Chapter 101 Five Hundred Jin

Mingqian tea is several times more expensive than ordinary tea, and is packaged in the most expensive tea cans.

Xue Shiqi watched her put the products on the shelves. She didn't think about the price at all and just helped her put the tea jars on the shelf.

When I was displaying the goods, several waves of customers came in, all of them came for coffee. When they saw the tea on the shelf, they had no intention of buying it. They didn't even look at it. They either took the coffee beans and left directly, or ground them and left directly.

Tang Yuan did not actively promote the product, but instead brought some tea leaves to the counter, intending to make milk tea for Xue Shiqi.

The method of making milk tea is simple and complicated at the same time. Different people have different preferences and hobbies, which leads to very different inclinations towards milk tea. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many milk tea shops in later generations.

But without the pearls, it's a little less interesting.

Tang Yuan started to boil the tea leaves, and soon the aroma of tea filled the shop.

Another customer came in, sniffing the tea and walked to the counter: "This tea smells pretty good, is it sold in your store? You have new tea so soon?"

"Yes, it's new tea that just arrived, and the tea we have now is all pre-Qingming tea," Tang Yuan showed the customer the condition of the tea leaves, "The price of this batch of tea leaves is a bit higher, and the price of the tea leaves that will be delivered in a few days will be lower."

Scarcity makes things valuable. Mingqian tea refers to the tea picked before Qingming Festival. The taste of tea at this time will be a little better. Although it is not exaggerated to be several times better, the quantity is small. As long as the tea is picked after Qingming Festival, it cannot be considered as Mingqian tea.

"It smells really good." The customer walked to the shelf to check the price.

Tang Yuan had just cooked a pot of tea and poured a cup out for the guest to drink.

At the same time, he was also using tea water to make milk and preparing delicious milk tea with Xue Shiqi.

Add sugar and milk, and adjust it to your personal taste.

The guest drank the tea from the cup, nodded with satisfaction, and took away two kilograms of coffee and five kilograms of tea before leaving, saying that he would take them back as gifts.

Tea at 32 yuan per pound is more expensive than ordinary tea, but it is suitable as Mingqian tea. Customers who often come to buy coffee are not too short of money. 160 yuan is not a lot of money, and tea at this price is also good as a gift.

After the guests left, Xue Shiqi held the milk tea in her hand and praised: "It tastes good. I want to buy some tea leaves too."

"This batch of tea is a little expensive. You can use any tea to make milk tea," Tang Yuan simply packed up the things on the table, "When the new tea arrives in a few days, you can buy some back."

"What price do you plan to set for the new batch?" Xue Shiqi asked her.

Tang Yuan thought about it and said the price was “70 cents”.

There is a big difference in the price of tea before and after the Qingming Festival. The reason is still the same: the production volume is large, and she is afraid that if the price is too high, she will not be able to sell it.

Last year, she could pick 100 to 200 kilograms of tea leaves a day, and 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms a month. This year's output will only be higher than last year, not lower. She only has this one store, so at most she can add a "stall", but it will still take a long time to sell all the tea.

As for why the prices are more expensive than when she set up her stall last year, it’s because she has opened her shop here. If she still sets low prices like last year and someone really targets her, she will be in trouble.

"You're definitely right. I'll wait a few more days," Xue Shiqi continued drinking her milk tea. "By the way, how much of this Mingqian tea do you have? Do you want to order a tea can?"

It is confirmed that we will be selling Mingqian tea today. The tea jars have been ordered in advance, and the quantity is not large. Now that Qingming Festival has passed, there will be no more Mingqian tea, so we can roughly determine the number of tea jars needed.

"About 600 kilograms," Tang Yuan thought for a moment, "We can first order 300 kilograms of jars of various sizes, and then see how the sales go in a few days. Even if we order more, we can still use jars to pack ordinary tea leaves in the future, and we can just charge a little for the jars."

The boss of the factory that makes the jars is a good friend of Xue’s mother, and he has always given her the lowest price for large quantities, as a way of taking care of his friend’s business.

I also visited Tangyuan during the Chinese New Year and gave three kilograms of strawberries as a gift.

"We also need to order coffee bean cans, so let's order this batch together." Xue Shiqi wrote down the order.

Tang Yuan stayed in the store all day and sold ten kilograms of tea. The sales were better than she expected. This batch of tea cost thirty-two yuan per kilogram. Selling ten kilograms a day made her three hundred and twenty yuan.

As for coffee beans, although the season has passed in Yun Province, she has stored a lot in advance, enough to sell until the coffee season in October this year. If there are no special circumstances in the future, she will still sell 20 kilograms per day. Maybe by October, she will still have a lot of stock left.

After Qingming Festival, it rained in Yunnan Province. Almost overnight, the tea leaves grew a lot. Looking from the top of the mountain, many tea trees on the mountain were green and lush, attracting everyone to pick them.

After this scene, the amount of tea delivered to Tang Garden increased significantly.

At the same time, because of this reason, the number of hair bands sent in has decreased compared to before. Even without asking her, she knows the reason for this situation.

