Mountain Running: Contract A Beast And Take Over The Whole Mountain

The next day, Shi Lin was called up before dawn.

After a simple wash and taking the freshly made multi-grain cakes, Shi Lin and Shi Yuying went to the market with honey on their backs.

It takes more than half an hour to walk from their Xigou Village to the market in town.

People in this era go to the market very early. When they arrive at the market in town, the whole market is already very lively.

“I told you last night that you have to go to the market early, but you are still dawdling. Look, there is no place for us to set up a stall to sell honey now.”

Seeing that the position near the intersection has been occupied, Shi Yuying glared at Shi Lin with some complaints.

If Shi Lin hadn’t been dawdling all the way, they should have arrived earlier and had the hope of occupying a better position.

In this era, small markets do not have very sound rules and regulations, and there is no special person to manage the stalls. Basically, whoever occupies it first gets it.

“Oh, how could I know that everyone would come so early?”

Shi Lin was also a little speechless. He looked up at the sky. It was only about 5:30 at most, and the sky was just getting light.

I didn’t expect the market in the town to be so lively. Do people these days not need to sleep?

He had never been to the market before. He only knew that everyone went to the market very early. He didn’t know it was so early…

“What should we do now? Go to the back to find a place to sell?” Shi Yuying looked at Shi Lin and asked.

She actually had no experience in selling things at the market. She had been to the market a few times and knew roughly what the situation was.

When she encountered a problem, she was more accustomed to asking the most educated younger brother in the family.

“Let’s go shopping first and see if anyone else is selling honey. Anyway, we are late and there is no rush.”

For a while, Shi Lin didn’t have a good idea, so he prepared to see if there was a template that could be imitated on the spot.

However, the two walked around the market and did not find a stall selling honey, not even one selling similar items.

“What should we do now? Why don’t we set up a stall in the back?” Shi Yuying suggested.

“Don’t worry, let’s go to the shop in front first.”

Shi Lin pointed to the shop in front with the words ‘Integrity Grocery Store’ and said,

“That shop has a good location and many people walk by the door. If we can set up a stall in front of them, we should have no worries about selling these honeys.”

“But can they set up a stall for us?” Shi Yuying asked with some doubt.

“Just ask and you’ll know.”

Shi Lin said, striding his long legs and walking directly to the grocery store.

Walking into the grocery store, there was only a middle-aged fat woman in the store, who should be the boss lady.

Shi Lin smiled and greeted, “Hello, sister.”

“Hello. What do you want to buy? I’ll get it for you.” The boss lady also responded with a smile.

They don’t look like powerful people, Shi Lin thought to himself,

“Big sister, do you sell plastic bottles here? I want to use them to sell honey.”

Just now, I walked around the market. Although I didn’t find anyone selling honey like them, Shi Lin also thought of some problems.

For example, what to use to store honey? They brought two large buckets of filtered honey today, but they didn’t bring a scale or anything to store honey for customers. How can they sell it?

Whether they are selling vegetables, chickens, ducks, or meat, they will at least tie a rope to make it easier for customers to hold.

They can’t let customers carry it home when they sell honey, right?

“You want to store honey? I don’t have plastic bottles here, but I have cans for sale. Do you think this one will do? Last time someone came to the market to sell honey, they also bought cans from me. One bottle weighs one pound, and they don’t need to be weighed.”

Then the proprietress took a glass bottle from the shelf and handed it to Shi Lin.

It was a glass can that was very common in later generations. It was round, and the mouth of the bottle was about the same size as the jar itself.

“This one is fine.”

Shi Lin was very satisfied with just one look. This kind of can was often used to store honey in later generations, and one can hold one pound.

“Sister, how many of these cans do you have here, and how much do you sell them for?”

“One cent each, with a bottle cap.

They are all bottles from state-owned factories, with guaranteed quality, and they won’t go bad even after ten or eight years of use.

How many do you want? If there are more, I’ll ask your brother to get some from other stores first.”

Seeing that Shi Lin wanted to buy, the proprietress smiled more enthusiastically.

“Sure, if each one holds one pound, we’ll need about a hundred.”

Shi Lin nodded and agreed without even negotiating the price.

“Sister, we’ll fill the honey right in front of your store later. We’ll buy as many bottles as we need, okay?”

