Chapter 48 After pulling my hair out, I felt...

The Happy Shop will start its promotion soon.

Soon, a red banner was hung up that read: "Warmly celebrating the fifth anniversary of our store. From now on, new and old customers who spend more than five yuan in our store will receive a small bag of full-strength laundry detergent, and those who spend more than ten yuan will receive a 900ml bottle of soybean oil."

Because there were so many words, the banner was hung on two sides, making it more eye-catching.

When customers in the store asked about the fifth anniversary event, Qin Yang took the opportunity to promote their store's anonymous membership card.

This activity overlaps with his anonymous membership card activity.

This time, when a customer came to ask about his anniversary event, he gave the customer a membership card at the same time as giving them laundry detergent and cooking oil.

Will tell the other party how to use this membership card.

We will also tell the other party that this time they will issue the card and calculate the points, and will also give this anniversary gift.

Many customers were confused. After spending five or ten yuan, they received a bag of laundry detergent or a small bottle of cooking oil, along with a small white card. The five and ten yuan slots on the back of the card were already stamped.

"Brother, you spent five yuan with me this time. Not only will I give you a bag of Quanli laundry detergent, I'll also give you this points card. I've already stamped the back of the card for your five yuan purchase. Next time you spend over five yuan, I'll stamp it again. When you spend a total of twenty yuan with me, I'll give you a large bag of laundry. When you spend forty yuan, I'll give you a large thermos. When you spend sixty yuan, I'll give you a good wok. When you spend eighty yuan, I'll give you a good four-piece set for ten yuan. When you spend a hundred yuan, I'll give you a large blanket for fifteen yuan."

“Is that so?”

Because they received tangible gifts, the customers who came to Qin's shop listened patiently for a few more words.

After realizing that this thing can be exchanged for gifts in the future, many people subconsciously put the cards away.

Of course, Qin Yang doesn’t give this thing out to everyone he meets. He only gives membership cards to local and familiar customers.

If someone seemed unfamiliar but was interested in the event, willing to chip in the five yuan and showing interest in his membership card, he would take the opportunity to promote his own membership card, without being too pushy. But if the person was only interested in redeeming the prize and not his membership card, claiming they weren't from the area, Qin Yang would simply redeem the prize for them and never mention the membership card in front of them.

Qin Yang hasn’t figured out whether the membership card is useful or not.

But Qin Yang saw the power of giving out small bags of laundry detergent and small bottles of cooking oil for placing a large order that day.

Since their town's growing number of small shops, their daily sales haven't exceeded 150 yuan, except for the few hundred yuan they can sell during the Lunar New Year holiday. Based on an 18% gross profit margin, their daily earnings are only 27 or 28 yuan, which isn't even close to Chen Pan's or the nearby beef noodle shop. This is why Qin Yang, feeling a bit anxious, has started buying a freezer, cleaning up the place, and getting busy with promotions.

He realized that if things continued like this, the family business would definitely get worse and worse, so he had to make changes.

Anyway, on the day of the promotion, their sales exceeded 200 yuan for the entire day. On the second day, sales exceeded 300 yuan. On the third day, the so-called final day of the promotion, their single-day sales exceeded 500 yuan, almost catching up with the Chinese New Year.

It was at this time that Qin Yang gained a new understanding of the flow of people and customers in their town and the purchasing power of the people around them.

Calculating the sales and gross profit of the past few days, Qin Yang immediately planned to extend the event starting from tomorrow as Chen Pan had said before.

"Extend the event? How can we extend it? Didn't you say it would only be three days?"

Holding the phone, Qin Guihua had just ordered a batch of detergent, paper towels, soda and other items that the store was short of. Listening to her son's muttering, she looked over with a puzzled look.

"In order to repay our customers' enthusiasm and trust, our store has decided to extend the event for another five days."

He repeated the method Chen Pan had mentioned before, and then Qin Yang, who had just finished calculating the bill, immediately added, "I'll put up a big red poster at the door. On the first day, it'll say 'the fifth day of the countdown to the event'. The day after tomorrow is the fourth day of the countdown to the event. The day after tomorrow is the last three days of the event, the last two days, and the last day, and so on."

"Is this okay?" Feeling that it might not be a good idea to extend the event any further, Qin's mother, who was very honest in her business dealings, hesitated again.

"What's wrong with that? Mom, call the wholesalers of laundry detergent and cooking oil right now and have them send us five more cartons of each tomorrow morning. No, eight cartons each. And for those other things like shoes, school bags, and instant noodles that are selling fast these past few days, you should also stock up. Make sure they deliver the goods tomorrow morning."

Qin Yang quickly flipped through the order list he had compiled and picked out the items he needed to pick up. Then he handed the previous purchase orders directly to his mother: "These are the ones, they are all on the phone. Instant noodles and biscuits will definitely be free. Try to bargain for the laundry detergent and soybean oil, explain our promotion, and tell them - forget it if it doesn't work. I'll contact them myself when I get back. Just call the number of the instant noodles, biscuits, Jiefang shoes, school bags, shampoo and toothpaste. Ask them to deliver more and make sure they are all delivered tomorrow morning."

