Qi Mengmeng took a look at what Du Yuanyuan had prepared. They were exactly the same proportions as what she had taken out in the morning. She nodded secretly. This girl knew what she was doing.
Qi Mengmeng came back early today, and with Du Yuanyuan's help, she made a batch of cakes before going to eat.
At the dinner table, Du Yuanyuan still had the same attitude. She just drank porridge from the bowl and did not take the initiative to pick up any dishes. Qi Mengmeng could only push the plate towards her.
"Yuanyuan, eat some vegetables instead of just drinking porridge."
Zhang Meiling brought a steamed bun to Du Yuanyuan.
Du Yuanyuan smiled embarrassedly. She couldn't bear to eat white flour buns. The ones she ate at home were whole grain buns.
After dinner, Zhang Meiling whispered to Qi Huilan: "This girl is really hardworking, but she is a little timid."
Du Yuanyuan was almost busy this morning, taking care of almost all the housework. Qi Huilan and Zhang Meiling only had to sit and play with the children.
Just after everyone finished their meal, Du Yuanyuan took all the dishes to the kitchen to wash them. Qi Mengmeng wanted to stop her, but she said it was not a lot of work and she could finish it quickly.
Du Yuanyuan washed the dishes, put the cooled cakes in the basket, and went to find Qi Mengmeng.
"Sister Mengmeng, I'm going to take these cakes back to my sister-in-law. I'll come back after I sell them all."
Qi Mengmeng looked at the sweat on Du Yuanyuan's head and tactfully advised: "Yuanyuan, I see you are tired too, you should wait until your sister-in-law comes."
"Sister-in-law, I'm not tired. I'll just take it back to my sister-in-law."
Before Du Yuanyuan left, she turned back and said to Qi Mengmeng, "Sister-in-law, I'll come over to help with cooking tonight."
She had lunch here today, so she has to work in the afternoon.
Qi Mengmeng didn't expect this. She made two batches of cakes today, and she thought that they were enough to sell. If she made more, she might not be able to sell them.
The weather has been hot recently, so Qi Mengmeng no longer makes birthday cakes unless someone orders one.
"Yuanyuan, you don't have to come over tonight. Come over tomorrow morning. And you don't have to come too early. Just come here at 5 o'clock. It's not safe to come too early."
Although Du Yuanyuan looks a little old now, she is still young and a girl, so Qi Mengmeng must take this aspect into consideration.
"Well, thank you sister-in-law." Du Yuanyuan was really touched by Qi Mengmeng.
At first she just wanted to find a job for herself to avoid the gossip of neighbors, but after working for Qi Mengmeng for only one day, she made up her mind to work hard and live up to the kindness of Qi Mengmeng's family to her.
When Qi Mengmeng was making the cake, she did not deliberately avoid Du Yuanyuan.
During the meal, everyone urged Du Yuanyuan to eat. Qi Huilan was worried that Du Yuanyuan was not full, so she specially heated up a bun for her.
Du Yuanyuan had never sold anything before, but she knew that Dingxiang could always sell the cakes, so she planned to take the cakes home and then go sell them with Dingxiang.
It’s just selling things, which is definitely easier than farming.
When Du Yuanyuan left, she left with a smile.
Qi Mengmeng went back to the house first to check on the two children. The two children had been coaxed to sleep by Qi Huilan after dinner.
Zhang Meiling was not in the room, she went to Qi Huilan's room to sleep.
"Mengmeng, I want to discuss something with you." Qi Huilan was fanning the two children and wiping their sweat.
"When we were having dinner today, Yuanyuan said that the pickled vegetables I made were delicious and that people would buy them even if I sold them outside. What do you think, should we write a letter to Xiaoman and let her know?"
"The pickled vegetables made by Xiaoman are tastier than mine. Vegetables are cheaper outside now, so pickled vegetables will definitely sell well if we make them now."
Qi Mengmeng was stunned. She really hadn't thought of this.
"The pickles Xiaoman makes are really delicious. I'll write her a letter later to let her know."
As the descendant of the imperial chef, Yu Xiaoman owns quite a few houses. Not only does he pickle vegetables, he also has several houses for cooking big dishes.
Qi Mengmeng has always felt that if Yu Xiaoman opened a private restaurant, he would probably make a lot of money.
However, the policy has not been fully relaxed yet, so I don’t know if Yu Xiaoman dares to do it.
Qi Huilan actually wanted to sell pickled vegetables in Beijing. She felt that there were many rich people in Beijing and pickled vegetables would definitely sell well in Beijing. However, she had promised Yu Xiaoman that he would not use her recipe, so she just thought about it in her mind.
Qi Mengmeng not only wrote about Qi Huilan's suggestion to Yu Xiaoman to sell pickled vegetables, but also wrote about her recent experience of making cakes.
She did not write how much money she earned, but wrote the number of cakes she made every day. She believed that with Yu Xiaoman's intelligence, he would definitely understand what she wanted to express.
In this era, the timid will starve to death, and the bold will die of gluttony.
Yu Xiaoman has so many recipes in her hands. Whether she can make money depends on what she thinks.
What was Yu Xiaoman thinking? She was desperate to make money. After receiving Qi Mengmeng's letter, she only thought about it for an afternoon and decided to do it.
Not only does she have the recipes passed down from her ancestors, she also researched and improved two of them on her own.
After work, Yu Xiaoman hurried to the black market to buy some vegetables and brought them back home, then went to Zhao Xiaocao's house to pick up the child.
She gave birth to another son as her second child. She would put him at Zhao Xiaocao's house every morning and pick him up after get off work.
Now that he has two sons at home, Yu Xiaoman dares not take a day off for fear of having his salary deducted.
I don’t know if it was because Yu Xiaoman was weak or because she didn’t take good care of herself during pregnancy, but after this baby was born, Yu Xiaoman didn’t have enough milk, and Hunzi had to find ways to replace the milk powder every month.
Milk powder tickets are hard to find, and most of the milk powder bought by swindlers are expensive.
Most of the money the two of them had saved was used to buy milk powder.
Now that he knows that pickled vegetables can be sold for money, Yu Xiaoman can’t wait to make the pickles today and sell them tomorrow.
When Hunzi came back from get off work, he saw Yu Xiaoman washing a large basin of cucumbers. He was a little surprised: "With so many cucumbers, how long will it take us to finish them?"
"I'm going to make some pickled vegetables and sell them outside. Meng Meng wrote to me saying that there are a lot of people selling things in Beijing. I also saw someone selling things on the roadside a while ago. My pickled vegetables taste better than those sold outside, so they will definitely sell well."
Yu Xiaoman was talking while his hands were constantly moving, putting the bought radishes into the basin to wash them.
The gangster opened his mouth, wanting to say that they both had jobs and didn't need to do petty business.
At this time, Xiaozhu in the room suddenly cried. Xiaodouzi ran out and said to Yu Xiaoman nervously, "Mom, my brother is crying."
Yu Xiaoman sighed, shook off the water in his hands, and went to prepare milk powder for Xiaozhu.
The gangster followed him in and saw that the bag of milk powder was almost empty, so he quickly took out a bag from the cupboard and opened it.
"It's all my fault. I don't have much milk, so I can only feed Xiaozhu milk powder, which is too expensive." Yu Xiaoman lowered his head and said in a low voice.
"We can afford it. I'll ask when I go buy milk powder tomorrow to see if they need pickled vegetables. Although the price may be lower, it's relatively safe."
The gangster has only two sons, and he really holds them in the palm of his hand. For the sake of the children's health, he would rather not save money and let his children drink milk powder even if it is expensive.
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