Chapter 60: Leading Old Madam Ma to Become Rich
Xiao Lao Er looked at the person in front of him and suddenly asked, "Hu Xiaolan, do you know why I like you?"
It was obvious that Hu Xiaolan had a bad temper and her attitude towards him was never good.
"Isn't it just because I'm pretty? Your family, you and your eldest brother are the same, you only care about looks."
Xiao Lao Er replied, "No, it's because you were feeding a wild cat. You were very gentle at that moment..."
"Okay, I don't have time to reminisce about the past with you. Don't miss the bus!" Hu Xiaolan didn't want to listen to what he said at all.
Xiao Laoer didn't say anything else, followed her and rushed to the platform.
There are only buses to the city in the town. There is snow on the roads in the village, so you can only walk if you don’t drive a tractor.
Along the way, Xiao Laoer didn't speak to Hu Xiaolan again.
Hu Xiaolan didn't try to talk to him either.
In fact, the topic just now was what Xiao Laoer wanted to talk to her about.
He and Hu Xiaolan have known each other for so many years, but they have never had a good talk.
It was Xiao Laoer who was chasing Hu Xiaolan. He was the one who always found things to talk to her. It was just because he saw her feeding a cat once that he fell in love with her.
At that time, Xiao Laoer always thought that Hu Xiaolan was so gentle and would definitely not be like his mother who always lost her temper and scolded people.
He is going to marry Hu Xiaolan, and they will definitely live a happy life in the future.
But at this moment he suddenly realized that all of it was just his wishful thinking.
Hu Xiaolan has never been a gentle person.
In other words, Hu Xiaolan is someone who will not give him tenderness.
After arriving at the hospital, Hu's mother pulled Xiao Laoer aside and praised him, "Thanks to you, my good boy. I raised three sons, but none of them were filial. You are the most filial..."
"Mom, you and Dad should eat quickly."
“There’s no money to lose!”
"I have no money..."
The meals delivered to the patients next door included both meat and vegetables, and Hu's mother and father were drooling just by smelling them.
However, when Hu Xiaolan smelled the braised fish, her stomach churned.
She went to the bathroom.
After coming out of the bathroom, Hu Xiaolan pulled Xiao Laoer and said, "Hurry back and tell your mother about our marriage."
"Also, your family has a fish pond and makes fish cakes and fish balls. Can't you ask your mom for some to bring over for my parents? They've been complaining about not having meat these past few days. It's not like you didn't hear me!"
"I know you're not a stingy person, but if your mom is, you have to tell her off. My parents are your parents from now on. Who else's family is so stingy that they can't even afford this little food?"
"My mother always praises you and says that if I marry you, I will be able to enjoy a happy life in your family. Look at you, you are such a coward! You can't even convince your mother!"
Xiao Lao Er looked at her and responded to her muttering, "In my family, if my sister-in-law eats less, my mother will cook for her in different ways. She is worried that my sister-in-law will get tired of meat every meal. She is not stingy."
"Yes, your sister-in-law is rich and sweet-talking and can coax her, but your brother is also promising! Your mother will definitely like your brother more. You should go back and tell your mother about dividing the family property if you marry me."
"Living with your mom and sister-in-law is really giving me a headache just thinking about it!"
Sang Feiwan fell asleep at home. After waking up, she wondered if she could just give up on Xiao Laoer.
It can still be rescued.
Sang Feiwan asked Xiao Beiming to drive the tractor to the place where Hu Xiaolan and Jiang Laosan buried the bottles.
Sure enough, there was another letter from Hu Xiaolan to Jiang Laosan in the bottle.
It read: "I will give you one last chance, and also give myself one last chance, otherwise I will marry Xiao Lao Er with our child.
I hope you can come and take me away before I marry Xiao Lao Er."
There was also a reply from Jiang Laosan, which was left by Jiang Laosan earlier. "I love you very much. I believe we can wait until our parents accept us."
Crazy man! Crazy woman!
Do you still feel that your love is so great and beautiful?
Have you watched Qiong Yao dramas and thought that when you get married, you should have a bride kidnapping to make your love thrilling and show the depth of your love?
Just ignore the person whose engagement was broken off, and what will the whole family and so many relatives think?
Also, it would be a miracle if Jiang Laosan had the guts to do that. He didn't dare to resist his parents, but he kept Hu Xiaolan hanging and even got her pregnant.
In this era, if Hu Xiaolan didn't find a backup man like Xiao Laoer to marry her, she would be the one to be scolded and endure all the pain.
"Take these and copy them. It should be cheaper than taking photos. Print ten copies of the photos as well. We will take these and post them at the entrance of their factory later." Sang Feiwan said to Xiao Beiming while holding the note.
Xiao Beiming said, "I'll go put it up later. You go to the store and wait for me."
It was cold outside, and he saw that her face was red from the cold, so he was reluctant to take her out to be blown by the wind again.
So, Xiao Beiming went to post it alone and sent Sang Feiwan to Mrs. Ma's shop.
There was a pot cooking in Old Lady Ma's shop and there were customers. Although there was no heating, it was much warmer than outside.
Old Mrs. Ma also cooked a bowl of wontons for Sang Feiwan.
