Chapter 6 The Shopping Frenzy
It was already mid-July, the hottest time of the year, even in the early morning, when the sun came out, the streets of Bangta City were still quite hot.
Bangta City seems to have shrunk down under the scorching sun, and the whole city seems to be weak, not to mention the dense flow of people, and even the sound is rarely heard.
However, on the commercial street in the west of the city, it was a completely different scene.
Hundreds of people have poured into this commercial street with hundreds of large and small shops from before dawn. What is even more surprising is that all these hundreds of people actually gathered in this place. In front of one of the stores, it was as if an appointment had been made.
"Huh? Joseph, why are you here too?"
"Nonsense, can't you come if you can? By the way, Ike, are you here to buy a magic fan too?"
"Yeah. You said 'also'? Are you here to buy a magic fan too?"
"Of course. I paid the deposit a week ago!"
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Similar conversations rang out from time to time in the crowd.
Through chatting with each other, everyone discovered that the hundreds of people who were waiting in front of the "Heinze Grocery Store", which is usually inconspicuous in the commercial street, were all coming to the magic fans!
Only a small percentage of them put down deposits a week ago and are only here to pick up the goods today. However, the remaining hundreds of people heard about the magic fan from their own channels, and rushed to buy them back.
"I said, there are so many people here, what if there are not enough magic fans in the store to sell?" One person suddenly asked a question.
It didn't matter what he asked, the people who were just gathering together to chat suddenly became quiet, but after a while, they rushed to the door of the grocery store together as if they were in a good mood.
"Don't squeeze! I must buy a magic fan to go back today! Otherwise, the mother-in-law at home will scold me to death!"
"Damn! Do you think it's just your mother-in-law who can scold people? My family said that if there is no magic fan blowing tonight, she will take my boy to sleep on the road!"
"Okay, don't squeeze, I paid a deposit!"
"Go away! The guy who paid the deposit followed us!"
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Xu Yi had already delivered 500 magic fans to Heinze's grocery store last night. At this time, Heinze and Heinze were counting the number of goods together. Suddenly, he heard that the front of the grocery store became extremely noisy. Taku glanced at each other and went to the store in front of them together.
As soon as the door was opened, the two were startled by the sight in front of them.
The dark crowd rushed into the store like a flood burst, instantly crowding the small store.
"Heinze, where's the magic fan I ordered?"
"Hey, boss, I didn't pre-order, but I'm going to buy two now, no! Three!"
"And me, Heinze, I'm a regular customer here. You must sell me two magic fans!"
"Damn, what's wrong with the old customer? If I give you money, you will sell me something, and I want one!"
"Why are you squeezing so hard just to buy one? Leave me behind!"
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The weather was already hot, and when the crowd squeezed in, the heat rose even more, and it was the first time Xu Yi had faced such a situation, and he was instantly sweating profusely.
Heinze is also the first time he has seen such an enthusiastic shopping crowd, but fortunately, he has opened a grocery store for many years. In this regard, he is much stronger than Xu Yi, who has always been in the research room, and quickly calmed down. , shouted loudly: "Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet! We have prepared a total of 500 magic fans this time, and we guarantee that you can buy them all!"
Hearing the number of five hundred units, everyone calmed down a little.
But this calmness only lasted for a blink of an eye, and in an instant, everyone thought that there are hundreds of people guarding outside the grocery store. Even if each person only buys a magic fan, it is only barely enough, but just now there are many people. Everyone revealed that they didn't just buy one, so five hundred would not be enough.
After thinking about this, the crowd actually became a little more frenzied than before.
Seeing this posture, Heinze knew that it was useless to say anything, so he quickly gave Xu Yi a wink and asked him and his nephew Alex, who he had found two days in advance, to go to the backyard to move the goods.
A magic fan weighs less than three kilograms. Xu Yi and Alex can move out ten units together. However, as soon as these ten units were moved out, they were immediately looted by the crowd guarding the store. So the two had to go back to the backyard warehouse again.
As Xu Yi and Alex went back and forth between the backyard warehouse and the store, the 487 magic fans that filled the entire warehouse quickly decreased.
