Jiang Yue just heard Sister Zhao say that she got up early in the morning to roast sweet potatoes. She thought that the oven could only roast a dozen at most, but she didn't expect Sister Zhao to come out carrying a big basket.
"Sister-in-law, what time did you get up to roast these? There are so many! How long will it take to roast them!" Jiang Yue lifted the old quilt in the basket and saw it was full of roasted sweet potatoes. Her eyes widened in shock.
"I get up at two or three o'clock, control the heat well, and can bake a batch of buns in about half an hour. I find a big quilt to cover myself so I won't be cold. And while I was baking, so many buns were saved!" Mrs. Zhao felt a little embarrassed when she said this.
She is now determined to make money. She had previously thought about starting a grilled fish business, but the cost is high. She has to rent a store and get a business license. She has been applying for it for a long time, but it has not been approved yet.
Just as Jiang Yue mentioned that she could sell roasted sweet potatoes, Mrs. Zhao started to think about it.
She went to see Jiang Yue today, and she really wanted Jiang Yue to accompany her. Unexpectedly, Jiang Yue took the initiative to say it before she even mentioned it.
Mrs. Zhao has a tricycle at home. She is very strong and moved a basket of roasted sweet potatoes kept warm by a quilt onto the tricycle.
Jiang Yue wanted to help lift the body, but before she could stretch out her hand, she was pushed back by Mrs. Zhao.
"Jiang Yue, have you still felt nauseous and wanted to vomit these days?" Sister Zhao still remembered that Jiang Yue felt nauseous when she smelled grilled fish a few days ago. If Jiang Yue was really pregnant, she would definitely not be able to lift heavy objects.
"No more! Sister-in-law, I caught a cold that day!" Jiang Yue said with a smile.
She felt that Aunt Yang and Sister Zhao were overthinking. She felt sick, but they all thought she was pregnant. How could this be possible? No matter who was pregnant, she couldn't be pregnant!
Sister Zhao was a little disappointed when she heard this, "Is that so?"
However, this is Jiang Yue and Gu Ye’s private matter after all, and it is not convenient for Sister Zhao, an outsider, to say more.
The weather was too cold, so Jiang Yue didn't ride a bicycle. He walked and chatted with Mrs. Zhao all the way, and they soon arrived at the county town.
"Jiang Yue, should I shout?" Mrs. Zhao looked at the busy vegetable market. Although she was the one who suggested selling roasted sweet potatoes, when it came to the actual stage, she couldn't help but get nervous and couldn't open her mouth.
"Well, we have to shout, otherwise others won't know what we are doing!" Jiang Yue was not nervous. She had sold French fries here more than half a year ago, and was chased by the joint defense team several times at that time.
"Roasted sweet potatoes, selling roasted sweet potatoes, fragrant and sweet roasted sweet potatoes!" Jiang Yue shouted, and took out a roasted sweet potato, broke it open and took a bite.
Someone immediately came over following the scent.
"Is this sweet potato? How was it made to make it so fragrant?"
"Brother, you have good taste. This is a roasted sweet potato. It's different from what we usually cook. Look, the sugar juice in the sweet potato has been roasted out. It's very delicious. Please try it!" Jiang Yue took out a roasted sweet potato, broke it in half and handed it to the man.
The man took only one bite and his eyes lit up, "Wow, it's really delicious!"
"How do you sell it?"
On the way here, Jiang Yue discussed with Mrs. Zhao. Raw sweet potatoes are six cents a pound. Roasting sweet potatoes does not require much labor cost, at most just washing them, but it does require firewood and charcoal. If customers come to buy them, they cannot take them empty-handed, they have to be wrapped in paper, so the price doubles, selling for about one cent a pound.
"One, then weigh three for me!" The man was very straightforward and picked three big ones.
Jiang Yue took the money, wrapped the roasted sweet potato in oil paper and handed it to the man.
