Xu Lai walked briskly, having resolved a major concern, and was even able to eat more at mealtimes.
Now she needs to hire people to pick peaches and pack packages for delivery. She also needs to contact courier companies and negotiate logistics prices.
With a few days left before all the peaches were ripe, Xu Lai contacted the producers and showed them the packaging boxes she had designed herself.
"Master, can this box be manufactured?" Xu Lai asked, holding up a GIF.
The shop owner observed for a moment and said, "We can definitely make it, but it will cost one cent more than a regular box."
"The price is negotiable. Let's order 4,000 to start," Xu Lai said after considering it for a moment.
The workers who picked the peaches were found with the help of Uncle Guiping. They were all elderly people from the village. They worked six hours a day and were paid 80 yuan a day. The same price applied to packing and shipping.
After Xu Lai released the promotional video, many people wanted to buy peaches and kept asking about the price. Some people also said that she was thinking of selling goods via live streaming as soon as she started to see some success.
Xu Lai replied: I did not receive any fees during this process.
The night before the broadcast, she was a little nervous, worried that the products wouldn't sell and that she would let everyone down.
Zhao Qingyun opened the balcony door and saw her covering her face, so he went over and asked, "Is something on your mind?"
Xu Lai was startled and quickly lowered her hand, leaning against the balcony, saying, "I hope everything goes well tomorrow."
Zhao Qingyun flicked off some cigarette ash and said, "Yes."
A gentle night breeze carried Zhao Qingyun's voice: "I haven't asked you yet, didn't you say there was an orchard owner who didn't want to sell his peaches? How did you convince him?"
Xu Lai started talking: "I heard from Uncle Guiping that Grandma was blamed by the family because her granddaughter choked on a peach. She never came back after that. Maybe Grandma always regretted that her granddaughter never ate the peaches she grew again after that."
Zhao Qingyun chimed in, "So you're saying that if we sell peaches via livestream, Grandma's granddaughter will have the chance to eat peaches from her hometown, right?"
Xu Lai gave him a look that said it all, and Zhao Qingyun chuckled, "If it were me, I choked on a peach when I was a kid, and I never want to eat a peach again in my life."
Xu Lai was speechless, and her previous worries lessened considerably. She stormed back to her room.
The next day, under a bright and sunny sky, Xu Lai got up early. Taoyuan had already set up an open-air live broadcast studio to give customers a more immersive experience.
In the peach orchard, workers were busy picking peaches. The picked peaches were carried out in baskets, loaded onto tricycles, and then gathered in the open space of the village committee, where people were also arranged to pack them.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Xu Lai started her live broadcast. At first, there weren't many viewers, only a few hundred.
After making videos for so long, she has accumulated some fans, currently around 50,000 to 60,000. Xu Lai has started to showcase the quality of the fruit.
"Friends, these peaches were grown by the uncles in our village. You can see the quality," Xu Lai said as she took the peaches that Zheng Yuan had cut and showed them to the camera.
"Behind us is the village's peach orchard. Today's event is purely to help farmers. We just want to solve the problem of unsold peaches in the village. Please trust our village's agricultural products," Xu Lai said to the live stream audience.
Zheng Yuan used another phone to look at the comments and whispered a reminder: "Sister Xiao Lai, everyone is talking about the link and asking about the price."
Xu Lai told Liu Tao, the village chief's youngest son, to start broadcasting. She walked to the side and instructed Zheng Yuan, "Go find a board, anything will do, as long as you can write on it."
Zheng Yuan acted quickly, even taking a marker. Xu Lai took it, wrote a few words, and had Liu Tao hold it up behind her. She had learned this from seeing other anchors do it.
The sign read: "Not 59.9, not 39.9, today 29.9 for five pounds with free shipping to your door."
As expected, there were far fewer questions about the price in the live chat. When Xu Lai saw someone asking about the size of the peaches, she replied, "They are all large peaches. We don't send small ones. Every single one is guaranteed to be sweet. If there is any damage upon receipt, you can contact me and I will compensate you."
Once the atmosphere was right, Xu Lai started posting the links. At first, she didn't dare post too many, afraid that no one would buy. But in less than five minutes, a thousand orders were gone.
Xu Lai was shocked. She quickly asked Zheng Yuan to place another two thousand orders. Based on the peach orchard's output, she estimated that a total of four thousand orders could be shipped.
This time fewer people bought, and there were still a few hundred orders in stock. Based on her experience watching other people's live streams before, Xu Lai thought for a moment and said, "Everyone can buy it and try it. I hope you can trust me this time. This is my first time doing a live stream, and I have some shortcomings in my experience. Please forgive me."
Several orders were placed one after another. Liu Tao was fanning himself in the heat, but his eyes were always fixed on the data.
Xu Lai continued, "In our live stream, five pounds are now 29.9 yuan with free shipping to your door. It's a bit cheaper than buying it at the market, but I know that what everyone is worried about is not knowing the quality. We can guarantee freshness."
Xu Lai sincerely said, "Please believe me, it's cheap and delicious. After this morning's broadcast, we'll pack it up for everyone this afternoon and try our best to ship all the orders placed this morning."
The number of followers has also started to rise slowly. Xu Lai said with a smile, "Thank you for your support. I will randomly select ten followers to send each of them a box of nectarines. I hope you won't mind."
By 11 a.m., she was hoarse from talking, the number of viewers in the live stream kept decreasing, and the peaches were almost sold out, with only a few hundred orders left.
Seeing that everyone was tired and thirsty from the sun, Xu Lai ended the broadcast and said to everyone, "Thanks to your help, otherwise I really don't know how I would have been able to continue broadcasting by myself. To express my gratitude, I will cook a delicious meal for everyone tonight."
Zheng Yuan had a smile on her face the whole time. She leaned close to Xu Lai and said, "Sister Lai, I really never thought that one day I would be able to open a live broadcast room and sell goods."
Xu Lai also felt a little unreal; one day, the peaches from their hometown were actually being sold all over the country.
During her workday today, Zhao Qingyun surprisingly opened a live stream and watched Xu Lai sell peaches. She had to admit, Xu Lai was quite eloquent.
He noticed that there were still several hundred orders left unsold, and just as he was about to place an order himself, he found that there were only a little over a hundred orders left.
Zhao Qingyun simply decided to cover it all; with so many employees in the company, it was like giving out some early Dragon Boat Festival benefits.
Ms. Yingqiu grabbed 300 orders to give away to her friends. She originally wanted to buy them all, but unfortunately, one account cannot buy that many.
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