Xiao Wang stared at the amount of money for a long time, unable to process what he had just seen.
"This money was so easy to make! I sold all the ice cream in just over ten minutes! I should have taken more ice cream!"
"It seems like no one is specifically watching over this place right now. If someone is, we'll deal with it as it comes!" Lu Zhixia took out a creamy ice cream from the box, unwrapped it, took a bite, and the sweet taste filled her mouth.
With enough sugar, her brain started working. She remembered that this year's weather was exceptionally hot, arguably the hottest in over a decade.
It hasn't rained for almost a month. If we could get some ice from the ice cream factory, we could make some chilled hot and sour noodles and mung bean soup. The cost would definitely not be as high as making ice cream.
But it's definitely more profitable than ice cream, while munching on ice cream.
Also, it will rain for several days in a week, so the ice cream will definitely not sell, but we can resell umbrellas.
Summers have been very hot these past few years, so umbrella sales haven't been good, and the factory has a lot of inventory piling up.
In his past life, Song Weidong bought a batch of umbrellas at an extremely low price, which allowed the factory to distribute them as employee benefits, thus gaining everyone's support. This is why he was able to defeat his competitors in next month's election and successfully become the director.
To sell umbrellas, you first need to have some money on hand!
Xiao Wang was counting his money with his head down, and he was more and more surprised as he counted. Just as he had imagined, he had made several yuan more than he usually did, which was equivalent to earning three days' worth of money in one go.
When Lu Zhixia saw Xiao Wang get back on his bike,
"Let's find a place to have dinner. Thank you for taking me to the ice cream factory to buy supplies today."
"You didn't help me sell so many ice creams, I should be treating you to a meal." Xiao Wang wiped the sweat from his face with a towel, then hung the towel around his neck.
Lu Zhixia dislikes owing favors. If a problem can be solved with a meal, there's no need to repay the favor later, making it a worthwhile deal.
"I was the one who offered to treat you to dinner first, so listen to me."
Xiao Wang gave in to the woman's strong insistence, saying, "Then let's go to the state-run restaurant for mutton offal noodles. We can get free refills of soup, and we can buy a yellow flatbread to make sure we're full."
Lu Zhixia nodded in agreement, then got on her bicycle and rode north with Xiao Wang.
She arrived at the entrance of the state-run restaurant, a place she had never been before. She handed the car over to the person watching it and was asked to pay five cents for the service.
Once inside, they saw that there were quite a lot of people. They found a corner seat and sat down, and a waiter immediately came over with a menu.
Lu Zhixia said to the waiter, "Two bowls of mutton offal noodles, one serving of cold pig's head meat, and some chili oil."
"No pig's head meat!" Xiao Wang quickly said. "We just want mutton offal noodles, and please give us extra chili oil, I can handle spicy food! And give us a plate of the free pickled vegetable shreds too."
"We want the pig's head meat." Lu Zhixia took out her wallet and took out her meat coupons and grain coupons. The prices were written on the wall. A large bowl of mutton offal noodles cost three cents, and two bowls required half a jin of grain coupons. Cold pig's head meat required one liang of meat coupons plus eight cents.
In a few years, when the country becomes wealthy, we won't need ration coupons to eat anymore.
"Sister Xia, you really don't need to eat pig's head meat," Xiao Wang said.
Lu Zhixia handed the counted money and tickets to the waiter, then turned to Xiao Wang and said, "Next time you treat me to a nice meal, this one's on me!"
"That's quite a feast." Xiao Wang pursed his lips; he hadn't eaten pig's head meat in a long time.
“Just listen to me! Consider it me treating you to a better meal. I never used to be able to afford to eat this well,” Lu Zhixia said.
Xiao Wang then stopped insisting, especially since the waiter had already walked away.
Soon, two steaming bowls of mutton offal noodles were served, along with a large plate of cold pork head meat, a mix of lean and fatty meat sprinkled with scallions, and drizzled with sesame oil and chili oil—it looked very appetizing. A small dish of complimentary pickled vegetables was also served.
Lu Zhixia stirred the meat with chopsticks, tasted it, and thought it was pretty good. Before, she only had two jin of meat coupons each month, which she gave to that ungrateful father and son. Now it's different; she only cares about herself!
"Eat!"
"Hey!" Xiao Wang picked up his chopsticks to eat noodles, but he couldn't resist picking up a piece of pig's head meat and chewing it again and again. Sure enough, meat is the best.
This noodle dish was already half-meat, and now with the addition of pig's head meat, it's practically heavenly.
Lu Zhixia looked up and a figure in front of her caught her attention.
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