Chapter 165: Isn't being popular a good thing?
"There are two reasons. First, the weather is getting colder. We sell cold pot skewers, which are OK now, but when the temperature drops further, people will prefer to eat something hot."
Sang Yu thought it through very thoroughly. She started selling cold pot skewers just to make some quick money and had no intention of continuing this business until winter.
It was freezing cold, and even people from Lingnan would not be willing to stuff cold food into their stomachs when the cold wind was howling.
"The second reason is that our business is booming."
Both the father and the son understood the first point, but no one understood the second point.
"Isn't being popular a good thing?" Sang Xingjia asked again.
"When you have something that's unique, being popular is a good thing. But when your thing can be easily copied, being popular is not a good thing."
Sang Yu sighed and continued, "I wonder if you and Dad have noticed that none of the snack shops along the streets of the market are unique. Even the vendors selling pancakes on shoulder poles have two or three of them."
If something is popular, it means that it can make money, which also means that countless imitators will appear.
There are only so many spices, seasonings and vegetables. Why can you do it but I can't?
You say you are the exclusive cold pot skewers, and I say I am the exclusive cold can skewers, but we are not the same thing.
Many snacks that were once popular in later generations appeared and disappeared quickly because of countless imitators who didn’t taste right.
Those imitators will not only take away customers from the original, but also ruin the reputation of the original. After all, in their eyes, the things you sell look similar, so they should taste similar too.
After the explanation, the father and son no longer had their original happy expressions. They both had gloomy faces and could not be happy even though they had just earned a few hundred cents.
Looking at this and then looking at that, their faces became longer and longer.
Sang Yu patted their shoulders and said, "Cheer up. We can't make a profit from this snack for a long time, but we can still make a little money. Don't be discouraged."
"But Yu'er, didn't you say..."
Sang Yongjing was very confused. Sang Yu had just said that if he couldn't make money, someone would imitate him. Why was he saying that again now?
"Even if they start researching the ingredients now, it will take them several days to come up with the perfect recipe. Let's take advantage of these few days and the novel flavors to make a killing."
Sang Yu was well prepared, and she also had konjac, her hidden treasure.
"I have many other snacks I can make. If business doesn't do well later, we can sell the recipe and make something else later."
Only then did smiles return to their faces.
Their emotions fluctuated rapidly with her words in a short period of time, but fortunately their bodies were strong enough to withstand it.
The three of them returned home chatting and laughing. As soon as they entered the yard, Sang Yu felt something strange.
In the past, Sang Xinghao would have rushed over to greet her at this time, but he was nowhere to be seen today. Could it be that he went out to play?
"Yu'er is back." Xie Qiujin put down the needle and thread in her hand, walked to her side and pulled her to sit down in the pavilion.
"Mom, where is my little brother? Did he go out to play?" she asked.
Xie Qiujin covered her lips with her hands and chuckled: "He's just being petty and having a bad temper."
"ah?"
"When he woke up, it was already noon. He found out that you guys went out that morning without telling him, so he got angry and refused to eat."
After explaining the whole story, she leaned over to Sang Yu and whispered, "I saw he was starving, so he sneaked into the kitchen to eat. He shouldn't be starving."
"Okay, I'll go see him first."
Sang Yu felt a little curious. In her eyes, Sang Xinghao had always been obedient, not like a child. Now was the first time he threw a tantrum. She wanted to see what was going on.
She bent her fingers and knocked on the door three times, then Sang Yu called out, "Hao'er, sister is back."
She could hear footsteps coming towards her rapidly from inside the house. It should be Sang Xinghao running towards her, but the sound suddenly stopped when he was about to reach the door.
This is... not wanting to pay attention to her?
"Sister wanted to see our Hao'er as soon as she came back, and she brought some candied haws. The door is closed, and I don't know who to give the candied haws to."
There was movement inside the door again, and it was opened a little, as if to confirm whether what she said was true or not.
Sang Yu stretched out the candied haws in her hand. The red hawthorns were wrapped in crystal clear rock sugar, and they looked very sweet.
I don’t know if Sang Xinghao had a psychological struggle, but after a long silence, he finally opened the door, but he still looked angry.
Sang Yu smiled and picked him up: "What's the matter? Who made you angry? Tell me and I will seek justice for you."
"Sister, you don't keep your word." Sang Xinghao didn't take the string of candied haws. He buried his face in her shoulder and said in a muffled voice.
"ah?"
Before coming, Sang Yu thought of many possibilities, maybe he was unhappy because they didn't take him to the city to play, or he felt depressed because he was left at home by them, but her problem was definitely not one of the reasons.
"Sister clearly promised to take me with her last night." Sang Xinghao said again in a muffled voice, and then he was unwilling to say more no matter how much Sang Yu asked.
This sentence made Sang Yu instantly doubt her memory. If she hadn't lost her memory, she clearly hadn't agreed to take him with her to set up a stall.
At first, she didn't even want to take Sang Xingjia with her. It was he who volunteered to go. How could she agree to Sang Xinghao?
She began to recall desperately, grasping the key words in Sang Xinghao's words, 'last night'... Could it be that this child said this to her while she was asleep?
"Hao'er, please tell my sister carefully. When did you tell her about this? Was she already asleep at that time?"
"It was when the moon came out that I told my sister after I finished peeing." Sang Xinghao was very confident.
Sang Yu slapped herself on the forehead and asked how it could happen that she had agreed but had no idea how to remember it. It turned out that this boy ran to her bedside and talked to her in the middle of the night.
Not to mention that she was already asleep at that time and had no idea what was going on, even if she was woken up, she would probably be in a daze and have no idea what he said.
No wonder he slept until noon. He must have spent quite a long time negotiating terms with her while she was sleeping.
After a painstaking explanation, Sang Xinghao finally understood that it was not that his sister did not keep her promise, but that she simply did not hear it.
The little head that had just been raised suddenly buried itself again, and his two ears turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. He was embarrassed.
"I heard from mom that you didn't have lunch. You must be hungry. I'll make you something you want to eat." Sang Yu didn't bring up the matter anymore and took the initiative to change the subject.
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