Back in the residential compound, Liu Ju immediately told her son to stop the car and open the trunk.
Zhao Dacheng opened his eyes and looked at the person unloading vegetables and watermelons, his face full of confusion. "What are you doing, wife? Why are you in such a hurry to unload the goods before we're even at our building?"
"You wouldn't understand. I have my own use for them!" With that, she turned to her son. "Kunming, when we get home, bring me the scale!"
Zhao Kunming knew what his mother was up to and couldn't help but say, "Mom, Yi Feng's vegetables and fruits are hard to find outside. Let's keep them for ourselves!"
Liu Ju paused, her hands still. "I'm not selling everything. We can sell some and still make quite a bit of money.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The evening is when families gather to celebrate. Even if the prices are higher, people will still rush to buy. If we don't sell today, we'll lose out.
If you want to eat them, we can go to your second uncle's place for dinner. He won't stop us from eating, will he?"
Zhao Dacheng finally understood the conversation between his wife and son. He got out of the car and, without a word, started to put the things back into the trunk.
"You worthless disgrace! Have you never seen money in your life?
You're actually thinking of selling the things your nephew gave you! Hurry up and take them home!"
It wasn't that he was afraid of Liu Yifeng finding out. It was mainly about saving face. If the neighbors knew that he was immediately selling what his nephew gave him, wouldn't they point fingers and scold him?
But Liu Ju refused to give up this opportunity to make money. She swatted her husband's hand away. "How am I disgraced? Yi Feng gave us so many vegetables and fruits. If we leave them at home, they'll just rot.
It's better to sell some of them. That way, we can make money and avoid wasting the produce by letting it rot!"
Seeing that his father was still trying to stop them, Zhao Kunming also got out of the car to explain. "Dad, it's not the first time we've sold them. The neighbors all know.
And you don't know how much a pound of watermelon sells for, or these vegetables. If we sell only half of these, it'll be equivalent to half of your salary for half a month!"
Zhao Dacheng looked at the items on the ground, his face full of disbelief. "How much can these vegetables be worth per pound? Even if it's the Mid-Autumn Festival and they can be sold a bit higher than usual.
But those who want to buy vegetables have already bought them. And these watermelons and pomelos... who in this day and age is short of food?"
"If you don't believe me, I'll sell them for you later, and you'll see how quickly the money comes in!" Liu Ju finished speaking and signaled Kunming to get the scale.
Just as Zhao Kunming was taking his son upstairs to get the scale, many residents started asking how much the vegetables and fruits were.
They had all tasted the vegetables and fruits grown by Liu Ju's nephew, especially the large watermelons, which they had been craving for a long time.
Unfortunately, Liu Ju hadn't sold any since the last time.
Now that they saw her selling them on the important occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they were determined to buy some to take home for their families to taste the long-lost flavor.
Liu Ju looked at the people who kept coming to ask for prices and said with a smile, "These vegetables and fruits were just picked from the ground by my nephew. They are very fresh. You can tell from the leaves that I'm not lying to you.
And today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the vegetables and fruits are a bit more expensive than usual. Therefore, I've also increased the prices slightly. If you can accept it, buy them. If not, I won't force you."
"Then tell us how much they are!" one person asked impatiently.
"Watermelons are eight yuan a pound. Eggplants are six, tomatoes are six-fifty, green beans are seven, and pumpkin is five. These pomelos are also from my nephew's orchard. They are sweet and juicy. I'm not weighing them, they're thirty yuan each!" Liu Ju pointed to the neatly arranged vegetables on the ground.
Zhao Dacheng thought she had gone mad when she quoted such high prices.
Who would have thought that the prices wouldn't deter many people? They eagerly stated what they wanted to buy, and some even stuffed money into Liu Ju's hands, afraid they wouldn't get any.
This crazy behavior left Zhao Dacheng in a daze. Had he seen correctly? Did these people have nowhere else to spend their money?
These ordinary vegetables, even if they tasted good, shouldn't be sold at such high prices. Why were they still rushing to buy them?
The residents' thoughts were simple: it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it was appropriate to indulge a little. The most important thing was for their families to eat happily!
In a short while, Zhao Kunming brought the scale. Liu Ju first weighed the vegetables and fruits for those who had paid.
In just twenty minutes, the vegetables and fruits she brought from Yi Feng were sold out.
She had initially wanted to keep some for dinner, but faced with such high prices, she couldn't bear to eat them herself. In the end, only one piece of watermelon and one pomelo were left; the rest were sold.
Then she happily counted her earnings for the day. After counting the money, she showed the cash to her husband and asked boastfully, "Guess how much we earned?"
Zhao Dacheng: "A thousand?" If he hadn't been watching, he wouldn't have dared to guess such a high amount.
Liu Ju, unable to contain herself, immediately revealed, "What a thousand? It's over eighteen hundred yuan!"
"What? So many things, and you sold them for so much money?" Zhao Dacheng couldn't believe his ears.
"The money is all here. Do you think I'd lie to you? You were so insistent that I not sell them, and now you see how good it is, don't you?"
Zhao Dacheng still found it hard to believe. The money from selling such a small amount of produce was more than his monthly salary.
No wonder Liu Ju hadn't gone home as soon as she entered the compound and started selling vegetables. Yi Feng's vegetables were truly profitable!
"Dad, you've been working outside the city, so you don't know how profitable the vegetables and fruits Yi Feng grows are!"
After hearing his son, Zhao Dacheng suddenly remembered something important.
"At lunch, I heard everyone talking about Yi Feng building greenhouses, and that they had invested in it.
Since these vegetables are selling so expensively, and ordinary residents are willing to buy them, once the greenhouse vegetables are cultivated, they will definitely sell well!
Why didn't you follow and invest? Didn't you just give away a chance to make money?"
He was both angry and anxious as he spoke.
"Dad, even if his vegetables taste good, that doesn't mean the greenhouses will be profitable. And with so many people investing, about two hundred people, even if it makes money, how much will we get?" Zhao Kunming said.
Zhao Dacheng angrily pointed his finger at the back of his son's head. "What do you know? As long as it's a sure investment, no matter how much it earns, it's like picking it up for free. Why didn't you ask me beforehand?"
At noon, he had heard his elder brothers-in-law talking about investing in Yi Feng's greenhouses, but he hadn't thought much of it. He hadn't even taken it seriously.
But now, seeing firsthand how popular Liu Yifeng's vegetables were, he was sure that if the vegetables grown in his greenhouses tasted the same, they would be a huge hit.
Therefore, the thought that his wife and son hadn't invested made his heart feel like he had lost millions.
"Dad, you also think these greenhouses can make money?" Zhao Kunming asked, seeing his father's expression worse than if his grandfather had died.
Zhao Dacheng immediately said to his son, filled with disappointment, "You're a senior executive in a company. You should have some vision and insight when it comes to investing.
How could you not have realized that Yi Feng's greenhouses would surely lead us to wealth?
I seriously suspect that your leader must be blind to have chosen you as a supervisor.
Even I, an uneducated old man, can see this business opportunity. How can you not see it?"