Chapter 21: Repeat Customer

"Twenty." Although she didn't mind, she didn't have any good feelings either.

Song Tan had no intention of giving a discount.

"What?!"

Wu Qianqian wasn't happy—she had never bought vegetables properly, and now that she heard it was so expensive, she felt Song Tan was ripping off an acquaintance.

"They're just wild vegetables with no overhead; how can they be so expensive? Song Tan, we're old classmates; you can't rip people off like this."

As soon as she finished speaking, an auntie suddenly squeezed in from behind:

"Oh my, are there still vegetables? Only three bundles left? Then I'll take them all!"

The auntie skillfully put all three bundles of vegetables into a bag while squinting her eyes to scan the code to join the group, muttering:

"I bought them earliest, originally wanting to eat something fresh. I didn't expect that when I mixed them with noodles at home, my granddaughter ate a big bowl! You don't know how picky she is... I've joined the group now. Girl, if you come tomorrow, let me know in advance!"

After speaking, she took out sixty yuan from her pocket and deftly handed it to Qiaoqiao, her eyes filled with love:

"Good treasure, Auntie will look for you next time I buy vegetables!"

The auntie left in high spirits, loaded with her battle results.

Wu Qianqian and her boyfriend stood awkwardly on the spot—they hadn't expected that they would be picky and accuse their classmate of price-gouging, only for someone else to not even bargain and buy them all.

Were these wild vegetables really that rare and delicious?

Both of them had this thought in their hearts, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt they must be delicious!

After fidgeting for a while, Wu Qianqian's boyfriend took out his phone and quietly scanned the group QR code.

Song Tan looked at her phone, feeling satisfied: Yeah! 17 members in the group, and she had repeat customers after only one morning, not bad!

She took the windmill from Qiaoqiao and blew a breath, and the colorful windmill spun around. Qiaoqiao also looked at her happily:

"Sister, are they all sold out?"

"Sold out!" Song Tan pointed to the basket. "Qiaoqiao, clean up, sister is going to call a car to pick us up."

Thinking for a moment, she asked again: "Is there any money left?"

Qiaoqiao patted his pocket and turned out the remaining change for her—including the sixty from the auntie, there were seventy-five left.

The windmill was five yuan; it seemed the person didn't charge extra.

Song Tan simply handed the fifteen back to him: "Go, if there's anything else you like, buy it together. Qiaoqiao has been too hard-working these past two days!"

The siblings were oblivious to others. When they turned back, Wu Qianqian and her boyfriend were gone.

The wild vegetables sold out unexpectedly fast. When Uncle Wang came to pick them up, he was still surprised:

"Business is so good? Tan Tan, you must have sold them cheaply, right?"

Otherwise, the vegetable market was full of fresh, tender greenhouse vegetables, clean and neat. In contrast, if the price wasn't good, even if they were wild vegetables, they wouldn't be this popular.

The three baskets from the morning were solid and quite a lot!

Song Tan smiled. "It's okay. Wild vegetables are still scarce now, so everyone wants to eat something fresh."

That was true.

By the time wild vegetables truly hit the market, it would be around Qingming.

The siblings returned home, and it was only ten o'clock in the morning.

Song Tan paid for today's chartered car fee. Watching the car drive away, she suggested to her father when she got home:

"Dad, why don't you find time to get a driver's license?"

She showed Wu Lan the money she earned today: "Wild vegetables can still be sold for a while, and the chartered car fee is two hundred a day. When we really start planting vegetables in our fields, can we charter a car every day?"

That would be six thousand yuan a month, but if they bought a Brother Wu Ling van, it would only be a matter of tens of thousands of yuan. Installments would be even cheaper.

Calculating it back and forth, how cost-effective!

However, Song Sancheng felt he was too old. "I'm not learning, I'm not learning. Your uncle went to learn the year before last, and he couldn't remember the questions for the written test no matter what. I'm over fifty; why would I go learn that!"

"Besides, don't you have a driver's license? You can drive."

He was intimidated before the battle.

Song Tan didn't force him. "Then Mom, you go learn. I think you're steadier than Dad, and it's more suitable for you to drive."

Wu Lan hesitated for only a moment before agreeing immediately: "Your dad is just like that. If I learn, I learn. When I first learned to ride a motorcycle, I was fast too! Tan Tan, you're so smart now, it's because you take after me!"

Song Sancheng:...

He... he wasn't necessarily not going to learn... why didn't she try to persuade him again?

Song Tan encouraged her: "Mom, you can definitely do it—we sell vegetables every day. These wild vegetables taste so good and the price is so expensive. If Uncle Wang asks about the price, it's not appropriate for me to say or not say. It's more convenient to have our own car."

"That's true." Wu Lan also calculated in her heart: If everyone knew wild vegetables could be sold for money and swarmed over, it would be very difficult to get a good price in the future.

It was strange to say, but she took a stroll in the village this morning, and everywhere was bare. Only their own backyard and the pond side had a patch of lush green.

Oh my! This was an opportunity given by God!

Furthermore, the wild vegetables on their land this year were truly delicious. If the villagers wanted to pick them and sell them secretly, they were all fellow villagers, and in the fields, they could distinguish clearly—could they not even let people eat wild vegetables?

But twenty yuan a jin, eating it themselves, how extravagant!

Looking at the 1500 yuan her daughter brought back today, the biggest cost was the two hundred yuan car fee...

She hardened her heart: "You go see the wild vegetables tomorrow. If they're still this delicious, we'll sell them again the day after tomorrow. Don't rush back after selling them; go buy a car."

"I heard that vans nowadays aren't expensive, right?"

Spiritual energy wouldn't disappear after one use; more of it was stored in the roots! The taste of wild vegetables was unquestionable in the short term.

As for buying a car...

Song Tan reached out her hand: "Give me the card, bring the documents. I'll go to the city with my dad this afternoon to take a look. By the way, the text message just said my ID card is ready; I'll go to the town to get it this afternoon."

Looking at Song Sancheng again: "Dad, don't you know many people? I remember an uncle who seems to specialize in second-hand cars. Let's go buy a Brother Wu Ling."

In rural areas, other cars aren't worth mentioning; small pickups and small vans are the most practical.

Delivering vegetables, could you drive an off-road vehicle?

Just pick one for thirty thousand yuan!

At this, even the decisive Wu Lan felt a shiver in her heart: "You just earned back one thousand five, and you want to spend thirty thousand?"

"Every day we wait is a two hundred yuan cost, Mom!" Song Tan said earnestly.

In the end, the two hundred yuan defeated Wu Lan with a subtle advantage.

She went back to her room and simply stuffed the card into Song Tan's hand:

"Take it, take it all!"

"The family's sixty thousand yuan is all here. Spend it however you want. If you earn money, I don't want it; if you have no money, don't come looking for me."

She didn't give it before because she felt it wasn't reliable.

Now, well, it wasn't reliable, but it looked like she was seriously considering making money.

Looking at Qiaoqiao again, holding a windmill in one hand and a bubble machine in the other, he was spinning around in the courtyard, forgetting Peppa Pig behind his head.

They had worked hard for half their lives, wasn't it all for the two children?

Wu Lan thought this way and felt less worried.

Song Tan:...

There's such a good thing?!

She hurriedly took the card and said impatiently: "Dad, hurry up, call and ask!" ===== CHAPTER 22 =====