Chapter 784 Dog Egg's Sales pitch: The family is about to buy a house.
With so many expenses, Gou Dan was getting anxious, and his allowance was dwindling.
Looking at the classmates who were overjoyed to receive a Sun Wukong candy wrapper, and then at the deskmates who were scratching their heads because they were missing a copy of the second volume of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", my little brain began to work quietly.
"Switching like this back and forth seems a bit messy," he thought to himself.
Gou Dan had a small notebook with crooked handwriting that read: "Zhang Jianjun is missing the second volume of 'Tunnel Warfare' and is willing to exchange three Havoc in Heaven candy wrappers and a Zhonghua cigarette box for Li Li's extra 'Sun Wukong Thrice Beats the White Bone Demon' and wants to exchange it for a copy of 'Tracks in the Snowy Forest'."
Next, the 놛 upgrade 깊 mode.
It was discovered that the needs of the households were inconsistent, and bartering was too inefficient.
She then used the cookies she couldn't bear to eat, along with the few rare milk candies that Lu Qingyang occasionally gave her, as a general equivalent, acting as a middleman to facilitate the transaction.
He would then earn a small delivery fee.
Dog Egg discovered that the miniature version of "Huo Jia" was the most sought-after, so he used his saved allowance to go to the bookstore and buy two copies.
Then they started a book rental business at school. You could rent a book and read it for a day, and you could exchange it for candy wrappers or cigarette boxes, or help someone pay for it once.
Business was booming, and I quickly earned a dollar as pocket money.
The news quickly reached Ma Hongxia's ears.
She was both amused and exasperated at first, then grabbed Gou Dan's ear and scolded him with a laugh: "You little brat, instead of focusing on business, you've learned how to do sales!"
But when he turned to whisper to Liu Dong, his tone carried a hint of undisguised surprise, "But have you noticed, our Gou Dan is quite shrewd in his planning?"
During the winter break, Gou Dan's business expanded from the campus to the entrance of the restaurant.
I set up a small stool at the entrance of Xinweiju Restaurant and set out my slingshot, which I made myself using bamboo strips and rubber bands, and a shuttlecock made from pretty chicken feathers that I collected.
She has bright eyes and a sweet tongue. She promotes slingshots to customers with children and shuttlecocks to girls in pairs. She is also very good at calculating bills and never gets confused.
Ma Hongxia stole a moment from her busy schedule, leaned against the door frame and watched for a while, a smile in her eyes, thinking to herself that this child really did have a bit of a clever mind.
A thought suddenly popped into her head. She walked over, wiped her hands with her apron, and said to Gou Dan, "Little Gou Dan, how much can you earn just by selling these odds and ends? Here's what we'll do: if you can help the shop sell a box of pastries, whether it's peach shortbread or mung bean cake, Mom will give you a two-cent commission."
Dog Egg gestured to 그 about how far his slingshot could travel. Upon hearing this, his ears immediately perked up, his dark eyes darted around, and his little calculations started going off in his head.
Selling a box of pastries earns you two cents, which is much more profitable than trying to sell a single box of pastries with great effort. Plus, the pastries in the shop are clearly priced.
"Really?" 놛 turned her head, her face instantly breaking into a wide smile, revealing a missing front tooth, her tone full of surprise and eagerness.
"Of course it's true, it's a reward for you."
Dog Egg immediately sprang into action, focusing on the passing customers, especially those who looked like they were going to visit relatives and friends but lacked a souvenir. He enthusiastically introduced how crispy and sweet the dim sum at Xinweiju was, and how high-quality the ingredients were.
"Uncle, take a box of peach shortbread home with you. It's freshly baked and smells delicious!"
"Auntie, would you like to try a box of mung bean cakes? They're not too sweet or greasy, and both the old and the young will love them!"
Dog Egg was very enthusiastic about selling snacks. With his sweet talk and adorable appearance, he managed to sell quite a few boxes.
But they soon discovered that relying solely on words wouldn't reach a large enough customer base, mainly consisting of those who already had the intention to buy.
That little head started turning again, its gaze falling on the children who had come to eat with their parents, or those who were just drooling as they stared longingly at the snack box at the door.
“It’s not enough to just let the kids buy it; we have to make sure the children want it,” 놛 pondered.
So, Dog Egg rearranged all the pretty candy wrappers and glass beads he had collected before, which were not slingshots or shuttlecocks.
When I see a child being led by their parents by the street, or a customer bringing a child into the store, I stop simply trying to sell snacks and instead try to get closer to the child first.
"Hey, look at this shuttlecock."
Holding a shuttlecock in front of a child, waiting for the child to stare intently, then casually adding a comment.
"The peach shortbread made in the shop is so fragrant. If you buy a box, I'll give you this shuttlecock to play with."
Or he'd brandish a small slingshot: "See? It can shoot that far! Want one? Have your dad take a box of mung bean cakes with him, and this one is yours."
Children are easily tempted and will immediately start pestering and begging for snacks.
After being pestered relentlessly, and seeing that the snacks were indeed good and reasonably priced, plus with Gou Dan's timely assurance that "if the snacks aren't good, come find me," most of them would smile and hand over their money.
After all, spending the price of a snack gets you some peace and quiet, plus a little toy to soothe the child—it's a win-win situation no matter how you look at it.
Thanks to Gou Dan's combination of buy-one-get-one-free promotions, Xinweiju's dim sum sales really jumped up.
But as time went on, Gou Dan realized something was wrong. It was just peach shortbread, mung bean cake, and sponge cake over and over again. No matter how delicious the snacks were, they couldn't stand seeing them every day.
"We need to come up with something new." Gou Dan rested his chin on his hand, looking at the familiar faces in the cabinet, his little brows furrowed into a knot.
Once this thought arose, she eagerly awaited Lu Qingyang's arrival.
That day, Lu Qingyang had just stepped into the store when he was stopped by Gou Dan, who was lying in wait.
The little guy followed behind me like a little tail, tugging at my clothes, his voice filled with anxiety and anticipation: "Brother Lu, you've finally come! Our pastries are practically antiques, it's always the same few kinds over and over again. Can you come up with something new and fresh that we've never seen before? Otherwise, I'm about to lose my sales performance!"
Lu Qingyang was amused by the little girl's worried look and flicked her forehead with his finger: "Oh, you little girl, you even know about sales performance? Looks like you didn't get the commission for nothing, it's even cultivated your sense of responsibility."
I walked up to the pastry counter and looked around; it did indeed seem a bit monotonous.
Lu Qingyang stroked his chin, a thoughtful glint in his eyes: "Hmm... it's a bit too much of all these pastries and cakes. I seem to remember... a kind of food from the South, called... coconut balls? Or maybe golden coconut balls? The outside is fragrant coconut flakes, and the inside is soft and fluffy, and it even has a bit of a milky flavor? It's quite different from the desserts we have now. There's also egg tarts, those things are so delicious."
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