After coming out of Shen Mingzhu's place, Pei Wenping went back to the unit and continued working.
As get off work was approaching, Pei Wenping was a little hungry, so she took out the chicken cake given by Shen Mingzhu from her bag and gave each of her colleagues in the office a piece.
"Hey, what are you eating? It's so delicious. Give me a piece too."
While we were eating, Wang De, the office director, came over to reimburse the expenses. He smelled the aroma and shamelessly asked for it.
"Director Wang, you have to ask Sister Wenping for this. She brought this cake."
Pei Wenping didn't want to give it at first, but Wang Defa couldn't help but gave it to him anyway.
It's not that she is stingy, but the cake doesn't have many pieces in total, and it won't be enough to take her home.
"Accountant Pei, where did you buy this cake? It's so delicious."
"Yes, I have never tasted such delicious chicken cakes. Sister Wenping, please give me your address and I will go and weigh some after get off work."
"Don't think about it, you can't buy this cake outside."
"What, it's still a special offering?"
Pei Wenping said proudly, "No, my brothers and sisters bake it for their own people. It's not a special treat."
Shen Mingzhu was wearing an apron and preparing to cook dinner when Pei Wenping came with colleagues from the work unit.
"Brother and sister, this is Director Wang of our cotton spinning factory. He wants to ask you to do something, so he asked me to bring him to you."
Shen Mingzhu invited the two of them into the house, poured water, and was about to cut a fruit plate, but was stopped by Pei Wenping.
"Stop working, brothers and sisters, bring out the chicken cakes you baked to entertain Director Wang."
"Oh, okay."
Hearing that Pei Wenping wanted to eat chicken cake, Shen Mingzhu had a vague suspicion in her heart.
She came to the kitchen, picked up some of the chicken cakes baked in the afternoon, put them on a plate and took them out.
Director Wang was the only one sitting on the sofa in the living room, Pei Wenping was not there, and the voices of the aunt and nephew could be faintly heard from the stepson's room.
"Director Wang, this is a pastry I made myself. You can try it."
Wang Defa's eyes lit up when he saw the two colors and different shapes of egg cakes on the plate.
"Brother and sister Pei, you have such good craftsmanship and clever thinking."
Shen Mingzhu smiled and said nothing, picked up the teapot and added some water to the other person's cup.
Wang Defa first tasted a piece of plum blossom-shaped original cake, and then took a banana-shaped banana cake.
While eating, Pei Wenping also led Pei Ziheng out of the room.
Seeing Wang Defa eating more happily, he smiled and asked, "Director Wang, how are you doing?"
Wang Defa nodded vigorously, "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 new baking tricks?"
Shen Mingzhu explained with a smile, "I just changed different cake molds. The plum-shaped one tastes the same as the one you had in the morning, sister, and the long one is banana-flavored."
After hearing what Shen Mingzhu said, Pei Wenping immediately took a banana-flavored chicken cake, broke it in half, and handed the other half to her nephew Pei Ziheng.
Pei Wenping was full of praise for the banana-flavored chicken cake, "It's more fragrant and delicious than the original flavor. I've only eaten orange-flavored chicken cakes before, but I didn't expect that I could make banana-flavored ones. Brothers and sisters, where are you?
Did you learn this?"
“When I had nothing to do at home, I studied blindly by reading books.”
Hearing this, Pei Ziheng, who was sitting next to Pei Wenping and eating chicken cake silently, glanced at Shen Mingzhu.
Don’t lie and don’t draft.
In her previous life, this woman didn't even buy half a newspaper, let alone read a book.
Moreover, in her previous life, this woman could not even cook noodles. In this life, she suddenly became proficient in cooking and could cook and bake cakes. It was like she had become a completely different person.
Shen Mingzhu did not know that her stepson was slandering and doubting her. She was listening intently to Wang Defa's words.
Wang Defa came to her and wanted to ask her to help bake twenty pounds of chicken cakes.
In two days, it will be Wang Defa's old mother's 70th birthday. The old lady has loved chicken cakes all her life, so Wang Defa wanted to use chicken cakes as snacks at the birthday banquet.
Shen Mingzhu would naturally not refuse the business that came to her door.
She bought such an oven not only to satisfy her own cravings, but also to earn some pocket money with it.
Nowadays, for chicken cakes outside, if you buy it with food stamps, it costs two yuan plus two yuan per catty, but if you buy it with cash, it costs two yuan and five per catty.
Shen Mingzhu quoted Wang De a price of three yuan per catty without a ticket, and explained to the other party.
"The ingredients I use are more honest than those outside. One pound of flour contains two more eggs than others. The sugar is also 100% white sugar, and there is absolutely no saccharin added."
Wang Defa agreed wholeheartedly.
You'll know whether the food is good or not when you eat it, otherwise he wouldn't have to come to your door.
After Pei Wenping and Wang Defa left, Shen Mingzhu was no longer in a hurry to make dinner, and took out her notebook and started settling the accounts.
Putting aside the cost, twenty pounds of chicken cake can earn almost ten yuan.
Shen Mingzhu was very satisfied with preparing the ingredients in one day and baking them in the other day, 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 verbally agreed with the owner of the grain and oil station that she would come to pick up goods in large quantities in the future, in exchange for a 10% discount on the price and door-to-door delivery service.
On the same day, people in the family home were furious again, and everyone condemned Shen Mingzhu's "wasteful behavior."
Especially Shen Baolan, she found it incredible.
Shen Mingzhu, how dare she?
Yesterday, Pei Wenping came to my door twice and scolded her, but she didn't restrain herself at all. Today she went shopping again.
I bought 20 kilograms of eggs in one go. Do you plan to eat the eggs as a meal?
No, she had to talk to Pei Wenping again and see if Pei Wenping could scold this prodigal woman to death.
At noon, Shen Mingzhu was washing the newly purchased cake molds, and Pei Wenping came to the door.
"Sister, have you had lunch? I made dumplings and froze them in the icehouse. Do you want to cook some for you?"
Pei Wenping didn't have much appetite at first, but when she heard there were dumplings to eat, she suddenly felt a little hungry again.
"You go about your business, I'll cook it myself."
While waiting for the water to boil, Pei Wenping came to chat with Shen Mingzhu.
"That fellow countryman of yours came to me again this morning and talked. I didn't want to hear it. She kept talking non-stop. Why is she so annoying? Was she like this in the countryside before? Fortunately, she didn't get married.
When our Pei family comes, I’m bored to death.”
Shen Mingzhu was funny, "What did she tell you again?"
"What else can I say? You spent money indiscriminately. You bought dozens of kilograms of flour and eggs in one go. Let me take good care of you."
"Sister, she is like this. If you don't want the world to be in chaos, just ignore her from now on."
"I directly criticized her and told her to mind her own business, saying that you spent my brother's money and not hers. Why is she so anxious to get angry? If she comes to me and gossips again, I will go find her mother-in-law.
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Speaking of this, Pei Wenping couldn't help but laugh, "You didn't see her expression at that time, as if she had eaten a fly. I guess she won't dare to come to me in the future."