Ma Xiulan glanced over there and saw that the person competing with her for selling chili sauce was her first customer yesterday.
Liang Ruixia was not panicked when she met Ma Xiulan's gaze. She bought Ma Xiulan's chili sauce yesterday, which was indeed delicious. But then she thought, Ma Xiulan could make money by selling this, and she also wanted to make this money to supplement the family income.
It happened that her daughter who had married into the village gave her half a basket of chili peppers, so she tried to make a pot of chili sauce herself. After tasting it, she found that it was indeed not as delicious as the one made by Ma Xiulan.
She added the pound of chili sauce she bought from Ma Xiu Lan directly into her chili sauce. After tasting it, it tasted a little better.
Since her peppers don't cost money anyway, she can still make money even if she sells them at a lower price.
Several people gathered around Liang Ruixia, wanting to try it. Liang Ruixia was afraid that they would not buy it after trying it:
"I sell it cheaply and give you a bite of steamed bun to try. How can I sell it anymore? It's a huge loss."
If you’re not allowed to taste it, then forget it.
Anyway, you can make chili sauce at home, and you will only buy it if it tastes better than what you make at home.
But some people were greedy for the bargain and bought 5 kilograms from Liang Ruixia at once.
As the sun rose, the black market dissipated. Ma Xiulan's beef sauce and peanut sesame chili sauce were sold out. Only two kilograms of pure chili sauce remained because of Liang Ruixia's influence.
Ma Xiu Lan counted the money as she walked. Today she sold 10 kilograms of beef sauce, 10 kilograms of peanut sesame chili sauce, and 8 kilograms of chili sauce.
The beef in the beef sauce cost 4 yuan, and the other ingredients such as oil, chili peppers, mushrooms, and star anise cost about 2 yuan. It was sold for 10 yuan, and the profit was 4 yuan.
The profit of peanut sesame chili sauce is 2.5 yuan, and the profit of chili sauce is 1.2 yuan.
The total amount is 7.7 yuan, which is a lot compared to the current monthly salary of 30 or 40 yuan, but it is not enough. Competitors have begun to appear today, and it will definitely be more in the future.
Moreover, chili sauce is consumed slowly, and it usually takes a long time to finish a pound of it.
She has to think about what to do next.
First, I went to the nearby village to pick some peppers, then bought a chicken to visit my younger brother. Last time, my younger brother bought furniture for me, and I saved a lot of money compared to if I had bought it myself.
Ma Xiu Lan bought 50 kilograms of chili peppers for 2.5 yuan, which was half the price of the city. She also bought 10 kilograms of raw peanuts for 2 yuan and two chickens for 3.8 yuan. She sent these things back home and bought two large ceramic jars of chili sauce.
Finally, he changed his clothes, took a chicken and went to his brother Ma Mingqiang's house.
When Ma Mingqiang heard from his daughter that Ma Xiu Lan had arrived, he went to a state-owned restaurant on his way home at noon and bought a pound of braised beef in soy sauce, intending to give his sister a snack.
At noon, Ma Xiu Lan made pork and green bean stewed noodles as usual, and Ma Xiaolian helped her gloomily beside her.
Ma Xiulan asked her what was wrong, but she didn't say anything.
Forget it, I'll wait until noon to ask my brother.
At the dinner table, Ma Mingqiang took the initiative to speak: "Sister, yesterday I went to Bai Zhihua's hometown and met an old lady at the entrance of their village.
The old lady specifically told me about the situation of the Bai family. Bai Zhihua's grandparents had been ill for a long time, which made the family poor. In addition, Bai Zhihua was a sensible child and took the initiative to let his younger brother get married first.
So, in the end, he is the only one who is still unmarried at the age of 25.
Ma Xiulan was suspicious. It was impossible for the things in her previous life to be wrong. "How many people did you ask?"
Ma Mingqiang smiled innocently and said, "One, that lady was very enthusiastic. When she saw me at the village entrance, she asked me what I was doing. She even told me all the big and small things about the Bai family and took me to take a look outside the Bai family's yard."
Ma Xiu Lan held her forehead and wondered if that old lady could be Bai Zhihua's biological mother, waiting for him there.
Maybe Bai Zhihua called home in advance to talk things over after that meal.
Helplessly said: "Why don't you ask a few more people?"
Ma Xiaolian saw that her father had said that Bai Zhihua was fine, but her aunt still kept chasing her, as if she had to ask questions. Could it be true, as Bai Zhihua said, that her aunt was divorced and now her eldest cousin Xingguo was married, leaving only her cousin Xingmin.
The eldest aunt fell in love with Bai Zhihua and wanted him to be the son-in-law of cousin Xingmin, so she kept saying bad things about Bai Zhihua in front of her father.
So that her father would give up Bai Zhihua and let her take Bai Zhihua home.
Ma Mingqiang was puzzled when he heard his elder sister's words: "Do I need to ask a lot of people about this?"
Ma Xiulan nodded helplessly: "Of course, the marriage of children is a big deal. One person's words are one-sided. What if she is lying to you? It would be more reliable to ask a few more people."
Ma Xiaolian took out a piece of paper from her pocket:
"Aunt, Bai Zhihua gave me this morning a certificate from the village proving he's never been married. It even has the official seal. You see, there's really nothing wrong with him."
Ma Xiu Lan took it and looked at it. The official seal was real. It seemed that Bai Zhihua's methods were really superb.
He looked at his silly brother: "Even if Bai Zhihua proved that he had never been married, you recruited a son-in-law just to continue the family line, fearing that your family would be taken over by the descendants of Old Lady Song.
Then you take him to get a fertility test, so that he won't find out he can't have children after marriage. If you fall in love again by then, do you want Xiaolian to adopt a child?
Or is it a divorced and reconstituted family? Whether or not you can get along with an adopted child is one thing, but life in a reconstituted family is never that easy.
Ma Mingqiang obeyed his elder sister's words:
"I talked to him about this last night, but he absolutely didn't want to go. He said hospitals are harmful and will exaggerate problems when they aren't, just to trick people into spending money on treatment. I'll try to convince him again."
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