The older man's watermelon seeds were exceptionally clean. His two sacks weighed 126 kilograms. Seeing how thoroughly he had cleaned them, Li Long raised the price to 1.1 yuan per kilogram, for a total of 138.6 yuan.
After the older man left with his load of watermelon seeds, Fan Mingcheng said to Li Long:
"Boss Li, I'm back. Take a look at my watermelon seeds this time. They're no worse than that man's!"
Since Fan Mingcheng was so confident, Li Long naturally gave him the chance.
Li Long had intended to take down one sack to inspect, but Fan Mingcheng was clearly very confident and lifted every sack of watermelon seeds down.
Li Long opened a sack at random and grabbed a handful to examine.
Not bad. They were quite clean. The shriveled seeds that had been there before were gone, and there were hardly any impurities in this handful.
He checked several other sacks, and they all looked acceptable. Though he occasionally spotted a white, underdeveloped seed, they were still pretty good.
"All right, I'll pay 1.1 yuan for yours too. But if you bring seeds like these in a couple of days, the most I'll pay then is one yuan," Li Long said. "With that older man coming before you today, I'd feel a little bad offering you less. But honestly, yours aren't cleaned as well as his."
"I know, I know. I understand." Hearing this, Fan Mingcheng beamed. "Don't worry, Boss Li. Any watermelon seeds I buy from now on will be cleaned thoroughly!"
For the more than one tonne of watermelon seeds Fan Mingcheng had bought this time, Li Long paid over 1,400 yuan.
Fan Mingcheng hadn't made much on this trip, and he had put in quite a bit of work too. Still, he was