"Look, sister-in-law, we're open now!" Jiang Yue handed two cents to Sister-in-law Zhao and said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, it's open!" Mrs. Zhao was so excited that her face turned red with excitement as she held the two cents.
With the first customer, business became easier. In less than a short while, more than half of the roasted sweet potatoes in the big quilt had been sold.
"Oh, why is it cold?"
Someone else came to buy roasted sweet potatoes, but when he touched them, they were cold, so he didn't want to buy them anymore.
"Big sister, the weather is cold now. This quilt is supposed to keep warm, but too many people bought it in front of us and kept opening it, letting the cold air in. So the baked sweet potatoes are not hot anymore. But it doesn't matter. You can take it home and put it by the stove to bake it. The taste will be the same!"
Seeing that the elder sister was still hesitant, Jiang Yue said, "If you want, I'll give you 10 cents per pound. There aren't many left. We'll go back after we sell them all!"
When the elder sister heard the price had dropped, she immediately picked two.
Jiang Yue and Mrs. Zhao continued to sell for a while, and as the number of people in the market gradually decreased, the two of them packed up their stalls and prepared to go back.
"Jiang Yue, why haven't the joint defense team come to arrest people now?" Sister Zhao asked Jiang Yue excitedly in a low voice, "I heard before that you have to keep your eyes open when setting up a stall, otherwise you will be arrested by the joint defense team and your property will be confiscated! It will be treated as speculation and profiteering! I reminded myself today to be more alert. You don't know, I almost ran away when I saw two joint defense team members coming just now!"
Seeing that Jiang Yue didn't move, Mrs. Zhao stopped dead in her tracks, but her heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of her throat.
Jiang Yue just smiled and said nothing.
The conference has been held for some time, and the policies from above are already very clear, but it will take some time for the policies to be implemented at the grassroots level. Just because the joint defense team does not arrest anyone today does not mean that they will not arrest anyone in the future.
In fact, Jiang Yue also saw members of the joint defense team patrolling nearby, but Mrs. Zhao certainly didn't know that those members of the joint defense team had been to her store to buy bell-bottom pants, and she gave them all the lowest discounts, so when the members of the joint defense team saw her today, they would definitely not arrest her.
Of course, if Mrs. Zhao officially starts selling roasted sweet potatoes, Jiang Yue will definitely remind her to be careful, and then she can go and negotiate with the joint defense team, and there shouldn't be any problems.
When Jiang Yue and Zhao returned to the family compound, someone saw Zhao pushing a tricycle with a basket covered with a large quilt on it. They thought Zhao had gone to the market and asked curiously, "What good things did you buy?"
Mrs. Zhao was in a hurry to go home and count her money, so she had no time to talk to anyone. The person who was asking the question became even more curious when he saw Mrs. Zhao's hurried figure.
It was a small business, and they collected bills in cash and fractional invoices. Jiang Yue and Mrs. Zhao counted them together, and added up the totals after they finished counting.
"That's six dollars and eighty-six cents!"
For Jiang Yue, this amount of money was a little too little, as every piece of clothing in her store cost more than this price, but Mrs. Zhao was still very satisfied.
"Jiang Yue, thank you so much for staying with me today." Although Mrs. Zhao also helps Jiang Yue make clothes and receives a salary every month, she thinks that she cannot rely on Jiang Yue for everything. She also wants to develop other ways of doing things, and selling roasted sweet potatoes would be a good choice.
"Sister-in-law, why are you being so polite to me!" Jiang Yue had been busy all morning and was tired, so she said goodbye to Sister-in-law Zhao and went home carrying the vegetables she had bought while selling sweet potatoes.
At this time, in the high-ranking cadres ward of the Provincial First Hospital, Hao Fugui returned to the provincial capital yesterday afternoon and was immediately admitted to the hospital. Also hospitalized with him were Hao Qian, Han Yao and Han Lu.
"Is the call connected? What's going on in Beijing?" Hao Fugui asked Hao Qian anxiously.
Hao Qian looked sinister, "The Zhan family said they would send someone over today!"
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