On the way home, Shen Heng held Bai Jiaojiao's hand and, with the help of the starlight and the alcohol, said with great joy: "Look how happy my father-in-law is, his old face is covered in tears."
"Why don't you say that in front of my father?" Bai Jiaojiao squeezed Chen Heng's hand.
"You want me to say it in front of him? Then I'll say it next time! I'll just say you told me to say it!"
"Brother Heng!"
The two bickered and teased each other until they got home, only to find someone squatting at the door.
"Shunzi?"
"Hey, Heng-ge, where did you guys go?"
When Wang Fushun saw the two return, he immediately stood up and exclaimed, "Ouch, ouch, my legs are so numb!"
"Why are you here?" Shen Heng said, opening the door and inviting Wang Fushun in to sit down.
"Come over here and discuss something with your sister-in-law," Wang Fushun said, looking at Bai Jiaojiao.
"Discuss me? About the glutinous rice strips?"
Wang Fushun immediately nodded: "Sister-in-law, I'll just tell you directly. Last time for the Dragon Boat Festival, we made a batch of pork floss cakes, right? Now a lot of customers are asking me for distribution channels. One person wants quite a lot. I was thinking if it's convenient for you, how about we stop making glutinous rice strips for a few days and make some pork floss cakes for me to sell?"
Pork floss cakes are expensive and difficult to sell retail, but if you really find someone with money, you can make a lot of money from them.
Bai Jiaojiao was short of money right now, so she readily agreed: "Okay, just like last time, you give me an odd number and I'll make it. But I've already made the glutinous rice strips for tomorrow, so I'll have to give these to you."
"Of course, of course, sister-in-law, you can start making meat floss cakes tomorrow, and I'll deliver orders to you every day from now on."
Judging from what Wang Fushun said, from now on we'll be making pure dried meat floss cakes.
Bai Jiaojiao didn't care. As long as she could earn more money, what kind of pastries she sold was secondary. The process of making pork floss cakes wasn't that complicated.
"What's that in your car? You're reselling this?" Shen Heng noticed that what appeared to be a fishing net was in Wang Fushun's basket.
“This is a side job my mom does for the net rope factory. They give her net ropes and ask her to come back and make nets. The old lady can’t stay idle.”
This was done secretly; Wang Fushun was just about to deliver it under cover of darkness.
"A side job? Is that allowed?"
Bai Jiaojiao asked.
Wang Fushun said, "That rope factory said they urgently needed to fulfill a batch of orders. I'm not exactly well-informed, but once I found out, I helped my mother find this kind of business."
How much does it cost to make a net? How long does it take?
Hearing Bai Jiaojiao ask this, Wang Fushun assumed she wanted to do it and advised her, "Sister-in-law, my mother only gets this one bill a week, and she only gives you two yuan. You make pastries just fine, this can't compare."
Bai Jiaojiao didn't want to do it herself. She said to Wang Fushun, "Could you tell me which rope farm it is?"
"It's the one in town, Heng-ge knows it."
Wang Fushun didn't hide it from him either.
"Okay, I understand. Thank you, Xiao Wang."
"Sister-in-law, why are you being so polite with me? You're my biggest source of income. It's getting late, I need to hurry and deliver it, or they'll be closing up shop."
Wang Fushun was in a hurry to leave, and Shen Heng didn't try to keep him any longer.
Why are you asking this?
Seeing Bai Jiaojiao's interested expression, Shen Heng couldn't help but become curious.
“What happened to Sister Meijuan last time really upset me. Even though she’s standing up for herself now, it’s hard to say what’s really going on. When her mother-in-law comes back, there’s bound to be another uproar. If she can bring in money for the family and earn about the same as Brother Jiancheng, then she’ll have the upper hand.”
"You want to help her?"
Bai Jiaojiao shook her head: "I want to take on a batch of orders at the rope farm in the name of the collective, so that the women in our village can earn a little extra money while they're at home gossiping."
In this way, not only Huang Meijuan, but many women in Shili Village who had been mistreated at home had a source of income and could stand up straighter at home.
For a family, having more income each month is a good thing.
Shen Heng laughed and said, "You're really something. It's one thing to be the boss at home, but do you want all the men in the village to become henpecked?"
"Are you henpecked?" Bai Jiaojiao looked Shen Heng up and down. "You're not."
"Am I not?" Shen Heng laughed in exasperation, feeling that he had spoiled Bai Jiaojiao for nothing. "Isn't everything in our family decided by you? I can't even get enough dumplings to eat."
Why did you bring this up again!
"Okay, okay, I won't mention it. Just tell me, what is it that I haven't listened to you about?"
Shen Heng looked at Bai Jiaojiao and questioned her.
He wanted to see how this young woman would respond.
"Then let's sleep separately tonight, and you don't need to get into my bed."
"That won't do!"
Shen Heng immediately became excited. Whether he was henpecked or not was unimportant: "Listen to me on the kang (heated brick bed), listen to you off the kang."
He listens to Bai Jiaojiao in everything, just so he can coax her into kissing and touching him in bed.
Otherwise, what would he be after?
Why pretend to be a good person for nothing?
"You're a hooligan!" Bai Jiaojiao punched Shen Heng's shoulder with her little pink fist. The bones in Shen Heng's shoulder were so hard that the punch hurt her.
Bai Jiaojiao: This thing has thorns!
Shen Heng held Bai Jiaojiao's small hand, blowing on it while kneading and taking advantage of her: "Be careful, don't hurt my wife, or I'll have to make you pay for it."
"......" You are truly shameless.
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Bai Shibao finally managed to go home, and ended up squeezing onto the same kang (heated brick bed) with Bai Zhiman.
He was taking off his clothes to go to sleep when Bai Zhiman called out to him, "Wait a minute, blow out the light."
"What's wrong, Dad?"
"Take off your vest, let me see."
Bai Zhiman was unable to step forward, so he gave instructions.
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