Chapter 84: Dried Sweet potato Freebies

Yun Niang's cooking skills were so good that Lu Lin rarely cooked now. He would only cook some new dishes for a special occasion or when he was seized by a whim.

Lu Lin purchased a batch of mini sweet potatoes and he cooked some sweet potato pancakes.

The freshly cooked sweet potato pancakes were so irresistible with the hot and tasty flavor and golden-brown color.

Because sweet potato pancakes needed oil, Lu Lin didn't cook much. However, each child at home was given one.

Chen Xiao Mai nibbled on the sweet potato cake, his eyes sparkling as he took every bite.

" Lin Gege, this is so yummy."

Chen Xiao Mai reached to the plate for another one as he said that. Lu Lin brushed Chen Xiao Mai's hand off and said, "You have already eaten three. Your Qin Lang Gege will end up having no pancake if you keep eating."

Qin Lang licked his lips and said, "Lin Ge, it's fine, Mai can have it if he wants it."

Qin Lang went to run an errand for Lu Lin when the pancakes were just out of the pot. He came back only to find there's only one pancake left in the plate.

Lu Lin glanced at Qin Lang and said, "Lang, you don't need to spool him like this, and it's not good to eat too much."

Hearing this, Chen Xiao Mai handed the last piece of sweet potato cake to Qin Lang, "Lang Gege, you have it!".

Qin Lang patted Mai's head, he took a bite and his eyes lit up. " Lin Ge, it's really delicious. You're full of new ideas! Now I feel like I can keep running errands for you all day long!"

Lu Lin looked at Qin Lang's reaction and thought to himself, "The people here are so simple and unsophisticated. They appreciate good food. Food can stimulate people's enthusiasm for work."

Chen Xiao Mi had already eaten two sweet potato cakes, and he was nibbling on his third one with relish. Chen Xiao Mai kept staring at Chen Xiao Mi with eyes wide open after Chen Xiao Mai gave the last piece of sweet potato cake to Qin Lang.

Chen Xiao Mi loved the sweet potato pancake in hand, but he loved his baby brother even more, he gritted his teeth and thought for a while, and finally he shared half with Mai.

Lu Lin was amused by Chen Xiao Mi's distressed look on his face.

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Lu Lin made a quick trip to Big Gulf Village and many villagers surrounded him after they knew he was here to purchase sweet potatoes in bulk.

Liu Gui Yong looked at Lu Lin with a grateful smile. "Master Lin, I have to trouble you again." Liu Gui Yong felt that Lu Lin might not really want these small sweet potatoes, and he was doing a good deed to help them out.

The Big Gulf villagers was so eager to sell the sweet potatoes that they charged a lower price than last year, they charged Lu Lin two cents for one kilo.

Lu Lin spent eight taels of silver and bought 4000 kilos of sweet potatoes. The people in Big Gulf Village were so grateful, they said they would transport the produce to town for Lu Lin.

4000 kilos was definitely bulk buy, but many people in Big Gulf Village had planted sweet potatoes. Lu Lin's bulk order was like a drop in the bucket.

Chen Xiao Mai was stunned when he saw the people from Big Gulf Village delivering sweet potatoes at their doorstep.

"Qin Ming Gege, look, so many sweet potatoes!"

Qin Ming nodded, "Yeah!"

Chen Xiao Mai was confused. "Are we not going to eat rice and noodles anymore? Is Lin Gege going to feed us just sweet potatoes?"

Qin Ming, "I don't think so! I hope not!" Sweet potatoes tasted good, but they were not an ideal staple food.

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Lu Lin brought the Qin brothers and Chen Xiao Mai to dry some sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes in the Big Gulf Village were very sweet, the dried sweet potato chips were even sweeter. Everyone was unstinting in their praise after they tried it.

When Lu Lin and Qin Lang went to Willow Town to deliver dolls, they brought many dried sweet potato chips to Chen Xiao Cai and Shen Chi.

Chen Xiao Cai and Shen Chi were very frugal, they tended to save money on their diet as well. Lu Lin told the two of them multiple times that they should keep a healthy and diverse diet. However, the two of them didn't listen. Lu Lin had to ask Qin Yi to be the supervisor, but it turned out that Qin Yi was more frugal.

