Chapter 32: The Damn Desire for Men to Win or Lose
"Who’s to say it’s not disappointing? We thought the market opening up would make life a bit better for the common people. Indeed, we made a decent profit from growing vegetables in the first half of the year. However, too many people planted in the second half, so now all vegetables are worthless. Even these fine beans are only two cents a pound, and it’s not even certain that we can sell them when they get to our hands. The storage unit next door still has half of yesterday’s vegetables left."
Li Jian looked helpless.
Their vegetable station needs to make profits too. Now that vegetable prices are low, even if they sell the collected veggies for double the price, they won’t make much money.
Not to mention that the farmers have too many vegetables, and they’re being sold in heaps at the night market, greatly reducing the vegetable station’s sales.
Lin Chuxia didn’t continue discussing the current vegetable prices with him. She bought 5 pounds of leeks, 5 pounds of celery, and 10 pounds of spring onions, and gave Li Jian a bag of meat buns before leaving.
Li Jian held the hot meat buns. The cost of 5 pounds of leeks, 5 pounds of celery, and 10 pounds of spring onions wasn’t much, especially when he had some tricks up his sleeve.
Lin Chuxia didn’t know about his promotion, and he was clear in his heart that giving her a discount on vegetables hardly counted as a favor.
But Lin Chuxia didn’t mind, asking him to taste and offer feedback so she could improve further.
With the conversation reaching this point, Li Jian found it hard to refuse, thinking that since they would be working together in the future, he could simply offer her more discounts on vegetables later.
After leaving the vegetable station, Lin Chuxia went to the meat shop and picked up the 5 pounds of meat she had ordered.