I took out my phone, found the Hezibao account, opened the chat box, typed a long message, pressed the send button, and sent it successfully!

Sales started at 4 PM, and it's 5 PM now. In just seven hours, we've already received over 2,000 orders!

It's difficult to succeed... It's difficult to succeed... It's difficult to succeed that those eight young men, when they were all grown up, did they really get a single order?

I was wrong, I was really wrong, my thinking was wrong!

But in that Tangyi Village, this yellowish and dull old red brick house, smoothed by the daily wind and rain, and not even cracked, was not the worst house outside the village!

"Oh ho, that data is quite wrong! It seems there's no hope of selling all of Li Sixin's mushroom harvest for the entire year in those eight days!"

Even if each of those two thousand orders only purchased one packet of mushroom soup mix, that still wouldn't be two thousand packets! One packet is eighty grams, so two thousand packets weigh two hundred and seventy pounds! In just seven hours, one-eighth of Li Sixin's inventory for the year was cleared out...

The pre-sale notice has been issued, the emotional appeal has been done, and now even the recipe has been released. There's nothing wrong with that; let's just say it's a no-brainer.

While Bowen's side can see the same front-end data, Tang Yifeng's side can only see a plain product page. I can only refresh the page every few days to get a clear picture of the sales figures. I'm hoping to see the specific sales data through the product page.

I clicked on seven different shops in a row, each named after a local specialty food store, a video store, a farmhouse store, and so on. The shop with the fewest followers had 30,000 followers, and the lowest-selling product in that shop had only 600+ units sold...

The tone and content of that piece by Tang Yi are exactly the same as the two pieces just now.

Perhaps that data is only updated at 5 PM every day. It's not even half an hour until 5 PM yet. Let's wait a little longer...

The sales data for the mushroom soup base packets at the Taobao store's front desk was not visible. Although the increase was not as dramatic as on the first day of the braised food sale, it was still significant. In half an hour, the number of orders reached 881, with a total of 447 mushroom soup base packets sold, which was lower than expected.

[...Li Sixin has a total of 306 households, with a registered population of 1,187, but only 874 people actually live in the village...Li Sixin's average household income was 10,000 yuan in 2011, 4,800 yuan in 2010, and 1,100 yuan in 2009...]

Seventeen hours have passed since the mushroom soup base packets went on sale last night, so we can roughly estimate the total sales during the eight-day pre-sale period.

[Any comments or feedback are welcome. Before the mushroom soup mix packets go on sale, order 10 packets at a time (low to high price)!]

Upon seeing the excellent sales figures early in the morning, Bowen felt extremely pleased, his eyes filled with joy.

At the end of the article, the young man was introduced to an elderly village secretary named Hezibao. In 2012, the number of primary school graduates was as scarce as it would be in the future, but for a primary school student, finding a good job was not a difficult task.

I've used Taobao myself, and sometimes I even help the villagers buy some good quality, inexpensive things from Taobao. Why didn't I ever think of opening a Taobao store to promote Li Sixin's local specialties?

The data presented was shocking to netizens.

[...crispy potato, spicy potato, salt and pepper potato, chicken stew with potato, braised potato, roasted potato...]

Unfortunately, from 4 PM when the sale started until 11 PM, a full eight hours, the page was refreshed hundreds of times. Every time before refreshing, I would look expectantly at the sales figure, only to see the glaring Arabic numeral 0...

Bowen was quite serious about that matter. After all, if he could help Li Sixin's villagers open up sales channels and make money, then we would work wholeheartedly and diligently for him.

There was no selling involved, no emotional appeal; the entire article was just an introduction to Li Sixin's various delicacies!

Before I came back, in just eight years, Li Sixin's annual income per household had increased from eight thousand yuan to ten thousand yuan! That's an increase of one-eighth!

[...]

Assuming a household of seven people, with an annual income of 10,000 yuan, that's not just 2,000 yuan per person. If each person earns 2,000 yuan a year, after deducting basic living expenses, very little is left. If there's no one in the household who needs medicine, or no two children in school at the same time, then that household's income will be completely zero...

Although it seemed too likely, Hezibao still managed to suppress the surging thoughts in his heart.

The moment that idea popped into his head, Hezibao felt no urge to try it out.

Normally, time seems to pass too slowly; seventy-seven hours a day seems like enough. But right now, in Hezibao, those short half-hours feel like an eternity.

Now, it seems we can't tell the villagers that bad news!

The photos themselves shocked netizens, but what shocked us even more was the text accompanying them.

Opening the Taobao website and logging into the merchant front-end page, my gaze fell upon the product section at the bottom, where sales data was clearly displayed...

At 4 PM, the pre-sale link was taken down on time.

[Xu An's account is true, Li Sixin is a real person, and the Party Secretary Hezibao, who gave up his job outside the city to return to his village, is also real. All the content is true; you've seen it all on the Honghe City portal in Qingyan Province. Because it involved elementary school students returning to their hometowns for poverty alleviation, Secretary Li was even criticized separately!]

Two thousand! Two thousand!

However, when I opened Taobao and searched for related shops, the newly lit flame was extinguished without a trace, leaving not even a wisp of smoke.

So, at four o'clock in the morning, the first thing Bowen did upon returning to the store was to check the sales of the mushroom soup mix packets.

Forget it, let's stick close to Boss Xu for now and see how netizens react to the local specialties before making any further plans. That's something that can be accomplished in a day or two.

Monthly sales: 2000+

Cough cough ————