inspire-indiana Chapter 1216 Tourists are the key.
Chapter 1216 Tourists are the key.
Yongle, a fruit and vegetable store.
The fruit and vegetable store is always bustling with customers, and today is no exception.
Early in the morning, just as dawn was breaking, Peng Zhi arrived at the store and, as usual, started by stocking the shelves.
In the shop, the goods are basically sold out every day, sometimes before 9 pm. After that, the shop closes, Peng Zhi and her employees clean up, and then the items that need to be restocked are restocked. Items that are out of stock are put on the shelves the next day when the goods arrive.
Out-of-stock items are usually delivered the next morning and then put on the shelves.
As the store manager, Peng Zhi usually arrives at six o'clock in the morning. The store has already been cleaned the night before, so there is no need to clean it again the next day. She can directly put the goods on the shelves. At this moment, she is putting sweet potatoes on the shelves.
Yesterday, Shen Xuening asked her to put sweet potatoes on the shelves, and after she agreed, the sales department delivered 300 jin of sweet potatoes to her.
The sweet potatoes were bigger than a person's head, large and red, with smooth skin, no wormholes, only mud and sand stuck to the surface. You could tell at a glance that they had just been dug out of the ground, exuding freshness.
As soon as the sweet potatoes were displayed, customers started asking about them.
Next to the sweet potatoes, Peng Zhi also placed a small advertising board that listed the effects and benefits of sweet potatoes, as well as a promise of ten times compensation for any counterfeit products.
Next to the promise, the price of sweet potatoes was marked as ten yuan per jin.
It's quite a gimmick.
In less than an hour, all the sweet potatoes were sold out.
After selling out, Peng Zhi called the sales department and asked them to send over 1,000 jin (500 kg) today, otherwise it definitely wouldn't be enough to sell.
Just then, a car horn sounded from the back door. Peng Zhi immediately went to the back, opened the door, and asked the other person to unload the sweet potatoes and move them to the designated spot.
The delivery workers were very busy; they left after dropping off the goods, as they had other things to deliver.
Peng Zhi took the sweet potatoes out of the basket and placed them on the counter: "I've never seen such big sweet potatoes before. Selling them for ten yuan a pound is really amazing."
The sweet potatoes were placed one by one on the counter, and soon the counter was full. The purplish-red skin looked very nice.
Peng Zhi looked at the sweet potatoes on the counter, feeling very curious: "They're so expensive, I wonder what they taste like?"
As they were busy, dawn broke, and the employees arrived one by one.
"Good morning, store manager." This was a young girl in the store, the newest employee and the third employee in the store.
The entire fruit and vegetable store has four employees, including Peng Zhi: a store manager, a cashier, and two servers. Originally, there was only one server, but they were too busy, so they applied to add another employee. Shen Xuening saw that the store was really busy, so she agreed.
The young woman was in her early twenties, sunny and cheerful, and a successful businesswoman. She had been working at the store for three months and had already received many positive reviews.
Peng Zhi replied, "You're here so early today?"
"Yes, I'm here to buy sweet potatoes." The little girl walked up to the sweet potato stall with a smile, took a bag, and filled it with five sweet potatoes. "My aunt told me to make sure I buy her some sweet potatoes, and she'll come to pick them up in a bit."
Peng Zhi asked curiously, "Why did your aunt buy so many sweet potatoes?"
"Of course it tastes good," the girl said. "My aunt came to visit me yesterday and bought a sweet potato because it looked nice. Then she called me early this morning and asked me to buy her some sweet potatoes, and I absolutely have to."
Peng Zhi looked at the sweet potato, her curiosity reaching its peak: "I'm very curious about what that sweet potato tastes like."
The little girl suggested, "Let's buy one and try it."
Peng Zhi was a little reluctant: "Each one weighs seven or eight jin, which is seventy or eighty yuan, a bit pricey."
The little girl, however, thought differently. She was more relaxed: "It's just buying one to try. It's not like I buy it every day. It's okay."
“You’re right.” Peng Zhi walked towards the sweet potatoes, picked out a smaller one, and said, “I’ll take this one. You’re so beautiful, you must taste delicious.”
When weighed, it was a whopping seven pounds!
The sweet potatoes were sturdy and had a high water content, so they were indeed quite heavy.
Peng Zhi paid for the sweet potatoes, put them aside, and planned to cook them when she got home from get off work.
Fruit and vegetable stores usually have customers coming in to buy things as soon as they open. They buy all kinds of things, fruits, vegetables, potted plants, basically anything that is available in the store.
An older woman walked into the shop, looked around, and then went straight to the sweet potatoes. She readily took two sweet potatoes and said, "Here, weigh them for me."
The little girl quickly stepped forward and weighed the sweet potatoes for the older woman: "Auntie, these two sweet potatoes weigh seventeen jin."
