Chapter 14 Buy a Grapefruit
Ding Dong!
Chen Xin was playing with his mobile phone when a follow-up reminder suddenly popped up on the short video app.
"Then the magician posted another video?"
Chen Xin quickly clicked on the video, and when he saw the same content as before, he couldn't help but show disappointment on his face. This was just relying on old things, except that the cactus had changed into an orange.
However, after watching the rest, Chen Xin's expression changed from disappointment to shock, and finally to goose bumps.
"How did he do it? How on earth did he do it? Is there really such a thing as a strange moving technique in this world?"
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No worries media.
"Boss, Qimen kid posted another video."
"It's unwise to release a second video so soon. The popularity of his first video hasn't yet been digested. If the content of the video is not as exciting as the first one, it will affect his fan acquisition."
One minute later.
"Fuck, no wonder he dared to post the video. Sign, you must sign Qimen boy."
This situation is happening in many media organizations at the moment.
"I'm numb again. How did he do it?"
"This is an ordinary orange. The grapefruit peel and grapefruit flesh cannot be faked."
"You can fake grapefruit flesh and grapefruit peel, but I don't believe you can fake grapefruit juice."
"You bunch of idiots, you want to study grapefruit, didn't you see the link about grapefruit? Just buy one and go home and try it yourself and you'll know."
"There really is grapefruit for sale , and it's agricultural product promotion... I've placed an order."
Chen Xin looked at these comments. Although she knew it had nothing to do with grapefruit, she subconsciously clicked on the link and placed an order. After all, it was to help agricultural products, so she might as well consider it as supporting the farmers.
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Zuoxian Town!
"Cheng Zhen, you really have to agree to their terms. There is no profit in this condition. Why should these people make all the money?"
"Now more than half of the farmers in the town grow pomelos, but these pomelos cannot be sold."
Cheng Xiao smiled bitterly. She came to the town this year. Last year, the person in charge of the town started a pomelo plantation, and then used e-commerce to help sell agricultural products. The people who planted pomelo all made money.
The person in charge was transferred this year, and other people saw that growing grapefruit was profitable, so they also started to grow grapefruit. This year, the town's grapefruit production has increased almost thirty times compared to last year. The output has increased, but the market has disappeared.
Sales were good last year because there were not many grapefruits and the governments gave support. But this year is different. All regions are providing agricultural support and the governments have reduced their support, while online platforms don’t pay much attention to them at all.
She contacted those e-commerce platforms, and they responded that there were a lot of agricultural products every year that they couldn't promote, so they could only put them in the list of agricultural assistance projects.
But as the platform said, with so many agricultural products from across the country listed, it is a question whether netizens can see them, let alone place an order to buy them.
The internet celebrity who was in charge of promoting the products this time was contacted by her through an acquaintance. What she didn't expect was that the internet celebrity would drive the price so low that ordinary people would make almost no profit. They could only break even after working hard for a year. But breaking even is better than not being able to sell the grapefruits and ending up with a loss.
"They want such a high commission, and when they sell in the live broadcast room, they also use the name of helping farmers to get fans to buy. Isn't he afraid that we will expose him?"
Hearing her subordinates' indignant words, Cheng Xiao sighed. They were just skirting the rules in the live broadcast room, taking advantage of netizens' sympathy for farmers to sell goods. As long as they didn't mention how much money they made, there would be no problem.
As for exposing it, it's not that Cheng Xiao has never thought about doing so, but others have also hinted that these internet celebrities who promote products belong to a circle, and as long as she exposes it, other internet celebrities will not come to help promote products in the future.
To put it bluntly, these internet celebrities are all the same, but people cannot just pull out the pomelo trees. Pomelo still needs to be planted. After not making any money this year, the output will be reduced next year, making it easier to sell.
"Cheng Zhen, can we sign the contract? After we sign it, we will contact Shaojie and ask him to come over to help the farmers sell grapefruit."
Cheng Xiao looked at the man who walked in and gave a look to her subordinates. See? They were on guard and did not come to sign the contract in person. Instead, they found a third-party company to sign the agreement. If something really went wrong, they would push everything onto the third-party company responsible for product selection, then apologize and give some compensation, and the matter would be over.
"Can."
Cheng Xiao signed her name on the contract. When the man saw Cheng Xiao's signature, he was very happy.
Agricultural products are not easy to sell, but agricultural products sold under the banner of helping farmers are easy to sell.
Especially for those who have a lot of fans like Shaojie, they can sell at a high price and get praise from fans. As for the fact that the price is higher than what they charge from farmers, isn’t this normal?
Manual packaging and shipping costs also cost money.
"Secretary Cheng, rest assured. With Shaojie's ability, he will definitely be able to sell these grapefruits to the farmers."
