Chapter 332: Chapter 332

Seeing him confused and clearly not understanding, Yang Hongye patiently explained: "You also need a plan for incense making. The main selling point is that the raw materials are rare and valuable, with good medicinal effects. You must strictly control the quantity.

If there’s too much, people might suspect it’s machine-made rather than handcrafted;

If there’s too little, hunger marketing might ’starve’ the customers, and they’d simply stop buying from you.

What’s more, you should have a clear idea of how much raw material you can get and how much production you can achieve in a month. You can’t keep muddling through , making a bunch when there’s material, and doing nothing when there’s none.

Since this is a long-term business, we can’t keep randomly stocking and selling . We need to set regular and fixed quantities, or else anxious customers will start complaining, affecting our reputation.

Quickly estimate your monthly production and report the numbers to me so I can adjust the sales strategy;

Also, the photos you took with your phone are still not good enough. Find a professional studio, spend a little money, and make those expensive fragrances like musk, agarwood, and Dragon’s Saliva Fragrance appear as luxurious as possible. Many people can’t smell the difference but trust the pictures.

Besides, psychological effects greatly influence the medicinal effectiveness of incense sticks. Some people, when given a little psychological hint, feel the medicinal effect is great, while a bit of doubt makes them think it’s useless. We must eliminate these potential factors that could affect sales!"

She rattled off a bunch of ideas, and Jiang Yuan indeed found them reasonable.

However, he still wanted to hurry home to communicate with his parents about planning a vacation, so he thought for a moment and nodded: "I’ll first inventory this month’s incense sticks for you, and you decide how to sell them;

The photographing of fragrance materials, I’ll ask Chuci to find someone to take the pictures and make promotional materials. I’ve been a bit tired these past few days, and I can’t wait to leave the concrete jungle to relax by the sea."

"You’re going on a vacation?" Yang Hongye looked envious, "Thanks to you, I’ll work hard to sell more goods and earn money this year, hoping I can go around and explore next year too."

Upon hearing he planned to take his parents to the seaside, she envied him even more, chuckling self-deprecatingly: "I gave up on that thought ages ago. Forget taking my parents on vacation to enjoy life; back in my sophomore year, I earned some money tutoring and impulsively bought my mom a new phone and my dad a brand-name belt.

Ha! My mom scolded me for wasting money, saying it was better spent on household expenses, then gave the new phone to my brother and kept his old one herself; my dad just showed a sour face, saying the belt I bought was too cheap, chided me that other filial daughters buy their parents gold necklaces and gold rings, which made them proud.

I bought nonsense! Since then, no matter how much I earn, I cry poor and buy nothing! Because of this, they’re regretting it to death, always talking in the village about not letting girls study, saying studying makes them unfilial and they leave, neglecting the family..."

"You better be careful when you save up to buy a house in the future." Jiang Yuan recalled the news about such disputes, sighing: "Your family, knowing you have a house, might really come to seize it, making trouble, demanding you use it for your brother’s wedding."

Yang Hongye showed a sly smile, "Don’t worry. I haven’t gone back to my hometown for New Year in the past two years, so they can’t find me. You must ensure the quality of the incense sticks. As long as your business thrives, I can benefit too. In no more than two years, I’ll be wealthy and leisurely like you, enjoying vacations without any worry!"

With things arranged for Chuci, Jiang Yuan finished breakfast and drove straight to the county town.

"You little child, coming back home without prior notice, what do you want for lunch?" As soon as he entered through the gate of the new house, Song Yuexiu, holding a shovel and tending the vegetable garden in the yard, looked up and saw her son, smilingly greeted him: "Let your dad go to the supermarket to buy some ribs, and we can stew some meat for lunch!"

His heart stirred complex emotions, and Jiang Yuan smiled in response. Thinking back to his good food and good life in Wilderness World for three months, he was already used to it.

In reality, he’s had money in his pocket for only about a month, barely improving his parents’ lives for half a month, and they haven’t yet shaken off the poverty of most of their lives, subconsciously thinking stewing ribs is a particularly good meal.

It seems he still needs to spare more time to visit home, letting mom and dad adapt to a wealthy life sooner—that’s the meaning of working hard to earn money!

"Yuan, look what kind of sapling is growing here?" Song Yuexiu pointed with the shovel at a cluster of new green in the corner, "Looks like some kind of flower tree, your dad insists it’s an apricot tree. You should use your phone to search, if it’s an apricot tree, we’ll cut it down and plant a peach or apple tree instead. Your dad gets an upset stomach from eating apricots, so we shouldn’t grow this at home."

He walked over to take a look, indeed a sapling about thirty centimeters tall stood there, with sturdy branches and shiny leaves full of vitality.

"The leaves look like cherry blossoms..." Jiang Yuan just took out his phone to snap a picture for identification, suddenly remembering, wasn’t this the spot where he tossed a Wilderness big cherry last time he came back?

Yes, after buying a house last time, he casually tossed a cherry to see if the Wilderness variety could grow in the real world.

Unexpectedly, after only half a month of no looking, not only did it germinate smoothly, but it also grew this big!

"Keep it. This is a cherry tree. Let’s see if the cherries it bears when it grows up taste good." Jiang Yuan specially instructed not to cut it down, then took the shovel, made a watering pit for it, and sprinkled some fertilizer.

Seeing this, Song Yuexiu grabbed a hose to water the cherry sapling, planning to find some bricks another day to build a flower bed for it.

The housekeeper hired by the family is a local, works efficiently, honestly, and hasn’t caused any trouble, but the only problem is that domestic service in the county can’t compare to the professionalism in the city, and the cooking is just home-style flavors.

Comparing it to the stove-cooked meals in Wilderness World, the taste difference is noticeable. However, finished meals can’t be brought out, so he pondered whether he could take out more things once the system upgrades the storage bag.

During lunch, Jiang Yuan took the opportunity to talk about his plan to take them to the seaside for a vacation.

In the past, the frugal Jiang JianShe would surely refuse, but this time he pondered silently for a moment before nodding: "You working hard to make money now isn’t easy, buying us a house while living and working in the city yourself, we should help you save some money for a future marriage.

However, your mom hasn’t been out for most of her life, and my driver’s license won’t be ready anytime soon. Now while it’s neither cold nor hot, going to the seaside for a short trip is fine, our family can also take a look at the sea.

Just make sure, don’t spend too much money on fancy things, we’ll just take a train, find a cheap inn to stay, walk around different places, and try some seafood."

"Oh my, our Yuan is really promising, can even take mom and dad for a trip now." Song Yuexiu has only seen the sea on TV, previously the family conditions were decent all thanks to the couple’s thriftiness, since they slipped back into poverty after treating the granddad, she hadn’t learned how to operate the smart phone their son just bought.

Now suddenly facing traveling out like city people, she’s both happy and confused, never been far from home, what should be prepared? What if people can’t understand her dialect when outside?

Facing different kinds of transportation, she’s only watched metros and high-speed trains on TV, has no clue on how to buy tickets or swipe cards, feeling a bit nervous.

"You don’t have to worry about anything, just bring a few sets of clothes to change, I’ll take care of the rest." At this moment, the meaning of earning money became tangible, Jiang Yuan felt proud of himself.

Thinking about the upcoming first-class flights, RV transfers, staying at five-star hotels, letting his parents experience high-end vacation bliss, he couldn’t help but feel elated.

Actually, since he earned money, in this real world, all the luxuries Jiang Yuan has seen are mostly thanks to Chuci, he hasn’t enjoyed private tour vacation services himself.

This time he plans to relax and enjoy a good life, then he’ll have enough energy for business when he returns refreshed to Wilderness World!