Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 411 Sheep Dung Eggs

A small shop at the entrance of Linhe Alley in Taipei City was filled with music and dance early in the morning, attracting many passers-by to stop and watch. When the waiter saw so many people gathered at the door, he immediately began to promote his shop's drinks and activities to everyone.

"The new store is opening with a buy one get one free sale, don't miss it if you pass by!"

The buy-one-get-one-free gimmick easily attracted some people to step into the store. The small shop was divided into two halves, and the workbench was covered by a high baffle, making it difficult to see the movements of people inside. However, the baffle with a very modern color clearly depicted the drinks in the store, and the painting was specially enlarged in case people couldn't see clearly.

"What is this shop selling that is so expensive?"

"It looks like some kind of milk tea. I know Xingchengfang also sells it, but the milk tea here is cheaper than Xingchengfang's."

"Buy one, get one free. How about giving it a try?"

“What are you trying for? Don’t you see that the cheapest one is sixteen cents? How dare they charge sixteen cents for just this one cup of drink? I can buy meat with sixteen cents.” An aunt with gray hair shook her head frantically after hearing the people around her say the price. She thought that spending sixteen cents to buy a glass of water was simply insane. What kind of milk tea is this? Can you drink flowers out of it?

There were many people who had the same idea as this auntie. Most of them just looked at the price and shook their heads and left. The rest looked eager to try. The waiter was even more active in promoting the product to these people. He had a big loudspeaker in his hand and spoke into the loudspeaker.

"Don't miss it if you pass by. We have a big discount on the first day of opening. Buy one get one free for all drinks. You can also become a member and get a discount on the member price. You can collect likes. If you collect ten likes, you can exchange it for a drink!"

Song Chunlin urgently trained everyone on modern promotional language, and even provided the loudspeaker, ensuring that their promotional messages could be heard within a three-mile radius.

There are many civilians living in the North City, and their family conditions are naturally much better than those outside the city. Although some of them are reluctant to spend money, when they hear about buy one get one free, member discounts and exchanges, many people start to place orders even though they don't quite understand what it means.

"I'll come up with a signature dish. If it can be a signature dish, it must be delicious."

"I'll have a sign, too."

"And me, and me, I want a bubble tea. Hey, you put pearl powder in the milk tea, is it so luxurious?"

When everyone heard that there was also pearl powder, they thought pearl powder was a fun thing. It was very expensive. They could actually drink pearl powder for just a dozen cents. They had to order a few more cups.

Several shop assistants were amused by this, remembering that they had the same idea during their training. They thought that the pearls in pearl milk tea referred to pearl powder. As a result, the shop assistants at Xingchengfang told them that the so-called pearls were black bead-like things made from plants, and they were not real pearls ground into powder.

“If we really use pearl powder to make milk tea, the price of this milk tea will be beyond the reach of ordinary people like us.” The clerk at Xingchengfang said with a smile, and the other people who came for the training seemed very embarrassed.

Fortunately, they had anticipated the embarrassment they would encounter upon opening, so they patiently explained to their customers that the pearls in bubble milk tea were not real pearls.

Although everyone was a little disappointed, they were more curious about what the so-called edible pearls were. For a while, the sales of pearl milk tea skyrocketed, and the store clerks were too busy to handle it. Raw materials were once in short supply. Fortunately, Song Chunlin predicted all emergencies and had someone make a lot of tea and cook a lot of taro pearls yesterday. There was not much milk, so Song Chunlin directly took out milk powder from the space, and it tasted just as good when he made it.

Song Chunlin acted as a courier, shuttling around the city. If a store was short of something, Song Chunlin's supplies would arrive immediately. His speed and efficiency impressed all the store clerks.

"How can I deserve to have the national archer run errands for me?"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense over there and come over here to help."

More people go out during the Lantern Festival than usual, and this festival is one of the few days when young people can travel together, so there are many people traveling in pairs. The buy-one-get-one-free combination of milk tea is very suitable for these young men and women. In order to please their other half, most of them will pay for two cups, holding the hot cup in their hands, which can warm their hands and allow them to drink at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

The business in the store was extremely popular and it spread everywhere. Even the barbarians in the other courtyards had heard of it. They looked at the strange bamboo tubes in the servants' hands and thought they were the Han people's Lantern Festival specialties. After asking, they found out that this was a newly opened milk tea shop outside.

"Milk tea? It's not what I thought it was."

The grassland tribes are very familiar with dairy products, but this is the first time they have heard of milk tea. They have only drunk butter tea. What kind of tea is this milk tea? It can’t be the same as the spiced tea that the Dajing people drink.

Some curious people have already sent people out to buy it, while the smart ones bought a cup from the servants at a high price that they have not yet drunk.

Chahar drank the pearl milk tea he had bought at a high price, unscrewed the lid of the bamboo tube, scooped out the pearls that had sunk to the bottom with a spoon, and studied them for a long time with others, but still couldn't figure out what these black balls were made of.

"Excuse me, this thing looks like something..."

"What?"

"Sheep dung eggs."

……

Everyone was silent, looking at the black balls. Not to mention, in terms of appearance, there seemed to be no difference between the two.