Chapter 274: Reborn in the 90s: The Tyrant Flower Chapter 275 Showing Off

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

After Song Qiushui showed off in front of Da Lao Song, she infuriated him thoroughly.

The problem was, Song Qiushui still wouldn't leave…

She stood there and started bragging with that group of old men and old women.

"Ahem… everyone, I, Song Qiushui, announce one thing: I, the most beautiful Village Belle of Sanjiacun, from now on, will bid farewell to the past, transforming from a not-so-wealthy Village Belle into our village's Kuan Ye. Do you understand what Kuan Ye means?"

This group of old men and old women were all seventy or eighty years old, many were deaf and dim-sighted, and fundamentally hadn't heard clearly what Song Qiushui said, so they asked.

"What Ye? Guan Ye? The Guan Ye who manages everything? Do you think you're Si Ma Nan, bragging all day long…"

"Ai, I said Kuan Ye. Don't you make trouble… anyway, it just means from now on I'm going to reach the peak of life, start doing business." Song Qiushui said with a smile: "Today Chai Mi and I went to the Ji to attend the market, selling dumplings. That business was booming, blazing hot. How to describe it… anyway it was great. You just feel envy, jealousy, and hate."

The old men and old women only then understood, so it turned out Song Qiushui and Chai Mi went to the market to do business: "You two are really promising, capable."

"I said this girl Qiushui is capable, a hundred times stronger than your daughter, Da Lao Song…"

"That's right… that Qiushui's Cousin Sister found what kind of in-laws, earning two hundred a month, not even willing to buy two catties of mooncakes for Da Lao Song for the Mid-Autumn Festival, what use is he…"

Da Lao Song was so angry his face turned iron-green, he interrupted: "No, you praise my Niece if you want to praise, why must you praise one and step on another?"

"Da Lao Song, this is where you're wrong. Tell us, how many mooncakes did your son-in-law buy you for the Mid-Autumn Festival? Were there two catties?" the crowd asked.

Da Lao Song lowered his head and said nothing.

These years Chai You Fu and Song Qiuping, that couple, just scraped for themselves, fundamentally never bought anything for the family.

(Huala: refers to the meaning of scraping/gouging.)

Let alone buying mooncakes, even at New Year you couldn't see Chai You Fu send over two catties of flour.

Da Lao Song thought of this and got angry, thinking he'd go find Chai You Fu in a bit and scold him a meal.

He was angry himself, wasn't it because Chai You Fu had no ability?

Then this breath of his, he had to go vent it on him.

"Not talking to you anymore, I have business, I'm going out for a trip…" Da Lao Song, with an ugly face, went into the Courtyard.

Several old men and old women still wouldn't let up: "Didn't you have business? How come you went back in the room? One mention your son-in-law isn't up to snuff, and you make this exit…"

Da Lao Song simply shut the door, went inside and didn't come out.

The old men and old women grumbled a few sentences, only then quieted down.

The Village Entrance here is Sanjiacun, the biggest information distribution center.

That news all has legs, they always stand on the moral high ground, the public opinion wind direction they form, you could say even if a dog came, it would get a stain.

This Da Lao Song definitely can't withstand these people giving him a blackening.

But there are benefits too.

It's just that these little broadcasters are especially good at adding oil and vinegar.

After Chai Mi and Song Qiushui both left.

This group of old men and old women heard half-understood, but immediately carried out information summary and reorganization.

"Did you hear what Song Qiushui said just now, she and Chai Mi went to do business…"

"Heard it, it was attending the market selling what again…"

"Brains…"

"Ah, right. I was saying Song Qiushui has been lacking brains recently, turns out she sold them all… but this brain is really expensive, half a point sixty yuan… no, I have to go sell brains too…"

"Forget it, that old moldy brain of yours, who would want it…"

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Having thoroughly enjoyed herself and given Second Uncle a good scolding, Song Qiushui, at this moment, returned home with Chai Mi, carried away with delight.

Entered the Courtyard, Chai Mi put the things in order, only then entered the room.

Today no matter how you put it, Song Qiushui helped a huge amount, and doing business, especially selling food, really isn't something one person can manage alone.

Song Qiushui being able to help is naturally best of all.

Moreover, Song Qiushui doesn't want wages either…

Chai Youqing and Su Wan probably haven't returned yet.

Chai Xiu herself was holding Little Sister and playing…

Chai Mi glanced at Chai Xiu, then pursed her lips: "Xiu'er, you don't have to keep holding that little one, aren't you tired? Just put her in the room."

