Traveling through the Eighth Five-Year Plan: Starting from selling fruit at a stall

Chapter 16 Tricycle

After all, Ji Xiaonian has connections.

After Huang Guixiang and him conveyed Ling Yue's needs, within two days, a tricycle parked under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the family courtyard.

Taking advantage of Ling Yue's absence from the stall, Ji Xiaonian thoughtfully brushed it with paint.

When they come back, the paint is almost dry, let it dry to remove the smell, and then it can be used.

With the tricycle, Ling Yue was overjoyed.

She finally didn't have to go to the wholesale market every day to call for a rickshaw to deliver goods home. That night, she and Huang Guixiang rode a tricycle straight to the fruit and vegetable wholesale market.

"Xiaoyue, I really didn't expect that you would dare to ride three rounds. If it were me, I wouldn't dare."

Ling Yue sighed: "It's not like you haven't seen how much I fell today."

After the paint on the tricycle dried, Ling Yue rode it on the spot.

It never occurred to her that learning to ride a tricycle was quite a struggle.

It wasn't that the leader kept turning sideways, or the brake didn't catch her in time and led her into the ditch.

She either rushed towards the crowd, or rammed into the flower bed.

Seeing that Huang Guixiang was terrified, her heart almost jumped out of her throat, and she was told to stop riding more than once.

But Ling Yue's unyielding stubborn temper came up, the more Huang Guixiang refused to let her ride, she insisted on riding.

I was still muttering in my heart, when I was learning bicycles, I learned it in half a day. How come these three wheels are still on the bar with me?

Fortunately, there were a lot of people in the family courtyard, and Ling Yue finally learned it in the midst of giggling and harmonious laughter.

Ling Yue clamored to ride on the street as soon as she learned it, and Huang Guixiang's heart almost jumped out of her throat.

Fortunately, there was no danger, seeing her riding back steadily, Huang Guixiang put her heart into her stomach.

No, when I go to buy goods at night, one person sits in the carriage with a flashlight, and the other rides in front.

When we arrived at the fruit and vegetable wholesale market, we found that it was pitch black, and the only light was the faint light from the flashlights in people's hands.

Ling Yue, who is used to power outages every now and then, is not surprised. The first thing she does when she arrives at the market is to find new varieties.

Ever since she started selling fruit, she has been dealing with Zaosu pears.

She sold the peaches for a few days, but the price of the peaches is relatively low, and it has been on the market for almost a month and a half. She also has old customers who often ask, so she mixed and sold them for two days.

It is precisely because the price of peaches is so beautiful that the profit is too low, after Ling Yue finished processing the goods in his hand, he stopped buying them.

Seeing her riding a tricycle, someone joked, "Hey, Boss Ling is getting rich. He even rode a tricycle."

She has come to report almost every day for the past twenty days, and she has long been acquainted with the fruit sellers in the wholesale market.

Ling Yue replied carelessly: "If you eat meat, you must leave us some soup."

There is no way, the road is chosen by oneself, no matter how hard it is, you can only bite the bullet and rush upwards, there is no way out.

The fruit vendor smiled heartily: "You say that you are always unforgiving with your lips."

She stopped the tricycle and asked cheerfully, "Brother, do you have any new fruits today?"

"Don't tell me, there are really new products today, but the price is a bit expensive, do you dare to ask for it?"

Ling Yue's eyes lit up: "Oh, what kind of fruit is it?"

"Little mango."

When she heard that it was a mango, Ling Yue frowned.

It can be said that mango and banana are similar in nature, but its storage time is slightly longer than that of banana.

But it is only a little bit longer, and after a long time, dark spots will appear on its skin, which will affect the selling price.

Seeing that Ling Yue didn't speak, the fruit seller asked, "Do you want two boxes, one box is only about twenty catties."

Ling Yue hesitated, "I'll see how the goods are."

"Don't worry about the goods, they are all acquaintances, and I will definitely not sell them to you as shoddy goods." The boss took a few small mangoes from the opened carton next to him and handed them over, "Try it .”

Ling Yue took a bite of the mango peel, and praised: "Thin skin, thick flesh, sweet and delicious, where did this product come from, it tastes really good."

The boss stared at him with tiger eyes: "Don't try to trick me, let me tell you the truth, the price of this mango is not low."

With the light of the flashlight, Ling Yue could only see that the little mango was shiny red and it looked good. She also tasted it, and it tasted delicate and silky, with a strong fruity aroma.

"Stingy ghost, are you still afraid that I will steal your business?" Ling Yue swallowed the mango in his mouth, and asked again: "What is the price of this fruit? If it is suitable, I will take a box."

"A box of 12 catties is 11 yuan a box for them. If you want it, it's [-] yuan for you."

Ling Yue exclaimed: "Fifty-five cents a catty, so expensive!"

Huang Guixiang felt like sitting on pins and needles, looking at the mango in her hand, she didn't want to eat it, and she didn't want to eat it.

She really didn't expect that this small mango was more expensive than pork.

"This is a medium-to-high-end fruit, and the price is indeed a bit expensive. But it also depends on how you sell it. Isn't there an old saying that wool grows on sheep, and the vegetable market can't afford it. You won't send it to the small commodity wholesale market. Those who engage in wholesale business are generally reluctant to eat it, but the people there must be willing to.”

Ling Yue's heart moved: "Small commodity wholesale market?"

I am ashamed to say that she has been here for so long, and she deals with people in the fruit and vegetable wholesale market every day or with the people in the vegetable market in the family courtyard, so much so that she has forgotten that there is a small commodity wholesale market.

And in the past two days, she saw people hanging out their schoolbags one after another in the market. At first, she didn't take it seriously, but later she realized that it is already the middle of August, and school will start in only half a month!

Tongtong is also six years old, and she can be sent to preschool when school starts.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I don't even know where the small commodity wholesale market is now!"

"I know, it seems to be at the train station." Huang Guixiang took over, "But there are also many pickpockets."

Ling Yue nodded clearly, it turned out to be at the train station.

These days, everyone is cash flow when they go out, and there are many pickpockets and thieves on the street, especially in the two hardest-hit areas of the station and the hospital. If it is stolen, it will be a disaster.

"Okay, just for the news you provided, I want two boxes."

Huang Guixiang became impatient, pulled her aside and said in a low voice, "Xiaoyue, calm down, it's not just one or two yuan, it's more than 20 yuan!"

Ling Yue smiled, patted her hand, and said nothing.

No matter what era you are in, never underestimate the strength of the Chinese people.

Even in [-], looking around, there are quite a few privately owned shops on the streets of Qingpu City.

Restaurants, small shops, hairdressers, clothing stores... you name it.

State-run stores have dedicated personnel to supply goods, but where does the source of goods for private stores come from?

It can only be obtained from various wholesale markets.

It’s just that many markets have not formed a scale now. Unlike later generations, they are called clothing cities, leather cities, glasses cities, building materials cities and other cities. Now most of the markets are a hodgepodge. Just be patient and look for them. Always find a satisfactory product.

(End of this chapter)