Chapter 0018 Fruit Seller
The old man said to Xia Jian a little mysteriously: "I see you just came out of the construction site and want to find a living. Three streets away from here, there is a Jingyuan fruit wholesale point. Where can you go every morning?
If you are strong, you can wholesale two baskets and sell them at the door of each community. How can you make a lot of money in a day?" The old man spoke in a low voice that was almost inaudible.
This is a good thing! It's easier than working part-time on a construction site! With this information, Xia Jian didn't dare to neglect it at all, because he was afraid that the two hundred yuan in his pocket wouldn't last a few days.
When more and more people were doing morning exercises on both sides of the river embankment, Xia Jian had already washed his face in the public toilet and was waiting for the clothing store on the street to open. He bought two pieces of clean clothes so that he could go to the Jingyuan Fruit Wholesale Market to check out the prices.
Otherwise, he would always attract strange looks from passers-by dressed up like this.
The life of city people is fast. When the big alarm clock in the Citizen Square just struck seven times, the clothes shop on the street was already open. Xia Jian asked for the cheap ones. The shop owner saw that he had no money, so
I didn't ask for a random price. A short shirt and a pair of pants cost only 42 yuan.
After eating a bowl of noodles at a stall and settling his stomach a little, Xia Jian went straight to the Jingyuan Fruit Wholesale Market regardless of the hard work of walking all night.
In the city, every inch of land is at a premium. Although it is a market, it is only a street of forty to fifty meters. On both sides of the street there are dozens of fruit wholesale shops named so-and-so. There are all kinds of fruits in the shop. It seems that they are not only wholesalers.
Also does retail sales.
Xia Jian remembered the old man's words and did not let him find these stores to wholesale directly. Instead, he waited for the truck that transported the fruit every morning. Only the fruit wholesaled from the fruit truck could make profit.
The whole day, Xia Jian was strolling around the Jingyuan Fruit Wholesale Market. As he went back and forth, he struck up a conversation with some workers there. There was a middle-aged man who was also from Pingyang Town. As the saying goes, when a fellow villager meets a fellow villager, his eyes well up with tears.
The fellow's surname is Gong. He helps his relatives here. His salary is not very high in a month, but it is also a relaxing job.
When Lao Gong heard that the boy in front of him was Xia Jian from Xiping Village, he couldn't believe it. When he went back to his hometown a few years ago, he often heard people in the village talk about how Xia Jian was messing around, so that no one in the ten miles and eight villages dared to do so.
If you mess with him, it won't be the same when you see him in person today, but he's a bit stronger and doesn't have three heads and six arms.
When Lao Gong heard that Xia Jian wanted to sell fruit, he strongly supported it. Under his guarantee, he got a tricycle from his relatives, but the prerequisite was that Xia Jian had to wholesale his fruit every morning. In order to achieve this goal,
Xia Jian fully agreed to the purpose, and he felt that his bad luck was over.
At night, Xia Jian was in trouble. He had the car and the fruit wholesale point was settled, but where should he stay at night? He couldn't stay in a hotel again! It was less than a day and he had two hundred yuan in his pocket.
There are only more than one hundred and twenty left, which is the cost of wholesale fruit tomorrow!
Lao Gong is such a good person. He has been practicing tricycle with Xia Jian after get off work. Even though this thing is simple, it is much more difficult than riding a bicycle. This is Xia Jian's understanding. Fortunately, Huangtian has paid off, and he has been on the scenery on both sides of the river.
When the crowd was almost gone, Xia Jian was able to drive a tricycle by himself.
Lao Gong wiped the sweat from his face and asked with a naive smile: "You are just here to practice driving, where are you staying tonight?"
"It's right here. Sleep on the tricycle and enjoy the river breeze. It's much more comfortable than staying in a hotel. Don't you think so?" Xia Jianyi said in a hurry, but he felt that this was all he could do.
Lao Gong scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "I really can't help you here. Firstly, I live in a relative's house. Secondly, this relative usually doesn't give me any money and doesn't settle the bill until the end of the year."
"Okay, Lao Gong, you have helped me a lot. Stop talking and go back quickly! We have to get up early to work tomorrow morning." Xia Jian interrupted Lao Gong and pushed him away. With this fellow
It was so good, Xia Jian felt extremely relieved.
Old Gong smiled, turned around and took a step, then stopped and said, "Lean the car against the wall. The wind in the Tao River is very strong at night. Be careful of catching a cold." Looking at Old Gong walking away, Xia Jian felt in his heart
I am very touched. It seems that there are still many good people in this world.
