The Snail Spirit Travels to the 1970s

Tian Tian was a little surprised by what she heard, but what Shen Lingling said made sense. People nowadays would not buy food if it was too expensive, and hazelnuts were not like meat.

"These hazelnuts are all from last year. We fried and dried them. The newly picked hazelnuts need to be air-dried for a while before they can be fried. We will sell these first and wait for the new hazelnuts to be fried!" said Shen Lingling.

"You can try selling some freshly harvested raw hazelnuts. Maybe some of them like to eat them raw and don't like cooked ones!" Tian Tian said.

"You're right. I'll try getting some fresh hazelnuts!" Shen Lingling accepted Tian Tian's suggestion.

"The hazelnuts are shelled, so you can sell them at a slightly higher price. After all, shelling requires labor and time. You've wasted manpower and effort, and there's also the loss of shelling the hazelnuts!" Tian Tian said.

"But hazelnuts are not valuable and they are everywhere in the mountains and fields. What if we sell them at a high price and they refuse to buy them?" Mother Shen asked.

"It's not that much more expensive. You can just charge a few cents more than fresh hazelnuts and sell them at the entrance of the cinema. They can't want hazelnuts in the shell and then eat them inside the cinema."

"Our hazelnuts are already sold at a low price, not counting the price of shelling them. By the time those who sell hazelnuts in shells come along, won't the price of hazelnuts be extremely low?" Tian Tian said.

If those who sell shelled hazelnuts don't make money, they will definitely want to sell shelled hazelnuts. By then, the streets will be full of shelled hazelnuts, and Shen Lingling's products will have no advantage.

Moreover, the weight of these hazelnut kernels is lighter than those hazelnuts in shells. For example, if you sell a pound of hazelnuts for ten cents, the shells may be worth two or three cents. A pound of hazelnut kernels is more valuable than a pound of hazelnuts.

Therefore, the price should be raised a little bit to provide some jobs for those who cannot shell the hazelnuts or who think that hazelnuts are too expensive and cannot make money from them, so that they can also make some money. This is actually a win-win approach.

"What does that have to do with us? I didn't ask them to do it. I even hope they don't make any money!" said Mother Shen.

This was the method they had originally thought of, and she naturally didn't want others to use this method.

After hearing what Mother Shen said, Tian Tian stopped talking.

"Mom! Tian Tian is right!" Fang Siwen said, "Selling hazelnuts doesn't require any technical skills. As long as everyone sees them on the mountain, they can buy them. If hazelnuts are not valuable, everyone will come to sell hazelnut kernels, and then we may not be able to compete with them."

There were many words in Fang Siwen's words that were completely unfamiliar to Mother Shen, but they were inexplicably convincing, and Mother Shen was stunned when she heard them.

"Then let's raise the price a little bit, to 1.12 cents per pound, how about that? Then we can also pack them in big and small packages like melon seeds, with a big package being one pound and a small package being half a pound, and charge them six cents?" said Shen Lingling's mother.

This price is the price of Sadako plus the newspaper used to wrap the hazelnuts. They did not plan to follow Tian Tian's method and buy a stack of cleaner oil paper. Tian Tian felt that the ink on the newspaper was not very clean, but they did not think so. Nowadays, they even wrap fried dough sticks in newspapers, and no one thinks it is a big deal.

"Okay!" Fang Siwen agreed.

"What about the chestnuts? What are you going to do with them?" Tian Tian waited for the family to finish discussing it before asking.

"Fang Siwen brought back some saccharin and white sugar. We plan to try using saccharin and white sugar separately to see what the cooked chestnuts taste like. Then we can decide which one to sell?" Shen Lingling said.

"Yeah!" Tian Tian nodded, stayed in Shen Lingling's house for a while, helped Shen Lingling look after Niu Niu for a while, and went home to help Old Mrs. Tian cook when it was almost noon.

The postman delivered two letters in the afternoon, along with two large packages.

Tian Tian went back and opened the packages first. One of the packages should have been sent by Gu Zhao. It contained all the books on mechanics that he had read in college, which were his freshman textbooks.

These are for Tian Mu. Tian Tian put the books aside, waiting for Tian Mu to come over, or asking Tian Zhuo to deliver them to him.

Tian Tian opened another package. The letter was sent by Li Jiuniang. This package should also be Li Jiuniang's things. Tian Tian just squeezed it and it was soft. It should be clothes and fabrics.

After opening them, I saw that they were indeed two pieces of clothing. One was a goose yellow floral blouse with a lotus leaf collar and puff sleeves, and the other was a dark green shirt with a very design sense.

Tian Tian originally thought that this color was quite disastrous, but she didn't expect that it would look particularly flattering when she put it on. The style was also very good, making her look very slim, and it covered up her slightly bigger belly.

It makes her look particularly fair. Tian Tian had been a little tanned recently, but after putting it on, it was hard to tell that she had become darker.

"Grandma!" Tian Tian excitedly put on her clothes and went out to find Old Lady Tian, ​​"Do you think my clothes look good?"

When Mrs. Tian heard the noise, she turned around and looked at Tian Tian seriously. "Where did you get this dress? It looks good on you and suits your complexion very well!"

Tian Tian was very happy to hear this and couldn't wait to share it with Old Lady Tian, ​​"It was sent to me by the educated youth who came to our brigade before, named Li Jiuniang!"

"Li Jiuniang?" Old Lady Tian was also quite impressed by this name. "The young intellectual who was admitted to university with you?"

"Yes! It's her!" Tian Tian looked at the small mirror hanging on the wall, feeling very happy. "She sent me this dress. In addition to this shirt, there is also a skirt. The skirt is light yellow and looks pretty too."

"This set of clothes must cost a lot of cloth coupons and money, right? She just gave it to you like that?" Old Mrs. Tian asked in confusion.

"Granny!" Tian Tian came close to Old Lady Tian and whispered to her, "Now this set of clothes doesn't require a ticket in the south, and it's very cheap. You can buy one for five yuan."

"Don't want tickets? Is that true? Were you cheated by Li Jiuniang? We can't take advantage of small gains, or we will suffer big losses!" Old Mrs. Tian said seriously.

"She didn't lie to me. She asked me for help before, so she gave me the clothes." Tian Tian explained with a guilty conscience.

It wasn't that she felt that Li Jiuniang had lied to her, but she felt that the fact that Li Jiuniang was a trader was not something that her grandmother should know about.

"Gu Zhao wrote me a letter, but I haven't read it yet. I'll go back and open it first!" Tian Tian made an excuse and ran back into the house.