000 yuan.
This cost is almost exactly the same as the total profit Chen Pan made last time.
This time, the event was so grand. If the number of people coming to People's Park didn't exceed 40,000 as she estimated, Chen Pan would suffer heavy losses. All the money she had worked so hard to earn in the previous month would be lost in just a few days.
But even so, Chen Pan decided to give it a try.
Because of her money-making plan, Chen Pan didn't even participate in the school singing competition.
Over the next two weekends, while Chen Pan was finalizing her candidates, she would go to the Chengxi Wholesale Market twice every Saturday and Sunday.
This time she took out a total of 15,000 masks, 7,000 masks, more than 8,000 large balloons, and small frogs, which were also put into four boxes. The small balloons were almost all gifts from others and could be ignored.
In order to move these things back by himself, Chen Pan went to the West City Wholesale Market alone several times.
Looking at her hundreds of pick-up orders, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen were both shocked.
But all the money Chen Pan used to pick up the goods was earned by him before.
In addition, she did make money last time, and this time she made a big deal out of it, even inviting her two sisters-in-law and several nephews and nieces to join in.
There was no way out. Even though Chen Aiguo and Xu Chunhua were extremely frightened, they could only let her do whatever she wanted.
Even on September 30th, after returning from the school sports meet, Chen Pan went next door and called to ask several cousins to take their bicycles off. Chen Aiguo and Xu Chunhua were listening outside, but in the end they did not stop him.
Anyway, as everyone expected, the October National Day holiday finally began.
That day, Chen Pan troubled his grandfather for the first time. The two of them stuffed the dozen or so sacks of things that Chen Pan had separated earlier into a three-wheeled truck that Chen Pan had ordered a long time ago.
This was also the first time that Chen Aiguo accompanied his granddaughter to the People's Park.
“I hope these things can be sold out!”
Chen Aiguo was worried as he watched himself and his granddaughter carry down more than a dozen large plastic bags.
"It's okay. I can handle the consequences. The worst-case scenario is that I'll lose all the money I earned in the previous month in just a few days. But on a vacation like this, I don't believe I'll lose it all."
After quickly responding to his grandfather, Chen Pan immediately divided all the bags on the ground into four parts according to the marks he had made in advance.
It took them more than ten minutes just to divide those things.
Although there are not many tourists in People's Park in the morning, there are still many people exercising back and forth.
Seeing his granddaughter carefully registering the items in her little notebook under the strange looks of others, Chen Aiguo didn't have time to think about it anymore. He could only instinctively help her watch over the items to prevent anyone from stealing them early in the morning.
After they waited for a while, at about half past eight, Second Grandma Chen Xiufang and others came over.
But just as Chen Pan had worried the most, someone stood them up at the most critical moment.
"Panpan, your great-grandmother didn't mean to not come. She suddenly had diarrhea before going out. She asked me to call you, but you had already gone out at that time, and I couldn't get through to you." said the aunt in her forties.
"Panpan, I'm sorry. The Xue family's wife I contacted couldn't come at the last minute, saying her child was sick with a fever." Chen Xiufen from the other team was also angry and worried. She really didn't expect someone to suddenly change their mind and say they couldn't come just before departure.
"It's okay. I've already distributed the goods to everyone, and I'll redistribute the personnel now. Second Grandma, take Sister Pingping and Sister Zhenzhen with you, and you will sell the goods on the left side in front of the park. If you have no objection to the distribution of personnel, just sign your name here. This will be used for me to match people and quantities later. The items are all here, you can check them out first--"
"..." Chen Pingping and Chen Zhenzhen, who were doing this for the first time, simultaneously counted the items they were given. Second Grandma, who was quite efficient in packing, hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to bend down to help her two nieces.
"Aunt Xiufen, you're experienced too. This time, bring along Aunt Si and Sister Chuntao, who've never sold anything before. Can you sell at the intersection to the right of the park's front gate?"
"Sure!" Chen Xiufen, who had made a mistake the first time she served Chen Pan, nodded immediately. Her fourth aunt and Chuntao, who she had brought with her, also nodded immediately.
