It's easy to imagine how large the daily customer flow would be in a large industrial park with tens of thousands of permanent residents!
In such a popular market, people would be scrambling to get a stall and start a business.
The management committee reserved a rent-free stall for them in Langshan... Isn't this a huge return gift?
I heard that in these agricultural wholesale markets, even a small stall of about ten square meters costs tens of thousands of yuan in rent every year. The rent is secondary; the key issue is that these stalls, which are clearly profitable, usually require bidding or connections to obtain, but the management committee simply opened the back door and gave them one!
However, the benefits of physical stores go beyond just sales volume; they also bring intangible value in brand promotion.
Simply put, even if their stalls don't make money, as long as they display their Langshan local specialties on the shelves, customers browsing the agricultural wholesale market will always see their signs, and over time, the signs will become memorable.
Since the other party insisted on giving it to her, Jiang Xiaoman shamelessly accepted it.
In addition to the ten-year rent-free agricultural wholesale market storefront, they also brought back certificates and commemorative medals specially awarded to Jiang Xiaoman, Jiang Yu, and Qing Shan by W City, as well as a bonus of 5,000 yuan per person.
The prize money isn't much, but the certificate and medal are incredibly rare!
On the day they returned, the town's publicity officer quickly came to take photos of them, and local media gathered to dedicate important space to promoting these three "ordinary yet great heroes."
The title was so catchy that even Jiang Xiaoman blushed.
He felt embarrassed, but Jiang Youliang didn't!
Seeing the gleaming gold medal on his son's chest, Jiang Youliang couldn't stop smiling.
The villagers were incredibly excited; this was the first time someone from their village had brought back a medal from the province!
There were no firework bans in Langshan. When Jiang Xiaoman and her group entered the village, the villagers along the way rushed to take out their own firecrackers and set them off.
Town leaders also came to welcome the heroes home. Jiang Xiaoman was forced to wear the big red flower prepared by the town and stand on the stage to receive the leaders' enthusiastic praise. Her face was stiff from smiling.
They thought the matter was over and done their part as a brother province, helping local people sell fruits and vegetables while also solving the livelihood problems of their counterparts across the border.
But in reality, the lingering impact of this incident has only just begun...
The first thing to show was the sales figures in Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu's live streams.
In order to fight the super flu together with other provinces, the two of them have not done live broadcasts for a month. The supplies sold in this month were all ordered directly through several community groups of the management committee across the street.
In other words, this month, the popularity of their accounts and their sales data plummeted to an all-time low!
Anyone who didn't know better would think they were done for.
Jiang Xiaoman was a little nervous when she restarted the live stream.
What we're selling this time are small tea cakes that farmers have accumulated this month.
After discovering that the small tea cakes were selling well online, Jiang Xiaoman opened up the market for purchasing them. With purchasing channels in place, villagers in the surrounding area would go into the mountains to pick tea leaves and make tea cakes whenever they had free time, and after a month, they had accumulated a considerable amount of stock.
When Jiang Xiaoman returned, she found that her warehouse was almost full of tea cakes.
Only after asking Lang Ying did I learn that these were all gifts from the villagers.
"Wait! I didn't leave you much cash when I left. Where did you get the money to pay for all this goods?" Jiang Xiaoman was completely confused.
Lang Ying was so angry she laughed.
"You're going out to collect the goods now, do you still need to pay me first?"
"Xiaoman, you and Xiaoyu are now famous heroes in our Langshan area!"
“I told them you left in a hurry and didn’t leave me any payment. But everyone said that the goods are here with you for now. It’s okay if you don’t have payment for the time being. You can pay them after you sell the tea cakes. If you really can’t sell them, they can take them back. We won’t make things difficult for you.”
Damn it, do you have to be this touched?
Jiang Xiaoman sniffed, trying hard to suppress her scalding tears, and waved her hand: "Then let's not wait, let's start broadcasting tonight!"
