There are two speculation shops in the city, one is called Song Kee and the other is called Cheng Kee. Song Ji's business is very prosperous, but Cheng Ji is much more deserted, Boss Cheng is narrow-minded, and he must compare baht, so he is very jealous of Song Ji.
Early in the morning, Boss Cheng hid in the shadows and quietly observed Song Ji's movements. After a while, I saw Boss Song open the door, and instructed the guys to carry a few sacks of melon seeds out and start dusting. This dustpan, the deflated melon seeds were dusted out, and the remaining full melon seeds were carried back to the backyard to fry. After the dustpan, the guys put the deflated melon seeds into a cloth bag and carried them into the backyard.
Boss Cheng's heart moved: Boss Song was dusting melon seeds on the street, so many villagers saw it and knew that his fried melon seeds were full, no wonder they all rushed to buy them. Back in the store, Boss Cheng also did the same, dusting melon seeds on the street, but the guys dusted for a long time, and they didn't pick up a few deflated melon seeds. He frowned and said, "Why is it so much?" ”
The guy said with a smile: "Owner, when we harvest melon seeds, they are all carefully selected, and those with deflated melon seeds will not be accepted, and people have already dusted them over." ”
Boss Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "Song Ji is a dustpan of melon seeds on the street every morning, you go and take back the deflated melon seeds!" ”
Unexpectedly, early the next morning, Da Neng ran back angrily and said that Song Ji's men would not let him collect the deflated melon seeds. Boss Cheng immediately took two guys and came to Song Ji's door in a menacing manner, but saw that Song Ji's guys had swept all the deflated melon seeds into a pile and were putting them in a cloth bag.
Boss Cheng rushed over and asked, "Why can you accept the things on the street, but we can't?" Boss Song came out when he heard the news and said with a smile: "Brother, my family borrowed a place on the street, dusted melon seeds, and quickly took them away, saving the street from being dirty, but is there anything wrong?" ”
Boss Cheng said strongly: "I'm also afraid of polluting the street, so I'll help you put it away, what's wrong?" Boss Song said: "If you want to accept it, I thank you very much." However, it has to be weighed in two pounds. Boss Cheng said: "Weigh it!" He swept half a cloth bag of deflated melon seeds, weighed them on the scale, six catties and four taels, and carried them back and sprinkled them in front of his shop.
In the evening, he asked the man to put away the deflated melon seeds, mix them into the raw melon seeds, and wait until the next morning, in front of everyone's eyes, standing at the door of the shop. After learning this trick, Cheng Ji's business improved slightly.
But within a few days, those catties of suffocated melon seeds were trampled and could no longer be used, so Boss Cheng went to the door of Song Ji with great power to grab the deflated melon seeds. Boss Song came to the door when he heard the news and asked in surprise: "Brother, what are you going to do with melon seeds?" Boss Cheng said: "Don't say dark words in front of the Ming people. Don't you collect so many deflated melon seeds just to make a living notice? ”
Boss Song waved his hand and said, "Brother, you have something to think about." "It turned out that it was rainy last year, and the melon seeds did not bear well, and most of them were deflated. If he doesn't take it, the people will starve, so he will take it at a low price. It's not clean, and it can't be sold. This year, the weather is damp and stuffy, and those melon seeds have also returned to the tide, and he put them in the backyard to dry. There was really no place to dust, so he went to the door of the shop to dust.
Boss Cheng didn't believe it: "The dustpan came out, why do you have to take it back?" Boss Song said: "If we do business, we must always make an account, and we must make an account." Boss Cheng said: "In this case, I'll ask you for a few catties, okay?" Boss Song nodded and asked the guy to carry a bag of deflated melon seeds to him.
Boss Cheng had just come out of the shop, but he saw several carriages coming to the door, and the coachman shouted: "Shopkeeper Song, we are here, hurry up and load the goods." When you get to the capital, the road is not close! Boss Cheng was taken aback. Sending a few truckloads of fried goods to the capital, what a big deal. When he inquired again, he almost got his nose crooked. It turned out that a few days ago, the palace sent Father-in-law Su to buy here, and the merchants were busy wooing this God of Wealth, such a big business, so that Song Ji took the lead. Boss Cheng gritted his teeth and said secretly: "Boss Song, don't blame me for being unkind!" ”
Boss Cheng immediately took the silver ticket and went to see his father-in-law. When Father-in-law Su saw the silver ticket, he smiled happily, but when he heard that Boss Cheng was also a fried goods, his head shook like a rattle: "Our family has already set up Song Ji, how can we accept your family again?" We also have to keep our word. Boss Cheng was prepared, and took out a silver ticket and stuffed it into the hand of Father-in-law Su, saying, "Please fulfill it." When Father-in-law Su saw this silver ticket again, his eyes were full of smiles, and he said, "I'll leave this matter to our family." Boss Cheng happily said goodbye.
