Brother Mang knew perfectly well that obtaining goods of such high quality couldn’t have been easy.
“All right, a thousand jin it is. I’ll give you one yuan per jin. How about selling all of them to me?” He directly named his price.
He considered the price quite fair.
After all, although he was the boss of the black market, he still had quite a few people working under him. Everyone followed him to make money. He couldn’t possibly do business at a loss.
If he bought them for one yuan per jin, selling them for two yuan per jin wouldn’t be unreasonable, right?
After all, apples at the supply and marketing cooperative cost less than fifty cents per jin.
Even if these apples were better than those at the supply and marketing cooperative, hadn’t he already doubled the price?
Hearing his offer, Mu Xi shook her head. “One yuan and fifty cents per jin. Fixed price.”
Brother Mang: “…”
“Isn’t that the same price you were selling them for just now?”
“Yes.”
“You’re charging the same price for retail and wholesale. How am I supposed to sell them?” Brother Mang looked displeased, feeling as though she were treating him like a fool.
“You can raise the price. I only have a thousand jin. Once I sell them all to you, you’ll have a monopoly. You can sell them for one-seventy or one-eighty per jin. No one’s going to stop you.”
By then, he would be the only one with these apples. Even if other people thought they were expensive, those with money wouldn’t care about an extra twenty or thirty cents.
After all, no one else had apples like these. Could the cheaper ones possibly taste the same?
Brother Mang understood what she meant.
But he still felt the price was too high, so he tried to bargain.
“How about this? One yuan and twenty cents per jin. That’s already a very high price.”
“If you’re not sincere about doing business, then I’ll just sell them myself. You saw how popular my apples were just now. It’ll only be a little more troublesome. It won’t take me more than a few days to sell a thousand jin.”
Of course, she was only saying that for the black market boss to hear.
She only had tonight and tomorrow available.
Once she left for the Northeast, she had no intention of taking out apples to sell anymore.
After all, if the same kind of goods appeared in two different places and someone with ulterior motives noticed, even a little investigation could put her at risk of exposure.
Until she was strong enough to protect herself, she still wanted to keep a low profile and quietly build up her strength.
Hearing this, a trace of ruthlessness flashed through Brother Mang’s eyes.
“Aren’t you afraid I’ll detain you? You should have someone backing you, right? If I keep you here and demand apples in exchange for you, I wonder whether the people behind you would agree?”
Hearing this, Mu Xi suddenly laughed.
She looked at him teasingly.
“As the boss of a black market, you can’t possibly be naive enough to think I’d dare follow you here without having any trump cards, can you?”
As she spoke, Mu Xi raised her hand and struck the table.
The table shattered at the impact, breaking directly into pieces.
Mu Xi: Oh dear, she had used too much force~
Brother Mang: Holy shit!
Haozi: Holy freaking shit! What the hell was that? Real martial arts?!
For a moment, the room became so quiet that only breathing could be heard.
Of course, the only rapid breathing belonged to Brother Mang and Haozi. Mu Xi remained calmly seated, watching their expressions as though enjoying a good show.
After a long while, Brother Mang awkwardly tugged at the corners of his mouth.
“Well, what I said just now was only a joke. Elder Sister, don’t take it to heart. I joke around all the time. Since you said the apples are one-fifty per jin, then one-fifty it is. When can we see the goods?”
Mu Xi secretly raised an eyebrow.
Using force as intimidation worked pretty well.
Looks like she should use it more often in the future.
“As long as you have the money ready, the goods can naturally be ready very soon.”
“Money isn’t a problem!”
“Then we’ll make the exchange at the south gate of the small park in one hour. Oh, right. If you have any nationally valid coupons, exchange some for me too. I don’t care what kind.”
Mu Xi suddenly remembered the coupons.
In this era, having money alone wasn’t enough.
Brother Mang naturally had no objections. He had plenty of coupons on hand.