Liu Jie Frozen Goods was a small shop. After a cold storage room was added, it became even smaller. An ice chest displayed the goods, and a desk, a water dispenser, and a few stools constituted everything in the shop.
Oh, there was also a small TV in the upper corner of the shop. Because her mind was preoccupied, Liu Fang, who would normally turn on the TV first thing when she arrived at the shop, forgot about it.
Liu Chen sat obediently on a chair behind the desk. Seeing anyone looking at their shop sign, she would invite them to check out the ice chest.
Perhaps because Liu Chen was young and looked well-behaved, she managed to attract a stern-looking middle-aged woman. The woman glanced at the five-jin bags of wholesale goods in the ice chest and asked without looking up, "How much for a case of Si Quan dumplings?"
Liu Chen glanced at the sales slip on the desk and replied as loudly as she could, "Pork and cabbage are fifty yuan a case, and pork and celery are the same price. Sister, if you take five cases, you can get a better discount."
Liu Fang, who had been somewhat uneasy, saw her daughter so diligently trying to sell goods and stopped thinking about her sister's affairs. Life, it's always most important to do what's in front of you.
The middle-aged woman withdrew her gaze from the ice chest and looked at the fair-skinned, doll-faced little girl sitting behind the desk. She smiled and said, "Four cases of cabbage and two cases of celery. Remember to give me a discount!"
"Okay!"
"Host sold frozen goods for the first time, obtained a lottery ticket, activating system... Activating Prize Pool 1, obtained primary black hair (though it still has split ends, the hair color is as black as ink)."
Liu Chen's hand, which was opening the sales slip, paused. She looked around. The customer was standing by the ice chest waiting for her to write the order. Besides her, several strangers walked past the shop. Liu Chen tightened her grip on the pen, then lowered her head and continued to finish the sales slip, got up, and handed it to the middle-aged woman with a smile.
The unit price was not written on the slip, only a total of 293 at the end. It was originally 294, but many people were superstitious about the number 4, so Liu Chen took off one yuan.
The middle-aged woman glanced at the slip, and her smile deepened. She added, "The little girl has a sweet mouth and is conscientious in her work."
Liu Fang did not interject throughout. Only after the customer paid did she open the cold storage door and go in to move the goods. A thick layer of cotton quilt hung inside the cold storage door to prevent the cold air from escaping, which would prevent the temperature from dropping and the goods from freezing hard enough.
This was the norm for the boss of a frozen goods shop. While called a boss, most of the time, they were doing physical labor.
Liu Chen was not idle either. She put on an apron and knitted gloves and stood outside the cold storage door waiting to help. In her previous life, she had helped promote products for the factory countless times.
However, while helping, her heart was not calm. Or rather, a storm was brewing.
The concept of rebirth was already inconceivable to Liu Chen. But that voice that suddenly appeared, the so-called activated system.
In her past life, she was busy working to pay off debts every day and had no leisure activities. Her only entertainment was reading novels before sleeping or while on the bus or subway, and many of them involved systems.
But...
Other people's systems could make them spend a million yuan in a day, but hers seemed a bit different?
And what did that Prize Pool 1 mean?
Liu Chen wondered to herself as she stood by the ice chest waiting to receive the twenty-jin cases of dumplings.
However, when her mother came out, she bypassed Liu Chen directly, carrying two cases of dumplings and placing them on the customer's small cart. Then she turned back and, bending down, took out two more cases from behind the cotton quilt.
Liu Chen realized. While her mother was moving things, she walked to the cold storage door, bent down, and lifted the cotton quilt. Cold air immediately rushed out. Although Liu Chen was wearing a jacket, she still shivered from the cold air.
But her movements did not stop. She gripped the bottom of the boxes with both hands, then pushed herself up with her waist and stepped backward.
She felt the frozen cotton quilt push open from the middle. As soon as she straightened up, the boxes in her hands were taken away. Her mother's familiar voice sounded in her ears: "What is a little girl doing in the cold storage? If you get a stomachache later, you'll be risking your life! Go, go! Go sit over there!"
Hearing this, Liu Chen's nose twitched, and she felt a little warmth in her heart. In her previous life, when she helped distributors move goods, she never received such treatment. They wished she could move more.
Perhaps worried that her daughter would disobey and enter the cold storage again, Liu Fang placed the two cases of goods she had taken out on the corner of the ice chest, then closed the cold storage door. Only then did she carry the other two cases and place them on the customer's cart.
After smiling and seeing the customer off, Liu Fang walked to Chen Chen, who was sitting behind the desk, and said earnestly, "I can go into the cold storage; it's unavoidable. We can't have customers move the goods and find them themselves. But you can't. You're still a child. The cold storage is damp. If you go in, you'll have stomachaches when your period comes."