"Sister, she cries." Chai Xiu said with a worried face: "Put her down and she cries, she's exhausted me to death."

"Won't you cover your ears? At home it's just you, let her cry if she wants to cry, anyway Cun Ma isn't home, she can't hear, and won't scold you. And this little thing can't talk yet, won't make false accusations."

Chai Xiu thought a bit, ultimately still didn't listen to Chai Mi, but continued holding Third.

She still quite liked Third, fair and tender, except when crying it was bad, other times not bad.

At least, Third won't be like Eldest Sister always scolding herself… most key is, as long as Chai Xiu coaxes the child, others won't arrange for Chai Xiu to do work.

Compared to doing work, Chai Xiu feels coaxing the child is light and fast…

So, Chai Xiu pretended not to hear Chai Mi's "concern", wholeheartedly coaxing the child.

Seeing Chai Xiu didn't move, Chai Mi saw through Chai Xiu's little thoughts at a glance, but Chai Mi also couldn't be bothered to scold Chai Xiu, turned instead to take out the bought clothes, called to Chai Xiu: "Sister bought you a set of clothes, change yourself."

"Ah…" Chai Xiu froze, looking at the pink little clothes Chai Mi bought, immediately moved, then her face reddened, finally head lowered holding Chai Xin entered the room, put Chai Xin carefully onto the Kang Tou, only then ran to Chai Mi's side.

Chai Xiu asked Chai Mi a bit incredulously: "Eldest Sister, bought for me… that… hehehe… Eldest Sister is really good."

"Is that so?"

"Really."

"Just don't badmouth me in front of Cun Ma, and you'll be fine. With your little mind, you use it all on me. Either today you're tattling or tomorrow you're tattling." Chai Mi rubbed Chai Xiu's head: "Go change. Sister earned some money and bought them for you. Next time I earn some, I'll buy something for Grandmother."

Chai Xiu hehehe laughed, took the clothes and shoes, and went to change.

After changing, Chai Xiu deliberately let Chai Mi look at her, and only after Chai Mi said Chai Xiu looked quite good did Chai Xiu leave contentedly.

After a while, Chai Youqing and Su Wan returned from the market.

Chai Youqing then asked Chai Mi how she felt about doing business for the first time today.

Chai Mi was too lazy to listen to Chai Youqing's nonsense and ignored him.

Chai Mi truly didn't like dealing with such meaningless talk. Chai Mi always felt Chai Youqing spoke without focus, and when he had something to say, he specifically picked uninspiring things to say.

"Dad, if you're bored with nothing to do, go do something proper. I might be setting up stalls often from now on. My mother still has to coax the child, and Xiu'er is young. Just keep an eye on the family's land. Don't expect others to do everything. After watering the fields, weed the grass in the fields too."

Chai Youqing obediently went to weed the grass.

"Chai Mi, look at you, you lecture your father as soon as he comes back." Su Wan said somewhat dissatisfied: "Then he..."

"When he worked for my grandparents, he didn't need to be told. Working for his own family, why shouldn't he go? These years our family hasn't lived well, isn't he responsible?" Chai Mi frowned: "If my father took half the time he spent working for my grandparents to go out and earn money, our family would have built a new house long ago. I'm twenty years old now. He's worked hard for half his life, and still lives in an old house? I've already been quite courteous to him. Fine, let's not talk about him anymore."

Chai Mi pulled Su Wan into the house and handed her the clothes bought for Chai Xin: "I bought these for the third child. Mom, you go change them for her."

"Chai Mi, did you earn money today? By the way, I went to the market and didn't see you. You came back too early. Did you not sell well, or..."

"Ai yai yai." Song Qiushui came out from the side, her voice carrying a tsundere tone: "Auntie, don't you see who sold the dumplings? Let me and Chai Mi put it this way: we're two golden flowers. Forget selling dumplings, even if we just stand at the market, people would give us money..."

Chai Mi gave Song Qiushui a look: "You, a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory."

"Mom, we did earn some money. We sold fast, sold out in half a shi."

"Ah... that fast..." Su Wan was also a bit surprised that her daughter's first business was so booming.

Speaking of these dumplings, actually there was nothing special about them.

Every household ate them and knew how to wrap them, so why was the business so good? Su Wan was a bit puzzled. But since Chai Mi's business was good, Su Wan was happy too.

"Was it because you sold them cheap?" Su Wan still didn't quite believe it.

Su Wan guessed with the thinking of someone who had been there: if something sold fast, it must be cheap.

Local purchasing power was limited, and ordinary people all liked cheap things.

