Chapter 112 Chapter 112 New Store
Zhao Ruyue was very surprised and happy about Fan Xiaorong's changes.
She asked Fan Xiaorong about the approximate time of arrival and also asked about the approximate size of the car that would be needed.
After hanging up the phone, she called the driver who used to deliver goods to her home.
It just so happened that the driver was also free, so Zhao Ruyue asked him not to pick her up and to go directly to the train station. She would take another car. Otherwise, it would take up more time for him to come to the county town to pick her up.
Zhao Ruyue sent the driver's license plate number, phone number, and approximate appearance and height to Fan Xiaorong via text message.
After thinking about it, he was worried that it would take too long to get there, so he called Ning Shaoming, who was still selling bread in the county town, and asked him to go to the train station to pick up people and goods if he could spare the time.
Ning Shaoming took a look at the remaining breads in the store, which were only about ten in number. He simply closed the store while the last customer left and no new customers came.
Use bags to pack the remaining ten or so loaves of bread into two bags, and then give one bag each to the driver and Fan Xiaorong.
They can't let anyone live here for the time being, otherwise they could take advantage of the fact that Ji Huixuan hasn't left yet and let Fan Xiaorong come and live in the house for a few days.
Now we can only find a hotel for Fan Xiaorong to stay in.
Seeing that it was still early, Ning Shaoming helped find a hotel and booked a room in the county town near the municipal department and police station, and then rushed to the train station.
Zhao Ruyue didn't meet Zheng Xiu in town, and she didn't want to ride in a car driven by a driver whose car was filled with so much cigarette smoke that even the incense couldn't cover it.
She had no choice but to take the bus to the county town. When she arrived, Fan Xiaorong had actually just arrived and was loading the goods onto the bus with the driver and Ning Shao.
MP3 and MP4 players are not very big in size. A thousand of them can probably fit into one or two cardboard boxes.
But even if the goods have minor defects, they are all first-hand goods and have normal packaging boxes.
Each device is equipped with earphones and a charger, as well as instruction manuals, warranty cards and other things. Those things are packed in the box and take up quite a lot of space.
But it wasn't heavy to lift, so Zhao Ruyue walked over, said hello to Fan Xiaorong, and started to help move it.
After the move, the driver asked: "Are these things going to your home in town, or to your store in the county?"
The stores in the county town are usually occupied only for a few hours during the week. No one is there at night, so it may not be safe enough.
Zhao Ruyue wanted to transport it to the town, but she still had to reminisce with Fan Xiaorong, so she definitely couldn't just leave like that.
I can only ask Ning Shaoming: "Have you sold all the bread today? How about you go back to town with the driver?"
Ning Shaoming said, "Okay, when you called me, the bread was almost sold out, but I left some for the driver and Xiao Fan. When I came here just now, I was busy moving the goods and didn't have time to tell him. I left it in the cab of the car."
He looked at the driver and said, "Brother, you pick one bag and give the other bag to our girl."
Then he said to Fan Xiaorong, "Xiao Fan, try my cooking, too."
It's quite gratifying to have such an unexpected surprise at work.
The driver got in the car happily. The bread was packed in transparent bags. He saw that each bag was similar, so he picked one at random and handed it to Fan Xiaorong.
Fan Xiaorong did not refuse this kindness. She took the bread handed over by the driver from the car and said with a smile, "Thank you, brother-in-law. I often hear from Sister Ruyue that the food you cook is very delicious. I have long wanted to try it."
Ning Shaoming was very happy that someone liked his cooking skills: "We also have a kitchen in our shop in town. I will bring my two children with me tomorrow and cook a delicious meal to welcome you."
Fan Xiaorong joked, "Then I'll save my stomach for a delicious meal tomorrow!"
Ning Shaoming had already handed the hotel room card to Zhao Ruyue. After watching him get into the car and leave with the driver, Zhao Ruyue waved for a tricycle and took Fan Xiaorong to the hotel.
Fan Xiaorong looked at the surrounding scenery with some emotion. It was not that she felt that the county had changed a lot. In fact, she didn't know whether the county had changed a lot or not.