The man took the pen and was about to sign the contract, but at this moment, a person suddenly rushed in from outside the door.
“I can’t sign it!”
Cheng Xiao was a little confused when she saw her colleague Li Ming suddenly rushing in. The man who was just about to sign with a pen was so frightened by Li Ming's roar that he trembled and dropped the pen in his hand.
“Cheng Zhen, what’s wrong with your subordinate? You should know that many merchants are scrambling to find Shaojie to bring goods. This time, it is because of Mr. Li’s face that we came to the town .”
The Mr. Li mentioned by the man is a friend of Cheng Xiao, and Cheng Xiao also contacted the other party through him.
"Whoever wants to ask you to bring goods can go to you. We don't need you to sell our grapefruits." Li Ming retorted directly, not giving the man any face at all.
"Cheng Zhen, is this what you mean?"
The man looked at Cheng Xiao with a forced smile. Cheng Xiao did not answer but looked at Li Ming. Li Ming knew the situation of grapefruit cultivation in the town and would not say this without a reason. She waited for Li Ming to give her a reasonable explanation.
"Chengzhen, we have no problem selling the grapefruit in our town. Netizens have already placed more than 100,000 orders for the grapefruit we posted on the short video e-commerce platform."
Li Ming was very excited and almost shouted these words. Cheng Xiao's pretty face showed disbelief. How could this be possible?
She posted the link online, but she was actually just thinking that something was better than nothing and didn't expect to sell much. She had posted it for more than ten days and hadn't sold even a hundred orders.
"Who are you trying to fool by selling hundreds of thousands of orders? The commission for the products you listed online is only 5%. Which internet celebrity would post links?"
"That's because you don't want to. There are always people who are willing to do so, and they are just better than you."
Li Ming retorted, then took out his phone and clicked on a video: "Cheng Zhen, look at this video, the link is ours, it has sold 130,000 copies."
Cheng Xiao took the phone and clicked on the product link. Looking at the sales volume displayed, she felt her breathing quicken. The next moment, she walked to the computer next to her and opened the website's sales background. When she saw the 134,663 orders displayed on the background , she really believed it.
"I'm sorry, I think we may not need to cooperate anymore. If you need reimbursement for your tickets, you can print out the invoice for us and we will reimburse you within 30 days." Cheng Xiao looked at the man, and after saying this, she felt much more relaxed.
If it weren't for the people in the town, with her temper, she would have told that guy to get out long ago.
The man sensed the sarcasm in Cheng Xiao's words, snorted coldly and said, "Let's wait and see."
Seeing the man leave with a gloomy face, Cheng Xiao's subordinates pouted at the door and said, "Why do I feel so happy when I see his gloomy face? He dares to threaten us, Cheng Zhen, why don't I find someone to do something for him."
"Don't do anything reckless." Cheng Xiao stopped them. Having worked at the grassroots level for a year, she knew some of the working styles there. With some tricks, she could send these guys to stay in there for a few days.
Cheng Xiao looked at Li Ming and asked in confusion: "Li Ming, what's going on? Why would this person hang our products?"
"I'm not sure about this, maybe he chose ours because he happened to use grapefruit as a prop in his magic show."
“How is it possible that they can use our link when using Youzi and still sell so well?” Cheng Xiao’s subordinates felt a little unbelievable.
"Cheng Zhen, you will know after watching the video carefully."
Cheng Xiao was only focused on the sales volume and did not watch the video carefully. Now after watching it, her pretty face has a wonderful expression. She doesn't know why the magician chose their products to link, but she understands why netizens placed orders.
I was shocked by the magician's magical tricks and thought of buying a grapefruit to try it myself.
"Cheng Zhen, this magician has really helped us a lot. This way, we can sell a lot of the grapefruits grown by the common people, and the rest will be easier to sell when they are distributed to various counties."
"It's to express gratitude."
Cheng Xiao knew that even if she sent a private message to the other party, the other party might not read it. However, she decided to give it a try and left a message explaining the situation and expressing her gratitude.
"Now that we have a market, I will report to the higher authorities and try to get some support. It is not an easy task to handle so many express deliveries. Netizens trust us, so we must pick the good grapefruits and tell the fruit farmers not to accept the rotten or unripe ones. Once we find any, we will cancel the purchase quota immediately."
Farmers are very simple, but because of this their horizons are often limited. Some fruit farmers only care about their own interests and have no sense of the overall situation. In order to make more money and reduce losses, they will pack and mail out some unripe or rotten grapefruits.
On the other side, it took more than an hour to melt out another 20 kilograms of silver ingots, which were placed in a sack together with the previous 30 kilograms of silver ingots and carried to the other world.
He wanted to let Taoist Ding Xuan know the power of money.