Leaning the tricycle against the wall on the river bank, Xia Jian lay down on it. For a tall and thick young man, it would definitely be uncomfortable to lie on the tricycle, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
Listening to the rushing sound of the river, Xia Jian remembered the name of this beautiful river "Tao River"
She didn't sleep very well all night, and was woken up by a pair of doggy men and women in the middle of the night. From their conversation, Xia Jian heard that these two people were messing around outside behind the family's back, so just mess around.
Quan thought that he had encountered a wild dog having an affair.
The morning wind brought a chill to people's bodies. Xia Jian, who had just fallen asleep, opened his eyes because of the cold. He climbed up and felt that his waist was about to break. It seemed that the tricycle was
Sleeping really isn't like that.
When Xia Jian rode his tricycle to the Jingyuan Fruit Wholesale Market, there was already a bustle of people and busy traffic. Xia Jian couldn't care less about watching the excitement and rushed to one of Lao Gong's fruit shops.
Perhaps because of Old Gong's presence, the wholesale price the shopkeeper gave Xia Jian was a dime lower than others, which made Xia Jian feel even more grateful to Old Gong. More than two hundred kilograms of apples cost Xia Jian everything he had.
Money made him feel heavier than riding a tricycle. What would he do if he lost money on the sale?
Unknowingly, Xia Jian had ridden a few streets and stopped at the entrance of a residential complex called "Qingshuiyuan". He opened the plastic sheet covering the apples and took out the steel scale, looking like a businessman.
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Seeing a woman in gorgeous clothes walking out, Xia Jian mustered up the courage to shout: "Fresh apples, one yuan per catty, buy them if they are not sweet." This is what Lao Gong taught him.
The woman twisted her slender waist like a water snake, rolled her eyes at Xia Jian and said, "You're so shameless. You want me to carry it to work when you buy apples so early in the morning?"
Xia Jian was thrown cold water at the beginning. He was extremely discouraged. He really didn't know who he should do this business to.
"Hey! Fruit seller, how do you sell these apples? They look pretty good?" Just when Xia Jian was in a daze, a voice like a silver bell sounded beside him.
Xia Jian suddenly raised his head, haha! So beautiful. He saw a young woman in her twenties, thirty-four years old, wearing a black suit, a white shirt, and suitable clothes, which outlined the woman's beautiful figure. The woman smiled and pulled her short ear-length hair back.
With one flick, the action is simply mesmerizing.
"Oh! Let me ask you, why are you so dazed?" the woman shouted softly, grabbing the apple in the car.
Xia Jianru woke up from his dream and quickly replied: "One yuan per catty, buy it if you taste it. If it's not sweet, I won't give you any money."
The woman picked a plastic bag and nodded to Xia Jian: "Weigh it into five pounds! If it's really delicious, I'll buy it from you next time."
Xia Jian didn't dare to waste any more words. He picked up the scale, which action was so stupid. He finally got the scale right. When the woman paid, she smiled and said: "Apple seller, come down and practice your skills more. You weigh the scale like this."
, the business will lose money"
It's impossible to lose money! Not even one tael more! Isn't it just five pounds? Xia Jianbai couldn't understand the deep meaning of this woman. But the next step is not bad. Those old men and women who do morning exercises, when they come back...
Seeing some people pushing apples to the gate of the community, some people would buy a few kilograms. In one morning, Xia Jian had almost finished buying more than two hundred kilograms of apples, and he couldn't help but feel happy.
When there was no one around, Xia Jian took out the money in his pocket and counted more than one hundred and eighty yuan. In addition to the cost of more than one hundred and twenty yuan, and the apples in the car, he could buy at least more than ten yuan. This is not a day.
I made sixty or seventy yuan, which was much more than what I could earn on the construction site.
"Apple seller, your sales are good! You occupy the space at the entrance of my community and affect the safety of vehicle travel. I didn't even drive you away. You should show your respect!" Xia Jian, who was busy counting money, suddenly turned around.
, seeing a security guard in his forties or fifties standing behind him, he couldn't help but be stunned and said, what does this mean?
The security guard didn't wait for Xia Jian to say anything, picked a bag of apples, looked around and saw that no one was around, picked it up and left.
The anger in Xia Jian's heart suddenly ignited. He was so embarrassed. There is still such a thing in the world. It makes no sense for me to sell some water apples and still be bullied.
Chapter completed!