Chapter 97 Something is wrong with Lili
Zhang Chun went to open the door.
Xing Xing rushed in and yelled, "Fourth sister, something bad has happened! Those people...are fighting over candy!"
Taotao was stunned.
Xing Xing took two deep breaths before she began to tell what had happened.
——Song Zhi sent five bags of milk candy to the store and conveyed Tao Tao's words: these five bags of milk candy, each weighing one pound, are sold for 1.1 yuan per bag, and the store can get a commission of 0.2 yuan for each bag sold.
It’s not that there are people who sell things on consignment in the convenience store.
Generally, it is the ginger, onion and garlic grown by the family members on their balconies; the eggs brought by relatives from their hometown who come to visit and they are afraid that they will go bad if they can't finish them; or it is the birthday of the little children in the family, and the relatives and friends give them new cotton shoes and hats made by themselves, but they are too small for the children to wear...
Consignment is not uncommon.
Also, the last batch of fruit candies in the store were sold out today, so these five bags of milk candies arrived just in time!
The first person to buy this bag of candy was Mrs. Wang, a female employee in the store.
She bought it at the internal price of nine cents, and said to Xing Xing with a smile: "Luckily I got this bag of candy today. Tomorrow is my uncle's birthday, so I won't be left with nothing good to give away! This bag is really beautifully wrapped, but I don't know if the candy tastes good."
Xing Xing had tried it before and replied with a smile: "Don't worry, it's delicious!"
However, Song Zhi brought a few bags of milk candy home at noon. He left one bag for the little beans at home according to Taotao's instructions, and gave two bags to Tang Liren and two bags to Tan Fenghui, saying that Taotao asked them to take them to the unit to eat.
Tan Fenghui took the candies to the bank, opened the package in front of her colleagues, and gave two to each of them.
Everyone praised the candy for being delicious!
There was a lady named Hu who was very smart and she already knew that the candies in the compound store had been sold out. Now seeing the milk candy that Tan Fenghui brought, with high-end packaging and good taste, I asked Tan Fenghui where she bought the milk candy.
Tan Fenghui said that the canteen had them.
Sister Hu was very smart. She made an excuse that she had diarrhea, quickly left her post and rushed to the convenience store in the compound.
There were only five packets of candy in the compound store.
Candies are very popular recently. In less than an hour, several people came to ask...
When Sister Hu arrived, she and Aunt Liu, a family member from another compound, ran into the store at the same time.
"Comrade, do you still have fruit candies for sale?"
"Comrade, how much is that candy? Give me one!"
The female employee at the canteen said, "This is the last pack left! The candies are one yuan and ten cents a pack!"
Aunt Liu: "Is this the last pack?"
Sister Hu, "One dollar and one cent? So expensive!"
Mrs. Wang, "There are so many people buying it, so forget it if you don't want it!"
Aunt Liu, "One dollar and one cent is enough! I want it!"
Sister Hu was not happy, "I was here first!"
Aunt Liu ignored Sister Hu and took out the money and put it on the counter. "Here, I'll give you the money and give me the candy!"
Sister Hu was anxious and screamed, "I was here first!" Then she took out some money and put it on the counter, and yelled at the female employee, "One dollar for one, right? Here! Give me the candy!"
For a moment, the female employee looked at Aunt Liu, then at Sister Hu...
Finally, the female employee made the decision.
——She didn’t know Aunt Hu from the bank, but she knew Aunt Liu, who was the mother of the canteen chef under the Logistics Department! Who among the employees in the entire municipal party committee compound doesn’t go to the cafeteria to eat?
The female employee didn't even look at Sister Hu, took the money from Aunt Liu, and gave the last bag of candy to Aunt Liu.
Aunt Liu glanced at Sister Hu sideways, then walked away triumphantly holding the bag of candy.
Sister Hu was so angry that she stretched out her shaking hand and pointed at the female employee in the canteen, "You you you...you you you!"
She suddenly saw a brown paper bag behind the counter. The style of the bag... why did it look so much like a candy bag?
Sister Hu got angry, pointed at the brown paper bag, and yelled at the female employee, "Didn't you say that was the last bag of candy? Then let me ask you, what is that?"
Female employee: "What does it have to do with you? I bought it!"
Sister Hu sneered, "You bought it? Where's the evidence? Did you issue an invoice?"
