Relying on one's own hair

Qiao Ran drove the truck at the top speed and returned to Xinxin Meishi before eight o'clock in the morning. Before the boss Andrew came, Qiao Ran called him.

He can't decide on such a big matter by himself, he must ask his superiors for instructions.

Like Nelson, Andrew was woken up by Qiao Ran in his sleep, so naturally he didn't feel good about it.

After he reported the situation, Andrew immediately woke up, and a burst of furious curses almost deafened Qiao Ran's ears, "Fack! How did you and that idiot Nelson hand over?! You let me now Where to buy some shit lotus root, I will be killed by you two! You can figure out a way to deal with this matter yourself, if you can’t buy it and get blamed by the nursing home, you two can pack up and get out together!”

The phone was disconnected.

Qiao Ran rubbed her ears, after thinking for a while, she entered Xinxinmei's system, retrieved the phone numbers of all businesses that had business dealings with Xinxinmei, and began to make inquiries one by one.

No one grows lotus root in the whole city A. He can be sure of this. Xinxinmei is the most high-end vegetable grower with the most complete variety in the local area, so he can only hope for other places.

However, Qiao Ran asked around and said no. One is that most people in the Federation do not have the habit of eating lotus root, and the other is that this kind of thing needs ponds to grow, which consumes a lot of land and is too troublesome to dig. The price/performance ratio is really good Too low, so there is basically no race.

Fortunately, more than ten minutes later, a well-informed boss provided a clue, saying that there is a Fuji farm in B City, District 9, which is adjacent to District 7. The farmer's name is Jimmy Tanaka, who has part of Japanese descent and planted a small lotus pond. In addition to enjoying and eating by yourself, it is only supplied to a small number of local rich and wealthy families.

After thanking Qiao Ran, he immediately called the customer service number of that farm, saying that he wanted to buy two lotus roots, asked how much it would cost, and could it be delivered right away.Upon hearing this, the customer service cursed, "Are you sick?" and hung up.Qiao Ran called twice more, and the other party simply blocked him.

No way.

After thinking about it for five seconds, Qiao Ran checked the shuttle schedule in City A, and found that there was a flight to City B in half an hour, so he spent 3650 credits to book a ticket, and then drove to the starting point. Landing in Hong Kong, I boarded the shuttle in the last minute before the gate.

Another half an hour later, the shuttle arrived at City B, Qiao Ran took a taxi and went straight to the destination.

At nine o'clock, Qiao Ran arrived at Fuji Farm and asked to see the farm owner, Jimmy Tanaka himself.

The employees of the farm were intimidated by Qiao Ran's aggressiveness, and they really took him to his boss's office.

Qiao Ran waited for a long time in the living room outside the office before seeing Jimmy Tanaka himself, a thin and short middle-aged man with wrinkles deep enough to kill a fly, he didn't look easy to get close to.

Jimmy Tanaka frowned when he saw Qiao Ran, "Who are you?"

The employee next to him was almost sweating, and asked Qiao Ran in a low voice, "Sir, did you not make an appointment before you came?"

Time was running out, so Qiao Ran could only cut to the chase: "Mr. Tanaka, hello, my name is Qiao Ran, and I would like to buy two lotus roots from you."

"Where did the lunatic come from?" The corner of Jimmy Tanaka's mouth twitched, he didn't want to talk to Qiao Ran at all, and waved off the guest directly.

Before being dragged out of the door by two tall and burly bodyguards, Qiao Ran said quickly, "Mr. Tanaka! It's true that two lotus roots are a bit small, but isn't your motto 'Fuji Farm, do everything you can'? I heard that when you first started your business from scratch, even if someone bought a catty of radishes, you would personally deliver them to your door, so why are you rejecting a customer who came here from City A in District 9 by shuttle?"

Jimmy Tanaka's expression changed slightly, and with another wave of his hand, the two bodyguards held Qiao Ran in place.

Qiao Ran seized the opportunity to say another sentence: "The most important thing in business is to pay attention to integrity. These two lotus roots don't matter to you now, but they may indicate greater business opportunities in the future. You don't want to expand the scale of Fuji Farm. !"

Jimmy Tanaka has never been bullied like this since he got rich, and he was a little annoyed at once, but looking at Qiao Ran's black and white eyes, he couldn't express his anger at all, and finally waved his hands and said, "Okay, okay, I'll sell you two knots That's it."

Qiao Ran felt relieved, "Thank you."

Although Jimmy Tanaka was willing to sell lotus root to Qiao Ran, the price was really not cheap. It cost 300 credits for one session, and 600 for two sessions. In his heart, he could buy a big bag of any variety.

But compared to Andrew's threat, these 600 points are nothing, no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it.

Qiao Ran originally planned to buy more food for himself, but he lost his mind when he heard the price. His monthly salary is only 8000, so how can he afford it?

After getting the lotus root, he rushed to the port of departure and landing without stopping, took the shuttle back to city A, and after landing, he drove a truck and took a shortcut to the nursing home.

It was only ten minutes before eleven o'clock. Qiao Ran was flying all the way. When he was turning beside the sand dune where he met Amao a few days ago, the wheels of the truck suddenly slipped and narrowly brushed against a car parked on the side of the sand dune. An unmanned black off-road vehicle rushed past.

