However, Yu Shui didn't get Shen Yanming's point. He laughed and patted his mouth, saying, "I'm just a person who doesn't know how to keep my mouth shut. I didn't mean anything by it. I was just joking. Sorry, sorry."
Shen Yanming shook his head and said, "Have you decided how many kilograms you want to exchange?"
Yu Shui took a bag of cornmeal out of the cabinet and handed it to Shen Yanming. "It's about three jin, maybe a little more or less, we don't have a scale at home."
"It's okay, I have some here."
Shen Yanming opened the storage box, took out the electronic scale, turned it on, and put the cornmeal that Yu Shui had given him on it. It weighed a little over 2.8 jin. "Alright, I'll give you 3 jin."
Then they weighed out a pound of dried fruit for Yu Shui and also gave him a plastic bag free of charge.
Oh dear, it really hurts; they're using up their plastic bags one by one.
Next were Cui Xian, Wei Qin, Li Yinhe, and others. Shen Yanming gave them all some discounts, which made everyone quite happy.
After hearing that Shen Yanming was distributing dried fruit, Zhu Shiliang also came over carrying a bag of grain. "Little Shen, I wonder how heavy this is. Can you take a look?"
"Five jin and six liang, I'll give you six jin, the extra is a gift from your uncle to Ranran." Shen Yanming weighed out two jin of dried fruit and handed it to Zhu Shiliang.
"Alright then, I won't stand on ceremony." Zhu Shiliang happily accepted the plastic bag, greeted everyone, and went back to his office.
After Zhu Shiliang left, Wei Qin whispered to Shen Yanming, "Little Shen, can you even cover your costs by doing this?"
Shen Yanming smiled and nodded, "Sister Qin, I can give a discount to people in our unit. As for those outside who want dried fruit, I won't give them a penny off. In the end, I won't lose money."
"As long as I don't lose money, it's fine. Otherwise, I won't feel at ease even if I'm taking advantage of the situation."
Although they spoke softly, they didn't try to hide it from others. The few colleagues who had been given a warning by Zhu Shiliang yesterday and had a heavy workload overheard what Shen Yanming was saying because they had been keeping an eye on him.
Then the group exchanged glances and left the office to discuss whether they should move some things.
A dozen minutes later, they sent a representative to find Shen Yanming.
"Xiao Shen, we've discussed it and we think Director Zhu makes a lot of sense, but we don't have any sources of goods, so we wanted to ask you if we could get some goods from you to sell?" Ke Wenpei asked somewhat awkwardly.
"You mean these dried fruits?"
"Yes, we have no other channels, so we can only try to find a way through you. Don't worry about us stealing your business; we can act as third-level agents."
Shen Yanming chuckled, "That's not what I meant. I can share some with you to test the waters first. If you think it's suitable, I'll give you my friend's contact information. You can contact him for any future purchases. I won't get involved in these matters."
"You're giving up this line? It looks like it's making a lot of money. I told my wife about it when I got home yesterday, and she said several of her colleagues have been saying that dried fruit is hard to buy this year. If we do it well, we should be able to stock up on a lot of food!"
Ke Wenpei found it hard to believe that Shen Yanming would give up such a great opportunity to do business.
Shen Yanming shook his head. "I'm not doing this to hoard food. It's just the two of us, Qiao An and I. How much can we eat? It's to pay off debts for others."
Once this batch of dried fruit is sold, I won't get involved in this business anymore. Joanne's belly is getting bigger every day, and I don't have the energy to deal with these things anymore.
If you want to do a side hustle, go for it! As long as your company doesn't object, I personally support you.
"Xiao Shen, thank you. If it succeeds, the financial burden on all of us will be greatly reduced."
You have no idea how desperate we were yesterday when the boss announced a 50% pay cut. Our expenses are already high, and now...
Fortunately, our leader and you pointed us in this direction. Regardless of the final outcome, we are all grateful for your kindness.
Shen Yanming smiled and patted the other person on the shoulder, saying, "Keep it up, I believe in you!"
Shen Yanming didn't mind at all that the other party had taken his business away; in fact, he was almost happy about it.
Why? Because he's afraid that one day others will be envious of him.
It would be better to announce early on that after this job, I will not get involved again. Anyone who wants to earn this money or this job can do it themselves. I will provide you with the methods and channels. I will not get involved, and I will be free from any future troubles.
To put it bluntly, it means withdrawing in time and protecting oneself.
Shen Yanming actually wanted to remind them to leave once they made a little money, but they hadn't even started yet, and his discouraging words were bound to make them unhappy.
If you can't earn money and food in the future, people will think you're cursing them.
If you manage to earn money and food in the future, people might think you were just being pretentious, saying nice things but actually secretly resenting others' success.
Moreover, if the other party really has a large income, do you believe they will think you are a bastard who cuts off their livelihood if you say these things?
So, we shouldn't get involved. Whatever happens to them in the future is their business and has nothing to do with them.
Besides, those bad things might not necessarily happen in the future. All of this is just the needless worry of those two cowards.
Time flew by and it was almost time to leave work. Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan both felt that it seemed to get dark earlier than usual today.
The two drove slowly all the way back to Qingyu Residential Area. After parking the car, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan went to the security room to find Chen Shunwei.
"Mr. Shen, you're finally back!" Chen Shunwei couldn't stop smiling as soon as he saw Shen Yanming.
"What's wrong? Why are you so happy?"
"Of course it's great news! The two sacks of dried fruit you gave us today have all been sold out!" Chen Shunwei said excitedly.
"Sold out? So fast?" Shen Yanming was somewhat surprised.
"Yes, that fast!"
This morning, I borrowed a scale from the auntie who used to sell vegetables. After delivering dried fruit to the residents in the community, my brothers and I took the remaining dried fruit to the street to sell.
You wouldn't believe it, we didn't even have to put in any effort. We just put the sacks down at the entrance of the community, and people came up to ask about the price.
We said we'd exchange five pounds of grain for one pound of dried fruit, but most people thought it was too expensive and just waved it off and ran away. But some people didn't say that; they just went home, got their grain, and traded it with us.
The brothers earned quite a bit of food that afternoon!
Chen Shunwei pointed to the cloth bags by the door, "Hey, these are yours, and this bag is what the brothers earned this afternoon. Each of us can get at least ten kilograms."
Shen Yanming nodded. "It seems you've done a good job. In that case, I'll go back and check how much stock we have left. Take the rest, except for the ones I'm giving away. Sell as much as you can. If you can't sell them, just bring them back to me."
"We can sell them, we can sell them. We only went to one or two neighborhoods today. What we're worried about now is where to get more stock after we sell all your goods."
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