Chapter 3 Selling Corn (Part 2)
"How much does a pound of corn cost?" asked one of the old ladies.
"3 yuan." Liu Xiaoyu said
The two old men were stunned for a moment when they heard the price. It was right. At this time, most of the corn has been left on the market. Most of the corn sold on the market are stored. The taste is not very good and the price is not cheap. It has been sold at most 4 yuan per catty.
Looking at the two old men who were hesitant to buy or not, Liu Xiaoyu was very happy. After giving a piece of chopped corn, he said:
"Two old men, come and try it. I don't have to say whether the things are good or not. You can tell if you try it yourself."
"Can this corn be eaten raw?" asked the old lady.
"Uh, I dare not say whether other people can eat raw or not. My variety can be eaten raw. Didn't you see what I was not eating just now?" Liu Xiaoyu replied.
"Let me try it." The old man who hadn't spoken just now said, taking the corn from Liu Xiaoyu's hand, carefully picking a corn kernel into his mouth and chewing it.
"Well, it's really sweet, weigh it." After the old man said, the old lady next to him squatted down and began to pick it up.
It seems that this is an old couple, and it seems that the old man has a relatively high family status. Liu Xiaoyu thought to himself.
Actually, there is nothing to pick. Liu Xiaoyu's corn is almost the same size and has the same good quality. The old lady took six sticks, and Liu Xiaoyu weighed them and put them in a bag. The good guy's six sticks weighed three pounds and two ounces, which is more than half a pound on average. The total is 9.6 yuan, and the actual collection is 9.5 yuan. The first transaction was sold like this.
It's also strange. There are no one in this business, or there are more people at once. After the old couple paid the money, three or four people came up one after another. Such good corn is only 3 yuan per catty, and it is a bit exaggerated to pass through ten or ten thousand, but the number of people who buy it suddenly increases. When there are fewer people, you can help you cut the skin. If there are so many people, you sweat... I know that I keep weighing, collecting money, and looking for money. Fortunately, Liu Xiaoyu's first time selling vegetables is purely a fun ticket. It doesn't matter if it's more heavy, and it doesn't matter if it's less. It's basically all rounded at 0.5 yuan.
It sounds like a lot of 50 kilograms, and it is only about 200 pieces per piece, which is less than an hour before and after the first business starts. It is swept away by someone. After looking at it, it is less than eight o'clock. I packed up Liu Xiaoyu with an empty sack and an electronic scale. When I came with it, I had all changed. When I went back, I sucked a lot of small bags and went home.
I bought a few buns on the way and dealt with them. When I got home, I poured out the money from the bag, sorted it out and calculated the accounts. After deducting the 100 yuan change prepared, I also earned 278.5 yuan.
"This is more profitable than working in a white-collar worker." Liu Xiaoyu thought to himself as he looked at the money in front of him.
When I looked back, I found that the account could not be calculated like this. If there was no farm space, the cultivation of corn would cost. If I went wholesale to sell it, it would be good to make a few cents per pound, and there would definitely be no such big profit.
After calculating the accounts and resting for a while, Liu Xiaoyu cashed two bags of more than 50 kilograms of corn from the space. He was preparing to change places and continue selling them.
Looking at the two sacks, the weight of more than 200 kilograms was not able to take it away at once even if Liu Xiaoyu, who had been trained by labor, not to mention that there were electronic scales or something that needed to be taken.
Suddenly I remembered that I had a bicycle with "Old Master" that was thrown in the corner of the carport without any care. I searched through the boxes and cabinets and found the keys and rushed towards the carport.
Looking at the old car that was so ugly, for the sake of selling vegetables, Liu Xiaoyu pushed him to find a place to repair the bicycle and repaired the car that was not locked and no one stole.
Looking at the "classic car" in front of him that didn't ring except the bell, it was not for riding anyway, as long as it could be pushed and walked. Liu Xiaoyu comforted himself.
After pushing the cart home, Liu Xiaoyu found cardboard to make a small sign. It was written with a black marker that was conspicuously sweet glutinous corn 3 yuan/catties.
After everything was done, I made some lunch. Liu Xiaoyu walked out of the house and started to "spot" for the afternoon vegetable sales.
