Fiction logo

The pears are sold out

This day, the director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture Li received a call for help

By Elham NazriPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
The pears are sold out
Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash

This day, the director of the Municipal Bureau of Culture Li received a call for help, the caller's name is Liu Xicheng, is a fruit farmer in Guangming Village, Kuandian County. When Director Li lived in Liu Xicheng's house when he went to the countryside, the family took great care of him as a young youth, a kindness that Director Li always kept in mind. He knows Liu Xicheng's person, not in great difficulty, will never ask him for help, this favor he must help!

Originally, Liu Xicheng contracted the village of several hundred acres of orchards. Originally at the beginning of the fruit merchants and Liu Xicheng signed a purchase contract, but did not expect, into the autumn, the orchard suffered a hundred-year hailstorm, huge losses, hundreds of acres of snow pear ripening than in previous years, the size of most of the small, the shape is not good, but the taste and sweetness is still good. Although Liu Xicheng lowered the price, the fruit business said nothing to buy and returned the order. Liu Xicheng begged Li's director to help sell snow pear.

Although the director of Li is not a business, he has a wide range of contacts and understands the planning, so confidently said: "This is wrapped in my body, to ensure that you do not have to go home to sell out." Director Li is not bragging, because the Municipal Bureau of Culture is planning to Kuandian County shortly to engage in a cultural festival if you seize this opportunity to engage in a picking festival so that the four sides of tourists to the mountains to buy away the pear, is not a great thing?

But Liu Xicheng heard but worried, although the bright village is an unpolluted mountain village, the scenery is also very beautiful, but not developed, the infrastructure is very poor, the traffic is not very good, even if the picking festival, there will be no one to come. Director Li said: "Brother, you do not know, now popular ecological tourism, as long as the good publicity, the more unpolluted 'virgin land' the more people love. You can rest assured, I and the director of tourism is a good friends, tourists to him to solve. You just need to buy some tents, hammocks and other things, when our cultural team will be in your orchard to perform, what the duo, skits, dance, will be staged. You can watch the show, but also can go up the mountain picking, and there is no ticket, you are still afraid that no one will come?" After hearing the words of Director Li, Liu Xicheng was relieved and began to prepare according to the requirements of Director Li.

Under the careful arrangement of Director Li, a large number of people entered Guangming Village.

Three days later, director Li called Liu Xicheng and asked how the situation, was and how many pears were sold. Liu Xicheng said the people who came a lot, pear also sold a third. Director Li said happily, that since the effect is so good, they engage in the second, and third until the pear sold out. Who knows Liu Xicheng but said: "Forget it, don't engage again." Director Li asked incomprehensibly, "Why? Your pear is not sold?" Liu Xicheng said: "You do not know, these people buy the pear away at the same time, leaving countless garbage. Now the orchard into a garbage dump, to clean up this garbage, to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, the loss is not worth it."

Director Li did not think of this problem, he thought about it and said, "You hang a sign in the orchard, littering a fine of 50 yuan, see who dares to litter again." Can it work? Liu Xicheng's heart drew a question mark, no matter what he also has to try, always have to sell the pears.

A few days later, director Li again let the director of tourism send a bunch of people into Liu Xicheng's orchard.

After this time, Liu Xicheng reported to the director of Li, who said the pear sold out a large part, but due to limited manpower, simply can not watch those people, orchard or leave a lot of garbage, fines do not work ah!

Director Li after all is the Cultural Bureau cadres, the mind lives, countermeasures more, he pondered for a moment and said: "Since the penalty can not then we will award, you change the fine sign into recycling garbage, garbage can also be exchanged for money so that those tourists will not litter. The money, the wool comes from the sheep, you just need to raise the price of pears a little, you can sell the money of that garbage." Liu Xicheng took out the calculator even, this approach is good and feasible!

After a few days, director Li to Liu Xicheng's phone: "pear sold out, how much did you earn?"

Liu Xicheng said: "The pears are all sold out."

Director Li said happily: "This time not less earns it?"

Liu Xicheng said: "The pear is sold out, but lost a lot of money ......"

"What went wrong again?"

Liu Xicheng said: "Or the garbage matter. We advertised out, the sign also wrote, recycling garbage, nine yuan a catty, tourists from the mountain with garbage down we have to pay to accept. But never thought that most of the garbage was carried down by tourists, but from the city to carry the garbage ......"

Director Li was shocked, there is such a thing?

Short Story

About the Creator

Elham Nazri

May the angels protect at my side. The devil can never come to the world.

Reader insights

Be the first to share your insights about this piece.

How does it work?

Add your insights

Comments

There are no comments for this story

Be the first to respond and start the conversation.

Sign in to comment

    Find us on social media

    Miscellaneous links

    • Explore
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Support

    © 2026 Creatd, Inc. All Rights Reserved.