Chapter 81 Chapter 81 He dared not to rob
"He doesn't dare to rob." Ning Shiqiu said this with certainty.
Ning Shiqiu used to live across the street from Zhao Silian's family, and he had already figured out what kind of person Zhao Silian's father was.
He didn't dare to face his parents, or in other words, he didn't dare to face adults who seemed more powerful than him.
When facing people who are more powerful than him, he only dares to use some disgusting tricks in private.
For example, he only gave Zhao Silian fifty cents to buy boiled rice noodles. This was his test.
If he knew who was kind to his daughter, he would definitely rely on him in the future and would only give Zhao Silian 50 cents to buy it.
It's not easy for others to talk to him about this kind of thing to his face. Even if someone talks to him about it to his face, he can push the blame onto Zhao Silian and make all kinds of excuses, saying that it was Zhao Silian's fault.
When necessary, Zhao Silian might be beaten in front of outsiders to show others. Most people would feel sorry for her when seeing that scene, and then the matter could be covered up.
But when it comes to real life and greater interests, it is different.
One cent is not a lot, so you can get away with it, but more money won't work.
He also knew that it would be hard to find excuses to get away with it when he had too much money, let alone push it onto his children.
He couldn't deny it, so he didn't dare to play any tricks.
Zhao Hongli is also very concerned about his reputation. He used to like to pretend in front of outsiders, although he was not very good at it.
But compared to wine, face means nothing.
I love drinking, but compared to money, I can put alcohol aside temporarily.
After all, he is not stupid. He knows that he can only drink if he has money. If he can always have money coming in, he can always have wine to drink.
Ning Shiqiu told Zhao Silian to sell it without worry: "We will sell it together with you. He will think it is our family business and will not dare to do anything."
As it turned out, Ning Shiqiu was right.
When Zhao Hongli returned home, he discovered that the mung bean popsicles they were selling were frozen by Zhao Silian in her own refrigerator. No matter what he thought in his heart, he pretended to be happy.
Not only did he not look angry, he even smiled and praised them for their business acumen.
Ning Shiqiu took the opportunity to say, "Uncle Hongli, my mother bought a batch of popsicles. The freezer at home has to store other things, so it can't hold so many popsicles. Your family is the only one on the street that has a refrigerator. She asked me to ask you if she can put some of them in your refrigerator to help freeze them?"
Zhao Hongli was not willing to suffer such a loss.
He thought to himself: How dare you ask, doesn’t it cost electricity to run the refrigerator?
But he wanted to save face, so he pretended to be generous and said, "Okay, just bring it and put it there, but my refrigerator is about to be sold, and I guess it can only be kept for two or three days. You have to tell your mother to vacate your freezer quickly, otherwise when my refrigerator is sold, there will be no place to put it."
Ning Shiqiu said regretfully, "That's such a pity. My mom originally thought that if we put the popsicles in your refrigerator, Sister Silian could help sell them slowly. We could earn three cents for each ten-cent popsicle. We could split the profits and it would also be used to pay your electricity bill."
In fact, the profit of a ten-cent popsicle is five cents, but he deliberately lowered it.
But no matter how low the profit is, once the quantity increases, the accumulation of small amounts can make the profit sound very considerable.
"My mother said she had checked and found that there was only one small shop with a freezer on our street that sold popsicles, but the street was so long and there were so many people living there, how could one shop selling popsicles be enough?
Even if we sell 100 chicken breasts a day, we can still make three yuan, which can buy more than a pound of pork. If we divide it equally between the two families, it will be more than half a pound of pork. We can buy some rice noodles, and after eating two bowls, we will still have thirty cents left!
Each family can earn forty or fifty yuan a month. It may not seem like much, but it is definitely enough to cover the cost of a month's meat. ”
Ning Shiqiu used pork to convert, but Zhao Hong used wine. He drank bulk liquor bought in town, which cost one dollar and fifty cents per pound.
Zhao Hongli usually doesn’t have much money in his pocket, so he has to drink sparingly.
But he had to drink a little in the morning and with meals at night, so he couldn't save much.
I would buy a pound of liquor and drink it all in three days at most, and I still wouldn't be able to enjoy it enough.
If he could earn more than one yuan a day, it would be equivalent to drinking an extra pound of wine a day, and he wouldn't have to calculate the amount he drank like before.
If sales are better someday, maybe I can even go to the market to cut a piece of pig ear or pig head to go with the wine.
Zhao Hongli felt happy just thinking about those days.
The most important thing is that he doesn’t have to do any work, it’s like getting money for free.
Although he now has a thousand yuan in his pocket from Donglan's parents' compensation, it's not like he won't spend the money.
In just these few days, more than half of the thousand yuan has been gone.
The last time his eldest brother had a quarrel with him, he asked him to pay back the money he had paid for the fine for having more children than allowed when his second daughter was born. He gave him five hundred yuan.
I bought some food and drank with friends these days, and the money left is less than 500 yuan.
Before Ning Shiqiu finished what he was going to say, Zhao Hongli's heart was moved, and he looked at the refrigerator as if he was looking at a golden hen that lays eggs.
He decided not to sell the refrigerator for the time being and only sell the washing machine.
However, Zhao Hongli's washing machine was never sold, mainly because the people in charge of doing laundry in every household in the town did not like washing machines.
Their thoughts are the same as many people's when dishwashers first came out: they waste electricity, water and time.
Today's washing machines are not fully automatic. People have to put the clothes in, take them out after washing, and then put them on the dehydration side to dehydrate.
It's really not that troublesome. It would be more convenient and quicker for them to just rub it themselves.
