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Chapter 433 Ancient Business Manual 8

Indeed, Chu Yuan’s idea was a good one. Seeing that his daughter had planned everything and even picked out a stall for selling, Chu’s father didn’t say anything else but just one word: do it!

So the whole family started to go out, some went up the mountain to cut bamboo, some went to order milk, and even Hudan and Erniu were arranged to help with the work at home.

If he wanted to sell in large quantities, the raw materials Chu Yuan had prepared would not be enough.

Chu's father sponsored her with three hundred coins and asked Chu Yuan to go to the town to buy some tea and brown sugar. He also asked around the academy to see if there were any students willing to take on the job of writing poems on bamboo cups.

As for cassava and red beans, Chu's mother purchases them in the village. This saves the middleman from making a profit from the price difference and reduces some costs.

After the family had been preparing intensively for a week, Father Chu finally arrived in town pushing a wooden cart used to sell game. On the cart were three wooden barrels filled with milk tea, a basket of bamboo cups, a small jar of brown sugar pearls, and candied red beans.

The sky was already bright and it was exactly the time of Si.

At this time, the alley entrance selected by Chu Yuan was still empty. After they pushed the car over, they began to set up their stall.

In fact, it was called a stall, but it was actually just a wooden cart and a wooden table that Chu's father had made over the past few days.

Chu Yuan used the remaining wood scraps to make a sign with the words "Bamboo Tube Milk Tea" inscribed on it. Next to it were cartoon images of two types of milk tea, one was brown sugar pearl milk tea, and the other was candied red bean milk tea.

Their prices are marked on the back. Brown sugar pearl milk tea has the highest price of 6 cents per cup due to the complicated production process of raw materials.

Candied red bean milk tea is sold at 5 cents a cup because a large amount of white sugar is used in the production process, which is very expensive.

Original milk tea does not contain any additives, so the price is cheaper than the previous two, 3 cents per cup.

After everything was ready, Chu Yuan placed the bamboo cups with poems written on them in rows on the table.

The above poems are all poems describing spring scenery that Chu Yuan found in "Three Hundred Tang Poems", such as "I slept through spring and did not know the dawn, and heard birds singing everywhere" which is well-known in later generations.

Of course, not every poem on the cup is unique. Chu Yuan selected a total of five ancient poems and wrote them on the walls of different cups.

This is also one of her clever ideas. If someone buys the first sentence, they might buy another cup because they are curious about the content of the next sentence, which can also increase the sales of milk tea.

Now everything is ready, just waiting for the Yunxuan Academy to adjourn.

While waiting, Mother Chu couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.

The family has invested a lot of money in this business. If it fails, it would be a waste of money.

Chu Yuan saw her anxiety and comforted her: "Mom, don't worry, this milk tea tastes so good, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it."

Chu's father on the side had a calm expression, but his trembling toes betrayed his inner unrest.

Chu Yuan knew that words were not enough, so he simply stopped wasting time and instead began to instruct on the sales process.

Chu's mother was responsible for filling the bamboo tube to eight-tenths full with milk tea and placing it on the table. Chu Yuan would then add in some condiments and insert a straw made of a reed before handing the finished product to the customer.

Chu's father was specifically responsible for collecting money. He often came to the town to sell prey and was more experienced in counting money, so he was the only one who could do this job.

After giving the instructions, she sat quietly by the side waiting for customers to come.

Why is Chu Yuan not worried about her business going bad? There are two reasons. First, she is confident in the taste of milk tea. After all, the drink that is popular among people in the future is not a lie.

The second thing, of course, was that she had already found an insider in the academy, commonly known as a "stooge".

It is still difficult for a new thing to enter the public eye, and the best entry point for milk tea to capture the student market is, of course, through the people who have the closest contact with them, that is, their classmates.

The two 'stooges' that Chu Yuan found were none other than the two students who copied poems on the bamboo tube milk tea.

One of them is called Zhang Jianian, who has lived in Baisha Town since childhood. Although his family conditions are ordinary, he is warm and cheerful, and has a good relationship with most of the students in the academy. He can be said to be an ancient version of the "community bull".

The other one is called Guan Yuxuan. Unlike Zhang Jianian, he is not good at socializing.

But unfortunately, due to his outstanding performance in the academy, he attracted the attention of many students.

So Chu Yuan agreed with the two of them that on the day of selling milk tea, they would come in person to buy the milk tea and promote it among the students of Yunxuan Academy.

With the influence of these two people in the college, they will definitely bring her a lot of business. After that, through word of mouth among the students, I believe the milk tea brand will be well-known soon.

Of course, Chu Yuan also paid these two students for hiring them, although they refused in unison and only asked for a cup of milk tea to taste.

But Chu Yuan still gave them ten cents each, half as a reward and half as funds to buy milk tea on the opening day. After they finished copying the poems, he gave each of them a cup of freshly brewed milk tea to taste.

Soon, it was time to adjourn the school day at Yunxuan Academy. As the best academy among the nearby towns, there were many people coming here to study.

Not long after, Chu Yuan saw a familiar figure in the crowd, it was Zhang Jianian.

All I could hear was him shouting in the crowd with that loud voice: "Hey? When did a new stall open over there? Let's go over and see what they're selling."

Soon someone echoed, "Yes, there was nothing there before. I think I saw the word 'tea' written on the sign. Could it be a tea stand? Let's go over and take a look."

Then a group of people walked towards the stall where Chu Yuan was.

"Milk tea? Boss, what is this milk tea?" Zhang Jianian asked pretending to be puzzled.

Chu Yuan also pretended not to know him: "Milk tea is a drink made by mixing milk and tea leaves. The tea aroma is refreshing and the milk aroma is rich. The combination of the two forms a unique flavor. When supplemented with special ingredients, the taste is very different from ordinary tea."

As soon as these words were spoken, several students gathered in front of the stall began to discuss.

"Does this milk taste good when paired with tea?"

Some even gave it a bad review without even trying it: "It's totally neither fish nor fowl."