The female employee was speechless for a moment.
"There's no more anyway! You should leave now! Please come earlier next time!" said the female employee.
Sister Hu has always been proud and arrogant. Once she sets a goal, she must achieve it.
Just now, the so-called last bag of candy fell into thin air in front of her!
Now there is one more bag! ! !
Sister Hu shouted at the female employee with full force: "Give it to me!"
The female employee was so frightened that she actually took out the bag of candy she had intercepted...
However, she did not give it to Sister Hu.
Instead, it was handed over to a middle-aged woman who came in a hurry.
The female employee even called the middle-aged woman "Mom" and instructed her, "...give it to your uncle tomorrow!"
The middle-aged woman responded, took the bag of candy, turned around and left.
Sister Hu's eyes widened. "This is the candy I bought!" She roared and snatched the candy from the middle-aged woman...
All of a sudden, they started fighting in the canteen!
Finally, the leader of the convenience store rushed over after hearing the news. At first glance, Sister Hu was an acquaintance of hers. So the leader made the decision and gave the bag of candy to Sister Hu.
The female employee felt extremely aggrieved and her eyes were filled with tears.
The leader consoled her for a few moments and, knowing that the candies were sent by Xingxing's brother-in-law, he told Xingxing, "It's the end of the year now and every household needs candies. Tell your brother-in-law to give you as many of these candies as you can get! This is serving the people!"
Then he tried to smooth things over and said to the crying female employee, "After Xing Xing gets new stock, we'll eat some of it internally first!"
Well, after the leader said this, all the employees in the store looked at Xing Xing eagerly, and everyone urged her, "Xing Xing, don't stay here! Go find the goods quickly! It's already late, and the New Year is almost here!"
Xingxing was still at work when she was kicked out by them.
She went to find Song Zhi, and Song Zhi said Taotao was at Zhang Chun's house, so Xingxing came.
As they were talking, Xing Xing saw about thirty or forty bags of packaged candies piled on the table...
Xingxing's eyes lit up!
It was a pleasant surprise!
"Oh, that's great. With these, I can finally go back and report my mission!" Xingxing said happily.
Tao Tao wanted to be the boss, so she said to Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei, "You guys get busy, I'm leaving now... Starting tomorrow, I'll come to pick up the goods three times a day, once at 7am, once at 1pm, and once at 6pm... You don't have to cook, I'll go to the Municipal Committee canteen and get you food!"
Zhang Chun, "Okay! Thank you in advance, Taotao. We don't have to worry about three meals a day, which saves a lot of trouble!"
Lian Chunmei originally wanted to prevent Taotao from suffering too much...
But Zhang Chun had already agreed.
After thinking for a while, Lian Chunmei said, "Taotao, if possible... come and get it again tonight. Also, can I borrow your coal stove? With one more coal stove, we can do more work!"
Taotao nodded and rode away with Xingxing.
It was just past three in the morning when I got home and the weather suddenly turned gloomy and chilly.
Song Zhi was wearing a cotton-padded jacket and holding Tao Tao's red cotton-padded jacket in his hand. He had just pushed his 28-inch bicycle into the yard and looked like he was going out...
Seeing Taotao coming back, he pushed the bicycle back to the corner and parked it, handed her the cotton jacket in his hand, and helped her park the bicycle.
"It looks like it's going to snow!" Taotao said as she put on her cotton jacket.
Song Zhi looked up at the sky quietly.
Taotao held his hand, "Let's go! Let's go to my parents' house! It's going to snow today, so we can eat hot pot at home! Let's go buy some groceries now!"
Pulled him out the door...
Tao Tao thought of something else, "Oh, Song Zhi, after dinner tonight, can you help deliver food to Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei? And lend them our coal stove... We're eating at my parents' house anyway, and the stove heats up quickly when we take a shower, so we can use the coal stove."
Song Zhi nodded.
The two of them went to the back door of the Municipal Party Committee compound to buy vegetables together. There is a black market in the alley not far from the back door, which specializes in business with the families of the people living in the municipal party committee compound. Now that the New Year is approaching, it is especially lively, with all kinds of things for sale.
Taotao went shopping with great interest and bought two pork shanks, two catties of pork belly, two catties of beef belly, a big fat chicken, and a three or four catty grass carp...