“Of course, no problem.”

The fat woman smiled so well that her eyebrows were not visible.She agreed without hesitation.

She did sell these bottles for 10 cents each, but if she bought a lot at one time, she could sell them for 8 cents.

Shi Lin didn’t even bargain, so how could she disagree?

Isn’t it just filling the honey in front of their store? Even if they bring it to the store, it’s no problem!

Seeing that the boss lady agreed, Shi Lin and the others didn’t delay at all. They put the buckets of honey outside the grocery store, opened the buckets, and started filling the honey cans one by one.

Seeing the lady boss excitedly moving bottles out of the store, Shi Yuying whispered to Shi Lin:

“Sixth Brother, how much money did you bring? I only have two yuan, which is not enough to pay for a hundred bottles.”

Shi Lin smiled and said, “I only have the 40 cents from yesterday, and my parents didn’t give me any money this morning.”

“What should we do? How about we buy 20 bottles first?”

“Don’t worry, Fifth Sister, you pack first, I’ll shout.”

Shi Lin shouted at the top of his voice,

“Selling honey, authentic wild honey, only one season a year, if you miss it, you can only slap your thigh! Selling honey…”

Ah?

Seeing that Sixth Brother suddenly started shouting, Shi Yuying’s face turned red instantly, and her head was buried low, not daring to raise her head to see everyone’s reaction.

People of this generation are generally more reserved. It takes a lot of courage for them to set up stalls, and it is really difficult for them to shout…

Shi Lin’s shouting instantly attracted many people’s attention.

Soon, an old lady came over and asked,

“Young man, how do you sell these bees? Do you sell them with bottles? Or do we need to put them in bottles ourselves?”

“They sell them with bottles. One pound of honey per bottle. The original price is two yuan per bottle. Today is the first time to sell them at our market. I’ll give you a discount. One yuan and eighty yuan per bottle. No bargaining.”

Shi Lin spoke very quickly, and he took out a few small pieces of honeycomb from the side and handed them to the old lady.

“Auntie, please try our honey and see if it’s sweet.”

“Ah? Is this for me? It’s free, right?” the old lady asked in surprise.

Honey is a rare commodity these days, and it’s not hard to sell. The old lady was ready to buy it when she heard someone selling honey just now.

She didn’t expect that she could taste it. It really surprised her.

“Of course, tasting is free. You can try it. It doesn’t matter if you don’t buy it after tasting.”

Ah?

“Is it really possible to try it but not buy it?” Someone in the crowd who came over asked loudly.

Shi Lin looked up at the crowd who gathered around him, smiled, and responded loudly:

“Of course, everyone can come and take a piece to taste it, it’s free.”

As soon as the voice fell, the crowd came over one after another. Whether they bought it or not, it was always worthwhile to try it.

Shi Lin followed his words and happily distributed the honeycomb to everyone.

Seeing more and more people attracted by the crowd and walking towards them, Shi Lin knew that there was no fear that the honey would not be sold today.

Sure enough, after a while, many people asked to buy honey from them.

The first one to ask for a purchase was the lady who came over at the beginning. She bought three bottles by herself and paid five dollars and four cents.

With a leader, more people asked to buy later. Some of them asked to buy after tasting the honey, and some of them wanted to buy honey in the first place.

Two barrels of honey, a total of 96 bottles, sold out in about an hour!

Some people also suggested that others sold honey at 1.6 yuan per pound at the market, while Shi Lin’s honey was too expensive at 1.8 yuan per can.

But there were too many people buying it, so after a little hesitation, the honey was sold out and it was not available even if they wanted to sell it.

In fact, Shi Lin’s decision to sell honey at 1.8 yuan was also based on reason.

When they first went to the market, he found out that the honey from the supply and marketing cooperative was 2 yuan per pound, and there was no glass bottle, so he set the price at 1.8 yuan.

Sure enough, the effect was quite good. The two barrels of honey were sold out in an hour, and a lot of time was spent on filling the honey.

If the honey was filled in advance, it might not take 20 minutes.

During this hour, they sold honey at the door of the grocery store, attracting many people to come here, and the business of the grocery store also became prosperous.

The fat proprietress was busy sweating just to get the goods and collect money from customers. Later, she called her husband to help. The two of them worked together to keep busy.