Looking at the competition in her own business, Chen Xiaoying was stunned by the people who came to order her steamed buns.

The third daughter-in-law, Zhao Xueyan, also seemed a little at a loss. She looked at others and then at her mother-in-law.

"Um, big sister, don't you want to sell it to me?"

Aunt Ma across the street felt a little embarrassed, but she was the one who knew best how popular Chen Xiaoying's buns were. If it weren't for her own skill in making hand-pulled pancakes, her breakfast shop would have gone out of business in the past six months.

It's because Chen Xiaoying's house sells buns, so even if her buns are 30 cents cheaper than Chen Xiaoying's, they still don't sell well. When people come to her house to buy scallion pancakes, they are not willing to buy the leek and vermicelli buns at the same time. They have to carry the scallion pancakes and run here to buy two buns.

It can be seen that her buns are delicious.

Besides, she had eaten it before. They were also steamed buns made of white bread and vegetables. Why were the ones made by Chen Xiaoying so delicious?

Chen Xiaoying came back to her senses. As the saying goes, never hit a smiling person. Especially for those of them who do business, they all have to smile, as harmony brings wealth.

"Sell it, why not? How much do you want?"

Aunt Ma had thought it through when she came, and raised a finger: "I want a hundred first."

"One hundred?"

Chen Xiaoying thought about it and realized that she asked the fourth child Li Honggang to sell 300 buns every day, and Aunt Ma ordered 100 of them. The first few people who came to her to buy buns were all those who set up stalls in the streets and alleys of the county to sell breakfast.

By this calculation, there are a total of 1,200 buns.

"Okay, I'll steam it tomorrow morning, and you can come get it later."

"Can't I steam it myself?" Aunt Ma became curious.

Everyone can make steamed buns.

Chen Xiaoying thought about it and said, "That's fine."

Then, she asked Aunt Ma to write down what kind of buns she needed, and started to ask the store employees to go to the market to buy things. There were five steamers in total, and they would all be used tomorrow morning. One steamer could steam twenty layers at a time, with thirty buns in each layer.

The steaming time for vegetable buns and meat buns is different.

They are doing wholesale business. She not only has to supply the nearly 2,000 buns she sold in the morning, but also has to supply the ones these few families want.

After the shop assistants came back, Chen Xiaoying held a meeting with them.

"We have to steam at least 3,000 buns tomorrow morning, so we all have to come early. If we're late, we'll delay other people from making money."

The vendors all do business from 6 to 8 in the morning, so they have to prepare the buns at least before 6:10.

There are now eight employees in the store, including Chen Xiaoying. Each of them will have to make at least 300 buns tomorrow, not to mention the manpower and time needed to steam the buns.

"Mom, how about we hire a few more people?" said the third daughter-in-law Zhao Xueyan.

Chen Xiaoying had thought about this a long time ago: "We still have staff in other stores, so we don't need to rush to hire people. After trying this out for a while, if the wholesale bun business can be done, we will hire people."

Zhao Xueyan could only nod.

Chen Xiaoying said that after assigning work to everyone, she picked four employees from the new store and called Liu Lanxiang from the village to come as well. It was Sunday and Li Yutong had a day off. She was also a good bun-maker and could make dumplings quickly and well.

Li Yutong also called He Mingliang over because of their interest. The two stores were not far from each other, so He Mingliang not only learned how to make buns, but also learned how to make steamed dumplings.

Chen Li Restaurant became lively.

In fact, Li Yutong had mentioned the matter of wholesale buns before, but at that time, she did not have much business experience, and her grandmother Chen Xiaoying did not dare to do it freely. In case it was not done well, it would ruin the reputation of their own buns.

This time, Chen Xiaoying saw that her granddaughter had opened a factory in a very professional manner. She had many places to spend money. If she only relied on selling buns in these two stores, how long would it take her to make enough money to buy two more houses?

She always remembered that the second and fourth sons all lacked a house, as did her youngest daughter Li Hongxia.

This house is actually their confidence, their children's confidence, and their hope for the rest of their lives. If their children work hard and provide for them in their old age, the house will belong to them.

If the children do not do well when they grow up, this house will be their retirement money. After selling the house or relying on the rent, they can still have a worry-free life in their later years.

Chen Xiaoying tried every possible way to help her children.

Once she bought them a house, she would be able to breathe a sigh of relief. She had given birth to them, let them suffer, failed to educate them, and made them inferior in society, but she had worked hard to make up for it with the house.

She couldn't do more, but at least they had their hands and feet intact and were adults, so they had to struggle on their own.

Chen Xiaoying does what she says.

At 4:30 in the morning of the next day, people from the bun shop came one after another and started making buns in full swing.

The plump white buns are neatly arranged in the steamer and steamed one by one in the pot.

At five o'clock, they had wrapped several hundred buns for the breakfast shop diagonally opposite and took them back to steam them. Chen Xiaoying carefully explained the water level and time for steaming the buns.

Then, small business owners came one after another with their baskets to get the buns.

Today's thermal insulation is a blanket made of white cotton cloth with cotton sandwiched in between. It is used to cover the hot buns and is not only breathable but also can maintain temperature.

The store was bustling with activity, and the diners could see that Chen Li Restaurant was doing big business and was now selling steamed buns wholesale.

When it was ten o'clock and the last diner left, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on their chairs to rest.

"Everyone must be tired. It's time to pay wages and I will give you bonuses." Chen Xiaoying was very tired, but she was still happy because all the buns were sold.

The employees in the store are also happy.

If the boss makes a lot of money, it will be smoother to pay salaries and bonuses. If the boss is not doing well in business and cannot make money, employees will find you an eyesore wherever you stand and will not tolerate seeing you idle.

Chen Xiaoying's steamed bun wholesale business is unexpectedly popular.

Li Yutong quietly said to Chen Xiaoying: "Grandma, when I went out to investigate this time, I not only thought about how to do a good job in the food factory's business in the future, but also thought about how to promote our steamed buns and dumplings."

"What should we do?" Chen Xiaoying widened her eyes and thought for a while. She couldn't let her granddaughter speak, so she spoke up: "I know that supermarkets sell a lot of frozen dumplings, steamed dumplings, buns, and scallion pancakes later."

These were the products she had seen later in the small supermarket in the village, of various brands, which were said to rely on cold chain transportation to be shipped to other places for sale.

There are no such cars now, right? Besides, freezers in shopping malls are not yet popular.

"But it can't be done now, can it?"

Li Yutong said, "I know that people's lives are not fast-paced yet, and not many people can accept this kind of frozen noodles. So let's be down-to-earth and take it step by step. Let's buy a dough kneading machine so that we don't have to waste our arms kneading the dough."