Then I also bought radishes, tofu, dried vermicelli and so on.
The two of them went to their parents' house with their bags full.
Taotao stewed pork shanks at home - the shank bone soup can be used as hot pot soup base.
Just wash and slice the other meats.
It was quite cold. When Taotao was cleaning pork shank bones, her fingers were frozen stiff by the tap water.
Song Zhi came over to take a look, pushed her aside, cut the pork and beef into thin slices, and chopped the big fat chicken that the stall owner had already killed into small pieces... He didn't know how to slice a grass carp, so he killed it first and kept it, waiting for Tang Liren to come back to deal with it.
After finishing all these, seeing that it was almost time, he took the empty lunch box and returned to his little home.
First, he cleaned the coal stove, packed it in a sack and loaded it on his bicycle. Then he pushed the bicycle to the canteen, got three full boxes of food, rode to Zhang Chun's house, gave the coal stove and food to Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei, and took away the fifty or sixty bags of milk candy that they had hurriedly made.
When I got home, everyone in my family was already there.
Even Lili rushed back - it was her turn to take the night shift today.
With Lili around, the big grass carp was successfully deboned and sliced thinly...
At this time, the bone soup had been boiled for two hours, and Taotao threw a handful of washed and soaked wolfberries into the soup...
The milky and thick soup suddenly became bright and beautiful.
Taotao seasoned the soup with salt.
The eldest brother and his wife set up a small charcoal stove on the dining table and put a casserole on it; Nansheng brought a heavy soup pot from the kitchen and poured half of it into the casserole; Lili poured a whole chopped raw chicken into the pot; Xingxing added a bowl of the remaining soup in the big soup pot to each family member and put the rest aside for later use - if the soup in the casserole dried up, they could continue to add more.
Taotao, Song Zhi and Song Sui took out all the side dishes prepared in the kitchen.
There was a huge table filled with all kinds of things!
Tang Liren called the whole family, "Come on! Let's drink the bone soup first! If we drink bone soup at the end of the year... our children will grow taller next year!"
Then she glanced at her husband and said, "You old fellow are so tough! You are not afraid of falling or getting hurt!"
Then, she looked at the room full of young and energetic children, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law, and the more she looked, the more satisfied she became. "And you young people... drink more bones, you will be beautiful and healthy!"
Taotao smiled and said, "My mom is quite literary!"
Xing Xing exclaimed: "What a talented girl!"
Lili complained: "Oh my god, why didn't you pass on some cultural genes to me?"
Tang Liren, "I am still in need of something myself!"
Bai Zhenggan picked up the bowl and said, "Let's eat!"
The children and grandchildren cheered and drank the soup from their bowls.
It was snowing outside, making a rustling sound.
Everyone in the room sat around the table with a charcoal stove on the table and a fire box under their feet, drinking the delicious and hot bone soup. It was so warm and comfortable!
By the time everyone finished drinking a bowl of boiling hot bone soup, the chicken nuggets in the sand bowl were cooked.
Tender chicken dipped in a simple ginger and scallion dipping sauce does not require complicated cooking techniques or complex seasonings. The right amount of heat makes the chicken tender and without residue. If you cook it for one more minute, it will feel a little tough and the meat will become tough. If you cook it for one less minute, it will have blood streaks and will not be cooked through.
This chicken was picked by Song Zhi. It is a one-year-old hen, but it weighs nearly three pounds! There is not much fat under the skin and the meat is very tender. It is almost without any residue when eaten and is so delicious that you may even want to swallow your tongue!
There are many people in my family, and a chicken weighing more than two kilograms can be finished by each person taking two or three pieces.
Lili poured another plate of pork belly into the casserole.
Song Zhi also selected the pork belly, which was the meat from the pig's neck. The pig skin was cut off and saved for other uses. The remaining pork neck is sliced into thin slices and cooked in the boiling broth for three minutes before being scooped out and shared among everyone. At the same time, she also shoveled all the raw beef slices into the casserole.
Pork neck meat is different from any other part of the pig.
It has a crisp texture, like a fresh radish or cucumber, but the flesh is very tender.
The dipping sauce served with Lili is soy sauce, crushed peanuts and hot oil.
Crispy pork neck slices paired with soy sauce and crushed peanuts to enhance the flavor to the greatest extent! Moreover, this kind of meat is crispy and not greasy to eat, and it has the delicious taste of meat...
