Go back to the past and be a local tyrant

Ask for collection, ask for recommendation

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I accompanied my uncle to buy bonsai, and my cousin bought a Labrador. After everything was done, I found a place nearby to have lunch, and then my uncle drove them home, and then drove out with orchids.

Fang Lu didn't stay idle when he returned to his cousin's house, but rode his bicycle to the Jingxue Culture and Sports Center. He remembered that there were some books about agriculture there. He wanted to see if he could find some books about flowers and bonsai.

Fang Lu searched for a long time on the third floor of the Jingxue Culture and Sports Center, and found a book "Introduction to Gardening" in the corner, which contained a small amount of knowledge about bonsai.

Bonsai, one of the excellent traditional arts in China, is a work of art that expresses natural landscapes in pots with plants and rocks as the basic materials.

It uses plants, rocks, soil, water, etc. as materials. After artistic creation and horticultural cultivation, it typically and intensively shapes the beautiful scenery of nature in a pot to achieve the artistic effect of shrinking the land into inches and seeing the big in the small. The scenery is expressive, expressing a profound artistic conception, just like a three-dimensional and beautiful miniature version of a landscape scenic spot.

Bonsai originated from China. There are two types of bonsai: tree stump bonsai and landscape bonsai. Bonsai is composed of three elements: landscape, pot, and frame. They are interconnected and affect each other as a unified whole.People regard bonsai as "three-dimensional painting" and "silent poetry".

Bonsai is generally divided into two categories: stump bonsai and landscape bonsai.The former uses trees as the main material, and can be divided into four categories: viewing branches, viewing leaves, viewing fruits and viewing flowers; The ones that are mainly made of stone and stone are dry bonsai, and the ones that have both water and soil are flood and dry bonsai.

When Fang Lu saw this, he thought that the bonsai in his hometown ZY City belonged to the stump bonsai. He simply learned about the bonsai and went back to his cousin's house.

The next day, Fang Lu told his cousin that he was planning to go out for a stroll and would not come back at noon. The cousin didn't say anything, but just said that she knew. Fang Lu was already 15 years old. When she was young, Fang Lu was much older. He had already started earning money to support his family, so he wasn't worried about Fang Lu.

After Fang Lu came out of his cousin's house, he took a taxi and headed for the Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market.

After an hour's taxi ride to the Flower, Bird, Fish and Insect Market, Fang Lu paid the fare, got out of the car and walked inside. He followed the road he walked with his cousin yesterday to the place where flowers and bonsai were sold. He didn't go there. Yesterday, he went to the "Famous Flowers and Trees" with his cousin. He is not sure what the situation is now. Is it what he thinks? Besides, he doesn't want his cousin to know. Time is hard to handle.

Fang Lu looked at the flower and bonsai shops on both sides of the road, searched for a while, chose a relatively large shop and walked in.

"Boss, how much is your ordinary bonsai?" Fang Lu asked.

The busy shop owner raised his head and asked, "Ordinary bonsai? What kind of bonsai do you want? You tell me so I can give you an approximate price."

"It's just these few." Fang Lu pointed to a few small pots of pomegranate bonsai placed at the door and asked, his hometown mainly had this kind of pomegranate bonsai.

"These few, the smallest one is 80 yuan, the three medium ones are 110 yuan, and the largest one is 150 yuan." The boss said.

Fang Lu thought about it, the price is not low. Although he doesn't know bonsai, he can tell that these bonsai are not particularly good among the bonsai in the store, so they are still so expensive. If the price of bonsai in my hometown is lower, I can make money by myself.

Fang Lu didn't say anything else, walked around the shop a little bit, asked about the prices of some bonsai, and then went out.

It took more than an hour for Fang Lu to look at the bonsai in seven or eight stores and get an idea of ​​the approximate price. Even the worst and cheapest ones cost more than 50 yuan, and the ordinary ones can be sold for about 100 yuan. The quality is good. Some can be sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

After reading it, Fang Lu stood by the side of the road and wanted to find a company with a better reputation, and asked how much he would pay if he had the goods and planned to supply them.

He wandered around for a long time and went back to the first one he entered, then went in again, and stood aside when he saw that the boss was still busy.

After the boss finished his work, Fang Lu accosted him.

"Boss, you're quite busy. The business is good. I saw you were busy just now. You haven't finished your work after wandering around." Fang Lu said.

"It's okay, the market is good this year, and the business is okay." The boss returned.

Fang Lu took out the Yellow Crane Tower that he specially bought from his pocket, took out one and handed it to the boss, the boss took it without seeing anyone, then lit it and started to inhale.

"Little brother, I see that you came to my store more than an hour ago to have a look, asked questions, and then went out, and now you are back again, because you walked around the outside and looked at a lot of stores, and you are planning to buy some. There are a lot of them, which government unit does it belong to?" said the boss.

"Brother Ma, you guessed wrong." Fang Lu said.

