Chapter 93 The Shop Smells Good
"and?"
"Yes, yes, yes, it's another big bag. They have something to do." The people who went up the mountain brought down a bag of rags and delivered them directly to the village chief's house, handing the things to the village chief.
"That's great." There were people watching outside the door, speaking with envy.
"Let's stop looking and go pick coffee cherries. We have already collected all the coffee cherries we picked recently. We should be able to sell them for a few dollars."
"We haven't finished packing our things yet. I plan to wait a little longer and pack some more before sending them up."
"You have a lot of food, right? Can you have 30 kilograms?"
"It should be about fifty kilograms."
"So much, how can I get ten dollars? That's great. I can spend the New Year comfortably with this money."
"Yes, my family plans to buy a bottle of maltose for the New Year. Everyone says maltose is good, but I've never tried it. Now that I've earned some money, I want to try what maltose tastes like."
"I want to drink, too, but my kids are grown up, and I need to collect dowries and betrothal gifts, as well as thirty-six legs."
"You might as well keep the children for a few more years and let them earn money at home for a few more years. If that man can keep buying girls, it's better to have money on hand than to marry them off early."
"That's right, then marry a wife first and let our daughter stay for two more years."
Marrying a daughter-in-law is to add more people to the family, while marrying off a daughter means that someone has to move out. These two years are the time to make money. If there are fewer people, there will be less money to make, so it is definitely better to choose to marry off the daughter later.
When the time comes and we have enough money, we can choose a better partner for our daughter.
As they were talking, a group of people went up the mountain one after another. Some of them started to work, while others went to pick coffee berries. But no matter which group it was, they earned almost the same amount of money. The only difference was that the number of people would affect the amount of berries picked.
As for the land issue, neither coffee berries nor tea leaves are considered food, and the land has never been divided. Every household has its own piece of land, and what they pick is naturally their own.
On the other side, Tang Yuan was on the top of the mountain in Yun Province. In the house here, plastic film was spread out and the rags were poured on the plastic film for sorting.
In order to prepare for the busy tea season next year, she has been making small wallets recently and has unknowingly accumulated many boxes. Those things are piled up in the small wooden house in her play space, and there are even a few boxes piled up in Xiaofang's room in the northeast. There is really not much extra space to spread out and sort them.
Fortunately, no one would come up here, so she could sort the things here without worry.
In the morning, she divided the scraps into five bags and picked out a small bag of scraps suitable for making hair ties. Together with the scraps that were left over that were not suitable for making small purses, there were a total of five or six bags. This amount would be enough to make hair ties for a long time.
While she was distributing the scraps of cloth, the few people who were left behind in the village chief's house were also conscientiously sewing their hair bands.
Every stitch was done with extreme caution.
The village chief came over to see that everyone was working very hard. There were some finished hair ties in the basket beside them, so he picked up a few at random to have a look.
As she watched, the people who were working with their heads down raised their heads one after another.
"You did a great job," the village chief said after looking at the hairband in his hand. "You should be so serious. It's not easy for you to have such an opportunity to make money. Do a good job and seize it. I hope that person will remember us when he needs work in the future."
"Don't worry, Village Chief. We are all very careful and everyone is very serious."
“Yes, they are all very serious.”
"I believe in you," the village chief nodded with a smile, "Then you continue working. I will go to the mountain to pick coffee cherries. In the evening, the hair bands you have made will be sent to the mountain along with today's coffee beans."
After saying that, she looked at them, smiled, picked up the basket at the door, and walked out.
When she reached the door, she looked back and saw that everyone had quickly gotten back into the swing of things. She was finally satisfied.
She had to be serious about this matter. In Yunnan Province, the temperature was suitable all year round and there was no problem with food in the village. Therefore, the villagers could take care of those families with poor conditions and could also take care of Xiaomei. However, no one could do anything about the lack of money.
Although they didn't know how that person found this place, it could be someone from the village or from the next village, but since this opportunity fell to them, they must seize it.
Whether it is tea, coffee, or nowadays hair bands, it has no impact on their normal eating and drinking. They can make money without affecting their survival, which is something others can't even ask for.
So no matter what, she had to keep a close eye on it.
On the way up the mountain to pick coffee berries, the village chief greeted everyone along the way. When she arrived at the place where her family planted coffee trees, she looked up at the top of the mountain not far away, and at the shed that had been weathered by rain and wind but was still stable, and she couldn't help but smile.
"Village Chief, what happened to the shed? Do we need to repair it?"
"Not for the time being. When you go up there, take a look. If it's wet or broken, ask someone to fix it," the village chief said, looking at the house on the other side. "Is Xiaomei's house ok?"
"It's okay. Xiaomei has many rooms in her house. When she's not crazy, she'll find a place that won't leak," the person next to her said. "Don't dare go in. Someone went in to see her before and was so scared that he almost fell off the mountain."
Speaking of this, many people in the village are still worried.
