At seven o'clock, the workers went home after work. Looking at the messy house, Qiao Qingqing cleaned up a little and went out to eat. She ate fried chive dumplings at the dumpling shop outside the community after ten years, and ordered her favorite steamed buns, which she ate with wonton soup. This shop has been open for nearly thirty years, from the time she was born to now. The ingredients are fresh and the business is very good. She ordered a thousand assorted fried dumplings, a thousand steamed buns, a thousand wontons in clear soup, five hundred beef brisket noodles, and five hundred fried wontons from the boss.
"Ah?" The boss holding the paper note was stunned. "Qingqing, you said it wrong, right? Ten copies and five copies?"
"Uncle, it's one thousand copies, five hundred copies. Let me read it again. The total price is twenty-four thousand five, right? I'll give you a deposit of ten thousand first." After retracting his gaze from the price list, Qiao Qingqing scanned the code and transferred the money.
"Oh my! That won't do!" The boss was startled. He heard the collection announcement in his ears. He glared at Qiao Qingqing in reproach. "If you really want to buy it, of course I'm happy to sell it to you, but I can't sell it at the retail price. Isn't that a rip-off? I'll give you an 20% discount, and you just need to pay me the balance of 10,000." He rounded off the decimal point.
"Okay." Qiao Qingqing didn't bother to be polite with him.
"When do you need it? Are you going to have it for a company dinner?"
"Yes, the company is going to have a dinner party. There is no rush. The dinner parties will be held separately. Just give it to me in three batches within half a month."
The boss breathed a sigh of relief: "That's much easier. Come on Wednesday and I'll make 30% of the work for you first!"
"Okay, I'll drive over here this Sunday morning to pick it up."
After the last customer in the store finished eating and left, the boss immediately closed the gate and closed the business.
This order alone is enough to keep the couple busy. If they operate normally, they can’t sell 4,000 orders in half a month. The buyer is an old acquaintance, lives in the opposite community, and has paid a deposit. Are they still worried that he will back out? Once this deal is done, their store can brag about it for three years!
After spending so much money, Qiao Qingqing felt very happy.
It feels so good to spend money! In the previous life, the family’s money has not been spent. There are millions of dollars. The couple worked so hard to save for the down payment. It hurts to think about it.
Happy Qiao Qingqing drove to the farmers' market again. When she was about to get off the car, her husband Shao Shengan called her and said, "I'm in Yuecheng. The next high-speed train to Huacheng will leave at 10 o'clock. I will be home in the early morning. You can go to bed first and don't wait for me. Qingqing, have you had dinner?"
Qiao Qingqing was very excited, but she restrained herself: "I'm done eating. I'm going to the farmer's market to buy something. See you in the evening."
Yuecheng, Shao Shengan finally felt relieved. They were going to the farmer's market to shop, so everything should be fine, right?
He yawned. The jet lag and lack of sleep made his head feel dizzy. He had no choice but to find a hotel room with hourly rooms, set five alarms, and fell asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.
It was already dark, but the farmer's market was still brightly lit. There were still a lot of vegetables, but they were a little wilted after being left out for a day. Qiao Qingqing visited several stalls and chose a stall with the most complete vegetables, both seasonal and off-season vegetables, and placed a vegetable order at this stall: "I want all the vegetables on your stall, 100 kilograms of each vegetable, 100 melons of each, and 200 kilograms of potatoes and tomatoes, respectively. Can you deliver it to your door the day after tomorrow?"
Ordering vegetables here means being ripped off by wholesalers, but it is convenient because you don’t have to search for them one by one by yourself, which takes up a lot of time and energy.
Of course!
The boss grinned from ear to ear and immediately took out the purchase list and started typing on the calculator. Finally, he handed the calculator to Qiao Qingqing and said, "Some vegetables are cheap, and some are expensive. For example, cowpeas and green beans are now twelve yuan a pound. I have thirty-eight kinds of vegetables and fruits here. You can go around the market and you will find a more complete selection than mine! Here, this is the final price. I'll give you another 10% discount..." He clicked the button five more times.
The sound of the calculator was turned off, otherwise a five-digit amount would have been reported.
"Sure. I can give you a deposit of 8,000 yuan first. When the time comes, you can give me the invoice. I will give you the balance after checking it. As long as you deliver the goods to the address I give you the night after tomorrow, it will be fine."
The boss patted his chest and promised that it would be delivered: "I'll find the freshest one for you. It will be so fresh and tender that it will still have dew on it when it is sent to you the day after tomorrow!" He wrote the invoice immediately and Qiao Qingqing then transferred the deposit.
