Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 930: Insightful

Chapter 930: Insightful

But the audience in the live stream room showed no sympathy for Old Zhao’s grievances.

The bullet comments suddenly exploded: [You still have peaches!!]

[Exactly! How do you still have peaches?!]

[How can you even still have peaches?!]

[Sobbing out loud, I was just about to place my order when the host said someone else bought them all and took them off the shelf...]

[Stop it, I thought 88 RMB per jin was too expensive, but later I saw in the supermarket they were selling 4 for 288]

[The fellow from up front, I didn’t manage to grab any at the supermarket either, I haven’t even dreamt what those peaches taste like]

Secretary Xiaozu didn’t care about all that: "Stop beating around the bush, can you set aside those 500 jin or not?"

She proposed: "Let’s make way for the Kudzu powder, don’t let us fall flat on our faces in our first live stream. When we harvest cabbages in the winter, I’ll push Song Tan for an extra 500 jin... What do you say?"

"Really? Can you make that decision?" Old Zhao was doubtful.

"Truly!" Secretary Xiaozu promised by patting her chest: "I call Song Tan ’Grandpa’ as if he’s my own grandpa. I light his cigarettes and pour his drinks; we’re all one family, it will definitely work!"

"Moreover, aren’t you a vegetable seller? Selling Kudzu root is off-topic, cabbages are more in season."

In front of the audience in the live stream, the two haggled back and forth, eventually successfully negotiating for 400 jin of Kudzu powder.

Tian Tian was intently watching the bullet comments, and discovered to her amazement that the number of fans was increasing rather than decreasing!

This wasn’t due to Qiaoqiao anymore; it was clearly the result of their own live stream, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, Secretary Xiaozu also recovered her wits: "Let’s go, back to the courtyard to post the link for everyone!"

"Four hundred portions!"

She boasted to the live stream room: "Thank you for your support! After the stream ends, we’ll pack everything up together and aim to ship it all out within 48 hours!"

...

Qiaoqiao had just sat down inside the house when she heard the familiar buzzing of a tricycle engine.

A little while later, Secretary Xiaozu burst through the door:

"Oh my lord, I’m freezing to death! Auntie, can you make me a pair of those cotton-padded trousers and also give me one of those down jackets? I’ll transfer the money to Song Tan later."

While speaking, she quickly rubbed her hands fiercely by the stove.

"Uncle Zhang really chose a good spot when he built this house. I didn’t feel it in the summer, but this winter the chilly north wind is howling, my face is about to get wind-chapped..."

Not to mention the wool trousers on my legs, completely useless!

Wu Lan burst into laughter: "I’ve long said that you dress too nicely. Dressing up with such finery when doing rough work in the countryside is a waste... Why would you need to pay? I’ve got spares, and you’re slim, let me pick something nice and tender for you."

She thought for a moment, was she about to say that her family has some old cotton-padded clothes that could be worn when doing rough work? But then she thought:

Old clothes from the past, Song Tan had packed them all up and sent them away when moving to the new house!

"Don’t need anything nice and tender, no nice and tender!" Secretary Xiaozu firmly refused three times: "For work, anything that can handle dirt will do."

"All right then." She did have a bright red one that she thought to maybe try on to see if it would fit.

Qiaoqiao looked at her and put the chestnut she just picked up into her pocket, then dashed into the house and brought out another jar of Tea Oil Hand Cream.

With the heating on in the room, the hand cream appeared to be a pale milky yellow semi-solid, looking quite oily.

"Sister Secretary, use this to moisturize your face and hands to prevent frostbite," she said.

Grandma Tang watched eagerly: What a big jar!

Secretary Xiaozu wasn’t picky, she scooped up a large dollop with her fingers, rubbed her palms together, and then applied it all over her face, before vigorously rubbing the rest onto her hands.

Meanwhile, Wu Lan came over with clothes and wondered, "Yanping just said you were live streaming, has everyone switched to Tian Tian’s stream now?"

The internet connection in the room with the stove wasn’t good, and Yanping kept losing in her video games, so she went back to the living room. That’s why there were only a few people warming up by the stove now.

Speaking of which, Secretary Xiaozu couldn’t help feeling both troubled and proud:

"Ah, don’t even mention it! All thanks to Qiaoqiao’s fans who have great potential. We just listed the products, and in the blink of an eye, everything sold out!"

"It felt like less than a second, we even thought the backend broke. It was only because Zhang Yanping was watching the live stream and called to remind us."

Secretary Xiaozu was brimming with excitement as she spoke, especially animated:

"Just today, Old Zhao came by right? I discussed with him and decided to allocate 400 pounds for us. People in the live room were still howling, upset that they didn’t get any."

Ah, doing my own live stream seems quite promising! It’s another path in the journey of life.

"It’s just a bit tricky... Tian Tian and I thought as new streamers, we planned to sell those 500 units over some time."

Secretary Xiaozu truly didn’t expect that nowadays people would spend money online without a second thought.

This time the stock was insufficient, which really felt unfair, as they had really put in the effort to prepare.

"After all, we’ve seen those so-called million-fan big internet celebrities generate traffic for studio newcomers, and their sales are really not that great."

"And for Taotao Treasure’s videos, they shot farmers and deep mountains, selling pure Kudzu powder for just over fifty per pound. Ours is priced at 88... We’re purely confident in the quality, and at the same time, we’re hoping that the fans drawn in would have some degree of trust."

But now, even before the platform could generate traffic, everything sold out in an instant. Seeing so many people missing out made us feel quite uneasy.

However, there’s nothing that can be done about it. Kudzu powder is limited after all. Secretary Xiaozu sighed and temporarily set aside the issue.

The oil on her hands couldn’t be absorbed in a short time, and with something on her mind, she slowly rubbed her hands: "I need to change clothes later and help with packaging. There are 900 delivery packages to sort out today—it’s going to take all day. When is Xiaozhang coming?"

"I don’t know," Wu Lan responded, "It’s getting colder, and right after Eleven there’s Twelve coming up. I heard there are loads of deliveries, so he might arrive later."

Meanwhile, up in the mountains, Tian Tian was once again helping Zhang Wang’s Family with their accounting:

"The online store sold 900 orders, Boss Zhao bought 600 pounds, Boss Chang bought a thousand pounds, and both wholesalers paid immediately. For the online orders, we probably have to wait for a week or half a month until the customers confirm receipt."

Adding to the money from selling firewood Kudzu and the sporadic sales of Kudzu Bugs... Tian Tian counted several times, and each time it was twenty thousand!

Even though we have to pay for some delivery and packaging expenses, but still... but that’s twenty thousand!

Zhang Wang’s Family had a total of less than ninety thousand in their lifetime savings, which included his wife’s lifetime savings of fifty thousand and twenty thousand in salary and such from Song Tan...

Even though he had been excited before, he still couldn’t stop smiling.

Old Zhao was puzzled: "Kudzu powder makes so much money, why aren’t you continuing to grow it? Isn’t that better than working for others?"

Zhang Wang’s Family glanced at him: "You folks are good at doing business, I’m not. Before, I dug and carried Kudzu by myself, worked to the bone all year just to sell that little bit..."

But now, with no crops in the fields, everything has to be bought, and the kids are also eyeing this sum of money, claiming poverty upon their return, leaving hardly anything saved by the end of the year.