This is also the reason why no one comes into the house even if something is given as a gift or a transaction has been going on for such a long time.
The village chief looked at the house and it didn't seem to be leaking seriously, so he didn't mention it anymore and continued picking the ripe coffee berries in front of him.
Tang Yuan didn't know that Xiaomei had been "threatened" before because of her identity, but it was a good thing for her that outsiders didn't come in. After all, she could store things in several rooms without worrying about being discovered.
After selecting the scraps of cloth, I put them one by one in the bag, locked the door, and went to the game space through the "temporary residence".
Everyone who needed to eat at noon ate. In the afternoon, she went out with a bag of coffee beans and rode her bike to the coffee shop.
Since she bought a bicycle, she has never walked anywhere nearby unless she is going to a distant market.
When the car arrived and before it was parked, she heard Xue Shiqi calling her, "Jiaqi."
"Hey," Tang Yuan parked the car and picked up the bag of coffee beans from the back seat, "What's wrong?"
"The customer said he wanted to buy 20 kilograms of coffee beans," Xue Shiqi walked over to Tang Yuan, "Business has been good these past two days. Since you weren't here, we don't have much stock left."
"I brought it," Tang Yuan looked up and saw the customers waiting in the store, "Please wait a moment, I will pack it for you."
"No need to pack it separately. Just give me the whole bag of coffee," the customer said. "How many kilograms does it weigh?"
"About 50 kilograms of coffee beans," Tang Yuan glanced at the customer, then at Xue Shiqi who had just walked in, and said without hesitation, "I'll weigh it for you."
The coffee shop's business is done day by day, and the daily sales volume is not large. The temperature in the game space is suitable, so most of the coffee beans are kept in the game space, and she only brings in a bag every two days.
A bag weighs 40 to 50 kilograms and can be sold in four or five days without any problem.
The coffee beans were weighed in the bag and it was nearly 49 kilograms. She simply calculated 48 kilograms for the customer and rounded off the amount, which was exactly 2,300 yuan.
The customer paid the money directly and left in a hurry with a bag of coffee beans.
Tang Yuan took the money and finally had time to ask, "What's going on? Who is this person?"
"It seems to be someone from the cafe not far from here. I met him once when we were drinking coffee together." Xue Shiqi really knew the person. She held her chin up and looked at the person who left curiously. "Since you came here to buy coffee, it may be that the coffee beans in the cafe are out of stock. It's a good thing you came. The weather has been cold recently, and many people want to drink hot coffee. We sold 20 kilograms yesterday and the day before yesterday, and the store is out of stock."
"I thought it would last four or five days like before, so I went to do other things," Tang Yuan explained, looking away, "Forget it, no matter what they buy or do with it, it doesn't conflict with us. We are the ones who make the money, and since we just made some money, I'll treat you to some barbecued pork?"
"No, no, I'll just drink coffee." Xue Shiqi pointed at the coffee table.
Tang Yuan glanced at the counter and said, "Then I'll go buy some coffee-related items. What do you need?"
Xue Shiqi then responded and said that she wanted a larger coffee cup.
Tang Yuan agreed immediately. After going out, he rode his bike back and took a large bag of coffee beans to the store to replenish the missing goods. Then he went to a nearby tea set store and bought a set of beautiful coffee cups.
After returning from shopping, she asked Xue Shiqi to sit down and rest while she started to package the coffee and replenish the empty shelves one by one.
On the other side, the bag of coffee beans that was taken back was made into coffee and served to the guests' table.
"How is it?"
"I explained the temporary change of coffee beans, and the customer said that today's coffee has a rich flavor and a hint of sunshine. He didn't say it was bad."
"That's good. How can coffee beans always be out of stock?"
"Yes, the coffee bean stores are not out of stock, but we are out of stock and have to go to their stores to buy them."
"We need to get through this first, and then contact the supplier to get the coffee beans replenished as soon as possible. Even though we are a small shop, our business cannot be affected."
"I'm already urging you."
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While Tang Yuan was packaging coffee beans, more customers came one after another and picked out and bought the coffee beans she had just packaged.
Upon asking, I found out that the coffee bean business has been booming these past two days, not only because the weather has gotten colder, but also because a TV series was recently released in which the main character grinds his own coffee beans to make coffee, which has caused a small trend.
This reminded Tang Yuan of the time when she once thought about making clothes and selling them according to what was in a magazine. However, she didn't meet any rich people at that time, and she happened to come across Xue Shiqi's handicraft shop, which provided her with additional income, so she had always suppressed this idea.
I didn't expect to become popular again without realizing it.
I originally thought that if I sold ten kilograms of coffee beans a day, I would earn fifteen thousand yuan a month. Now I can sell twenty kilograms a day, which has doubled my income to thirty thousand yuan a month.
In this way, you can earn NT$100,000 in just over three months, which is equivalent to opening a shop in three months!
Hiss...the shop smells so good.