Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The Beauty of Dragon Fruit

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation

Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

On that night, Zhuo Xiong sent a 27-second-long voice message to the wholesalers’ chat group. 

“Hahahahahaha…”

In the beginning, Zhou Kun thought that his mobile phone had a glitch because he could only hear laughter. Accordingly, he tried to listen again, only to realize to his dismay, that he had wasted a precious minute of his time. 

“Zhuo Xiong, are you out of your mind? You sent a voice message of your demonic laughter.” The other wholesalers in the group couldn’t help but mock him. 

After that, Zhuo Xiong did not reply. Instead, he sent a video, which was a recording of his shop. However, the video showed that there was no fruit at the door. 

“Hahahaha, you don’t know how wonderful I feel today…”

“Boss Zhuo, did you step on dog feces today?” 

“Are you that happy?” Other than talking about supplying fruits, the members in the chat group would occasionally blow their trumpets in the chat group and compare their businesses with each other. Hence, they knew each other well. 

“Today, I managed to snatch the business of Good Orchard with the new batch of dragon fruit that I got from Boss Zhou. Do you think I’m happy?” 

“You sold all the dragon fruit? There were so many.” Having linked all the information together, Zhou Kun obviously knew what Zhuo Xiong wanted to say. 

It happened that he had yet to promote his own dragon fruit. As such, he wanted to take the opportunity to promote them.

“It’s sold out. I sold all of them at 18 yuan per 500 grams. Deliver 100 kilograms of dragon fruit to me tomorrow.”

“Why are you selling dragon fruit at 18 yuan per 500 grams?” The sky-high price instantly alarmed a fruit wholesaler who was usually quiet in the group. 

“100 kilograms? You’re going to purchase 100 kilograms of dragon fruit? Can you finish selling them?” 

That was another point of concern. They knew clearly the scale of Zhuo Xiong’s fruit store. 

How could he finish selling 100 kilograms of dragon fruit at one go? 

Regardless of whether 18 yuan per 500 grams was an exaggeration or not, dragon fruit was a niche fruit after all, and even other large supermarkets may not be able to sell 100 kilograms of dragon fruit a day.

“Old Zhuo, you’re getting better at blowing your trumpet.” 

“Blowing my trumpet? Ask Junior Boss Zhou if I’ve just ordered 22.5 kilograms of dragon fruit from him today.” 

Without waiting for others to continue, Zhuo Xiong sent another message to the chat group. “You don’t believe me because you haven’t seen the quality of dragon fruit I got from Little Zhou.”

“The Good Orchard Fruit Store beside mine got defeated by me today too.” 

“Did you see? It’s so early, but all the fruit in my store has been sold. Even if I had another 25 kilograms of dragon fruit, they wouldn’t be enough!” 

Zhuo Xiong was obviously also very emotional as he sent several messages in a row.

“Which kind of dragon fruit is of such good quality?” Someone finally couldn’t help but ask. After all, Zhuo Xiong bragged about the dragon fruit immensely. 

“It’s a new and expensive batch of dragon fruit that just arrived. It’s sold at a wholesale price of 10 yuan per 500 grams. It’s of great quality,” Zhou Kun replied in the chat group. 

“It’s probably a new foreign variety. It’s sweet and has a rich, fruity fragrance. Today, I sold about 75 kilograms in one go. The store assistant of Good Orchard was stunned. I’ve also sold plenty of the other fruits in the store.” 

Zhuo Xiong was singing praises about the dragon fruit, making the owners of the fruit stores feel rather tempted. 

After all, they also knew that the quality of the fruits sold at Good Orchard was superb. Their high-quality fruits and superior service standards have indeed taken away many high-end customers from them although the prices were relatively higher.

Traditional fruit shops like them can only reduce their profits and take the economic approach. 

