Rebirth: I became rich by farming-Chapter 67 - The Bag is Too Small to Fit the Money

Chapter 67 -67 The Bag is Too Small to Fit the Money (1/3)

Chapter 67 -67 The Bag is Too Small to Fit the Money (1/3)

“Aren’t all the vegetables you brought sold by the piece?”

“There are some that aren’t sold by the piece, like the base prawns we ate last time, which needed to be weighed, and some smaller vegetables too.” It’s like green beans and soybeans; these types can’t exactly be sold by the stem, so they still need to be weighed.

“This is easy, I’ll go buy one in a little while. I also need to check if the sanitation over there has been taken care of.”

“Great, give me a set of keys. I’ll deliver the keys to them later. If you’re going to sell on Tuesday, they’ll definitely have to find time to deliver the vegetables tomorrow.”

As for what time to deliver, Mei Mengzhen thought she could just leave home a bit earlier in the morning, place the vegetables properly, and that would do. After all, she had to leave for school early, and at this time, besides students, there were hardly any people around. There was a small door at the back of the garage; she could enter through the small door to place the vegetables without disturbing anyone.

As for how to collect money for the vegetables, Mei Mengzhen also had a plan: every time vegetables were delivered, she would create an invoice listing the unit price and total for each type of vegetable. This way she could keep a record, making the transactions look more formal.

After dinner, everyone got busy with their own things. When she and Fan Tianyu got home, she explained everything to him. Seeing the kids running their business so formally, the couple felt at ease and went back home.

The business was about to start yet hadn’t actually started, so throughout Monday’s classes, Mei Mengzhen was preoccupied the whole day, feeling a vague sense of excitement as well.

She feared there might not be enough vegetables in the spatial area, so after finishing her homework and putting her brother to bed, she quickly entered the spatial mall. She thought about it: without shelves in the garage, it wouldn’t be proper to put the vegetables on the ground, so she bought many PE boxes from the Spatial Mall and sorted all the various types of vegetables into the boxes for future use, planning to utilize them cyclically.

The Osmanthus Tree was also very intelligent. Before, when there were no boxes, the automatically harvested vegetables would just pile up on the ground in the space. But now with the PE boxes, it could automatically sort each type into the boxes, piling excess vegetables on the ground only once a box was full, and placing them next to the previous full box.

Mei Mengzhen was practically harvesting a handful of vegetables for every handful of seeds she sowed. Once a box was filled with a variety of vegetables, she would stop and then estimate the price for that box, writing it directly on the invoice. She would tally up the total for all the boxes and, the next morning, just take them out according to the invoice.

This was exactly what Mei Mengzhen did. The next morning, around 6 a.m., when it was still dim outside, she quietly left the house and snuck off to the garage. After entering, she carefully closed the door; since the garage had no windows, she felt safe to turn on the light. With the light on, she began to place the vegetables according to the invoice—cabbage, bok choy, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes… ready-to-eat chicken and duck, along with a small box of eggs and a small box of salted duck eggs. Next up were fruits, like fragrant pears, pomelos, mangoes, grapes, all packed neatly into large boxes.

In the end, the total cost of all these goods came to exactly 23,000 yuan.

As for how much money was made each day and how many vegetables there were remained, Mei Mengzhen would receive updates from Fan Tianyu. All she needed to do was keep restocking as necessary.

After placing the food, Mei Mengzhen went to school satisfied, while Fan Tianyu, after dropping Mei Mengchen off at school, was astonished by the fully-stocked garage, his jaw nearly dropping. “That’s a lot of stock.”

He took the invoice and saw the purchasing cost: 23,000. He widened his eyes in disbelief, “The boss really gave a lot.” He wasn’t worried that he wouldn’t be able to sell it all.

That said, he efficiently started moving the boxes onto the truck, just as he had predicted the day before, a single car could just about fit almost 10 boxes if squeezed in tight.

He wasn’t picky, just taking whatever was at hand, since he had to return anyway. He then drove to the Vegetable Market ahead.

Mei Mengzhen usually went via the main road, dragging the cart along the smoother route, taking the chance to observe others’ prices, but Tianyu didn’t need to and it wasn’t convenient for him to take the main road with the car, so he chose the back roads.

By car, the back road provided a direct path to the store and a place to park, a win-win for him.

It took only 5 minutes by car, and soon Fan Tianyu’s vehicle arrived beside the store.

He got out of the car, first taking out the handcart, then hauling box by box out of the vehicle to the spot where he had set up his stall the day before. Just then, he saw Sister Zhang, who had warmly greeted Mei Mengzhen yesterday. Tianyu called out enthusiastically, “Sister Zhang, good morning.”

Sister Zhang had been waiting for his vegetables. “Ah, young man, starting today, right?”

“Yes, starting today. I’ll be counting on you from now on, Sister Zhang.”

Sister Zhang waved her hand dismissively, “Counting on me? If you have good stuff in the future, remember to save some for me.”

“Of course!”

With that, Fan Tianyu began to unload his stock, not daring to set out too much at once for fear of being overwhelmed. He started with four boxes of vegetables and two small boxes of eggs.

Sister Zhang, warm-hearted as she was, naturally lent a hand just like she had for Mei Mengzhen. Tianyu immediately said, “Thank you, Sister Zhang.”

“What’s there to thank me for? Is that all the vegetables you brought today?”

“There are still four different kinds of vegetables in the car. If I put out too much, I can’t manage it all. I’ll set out more as things sell.”

Upon hearing that, Sister Zhang grew excited and, without waiting for Tianyu to finish, glanced at the vegetables and said, “The price is the same, right? I’ll take 10 of each.”

Fan Tianyu had sold these vegetables before, and Sister Zhang knew their prices. As long as there was no increase, she didn’t hesitate to buy.

“No increase. Zhenzhen instructed me; the vegetable prices won’t go up, and I certainly can’t raise prices on Sister Zhang.”

Fan Tianyu really had a way with words. These words made Sister Zhang beam with joy. “You kid, how much for the eggs, and the salted duck eggs?”

“Eggs are 2 yuan each, and salted duck eggs are 3 yuan each. Salted duck eggs need to be cooked well before eating.”

“Give me 20 eggs and 10 salted duck eggs.”

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Fan Tianyu promptly packaged her vegetables, “The veggies just now were 300, eggs all together 50, that’s 350 yuan.”

Sister Zhang paid swiftly and carried the vegetables home.

Because Fan Tianyu didn’t take the usual path, some of the farther stalls hadn’t seen him yet. But as soon as Sister Zhang finished her transaction, the surrounding stalls started to stir.

One by one, they quickly sold any vegetables they were holding for customers and hurried over to buy the ones they wanted.

They made their purchases swiftly and left the scene just as quickly.

Once nearby stalls were sorted, the ones farther away followed suit—back and forth, and within an hour, the 10 boxes of vegetables and fruits were all sold out.

Those who didn’t get any were naturally disappointed. Fan Tianyu said, “I’m going to haul more vegetables. I’ll be back in about half an hour, maybe.”

He gave himself plenty of leeway with the time—mainly because he needed to return home. The bag Mei Mengzhen gave him for the money was a bit small; he was running out of space for all the cash. He needed to go home and take out the money.