Chapter 221: Young People's Brains Are Just Sharp

With someone to help carry things, Bai Wei naturally didn't stand on ceremony and began to shop wantonly in the store.

Buy, buy, buy!

One-yuan section: buying lighters, plastic tooth cups, plastic Surgical Gloves, 502 super glue, street-stall plastic hairpins, scissors...

Two-yuan section: small fruit ceramic knives, nail clippers, tape measures for clothes, incense bead jars, small towels...

Five-yuan section: bundles of plastic hangers, ashtrays, double-layered anti-scald stainless steel bowls...

Bai Wei strolled around a large circle, and the basket was filled with goods.

She picked only daily necessities, filling it to the brim.

Zhou Yuchuan lowered his head to take a look and smiled, "With this much merchandise, it should be enough to sell. Let's go, let's go find the boss to negotiate the price."

"Isn't the price already marked?" Bai Wei blinked.

Zhou Yuchuan also leaned into her ear and lowered his voice, "We are wholesaling, so we should be able to get the boss to give us a discount. Listen to me, we can get at least twenty percent off."

Seeing his mysterious expression, Bai Wei couldn't help but burst into a laugh.

The second young master of a wealthy family actually knew how to haggle so well.

"Let's go, find the boss."

Bai Wei and Zhou Yuchuan arrived at the entrance and stopped the boss who was holding a loudspeaker and hawking his wares.

"Boss, we want to buy some goods."

The boss glanced at the basket in Zhou Yuchuan's hand and pointed to the checkout counter.

"Go over there to pay."

"No, these are just samples," Bai Wei hurriedly shook her head. "I intend to buy one hundred of every item in this basket!"

Suddenly, the boss's eyes lit up.

Business was here!

"Alright, alright, I'll help you go to the Warehouse to get the goods."

Zhou Yuchuan smiled, "Boss, since we're buying so much, we should be able to get a discount, right?"

The boss refused flatly, "Everything I mark is a fixed price; no haggling."

"Is that so..." Zhou Yuchuan rested his chin on his right hand, feigning deep thought, "If you won't lower the price by even a cent, we'll just go to that one-yuan store at the end of the street. The boss there said he could give me thirty percent off."

After saying this, he put down the basket in his hand and turned to signal to Bai Wei.

"Let's go, we're going to that store."

Bai Wei was very cooperative; she followed him out the door, speaking as she walked.

"That's right, the boss of that store is very straightforward. I was planning to find him for large-scale wholesale in the future anyway."

Upon hearing this, the boss hurriedly caught up in two or three steps, wearing an apologetic smile.

"You two, you want to wholesale goods in the future? What exactly do you do?"

Zhou Yuchuan's expression was indifferent, "My friend is in the foreign trade business and wants to buy some small commodities to sell in the markets of underdeveloped countries. If the sales are good, we will do large-scale wholesale long-term."

The boss was overjoyed, "Don't be in such a rush to leave, you two. I'll give you twenty percent off. This is the lowest profit price; I can't go any lower."

Hearing the boss relent, Bai Wei and Zhou Yuchuan couldn't help but exchange a smile.

Sure enough, business is something that is negotiated.

The two walked back into the store.

The boss hurriedly called over several clerks to help the two take inventory of the goods.

Taking advantage of the gap while the clerks were moving and counting goods from the Warehouse, Bai Wei picked up another empty basket.

She had only picked roughly before; there were too many things in the store, and she still had to choose carefully, striving to sell goods in ancient Daliang as well, so that the people of Daliang could all use cheap and useful modern daily necessities.

More than two hours later.

The clerks finally finished counting the goods, packing them into cardboard boxes by category, with the names of the goods written on the boxes.

The boss puffed on a cigarette, tapping away at a calculator to tally the bill.

Bai Wei waited for a while, and seeing that the boss still hadn't finished calculating, she couldn't help but speak up.

"Boss, you've been calculating for over half an hour, and you still haven't finished?"

"Little girl, there are too many goods, and the items are miscellaneous; I have to calculate carefully."

Just as he finished speaking, Zhou Yuchuan spoke up, "The price for this batch of goods is sixty-four thousand two hundred yuan in total."

"You know?" Bai Wei was surprised. "But you didn't have a calculator, nor did you have paper and pen. How did you calculate that?"

Zhou Yuchuan smiled and pointed to his head, "I memorized it. Just now, while they were taking inventory, I kept it all in my head."

"Impressive!" The boss rubbed his eyes, staring at the calculator in his hand. "It really is sixty-four thousand two hundred yuan. Young people's brains are just sharp."

He looked up with an expression of admiration and gave Zhou Yuchuan a thumbs-up.

Bai Wei also couldn't help but blink her eyes.

These were over a hundred types of small sundries, and the price of each item was different; Zhou Yuchuan actually remembered them clearly.

This astonishing memory and calculation ability.

It was simply unrivaled!

In her heart, Zhou Yuchuan's status rose another level.

The boss called a small truck to help Bai Wei load the goods and transport them to the Farm.

In fact, there was no need for transport at all; Bai Wei could have transmitted the goods using the Jade Pendant.

But to keep up appearances and avoid raising suspicion, she still followed the truck back to the Farm and had the workers move the goods down and place them in the Farm's courtyard.

Closing the Farm gate, Bai Wei immediately took out the Jade Pendant and, with a thought, transmitted the goods to Xiao Moting.

"Xiao Moting, this batch of small sundries has many varieties; they are all daily necessities."

"You can explore their uses first, and when the time comes, take them to the Bai's Sundry Shop to sell."

After delivering the goods, Bai Wei prepared to return to her room to rest.

But just at this moment, she received a call from Manager Liu.

"President Bai, I have already screened over a dozen people for the staff positions at the Vegetable Base you asked me to recruit for last time; I have sent their application materials and resumes to your email, please pick the suitable employees and then let me know."

"Very well, Manager Liu, thank you for your hard work."

Bai Wei nodded.

She was very satisfied with Manager Liu's ability to handle matters.

Ever since she acquired the Trade Company, she had barely managed it at all, because she did not count on the Trade Company to make money; as long as it did not lose money, that was enough.

As for the employees in the company, they were all the original staff, and Manager Liu was usually responsible for the company's affairs.

Manager Liu knew she was busy with matters at the Farm, so he rarely came to trouble her; he handled small matters in the company himself, such as paying internet fees, utilities, and customer disputes, only seeking her out for decisions on important matters, reporting company affairs to her every month, and handing over the accounts for her to verify.

For this recruitment of staff for the Vegetable Base, Manager Liu had also screened them beforehand, keeping some suitable people before handing the materials to her for review, which saved her a lot of time.

Therefore, Bai Wei recognized Manager Liu's work ability and intended to give him a raise at the end of the year.

Bai Wei returned to her room, turned on the computer, and pulled up her email.

On the screen, over a dozen application files popped up.

The materials Manager Liu left behind were almost all from experienced veteran employees, many of whom had worked at other farms and agricultural estates.

There were also a few application files from highly educated management talent.

Bai Wei spent three hours reading through all the application materials.

One job seeker named Qin Wei was actually a doctoral student from an agricultural university who had previously worked at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and had even improved several types of vegetables; because his parents were both in his hometown, he had resigned to return home, looking for work while taking care of his parents.