"Mom, try this and see if it tastes good."

To ensure the taste, each cookie is sealed in transparent plastic paper.

Huang Zhiqiu took a piece, opened it, and took a bite. It was crispy and crumbly, with a rich milky flavor. It was not at all like ordinary biscuits that made you choke when you eat them.

"Momo, what kind of cookie is this? It's delicious."

Yun Mo also opened one, broke it into two halves, fed one half to Ling Chuan, and ate the other half herself.

"This is a cookie launched by Ronghua Company. It is still in the research and development stage. I have eaten the previous finished product, and it is not as crispy. I gave Aunt Luo some small suggestions. This is the improved finished product."

"Mom, you may not know that my small suggestion can at least double the sales of this cookie. This is my return gift to the Xie family."

"Interactions between people also depend on fate. Although I have helped Aunt Luo a lot, she sent these things not necessarily to repay a favor, but more of a token of her love for you.

We will try our best to pay back what we can now, and we will keep what we cannot pay back for the time being and pay it back when we have the chance. So, mom, you really don’t have to feel any burden.”

After being comforted by his daughter, Huang Zhiqiu's worries were immediately relieved a lot.

Two days later, Yun Mo received a call from Huang Zhiqiu saying that he had returned to Anshi safely. She felt relieved and began to work hard to develop new business for the bamboo weaving factory.

The first priority, of course, is to strive to win the order for Ronghua Food’s Mid-Autumn Festival gift boxes, while at the same time, we also need to look for other sources of customers.

If you want to get orders, you must first have good products.

Yun Mo used her rest time and spent a week designing five mooncake gift boxes.

In order to polish out satisfactory samples, Yun Mo directly hired two experienced bamboo weaving masters in Jiang City at high salaries to make samples.

After nearly half a month, the appearance of the samples of the five mooncake gift boxes finally met Yunmo's expectations.

At the same time, the results of the second mock exam came out.

Yun Mo scored 658, ranking fourth in the city.

Zhong Weimin expressed his satisfaction and called Yun Mo to his office.

Zhong Weimin kept chattering like an old mother, but Yun Mo didn't hear a word he said as her mind was entirely focused on the mooncake box order.

Judging from the sales of Ronghua’s Dragon Boat Festival gift boxes, the result can only be considered barely passing. Even if Ronghua were to sign an order for mooncake gift boxes, it is estimated that it would not exceed 15,000.

The order volume of 15,000 is obviously not enough to support so many employees in the bamboo weaving factory. She must find more customers and get more orders.

The annual expenses of a bamboo weaving factory, including rent, salaries, food, accommodation, taxes, etc., are around 55,000 to 60,000 yuan.

And this is just the cost of keeping the bamboo weaving factory running. To make a profit, sales must exceed 60,000.

"Yun Mo? Yun Mo?"

Yun Mo gradually came back to her senses amid Zhong Weimin's soul-calling shouts, "Ah, Teacher Zhong, are you done?"

"What are you thinking about so absent-mindedly? Did you ignore everything I said just now?"

Looking at Zhong Weimin's face full of depression and dissatisfaction, Yun Mo couldn't help but laugh.

"Teacher Zhong, I was thinking, how about getting first place in the city in the third mock exam?"

Zhong Weimin's eyes lit up, "Really? Are you sure?"

"As for dreams, it's okay to be bolder, what do you think?"

“…”

"If you think this dream is not big enough, I can make a bigger one..."

Zhong Weimin interrupted her unhappily, "Alright, alright, go back to class."

"Teacher Zhong, you should always have dreams, just in case they come true."

Zhong Weimin looked at her slender and straight back and murmured with a smile, "Okay, I'll wait for you to win the city championship trophy for me!"

Back in the classroom, Yun Mo turned her head from time to time to look at Xie Xia who was concentrating on solving problems, and seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

"Just tell me if you have something to say." Xie Xia didn't even raise her head.

"Sister Xia, is Uncle Xie at home this weekend?"

"Um."

Yun Mo was delighted, "Then I'll go to your house this weekend."

Xie Xia turned her head to look at her, her eyes revealing a hint of mockery.

Yun Mo tried hard to suppress her overly flattering smile. "Uncle Xie invited my mom and cousin to dinner before. Aunt Luo also sent a lot of things to my mom before she returned to An City. I want to cook a meal myself to thank your parents."

Xie Xia raised her hand and tapped her forehead. "My door is always open to you. Just come over if you want to. No need to say so much nonsense, ok?"

Yun Mo was so touched, "Sister Xia, I wish you were my real sister. You would definitely spoil me. I feel happy just thinking about it."

"That's a nice thought."

Xie Xia sneered, but there was a hint of doting in the smile at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.

The weekend came in a blink of an eye.

Early in the morning, Yun Mo took a taxi to Xie's house with the ingredients she had bought in advance.

In order to show sincerity, Yunmo prepared all the ingredients for today's cooking herself.

When Yun Mo arrived at Xie's house, the Xie family was still having breakfast. When they saw her, they all warmly invited her to sit at the table and eat with them.

Yun Mo had finished her breakfast before leaving the house, but she couldn't refuse the hospitality, so Luo Xuelan asked the nanny to prepare the clean dishes and chopsticks, and she had no choice but to go to the table and eat a few bites.

After breakfast, Xie Linan went out first for something. Luo Xuelan was in the kitchen making coffee while watching Yun Mo prepare the ingredients.

"Are you planning on roasting the suckling pig?"

Seeing her skillfully propping up the piglet, whose internal organs had been cleaned, on bamboo sticks, Luo Xuelan couldn't help but ask with interest.

"Well, this is a small native pig that I asked someone to buy from the countryside. It was freshly slaughtered last night, then marinated with spices and refrigerated."

Luo Xuelan pointed at the various shrimps, crabs and shellfish kept in the water tank and asked, "What are you going to do with these?"

Yun Mo was a little embarrassed, "Aunt Luo, I actually only plan to make two dishes and a soup for lunch."

Perhaps she could see that she was uncomfortable, so Luo Xuelan comforted her gently, "Xiao Mo, just treat this place as your own home. Do whatever you want according to your own ideas."

"Okay, Aunt Luo."

After a while, Xie Xia also came into the kitchen and asked Yun Mo if she needed help.

Yun Mo was not polite and asked Xie Xia to help rinse the lobsters and shells.

The coffee was ready. Luo Xuelan drank Italian coffee herself and made a mocha for each of them. She then chatted with them while drinking.

After finishing her coffee, Luo Xuelan put on an apron and gloves to help process the various seafood in the tank.

At 11 o'clock, Yun Mo, with the help of the nanny, set up the oven and started roasting the suckling pig.

When roasting a suckling pig, the roasting fork needs to be rotated at a constant speed so that the suckling pig can be heated evenly. At the same time, peanut oil should be applied continuously on the pig skin so that the roasted suckling pig skin will be crispy enough.

When the suckling pig is 60% cooked, wrap the ears, trotters, tail and other parts with tin foil to prevent them from burning. Then continue roasting until the whole suckling pig becomes golden and crispy.

(End of this chapter)