Because she had never had the opportunity to come to the county town to play before, even the first time she went out to work, she went directly from the town, following the fellow villager who brought her out, to a service area where long-distance buses passed by, and then took the bus from the service area to Pengcheng.
I have no idea what the county town was like before. Now when I look at it, I can't help but compare it with Pengcheng and Yangcheng.
It feels like big cities are colorful and glamorous, but the pace of life is too fast and people are under a lot of pressure.
The small county town looked gray, as if it was still from the 1990s, but the people on the road, whether walking or riding a bicycle, were all walking at a leisurely pace.
There aren't too many cars on the road, so there aren't traffic jams all the time. I didn't see any taxis with the same paint style, but there are quite a few tricycles, motorcycles, and vans soliciting passengers.
In short, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
The two chatted all the way to the hotel. Fan Xiaorong ate two pieces of bread on the tricycle: "I didn't have much appetite on the train, and I couldn't finish the lunch box I bought after just two bites. But now that I'm sitting on the tricycle and enjoying the breeze, I feel much more energetic and have an appetite again."
Zhao Ruyue smiled and said, "If you like, I'll ask your brother-in-law to send you some every day."
"How can I do that?" Fan Xiaorong was not being polite, but she knew that if she agreed, Zhao Ruyue would really ask Ning Shaoming to deliver it every day, so she said, "When I'm about to go back to Yangcheng, I'll shamelessly ask you to help me prepare more. I'll take it back and let my aunt and the others have a taste."
"Okay, I'll ask him to make a few more. He likes to tinker with the oven now and doesn't even care about the restaurant business."
Fan Xiaorong asked: "Who will take over your store?"
She heard that they both have stores in the county and the town. If Ning Shaoming doesn't manage the restaurant now, his eldest nephew won't be able to take care of the two stores alone, right?
"I plan to hire a cook. If I can't find a suitable cook, I will hire an apprentice who knows me well and teach him slowly."
In fact, what you need to learn to run a restaurant is not difficult. As long as you study hard, you will learn it in less than a month. It is not the kind of good stuff that can ruin a kitchen killer by following the steps. Then you can practice for a while, and when you are familiar with it, you can directly go out and open your own store.
Ning Shichun had actually learned it a long time ago, but he didn't dare to take the lead at the beginning. Ning Shaoming was his uncle, so it was inevitable that he spoiled his nephew a little and didn't force him much.
After Ning Shichun's family debts were paid off, he was not under much pressure, so it took him so long to get the store in town back on track.
Now that marriage is dangling like a carrot in front of him, and there's also the pressure of the bride price, Ning Shichun is getting stiff.
After sitting on the train for such a long time, Fan Xiaorong felt smelly all over, so she went to wash up as soon as she entered the hotel.
While Zhao Ruyue was washing up, she went downstairs to a small restaurant near the hotel and bought some food, including porridge and rice.
It will be ready for eating when Fan Xiaorong comes out of the shower.
Zhao Ruyue accompanied her here and ate something.
The two of them ate and talked, although they didn't meet very often. When they were in Pengcheng, they only met twice at most.
After that, we only communicated mostly through letters and phone calls, but when we actually met and talked, there was no sense of strangeness at all, and there was never any awkward silence.
After finishing her meal, Zhao Ruyue thought that Fan Xiaorong would not be able to rest well on the train, so she let her rest first: "Come to our place for dinner tomorrow, and we can talk about it then."
Fan Xiaorong was also very sleepy, but she was still in a state of excitement about seeing her benefactor. After seeing Zhao Ruyue off, she felt that she could hardly open her eyes.
I forced myself to lock the door, crawled onto the bed, and fell asleep. I slept until the next morning.
Zhao Ruyue was not idle after returning.
As soon as she got home, Ning Shaoming told her: "The delivery driver heard me say that the goods were not expensive and wanted to buy an MP3 for his child, so I sold one to him at a 20% discount based on the retail price you told me before.
I also told him that this batch of goods had minor defects, which is why they were sold so cheaply. He said he didn't mind the defects. After checking and confirming that there were only a few scratches on the screen and that the functions were fine, he took it and deducted the payment directly from the shipping fee. He was supposed to pay more than ten yuan, but I didn't take it. ”
"This is good. We sold one on the first day. It's a good start!" Zhao Ruyue thought he did a good job.
