But he was always taciturn and didn't ask any more questions.
Xu Ruantang arrived walking, but it was already afternoon, and Qiu Liang refused to let her do any of the finishing touches at the store.
She was planning to go home, so she said to Qiu Liang, "I'll be going now. I'll be at the store at eight o'clock tomorrow morning. You take care of the main products, and I'll take care of the new products."
Qiu Liang escorted her to the shop entrance and nodded, "Okay."
Xu Ruantang was about to leave when Qiu Liang stopped her: "There are no cars before eight o'clock in the morning, you can ride my bicycle."
"You don't need it?"
Bicycles are big purchases, and Qiu Liang is quite generous.
Qiu Liang waved his hand, "No need, you know my situation, I can't leave this place without someone."
Xu Ruantang stopped being polite with him, since she would be riding back tomorrow morning anyway.
After she left, Qiu Liang closed the shop and went back inside, then went into the backyard to start cooking.
Jia Shuling was dragged here by people from the troupe, who said they came to browse around and see if there were any nice fabrics to make clothes.
Recently, a trend has emerged in the compound of people getting dresses made by tailors.
Jia Shuling disdained hiring a tailor; she bought all her clothes from department stores, many of which were rare items sent from Hong Kong. She looked down on those country bumpkin clothes.
But since we were all in the same group, we still had to maintain a public relationship, so I reluctantly followed along.
Everyone fawned over her, and as soon as she got off the bus, Jia Shuling saw Xu Ruantang.
She wouldn't have noticed her otherwise, but Xu Ruantang's appearance was so outstanding that she stood out.
Jia Shuling was as excited as if she had discovered a new continent.
Look, she's finally caught this vixen red-handed!
She actually cheated on Chen Ji with other men and even smiled at them!
As Jia Shuling watched Qiu Liang walk into the store, she became even more certain that this little fox had definitely set her sights on the capitalist.
Hmph, she's already climbed the social ladder, and now she wants to find another rich guy? How could she not be ecstatic?
Jia Shuling gritted her teeth as she thought of the man who had just walked into the store.
This little fox, all the men she chooses are top-notch.
Just wait, she'll be laughing soon!
"Shuling, what are you looking at?"
The people following behind Jia Shuling noticed that she had been staring at one spot for a long time, and they all looked over curiously.
Jia Shuling looked away and said with a smile, "It's nothing, I just saw someone at the shop entrance who looks a lot like my third niece-in-law."
"Third niece-in-law? The one who's going to marry Commander Chen?"
The news that Commander Chen was going to hold a banquet had already spread far and wide, since Deputy Commander Chen only had one unmarried son.
The girls in the cultural troupe were full of hope, but then Commander Chen had an accident and was reportedly discharged from the army.
He came back later, still in the army, and with his wife.
They were all filled with regret. If they had known that Commander Chen's leg could be healed, they would have gone to be the ones to help him in his time of need.
Jia Shuling laughed and said, "Yes, I just saw her standing with a man, chatting and laughing. The man is my third nephew."
Jia Shuling waved her hand, "Oh, I must have been mistaken. My third nephew's wife is from the countryside, she shouldn't be that kind of fickle person."
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Xu Ruantang has been riding Qiu Liang's bike for the past few days. She arrives at the store at eight in the morning and leaves around three in the afternoon.
Aside from teaching Qiu Liang how to make bread the first time, she never helped him again; Qiu Liang did everything else.
She has a lively and cheerful personality and greets guests from the front.
Besides that, Xu Ruantang spends most of her time every day researching new products.
I originally wanted to make chimney bread, but jam became a problem. Fruit was too expensive, and there weren't many seasonal fruits available in May.
Later, they changed it to making cream cakes, decorated with canned fruit, and made into four-inch cakes.
It wasn't until Friday that Xu Ruantang made her first complete product using agar-agar meringue.
She didn't have any cream, and she had never used agar before. She figured it out slowly based on Qiu Liang's description.
Looking at the small cakes she had made, Xu Ruantang felt a great sense of accomplishment and said to Qiu Liang, "Try them."
Qiu Liang carefully scraped a little bit off along the edge with a spoon and put it into his mouth.
"Mmm, it's very sweet."
Xu Ruantang: "......"
“Okay then, I’ll make ten tomorrow, and we can try selling them for a day on Saturday.” Xu Ruantang clapped her hands. “I’ll take this one with me.”
Qiu Liang had no objection; she made it, so he could take it if he wanted.
Another advantage of collaborating with Qiu Liang is that his family has been making pastries for two generations and they are locals. Qiu Liang can buy many things that Xu Ruantang cannot.
For example, there's the issue of packaging small cakes, and the purchase of raw materials such as agar.
Xu Ruantang took the cake and strolled around the Xifosi Market.
She originally wanted to buy soda, but she saw Coca-Cola instead. When she asked the price, it was 2.5 yuan a can, which was outrageous.
But it was useful to her, so she gritted her teeth and bought three cans anyway.
It was not even four o'clock when Xu Ruantang got home. Grandma Chen and her mother came over with a large table of things. The two of them wanted to take Xu Ruantang to the department store to buy clothes.
Xu Ruantang didn't want to go, so she used Chen Ji as a shield: "Grandma, Mom, Chen Ji said he'll take me to buy it tomorrow."
Hearing this, Ye Lan smiled with relief: "That's fine too. If we go now, we won't be able to shop for very long before the department store closes."
"Chen Ji will take you there tomorrow, you can have a good look around."
As she spoke, Ye Lan secretly slipped some money into her arms, saying, "Ruan Tang, take this money and buy yourself some clothes. Don't be stingy with your money; Chen Ji earns money to spend on his wife."
Ye Lan comes from a good family, and Chen Lin married her because he was attracted to her social status.
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