The little one's purse connects the two worlds, turning a desolate village into a paradise.

"Where can I buy these hats? I'd like to buy a few as gifts for friends."

Cheng You stopped in front of He Miao.

He Miao's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, immediately settled down, and her hand, which had been tightly gripping the edge of the bamboo basket, quietly relaxed.

It turns out they were buyers, not raiders.

"I sell these hats at the seafood market, they're with salted fish. The hats made in Ya Ya Village are very popular, they sell out in a day."

Cheng You raised an eyebrow. "If it's so popular, why not just open a Taobao store?"

Taobao's larger traffic pool can attract more unfamiliar customers, making it suitable for long-term brand building and accumulating a stable customer base.

Xianyu (a Chinese online marketplace) focuses on individual secondhand and niche handmade items. It has low barriers to entry and allows for quick shop openings, but traffic is unstable, mostly relying on random individual customers found through chance. These beautiful handmade woven items are made by people from YaYa Village, so there should be a stable supply. It would be easier to scale up on Taobao (another Chinese online marketplace).

He Miao was taken aback by the question, but she still patiently explained to Cheng You, "We have a Taobao shop, and it sells quite well, but it doesn't sell these pet hats. It sells straw sandals and clothing, and the straw sandals are made in Ya Ya Village."

He then put down the bamboo basket, took out his phone, opened the shop's page, and handed it over, saying, "Look, these are the straw shoes."

Cheng You glanced down and saw that the shoes looked familiar; she seemed to have seen an advertisement for this store. The shoes were particularly unique, boasting hand-woven construction and natural dyeing, and cost five or six hundred yuan a pair.

I never expected that these shoes also came from Ya Ya's village.

Their business scope is quite broad.

"How did you find Ya Ya and come up with the idea of ​​collaborating with them on these projects?" Cheng You asked curiously.

He Miao swiped her finger across the phone screen: "It was all a coincidence. Ya Ya accidentally brought over some straw sandals that her mother-in-law had woven. I saw them and took them home to wear. My friend found out, and she happened to want to start her own brand... That's how we started working with Ya Ya's village."

These straw sandals are selling very well too; they're incredibly comfortable to wear. At first, we were hesitant to take on too many orders, worried that the elders in YaYa Village would be overworked and our production capacity wouldn't be able to keep up. Later, we discovered that almost everyone in YaYa Village knows how to do handicrafts, so we thought we might as well try developing more product categories.

"If we can bring more income to YaYa Village, my friends and I can also earn a little more money."

Once the conversation turned to her career, He Miao couldn't contain herself.

"My friends and I looked for references and drew up designs for them to try on. The hats we sold before were the first batch of prototypes, and these little hats are the second batch. Many people are waiting for them."

At first, no one bought anything. My Xianyu account was a small, unregistered account, and I didn't know much about this. Luckily, I met an angel buyer who helped us promote it within the community.

"Pet hats come with hoops?" Cheng You asked curiously.

"It's not a pet hat, the buyer bought a Lolita hat. Look, it's this kind." He Miao opened her phone and showed pictures of hats she had taken before.

Cheng You took the phone and looked at the screen. Her eyes lit up slightly, and she felt a sense of appreciation.

This young lady named He Miao and her friends have so many ideas. Starting with simple straw shoes, they didn't limit themselves to accessories and bags, which would have been a natural extension of the same product category. Instead, they went a few steps further and boldly tried making doll hats and pet supplies.

Daring to break out of conventional thinking to try new things, and being able to combine these niche categories with traditional crafts, shows not only innovative ideas but also great courage.

Cheng You twirled her phone, swiped her finger, and switched back to the straw sandal product page.

"Are these straw sandals really as comfortable as you say?"

She had never tried shoes like these before; she had never worn shoes costing less than three thousand yuan in her entire life. In her mind, straw sandals were something that only appeared in textbooks.

"Of course," He Miao explained earnestly. "It's just that we have limited funds and haven't started making outdoor styles on a large scale yet. We haven't found a manufacturer that can make compatible soles. Straw sandals aren't waterproof, and the styles sold in the store are only suitable for indoor wear at home. They're not suitable for outdoor wear in the rain."

The best thing about straw sandals is that the shoe adapts to your foot, rather than your foot adapting to the shoe. They're lightweight, soft, breathable, and don't easily cause foot odor when worn at home.

To be honest, after listening to He Miao's introduction, Cheng You felt an urge to place an order.

"Oh dear, I'm sorry, I just can't stop talking about these things. If you want to buy little hats and straw sandals, you can go to my shop. Taobao is a pre-sale, and my Xianyu ID is 'The Rice Seedling That Runs Away with a Bucket'."

This ID.

Cheng You paused for half a second, then chuckled, "Okay, here's your phone back."

He Miao suddenly remembered something and quickly said, "No, no, how about this, whichever one you like, I'll sell it to you right now. Ya Ya and I split the profits 40/60, so I'll take Ya Ya's share."

"No need." Cheng You waved her hand. "Sales and reviews are quite important for a new salted fish store. I'll ask my friends to place orders to help boost sales and reviews for you."

He Miao blinked: "Then it'll probably be hard to snag them. These hats are really selling very well."

Cheng You raised her chin. "Link it up, list the price normally."

When she was in school, she was someone who would camp out every day to snag the first pick; her hand speed was absolutely phenomenal.

(I deleted the previous version because I wasn't satisfied with it, and I'm rewriting it after get off work. The rest will probably be quite late~)