Running a Fresh Food Business Is Tough

Dealing with fresh produce is tough.
Owners have to wake up at dawn to go to the wholesale market, then haul the goods back, sort them, and sometimes do initial processing on certain vegetables. They don't close shop until 8 or 9 p.m., sleep for just five or six hours, and then get up and do it all over again. Day after day, week after week. Very few people can stick with it.

But for a long time, being able to endure hardship has been an advantage.

Owners of wet markets and fresh produce stores make their living on the kind of suffering others can't stomach. With hard work, making 100,000 to 200,000 RMB a year from a single vegetable stall isn't difficult. Hard work is simply their daily routine, and they find satisfaction in it. #ReadingNotes