◎First update◎
The next day, Liang Baozhen and Liang Baoying continued to sell popsicles, and Xu Shengjie had to busy himself with his clothing business. Liang Baozhen was worried that he and the two big bosses Qin Huai didn't know how to sell clothes, but after asking a few questions, she found out that they had learned a lot in Guangdong City and seemed to be quite knowledgeable about selling clothes.
"Baozhen, your brother-in-law wants to do business too?" Liang Baoying felt that her sister and brother-in-law were really brave and decisive.
She also heard that her brother-in-law traveled far away by train to buy goods, which was much more troublesome than going to the food factory to buy goods.
"Yes, there are many opportunities to sell clothes now." Liang Baozhen didn't want to worry about his affairs. She should focus on making money for herself first. After all, the summer vacation is almost over.
Everything is normal today, popsicles and soda are on sale. Liang Baozhen feels much more comfortable with the electric fan behind her. A storefront and an electric fan, this experience is much better than standing on the street stall.
When she was free, she would sit in the house with her elder sister and chat leisurely.
"Auntie, I want a red fruit popsicle." Black Monkey came over to buy a popsicle with four cents in his hand.
"Hey, hold it steady." Liang Baozhen handed the popsicle over, put four cents in the change box, and walked to the stool.
"Before, I thought selling things and doing business was difficult, but now it seems quite simple." Liang Baoying is now familiar with the process. It turns out that it is so simple after taking the first step.
I am happy to see the money I earn every day. It shouldn’t be long before I can pay off my debts!
She was finally able to sleep well and felt less anxious.
"Yes." Liang Baozhen found that her sister was much more confident and was not at all nervous when dealing with all kinds of people who came to buy popsicles.
She used to worry about being looked down upon by people in the city, mainly because of the trouble caused by Song Jianguo's mother. But now that she has been in the city for a long time, Liang Baoying feels that everyone is the same and they all have to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and sleep.
Liang Baozhen told her sister about her plan, "When the time comes, we will buy a house and register our parents' household registration here. They will also be able to move to the city, and it will be convenient for us to see each other as a family in the future."
Buying a house? Liang Baoying was puzzled, "Aren't we all waiting for housing allocation from our work units? Why are there still people buying houses?"
"It's hard to predict what will happen in the future, sister. Think about it, this time it was because my brother-in-law spent money and used connections that you were able to get a room in advance. If it weren't for this connection, how many years would you have to wait? It's not easy to wait for a room."
Liang Baoying thought about it and it seemed to be true. She didn't care. She just listened to Baozhen!
When it was almost time to close the store, the two stood up and prepared to pack up their things, when they suddenly saw a dark shadow rushing over. Black Monkey, who had come to buy red fruit popsicles in the afternoon, was lying on the ground, holding his stomach and crying in pain.
He howled so loudly that he soon attracted a lot of people's attention.
"Ouch, my stomach hurts! My stomach hurts so much! I ate a popsicle, and it hurts after eating it!"
"Oh, everyone, come and have a look. The man who sells popsicles has made Black Monkey sick. It's so pitiful. How could he be in so much pain?" Zhou Qiang's wife shouted at the top of her voice while walking to the opposite side.
Soon, two circles of people gathered in front of Liang Baozhen's popsicle shop.
Liang Baozhen glanced at the black monkey on the ground, then glanced at Zhou Qiang and his wife who were coming over very quickly, and she had an idea in her mind.
"Did you really eat popsicles and get sick from eating them?"
“Is there something wrong with this popsicle?”
"I ate it too, it's over, I don't think I have a stomachache too!"
The crowd around was talking about it.
"Black Monkey, where does your stomach hurt?" Liang Baozhen went over to take a look, and saw that the black monkey had a calm expression. It was only when he saw her approaching that he started howling again.
The black monkey couldn't explain why, so he just held his stomach and howled, which attracted more and more people to watch. With Zhou Qiang and his wife fanning the flames, many people began to criticize the popsicles sold by Liang Baozhen.
"Are you really a lesbian selling bad popsicles?"
"Why does this kid have a stomachache after eating the popsicle you sold?"
Zhou Qiang took the opportunity to follow the crowd and said, "I can't buy popsicles from her store anymore. I'll have a stomachache if I eat them."
Liang Baoying looked at the chattering crowd and hurriedly explained, "The popsicles we sell are definitely fine!"
However, her excuses were seen as cunning excuses by everyone and no one paid any attention to her.
"Baozhen, what should we do?" Liang Baoying was panicking as it was the first time she encountered such a thing.
Liang Baozhen patted her sister's hand to comfort her, "It's okay, someone is just playing tricks on me behind my back."
"Everyone listen to me." Liang Baozhen said to the crowd, "If Black Monkey really had a stomachache or felt unwell after eating the popsicles we sold, we will definitely be responsible. We buy our popsicles from food factories and they have passed national inspection standards. You can rest assured. If you have any questions, you can go and ask the people at the food factory."
After hearing that Liang Baozhen had moved out of the food factory, everyone calmed down a bit. It was a big factory, and they couldn't cheat.
"Black Monkey, you bought a red fruit popsicle from our house this afternoon, right?"
Black Monkey nodded.
"Does eating give you a stomachache?"
Black Monkey hummed.
"Okay, regardless of whether it's the popsicles or not, I'll take you to the hospital first. Let's check the cause of Black Monkey's stomachache. If it's really the popsicles, I'll pay for his medical treatment."
Go to the hospital? Black Monkey covered his stomach and shook his head. He didn't want to go to the hospital. Hospitals are the scariest place.
Black Monkey is only four years old this year. He has only had the opportunity to go to the hospital once, which was for an injection. He screamed in pain. Now when he hears that he has to go to the hospital, he refuses to do it!