Lu Lin had no choice but to find a cook for the three of them for he knew the importance of eating healthy.

Lu Lin was making more dried sweet potato chips for the two kids in Willow Town this day, he wanted the two kids to have some snacks between meals.

Lu Lin made several batches of dried sweet potato chips in the past few days.

Chen Xiao Mi chewed the dried sweet potato chips and said, "Why are you making this much? What if they go bad soon? "

"Business has cooled down a little recently. I plan to do some promotions."

Chen Xiao Mi narrowed his eyes and asked, "Promotions? Like buy one get one for free?"

Lu Lin nodded, "Yeah!"

Chen Xiao Mi tilted his head. He had heard Lu Lin talk about promotions like buy one get one for free, they had similar promotions in this time and space, but most of them seemed to be a scam. For example, by saying buy one get one for free, the merchants meant you would get a pair of socks for free if you buy one outfit. The customers would usually end up feeling disappointed. However, people always liked to gain petty advantages. They would still fall for that because a pair of socks was better then nothing!

"Do you want to use dried sweet potatoes as freebies?" Chen Xiao Mi raised the sweet potato in his hand and asked.

Lu Lin nodded, "Correct."

Chen Xiao Mi blinked and thought to himself, 'It's a bit strange to send sweet potatoes as freebies! However, Lu Lin is so smart, I'm sure he has his reasons and I'm sure it will boost the business.'

A few days later, the store launched a promotion 'buy schoolbags or dolls, get dried sweet potato chips for free!'

Lu Lin ordered a batch of colorful gift bags for dried sweet potato chips. The customers would get a bag of chips for free as long as they but schoolbags or dolls in the store.

Sweet potato chips was not rare, but the customers liked this promotion. Many customers spoke highly of the sweet potato chips in the store, so when they bought dolls, they would always ask the manager for one more bag of dried sweet potato chips.

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"Master Lin, that sweet potato chips taste so good! Give me one mor bag please," Yang Heng Zhi said to Lu Lin.

Yang Heng Zhi bought another doll in the shop just two days ago. Since he was a regular customer, Chen Xiao Mi gave Yang Heng Zhi more bags of dried sweet potato chips. Yang Heng Zhi didn't take it seriously, but his grandmother had a sweet tooth, she liked them so much that she had eaten them all by herself.

Lu Lin said helplessly, " Young Master Yang, that dried sweet potato chips is not for sale. It is a freebie, you will get a bag of chips for every doll you buy."

Yang Heng Zhi made a face, he said to Lu Lin, "Master Lin, don't you give me this bullshxx. The freebies are not for sale, the lifesize dolls are not for sale, but you have sold one to the destined owner. Look at me, come on now, you know I'll keep supporting your business, I'm sure I'm the destined owner of the chips."

Lu Lin smiled embarrassedly. "All right, Young Master Yang. I'll give you some, but please, don't tell anyone I broke the rule..."

Yang Heng Zhi nodded and said, "I got it."

The dried sweet potato chips were well received since they were launched on the first day. Many people asked that whether they could buy some, but Lu Lin kept telling them the chips were not for sale, many people were left bitterly disappointed, and there were some customers would coax and pester Lu Lin unceasingly like Yang Heng Zhi.

" The dried sweet potato chips you made tastes so good! I've eaten other dried potatoes, but none of them was that sweet," Yang Heng Zhi said.

Lu Lin smiled and said, "I used the mini sweet potatoes from Big Gulf Village. The breed they used would have smaller but sweeter fruits, the texture is a bit different as well. If you like it, you can pay a visit to the village and buy some."

Yang Heng Zhi looked intrigued, "Really? It sounds good. My grandmother loves to eat sweet potato porridge."

During this period of time, Lu Lin recommended little sweet potatoes from Big Gulf Village to many people. He wasn't sure if those people had actually been to Big Gulf Village and bought sweet potatoes from the villagers, but he wanted the news spread by word of mouth.

