"Damn it, today was even worse! We prepared 500 jin of fruits and vegetables as requested, but they only took 100 jin! It seems that Shengli Supermarket is determined to break the contract!"
"If they wanted to cancel the cooperation, they could have just said so directly. Why did they have to resort to these despicable tactics and ruin our perfectly good fruits and vegetables!"
"Exactly, have you contacted the vegetable vendors yet? Are you going to Old Hu again today? That guy's not fair either, he's offering prices that are three to five cents per pound lower than the market price."
Boom—rumble—
Just as everyone was talking, a small truck with the character "Xu" painted on its side stopped in front of them. The door opened and two people got out: one was a plump middle-aged man, and the other was a young man who looked quite young and was rather thin.
"Uncle Sun, what kinds of fruits and vegetables do you have here, and how many kilograms of each? Let me see if they meet my requirements. If they do, I'll buy them all!"
The boy walked enthusiastically to Uncle Sun's side, and before Uncle Sun could respond, he began to look through the fruits and vegetables in the basket, muttering to himself as he did so.
"These cucumbers are great, so juicy and fresh, I'll take them all! This white radish is so tender, it's so juicy, I'll take it! Hey, Uncle Sun, you've got some enoki mushrooms too, I'll take those too."
Although he was talking to himself, his voice was quite loud, and the surrounding greenhouse farmers heard it clearly, and they all gathered around without realizing it.
"Uncle Sun, besides this lettuce and tomatoes, you can take everything else. White radishes are 80 cents a pound, enoki mushrooms are 2 yuan a pound, and cucumbers are 1.5 yuan a pound. Is that acceptable? If so, let's weigh them and load them onto the truck!"
"Okay, okay, okay." Uncle Sun nodded repeatedly upon hearing the price, and hurriedly lifted a basket of cucumbers onto the platform scale: "This basket of cucumbers weighs 25.1 kilograms net, can I charge you 25 kilograms?"
"good!"
Taking out his notebook and pen, the boy meticulously recorded the price and type of each basket of vegetables. After the last basket of fruits and vegetables was weighed, he quickly calculated the bill.
"The cucumbers weigh 250 jin (125 kg) in total, costing 375 yuan; the enoki mushrooms weigh 400 kilograms, costing 800 yuan; and the white radishes... all these fruits and vegetables add up to a total of 3,175 yuan. Do you think this number is correct?"
"Yes, no problem."
The young man nodded, took a money counter from the car, opened his waist bag, and with a flick of his fingers, more than three thousand yuan was processed and handed to Uncle Sun. At the same time, a receipt appeared: "Uncle Sun, sign here, and we'll be settling the money and goods!"
Uncle Sun took the pen and wrote his name on the receipt. The fruits and vegetables that had just been weighed were loaded onto the truck by the middle-aged man, basket by basket. As the two were about to leave, the greenhouse growers who had been watching couldn't sit still. They quickly took out a pack of cigarettes from their pockets, took out two, and handed them to the two men.
"Which wholesaler are you two from? Is this amount of fruit and vegetables enough? We have plenty of cucumbers, white radishes, potatoes, and the like. Would you like to take a look?"
"Oh?" The boy withdrew his foot from the step, looking over in surprise as if he had just noticed their presence. "Ah, are these the harvested fruits and vegetables, or the ones from the greenhouse? If it's from the greenhouse, I'm in a hurry."
"That's all, that's all!" As if afraid the young man, who seemed to have the authority to make the decisions, would refuse, he quickly promoted, "Young man, look, we all cooperate with Shengli Supermarket, Shengli Supermarket."
He stopped mid-sentence, realizing he had said something wrong. He wanted to change the subject but didn't know what to say, and the atmosphere instantly became quiet.
"It's really quite good. How many cucumbers and potatoes do you have?" The young man's lips curled slightly as he picked up a cucumber, weighed it in his hand, and broke the awkward atmosphere with his words.
"I have 100 jin of cucumbers and 300 jin of potatoes here!"
"Young master, I also have a hundred pounds of white radishes here, do you want them?"
I have some shiitake mushrooms here.
Everyone rushed to hold up the fruits and vegetables and crowd around the young man, creating a chaotic scene.
"Hey! One by one, one by one! Our store needs a lot of fruits and vegetables, so please be patient. Please step back a little, or I'll just leave!"
As he spoke, the boy gently pushed with both hands, actually pushing the several burly men on both sides an arm's length away. He took a few steps back, grabbed the seat of the small truck with one hand, and made a move as if he was about to get in and leave at any time.
"No, no, little master, just tell us how many more you want, we have them all!" Seeing this, the crowd finally quieted down and stopped pushing and shoving.
"I need another 250 jin of cucumbers, 200 jin of white radishes, 500 jin of potatoes, and you have shiitake mushrooms, right? Yes, you have 500 jin of shiitake mushrooms. You also have edamame, so I'll give you 200 jin of edamame."
As the boy made his requests, the greenhouse growers left and returned one by one. In no time, the boy's front was piled high with all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
After that incident, the rest of the work went smoothly: weighing, registering, counting money, signing, and loading the goods onto the train. In no time, the empty carriage was full.
In the midst of their busy work, the boy's gaze met that of Uncle Sun, who quietly gave him an 'OK' sign.
This young man is Xu An.
Yesterday afternoon, after hearing from Aunt Hong that Shengli Supermarket wanted to break the contract again, Xu An's first reaction was to seize this opportunity to win over these greenhouse growers. He asked Aunt Hong to act as an intermediary to introduce the two sides without hesitation.
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