You can't go to the morning market, and no one goes there in the afternoon. Xitou vegetable market is strictly managed, and retail investors are all able to go in and sell at fixed stalls.
After searching, I found several small mobile stalls selling fruits fifty meters away from the entrance of the community. After thinking about it, although this road is not a major road, it is a must-pass place to enter the community, and there are many nearby residents. Let’s just sell it here.
I got home and rested. I looked at it and it was already past 2:30 in the afternoon. Anyway, I was idle. Liu Xiaoyu pushed the old car in the carport to the door of the unit and carried the corn down from the third floor. He also complained to himself while carrying it. He had known that he had bought the first floor at the beginning. No gold, three, silver and four were more important than the convenience. It was a mistake.
After going back and forth, I finally got all the things together. I tied two bags of corn to the back seat of the car, and then tied the electronic scale to the corn bag. The total was almost as tall as Liu Xiaoyu. I put the other pieces into the broken basket in front of the car.
He held the bridle with one hand and the corn bag behind him with the other. He carefully pushed towards the entrance of the community. Fortunately, there was no property guard in the old community, otherwise he would have been bombarded by a vendor who broke into the community.
I finally arrived at the destination with caution. As soon as I put up the car, I unloaded the electronic scale and corn, a peach vendor next to me started talking.
"Brother, what are you going to sell?"
"Uh, sister, I made some corn to sell." Liu Xiaoyu was busy answering.
"Big brother, look at him. Is it the first time I'm here to set up a stall?"
"Well, yes, I'll make some things to subsidize the household expenses." Although I was a little puzzled why the other party said so much, I still answered a lot based on the premise of making peace.
Take out the sacks that were sold short in the morning and spread them on the ground, then take out the corn from the bag one by one, peel and remove the ears and then sort them neatly.
After getting some of it done, I put up the small signboard and adjust the price of the electronic scale. Then I sat on the back seat of the classic car. The ground was too hot and I couldn't sit there.
I chatted and passed the time with a few dealers next to me. After all, I was not a vegetable market. There were few people going out shopping in hot weather. The stall had been set up for more than two hours but only sold about twenty kilograms of corn. After looking at the watch, Liu Xiaoyu was not in a hurry. Usually, those who took vegetables home after get off work at 5 o'clock would pass by. There was no hurry.
Sure enough, after 5:30, more and more people came home from get off work and rushed to the vegetable market to buy vegetables in the evening market.
The white corn, cheap price and fresh and sweet taste made the corn in Liu Xiaoyu's sack disappear rapidly. It even seemed that after buying it, I felt very good and went to visit again after I just went home to cook it. This community turned out to be a house renovation house, and most residents belong to the same factory, and they are basically familiar with it.
As soon as the reputation of corn was delicious, the sales speed was really dazzling. By the way, Liu Xiaoyu weighed the weight and collected money, and found money faster and busier.
In order to try not to bring the corn home today, Liu Xiaoyu didn't even eat dinner and kept setting up the stall until after 8 o'clock, and finally sold out.
Two hundred kilograms of corn have been around 2:30 pm to around 8:30 pm. It took nearly six hours. I don’t know whether this speed is fast or slow. In fact, the most popular time for sales is after six o’clock and before seven o’clock, and most of them are sold during this period.
Liu Xiaoyu was a little embarrassed with three empty sacks and corn skins and ears all over the floor. If he had kept such a large pile of corn skins and ears, he would probably be scolded by the sanitation workers who swept the streets.
Liu Xiaoyu, who was quite kind, stuffed the corn skin and ears back into the sack. Fortunately, he compressed the sack and put it in the back seat of the car, then packed the other things, looked at the clean floor, and Liu Xiaoyu pushed the car home.
When he passed by a garbage dump in the community, he poured all the corn skins and ears from the sacks in it, folded three empty bags and clamped them into the back seat of the car, pushed the car and went home.
When I got home and didn't do anything, I poured the money in the bag onto the big table. After counting it, 200 kilograms of corn were sold for a total of 556 yuan. With the money I sold in the morning, I earned a total of 843.5 yuan. Rubbing my sore waist, Liu Xiaoyu smiled foolishly.
Chapter completed!