Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 390 Changes

"We can't tell them that we're raising prices because we've improved our craftsmanship, right?"

"Why not?" Luo Yanxing asked, "Mrs. Chen's candied fruits will be much more expensive if they have rare varieties."

After opening, the business of the store was very bad. Apart from a few busy poor scholars who came to buy things, only the lady from Liu Tongpan's family who was not kind to the owner but very kind to their merchants came to buy things. It can be said that there was no one here.

Firstly, those who wanted to buy it bought it that day and couldn’t use it up in a short time; secondly, the location was really bad!

There is also the apricot tree at the door. Luo Yanxing has never hated apricot trees so much. He feels that this apricot tree is truly hateful!

Business was already bad, and now costs have nearly doubled. Even if the prices remain the same, how can we make any money?

"Our preserves are different from Auntie Chen's. There's something wrong with our basic formula. We can't make the same preserves as before. If we raise the price, what will happen to those customers who still want to buy the original low-priced preserves? Should we just give up on them?"

Luo Yanxing was silent.

“It’s not worthwhile to give up so many customers for a few cents. If you want to keep your business going for a long time, you can’t lose the people’s hearts.

I know our business is not good now, but we can take it slow. After all, this shop is our own and we don’t have to pay rent to the landlord every month, so there is no need to rush. Besides, pancreas is very profitable, so we can just take a little less.”

Luo Yanxing pursed her lips and thought about it seriously. If the things she bought frequently suddenly became more expensive, she would definitely not be able to accept it. What's more, their store had just been opened for a short time and did not have any particularly loyal old customers.

After a while, she said, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll just consider that the money as a way to save me from having to smash pig pancreases. My arms are almost getting thick from it."

Song Ying chuckled, "Didn't you like having thicker arms so you would have more strength in a fight?"

"That was in the past. I'm older now." Luo Yanxing felt a little embarrassed when talking about the embarrassing things in the past.

Although the decision has been made, the prepared pancreas has to be left to dry in the shade, and the lard is best cut into pieces and left for a month, so there has been no change in recent times.

For the convenience of the students in the academy, the pancreas shop closed much later than the clinic. That evening, Song Ying came back and chatted with Luo Yanxing in the shop, waiting for customers to come.

I caught a glimpse of a white shadow passing by from the corner of my eye. "What was that passing by?"

She immediately stood up and prepared to check, but Luo Yanxing jumped up and said, "Quick! Tangtang is out again!"

In a flash, she rushed to the door and closed it.

"Tangtang is out?" Song Ying was surprised and quickly started rummaging through the drawers and finally found Tangtang in the corner.

Even after she held Tangtang in her arms, she couldn't believe it, "How dare Tangtang come outside?"

When I was in the courtyard with my master before, every time a maid came to the door or passed by to talk, it would be scared so much that it would crouch down and look for a place to hide.

Luo Yanxing was so angry, "Today I was introducing something to a customer, and he suddenly said there was a cat behind the cabinet. I thought it was a wild cat outside, but when I walked over I saw it was this!

I was a guest and I followed him to see what was happening. This guy was so scared that he broke free from my hand and ran away. He even ran in the wrong direction and went outside. I was so scared that my heart almost stopped.

Luckily, someone passed by and scared it back, so it jumped over the counter and slipped back into the backyard. I quickly closed the door, so how did it come out again? "

Song Ying looked and pointed at the window behind him, "You didn't close the window."

Luo Yanxing slapped his head and said, "Damn it, I just opened the window so that the breeze would be cool. I have to close it from now on."

I thought the matter ended there, but when Song Ying came back the next evening, as soon as he entered the shop, he saw Tangtang sitting on the counter, fighting with the wooden lucky cat.

"Tangtang, don't touch its hands. It's hard to repair if you break it!" She hurried forward and took Tangtang away, but Tangtang was very interested in the lucky cat swinging up and down, and she insisted on fighting with it.

Song Ying simply held it in her arms and asked Luo Yanxing, "Why did it come out again?"

Luo Yanxing felt hopeless. "I closed the doors and windows, but it kept barking, it was heartbreaking, as if I was torturing it. I had no choice but to let it play in the shop when no one was around."

"Then you keep an eye on it and don't let it run away." Song Ying reminded him, feeling very strange. Wasn't he very timid before?

No matter how few people there are on this street, there are still more people than outside the courtyard where Shen Fu and the others live. Why do they have to come outside?

Just as she was wondering, Tangtang broke free from her arms and ran to fight with the wooden lucky cat. Luo Yanxing couldn't help but tease, "It seems that it is not satisfied with this wooden sculpture!"

Song Ying went over and took it away again, muttering, "If you fight with it again and break it, you will be my lucky cat!"

Luo Yanxing said speechlessly: "What are you talking to a cat? It can't understand."

"If you keep a cat for a long time, you can't help but talk to it." After explaining, Song Ying simply put the wooden carved fortune cat into the cabinet.

Since there was nothing to play with, Tangtang went down from the cupboard and actually started to peek out the door. Song Ying was surprised and simply stood outside the door, intending to train his courage.

"Tangtang, come out! Come out, there's no danger..." She squatted in front of the door and persuaded softly.

Seeing a familiar person outside the door and no one else outside, Tangtang became bolder and crouched down as she stepped out of the door.

It looked around, curiously examining the outside world, then it became bolder, walked out from under the eaves, and came under the apricot tree at the door.

Just then, a neighbor lady came back with washed clothes. Seeing Song Ying outside the door, she called out, "Dr. Song is back."

Tangtang was frightened and climbed up the tree.

As the sky was getting darker, the old lady couldn't even see the shape clearly. She just felt a white shadow flashing up to the tree. Then she saw the sun setting. She felt a chill on her back and looked at the apricot tree in doubt. "Little Doctor Song, did you see it? What's swaying up the tree?"

"It's my cat. It's timid and afraid of people."

The old lady's heart dropped, and she wiped the sweat from her forehead. "I told you, it's broad daylight, how can you see a ghost? You have a cat? Why haven't I seen one before? What does it look like?"

As she spoke, she put down the wooden basin and looked up at the tree. Even though the sky was gray, Tangtang's snow-white fur was still very conspicuous against the gray tree.

"Oh, where's the white cat? It's so clean! What's its name? Let it come to my house and catch mice in the future!"