Zhao Ruyue wanted to use a washing machine, but she felt that Zhao Hongli's washing machine had been used to wash other people's clothes, which made her feel uncomfortable. She decided to save up some money and buy a brand new one.
In the end, Zhao Hongli had no choice but to leave the washing machine behind.
Zhao Ruyue taught Zhao Silian how to use the washing machine, but also asked her not to use it for the time being: "In a family, whoever earns more has more weight. You earn little money now, and you are still young, so you don't have the confidence to confront your father. When you earn more money, he will have to listen to you when he relies on you to make a living. It won't be too late for you to bring it up then."
After hearing this, Zhao Silian kept it in mind.
Zhao Hongli watched them successfully sell out all the mung bean popsicles they made themselves.
There were ten popsicles, and they shared one to try the taste, leaving nine, which cost ten cents each, so they earned nine cents.
Because these popsicles are made by themselves using ingredients from their home, it doesn't cost them much, and all the money they earn is profit.
Each of the three children received thirty cents.
Zhao Hongli was completely convinced.
After that, Zhao Silian encountered no more obstacles in using the refrigerator at home to store popsicles.
Even when Zhao Hongli's older brother wanted to take the uneaten meat from home and freeze it in the refrigerator after hearing that he was not selling the refrigerator, Zhao Hongli refused to give it to him.
His elder brother was so angry that he scolded him again, but Zhao Hongli remained unmoved.
Zhao Silian began selling popsicles every day after school and on holidays.
Ning Shiqiu told Zhao Hongli that the profit of a popsicle that cost one cent was three cents, and half of it had to be given to Zhao Ruyue.
The actual profit is five cents. Zhao Ruyue is just helping to wholesale the popsicles and doesn't want a share of the profits.
After Zhao Hongli took away 1.5 cents, she still had 3.5 cents left.
Moreover, Zhao Hongli got drunk every now and then, and it was unknown how many popsicles were sold every day. Zhao Silian would report less number of popsicles sold every month and deduct some money.
I can earn dozens of dollars almost every month.
At the beginning, Zhao Hongli remembers grinding rice and adding rice to the rice jar at home so that she could eat rice.
Zhao Hongli didn't remember, so she could only fill her stomach with potatoes and vegetables grown in the vegetable garden.
Later, she slowly saved up some money and was willing to secretly buy herself some meat every now and then.
This summer, Zhao Silian was busy every day, but she never went hungry again.
After Zhao Ruyue bought a freezer for her home, Ning Shaoming finally never failed to beat egg whites again.
The two children had a holiday on Dragon Boat Festival, which also happened to be Ning Shixia’s birthday.
After Ning Shaoming finished his busy morning job when there were many guests, he handed over the kitchen to Ning Shichun and took time out to go to the county town.
I bought two boxes of light cream, a bottle of corn oil, and a box of milk.
After I came back, I used the ingredients I bought and the ingredients I had at home and made a cake base using the rice cooker at home.
After it’s done, cut it in half horizontally from the middle, spread whipped cream in the middle and around the edges, add a little different fruit juice to the cream, and dot it on the cake.
Due to limited materials, the finished product is definitely not as good as those in the cake shop, but even so, Ning Shixia admires him very much and happily surrounds him, with all kinds of compliments pouring out of her mouth like crazy.
There was some dough left, so Ning Shaoming simply put the batter into a piping bag and baked it in a frying pan at home.
I made some round, non-authentic Dorayaki crusts.
Whether adding cream, red bean filling, mung bean filling, or lotus seed paste filling between the two crusts, it is very popular among children.
Ning Shaoming ate one himself and thought it was delicious and easy to make, so he said, "We can use the leftover egg whites from making mayonnaise in our store to make this in the future."
Zhao Ruyue asked, "Is it okay to just put in egg whites? Didn't you put both egg yolk and egg whites in the batter you just made?"
"Yes, but the method is slightly different. The batter doesn't need to be as thick as when making cake base. It should be a little thinner."
Zhao Ruyue didn't understand all this, so if he said it was okay, then it was probably okay. "It's up to you to decide, but should we start selling cold noodles? It's getting hot now, and I see other stores are already selling cold rice noodles, and some are starting to sell fried rice noodles. Our business has been affected a bit."
Ning Shaoming: "We'll have new dishes after the Dragon Boat Festival. Xiaochun will be responsible for cooking and frying rice noodles. He's already done a pretty good job. I'll make the stuffed pancakes and cold noodles."
"I feel relieved that you know what's going on." Zhao Ruyue didn't care much about what happened in the kitchen. She was only responsible for the store's accounts and greeting customers at the front desk.
In the past, when Ning Shichun didn't help, she was mainly responsible for purchasing.
Now that Ning Shichun is helping in the kitchen, Ning Shaoming can also make time, so he and Zhao Ruyue will go purchasing based on whoever is free.
In addition to the cake, in the evening, Ning Shaoming also prepared a table of delicious dishes to celebrate his daughter's birthday.
He had originally thought about going to the old house and asking the people there to come and eat together. After all, it was a rare opportunity to have such a good meal.
When the family cooks a meal, they will invite parents and close relatives to eat together. This is also the custom here. Even if there are conflicts, they will not be stingy with a meal.
Unexpectedly, when he went shopping for groceries, he met his mother. Ning Shaoming saw her, but she didn't notice him.
Just as I was about to say hello, I heard her say, "It's just a child, why celebrate the birth? Don't worry about shortening your life!"
Ning Shaoming turned around and left without calling anyone from the old house except Ning Shichun.
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