Then he pointed in a direction and said, "See that shop? The one next to it is also ours. It's just smaller, only one room."
Xu Han looked in the direction Lu Chuan was pointing, and it seemed somewhat familiar.
"Wow, you're amazing! You really remember. You said we've come the same number of times, so why do you remember but I don't?"
Lu Chuan put his arm around Xu Han's shoulder from behind and whispered in her ear, "My silly wife, if I couldn't remember your master, how did I survive all these years on the mountain?"
The mountain paths are so complicated, it's hard to tell which way is which. If I didn't have a good sense of direction, I wouldn't be alive today.
Xu Han's "I see" expression completely amused Lu Chuan.
He thought to himself, "What should I do? His wife looks so cute like this. I just want to pin her down right now."
Fortunately, he knew now was not the time. He shook off the lewd thoughts in his mind, took the keys from Xu Han's hand, and said, "Come on, I'll take you to see it."
Since they weren't very far apart, the two of them simply walked there.
When they arrived at the first shop and opened the door, Xu Han immediately rejected it.
"This shop is too small to hold many sweet potatoes. If we need to process them later, we'll have to transport them over, which is too much trouble."
Lu Chuan thought so too. "Okay, let's go take a look over there. There are three rooms over there, and a yard in the back. It's definitely not as big as the place we have now, but it can still hold a lot of sweet potatoes. Let's go take a look first."
The two talked as they locked the door and walked out. They soon arrived at the three shops.
When Xu Han opened the shop door, she felt a sense of familiarity. Wasn't this the shop with the big pomegranate tree in the backyard?
It's a pity about the pomegranates in the yard. I completely forgot about them this year. I didn't pick the pomegranates from the tree, and now they've all rotted on the ground. You can still vaguely see the remaining pomegranate seeds and peels.
Xu Han said with a pained expression, "Oh, so this is the shop. What a pity to waste all these pomegranates."
Lu Chuan didn't dare to respond and changed the subject, saying, "How's this shop? It's not too far from the workshop."
The place is indeed a bit small; if there are many people working there, it's really difficult to manage. Later, the sweet potatoes might need to be transported there for processing.
Xu Han looked around and said, "How about we go with the same one as before? Since we're going to have to transport it there for processing anyway, we might as well choose one that's closer, so we don't have to travel so far back and forth."
It takes at least five minutes to get from here to the workshop; it's much closer over there.
Anyway, we'll only need to collect one sweet potato for tomorrow, and one room should be enough to hold them all.
"At worst, we can just work overtime at the temporary workshop tonight to process some of the accumulated sweet potatoes; there'll be enough room."
Lu Chuan had no objection; any shop was fine, since they were all his own. "Okay, let's go with that one. We'll have someone clean it up when we get back, and it'll be ready to use this afternoon."
After confirming the details, the two went back.
In the afternoon, Lu Chuan and Xu Han stopped doing other things and joined everyone in processing sweet potatoes in the workshop.
With one more person, a lot more work can be done. With the addition of the two of them, the efficiency has indeed increased significantly compared to before.
In the evening, Xu Han led everyone to work a little longer, and they worked together until eight or nine o'clock before going home together.
Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened on Juxiang's side. Although everyone was dissatisfied, no one dared to cause trouble.
I thought to myself, "It's okay if it's a few days later, as long as it can be sold."
Everyone was eager to seize this opportunity to make money, as it was a rare chance to do so.
As for changing to a different shop to buy sweet potatoes, they didn't have any objections. It was just a few more steps. For farmers, the least valuable thing is their strength. As the saying goes, as long as they can sell them, that's all that matters.
The next day, Xu Han went to help out at the temporary workshop as usual. Everything was ready for the opening of the tavern, and they were just waiting for the opening date.
Two days ago, Li Wen had already arranged to have dinner with the housekeepers from various places, and everyone gave unanimous praise to the canned fruit and sweet potato wine that they had never tried before.
One manager even ordered two cans of fruit on the spot, and also reserved a five-jin jar of sweet potato wine.
His father was a foodie. He didn't have any particular hobbies in his life, but he liked to eat delicious food and drink a little wine.
His family were also regulars at the local produce shop, especially for the various pickles they sold; they bought a lot of them.
According to the manager, his master has a particular fondness for the salted duck eggs in the shop, and lately he has been eating one almost every day.
To please his employer, the steward paid for canned fruit and took it home.
If he wants to sell, there's no reason why he shouldn't.
Li Wen didn't care whether the shop was open or not, and deliberately sold two cans of fruit. He didn't promise him any sweet potato wine, only saying that the shop didn't have any in stock and that he would need to pre-order if he wanted it.
However, you can give him a small pot to take back; if the host likes it, they can place an order.
That person was easy to talk to; he agreed after paying the money.
The others were very interested, but they didn't say how much they wanted to order. They said they would take samples back to the client to try before making a decision.
Li Wen didn't show any dissatisfaction and continued to happily hand out samples to them. However, he specially gave the people who had just bought canned fruit a new type of canned fruit sample, thus completing the selection of canned fruit of all flavors.
That noon, after lunch, Li Wen came to see Xu Han with good news.
Before he could even speak, Xu Han already knew the outcome.
He was laughing so happily that he hadn't stopped showing his teeth since he came in, and he walked briskly to Xu Han's side.
Before he could speak, Xu Han chuckled and teased, "It seems our Manager Li has brought back good news. Let me guess if the pre-orders for canned fruit have exceeded expectations, which is why Manager Li is smiling so happily."
Li Wen didn't mince words and readily agreed, "Madam has truly discerning eyes; she saw it at a glance."
"Haha, you're laughing so happily, it's hard for anyone not to guess what's going on."
Juxiang jokingly added, "Manager Li, why don't you take a look in the mirror?"
"Haha, stop teasing me. As Madam predicted, after those managers took the goods back, they all came to me to place orders today."
Moreover, the quantities are quite large. The manager who bought two cans last time ordered 100 cans directly.
Even the various fruit wines for which samples weren't taken back were ordered in quantities of three jars per jin (500g). A whole 100 jin (50kg) of sweet potato wine was ordered, supposedly to be reserved for entertaining guests during the Chinese New Year.
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