Chapter 28: How to sell sweet potatoes?

After seeing off Old Xie, Chen Xiang focused on selling roasted sweet potatoes.

She cleared her throat and shouted, "Selling roasted sweet potatoes————"

"Freshly baked and sold, sweet potatoes baked in authentic sandy soil, fragrant and sweet, sold at a low price, come and take a look, take a look——"

The girl's clear and loud voice instantly attracted the students' attention.

When they followed the sound and turned their heads to look, they found a tricycle parked next to the school gate. The tricycle was also quite strange, as there was a stove and a pot on it.

There was a brand new quilt covering the pot, and on the quilt there was a basket with a few sweet potatoes in it. The skin had been baked dry and cracked, and sweet icing was flowing out.

Especially the split sweet potato next to it.

The golden sweet potato flesh is a bright spot of color in this winter. Some people can't help but drool just by looking at the soft and tender flesh.

After Chen Xiang shouted a few times, two or three students came forward to ask -

“How do you sell sweet potatoes?”

“Is it sweet?”

Chen Xiang raised her hand and divided the sweet potato into several pieces, handed them to the students in front of her, and said with a smile: "Come on, kids, try it first. It's free to taste it. If you think it's sweet, you can buy more!"

A few students looked at each other, took the sweet potato, and took a bite hesitantly.

After eating, one of the male students wearing glasses looked up with surprise and shouted, "Sister, your sweet potatoes are so sweet! How much are they? How much?"

Chen Xiang pointed to the basket and said, "The small sweet potatoes over there are three cents, and the big sweet potatoes over here are four cents."

After hearing this, the students were a little disappointed: "Oh, it's so expensive!"

The student with glasses just now whispered a few words with the male student next to him, then took out four cents and handed it to Chen Xiang: "Sister, can you give me the biggest one?"

Chen Xiang took the money and said, "Okay, I'll show you which one is bigger."

As she spoke, she lifted the quilt over the iron pot, and a burst of hot air instantly fell on Chen Xiang's slightly cool nose. She picked up a shovel and dug out two sweet potatoes.

I picked the largest one and swept away the sand on it.

Then wrap it tightly with rice dumplings leaves.

The student with glasses stretched out his little hand, pointed at the rice dumpling leaves, and said shyly: "Sister, can you give me two more of that leaf too?"

"Okay!" Chen Xiang didn't hesitate and took out three or four more rice dumplings leaves and handed them over.

"Thank you, sister."

When the students next to him saw that he really bought it, their eyes changed when they looked at him: "Are you crazy? You bought it when it's so expensive?"

The student wearing glasses raised his hand and pushed up his glasses on his nose, and retorted: "Am I crazy or are you too stupid? A sweet potato this big costs four cents, and my friend and I split it in half, which is only two cents."

"Now a steamed bun made of white flour costs three cents! Can you be full with just one steamed bun? Wouldn't you feel choked if you only eat a steamed bun? This roasted sweet potato is much more delicious than a steamed bun! And it can fill you up!"

“…”

The students who heard his remarks were stunned.

After thinking about it carefully, I think what he said makes sense, and it seems that I can save some money.

"Sister, please give us a big sweet potato too."

"Did you have breakfast? How about we buy a big one and split it in half?"

"Okay..."

While Chen Xiang was collecting the money, she took out the sweet potatoes and let the students around her choose for themselves. After they finished choosing, she cleaned them and packed them up.

Other students who were walking into the school saw that the tricycle at the entrance was surrounded by people.

So I walked over curiously.

The closer they got, the more they could smell the rich aroma of roasted sweet potatoes in the air, lingering on their noses and refreshing their hearts, which made them even more curious.

After squeezing it in, the fragrance becomes stronger.

In such cold weather, just smelling this soft and sticky fragrance makes me feel warm. If I hold it in my hand and take a bite from time to time...

"Sister, give me one!"

"Sister, I want that..."

"elder sister……"

Voices calling for Chen Xiang were heard one after another, and a classmate shouted, "The class is about to start, who among you wants to share a sweet potato with me?"

"My, my, my, which one do you want?"

"That one."

About ten minutes later, Chen Xiang said to the students who wanted to buy some but hadn't yet bought any: "This pot of sweet potatoes is sold out."

As soon as he finished speaking, a disappointed voice rang out from the surroundings: "No more today?"

Chen Xiang shook her head: "There is more today, but it has to be baked now. You can bake it after the first morning self-study. I have to go home after your second class."

"We still have to wait..."

They want it now.

Chen Xiang: "Come and buy it after class. I'll be waiting here."

"Oh well……"

The students standing around the tricycles turned away reluctantly, and walked into the campus in groups of three or five, shoulder to shoulder.

Chen Xiang looked at their backs and let out a long breath.

A heart finally settled down.

She raised her hand and quietly touched the bag at her waist. There was already a lot of money in it. The first day of opening was quite good. Finally, all the trouble was not in vain...