Traveling through the Eighth Five-Year Plan: Starting from selling fruit at a stall

Chapter 27

Ling Yue wanted to cry.

Pens and ink do not take up space. Today, she bought five boxes of pens and one piece of carbon ink. In less than an hour, 24 bottles of ink were sold out, and only one box of pens remained.

But just now, she also sold out the last pen.

"Come tomorrow, I'll bring some more tomorrow."

"But we have class tomorrow, how can I go to class without a pen?"

Ling Yue said confidently: "Student, you don't know this, you will at most just have a meeting tomorrow, and in the next month, what is waiting for you is military training."

She took a bottle of Yashuang and handed it over, "Now that the sun is so poisonous, you should buy a bottle of Yashuang just in case."

The student hesitated for a moment, but took it obediently, "I use this cream at home, how do you sell it?"

"The department store sells for [-] cents, but here I only want [-] cents."

"So cheap?" The student shouted in surprise, "Okay, I want a box."

There are fewer and fewer things on the stall, Ling Yue sees it and is anxious.

After Chen Zhaodi came back, Ling Yue couldn't care less about the number of students, took all the stocks out of the carriage, pushed the tricycle and went out: "Sister Huang, Zhaodi, you stay here, I'll go back and get some goods come over."

It's a fake to go back to get the goods. Today's business is so good, silk scarves, pens, and Yashuang are all out of stock, so she has to go to the train station again.

As soon as Ling Yue left, Chen Zhaodi seemed a little at a loss. She stood there and watched Huang Guixiang quickly collect money and change, and answered every customer who came to ask questions. The student asked:
"Student, what do you need?"

"I heard you have tapes here, and I want to see what songs you have."

Chen Zhaodi quickly pointed to the location of the tape and said, "Here, you should also want "My Chinese Heart". This song is very popular this year."

……

Ling Yue rode from the school gate to the train station, where she bought goods and then returned to the school gate. It took her an hour.

Originally, it would take longer, but she really couldn't wait, as long as she needed it, and there happened to be some at the stall, no matter how much, she would happily take it.

When she returned to the school gate, her clothes were soaked with sweat.

"Let it be, let it be, the goods are here!"

Before Ling Yue could speak, Huang Guixiang led Chen Zhaodi to quickly re-arrange the sold-out products on the wooden board.

After finally making it to noon, Ling Yue originally wanted to ask Huang Guixiang to buy a few bowls of noodles to eat, but who knew that after her second cart was loaded, the students never stopped.

Although Ling Yue was also hungry, she took the time to ask Huang Guixiang to buy noodles.

When the noodles are bought, the three of them can only eat them in turn.

When Ling Yue picked up the bowl, the noodles were already lumpy.

She didn't dislike it either, she picked up the bowl and ate it with big mouthfuls.

Sure enough, the old saying goes, everything tastes good when people are hungry, even if it's a bowl of lumpy noodles, Ling Yue thinks it's a delicacy in the world.

Today's business is much better than the previous two days.

Ling Yue never thought that seasonal products would be so easy to sell.

She didn't advertise, and she didn't engage in specials. Almost all products, except tapes, were five cents to ten cents cheaper than department stores.

She caught people's greed for petty gains.

Although everyone is not rich now, there is an old saying that "a poor family gets rich", because it is vividly reflected in the students who are studying.

Just like yesterday, she waited until the sun went down before she dragged her tired body and stepped on the tricycle to drive home with a small amount of goods.

Chen Zhaodi looked very excited: "I really didn't expect that setting up a stall in front of the university is like fighting a war."

Huang Guixiang didn't want to talk anymore, she opened her mouth slightly, and took heavy steps weakly.

Ling Yue did not forget to draw big cakes for them: "You two have worked hard today. If you were not willing to help me, I don't even know what to do today."

"Why are you talking about this? If we are people who care about every detail, we will definitely not come to help you."

Huang Guixiang said indifferently, "Are you right, Zhaodi?"

Chen Zhaodi nodded: "Yes, Xiaoyue, they are all my sisters, what are you talking about?"

"Well then, I'll treat you tonight, and I'll have a meal in the state-run hotel later, how about it?"

"Hey, Xiaoyue, you are treating me differently!" Huang Guixiang deliberately raised her voice, "I have been working with you for so long, but you never said that you would treat me to a meal. Did we have a meal? I don’t want you to be so partial!”

Ling Yue knew that she was joking, so she pretended to be angry and said, "That's all right, then when we get home, we'll eat our own food, and I'll save two dollars."

Huang Guixiang said exaggeratedly: "Zhaodi, why do you think this person is so petty? He even said that he wanted to treat guests, but he turned his face faster than turning the book!"

Ling Yue pedaled hard on the three wheels, leaving behind a series of laughter.

Ling Yue is not that stingy person.

When they got home, when Wang Zhaoyang and the others came back from get off work, they dragged Jiang Congxiang's family with them and headed to the state-run hotel.

Jiang Congxiang helped her watch Tongtong for a whole day, and it was a bit unreasonable for her to go out to the restaurant without bringing others with her.

After entering the state-run restaurant, Huang Guixiang's voice was the loudest: "Xiaoyue, let the ugly words come first, I will order food later, no matter how high or low, you are not allowed to cry."

Ling Yue scolded with a smile: "Look at what you said, am I as stingy as you say!"

Huang Guixiang glared at her: "Why not? I treated us to a bowl of noodles at noon and didn't let us back until now. I was so hungry that my chest was on my back."

"Okay, you can order whatever you want, I don't want to stop you."

"Okay, that's what you said."

Huang Guixiang called the waiter, "Comrade, what delicious food do you have here?"

"There are too many."

The waiters in state-run restaurants are no different from the waiters in the restaurants of later generations. Although their working environment is in restaurants, they are also people who eat "national food" seriously.

"Braised grass carp in soy sauce, stir-fried pork, tomato eggs, kelp bone soup, stir-fried vegetables, pork head meat, braised pork feet with soybeans, three-yellow chicken, fragrant dried celery, etc."

Huang Guixiang was about to order food when Ji Xiaonian stopped her.

"Guixiang, know something!" Ji Xiaonian said displeasedly, "Today is Xiaoyue's treat, we can eat whatever she orders, how can you be so loud?"

Since getting acquainted with Huang Guixiang, Ling Yue also knows her temper.

She is a typical knife-mouthed bean curd heart. Although she likes to take advantage of small things, since the last time she had a fight with her, she has never shown it in front of her.

Immediately said: "It's okay, Sister Huang is joking with me! As long as you are happy today, you can order whatever you want, and that's enough!"

(End of this chapter)