Volume 1 Chapter 289 Sales at 30 cents per pound

Here, Li Tian is looking for a place for the beast camp.

On the other hand, Li Qiudong was trying to figure out how to sell the oranges.

After all, a military warrant was issued in the village. If he fails to do it well, he will lose face. In the future, people in the village will say that he is a top student, a great scholar in ancient times, but he is not as good as Li Tian, ​​who graduated from high school.

However, we asked people to make countless phone calls and organize several dinners to entertain the orange buyers, but no one showed up and they all made excuses to decline.

"Mr. Li, this is not a easy matter. A buyer told me the truth, saying that oranges are everywhere at 50 cents a pound. In some remote places, they are even sold at 20 cents a pound. You have to be crazy to spend two dollars to buy them." Xiao Wang told Li Qiudong what he had learned.

"Damn it, what's the situation with the oranges this year? How can that idiot Li Tian find a market to sell them at two yuan per pound?" Li Qiudong thought this was weird.

Xiao Wang sat in the driver's seat and turned around to suggest, "How about we go directly to the buyer that Li Tian called?"

Li Qiudong thought it made sense and nodded: "Call them."

"yes."

Xiao Wang then began to contact the buyer that Li Tian had called earlier. After purchasing the oranges that day, he left his phone number so that he could directly hand over the goods to the people in Lijia Village later.

After the call was connected, the buyer asked politely: "Hello, who is this?"

Li Qiudong asked Xiao Wang to give him the phone. He picked it up and said with a warm smile, "Hello, Mr. Zhong. I am from Lijia Village. My name is Li Qiudong. May I ask when you will come to our Lijia Village to harvest oranges?"

"Aren't you planning to not sell it to us?" the buyer asked in confusion.

"It's not that we don't want to sell them, but we think they're too cheap. See if you can add another dime to the price of two dollars a orange."

Li Qiudong thought that they could sell it to Binhai for three yuan and make a profit of one yuan, but they still had to share the profit with Li Tian. Now they can make a profit of 90 cents, but they don't have to share it with Li Tian. They should be happy to agree.

"Two dollars and one?" The buyer was shocked.

"Yes, yes. If it's two dollars for one, I, Li Qiudong, can guarantee that no one in the village will have any objection. You are welcome to buy it with drums and gongs." Li Qiudong nodded.

As long as the price is higher than Li Tian's, even by one cent, he, Li Qiudong, will be considered a hero, and people in the village will no longer say that he is not as good as Li Tian.

The buyer sneered and said, "Mr. Li, do you think our money comes from the wind or that the oranges in your Lijia Village are made of gold?"

"???"

Li Qiudong was confused and prepared to have a long speech with the buyer: "Aren't you selling it to Binhai for three yuan? The profit is still quite huge. You are completely..."

“Idiot!”

As a result, before he could finish his long speech, the buyer cursed and hung up the phone.

Li Qiudong was using the loudspeaker, so his assistant and driver Xiao Wang could also hear the buyer's foul language clearly.

The call ended, but the atmosphere in the car became a little awkward.

Li Qiudong's old face flushed. He wanted to greet someone with a warm smile, but the other person gave him a cold shoulder and even farted at him. He was so depressed.

"Mr. Li, let's change the buyer." Xiao Wang quickly changed the subject.

"Change, change again. I don't believe that if Li Tian can find such a good sales channel, I, Li Qiudong, will not be able to do so." Li Qiudong secretly became more excited.

He agreed to help the villagers find sales channels because he couldn't bear to see Li Tian in the spotlight, and he had to prove that he was better than Li Tian.

However, the market situation of oranges this year was a slap in his face. He went to the market for two consecutive days, including to his base, the provincial capital, and used all his connections, but still could not find a better sales channel than Li Tian.

Of course, he still found a market, but the buyers set a fixed price of 30 cents per pound, and they would not go to Lijia Village to buy it if they paid a cent more.

This made him very unhappy, and he especially regretted making such a scene.

He received a lot of phone calls from people in Lijia Village, all asking about his sales. The oranges were ripe, and if he delayed them for another day, more oranges would fall, and those fallen oranges were worth money.

Back in the back seat of the car, Li Qiudong couldn't help but feel a headache. This was such a terrible thing.

"Mr. Li, why don't we just stop interfering in this matter?" Xiao Wang suggested. It was basically certain that there was nothing they could do about it.

"Damn it, that's not your village. It's so easy for you to say that. If I can't handle this matter, and they suffer a huge loss in the orange harvest this year, they will directly come to the provincial capital to fight me." Li Qiudong cursed.

Xiao Wang rolled his eyes and suggested, "Then Mr. Li, you can just be the boss and send people to collect the oranges from Lijia Village."

"I'm not collecting any shit. All the oranges in Lijia Village weigh more than one million kilograms. If I send people to collect them, plus the labor and transportation costs, it will cost at least two hundred thousand or more. For the sake of face, I'm spending more than two million to be a sucker. Am I crazy?" Li Qiudong's emotions were a little out of control.

People say he has made a lot of money and has become a boss. Yes, he has made money, but not a lot of money. From the time he graduated from college to now, all he has made has only been around five million.

He became a small shareholder of Jintai by flattering others, and he is also the legal representative and the first person responsible if anything goes wrong in the company.

To be honest, it was more or less difficult for him to take out more than two million in cash at once.

"What should we do then?" Xiao Wang frowned.

Li Qiudong took a deep breath and said, "No matter what, I have to give them an explanation when I go back. Besides, I have found a sales channel, haven't I?"

"Sales at three cents a pound?" Xiao Wang said.

Li Qiudong's face turned red and he muttered, "What's wrong with three cents? Three cents can at least guarantee that they won't lose money. This is the current market situation. If anyone is dissatisfied, go find someone else."

Xiao Wang didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only follow his meaning and said, "That's right."

Then, the two men returned to Lijia Village.

When the people of Lijia Village learned that Li Qiudong had found a market and returned, they all gathered at the village office, waiting for his triumphant return.

Dates, peanuts, walnuts, red melon seeds, black melon seeds, oranges, chestnuts...anything available at this time was brought up to treat Li Qiudong.

But when Li Qiudong said that the price was 30 cents per pound, the faces of the whole village immediately fell.

"30 cents a pound? Donggua, you...are you kidding me?"

The most emotional person was Uncle Zhong Li Zhongping. His family grew the most crops, but the price dropped from two yuan to thirty cents. How could they make any money? A whole year's work was wasted.

"Winter melon, 30 cents a pound. Not only does the whole village work for nothing for a year, but they also have to pay for fertilizers and pesticides. What are you doing?" Aunt Tao Xiu also became anxious and questioned loudly.

Although the others didn't say anything, they quietly took away the dates, peanuts, walnuts, red melon seeds, black melon seeds, sentences, chestnuts... even the teacups, and didn't even want to give Li Qiudong a sip of water.

Li Qiudong felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a dead fly, thinking: Do you have to be so damn realistic...