Life is never smooth sailing, and Yuan Fangguo and his friends suffered losses in the mooncake business this time.
On Tuesday, Yuan Fangguo and Li Chunli went to the mooncake factory again to buy 2,000 mooncakes. The weather that day was a bit strange. The wind and rain were blowing at a very slanting angle, and many of the mooncake boxes were wet by the rain.
The mooncake factory's packaging boxes are made of paper. Once the mooncake boxes get wet, they will naturally look bad.
Of the 2,000 mooncakes, fewer than 300 were sold throughout the day on Tuesday.
In the evening, the two of them dragged their tired bodies back to the store, without even having time to eat. They covered the ground with paper shells and took out the mooncakes from the boxes one by one.
Due to the previous untimely handling, the mooncakes that were not originally wet were gradually "infected".
Seeing the mooncake boxes all over the floor soaked, Li Chunli felt distressed and tears welled up in her eyes.
Yuan Fangguo consoled her, "Sister Li, this is how business works. It's impossible to make money all the time. There are gains and losses. This is the way ordinary people conduct business. This is nothing compared to what happened before."
After hearing Yuan Fangguo's comfort, Li Chunli felt much better. However, she was still very sad. There were more than 1,700 mooncakes costing more than 800 yuan.
"Fang Guo, what should we do with these wet packaging boxes?" Li Chunli had no idea, so she could only ask Yuan Fangguo for help.
Yuan Fangguo had also been thinking about this issue before, and he was about to tell Li Chunli about it.
"Sister Li, I have to return the car later. Let's go to the mooncake factory and ask them to send us some new packaging boxes so we can pack them ourselves."
When Li Chunli heard this solution, her eyes lit up.
This is a good idea.
"Okay..." Li Chunli nodded.
The two of them quickly counted how many mooncake boxes were needed. After more than 20 minutes, Yuan Fangguo reported 700 and Li Chunli reported almost 600, which added up to more than 1,400. In other words, out of the 1,700 mooncakes, 1,400 of the mooncake boxes were wet by the rain.
"Let's order 1,600 packaging boxes," Yuan Fangguo said after thinking about it.
Li Chunli had no objection. It was raining all over the province at that time of year, and they needed to take precautions in advance.
Seeing that Li Chunli had no objection, Yuan Fangguo got on his tricycle and hurried away.
However, when he arrived at the mooncake factory at lightning speed, it was already closed, with only a security guard still there.
The security guard didn't have the home phone numbers of the factory leaders, so he naturally couldn't tell him. He could only tell Yuan Fangguo that the factory's working hours were from six in the morning to six in the afternoon, and if he wanted to come here to do business, he could only come at this time.
After being turned away, Yuan Fangguo had no choice but to return the tricycle to his fellow villager with a sullen look on his face. It was around eight o'clock in the evening when he returned to Li Chunli's shop.
Li Chunli cooked a pot of porridge and ordered two dishes from the restaurant next door.
As soon as she saw Yuan Fangguo coming back, she quickly brought out the porridge and hot dishes.
"How is it?" she asked impatiently.
Yuan Fangguo shook his head and said with some regret, "When I went there, the factory was closed. I will go there again tomorrow morning."
After listening to Yuan Fangguo's words, Li Chunli stopped talking about this topic and asked Yuan Fangguo to sit down and eat quickly.
They just dealt with it casually at noon. Now it had been more than eight hours since noon, and the two were already starving.
After sitting down, Yuan Fangguo picked up the bowl without any hesitation and drank all the porridge in the bowl viciously. He even regarded the porridge in the bowl as bad luck in his heart, and he vowed that he must get over this bad luck as soon as possible.
Seeing Yuan Fangguo drinking porridge in big gulps, Li Chunli was afraid that he would get scalded, so she quickly reminded him to eat more vegetables.
After Yuan Fangguo took a few bites of food and ate them in big mouthfuls, Li Chunli spoke.
"Fang Guo, you're right. This little hardship is nothing to us. We've just been sailing so smoothly before that we weren't mentally prepared for setbacks. If we lose money this time, just take it as a lesson."
Yuan Fangguo nodded. "Sister Li, when doing business, we need to be as magnanimous as you. We can't just afford to win but also not lose. If we lose, we should regard it as a lesson learned."
Li Chunli nodded. "Yes, this reminds us that sometimes we shouldn't be too aggressive. We Chinese are often like this. Once things are going smoothly, we like to boast about ourselves as extremely capable and pursue things that are far beyond our capabilities."
After hearing what Li Chunli said, Yuan Fangguo was a little surprised. Li Chunli was just a junior high school graduate, but he didn't expect that she could talk so much. Especially her sentence "Chinese people are often like this. Once things go smoothly, they like to show off themselves to be extremely powerful and pursue things that are far beyond their abilities." He deeply agreed with it.
Everything in the world has its own rules. Simply put, this rule is to gradually build up from the basics to the upper level, rather than rushing for quick results.
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The next day, after having breakfast at school, Yuan Fangguo took the bus to the mooncake factory.
After more than an hour, we finally arrived at the mooncake factory.
When I told the sales manager inside, he looked a little embarrassed.
"Brother, we have almost no extra goods. You have to call the carton factory to order this."
"Brother, could you please talk to the carton factory and ask if they can produce the packaging boxes as soon as possible?"
It was just a simple task, and the person in charge agreed to Yuan Fangguo's request.
After hanging up the phone, he told Yuan Fangguo that he could pick up the goods around four o'clock in the afternoon. After that, he quickly wrote the address of the packaging factory on a piece of paper for Yuan Fangguo.
Yuan Fangguo picked up the note and took a look at it, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
At least this problem has been basically solved for now.
After leaving the mooncake factory, Yuan Fangguo took a car directly to the clothing store where Li Chunli was.
This was his first time in Li Chunli's clothing store.
Li Chunli was very surprised when she saw him, and then she invited him to come in and sit down.
After pouring him a cup of hot water, Yuan Fangguo told Li Chunli the details of the situation.
"You have classes in the afternoon, so I'll go. They're not that heavy." Li Chunli said with a relaxed look.
"The price is five cents each," Yuan Fangguo reminded.
1,600 packaging boxes only cost 80 yuan.
"Okay, I understand." Li Chunli nodded.
Just when Yuan Fangguo was about to say goodbye and leave, a menacing guy unexpectedly rushed in.
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