They started eating before it even got dark.
Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu were busy serving the prepared food to the table. Shan Yan moved a stool over and casually placed the smallest Shan Hua on a children's stool to the side.
This stool was borrowed from a family in the village with children. It's actually a high stool made of bamboo, with a raised back so that when the children sit on it, the adults can still be taken care of while they eat.
These stools are sold online, but they're quite expensive. People in the mountains can't afford to spend that money, so they simply go up the mountain to cut bamboo and make their own.
Nowadays, this thing is common in the surrounding villages. Families with children, especially those with better financial means, will make one for their kids. Only the Shan Yan couple, being "on the job" as intern dads, had no experience and no time to prepare, so they had to borrow one from a family in the village whose children were already grown up.
At the simple square table, the two families sat together. Jiang Yu, not caring about eating himself, first took a large spoon and ladled more than half a bowl of meat and vegetables into the bowls of Shan Cha and Shan Guo.
After living together for a while, Jiang Yu realized that the two girls must have suffered a lot in their original home.
The obvious evidence is that, although with his insistence, Camellia and Fruit finally got used to eating at the big table, they never dared to pick up whatever they wanted to eat, and at first they only dared to pick up the dishes in front of them.
Later, Jiang Yu found out. He told them twice, but they wouldn't listen. He didn't know if they were afraid that they ate too much and he and Shan Yan couldn't afford to feed them, and that they would be abandoned again...
Anyway, Jiang Yu has now gotten into the habit of giving the two girls a little bit of each dish first when it's time to eat, and then adding more only after they've finished eating!
As for the smallest wildflowers, that's easy to handle.
This little girl can't eat adult food yet, so Jiang Yu steams a bowl of egg or cooks noodles for her separately every time, and makes her a cup of milk in the morning and evening. She doesn't eat much and is very easy to take care of.
Jiang Xiaoman didn't drink alcohol because he had to do a live broadcast that night, but he was treating everyone tonight, so he bought Shan Yan a bottle of Niulanshan liquor.
The rock face was never opened.
"Yan-ge and I have agreed that from now on, we won't drink at home unless we're hosting a party," Jiang Yu explained with a smile. "We have three kids at home, and as parents, we can't set a bad example for them!"
Listen to this!
Jiang Xiaoman's teeth were practically ache from all that talking about "parents" and "children"!
It's fortunate that many elderly people in Langshan Village don't know how to use WeChat Moments.
Otherwise, given Jiang Yu's smugness, wouldn't she be posting a dozen or so pictures of her child on WeChat Moments every day?
So what if I have three well-behaved and adorable daughters?
Look how smug he is, his tail is practically wagging in the air!
After finishing her meal, Jiang Xiaoman didn't rush back. Instead, she decided to use Jiang Yu's main room to start a live stream to sell honey.
"Brother Xiaoyu, can you lend me a hand? And also show me how to do live streaming. Once your account has more followers, you can sell your rock fans yourself, and I'll help you with the shipping."
Jiang Xiaoman chose to do a live stream at Jiang Yu's house because she wanted to take the opportunity to teach him.
He learned this in Banligou.
For an e-commerce industry in a region to develop, it cannot rely on just one person; more people must be involved to create a cluster effect.
Using a large account to promote a smaller account is not only to enrich content and attract more fans, but also to build momentum for the future development of related industries.
The resources in Langshan are no worse than those in Banligou.
Banligou has large areas of wild chestnut forests, and there are also wild tea trees covering the mountains and plains.
The Banligou area can develop a mushroom cultivation industry under the forest, and they can also develop a local honey industry here.
Banligou can be used for high-end homestays, and they can also do so in the mornings and evenings here.
...
You have to eat one bite at a time, and do things one step at a time.
If there's anything Langshan can't compare to Banligou in, it's only their leader.
They lack a leader with courage, decisiveness, and prestige like the old village chief Shanrong.
Uncle Baichuan was certainly qualified in terms of prestige, but he was wholeheartedly dedicated to grassroots education.
If Jiang Xiaoman dared to tell him to give up being the principal and run for the next village chief, Jiang Baichuan would sew his mouth shut with a needle and thread!
As this involves the "core of power" in the village, Jiang Xiaoman, being a junior, has little say; he should focus on his own career first.
When he has a voice in the village like Uncle Baichuan, then he can go and talk to the old village chief!
Because of a lack of money, Jiang Xiaoman did not deliberately stockpile goods this time. He listed all 1,900 portions of local honey in one go!
Many fans knew that Jiang Xiaoman would be selling Langshan honey at 9 pm tonight. Right on time, as soon as Jiang Xiaoman turned on the live broadcast button, more than 20,000 people flooded into the live broadcast room in just a few minutes!
Jiang Xiaoman had just received a bottle of sample honey from Jiang Yu and was smiling, ready to begin her introduction, when suddenly a row of question marks appeared in the comments section.
What's going on?
Jiang Yu entered the live stream using her own phone and opened her shopping cart. To her surprise, the "Langshan Specialty Wildflower Honey" was "sold out"?