Many people in Big Gulf Village would struggle to see the winter out if they couldn't sell the sweet potatoes. Lu Lin was still very sympathetic to the farmers who toiled long hours every single day.

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After ten days or so, several villagers arrived at the gate of the gate of the backyard of the commercial house.

Qin Lang looked at the villagers and said, "How can I help you? "

Liu Gui Yong said nervously, "We are villagers from the Big Gulf Village. We are here to say a thank you to Master Lin, we have sold almost all the sweet potatoes in our village. We're here to express our gratitude."

The people in Big Gulf Village were worried sick about how to sell the sweet potatoes until days ago.

To their surprise, some people came to their village, saying they would love to buy some sweet potatoes.

At first, the villagers were afraid that the customers wouldn't be happy with the size of the sweet potatoes, but the customers specifically said they wanted the smaller ones. And more and more people kept coming to them.

The villagers felt there must be someone who was recommending them to the new customers.

After inquiring about it, Liu Gui Yong found out that it was Sino Commercial House. They launched a promotion to promote the dried sweet potato chips, and the manager kept telling everyone to go to Big Gulf Village to buy more if they liked the taste.

As more and more people came, the dull of sale of sweet potatoes in the village was solved. Many villagers were very grateful to Lu Lin.

Everyone gathered together and felt that they should do something to show their gratitude, so they came over to send some specialties to Lu Lin.

Chen Xiao Mi looked at the mushrooms, Chinese Yam and bamboo shoots from the villagers, he was very happy. These were all from the mountains, Chen Xiao Mi got a bit emotional as he saw the villagers and the way they presented the specialties.

"Uncle Liu, no need to stand on ceremony like this with us," Chen Xiao Mi said with a smile.

"Please let us say a thank you," Liu Gui Yong then introduced their Village Head to Chen Xiao Mi.

Chen Xiao Mi glanced at the middle-aged man standing next to Liu Gui Yong and said, "Nice to meet you, Village Head Liu, I'm Chen Xiao Mi."

The Village Head Liu Tian hurriedly replied with a bow, "Master Xiao Mi, please allow me to say a thank you on behalf of our village. The sweet potatoes would have gone bad in the field if not for you and Master Lin."

Chen Xiao Mi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's our pleasure, please don't mention it."

Zhang Cheng, the Village Head in the Big Stone Village always found fault with Chen Xiao Mi, Chen Xiao Mi used to loathe the village heads. Now he felt so flattered and completely at a loss when a Village Head was so polite to him.

Liu Gui Yong looked at Chen Xiao Mi's round belly and said, "Master Mi, you're getting so big now!"

Chen Xiao Mi touched his belly and said, "It's been a few months. I can't even stretch my hands and feet freely with this little guy in my belly! I can't wait to meet the baby."

Liu Gui Yong smiled and said, "Master Mi, all jokes aside, you should rest now..."

Chen Xiao Mi puffed up his cheeks and said, "Rest? Trust me, I've been doing nothing but taking some rest for so long! I'm so fat now."

Every time Lu Lin saw him lifting anything, he would make a scene and stop him. Chen Xiao Mi didn't get it, pregnancy didn't stop other women and Bios from working.

Chen Xiao Mi accepted the gifts and asked Chen Xiao Mai to bring some dried sweet potato chips for the guests.

Liu Gui Yong and other villagers had heard so much about the chips in Sino Commercial House, they all had a taste.

"Master Xiao Mi, this is really good!"

Chen Xiao Mi said smugly, "I like them too. Many customers like them and ask us whether they could buy some. However, we always turn them down, they are freebies, not for sale."

The sweet potato chips was just a marketing method. Sweet potatoes were not a rare thing. Lu Lin didn't expect to make money from making dried sweet potato chips, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

Liu Gui Yong and others ate the sweet potato chips and thought that perhaps they could consider selling dried sweet potato chips as well. However, it was Chen Xiao Mi and Lu Lin who first came up with this idea, they didn't know whether they would mind it.

When Liu Gui Yong mentioned it to Chen Xiao Mi, Chen Xiao Mi generously said it was fine.

Sweet potatoes were just promotion methods, Chen Xiao Mi was confident that Lu Lin could come up with something else.