Chapter 71: The First Test
The price of sweet potatoes in the supply and marketing cooperative is about 0.11 cents per pound.
The price on the black market has doubled, almost 0.2 yuan.
Chen Jianye sold it at 2.5 cents.
His price was three cents higher than the market price.
Don't underestimate these three cents.
The price increased by three cents from the original 2.2 cents, which is equivalent to a premium of over 10%.
Those who come to the black market to buy food have many family members and do not have food coupons.
Not to mention being very meticulous, but also being very thrifty.
For the same product, one stall is charging normal price, while the other stall is charging a premium of just over 10%. No matter which side the customer chooses, the result is self-evident.
But Chen Jianye felt that what he bought was not expensive.
The sweet potatoes and potatoes grown in the Lingquan space are different from ordinary ones. He has tasted them himself and they taste great.
If it wasn't his first time setting up a stall, he would have wanted to charge a 20% premium or even more.
In order to attract customers, he specially wrote on the wooden board that they could taste the food.
Chen Jianye is confident that as long as customers have tasted his sweet potatoes and potatoes, they will definitely buy some to try even if the price is a bit higher.
The black market was bustling with people, and most people blended in with the crowd, using the light of their flashlights to examine the items on the stalls.
Chen Jianye came to the black market relatively late and his position was average.
But there were so many people coming to the black market that soon the first customer stopped in front of Chen Jianye's stall.
"How do you taste it?"
From the voice, it seemed to be a middle-aged man, with his head wrapped tightly with a piece of cloth, leaving only a slit for his eyes.
"Whichever one do you want to try? I'll peel it for you right on the spot."
Chen Jianye took out a kitchen knife from his back.
“Try the sweet potatoes.”
The middle-aged man whispered.
Chen Jianye took a sweet potato out of the basket, peeled it on the spot, then cut off a small piece and handed it over.
The sweet potatoes in the Lingquan space are very large, almost the size of two adult fists put together.
According to Chen Jianye's method of peeling, dozens of sweet potatoes can be peeled for interested customers to taste.
"Well, your sweet potato is quite interesting. It's very sweet."
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up after tasting the sweet potatoes.
"Buy some?"
Chen Jianye asked with a smile.
"Give me... ten pounds!"
The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment and decided to buy ten kilograms to bring back for his wife and children to try.
Chen Jianye picked up the old-fashioned beam scale, took out six sweet potatoes from the basket and placed them on the tray.
After leveling it with a weight, he showed the scale to the middle-aged man: "Ten pounds and eight ounces, I'll charge you two dollars and seventy cents."
"Just round off the difference."
Middle-aged man bargaining.
"I'll give you a potato. If it tastes good, I'll come back next time. I won't say more."
Chen Jianye grabbed a potato and put it on the scale.
The middle-aged man paid the bill readily.
Chen Jianye helped and put the sweet potatoes and potatoes into the other person's cloth bag.
After the first business deal, everything went smoothly afterwards.
Anyone who has tasted sweet potatoes or potatoes will be impressed by them.
If you buy less, you can take three or five kilograms.
Those who buy more may order 30 kilograms at a time.
One hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes and one hundred kilograms of potatoes. In less than an hour, all three baskets were sold out.
Chen Jianye himself was a little surprised.
Two hundred kilograms of crops, after deducting any extra charges or gifts, are calculated at 2.2 cents per kilogram.
He earned forty-four dollars an hour.
What is this concept.
A third-level fitter, who works six days a week and has one day off, only gets 43.5 yuan a month's salary in the factory.
And forty-four dollars was just Chen Jianye's first try.
The Lingquan space is a space of one hundred meters by one hundred meters, a total of 16.7 square meters, totaling acres.
Chen Jianye only used a very small area to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes.
If half of the land is used to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, the Lingquan space can accelerate the growth of crops.
'Two harvests will make me a millionaire.'
Chen Jianye shook his head and dispelled the thought from his mind.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes from eight acres of land mature once every twelve days.
Just watering and harvesting would exhaust him.
Moreover, Chen Jianye always felt that he had not yet figured out the true purpose of the Lingquan space.
The functions discovered so far are already terrifying and are enough to meet his life needs.
"Little brother, I want all your remaining sweet potatoes and potatoes. Can you give me two cents off per pound?"
The voice in front of him brought Chen Jianye back to reality.
Some customers who had tasted the sweet potatoes and potatoes bargained for the price, wanting to buy all the remaining stock.
"The price is already very low. I can give you a 2 cent discount on sweet potatoes. They are the same price as potatoes, so I'll give you 0.22 yuan for both."
Chen Jianye thought for a moment and said.
Normally he wouldn't bargain with others, but now there were only a few left, and Chen Jianye was too lazy to continue wasting time for a few cents.
In the end, the customer who bargained took all the sweet potatoes and potatoes in Chen Jianye's basket.
A total of twelve pounds, two dollars and sixty-four cents.
After selling all the crops he brought, Chen Jianye stacked the three baskets together and carried them out of the black market.
This time no one targeted him.
After leaving the black market, Chen Jianye put his selling tools into his personal space.
Enter the black market again from another place.
Now he has transformed himself into a customer.
Chen Jianye made large purchases.
I bought sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, taro and other seeds that can fill my stomach.
He knew that a great famine was about to come.
It’s never a wrong idea to grow more crops that can fill your stomach.
He then bought some vegetable seeds.
After buying the seeds, the cloth bag on Chen Jianye's back was still flat.
He then went to buy some meat.
Mainly pork and eggs.
With money in hand, Chen Jianye bought a large piece of lard and some beef and mutton.
Since he didn't buy any cigarettes, alcohol or tea, after buying the meat and fish, Chen Jianye counted the money and found that he had only spent more than 20 yuan.
It can't be used up, it can't be used up at all.
With money in his pocket, Chen Jianye was not in a hurry to go back.
Look for stalls selling chicks and ducklings on the black market.
After running around most of the black market, Chen Jianye had to give up.
Really not.
There was no choice but to buy an adult rooster and four adult hens.
We can only wait for the hen to lay eggs and then cultivate the first generation of chicks in the Lingquan space.
Chen Jianye spent almost ten dollars on five chickens.
I also bought a chicken coop.
Carrying five chickens out of the black market, Chen Jianye randomly found a dark alley and went into it.
Then his body entered the Lingquan space.
After putting the chickens back into the chicken coop, Chen Jianye threw in a few sweet potatoes and potatoes, and then came out of the Lingquan space.
There is no rush to plant the next batch of seeds.
After finishing the most important thing, he strode towards the courtyard.
Outside the courtyard door.
A black shadow jumped on his knees, grabbed the top of the wall with one hand, and with a light somersault, he fell into the courtyard.
Chen Jianye took off his hood and other concealment equipment and took a look at the sky.
I guess it’s around four or five in the morning.
After returning home, Chen Jianye sorted out the money he had earned that day, washed his face, and lay down on the bed.
You can also take a nap.
When it was bright, Chen Jianye opened his eyes.
"I won't go to work today. I'll go to my parents' graves to burn some money for them first, and then go to the library."
Chen Jianye planned today's itinerary and got up from the bed.
A good day starts with a hearty breakfast.
The hot lard in the pot made the eggs make a slight popping sound, and the aroma of eggs and lard spread throughout the Chen family's home.