"I just like to tease children, when did you develop this habit?"
Ren Yuanying frowned and said a few words. The adults at the dining table continued their previous conversation. In their opinion, Ren Yu's statement was meant to distract from the topic.
Only Liu Chen blinked, looking at the leftover rice bowl in front of him on the table, and began to silently recite in his heart:
"The road to Shu is as difficult as ascending to heaven! Can Cong and Yu Fu, how remote was the founding of their kingdom! It has been forty-eight thousand years since then, and there has been no communication with the Qin Mountains..."
After reciting the poem "The Road to Shu is Difficult" in his mind, his pounding heart also calmed down.
Ren Yuanying finished eating, wiped her mouth with a paper napkin, and looked at Liu Fang, who had also finished eating and was resting on her chair, and asked, "By the way, Afang, do you have any plans for the new year? I heard that your frozen food market is going to be demolished this year."
"Huh? Demolished? I don't know, I haven't heard anything?"
Liu Fang looked bewildered upon hearing this news. Liu Chen also played along, appearing to hear it for the first time. In fact, she knew about the demolition of the wholesale market in the city center of C City from her previous life. The demolished area was close to their new home, about a ten-minute drive away.
As expected, when Ren Yuanying heard Liu Fang say she didn't know, she immediately laughed.
"Afang, you really need to communicate more with people in the market. I can tell you, someone must know about the demolition. But it's also understandable. Your hand-grabbed pancakes have been selling well for the past six months, and there are bound to be many jealous people."
Liu Fang, who had genuinely shared her parenting experiences several times, felt a little depressed. Everyone praised her business and her child-raising skills, but they didn't tell her such a big thing as the market demolition.
It was Chen Long, sitting next to her, who spoke, glancing at the smiling Ren Yuanying.
"I know about this. Whether you know it in advance or not is irrelevant. After the demolition, the total area of the wholesale market will be three times its current size. The reason why the demolition news has not been officially announced yet is because..."
Chen Long was interrupted by Ren Yuanying before he could finish:
"Heh, it's because the behind-the-scenes boss of this new wholesale market hasn't decided yet whether to buy out the shops and sell them to you, or to rent them out and do a long-term business."
Chen Long, his words cut off, could only nod helplessly, confirming that Ren Yuanying was telling the truth.
Liu Fang said with some dejection, "I actually hope the new wholesale market can continue to be rented out. If they sell, I don't know how expensive it will be."
Ren Yuanying, hearing her sister Afang say this, suppressed the urge to roll her eyes. Just as she was about to analyze it for her, she heard Chen Long speak:
"Sister Liu, for us, buying out is naturally the best option. This can avoid many subsequent disputes. For example, if your lease expires in the future, and someone with good connections to the market management wants to take over your shop, what will you do?
Only by buying it outright, making it entirely yours, can you do business without worries."
Although she wasn't entirely pleased with Chen Long, Ren Yuanying still nodded in agreement.
"That's right. I suggest you take this opportunity of demolition to expand your shop. You now have exclusive agency for two products, and their sales are good. You can completely expand your shop to three storefronts, have a separate office for operations, and hire more salespeople for the stores.
If you expand, you can even hire two more sales representatives to canvass for orders in the surrounding counties. As the scale increases, the profits will naturally follow."
Liu Fang was naturally tempted by their suggestions, but...
Thinking about the mortgages for two houses she still had to pay off, where would she get the money to buy more shops?
However, she couldn't say this directly, as it would be tantamount to asking Ren Yuanying and Chen Long for money.
"I'll think about it. Anyway, the market owner hasn't decided yet, so it's useless for me to think too much now. Where are we going this afternoon? Shall we go to a nearby teahouse to play mahjong? Mom, what do you think?"
Liu Chen could somewhat guess her mother's concerns, which were mainly about not having enough money and not wanting to ask for loans. This was probably the common stubbornness of every single mother – they didn't like to bother others.
However, Liu Chen was thinking about the new wholesale market. She was familiar with it. After all, the first place her cousin took her when she started working as a frozen food salesperson was the comprehensive wholesale market in the southern part of C City.
This newly built wholesale market was not only larger in area than the current market, but it would also attract many new small wholesale merchants, injecting new vitality into the entire wholesale market.
Liu Chen knew that the ultimate decision of the owner of this wholesale market, due to indecision, was to keep half of the shops and sell the other half.
Initially, the merchants who moved from the old wholesale market occupied only half of the shops. Because the prices ranged from one million to three hundred thousand yuan, which was not cheap, the other half of the shops remained unsold.
After the wholesale market was on track, a mysterious person bought all the remaining shops and, three years later, began to resell them one by one, making a profit of 30% to 50% on each shop.
Liu Chen wasn't planning to do what this person did, but she felt that according to her plan, whether it was finding factories for OEM products or opening her own factory in the future, she would need a luxurious storefront to display her products.
After all, the first impression customers have of a product is the scale of the wholesale store. Sometimes, a luxurious storefront can alleviate many of the customer's unnecessary concerns.
Fortunately, the actual demolition of the wholesale market was in June, when she would have just graduated from high school and saved up several months' worth of money, which she could use to buy a shop in her own name.
Whether she used it for her own business or resold it later, it would be fine. Just as Liu Chen was thinking, the long-lost system voice suddenly appeared in her mind:
"Ding! Triggered D-level main mission – acquire six contiguous high-quality storefronts. Reward: Unknown. Penalty: Lottery pool closed for one month."
!!!
This was the first time Liu Chen had seen a penalty of closing the lottery pool.
Her heart tightened. Did these six contiguous storefronts have some special significance? Moreover, Liu Chen noticed the word "main" that had never appeared in the system missions before.
So, her selling system had a main storyline? And this D-level main mission was six contiguous storefronts?
Thinking about the system that activated when she was reborn and started selling goods,
Liu Chen had a bold guess: her system was inextricably linked to her family's frozen food wholesale business.
Could the main mission be to open a super large frozen food wholesale store?
But...
High-quality storefronts should be in the front three rows with high foot traffic, right?
You know, in her previous life, the ones who managed to secure the first two rows of shops were all big shots from the old frozen food wholesale market.
If you didn't have an annual profit of several million, would you dare to take such a good shop? Could you even afford a shop worth a million yuan?
Even if you dared, if you could scrape together a million yuan, the owner of the wholesale market wouldn't sell it to you.
System, oh system.
You've given me a difficult task!