Seventy yuan?

Zhu Youbin's eyes narrowed suddenly, his face filled with disbelief, and he asked in a slightly trembling voice, "Sir, you...you can't go to the meeting with me?"

Gu Jiayi has accumulated approximately 1200-1500 jin of dried mushrooms this year. Each mushroom bag weighs 80 grams. Based on the median, Gu Jiayi's mushrooms combined could probably make 11,000 mushroom bags.

The mushroom-based mushroom buns made with mushrooms sourced from outside Jinglan Dew are far superior to any other mushroom-based Jinglan Dew buns on the market!

"Professor Wei!" He Zibao's voice suddenly lowered, filled with joy as he said, "I remember, I remember. I consulted you a few days ago about the cultivation of 'Shuanshuanla' (a type of spicy chili). Professor Wei, have you found any relevant information?"

Moreover, the soup ingredients were made based on firsthand observation of the hardships faced by the villagers of Gu Jiayi. For him, it was a small profit, but for Gu Jiayi, it represented almost half a year's income for the villagers.

“It’s bad, there’s a problem.” Jing Lanlu glanced at the information under the paper, but without any firmness, she accepted the task.

Buzzing—buzzing—buzzing—

Each Jinglan bun makes a net profit of 2.5 yuan. If there are 11,000 buns, that's a profit of 21,700 yuan.

He took out his notebook and pen and began to calculate slowly.

They made money on their side, the villagers of Gujiayi increased their income, Hezibao lost a performance bonus, and netizens satisfied their appetites. It's a win-win situation, so why not?

While Hezibao was following the post by [Gu Jiayi Mushroom Xiaoquan] about Jinglan, Jinglan and Xu were also analyzing the data related to Tang Wen. They noticed that the data increase of the comment posted by Hezibao was extremely small, almost approaching Tang Wen's data, which was a situation that Jinglan had never experienced before.

"It may be troublesome, but it's all part of my job!" Zhu Youbin took the document, awkwardly moved a large stool to sit next to Grandpa Sun, and slowly typed the contents of Grandpa Sun's handwritten document into the computer.

Like the mushrooms I brought back that time, the Jinglan buns I made each pack contained at least seven grams of inexpensive mushrooms like white porcini and red shiitake. The amount of other mushrooms was even more generous, including smaller varieties like chanterelles, green-headed mushrooms, and coral mushrooms, which cost around ten yuan per pound...

The moment that thought crossed his mind, Hezibao's breathing slowed.

As can't be seen from the comments section, the mushrooms on the outside of the seasoning packet are indeed real, but the morel mushrooms are only the size of a little finger, the chanterelles are two very large ones, and the matsutake mushrooms are only a single piece...

"Boss, the work you assigned me isn't finished yet..."

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There were no seasoning packets with an average price of seventeen yuan. The price of the mushrooms outside was slightly lower than before, but they were mixed with expensive mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms and cordyceps flowers.

[...]

"It seems netizens are quite interested in that Jinglan bun!" Tang Liao couldn't help but remark after reviewing the detailed data summarized by Xu Shi, "So far, there aren't even two thousand people participating in the discussion about refunding the mushroom price..."

It took Zhu Youbin quite a while to convert the two documents that Grandpa Sun needed into electronic documents, proofread the file formats, print them out, bind them, and hand them to Grandpa Sun, thus completing that temporary task.

"Haha, welcome Professor Wei to come over for an inspection. When do you plan to come? You're delayed, so make some preparations!" Hezibao immediately chimed in, afraid that Professor Wei might change his mind if he was even a second late.

Tangliao rubbed his chin with his left hand, stared at the data for a while, then took out his phone, opened Taobao, and started searching.

Everyone says that netizens just wanted to find some peace and quiet after the event, and wanted to see what those strange mushrooms were called and what they looked like after being dried. But now, after seeing the price of Jinglan Dew, they were all shocked.

The gaze shifted between Xu Shi and Li Sixin, finally settling on Li Sixin, who possessed extensive experience in managing Taobao Store.

The phone, which was on vibrate mode because of the meeting, suddenly rang. Hezibao picked it up casually and saw that it was a familiar caller.

"Hmm, it won't work if I put it under your desk." After saying that, Grandpa Sun paused for a moment, then quickly looked up and called out to Da Nianzhong, who was about to leave the office: "Youbin, help you enter those two documents into the computer! You're too young, and you get dizzy if you stare at the computer for too long. I can only trouble Da Nianzhong."

It seems mushrooms are like animals; the weirder and more unpredictable an animal's appearance, the more expensive a mushroom is!

[Dried mushroom pieces, average price 40 yuan per jin across platforms (lower quality, lower price; currently the lowest price seen on the platform is 999 yuan for a two-jin bunch of dried mushrooms); chanterelle mushrooms, average price 10 yuan per jin across platforms; white boletus, average price 180 yuan per jin across platforms; red mushrooms...]

[...Exploring new avenues for members of the Disabled Persons' Federation, a partnership was established with Xu'an Braised Food, a local emerging enterprise...Currently, a total of 71 members of the Disabled Persons' Federation are participating in this project, with an average daily income of 100 yuan, exceeding the average wage level of Shanghai residents in 2011...This cooperative model possesses sustainability, stability, and positive momentum...We are preparing to promote and accept new members to join this cooperation...]

If Mr. Xu has indeed noticed this, I'll go talk to him tomorrow and discuss the cooperation...

Professor Wei is planning to visit Gu Jiayi!

With a flick of the pen, a new price appeared under the notebook—19.9 yuan.

As he wrote that, Tang Li's lips curled into a slight smile.

That should have been a bad thing, but so far this year, no merchants have left the village to buy mushrooms. Hezibao took the initiative to contact the few merchants who had bought mushrooms in previous years, and they all agreed for various reasons.

Although the mushrooms in the Bowen bag are all made with high-quality ingredients, the price is still more expensive than some Jinglan bags on the market...

Eight months later, that would be a huge income for the soup shop; but now, that nearly 80,000 yuan is just the profit of the two Jinglan Slow Food and Jinglan Braised Food shops for one and a half days.