He Zixuan thought so, but Li Yutong looked at him and suddenly asked, "If I call him, what should I say?"

He Zixuan was stunned for a moment: "What? Just, show concern for him, ask him when he will go abroad, where he plans to go, and whether he is happy playing with his friends..."

Li Yutong raised her hand to signal him to stop talking: "It's not appropriate."

He Zixuan widened his eyes. What does that mean?

"I can't explain it to you clearly. When you start dating in the future, you will understand why I said it's not suitable." After saying this, Li Yutong rode away on her bicycle.

He Zixuan was speechless, and suddenly thought of a word, "ruthless and iron-blooded".

Doesn’t Li Yutong want to care about Shen Jiaze at all?

Li Yutong was not as ruthless as He Zixuan thought. On the contrary, she saw the matter very clearly.

They are all children now. Why think about these things when they should be studying? When they are twenty years old, go to college, have friends, and are mature in their thinking.

For example, Shen Jiaze might find it incredible that he had ever been attracted to an ordinary girl from a small county town, and think that he was crazy at that time.

Li Yutong rode a bicycle through the streets of the small county town. When she reached the top of a slope, she saw a factory area in the distance.

That was the canning factory in their county, which made canned yellow peaches. However, the taste of their local yellow peaches was quite ordinary, and the skin would crack when it rained. After the canning factory purchased these peaches at a low price, they would peel the damaged parts before canning them.

But the sterilization is not done properly.

Later, serious quality problems broke out and the factory director was implicated in corruption and bribery. He was directly shut down and put through labor re-education. No one took over the cannery, so it went bankrupt.

By the way, the cannery will soon go bankrupt, and her uncle who works there will also be unemployed.

She sighed. This is the trend of the times. Those who are eliminated are always unqualified, and those who remain are the essence.

When they returned to the store on Renmin Street, Third Aunt Zhao Xueyan said to her, "Xiao Yu, you said you could sell hot pot ingredients, but our hot pot ingredients are selling out too quickly, and we don't have enough ingredients for our own big pot dishes."

Li Yutong still has to go to school now. Although she taught her grandmother how to stir-fry hot pot ingredients, she is doing it alone after all, and the quantity is limited.

"How much did you sell?" she asked.

Zhao Xueyan took out the account book and did the math for her.

Li Yutong was surprised. Selling hot pot ingredients can make more money than selling meals?

Just as I was thinking about it, another customer came into the store: "Big sister, do you have any hot pot ingredients left?"

Zhao Xueyan had no choice but to say, "No more, come back in two days."

The customer was very disappointed: "Why is it always unavailable? We have been craving for hotpot for four or five days."

There are not enough hot pot restaurants nowadays, and the prices are generally high. A plate of vegetarian dishes, such as lettuce, costs only a few cents per head in the market, but in a restaurant, a whole plate of lettuce costs two dollars and eighty cents.

Nowadays, people generally don’t have much money, and cannot easily go to a hotpot restaurant to spend lavishly.

Li Yutong had an idea in her mind, and she discussed it with her grandmother in the evening.

"Grandma, I'm planning to fry hot pot ingredients and sell them."

"Selling hot pot ingredients? Is that possible?"

Chen Xiaoying wondered if they wanted to do too many things.

If we spread this business too wide and can't take care of it, we'll be in trouble.

"Let's try it first. We can ask customers who want it to pay and make a reservation. We'll make a batch every three days, and they can come and pick it up when the time comes," she said.

Chen Xiaoying is short of money now. She has always rented a shop. No matter what she does in the shop, she has to consider the landlord. She is afraid that the landlord will not be willing to hammer in the nails, or that the landlord will not be willing to build the cabinets. She is afraid that the landlord will raise the rent if she does not do business for long, or that the landlord will find fault and deduct money from her when she returns the room.

It would be nice to have my own store.

She had this idea in mind, and now that there were other ways to make money, she was immediately tempted.

"I think it's okay. At the old store, your Third Aunt and Aunt Cai Ling can take care of the waiters. At the new store, your old aunt can also do it, so I will have more free time." Chen Xiaoying thought: "Let's stir-fry the hot pot ingredients."

This is what Li Yutong thought.

The grandparents and granddaughter got to work right away. When the restaurant closed in the evening, they cooked pot after pot in their own restaurant.

Almost all customers who made reservations were able to buy the tickets, and the neighbors are all regular customers.

The hot pot ingredients of Chenli Restaurant are very fragrant and the dishes are delicious. The restaurant’s reputation spread quickly and there is a constant stream of people coming to the restaurant to buy hot pot ingredients every day.

The hot pot ingredients for the grandparents and grandchildren were not enough.

What's more, some people even take them out. Some people buy more than ten bags at a time and take them away directly.

Because they were buying in small quantities, some people came with cans, and some brought pots, pans, and utensils. The two generations didn't care since it was sold by pound anyway.

Until an uncle named Wang Youben came to the door.

"I'm here to discuss a cooperation with you."

It was the first time for Chen Xiaoying to discuss cooperation with someone, so she hurriedly called Li Yutong over. The two of them sat down and listened to the other person introduce his factory, how big it was, how many employees it had, and how popular the products were.

Chen Xiaoying was a little confused when she heard this: "You mean you want to buy our recipe and sell the hot pot ingredients all over the country?"

Wang Youben changed the subject and said hurriedly, "I'm talking about the future that we can foresee. If your hot pot ingredients are really delicious and can be marketed, then our factory will definitely be able to sell them all over the country."

Chen Xiaoying couldn't help but ask: "What if it doesn't sell?"

"Then? How could it be that it can't sell?" He is an experienced salesman, and he has personally eaten their hot pot ingredients several times. It is really delicious, so it is impossible for it not to sell. He smiled and said, "It's just a matter of how much you sell. If you sell more, you will get more money. If you sell less, of course you will get less money."

Chen Xiaoying has been doing business for three years and is no longer an old lady who knows nothing.

The hot pot ingredients sell well because of the recipe made by her granddaughter. If I give them the recipe and they sell it themselves, they won't know how much they sell and how much they sell, so how can she share the profits with them?

More importantly, what if they secretly put another brand on their hot pot ingredients and sell them, saying that no one buys theirs, then wouldn't the recipe be given to them for free?

She secretly told her granddaughter Li Yutong, who was standing beside her, “This is a liar.”

Don't be tempted.

In later life, Li Yutong had met people who wanted to buy her hot pot recipe. They could tell at a glance that Wang Youben thought they were ignorant bumpkins and were trying to fool them.

"Uncle, thank you for taking the trip. We don't plan to sell this recipe," she said.

Rejected directly.

Wang Youben said hurriedly, "Why not? You opened a shop to do business, isn't it to make money? It's just that you stay in this small place and don't know how big the world is outside. You sell a few hundred bags a month in this county and think you've made a lot of money. Try selling it all over the country, that would be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of bags. Just think about it, how much money can you make then?"

"You must not cut off your own source of income."