After her morning run and breakfast, Jiang Xiaoli waited until the first batch of spicy strips was ready. She then divided them into 10 portions, each weighing one jin (500 grams), before riding her bike to school.

She put down her schoolbag in the classroom and then carried a large bag to the teacher's office.

Teacher Li arrived first, opening the door while munching on a pancake. "Jiang Xiaoli, what brings you here so early?"

Jiang Xiaoli smiled and took a bag out of her big pocket and placed it on Teacher Li's desk. "Teacher Li, Happy Teacher's Day! These are some snacks that my family made. Have a taste."

Teacher Li opened the bag and exclaimed, "Thank you! This is called spicy strips, right? My wife has been buying it a lot lately! So it's made by your family."

Just then, Teacher Liu came in carrying a bag of soy milk. "What does she make?"

Jiang Xiaoli immediately took out a bag and handed it to Teacher Liu, "Happy Teacher's Day, Teacher Liu, you should try some too."

Then she placed a bag on the table for Chen Zhe and Zhao Jiawei.

"I'm going to the office next door, bye-bye teacher."

When she returned to the classroom after delivering the spicy snacks to the other teachers, she saw Xie Yitao staring at her desk drawer.

She patted his shoulder with a smile, and Xie Yitao stood up to make way for her to come in. "Jiang Xiaoli, why did you bring so many spicy snacks?"

She opened the bag. "My family makes spicy snacks, want to try some?"

Xie Yitao swallowed hard, but ultimately couldn't resist the temptation. He took out a handkerchief, wiped his hands, and picked up a piece of the handkerchief.

He chewed a few times, his eyes widening. "This...this tastes exactly like the spicy strips I bought at Lele!"

Jiang Xiaoli nodded, "Make more if you like, I have some small bags here."

Han Bo, who came to collect homework, looked longingly at her bag. She couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Han Bo, let me pack some for you. Come and get it when you're done collecting homework. Don't get everyone's homework dirty right now."

Han Bo happily sped up the process of collecting homework, and then went to Jiang Xiaoli to collect his spicy strips.

She divided the leftovers among several classmates, and then gathered the last bit and placed it on the table for Xiao Muyu.

After finishing her spicy snack, Chen Jing licked her lips and said, "Jiang Xiaoli, I think your spicy snacks are better than the ones sold at Lelego!"

Xie Yitao nodded vigorously, "I think so too!"

She couldn't let Zong Jiayu down; it was all her business. She smiled and said, "If you like it, I'll bring you some more next time."

Chen Jing shook her head, "We can't let you treat us to meals all the time, we'll just buy it for us!"

"Yes, yes, we'll buy from you. How much is it?" Han Bo finished the spicy strips in a few bites. He had originally wanted to ask Jiang Xiaoli how much to buy, but when he heard Chen Jing's words, he quickly agreed.

Jiang Xiaoli chuckled, "It's not appropriate for me to sell spicy snacks at school. How about this, I'll go ask the school store if they stock them. If they do, you can just buy them from there, okay?"

Everyone agreed.

This morning, the second period happened to be PE class. As soon as the PE teacher said to dismiss everyone, she ran to the convenience store.

The shop owner, a family member of a school teacher, was very interested in the student who had come to her to discuss business, and immediately agreed to take 50 jin (25 catties) of goods to try it out.

She had just finished talking and left the convenience store when she was greeted by Xiao Muyu, Yuan Man, Tang Wanqiao and a few others.

Yuan Man laughed and said, "Jiang Xiaoli, you run fast! I'll register you for the running event at the sports meet later."

Jiang Xiaoli waved her hands repeatedly, "I was worried that there would be too many people later, so I came to talk to the boss about some small business."

"Small business?" Yuan Man asked doubtfully.

Xiao Muyu and Tang Wanqiao, who had bought spicy strips from Jiang Xiaoli, immediately realized what was going on and asked in unison, "Spicy strips?"