With Zhuo Xiong, the successful example, many store owners have placed orders, but most of them were just thinking of trying and only purchased 10 to 20 kilograms each.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Kun managed to sell more than 100 kilograms of dragon fruits in the group chat. He took down the orders one by one and planned to deliver the goods bright and early in the following morning. 

On the following day, Zhou Kun woke up early. After all, he had to deliver goods to numerous fruit stores. 

After finally finishing the work, Zhou Kun’s mobile phone rang again, and it was a call from his Uncle Xu Cai. 

“Little Kun, are you busy?” Xu Cai asked in a caring tone. However, he sounded hesitant and obviously had something to say.

“I just wrapped up. Uncle, is there something you want to tell me?” asked Zhou Kun who roughly guessed what was going on after hearing his uncle’s words. 

He reckoned that it was mostly because of the dragon fruit. 

As he expected, he heard his uncle saying awkwardly, “Well, the dragon fruit that you delivered yesterday are all gone. Can you deliver some more later?” 

“Okay, got it. How many do you need? I’ll deliver them to you later.” 

“Huh? I’ll get five kilograms then,” said Xu Cai who was stunned because he did not expect Zhou Kun to agree so readily. 

In the end, Lu Guifen exclaimed from the other end of the line, “15 kilograms! I want 15 kilograms!” 

“This batch of dragon fruits is not too bad. Uncle, why don’t you get more? It’ll save me the trip.” 

“That’d be great, deliver 15 kilograms to me then.” 

Xu Cai hung up the phone and suddenly felt relieved.

“How did it go? I told you he’d definitely send some over. After all, we also paid for it,” Lu Guifen said disapprovingly.

“Why didn’t you call him then?” 

Xu Cai was upset to hear her words. She had just gone to Zhou Kun’s store to turn down his supply of fruit yesterday, and yet, she made Xu Cai beg Zhou Kun for some dragon fruit just because she saw that there was a demand for dragon fruit. Xu Cai felt that it was an embarrassing task. 

“He is your nephew, not mine.” 

“You…” 

Xu Cai was infuriated by Lu Guifen, and he fanned himself rapidly with the fan. 

The reason Lu Guifen went back on her word was precisely due to the batch of dragon fruits that Zhou Kun had delivered yesterday.

The fruits in their juice bar had always been piled on the counter, and Zhou Kun’s batch of dragon fruits that had been delivered the day before was no exception.

Hence, the dragon fruits which looked fresh because of their vibrant colors quickly attracted the attention of customers. 

“I’d like to have a glass of dragon fruit juice. Please fill it to the brim.” 

“Alright, that’d be 21 yuan.” After putting the money away, Xu Cai began to pick the dragon fruit. 

There was a large layer of glass in front of Xu Cai’s juice bar, and hence, the customers could see clearly, the juicing process.

As soon as the dragon fruits were cut open, the customer regretted his decision because he felt that he was getting ripped off by the juice bar, due to the fact that white-fleshed dragon fruits were used instead. The customer reckoned that the juice would definitely be bland like water, and felt that he had wasted his 21 yuan.

In order to adjust the sweetness, some pears would be added to relatively mild-tasting fruit like dragon fruit.

Xu Cai put the ingredients into the blender, and soon a cup of dragon fruit juice was ready.

However, when the blender was switched on, an intense and refreshing aroma wafted up from the blender. 

Even the customers outside the counter could smell it.

Another customer asked, “What smell is that? It’s so refreshing? Boss, what juice did you just make? I’d like to have a cup of that too.” 

The first customer had initially already given up and was no longer hopeful, but after seeing that the dragon fruit juice was emitting such a strong fragrance, he couldn’t help but look forward to drinking it again.

The customers at the back were all looking expectantly at the cup of dragon fruit juice in the hands of the first customer. They asked, “How does it taste?” 

The customer took a sip, and a strong fruity scent spread in his mouth. He remembered dragon fruit to be rather mild-tasting, but the juice was much richer and sweeter than an ordinary dragon fruit. 

As such, after a while, he finally exclaimed, “Delicious!”