Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 772 - Chapter 772 762. Sugar-fried chestnuts_1

Chapter 772: 762. Sugar-fried chestnuts_1 Chapter 772: 762. Sugar-fried chestnuts_1 Boss Qian and Boss Wang did indeed come over early the next day, presumably having bought the train tickets in the wee hours of the morning, showing full sincerity!

However, when they arrived at Song Tan’s house, they were taken aback.

Because there were hardly any people left at home.

Qiaoqiao led them up the mountain to the Chestnut Garden, where several long bamboo poles were striking the tree branches with sharp cracks and pops. As they walked closer, they were genuinely afraid that the fist-sized brown chestnut burs would come smashing down on them!

“Why have they started harvesting so soon?” Boss Wang hesitated,

“How can Boss Song be so confident? We haven’t even tasted them or discussed the price yet. She’s already collecting chestnuts. What if we don’t come to an agreement?”

He felt a bit uneasy, wondering if this was what people now referred to as some kind of ‘moral coercion’?

However, Boss Qian had a different opinion.

He said cautiously, “Is it possible that Boss Chang offered such a high price that Boss Xiaosong couldn’t resist and agreed?”

Hiss–

The two men exchanged glances, both feeling that things might not be looking good.

As much as they wanted to go in and take a look, Golden Sakura was indeed trimmed all around the fence, but the heavy chestnut burs inside were being knocked about with a rattling noise, scattering in disarray.

They stood far away, not daring to take a single step over the boundary.

It was not until the chestnut harvesting suddenly paused, probably because the person wielding the bamboo pole was too exhausted and needed a break.

Finally, Boss Qian seized the opportunity to shout, “Boss Song, Boss Song, are you there?”

After a while, Song Tan emerged from the depths of the Chestnut Woods, carrying a long bamboo pole on her shoulder.

“Boss Qian, why have you come so early?”

Boss Wang was about to say something else, but Boss Qian could no longer hold back and threw a straightforward question,

“Boss Song, are these chestnuts being harvested for us? What’s the price?”

Song Tan was stunned for a moment before realizing, “Don’t feel obliged; we have plans for the chestnuts either way. If you don’t want them later on, then we’ll just keep them for ourselves to sell.”

She said this and then bent down to search the ground, eventually flipping over a chestnut bur that had already split open. She pulled out three shiny, round chestnuts from inside.

“Try these first.”

“It’s harder to sell chestnuts than peaches, I understand. The preliminary wholesale price is forty per jin, I haven’t calculated the exact yield, but it’s definitely over four thousand jin.”

“If you want to buy out the garden, one hundred and sixty thousand is okay.”

She was still so straightforward… Boss Qian felt a bit of a pang in his heart.

But then he thought about the sky-high price of forty per jin!!!

My goodness, chestnuts are not eaten as fruit, at best they are used as an ingredient for stewing soup, making a snack, or candied chestnuts.

But if the wholesale price is forty per jin, to whom would they sell their candied chestnuts?

Boss Wang’s face instantly fell, “This, this is too expensive!”

He was the first to back down.

With a cost of forty per jin, plus renting a refrigerated warehouse, he truly couldn’t think of how to sell them to make a profit, let alone who would buy them.

Yet, Boss Qian was hesitant and took the initiative to state, “The price is somewhat high, but I still want to think it over…”

He had already tasted the flavor of the chestnut in his hand.

The chestnuts had aged, and their texture was no longer crispy and tender, but upon biting into one, a profound and rich special sweetness still burst forth in the mouth.

He could eat an entire basket of this flavor just by itself!

And if they were to be used for cooking… Well, never mind, what kind of chicken would be worthy to pair with such fine chestnuts?

But to sell them just like that…

He looked back at Boss Wang, “Boss Wang, are you sure you don’t want them?”

Boss Wang sighed, “No, I don’t want them. I really don’t have customers in this area, so I can’t expand by taking them back.”

Boss Qian was also worried, “Boss Song, what are your plans for the chestnuts? Will you still sell them in the online store’s livestream room?”

Song Tan didn’t keep it secret, “If you all don’t want them, then Boss Chang will probably take at least a thousand jin. He’ll use them to make snacks for his restaurant.”

“I’ll keep the remaining two to three thousand jin to process into candied chestnuts. I can still sell them for eighty-one jin.”

After deducting labor and various costs, it should earn a bit more than the wholesale price of forty.

But just a bit more.

This wasn’t any rare idea, and Boss Qian couldn’t help but simulate the process in his mind.

But at this point, his weakness became obvious–he hardly had any high-end customers!

Even if he did, they were only from the last Yunqiao peach harvest. But peaches and chestnuts were not the same when it came to their allure to people.

This made him start having second thoughts as well.

It was just recently that they were all begging for the chestnuts, but now that Song Tan had harvested them, they didn’t want them anymore…

This, this, this! Talking about this, he couldn’t save face!

However, Song Tan just laughed, “Really, don’t feel burdened. The normal process is for us to discuss the price first. I harvested them early because the forecast said it’s going to rain for the next three days.”

She was still shouldering a bamboo pole, fittingly wearing a motorcycle helmet on her head. In a rush against time, she went back into the Chestnut Garden and joined the consistent front with the three people she had hired.

In reality, five mu of Chestnut Garden didn’t require four people.

But with chestnuts being knocked down and causing chaos as they fell, and with a large-scale collective effort to get them all home quickly, as well as the instruction of “even if it’s less than a full day’s work, it’s still counted as a day,” everyone was putting in maximum effort.

The moment Song Tan joined, the thick bamboo pole she wielded whipped through the air with a fierce energy. Chestnuts were bombarded from the trees up ahead, raining down one after another…

For some reason, Boss Qian and Boss Wang shrank their necks in, and hastily followed Qiaoqiao down the mountain.

Yet as they walked, there was a peculiar taste in their hearts…

“Boss Wang, do you think what we’re doing is a bit unscrupulous?”

Boss Wang sighed, “Stop thinking about it. Forty per jin, with transportation, cold storage, labor… Do you have the ability to sell them for eighty a jin, or do I?”

While saying this, he seemed a bit dejected, “You know, after doing this for so many years, how come I haven’t developed even one high-end customer? It’s not even as good as Qiaoqiao’s livestream room.”

He had seen it last time: peaches sold for eighty a jin, hundreds of boxes of them.

If they hadn’t booked the entire garden after that, Song Tan surely would have sold them all online herself.

With that thought, the taste in his heart grew even more unpleasant.

But Qiaoqiao shook her head, “No worries! My sister said our audience is different, that’s why she’s planning to sell them herself–we even ordered three machines for making candied chestnuts!”

He spoke of it with evident excitement, “Big iron pots filled with dusky quartz sand! Then you plug them in, and they’ll tumble the chestnuts, keep them rolling, rolling…”

As Qiaoqiao spoke, she couldn’t help but imagine, “Chestnuts roasted like that must taste really good, right?”