Chapter 738: Made a lot of money, 1
Tao Meijiao pondered in her heart: Manager Duan doesn’t know that Qingyue is a famous ‘Unnamed’ divine doctor who, after healing a few more people, would be worth more than his entire Rich Source Tavern.
“Ahem!” Su Qingyue cleared her throat lightly, “I am human, not a deity receiving worship, so there’s no need to treat me as a god.”
“Haha…” Everyone laughed after listening.
Su Qingyue went into the yard, away from the greasy kitchen, “Alright, you’ve tried my dishes now. The eight dishes I made would be less delicious without the dried fern. And for dried fern… Till next year when the fresh fern grows on the mountain, I’m the only one who has it.”
“How much do you have?” Manager Duan asked directly, “No matter how much, I’ll buy it all!”
“Oh, Manager Duan, you are really generous. You want to buy it all, why don’t you ask me? I already planned to buy all the fern from Xiao Yue.” Tao Meijiao retorted.
“If she wanted to sell it directly to you, she wouldn’t have asked me and Boss Jin to come.” Manager Duan had sharp eyes.
Su Qingyue went straight to the point, “I have a total of 10,000 jin of dried ferns, starting at 40 cents per jin. If you want them, just bid, and the highest bidder wins.”
“What! 40 cents a jin? You might as well rob me!” Manager Duan was enraged after hearing this.
Su Qingyue said, “Manager Duan, whether you buy my stir-fried fern recipe or pig offal recipe, haven’t you always said I’m robbing you? Have you been at a loss? You’ve even made a good profit, or how could you have afforded Boss Duan’s presence?”
“…” Manager Duan’s face darkened, “I heard that you bought the fresh fern for only half a cent per jin, but now you want to sell it for 40 cents a jin, that’s 80 times the price, that’s too much!”
“It’s not excessive.” She replied indifferently, “Can you calculate the cost of half a cent per jin? After I bought it, I needed to produce the dried fern recipe, hire workers to process and dry it, and moreover, it takes 5 jin of fresh fern to make 1 jin of dried fern, doesn’t all this cost money? Besides, although fern will grow again next year, starting from now, the whole market will be exclusive for an entire year. There are more than a dozen dishes that require dried fern as an ingredient during this time. Of course, I just made eight dishes, and there are a few more specialties I haven’t revealed. These exclusive dishes cannot be made without dried fern, and selling these expensive dishes with dried fern, in the exclusive market, will attract customers like clouds to your restaurants. In order to prevent the three of you from working together to get the lowest price and dividing my purchased fern among yourselves, if all three of you buy, the price triples. If one person buys 10,000 jin alone, it’ll start at 40 cents a jin for competitive bidding.”
“Dried ferns can be soaked and will multiply.” Boss Duan frowned, “With 10,000 jin, even if the business is good, I’m afraid it won’t sell out.”
“10,000 jin divided by a year is just about 27 or 28 jin per day, Duan Boss’ Rich Source Tavern is a bit small for that.” Su Qingyue glanced at Tao Meijiao and Jin Xun, “The Tao family has two large restaurants and an inn in the town, while Boss Jin’s Drunken Immortal Pavilion has branches all over the country. In this calculation, if the business of the Tao family’s restaurants is good, they can sell all their fern themselves, and for Boss Jin, even with 10,000 jin of dried fern, it far from enough for his restaurants.”
Boss Duan’s face looked bad after hearing this, “My tavern may be small, but it’s still bigger than your family’s.”
“Fine, I won’t compare family estates with you.” Su Qingyue replied indifferently, “So, what do you think? Have I made it clear enough? Have you decided to buy or not? Be clear, if you buy it and you can’t sell it in your own restaurants, you can still sell it exclusively to other restaurants and inns. As for exclusive dishes, as long as you’re willing to sell them, I believe many people would be happy to buy them at a high price.”