"Hmm." To everyone's surprise, the aunt didn't mind at all. She picked up the sweet potatoes, paid for them, and left the shop.
Don't let the fact that this woman is only in her forties fool you; she already has a three- or four-year-old grandson, and she bought these sweet potatoes for him.
Yesterday, an aunt brought her grandson shopping. When her grandson saw sweet potatoes, he refused to leave and insisted on buying one. The aunt had no choice but to buy one.
After bringing the sweet potatoes home, the aunt divided them into four portions: one portion was used to cook porridge, one portion was used to make sweet potato balls, one portion was steamed, and one portion was used to make French fries. The sweet potatoes were so big that they couldn't finish them if they weren't eaten this way.
I thought it would taste like a regular sweet potato, but it turned out to be completely different.
The sweet potatoes used to cook porridge fill the whole house with their fresh aroma. People with stuffy noses will feel their noses clear up immediately after smelling it; the fragrance seems to reach straight to the heart.
Then there are the sweet potato balls. The aroma fills the whole house when they're fried, and the neighbors all come over to ask what they're frying. The smell is irresistible.
Steamed sweet potatoes are even more fragrant, with an aroma like that of flowers, carrying a hint of sweetness, as if you were in nature.
The fried fries were fragrant, sweet, and chewy, with a golden sheen, and tasted so much better than what you can buy outside.
After eating the sweet potatoes, the family said they hadn't had enough and asked the aunt to come back and buy more sweet potatoes the next day.
Taste is one aspect, but the most important thing is the effect. Her daughter-in-law looked in the mirror in the morning and found that her complexion was rosy and her health had improved a lot. She no longer looked like she had poor blood and energy.
My grandson, who had a bit of a cold and cough yesterday, isn't coughing today and is in great spirits.
My husband, who has always suffered from constipation, had a smooth bowel movement this morning, not to mention others.
With these benefits, and because everyone wanted to eat sweet potatoes, the auntie came to buy them early in the morning, otherwise she was afraid she wouldn't be able to buy them.
Ever since the aunt started buying sweet potatoes, it seems like she unlocked the key to selling them. Customers kept coming in, and the 500 jin (250 kg) of sweet potatoes were sold out before 10 a.m.
When the little girl saw that the sweet potatoes were sold out, she came over to clean the counter.
At this moment, He Sheng walked into the shop: "Do you still have sweet potatoes? I'd like to buy a few."
The little girl turned around and smiled, saying, "Sir, we're out of sweet potatoes. We'll have them again tomorrow."
He Sheng looked surprised: "How could this be? Sold out so early? I was planning to come earlier to buy some, but I didn't expect they were all gone."
The young girl said apologetically, "Sir, please come earlier tomorrow. There were too many people buying sweet potatoes today, and they're all sold out."
He Sheng wasn't one to fuss over small things: "It's alright, I'll just go buy it from the field." With that, he turned and left.
He heard from his subordinates that sweet potatoes were delicious, and since he was off work today, he came to buy one.
There were no cooking utensils here, so he bought them to eat raw. His assistants and apprentices all ate them raw, saying they were especially delicious, comparable to green radishes, and that he absolutely had to try them.
His assistant offered him sweet potatoes yesterday, but he refused them because he was writing a summary and didn't feel like eating. When he wanted to eat them later, they were all gone.
He Sheng strolled over to the sweet potato field, looked at Shen Xuening, and said, "President Shen, I've come to buy sweet potatoes. Do you sell them?"
Shen Xuening poked her head out of the machine and said, "Why buy sweet potatoes when we're already in the field? Just eat them directly."
He Sheng looked at the sweet potatoes in the field: "This isn't a good idea."
"Don't be shy, just pick whatever you want. I'm busy here, so I won't make a special effort to entertain you," Shen Xuening said before continuing to operate the machine.
He Sheng looked at Shen Xuening, then at the sweet potatoes on the ground, and finally picked out a sweet potato about the size of a bowl. He went to the tap, washed the mud off the surface, and took a bite without peeling it.
He thought the sweet potato would be hard, but it was surprisingly crisp and sweet, with a texture comparable to fruit, similar to water chestnuts, and so juicy. It was really delicious.
He Sheng immediately remembered the taste of the raw sweet potato: "My assistants said that the taste of the sweet potato was comparable to that of a green radish, and now I see that it's not an exaggeration at all."
Shen Baohong asked, "Professor He, is it delicious?"
He Sheng nodded repeatedly: "Delicious! I've never eaten such delicious sweet potatoes before. They are definitely the best sweet potatoes ever."
Shen Baohong laughed and said, "Then let's eat a few more?"