They had never had any problems cooperating with the driver, so they were old acquaintances. It wouldn't be a loss for them to give him a little more discount, and they could still make a lot of money.
Zhao Ruyue took out the account book and made a note that one unit was sold today and the shipping fee was offset.
This batch of goods contains a total of 1,500 units, including 1,000 MP3s and 500 MP4s.
"I'll go to the warehouse to check the machines and pick out some with less obvious flaws. I can take some to the county town to sell tomorrow since I don't have to go to class yet."
Zhao Ruyue walked into a small warehouse specially set aside to store these goods.
Looking at the goods in the warehouse, it looks quite spectacular when all the goods are piled together.
Ning Shaoming also followed in. He originally wanted to help her do something he could, such as helping her put the machine back into the box after she checked that there was no problem.
But after entering, Zhao Ruyue looked at the goods without reacting for a long time.
"What's wrong? Didn't you say you wanted to check it out?" Ning Shaoming asked.
Zhao Ruyue said: "Actually, I just feel a little unsure."
Ning Shaoming didn't understand what she was worried about: "Why do you think so?"
"The main thing is that I don't know if the county can handle so much goods." When she said this, she actually didn't have much idea about the quantity and didn't think it was particularly much.
But when the things are actually in front of you, it seems like a lot.
"Don't worry, the purchase price of these goods is relatively low. Even if we can only sell half of them, we won't lose money."
"That's true. The county can definitely consume half of the amount." Zhao Ruyue felt much more at ease thinking of this.
Zhao Ruyue picked up a small box containing an MP3 player. In order to avoid damaging the sealing sticker on the front, she was about to open the box from the ground.
Then I heard my son say, "There are only over a thousand units, they will definitely be sold out in the county."
"Why are you here?"
Ning Shiqiu walked in holding a fan: "It's hot in the warehouse, so I brought the fan in for you. By the way, Xiaoxia and I are going to Teacher Ji's house later. She said she has some books for us."
"Teacher Ji is leaving?"
"She said she's still going through the process and she doesn't know how long it will take." Ning Shiqiu instructed his sister who was following behind with a small chair, "Put the chair there, it should be just right."
After putting the chair in place, he placed the bulky old-fashioned iron fan on it and tried to pick up the plug to plug it in.
Ning Shaoming quickly took the lead and said, "Children should not touch the plug."
"Oh." Ning Shiqiu thought that he had touched it a long time ago, but since his father said so, he would just pretend that he had never touched it.
He continued the previous topic: "I don't know about other towns in the county, but excluding the schools in our town, the total number of elementary school students, middle school students, and high school students in the county town alone is nearly 10,000, not to mention the technical secondary schools in the county. The students alone may be able to buy up all the goods, not to mention that the adults also don't dislike these."
"Where do you know this?"
This time it was Ning Shixia who answered: "Brother Saw said that. He transferred from the city to the county this semester. He learned about it when he was looking for a school. We heard it once and remembered it."
"Jiazi really transferred to the county town?" Zhao Ruyue felt it was a pity. The education level in the county town was definitely not as good as that in the city.
What's more, the child's family is rich and he attends a good school in the city.
Ning Shixia added: "Brother Saw's nanny is not good. She bullied him and secretly took the things sent by his parents and relatives and friends back to her own home and didn't give Brother Saw food. He told his parents about it before, but they didn't believe it. Later, Brother Saw saved up money to buy a camera that could record videos and secretly recorded them to show them. Then they believed it and drove the nanny away."
Ning Shaoming said, "No wonder I always see him coming to the store to buy bread recently. He also always asks me when the restaurant will open. He will eat all three meals at our house in the future. He moved to the county town to go to school, and his family is busy and can't take care of him. Shouldn't we hire a nanny to take care of him, or ask relatives to take care of him?"
When Ning Shaoming first met the child, he was deeply impressed by him. Ning Shaoming felt that his son was quite precocious and acted like a little adult all day long.
The child seemed to be about the same age as his son, but he looked more stable than his son.
