Chapter 13 Then Let's Sell the Recipe (Revised): You dare to resign and try it.
Before she could even finish her sentence, mentioning the braised food shop, Chen Yanqiu and Wang Tiejun's expressions changed, and they both exclaimed in unison, "No way!"
Dr. Chen was so angry that the veins on his forehead bulged (or maybe it was from the spiciness), and his voice rose eight octaves: "I think you've lost your mind, get back to work!"
Wang Xiao tried to persuade his parents: "Mom and Dad, chemical research has never been my interest. Besides, I can earn 64 yuan a month by selling chicken feet in a day."
"That won't do either, don't even think about it!" Wang Tiejun's face was ashen. "You're giving up a perfectly good government job to go and get involved in speculation and profiteering?"
Wang Xiao was utterly speechless: "Dad, how did my normal business become speculation and profiteering? You can't just label me like that. The country has been reforming and opening up for a long time, and it allows individuals to do business."
She had studied history and knew when the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held. Besides, aren't there people doing small business everywhere on the streets?
"No means no!" Chen Yanqiu was even angrier than her husband. "We haven't even figured out whether it's capitalist or socialist yet. Now you're giving up a perfectly good job to go sell chicken feet? If they arrest you and put you in jail, you won't even be able to go to work."
Wang Xiao grew impatient: "Mom, don't scare people like that. This isn't the Cultural Revolution. Do you think doing business will land you in jail? If that's the case, then all the 'ten-thousand-yuan households' and 'hundred-thousand-yuan households' will be arrested. Will the prison be able to hold all of them?"
"Why aren't you in jail? You didn't know that Nian Guangjiu from 'Silly Melon Seeds' was arrested? You were the one who told us when you got home."
Dr. Chen was furious.
When her daughter came home and told her, she was shocked. She had bought "Silly Melon Seeds" when she went to Anhui on a business trip.
Goodness, business is absolutely booming.
As a result, we watched him build a tall building, watched him entertain guests, and watched his building collapse.
Wang Xiao blinked, vaguely recalling something. It was in the news when the boss passed away years ago.
But those were her memories from before she transmigrated into the book, and they were too blurry to be accurate.
She instinctively tried to find support for herself: "My uncle and aunt aren't as scary as you guys say. They sell braised food now, don't they? My aunt hasn't gone to work anymore."
The two elderly people couldn't handle the workload alone, so Qian Xuemei quit her job to sell braised dried tofu and braised chicken feet full-time.
Chen Yanqiu scoffed: "How can they compare to you? What kind of place is a commune-run factory? It's not even as good as a street factory. At best, they're just temporary workers; whether they work shifts or not doesn't really matter. Besides, Zhouzhen is the countryside, far from the central government, so they don't care about all that. How can it be compared to the provincial capital?"
Wang Xiao gave another example: "What about Xiang Dong? He contracted a counter in the mall, and his business is doing very well. Zhang Yan's mother is reluctant to give up this money-making son-in-law."
After she ran away from her arranged marriage, Zhang Yan and Ruan Rui didn't end up together. It's said that her mother even stormed into the Ruan family home with a kitchen knife, threatening Ruan Rui not to ruin her daughter's reputation.
She was also a formidable aunt.
"She doesn't care about her daughter's life or death at all!" Chen Yanqiu sneered. "She doesn't care whether Xiang Dong goes to jail or what life Zhang Yan will have in the future. All she cares about is getting money from her son-in-law to build up a fortune for her precious son. You're our only child, would your parents ever cheat you? Use your brain and think about it carefully, do you think you're the same kind of person as her?"
Wang Tiejun echoed his wife, coaxing their daughter, "Alright, Xiaoxiao, our family doesn't lack money. We don't need you to earn money. Just go to your job. If your salary isn't enough, tell your parents. Yanqiu, give Xiaoxiao 50, no, 100 yuan. She's a grown woman now, it's normal for her to have expenses. As long as it's for yourself, whatever pocket money you want, your parents will give it to you."
Wang Xiao really didn't know what to say.
Although the popular saying before she transmigrated into the book was: "The end of the universe is taking the civil service exam," she genuinely had no interest in working within the system. In a year, no, even in a month when business was good, she earned what others would earn in a lifetime. Why would she envy a stable job with a monthly income of several thousand?
But no matter how much she emphasized it, even resorting to insincere claims like earning money and keeping it in the bank to earn stable interest, her new parents still shook their heads like rattles.
Chen Yanqiu made the decision: "Alright, enough nonsense, let's watch TV. I think you just haven't watched enough of the news broadcasts, you have no sense of propriety at all."
Wang Xiao angrily turned on the TV, saw the faces of the national leaders on the news, and suddenly remembered a very famous song. How did it start again: "1992, it was a spring..."
Yes, in 1992. What happened in 1992?
She racked her brains desperately, but could only vaguely recall the words "further reforms".
But she remembered that the individual economy was already very active in the 1980s. Could it be related to what happened last year? She had seen descriptions of bourgeois-class-liberalization in the newspapers.
Wang Xiao stroked her chin as she read the news. The more she read, the more convinced she became that the private economy was currently in a downturn or a period of rectification; otherwise, there would have been no need for another Southern Tour speech like the one in 1992.
Alas, she was unable to convince her parents that societal trends would soon change.
But she had to fight one last time.