After sharing the delicious pork neck slices, everyone was still feeling a little hungry.
But by this time, the beef slices in the casserole were also cooked.
The beef belly is just the right amount of fat and lean, and the dipping sauce that Lili prepares is a mixture of minced salt, minced garlic and bright red Zhejiang vinegar.
Tao Tao couldn't help but say, "Third sister, shouldn't beef slices be dipped in soy sauce to taste better? Dipping it in vinegar... that seems a bit weird!"
Lili smiled, "Try it! If you don't know how to dip it in vinegar, then just dip it in soy sauce!"
Taotao picked up a piece of beef belly, dipped it in vinegar, and stuffed it into her mouth...
Her eyes lit up, "Wow! Delicious!"
The tender beef is paired with minced garlic, which is a good way to get rid of the fishy smell. Salt is the most versatile and simplest condiment, and it can also enhance the flavor to the greatest extent... The acidity of the big red Zhejiang vinegar is not as good as that of the Shanxi vinegar, and it has a slight sweetness, which can effectively relieve the greasiness of the beef.
Tao Tao praised: "It turns out that beef tastes better with vinegar! This is the first time I know this!"
Tang Liren laughed and said, "Silly child, don't you see what your third sister does for a living?"
Lili smiled and put white radish slices, potato slices and sweet potato starch into the casserole. Next, she cracked a dozen eggs into the casserole according to the number of people in the family... When the poached eggs were cooked, she took them out again for everyone to share, and put tofu in...
I have to say, with Lili hosting the meal, this hotpot was so... delicious!
Hongdou looked eagerly at the last dish of meat - sashimi, and asked Lili, "Auntie San, when are we going to eat fish?"
Lili smiled and said, "Although I removed the bones from the fish, I'm afraid some of it might leak out. If it leaks into the soup and gets on the leaves, it might prick someone's throat! So let's save it for last, okay?"
Hongdou nodded obediently.
Seeing that Lili was pretty, dignified, gentle and considerate, Tang Liren felt a little uncomfortable, "Lili, you've been working here for more than three years, and you haven't found anyone who suits your eyes?"
Lili raised her head and glanced at her mother.
She lowered her head again, "No, no."
Tang Liren was unwilling to give up. "Lili, if you really have a date, don't hide it! As long as he is not disabled, not married, not divorced with kids, and has not committed a crime... Mom will approve!"
Lili bit her lip and looked at her mother in horror, hastily denying, "No, no!"
Bai Zhenggan glared at his wife fiercely, then pouted in the direction of Nansheng.
Tang Liren looked over and saw that Nansheng's expression was also a little indifferent.
She knew she had said something wrong, so she quickly asked Lili, "Lili, then...how about I arrange a few dating shows for you during the New Year?"
"don't want!"
Lili said loudly, her attitude suddenly becoming excited.
The whole family fell silent instantly.
Taotao and Xingxing looked at each other.
Lili quickly covered up and said, "I, I don't want to talk about this...Mom, please stop talking!"
Tang Liren, "Okay, okay, if you don't like me to say this then I won't say it... Oh!" She finally let out a long sigh, looked at Lili, then at Nansheng, her face filled with worry.
Tan Fenghui, who was sitting opposite Lili, stared at Lili with a thoughtful expression.
Anyway, everyone enjoyed the meal very much.
After dinner, Bai Zhenggan and Bai Nansheng went to wash the dishes, while the others continued to sit on the sofa, warming themselves by the fire and chatting.
Tang Liren went to the balcony and took a walk. Seeing that it was snowing heavily outside, she urged Dongsheng and his wife, Taotao and his wife, and Song Sui, "Go back early! The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the roads are slippery!"
Everyone agreed, put on their coats, and said goodbye to their parents and sisters.
Taotao, Song Zhi and Song Sui walked out of the corridor first. After walking a few steps, they suddenly remembered that they had not yet made an appointment with Xingxing to go to Zhang Chun's house tomorrow morning. So they said something to Song Zhi and hurried back to the corridor.
Just then, Brother Dongsheng and Tan Fenghui were walking down the hall, talking.
Tan Fenghui said, "... She's a nice person, but... She's divorced and has two children... It's not easy to be a stepmother! Look at Fang Ling and Guan Hailong, they've been fighting for their whole lives! How can you tell who's right and who's wrong?"
