Chapter 50: Big Sale
Tong Yao only bought a hundred bubble tea cups, hardly enough to keep up with the demand. Seeing the students queuing up, each with a water bottle in hand, an idea struck her. She shouted to the students, "Bubble tea will be one cent cheaper if you fill it in your own cups!"
Hearing they could save by not requiring a cup, many students were tempted. A shy fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl peeked out from the crowd to ask,
"What if I haven’t finished drinking the water in my cup?"
"You can come back during break time or after school. I’ll be here all day," Tong Yao answered.
After some thought, the young girl said, "I guess I’ll come back during the break." After all, buying now would mean standing in line. It seemed more sensible to return during a break.
Seeing the girl’s decision, several other students decided to come back after finishing the water in their bottles. This caused the queue to shorten a bit, but then more students came to join the line. Some even poured out their water to fill their bottles with bubble tea. By class time, she had sold over seventy cups, busier than a spinning top, non-stop.
Seeing the situation, He Fang was stunned, sweating from all the effort. She didn’t have time to say anything until the students had finally cleared out. Then she exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, your business is so easy. Is the bubble tea really that good? It’s like the students are under some spell to be buying it like crazy."
A pork vendor wouldn’t have had such good business!