Chapter 86 Coffee Business

There's coffee here?

Tang Yuan looked at the coffee beans that were specially placed in the shed, then turned to look at the surrounding environment.

She didn't know much about coffee, so she hadn't been able to recognize which ones were coffee trees after being here for so long. But since she brought the coffee up, it meant that there were not only coffee trees nearby, but there was also a high probability that many coffee trees were planted.

However, when it comes to coffee, Yunnan Province has the best coffee production in the country. Even now, Yunnan Province coffee is famous all over the world.

Coffee is a good business.

She picked up the bag of coffee in front of her and shook it to weigh it. According to her previous estimate of the weight of tea, this bag of coffee weighed about one kilogram.

When she went back to get the bag, she thought about the price of coffee. Finally, after transferring the coffee in the bag, she put another two cents in the bag, which meant that the price of coffee was also two cents per pound.

Xiangjiang has the habit of drinking coffee. She took the coffee home and went to a coffee shop in Xiangjiang to buy a small grinder, milk and sugar.

The taste of coffee itself is too strong, she still prefers sweeter coffee.

Finally, she ground and brewed the coffee. After comparison, she still preferred the coffee with milk and sugar.

The people living at the foot of the mountain did not come up to check until the next morning. When they saw that the coffee in their bags had disappeared and they had two more dimes, they immediately went down the mountain happily to report the good news.

The coffee picking season is much longer than tea, especially Yunnan coffee. The picking season can last from October this year to March next year. Although it is only September now, some coffee is ripening, so I thought of picking some and sending them up.

"Can?"

"Of course! If they accept the things and leave money, they must be willing to accept them."

"That's great. This way, we can harvest coffee for a long time. When March comes next year, we can also harvest tea leaves and make a lot of money."

"Yes, this coffee is also 20 cents per pound. Picking 10 pounds is 2 yuan. No matter how little coffee there is on the mountain, it is not a problem for a family to pick 10 or 20 pounds. It will be a subsidy of 2 or 4 yuan a month, and our lives will be better."

"Yes, yes, yes, I can."

"Also, now that we have more time, we can tell our relatives that coffee is less abundant than tea, but it is also grown in other places. If we find more relatives, we can buy it at 1 cent per pound and still make a profit."

Yunnan Province later became a major coffee producer, but in Yunnan today, the amount of coffee planted is actually not that large, mainly because only a very small number of people in mainland China actually drink coffee.

In comparison, there are more people who drink tea. Every household in Yunnan Province has the habit of drinking tea. Even if no one buys tea, there are still many tea trees on the mountains.

"It's good to ask relatives to collect it."

"I have several relatives who love to drink coffee. They planted a lot of coffee trees a few years ago. I think they should be ripe now. I have to go and ask them. They definitely can't finish all the coffee themselves, so I'll go buy some."

"We have relatives there, too."

"Let's talk about it in advance. Some families have more coffee with their relatives, while others have less. Don't be jealous."

"No, no, we will just plant coffee now and sell it in two years. If we scare people away now, we won't be able to make money in the future. That would be a shame."

"That is to say, we don't have much coffee, but we have a lot of tea. We will make a lot of money during the tea season next year. Don't be jealous of us."

Yunnan Province is indeed suitable for growing coffee and tea. Almost every household has relatives who grow coffee and tea. Even if the current coffee business is profitable, the output will not be as much as that of tea.

Instead of watching others being jealous, you might as well plant more coffee while there is still a chance. When the coffee is fully ripe, you can pick and harvest it, and then you can make more money.

Tang Yuan didn't know what everyone was thinking. After getting the coffee beans, she felt that this business could be done just like tea.

After drinking the coffee, I bought some books about coffee. From the books, I learned that the coffee harvest period has a lot to do with the temperature. Yunnan Province is known for its "four seasons like spring", and the harvest period can be from September to October to March or April.

Roughly judging the time, she immediately remembered tea time.

The tea harvest period mainly starts from the end of March to the beginning of April, and the next one or two months are the time for picking tea leaves.

No, she didn't think that the environment was Yun Province before, she just thought that the temperature there was suitable. If it was Yun Province, with that temperature, tea leaves could be picked all year round.

To confirm this, she went back to take a look and discovered that it might be because she had pulled the tea too hard in the previous season. Although the tea trees around had sprouted and grown, they still looked sparse and did not look like they were ready to be picked.

It was still her problem. She used to live in the south and only knew about the situation of tea in the south. Generally, tea was picked once a year there, so after picking one season, all the tea leaves around would be plucked cleanly and wait for a year before continuing to pick tea next year.

If only tea could be picked all year round in Yun Province... Although she was not at a great loss, she still felt that she had not considered it thoroughly enough because there were other possibilities.

It's a pity that she is in a state of madness here, otherwise she could go down the mountain directly to communicate with everyone and ask the locals about the growth of tea.

But if she wasn't crazy, she couldn't just do business so carelessly.

