With a ride, Lin Guoqing arrived at the food station in an hour. Ye Juncai said that it would probably take them another hour or two to finish their return journey, and Lin Guoqing would just wait at the old place where he got off the bus.
Lin Guoqing nodded, and after they drove away, he turned and walked into the food station.
It is three o'clock in the afternoon, the quietest time in the food station. The staff inside are sitting, standing or leaning against the wall in a crooked manner, some chatting, some daydreaming.
Lin Guoqing walked in with a basket on his back, catching everyone's attention. He didn't look like a buyer; he looked like a farmer. A woman with a pointed face and monkey cheeks curled her lips in disdain, then turned her head away, pretending she hadn't seen him.
Lin Guoqing pretended not to see the discriminatory look, but he was a little nervous and moved towards the nearest staff member.
"Sister, I want to ask...um, is Zhuang Zhijie here?"
The elder sister had a Liu Hulan-style short haircut, crossed her arms, glanced at him, and then said lazily,
"What do you want to talk to our Section Chief Zhuang about?"
It turned out that the master chef's cousin was a section chief. Lin Guoqing didn't care about the elder sister's attitude. He was not going to sell it to her anyway. He put the basket on the ground and took out the letter of introduction from his trouser pocket. In fact, it was not a letter of introduction. It was just some good words from the master chef.
"Oh, I was introduced by Zhu Jianjun to deliver the mushrooms. Section Chief Zhuang asked him to help find the mushrooms."
When she heard that it was a gift of mushrooms, the elder sister stopped leaning against the wall and stood up to take the letter of introduction. Without opening it, she said,
"Wait a moment, I'll go find the section chief." Then he left the counter and hurried inside.
Although the other staff members did not talk to Lin Guoqing, they all started whispering to each other. Everyone knew that there was a shortage of mushrooms recently.
This person's basket and basket are covered with cloth. Could they be full of mushrooms?
There are so many, how many hills does he have to climb?
What can we do? It is not easy for country people to make money, so we can only work from dawn to dusk.
It's quite miserable. Even if you work so hard, you can't make much money.
That's definitely not as comfortable as our life...
Lin Guoqing stood there quietly, waiting. Despite his good hearing, the whispers continued to reach his ears. However, his facial expression remained unchanged, as if he hadn't heard anything.
What's there to look down on? You guys stand here every day, and don't you only make 20 or 30 yuan a month? They can still save that much after eating and drinking!
And there will definitely be more in the future, more than all of you! Humph!
The older sister who went up soon brought down a middle-aged man. The man did not have any official airs and politely extended his hand to shake hands with Lin Guoqing.
"Hello, fellow villager, I'm Zhuang Zhijie. Were you introduced by Zhu Jianjun?"
Lin Guoqing quickly wiped his hands on his clothes, then reached out to hold her hand.
"Oh, yes. Uncle Zhu said yesterday that you were short of mushrooms. Coincidentally, we have some at home, so he asked me to bring them to you..."
Zhuang Zhijie nodded happily, "We're in great need of it. We'll take whatever you have!"
Zhu Jianjun is his cousin. There are many mountains where they live, so he asked him to help see if there was anyone nearby who had picked extra mushrooms, and it would be best if they could gather them together and send them to them. He really didn't expect it to be done so quickly!
He had already noticed the baskets and crates Lin Guoqing had placed on the ground. He pointed at the three and asked, "What varieties are there? Can I see them?"
Lin Guoqing quickly lifted the cloth and showed him, "There are oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and chicken leg mushrooms. White lingzhi mushrooms. The seeds are all wild. I picked them from the mountains and then raised them myself."
There is a basket each of chicken leg mushrooms and white lingzhi mushrooms, and there are more enoki mushrooms and oyster mushrooms, all mixed in the basket.
Zhuang Zhijie looked at the full baskets and wicker baskets and raised his eyebrows, "You have quite a lot at home..."
Lin Guoqing chuckled and touched his nose with a guilty conscience. "I have a big family. During the lean season, we don't even have enough sweet potatoes to eat. I can only grow more of these..."
Zhuang Zhijie didn't say much. It wasn't easy for rural comrades to make a little money. If they didn't steal or rob, what was wrong with growing a few more mushrooms at home? If he didn't grow them, their food station wouldn't have received any today!
He reached out and picked up a few oyster mushrooms to take a look. Feeling that they were of good quality, he waved his hand and asked someone to bring over a large scale and a basket from the food station.
"Well, let's weigh them. This year, the purchase price for oyster mushrooms is 1.5 yuan per kilogram, and the price for enoki mushrooms is 1.3 yuan per kilogram. I see you've mixed the two together, so I won't share them with you. Let's just weigh them together and buy them at 1.5 yuan. What do you say?"
Fifty cents per kilogram, which averages out to seventy-five cents per pound, which is a far cry from the retail price in Guanqian Lane. Lin Guoqing was certainly happy about it.
"As for the Coprinus comatus and Pleurotus ostreatus, we'll charge 40 cents per kilogram, okay?"
Lin Guoqing nodded again, and Zhuang Zhijie was very satisfied.
After placing the basket on the scale, Lin Guoqing was afraid that pouring it out would damage the appearance of the mushrooms, so he picked up the mushrooms one by one and handled them gently.
Zhuang Zhijie followed him and took the mushrooms out of the basket and put them into the basket on the scale.
The staff members who had been watching the excitement on the side became busy now.
"Chief Zhuang, I'll do it, I'll do it. How can I let you do it?"
"Hey~ Let me do it, let me do it. You just touched the pork with your hands, I just washed my hands and they are clean!"
"Yes, yes, Chief Zhuang, just wait a moment."
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Lin Guoqing lowered his head to put mushrooms and curled his lips, what a wicked person!
The bottom layer of mushrooms in the basket was badly broken. Lin Guoqing looked at Zhuang Zhijie a little embarrassedly.
"Chief Zhuang, if you don't count this amount, I'll just pour it directly into the basket after I weigh it."
Zhuang Zhijie waved his hand, "Don't let us take advantage of this. Just put it all on the scale. Restaurants have to cut it up when they take it home, so it doesn't matter."
He helped by lifting the basket above the scale and shaking it upside down, and all the mushrooms were there.
"6.6 kilograms." The staff standing nearby looked at the scale and reported a number.
Then there are the white jade mushrooms and chicken leg mushrooms, the two baskets together weigh only 5.2 kilograms.
Lin Guoqing was quite surprised. He originally thought that the total weight would be only a dozen kilograms, no more than 20, but it turned out to be 23 and a half kilograms?
Zhuang Zhijie took a notebook and a pen from the side and calculated the amount, which came to three dollars and seven cents.
He went directly to the finance office and wrote out three yuan and ten cents, along with a purchase order, and gave them to Lin Guoqing.
"Comrade Guoqing, please check if this amount is correct. If not, I'll recalculate it."
"That's right." Lin Guoqing took the money and the purchase order with a smile and expressed his gratitude to Zhuang Zhijie.
This is much more than what you can earn from selling vegetables in one night!
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