The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

The cost of an eraser is about seventy wen. Zhou Dajiang feels that in ancient times when technology was backward, pricing a small tool at about 1.5 to 2 times the cost is already a very conscientious price. After all, creativity also costs money.

He sold them for 120 wen, and the net profit for each wiper was 50 wen. Eighteen wipers would make 900 wen, less than one tael of silver. He worked for several days to earn this little money, and he hadn't even made back his original profit yet. He had to keep working hard to increase sales!

So, after delivering the goods early the next morning, Zhou Dajiang took Zhou Sisi to the town on a ox cart.

When they arrived in the town, the two went straight to Lai Fu Restaurant. The waiter recognized Zhou Dajiang at a glance. It was impossible not to be impressed. The things he ordered were not available in the restaurant. How could he not have a deep impression?

The waiter came forward and said, "Hello, sir. What would you like to order today?"

Zhou Dajiang: "I'll order the dishes later. I want to ask you something first. Our restaurant is so big, I guess we have branches in other places, right?"

The waiter said, "Yes, our store is a branch. Our main store is in Beijing, and we have 26 branches across the country."

Zhou Dajiang was secretly happy in his heart, and said calmly: "I am here to discuss business today. Is your shopkeeper here?"

When the waiter heard that they were discussing business, he did not dare to delay and asked him to wait for a moment, then went to the back to call the shopkeeper out.

After a while, the shopkeeper came out from the backyard. He was a kind, fat old man. After greeting Zhou Dajiang, he said, "My surname is Chen, and everyone calls me Shopkeeper Chen. I heard from the waiter that you want to discuss business with the restaurant. What is it?"

Zhou Dajiang took out a peeler and a grater from his backpack and handed them to him, saying, "I had nothing to do at home, so I made these two tools. I thought the restaurant might be able to use them, so I came over to try them out.

These two things, one is for peeling and the other is for grating. If it is convenient, I can demonstrate to you."

Shopkeeper Chen looked at the thing in his hand again and again, and found it quite interesting.

So, he returned the things to Zhou Dajiang, led the two of them to the back kitchen, and called the manager in charge of preparing the dishes, asking them to pick out a few vegetables that needed to be peeled and shredded. The manager then had someone bring a basket of lettuce and a basket of radishes.

Zhou Dajiang first took a radish and started peeling it in front of everyone. Modern products must have good results, so Zhou Dajiang finished peeling it in just a few strokes.

Then he picked up the lettuce. Everyone knows that the skin of lettuce is difficult to peel, but Zhou Dajiang remained calm and just peeled it a few times.

The person who was preparing the food was immediately enlightened. This thing is great! It’s much faster than peeling with a kitchen knife!

Then, Zhou Dajiang began to demonstrate the grater. When the evenly distributed fine threads came out, not only the food preparer but even the shopkeeper Chen nodded repeatedly.

The apprentices who were watching the fun on the side were all rubbing their hands, eager to try it out.

Zhou Dajiang took out two sets of peeling knives and graters from his backpack and gave them a try. Needless to say, the radishes and lettuces in both baskets were turned into thin shreds in the end.

Now that the product has been demonstrated, it’s time to talk about the price.

Shopkeeper Chen was very satisfied with the test results and asked him how to sell it.

Zhou Dajiang had thought of a plan in advance. A peeler is easy to imitate, but a grater is not. If sold separately, the peeler would easily not sell for a high price, so he wanted to sell them in bundles to maximize profits.

So he said, "These two tools are not sold separately, but as a set, for two hundred and twenty coins."

Shopkeeper Chen nodded and began to bargain: "You know we have branches all over the country. I want to know how much discount I can get if I buy in large quantities."

Zhou Dajiang thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I gave this price because I know that we have branches all over the country. If it were retail, it would cost two hundred and forty coins.

Furthermore, the production process of this eraser is quite complicated, so the price is very reasonable.”

……

Finally, after some negotiation between the two, the price was finally set at two hundred wen.

Both of them were quite satisfied with the price.

Shopkeeper Chen waved his hand, ordered 100 sets first, paid a deposit of 10 taels, and agreed to deliver the goods in five days.

Don't take the three sets Zhou Dajiang had taken out earlier; just hand in the ninety-seven sets later. The food preparation manager happily took the three sets of tools back to the kitchen to use.

Zhou Dajiang walked out of the restaurant with ten taels of silver in his pocket, his face beaming with joy. He boasted to his daughter, "How was it? Wasn't your dad pretty good just now? Just two hundred wen, and it's a bundled sale. I'm so impressed by my brain."

Zhou Sisi: "Yes, Dad is the best. He came up with such a good idea. But, Dad, when can you buy some breakfast for me, your daughter? I'm almost starving!" After she said that, her stomach also started to growl.

Zhou Dajiang had forgotten everything when he was busy. The two of them hadn't eaten since they left home this morning. When the child reminded him, his stomach started to growl.

Seeing a wonton shop in front, the two of them found a table nearby and sat down and ordered two bowls of meat wontons.

Zhou Sisi was really hungry. The little girl ate up the whole bowl of wontons, leaving only a little bit of soup. Zhou Dajiang was even more hungry. One bowl was not enough for him, so he simply ordered another one.

At this time, two people came into the wonton shop. They were an old man with a child. The child looked to be about three years old. He had a small bun on his head and his clothes were also black. The only white thing was his face.

The old man was not tall, dark and thin, with a small mustache under his nose. He didn't say anything, but pushed the child and asked him to come forward.

The child seemed very afraid of him. He trudged to the counter on his short legs and asked the shopkeeper in a baby voice for two bowls of wontons. Then, like a little adult, he told the shopkeeper to just give him a small bowl and give Grandpa a large bowl with meat. Then he turned back to look at the old man, and when he nodded, he went back to sit.

Zhou Sisi was full and watched the whole thing. She then whispered to her father, "Dad, look at that old man with that mustache. Doesn't he look like someone from an anti-Japanese war movie?"

Zhou Dajiang took a look and thought it really looked like him, especially the mustache. The old man felt someone was looking at him and immediately looked up. He was caught peeking at someone, so Zhou Dajiang felt embarrassed and quickly paid the bill and led his daughter out of the wonton shop.

Zhou Sisi was dragged out, still a little unhappy, "Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't rested enough!"

In fact, she wanted to observe them for a while longer because she felt that there was something wrong between the two people, but she couldn't tell what was wrong. Just as she was about to observe them further, she was dragged away by her father.

Zhou Dajiang didn't want to cause trouble, so he coaxed his daughter and said, "Don't you want to buy paper and pens? Let's go to the bookstore and pick some."