Dongsheng, "I'll talk to her tomorrow." There was hidden anger in his tone.
Tan Fenghui hesitated and said, "Why don't I go and talk to her..."
Dongsheng, "I have to be the one to play the good guy and do the evil thing of breaking up the couple... Taotao?"
As they were talking, the two of them walked to the corner of the stairs and saw Taotao running in hurriedly from outside, with a look of shock on her face.
Taotao smiled at them, grabbed the handrail of the stairs and yelled upwards, "Bai Xingxing!"
The sound insulation in old buildings is not very good.
Xing Xing heard it at home, responded with a "Hey", quickly opened the door, and shouted down the third floor stair railing, "Fourth sister, what are you doing?"
Tao Tao, "See you in the cafeteria at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning! I won't be home for breakfast! You don't have to eat breakfast at home either! But Song Zhi and Song Sui will come over to eat!"
"I know!"
Tao Tao then asked Dong Sheng, "Brother, what did you just say?"
Dongsheng, "I didn't say anything!"
Tan Fenghui, "It's okay, it's okay!"
Taotao smiled and said, "Then I'm leaving!"
She ran out of the corridor and chased Song Zhi and the others.
Seven o'clock the next morning.
Taotao went to the canteen with her empty lunch box and bought three full bowls of fried rice, three meat buns and three steamed buns.
When she finished buying, Xingxing was already waiting at the door.
"Are these for Zhang Chun and the others?" Xing Xing asked.
Taotao nodded, "Let's go outside and eat some hot wonton soup! They have big appetites, and it's hard to pack the wonton soup, and they won't be full..."
As she spoke, she folded up the tin lunch box, wrapped it with two thick pillowcases, and finally tied it up with a bundle of cloth.
This will provide maximum insulation.
The two sisters pushed their bicycles out of the compound and went to the black market first to find a vendor selling soup wontons on a cart, and sat down to eat the soup wontons.
Tao Tao asked Xing Xing, "Is Third Sister dating someone?"
Xing Xing looked puzzled, "No? Where did you hear that?"
Tao Tao made up a story, "I heard it from her colleague! Don't you know anything about it?"
Xing Xing said doubtfully, "When mom asked her yesterday, didn't she say no? She's 25, it's only natural for her to have a boyfriend. If she really has one, why can't she tell me?"
Taotao remembered the conversation between her elder brother and sister-in-law that she heard in the corridor yesterday and frowned.
After eating the hot and delicious wonton soup, the two sisters rode their bicycles to Zhang Chun's house.
There are nearly three hundred bags of milk candy piled up in Zhang Chun’s house!
Moreover, Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei's eyes were full of bloodshot, and they looked like they had been busy all night...
Bai Taotao quickly handed them breakfast, "Hurry up and eat breakfast! Oh, right? We have some milk powder, so we can make a cup of milk for little Niuniu. Fried rice is pretty dry in the morning...you two should have a cup each!"
Zhang Chun went to make milk and asked Tao Xing if she wanted some.
Tao Xing both said no.
Tao Tao noticed the dark circles under Lian Chunmei's eyes and said, "Sister Chunmei, you don't have to work so hard. You should sleep when you need to! It's almost the New Year. It's not worth it to make yourself sick just to earn a little money."
Lian Chunmei smiled and said, "Well, we are all country folks, and we are used to doing farm work. How can money be so precious? Besides, it is only a few days away from the Chinese New Year. Even if we don't sleep during these few days... we won't be working during the Chinese New Year, so we can always make up for it."
Tao Tao disagreed, "You can't do that! If you don't listen, then I'll have to give you a quota! I'll only take 200 bags of candy a day from you, I don't want more! Unless... you two can arrange your rest time in turns and have a reasonable work and rest schedule, then I'll take all of it!"
Lian Chunmei and Zhang Chun looked at each other.
Zhang Chun, "Then we won't do it after twelve o'clock at night?"
Lian Chunmei blushed, "No, no, no..."
——There is only one bed in Zhang Chun’s house. If she and Zhang Chun rest at the same time, how will they sleep?
Lian Chunmei thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll rest from 7pm to 12pm, and then from 1pm to 3pm I'll rest again...how do you think?"
