Chapter 219 A Wealthy Family
Zhizhi didn't talk much about these things with her mother-in-law, Wu Caifeng.
Upon hearing this, Wu Caifeng was stunned. "If this can help, then I... then I won't go back. I'll just tell my family later."
"You all can focus on your own tasks."
"Leave the child with me, I'll definitely take good care of him!"
He Yuzhi immediately said, "Yes, no one is as reassuring as my own grandmother!"
After talking to the child for a while, we started eating.
Facing a table full of dishes, Wu Caifeng held her bowl and once again sighed in admiration of this wealthy family!
There were twelve dishes on the table, all soupy and brothy.
Although there were many people, in their area, even when guests came to their homes, the whole family would sit down. Those who were better off would only prepare four dishes, and while there were probably six dishes, Wu Caifeng had never seen that. More often, it was two dishes, or even twelve dishes...
Wu Caifeng thought that if she went back from here, she would definitely brag to her relatives and neighbors.
After the meal, Wen Changyu and the others had other things to do, so they all left first.
Wu Caifeng and Zhizhi sat in the courtyard and chatted with He Yuzhi for a while. Zhizhi then made an appointment with He Yuzhi to take Wu Caifeng out to explore Beijing the next day, and then took the food made by Xiao Li back home.
Afterwards, Zhizhi led Wu Caifeng and He Yuzhi, and the three generations spent a total of three days sightseeing.
Zhizhi felt her legs were a bit swollen after shopping, so she finally lay down at home to rest.
After resting at home for two days, Zhizhi felt bored again.
Thinking back to when she went out a couple of days ago, she saw that there were already quite a few people visiting those tourist attractions, so Zhizhi decided to go back to her old ways.
She bought another batch of materials, designed a batch of antique-style earrings and bracelets, and started making them.
I also bought a lot of beads to make bracelets.
However, she doesn't need to make bracelets.
All she had to do was tell Wu Caifeng how to string the skewers and what colors to use, and then tell her to take them out to make money. The old lady got really into stringing them, and she strung several hundred skewers a day.
Zhizhi also asked her to sew some hair accessories and bows. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law worked together for three days, and a lot of stock was piled up in the house.
Zhizhi thought, "If the goods sell well this time, I'll buy a sewing machine."
The reason we didn't buy it before was that it was inconvenient to live in Zhou Lin's single dormitory at first, and later we were going to move to Beijing, so it would be inconvenient to move around if we bought it.
Things are different now. Now the land is spacious and the situation is stable, so you can buy one. It's much faster to get things done than by hand.
With her pregnant belly bulging, Zhizhi and Wu Caifeng carried the goods on a shoulder pole as the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to the busiest street.
Once the stall was set up, Zhizhi put up her own sign: "Old Beijing Goods!"
Soon, people came to ask about the price.
They're all worthless items, but they look pretty, so nobody cares what they're actually made of. They just think they're pretty and were brought back from here, so that's enough.
Therefore, many people buy them.
Here, hair accessories don't sell very well; instead, the earrings and bracelets that Zhizhi makes herself based on her own creativity sell extremely well.
In just one morning, we sold more than a hundred bracelets.
The bracelets aren't actually cheap; they cost one yuan a bracelet if you don't bargain, and eight mao if you do.
Many people didn't haggle, and Wu Caifeng was stunned by the amount of money she received.
She opened her mouth and almost said, "Actually, it can be two cents cheaper."
But when her daughter-in-law was enthusiastically packing things for others, Wu Caifeng realized who the buyer and seller were and immediately shut her mouth.
He quietly restocked the stock, calculating in his mind how much he could string together under the lamplight when he got home that night.
Only when the stock was sold out did the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a chance to buy some food.
During the meal, Wu Caifeng quietly asked Zhizhi, "Why are all these people buying things?"
"We're all here to have fun, so we'd like to buy some souvenirs to take home!"
"If we don't commemorate this, won't they come back to haunt us?"
Zhizhi shook her head. "Don't worry, they won't have time to come back to us. It's just a cheap trinket. Who would travel all that way to cause trouble for a few cents?"
Wu Caifeng thought about it and agreed, so she nodded, "Shall we come again tomorrow?"
"Come on, let's go back this afternoon. I'll make bracelets and earrings, and you can make a bracelet, Mom. We'll come back tomorrow."
"Let's produce more and sell as much as we can, otherwise we might not be able to make ends meet after these few days."
Wu Caifeng asked, "Why?"
Zhizhi said, "When people see us making money, they'll definitely want to follow suit."
"Other things are fine, like bracelets and hair accessories. These things don't require any technical skill. With a little research, you can figure out how they're made."
"When they make them and start selling them, business will naturally suffer."
Upon hearing this, Wu Caifeng felt that the fresh meat wontons in her bowl no longer tasted good. "Then I'll go back and make more bracelets, and sell more tomorrow."
“Others have already bought them, so even if they follow suit, they can’t sell them.”
Zhizhi nodded, "Yes, we'll make lots."
Zhizhi thought: Once people follow the trend and sell a lot, she will become the source manufacturer.
After eating, they took another bus back to their apartment building. Zhizhi sat on the coffee table, counting the money penny by penny, and finally came up with the total bill: "Two hundred and eight cents!"
"We had lunch and soda, which cost us 1.8 yuan, and we have 199 yuan left!"
Wu Caifeng was fiddling with the beads when she heard this and immediately ran over, "How many?"
"One hundred and ninety-nine!"
"Good heavens, is that all there is to the day?"
“At home, your older brother and the other men work, and they don’t earn this much in a year!”
"There are still more opportunities in big cities."
"Big cities are definitely better than the countryside, as long as you have a skill."
Wu Caifeng quickly sat down next to the beads. "I'll string some more!"
Zhizhi was a little tired. "Mom, let's rest for a while. We've been busy all morning and we're exhausted."
Wu Caifeng waved her hand and said, "Go and get some sleep. I'm not tired at all, not tired at all." The old lady was not only not tired, but she also started humming a little tune.
It's obvious that he's genuinely happy.
Zhizhi couldn't persuade her, so she ignored her and went to take a nap. "I'm going to sleep for a while."
"Go ahead, go ahead, you go and rest, I'll do it."
When Zhizhi woke up from her nap, it was already past three in the afternoon. There was already a pile of bracelets next to Wu Caifeng.
Seeing that Zhizhi was awake, he asked, "Why didn't you sleep a little longer?"
Zhizhi yawned and said, "If I sleep too much, I won't be able to sleep at night."
Wu Caifeng showed her the bracelet she had made, saying, "Look, I've made dozens of these."
"Mom, you've worked so hard."
Wu Caifeng shook her head. "What's so hard about it? It's much easier than farming. You're not exposed to the wind or the sun."
"I'm happy just thinking about how I can make money from it."
The old lady happily started stringing things together again.
Zhizhi washed some fruit and ate some with Wu Caifeng before getting back to work.
As soon as Zhou Lin returned home that evening, Wu Caifeng immediately boasted to him, "Do you know how much money Zhizhi earned today?"
Zhou Lin shook his head.
He really didn't know that.
Wu Caifeng said, "Guess!"
Judging from his mother's expression, Zhou Lin guessed, "One hundred?"
Wu Caifeng immediately shook her head, "That's not right!"
"One hundred and twenty?"
Wu Caifeng shook her head again.
Zhizhi, standing behind Wu Caifeng, secretly gestured with two fingers to her husband.
Zhou Lin was also shocked.
He said in disbelief, "Two...two hundred?"
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