Lin Momo held her tablet and watched the number displayed on upper right corner of the livestream channel rapidly increase from dozens of online viewers to to 8,934. She suddenly jumped up from her chair with excitement.

“Uncle Xiao Yang! People are here! There are many people in our livestream channel. Let’s start the introduction again quickly!” Lin Momo said.

And so, Assistant Xiao Yang returned to the livestream station they prepared and turned on the microphone again.

Assistant Xiao Yang modulated his voice and repeated his previous lines, “Hello everyone, this is the ‘Happy Bowl Farm’ livestream channel. I, uh, I am Xiao Yang, the host of this livestream. Our livestream channel sells various seasonal fruits, all freshly picked, all produced in our own orchards…”

… …

In the livestream channel that was supposed to be selling goods:

[Why does it feel like I’m watching a news broadcast?]

[Haha, the host is indeed not a professional livestreamer.]

[The atmosphere is a bit funny, it doesn’t feel as exciting as other livestream channels that sell goods, but more like chairing a meeting, haha.]

… …

Seeing everyone joking, Assistant Xiao Yang’s mouth twitched. He was a small assistant, and his previous job was to handle documents and some external legal issues. He was not a professional in the field of selling goods in the first place.

As if sensing the nervousness and embarrassment of the novice streamer, everyone in the livestream channel finally stopped teasing him.

[Are those fruits I see behind the host harvested from the farm’s own orchard?] Finally, someone was kind enough to ask a normal question.

“Yes! All the fruits you see behind me are picked directly from the farm, processed and stored here,” Assistant Xiao Yang replied.

A viewer asked again, [“It looks like a lot, they couldn’t all have been picked in the past two days?”]

“Well, that’s pretty much how it happened.”

[Are they all ripe?]

“Well… it should be…” Assistant Xiao Yang replied without much confidence.

At this time, the warehouse manager standing on the side finally couldn’t stand it anymore. He came over and corrected him, “Who said they are fully ripe? Most fruits should be picked before they are fully ripe. This way they will not spoil easily.”

After a pause, the warehouse manager turned to glance at the fruits in stock at the back and muttered, “But there are quite a few fruits that have come from the orchard in the past two days that have not been picked early enough and were left on the trees until almost fully ripe. If you want to buy them, hurry up and buy. You can peel it directly and eat it after buying it. It’s fresh and sweet.”

After saying that, the warehouse manager waved his hand, returned to his post, and continued checking the inventory and dates.

[Hahaha, finally the warehouse brother couldn’t stand the super unprofessional livestream of this ‘chair meeting’ host.]

[The warehouse brother can do it, that’s hard-core selling!]

[Should the warehouse brother consider replacing the streamer now?]

Assistant Xiao Yang: “…”

[The watermelon must be fully ripe. How much does it cost? ] someone asked.

Hearing this, Assistant Xiao Yang was stunned again: Uncle, my girlfriend usually buys the fruits I eat. Not to mention the price of fruits in his local market, he doesn’t know the market price of fruits sold online at all.

This impromptu livestream was really… sloppy.

Assistant Xiao Yang wiped his sweat silently, thought for a while, and then said, “The price of watermelon is 9 per catty.” Or was it 1kg? He couldn’t remember what the weight was when he passed by the fruit shop before.

[9 yuan a catty? So expensive? ]

[Are you sure? ]

[Why does it feel like this price is just what the host said casually? ]

[So expensive. ]

… …

“Uncle Xiao Yang, everyone is saying the price of watermelon is too expensive.” Lin Momo reminded Assistant Xiao Yang after seeing the messages scroll on the tablet.

“Then… lower the price?”

“Then…” Lin Momo also thought about the watermelon price she knew before, and said, “2 yuan a catty!”

“Okay.” Assistant Xiao Yang nodded, took the phone, and put 50 pieces of watermelon on the online shelf at the price of 2 yuan per catty.

Seeing the operations of these two laymen, the warehouse brother next to them couldn’t help but cough violently.

“Did we price it a little cheap?” Lin Momo looked at the other party and asked with a guilty conscience.

“This is the Linglong melon, which is a specialty of our Dafeng Village. It is different from the usual selenium sand melon. If other families grow it and sell it in the market, the cheapest price is four yuan for a catty. You guys want to sell it for two yuan, don’t you think it’s too cheap?” The warehouse man said with an awkward look  on his face.

Hearing this, Lin Momo and Assistant Xiao Yang were both stunned.

Assistant Xiao Yang lowered his head and glanced at the phone.

“It’s all gone…”

He originally planned to turn off the link first, but as a result, 50 pieces of watermelons were sold out within seconds of being put on the shelves.

The silly look on these two person’s faces was broadcast to the livestream channel of [Living with Dad] without missing a single frame. At this time, the entire livestream channel barrage has been blurred by ‘Hahahaha’.

[It’s too difficult for two people who don’t understand the market and pricing to sell goods.]

[Hahaha, it’s so funny, I’m laughing all the way!]

[This is definitely the most muddled livestream I have ever watched.]

[But the stuff is really cheap!]

[Yes.]

[To be honest, I just went to the ‘Happy Bowl’ livestream channel to grab wool¹.]

[Haha, to be honest, that’s why I went too.]

[Me too.]

[Don’t blame me for buying, I just came to watch and support, who made their ‘discount’ so powerful!]

[It’s a pity that Momo can’t sell online in person, otherwise I would want to live in the sales livestream all day long and grab all the wool.].

[It’s really such a great deal, I’ll go too!]

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

As the audience in the program livestream said ‘wool grabbing’, more people entered the farm’s fruit-selling livestream channel.

[How much for the pomegranate?]

How much?

Lin Momo and Assistant Xiao Yang looked at each other and saw the same question in each other’s eyes.

Finally, after a lot of staring, the two looked at the warehouse brother next to them with pleading eyes.

He also was not sure about the price of pomegranates on the market. He touched his chin and said, “If someone grows it in our village and an acquaintance goes to get it directly, the friendly price is 5 yuan.”

After saying that, the uncle gave the two of them a look of ‘you can make up your own mind’.

“Then 5 yuan and 2 jiao!” Lin Momo made the final decision.

Warehouse uncle: “…” It seemed that he should say more things!

Assistant Xiao Yang: “…” Wouldn’t it be better to sell it for 6 yuan?

… …

At this time, the interactive area of the farm’s live broadcast room was already busy.

[5 yuan and 2 jiao I already heard it! ]

[I heard it too. ]

[This is the price, you can’t not keep your word! ]

[At 5.2 yuan, give me 10 catty! ]

… …

Looking at [5.2] filling the screen, Assistant Xiao Yang’s heart was bleeding.

In the end, Assistant Xiao Yang could only bear the pain and put 50 pieces on the shelves according to the price of 5.2 yuan per catty.

[5.20! haha, so romantic.]²

What romantic tsk…  Assistant Xiao Yang complained silently in his heart. He was already imagining what the boss would do to him when he came back.

Serve as Contrast Team in a ‘Dad with Baby’ Show translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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FOOTNOTE:

1. ‘wool grabbing’ is all the discounts, vouchers, sale promotions, etc that could be had from a sale/financial transaction. It comes from when a sheepherder grabs some wool, a little at a time, from the sheep they herd. They don’t own the sheep and, of course, the wool when sheared won’t go to them, but the little wool they grab over time would be enough to knit into something the can wear through winter. ↩︎
2. 520 phonetically sounds like ‘I love you’. ↩︎