Chapter 21: The Big Scene
Li Chengshou not only helped Zhang Tao do what he could, but also bought a few chickens and raised a nest of earthworms in the damp place in the corner.
During this period, Aunt Li came and went a few times, just in time for Li Chengshou to dig humus, dig earthworms, cover weeds and the like, watching the dense earthworms crawling around in that field, Aunt Li almost didn't vomit.
She was so frightened that she went back to rest for several days before she recovered, and she never dared to come again.
No one came out to peep from time to time, Zhang Tao felt so happy, and the speed of making rouge was much faster. In addition to rouge, she also made some lipstick, although the women here use one kind of rouge and lipstick, but Zhang Tao believes that as long as she makes it and uses it separately, someone will definitely buy it, and maybe it can lead the fashion of Xunyang City.
It took seven or eight days for Zhang Tao to make twenty boxes of rouge and ten boxes of lipstick, and also made the cloth head that he bought clothes before into a beautiful head flower and hairpin. I really didn't expect my original interest to come in handy here, I knew it was so, I should have learned more handicrafts in the first place.
It's too late to regret it now, but fortunately, there will be more time in the future, and it's too late to learn and do it yourself.
Look down at your small body, you have to make good money and eat something good, otherwise when will you grow up.
In other words, Zhang Tao has deep doubts in his heart, Li Chengshou still thinks he is a boy, this misunderstanding is getting longer and longer, and Zhang Tao doesn't know how to explain it now if he wants to explain it clearly.
Forget it, let's solve the problem of food and clothing first, and make money first.
There are many temples in Xunyang City, and each temple will have one or two temple fairs every month, and there will be countless small vendors of all kinds.
The most recent temple fair is Zhenshui Temple, which, as the name suggests, is a temple dedicated to the Dragon Lord and begging for good weather.
It has not rained in Xunyang City for nearly two months, and the people are very anxious, watching the crops in the field become more and more yellow, but there is no way, so they have to kill and sacrifice, begging for the mercy of the Dragon Lord.
Even Xu Congwen, the prefect of Xunyang City, came to participate in the sacrifice, although Zhang Tao didn't believe that the sacrifice could really bring rain, but she was not as resolute as she used to deny.
It's really hard to say that the strange power is chaotic, she can cross it herself, who can guarantee that there is really no dragon lord and no immortals? Maybe at this time, the Dragon King was fine, and he happened to see the tragic situation in Xunyang City, so he came to help.
But when it comes to the roots, this matter still has little to do with her, she wants to take advantage of this temple fair to sell her rouge gouache and trinkets, she feels sorry for the crops, she feels sorry for the hard work of the people, but who feels sorry for her?
Thinking like this, Zhang Tao didn't think about whether there was a dragon lord or not, whether he could ask for rain, as long as he cared about tomorrow's temple fair, he could prosper in business.
With the experience of going to the temple fair last time, Zhang Tao and Li Chengshou finished breakfast before dawn this time, packed up their things, and went out with a basket on their backs.
The goal of the two is very consistent, this time to grab a good position no matter what.
Unfortunately, there are so many people who think the same way, and no matter how early they go out, they can't resist those who came to occupy their seats the night before.
"It seems that this temple fair is a big scene."
If it weren't for the fact that there were many people here and the profits were large, Zhang Tao didn't believe that they would come to occupy the position so long in advance.
"So what do we do?"
So many people are here to set up stalls, and the good positions are almost occupied, and Li Chengshou does not have as much confidence in their first stall as they started.
"The aroma of wine is not afraid of deep alleys, let's go back."
The good places in the middle were all occupied, Zhang Tao thought about it and walked back with his things on his back, and stopped not far from the entrance of the temple fair.
I sell rouge gouache, there is no need to squeeze in the middle with those who sell food, the taste of the food is very likely to affect the taste of the rouge itself, it is better to be in the place where you just come in, people's sense of smell is still in the sensitive moment, remember the taste of rouge, and then smell the others may not remember, when you go down the mountain, you will naturally return to your own place to buy.
Zhang Tao's plan is good, but after all, their location is just beginning, and people think that the latter will be better when they go shopping, so there are really not many people who buy it directly.
However, the ladies have a very high evaluation of Zhang Tao's rouge, especially the lipstick, and throughout the morning, Zhang Tao only sold one box of rouge and two boxes of lipstick.
Unexpectedly, the head flowers with flowers made by Zhang Tao sold very well.
The colors are bright, the styles are also novel, and the people who come to visit the temple fair don't care about the few pennies, but more than half of them were sold in the morning.
"It seems that tomorrow I will have to make nodding flowers and hairpins." Taking advantage of the hot weather at noon and not many people, Zhang Tao said while ordering the goods.
"Kid, come here."
When the two were chatting, a grandmother came over, Zhang Tao looked like a rich housekeeper's housekeeper, so she greeted her with a smile, "Grandma is calling me?" ”
"My young lady likes your rouge very much, bring me a box of each flavor, and so does the lipstick."
Oh, this is a big deal, Zhang Tao does not do much this time, but there are still a lot of types, she also wants to test the market to see what flavor everyone likes.