Zhang Chun understood, "Big sister, there's no need to be so troublesome. You and Xiao Niuniu can sleep here, and I'll go to the next room and squeeze in with Lao Sun. It's okay! From now on, we won't work at 12 o'clock in the evening, so have a good rest..."
Tao Tao was satisfied, "That's good enough! Okay, I'm leaving now. I won't delay your work. Come on!"
After being interrupted by Taotao, Lian Chunmei didn't know what to say. She could only say to Zhang Chun with a smile, "Thank you, Brother Zhang."
Taotao and Xingxing put the candies into sacks, each carried a large sack, and rode their bikes back to the compound store.
Wow, there are already a lot of people waiting in front of the convenience store in the heavy snow to buy candy.
Taotao and Xingxing pushed their bicycles into the convenience store warehouse through the back door.
The leader was already extremely anxious. "Xingxing, why are you here just now? How much stock do you two have here?"
Xing Xing, "About three hundred bags!"
The female employee who had fought with Sister Hu for the candy yesterday shouted anxiously, "Leader! Xingxing, we have to keep some... for internal consumption! When I got home yesterday, my mother almost scolded me to death! For the sake of my family harmony, you must leave me... at least three bags!"
The boss was so angry that he laughed, "What do you want to do with the other two bags? I don't have any, and you're still thinking about it!"
The female employee chuckled.
Taotao also smiled, "It's okay, we still have about 30 bags at home, you can divide them up, and when Xingxing gets off work, you can go get them... Remember, you must be low-key this time, and don't tell others that these things are from us. Otherwise, if you want this and that, they will be gone before they are sent to the store!"
The people in the store nodded repeatedly, "We understand this!"
At that moment, everyone unloaded the 300 bags of milk candy, packed up, and then opened for business.
Three hundred bags of candy were sold out in less than an hour!
People who had been waiting in line for the whole morning and then lost their chance were very angry.
The leader quickly explained to everyone that the candies were being restocked, and now that it was the end of the year, most of the workers in the candy factory had gone back to their hometowns, so everyone was asked to be tolerant and so on...
Taotao pulled Xingxing aside and gave her some instructions.
Xing Xing nodded repeatedly and went to discuss it with Song Sui first. Song Sui's eyes lit up and she immediately went to check the inventory account... Then the two of them pulled their leader aside and whispered to each other for a while.
The leader was very happy!
She immediately said to everyone: "Anyway, we are really sorry that you have been waiting here for so long in the snow, but we were unable to help you buy the products you wanted!"
"So we have come up with a compromise. Comrades who haven't bought milk candy yet can buy three items at the canteen, then register with us, get a number plate, and make an appointment with us... Then I can guarantee that you will be able to buy milk candy the next time you come, okay?"
Someone asked——
“Which three products?”
"Wouldn't it be the three big things?"
"How can it be three big items? We just want to buy some candy."
"Just tell me now and stop keeping me in suspense!"
Song Sui immediately handed the cardboard that she had just written on with chalk to her leader.
——The products written on the cardboard are all the most stocked items in the store, and some are even slow-moving items.
The leader took it, placed it at the entrance of the canteen, and said, "There are a total of... fourteen items written on the cardboard! As long as you choose three of them to buy, you can go to the cashier to get candy chips. Please note that the chips are only kept until the day... We will not recognize them the next day..."
Everyone stared at the piece of cardboard and saw the following written on it: salt, flavor, vanishing cream, sleeves, mosquito coils, combs, etc. Although some of the items were out of season, they were not particularly expensive and were all daily necessities.
Everyone crowded around the counter, chattering, one saying "I want this, this, and this", another saying "I want that, that, and that..."
In this way, the hot sales of toffee led to the clearance of inventory goods.
Another day passed, and Lian Chunmei and Zhang Chun's production was fixed, and they could produce a maximum of 500 bags a day! Later, Taotao brought Hongdou and Huangdou to help pack sugar cubes, and the output increased to 650 bags a day! On the last day, Lian Chunmei and Zhang Chun worked tirelessly and made 800 bags...
On the afternoon of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, Taotao came over to settle accounts with Lian Chunmei and Zhang Chun.
In just these few days, a total of 2,400 bags of milk candy were sold.
