Chapter 33: Being courteous for nothing is either adultery or theft
Someone deliberately teased Shen Baolan, "Baolan, you and Shen Mingzhu came from the same village. Didn't she tell you anything good?"
"What good thing? She got rich?"
Shen Baolan instinctively thought that Shen Mingzhu had made a lot of money selling mooncakes this time. She felt as if she had overturned the pickled cabbage jar.
As a result, I heard the person say, "Shen Mingzhu has joined the food factory. Now she is a mooncake master in the food factory. She specializes in teaching mooncakes to the employees of the food factory."
"What?"
Shen Baolan's first reaction was disbelief.
If someone as lazy as Shen Mingzhu can be a chef, then she can be the director of a factory!
She immediately sneered, "Listen to her bragging. She can't even cook rice, and she went to a food factory to teach people how to make mooncakes. Don't teach people bad things."
"You still don't believe it, but my sister-in-law works in a food factory. She said it herself that Shen Mingzhu is now teaching them how to make mooncakes in the factory, and she teaches them very well."
"I've heard about it too. It's said that the manager of the Ren Food Factory personally came to discuss cooperation with Shen Mingzhu. Shen Mingzhu will get two cents for every mooncake sold."
"Hey, you can earn two cents for each one. If you sell ten thousand of them, wouldn't you be able to get two hundred yuan?"
"No, Shen Mingzhu now has a hen that can lay golden eggs. She sits at home and collects money every year. It's great. If I had such a capable wife, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
Everyone said something to me, and Shen Baolan now had to believe it even if she didn't believe it.
Shen Mingzhu actually joined a food factory? Became a mooncake chef in a food factory? And he got a large sum of money every year?
Shen Baolan felt as sour in her heart as if she had eaten a hundred lemons.
At night, Shen Baolan was lying on the bed and took the initiative to talk about this matter with her husband, who had been in a cold war for several days.
"...Otherwise, I'll buy a book on pastry making and go home to study it. Shen Mingzhu didn't even know how to cook when she was at her parents' house, but she was able to make a name for herself. I'm much better than her, so I don't believe I can compare. Fuck her."
Although Zhou Shuhuan didn't understand why Shen Baolan had to compete with Shen Mingzhu in everything, he still supported Shen Baolan's desire to learn a craft and asked her if she knew what books to buy. How could Shen Baolan know this? She already had an idea.
Early the next morning, Ma Sufen saw two hard-boiled eggs on the table and asked Shen Baolan.
"Why did you boil an extra egg?"
Although eggs are not a rare thing for the Zhou family, they are not so wealthy that everyone can eat them every day. Only their grandson Zhou Hao has this treatment.
"Mom, I'm useful."
After saying that, Shen Baolan picked up one of the hard-boiled eggs and entered the room where her stepson Zhou Hao was sleeping.
As usual, Pei Ziheng entered the classroom and sat down in his seat. He did not play or talk to the classmates around him, but just took out the book from his school bag and read it.
"Pei Ziheng, this is for you."
Pei Ziheng raised his eyes, looked at the egg handed over by Zhou Hao, and refused coldly, "I don't want it."
Zhou Hao obviously didn't expect Pei Ziheng to refuse, so he held up the egg in a daze and refused to leave.
Pei Ziheng ignored him, lowered his eyes and continued to flip through the book.
Zhou Hao may have been tired from lifting, so he forced the egg into Pei Ziheng's hand, "Aunt Lan gave it to you. These are local eggs. They cost two cents each. They are very nutritious. You can grow taller if you eat them."
Pei Ziheng's eyes flashed slightly when he heard that Shen Baolan wanted to give him the egg.
"Your stepmother is so kind."
Zhou Hao grinned when he heard this, "Aunt Lan said that as long as you help her, she will boil eggs for you every day from now on."
"What's the rush?"
After returning home from school in the afternoon, Pei Ziheng took out the eggs from his schoolbag.