Wang Xiao said with a serious face, "Dad, Mom, I don't think the Chemical Engineering Institute is suitable for me. It's really too dangerous. Think about it, I'm just a young girl. If there's an explosion and I get chemical burns, my life will be over."
As if afraid the two wouldn't believe her, she counted on her fingers, "Like the famous Nobel, his brother was killed in an explosion, and his father was disabled for life. There are also many laboratory explosions with very serious consequences. Our institute had an explosion today; the arteries were severed, and we were just one step away from going to meet Marx."
Unfortunately, Ms. Chen Yanqiu, being a doctor who had seen countless deaths, remained unmoved. She sneered, "Explosions? Gas cylinders explode even more often. Do you think selling braised food will keep you safe? In the end, you won't even know where the bones will be."
Wang Xiao calmed down; she couldn't say that Doctor Chen's explanation was unreasonable. Since she transmigrated, she had not only heard about several barbecue restaurant explosions, but she had even personally experienced the most dangerous one, only managing to escape by luck as she was sitting outside the restaurant.
Sigh, no wonder people say that even though there was gold everywhere in the 1990s, we didn't see everyone getting rich overnight. It turns out that the road to prosperity and a comfortable life is full of obstacles.
Oh, with the income of an eighth-grade worker and an attending physician, they can still achieve a comfortable life even without doing anything extra.
Even if they wait until the massive layoffs of 1998, they'll probably be retired by then.
I just don't know if my employer will still be paying my retirement pension then.
Wang Xiao sighed. After the news broadcast ended, she stood up to leave, startling Chen Yanqiu who grabbed her arm. "What are you doing? You're going to run away from home every time things don't go your way? Where did you learn this temper from?"
Wang Xiao was both amused and exasperated: "What are you talking about? I'm going to buy chicken feet. Didn't they say they'd be selling them at a discount at eight o'clock?"
"Aren't there still so many chicken feet left?"
There were 10 kinds of chicken feet, each weighing about a pound. The family of three ate as much as they wanted in one meal and still couldn't finish them. They can continue to eat them tomorrow.
“I can’t exactly take the leftover chicken feet we eat to a braised food shop to sell, can I?” Wang Xiao said helplessly. “Don’t glare at me. I can’t sell them myself, but I can’t sell the recipe either.”
Since it will be more than a year before society fully reopens and she can freely do business, she can't possibly let the recipe for the internet-famous chicken feet gather dust. She needs to sell them first and make money first. Maybe in a year and a half, she'll have found a faster way to make money.
Save up your money now so you'll have the capital to enter the market later.
Selling to braised food shops in the provincial capital wouldn't be the same price as small-scale operations in the countryside. After all, the provincial capital has a large population with strong purchasing power, and braised food shops make larger profits. At least a recipe for chicken feet would cost over a thousand yuan.
Wang Xiao didn't plan to sell them all at once. If she bought too many, people would be picky and might even try to negotiate a lower price by buying in bulk. She would release them one by one, which would allow her to sell them at a higher price while also keeping the braised food shops interested.
Of course, she follows industry rules and won't sell the same recipe to two shops on the same street at the same time, so as not to lose a second business opportunity.
However, if two shops on the same street both think the other's chicken feet recipe is good and want to buy from her, she won't let the money go to waste.
Wang Xiao had made up her mind and happily went to buy chicken feet. She didn't need to buy any more seasonings; she had already planned to start a chicken feet business yesterday, so she bought a lot of seasonings, and she didn't even need to make chili oil and Sichuan peppercorn oil again, she could just use what was left over from yesterday.
Therefore, when she finished preparing the chicken feet and put them in the refrigerator tonight, she finished earlier than last night.
She hummed a little tune as she went back to her room to sleep, waiting to do sales and earn money after get off work the next day.
She acted as if nothing had happened, but her parents were filled with anxiety.
The couple were already in bed when Chen Yanqiu couldn't help but nudge her husband: "Hey, tell me, Xiaoxiao seems like a completely different person now."
Wang Tiejun didn't take it seriously: "It's normal for girls to change so much; girls change a lot as they grow up."
This guy has the nerve to say his daughter changes quickly? She herself is a completely different person before and after marriage. Before marriage, she was so gentle and sweet, but after marriage, well, luckily he's thick-skinned and can handle it.
"Besides, she's better off now than when she was on the verge of death," Wang Tiejun said optimistically. "It can't get any worse than before."
Chen Yanqiu thought about it and agreed. If she really had changed completely, then Xiao Xiao's previous desperate attempts to get married and become a stepmother were truly like she was possessed by a ghost. At least now she's just influenced by capitalism and wants to make a lot of money.
That's normal. What girl doesn't like to look pretty? If you want to be fashionable and beautiful, you have to spend more money.
Sigh, it's all because of those people's nonsense last year. Otherwise, if she had pulled some strings with Lao Wang, her daughter could have gotten a job at the petrochemical plant this year after graduation, at least doubling her salary. Now, she only makes sixty-odd yuan a month, not even enough for a few meals at a restaurant. No wonder she's thinking about earning extra money.
Never mind, I'll take this girl to the mall tomorrow to buy her a new outfit and a new pair of leather shoes.
As long as she goes to work honestly, her family will have enough to eat and wear.
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Sorry, I opened the wrong document when I posted this chapter (I wrote the first 100,000 words of this article in five drafts), I've revised it.
After the summer of 1989, the atmosphere became tense, and reforms slowed down, a period known as a "late spring cold snap," which only improved after Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour in 1992.
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