Today is the opening day of Green Sprouts Dried Goods Store, and Yu Yin has developed some marketing plans.
They didn't do anything else, just used the magic egg as bait. They gave away eggs with purchases of three yuan, six yuan, nine yuan, and so on. Giving away eggs was still effective decades later. Usually, dozens of old men and women would line up early in the morning, and without asking, nine times out of ten they were waiting to get eggs.
Yu Yin's space has a lot of eggs, the chicks breed a lot, and the number of eggs laid is countless.
Early in the morning, Yu Yin and Lu Shurui sneaked out like thieves, found a secluded spot, and smuggled out two large baskets of eggs, which must have been several hundred.
Before anyone woke up, they pretended to have brought the goods back from outside and moved them into the warehouse, turning two baskets into six.
After breakfast, the family dressed neatly and went to the store together.
"Brother Liang, has Zhao Tong arrived?"
"Here it is. I just delivered the flyers. Yu Yin, do we have that many eggs?"
Liang Chao looked at the flyer and was very puzzled. Buying something and getting eggs as a free gift? This had never happened before. And where were they going to get so many eggs?
"I asked someone to order some from the suburbs, enough for three days. I'll have Zhao Tong and the others come to my house to pick them up later."
"Sister Yu Yin, what do you want me to get?" Zhao Tong, who had just come out, asked hurriedly upon hearing Yu Yin's words.
“I went with my brother-in-law to get some eggs. We rode a tricycle. There were quite a few.”
"Okay, I'll go right away."
Zhao Tong rode off with Lu Shurui on a tricycle. Over the past few days, he had figured out how to ride the tricycle.
"Yu Yin, let me introduce you. This is my wife, Guan Yue."
"Hello, sister-in-law, thank you so much!"
Yu Yin didn't say anything overly polite, it felt a bit insincere.
"Hello Yu Yin, don't be so polite. We'll be seeing each other for a long time to come."
"good!"
One after another, the second brother-in-law's family arrived, Lu's father arrived, Shuqi and the others arrived, and even Lu Shuhui, who had never met anyone inside, came.
After Lu Shurui and the others returned with the eggs, it was almost time, so Liang Chao took out firecrackers and prepared to set them off.
With the crackling sound of firecrackers, Green Sprouts Dried Goods Store officially opened for business.
Today is a day off, and most people are not working.
The deafening sound of firecrackers set off by Yu Yin and her friends drew many people out.
"What's going on here? Is someone getting married?"
"It doesn't seem like it; it looks like someone has opened a shop."
Two middle-aged women stood by the roadside, pointing and watching the commotion.
"Now that shops are allowed to open, they're not cracking down on speculation and profiteering anymore?"
"That's all outdated stuff. The government is encouraging street vending now, and it even has a name, but I can't remember what it's called."
"That's called encouraging individual businesses and developing the economy."
A woman in a Lenin suit walked over and gave them a little general knowledge lesson.
"Yes, that's exactly what they say. See, you have to be a cultured person; they know everything."
Several people stood watching, but no one went inside.
"Aunties, our dried goods store is opening today! Come in and buy anything, and get a free egg with every three yuan or more, or two free with every six yuan or more. The more you buy, the more you get. Limited quantities available, first come, first served."
Yu Yin handed each person a flyer, using overused and clichéd phrases from later generations.
Upon hearing this, Huang Shan and the others thought it was a good idea and silently repeated it to themselves before handing out flyers to the onlookers.
"You get free eggs if you buy too much, really?"
The first three people who took the flyer asked in surprise, "Is this a scam?"
"They're really giving them away. Look at the cashier at the entrance, the eggs are all laid out. Whether you want to buy or not, come in and take a look. They're all specialties from Yunnan Province: dried fruit, mushrooms, rice noodles, and bamboo woven products."
After Yu Yin finished speaking, she went into the store; she was in charge of collecting payments today.
The three women looked at each other and followed Yu Yin inside.
The main reason they were hesitant to enter was because the store was quite novel; its exterior walls were painted whiter than other people's homes and had murals on them.
"Wow, there really are eggs!"
"There are quite a few. Let's take a look and see what we want to buy."
The group looked at the clean and tidy shop, where the goods were neatly arranged.
"Ladies, feel free to browse. Our shop has tea, mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, dried fruit... all things you can use for cooking. Good quality and low prices, honest and fair to all ages."
Huang Shan's rhetoric was quite skillful; her efforts were not in vain.
"Oh, this girl is so polite."
"You have a really good attitude."
Several people were a little taken aback; they had never seen such enthusiastic salespeople before. It was good enough that they could speak to each other politely.
How much is this dried bamboo shoot?
"Five cents a pound, not heavy, can weigh a lot, makes a delicious old duck soup!"
Huang Shan has been cramming a lot of knowledge lately, learning about products, simple cooking methods, and how to weigh things quickly.
"Give me half a pound, and another half a pound of wood ear mushrooms."
"Okay, just a moment."
Huang Shan quickly and efficiently weighed the items and calculated the price.
"Auntie, pay at the door, take the receipt and come back to pick up your goods." Huang Shan handed the auntie a receipt.
After collecting the payment at the door, Yu Yin handed over another receipt.
"Auntie, take your receipt. After you've bought everything, calculate the total amount. If it's three yuan, come and get an egg."
Yu Yin cautioned that without modern cash registers, everything had to be done manually, which was troublesome.
Fortunately, the house has two doors, so you can enter from one side and exit from the other, otherwise it would be very crowded.
Outside, Shuyun was handing out flyers with several children and relatives and friends who came to help. The grandparents were watching the children to make sure they didn't go too far.
More and more people came in, and some were even directed to the second floor.
"Brother Liang, keep an eye on the inventory. If we run out of stock, we need to restock immediately."
Yu Yin watched the crowds coming and going, noticing that quite a few eggs had been eaten from the pile next to her.
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