"Wait! Xiaoman, come here and take a look. Did you add the wrong amount of honey?"
"Why does it show that it's sold out?"
"Didn't you just start the live stream?"
Jiang Yu, completely bewildered, shoved his phone in front of Jiang Xiaoman.
Looking at the button that had turned gray and white, and the words "Sold Out" on the homepage image, Jiang Xiaoman also felt a little insecure.
Could it be that I wrote the wrong quantity?
I quickly switched to the backend to check, and there was no mistake. It was indeed 1976 items, even the fractional part was correct!
Seeing that the comment section was about to explode and the fans who came in later were going crazy, Jiang Xiaoman quickly addressed the camera to say that he had indeed uploaded the correct quantity; there were 1,976 boxes of local honey in stock, and they had all been listed...
Where did the honey go?
Where else can we go?
Of course it was bought!
Tang Xinlan and Zhang Jiahui's team have been doing live streaming for several years, so their hand speed has already been honed!
Having agreed to support Jiang Xiaoman's business, the two had already had their studio staff enter the live stream at the exact moment, and they snapped up two hundred items in one go!
What's even more baffling is that even Wei Sheng joined in the fun.
This guy bought five hundred items in one go and proudly posted a Weibo message to his fans to share the good news—
"Hey! I got the promised giveaway! Come to my live stream tonight at 10 PM for a giveaway!"
No, it's not a holiday, what's there to celebrate with a raffle?
Jiang Xiaoman was completely bewildered.
Having prepared several days' worth of sales copy without any use, Jiang Xiaoman simply gave up and started searching on the spot using Jiang Yu's phone.
He absolutely had to know why the famous star Wei had bought five hundred portions of local honey in one go!
While he was engrossed in his search, Wei Sheng's fans had already come to the comments section to solve the case for him—
"Oh, on behalf of Wei Sheng's fans, I'd like to apologize to everyone. I'm so sorry! Today is the third anniversary of our little Wei's debut."
Jiang Xiaoman: "..."
So, does that mean I have to give a gift?
However, looking at the "debut anniversary stories" that appeared on her phone, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but burst into laughter in front of tens of thousands of fans in the live stream, laughing so hard that her cheeks almost hurt.
Wei Sheng is hilarious!
Other people's debuts are all held with proper press conferences.
He debuted with a temporary contract with a television station...
That's so tragic, hahaha!
No wonder they need to buy some local honey to give to their fans; otherwise, how can they make up for the suffering (mockery) of their fans?
Besides these three major customers, there were also many other customers who were Jiang Cancan's fans, according to the order notes.
This is understandable, since many people who cared about Cancan followed her account in order to see her.
All I can say is that sometimes fans' love is truly selfless and sincere!
Jiang Xiaoman knew why these fans came to him to buy honey; he guessed it was because he had helped Jiang Cancan before.
Because he treats Jiang Cancan well, Jiang Cancan's fans will also treat him well.
Jiang Xiaoman felt a slight tingling sensation in her nose.
That's wonderful! So many people love CanCan selflessly. Compared to these kind and enthusiastic fans, what is her scumbag father?
They had been hyping it up for days with great fanfare and had prepared for the worst, but to their surprise, less than ten minutes after the broadcast started, all the local honey they had prepared for almost half a month was sold out.
At this moment, the river fish was greatly encouraged.
He felt that he really should learn how to do e-commerce from Jiang Xiaoman.
Putting everything else aside, if they could really sell so much honey online, why would he make Shanyan and the others risk their lives to climb rocks and harvest honey?
Just make a few thousand beehives and put them in the mountains!
Then, just send people to patrol and check regularly to make sure wild animals don't ruin the honey, and then you can just sit at home and wait to make money!
The honey sold out too quickly, and fans who missed out were so angry they rolled on the ground, demanding that Jiang Xiaoman compensate them for their broken hearts.
Where can Jiang Xiaoman get compensation?
He and Jiang Yu have plundered all the local honey in Langshan, okay?
If you want more, you'll have to wait for the autumn honey harvest before winter...
Moreover, because the beekeepers in Langshan are quite laid-back, many families don't even have autumn honey.
Or there might only be a little bit, which is all saved for the family to eat during the Lunar New Year.
We really need to put beekeeping on the agenda.
With no honey available, Jiang Xiaoman could only hold a teacup and chat with her fans in front of the camera.
Unexpectedly, as they chatted, the fans suddenly became interested in the wild tea in his hand, asking him if he could get them some delicious wild tea since he was out of honey.
"This? This isn't tea leaves, it's a tea cake from here. It has a strong flavor, and I was worried that people wouldn't like it, so I didn't put it on the shelves."
"Why don't you like it? Look, this is freshly brewed tea, isn't it very strong?"
"Let me tell you, people with poor sleep quality should absolutely not drink our tea cakes! A small cup before bed, and you'll be wide awake until dawn! You simply won't be able to fall asleep!"
Jiang Xiaoman tried her best to persuade her fans to give up such a dangerous idea.