The popular influencer with millions of followers, Xiaoman Ge, who was suspected of being missing, has made a triumphant return. His fans are overjoyed. As soon as he started his live stream, before they even bought anything, the screen was instantly filled with fireworks and hearts as virtual gifts.
Many fans who were unaware of the facts asked him where he had been all this time.
If he doesn't come back soon, they're already thinking of calling the police on his behalf.
However, before he could explain, many enthusiastic fans began explaining to those who weren't very interested in current events.
I heard that the streamer disappeared for a while to save the world, and the fans were moved to tears.
Seeing that if they didn't get to the point soon, the live stream would turn into a "Touching China" program, Jiang Xiaoman quickly took out the newly arrived tea cakes and started introducing them.
Langshan area is mountainous and densely forested. There is an old saying that "one mountain can hold all four seasons and the weather can be different every hundred miles". Therefore, wild tea in the mountains can be picked in spring, summer and autumn, except for the cold winter.
In other places, summer tea leaves are the cheapest; they're even cut down to feed pigs, who find them too tough to chew.
The summer tea from Kelang Mountain is different; it is generally made from wild tea trees in high-altitude areas.
In the past, people went into the mountains in the summer mainly to collect medicinal herbs. Now, they can also pick some wild tea to make tea cakes and sell, which is an extra source of income. However, because this kind of wild tea from the deep mountains is scarce and precious, it is definitely more expensive than spring tea.
But there's a reason for the high price. Summer tea comes out during the most active season of tea tree growth, with plump leaves, a rich aroma, and is more resistant to brewing.
Although Jiang Xiaoman repeatedly explained that summer tea would be more expensive than spring tea, fans were speechless when they saw the prices displayed on the shared bike.
A pound of tea cake is only fifty yuan more expensive than spring tea, and you call that expensive?
Hey! This was collected by the villagers who risked their lives to go deep into the mountains and forests!
Wouldn't it be reasonable not to raise it by a hundred or two?
Despite their complaints, the fans showed no mercy and snapped up the more than 4,000 jin of tea cakes that Jiang Xiaoman had just put on the shelves in less than two minutes!
The enthusiastic citizens of W City who rushed to the scene upon hearing the news: ? ? ?
No, can't you give us a chance to repay our benefactor?
I'm so angry! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
Chapter 180
Jiang Xiaoman's tea cakes were sold out in seconds, and the enthusiastic citizens of W City, not giving up, went to Jiang Yu's video account.
Jiang Yu and Qing Shan were stranded on their boat for a whole month while delivering life-saving supplies to them. They had no way to repay this deep kindness, so they could only support the sales of this fishing livestreamer...
Wait a minute! Why are all the items in my shopping cart showing as out of stock?
Is the fisherman too tired and hasn't recovered his work rhythm yet?
Some persistent netizens followed the information on the homepage and infiltrated Jiang Yu's fan group.
It turned out that it wasn't that the goods weren't on the shelves; rather, tens of thousands of enthusiastic workers in the industrial park had joined forces to loot the river fish's inventory!
The first jar of mushroom sauce and the first bag of fried dough twists that these people received during their most difficult times were all transported by Jiang Yu and his team, boatload by boat, at great personal risk. How could they not be grateful?
Before Jiang Yu even disembarked, resourceful netizens had already found his video account.
Back then, Jiang Yu was exhausted from carrying supplies back and forth every day, and had no time to update videos. He didn't care about inventory at all.
The netizens were incredibly generous, placing orders without hesitation and without even urging him to ship the goods. It wasn't until the platform called him later that Jiang Yu learned that all the products he had listed before his departure had been bought up by enthusiastic netizens.
Moreover, judging from the delivery addresses, the vast majority are located in industrial parks...
Huh? There's still money you can't spend?
Netizens just didn't believe it!
I originally just wanted to support their sales, but I didn't spend any money and ended up following them. They absolutely have to buy Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu's products!
