Liu Chen's words opened up a brand new world for Liu Fang.
Yes, even though we're all wholesalers, it doesn't mean I can't sell my goods to other wholesalers.
This is much faster than selling them piece by piece!
But Liu Fang quickly realized that her family could only get the low price for the hand-grabbed pancakes right now...
Thinking of this, Liu Fang's first reaction wasn't disappointment, but joy, happy that her child was so smart!
At the same time, seeing that Liu Chen was not becoming complacent because of the big order they received, he continued to recite ancient poems on the table.
Business got better day by day, and her daughter became smarter and more sensible. Liu Fang felt happier than on her wedding day!
Liu Chen had also finished memorizing English words bit by bit these past few days. He didn't put them aside after memorizing them, but instead practiced writing them down every day, then used the free time to memorize ancient poems and analyze classical Chinese texts.
However, the only puzzle was, why hasn't anyone come to pick up the fifty batches of hand-grabbed pancakes sold yesterday?
Could it be that hand-grabbed pancakes don't sell well? Impossible, if they didn't sell well, these small business owners wouldn't be buying them batch by batch. They are very calculative!
Neither Liu Chen nor Liu Fang mentioned the hand-grabbed pancakes, and it was already half past five.
In the summer of C City, at half past five, the sky was just turning from deep blue to light blue, and the sun was still some time away from rising.
"Sister Liu! My dearest sister! Give me five batches of hand-grabbed pancakes!"
The voice came from outside the shop. Liu Chen, who was reciting lessons, and Liu Fang, who was watching TV, both instantly turned their heads to look outside.
"Oh, Xiao Zhu! You've come to restock so early today?" Liu Fang teased with a smile.
Xiao Zhu chuckled and scratched his head. Although Liu Fang called him Xiao Zhu, he was actually in his thirties. Before opening his breakfast shop, he worked in an office, what people called a clerk, earning a salary of over a thousand yuan a month. After getting married and having a child, that amount was useless, so he quit two years ago and started his own business.
Starting a business wasn't something done on a whim. He had worked for free for his uncle for three months. His uncle, seeing his poor skills, told him that he could buy finished steamed buns and mantou and just steam them himself, though this would reduce his profit.
Xiao Zhu, who was almost developing a herniated disc from learning to make steamed buns, came to the frozen food wholesale market that afternoon. Other shops, upon hearing that he hadn't even opened his shop yet and just wanted to buy a few samples to try, ignored him.
It was Sister Liu who heard about it and gave him a few samples to take back and steam.
And so, Xiao Zhu's stall gradually took off, from steaming buns and mantou on a small cart to a fixed shop now, with seven or eight kinds of breakfast items, each of which was recommended by Liu Fang.
Sometimes, Xiao Zhu even felt that the master of his steamed bun shop wasn't his uncle, but Sister Liu, who was currently moving goods!
Liu Fang was also happy. The two batches of pancakes Xiao Zhu bought yesterday were sold out in one day, which meant they could consistently sell two batches of hand-grabbed pancakes every day!
Liu Chen also quickly prepared the order. Five batches of hand-grabbed pancakes, with a discount of five yuan per batch, totaling five hundred and fifty yuan.
"Sister Liu, I've also shared some hand-grabbed pancakes with my uncle. If they sell well, he'll probably come to pick up some this morning. Please keep one batch for him."
Hearing this, Liu Fang smiled even more broadly and immediately assured him, "Since it's your uncle, Xiao Zhu, I'll definitely save some for him!"
Xiao Zhu's feedback made Liu Chen even more confident, and she also discovered a bug in the system.
The system's condition for a successful transaction was the other party's payment.
Cheng Gang had only paid at that time and hadn't taken the goods away, but the system still recognized that she had earned forty lottery tickets.
Thinking about the system's bug, Liu Chen's heart beat a little faster, feeling as if she had grasped a fast track to wealth.
Xiao Zhu's restocking seemed to have pressed the activation button. From then on, the more than ten people who came to restock for the first time yesterday and officially started selling, one after another, arrived at "Sister Liu's Frozen Goods" before dawn.
"Sister Liu, you're the best! Give me five more batches of those hand-grabbed pancakes!"
"Buddy, are you also selling hand-grabbed pancakes? Where do you sell them? I'm in the Third Ring Road in the north of the city."
"Me too, me too, but I'm on the First Ring Road in the south of the city."
"The rent for shops on the First Ring Road is expensive. Your business must be big, buddy!"
"What big business? I just push an electric tricycle and sell them during the morning and noon hours. The urban management is very strict at other times."
"Then you're more comfortable than me. The rent for my shop is crushing me every month. I was thinking of going to work on the coast after finishing the rent payment."
"Not going anymore?"
"Not going. Where is working out of town more comfortable than being a small boss at home! I'll go out again when the hand-grabbed pancakes stop selling!"
Liu Chen listened to the customers chatting by the freezer while looking down and processing orders.
She couldn't help but feel a bit nostalgic. In 2008, C City had not yet experienced the rapid development of later years, housing prices hadn't soared, the first subway was still under construction, the areas outside the Third Ring Road were still rural, and shopping was mainly concentrated in the city center.
She handed the three orders to the customers. There was no need to differentiate them, because the promotion of a five-yuan discount per batch for purchasing five batches meant that even those who originally planned to buy three batches would grit their teeth and buy five. Liu Fang and Sister Li also cooperated tacitly. Whoever handed the money to Liu Chen first would have the hand-grabbed pancakes loaded onto their cart.
Thus, people became even more eager to pay.
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A three-person ward at City First Hospital.
Luo Meihong lay on the hospital bed, her waist in a plaster cast. Her eldest daughter had taken care of her overnight. During the day, she asked the "fake" daughter at home to take care of her. However, when she opened her eyes, there was no one by the bed.
"Where are they!" A roar filled with energy, its loudness making the fellow patients sleeping on either side frown. Everyone was a patient and needed rest the most.
"Coming! Are you trying to rush me to my death!" A burly middle-aged woman slowly walked in from outside the ward. As she approached Luo Meihong, a strong odor assaulted her nostrils.
"Ugh! Get away! Who are you! You stink!" Luo Meihong frowned, holding her breath and trying to turn away. However, she forgot about the plaster cast around her waist and couldn't move. She could only stretch her neck, trying to get away from the area with the strongest odor.
Seeing this, the middle-aged woman wasn't angry. She just sat down and introduced herself, "You can call me Xiao Zheng. I'll be taking care of you while you're in the hospital until you're discharged. Your daughter-in-law, Zhang Lili, has already paid. If you want to fire me, I can't give you a refund because I've already turned down other jobs to take care of you."
"What! You expect money for being like this! Give me my money back!"