Chapter 43 Opening a Shop

A family of three was playing at the beach. As dusk fell, they set off from the fishing village back to the city with a donkey cart and two oxcarts.

The old man and He Yuping were both sitting outside, while the little girl was fast asleep inside the carriage. The rest of the space was completely crammed in; their donkey cart was filled entirely with dried sea cucumbers and abalone.

One of the oxcarts outside was loaded with dried kelp, seaweed, dried fish, dried crab, and shellfish, while the last one was filled with all the fresh catch from that day.

The harvest was pretty good: fresh sea urchins, fish, shrimp, and crabs. They had encountered someone who had gone into deeper waters that day, otherwise they wouldn't have had so many sea urchins, shrimp, and sea cucumbers.

They picked the biggest crabs. He Caiwei didn't know what kind of shrimp they were talking about at first, but she was stunned when she saw the lobster that was almost as thick as her arm.

The villagers call this kind of thing sea shrimp. You know, the sea shrimp she ate at noon today was only as thick as two of her fingers. She thought that sea shrimp was also like that. Who knew that the uncle would bring out a bag of more than twenty lobsters as thick as her arm.

Seeing his granddaughter's surprise, the old man bought all the fresh seafood for the day. Food was the scarcest resource here, so they unanimously decided to exchange all the seafood and dried goods for grains, meat, and both coarse and fine grains.

Of course, the price of this stuff wasn't up to Old Master He. After negotiating the price with Old Master Zheng in person, they did a careful calculation. Based on the price in silver dollars, these dried goods, plus the seafood that was just salvaged today, would only cost less than two hundred silver dollars in total.

Of course, the high price is also due to the hard work of Mr. He who helped them.

Everyone knew this was the situation, so after they got on the bus, several villagers stuffed the good things they had secretly kept at home into He Caiwei's arms.

They had originally planned to have them find a few more young men to haul the grain two days later, but now it's too late. One cart can't carry all this stuff, so they had to find two oxcarts in the village to go with them.

Two days later, send a few more young men to help escort the grain back.

The family of three, returning home laden with their purchases, may have had different thoughts in their hearts, but their smiles were all the same.

When they got home, the old man started to worry. If the fresh seafood wasn't processed, it would quickly go bad.

He Yuping didn't say anything, but simply sent her father to take the two young men they had brought back from the fishing village back to the distillery to rest, and told them to handle the rest themselves.

I was originally worried about what to sell at the shop next door, but now that I have these seafood products, I can just open a shop to sell seafood.

Anyway, all the dried goods have been processed. When the time comes, I'll just go out and see if there are any glass jars for sale. I'll buy some, put them in glass jars, seal them well, and put them on the shelf.

"Sweetie, put all these fresh things away first. We can take them out and cook them whenever we want, or we can cook them in the kitchen inside and take them out to eat. Store the dried things in the two rooms furthest from the main room. The weather here is quite humid in the spring. If it's the rainy season, please help put these things into your space to prevent them from getting damp." He Yuping said to her daughter while tidying up and taking notes.

"Okay, okay. How about we go wash up first? Otherwise, it's really uncomfortable to be covered in this fishy smell." He Caiwei was so overwhelmed by the fishy smell that she almost threw up.

"Alright, you put all these things into your space, and then we'll go there to organize them. You can just put them in the two rooms where they're stored later." He Yuping thought that the environment in the space was relatively clean, but since these were things that would be ingested, it was still necessary to find a cleaner place to sort them again.

He Caiwei took the things and went back to the space with her mother. After entering, she took care of herself. Anyway, her mother knew the place well and could handle things on her own.

When I came back after taking a shower, I found that my mother had almost finished. I ran to the kitchen and got a cup of milk tea for myself and my mother. Then I sat on the sofa in the living room and watched a variety show.

I felt quite tired before taking a shower, but after taking a shower, I wasn't sleepy at all.

After the old man bought the shop, he asked a few elderly women from the neighborhood to help tidy up the house. The mother and daughter then moved all their belongings from their previous room to this place.

Of course, the old man still lives behind his shop, but from now on he has to walk a few steps to his daughter's place for his three meals.

All of these are practical items, so they're relatively easy to handle. After recording how many types she had, He Yuping prepared to have someone come and decorate the shop. Perfect timing, both shops can be decorated together.

She spent the whole day wandering around the provincial capital but couldn't find the glass jar she was looking for. Glassware is still relatively rare these days, and it's quite difficult to make a truly transparent glass jar. Custom-made ones weren't as good as the ones she saw in her online space, so she had to settle for using one from her daughter's online space.

Not far from the battery factory, there was a ceramics factory, or rather a small workshop. Ceramic basins, ceramic jars, cups, and dishes were all produced there.

He Yuping designed several small ceramic jars herself, in various sizes, and even drew her daughter's face on them as a trademark.

These are intended to be used to store body lotion and lip balm. She has already made four types of skincare body lotion, one of which is specifically for acne. She has already had people try it, and the effect is quite obvious.

The person who tried the product was the youngest daughter of an older woman who came to help clean that day. She also attended a girls' school and had a face full of acne, so she was always being mocked.

When He Yuping first found the little girl, the girl was helping with housework at home with her head down. Upon hearing that the small jar of face cream could remove the pimples on her face, she agreed to try it without hesitation.

After seeing the results, the little girl dared to walk with her head held high. This simple thing opened up the school's sales channels. The national anthem was playing loudly over the loudspeaker. The day He Yuping and her team opened their business was October 1st. Along with the national anthem, firecrackers went off.

The girls who were waiting outside to buy acne cream rushed into the store immediately after the firecrackers stopped going off.

They were all taken aback when they saw a cute little girl standing behind the counter. He Caiwei had come to help out and was preparing to collect money, since it would definitely be busier with two shops opening at the same time.

The dried goods store hired the son of the street women's director as a shop assistant to help look after the store, while He Yuping was mainly in charge of the cosmetics store.

Because it was the first day of business, there was a lot of foot traffic. The old man's shop was closed for the day, so he came over to help out, and his young apprentice, Ah Gui, came along too.

With the previous incident as a foundation, the cosmetics store did quite well, especially among young girls with acne.

He Yuping has accepted the existence of paper money, so she is also accepting paper money today, but the exchange of paper money is the same as at the bank.