"What good news? Did she get rich?"

Shen Baolan instinctively thought, could it be that Shen Mingzhu made a lot of money from selling mooncakes this time? She felt like a jar of pickled cabbage had been overturned in her heart.

Then I heard that person say, "Shen Mingzhu has joined the food factory and is now a mooncake chef there, specializing in teaching the factory's employees how to make mooncakes."

"What?"

Shen Baolan's first reaction was disbelief.

If someone as lazy as Shen Mingzhu can be a master, then she can be a factory manager! She sneered, "Just listen to her bragging. She can't even cook properly, and she came to the food factory to teach people how to make mooncakes. Don't teach people bad things."

"You still don't believe it, my sister-in-law from my mother's family works in the food factory. She said it herself, Shen Mingzhu is now teaching them how to make mooncakes in the factory, and she's doing a great job."

"I've heard about it, too. It's said that the manager of the Human Food Factory came to Shen Mingzhu in person to discuss cooperation. Shen Mingzhu will get two cents for every mooncake sold."

"Hey, if I can earn two cents for each one, then if I sell ten thousand of them, wouldn't I be able to get two hundred dollars?"

"Of course not. Shen Mingzhu has found a hen that lays golden eggs. She can sit at home and collect money every year. It's great. If I had such a capable wife, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."

Everyone was talking at once, and Shen Baolan had no choice but to believe it.

Shen Mingzhu actually joined the food factory? She became a mooncake maker in the food factory? And she could get a large sum of money every year? Shen Baolan felt as sour as if she had eaten a hundred lemons.

At night, Shen Baolan lay in bed and took the initiative to talk about this matter with her husband, who had been in a cold war with her for several days.

"... Or else, I will buy a book on making pastries and study it at home. Shen Mingzhu couldn't even cook when she was at her mother's house, but she managed to make something famous. I am much better than her. I don't believe I can't be better than her."

Although Zhou Shuhuan didn't understand why Shen Baolan had to compete with Shen Mingzhu in everything, he still supported Shen Baolan's desire to learn a craft. He asked her if she knew what books to buy. Shen Baolan didn't know the answer, but she already had an idea.

Early the next morning, Ma Sufen saw two boiled eggs on the table and asked Shen Baolan.

"Why did you boil an extra egg?"

Although eggs were not a rare commodity for the Zhou family, they were not so wealthy that everyone could eat them every day. Only the grandson Zhou Hao had this privilege.

"Mom, I'm useful."

After saying that, Shen Baolan picked up one of the boiled eggs and went into the room where her stepson Zhou Hao was sleeping.

Pei Ziheng sat down at his seat as usual after entering the classroom. He did not play or talk with the classmates around him, but took out a book from his bag and started reading.

"Pei Ziheng, this is for you."

Pei Ziheng raised his eyes, looked at the egg Zhou Hao handed over, and coldly refused, "I don't want it."

Zhou Hao obviously didn't expect Pei Ziheng to refuse, and he just stood there holding the egg without leaving.

Pei Ziheng ignored him and continued to flip through the book with his eyes lowered.

Zhou Hao might have been too tired to lift the egg, so he forced the egg into Pei Ziheng's hand. "Auntie Lan gave it to you. It's a free-range egg. It's 20 cents each. It's very nutritious. Eating it will help you grow taller."

When Pei Ziheng heard that the eggs were given to him by Shen Baolan, his eyes flickered slightly.

"Your stepmother is so nice."

Zhou Hao grinned when he heard this, "Auntie Lan said that if you help her, she will cook eggs for you every day in the future."

"What's the matter?"

After returning home from school in the afternoon, Pei Ziheng took out eggs from his schoolbag.

Shen Mingzhu looked at the eggs in surprise, "Where did they come from?" She and Pei Ziheng didn't like boiled eggs, so they usually made steamed egg custard.

"Zhou Hao's stepmother gave it to me. She said that if I did her a favor, she would cook eggs for me every day."

Shen Mingzhu was delighted when she heard this. "What does she want you to do?"

Shen Mingzhu casually listed a series of book titles, and fearing that Pei Ziheng would not be able to remember them, she wrote them down on a piece of paper and asked Pei Ziheng to give the note to Zhou Hao tomorrow.

Shen Baolan was overjoyed after successfully obtaining the "intelligence". She hugged her stepson and gave him two big kisses. Then she took the note and discussed with her husband.

Zhou Shuhuan looked at the title of the book on the note and frowned.

Not to mention whether these books can be bought, even if they are sold in bookstores, it would be a huge expense to buy them all.

He asked Shen Baolan with some doubt, "Are you sure you can learn it just by buying the book?"

"If Shen Mingzhu can learn it, I can definitely do it too. My grades were much better than hers when I was in school."

Seeing Shen Baolan so confident, Zhou Shuhuan took the note and went to Ma Sufen to ask for money.

Zhou Shuhuan asked for fifty yuan. Ma Sufen was not happy about it until she heard Shen Baolan say that she had gone to great lengths to get these book titles from Pei Ziheng, and that Shen Mingzhu learned how to make egg cakes and moon cakes from these books. Only then did Ma Sufen agree.

"Baolan, try harder. You must beat Shen Mingzhu no matter what."

"Mom, don't worry. When I learn how to make egg cakes and moon cakes, Shen Mingzhu can stay away and cool off!"

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The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were full of fighting spirit and vowed to trample Shen Mingzhu under their feet.

The next day, Zhou Shuhuan bought all the books on the note and brought them home. Fifty yuan was not enough, so Zhou Shuhuan borrowed eighteen yuan from his colleagues. Ma Sufen felt very distressed, but when she thought that her daughter-in-law had learned to make egg cakes and moon cakes, and would be able to surpass Shen Mingzhu, she felt relieved.

Shen Baolan was a person of action, and that evening she began to study hard with the book Zhou Shuhuan had bought.

Time flies and it is already the end of October.

Shen Mingzhu received the first dividend from the food factory, one hundred and thirty-five and eighty yuan.

During the entire Mid-Autumn Festival, Shen Mingzhu and the food factory sold nearly 7,000 mooncakes.

In other words, the time is too short. If the promotion and sales can be carried out half a month or even a week in advance, the sales volume can at least double or triple.

"Master Shen, let's wait until next year. Next year we will work hard and try to sell it for 50,000 or 80,000 yuan."

It can be seen that the general manager of the food factory is very confident in Shen Mingzhu's mooncakes. Of course, Shen Mingzhu herself is also confident that this year's cooperation was too hasty and the packaging design was not up to standard.

When she has time, she will design different packages and themes for different mooncakes, and strive to create a nationally renowned mooncake brand, so that her time travel will be worthwhile.

The news of the dividend soon spread throughout the compound, and Shen Mingzhu became a celebrity there.

The older generation praised Shen Mingzhu for her ability, young mothers envied her abilities, and all men wanted to marry a beautiful and intelligent woman like Shen Mingzhu.

Shen Baolan was still very jealous, but at the same time, she was greatly encouraged by Shen Mingzhu's success and dreamed that she would also be able to make a fortune by making pastries in the future.

In the afternoon, after picking up Pei Ziheng from the kindergarten, Shen Mingzhu asked casually as usual, "Did Zhou Hao bring you eggs today?"

"No."

Shen Mingzhu was just about to scold Shen Baolan for not keeping her word, but she saw Pei Ziheng take out a yellow banana from his bag.

"Today it's bananas."

“…”

Bananas are much more expensive than eggs. If someone is too nice to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief.

Shen Mingzhu was amused. "What does she want you to do this time?"

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