He said he'd let his mother oversee the order, but just in case, Qin Yang simply took the notebook next to him and wrote down the following: "Thirty cartons of instant noodles, eight cartons of biscuits, three cartons of Jiefang shoes of all sizes in one box, thirty red school bags of all sizes combined, thirty black school bags of all sizes combined, twenty blue school bags of all sizes combined, three cartons of Rejoice shampoo, two cartons of Head & Shoulders, two cartons of Bee Flower shampoo and conditioner each, two cartons of Zhonghua toothpaste, two cartons of Beibei toothpaste, one box of Fangcao toothpaste, and two cartons of Lantian Liubiji."

"That's all for now. You can prepare the rest yourself. I'm going to the city now to ask Boss Tang to make some more membership cards, and also to prepare the banners and red paper for tomorrow's work."

After hurriedly saying something to his mother, Qin Yang put down the papers in his hand, packed up some things for going out, and walked out.

"Hey Yangyang, it's almost ten o'clock. Why don't you go tomorrow?"

Looking at her son's back, Qin Guihua subconsciously followed him out from the half-open roller shutter door in front.

"I won't be in a hurry tomorrow. Mom, you go in and make the phone call. Lock the front door of the store early and lock the back door when you leave. I have my own key, so you don't have to worry about when I come back."

When Qin Yang hurried out, he happened to see the Chen family next door finishing up the closing of their store.

After saying something to them in a hurry, he quickly went out to take a taxi, carrying his black cross-body bag.

Jiang Wenwu said that in addition to working on the computer, Boss Tang also plays games on the computer. He basically plays until 11 o'clock every night before closing the store and going home.

So he had to hurry up and go to the other party's store and ask the other party to work overtime for him.

After getting the new membership card, he has to come back and stamp some cards overnight, so he has to hurry.

Qin Yang was so busy that even his mother didn't have time to talk to Grandpa Chen and hurried back to call to place an order. In fact, the free tea at Chen Pan's house had already been displayed for three days.

Regarding the free tea, Chen Pan originally wanted to get the barley tea that she had made in her previous life.

But his grandfather suggested that the elderly people in the neighborhood probably liked longan and red date tea just like him, so Chen Pan finally complied and prepared free longan and red date tea. They put a lot of sugar in the tea, and after they set out their wares, their sales didn't change much for a while, but she suddenly started to see a lot of elderly men and women outside. Soon, her shop seemed to have no slowdowns anymore; there seemed to be people outside all the time.

But those people didn't buy anything, just drank cup after cup of her longan and red date tea. A few of them occupied the chairs by her door for a long time, sitting outside for several hours and chattering.

Honestly, the first day they offered the free tea, Chen Pan and Grandpa Chen felt a bit down the stretch. But then, that evening, a regular customer who usually gets off work around 10 p.m. arrived. Just as he was buying their sesame seed cake, he turned and saw the insulated tea bucket next to it. With a look of surprise, he kept asking, "Is this free? Can I take it now? Any more?" Suddenly, Chen Pan and his Grandpa felt like it had all been worth it.

This joy reached its peak the next morning when a familiar sanitation worker nearby thanked him and asked if he could sit on a bench outside to have breakfast.

Because of the surprise in the eyes of the helmeted worker at ten o'clock last night, and the words of thanks from the familiar-looking cleaner at six o'clock the next morning, Chen Pan and his grandfather continued to make free hot tea on the third day.

They were probably the first bakery in Liuping Town to offer free hot tea. From that day on, their business really took off.

At least many night shift workers, drivers and cleaners nearby came to their house just to get a cup of free tea.

Some of them didn’t consume this time or next time, but when they wanted to eat pancakes, they still came to Chen Pan’s house first.

On July 22, Grandma Chen, who had been home for almost ten days, finally returned with a smile on her face, riding on the handcart of her second grandfather's house.

That day, the other party brought Chen Pan a beautiful yellow dress. To be honest, this was the first time Chen Pan had ever owned a dress in her life. In her previous life, she had waited until she was in her twenties and started to earn money, and then she bought her own dresses.

Wearing a skirt in your teens feels completely different from wearing a skirt in your twenties.

Just because of this yellow lace skirt, Chen Pan immediately forgave her grandmother for being away for ten days, three or four days later than the scheduled time.

After receiving her new dress, Chen Pan didn't try it on immediately. She first helped the adults unload the goods and count the money. Once everyone had finished their calculations, Chen Pan immediately ran to the Qin family next door, who were holding a promotion to inquire about their flour and cooking oil sales. After confirming that their recent flour and cooking oil sales were also very good, she, along with her grandfather and two uncles and cousins ​​who had made deliveries, quickly moved the thirty extra bags of flour and twenty cartons of rapeseed oil they had brought to the Qin family's store and arranged them neatly.

"We'll settle the money later!"

He quietly handed the list he had just written to Qin Yang who was calculating the accounts, and then Chen Pan responded with a nod from the other party, and quickly left with his grandfather and two uncles.

After delivering the goods, it is time for everyone to eat and rest.