Three days later, Su Gonggong sent someone to pass the word, and set the fried melon seeds of Cheng Ji, and sent them once every half a month, 3,000 catties each time, and the price went with the market. And Song Ji's side has been pushed away by him. Boss Cheng couldn't help but be happy, and he immediately made a gold-lettered plaque with a few big words written on it: Cheng Ji Tribute. He also bought a bunch of firecrackers and put them up in front of the shop, attracting many people to come and see the excitement. When he saw that Boss Song was also coming, he deliberately walked up to him and smiled sarcastically: "Thank you Boss Song for coming!" ”
Boss Song smiled indifferently and said, "Boss Cheng's business is big!" Boss Cheng said triumphantly: "This is just the beginning." Cheng Ji has made a name, and the business will definitely get bigger and bigger! He thought to himself, Boss Song must have hated him to death, and maybe he would come up with some bad ideas to harm him, but he had to be careful. He deliberately sent Da Neng to keep an eye on Song Ji, but more than ten days passed, and Song Ji did not move at all.
A month later, Father-in-law Su suddenly sent a little eunuch to find Boss Cheng and asked him to come over. Boss Cheng hurriedly followed the little eunuch to the pavilion. As soon as Father-in-law Su saw him, his face sank, and he said angrily: "Boss Cheng, you are hurting our family!" Boss Cheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Father-in-law, where did you start with this?" ”
Father-in-law Su grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the bag and handed them to Boss Cheng: "You come and smell it!" Boss Cheng took it and smelled it, and there was an unpleasant greasy smell. Father-in-law Su continued: "Just because of your melon seeds, I was reprimanded by the chief manager!" You hurry up and think about it! ”
Boss Cheng thought about it, the latest batch of fried melon seeds sent to the palace has only been ten days ago, how can it change its taste? He asked, "Didn't the fried melon seeds I sent to the palace be eaten at that time?" ”
Father-in-law Su said: "Some of them were immediately sent to the palaces, and some of them were sent to the Summer Palace for Lafayette to smell." What went wrong was what Lafayette smelled, and this change of smell made Lafayette immediately droop his face. If there is such a thing again, our family is only afraid that our heads will not be protected! ”
Only then did Boss Cheng understand that this fried melon seeds were sent to the palace, not only to eat, but also to smell them. In this summer, if the melon seeds are put for more than ten days, won't they deteriorate? If you don't want the melon seeds to spoil, then there is a way: change them often. But Su's father-in-law only gave the melon seeds money at the market price, and if he really wants to change it often, he can't go to his grandmother's house? He wanted to cry for a while, but his father-in-law said coldly: "Shopkeeper Cheng, we are grasshoppers on a rope, it really makes Lafayette angry, let's just wait!" ”
Boss Cheng came out of Father-in-law Su and raised his hand to give himself a big mouth. Originally, he had nothing to do, so he had to grab this business with Boss Song, but who knew that it caused a big disaster. No, this Boss Song went to the palace to deliver melon seeds, obviously it's fine, why did something happen to him? Could it be that Boss Song has any tricks? In desperation, Boss Cheng had to prepare a table of banquets and invite Boss Song. Boss Song readily agreed.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Boss Cheng suddenly left the table, knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in a row, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother save me!" Boss Song hurriedly helped him up and asked him what was wrong. Boss Cheng told the ins and outs. When Boss Song heard this, he smiled faintly and said, "It's not difficult to save you." Boss Cheng hurriedly said: "Brother, talk quickly!" I will repay my brother's great kindness. Boss Song smiled: "You just need to buy my deflated melon seeds." ”
Boss Cheng's eyes widened in astonishment and he couldn't speak.
Boss Song went on to explain that when he was talking about business with Father-in-law Su before, he had inquired in detail with Father-in-law about who these melon seeds were for and what hobbies these people were. Father-in-law Su quietly revealed that some of the melon seeds were used to smell Lafayette. Because Galeries Lafayette lives on the shore of Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace, where the water vapor is heavy, and this year is unusually humid, the musty smell in the house is very strong, and the smell is very uncomfortable, so Lafayette thought of using the smell of roasted goods to suppress the musty smell. The aroma of fried melon seeds is indeed strong enough, but in that environment, within ten days, it will also deteriorate and become moldy. The greasy smell of fried melon seeds after they have deteriorated and become moldy is even more unpleasant to smell. How can I keep fried melon seeds from spoiling and moldy?
Boss Song suddenly had an idea and thought of those deflated melon seeds. The deterioration and mildew of the melon seeds gave the fried melon seeds a greasy taste, and the deflated melon seeds did not have melon seed kernels, which just overcame this problem. Therefore, every time he sent fried melon seeds, he sent a few bags of deflated melon seeds, and took special care of his father-in-law, which was specially used for Lafayette to smell.
When Boss Cheng heard this, he couldn't help but clap his hands and exclaimed, "Wonderful! He immediately said that he had all the deflated melon seeds in Song Ji, and the price was set by Boss Song. Boss Song waved his hand and said sincerely: "If I bought it, I will sell it to you!" ”
The next day, Boss Cheng took his buddies and drove the carriage to Song Ji to buy deflated melon seeds. When people saw it, they were all amazed, and they all praised the boss of Song Ji for his kindness, regardless of his previous suspicions. Song Kee's business is also booming.