Jiang Xiaoli smiled at her, "Mom, apart from the factory, I don't think anyone would be willing to spend five thousand yuan to buy our formula. He agreed to join us."
Li Guizhi didn't understand what "franchise" meant, so she asked.
Jiang Xiaoli carried the empty plastic bucket and walked home with Li Guizhi, explaining to her mother as they walked.
"Franchising means that we don't sell the entire recipe to them, but as long as they join, they can buy the seasoning packets for making spicy strips from us. This way, they can make spicy strips exactly the same as ours for a small amount of money!"
"I get it now, so we can make money twice, right?"
In Li Guizhi's view, the recipe was originally going to sell for 500 yuan, and now she can also sell the seasoning packets, so isn't that making money twice?
Jiang Xiaoli laughed, "Mom, you're right! Look, if more people join the franchise, we won't need to go out to set up a stall anymore. We can just sell seasoning packets at home and earn enough."
Jiang Xiaoli had previously calculated that the cost of making one pound of dried bean curd sheets was one yuan and fifty cents. This included not only the seasonings, but also one pound of dried bean curd sheets, soybean oil, scallions, ginger, onions, and the cost of coal briquettes.
After deducting these costs, the seasonings actually only cost seven or eight cents, and ten catties of dried bean curd sheets would only require seven or eight dollars worth of seasonings.
Jiang Xiaoli directly quoted fifteen, which meant she would make half the profit.
Moreover, they set up a stall at the entrance of the Children's Palace, and even dozens of kilograms of spicy strips were not enough to sell in one noon. If they sold them all day, they would have to take several seasoning packets a day, which would be a lot of money!
This is much easier than setting up a stall outside.
After resting at home for a while, Li Guizhi went to work. Jiang Xiaoli was still gloating over her cleverness when Tian Xiaomeng knocked on the courtyard gate. "Xiaoli, are you there?"
Her shrill voice sent a chill down Jiang Xiaoli's spine, and she remained silent, trying to pretend she wasn't home.
Tian Xiaomeng's voice came from the courtyard gate again, "Oh, Xiaoyu, are you here to play with Xiaoli? I knocked on the door but no one answered. It seems she's not home."
Jiang Xiaoli was speechless. She rolled her eyes and decided to just accept her fate.
She strolled slowly to the courtyard gate, ruffled her hair, and rubbed her eyes as she opened the gate, pretending to have just woken up. "Who is it?"
When she opened the door, Tian Xiaomeng scolded, "Look at you, are you still half asleep?"
Xiao Muyu knew she was faking it. She should have just come back from selling spicy snacks at this time, how could she have been sleeping until now?
However, after glancing at Tian Tian and Xiao Meng beside her, she didn't say anything more and went straight into the courtyard.
Jiang Xiaoli and Tian Xiaomeng followed behind. Tian Xiaomeng tugged at her clothes, "Xiaoli, let's go rollerblading later. Let me tell you, my cousin took me there a few days ago, and it was so much fun!"
Jiang Xiaoli instantly pictured a vast open space with a colorful light ball hanging in the air, refracting various colors of light as the light changed. A group of young people lined up, each with their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them, swaggering around the space on their ice skates.
She gave Tian Xiaomeng a strange look and said in a teasing tone, "We're still students, isn't it inappropriate for us to go there?"
Upon hearing this, Tian Xiaomeng nearly fainted from anger. "Xiaoli, you're overthinking it. It's just a place to have fun. I've been there once already!"
Jiang Xiaoli remained unmoved. "That won't do either. School starts soon, and my mom wants me to go with Xiaoyu to buy school supplies, right, Xiaoyu?"
Xiao Muyu saw Jiang Xiaoli wink at her and replied cooperatively, "Yes, Auntie asked me to make sure Xiaoli buys the stationery today. Xiaoli, when are we leaving?"
The two of them, working in unison, completely ignored Tian Xiaomeng's suggestion. But seeing Xiao Muyu there, she still wasn't giving up, wanting to take advantage of the situation. "Oh, okay? Then I'll go with you. I haven't bought any stationery or notebooks yet!"
It seems this little tagalong isn't going to be shaken off today. Jiang Xiaoli's eyes were practically rolling to the top of her head, making Xiao Muyu almost burst out laughing.
Seeing that the two of them didn't object, Tian Xiaomeng went home to ask her mother for money.
Seeing that the person had left, Xiao Muyu asked, "Why don't you want to play with her anymore? Weren't you two inseparable before?"
Jiang Xiaoli feigned seriousness, "These are the prices of growing up!"
She couldn't understand what Jiang Xiaoli was saying at all, so Xiao Muyu simply stopped asking. Anyway, she felt that Jiang Xiaoli was much better than before, and that was enough for her.
After a while, Tian Xiaomeng returned, and the three of them walked to the alley entrance and boarded a bus to the wholesale market.
At that time, in addition to textbooks, notebooks were also distributed every semester, but the quantity was far from enough. Before the start of each semester, Jiang Xiaoli would go to the wholesale market to buy notebooks, and each notebook was one cent cheaper than the stationery store at the school gate. This was a habit that Jiang Xiaoli had developed over the years.
The wholesale market isn't too far away, just six bus stops away. It's a little past three o'clock now, the sun is high in the sky, and there are very few people on the bus, with a few empty seats.
Jiang Xiaoli quickly pulled Xiao Muyu to sit in a two-seater near the back door, while Tian Xiaomeng, who was a step behind, could only sit in a single seat at the front of the car.
Tian Xiaomeng cursed Jiang Xiaoli hundreds of times in her heart. Just now, she went home and asked her mother, Tian Yuzhen, for money to buy stationery, but she was scolded by her mother, "Money, money, money! All you ever do is ask for money! You're such a money-loser!"
After being scolded, Tian Yuzhen only gave her five yuan. She had originally planned to say nice things to Xiao Muyu on the way and ask her to lend her some money.
She had done this several times before, and Xiao Muyu had never made her pay back the money!
Who knew that Jiang Xiaoli, who usually didn't like getting close to Xiao Muyu, would stick to her side today and not leave her side for a moment!
Jiang Xiaoli had no idea what Tian Xiaomeng was thinking, and even if she did, she wouldn't care.
She was busy showing off to Xiao Muyu her great achievement in fooling Zong Jiayu today!
Xiao Muyu, after hearing her outrageous suggestion, asked, "Aren't you afraid that once he realizes what's happening, he won't come looking for you to join the franchise tomorrow?"
Jiang Xiaoli patted her shoulder, speaking in a tone of an elder educating a younger person, "Young man, in this world, what we rely on is solid skills. Is my spicy strip recipe the same as others'? No! So if he wants to do spicy strip business, he'll definitely come to me obediently to pay the franchise fee tomorrow."
Xiao Muyu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't say anything.
Seeing her hesitate, Jiang Xiaoli raised her chin. "What do you want to say? Call me a shrewd businessman?"
Xiao Muyu shook her head, "I knew you were a shrewd businessman, but I didn't expect you to be so good at conning people. No wonder my dad likes you so much and treats you like his own daughter."
"Hahaha," Jiang Xiaoli laughed this time, "Don't be jealous! Uncle Xiao and I are father and daughter, even though we're not from the same father!"
Xiao Muyu was speechless. She thought Jiang Xiaoli's shamelessness was unbelievable, but her father just happened to like her "rascal" attitude the most!
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