Chapter 451 The Vegetable Market Before the Festival
Lin Mai left the clothing factory and went to his own Fuduoduo vegetable market.
After winning the lawsuit, I had to prepare a table of delicious food to celebrate with Grandpa Fang and the others.
Tang Shunying stood in front of the office window, watching Lin Mai's walking back, feeling uneasy.
The factory has hired a new accounting staff member. I wonder if Director Lin will let her leave tomorrow.
After not visiting Fuduoduo Market for two days, Lin Mai discovered that the variety of fresh food in the market was much richer than usual, and the quantity was larger.
But even so, there are still many customers snapping up seafood such as kelp, as well as various poultry and eggs.
Several salesmen selling poultry and eggs shouted loudly while doing business: "Don't grab it, everyone. Our market not only supplies a large amount of various poultry eggs today, but will also supply a large amount in the future."
It was an aunt's turn to queue up in front of the counter selling salted duck eggs. As if the salted duck eggs were free, she asked for fifty.
The salesperson was very helpless and said: "Auntie, didn't you hear what I just said? These eggs will still be available tomorrow. You don't have to buy so many at once."
The customers lining up behind Auntie also advised her to buy less: "Just buy one or twenty.
You said you were going to buy fifty at one go, and you asked the rest of us to buy them?"
But the aunt refused to buy less, and said to a salesperson: "I just want to buy this much.
Now you are talking nicely and supplying large quantities every day.
What if there is no tomorrow? Am I still hanging in front of your market for a few salted duck eggs?"
The salesperson smiled silently and said, "Auntie, can you not sound so scary? I promise there will be salted duck eggs tomorrow."
The aunt rolled her eyes and said: "So what if there is a large supply tomorrow?
Yours is the only private market in Jiangbei. Not only does it have a rich variety of food, but the prices are also reasonable.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is just a few days away, not to mention that the entire Jiangbei population will flock to your market to buy things.
I see, even if residents in Jiangnan take the ferry or walk across the Yangtze River Bridge, they will still come here to buy holiday supplies.
No matter how much supply your vegetable market supplies, can you guarantee supply to the residents of the two districts of Hankou and Wuchang?
Anyway, I don’t want to listen to your crazy talk. Only when you buy something can you be safe.
Besides, the holidays are coming soon and there are so many people buying, so there’s no guarantee you won’t raise the price. If I buy now, I can save some money.”
The salesperson put the fifty salted duck eggs that the aunt asked for into a basket for her.
The aunt paid the money and went to charge at another desk.
After hearing what the aunt said, many customers agreed with what she said.
Everyone went even crazier when buying things. Some originally planned to buy only one chicken for the festival, but then they changed their minds and bought two.
Lin Mai bought a lot of ingredients and fruits and went to Zhao Liang's office.
She heard everything the aunt said just now.
The aunt's worries are not unreasonable, and I wonder if Zhao Liang has considered these circumstances.
Anyway, she had never thought that in addition to the residents around the Fuduoduo Market, residents from other places might also come to the Fuduoduo Market to buy holiday supplies.
After all, her Fuduoduo is reasonably priced and offers various convenient services such as free killing of poultry and free chop of ribs, so it is normal for her to attract customers from afar.
When Lin Mai walked into the office, Zhao Liang had just finished making a phone call.
I was very excited when I saw her coming.
While asking Lin Mai to sit down and opening a soda for her, he said: Mr. Lin, you are here. If you don't come, I will go find you."
Lin Mai put the fruits and ingredients he bought on the ground and sat down on the sofa.
He took the soda from Zhao Liang and took two sips.
On a hot day, a bottle of ice-cold soda is really refreshing and refreshing.
"What's wrong? Did something happen at the market?"
Zhao Liang shook his head: "With me in charge, what can happen to the market?
The luncheon meats, biscuits and candies that were put out at the market in the morning were all sold out as soon as they were placed on the counter.
I just want to ask you, can you still sell lunch meat and candies and cookies?"
Although Lin Mai had long expected that the luncheon meat candies and biscuits would sell well, he did not expect them to be so popular, and he was very happy."
"Of course you can continue to sell, but you have to calculate how much you sell every day.
Don't sell too fast, there won't be anything sold during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day."
Zhao Liang nodded.
Lin Mai then asked: "Why are the products in the market so rich today and the quantities are so large?
You won’t put the supplies for the festival into the market in advance, right?”
"How is that possible!" Zhao Liang sat down opposite her, "We are now consigning goods by train. We can purchase as much goods as we want, so the products are so rich and the quantity is so large.
Unlike before, because it is truck transportation, we are limited by the truck's cargo capacity and dare not purchase in large quantities.
As for the variety of products, it’s because I have sent purchasers all over the country, and I have all the goods from the east, west, north, and south.”
Lin Mai smiled and said: "Let me tell you, apples from Yantai and honeydew melons from Lanzhou are all sold in our vegetable farm. It turns out that you sent buyers to purchase them across the country."
