Chapter 10 Sweeping the city
As the first outsider to react, the pet store owner soon saw a sales boom as he imagined. What he regretted was that the craze escalated into a storm that swept through the city almost instantly.
A few days later, the small partners in the mining area divided into several roads and sold echo worms in various urban areas of Pendulum City. The locations have been carefully selected by Lei Luo, there are large markets lined with shops, there are also central gardens frequented by couples, and even the entrance of Dongshang Academy has become a peddling place.
"Sell echo worms! Only sell merchants, and help you design advertisements for free! Pack novelty package return rate, don't want money if you are not satisfied!" Big Tooth shouted desperately at the entrance of the bustling bazaar, without stage fright.
Many people were aroused by the gossip psychology and surrounded them one after another. A tall butcher touched his bald head, as if he didn't understand, and asked, "Little one, what are you selling?"
Big Tooth was silent, and gently kicked the small cage made of wheat straw at his feet. The echo worm, which looks like a summer cicada, immediately flapped its wings and made a sound, simulating what he just said like a repeater: "Sell echo worms! Only sell merchants, and help you design advertising ...... for free."
"Oh, it's an echo worm!" the bald butcher spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm and said strangely, "Shouldn't you be crazy about money? This thing can also be sold for money? You're teaching me how to change the words 'fresh meat' to make it more interesting?"
Amidst the laughter, Big Tooth beckoned to his companion who was standing not far away. The latter carried the female worm with him, and the male worm here sensed the breath and stopped screaming.
"Our customers aren't your kind of people. Big Tooth copied what Lei Luo had taught, ignoring the bald head.
"How much does a worm cost?" someone wondered.
"One golden dragon. Big Tooth replied.
With a bang, the crowd exploded, and the gaze cast at Big Tooth seemed to be looking at a madman.
A golden dragon!
A standard laborer in the prime of life earns a maximum of eighty or ninety silver bills a year, which is less than a golden dragon. Dare to sell a small echo worm at such a sky-high price, isn't it crazy?
"If anyone can catch the Echoworm and sell it to us today, our purchase price will be fifty silver bills. "Although Big Tooth doesn't even have a child in his pocket, the giant merchant is full of momentum.
As soon as this remark came out, the onlookers were in an uproar.
Someone with good deeds began to shout: "Take the money out and have a look!" There are also those who think they are smart, and when they see that Big Tooth is dressed shabby and young, they think it is just a prank, and they sneer and turn away. Only a very small number of merchants realized something and whispered to their friends.
Until the afternoon, no one really caught the echo worm and sold it to Big Fang. At the same time, news of the origin of an unknown road spread through the market like wings.
- "There is no trace of the echo worm in the abandoned mining area!"
What kind of guy would turn his brain into these little bugs? Are they selling echo bugs, or are they so-called advertising slogans? Are they trying to cheat money these days?
The same question mark is in the minds of all merchants. Although there has been no business in the stall set by Big Tooth, no one has come to ridicule it anymore, and many eyes are quietly focusing on this place, waiting for the next change in the situation.
I don't know how long it took, but Big Tooth was so bored that he went to pick his nostrils after picking his feet, and suddenly saw a silver-haired old man with a shiny cane and a decent dress come to the stall and asked, "Young man, what kinds of advertising words can you design?"
"That depends on what you do. Small businesses such as selling meat, selling vegetables, repairing shoes, and mending pots, I advise you to go!"
The old man nodded, a look of understanding on his ravine-covered face. "A golden dragon is indeed not a small amount, even if small businesses can get it, it may not be necessary. I guess you guys should be here to really sell your brains, right? Well, since you can make the echo worms in your hands become the last batch, it must have taken a little thought. I would venture to ask, which of you has the final say?"
Big Tooth almost blurted out Lei Luo's name, but finally stopped the car in time, and said impatiently: "Our boss, what's wrong?"
"Yes, I would love to believe in you and your ...... The guy behind the scenes, with a brilliant idea, can you let me see something shiny and heartwarming before paying for an echo bug?"
As he spoke, the old man took out his bulging wallet and shook it, and there was an immediate "rustling" sound from inside.
"You mean you're going to test us first?"
The stunned big tooth didn't know if Dao Lei Luo could really come up with any bullshit ideas, but he was sure and sure that the old man's wallet must be full of shiny and exciting things.
