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Published at 19th of December 2019 12:40:18 PM


Chapter 120

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Chapter 120 – Setting the trend (Part 1)

People would also be fond of raising those little flower pots, and their price didn’t exceed 10 yuan. It was indeed a bit more expensive than the usual green plants the students would have in their dorm rooms, but they could afford it for something that unbearably cute!

Fortunately, a lot of these little flower pots were left behind by the previous owner Senior Hong Xiaoling. Because she urgently had to prepare her trip and catch a plane to the United States this week, she had no choice but to sell all her leftover stock to Lin Mumu for the price of cabbage.

Otherwise, Hong Xiaoling would have thoroughly seen how much of an unscrupulous business man Lin Mumu could be contrary to any good impressions she’s had of her so far.

On the other side, in only three days, the doorway of Lin Mumu’s store was completely blocked with a pile of crooked orchids, peonies, bamboo bonsais and other rare and precious plants that look broken and worn out.

These flowers and plants originally looked the most delicate and beautiful, however, they each one of them now looked lacking in vigor and withering. Those plants either suffered from parasite insects, rotten roots, or yellow leaves, and none were in a completely good state.

An Xiaoqin was worthy of being the third generation of a wealthy family. With just a few phone calls, she would bring in a lot of business to their store.

So currently, there was only one last problem An Xiaoqin was still worried about:

“Lin Mumu, I had to boast and go all out to bring this much, so you’d better not let me down, or I’ll completely lose my credibility with those people.

I’m telling now before anything else; I won’t permit you to charge any less. The cheapest of pots cost me 500. As for the others, I bought them all for a starting price of 1000 yuan. The owner of that pot over there asked me for 3000 yuan. But the plant looks too rotten to me, so I thought I’d let you have a look first. If you’re not satisfied with anything I brought, let me know and I’ll take them back. “

Lin Mumu looked around all the plants in front of her and nodded in a satisfied manner: “Just leave them all behind.”

An Xiaoqin was very reliable in her work. All the plants and flowers she delivered were very sick but not dying to the point of having no more hope for cure.

“You’ll be earning back a huge profit, right?” Chen Fangya astoundingly looked at the dozen potted flowers at the doorway. Wouldn’t these plants easily earn them about 100 000 yuan if they were all successfully treated?

Lin Mumu shook her head: “This isn’t a long-term business prospective. Before, when people’s flowers and plants fell ill, they couldn’t find anyone to cure them, so they could only keep them until they naturally died or withered. We can stock these until they’re treated, but once they’re all sold, our stock would be gone. Also, not everyone is willing to spend so much money to cure a single plant when it’d be cheaper to buy a new one.”

 

Chapter 120 – Setting the trend (Part 2)

“That’s right.” Chen Fangya nodded: “Although we won’t make much money selling cute fleshy succulents daily, we’ll be able to do business for a long time.”

“As long as the sales volume goes up, we should be able to earn a lot more. When that time comes, I will also start cultivating some leaf cuttings in the courtyard house. The place here in the store is still quite small.” Lin Mumu was very confident in her decision and was sure their business would definitely become successful.

“I have to say that curing plants and raising them is Lin Mumu’s own skill and ability, so this can’t be counted as our shop’s business. We can’t let Lin Mumu eat a loss, so the money Lin Mumu receives from this shouldn’t be included in the general ledger. ” An Xiaoqin came up with this suggestion based on her business understanding.

“I agree. We would already earn enough money just by raising the succulent plants and selling the pots and soil ourselves.” Chen Fangya and Liu Yuanyuan both agreed to An Xiaoqin’s suggestion and deemed it very reasonable.

Lin Mumu didn’t want to make too many calculations between them in this business, but thinking about it, doing so also had its own reasons and benefits. If she suddenly made too much money by curing flowers and plants from diseases, the shop would be overflowing with profit overnight, and it seemed like the four of them would lose the fun and motivation of freshly starting a business together.

As for the sickly and pitiful plants, Lin Mumu didn’t rush to water them, but first decided to change soil, trim them and cut off the rotten and sick parts, and then slowly played with each plant individually.

Lin Mumu knew that if she was in a hurry or urgent need, she could bring these plants back to the peak of their condition almost immediately. However, she wouldn’t naively do such a thing but she had always learnt to protect herself.

If she suddenly collected this much money from instantly curing plants, people would think she was an ill-natured person with a black heart that collected a lot of many for an ability that worked that easily. Therefore, she should take at least ten days to half a month to slowly nurse the plants back to health.

Moreover, some of these plants were rare and precious varieties that were rarely seen on the market. Lin Mumu wanted to take advantage of the treatment period and transplant a small seedling of each of them into another pot to keep them for herself.

Unfortunately, orchids and peonies were more difficult to transplant than succulent plants, so she had to let them grow more twigs before she could start her ‘plant stealing’ operation.

The most fortunate thing was Lin Mumu really loved doing all these tasks, so she really enjoyed spending her time with plants.





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