1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 52: People Who Don’t Give Face
Ao Dehai and Zhao Yu carried bags of urea to the edge of the field. They were sweating profusely but full of energy.

"Dehai, did Boss Chen really say he would give us a red envelope?"

"Yeah, I just don't know how many."

"He already said it, so it shouldn't be less. In the past half month, Boss Chen has to sell nearly ten thousand kilograms of vegetables. How can he be stingy?"

"Hopefully."

The two have not yet received their first month's salary under Chen Jiazhi, but their appetites have been whetted long ago.

Whether it is the commission from harvesting vegetables or the red envelopes mentioned today, they both feel full of energy to work.

In fact, Chen Jiazhi can't even pay one person's salary at the moment, but he has long mastered the art of making empty promises.

After the two of them fertilized and watered the fields for a while, Chen Jiazhi also came to the field.

After finishing the top dressing and watering of a piece of land, they went to harvest the vegetables.

The task of picking loofah, bitter melon, cowpea and green beans was still given to Li Xiu, and Ao Dehai went to harvest water spinach.

Some of the stems of water spinach have gradually become old, so when harvesting, you need to cut off a large part of the old stems.

There are even occasional flowering water spinach.

Chen Jiazhi went to harvest the cabbage alone. Now there are only rotten cabbage hearts left in the open air. They were not taken care of in the early stage, which led to the appearance of flea beetles.

The flea beetle, commonly known as "earth collapse beetle" and "flea beetle", is one of the main pests of leafy vegetables.

Insect holes will appear on the leaves of the damaged Chinese cabbage, seriously affecting the quality of the product.

Chen Jiazhi could only select and collect them.

The main item was 30 kilograms of Chinese cabbage. Chen Jiazhi didn’t say much to this customer, but the other party was very decisive and efficient.

No one asked about the price.

Every day they just come to report numbers, pay the bill, and leave. Chen Jiazhi is a little overwhelmed.

So he wanted to keep this client as long as possible.

For this reason, he kept a small piece of Chinese cabbage seedlings in Field No. 6 that should have died, so that he could connect it with the Chinese cabbage planted on May 5.9th as soon as possible.

He actually doesn't care much about other Chinese vegetable customers.

The market is not good, the vegetables are not good, and the harvest is not very good, which makes people very annoyed.

The only exception is Li Xiu.

The good weather made the appearance and yield of loofah, bitter melon, cowpea and green beans good, so she took on all the harvesting work by herself.

...

As night fell, Chen Jiazhi quietly rose amid the chirping of cicadas and croaking of frogs.

After going out, Liu Minghua was waiting for him in the dam, leaning on his bicycle.

"Morning~"

"Today's dishes are a little less than yesterday's."

Less food means less income. In the night, Liu Minghua's eyes were wandering and hesitant.

Chen Jiazhi was still a little sleepy and didn't notice: "Well, sales are not so good these two days, so I'll pull less."

The vegetable farmers also got up one after another, packed their vegetables, and then rode their bikes to the market.

This was the first time in the past half month that Chen Jiazhi had ridden a bike so easily because he had little experience with the food.

However, the market did not become friendlier just because there were fewer of his dishes.

Others have more dishes.

They arrived relatively early, but as soon as they entered the alley where mobile vendors were setting up their stalls, they saw many vegetable farmers already on both sides of the alley.

Everyone has at least a large basket of vegetables.

And the quality is not good either.

Except for loofah, none of Chen Jiazhi's dishes have much advantage.

Some "old customers" took the vegetables and disappeared, actually they went to buy other places.

Unload the truck, and then just wait pitifully.

"Oh, Chen the vegetable farmer, you have so many vegetables. How much land have you planted?"

Retail vendor Sister Zhang kept looking at the vegetables in the basket with a flashlight, somewhat surprised at the astonishing amount of vegetables this small vegetable farmer had produced in the past half month.

A few days ago, when there were few vegetables in the market, he could get seven or eight hundred kilograms of vegetables by himself.

There are more vegetables in the market now, and he still has 300 to 400 kilograms~
Sister Zhang has been buying goods from the market for a long time, but this is the first time she has seen small vegetable farmers selling so many vegetables.

Chen Jiazhi smiled and said, "Not much, only six or seven acres, and four acres were just taken over."

"Amazing!" Sister Zhang laughed, "No wonder you're so tanned, you grew all this with your own skill. Now pack it up, it's 15 kilograms."

She hadn't even asked the price yet.

Chen Jiazhi also calculated the price for her based on the market price. This was the tacit understanding among old customers.

"Here, vegetable farmer, a total of 54 yuan, here you go."

At least it was open. For some reason, Chen Jiazhi felt that Liu Minghua, who went to deliver the food, seemed relieved.

Then there was more waiting.

When there are more vegetables, some buyers like to sleep in a little longer, since they can still buy vegetables by going to the market later.

When he sees a familiar buyer, Chen Jiazhi will take the initiative to greet him and ask, "What are you decorating today?"

Most of the time he doesn't get any harvest, but some old customers will give him face and help him dispose of some vegetables.

After all, for factories and other units, the quality of the food is not that important.

Many buyers don’t care about the quality of the food, but the price and stability.

For them, stability is sometimes even more important than price, after all, vegetables are often in short supply at this time.

Chen Jiazhi's output over the past two weeks has been exceptional, making him a household name. He's likely to be needed in the future. So when Chen Jiazhi put aside his earlier arrogance and proactively courted customers, many buyers were willing to give him a favor.

