1994: Vegetable farmers strike back

Chapter 15 A Fellow Villager with a Little Regret
After returning the scale, Chen Jiazhi walked back.

The lights in the wholesale market were a little dim in the early morning, mixed with the fine rain, but it couldn't cover up the bustling noise of the market.

Temporary vendors usually set up stalls on both sides of the alleys near the entrance and exit of the market. In the past, two long queues would have formed at this time, but today they were a bit short, and the buyers and vegetable vendors coming and going did not have many choices.

As for the dishes sold at the fixed stalls, most of them are sent from other places and are a little more expensive.

From a distance, Chen Jiazhi saw a group of people gathered in front of the vegetable farmers' stalls in Dongxiang Vegetable Market.

When he came back, two customers had almost packed their dishes themselves. He only needed to weigh them and collect the money. Brother Yi also collected more than 20 yuan for him and gave it to him now.

“10斤菜心，5斤小白菜，5斤油麦菜，一共24块7毛5，收你24块7毛。”

After packing another customer's dishes, Chen Jiazhi weighed them, handed the dishes over, and prepared to collect the payment.

The woman buying groceries did the math and only started to touch the money after she felt it was all right. "Handsome boy, can you round off the change and give me 24.50 yuan?"

"No, I've already given you 5 cents." Chen Jiazhi refused without thinking, and half of his hand that was about to hand over the dish was retracted.

Seeing this, the elder sister could only obediently count out another 20 cents, but she continued to nag: "Your vegetable leaves are all water. 2 kilograms of vegetables, and there are already two kilograms of water."

Chen Jiazhi pointed to the sky and said, "It's raining, we can only blame God."

After dealing with a few small orders, their area became temporarily quiet.

Chen Jiazhi started to pack a few large orders of vegetables. He calculated that he had sold nearly half of them in this wave. Those who had less vegetables, such as Qi Yongfeng, had already sold out.

It’s probably just past two o’clock now, so you can imagine how fast the shipment is!
But it’s not hard to understand if you think about it.

It rained all afternoon, and some local vegetable farmers would not harvest their vegetables in the rain.

Today is Qingming Festival again. The business of restaurants and hotels will be better than usual, and more goods will be needed.

In addition, some buyers who arrived a little late in the past two days were punished by the market, so they will naturally arrive at the market early today.
All these factors led to the opening explosion.

However, even though he had expected it, Chen Jiazhi still felt relieved when he saw the panic buying as soon as he arrived at the market.

He has at least 500 kilograms of vegetables today!

There are about 200 kilograms of Chinese cabbage, 200 kilograms of Chinese cabbage, and 100 kilograms of lettuce, so the pressure is quite large.

Moreover, his dishes are relatively small, and except for retail vendors, they are actually a bit deviated from the standard requirements of large restaurants and hotels.

Especially the choy sum, which was the vegetable that Chen Jiazhi was best at growing in his previous life.

The cabbage hearts harvested these past two days are very ordinary. Not only are they small, but there are also yellow leaves at the roots when they are harvested, which means that they have disease.

The same is true for other people's choy sum.

But now is a seller's market, and there will always be people who want even the worst dishes. This is also the norm in the market: good dishes are produced in a bad market, and bad dishes are produced in a good market.

It took Chen Jiazhi nearly an hour to pack the vegetables before he finished packing all the orders. During this time, more than 100 kilograms of vegetables were shipped out, leaving only about 50 kilograms each of Chinese cabbage and bok choy.

At this time, Yi Dinggan, Qi Yongfeng, Li Mingkun and Guo Mancang had basically sold all their dishes and were leaning against the wall to avoid the rain and chat.

Chen Jiazhi took out a cigarette from his pocket, gave each of them a cigarette, and then looked at Qi Yongfeng: "Yongfeng, you sold all the vegetables a long time ago, why don't you go back?"

Qi Yongfeng: "The fresh meat market hasn't opened yet. I'm waiting to buy some meat to improve my diet."

Chen Jiazhi: "It's probably only after 3 o'clock now, you still have a long time to wait, why not go back to bed early? You've come this far in the past few days, so skipping a meal of meat won't affect you."

Qi Yongfeng snorted, his teeth rubbing. "How dare you say that? I eat meat and fish every day. I can't stand it anymore. I must eat meat today."

Everyone laughed and started to criticize Chen Jiazhi and Yi Ding for not only eating the meat but also making it known to everyone! Li Mingkun and Guo Mancang had been waiting until now, hoping to buy some meat.

"It's okay to wait a little longer. I can even help you with two more deliveries later."

"have to."

Chen Jiazhi took out another cigarette and gave one to each of them. Li Mingkun squatted on the ground to indicate that he had not finished smoking yet, so Chen Jiazhi directly put the cigarette holder on his ear.

"Since you said that, I'll give you enough cigarettes today!"

"The scholar is still generous."

Guo Mancang praised, took the cigarette, and said, "But I can't bring you vegetables tomorrow. I also want to get some more to sell."

Li Mingkun then said the same thing. Qi Yongfeng and Yi Dinggan said that they could take less, but he would also collect more vegetables.

It has been raining from yesterday afternoon to this morning, and the temperature has been rising, which has completely woken everyone up.

If this continues, not only will the yield not be higher, but the vegetables may rot in the fields before they are even harvested.

The further you go, the worse the food looks!

Several people felt a little regretful. Chen Jiazhi had reminded them many times in the past few days. Although it was a little late now, the more they could sell, the better!

Chen Jiazhi didn't say anything. There were many fellow villagers there anyway, and more people would probably be picking vegetables at the market tomorrow, so he just needed to find two more people to help.

After chatting for a while, the rain was still pouring down. A vegetable vendor couldn't wait any longer and hurried over to place an order.

Chen Jiazhi started working again. After smoking, the others went out in the rain to deliver food to him.

After selling another twenty or thirty kilograms of vegetables, Chen Jiazhi was a little confused.

Regular customers such as Curly Cabbage Head, Foton Three-Wheel, and Sister Zhang all came to pick up their dishes, but 95976 had not arrived yet. The dishes had already been delivered to the car by this time two days ago.

It’s not that they are afraid of not being able to sell it, but 95976 is obviously a big customer. In this day and age, there are very few people who can use Jinbei Haisheng to transport vegetables.

Among its customers there must be high-end restaurants and hotels.

However, Chen Jiazhi did not deliberately leave vegetables for him. He would sell them to someone if they wanted them. The main reason was that he could not maintain a stable supply now, and the supply would be cut off even if he deliberately made friends.

Another hour passed, and there were fewer people selling and buying vegetables in the market. Chen Jiazhi had sold out all his vegetables just after 5 o'clock.

"The scholar has another great harvest today!"

"Today, Xiucai has definitely set the highest record for our group of vegetable farmers working on their own. Are you angry, Yi Dinggan?"

Chen Jiazhi had just started to put away the frames and beam scales when he woke up several people who were dozing against the wall. Then Li Mingkun teased Yi Dinggan.

Yi Dinggan is the most senior of the farmers, having previously performed the best at the company and possessing the most land working independently. However, he hasn't been particularly outstanding this year. On the other hand, Chen Jiazhi has been quite impressive these past few days.

Yi Ding stretched lazily and said, "No matter how much he sells today, I have to buy the meat today!"

"Oh, yes, it's 5 o'clock, the morning market is open, let's go buy some meat." Li Mingkun also hurriedly got up to wipe the bicycle seat.

As soon as the topic of buying meat came up, a group of people hurriedly rode away on their bikes.

"Damn, running so fast!"

Chen Jiazhi hastily hung up the iron frame and hurriedly followed.

(End of this chapter)