Ning Shiqiu said: "Jiazi didn't want to. He didn't want to live with his relatives, and he didn't let his family hire a nanny. He only hired a cooking lady to cook dinner every day, and ate breakfast and lunch outside. He also hired a cleaning lady to clean the house once a week."
Ning Shixia asked Zhao Ruyue: "Mom, is Brother Saw considered a left-behind child?"
Zhao Ruyue thought for a moment and said, "That probably counts."
Ning Shixia: "It's so strange. I thought my family was poor and my parents had no choice but to leave home to earn money and become a left-behind child."
Zhao Ruyue didn't know what to say. The situations of many families nowadays are quite complicated.
However, these parents are rich but don't pay enough attention to their children. It's possible that there is a problem in the relationship between the two parties.
She doesn't delve into other people's family affairs, but since the child is a good friend of her child, she can take better care of him in the future.
"Xiao Qiu's birthday is coming soon. You can invite him to your home and treat him to a big meal prepared by your father."
Ning Shiqiu’s birthday is the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is not far from now.
The two children nodded.
Ning Shixia also said: "Brother Saw has been craving for the food my father cooked for a long time."
Ning Shaoming glanced at Zhao Ruyue and asked his daughter with a smile: "Are you also bragging to others about the delicious food your dad cooks?"
"Yes! No, this is not showing off, this is telling the truth to others." Ning Shixia said that he is an honest child and only tells the truth.
Zhao Ruyue thought about sorting out the things she had on hand in advance, so that when the school had three days off, she would have time to take the children out to play.
After talking to them for a while, it was time to start working, and the two children ran to Ji Huixuan to get their books.
Ning Shaoming stayed in the warehouse to help, but he didn't have much time to help.
He had decided to replace the things he sold at the night market with bread, and he had almost sold all the small glass cups he had on hand to make bowls of cake.
When clearing out the stock, we use the half-sale and half-give-away format.
He didn't lower the price either, and actually held a promotion where if you bought a bowl of cake, you would get an egg tart or a pineapple bun for free, and sometimes even a honey bun.
By the way, they also gave out bread vouchers to promote their own bakery which will officially open all day soon.
When the time comes, customers with vouchers can go to the store to buy bread and use the vouchers to deduct the corresponding amount.
Now the items on his night market stall have slowly been replaced by bread, mainly egg tarts, pineapple buns, pork floss buns and honey buns.
Ning Shaoming originally thought that egg tarts would be more popular, but he didn't expect that the best-selling items were the honey buns. Some customers even bought them to take back to visit relatives, saying that there were many buns in a serving and they looked large, so it would not be out of place to take them to visit relatives.
In the past, many people ordered cup cakes from Ning Shaoming to visit relatives, but compared with cup cakes, honey buns are more affordable. Now cup cakes are not as popular as honey buns.
Ning Shaoming's business is booming, and Zhao Ruyue is not to be outdone.
After treating Fan Xiaorong to a meal, he took her for a tour around the county town.
On the afternoon of the third day, Fan Xiaorong took the various breads prepared for her by Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming and boarded the train back to Yangcheng.
She was on a business trip this time, so she couldn't stay long. She had to hurry back to work and work hard for her own little house.
After seeing Fan Xiaorong off, Zhao Ruyue also sorted out a batch of goods.
I also simply decorated the store. In fact, I just asked someone to print some paintings with a slightly technological feel, and asked my children to help with simple framing.
It may not look as refined and neat as the ones you buy, but it is unique and doesn't look out of place when hung in the store.
She also printed out some posters with the prices of items in the store.
The paintings are hung on the walls of the store as decoration, with one poster pasted inside and one pasted on the outside wall facing different directions so that people can see them clearly when they pass by.
Get a small table and some chairs.
Cover the table with a nice tablecloth, put a vase of artificial flowers on it, and add a seat cushion and a back cushion in the same color on the chair, and it will look quite nice.
A few days before the store opened, Zhao Ruyue specially put a sign at the door.
It says the opening date, and a few large characters: MP3 starts from 68 yuan, MP4 starts from 200 yuan, quantities are limited, first come first served.
