In the days that followed, I accidentally saw Cao Xiyu walking by in front of the store. The other person ignored Wei Tao and had no intention of giving him the bad impression of selling such products on campus. With a good face, and the college entrance examination approaching, the countdown started half a year in advance. The high school seniors years ago had already entered the preparation stage. Li Dong, who had occasionally come over to chat and chat, also disappeared.
The business of 'Fresh Times' is as good as ever, and fruit and vegetable supermarkets are springing up in other places. Just inside 'Anshun Street', in the area closest to the main street, a store has also started to be renovated. Wei Tao can see it at a glance It seems that the other party is copying their own model, but judging from the situation, it is approaching the Chinese New Year and the decoration progress is very slow. It seems that they plan to open again after the new year.
The arrival of a sense of crisis makes Zhou Xinglian take everything in the store more seriously every day.
Hygienic conditions, good quality of fruit and vegetable products, she also truly realized that what her son said was correct. When Guan Jinyue was in the store, she would also deliver goods, so that her son would not be busy alone.
"Uncle Zhang, don't worry. I have a box of oranges, a box of apples, and a box of longans. I guarantee that you won't be embarrassed when visiting relatives. When we open for the Chinese New Year, you can just come and pick them up on the morning of the first day of the new year. I'll make a note of it."
"Sister Li, it doesn't matter if you can't decide. You can just go to the store to have a look when you visit relatives. I'll prepare more during the Chinese New Year."
"Grandma Wang, I need this. You don't have to buy it in boxes. I'll weigh it for you by the kilogram and deliver it to your home tomorrow."
With mobile phones, contact is more convenient. Wei Tao also started the ordering mode he had done before. Without any fanfare, he would contact old customers in advance and accurately locate some goods to each household in advance.
He gave gifts before the New Year and visited relatives after the New Year. He did not try to get involved in some drinks. The market was not yet mature. Doing that would be equivalent to directly enmity with all the grocery stores and small supermarkets in the street. He just focused on fruits, which could also be compared with These small supermarkets complement each other.
The funds for purchasing fruits are increasing every day. The two of them are making money while filling the gap in purchasing. At the end of the new year, starting from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Wei Tao spends almost every day in the fruit wholesale market and vegetable wholesale market, catching up with the situation. Fresh fruits and vegetables in large trucks may arrive from anywhere.
Guan Jinyue is on vacation and comes to the store every day to help. When no one is around, she sits there quietly and studies her homework. When there is a need to deliver goods, she and Zhou Xinglian take turns appearing. Wei Tao is not sure when he will return. Fortunately, he has a mobile phone, which makes it easy to contact him. If a certain fruit and vegetable is out of stock in the store, it is no problem to make a phone call and ask him to restock temporarily.
The role of the car and the role of the mobile phone were all highlighted. Soon the store's funds increased to 10,000 yuan. Zhou Xinglian was completely convinced. When encountering anything, his first reaction was to ask his son for his opinion. This process took place step by step for several months. Over time, Wei Tao finally 'grew' from a child to the pillar of the family.
Since the mobile phone number was given to 'Wu', the other party would text and chat with Wei Tao from time to time except in the morning, which also gave Wei Tao the best way to pass the boring time while waiting to go back and forth in several markets.
"There are ten boxes in total. Brother Cai, I have packed them. Here is the money. Order some."
I was out of breath and 'robbed' ten boxes of cucumbers. Now the vegetables have entered the craziest stage. The market will definitely be sold out in less than an hour after a cart arrives. The quality depends on one's own eyesight.
Others move boxes one by one, but Wei Tao moves two boxes at a time. Not only is he a sweet talker, but he is also neat and tidy when purchasing goods. He never hesitates to carry cigarettes in his pockets. Even the workers who load and unload goods will not hesitate when they bring a truckload of goods. I was happy to let him squeeze forward.
Celery, leeks, cucumbers, green peppers, hot peppers...
The price of green vegetables is basically the same every day during the new year. Stocking up and ensuring the freshness of the goods has become the key to whether many vegetable vendors will have a good year.
In the "fresh time", behind the entire fake "background wall" and under the shelves, there are all piles of goods. Zhou Xinglian's brain is thinking slowly, but Guan Jinyue is very powerful. She has a scale in her mind about the time when all the goods will enter the store, and they will be sold first. It must be the first to enter the store, so as to avoid the situation where the goods that came in five or six days ago are sold later than the goods that came in the day before.
In the past few days a year ago, Wei Tao almost always squinted when he had free time. At night, he hardly stayed in the store and even let his mother sleep in the store. He asked Guan Jinyue to go home to sleep and study quietly. There were too many goods in the store. , mother and son are not at ease if they don’t let anyone go.
At night, at eight or nine o'clock, Wei Tao left. The proportion of goods arriving at this time was not high. He was either at the fruit wholesale market or the vegetable wholesale market, bragging in the warehouse with a group of traders and loaders. Talking about the mountains, if there is a shortage of players in any poker game, he will fill it.
