Chapter 118: Ways to Make Money



Shen Xingchen asked them to get up, but they were both very reluctant.

Mai Hongcai gave him some face and slowly got up from the bed.

Mai Laosan was ready to throw a tantrum like a father-in-law, but Mai Sui came to his bedroom door and kicked it open.

"Mai Lao San, get up right now!"

Mai Sui's roar scared Mai Lao San so much that he rolled under the bed.

Mai Hongcai also woke up from his sleepiness in an instant.

Mai Lao San hurriedly put on his clothes, glared at Shen Xingchen and complained in a low voice:

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that Mai Sui was back? If you had told me earlier, I would have gotten up earlier!"

Really! I was scared to death!

Shen Xingchen whispered back, "Walls have ears. Mai Sui sneaked back here. Be careful and don't make too much noise. It will be troublesome if someone hears you."

Mai Laosan silently turned his head to look at his crumbling door. Isn’t this a big noise?

Shen Xingchen touched his nose awkwardly: "Ahem...it was an accident."

While the two of them were talking, Mai Hongcai had already started to express his true feelings.

"Sister, you've been gone for two months, I miss you so much!

I dreamed that you came to see me tonight. I didn’t expect that when I opened my eyes, you really came back to see me!

I knew that we are siblings, even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected..."

How else can we say that Mai Hongcai is the second child in the family? Look at his expression and tone, how touching~

When Shen Xingchen came in and took a look, veins on his forehead bulged, because from his angle of view, Mai Hongcai was almost sticking to his wife.

Even though they are siblings, they are so old now, why don’t they know how to avoid suspicion? Is there no one to teach this brother-in-law a lesson?

He's so mad!

Shen Xingchen immediately turned into a human shield and squeezed in between the two of them.

Mai Hongcai didn't understand what was going on and kept pulling at the wheat ears.

Shen Xingchen grabbed Mai Hongcai's shoulders and pushed him away: "Hongcai, stand still, your sister has something to say."

Upon hearing this, Mai Hongcai immediately stood up straight, looking as if he was ready to be ordered at any time.

Mai Lao San also hurried over and stood there, with a warm attitude and a big smile on his face:

"Girl, why did you come out so late at night? What's the matter?"

Mai Sui took out a stack of papers and handed them to Mai Hongcai: "This is a small sewing machine I designed. Go find someone to see if they can make it."

It is more like a small handheld sewing gun than a small sewing machine.

It is about the size of a pistol and has the same shape, but Mai Sui has made some magical modifications to it.

Aren’t sewing machines quite valuable? Mai Sui thought, then make a small sewing gun.

You can put it in your pocket anytime and anywhere, and take it out to mend your clothes when they get torn. It is convenient and quick.

Most importantly, it’s cheap!

The price of Wheat Ear is fifty, which is less than one-third of the price of an ordinary sewing machine.

Or it can be lowered a little bit, depending on the production cost.

Anyway, her design costs are negligible, as she just draws them casually when she has nothing to do.

Mai Sui has even thought of the sales channels.

It’s Lin Yanxi’s cousin Qiao Qingshi.

Nowadays, the government implements a planned economy and does not allow ordinary people to do business on their own, but they can sell their goods to supply and marketing cooperatives.

Unified purchase and sales by supply and marketing cooperatives is in line with the current "unified purchase and sales" policy.

That's what Qiao Qingshi does.

If Lin Yanxi hadn’t mentioned it to Mai Sui accidentally, Mai Sui would never have thought of making a sewing gun.

What people usually call supply and marketing cooperatives actually refer to the external sales outlets managed by the supply and marketing retail departments.

But the actual supply and marketing cooperative is a large state-owned organization, which includes many other departments in addition to sales departments.

For example, the purchasing department where Qiao Qingshi works.

The government allows farmers to engage in family side businesses during the slack season, such as weaving baskets and doing simple carpentry.

It is also possible to form cooperatives and mutual aid groups through communes or village brigades to carry out agricultural production and agricultural product processing.

Finally, the supply and marketing cooperatives will make unified purchases and then sell them at planned prices.

In a word, everything is for the collective, not a private transaction between individuals, and it complies with the policy.

Mai Sui thought that, if that was the case, then the small sewing machine she designed could also be considered a "handicraft" and it should be fine to give it to Qiao Qingshi for unified purchase.

Mai Hongcai couldn’t understand what was drawn on the blueprint, but he could still understand the final finished product display.

This is not a sewing machine, it's clearly a pistol!

Although his family doesn't have a sewing machine, his uncle's family does have one. Don't try to bully him for not knowing!

Mai Hongcai was so scared that he stuttered: "Sister...you...I'm afraid this is not appropriate, right?"

Shen Xingchen took it and looked at it, and immediately saw the trick.

At the same time, he couldn't help feeling shocked, because the design of the wheat ears was so exquisite that he was fascinated by it and wanted to read it at night to study it carefully.

Mai Sui glared at Mai Hongcai with disdain and said unhappily, "Look at you, you are such a loser!

This is a sewing machine! It's just handheld and portable!

Didn't Maoqiu have a wooden gun? And there are potatoes, they are not afraid of them. You are such a grown-up, what are you afraid of? "

"Sister, you also said that Maoqiu's gun is made of wood, and it is just a toy for children to play house.

This doesn’t look like a toy, it looks much more serious than speculation, I’m afraid…”

Mai Laosan came over to take a look at Shen Xingchen and felt that the things drawn on it were a bit complicated. He could tell at a glance that they were not on the same level as the wooden gun.

He also said with some concern: "Yes, girl, this thing is different from the prey we used to sell.

You are a soldier now, and you finally have a good future. You can't make any mistakes. If you are fired, what will happen to our family in the future?"

"What's wrong with being a soldier? Soldiers also need to eat! Do you know how much allowance I get a month now?"

Speaking of this, Mai Sui felt depressed.

Who would have thought that she only had an allowance of 26 yuan a month.

That’s right, it’s 26, two months is 52!

You might as well go to the mountains and catch a wild boar and earn more!

This is still relatively high, because Mai Sui is a special forces soldier (reserve), not an ordinary recruit.

The average soldier earns even less, less than ten dollars per month in the first year.

Fortunately, food in the army is very cheap and clothes are distributed for free, otherwise how could we survive!

To be honest, Mai Sui sometimes really can't understand the logic behind their behavior.

Later, Wheat Ear realized that it was a kind of belief.

But Mai Sui does not have this kind of belief yet.

Apart from being poor, Mai Sui is still very satisfied with her current life, so she has to find a way to improve her financial conditions.

It just so happened that Lin Yanxi's cousin had the channels, so Mai Sui naturally wanted to do something big.

Just when Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai didn't know how to persuade Mai Sui, Shen Xingchen suddenly said, "I can do it!"

Mai Sui was delighted and made the decision: "Okay, then I'll leave it to you!"

Afterwards, Mai Sui scolded Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai, and told them to learn from Shen Xingchen.

"I'm not good at anything and I'm the number one drag!"

He also rewarded Shen Xingchen with ten dollars in front of Mai Laosan and the other man as an encouragement.

Shen Xingchen's mouth immediately curled up to the sky: "Sui Sui, don't worry, I will definitely make it and will not let your design down!"

Mai Laosan & Mai Hongcai: Flatterers!


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