The richest man starts from a street stall

Chapter 8 The Unexpected

The next day was Saturday and there was no school.

Chen Shi woke up at six o'clock, washed his face and rinsed his mouth, and was ready to go for a run.

The five people who were woken up threw him meal cards and asked him to bring breakfast back.

When Chen Shi came to the football field, he saw many students reciting English, and many students were jogging in the morning.

I thought I saw that tall girl last night, but I didn't.

I ran three laps last night and my legs were a little sore, but I still persisted and finished the three laps.

If you don't exercise for a long time, it's not bad to run three laps quickly, and then run a few more laps when you get used to it.

Have breakfast in the cafeteria and come back with some breakfast.

I originally planned to leave for Pu County immediately, but seeing the fog outside, I guess the highway will be closed.

It just so happens that I have a lot of energy, and I want to write down many thoughts in my mind immediately, fearing that I will forget them in a while.

So, turn on the computer and prepare the codeword.

The roommate was still sleeping soundly, and was alone quietly. Chen Shi felt that the state was coming, and he coded more than 1000 words in an hour.

Of course, he can't compare with those professional codewords, he is a rookie.

He also found that many inspirational words popped up naturally after coding, and it was nothing more than just coming at hand.

It seems that most of it is the reason of his predecessor, his writing style is better than his, but what he lacks is his social experience, and he has read less novels.

After coding one thousand and five characters, it was eight o'clock in the morning, and the roommates got up and had breakfast one after another.

Chen Shi felt that the state was still there, so he continued to type. At ten o'clock, the first draft had written [-] words.

Well, pretty good.

The fog has cleared, so we should start.

Put on your backpack and take a bus to Pu County, fifty kilometers away.

When the car drove into the jurisdiction of Puxian County, you could see that there were many sugar oranges planted on both sides of the highway, and the emerald green fruit trees were covered with orange and yellow.

When you arrive at the station, ask more questions to know which town grows the most tangerines, and confirm the information you have heard from the driver, so as not to make a trip in vain.

Based on the information we inquired, we determined the first place to visit: Minle Village, Fanghui Town, which is more than ten kilometers away from the center of the county.

Chen Shi left the county station and transferred to Fanghui Town.

The facilities at the town station are simple, and there are advertisements for fruit farmers posted on nearby advertising boards and telephone poles.

Of course, Chen Shi wrote down the phone numbers of several fruit growers, and called them on the way to find out more about the real situation.

Sit on a tricycle and soon arrive at the destination, Minle Village.

He found out this from a driver, and then asked the passing villagers, knowing how many sugar oranges in the village were of better quality, so he went straight to his destination.

He just remembered a few phone calls, called to ask the price, and the purchase price was more than [-] yuan, and the price was relatively watery, but from the analysis of the tone of the fruit grower, the price could not be cut down much.

The selling price is only five or six yuan, excluding transportation and loss, if you charge such a high price, if you can't sell it out within a day or two, you will definitely lose money.

The target you are looking for must be one with a large planting area. In that case, the fruit farmers are in a hurry. Sugar oranges are abundant this year and they are worried that they will not be able to sell at a high price, so they will sell part of them at a low price first to deal with the debts owed by the family.

In one afternoon, Chen Shi looked at many orchards and chose one with high quality.

The purchase price is of course higher, and fruit growers started asking for two yuan and five dollars.

However, after Chen Shi took out the [-] tons of proof of intention to purchase, and then doubled the price, the final transaction price was [-] yuan.

Fruit growers wanted cash, and would not scatter hawks when they saw rabbits, but they didn't talk about credit, and they wouldn't feel at ease just because of Chen Shi's intention to buy [-] tons.

The fruit merchants who come to purchase every year basically say this, and in the end they can’t buy that much.

The fruit grower is also satisfied with the price of [-] yuan. The market is not optimistic this year. His fruit can be on the market. The later the price is, the cheaper it is.

Unless it can last until the Spring Festival, but the sugar orange variety is not easy to grow, and the production will decrease when winter approaches.

Chen Shi also explained, first buy a ton and a half to test the market conditions.

If he only purchased one and a half tons, the fruit farmer would charge two yuan and five dollars.