The person chosen to make the hair band must be the weak person in the family. Now it is the tea season, and the whole family has to go out to pick tea leaves. Someone has to do the laundry and cooking at home, and someone has to turn the tea leaves that are drying there. With so many things to do, it is naturally impossible for them to take care of the work of making hair bands.

There is always a trade-off between making ten hair bands for two cents and making a pound of tea for two cents.

On the first day after Qingming Festival, the whole village donated 500 kilograms of tea.

Fortunately, Tang Garden now has another building to store tea leaves, otherwise if all the tea leaves were piled up in the house on the top of the mountain, she would have to worry about insufficient storage space.

After this batch of tea arrived, Tang Yuan quickly carried hundreds of kilograms of tea to the store, packed the tea into special packaging bags, and put them on the shelves one by one.

"The tea business is booming right now, so we can sell these tea leaves for a few days," Xue Shiqi said, "How do you wrap this? Teach me so I can try."

Tang Yuan turned around and asked: "How many days do you think it will take to sell?"

"Well, that's fine," Xue Shiqi nodded, "If each customer buys one kilogram, we can sell it to a hundred customers."

Tang Yuan raised his hand and tapped himself on the forehead: "I know, the flow of people is still too small."

"Too small?" Xue Shiqi asked puzzledly.

"That's not what I meant. I was thinking about another thing. The flow of people in our store is actually OK," Tang Yuan replied with a smile, and continued to handle the work at hand. "From now on, I still need you to watch over the store. There is no rush to sell tea. If there are people looking, we will sell it. If there are no people, it doesn't matter."

"Okay." Xue Shiqi nodded.

Tang Yuan packed a batch of tea leaves and filled the shelves with them. Without staying in the store for long, he quickly rode his bike back to his residence.

Although she has bought a new house, she has not moved. The new house is a bit far from the store, and she is already familiar with the security guard of her current residence, who can help her cover the "risk" of moving things back and forth.

The new house was too high up, and it wouldn't be suitable for her to ride a bicycle back and forth every day to carry the rags.

As for the flow of people in the store, it is actually not low. After all, before tea was put on the market, the sales of coffee alone could bring her a monthly income of 30,000. However, compared with the amount of tea, the flow of people in the coffee shop is really too small. If she only relies on the coffee shop to sell tea, it will not take a few days for her place to be piled up with tea.

She still has to go the old way and sell it in various markets, big and small.

To this end, she deliberately took out the brand she used last year and went to the market to continue selling tea at the price of 50 cents and 10 ounces. This method really increased sales speed. In just one morning, she easily sold 60 kilograms of tea.

In the afternoon, she rode her bike to a distant market and came back in the evening, having sold all the 100 kilograms* of tea she had brought with her. The tea was sold at 8 yuan per kilogram, and she earned 1,280 yuan that day.

On her busy day, the coffee shop sold 30 kilograms of tea, of which 5 kilograms were Mingqian tea priced at 32 yuan per kilogram.

Although it was not a small amount, as she expected, she could not rely on the coffee shop to sell tea, otherwise she would not be able to sell all the tea stock on hand after a year.

It gets much better after she goes out for a run. She can sell 160 kilograms a day.

Fortunately, she had specially reserved time for the tea season just to sell tea, so the worst that could happen from now on is that she could just go out every day.

run……

Tang Yuan looked at the weight in front of him and fell into deep thought. He turned his head to look at the completely dark surroundings, wondering how many kilograms of tea leaves there were nearby, and why 500 kilograms were delivered today?

Five hundred kilograms!

Wasn't it only 100-200 kilograms per day at this time last year? How did it suddenly reach 500 kilograms? Where did so much tea come from?

She worked so hard to run the stall, selling 160 kilograms a day, but she only sold one-third of it? At this rate, there would still be a lot of tea left over.

The key point is that the tender tea of ​​this month will expire, and the old tea season will soon come, followed by the next season's tea season, and the next season's tea season. If you keep some stock at this time, it will be difficult to sell it later.

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"Is it possible that too much tea was delivered today? How come so many relatives know about this?"

"Who knows? We are in a hurry to pick the tea leaves. I wonder if they will still want so much."

"Why are you spreading everything? Didn't you just tell your closest relatives? Why are you becoming more and more lax now?"

"Even close relatives have their own close relatives. If the news spreads, more and more people will know about it. If it were just our village, where would we get so much tea? Humph, some families don't even dare to look up when they walk around."

"Well, everything else is easy to deal with. I'm just worried that the man is upset, or maybe he's had enough. We finally have this great opportunity."

"Take another look, take another look, and tell people, but don't tell anyone else. I'm worried that there's too much tea and they don't know how to transport it down the river."

"That's not bad. Last year, we delivered a lot of old tea every day, and they were transported down. I guess there must be a lot of people collecting tea and coffee. With so many people moving together, they can always move it down."

"I don't know where the tea was sold."

"Speaking of which, I heard that the crackdowns outside seem to be less severe nowadays. Some people are selling things secretly. Even if those who arrest people see it, they turn a blind eye."

"Can you engage in speculation and profiteering?"

"I don't know. I heard it from my relative's relative. Whatever the situation is, it has nothing to do with us."

"That's right. Hey, your pot of tea is ready."

"Here it is."