Chapter 82 Chapter 82 Bragging about Parents Competition
Chapter 82
The cake was eaten after dinner, when it was dark.
In addition to the cake, there is also a plate of brown sugar steamed cake prepared by caring parents for local children’s birthdays.
Zhao Ruyue also bought some fruits, snacks and drinks for Ning Shixia.
Let her invite some of her good friends to celebrate her birthday together.
Ning Shixia had already informed her friends. At 7:30 when it got dark, a group of children came in with birthday cards they had made themselves.
Although Zhao Silian is a few years older than Ning Shixia, she has a good relationship with both siblings and came today as well.
Looking at the friends surrounding Ning Shixia, Ning Shixia went to school early, and these kids are almost one or two years older than Ning Shixia.
Zhao Silian couldn't help but think of her younger sister Sikui, who was the same age as Ning Shixia.
Her sister is only two months younger than Xiaoxia. If Sikui were still alive, she would definitely pester her to make a birthday card for her today, and then bring the card to happily celebrate Xiaoxia's birthday.
Turn off the lights, light the candles, sing birthday songs, and the house is filled with laughter.
After making a wish and blowing out the candles, to avoid the adults being too restrained by the children, the adults helped the children divide the cake and then left.
Leave the house to the kids and let them play to their heart's content.
That night, Ning Shixia fell asleep with a smile on her face.
*
As the weather gets hotter, other rice noodle shops in the town have followed suit and started selling fried rice noodles. The taste of the fried rice noodles made by each shop varies, and the sales of Zhao Ruyue's shop have declined.
Fortunately, the profit margin from selling fried rice noodles is relatively thin. Shops that follow the trend and sell fried rice noodles will only offer customers a discount at the beginning, with the price reduced by 1 or 2 cents, in order to attract customers who are looking for a bargain.
However, Zhao Ruyue's store is the first store in the town that sells fried rice noodles. Some customers who want to save money go to other stores, and of course there are also people who are used to eating at her store.
These regular customers don't want to save a few bucks, they just want to eat something that pleases them, so they still eat at her house.
The impact of others following the trend on her business is not as great as the impact of the hot weather, the summer heat and the loss of appetite.
Not to mention that after the discount period, other stores will set the same prices as theirs, so at this time it’s all about comparing the taste of each store.
If the food tastes good, customers will order it. If the food doesn’t taste good, customers will not stay and will go back to Zhao Ruyue’s store to eat.
As for the hot dog bun, no one in town can imitate it.
The difficulty lies in the "bread". Ning Shaoming's craftsmanship is so good that the steamed buns he made look like bread have fascinated many people.
Those who want to follow suit still think it is really bread.
They racked their brains but couldn't figure out how Ning Shaoming made bread without an oven.
If I can't figure out how to make this money, I can't do anything but watch her family continue to run their unique business.
Zhao Ruyue thanked her luck more than once that her family did not use the oven at the door to bake steamed buns, otherwise the business of the store would have been affected even more.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, business picked up again after the store added cold skin, cold noodles, cold rice noodles, cold rice vermicelli, and a variety of cold dishes where you could order a little of each.
In fact, business is better than before because they have cold skin, cold noodles and assorted cold dishes that other stores don’t have.
Many customers think that for the same money, they can eat a variety of cold dishes and taste a lot, which is really a good deal.
They firmly believe that they will get more when buying an assorted cold dish. In fact, each bowl of powder or noodles will be weighed, so even if there is a little more, it will not be much more. It is the same if you buy a single one. It’s just that there are more types mixed together, which gives customers the illusion that the assorted cold dish has a larger quantity.
This misunderstanding has caused the sales volume of assorted cold dishes to increase significantly compared to other cold dishes.
Ning Shaoming made a cake for his daughter, with the original intention of just trying to please the child and make her happy on her birthday.
Unexpectedly, his daughter actually brought him several orders of business.
In the middle class of Rongxi Town Central Primary School, a group of little kids are engaging in a parent-bragging competition which is very common among children.
This one said, "My dad can drive a tractor!"
The other one said, "What's wrong with being able to drive a tractor? My dad can drive a motorcycle, beep beep beep, so cool!"
Another person was dissatisfied: "Being able to drive is nothing, my mom can make delicious jerky, look, I brought some!"
The child took out some delicious dried meat from his pocket. The other children looked at him enviously and their saliva began to drip.
They voted for her, saying that her mother is the best.
The child happily gave everyone some of the dried meat.
When it was Ning Shixia's turn, the child asked Ning Shixia: "Xiaoxia, doesn't your father also know how to cook delicious food? Why aren't you participating in the competition today?"
She didn't know that Ning Shixia was also very conflicted. She wanted others to praise her father, but she also didn't want to.
Because every time she boasted to her classmates about what her father could cook, she would do the same as this classmate and share the food her father made for her with others. Everyone in her class did the same.
Children of their age don’t know what comparison is. They just feel happy when others praise their parents.
In the past, Ning Shixia would share the delicious food she brought with her classmates, but today she brought too little and wanted to eat it herself, so she decided not to participate for the time being, and bring more delicious food next time and praise her father.