"Pretend, pretend, hey, there's nothing I can do to you."

"That's enough, that's enough, Chen Cai Nong, I can't get that much goods."

Chen Jiazhi didn't care about him and said, "After you got the goods from me yesterday, you went to other places to get goods. You must not have gotten enough today~"

At this time, another regular customer walked by Chen Jiazhi's stall in a hurry. Chen Jiazhi shouted directly:
"377, I just put 20 kilograms of water spinach in your car. When are you free to settle the bill?"

"Fuck, Chen Cainong, you're here again~"

"It's okay if we don't settle today. We can settle it together next time you come to buy groceries."

"Diaomao, I surrender to you."

The customer whose license plate number ended in 377 turned around, counted out 8 yuan and put it on the dish, and took back another yuan before leaving.

Chen Jiazhi didn't care and took the 7 yuan and put it in his bag.

Even though Chen Jiazhi had used the same way of selling vegetables several times in the past few days, Liu Minghua and several other vegetable farmers were still amazed when they saw it again.

Too skilled~
There is no sense of rawness at all.

Li Mingkun looked at Yi Dinggan, who was also very shameless and asked: "Do you want to try selling vegetables this way?"

"I tried it the day before yesterday, but they still haven't paid me. They said they didn't want my goods." Yi Dinggan said helplessly, "It's too difficult. I can't learn it."

Li Mingkun sighed, "Now only curly cabbage can make scholars feel frustrated every day."

Yi Dinggan: "That fellow won't come until daybreak now."

Chen Jiazhi didn't pay attention to the conversation between the few people. He had a lot of vegetables and was under a lot of pressure. He also had to pay attention to the people coming and going when selling and packing the vegetables.

If you meet a regular customer, start a conversation and recall their past information about picking up groceries, especially if they have delivery records in their notebook.

These people value credibility more and it is easy to get the money back by forcing them to pay.

Most of them have been active in the nearby market for a long time. I really didn't pay. I will come again when the food is popular. Remember the information and settle the bill together then.

However, no one has defaulted on their debts yet, which shows that his ability to judge people by their taste is still applicable in today's market.

After all, it is an era of tight supply and demand of vegetables, so buyers are still willing to maintain good relationships with capable vegetable farmers.

As time goes by, the amount of food becomes less and less.

Just as Chen Jiazhi was busy loading the dishes, a ray of light shone into the heart of the person arranging dishes next to him.

He thought it was an old customer coming to stall No. 18.

When I looked up, I saw that it was indeed an old customer, but he had run away: a monk.

Chen Jiazhi subconsciously thought that the monk was going to prepare the food, but when the monk saw his action, he said:
"Oh, I'm not here to buy groceries. I just walked here and stopped by to take a look."

"Uh……"

Chen Jiazhi cursed in his heart, you are quite leisurely and elegant.

The monk looked at the cabbage heart and left without saying anything, but Chen Jiazhi clearly saw the contempt on his face and what he wanted to express.

“Small vegetable farmers are small vegetable farmers~”

The quality of his Chinese cabbage has indeed been poor recently, and even the carefully selected Chinese cabbage is only average.

Chen Jiazhi silently noted this account.

Xu He thought about the vegetables the small vegetable farmer had just brought, and felt a little fortunate that he had slipped away quickly some time ago. Otherwise, if he had taken his goods for a long time, it would definitely have left a bad impression on the hotel.

Although I am a relative of someone with connections, I also have my own aspirations.

Business was sporadic, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, a strong voice was heard.

"30 jins of choy sum, how much is it today?"

"30 dollars."

"It will still be the same tomorrow."

Three 10-yuan bills were placed on the vegetable basket, and then the visitor left. During this time, he might have only been able to take one or two glances at the appearance of the vegetables.

This is stall No. 18 in this market.

Chen Jiazhi was so used to his style that he didn't even know his last name.

Liu Minghua went to deliver the goods silently again. While walking on the road, he felt very conflicted. Although he had found a job in the factory, his salary was not as high as what Chen Jiazhi offered.

Moreover, after following Chen Jiazhi for a while, I felt an indescribable feeling when I saw him competing with buyers in the market and earning hundreds of yuan a night.

But he was a little worried when Jia Suzhen entered the factory. After struggling all the way, Liu Minghua came back and said to Chen Jiazhi, who was taking notes in his notebook: "I may not come tomorrow night."

"I'm not coming~"

Chen Jiazhi was stunned, it was a bit sudden.

Liu Minghua: "I guess you don't have much food left. One person should be able to handle it."

Chen Jiazhi moved his lips, wanting to say that I will have more food in eight or nine days, but Liu Minghua's eyes were firm under the light.

"Found a job?"

"Yeah, in the same factory as Suzhen."

"Oh, okay." After a pause, Chen Jiazhi fished out 15 yuan from his bag and said, "This is for today. Um... If you need anything in the future, you can come to me again. I guess by the time I'm big enough, I'll still need people."

Liu Minghua just nodded. He thought it was difficult. These days, he had not dared to tell Suzhen that he was helping Chen Jiazhi.

Before I knew it, it was dawn.

Chen Jiazhi still has thirty or forty kilograms of water spinach left.

"Oh~"

"Coming~"

Hearing the voices of the crowd, Chen Jiazhi turned his head to look to the side. As expected, Curly Cabbage Head had arrived. He was the person in the entire market who showed the least respect to him, Chen the vegetable farmer.

(End of this chapter)