Friends who are fair-weather friends are also friends, and acquaintances who play cards together are also acquaintances. As long as there is no special relationship, Wei Tao has an advantage over those ordinary traders. He can get some "little news" in advance. When the goods arrive, if he has a relationship, he will receive it. After that, he will definitely be able to be at the front of the second batch to choose the goods.
Among groups that are not familiar with it, what is the most interesting and classic picture?
When several people are playing poker, there will inevitably be people who are playing and watching the fun. When they want to smoke, they will reach into their pockets with their hands and naturally "blindly touch" one out of the cigarette box. The cigarette and the cigarette case must not be exposed to avoid "hair ties". Take out a cigarette, maybe while laughing or chatting, hold it in your mouth, and light it.
Don’t think it’s because the cigarettes are cheap and you’re too embarrassed to take them out. Not everyone is willing to do the ‘hair tie’ thing. For that pack of cigarettes, you gave Zhang San one, and there were many people around you. Could you please give it to me? One lap? Basically, the two rounds were not finished and one pack of cigarettes was gone.
Wei Tao's behavior in this matter is different from others. Everyone is willing to get close to him, and it is also good to smoke a cigarette.
Many stevedores are still smoking bat cigarettes that cost more than one yuan at this time, and life sources that cost three yuan. They are good cigarettes. Wei Tao always takes them out generously and smokes them at least a few times a day. He does not think that these Loaders are simply laborers.
A truckload of goods arrived. If these people had been doing this all year round, unloading the goods from the large trailers, it would be the vegetable sellers and bosses who were selling them. But when Wei Tao squeezed up, he looked at him and said hello. The loaders and unloaders were there. In the car, although they won’t deliberately select vegetables for you, it’s still easy to avoid some vegetables whose packaging is obviously squeezed or have edges.
Nowadays, a box of 'water cucumbers' is a must-have for almost every household as a cold dish for the New Year's Eve dinner. The price is one, two or three yuan a day. Just after the New Year, it has reached four yuan. All the vendors start from Start stocking up in large quantities from now on, otherwise on the 28th and 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the wholesale market will have goods, but the price of that batch of vegetables will cost you six or seven yuan, and you will feel that the profit is not enough.
In a box, two or three cigarettes were crushed and rotted, and the loss was only the price of a box of cigarettes.
Wei Tao didn't know whether others were aware or unwilling to do this. In short, he stayed in these two places every day and became familiar with everyone. If anyone wanted to drink, he would be generous. In the past, I would either order food from a small restaurant outside, buy a few bottles of wine, or buy some cooked food. I would never search for anything. After a long period of accumulation, by the end of the year, the storage time of owning a store has been long. Start stocking up before the year.
Until the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wei Tao was still in two markets and had brought back two carts of fresh fruits and vegetables. But the prices made him stunned. No matter how much goods he had stocked before, he now felt that there was not enough.
Whether to eat or not is one thing. For making dumplings during the New Year, leeks and celery are popular. Every household cannot celebrate the New Year. They still mainly eat sauerkraut and cabbage. Ordinary families will only eat a few days during the Chinese New Year.
During the day on the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Wei Tao did not go to the wholesale market, but made a special trip to the countryside. He had already found out the way, and bought some side dishes grown in greenhouses. These things are on the dining tables of the rich. Definitely a 'VIP'.
"You brat, you are still busy. You are making money every day. You are really a money addict."
We chat with each other through text messages every day, and Wei Tao also knows Wu's real name. It's a pretty name - Weining.
Wei Tao was ordering food at the time and did not reply. It had been more than an hour since he returned to the store, and when he saw two more items arrived, he replied: "Sister, you will make me feel like I am dating online, which is very stressful. "
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the other person might have just woken up, and he replied instantly: "What's wrong with online dating? I'm not good enough for you, a black boy?"
In this era of online dating, men, women, and the reality of the Internet are indistinguishable, and they are happy to enjoy a more wanton and bold love in this world.
"Don't make trouble, I'm not interested if you don't show up."
"Then come, I'll receive you."
"If I don't go, I'm afraid you'll open a small hotel for me and then find someone to buy me a train ticket."
"roll."
"Okay, let's get busy."
"Wei Tao, you are such a bastard." The phone call came directly, Wei Ning's voice was full of gritted teeth, but this kind of trick has no effect on Wei Tao. No matter how beautiful you are, I will not follow you. The air is sticky, I don't have that hobby, I'm not an innocent young boy, I don't have anything practical, I'm not a 'fish' that you can catch in the pond of your netizens.
"Hey, beauty, why don't you dance for me alone?" Wei Tao changed the subject. The biggest advantage of contacting someone through the air is that in reality, you would never dare to offend easily. On the Internet and in text messages, you can express yourself at the right time. If you come out, it won't be considered an offense.
"Get lost, you pervert."
"Tsk, look at you, your style is too small, isn't it? Am I that kind of person? I just dance and wear more clothes."
"Okay, come to my place and I'll dance for you alone."
"Xiao Sheng retreated and said goodbye. Let's talk again in the evening. There are many customers at this time."
"Well, you go ahead and get busy. I also have to put on makeup for work."