She took two more sips of soda and relayed what the aunt just said to Zhao Liang.
Then he said: "You told me before that during the festival, five pigs and five hundred poultry were given birth every day... Now I am worried that these goods will not be enough to sell.
Because at that time, we did not consider that residents from other places might come to buy holiday supplies.
Look, should we stock up on more goods so that customers who come from afar don’t end up empty-handed?”
Zhao Liang was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "I thought that only the citizens of Jiangbei would come to our Fuduoduo market to buy things, so I was only prepared to deal with the citizens of Jiangbei.
Since citizens from Jiangnan may also come here, I will ask the buyers to increase the purchase of various agricultural products and seafood."
Lin Mai nodded and was about to leave.
Zhao Liang scratched his head, wondering: "The buyer who went to the countryside in the next province to purchase poultry and eggs said that he had already ordered thousands of poultry for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
However, so many poultry cannot be transported by train, so they can only be transported back by truck.
But these are all trivial matters. What I am worried about is that when so many poultry are slaughtered in the market, the scene will be dirty and chaotic. How can this be solved?"
Lin Mai thought for a while and said decisively: "After transporting it back by truck, arrange for employees to slaughter and process it in the middle of the night.
Then freeze it with ice cubes and sell it the next day, so that the market will not be dirty and there will be no mess."
She has long wanted to change the way poultry is sold.
Although customers can buy the freshest poultry through on-site slaughtering, the hidden danger is that it will contaminate the market.
It is much cleaner and hygienic to slaughter the poultry in advance and then take it to the market to sell.
Zhao Liang asked hesitantly: "Slaughter it beforehand... What should customers do if they think it's not fresh? Will it affect sales?"
"Explain to them that we slaughtered them in the middle of the night and there is no issue of whether they are fresh or not.
Even if some customers find it stale, I believe most customers will buy it.
Because I don’t want to buy it because I can’t buy it in state-owned markets and it’s too expensive to buy it on the black market.
And the slaughtering is done, which saves them trouble."
Zhao Liang nodded.
Lin Mai thought for a moment and then said: "The slaughter I am talking about is different from the previous on-site slaughter. It only requires hair removal.
Instead, customers are asked to empty their stomachs completely, and when customers buy them back, they only need to cut off the chicken feet and rinse them with water before cooking."
Zhao Liang was silent for a moment and said: "If you kill the chicken and then sell it, you will have already lost a lot of weight.
If you empty out your belly again, you will lose some weight, so won’t you lose money by selling it this way?”
When poultry sold at Fuduoduo Market is weighed first and then slaughtered for free, there is no loss of weight.
"Live chickens are the price of live chickens, and white-striped chickens are the price of white-striped chickens.
The selling price of white-striped chickens must be higher than that of live chickens. How can you still sell them at the price of live chickens? You have to raise the price!"
Zhao Liang worried: "I'm just afraid that if the price goes up, customers won't accept it."
Lin Mai said confidently: "As long as we increase prices reasonably, customers will be able to accept it.
Customers are not stupid and can't do the math.
They buy live chickens and ducks, but after slaughtering them, they will also lose weight."
Zhao Liang nodded: "Then what to do with the internal organs that were taken out? Are they sold in the vegetable market?"
"Wash it clean and send it directly to the barbecue restaurant."
After talking about work matters with Zhao Liang, Lin Mai went to the villa.
As soon as I entered the house, I went into the kitchen, rolled up my sleeves and started making dinner.
Before dinner was ready, Grandpa Fang and the others came back one after another.
When Grandpa Fang and others smelled the aroma wafting from the kitchen, they could only say "It smells good!"
Only Fang Zhuoyue ran straight into the kitchen like a greedy cat, stretching out his paws to grab vegetables.
Like a little tail, Doudou followed him into the kitchen.
Seeing him grabbing vegetables to eat, the little guy was so anxious that he kept shouting: "I want to eat too, uncle, I want to eat too!"
Fang Zhuoyue gave her a duck leg to chew.
The uncle and nephew were eating happily in front of Lin Mai, when Grandma Fang entered the kitchen, grabbed Fang Zhuoyue's ears and dragged him out:
"You eat secretly before the meal is served, and you even take Doudou with you to eat secretly. Do you think you still act like an elder?"
Fang Zhuoyue screamed when he was grabbed, and looked at his elder brother Fang Zhuoran for help.
Fang Zhuoran ignored his look, went into the kitchen with a cattail leaf fan, and fanned Lin Mai.
Lin Mai was cooking the last dish and turned to him: "I'm not hot, so you don't have to fan me."
"You're sweating all over and you still say it's not hot!" Fang Zhuoran said distressedly.
A few minutes later, the last dish was put on the plate, and everyone was busy putting the dozen or so dishes prepared by Lin Mai on the table.
As soon as everyone sat down and prepared to feast, they saw Ah Huang on alert, then rushed to the gate and barked at the outside.
Just when everyone was confused, Fang Weiguo's voice came from outside the hospital: "Dad, Mom, we are here to see you!"