The old man nodded slowly, as if he was satisfied with Big Tooth's greedy eyes, and smiled: "Your behind-the-scenes partner shouldn't be as young as you, you just need to relay my question to him." As we all know, the Fengyue Secret Elixir for men was listed as a contraband by the Empire as early as a few years ago because of the great harm it would cause to the body, and any merchant who dared to sell it had already paid the most expensive price. My question is, if you go back to 10 years ago, what kind of advertising slogan should a secret medicine company use to attract the attention of potential customers and make them tempted?"
"You wait!" Big Tooth told his friends to come and see the stall, and ran away by himself.
Half an hour later, the panting big teeth rushed back again, and the clothes were soaked with sweat. The old man stood patiently in place, waiting until he had recovered before making a gesture of deafness.
"Let men save trouble, let women be unconscious!" Big Tooth recited the answer he had just asked from Lei Luo in a thick voice.
The smile froze on the old man's face, and the crowd that quietly gathered around him was also dead silent.
So simple and crude, yet straight to the heart!
The old man asked many senior business people the same question, and the most brilliant of them came up with nothing more than dry slogans such as "so powerful" and "a coward becomes an iron man overnight". The advertisement that Lei Luo gave at his request was only twelve words, but it was like a wild beast, colliding the rules and regulations of the old man and all the onlookers.
It turns out that advertising can still do this!
With backward technology and weak logistics capabilities, and a total population of less than one-tenth of the Earth's, the world's trade is barely sustained by a few fixed shipping routes and steam freighters—this is the current situation of the planet Yufei. People have not experienced global business competition, and they can't imagine what real media bombardment and advertising marketing are, and in this regard, their vision is like that of a villager who has never stepped out of the mountains, how can he be compared with Lei Luo, who has been poisoned by all kinds of advertising creativity since he was a child?
The old man naturally couldn't imagine that even if Daya's "behind-the-scenes partner" casually thought of a familiar advertisement, it also represented the crystallization of the wisdom of the modern team. After a long time, he straightened his waist again, narrowed his old eyes, and really touched an imperial golden dragon and stuffed it into the palm of Big Tooth. "Young man, you deserve it. ”
Big Tooth's first reaction was to stuff the golden dragon into his mouth and bite it hard, so excited that he almost burst into tears.
What a fucking money!
It's not a soft gold coupon, but a real hard currency, a hot golden dragon in your hand! If this golden gadget is exchanged for food, it will be enough for your family to eat for a whole year!
Big Tooth was almost fainting, and all his previous doubts were swept away, and he couldn't wait to run back to the academy immediately, hugging Lei Luo's thigh and crying.
Finally came back to his senses, Big Tooth found that the old man had gone away, and shouted in a daze: "Hey, don't go! Didn't you say that this is free? What other ads do you want, come back and tell me, I'll ask our boss again! Hey, come back, your echo worm hasn't been taken yet!"
The old man smiled back, waved his hand, and walked away slowly. Some merchants have long recognized him as Benjamin, the president of the Pendulum City Chamber of Commerce, and for a while, the boulder stirred up a thousand waves, and the entire bazaar was completely sensational.
The second customer quickly stood in front of Big Tooth, a jewelry merchant who specializes in all kinds of diamonds.
Big Tooth unceremoniously let another friend be in charge of running errands, and kept the stall in order with his chest and belly. The little friend took the echo worm to Lei Luo's place, and when he returned, he directly stuffed the wheat straw cage containing the worm into the jewelry merchant's hand, hooked his hand and instructed him to pay.
The jeweler stared at a pair of goldfish eyes, hesitated for a long time, and flicked lightly on the wheat straw cage, making careful movements.
"Diamonds are eternal, and one will last forever. ”
The Echo Worm vibrated its wings, simulating Relo's voice as if it were the original.
The jewelry merchant was demented for a long time, muttering these ten words in his mouth, and suddenly laughed wildly, found out that the golden dragon paid the bill, and went to the chamber of commerce with the echo worm like a treasure, wanting to register this advertising slogan as a patent as soon as possible. There are so many circumstantial evidence at the scene, and the possibility of being preemptively registered is naturally zero, but the jewelry merchant still couldn't help but panic and trotted all the way away.
The third customer owns a high-end ready-to-wear store specializing in women's clothing, which is quite famous in Pendulum City. After learning that he had Blue Rose as the name of his shop, Lei Luo copied the same short sentence.
"Blue Rose, understands women better than women!"
If the crowd was sensational before, then at this moment they have fallen into complete madness.