In the same way, Qiao Qingqing ordered fruits from three vegetable stalls and ten fruit stores. Her mother loved durian, so she ordered 200 of them. As long as her mother was healthy and no longer sick, she could eat one every month for the next ten years and still have some left over. In addition to durian, she also ordered a total of 1,000 watermelons, 1,000 cantaloupes, and 1,000 coconuts, which were the most suitable for cooling off and quenching thirst in hot summer weather. She also ordered other common fruits such as apples, pears, and bananas in large quantities, and thus spent more than 100,000 yuan on deposits.
Several shop owners looked at her as if she were the God of Wealth. They blew air conditioners at her and handed her freshly opened coconuts with straws. One owner even asked, "Miss Qiao, do you want ice cream?"
"No, thank you."
Qiao Qingqing took the coconut and went to the butcher's stall to order a batch of meat first, and decided to take time to go to the slaughterhouse to order a large quantity of goods. After everything was done, it was only a little after nine o'clock, so she went to the supermarket to buy some.
The feeling of shopping in the supermarket is fascinating. Qiao Qingqing feels like a fish in water, and she is happy. She filled three carts and took them to the car in six batches after checking out. In the car, she put the things into the space, took out her mobile phone to check the time, and her heartbeat accelerated.
Her husband's high-speed train is about to arrive, and she can go to the high-speed rail station to wait for him to pick her up.
Qiao Qingqing found that her hands were shaking a little. She sat in the car for a long time before she felt better and drove slowly to the high-speed rail station.
The rain at midnight was a little heavier than in the afternoon, and the rain also dyed the city lights with colorful colors. The brown and dirty flood suddenly appeared in Qiao Qingqing's eyes. She blinked to stop herself from being distracted and concentrate on driving.
It was already half past eleven when she arrived at the airport. She stood at the exit, clenching her fingers and waiting, but she was so nervous that her hands and feet were weak, so she had to find a chair to sit down.
She waited at the exit again, not daring to blink.
Until the tall figure appeared in her sight, her eyes were instantly filled with tears.
It's been ten years, and I have been missing you during those ten years. This time you are finally back safe and healthy.
Shao Shengan didn't expect his wife to come pick him up, but there were few people at midnight, and he saw Qiao Qingqing standing there at a glance. His eyes lit up and he quickened his pace. He walked through the crowd leaving the station and approached her, waving: "Wife! Qingqing!"
Qiao Qingqing also stepped forward, walking in the opposite direction of the people leaving the station, and stretched out her hand——
The two hugged each other, and Qiao Qingqing burst into tears: "Shao Shengan, I miss you so much."
Shao Shengan also hugged her tightly: "Oh my God, you really scared me to death. Are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable or in a bad mood? Don't be afraid! I'm going home. Don't talk about whether to jump off the building or not. What should I do if you jump? What should mom do?" He patted Qiao Qingqing's back gently and touched her hair.
Pedestrians cast kind glances. In this high-speed railway station, people are hurrying around. Some are crying as they say goodbye, while others are hugging each other as they reunite. The sound of the announcements in the background seems to be filled with the flavor of human life.
Outside the glass window, the rain continued. The night in his hometown was no less beautiful than that in other countries. Standing on the land of his motherland, holding his wife in his arms, Shao Shengan exhaled a long breath and felt that he was finally alive. Hearing his wife's sobbing, Shao Shengan felt distressed. He held Qiao Qingqing's shoulders and looked down at her: "Why are you crying like this?" He pulled out his shirt sleeves to wipe her tears and said with a smile, "You missed me so much. I was only gone for a week. Okay, stop crying. Let's go home. Did you drive here or take a taxi?"
Qiao Qingqing pulled his sleeve to wipe away her tears, and said with a sob: "I drove here and parked in Area A of the basement."
"Okay, let's go home!"
Shao Shengan took off Qiao Qingqing's messenger bag and hung it around his neck. He turned around and carried Qiao Qingqing on his back. He supported her and bent down slightly to pick up the luggage: "Let's go!"
Lying on her husband's back, Qiao Qingqing said, "Shao Shengan, I miss you so much."
"I miss you as well."
"I miss you so much." Qiao Qingqing buried her head in his back.
Tears flowed into his neck, Shao Shengan was confused, this kind of strong sadness and pain, what happened to his wife? There was no smile on his face, but his voice was full of a relaxed smile; "I miss you very much, Qingqing, what do you want to eat for dinner? Are you hungry? I'll take you to have some snacks, okay?"
"No, go home."
"Okay, go home and I'll cook for you. What's in the fridge? Did you buy any groceries?"
"Yes, I ordered express delivery of fruits and vegetables in the city. I have a lot of vegetables at home."
Shao Shengan agreed with her: "Really? Then I will make eight dishes for you to try."
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