Qiao Ran was sweating from shock, stepped on the brakes hastily, and then jumped out of the truck to check the off-road vehicle's condition.

The off-road vehicle is probably new, with a local ordinary license plate, and the body has been washed clean, and the whole body is black and shiny, so a mark that has just been scratched on the body is a little obvious.Fortunately, it's not serious, just need a touch of paint.

Qiao Ran was still a little guilty, but there was no one in the off-road vehicle, the driver didn't know where he was going, and he didn't have time to wait for the owner to come back, so he went back to the truck to get a pen and paper, and hurriedly wrote a message: "Hi, my name is Qiao Ran, I'm sorry for scratching your car, please contact me after seeing the note, and I will be responsible for paying the relevant maintenance costs, phone number: 199XXXXXXXX."

After clipping the note on the windshield wiper of the off-road vehicle, Qiao Ran got in the car and continued on his way.

Three minutes later, Van Lundin climbed up from a rift about ten meters deep not far away, and saw a scratch on his off-road vehicle at first sight. His face immediately turned darker.

After a while, he found a note on the front of the car, and after scanning it, he tore the note to pieces.

Qiao Ran, okay, just wait for me.

……

It was exactly eleven o'clock when Qiao Ran arrived at the convalescent kitchen. Dick was circling around the door of the kitchen like an ant on a hot pot. When he saw him get out of the car holding a gift box, which contained two knots of lotus root with a bow tie, he burst into tears Orbital, flinging towards him with outstretched arms, "Oh, my Joe, what a little angel you are!"

Qiao Ran stuffed the gift box into Dick's arms, and took a step back, "Hurry up and cook for the chef, don't miss your army commander's meal."

"Yes, yes, I'm going!" Dick happily ran into the kitchen.

The task is finally completed.

Qiao Ran relaxed his shoulders, only to realize that the T-shirt on his back was soaked with sweat, and at the same time he felt a little dizzy and weak in limbs.

He had been in a hurry all morning, and his heart was still tense, and he was exhausted both mentally and physically, which almost made him exhausted.

Qiao Ran climbed into the cab of the truck with some difficulty, opened the water glass and drank half of the glass of water in one go, and then rested on the back of the chair for nearly 10 minutes before slowly driving away from the nursing home.

When I returned to Xinmei, Andrew was sitting in the office with a gloomy face, while Nelson was standing aside tremblingly.

Seeing Qiao Ran come back, Andrew jumped up from the chair and asked, "Is the matter resolved? What does the nursing home say?"

Qiao Ran said, "I bought the lotus root and sent it to the kitchen of the nursing home."

Andrew and Nelson breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Qiao Ran continued: "Boss, no one grows lotus roots in District 9. I bought them at Fuji Farm in District 7. Two sections of lotus roots cost 600 points, plus the round-trip transportation fee, and the total cost is exactly 8000 points."

Andrew was drinking coffee in a relaxing way, when he heard it, he sprayed Nelson on the head with a "poof", "What?! 8000 points? What are you kidding, it costs so much to buy a dish! I'll even offer a price to the nursing home, two lotus roots I can only sell it for 7000 at most, what else can I get for the [-] more? I am not losing money on this business today!"

Nelson echoed while wiping the coffee foam off his face: "Yeah, the price is too high! Joe, don't you take this opportunity to go to District 7?"

Qiao Ran looked at him, and said slowly and clearly: "It took me three hours to go back and forth, two and a half hours of which were either in the car or on the shuttle, and half an hour at Fuji Farm What can I do with buying lotus root? The point is, why didn’t you tell Eden yesterday that there is no lotus root in our planting base? Otherwise, I wouldn’t have to go all the way to District 7 to buy it.”

Nelson was at a loss for words for a moment, and then said heartbroken: "Joe, what do you mean? Why are you blaming me! I made it clear, who knows what went wrong, maybe there was a problem with the handover at the nursing home, You can't put all the responsibility on me.

Taking a step back, even if the nursing home wants lotus roots, it shouldn't be so troublesome, right?Didn't you say that you have eaten lotus root? Since you can eat it, it means that this thing is not so rare. Why do you have to travel so far to buy it today? Isn't this misleading everyone?But fortunately, after tossing and tossing for a long time, I finally bought it, otherwise the nursing home would say that we are not trustworthy. "

Andrew was a little annoyed when he heard his nonsense, and said with a dark face: "Joe, you have been working here for a year, how could you still make such a low-level mistake! If you didn't buy lotus root, The nursing home blamed it and terminated the cooperation with me in the future. How can I explain to my uncle? Can you afford this loss?!"

Qiao Ran pressed the swollen forehead, feeling a faint anger that was about to burst out, and reluctantly replied: "I can't accompany you, but this is not the case. I have not misled Nelson, and Nelson's work log yesterday I didn't clearly write today's menu. I called him in the morning to confirm, and he clearly said that we don't want lotus root.

This conversation should have been automatically recorded by the company's monitoring equipment. Boss, do you want to go to the monitoring room and listen to it? "

The author has something to say: Spoiler alert, in the next chapter the general will come to find someone to settle accounts~