As the person with the fewest connections in the entire team, Zhao Youcai naturally stayed at the booth to continue making instant noodles.
The rest of the people, like busy little bees, took their instant noodles and went out to visit their good friends.
They knew better than to send instant noodles to every booth; that would be too much of a loss.
But every now and then someone will be holding an enamel mug and eating instant noodles, ensuring the aroma doesn't fade away.
Soon, a group of foreigners got tired of shopping and started to feel hungry from the aroma.
"What are you eating? Is this lunch provided by the organizers of your Thousand Ears Festival?"
It's no wonder they think that way; they just walked by and saw so many people eating.
"No, no, these are products sold at another booth. We bought a few packs to try because they are cheaper and taste good, just to change things up."
After they finish speaking, they will point out which way you can find a place that sells instant noodles. Some kind-hearted people are even worried that they won't be able to find their way and will take the initiative to lead them there.
As a result, Zhao Youcai's booth finally experienced a small peak in visitor traffic.
"It depends on how you buy the instant noodles. If you're just buying a few packs to try, it's five US dollars per pack. If you're buying a whole case, a case of forty packs will cost you one hundred and ninety US dollars. If you're buying ten cases or more, it'll be one hundred and eighty US dollars per case."
It wasn't that Zhao Youcai was asking for an exorbitant price; after all, this item could be carried as military rations. Zhao Youcai didn't want to sell it cheaply to foreigners, so he had to ask for an extremely high price.
If the other party still insists on buying it to eat, that's fine too, but at least we need to generate more foreign exchange.
Sure enough, the foreigners didn't look too happy.
They suddenly realized they might have been tricked.
Such an expensive item, and the poor Chinese people who would rather use a single food ration coupon for two years, say it's cheap?
Zhao Youcai also sensed their intention to leave, and with a smile, he promoted other key products that were being promoted this time, which were also good items that had just been delivered from the post office—
Various kinds of spicy strips and spicy chips.
During Zhao Youcai's stay in Beijing, his children have been making all sorts of spicy snacks.
They cut the original spicy strips into small pieces and added some mung beans.
Or they were made into the shape of spicy slices and spicy chunks, and even the scraps were made into spicy shreds.
It even had the shape of a gold ingot. When Zhao Youcai first saw the real thing, he couldn't help but twitch his lips.
Goodness, is this a way of letting them experience the joy of another universal currency of the Heaven and Earth Bank ahead of time?
Using spicy strips as ingots to fool foreigners who don't understand, huh?
Foreigners actually fall for it, finding the food truly novel.
What surprised Zhao Youcai the most was that, in addition to the spicy potato chips and fragrant spicy potato chips he had researched before leaving Zhaojiagou, they had also developed their own fragrant spicy kelp and various spicy duck products.
They make all sorts of things like duck hearts, duck intestines, duck gizzards, and duck bellies, and even the duck meat is dried out.
Zhao Youcai couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart; these kids had finally given him some peace of mind.
That way, I won't have to go back and come up with new ideas myself.
However, there aren't many ducks in their own farm, so aren't these kids worried about not having enough to sell?
Zhao Youcai didn't even notice the letter tucked in his booklet; instead, he enthusiastically gestured for them to look at the delicious food.
Zhao Youcai priced it much lower than instant noodles, since these are the kinds of things that you crave more and more the more you eat, and the harder it is to stop.
Judging from the color change of the spicy strips, Zhao Youcai knew that these kids really hadn't wasted a single drop of oil at home.
"All kinds of spicy snacks are cheaper now. Except for these duck products which are sold by weight, all the other spicy snacks are only one dollar a pack!"
The exchange rate isn't too high right now; 2.46 yuan is roughly equivalent to 1 US dollar.
However, in terms of price and purchasing power, if Zhao Youcai's spicy strips were sold to ordinary Chinese people, they would only cost a maximum of two cents per pack.
Raising the price tenfold might not seem expensive to foreigners, but Zhao Youcai didn't feel he was losing out.
Zhao Youcai didn't just recommend the delicious food he brought; other products from his team at the booth were also included in his recommendations.
In the past, these foreigners thought the enamel factory's big red floral pattern was bad, so they replaced it with a pattern that they found meaningful, and then packaged it in high-end cardboard boxes to make it look like something they couldn't afford.
Don't foreign women like to wear a big flower in their hair, like a noblewoman from the old days?
When the women who had studied abroad in earlier years returned, they dressed like them, and the flowers in their hair were so big they could be worn as hats.
The hair ornaments made by the textile and steel mills are simple, elegant, and stylish. If used properly, they can not only fix the hair perfectly but also make it truly invisible, so that no one can tell how the hairstyle was created.
There are also some hair ties specifically for tying hair, with adjustable tightness. Not only are there many colors, but they even have those little butterfly hair clips for children that flutter in the breeze.
The appeal of this pile of items was no less than that of the snacks Zhao Youcai had brought out. Before long, the total sales at Zhao Youcai's booth exceeded half of the total sales of all the other booths combined by several tens of dollars.
Since it's the Thousand Harvest Festival, everything sold needs to be issued with an invoice, and the invoice issuing area is at the front desk.
On the one hand, it protects the legitimate rights and interests of both buyers and sellers; on the other hand, issuing invoices leaves a record, which is convenient for the tax authorities to calculate foreign exchange tax amounts.
The sudden appearance of Zhao Youcai's booth startled everyone, leaving them wide-eyed.
Zhang Aihua then realized that it had been quite a while since she had seen Zhao Youcai.
Even his own father, after patrolling around a few times, couldn't help but come to the front desk to mutter a few words to him, saying that he hadn't seen his good friend.
Zhang Aihua didn't pay much attention at first, thinking that Zhao Youcai might have been busy or gone to the toilet, and it was normal that her father hadn't seen it.
But she had been paying attention to the booths at the Chiho Festival venue and hadn’t noticed any booth that suddenly had so many people.
So Zhang Aihua decided to have her deputy wait there, while she pulled over the foreigners who were carrying several nice things as they walked out, and asked them where the booths where they were buying things were.
The foreigner, feeling pleased with himself for getting his desired item at a super low price, smiled and described to Zhang Aihua how to get to Zhao Youcai's booth.
Hearing this infuriated Zhang Aihua, since it had been stated in the meeting that backup booths would not be opened unless there were not enough booths available.
But there were clearly empty booths, so which bastard did this?
The more Zhang Aihua thought about it, the angrier she became. Instead of going to Zhao Youcai's booth to see the details, she went to the office on the second floor and started looking through her work log.
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