But now that all the classmates are asking, Ning Shixia can no longer keep a low profile.
She took out a dorayaki she brought with her and said, "I didn't say that just now. I wanted you to win this time. After all, my dad is so awesome. Look! He can also make the dorayaki that Doraemon eats in the cartoon that was recently shown on TV."
Ning Shaoming didn't know that while he was busy frying rice noodles in the store, his daughter had achieved another success in the bragging competition among her classmates at school and was praising him to the sky.
Ning Shixia held up the Dorayaki, and the other children saw that it was almost the same as the one in the cartoon, and there was a burst of wows in the classroom.
Her wish to eat alone could not be fulfilled, but fortunately the Dorayaki her father made was quite big.
Ning Shixia carefully broke it off and was able to give a dime to each of his classmates who were playing with him.
Each of the students only had a bite, and after finishing, they all felt unsatisfied: "Xiao Xia, do you sell this?"
Ning Shixia said: "We will sell it tomorrow. We will eat what we made today and give some to relatives, then it will be gone."
"Then I will definitely go buy two tomorrow and eat as much as I want!"
One child recalled the cake she had eaten at her house the day before yesterday and couldn't help but say, "Xiao Xia's dad makes better cakes. Does your family sell cakes, Xiao Xia?"
Ning Shixia shook her head: "My dad said he wouldn't sell it."
A group of children sighed and asked, "Why not sell it?"
"Yes, why don't you sell cakes? Cakes are so delicious. I think cakes are better than Dorayaki. I love the cream on cakes the most!"
Ning Shixia also asked Ning Shaoming this question, and the answer she got was: "My dad said that there is no oven at home, and it is too troublesome to make it. He is busy with many things every day and has no time to make it."
A child who attended a relative's birthday party in the county said, "I heard from my cousin that birthday cakes can be ordered in advance. Can we order a cake from your family in advance and let your dad make it when he has time?"
"Yes, yes!" a child said excitedly, "Next Friday is my birthday. I also want to have a cake and make a wish on my birthday like you do. Xiaoxia, can you ask your dad again when you go back?"
"And me, and me, my birthday is on Children's Day, the first of next month!"
"And me, I'm here after Children's Day, three days later than you. Xiaoxia, please help us go back and ask your dad if we can make a custom cake for you!"
*
"Dad, is it okay?" Ning Shixia asked expectantly after returning home.
Ning Shixia was followed by several other children, who also looked up at him expectantly: "Uncle Ning, is this okay?"
Ning Shaoming didn't dare to agree easily: "I don't have an oven at home, so the taste of the cakes I make is just barely okay. After all, they are not authentic, so I really can't sell them to you."
No one can resist money, so if there is an oven at home, he will agree.
However, he thought that the cake base made in the rice cooker was fine to use to appease his own children, but it could not be used to make money.
If he really sold it, Ning Shaoming would feel that he was heartless.
But seeing the disappointment on the faces of the children was beyond words, he felt a little bit reluctant.
Children may just want to have a sweet cake on their birthday and don’t care how the cake is made or whether it is authentic.
"How about... you go back and ask your parents? If your parents agree, I will help you make it, and I won't charge you. You have to buy the ingredients yourself. But there are only a few of you. It won't work if there are more. I have a lot of things to do."
“Just for us?” The children didn’t know why, but they suddenly felt more excited.
After saying goodbye to Ning Shixia and Ning Shaoming, they couldn't wait to run home.
The natural result is that some people are happy and some are crying.
The happiest child ran back home and came here with his parents not long after.
His parents also opened a shop in the town, but it was not a restaurant, but a barber shop.
Her mother also went to work in Pengcheng before, but she is a very successful person.
Others who work for the factory would like to have their food, clothing, housing and transportation all taken care of by the factory, so that they don't have to spend a penny and save all the money to build a house in their hometown. They will be laughed at for spending money to learn something.
Yet, despite everyone's misunderstanding, she gritted her teeth and spent money to enroll in classes to learn beauty and hairdressing. After saving some money, she came back to open a barber shop.
In the past, there were only two or three barber stalls in the town, but those stalls generally cut men's hair, trimmed their beards and shaved their beards. There were no barber shops like those in the city.
There are very few women in town who would pay to have their hair cut.
If a woman goes there, she will most likely cut her hair and sell it to earn some money to supplement the family income.
However, everyone loves beauty. In the past, women did not want to give themselves beautiful hair, but they were short of money.
Now that life is getting better, it's just the right time for her to open her shop.
Now, hers is the only shop in the town that can do hair washing, cutting, blow-drying, hair dyeing, perming and styling.
So her family's business has been doing very well since the opening of the store.
When there are a lot of people, such as before the Chinese New Year, she would even be busy until midnight. Recently I heard that she was planning to open a branch in the county town.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming were not surprised to see that the first people to arrive were from her family.
On the contrary, they were quite surprised by her generosity in giving the money directly without asking any further questions.
Ning Shaoming stuffed the money back and said, "Did the child not explain clearly when he went back? I don't have an oven, so the cake I made is not authentic. I just made it to entertain the children. I won't charge you. You can buy the ingredients and I will make it."
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