Chapter 36: Focus on the Issue, Not the Person
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Once Fang Pingying stepped out, Luo Cuilan came over to Fang Xiu's side. She glanced outside the courtyard before whispering to Fang Xiu, "Don't be so anxious. Even if you want to talk about money, wait until she's made some before bringing it up. Right now, she's fronting the costs herself. It'd be strange if she'd listen to you."
"That makes sense. Let's wait a bit, and after she's made some money, then we talk to her about splitting the profits," Fang Xiu also found Luo Cuilan's words reasonable, "It wouldn't be fair if she uses everything from the family, and then doesn't share the earnings with us after making money."
"Exactly, we'll talk about it after some time," Luo Cuilan added in a low voice, a calculating smile appearing on her face.
When Fang Pingying got to the courtyard, Luo Zhiyong was there, as were Luo Dashan, Zhou Yunmei, and Luo Zhiming. After some thought, Fang Pingying didn't specifically call Luo Zhiyong inside the house. Instead, she asked him openly in the courtyard, "Zhiyong, how do you think we should price our hawthorn jam to sell well?"
Having never done business, and not knowing much about this sort of thing, Luo Zhiyong asked Fang Pingying, "What's your plan? How much do you plan to sell a jar for?"
Fang Pingying roughly compared current prices and said, "I thought about it. Those syrupy canned fruits sell for more than two yuan per bottle, and making our hawthorn jam definitely takes more effort than those canned fruits. So, we should price ours the same as the syrupy cans, or maybe a bit higher."
As soon as Fang Pingying finished speaking, Zhou Yunmei, sitting in the courtyard, snorted disdainfully and said to Fang Pingying, "Listen to you, talking as if everyone can afford canned fruits. Didn't you think about it? In the entire supply and sales cooperative, how many cans are sold during market days? And you selling this, at best you'll just be setting up a stall by the roadside with no brand. Who would spend so much to buy it?"