Thinking it would be a waste to sell them as ordinary sweet potatoes, she had a sudden inspiration and said to Xiaofeng:
"Brother Xiaofeng, the sweet potatoes in my family are a new variety introduced by the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Whether you steam them or boil them, they are sweet, sticky, and fragrant, and they don't cause heartburn."
It's a shame to dig them up and sell them as regular sweet potatoes. You should look around and find a reliable partner to sell roasted sweet potatoes in the city during the winter!
That thing, apart from a big iron stove, doesn't cost much. Fresh sweet potatoes only cost a few cents a pound, and once roasted, they sell for two and a half dollars. How much profit can you make?
It's much better than going out to work. I can leave early and come home late, and I can go home to sleep. I can get cash for selling the goods by the pound, and I don't have to worry about not getting paid. How great is that!
When our family harvests sweet potatoes, we can find a partner or hire people directly. Selling roasted sweet potatoes is a small business with high profits; we can make a considerable amount of money over the winter.”
Xiao Feng never imagined that selling roasted sweet potatoes could make him a lot of money. In his mind, this kind of work was done by old men in the village wearing tattered cotton-padded coats.
Standing on the snow-covered street, shivering, guarding the tall iron cylinder oven, he called out in a trembling voice:
"Roasted sweet potatoes, fragrant and sweet roasted sweet potatoes! Roasted sweet potatoes for sale, red-fleshed roasted sweet potatoes!"
Making big money? It's hardly better than begging!
"Can you really make money?" Xiaofeng's tone was skeptical without any attempt to hide it. "Then why do the people selling roasted sweet potatoes all dress like beggars?"
Chen Hong was also puzzled: "Is it because you're afraid of being robbed, or because a tattered cotton-padded coat is warmer?"
However, what someone wears is their own business; we only care about whether they make money!
Fresh sweet potatoes cost only a few cents per pound. After being roasted, they lose 30% of their water content, yielding about 7 ounces per pound. The cost is no more than one dollar.
Selling it for 2.5 yuan a pound, the profit margin is 150%, it's more stable and faster than investing in stocks, anyone who doesn't do it is a fool!
Xiao Feng quickly calculated the potential profits and was taken aback by the enormous gains. Puzzled, he asked Chen Hong:
"If selling roasted sweet potatoes is so profitable, then why are there so few people doing this business?"
Chen Hong pondered, "Could this be why the people selling roasted sweet potatoes dress up as beggars?"
As if he had discovered some incredible secret, Xiaofeng nodded repeatedly.
"That's really true! Sister Chen Hong, they're making a fortune quietly and without fanfare!"
Selling roasted sweet potatoes is a really good business. Look, the capital is small, the profit is big, there's not much skill required, anyone can do it, and there's no risk!
After the autumn harvest, I'll find some people to help. If it works out, I'll call back Brother Yusheng (Xiaohao's father) and Brother Yuyong (Wang Xin's father). We won't sell any of our sweet potatoes this winter; we'll keep them all to sell as roasted sweet potatoes.
Even after boarding the plane, Chen Hong was still happy! Xiao Feng's realization that doing business is more profitable than farming is a very good change in mindset.
The villagers are used to the old ways of thinking; when someone goes out to work, all the able-bodied men and women of working age follow suit.
Now that some people in the village have made money selling dried goods, everyone is rushing to dry and sell dried goods as well.
This year, there are quite a few businesses in the village renting out houses, taking tourists on sea excursions, and selling local specialties.
However, there were also signs of neglecting the mountainous areas. During her recent return to the village, the village chief worriedly told her that the villagers were not paying much attention to their crops this year.
Some people are even planning not to farm the mountain land at all next year, which is making the elderly in the village very worried.
It was incredibly difficult to clear these lands back then. So many people were working with their bare hands. There was no machinery back then; everything was done by hand, from earth to stones.
After four or five years of clearing and resting, the yields on these lands were finally somewhat satisfactory. In those years, the villagers relied on the grain grown on these lands to avoid going hungry.
In the past, in order to harvest more grain, the production team would even bury unsold sea fish in the ground to make compost.
Now, in order to dry the small fish, shrimp and clams that they used to look down on and use to feed chickens and ducks or for composting, they are abandoning their fertile fields!
This is something these elderly people could never have imagined! Although they know that farming doesn't make money nowadays after deducting the costs of seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, and labor.
With food in hand, there's no need to panic!
If they stop farming and have to buy all their food, they will feel really uneasy!
Chen Hong thought that if Xiao Feng's roasted sweet potato business succeeded this winter, the village's mountain land would definitely not be left uncultivated next year.
Given the villagers' tendency to follow trends, Yujia Village might become the largest roasted sweet potato village in Jiaodong next winter!
Back in Jinan, Chen Hong's lifestyle suddenly became more relaxed.
Besides picking up and dropping off the kids, I also work in my online space and take three online foreign language classes a week.
All of this was very easy for Chen Hong. Her brain and physique, which had been modified by the space, were extremely strong, her memory was exceptionally high, and her physical strength seemed inexhaustible.
After five days of struggling to hold on, the Jinan real estate market couldn't withstand the nationwide downturn.
Chen Hong finally bought her dream villa and large apartment. She also bought two remaining units at 3,500 yuan per square meter.
These two apartments are in the same community as the new apartments bought by Wang Hongwei and Wang Guoqing; they are all 140-square-meter low-rise apartments.
In Wang Hongwei's words, they do wholesale!
In Wang Guoqing's words, they got a bargain!
Whether you're buying wholesale or looking for a bargain, you don't spend much money, the location is great, and the quality is excellent.
She finally managed to get Wang Hongwei and Wang Guoqing on the last train before the price surge.
Chen Hong didn't care much about buying these houses; after all, she was now a multi-millionaire, and two million was nothing to her!
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