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Chapter 14 The boy who sells nuclear eagles

Five days later, Hu Tu improved his nuclear carvings every day, and bought another 5 kilograms of black olive cores during this period, and used up all of them. He had not moved the higher-priced red oil core. He thought, "At least you have to practice your basic skills first. It would be a waste to use red oil cores before this. One is more than ten yuan a dollar. If you haven't made any money, save some first."

He set a small goal or a small plan for himself, "When I make a real finished product, I will take it out for market inspection. Every time I sell it, I will use an oil core. When I use up half a pound of oil core, this basic skill should be well practiced."

After a week of thinking, Hu Tu's craftsmanship has improved, one day is better than one day. In order to avoid the bad impression that the work is a machine carving, he deliberately used the colored hair on his palm to imitate the tip of the knife and make traces of hand carving.

Although the process is incredible, the result is almost the same as the handmade nuclear carving.

He was very satisfied with this result. If he hadn't seen his carving with his own hands, if there was no careful comparison by any carving master, he would never have thought it was a machine carving work, let alone other possibilities.

"Handmade nuclear carving, as the name suggests, is purely handmade nuclear carving. This is also a purely handmade nuclear carving, but my hands are different from others." This is not self-deception, he just explained his own differences. Then he laughed, "No matter what, there is a power beyond superhuman in my body. Since that's the case, I can't grow up step by step like an ordinary person!"

The library where Xu Suwan works is just a small place. She can talk about gossip. Her ability and desire to consume nuclear carvings are very low. Except for giving away a few favors, no one wants to buy them. Therefore, Hu Tu had to set up a stall in the flower and bird market.

Before setting up a stall, Hu Tu made sufficient preparations, rented stalls, set prices, prepared ropes of different colors, partitions, sealed pockets, brocade boxes and olive oil for makeup, as well as possible situations and ways of dealing with business, etc. Although there are still incomplete areas, he has made every effort to prepare.

The markets in towns and towns have to be rushed, especially for small vendors who do not have a fixed place, they must go and occupy a place early.

Hu Tu got up early. After getting up, he first fed Hu Xiaolian, then made breakfast, and then rode on the electric tricycle to arrive at the flower and bird market when it was almost dawn and occupied the position first.

Hu Tu did not grab the best seat, and he grabbed the good seat as soon as he arrived, which was easy to be hostile. He did not move a place where he had used other means to occupy the position, which would easily cause conflict. He chose a clean place one-third of the good seat, parked the car, and occupied the seat.

At this time, the flower and bird market was still empty, and many cleaners were cleaning the ground, including people familiar with Hu Tu, who often saved up some waste and sent it to the waste collection station.

When he met Hu Tu, several acquaintances came to say hello. Hu Tu took the opportunity to ask some tips about the flower and bird market, such as when the market opens, when the market has the most people, when the market is dispersed, where the traffic is large, etc.

Several cleaners also answered casually, "The market opens at 7:30, but the passenger flow cannot come up until 9:00 to 10:00. The time for the market is not fixed. Stores usually open until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and those who set up stalls will leave after selling. As for places with large traffic, there are several places. Needless to say, the market center is not necessary, and the market entrances and exits are not to mention. In addition, the best place is the intersection you occupy."

"That's good!" Hu Tu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile, "It seems that the market administrator didn't cheat me. After collecting the rent, he recommended a good place to me."

Hu Tu and the cleaners had different views on rent. Hu Tu tended to pay rent in advance, while several cleaners all tended to evade rent. Moreover, they all had their own good ways to evade rent. Unfortunately, they had nothing to sell, so they taught all the methods of evading rent to Hu Tu. Hu Tu just thought it was a story, and he listened with relish and opened his eyes.

At seven or eight o'clock, the flower and bird market gradually became lively, and the stalls were all occupied. If you came late, you could only queue up at the end.

On the left side of Hutu stall is a middle-aged man selling flowers. He is rough and has few flowers on the street stalls, including daffodils, roses, four-season begonia, southern bamboo and some succulents. The flowerpots are very exquisite. On the right is a woman selling pancakes. She has the best business now. She has not eaten at the morning market and has squeezed to her side.

Because the sellers of pancakes attracted the flow of tourists, some of whom were interested in nuclear carvings, so they asked the price while waiting. Hu Tu was overjoyed and asked about the price, so he told them the prepared price, "These are all handmade nuclear carvings made of olive kernels, with prices of 30, 20, and 10 yuan. This hollow carving costs 30 yuan per one, this ordinary lotus carving costs 20 yuan per one, and the others cost 10 yuan per one. You can choose 8 to 10 pieces into a string, and you can also give you a 20% discount."

But these customers' purpose is not to buy a nuclear sculpture, but to pass the time while waiting, so they asked a lot and were willing to pay for almost nothing. However, Hu Tu still explained hard. Hard work pays off. When it was almost nine o'clock, he finally welcomed the first customer who was willing to pay.

That was a middle-aged fat man who was very clean and had a bad beer belly. After asking the price, he started rummaging on the stall. He looked at it first and asked, "Boss, your core carving price is very casual. I think there are very similar things in these two piles. Why are they sold for 30 yuan here and only 10 yuan here?"

Many people asked this question. Hu Tu had already summarized a set of rhetoric during the answer. He explained with a smile: "I am not very satisfied with the 10 yuan per person here, and I cannot say that it is not good, but since I am not satisfied, there is no need to sell it for much more. Moreover, the quality can be seen. Look at the 10 yuan here, many of the 10 yuan here have slight white spots, black tendons and cracks. Looking at the details of the carving, the 10 yuan is not as exquisite and smooth as the 30 yuan. Of course, there may be something I don't like, but it is actually pretty good. I don't bother to tell it. Anyway, I don't expect to make money with 10 yuan."

The middle-aged fat man smiled and said, "Boss, your business method is fresh." Then he picked out the piles of 10 yuan each, spent nearly half an hour to find 8, and then spent another five minutes to find 8 from the piles of 30 yuan each. "I chose two strings, boss, calculate the price."

Hu Tu smiled and said, "These 8, one is 30 yuan, a total of 240 yuan; these 8, 80 yuan, a total of 320 yuan. I'll give you a 256 yuan discount, a total of 256 yuan, so you can give me 200 yuan, uh, 240 yuan!" 250 yuan is a black hole. Business people should avoid this price, otherwise customers will think you are cursing.

The middle-aged fat man paid the money on the spot. When Hu Tu was wearing the rope, he said, "Boss, you won't lose money when doing business like this. If you count it like this, it's equivalent to buying one get one free."

"It's all my own achievements, so I won't lose money." Hu Tu said casually, but recalled the fat man's words in his mind, adding, "Buy one get one free is a good gimmick, so just do it."
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