Although cheap meant no good quality, as long as it was cheap, that thing wouldn't worry about selling.

"No, it's still the price set at home. Probably because there's no one else selling dumplings nearby, just me, so it sold fast."

What Chai Mi said was the truth.

Although the local market was quite large and there were many food sellers, most were staples like fried dough sticks and sesame cakes that couldn't be made at home. In the whole market, there were more than ten stalls selling fried dough sticks. This required some technical skill, but not much. But at home you still couldn't make them.

Frying dough sticks required a lot of oil. A farmer's family couldn't waste a whole pot of oil just to fry dough sticks because they wanted to eat them once. So if they wanted to eat fried dough sticks, they basically had to buy them.

As for sesame cakes, those truly required technical skill, and ordinary people couldn't make them.

In the Northern Region market, there were basically just these two staples. It wasn't like the South where there were stalls selling steamed buns and breakfast items.

Although the local market was large, it was actually quite primitive. This was mainly because the local purchasing power was actually very poor.

Hearing Chai Mi say this, Su Wan believed it.

Afterwards Su Wan went to change clothes for the third child, and then went to feed the cattle.

Chai Mi was calculating that she should buy a refrigerator.

In this era, refrigerators were still rare items. In the whole village, only Da Lao Song's small shop had a refrigerator, bought for over one thousand yuan. That was a valuable thing.

You have to know that although in later times refrigerators were ordinarily just over one thousand yuan, in this era prices were especially cheap and purchasing power was very strong, so something costing over one thousand yuan was simply an astronomical price.

After all, in this era, marrying a wife often wouldn't even cost one thousand yuan.

In other words, a refrigerator was much more expensive than marrying a wife. The three major items of this era didn't include a refrigerator. The old three were usually a sewing machine, bicycle, and watch, while the new three were usually a motorcycle, television, and telephone.

Of course, Sanjiacun hadn't yet popularized the new three.

So this refrigerator would seem especially expensive.

Actually a freezer was more cost-effective and more practical. Chai Mi first simply communicated this idea with Song Qiushui.

Song Qiushui was overjoyed and naturally felt that if they bought a freezer, their relationship would improve, and in the future they could finally eat popsicles freely.

And they could sell popsicles in the summer, which would be absolutely awesome.

The so-called rare goods command high prices. Song Qiushui knew that just selling popsicles as one source of income, Da Lao Song's small shop made many times more profit every year. You have to know that popsicles costing a few fen were sold for two or three mao, and old popsicles costing one or two mao were still sold for five mao. The profit here was several times over.

And in Sanjiacun, everything else was lacking, but not children.

Over five thousand people, with only one small shop. Even just the children numbered four or five hundred. Even if they sold dozens of popsicles a day, they could earn dozens of yuan.

This was also one of the reasons Da Lao Song looked rich.

Song Qiushui supported it, but she only supported it in spirit...

"Chai Mi, if you buy a freezer, I'll put a box of popsicles in it. I can eat them whenever I want. And in the summer, eating watermelon after chilling it would be so comfortable. But I don't have money. I absolutely support you in spirit..."

"Ah..." Su Wan came back after feeding the cattle. Hearing about buying a freezer, she immediately asked Chai Mi: "Chai Mi, you want to buy a freezer? That thing is very expensive. You haven't earned much money yet. You should buy it after you earn more later. We can't buy everything just because we earn a little money."

"I know, Mom. I just had that thought. Naturally I'll buy it later, I won't buy it now. I was just thinking that if we need it in the future, we can buy a freezer. We can store more meat filling and such, and it's convenient. But it's almost autumn now, so it's not especially needed."

Chai Mi said.

And it's mainly for going to the market and such, not especially needing a freezer.

Overall, Chai Mi was still very satisfied with her first business deal today. At least she made a good start.

They say all beginnings are hard. Now that there's finally a good start, things will be easier to do in the future.

Yesterday's Chai Mi still had many worries. After all, she had never done business before and wasn't thick-skinned enough. Now, Chai Mi was somewhat calm.

This kind of business didn't require much thinking. As long as the food tasted good, it was fine. This suited Chai Mi quite well.

Chai Mi was a down-to-earth person. That kind of get-rich-quick scam, she definitely couldn't do. This kind of honest business was the most suitable for her.

"Mom, if you're not too busy in the future, help me wrap dumplings. Then we can sell more money. Sometimes I can't wrap too many by myself. If you help, the more you wrap, the more we sell, and the more we earn."

Su Wan agreed without hesitation. Her daughter was earning money, so she had no reason not to agree.