Therefore, many fruit shop owners probably know the purchase price of the Tangerine, but they dare not touch it.

There needs to be a fixed source of goods. If you collect less, you can’t get a low price, and if you buy too much, you can’t finish the goods. The fruit is too easy to rot, and the backlog will be a big loss for two days.

A ton and a half of fruit costs 6600 yuan, and Chen Shi's deposit is less than 2000 yuan, so he can only borrow money.

If this business loses money and the money is not paid, it will be difficult to have the confidence to get back on track.

The two parties signed the contract, and Chen Shi first gave the fruit grower a deposit of 1000 yuan.

The two parties agreed to pick fruit and pull goods tomorrow morning.

The rest of the fruit balance, of course, is money and goods.

After Chen Shi and Uncle Li handed over, they returned to the town and immediately found a truck that could pull nearly two tons. After communicating with the driver and negotiating the price, they asked him to go pick up the goods together tomorrow.

That night, Chen Shi didn't go back to school either, it was too troublesome to go back and forth.

Fortunately, the town was relatively large, and he could still find a hotel to stay at, which cost one hundred yuan a night. Chen Shi felt a lot sad, but the hotel had computers and an Internet connection that allowed him to code, which was just what he wanted.

Living alone in the hotel, without the interference of roommates, from entering the hotel at [-]:[-] pm to before going to bed, Chen Shi coded a total of [-] characters and sent them to his mailbox.

Early the next morning, Chen Shi got on the truck driver and drove to the fruit field of the fruit farmer.

Not long after, the truck drove directly into the open space outside the fruit field.

I saw many people helping to pick fruits in the orchard, and dozens of boxes have been picked.

Chen Shi carefully inspected the picked fruit and found it to be pretty good.

When pouring the tangerines from the basket into the carton, let us be gentle, otherwise the fruit will not be crushed.

At 124 o'clock in the morning, after weighing, there were a total of 3235 boxes of sugar oranges, with a gross weight of 3000 jin including the box and fruit, and a net weight of [-] jin after excluding the weight of the box and branches and leaves.

Each box of fruit is packed loosely, Chen Shi is afraid of being crushed.

The thickness of each carton is standard, weighing about 1 catties, and the cost of the carton is borne by the fruit grower.

At the beginning, Chen Shi also considered using plastic mesh baskets with better air permeability to hold the fruits. The mesh baskets would support the fruits and would not press the fruits in the lower box.

But the fruit grower said that a plastic net basket that can hold [-] to [-] catties of fruit costs [-] yuan even if it is cheap, and it is usually brought by the fruit merchant.

Chen Shi smashed his tongue. Nearly a hundred net baskets cost thousands of dollars, which is not worth it. It is better to pack fruit in cardboard boxes. There are more than 100 boxes, stacked in three layers, and the car can be filled.

He doesn't even know that he can make fruit for a few days.

After loading the fruit into the car and clearing the money and the goods, Chen Shi and the driver drove away from Guowan and headed back to school.

When returning home, Chen Shi was afraid of the bumps and damaged the fruit, so he took the expressway.

The negotiated delivery fee is 230 yuan, and the high-speed toll can be exempted from the green channel for fruit delivery.

Chen Shi squinted for a while, thinking about how to write the new book.

Feeling that time flies, the driver reminded him that he had arrived at the Polytechnic University and asked him how to go next.

Chen Shi sat in the passenger seat and gave directions to the driver.

The truck stopped at the east gate of the campus. He grabbed a handful of fruit and put it on the table in the guard room. He handed over a cigarette and told the guard about the situation. The guard took a quick look and opened the door happily.

When the car stopped outside the convenience store, Chen Shi opened the door, jumped out of the car, and shouted to the middle-aged owner in the store: "Boss Fang, the goods are here, come and inspect them."

When Boss Fang heard someone calling him, he looked back and saw that it was the little brother who had made an appointment to place an order. He said, "Okay!"

Walking to the side of the car, I took the high stool, opened a few boxes in the inner side, and looked at the bottom of the box. I felt that the product was not bad. I peeled a few and tasted it, pondered for a while, and said, "It's not bad, what's the price?"

(End of this chapter)