"Hey, little brother, how do you know my surname is Ma?" The boss asked suspiciously.

Fang Lu pointed to the door and said, "Brother, the name of your shop is Ma Yuan Yi, so I can easily guess your surname Ma."

"That's right." Boss Ma smiled to himself.

"Little brother, I didn't ask you for your name." Boss Ma continued to ask.

"Boss Ma, I don't need your surname Fang, you can just call me Xiao Fang." Fang Lu said.

"That's impossible, I'll call you Brother Fang. Brother Fang, you just said that I was wrong, brother, I have to ask where I was wrong." Boss Ma asked.

"Boss Ma, you just said which unit I belong to, and I have to buy a lot. You are wrong." Fang Lu said.

"Oh, I was wrong, you didn't purchase for the unit, so what are you going to do?" Boss Ma asked.

"Brother Ma, I'm here to give you money." Fang Lu said.

"Oh, the one who gave me money, then you should talk about it carefully." Boss Ma asked.

"Little brother, I have a batch of bonsai at home that I plan to sell. This Jinlin is an economically developed area, and the price must be higher than ours, so I plan to come and explore the way. If possible, see if I can sell it at a high price. "Fang Lu said.

"Oh!"

Boss Ma nodded to express his understanding. This kind of thing is very common.

Those who cultivate bonsai in small places come to big cities to see if they can find a way to sell them at a higher price because they can't sell them at a small price.

"Did Brother Fang take a fancy to my place? It feels like you can sell goods here."

Boss Ma smiled treacherously, and said: "Don't look at my brother, I am not cheap, in fact, I can't sell a few pots a day. Besides, if I meet a lot of buyers, I have to lower the price to sell it. If the little brother has the goods, it’s no problem for me to eat some, but..."

Or that it is only good people who can make a successful business. Before Fang Lu said anything, they started to lower the price.

"No, Boss Ma is too modest. I just checked. You have been busy for so long, but you have shipped out a lot of bonsai. This is a big order."

Boss Ma smiled and didn't deny it, after all, he stood there watching for a long time.

Then he turned around and shouted into the store, "My wife is looking at the store, I have something to do."

"Got it, go get busy." A female voice came from inside.

Boss Ma pulled Fang Lu to a table specially reserved for guests to rest and said, "Brother Fang, to be honest, I haven't seen the bonsai yet, Ma, and I don't know how it looks. Those who buy goods all have fixed channels, and they are all acquaintances, not to mention that it is convenient to get the goods, but they are also cheap. If you are short of goods, my little brother, it’s meaningless to say these things, and you are doing business for a long time.”

Fang Lu nodded, he also knew that no matter what business he was looking for, he wanted long-term convenience.

However, making money as a qualified businessman is the last word. As long as you are a little cheaper than wholesalers, these people are rushing to ask for themselves.

"Boss Ma, I'm not going around in circles with you, I just open the skylight and talk brightly. This time I'm here just to inquire. You can tell me about the price standard. If I can make a profit, I can provide you with a batch of goods for you to sell." , if it’s okay, I’ll continue to supply.” Fang Lu said.

"That's fine, I don't cheat you, An Pinxiang said, didn't you ask a lot of prices just now, I can give you [-]% of the market price." Boss Ma said with a smile but gave a jumping price.

As soon as Fang Lu heard this, he turned around and was ready to go out. It is no problem for you to make money, but don't treat me as a fool, [-]% of my money is a fart.

"Don't worry, little brother, how about a price?" Boss Ma hurriedly said when he saw that Fang Lu was about to leave.Negotiating prices in a small business is not negotiating with a big company, and any face and rules are not as important as money.

"An Pinxiang, I want [-]% of the market price." Fang Lu said.

"Eighty percent! Little brother, your price is too high. How can I buy goods from others so expensive!" Boss Ma exclaimed, expressing that he couldn't accept the price.

"Boss Ma, don't think that I'm an outsider trying to lie to me. The bonsai market is very lively now. I know that the price has been rising slowly since the Chinese New Year, especially this month. It hasn’t risen to the top yet, so you must be able to make a lot of money by buying goods at [-]% of the price.” Fang Lu said, anyway, he is not the only one in the market, and even if it doesn’t work, he can go to another one, his main purpose is to check the price and take a look. See if you can negotiate a deal or two.

Boss Ma didn't speak but was thinking there, and Fang Lu didn't bother him, after all, he had to give him time to think.

Boss Ma thinks that what Fang Lu said is really good. The price of bonsai has been rising since the Chinese New Year, especially in the last month. He buys goods at [-]% of the price and makes more money by stocking them for a month or two, but he can’t. Let a little boy be suppressed.

"Sixty percent of the market price." Boss Ma said.

"Seventy percent, it's OK, if not, I'll leave." Fang Lu said.

"Okay, it's [-]%, Brother Fang, that's the deal." Boss Ma said quickly.