Meng Tao: "Boss, you make money by reselling it in US dollars, right? Why are you giving me such a low price?"

The fruit shop owner smiled and said, "No, no, no US dollars, just over in Hong Kong... So girl, can you name a price too?"

"Four dollars a pound."

"Girl is kidding."

"No, I'm making a serious offer."

"Girl, I'm giving you a fair price. Four dollars is too high. I can't do it. Two dollars and twenty cents is fine."

"Well, I'll give you a little less and you can add a little more, three dollars and a half."

The fruit shop owner put his hand on his forehead, smiled and shook his head: "Girl is awesome, I am most afraid of running into people like you when I do business."

"Boss, you have to know that this is a new variety. It was shipped from the test orchard and has never been put on the market. If it is actually sold in the future, it may only be supplied to special groups of people, such as rich people, very rich people, or directly exported. You will never see it in ordinary fruit companies."

The fruit shop owner's eyes lit up: "Well, if you have this in the future, you must come to me again?"

Meng Tao said calmly: "Okay, you look like a straightforward person, I am willing to deal with straightforward people."

"Okay, that's settled! Three dollars and a half is three dollars and a half. I'll take a small loss, and we'll do long-term business. What about the fruit?"

"The fruit is..."

Meng Tao told the fruit owner the hotel where she was staying. According to the rules, the fruit owner first paid Meng Tao a deposit of 50 yuan, then pulled out a tricycle and asked Meng Tao to sit on it. When they passed a house, he called two young men to follow him, saying that they were his brothers-in-law and that they should go to move goods together.

When they arrived at the hotel, Meng Tao said that it was not convenient for her to go upstairs with three men as she was a girl, so she told them her room number, then walked into the hotel first and asked them to come back later.

The fruit owner nodded in agreement, and the three men stood at the door watching Meng Tao go in and walk up the stairs.

Ten minutes later, Meng Tao heard a knock on the door in the room. She opened the door and the fruit owner and his two brothers-in-law walked in. Meng Tao had just released five sacks from the space and placed them in the middle of the room, including two bags of tangerines, a bag of navel oranges, a bag of pears and a bag of late-ripening peaches.

The fruit owner was really careful in doing business. He brought his own sack with him. His brother-in-law used a fruit knife to cut open the bag of fruits, and changed the bags on the spot, while checking to see if any of the fruits were rotten. Another brother-in-law also took a fruit knife and took out the fruits one by one, cut them open and tasted them. He cut more than ten fruits in total and kept eating. The fruit owner himself was enjoying the food, but he felt sorry for it after all, as it was all his money. Seeing that his brother-in-law wanted to continue, he stopped him from cutting the fruits.

They didn't weigh it, but they were used to doing business. They could tell whether the weight was correct by just weighing it in their hands. If it was off by a few pounds, they would just taste it and eat it.

The quantity to be sold is 500 kilograms, and Meng Tao has already taken out the remaining 80 kilograms, also estimated based on her feeling.

In fact, it is very easy to weigh. She looked at the fruits on the scale in the orchard and found that one peach weighed about one kilogram. She took out thirty peaches and weighed the other oranges, pears and navel oranges. She felt that about eighty kilograms would be enough.

After the three men carried the fruits away, Meng Tao closed the door and happily counted the money again: I made money, I made a lot of money!

No wonder so many people are willing to take risks to engage in speculation. If they open a business, it will be enough to support ordinary people like us for several years.

In the 1970s, workers only earned 20 or 30 yuan a month. If they didn't eat or drink for a whole year, they would have to spend 200 or 300 yuan. 1,700 yuan was a huge sum of money! Meng Tao looked at the bundles of 10-yuan RMB on the bed, and recalled that when the fruit owner and his two brothers left, one of his brothers-in-law looked back at her with an inexplicable look. She suddenly felt a little uneasy. What if they turned around and robbed her? Twenty minutes later, Meng Tao went downstairs with her travel bag. She wanted to check out at the service desk, but the waiter was gone. No one answered her call. She saw the accommodation registration book on the table, reached out and took it and flipped through it. She was the only one on the page where her information was registered. Seeing that the waiter hadn't come yet, she simply tore off the registration form, put it in her pocket, put a dollar on the table, and left.

The accommodation fee for one night is one dollar, and I paid it even if I didn't stay.

Meng Tao was right to leave. Two hours later, the fruit owner and a group of four men went straight to the hotel to look for her despite the late hour, but they found her empty-handed.

I went to the service desk and paid a dollar to have the waiter help me check the registration book, but I couldn't find anything. The waiter on duty now was not the same waiter who registered me at the beginning. I had no idea what was going on.

Several people walked out of the hotel disappointedly. The tall and strong middle-aged man pointed at the fruit owner, with a look of disappointment on his face: "Look at you, what can you achieve? You can only set up a stall to sell some fruits, what's the point? Such a good opportunity to make money, and you just let it go!"

The fruit shop owner lowered his head and said, "Brother, I didn't know that girl was so smart."

"Is she not smart enough to do this business? She didn't tell you where she is from or what her name is?"

"I told you, she's from Mengzhou, her name is Tao Mengmeng."

"I think you are dreaming. Tao Mengmeng, it sounds like a fake name."

The middle-aged man said angrily, "You tasted the fruit. You knew it was good stuff, but you didn't arrange someone to guard it? Look, as soon as it was sent to Mr. Zhou, he tasted it and immediately wanted to find a seller. The old man said that these fruits are extraordinary! The girl didn't lie to you. It must be a new variety smuggled from the Agricultural Science Institute. It's a good thing that ordinary people can't eat in their lifetime! You made a fortune with this batch, you know!"

The fruit shop owner raised his head and said, "Brother, how much is that worth?"

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and the fruit shop owner asked tentatively, "Five thousand?"

The middle-aged man glared at him and said, "Fifty thousand! But according to the rules you can only take half, you know."

The fruit shop owner was shocked: Oh my God! Five hundred kilograms of fruit, exchanged for fifty thousand yuan! He knew that there were many wealthy people in Hong Kong, and they usually spent a lot of money, but he didn't expect that they could be so rich! If Meng Tao saw this scene, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit three liters of blood - he thought he made money, but it turned out that he was just a porter at the bottom!

The fruit owner and his gang were still looking for Meng Tao. They went to all the hostels and hotels near the train station and started looking in the city.

However, Meng Tao seemed to have received a warning and did not stay in the hotel. She took out the bag full of local specialties that Liu Jianxin had given her from the space, and put two cans of milk powder, a can of malted milk, a box of biscuits and more than ten kilograms of "Mengzhou new variety" fruit into the travel bag, got on the bus, and headed for the family compound of the Municipal Forestry Bureau.

Thank you for your support, little fairies! Thank you for the tip from Yizi Fairy and Wowuwokan Fairy! More chapters to come! 　　 　 (End of this chapter)