"The doctors in the hospital are amazing. They can tell you exactly why you have a stomachache." Liang Baozhen saw his face stiffen, and then continued, "You have to get a shot if your stomach hurts so much. A needle that long and sharp actually doesn't hurt that much. It will be fine once it's inserted."
"Ahhhh no, I don't want to go to the hospital, I don't want to have an injection!" Black Monkey was scared, an injection is so scary!
"Heihou, go get yourself checked out, don't let anything really get you sick."
"Go, go to the hospital now."
The onlookers were not afraid of the excitement and urged Black Monkey to go to the hospital for a check-up to seek peace of mind.
Only Zhou Qiang and his wife stood up to stop them, "Why go to the hospital? Going to the hospital is so troublesome, just pay for the medical expenses of Black Monkey."
Liang Baozhen smiled and looked at Zhou Qiang and his wife, "That's definitely not possible. Now Heihou and you keep saying that he had a stomachache because he ate my popsicles. I have to make sure that Heihou is not seriously ill, otherwise I can't go back with peace of mind. Heihou, let's go to the hospital for a check-up. At worst, the doctor can give you an injection. If you don't get better in a day, you can get an injection for a week."
"No!" Black Monkey got up from the ground, holding his butt and yelling, "My stomach doesn't hurt, I don't want to go to the hospital, I don't want an injection! Don't inject me!"
Liang Baozhen struck while the iron was hot and continued to ask, "Just because you don't feel any pain now doesn't mean you won't feel any pain later. Didn't you just lie on the ground and say you had a stomachache? You should go to the hospital for an injection."
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt!" Black Monkey looked at Liang Baozhen, trying to make her believe him. "I never felt any pain when my stomach was pressed. They told me to pretend."
Everyone listened to the black monkey's words and heard them clearly.
An old lady inside shouted, "Are you pretending? Black Monkey, who told you to pretend? Why are you pretending to have a stomachache?"
Zhou Qiang and his wife were about to sneak away, but they were pointed at by Black Monkey and suddenly became the focus of the whole place. "Uncle Zhou and his friends asked me to pretend. They said that if I bought a popsicle from Aunt Liang's house and told everyone that I had a stomachache after eating it, they would reward me with another popsicle."
Black Monkey thought about it and decided that it was not worth it to get a needle just to eat a popsicle!
"Hey! Why are you talking nonsense?" Zhou Qiang's face immediately changed, and he started to pick the fruits out. "Who told you to pretend to have a stomachache? Don't be fooled by him, this kid doesn't tell the truth."
The black monkey looked at the person who was on the same page with him and refused to admit it. His face turned red with anxiety. "It was you who gave me four cents to buy a popsicle, and you asked me to pretend to have a stomachache."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Zhou Qiang's wife glared back fiercely and refused to admit it. She said to the onlookers, "Ah, this kid is really not well-educated. One moment he wrongly accuses Comrade Liang, and the next moment he wrongly accuses us!"
Black Monkey was really anxious when he saw the couple turning against each other. He cried and said, "You asked me to pretend to have a stomachache. Ergou and Tiedan saw it!"
Ergou and Tiedan live nearby, and the three children often play together. Ergou's mother and Tiedan's mother were watching the fun in the crowd at the moment, and when they heard their children being called, they immediately called them over.
"Tell me, did you really see this popsicle vendor looking for Black Monkey?"
The two nodded obediently, "I saw it, and I gave him money!"
"Nonsense! Nonsense! All nonsense!" Zhou Qiang looked at the children fiercely. If their mothers were not there, he would have wanted to grab their collars and force them to change their words, "We didn't give it to you."
"No wonder they were the ones running the fastest and yelling the loudest just now."
"So it seems that he is plotting against Xiao Liang."
We are not fools. How can we not understand what they have heard and seen? They immediately condemned Zhou Qiang and his wife.
"You are such evil-minded people, you can think of such a sinister trick."
"The popsicles that Comrade Liang bought were from a food factory. The quality of popsicles produced by a food factory must be good. Unlike the popsicles sold by these two people, the ones they sold were not from a food factory at all."
“Is this true or false?”
"Really! I saw them buy it and redeem it themselves!" Black Monkey hated them so much now that he told them what he saw.
The food factory's quota for private wholesale of popsicles has been filled, and Zhou Qiang and his wife certainly didn't catch up at the right time. There was actually no big problem with their popsicles. They bought the popsicles from the food factory outside, then diluted them and refroze them themselves. They originally bought them at the retail price, and after diluting them, they exchanged one for two, and then sold them at double the retail price, so they still made a small profit of half.
"No wonder the popsicles I bought from them tasted bland. The popsicles I bought from Liang Baozhen before had a strong milky taste. Not only do Zhou Qiang's popsicles look shabby, they also tasted bad."
“So that’s how it works.”
Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhou Qiang and his wife quickly ran out of the crowd and ran away pushing their popsicle cart.
Liang Baozhen cleared her name and thought about reiterating her own purchasing channels to the onlookers, which actually won everyone's trust. Especially when compared with the popsicles sold by Zhou Qiang, everyone felt that Liang Baozhen's popsicles were better.
Liang Baoying heaved a sigh of relief when the crisis was resolved, because this matter delayed them for a long time and the two of them returned home late. When Liang Baozhen got home, it was already past dinner time. She had left a message asking them not to wait if she was not home by six o'clock and let them eat first.
Only Xu Shengjie was in the room, writing at the desk. Liang Baozhen tiptoed over, wanting to scare him, but was discovered by him before she even got there.
"How is your business today?" This is what Liang Baozhen cares about most.
Xu Shengjie smiled. He was keeping account. "I made three hundred and sixty."
Liang Baozhen: "...? So many!"
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