Seeing the agitated expressions of the crowd, the middle-aged man clutched the mosquito coil in his arms tightly, said, "Little boss, I'll come back to buy more tomorrow morning!", and then disappeared in a flash.
"Boss, it's my turn! Give me ten rolls of osmanthus-scented and ten rolls of regular-scented."
"I want two rolls of regular scented perfume."
"Give me six rolls of the osmanthus-scented one!"
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Customers who hadn't yet had their turn would strain to hear how much the customers before them were buying. They'd breathe a sigh of relief whenever they heard someone was buying a small amount of mosquito coils, but their hearts would clench with anxiety when they heard someone was buying a large amount.
They even tried to persuade those who wanted to buy more to buy less, so that some could be saved for the people behind them in their queue.
The customer who had been persuading others to buy mosquito coils immediately bought ten or eight rolls when it was finally his turn, prompting the customer behind him to spit out a "cunning old fox!"
But the customer who was being scorned didn't care at all. Clutching the mosquito coils he'd bought, he grinned and said, "Warfare is based on deception. As the saying goes, all's fair in war, hehehe~~"
Well, you're even using military strategy to buy mosquito coils, huh? Everyone was seething with anger.
He went to the bookstore and bought a book on military strategy, then studied it all night long!
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In less than an hour and a half, all the mosquito coils that had been selected that day were sold out, leaving not even a trace of them.
Customers who queued for a long time but couldn't buy mosquito coils were heartbroken.
"Boss, are you out of mosquito coils again today?" A customer looked at Jiang Wanwan with expectant eyes.
Jiang Wanwan smiled apologetically, "Yes, I'm very sorry, we've sold out of mosquito coils for today."
"What about at home? Do you still have any mosquito coils? I traveled more than ten miles this morning just to buy a few rolls of mosquito coils to take back home. My eighty-year-old mother is a light sleeper, and she hasn't been sleeping well for a while because of the mosquitoes."
The old man wasn't sleeping or eating well, and he'd lost a lot of weight. It worried me a lot. That's why I rushed over before dawn as soon as I heard there were mosquito repellents for sale in town." A middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a brocade robe and looking travel-worn, said anxiously to Jiang Wanwan.
"Yes, yes, young boss, do you still have any mosquito coils at home? We can wait as long as we can buy some today."
"Yes, we can wait!"
Jiang Wanwan hesitated for a moment. There were mosquito coils at home, but they had only been partially dried yesterday. However, the morning sun was very strong and the temperature was high. Judging from the time, those partially dried mosquito coils should have been completely dried by now.
The distance from town to home is only half an hour. A round trip takes at most an hour, which isn't late.
Jiang Wanwan raised her eyes, looked at everyone, and said, "Yes, we do. If you all want it, we will go back and get it right away. However, you will have to wait for an hour. I wonder if you are willing to do so?"
Upon hearing this, the customers who couldn't buy mosquito coils nodded hurriedly. "Wait! Even if it takes two hours, it's fine!"
"Thank you all for your patronage of Jiang's mosquito coils. I'll give you all a number in a bit, and you can buy the mosquito coils first when your number is called," Jiang Wanwan said with a smile, then took out a bamboo charcoal pen from her crossbody bag.
This bamboo charcoal pencil was named by Jiang Wanwan herself. It uses the lead of a modern 2B pencil, and a long 2B pencil lead is held in place by a small bamboo tube. This makes it much more convenient to use than a calligraphy brush, as you can take it out and use it anytime.
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