Later, the people guarding the store even became impatient and continued to wait in the store, so they rushed to the warehouse in the backyard with Xu Yi and Alex.
Heinze also changed the trading location to the warehouse, so in less than an hour, all the magic fans in the warehouse were sold out.
At this time, there were more than 100 people outside the store who had not bought it. When they heard the news that the magic fans had been sold out, they were suddenly disappointed, and some impatient people couldn't help complaining.
"You don't even have everything ready, what kind of shabby store are you running?"
For such unreasonable complaints, Xu Yi and Heinze could only look at each other and smile bitterly.
However, there was a clear sense of satisfaction and relief in their wry smiles.
I thought it would take a long time to sell these more than 400 magic fans, but they didn't expect that they would all be sold out in less than an hour, which really surprised the two of them.
As for the remaining hundred or so people who have not bought magic fans, Heinze will naturally not give up easily. After receiving Xu Yi's nod and consent, he immediately said that there will be a large number of magic fans coming in. If everyone It is possible to book in advance if required.
This time, everyone did not hesitate at all and placed orders one after another.
Another half an hour passed before the crowd gradually dissipated, and silence finally returned to the grocery store.
After seeing off the last guest, Heinze immediately dragged Xu Yi to the inner room.
"Ding ding ding--"
Heinze shook the purse in his hand, and a large pile of gold coins fell like flowing water. After a while, a hill was piled up on the table in front of the two of them.
Looking at the brilliant golden light emanating from this hill, Heinze swallowed hard.
Too much!
After a while, Heinze calmed down his excitement and counted in front of Xu Yi.
A total of 487 magic fans were sold today. According to the price of two gold coins for each magic fan, it should be 974 gold coins, but one hundred and thirty-seven of the magic fans have been handed in in advance. The deposit of 1 gold coin is only to make up the difference today, so one hundred and thirty-seven must be subtracted, and the total should be 857 gold coins.
After Heinze counted them, the numbers were exactly the same.
"Xu...Xu Yi, I really made a fortune today!" Heinze was still a little dizzy when he actually had more than 800 gold coins in front of him, even though he had already prepared for this amount in his heart.
He runs this grocery store in Bangta City, and his income for a whole year is only more than 300 gold coins, but now he has only used it for one morning, and he has sold more than 800 gold coins!
He couldn't believe it was true!
Although Xu Yi was much calmer than Heinze, he was also a little excited.
He has been in this world for three years, and his life has never been considered rich. Although he has always been not particularly sensitive to money, having this income now will undoubtedly make him a lot easier.
After the two were silent for a while, Xu Yi calmed down and counted 400 gold coins from the pile of gold coins and pushed them to Heinze.
Heinze was taken aback: "Isn't that right?"
According to the agreement between him and Heinze, 10% of the dividend should be paid to Heinze, so the dividend alone should be 97 gold coins. When making these 500 magic fans, Xu Yi did not have enough funds to buy them. The raw materials were borrowed from Heinze for two hundred gold coins, and naturally they had to be returned together.
In general, Xu Yi should have given Heinze 300 gold coins, but this time he pushed 400 directly, which naturally surprised Heinze.
Xu Yi smiled slightly: "There's nothing wrong. The extra 100 gold coins are because I hope you can help me rent a larger venue in the city so that I can produce a larger amount of magic fans. Otherwise, if you stay at my house, There will be a lot of inconveniences.”
Heinze nodded lightly. The hut that Xu Yi rented was only over ten square meters, but there were many inconveniences.
When Xu Yigang wanted to make a more specific request to Heinze, Alex, who was guarding the store in front, suddenly broke in.
"Uncle Heinze, Xu... Mr. Xu, come... a big guest!"
"Big guest?" Xu Yi and Heinze looked at each other inexplicably. "What is a big guest?"
The two came to the front store together, and instantly understood what Alex meant by "big guest".
The person who came was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties, with a medium stature and an ordinary appearance, but there was a hint of shrewdness all over his body. It is revealing a look that seems to treat people as commodities.
"One thousand units." After seeing Heinze and Xu Yi, the middle-aged man who called himself Reeves bluntly explained his intentions. "I want to order a thousand magic fans."