As it was getting close to the end of the get off work day, Pei Wenping felt a little hungry, so she took out the egg cake that Shen Mingzhu had given her from her bag and gave a piece to each of her office colleagues.
"Hey, what are you eating? It smells so good. Give me a piece too."
While I was eating, the office director Wang Defa came over to ask for reimbursement. When he smelled the delicious food, he shamelessly asked for it.
"Director Wang, you have to find Sister Wenping. She brought this egg cake."
Pei Wenping didn't want to give it at first, but she had to give it to Wang Defa because of his insistence.
It’s not that she is stingy, but there are not many pieces of egg cake in total, and there won’t be enough to share when she takes them home.
"Accountant Pei, where did you buy this egg cake? It's delicious."
"Yes, I have never eaten such a delicious egg cake. Sister Wenping, please give me the address. I will go there to weigh some after get off work."
"Don't even think about it. You can't buy this egg cake outside."
"Why, it's a special offer?"
Pei Wenping was proud, "Of course not, my sister-in-law baked it for her family, it's not a special supply."
Shen Mingzhu was putting on her apron and preparing to cook dinner when Pei Wenping came over with her colleagues from the unit.
"Sister-in-law, this is Director Wang from our cotton mill. He wants to ask you to do something, so he asked me to bring him to you."
Shen Mingzhu invited the two into the house, poured some water, and was about to cut a fruit plate when she was stopped by Pei Wenping.
"Stop working, sister-in-law. Bring out the egg cake you baked to entertain Director Wang."
"Oh, all right."
When Shen Mingzhu heard Pei Wenping specifically ask for egg cake, she had a vague guess in her mind.
She came to the kitchen, picked up some of the egg cakes baked in the afternoon, put them on plates and took them out.
Director Wang was the only one sitting on the sofa in the living room. Pei Wenping was not there. The voices of the aunt and nephew talking could be faintly heard from the stepson's room.
"Director Wang, this is the cake I made myself, please try it."
Looking at the egg cakes in two colors and different shapes on the plate, Wang Defa's eyes lit up.
"Sister Pei, you have great skills and are very thoughtful."
Shen Mingzhu smiled without saying anything, picked up the teapot and added some water to the other person's cup.
Wang Defa first tried a piece of plum blossom-shaped original cake, and then took a banana-shaped banana-flavored cake.
While they were eating, Pei Wenping also walked out of the room holding Pei Ziheng's hand.
Seeing Wang Defa eating more happily, he smiled and asked, "Director Wang, how are you?"
Wang Defa nodded repeatedly, "Not bad, really good, Accountant Pei, you should try it too."
When Pei Wenping approached the coffee table and saw the egg cake on the plate, she was immediately surprised.
"Hey, sister-in-law, have you come up with something new to bake?"
Shen Mingzhu explained with a smile, "I just changed the cake mold. The plum blossom-shaped one tastes the same as the one you had this morning, and the long one is banana flavored."
After hearing what Shen Mingzhu said, Pei Wenping immediately took a banana-flavored egg cake, broke it in half, and handed the other half to her nephew Pei Ziheng.
Pei Wenping praised the banana-flavored egg cake, "It's more fragrant and delicious than the original flavor. I've only eaten orange-flavored egg cakes before, and I didn't expect that you could make banana-flavored ones. Sister-in-law, where did you learn all this?"
"I learned it by reading books when I had nothing to do at home."
Hearing this, Pei Ziheng, who was sitting next to Pei Wenping and eating egg cake silently, glanced at Shen Mingzhu.
I don't even think before telling a lie.
Moreover, in her previous life, this woman couldn't even cook tasty noodles, but in this life, she suddenly became an expert in cooking and could make dishes and bake cakes. It was like a miracle.
Shen Mingzhu had no idea that her stepson was secretly criticizing and doubting her. She was concentrating on listening to what Wang Defa said.
Wang Defa came to her to ask her to help bake twenty kilograms of egg cakes.
In two days it will be Wang Defa’s mother’s 70th birthday. The old lady has loved egg cake all her life, so Wang Defa wants to use egg cake as a dessert for the birthday party.
Shen Mingzhu naturally would not refuse business that came to her doorstep.
She bought this oven not only to satisfy her own cravings, but also to earn some pocket money.
Now, if you buy egg cakes outside, the price is two jin coupons plus two yuan per jin if you use food coupons, and two yuan and a half per jin if you buy it in cash.
Shen Mingzhu quoted Wang Defa a price of three yuan per kilogram, without the need for a ticket, and explained the situation to the other party.
"The ingredients I use are more genuine than those sold outside. I use two more eggs per pound of flour than others, and the sugar is 100% white sugar, with absolutely no saccharin."
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Wang Defa agreed readily.
You can tell whether something is good or not by eating it, otherwise he wouldn't have come all the way to the store.
After Pei Wenping and Wang Defa left, Shen Mingzhu was no longer in a hurry to make dinner. She took out a notebook and started to do the accounting.
Excluding costs, you can make about ten yuan from twenty kilograms of egg cakes.
Shen Mingzhu was very satisfied as she prepared the ingredients in one day and baked them in another, making a net profit of ten yuan in two days.
The next day, after sending her stepson to kindergarten, Shen Mingzhu went to the grain and oil station to buy refined flour, sugar, oil and eggs.
She made a verbal agreement with the owner of the grain and oil station that she would come to buy a large quantity of goods in the future, in exchange for a 10% discount and door-to-door delivery service.
On that day, the people in the family compound were in an uproar again, and everyone condemned Shen Mingzhu's "wasteful behavior".
Especially Shen Baolan, she found it unbelievable.
How dare Shen Mingzhu do that? Pei Wenping came to her house twice yesterday and scolded her, but she didn't restrain herself at all and went on a shopping spree again today.
She also bought 20 kilograms of eggs in one go. Is she planning to eat eggs as a meal? No, she has to go talk to Pei Wenping again to see if Pei Wenping can't scold this spendthrift woman to death.
At noon, Shen Mingzhu was washing the newly bought cake mold when Pei Wenping came to her door.
"Big sister, have you had lunch? I made some dumplings and froze them in the ice room. Do you want me to cook some for you?"
Pei Wenping didn't have much of an appetite to begin with, but when she heard there were dumplings to eat, she suddenly felt a little hungry again.
"You do your thing, I'll cook."
While waiting for the water to boil, Pei Wenping came over to chat with Shen Mingzhu.
"That fellow villager of yours came up to me again this morning and had a long conversation. I didn't want to listen, but she kept on talking. Why is she so annoying? Was she like this in the countryside before? Fortunately, she didn't marry into our Pei family. I'm so annoyed."
Shen Mingzhu laughed, "What did she say to you again?"
"What else can I say? I'll tell you that you're wasting money. I'll tell you that you bought dozens of kilograms of flour and eggs in one go. I'll tell you to keep a close eye on you."
"Sister, she is just like that. She only wants to create chaos in the world. Just ignore her in the future."
"I confronted her directly and told her to mind her own business. I said you spent my brother's money, not hers, so why is she so upset? If she comes to me and gossips again, I will go to her mother-in-law."
Pei Wenping couldn't help laughing when she said this. "You didn't see her expression at that time. She looked like she had eaten a fly. I guess she won't dare to come to me again in the future."
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