"Do you need to order some goods?" Chen Pan pointed to the pile of goods she had distributed to them.
"No, no, we just need to sign!" Knowing that she would always list these things clearly every time, Chen Xiufen immediately shook her head, quickly took Chen Pan's notebook, and carefully wrote her name.
After signing her name, she passed the notebook to the two people behind her. Nowadays, people under forty, even if they can't read much, can still write their names. Chen Pan didn't know her well, but her fourth aunt, who was in her forties, and Chuntao, who was sixteen or seventeen, both took the pen and wrote their names carefully.
"Second brother, fourth brother, please come with me to the back door to sell balloons today—"
"Okay!" Seeing that Chen Pan hadn't assigned them anyone unfamiliar, the two teenagers, aged seventeen or eighteen, nodded quickly. Chen Erbao had just gotten engaged this year, and Sibao was the same age as Chen Pan and was also in his third year of junior high.
The loss of two people means that there will be one less group selling sour plum tea.
Originally, if the people were suitable, Chen Pan wanted to take everyone to the North City Food Street to buy drinks.
But now Chen Pan could only trust everyone completely. He gave Chen Laoshi, his third cousin, and his fifth cousin 90 yuan each, and asked them to go to three beverage stores in the north of the city to buy 30 cents of sour plum tea and 30 cents of orange juice.
"Grandpa, come with us. See if you can negotiate a price. Just say we need at least 300 cups from every store starting today, and see if they can give us a discount. Also, take the cartons and ice cubes if you can."
"Okay, I'll take them there now!" Grandpa Chen, the oldest man at the scene, immediately arranged for several of his nephews and grandchildren.
After hurriedly saying a few words to his grandfather, Chen Pan led everyone inside to reserve a place.
There is a stall on each side of the road at the front gate of the park.
At the back door of the park, there are two more stalls on the left and right sides of the road.
Aunt Xiufen and Second Grandma in front both had experience, so Chen Pan gave them a brief talk and then went to the back to discuss the price with Second Cousin and Fourth Cousin who were there for the first time, as well as another newlywed couple in the back.
Afraid that no one would remember, Chen Pan simply went to a store outside and bought a large cardboard box. He borrowed someone's brush and wrote all the prices on it.
Feeling that this was a good idea, Chen Pan opened the cardboard box and simply wrote four price lists at once.
Thinking about the price of sour plum tea later, Chen Pan started selling a second cardboard box to the shop owner.
"You don't have to pay for this. Just think of it as my fifty cents and I'll give you two!"
Since it was just something thrown away casually, the boss was embarrassed to ask Chen Pan for money, so he finally gave the second cardboard box to Chen Pan.
"Thank you!"
The unhappiness that the two people felt when they suddenly broke their appointment in the morning disappeared a lot because of the convenience store owner's behavior at this moment.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Pan simply bought two bags of old-fashioned bread and twenty bags of instant noodles from the store. In those days, instant noodles were still a rare commodity, and many people preferred to crush them and eat them dry.
After hurriedly bringing in the price list and everyone's breakfast, Chen Pan began to distribute them hurriedly.
In short, Chen Pan was completely busy that day.
He told the prices to the people behind him and kept running around to demonstrate how to sell to the newcomers.
Sometimes I don’t know how to use the air pump, and sometimes I can’t find my coin purse.
After Chen Laoshi and his friends finally brought the drinks back on their bicycles, Chen Pan ran over to give them the price list, gave them change and taught them how to talk to customers at the beginning.
"Sour plum tea, sour plum tea, the Want Want sour plum tea and Li Ji orange juice at the North City Food Street, only fifty cents a bottle, fifty cents—"
In addition to demonstrating how to talk to customers to several cousins who were doing business for the first time, Chen Pan also had to coordinate people to continue going to the food city to get the remaining drinks.
In the middle, they met the park security guard who came to collect money. Chen Pan negotiated with them and decisively paid another two dollars for each stall.
All in all, this day was quite chaotic.
Chen Pan had originally planned to join everyone in the back selling balloons and toys, but she ended up being so busy organizing everyone to transport and sell sour plum tea that she couldn't even focus on the back. In the afternoon, when the weather was at its hottest, she even ended up selling sour plum tea alone in the front.