For no apparent reason, Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu's accounts gained hundreds of thousands of followers overnight!
The trolls probably never imagined that instead of ruining this rural guy, they would actually elevate him from a million-follower influencer to a super influencer with two million followers…
Jiang Xiaoman: I'm really hooked! I just wanted to be a quiet, unknown person, but I never expected everyone to make me famous for free...
Haters and trolls: "..."
Jiang Xiaoyu was trapped on the boat for a month. Shan Yan stood on the shore every day, almost turning into a waiting stone. Now that her lover had finally returned, how could she let him go?
Worried that the noise would be too loud and the three little ones would hear, this fellow even used the excuse of going to lower the eel basket to lure the river fish onto his own fishing boat. He made a ruckus until the sky began to lighten, and only then did he bring the person back with a satisfied look on his face.
The next day, Jiang Yu slept until noon and still hadn't gotten up.
Despite the worried looks in his three daughters' eyes, Shan Yan lied to the children without changing his expression:
"Your little fish dad went to save the world and is exhausted. Don't bother him. Let him rest in bed for the next couple of days."
The two little girls, Camellia and Mountain Fruit, immediately became respectful. The youngest, Mountain Flower, didn't understand anything and stared wide-eyed at her two older sisters. When the sisters nodded, she nodded her big head as well, looking adorable and cute.
A slight smile crept onto Shan Yan's cold, hard face. He took out twenty yuan from his pocket and handed it to the eldest, Shan Cha: "Take your little sister to the convenience store to buy some snacks. You can play at home this afternoon. When your little fish's dad gets up, ask him what he wants to eat tonight and have him call me."
"Dad Yan, are you going out?" Camellia asked, looking up at him while clutching the money.
"Yes, your Uncle Xiaoman is building a factory, and Dad is helping him bring back bricks, sand, and other materials first."
Last month, Jiang Xiaoman was so busy that he forgot about the bricks and gravel he had ordered. The owner couldn't reach him by phone, so he came to Shanyan. At that time, Jiang Xiaoman was at his busiest, so Shanyan simply had him sign for the package. However, since neither of them was home at the time, the package was temporarily stored at a friend's house in town.
Since I had nothing to do today, Shanyan planned to hire a few people to bring the things back.
All the fruits and vegetables in the village have been sold, and there's nothing else to do for the time being, so we'll take advantage of this free time to build the factory.
Jiang Xiaoman, that heartless woman, actually waited until Shan Yan had brought everything back to the village before slapping her forehead and remembering that she had previously ordered building materials for building a factory.
"Hehe~ Brother Yan, thank goodness you're here!" Jiang Xiaoman smiled sheepishly.
Shan Yan rolled his eyes at him.
If it weren't for Xiaoyu's sake, who would care about you?
However, since this tea factory also has a small share in his family's Xiaoyu, what can one do?
Jiang Xiaoman unloaded the bricks and gravel directly onto the vacant lot she had bought. She ran around buying water and cigarettes for the workers who helped unload the goods, but she didn't buy anything too fancy because they usually paid people for unloading. Buying water and cigarettes was a common practice in rural areas when hiring help.
But if you buy too much, the craftsmen will feel bad when they collect the money.
After seeing off the workers who had helped, Jiang Xiaoman squatted down on the ground and roughly planned the construction period with Shan Yan.
If they want to achieve standardized production of their small tea cakes, building a factory is inevitable sooner or later. However, since the scale is not large, there is no need to build a very large factory.
Shan Yan hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help reminding him—
"Have you thought this through? If you build a bigger one now, it will be much easier if you want to expand production later."
"If you don't have enough money, I have several hundred thousand here. You can take it and use it first. Just calculate the interest rate for a bank fixed deposit."
Sure enough! When it comes to men other than Jiang Yu, Brother Shan Yan is truly fair even to his own brothers!
"I have the money, thank you, Brother Yan. I still have the same idea as before, at least for the next ten years, I don't plan to expand production."