Liu Chen looked at her mother's fingers, which were slightly red from moving goods in the cold storage, and nodded silently.
She really wanted to do something, but her mind was in a mess, without any clear thoughts. She had been reborn, but she couldn't remember lottery numbers or football scores. All she remembered was that Happy Brand meatball was popular because it sold so well that it was later listed.
Beautiful Brand sausages were popular. The customer whose house she helped move goods at sold five to six hundred cases of Beautiful Brand sausages a day.
Thinking about it, besides frozen goods, she didn't seem to know much else.
Oh, and Moutai and Tencent stocks would soar in the future, but those were too far away from her...
As she was thinking, another person stopped in front of the ice chest. Liu Chen immediately perked up, sat on the chair, and asked with her signature smile, "What would you like to see? Some ice chests might have just sold out and not been restocked."
After some inquiry, Liu Chen successfully sold two cases of black sesame tangyuan again.
"Host sold two cases of frozen goods, obtained two lottery tickets. Would you like to use them?"
Liu Chen quietly looked around. Seeing that everyone in the market was busy with their own affairs, she stretched out one hand to cover her mouth and pretend to yawn, but quietly said, "Use them."
A huge colorful turntable appeared before her. There were words written on each color. The words were a bit small and unclear, but eighty percent of the area was white, with "Cash One Hundred" written on it.
Is it the cash I'm thinking of?
The turntable began to spin, and the dazzling pointer in the middle pointed to the white area.
"Received cash one hundred. Continue to draw?"
A pink hundred-yuan banknote flew out from the turntable to Liu Chen's eyes and then hovered in mid-air.
Liu Chen was so surprised by this sight that she was speechless, her breathing quickening, but she still remembered to whisper, "Continue!"
The colorful, glowing turntable began to spin again. The turntable slowly stopped, and the pointer again pointed to the white area.
"Received cash one hundred."
Liu Chen sat on the chair, her head slightly lowered, looking at her hands under the desk. She was holding two brand-new hundred-yuan bills.
Liu Chen swallowed, and began to calculate. If she sold one case of goods, she would get one lottery ticket. Based on her mother's shop's business, wouldn't she get a hundred lottery tickets a day?
One hundred multiplied by one hundred equals ten thousand yuan!
Thinking of this, Liu Chen wished she could immediately get up and ask everyone in the market if they wanted to buy frozen goods.
Fortunately, her more than ten years of working life had calmed her down. Ten thousand yuan a day, thirty thousand yuan a month. Could a high school student afford this amount?
If someone with ulterior motives discovered this, she would probably be captured and dissected for research in some underground laboratory, like the people in the movies she watched in her previous life.
Thinking of this, Liu Chen put one hundred-yuan bill into her pocket and slipped the other one into the money drawer through the gap.
Taking advantage of the large morning crowd, Liu Chen, with her enthusiastic smile, sold to several more customers. The people in the market gradually thinned out, and the lights in the aisle were still on.
"Sister Liu, oh my, why did you bring Xiao Chen to the shop today!"
The woman speaking was short, not even reaching 1.6 meters tall. Her skin was fair, and her chest was ample. She was the only employee her mother hired—Sister Li.
Yes, in what was called a frozen goods wholesale store, there were only two women.
Liu Chen stood up and smiled at Sister Li, "It's summer vacation, so I came to the shop to help. Auntie Li, please sit."
Saying that, she pulled out a plastic stool from the stacked ones behind her and handed it to Auntie Li, who was slightly out of breath from rushing.
Auntie Li's working hours were from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM every day, but she was often late because she still had to take her child to junior high school.
Liu Fang would sometimes be unhappy, muttering a few words, saying that if she was late again, her salary would be deducted. However, until "Liu Jie Frozen Goods" disappeared, Auntie Li's salary was never deducted.
At first, Liu Chen thought Sister Li was a bit crude, with her loud laughter every time. But later, when her family was in debt, Sister Li helped her mother find a job, helped her find part-time work, helped her rent a place, and negotiated prices.
It was a pity that a few years later, Sister Li's husband's legs were crushed by something falling at the construction site, losing all sensation, and he was paralyzed. Their family's savings were all spent on it. Sister Li had to take her husband back to their hometown.
However, Sister Li had a cheerful personality. Even after returning to her hometown, she kept in touch with Liu Fang from time to time. Their phone conversations always made Liu Fang laugh heartily.
As soon as Sister Li sat down, Liu Fang couldn't help but lean close to her, and the two of them whispered together, their faces looking solemn.