They charge an extra 20 cents for a 30-cent sour plum tea. Everyone knows how much they earn. But even so, there are still some who keep bargaining.
Chen Pan's cousins all wanted to ride their bikes to Chengbei Food Street to sell sour plum tea, rather than being on their own and selling things. Having to listen to their complaints was a bit of a hassle for Chen Pan.
But no matter what, the first day's business ended quickly.
This time, because Chen Pan recorded the quantity of everything, it took her some time to count the remaining items and reconcile with several groups later.
But no matter what, the money and remaining quantity of all toy stalls today are correct.
The sales figures for sour plum tea and orange juice are actually a bit confusing.
But Chen Pan roughly calculated and confirmed that for the 900 drinks they ordered today, she did get more than 450 yuan back.
As for the other things, they bought so much, and whether the merchant had given them a discount in the end, or whether they had given them any extra gifts, Chen Pan pretended to be completely ignorant and did not ask any of her cousins or brothers. Even when her grandfather told her about this matter that night, Chen Pan nodded in understanding and told him that she had not asked about the money.
In short, after deducting all costs that day, Chen Pan earned more than three hundred yuan.
She earns more than 300 yuan herself, and pays out more than 200 yuan to everyone every day.
Even though this number was much less than Chen Pan had originally expected, Chen Pan still gritted his teeth and continued the next day.
Fortunately, on the second day, the number of people in People's Park had increased significantly compared to the first day. Furthermore, after a day of practice, everyone had become much more proficient. So, that day, Chen Pan and his team's water business was doing quite well.
A drink that costs 30 cents is sold for 50 cents.
Everyone knows how much they earn, but all the young people who can afford the drinks will hardly bargain with them in the end.
The number of people in People's Park from No. 2 to No. 4 is definitely more than 50,000 every day.
It happened several times that they took out the drinks and the food was snatched away in a flash.
During those two days, sparks flew from the bicycles of Chen Pan's cousins. When the crowds were particularly large, they even carried boxes into People's Park. In the following days, Chen Pan even called two former junior high school classmates to help.
Of course, later on, Chen Pan also secretly gave some money to several of his cousins.
Even if the balloon sellers worked non-stop all day and night, they could only sell the quantity Chen Pan gave them. This was something Chen Pan had rigorously tested before, so no matter how many people visited the park, Chen Pan would always give everyone the maximum quantity of goods they had before.
Later, Chen Pan actually discovered that someone had secretly raised the price of the balloons and frogs. The park was selling these two items at a higher price. So even when Chen Pan saw someone secretly overpricing them by 15 cents, she pretended not to notice and didn't mention it at all during the subsequent billing.
On the first day of National Day, Chen Pan earned three hundred yuan.
On the second day of National Day, Chen Pan earned four hundred and one.
On the third day of National Day, Chen Pan earned 500 yuan.
On the fourth day of National Day, Chen Pan earned 480 yuan.
On the fifth day of National Day, Chen Pan earned three hundred and seventy yuan.
On the sixth day of National Day, Chen Pan earned three hundred and one.
On the seventh day of National Day, Chen Pan earned two hundred and thirty yuan.
All the people who worked with Chen Pan, except Sister Xiufen who received 20 yuan a day, all the others received 11 yuan a day.
But Chen Pan still didn't care about the few cents discount the store gave when everyone went to the beverage store to buy goods, or the few cents or a dime increase when everyone sold goods.
Anyway, after seven days of vigorous work, Chen Pan finally earned 2,600 yuan. And almost everyone who followed Chen Pan earned around 80 yuan.
Eighty yuan is almost the amount an adult man in Longcheng can earn by working outside for two months or one and a half months.
As for Chen Pan's money, everyone just felt that it should be a lot, but they didn't know how much money she actually earned.
On the afternoon of the 7th, Chen Pan came back early and packed up the remaining masks, golden hoop sticks and other things in her room. After coming out and telling Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen that she wanted to buy a house, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen only then knew how much money Chen Pan had made recently.
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