Zhang Tao quickly packed the rouge with different flavors, and the lipstick was also packed into a bag.
"Mama, you count, there are a total of six flavors of rouge, three flavors of lipstick, if Miss likes it, I can also customize it here, you can make the flavor and color of Rouge that Miss likes, and you can also do lipstick."
As he spoke, Zhang Tao handed the bag to Mama, and then handed a small note to Mama, "This is my address in Xunyang City, Mama can come to me at any time if she needs to." ”
The small note was also written by Zhang Tao in advance, which is actually a modern business card, with her name and address written on it, and a small flower drawn, which is her own trademark.
"You kid knows how to do business." Mama smiled and put the note into her arms.
"Our brothers are also this family heirloom, today I am in a hurry, and the goods are a little less, and I will go to my place when I turn around, and I will give you a special color, which is guaranteed to make you ten years younger."
Zhang Tao's mouth was like smeared with honey, sentence by sentence, which made Mama very happy.
"That's decided, don't wait for me to go, you won't admit it."
Although Mama Zhang said that she was a first-class grandmother, the monthly money was fixed, and the family of her son and grandson at home, where did she have extra money to buy rouge, and she heard Zhang Tao say that she would make a set for her, of course she was happy.
"How can it, then we can decide, I will wait for you at home after the temple fair, can you release my pigeon."
From the words of this grandmother, Zhang Tao knew that this was not only a grandmother who was in charge, but also a grandmother who was very embarrassed in front of her master, otherwise how could she reply to her words like this.
Whether it was before or now, Zhang Tao has never dared to underestimate the power of small people. In modern business classes, there are too many examples of tens of billions of dollars lost by an ordinary employee. A screw doesn't seem important, it's often that screw that causes your life or death.
Therefore, no matter what status the person is, Zhang Tao will treat them equally, just to broaden the possible sales channels, increase sales, and make more money.
"Half of it will be sold at once, Xiao Zhang Tao, you can really do it."
Li Chengshou didn't say a word during the whole sales process, he was only responsible for helping Zhang Tao load the goods, watching Zhang Tao sell so much by himself throughout the whole process, and also made an appointment with the mother just now for the next time, Li Chengshou felt that Zhang Tao seemed to be the material for this piece, and she should be in business.
"Zhang Tao is Zhang Tao, you are not allowed to call me Xiao Zhang Tao." The small biological age does not mean that she is also young in her heart, Zhang Tao really has no way to accept a ten-year-old boy calling herself "Little Zhang Tao." ”
"After the sacrifice is over in a while, we should be able to go back early."
According to his own experience, most of the intended customers can come back to buy rouge in the morning, and Zhang Tao is still very confident in his products.
Li Chengshou didn't squeak, he didn't know what to listen to in his heart, he felt that Zhang Tao was very talented in business, but he still didn't believe that more than 20 bottles of rouge could be sold out today.
The reality is always cruel, just after the afternoon, when the temperature turns cooler, the rouge, lipstick, head flower, and hairpin on the stall are all sold out.
Li Chengshou was completely stunned, what the hell is Zhang Tao? actually sold so fast, at noon he also deliberately visited the temple fair from beginning to end, and there were at least a dozen stalls selling rouge gouache.
And everyone who bought it, Zhang Tao, gave a small business card, which means that even if they don't come to set up a stall in the future, someone will come to them to buy rouge gouache.
Compared with Li Chengshou's joy, Zhang Tao has more troubles.
Rouge gouache is not something that can be done overnight, you need to let the materials fuse the time, this temple fair is three days, the family inventory is not much, it seems that the income of this temple fair is this.
In the next two days, the two of them made a lot of hair flowers and hairpins, and they sold well, the profit was too low Zhang Tao didn't expect to make much money from these two, but she left business cards for these customers.
I didn't use the method of distributing leaflets all over the street, because I mainly do rouge gouache business, and now I have no fame and no store, and there is a lack of trust among consumers who have not bought their products, and the probability of taking the initiative to come to the door is too low.
Instead of wasting time writing business cards and issuing business cards, it is better to make a few more boxes of rouge and make more jewelry to sell.
Although Zhang Tao was not satisfied with sales and profits, for the surrounding vendors, their business was too good in the past three days, so good that people were envious and jealous.
On the last day, after noon, there were fewer and fewer people visiting the temple fair, Zhang Tao only had a few flowers left, and she didn't have anything to do, so she packed up her things and prepared to go home.
"Little Peach, left before the goods were sold?"
Liu Shanglang, who was next to Zhang Tao's stall, saw that Zhang Tao was leaving, and asked.
"Ah, Uncle Liu, I don't see anyone anymore, go home early for dinner, I haven't eaten well here in the past few days."
"Then you have these flowers left for me?"
This is the real purpose of Liu Shanglang's talk.
"Uncle Liu wants? That's cheaper, a three-penny money, Uncle Liu has to cover it all. ”
The market price of Zhang Taotouhua is five cents a piece, Liu Shanglang is a peer, and Zhang Tao took the initiative to reduce the price.