Chapter 120 Buying Land to Plant Peppers
It took Cui Qingyi two days to make a new polo ball. During these two days, except for sleeping at night, Wangcai stayed by Cui Qingyi's side all the time.
This caused Konjac to seize the opportunity to laugh at it, "Oh, who is it that never looked at others straight in the eye before?"
Wangcai didn't care what Konjac said. All he had in mind was the polo ball that was about to be completed.
Cui Qingyi had just cut the thread with a pair of small scissors when Wangcai anxiously stretched out his mouth to pick it up. He looked so anxious that no one knew how he had resisted fighting with Heiya Shuofeng for the past two days.
Cui Qingyi hurriedly held down the dog's head and said, "Don't grab it, don't grab it. We're not done yet."
Cui Qingyi also sewed two small bells on the polo ball, which made a tinkling sound when shaken. As soon as the bells rang, Wangcai pricked up his ears and shook his head to listen curiously. When he realized that the sound was made by the polo ball, the whole dog suddenly became excited.
Heiya and Shufeng were also the kind of people who got bored easily. When they saw that Wangcai had something better, they came over with their fat legs swinging, but Wangcai held his polo ball in his mouth and ignored them.
Cui Qingyi found it funny. Why are all the people in this family so cunning?
After Zhou Wu grasped the trick, he often brought some small things to visit Aunt Qin under the pretext of visiting her. Cui Qingyi did not stop him. Wangcai had come to their house on his own. If Zhou Wu was really destined to be with the two puppies, he would surely treat them well.
The girls' school's literacy classes and baking classes are proceeding in an orderly manner.
Aunt Qin is serious and responsible. Although she is a little more serious than Cui Qingyi and Konjac, the children all like her very much.
Gradually, Aunt Qin would sit in the yard after class and tell the children stories from her storybook. The stories she told were carefully selected, some that could enlighten the children but would not lead them astray. Cui Qingyi would occasionally stop what she was doing and listen.
As for the baking class, after the children can make some basic pastries, in addition to giving the pastries they make as rewards to the best-performing children in the class to take home, Cui Qingyi also tries to encourage the children to take the pastries they make in class out to set up stalls.
Instead of going to crowded places, they set up a table in front of the girls' school in Yahou Lane.
The children don't need to be crowded together in one place. Cui Qingyi arranged classes for the children in several baking classes, and one person is required to sit behind the table every day to sell the pastries made in the class to passers-by.
Cui Qingyi didn't give them any samples and let everyone express themselves freely.
After all, they were all young children. At first, they were all a little timid. They couldn't open their mouths when looking at the passers-by. Whenever passers-by looked at them, the children always shyly wanted to hide themselves.
Three days passed, and the pastries prepared by the children in class were not sold once. In the end, Cui Qingyi secretly gave them away when the girls' school closed.
Konjac and Aunt Qin were completely confused. "Why didn't the girl let the children take these cakes home?"
Cui Qingyi fiddled with an abacus to calculate the expenses of the baking class since its inception, thinking that she still had to find ways to save costs. "Letting them go out and set up stalls is to train their interpersonal skills. If someone tastes the food and points out a few things that were not done well, it will also allow them to think about improvement on their own.
Letting them take my cakes home is encouraging, but if I let them take home every unsold item, it will inevitably cause the children to develop bad habits in the long run."
Cui Qingyi has always believed that a sense of boundaries between people is very important. Once some things go beyond this boundary, it will be difficult to go back.
Things took a turn for the better when Pang Ya was standing behind the stall for the second time. Pang Ya's mother, wearing clean clothes, stood in front of the stall and asked with a smile about the price of the pastries.
Fatty twisted her hands, and although she didn't know what her mother was doing, she still introduced it clearly.
"The chef said that although these cakes may not look very good, the ingredients used are all good, so you can buy three for ten cents."
Hearing this, Fatty continued to smile and asked, "Ten cents is a bit expensive, how about two cents each?"
Pang Ya was stumped by her mother's question. The master said three for ten cents, but didn't say if two cents each would be okay.
She turned around to seek help from her master, and when she turned around, she found that her master had been standing behind her without her knowing when. The little girl suddenly felt safe.
For the first time in her life, Pang Ya sold three cakes. Although the buyer was her mother, she would remember the feeling of handing over six cents to the master for the rest of her life.
With Pang Ya's success and the fact that the pastries in the girls' school are made with solid ingredients, although the pastries made by the students cannot compare with those in pastry shops outside, ever since some people bought them home and tried them out of a try attitude, they often wait for the children in the girls' school to go out and set up stalls every day.
Those children who were afraid of facing the eyes of passers-by can begin to face it calmly after experiencing success.
Time passed quickly and it was October. After repeated heavy fogs, the second crop of peppers planted by the Cui family in the backyard was coming to an end.
Cui Qingyi strung the picked peppers together and hung them in the backyard to dry. After drying, she poured out the pepper seeds and stored them together.
During this period, although Cui Qingyi was very greedy, she never cooked any dish with chili peppers.
Therefore, Aunt Qin still doesn't know what the red thing that the Cui family planted in the backyard is, but she doesn't care too much.
Aunt Qin grew up in an extremely wealthy environment. Although she was a servant, she served her favored master and cooked for him only a few times, not to mention going to the fields to work personally.
Such a growing environment destined her not to focus on farming, and since the girls' school started, Aunt Qin would not easily step into the Cui family's backyard.
Looking at the bag of pepper seeds she harvested this time, Cui Qingyi is planning whether she should rent or buy one or two acres of land in the spring of next year.
After all, there is limited space in the backyard at home, so it is impossible to grow peppers on a large scale.
This year, thanks to the support of Qixing Bookstore, Cui Qingyi's Qingtian Ji and Xiyuan Ji Lu sold very well, and Mr. Nancheng's name has become famous throughout Qinghe County.
Of course, the profits were visibly generous. After Qi Moxuan delivered the share in the first half of the year, Cui Qingyi and Konjac could not sleep all night looking at the thick stack of banknotes. The next day, they deposited the banknotes in the largest bank in Dongping County.
Cui Qingyi immediately had the idea of buying land to grow peppers and took action. The next day, she took konjac to the pepper shop.
As the year draws to a close, the dental business becomes increasingly sluggish.
But the broker on duty at the pawnshop burst into laughter when he saw Cui Qingyi and Konjac enter. He remembered them. The first time they came to the pawnshop, they bought a house. The second time, they rented a house in the backyard of the county government office and built a private school. So this time...
Tell me how long has it been since you had apricots like these?
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