Her Cultivation Diary-Chapter 2001 - 1756: Qiaoqiao’s Perspective

After nine thirty, the temperature finally got so high that even the ladies filming videos couldn’t hold on anymore.

"The phone is burning, I can feel it’s about to explode..."

"I just touched the camera, and it burned my finger..."

Don’t be fooled by everyone having pants under their skirts, but they couldn’t endure until the video was finished; now their heads and faces were covered with sweat.

Song Tan looked at Qiaoqiao and also prepared to pick up the basket:

"Let’s go, let’s head back first." 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Qiaoqiao’s phone was also hot, and she quickly said goodbye to the kids, wiped the sweat in the midst of everyone’s gloom, full of anticipation:

"Sister, can we sell them tonight?"

Song Tan nodded: "Sure, after five in the afternoon we start picking, we will first presell five hundred orders."

Then call more people, pick the peaches here, immediately send them to the cold storage, chill them, then package them.

Brother Xiaozhang’s car will pull them to the urban area overnight to send directly, thus saving time with maximum efficiency and ensuring that everyone receives them with great taste.

Last year it wasn’t possible, this year the price has risen, spend money rightfully, naturally the experience must be up to standard.

Huo Xueying and Zheng Qu resisted the temptation, focused on picking peaches all morning without eating them, and the college students were also sweating profusely.

Song Tan didn’t intend to call them, but young people are energetic and don’t slack off, so she simply gave each student a peach, and asked: "Will you come as temporary workers in the afternoon? The pay isn’t much, just 80."

Eighty is worth it! They said work starts at five, counting three hours, the hourly wage is more than twenty, why wouldn’t they take it?

Everyone happily thanked the patron saint sister and was ready to return to the guest house with the peach in hand.

The sightseeing car sped past again, leaving Driver Niu wiping sweat under the tree shade by the road, unnoticed and missed again.

After asking around, he finally made his way to the mountains behind, and all he saw was the cool shade by the kennel, where a mighty dog with a silver mask was chomping and biting on a long, straight stick.

Seeing him approach, the dog looked coldly, as if it was about to bark alertly the next second.

And Peach Forest was silent, other than the steaming heat and the rustle of leaves in the wind, there wasn’t a hint of human voice.

Driver Niu: ???

Was he ditched?

...

The weather was indeed too hot.

After Secretary Wang and the leader took a shower again, cleaned up, and gulped down plenty of iced tea, they were led by Lun Chuan to meet with Qiaoqiao, who had already learned about going to Baiyu County to promote goods.

He naturally agreed.

"Farming is really hard."

Facing the leader’s question, he replied matter-of-factly:

"Every day is busy, you have to till the soil, prepare fertilizer, water after planting, then deal with pests and weeds, worry about rain when it blooms, and manually pollinate if pollination isn’t good..."

You have to prune flowers and thin fruit, when the fruit gets bigger, you have to prevent birds from stealing.

After netting them up, you’re worried about hurting the birds, then worry that insects might bite them, and have to bag them one by one.

Bags have to be chosen well, or they will affect the quality of the fruit...

These are all farmers’ daily routines, right?

He is strong, used to working, but still with a child’s nature, yet he knows fatigue.

Now hearing farmers from other counties can’t sell their fruit, it’ll rot in the field, if Qiaoqiao can help, of course he wants to help.

But...

He furrowed his brows: "Kids work hard to earn money too."

He counted on his fingers, worried: "Their work is really tough, sister said some even have bank loans, some people’s salaries barely cover food and lodging each month, others have to support parents and kids..."

He is innocent, but his words get to the core.

Secretary Wang and the leader listened attentively, guiding him to continue explaining:

"So? Are we going to make price concessions?"

"That would be unfair to the farming uncles and aunts." Qiaoqiao replied without hesitation.

"Since the goods are good, they should differ from ordinary ones—otherwise how could ordinary ones sell? The uncles and aunts who farm ordinary fruits would suffer again—we sell our fruit like this."

Secretary Wang wanted to ask more, but then saw the leader slightly shook his head.

So, the two looked at Qiaoqiao again.

Qiaoqiao hesitated, glanced at Song Tan, but saw his sister still smiling encouragingly at him.

He thought, even if he was wrong, it would be okay!

Teacher Tang said, he doesn’t understand economic matters, so he should think more, and speak up when he doesn’t understand.

As long as he doesn’t promise easily, everything else is fine.

So he said: "Kids earn money hard, uncles and aunts farm trees hard too, so when we sell, we must ensure their money is well spent."

These words were a bit convoluted, but everyone understood:

It’s about ensuring quality and quantity.

If the customer is willing to spend a hundred dollars, it means they’re prepared to spend that money.

But if a hundred dollars only buys fifty dollars’ worth of quality, that’s definitely not okay.

Then Lun Chuan asked: "How do you plan on ensuring quality and quantity?"

Qiaoqiao thought: "A whole bunch of grapes, can I try one?"

This is definitely an effective crude method.

But, that’s several hundred acres of grapes in the town!

Don’t say Qiaoqiao alone tasting it, ten people can’t keep up.

Qiaoqiao immediately furrowed his brows again.

Then...

He turned to Song Tan: "Then I’ll ask sister for help—sister is best at evaluating fruit, she always picks the sweetest and tastiest.""

Lun Chuan kept a composed expression, only quietly glanced at Song Tan, but she proudly nodded:

"That’s right! If I didn’t have that skill, how could our fruit taste so good?"

"But, your sister charges quite expensively—when you help promote goods, how much can you earn?"

"Doing business at a loss isn’t good."

Thus the topic switched back.

Song Tan seriously told the leader: "You’re kind, and so are we, but charging is necessary, Qiaoqiao’s price isn’t low either."

"Here we can’t unilaterally decide for the farmers, if possible, why don’t we contact in advance, check the cooperation intention?"

"If it’s feasible, let’s drive there and discuss details."

"If not feasible, we’ve been sincere, it’s their land, their fruit, naturally they call the shots."

After all, there’s a saying: You can’t force a melon to be sweet.

There’s another saying, pushiness isn’t business.

The leader glanced at Secretary Wang, who promptly stood up: "I’ll contact Baiyu County, ask about the situation now."