Song Hongmei was very dissatisfied: "As a businessman, don't you want customers?"
Lao Zhang was also unhappy: "My dear sister, every time you bring someone here, you have to bargain for the price. How can I make any profit?"
Every businessman says this. Song Hongmei doesn’t make any money even selling egg pancakes!
She doesn't believe it.
So he turned around and said to Song Tan: "Don't be fooled by the shabby place here. Actually, this piece of land belongs to him. Otherwise, how could he sell chickens and ducks to such a shabby house in the old city without demolishing it? People would have come to his door long ago."
Fortunately, this place is located between several large residential compounds and does not affect the city appearance, otherwise this sneaky business would have been closed down long ago.
Song Hongmei has been in the family compound for more than 20 years, so she knows the situation well: "Tan Tan, don't listen to his nonsense. He hatched these ducks at home. The cost is very low. I tell you, it was four yuan per duck last year. Don't let him get away with it!"
Lao Zhang's face changed. "Sister! Are you deliberately trying to sabotage me? Last year's price was last year's price. Why isn't the price going up this year? I won't sell it for four yuan!"
Song Hongmei turned around and left: "You guys keep talking, I have to go home and cook."
Then he ran away.
The remaining three looked at each other, and then Qiao Qiao repeated: "Four dollars a piece?"
Lao Zhang refused to agree: "No! The lowest price is 4.50, or you can buy it somewhere else!"
Song Tan almost laughed out loud.
She had asked about the prices before, and no one was charging less than five dollars, so it seemed that four dollars was really a steal.
"Okay, four dollars and a half is four dollars and a half. Let's take a look at it first."
Just take a look.
Old Zhang was still very confident in his ducks. He led the two through the front house, turned into the backyard, then into another house, and then into the backyard.
This is his secret base.
A half-built awning was set up here, and you could smell the stench of duck shit from far away.
However, when we got in, a group of yellow fluffy ducklings came running towards us, swaying their butts from side to side!
The scene was so delightful!
Qiao Qiao couldn't move her legs at that time, so she just squatted down and looked at Song Tan eagerly.
Lao Zhang explained: "Have you ever raised ducks before? How many do you want? These are spotted ducks, they have good meat quality and grow fast. Look at how strong they are. If you buy them, they will definitely live long!"
Song Tan believed this.
They came suddenly, and the boss didn't make any preparations in advance. However, from the naked eye, the little ducks all looked energetic and indeed strong.
At four dollars and fifty cents each, it’s pretty cheap.
She thought about it and realized that there was a pond above the bamboo forest in her hometown. The ducks could then go into the rice fields to eat grass, and there was also a hillside for them to move around freely. The place was big enough.
"Let's start with a hundred."
One hundred
This time it was Lao Zhang's turn to be surprised.
"I thought you guys were just farmers raising a few... Why do you need so many?"
Then he saw Song Tan's face and remembered that this was Song Hongmei's man, so he became alert again: "I can tell you, if you buy one thousand, it will be the same price, four dollars and fifty cents, not a cent less!"
Song Hongmei is a persistent person, too persistent!
If she couldn't bargain to her satisfaction, she would come every day to bargain! Selling ducks is not like selling vegetables. It takes a long time for a group of ducks to grow from hatching to maturity, so she could persevere.
Old Zhang really couldn't bear it anymore, so he blurted out all the truth.
Song Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Okay, quite a lot. Your duck is pretty good. I'll come back to buy one next year."
She was so straightforward that Lao Zhang felt a little embarrassed:
"Oh, it's all Sister Song's fault. Every time she bargains with me, it takes so long that I'm afraid of her."
But he turned around and counted the ducks in his own yard—they were hatched in batches, and there were only about 120 to 130 ducks in the yard.
Lao Zhang thought for a while and said, "How about you buy 120 and I'll give you the remaining ones."
Although most of them are strong and healthy, there are inevitably a few that are a little weak, which will lower their value.
Rather than leaving them here to be picked over and not sold, it is better to pack them all up at once.
On the one hand, I was also afraid that Song Tan might not know the value of the product:
"Let me tell you, half of my batch are male ducks. Male ducks are more nutritious than female ducks and are more expensive. I will give you the same price for all of them."
Chickens and ducks are different.
Among chickens, hens are more economically valuable, but among ducks, drakes are more nutritious to eat.
Besides, there is no other way to make duck eggs more delicious except salted duck eggs. The economic value is even worse.
What Lao Zhang said was actually the truth.
Song Tan thought about it and bought a hundred of them, so twenty or thirty wouldn't be much more, so he nodded readily:
"OK."
More than a hundred ducks were put into the truck bed. It was already twelve o'clock. It would be too late to go back for lunch today. Fortunately, Song Tan had made preparations.
Now she is taking Qiao Qiao with her: "Let's go, what do you want to eat? Sister will take you there."
Qiao Qiao pondered: "What does Peppa eat?"
What does Peppa eat
Song Tan doesn’t know either, maybe it’s pig food…
She thought about it:
"Come on, I'll take you to eat fried chicken, French fries, red bean pie and hamburgers!"
It’s not because they taste so good, but because of the toys they gave me as a gift, and also to give Qiao Qiao, who has never eaten any, a change of taste.
There is a little duck in the car, and all the things are packed and brought to the car.
As soon as Qiao Qiao opened the toy box in his hand, he was surprised to find a yellow little duck inside!
The two wings flapping up and down is very interesting.
"Little duck!"
He cried out in surprise, then took a gulp and bit into the roasted chicken leg.
"Hmm..." He chewed with a strange expression.
Song Tan glanced at him and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Qiao Qiao thought about it, looking tangled: "No dish is delicious, but, but..."
He couldn't speak.
"But it's still quite fresh, right?" Song Tan added.
"Yeah!" Qiao Qiao nodded heavily and then took another bite.
This poor baby...
Song Tan thought to himself: I should take him to the children's playground when I have time.
Qiao Qiao didn't know that there would be more delicious and fun things waiting for her in the future. At this moment, she just nodded in satisfaction, holding the chicken wings in one hand and the duck in the other:
"Sister, can we eat again next time?"
Song Tan felt sorry for him: "Then eat once every two weeks, okay?"
How long is two weeks
Qiao Qiao blinked and finally nodded blankly.
After thinking for a while, he took out half a pack of snow cakes from his bag:
"I can't eat this anymore. Can you take it back to Dabai?"
"all right."
She still had a bag in her pocket: "We'll have to ask Dabai to take care of the duckling later, so please feed it more delicious food."
Big white with little duck
Qiao Qiao subconsciously turned his head to look at the back of the car, and after a long while, he frowned and said:
"Will a big white-banded duck be very aggressive?"
"No!" Song Tan coaxed him: "The duck will grow up to be like Dabai, and it won't fit in the same pot!"
Oh, just thinking about winter melon and duck soup, sour bamboo shoots and duck soup, roast duck... my mouth is watering.
However, Qiao Qiao had a bitter face:
"No, Dabai can't be stewed."
This is the downside of raising animals for a long time. Once you become emotionally invested in them, you can’t let them go.
Song Tan sighed:
"We won't stew the big white, we'll eat the duck - and you're not allowed to play with the duck when the time comes."