There is a slight suspicion of mistaking the concept, because the MP3 and MP4 used in the event were second-hand goods that she had repaired before.
A new one definitely won't sell for that price.
But the low price is very useful and particularly attractive.
In counties and cities, the price of MP3 players is no less than 200 yuan, and the price of MP4 players is no less than 500 yuan.
Anyone who wants to buy it will be unable to move when seeing the price, not to mention the posters outside, which say the price of the new phone is much lower than elsewhere.
An MP3 player with a minimum memory of 128MB only sells for 118 yuan. At Xinhua Bookstore, an MP3 player with the same memory has been reduced in price and is still selling for 288 yuan!
Anyone who needs MP3 and MP4, if they pass by this store and don't come in to take a look, when they lie down in bed to sleep at night, they might sit up and sigh and say they regret it in the middle of the night.
This store in particular is really not a scam. Some people pass by and think that since they are already here, they might as well go in and take a look without losing a single cent.
I went in and took a look, and there were actually MP3s for sale for 68 yuan.
Even if it is a second-hand machine, if the store dares to promise that the second-hand machine can be repaired to the buyer according to the requirements on the warranty card of the new machine, then this machine is worth buying.
They were not afraid that the store owners would run away. When they came in, there were three signs in a row: Qiuxia Digital Store, Qiuxia Restaurant, and Qiuxia Bakery.
Anyone with eyesight can see the three big signs.
It is obvious that these three stores are all run by the same family, so the probability of them running away is definitely small.
Especially the Qiuxia Bakery, which is now quite famous in the county. When many people mention it, they say: it is the bakery that is only open half a day.
When the local people in the county heard this, they immediately knew which store it was and where it was located.
Zhao Ruyue only set off a string of firecrackers on the first day of opening. She had thought that her own business opening would not be lively at all, and there might not be many people at the beginning, so it would be relatively quiet.
I didn’t expect that after setting off firecrackers, I just sat down in the store and my chair wasn’t even warm yet.
Sun Jiajia’s good friend Lin Lili arrived with a group of young people with colorful hair and unique hairstyles.
"Lili? Long time no see!" Zhao Ruyue stood up and greeted them, "There are not enough chairs in the store. I'll go next door and bring a few more for you."
She only prepared six chairs, three of which were placed around the small table, and the other three were placed around the counter, making it convenient for customers to take goods from the counter.
This store has a small room for rest, and the area outside is smaller than if there was no small room.
At this moment, eleven or twelve people came in at once, and the not-so-big store suddenly became crowded.
It would be better to let them sit aside.
The bakery business of Ning Shaoming, the restaurant next door, has gradually stabilized. After having some funds on hand, it has slowly started to purchase tables and chairs.
However, the restaurant is still under preparation and has not yet opened, so the chairs over there can be moved over and used first.
Lin Lili stopped Zhao Ruyue and said, "Aunt San, don't rush to move the chairs. We have other things to do. Let's go after we finish shopping."
After she went to the store in the town to look for Sun Jiajia several times, she started to follow Sun Jiajia's way of addressing Ning Shichun's relatives.
"You are Jiajia's good friend. For her sake, I can't let you leave without a glass of water. You guys sit here, I'll be over in a while."
Ning Shaoming and his two children also came today, but they all thought that business might not come here so soon, so the two children were there to help Ning Shaoming.
After Zhao Ruyue went over, she asked the two children to help her move the chairs. She took two in each hand, making four at a time. The two children each took one, and all the chairs were ready in one go.
After Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia put down their chairs, they ran out and came back with a kettle full of scented tea and some disposable cups. The two children handed cups to each of the people brought by Lin Lili and poured tea for them to drink.
The respect shown in this operation gave Lin Lili's self-esteem a great satisfaction. She felt very proud and it was worth it for her to bring so many people to show her support today.
All those she brought were people who really had purchasing needs. Lin Lili herself even bought both an MP3 and an MP4.
When they have chosen the style and memory they like, paid and are ready to leave.
Lin Lili deliberately fell behind and said to Zhao Ruyue, "Aunt San, I came here today not only to support your new store, but also to thank you."
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