Chapter 62 Selling Bacon and Eggs
Grandma Shen brought some August melons to Wang Wei’s boss.
Wang Weidong's daughter-in-law, Li Cunju, heard that they were collecting passionflower seeds at home and came over to take a look out of curiosity.
As soon as he entered the door, he shouted loudly: "Little flower, why are you messing with something good?"
Shen Qiuqiu responded with a smile, "Auntie, we went into the mountains to find some passion flowers today, and we plan to select some to keep as seeds."
Li Cunju grinned and said, "You young people are really good at it. There are wild fruits all over the mountains, and you still have to grow them yourself."
Yang Yanhong curled her lips and said, "Auntie, you don't understand this.
This fruit rots in the mud on our mountain and no one wants it, but people in the city regard it as a treasure, costing more than ten yuan a pound."
Li Cunju's eyes widened in surprise, "More than ten yuan a pound? That's a lie."
Yang Yanhong shrugged, "Why are you lying? They mix half the fruit with a large glass of water and sell it as a drink. Some people buy it for more than ten or twenty yuan a cup."
The two of them started chatting with each other.
Shen Qiuqiu smiled and shook her head. Remembering the call from Gao Yang just now, she casually asked Grandma Shen whether the eggs and bacon at home were for sale. Gao Yang's mother's colleague wanted to buy them.
Grandma Shen waved her hand, "I don't have enough food at home, how can I sell it?"
Previously, they were the only two in the family, and they couldn't finish the eggs. But every once in a while, they were able to save some eggs and sell them at the market for money.
However, since my granddaughter came back, the family’s free-range eggs have not been taken out, and they are all eaten at home.
Thinking that Gao Yang had helped the family a lot in the past, it was rare for someone to ask for help, so it would not be good to refuse.
Grandma Shen asked again: "How many do they want? If not, I'll go to someone else's house and ask. There should still be some."
Before Shen Qiuqiu had time to answer, Yang Yanhong said first: "Why don't you go to someone else's house? I have free-range eggs and bacon at home.
Xiaohua, just because of our relationship, you can't go beyond me and take care of other people."
Li Cunju slapped her thigh violently, feeling unhappy.
"Hey, it seems like no one has it.
Xiaohua, my eggs are the same as yours.
The old hens that lay eggs in my house are the chicks that I picked up from your house."
She didn't expect them to argue about this, and Shen Qiuqiu didn't know how to answer for a while.
One is an old classmate and the other is a close neighbor. It is not good to offend anyone.
She picked up the phone and sent Gao Yang a WeChat message.
[Zhizhi Taotao Qiuqiu: We don’t have many local eggs and bacon left at home, but other families in the village still have them. If necessary, I can ask for you.]
Gao Yang's family had just finished eating, and the family of three was taking a walk outside.
Gao Yang showed the WeChat message sent by Shen Qiuqiu directly to Liu Liying.
Liu Liying took a look and didn't mind, mainly because she could trust Shen Qiuqiu's character.
"Tell her, as long as the quality is good. Three hundred free-range eggs and about fifty kilograms of bacon.
They are all at market price, local eggs are one dollar and a half each, and bacon is forty-five pounds a pound."
Gao Yang replied to Shen Qiuqiu as Liu Liying said.
Shen Qiuqiu stared at Gao Yang's WeChat for a while, then spoke to stop Yang Yanhong and Li Cunju who were still arguing.
"Auntie, Yanhong, I want three hundred free-range eggs and fifty pounds of bacon.
Free-range eggs cost 1.55 yuan each, and bacon was 45.5 pounds per pound.
If you think the price is right, just sell half of it to one family."
This price can be said to be quite appropriate; you may not be able to get such a good price even if you get it in the market.
Grandma Shen was a little excited after hearing this, but there really weren't a few pieces of bacon left at home. Her grandchildren all loved eating it, so she might as well keep it for them.
Yang Yanhong and Li Cunju are also quite satisfied with the price. The only dissatisfaction is that they can only sell half of it.
But there is nothing we can do about it.
"Okay, I'll go back and get it for you now." Yang Yanhong seemed to be afraid that Shen Qiuqiu would change her mind, so she immediately went home to get it.
When I got to the gate, I remembered that my daughter was still here, and shouted at the top of my lungs, "Xiao Na, help me keep an eye on Jiajia. I'll be right back."
After saying that, he ran away without a trace.
Not to be outdone, Li Cunju raised her legs and walked home, fearing that she would be a step too late.
Looking at the two people leaving in a hurry, Grandma Shen couldn't help but shake her head and laugh, "These two are very old, how come they are so reckless and not stable at all."
After a while, Li Cunju came back with eggs and bacon.
Her home is close, so it will naturally be faster.
Yang Yanhong was not slow in her movements and came right after her, panting from exhaustion.
Grandma Shen took the egg from her hand and said angrily: "You should run slower. If you break the egg, you can't take it out."
Yang Yanhong waved her hands and gasped, "I didn't run, I just walked a little faster."
As soon as she finished speaking, her man Wang Lijun followed behind him carrying a knitted bag.
"Throwing away everything, I took the eggs and walked out. I didn't ask for the bacon either."
Grandma Shen brought a big bamboo basket and picked up the eggs they brought one by one into the bamboo basket.
While picking them up, carefully check whether the eggs are intact.
After checking the eggs, I looked at the bacon they brought.
This is mainly to check whether there are insect eyes. If the bacon has worms, it cannot be eaten.
Gao Yang also trusted his granddaughter and asked her to help buy these things. Naturally, Grandma Shen had to check carefully and not to deceive others.
However, both Li Cunju and Yang Yanhong are reliable, and the things they bring are all good.
Shen Qiuqiu originally planned to deliver it to Gao Yang tomorrow, but Wang Lijun happened to be there, so he snatched the job away.
"I happen to be fine at the moment. How about I drive someone there now?"
Shen Qiuqiu thought about it and thought it would work, so as to save herself the trouble.
After contacting Gao Yang to confirm that they were at home, they gave Gao Yang's number to Wang Lijun.
Wang Lijun drove his own small truck and delivered 300 eggs and 50 pounds of bacon to Gao Yang's house that night.
Liu Liying specially went to the bank's ATM machine and withdrew 2,700 yuan in cash to Wang Lijun.
When Wang Lijun returned to Qinghe Village from the town, it was already past eight o'clock and almost nine o'clock.
Li Cunju was still sitting in his canteen, waiting until she got the 1,350 yuan she deserved, and then left with satisfaction.
Looking at her leaving figure, Yang Yanhong almost rolled her eyes to the sky.
"It's really annoying. If she hadn't stepped in, the two thousand seven hundred yuan would have been ours."
Wang Lijun was very open-minded and advised her: "This is not a one-time deal. As long as our products are good, people will come back to buy them again.
Besides, we don’t have that many local eggs at home, so we had to borrow 30 from Lao Song’s house next door to get the 150 eggs.”
Yang Yanhong thought about it, but she still felt a little uncomfortable.
Before going to bed, she suddenly said to Wang Lijun: "I have to go to the second aunt tomorrow and ask her to give us some more chicken cubs. We will raise more laying hens."
Wang Lijun turned over and soon started shouting loudly.
------Digression-----
I want to admit my mistake, and the explosion I promised did not happen.
I went home for the past two days to celebrate the New Year. I didn’t bring a computer, so I used my mobile phone to code, but I didn’t achieve the expected progress.
Chapter completed!