787 Joint Petition
“I’m just concerned about not giving you enough time, so I haven’t contacted you. Does that mean that the seeds are selling well?” Qiao Mei said confidently.
He Guang had produced 100 packs of Foshan Seeds in the past two days and sold them as part of a trial. He left the seeds in the hands of some old customers and let them try selling them.
The cost of packaging and labor was only 50 cents apiece. The seeds were bought for one dollar. If he packed them nicely and sold them in various gift shops, he could sell them for six dollars per pack! That was four times the cost price!
He only had the clout to talk to Qiao Mei now after many of his old customers had come to say that they wanted to order another batch of seeds.
“I want as much as you have! As long as you sell it! I’ll take all of it! In the future, if the seeds in your village still meet the same standard, I promise to buy from your village in the future. Just tell me the price!” He Guang said boldly.
“I have five tons of melon seeds in my hands now. The rest will have to wait until next year. What do you think?” Qiao Mei said.
The amount of five tons was actually too low for He Guang, but the rarer something was, the more valuable it would be. He could market the seeds as being really rare and then increased the price as well.
“No problem! I’ll send the trucks to do a pickup tomorrow! I’ll settle the payment as well! That’s 10,000 dollars, right?” He Guang said.
“Yes, but I’ll need a lot of loose change. I don’t want it all to be in large denominations. Otherwise, I won’t be able to distribute it to the neighbors in the village, alright?” Qiao Mei said embarrassedly.
She could not go door-to-door and ask them to prepare their own change. It would easily cause a lot of confusion. If there were any mistakes, she would have to pay for it out of her own pocket!
“No problem, you’re so thoughtful. I’ll ask my finance people to make preparations now. Just wait to receive the money!” After saying that, He Guang hung up and went to make preparations.
After Qiao Mei settled the matter of the seeds, the last thing she needed to do was concerning the matter between Zhang Qin, Qiao Feng and Qiao Tian. After selling this batch of seeds, Li Gui should have enough money to live in the capital for a while. At a later time, she could find a job for Li Gui or let Li Gui run a business with her.
Things would work out eventually. There would always be a solution.
Qiao Mei sat in the courtyard and waited for an entire day, but no one from Qiao Zhuang’s family came to give her an explanation. She did not want her family to be bullied for nothing.
At this moment, she was not in the mood to fight to the death with Qiao Zhuang’s family. Besides, Qiao Tian was still young. Even if he was taken away by the police, he would at most get criticized and reeducated.
Since the punishment would be so light, she did not want to go and look for Chen Hu. She wanted to spend some money and get a few people to go to the village where the school was located to check if there were any witnesses. She wanted to publicize widely in the villages about how dangerous Qiao Feng and Qiao Tian were, and that they were narrow-minded and vicious people.
This would make everyone isolate them. It would be a very good lesson for such young children.
Although Qiao Mei did not get a visit from Qiao Zhuang’s family members, the principal of the school came to see her. The principal even brought two cans of canned food with him. Canned food was not cheap at this time. If not for the fact that he wanted to apologize properly, he would not have spent so much money.
“Principal, why are you here?” Qiao Mei said in surprise.
The principal placed the canned food on the stone table in the courtyard in embarrassment. Parents trusted him and handed their children over to him. He had never experienced losing a child under his care before so it was not something he had ever thought about. Now that a child had gotten lost during school time and had suffered such serious injuries, he must give the parents an explanation.
“I’m sorry, is Zhang Qin alright now? Can I see her?” the principal said apologetically.
“Zhang Qin is fine. She just has some superficial wounds and isn’t too badly hurt. Principal, you don’t have to be too hard on yourself. It’s not your fault. It’s Qiao Tian who hurt my younger sister,” Qiao Mei said.
“I’m their teacher, so I have to bear part of the responsibility. I’m here to offer my apologies.” The principal took out two pieces of papers from his pocket. On them were signatures and thumbprints from the parents of the other students.
Many parents had written a joint petition to ask the school to expel the children from Qiao Zhuang’s family and disallow them from ever returning to the school again. No one wanted their children to be classmates with a child who was capable of murder.
