Joe's Farming

"How about it?"

Qiao Yu asked Xu Yuan and Xu Ning who were drinking lotus root powder.

Xu Yuan: "It tastes sweet and smooth, very good."

Xu Ning: "Yeah, it tastes good."

Qiao Yu then asked: "If I sell it in packs, and you just make a bowl of it when you want to eat it, do you think it will sell well?"

"Of course you can. Brother Qiao, I dare say that if you sell it this way, I can sell it to the capital for you!"

Xu Yuan said excitedly.

Previously, Qiao Yu’s hot pot base was difficult to store and transport due to the hot weather, so it could only be sold in Taoyuan.

Later, the weather turned cold and the butter was easy to solidify, so Xu Yuan arranged to put it on a cargo ship to the capital, but it was sold out on the way.

And the price is several times more expensive than in the capital.

Qiao Yu was relieved: "That's good, I was worried that you wouldn't be used to it, so I thought it was unnecessary."

"So Brother Qiao, the reason you asked me and my husband to come here is..." Xu Ning asked.

"Hey, I'm not the only one who feels this is too tiring.

You know, I just want to be lazy.

So let’s work together!”

Xu Yuan and Xu Ning looked at each other and smiled.

Xu Yuan: "Of course we are happy that Aning and I can make money together."

The three of them then divided the tasks to be done.

It is impossible for all of Qiao Yu’s lotus roots to be used to make lotus root powder, so they may have to purchase them later.

Qiao Yu is responsible for purchasing and production.

Xu Yuan is responsible for packaging and selling.

As for packaging design, Qiao Yu handed it over to the experienced Li Xin.

Be sure to design a beautiful logo so that everyone can tell it is his company at a glance.

Xu Yuan took the initiative to suggest using the name "Qiao Family" because these two words were used in their previous soap gift boxes.

Now Qiao’s soap has a very good reputation.

Qiao Yu also felt that it was enough to just build a good brand and there was no need to waste extra brain cells thinking of a new name.

After talking about lotus root powder, Qiao Yu took the opportunity to suggest opening a New Year’s goods market.

Xu Ning thought of the excitement of the last market and immediately agreed: "Okay, I want a stall this time too."

Xu Yuan quickly turned around and asked Xu Ning: "What does Aning want to display?"

Xu Ning was a little embarrassed, but still said: "Chestnut cakes. I want to bake some chestnut cakes and sell them."

He glanced at Qiao Yu: "It's not chestnut crisps, it's just ordinary chestnut cakes."

Xu Yuan's eyes widened immediately: "Aning, have you never cooked for me before?!"

Xu Ning felt even more embarrassed: "I just had this idea recently and haven't done it yet."

Qiao Yu hurriedly asked him: "What are you going to do?"

"Just steam the chestnuts first, then add some flour and sugar, knead them into small pancakes and fry them in oil. I think they should taste good." Xu Ning said modestly.

When Qiao Yu heard this method, it was hard not to think it would taste good.

"It will definitely be delicious. I will take care of the business then."

Xu Yuan quickly said: "Then I will help Aning light the fire, collect money, and wipe the sweat."

"Okay, okay, you can choose any stall you want. But I hope you can send someone over to put out more soaps, suspenders, playing cards, and storybooks. It's the end of the year, and everyone will definitely want to buy New Year's goods."

Xu Yuan nodded: "No problem."

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This year's New Year's Market lasted four days longer than the last one, a total of seven days.

There are more things to choose from because the last market had gained some fame.

There are more people coming to set up stalls this time, and even some shops in the town are joining in.

In addition, Qiao Yu’s family had more things to sell this time than before, so it took ten days just to promote the product in the early stages.

Finally, some ship merchants came to the villa specifically to seek cooperation and wanted to sell their goods at the market.

As a result, there are more people than food at the stalls.

Qiao Yu reserved some stalls for priority use by villagers.

For the remaining stalls, stall fees are charged based on the number of days they are used.

It is no longer free for everyone to use as before.

As a result, some villagers were unhappy.

Although the booth fee charged to them is much lower than that charged to outsiders, since it was free the first time, I always feel that it should be free this time as well.

However, before their complaints reached Qiao Yu, they were scolded by the village chief.

"Qiao Ge'er and Gu Feng don't owe any of you any money, you can go if you want, or forget it if you don't want to go.

This village can live without you, but it cannot live without his family. If you don't want to live here, move out!"

Those people immediately stopped talking, fearing that the village chief would really join forces with others to drive them away. Which family in the village had not received favors from Qiao Yu and Gu Feng?

"Village Chief, we were wrong, please don't be angry."

"Yes, we just think that his family is not short of money, and we are from the same village, so the stall fee is not bad, right?"

“Hmph, Li Ming, come with me to Gu’s house to see if there is anything we can do to help the village.

They don't mind paying the stall fee, but even if you don't want to pay, there are many people who want to pay.

As a human being, don’t be too greedy.”

"Hey! Dad, let's go."

The village chief had it very clear that if Qiao Yu's market was run well and held frequently in the future, it would drive the development of the entire village.

Normal people would be busy trying to curry favor with other families, but these few families are always trying to take advantage of them.

But we can’t let Qiao Yu and Gu Feng know about this.

Otherwise it would be so disheartening.

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Ten days later, the New Year Market officially opened.

Many carriages came to Lingyun Villa from the town, carrying many guests.

Because there were so many horse-drawn carriages, the mountain road was finally filled up and they had to stop at the entrance of the village.

Ueda Village has never been so lively.

Hundreds of stalls were neatly divided up in the open space in front of Lingyun Villa, twice as many as last time.

This time, the stalls not only have delicious food, beautiful fabrics, and practical tools, but also coastal specialties and exquisite imported goods brought by ship merchants.

Many guests who come here feel that this market is more interesting than the last one and they can spend a whole day at the market.

If you are tired of shopping, you can take a rest in the villa and order a cup of good tea.

If you are thirsty, there are delicious milk tea, fruit tea and brown sugar water at the market.

If you are hungry, there are various skewers, barbecued and fried skewers, baked potatoes, fried potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, chestnut cakes, and lotus root powder.

And these are just snacks.

For main meals, Lingyun Villa once again launched a fast food set meal, with a serving of rice, one meat dish and two vegetable dishes costing only fifteen cents.

There is also vegetarian spicy hotpot for 15 cents and vegetarian spicy hotpot for 25 cents.

This time, Qiao Yu prepared a lot of nougat, hawthorn candy and mint candy for this market.

The latter two are actually made by mixing hawthorn juice and mint juice into maltose.

Who knew it would sell out so quickly?

This forced Qiao Yu to arrange for someone to make sugar that night.

After replenishing it three times, Qiao Yu directly announced that it was out of stock.

His employees are not made of steel, and they are exhausted after working for several days.

This time, in addition to the overall time of the New Year Market being extended, the daily business hours have also been extended.

It starts welcoming guests in the morning, and in the evening the entire market is hung with lanterns, turning into a night market.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of this night market, Qiao Yu specially found Xie Changyu to report that he would give an additional 10% of the profits from the market after deducting the taxes that should be paid.

For this purpose, Xie Changyu specially approved Zhang Quan to send people to maintain the safety of the night market.