Farming at the beginning, I rely on business to counterattack and become a princess

Chapter 25 Falling Through the Shopkeeper's Glasses

After coming out of Si Tujun's house, Wen Xiang, brother and sister went straight to the department store.

When visiting the department store some time ago, Wen Xiang discovered that there is a special consignment area here, which specializes in selling all kinds of exotic and special products: these products are goods that the department store is unwilling to buy, or customers are not willing to sell to the department store at a low price.

For example, Orion risked his life to concoct a super-large and complete tiger skin. He claimed that his family could not survive and was forced to sell off the paintings, jade pendants, bracelets, etc. of famous masters that have been handed down for hundreds of years, or the thousand-year-old ginseng sold outside the Great Wall. , Persian cats from overseas and so on.

The prices of these consigned goods are decided by the sellers themselves, generally speaking, they are the prices of luxury goods.

The department store sells it on behalf of the seller, and the period varies from one month to one year. If the sale is successful, a handling fee of 5.00% of the total price of the goods will be charged. It is impossible to send low-priced goods for sale.

The current situation is that Wen Xiang has no other way to sell toothpaste for the time being. It is impossible to set up a street stall.

After all, the department store is a high-end place, a place where dignitaries may hang out, so they can only spend their own money first, and the rest can only hope that there will be good news from Mrs. Situ.

Hearing Wen Dao's intention, the shopkeeper of the department store showed embarrassment: "This thing looks quite novel and elegant, but it only sells for a tael of silver, tsk tsk, this price is too low, too low for consignment, our procedures here It's a lot of money."

Wen Dao and Wen Xiang had already discussed it in advance, so he said bluntly: "Mr. Shopkeeper, we all understand the cost of this consignment sale, and we are willing to pay the handling fee first."

The shopkeeper hesitated for a moment and said, "Accordingly, we generally don't accept consignment sales at this price."

"However, during this period of time, there are relatively few goods for sale in the store. I can reluctantly help you sell them for a month. The ugly thing is that you must come to claim it when it expires. If you don't wait after the deadline, we will not help you keep the goods. Of course, the handling fee must be paid first, so let’s charge [-] Wen first.”

"That's great, thank you Mr. Shopkeeper." Wen Xiang jumped up happily.

Fearing that the shopkeeper would regret it, the two immediately paid the handling fee and signed the sales order, handed over the seven toothpaste baskets to the shopkeeper, and explained to the shopkeeper how to use the toothpaste.

In the end, Wen Xiang solemnly took out a roll of "calligraphy and painting", and told the shopkeeper to hang it next to the toothpaste counter. This is the advertisement she stayed up all night thinking about yesterday, and Wen Dao wrote it.

The shopkeeper opened the "calligraphy and painting" with a puzzled face, and saw that it read:

I like to brush my teeth after breakfast and dinner.
Anti-inflammatory, fire-relief, toothache,
Teeth are whiter and fresher,
smell natural herbal toothpaste,

you deserve to have.

The shopkeeper looked bewildered and curious: You——, this toothpaste really has this effect?
"Of course, as long as you keep using it for a long time, the effect will be great." Wen Xiang boasted boldly. Advertisement, of course, must attract attention: "It must be used every day, and the effect will be significant."

"Where did you get this toothpaste?"

"It's really Xiaomin's ancestral secret recipe." Wen Dao said modestly.

"Okay, let's show it off." Mr. Shopkeeper twitched his beard, doubtful.

Mr. Shopkeeper has been managing department stores for 20 years since he was a boy, and he has never seen any strange goods.

Although the little toothpaste is curious, it is just a small wave in the long river of history, so after accepting the consignment sale, he didn't pay much attention to it, but because there were many vacancies at the consignment sales counter, he just put it in front of it casually.

Unexpectedly, the daughters and wives who came to the department store were very curious about this toothpaste.

"What is this? Where did it come from?"

"This shape is really strange, I like it."

"Can it really make your teeth white?"

"Hey, I'm already tired of that green salt! I'm looking forward to a new thing."

"Exactly, I have a toothache recently, and I am bothered by that bitter medicine."

A tael of silver may be a large amount of money for poor families, but it is only a monthly payment for young ladies.

Ladies love beauty, and are more willing to spend money and effort on dressing than women, so unknowingly, seventy-eight out of ten of the toothpaste baskets sold out, which really broke the shopkeeper's glasses, if he had glasses.

One day, the shopkeeper was calculating the accounts upstairs, when he suddenly heard a commotion downstairs, as if someone was making noise in the building, and the noise was louder.

"Hey, what son or miss is playing big and throwing a tantrum." Hearing the voice became louder and louder, the shopkeeper had no choice but to put down the accounts in his hand and go downstairs to deal with it himself.

When I came downstairs, I found that several people were making noise around the consignment counter, but the clerk Jia shrank aside to be useless.

The shopkeeper was so angry that he gave Jia the waiter a hard look, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade the noisy parties.

There was a delicate voice in front of him: "Shopkeeper Sun, you came just in time. This toothpaste basket was the one I saw first, so just tell me, will you sell it or not?"

"Hmph, are you fancy first? Have you paid?" Another more delicate voice sneered.

"I'm about to pay."

"That means you haven't paid yet."

"you!"

"What am I?" A certain pink girl smiled smugly.

The shopkeeper took a closer look, good guy, the two groups leading the confrontation, one is Miss Wang's family, a down-and-out official, and the other is Miss Zhang San, a landlord and rich family, neither of them is easy to mess with.

The shopkeeper Jia hurriedly went forward to report the situation to shopkeeper Sun: It turned out that there was only one toothpaste basket left, and Ms. Wang went in to ask, but before she decided to buy it, Miss Zhang San came, and she wanted to buy it as soon as she opened her mouth. Miss Wang was not happy, and the two hit it off.

The landlord advocates that the family has a "large land and abundant resources", with a land of more than [-] mu, and also runs shops such as rice stores and cloth shops; and looking at Miss Zhang San's appearance as a nouveau riche all in gold and silver, she knows that her family is really rich and powerful.

As for Ms. Wang, her deceased grandfather used to be a magistrate in the early years. Later, he didn't know whether he offended his superiors or was framed by villains. Work as a small official in other places.

Although the Wang family has fallen, as the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the rotten boat still has three catties of iron.

Who knows what kind of classmates her grandfather has, and she is still handsome now; this Miss Wang is her father's only daughter, and she usually has the air and style of an official lady.

Shopkeeper Sun had a pleasant smile on his face, but in fact he scolded his mother and muttered to himself: What should I do?These two families are not good friends, one is rich and the other is powerful, and he doesn't want to offend either one; businessmen pay attention to making money with harmony, and they never offend the boss or act in favor of the west.

(End of this chapter)