Jiang Xiaoli nodded, "Yes, I shared some with a few people around me this morning, and they all wanted to buy some. I don't want to become a personal shopper."

"That's good. They can just buy it from the convenience store if they want to eat it. It's too much trouble for you to bring it to them every day." Xiao Muyu thought that Jiang Xiaoli's approach was the best.

Yuan Man had never tried spicy strips before, and she asked the two of them curiously, "Are these spicy strips really that delicious?"

Tang Wanqiao nodded vigorously, "It's really super delicious! If I weren't afraid of getting a sore throat from eating spicy food, I would eat it every day!"

"I'll have to try it when the convenience store starts selling it."

The girls were discussing spicy snacks, and several teachers in the office were also discussing it.

Zhao Jiawei kept eating spicy strips, saying, "How can this stuff be so addictive? Once you eat one, you can't stop."

Ms. Li, who was sitting across from her, also said, "I was wondering why my wife goes to Lele to buy spicy strips every day. Turns out, these things are so addictive."

Chen has a sensitive stomach and can't eat spicy food. The math teacher from Class 3 across from him glanced at him and said, "Teacher Chen, if you can't finish it, can a few of us who don't get any try it?"

Chen chuckled as he sipped his tea. “If I can’t finish this, I can take it home to my wife and kids. Sigh, I haven’t even been taking care of this kid for a few days, and he’s already receiving gifts from him for Teacher’s Day. You know, this kid is so generous, giving everyone such a big bag. I wonder when we’ll ever finish it all.”

The substitute teachers from the other classes didn't want to talk to him!

Zhao Jiawei and the others chuckled to themselves, never expecting Teacher Chen to be so humorous.

When Jiang Xiaoli returned home from school in the afternoon, she saw Nan Gua and Zhong Yuan, whom she had only met once, chatting with her mother at home.

When Pumpkin saw her return, he excitedly went up to help her park her bicycle.

"Little Pear, guess how much we sold during our soft opening today?"

Jiang Xiaoli asked in confusion, "Didn't we only prepare 50 cages?"

One large basket can hold about 20 buns, so 50 baskets would hold 1000 buns.

Zhong Yuan, standing to the side, exclaimed happily, "Fifty baskets weren't enough! They sold out in one breakfast this morning! We had to keep working on the side until the afternoon when we packed up. We sold a total of 120 baskets, and that was after we ran out of vegetables! Otherwise, we could have sold even more today!"

Jiang Xiaoli's mouth dropped open in surprise, "So many! How come there are so many people buying things when we just opened this morning?"

Pumpkin laughed, "Our shop is close to No. 1 Middle School, right? Brother Zong took 10 steamed buns to the school this morning. I don't know what he said to the students, but they all flocked to buy steamed buns. Those who didn't come themselves even asked others to bring them for them."

Zhong Yuan guessed, "I suspect that Brother Zong meant that eating our steamed buns would guarantee a perfect score on the test."

Li Guizhi burst out laughing at their antics. "You can do that?"

Jiang Xiaoli smiled and said, "Who cares what he said? Our steamed buns are delicious. We were worried that no one would want to try them. Now that so many people have tasted them, our business will be great. Brother Gua, Brother Zhong, we need to prepare more vegetables starting tomorrow."

Pumpkin nodded. "Don't worry, Little Pear. One of us came to deliver your share of the spicy snacks, and the other wanted to tell you some good news about our steamed bun shop. Don't worry about the shop; Brother Zong is here. At noon, Brother Zong saw that business was so good, so he hired two more aunties to make steamed buns. We're just waiting to open tomorrow."

Jiang Xiaoli took the familiar envelope, saw the number 5290 written on it, smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Brother Gua."

Li Guizhi poked her head out of the kitchen and called out, "Pumpkin, Zhong Yuan, come home for dinner later!"

The two quickly declined, saying, "No, Auntie, we have things to do back home!"

They had been waiting for Jiang Xiaoli to come back, and now that they had seen her, paid her, and reported what had happened, they rushed back home.