Oh well, making money is the priority. She urged Wei Mingshen to cooperate with her in making straw weaving so that she could take the first batch of goods for the New Year to Manager Gao's place to collect the prize this morning.
That afternoon, Su Xueli and Wei Mingshen were busy in the house. She was weaving and he was dyeing when Du Mei arrived with her two young daughters.
The mother and her two children were all dressed in new clothes, and their faces were beaming with joy.
"Auntie!"
"Auntie!"
The two little girls rushed towards Su Xueli as soon as they saw her.
"Hey! Zhao Zhao, Pan Pan, you're finally back! Your auntie missed you so much. Sister-in-law, when did you get back from your parents' home? Come sit down and rest." Su Xueli carried one of them in each arm.
Wei Mingshen also handed Du Mei a chair for her to sit on.
Du Mei sat down and pulled her two daughters over, saying, "Come on, you two, don't keep your aunt from doing her work. I just got back a little while ago and came to see you, haha."
Du Mei asked, "Sister-in-law, are your family members all doing well? Do you feel at ease staying here for a few days?"
Du Mei smiled and said, "Great! These past few years have seen our lives improve so much. We can finally eat our fill. My whole family cries when they see me. My mother and grandmother miss me day and night... They love seeing me and my two daughters so much."
She smiled, but tears welled up in her eyes.
“My family keeps asking me how I’m doing here, but I don’t say. I just say I’m fine. What good would it do to tell them? It’s so far away, and they can’t help me at all. They just worry about me. Besides, I won’t put up with their bad temper anymore.”
Su Xueli echoed, "Yes, yes, yes."
After Du Mei finished talking about her family, she looked at Su Xueli and said, "Xueli, dear sister-in-law, I've had an idea on my mind these past few days, and I was thinking of telling you about it. Please don't laugh at me."
Su Xueli asked, "Sister-in-law, what are you saying? I would never laugh at you. Just say it."
Du Mei said, "Xue Li, I'm thinking that I won't take care of their family anymore. I want to learn how to do some small business, just enough for my mother and the three of us to live on."
Su Xueli's eyes lit up. "Sister-in-law, what do you want to do?"
Du Mei said, "I see that everything sold at the market is selling very quickly. I'm thinking of selling toilet paper, but I don't know if it's feasible."
Su Xueli clapped her hands and said, "Of course it's possible. You see, every time you go to the market to buy paper, you have to fight for it, otherwise you can't buy any."
Du Mei said, "That's right, that's right. Every time I buy toilet paper, they squeeze in like crazy. I see that he's the only one selling toilet paper in our Matou market, so his business is so good. I was thinking, wouldn't it be just as good if I were another toilet paper seller? I can go to all the nearby markets, and when there are no markets, I can sell in several villages around here."
Su Xueli clapped her hands and said, "Yes, I support my sister-in-law."
Wei Mingshen asked, "What about the two girls? Are you comfortable leaving them at home?"
Du Mei instinctively hugged her two daughters tighter and said, "Of course I'm worried. If I'm not around, they'll bully my two children to death. I take them with me when I go to the market. I have no choice but to endure the hardship."
Zhao Di immediately said, "I like going to the market with my mother."
Pan Di, upon hearing this, also said in a childish voice, "Mommy...going to the market."
They thought going to the market would be fun, unaware that they would have to endure wind and sun all day and suffer from hunger.
However, for children, as long as they are with their mother, even hardship feels sweet.
Su Xueli said, "Sister-in-law, this is for the best. The child won't be bullied if she stays with you. Zhaodi will be starting school in the second half of the year, and you'll be able to pay her tuition and buy her books."
Du Mei said energetically, "Yes, yes, that's what I think too. It's just that I've rarely been to the market in the five or six years since I got married here, and I've never been anywhere else. Sister-in-law, you go out often, do you know where the toilet paper factory is?"
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