Shen Mingzhu looked at the eggs and was a little surprised, "Where did they come from?" She and Pei Ziheng didn't like to eat boiled eggs, so they usually had steamed egg custard.
"Zhou Hao's stepmother gave it to her. She said that as long as I do her a favor, she will boil eggs for me every day from now on."
Shen Mingzhu was happy when she heard this, "What does she want you to do?"
It turned out that Shen Baolan wanted to find out from Pei Ziheng which book Shen Mingzhu learned how to make chicken cakes and mooncakes.
Shen Mingzhu casually reported a list of book titles, fearing that Pei Ziheng would not be able to remember them, so she wrote them down on paper and asked Pei Ziheng to give the note to Zhou Hao tomorrow.
Shen Baolan, who successfully obtained the "information", was overjoyed. She hugged her stepson and kissed her twice, then took the note to discuss with her husband.
Zhou Shuhuan read the title of the book on the note and frowned.
Let’s not talk about whether these books can be purchased. Even if they are sold in bookstores, buying them all will cost a lot of money.
He asked Shen Baolan with some suspicion, "Are you sure you can learn it after buying the book?"
"If Shen Mingzhu can learn it, I can definitely do it too. My grades were much better than hers when I was studying."
Seeing that Shen Baolan was so confident, Zhou Shuhuan took the note to Ma Sufen to pay the money.
Zhou Shuhuan asked for fifty, and Ma Sufen was not happy until Shen Baolan said that she had gone to great lengths to ask for these book titles from Pei Ziheng, and that Shen Mingzhu learned how to make chicken cakes and moon cakes from these books. Sufen was willing to agree.
"Baolan, work harder and you can beat Shen Mingzhu no matter what."
"Mom, don't worry, once I learn how to make chicken cakes and moon cakes, Shen Mingzhu can just stay here and cool off!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were very motivated and vowed to trample Shen Mingzhu under his feet.
The next day, Zhou Shuhuan bought all the books on the note home. Fifty yuan was not enough. Zhou Shuhuan also borrowed eighteen yuan from a colleague, which made Ma Sufen feel very distressed. But when he thought about his daughter-in-law, he learned how to cook chicken. Shen Mingzhu could compete with cakes and mooncakes, and she felt comfortable again.
Shen Baolan was an activist, so she started studying with the book bought by Zhou Shuhuan that night.
Time flies and it’s the end of October.
Shen Mingzhu received the first dividend from the food factory, one hundred and thirty-five eight yuan.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, nearly 7,000 mooncakes made by Shen Mingzhu and the food factory were sold.
That is to say, the time is too short. If promotion and sales can be carried out half a month or even a week in advance, the sales volume can be doubled or tripled at least.
"Master Shen, wait until next year. Next year we will have a big fight and try to sell it for 58,000 yuan."
It can be seen that the general manager of the food factory is very confident in Shen Mingzhu's mooncakes. Of course, Shen Mingzhu herself is also confident. This year's cooperation was too hasty and the packaging design was not in place.
When she has time, she will design different packaging and themes for different mooncakes, and strive to make a famous mooncake brand that is famous throughout the country, and her time travel will not be in vain.
The news of the dividends spread quickly in the Family Court, and Shen Mingzhu became a celebrity in the Family Court.
The older generation praises Shen Mingzhu for her ability, the young mothers envy her ability, and all the men want to marry a beautiful and intelligent woman like Shen Mingzhu.
Shen Baolan was still sour, but at the same time, Shen Mingzhu's success also greatly inspired her, and she dreamed that she could make a fortune by making pastries in the future.
In the afternoon, after picking up Pei Ziheng at the kindergarten, Shen Mingzhu asked casually as usual, "Did Zhou Hao bring you eggs today?"
"No."
Shen Mingzhu was about to scold Shen Baolan for not keeping his words, but she saw Pei Ziheng taking out a yellow banana from the bag.
"Today it's bananas."
"..."
Bananas are much more expensive than eggs. If you show courtesy for nothing, you will be raped or stolen.
Shen Mingzhu was happy, "What did she ask you to do this time?"