Chapter 852 — The Windfall of Yu Xiaoke
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Sure! But you'll have to give me a deposit first..." Yu Xiaoke was delighted. She had never expected that on her very first day selling flowers she would run into such a fool, one who did not even haggle and ordered ten thousand blooms outright!
Three yuan was merely the retail price for a single rose. Even buying ten would earn a discount, and wrapping would be thrown in besides!
"A deposit is no problem, but I can't give you too much—I'll give you ten thousand, and you'll get the rest after you deliver the flowers!" Kang Jingming said. In his eyes ten thousand yuan was nothing, and having just come into a sum from Li Cihua, he was feeling flush.
Yu Xiaoke nearly burst out laughing at his words. Ten thousand yuan! Wholesaling ten thousand roses would not cost ten thousand yuan. The current wholesale price of roses at the Songshan City flower market was fifty cents apiece, and with a large order it could be pressed down to thirty cents—so three thousand yuan would be more than enough!
The fool had handed her ten thousand yuan just like that—what a windfall! Yu Xiaoke had reckoned that if they haggled she could let them have the flowers at eighty cents apiece, but these three seemed to know nothing of the market. They had not bargained at all, and had even given her a ten-thousand-yuan deposit!
Naturally, Yu Xiaoke could not let any of this show. She merely said calmly, "All right. You give me the deposit, and I'll arrange the flower delivery."
It never occurred to the three of them that flowers could be haggled over. After all, they saw Yu Xiaoke's street peddling as a fly-by-night trade, and assumed she could not make much on a single bloom; besides, for a few yuan's worth of goods, haggling would have felt beneath Kang Jingming's dignity. He was the second young master of the Kang family—how could he squabble with a street flower vendor? If word of that got out, he would be laughed out of countenance.
Kang Jingming sent Zhu Xiaozhang to a nearby ATM to withdraw ten thousand yuan and gave it to Yu Xiaoke. "There's your deposit. If you do a good job, there'll be a bonus!"
To Kang Jingming, twenty or thirty thousand yuan was nothing, so his promise of a bonus for a job well done was simply his way of making sure Yu Xiaoke did it properly.
At the mention of a reward, Yu Xiaoke's eyes lit up at once, and she even helped Kang Jingming come up with a bit of an idea: "Boss, who exactly are you waiting to welcome out? Is it your girlfriend?"
"Yes, my girlfriend! I'm going to confess my feelings to her!" Hearing Yu Xiaoke call Guan Xin his girlfriend, Kang Jingming was instantly overjoyed, his mood at its absolute peak. He nodded and said, "Why? Is something the matter?"
"If you're welcoming your girlfriend, then do you want me to prepare a banner or something like that for you?" Yu Xiaoke figured she had already made so much money off him, and had even gotten a bonus, so she might as well throw in a little something extra for him.
"Sure!" The moment Kang Jingming heard Yu Xiaoke's idea, he thought it was simply wonderful. "A banner—that's a great idea! Not bad, go and get it done. If you need money, just tell me! You're a clever girl, not bad at all, not bad at all!"