Chapter 2 Stocking up on food
Xie Zhizhi calculated the money, took the key, the phone and the car, went downstairs to the parking lot, drove the Land Rover to the street, and started shopping mode.
If you really travel through time, food would probably be the most important thing. If you have food, you will at least starve to death.
Although it may be true, it is all her own imagination, but it does not hinder her enthusiasm. It is also good to satisfy her hoarding addiction!
First, we rented a 200-square-meter warehouse near the market as a cover, and then went to the largest grain wholesale store.
Xie Zhizhi walked past a large store with dry food on both sides of the road. Bags of food were stacked three or four meters high. She found the boss behind the counter on the right and asked, "Hello, boss. I would like to ask how many varieties of food you have in your store?"
The chubby boss was sitting at the cashier counting money. He looked up at the energetic girl and asked, "Girl, do you want to buy in bulk or in individual quantities?"
Xie Zhizhi tilted her head and thought for a moment, "I want to order everything. How many varieties are there?"
The boss explained to her, "We have rice, brown rice, sorghum, black rice, and red rice; wheat includes wheat, barley, oats, rye, and sorghum; and beans include broad beans."
"There are also soybeans, mung beans, red beans, kidney beans, white beans, etc. There are so many grains and beans. The store also has dried corn and more than 100 varieties."
Xie Zhizhi counted on her fingers as she listened. There were indeed many varieties. "That's quite complete. Boss, can you pack ten kilograms of each for me in pure white bags without labels or patterns?"
This way you can use it wherever you go and people will find you.
She is such a clever little girl!
The boss perked up instantly, put the money away, and smiled, "Bags without labels? It's easy to deal with without labels. We have a cooperating factory, and they can just send it over. Are you sure you want 10 kilograms of each variety?"
Xie Zhizhi calculated the size of the grid and found it was far off. One hundred kilograms was too big for the grid to fit. If I had known, I would have written it in such detail. She nodded, "Yes, there are two types of rice: ordinary rice and farmer's own rice. Can you tell me how much it is? Can you deliver it?"
"Okay, where is it?" The boss has already started writing the order.
Xie Zhizhi took out a piece of paper, wrote down the warehouse address and phone number and gave it to him. "Here's the address. Call me when you leave. It will take a long time to store so many things, right?"
"No problem, it will only take about two hours." The boss calculated the price first, and ten minutes later, he smiled and said, "A total of twenty-eight thousand and one hundred and ten."
Xie Zhizhi took out the phone and scanned it, then asked casually, "How about 28,000 with a zero?"
The boss agreed immediately, "Young girl, you are very straightforward. Let's say 28,000!" The boss thought to himself that he had never seen anyone place an order within 15 minutes. She was so straightforward.
Xie Zhizhi also forgot to say, "Boss, remember to give me the freshest and best. Okay, I will return it."
The boss smiled and said honestly, "Don't worry, little girl, it must be the latest product. I want repeat customers, right? Uncle must be lying to you."
"Thank you. I'll pay for it."
"I should thank you. Here's the order."
She nodded slightly, not discouraging his idea. Regardless of time travel or not, she would come back even if she opened a rice shop, right?
After paying the money and taking the delivery note, she turned around and went to the wholesale vegetable market.
She was dazzled by the dozens of red and green vegetables stacked on the shelves. She looked up at the boss in the middle of the vegetables and asked, "Hello, boss, how much are these vegetables?"
The boss was bald, had a black beard, and was sturdy. He looked more like a farmer than a vegetable seller. He looked her over and smiled, "Young lady, do you want to buy wholesale?"
Xie Zhizhi thought for a moment and decided that one jin was enough, so he automatically restocked the goods. "One jin or one each, and we'll sell them in bulk."
The boss casually placed a few vegetable baskets in front of her, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "That's the retail price."
After agreeing on the price, she began to pack the bags, counting silently as she took them:
"Sweet corn, glutinous corn, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, eggplants, green peppers, red peppers, cucumbers, Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, lettuce, pumpkins, potatoes, lotus roots, edamame, okra, cabbage, leeks, celery, asparagus, and green onions."
"Scallions, coriander, shiitake mushrooms, straw mushrooms, porcini, button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, ginger, garlic, chili peppers, kelp, bean sprouts, choy sum... well, that's all."
She originally wanted to eat those delicious dishes such as bitter gourd and mustard greens, but after thinking about it, she finally decided to eat them.
It takes up space.
After weighing, the boss packed the vegetables in plastic bags for her. The vegetables filled a large area, and her car could fit them all, so she didn't ask him to deliver the goods.
The boss put the calculator in front of her and said, "The total is four hundred and twenty-one dollars. I'll charge you one dollar less, so four hundred and twenty will be enough."
"Thank you." Xie Zhizhi gave the money, carried the more than ten kilograms of vegetables easily, straightened her back, grabbed the bag with her arms, and ran out of the market. After a long circle, she finally found her domineering Land Rover.
After putting the vegetables away and feeling full of energy, I drove straight to the nearby wholesale seafood market.
At first glance, the first seafood shop has many varieties of seafood. The stacked breeding boxes are packed full, and each box is emitting gurgling oxygen.
The lady boss walked up to her in her waders and asked with a warm smile, "What do you want to buy, little girl? We can buy it in retail or wholesale."
Xie Zhizhi stood there looking at the live king crabs in the aquarium. They were so fresh. She decided to steam one tonight and enjoy it.
Her dark brown pupils were smiling as she told the lady boss her request, "Wholesale. All my varieties are sold by one pound. The extra large lobsters and king crabs are sold by one."
The lady boss was surprised. "We have more than 40 varieties of dried goods and frozen fish in our store, all sold at one pound?"
"Yes, what do they have?" Xie Zhizhi thought about restocking the goods later.
The lady boss pointed at the seafood in the store and explained to her, "Tiger grouper, spotted grouper, mudfish, sunfish, eel, golden carp, perch, eel, turbot, blue crab, meat crab, crab roe, mud shrimp, Luo shrimp, nine-segment shrimp, abalone."
"There are lobsters of all sizes, clams, oysters, clams, white clams, scallops, clams, mussels, king crabs, green lobsters, frozen salmon cut today, hairtail and other frozen fish, as well as dried oysters, dried scallops and other dried seafood."
Xie Zhizhi's eyes lit up and she asked, "Eel, too? Sea eel or river eel?"
The lady boss told me truthfully, "They were just delivered this morning. They are very fresh eels, weighing three to four pounds each."
"That's one." Xie Zhizhi just thought about whether the delicious seafood was steamed or stewed. "The rest are all one pound, and the big ones are one. Can you put them in a foam box for me and transport them to a nearby warehouse?"
"Of course." The lady boss was delighted. "I'll call someone to help you fish. Xiaodong, Xiaoxia, Xiaoqiu, and Xiaochun, come and weigh the fish."
The proprietress called her eldest son and three daughters over, and they divided the work and quickly put the ice cubes in and counted the number for her.
The lady boss handed her the bill and asked politely with a smile, "It's six dollars in total, where are you sending it to, little girl?"
Xie Zhizhi gave her the money without hesitation, and wrote the warehouse address on a piece of paper and gave it to her. She said cheerfully, "When you are ready, call me and I will open the door. Thank you."
"no problem."
After walking out of the seafood market, she thought for a moment. Unexpectedly, after the space was upgraded, there was an ecological circulation space inside the warehouse for chickens and ducklings to live in. She was already eager to see it!