"I see you're tired of fish ball noodles these past few days, and I want to diversify my breakfast options, so I'm selling wontons."
Sang Feiwan took a bite and started praising it, "It's delicious. Thank you, mother-in-law."
"Oh, there's one more thing. This morning, a boss signed an agreement with me. He wants to place a long-term order for our fish balls. He owns a big restaurant in the city, and he asked me to deliver to him twice a month."
"They gave me the deposit, so I signed it right away."
Mrs. Ma handed the contract to Sang Feiwan again and said, "However, I haven't read all the clauses on it. Can you take a look at it for me and see if there are any problems?"
After everything was signed, she was asked to check if there were any problems. Sang Feiwan said she didn't know what to say.
If her mother-in-law is like this, she will be cheated if she signs things randomly in the future.
Sang Feiwan looked at the contract for a long while before she said to Old Madam Ma, "Mother-in-law, you have to tell me about any contracts you want to sign in the future. I've checked it with a lawyer and I'm telling you it's OK to sign. Only then can you sign."
"Oh, okay. I just saw that the man really wanted to buy it, and he even paid a deposit in advance..." Old Mrs. Ma also realized belatedly that she had signed too hastily.
Then he angrily cursed, "It's all the fault of that bastard Lao Er. In order to help him pay back the five thousand first, I'm now obsessed with money!"
"I'll be even busier now that I've signed the order. He's back to work at the factory now. He only had a little time left when Hu Xiaolan called him away and he didn't even help with the fish processing."
Sang Feiwan replied, "I've already borrowed 5,000 yuan, and I'll pay the loan shark back the day after tomorrow."
While still calculating the quantity in the contract.
Then he asked Mrs. Ma, "Grandma, how many kilograms of fish can our fish pond catch in a year? How many kilograms of fish make one kilogram of fish cakes?"
Old Mrs. Ma didn't know the exact amount, so she just made a rough estimate.
There is less than 2,000 kilograms, three kilograms of fish and one kilogram of fish cakes.
This amount is enough for Mrs. Ma’s store to sell for a year.
When Sang Feiwan told this to Old Madam Ma, she was shocked.
"What should I do? If I can't supply fish cakes and fish balls to this restaurant, I'll have to pay triple the penalty. If I only supply them, we'll have bought the store and I'll have customers. Wouldn't that be a waste?"
"We have to buy fish from other fish ponds." Sang Feiwan replied.
"The purchase and sale prices have to be calculated carefully. If the fish are sold at too high a price, there will be no profit to be made from the price stated in the contract."
"We have to hire someone, mother-in-law. We also need to find someone to manage the accounts, otherwise you will be too busy."
"I don't want you to be too tired, mother-in-law. If you hire someone, you can teach them how to do it and you can just watch."
Mrs. Ma was a little worried. "What if someone comes and steals my knowledge?"
"It's highly unlikely you can prevent people from stealing and learning. Mother-in-law, why don't you just put up a sign saying you're hiring apprentices and pay tuition? You can also join our Ma's Fish Ball Shop."
"I know about accepting disciples, but what is this joining?" Old Mrs. Ma had never heard of it.
As for business matters, although Sang Feiwan has never done any, and is a rich second-generation who spends money honestly, he has learned a lot from his surroundings and can learn a lot from watching videos in the information age.
That video about the scam of joining the Big Pot Braised Pork franchise was quite popular.
Sang Feiwan helped Mrs. Ma make a sign with words about paying tuition and joining the franchise. She called her and she left the landline number of her home in the military region.
After I finished this, a reporter from the city's morning newspaper came over.
They came to interview the people in the city. They had heard that Mrs. Ma's fish ball shop was doing good business and that the decoration of the shop was very unique and did not blindly pursue Western fashion, so they wanted to interview them and write a report.
Here comes the money!
Sang Feiwan had just started thinking about helping Old Lady Ma recruit apprentices and set up a franchise store when she was interviewed by a newspaper.
Sang Feiwan agreed to the interview.
The interview was with Old Mrs. Ma. She was afraid that she was the dumbest and couldn't speak, so she wanted to refuse. However, Sang Feiwan told her that this could help the store attract more business and make more money, so Old Mrs. Ma immediately agreed.
But after the interview, the reporter asked about the words and paintings on the wall, and asked if Sang Feiwan could also go to their workplace to paint one, and they would pay him.
But Sang Feiwan rejected her.
"Daughter-in-law, I'm offering you money, why don't you agree?"
"I'm lazy."
It was just a small amount, and Sang Feiwan was too lazy to earn it. Besides, it was so cold, and it was really painful to draw and write with his hands in a place without heating.
Old Madam Ma: “…”
"I forgot. I saw that you were quite happy to paint for our shop, so I thought you just didn't like doing housework, not that you didn't like painting and writing."
Sang Feiwan replied, "I'm lazy. How can there be any distinction between tasks? As long as there is work, I'm too lazy to do it."
"...It's okay. If you don't want to work, then don't do it. As long as you save money, with the rented store and the boss's salary, it should be enough for you to spend."
Old Mrs. Ma is now very open-minded and tolerant of Sang Feiwan's laziness, but when it comes to spending money, she wants to be tolerant but is unable to do so. She is very worried and thinks every day about how to make more money quickly.
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