The weather had been too hot recently, and Grandma was too lazy to bother with anything. Finally, while they were busy, she hurried to a rice noodle shop across the street. She bought two sheets of cold noodles, two sheets of stalk noodles, two bowls of dandan noodles, two bowls of beef tendon noodles, and five large bowls of fermented glutinous rice wine.

"This fermented glutinous rice tastes different from the sweet mash we make ourselves. It has a stronger alcohol flavor."

"Jiuyi Niangniang, with the word 'wine' in it, definitely has more wine flavor than sweet mash."

"On such a hot day, eating something cool and spicy is just the right feeling!"

"Every time we come to Uncle and Aunt's house, we come here to enjoy ourselves."

"What kind of enjoyment is this? Come and eat as much as you want. After you finish eating, I will buy you a few more and you can take them back to your parents and children."

"Yes, don't save it. If it's not enough, your aunt and I will go across the street to buy more!"

The only ones who came to deliver the goods this time were my great grandfather's eldest son Chen Yongyi and my second grandfather's eldest son Chen Yongqiang.

The two older men, both wearing white rural coats, nodded their heads and ate and drank happily.

Then they took the opportunity to talk to Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen again about their recent wheat and rapeseed harvest, which they used to grind flour and fry rapeseed oil directly for their family.

"The flour and rapeseed we are using now are from last year, so the taste and quality are definitely a little worse. In two months, we will definitely harvest more new wheat and rapeseed. By then, the new wheat and rapeseed will definitely taste much better than now." The eldest son of the first house described the current situation truthfully.

Grandpa Chen nodded in understanding. "Yes, new wheat and rapeseed taste better than old ones. When the prices of new wheat and rapeseed come down, you can take the opportunity to stock up."

"No way, the new one is more expensive than the old one. By then, the prices of wheat and rapeseed should have increased. How can it be cheap?" Yongqiang, the eldest son of the second grandfather, felt that something was wrong and said immediately.

"Not necessarily. If everyone has a good harvest and there are more things, then those professional buyers outside will definitely lower the prices. Then rapeseed and barley may be cheaper than they are now." Chen Pan, who is used to interrupting, also quickly explained while holding a small bowl of beef tendon noodles and cold skin.

"Oh, I get it. When the harvest is good, people can get things everywhere, and the prices are actually lowered. When the harvest is bad, even if they ask for a high price, we can't sell much after paying the public grain. Anyway, no matter what, we farmers are at a disadvantage. This year, we are lucky that Uncle San opened a shop, otherwise we would be relying on our small amount of crops and would definitely not be able to do anything."

Uncle Yongqiang, who speaks bluntly, turned the topic to the issue of paying public grain in October this year.

Everyone first talked about public grain, then talked about this year's harvest and weather, and finally returned to talking about this year's grain and rapeseed prices.

After talking about some "big things" that they couldn't control and could only talk about casually.

Finally, Uncle Yongqiang and Uncle Yongyi took their profits and took Grandpa and Grandma Chen Pan to the opposite side to buy more than a dozen pieces of stuffed dough and stem dough, and returned home with smiles on their faces.

After they left with a smile, one driving a handcart and the other carrying two large plastic bags, Chen Pan quickly returned to his small four-square-meter room, closed the door, and quickly changed his clothes.

A few minutes later, she grabbed the hem of her skirt and ran out excitedly to show off: "Grandpa and grandma, do you think it looks good?"

"It looks good, it looks good!" Grandpa Chen, who had just closed the shop and delayed some business, responded with a smile while pushing up the rolling shutter door that had just been half-closed.

Grandma Chen, who was hurrying to clean up the kitchen, also stuck half of her body out of the kitchen when she heard this.

After carefully observing how the new dress looked on her granddaughter, she immediately laughed and said, "It looks good, but the hair should still be tied up. It's too sloppy to leave it hanging."

"ah?"

In order to put on a skirt, Chen Pan accidentally dropped the hairband on her head and subconsciously touched her hair.

Then three minutes later, Chen Pan's grandmother, who had finished washing the dishes, grabbed her hair and started braiding it.

"Ah, grandma, slow down!"

Then, like countless times before, Chen Pan tilted his head back and was once again made to grimace by the other party.

After the other party finished braiding Chen Pan's hair while saying it was not tight, Chen Pan went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, and found that her eyes were pulled up by the hair on both sides.

“Tsk!”

Although it was indeed a happy thing to have her grandma braiding her hair, Chen Pan still quietly loosened her hair on both sides in front of the mirror in the bathroom.

After pulling his hair straight, feeling that his eyes were finally no longer staring and his scalp finally stopped hurting, Chen Pan looked at himself carefully in the mirror.

A long, thick, black braid, a beautiful face without a single wrinkle, big, bright eyes that smile without a trace of sadness, and rosy lips that look very healthy.

She smiled at the mirror, carefully adjusted the white lace on her dress, and then Chen Pan smiled and left the bathroom again.

As soon as she came out of the bathroom, she met Qin Yang, who was holding a note and money, and seemed to be here to settle accounts with her grandfather.