There was no way to ask directly, so she tried every means to go to the scrap yard and look for relevant books in Hong Kong. She actually found a place with an environment similar to that of Yunnan Province, which was also rich in tea.

From the books, it seems that tea can be produced all year round in an environment like that of Yunnan Province, but the tea in spring tastes the best. Although there is also tea in summer and autumn, the taste is worse than that in spring. The taste of tea in winter is also average, and the output is low, so people usually don't pick the tea leaves, and let the tea trees spend this season quietly.

From this perspective, her loss will not be too great if she does not harvest tea in summer and autumn.

Next year, she can try to harvest young tea leaves from summer and autumn, if her shop can really open successfully.

While she was looking for information about coffee and tea and understanding the situation, Liang's mother had successfully lowered the price of the store from 120,000 to 100,000 yuan, a full 20,000 yuan reduction.

After confirming that the purchase could be made, Tang Yuan immediately took the money and followed the people arranged by Liang's mother to purchase the shop and completed the corresponding procedures.

A few days later, all the formalities were completed and Tang Yuan successfully obtained the relevant documents for owning a shop.

After getting the documents and obtaining the key to the next door, the door that had been closed for a while was finally opened.

The size of this shop is similar to Xue Shiqi's shop, about 30 square meters. The converted retail price is only more than 3,000 yuan per square meter. It is really worth buying a shop in Hong Kong at this price.

The shop was dirty and needed renovation. Tang Yuan had no other business, and considering that Yun Province had tea all year round and coffee for half a year, he decided to use the shop as a tea and coffee bean store.

It is very simple to decorate a shop. All you need to do is paint the walls and put up some shelves and counters.

Xue Shiqi had the inspiration to paint the wall and kept pestering her to paint it, so Tang Yuan handed over the task of painting the wall and choosing the shelves to her, allowing her to choose the shelves she liked that matched the wall painting.

She then asked Mother Xue's people for help to obtain some business licenses to sell tea and coffee. Only after all the procedures were completed could she do business with peace of mind.

While the renovation and the documents were being processed, coffee was delivered to the top of the mountain.

Compared to tea, the quantity of coffee beans is much smaller. It took many days to deliver about 20 to 30 kilograms of them. Occasionally, some other specialties were mixed in, but most of them could not be mass-produced.

But Tang Yuan still accepted them all. The food was good anyway. Even if she didn't eat it herself, she could go to the market in the morning and sell it, which was much easier than asking the villagers to sell it themselves.

Early that morning, she collected another bag of coffee, took it back to the house, and temporarily stored it in the game space. Then she left the house and went to the new store to see the decoration.

When she arrived, someone was just moving the shelves in.

Completely different from the iron shelf she had imagined, this shelf seemed to be specially customized and looked very high-end. When she walked into the store, she saw an open box next to it, and inside it was a box of specially customized labels.

"Jiaqi!"

Tang Yuan turned around and saw Xue Shiqi coming over with a box in her arms. He quickly stepped forward to greet her and asked, "So many things?"

"These are specially made cans for you. Didn't you say you would leave this to me? I asked someone to order them for you. The car can't park here, so we'll park it over there," Xue Shiqi didn't let her carry them. "There are still many boxes in the car. You can go and carry them."

"Okay." Tang Yuan quickly walked to the truck and brought back two boxes of stuff.

She didn't ask about the situation at this time, but helped to move all the things over and put them in place one by one.

As for the placement, it was entirely in accordance with Xue Shiqi's ideas.

After everything was put away and the people who brought the things left, she walked back to the door and saw that the decoration of the shop was really exquisite. Although the things were the same, they looked different and exuded high-end style everywhere.

"How is it? Is it good?"

"Great, very good. If it were me, I would never have thought that it would be possible. You have worked so hard these days." Tang Yuan said seriously, and took the initiative to hug Xue Shiqi gratefully.

"It's not hard. I like designing your store, and seeing your store getting better little by little, I feel very accomplished," Xue Shiqi hugged Tang Yuan back, "but the most important thing is that you are satisfied. Because you are satisfied, I am happier and feel more accomplished. Now I am only a little dissatisfied."

"Huh?" Tang Yuan let go in confusion.

Xue Shiqi pouted: "You just said you wanted to open a coffee shop, but I still haven't tasted what your coffee tastes like. I like coffee too."

Tang Yuan laughed, and seeing that the coffee table in the store was already ready, he immediately said, "Okay, wait for me here, I'll go get it, and then I'll make you coffee myself."

Xue Shiqi was going to refuse, but when she heard that she wanted to make the coffee herself, she immediately agreed happily: "Okay, I'll wait for you!"

Tang Yuan did what he said. After returning, he not only got coffee beans, but also a grinder. On the way here, he bought the freshest milk and sugar at a nearby store and brought a full set of equipment to the store.

Xue Shiqi had been standing at the door of the store, waiting for her to appear, and came forward to help the moment she showed up.

"Am I the first person to drink coffee after you make it?"

Tang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "Besides myself, you are the first one."

Xue Shiqi: "Then I am so happy!"