Chapter 218 Dragon Boat Festival
Aunt He had been thinking about Chu Hong for a long time. When she saw her, she smiled and said, "Chu Hong, the seeds you gave me last time tasted really good."
She smiled gently, "It's the Dragon Boat Festival now, and I want some rice dumplings. I wonder if you could come to my house and make some for me. I can buy whatever you want."
"Auntie will give you ten dollars for your hard work."
Then he smiled and said, "These ten dollars are ten days' wages for an ordinary worker. You sisters can earn that in one day."
She has a high salary and her family has several thousand in savings, making her one of the highest-income earners.
Recently she wanted to buy a refrigerator, so the couple had to save up for a year.
But she also wants to save a little wherever she can.
If you buy it from the Song family, the price will definitely be high.
But the quantity she wanted was large, and if she wasn't careful she would lose a hundred dollars, which made her feel sad just thinking about it.
If Chu Dan wanted to enter his house, he would definitely not refuse.
Chu Hong heard her words, but she was unwilling to indulge her: "We really don't have time, my uncle's friend also asked us to help make zongzi."
This was of course a lie told by Chu Hong.
Even though my second uncle likes to go to the black market on weekdays, he will work hard at home before and after the busy farming season.
After all, throughout the year, we rely on summer harvest and autumn harvest to fill our stomachs.
But she was unwilling to pamper Aunt He, and she really looked down upon the ten yuan salary.
In fact, it’s not that he really dislikes her, he just doesn’t want to be controlled by her and makes it seem like he is clinging to the He family.
"Originally I wasn't planning to come today, but I ran out of pork and glutinous rice at home, so I had no choice but to come here."
Chu Hong finished speaking and looked at her watch: "It's already past nine o'clock, and we are in a hurry to go shopping. If you want some rice dumplings, I can give you fifty at most."
Sometimes, you have to use hunger marketing. If you say you can have as many as you want, Aunt He will definitely know that Chu Hong was lying when she said she wanted to sell rice dumplings.
But now Chu Hong said that she could only give out fifty each, and Aunt He began to believe that Chu Hong and her friends were secretly doing black market business.
Thinking of how she first met Chu Hong, who was selling food on the black market, Aunt He immediately said, "Fifty is not enough. I have to deliver to more than ten families. I need at least two hundred dumplings."
Her own leaders, her husband's leaders, and her son and daughter are all working and rely on their leaders for care on a daily basis. They definitely cannot miss out on the Dragon Boat Festival gifts at this time.
It is said that the more courtesy one receives, the less blame one feels.
It just so happens that most of the leaders nowadays are honest and will not and dare not accept expensive gifts. In that case, this delicious and unforgettable rice dumpling is just an ordinary gift, but it can make them remember the thoughtfulness after eating it.
Aunt He asked again: "How much is this zongzi?"
After that, he smiled again and said, "I know you won't give me a higher price, so I'll just follow the price you offered. I can't let you lose money, right? You have to earn some hard-earned money anyway."
In fact, it is to remind them not to take advantage of themselves and not to take advantage of their familiarity.
Chu Hong looked embarrassed: "Two hundred zongzi are really not enough. Pork is not selling well. It's too late to make salted duck eggs first. I don't know if I can buy them."
He then said to her, "As for the pork dumplings we sent you earlier, one pound of dumplings can only hold seven or eight dumplings at most, and we sell them for 28 cents each."
"You don't need a ticket to buy pork on the black market, but it's almost the holidays and the price has already risen to 1.7 yuan."
"The price of glutinous rice is also nearly 40 cents per pound, and there are oil, salt, sauce and other things... I can only make about 2 or 3 cents per piece."
There is definitely some truth to this statement. In fact, one pound of pork can make at least ten dumplings, but she wants to make money from the difference.
And the pork she bought last time was only RMB 1.5 per pound.
The raw materials for ten dumplings, including meat and glutinous rice, only cost one dollar and eighty cents.
If I can sell each dumpling at 28 cents, then I can earn ten yuan from 100 dumplings.
Aunt He also knew the price of meat on the black market, but she was not very proficient in cooking. After calculating in her mind, she felt that the price given by Chu Hong was about the same.
But she still felt bad, after all, an ordinary big rice dumpling only cost 20 cents each.
But she wanted to give it to others as a gift, so she gritted her teeth and said, "Chu Hong, we are so familiar with each other, can you help your aunt and make two hundred dumplings for me?"
Then he took out some money from his pocket: "It's fifty-six dollars, right? I'll give you the money now."
Since I have taken your money, I don't have to worry that she won't send it to me.
I just feel a little sad about the money I spent; it’s almost my monthly salary.
Chu Hong acted like she didn't want to take your money, but in the end she was not as strong as her and was forced to take the money.
"This, this?" Chu Hong was embarrassed, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Since Auntie wants it, I will ask my uncle to turn down some of it and deliver it to you first."
Then he said sincerely: "Auntie is good to us, and we always remember it in our hearts. We can't earn your money anyway."
"I'll charge you 26 cents per zongzi. Should I refund you 4 yuan or give you 15 more zongzi?"
This made Aunt He even happier, and she always felt that she had gotten the upper hand.
Therefore, she definitely did not charge any money, and even said nicely: "No, I don't want any money, you guys also have to earn some hard-earned money."
She was embarrassed to accept the money back, but she was happy to take fifteen more dumplings.
Both parties were very satisfied with the deal. After a few polite greetings, they agreed to deliver the goods by the next morning at the latest. Only then did Chu Hong say goodbye and leave.
On the ox cart, Chu Dan was confused and whispered, "Sister, why are you so honest? He Zhigang and I may not be able to succeed, so why let her take advantage of us so much?"
"At this price, aren't we working in vain?"
Chu Hong couldn't help laughing: "You are stupid, haven't you heard that all businessmen are dishonest?"
"If there really was no money to be made, I wouldn't be so enthusiastic."
Even to Chu Dan, Chu Hong was not ready to tell the truth: "At least you can earn ten yuan, right?"
The rice dumplings that were wrapped at home earlier were prepared to be sent again to Lao Chu and his family, plus ten for the He family, fifty for He Wen, and seven or eight for my second uncle's family, my cousin's family, and my aunt's family, a total of ten or so.
In this way, there are nearly two hundred dumplings left at home, which is enough for Aunt He without even making any.
But if that happens, there will be nothing to eat at home.
Chu Hong still liked eating zongzi very much, so she went to the black market again and bought more than 20 kilograms of glutinous rice and more than 10 kilograms of meat, preparing to continue making meat zongzi.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, daughters always go back to their parents’ home to give gifts.
Although Aunt Song's parents have passed away long ago, her brothers and sisters are still alive, and she still goes back to her parents' home to visit.
Before, Aunt Song thought she had married well and her daughter had married even better, so she always felt superior when she returned to her parents’ home.
But in the enamel factory where her daughter worked before, it was Chu Hong who helped sell the batch of defective enamel washbasins. This made her daughter look up to the leaders. Now her daughter has benefited from this and has become the team leader.
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