The cost price of a bag is 0.3 yuan, and the selling price is one yuan.1 yuan, but the canteen takes a commission of 0.2 yuan, so Taotao, Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei's profit is 0.6 yuan per bag of candy, and each person can get 0.2 yuan.
There were 2,400 bags of milk candy, and each person got a profit of 480 yuan. The rest was the cost paid by Taotao, which needed to be recovered.
Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei were both stunned!
Yes, in these few days, I am really tired, tired, tired.
The two of them hardly had a good sleep or rest, and they were constantly washing various nuts, chopping nuts, stirring syrup, cutting wax paper, and wrapping candy cubes...
My hands don't feel like my own anymore.
They felt so sore and numb, and were so tired that they didn’t even want to eat… The milk powder and lard smells that usually smelled so sweet had almost made them lose their sense of smell.
But, within five days, they each earned nearly five hundred dollars? !
sky!
In the past, this would have required at least three to five years of savings for a family!
Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei looked at each other and were extremely excited when they saw the banknotes that Taotao stuffed into their hands.
Lian Chunmei pursed her lips, tears as big as beans fell down her face, and she spoke incoherently, "Wuwuwu Taotao... Taotao, you are my benefactor! I, I finally have money, wuwuwu! I, I want to take Xiao Niuniu to get treatment right away, wuwuwu..."
She tightly clenched the money in her hand, looked at Taotao with tearful eyes, stood up, and knelt down with a "thump".
Taotao was startled and hurried to help.
Can't help.
She just quickly ran to the side, as if to say, "If you kneel again, I will run away"...
Zhang Chun helped Lian Chunmei up. "Well, this is Taotao's kindness. She taught us a skill. In the future, we can rely on this skill to survive!"
As he spoke, Zhang Chun stuffed another 480 yuan in his hand into Lian Chunmei's hand, "Here! Take it!"
Lian Chunmei widened her eyes in surprise and stared at Zhang Chun blankly.
Zhang Chun was a little embarrassed. "I have grown up so big, but because I am ugly and don't look like a good person, I... well, let's not talk about the past! It was in this month that I met you guys!"
"First, Taotao's brother treated me like a big shot... For other people, if he beat me up, he would only blame me even if he knew he had beaten the wrong person. But Nansheng was different. He apologized to me! This is the first time in my life... that I have heard someone say the three words 'I'm sorry' to me..."
At this point, Zhang Chun burst into tears, "I, I really want to... be beaten up by Nansheng one more time!"
Taotao almost burst out laughing.
Fortunately I held back in time.
"It was his fault in the first place, he should apologize to you!" Taotao said seriously.
Zhang Chun continued, "Later, I met Taotao again. Taotao gave me money and asked me to do business... That was a huge sum of money! Woohoo... Taotao, you are the first person who trusted me!"
Finally, he looked at Lian Chunmei again, "Big sister, I want to thank you too! You trust me a lot... In front of you, I, I finally become a good person! So take this money, and cure little girl's eyes. The most important thing is! As for what to do in the future, we'll talk about it later!"
Lian Chunmei said, "Brother Zhang, I can't take your money. You earned it with hard work!"
Zhang Chun, "Just think of it as me lending it to you! Take it to treat little girl first! Is there anything more urgent than this?"
Lian Chunmei held two handfuls of money in her hands and cried, "Taotao, Brother Zhang! You are so good to me, how can I, how can I repay this kindness!"
Tao Tao smiled and said, "The best reward you can give me is to take good care of little Niuniu, cure her illness, and then live with her in a life where we can have as much rice as we want, chicken when we want, fish when we want, and meat when we want!"
Lian Chunmei was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "What kind of magical day is that?"
"All gods practice fasting and don't eat anything!" Tao Tao said seriously, "I want you to live a life where you can eat as much meat as you want. That is the happiest life for mortals...even gods would envy you for that!"
Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei were stunned.
Tao Tao explained, "But my ability is still limited now. I am still a student! When I have learned everything, I will go to the northwest to plant trees. I will also study various crops that are both delicious and easy to grow..."
"One day, sooner or later, I will make sure that people all over the world are well fed and warmly clothed! Their only worries are whether sweet or salty rice dumplings are better, and whether pork knuckle or braised pork is better for dinner..."
She waved her thin but powerful fist, "This day will definitely come!"
Zhang Chun and Lian Chunmei nodded repeatedly with tears in their eyes.
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