“One is enough to fill me up.” He Sheng waved his hand and said, “I originally planned to buy some from a shop, but they were sold out, so I came here instead. I hope you don’t mind.”
Shen Baohong generously said, "It's nothing. In rural areas, agricultural products are not very precious. Just take what you want to eat."
He Sheng smiled and said, "Thank you."
"Professor He, you eat first, I'm going to go film." After saying that, Shen Baohong walked towards Shen Xuening.
He Sheng didn't leave. He remained standing there, chewing on a sweet potato, thinking to himself that perhaps it was because this place was so clean and unpolluted that new varieties of plants could be grown, and the crops grown on this land tasted better.
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Sweet potatoes quickly gained a great reputation because their effects were so remarkable that word spread rapidly, and their good name was established.
Then even more people came to buy sweet potatoes.
As the fame of sweet potatoes spread, fans urged Shen Xuening to put sweet potatoes on the shelves of her online store.
Shen Xuening had agreed in the past, but she couldn't this time. The main reason was that the yield of sweet potatoes was not high. Only sweet potatoes dug from wasteland had such strong effects. Other sweet potatoes did not contain such high spiritual energy and had limited effects. There was really no way to do it.
Furthermore, selling sweet potatoes in Yongle could attract another group of tourists.
The local agricultural products have attracted a considerable number of tourists, many of whom come specifically to buy medicinal herbs such as goji berries, ginseng, and fritillaria cirrhosa.
Now that sweet potatoes have unintentionally gained fame, which can be considered a way to attract tourists, how could Shen Xuening not take advantage of it?
Just as Shen Xuening had predicted, a new group of tourists was attracted to the area...
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On the weekend, Shen Wenxu came to the field to help: "Sister, you grow everything so well, no wonder people say you're a farming maniac!"
Shen Xuening felt that the title "farming maniac" suited her quite well: "So do you think I am a farming maniac?"
"Yes," Shen Wenxu answered without hesitation. "Sis, with your abilities, who can argue with that?"
"Haha." Shen Xuening chuckled, "This is probably what everyone calls talent."
Shen Wenxu pretended to think: "We have the same parents, so why don't I have this talent?"
Shen Xuening retorted, "You want to farm?"
Shen Wenxu said sincerely, "Isn't farming good? Sister, you've raised us and this land by farming. I've never looked down on farming."
Shen Xuening praised, "It's good that you have this idea."
Shen Wenxu said solemnly, "Sister, I'm not someone who forgets my roots, don't worry."
Shen Xuening's eyes showed a hint of appreciation: "That's good."
Shen Wenxu hesitated for a moment and said, "Sister, my classmates heard that the sweet potatoes you grow are delicious, and they want me to bring some to school for them."
Shen Xuening said directly, "You take it, pick it up yourself."
Shen Wenxu hesitated, "But these sweet potatoes sell for ten yuan a pound. Would it be inappropriate for me to just give them away to my classmates like this?"
Shen Xuening said generously, "It's okay. You can get a bag to pick up as many as your classmates can eat, and give one to each of them."
Shen Wenxu still hesitated: "But... I can't bear to part with it."
"It's just sweet potatoes, it's fine," Shen Xuening said. "Find the smaller ones, even if each person gets one, it won't be many. Go back and get a bag to pack them up."
"Then, I'll pick the smaller ones." Shen Wenxu cheered and ran home.
As soon as he left, Ge Kun arrived: "President Shen, are you digging sweet potatoes?"
"Yes, what brings you here?" Shen Xuening picked up her teacup and took a sip of tea. The rich aroma of the tea swept away her fatigue.
"I want to buy some sweet potatoes from this area." Ge Kun had heard about the sweet potatoes, but they were priced at ten yuan per kilogram in the shops, which was too expensive. So he thought of coming to Shen Xuening to get a wholesale price.
“Sure, but I can only give you a maximum of 1,000 jin.” Shen Xuening didn’t refuse. After all, it doesn’t matter who you do business with.
"Only a thousand catties?" Ge Kun asked in a pleading tone, "Could you give me five thousand catties?"
“That definitely won’t work, at most a thousand catties,” Shen Xuening said firmly. Then she changed the subject, “If you think that’s too little, why don’t you just buy regular sweet potatoes?”
“I have regular sweet potatoes, but now everyone is asking me if I have any dishes made with your sweet potatoes. I really don’t know what to do, Mr. Shen, please help me,” Ge Kun said.
“Well…” Shen Xuening thought that she also had shares in the agritainment business, so she said, “Then I’ll give you three thousand catties, and you can sell a limited quantity.”
"I understand." Ge Kun said happily.
Later, other people came to Shen Xuening to buy sweet potatoes, but she refused them all. She planned to sell these sweet potatoes in her fruit and vegetable shop to attract tourists, which was the real purpose.