Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 253: Two hundred fifty-three, off to buy seeds~_1

Chapter 253: Two hundred fifty-three, off to buy seeds~_1

He chuckled.

"Maybe we should just call it quits. I’ve been planning to go solo, and the lady who bought my cherries the other day is eager to partner with me. But since we’re old acquaintances and get along quite well, I thought I’d come to you first."

Upon hearing this, Old Zhao’s face changed in an instant.

Old Zhao knew that Gu Chen was indeed capable, but giving up eighty percent of the shares was no joke.

It would mean he’d go from being the boss to just a lackey.

The company would effectively be gifted to someone else.

To be honest, he was extremely reluctant.

But if Gu Chen could deliver on his promises, then the profits would increase at least tenfold!

Even with just twenty percent, he’d be earning twice as much as he was now.

By then, the company would become a large corporation, and he’d be a shareholder of a big company.

Reluctant as he might be, Old Zhao wasn’t unreasonable.

He thought about it, then gritted his teeth and said, "How about this, let’s give it a try. One month from now, if the company can turn a profit of two hundred thousand, you’ll get eighty percent of the shares. If it’s twenty-five or fifty thousand, then I’ll agree to give you the eighty percent! If we reach three hundred thousand or a million, I’ll give you ninety or ninety-five percent! We can scale it accordingly, alright?"

If Gu Chen could achieve that, there really wouldn’t be much for him to say. Right now, after all expenses including labor costs, he was only pocketing about twenty thousand a month.

If Gu Chen could multiply the profits by tenfold, even ten percent of the shares would be equivalent to what he was currently taking home.

If Gu Chen could earn even more, then he could potentially pocket an extra ten to twenty thousand every month.

That extra ten to twenty thousand might not seem like much, but it was actually a substantial amount, considering the average salary back then was only a few hundred yuan.

In rural areas, it was even less; ninety or a hundred yuan was considered very good.

At those words, Gu Chen smiled. "Alright, then we try for a month. Hopefully, you’ll keep your word."

Old Zhao now wasn’t keen on giving Gu Chen so many shares all at once.

Plainly put, he feared that Gu Chen might not make money, and he’d still have to share what he had worked hard to earn.

But if Gu Chen really could make that much, he’d be more than happy to share the wealth.

Money wasn’t so easily divided though; he had to rent stores, hire staff, and all sorts of responsibilities fell to him.

If they lost money, the cost of renting the premises alone would be a significant burden on him.

In short, there were risks involved.

But as the old saying goes, "Fortune favors the bold," with risk comes reward. To make money, one has to take risks!

"Alright, then it’s settled!"

Old Zhao nodded and then glanced over at Lao Liu and a few others sitting opposite him.

"Let’s do this: you don’t need to worry about the channel. You just go check out the fruit market. We’ve always been intermediaries; this time, we’ll be the suppliers and distributors!"

Gu Chen chuckled, "No rush, let’s give it a try first. Let’s start with five stores. If the sales are good, we’ll open more. Huangxian is a small county, not like the big cities where opening a dozen or more stores straightaway can be an instant success. We’d better play it safe."

Although Gu Chen was ambitious, he was also cautious in his approach, despite the high quality of his fruit.

Price was one thing, but foot traffic was another crucial factor.

So it wouldn’t be wise to open too many stores at once.

The beauty of business lies in its uncertainties, with everything filled with the unknown.

Old Zhao nodded, "Right, but these five stores must be on the main streets, where there’s a heavy flow of people."

Gu Chen pursed his lips.

"Sure, but I think we should also stock some fruit, like the seasonal ones that are cheap. We can just collect them from the villages. Our main focus should still be selling the more expensive, premium fruits."

Even if the flavor of those fruits that sell for 0.5 yuan per jin that I grow myself is great, they can only sell for 1 yuan, at most 1.5 yuan. Putting these kinds of fruits in the space is simply a waste of place.

Old Zhao nodded, "No problem, we definitely need to have cheaper fruits as well, selling only high-end fruits limits the customer base too much."

After all, having a large customer base is the key, and who knows, those who come to buy cheap fruits might also bring some expensive ones to try something new.

But if we only sell high-priced fruits, people won’t even come in at all.

On this point, Old Zhao and Gu Chen had reached a consensus.

The day was well into the conversation, Gu Chen picked up the teacup on the table and drank the last of his tea, then stood up, "All right, I’ll be going now."

Seeing that Gu Chen was leaving, Old Zhao quickly stood up, went to his desk, and took out two boxes of high-end packaged tea leaves from the bookshelf behind to give to Gu Chen.

"Brother, take this back with you."

He had already promised them to Gu Chen, and although they were a bit pricey, compared to the benefits Gu Chen had brought him, it was truly insignificant.

Gu Chen didn’t refuse, took them with a smile, "Then thank you, Brother Zhao!"

With that, he left the store of Auspicious Dried Goods holding the tea leaves.

By now, the matters that needed to be taken care of were almost all done.

What he needed to do now was to go to the vegetable market, not just to buy today’s vegetables, but also some quality fruit seeds.

If he was going to give it a try, he always needed to have something in hand.

After all, if he couldn’t sell them, he could just load them onto a truck and sell them on the side of the road with a loudspeaker!

Anyway, he would make money no matter what!

Thinking this, Gu Chen got into his Santana and headed towards the largest market in Huangxian.

In the big market, you could buy anything and everything.

Gu Chen walked down the path, and after a few steps, he saw an agricultural products shop named Xiang Xiang, which had the largest front of all such shops in the market.

He walked in without hesitation.

Lao Nan was a middle-aged woman, currently tutoring her son with his homework. Seeing a customer come in, she stopped scolding and looked up at Gu Chen.

"What do you need?"

"Do you have strawberry seeds?" Gu Chen thought of strawberries as high-end fruits while coming over in his car!

The shop owner nodded, "Yes, we have the best seeds for 10 yuan a pack, the average ones for 5 yuan, and we also have some for 3 yuan, you can choose whichever you like."

Gu Chen was instantly amused by her words.

"Of course, I’ll take the best. You need good seeds to grow good products, right?"

The shop owner nodded, "How many do you want?"

She seemed to be in a bad mood, clearly still angry about her child’s poor math skills.

Gu Chen thought for a moment, "Let’s start with ten packs. Oh, and give me some grape seeds too, the kind that’s...uh, Sunlight Rose!"

Those grapes, in the future, would sell for sixty yuan per jin, they were really expensive!

In his past life, when Tang Tang was hospitalized, Gu Chen had clenched his teeth and bought a jin just to get her to eat more fruits!

It was indeed a deeply memorable experience!

Hearing Sunlight Rose, the shop owner was startled and looked at Gu Chen with surprise, "Are you sure you want them?"

Sunlight Rose was a variety from Japan, not cheap to import, and the survival rate here was not too good.

Even if they grow, the taste is not quite the same, and very few fruit growers buy these seeds!