Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Xingmin really couldn't figure out what better way to deal with so much chili sauce than to sell it on the black market.
Ma Xiu Lan began to tell her three children about her experiences and thoughts over the past few days.
She had earned nearly 20 yuan in three days of selling chili sauce, so of course she was happy. However, she thought that if she went to the black market to sell chili sauce every day, it would conflict with her work, and her leave would expire tomorrow.
If she sold her job and specialized in selling chili sauce, she would definitely make money, but she would be easily targeted because in this day and age it was very unusual to sell a stable job and stay at home and eat and drink well.
Not to mention the neighbors next door who are up to no good, even Zhao Xingye and Zhao Xingjia will be keeping an eye on them.
It would be better for her to use this job as a protective umbrella. She is a master chef, so it is normal for her to buy more vegetables and study cooking at home.
Besides, chili sauce is consumed slowly, and one bottle can last for a long time. It is very tiring to keep changing places to sell it. It is better to directly wholesale it to others and let them sell it, and you are only responsible for the supply.
Today she was at the black market and saw Liang Ruixia preparing beef sauce to sell again. She had not been to the black market in the past few days because she was building a kitchen at home. This time she went there with 20 kilograms of beef sauce, and it was immediately sold out.
Liang Ruixia's face turned black. A few days ago, she sold chili sauce at a low price, but when she got home and counted, she found that she had not made any money at all. She had worked for several days in vain and was scolded by her family.
She was unwilling to give up. She thought that if she earned money, her family would not look down on her and scold her for being a freeloader every day. So she cruelly took out the private money she had saved for decades to buy beef.
She wanted to learn how to make beef sauce from Ma Xiu Lan and sell it. She thought that since it was all meat, it would taste good no matter how it was cooked. However, she didn't expect that Ma Xiu Lan didn't come to sell it in the past few days, and she didn't sell many pounds.
Now that Ma Xiu Lan has come to sell it, no one is interested in it anymore.
She was very dejected, but still didn't want to give up, so she asked Ma Xiu Lan if she could sell the recipe to her, and then she would go to sell it somewhere else and give this place to Ma Xiu Lan.
Zhao Xingmin was very tempted. "Yes, Mom, it would be great if you could sell the recipe to her. That way you don't have to risk going to the black market. Besides, you can only make so much money from a can of chili sauce. It's too hard work."
Ma Xiulan shook her head. "Selling chili sauce only makes you money for a short time, and the money you earn is limited. If I had this recipe, I could open a factory and produce countless chili sauces. If I sold more, wouldn't I make more money?"
Zhao Xingguo sighed: "Mom, your idea is good, but it's impractical. How can you open a factory privately?"
"It's not possible now, but maybe in the future. What was the country like when your mother was a child? What's it like now? Life will only get better."
Ma Xiu Lan knew how things would develop in the future. Now she just had to wait for the right time to come and be one of the first to try it out.
When she makes more money, she will buy a house, buy gold, wear a big gold bracelet every day, and live the life she envied in her previous life.
Seeing Ma Xiulan's confident look, Zhou Anan inexplicably believed what she said.
"So, you didn't sell her the recipe, but you just said that you supplied her with the goods and asked her to sell them?"
Ma Xiulan nodded. "Yes, I've made it. She buys from me. The more she buys, the cheaper it is. For example, I sell chili sauce for 0.3 yuan per kilogram, peanut and sesame chili sauce for 0.5 yuan, and beef sauce for 1 yuan. If she buys 10 kilograms, it's 10% off the retail price. If she buys 20 kilograms, it's 15% off. If she buys 50 kilograms, it's 20% off."
Zhou Anan did some calculations based on what Ma Xiulan said:
"If I wholesale 10 kilograms of beef paste and resell it, I can make 1 yuan. If I take 50 kilograms of beef paste, I can make 10 yuan. I can mobilize a few people to partner with me to wholesale 50 kilograms, so I can get a lower wholesale price and make more money."
She became more and more excited as she spoke: "Mom, you are so smart."
Ma Xiu Lan felt ashamed. She was not smart at all. She had just lived another life and had learned from other people's wisdom. But her daughter-in-law was the truly clever one. She immediately thought of finding a few partners to lower the wholesale price. It was probably because her daughter-in-law had contributed more to her eldest son's company in his previous life.
Zhao Xingguo didn't understand: "An An, why are you adding to the chaos?"
Zhou Anan glared at him and said, "Mom, why can I work with you? Eating too much chili sauce can easily cause internal heat. I've been learning about herbal medicine from my dad since I was a child. I can make a drink to reduce internal heat and sell it with other products. This way, people who love to eat chili will have nothing to worry about."
"By the way, I grew up in the village, and I can grow peppers. If we had land, it would be more cost-effective to grow peppers ourselves."
Zhao Xingmin was stunned, unable to see clearly what was going on. "Didn't we agree to persuade Mom not to engage in speculation? Why is my sister-in-law getting involved?"
Ma Xiulan held Zhou Anan's hand and said, "Don't worry. For now, you should focus on preparing for the college entrance exam. If you want to work together, I will definitely support you. It just takes a while."
Then he took Zhao Xingmin's hand:
"As for the speculation, don't worry. Mom will just do some of it on a regular basis. I'll cover myself up tightly and send Liang Ruixia to her home. Even if she's discovered, she hasn't seen me and doesn't know our family, so I won't be implicated."
Zhao Xingmin saw that he couldn't stop Ma Xiulan, so he could only take the blame himself: "Then I will deliver the goods before dawn every day."
Zhao Xingguo had been stabbed several times by Zhou Anan: "How can my sister go and send it off? I will go."
"Okay," Ma Xiulan decided, "Xingguo will send it after the college entrance examination. I'll send it first now."
After talking to her children, Ma Xiu Lan delivered the 10 kilograms of chili sauce and 10 kilograms of beef sauce that Liang Ruixia had ordered yesterday before dawn. Then she went to Zhao Youfu's factory and threw the letter of complaint at the gatehouse. The letter had the name of the new factory director on it, so the gatekeeper would not throw it away casually.
After finishing all this, Ma Xiu Lan went to work in the cafeteria, and it was time for her to take leave.
Zhao Youcai took Old Lady Wang home last night. She lay in bed and stammered all night, which made the whole family unable to sleep well. No one made breakfast, so he came to the cafeteria to buy breakfast.
He took the meal ticket and handed it to the person at the window. He saw that the chef's hands were shaking, and all he scooped into his bowl was soup. There were barely any cabbage leaves, let alone the tofu and meat slices.
He looked up and saw Ma Xiulan looking at him with a half-smile on her face. She said angrily, "Why don't you leave? There are people waiting in line behind you. Can you bear the consequences of delaying their work?"
"Ma Xiulan, you're just taking revenge for your own personal gain. Look at my bowl, it's all soup with only a few slices of vegetables."
Zhao Youcai had been hungry all night and was just waiting for this meal, but Ma Xiu Lan made things difficult for him and he started yelling in anger.
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