On the street, she met Chen Maidong in a suit and leather shoes on the side of the road. Zhuang Jie stepped on the brakes and stopped in front of him, raised her eyebrows at him, tilted her head and started laughing.
Chen Maidong just thought that she was odd.
Zhuang Jie couldn’t help laughing loudly when she thought of Grandma Chen’s boastful words, and also remembered that the aunt in the store said that Grandma Chen was prepared to go all out to find her granddaughter-in-law.
Chen Maidong glanced at her, moved around and ignored her.
Zhuang Jie called him, “Hey, handsome young man, wanna scan WeChat’s?”
“Thanks, I’d rather not.” Chen Maidong said.
Zhuang Jie threw him a sly smile, hit the gas pedal and sped off, right next to him. Chen Maidong brushed off the dust and cursed.
After Zhuang Jie finished the registration for the personal tutoring, she returned home and talked to Liao Tao. Liao Tao asked how much is one-on-one? Zhuang Jie asked her to ask He NiaoNiao. So, she took out the invoice slowly and said, “Four hundred per lesson, and my sister signed up for twenty-seven lessons, two lessons a week.”
“The invoices are already signed and received. My tuition fees from primary school to high school didn’t exceed 10,000.” Zhuang Jie said with a smile.
“This place looks too dark, how many roast chickens will we have to sell?” Liao Tao said.
“She has a poor foundation and can’t keep up with her class. You don’t know how to tutor, so I just found her a personal tutor to guide her a little bit.” Zhuang Jie said.
Liao Tao asked Zhuang Yan and He Niao to go on to bed, and she wanted to talk to Zhuang Jie. Zhuang Yan said that he wanted to sleep in the same room with Zhuang Jie, Liao Tao looked like she wanted to beat him up, “Are you a three-year-old?”
Zhuang Yan reluctantly went back to his room. NiaoNiao said coyly, “Mom, I’m afraid of the dark.”
“I think that the two of you want to get beaten, don’t you?” Liao Tao warned.
“If you take a shower, you can share the room with me tonight.” Zhuang Jie said. NiaoNiao doesn’t like to take a bath, so at most she takes a bath three times during the week.
After that, Liao Tao made a cup of tea and went to the courtyard, lit a cigarette and sat down and said, “Your Uncle He and I want to rent a factory in an industrial zone. We want to promote vacuum roasted chicken online. We make everything at home now. The smell of chicken blood all day long has the neighbors already complaining.”
“Okay, that’s a good thing.” Zhuang Jie said.
“Small factories are cheap now, 20,000 yuan per year is enough to rent one.”
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“The town made an agreement, saying that as long as it doesn’t create excessive pollution , you can do whatever you want to make a living.” Liao Tao took a puff and said, “In the past two years, the environmental protection inspections have been strict. The factory is said to be abandoned, it is abandoned. Now, with next to nothing, you can rent them.”
“I see.” Zhuang Jie nodded.
“Our town is saturated with tourism. The circuit in Xiaxi Village has undergone a major rectification this year. Five homestays have been opened within half a year. I originally wanted to join in the fun, but it might get overwhelming.”
Liao Tao said: “I don’t want to make braised chicken anymore. This takes all day long and I have done enough. But I have no other skills to change careers, so I just keep it to myself and keep doing what I can.”
“In the past two months, you live-streamed and ate roasted chicken, and there were more than a dozen people who wanted to link. I don’t even know what a link is.”
“Live-streamed eating roasted chicken?” Zhuang Jie asked, puzzled.
“I don’t know who she learned from, and what platform she broadcasted live on. One person said she also downloaded Douyin or something, Dou M or something…”
Zhuang Jie laughed and said it was Douyin, not Dou M.
Liao Tao said that if the factory needed basic equipment purchased and various odds and ends, they could be looking at an estimated two to three hundred thousand needed to be invested in the early stage.
Zhuang Jie roughly understood what she was getting at and said that she had money on her card and could transfer it to her at any time. They just bought two family suites, and they couldn’t afford the extra spending for a while. The mother and daughter chatted for a while and then took a break. The National Day will still be a busy time tomorrow.
The second day of the National Day was the temple fair. Liao Tao set up a stall on the street and cut up a few roast chickens for people to try. The women’s director Wu Zhaodi came by. She had a good relationship with Liao Tao, and while chatting with Liao Tao, she made a point to get a good look at Zhuang Jie. She then took out a notebook from her bag, and wrote down Zhuang Jie’s name.
After Wu Zhaodi left, Zhuang Jie asked her why she wanted to remember her name. Liao Tao said that the town counted young people working outside, and the town wanted to invite them to have a meal.
“Why did the town invite us to dinner?” Zhuang Jie was puzzled.
“The town counted the young people last year, too, but you weren’t here.” Liao Tao said.
“Is it for statistics? What do we do when we get there?”
“Won’t you know it once you go? I haven’t participated in it before, so I don’t know.”
Zhuang Jie couldn’t figure it out, and she didn’t have a chance to think too much, because people were pouring into the temple fair. Soon, they were swamped. Some of the old ladies gathered around her and almost completely demolished the roast chicken. Read the latest chapters at g.com.
Later, Liao Tao went back to the house and cut a few more. Not long after they were put on the table, a girl from the Wang family squeezed through the people standing there. She tried a piece first, and then went to hand a piece to the man in a police uniform in the crowd.
The man was too embarrassed and refused to pass through them. The girl ate a piece herself and fed him a piece through the crowd. At this time, a child squeezed in from the crowd. The child tasted each flavor and began to comment on it with the girl of the Wang family. What was too salty and what was not well marinated.
Zhuang Jie was speechless, the kid was eating free, but trying to start trouble.
The two muttered for a while, and the girl from the Wang family asked the man outside the crowd, “Pingping, what do you want to eat?”
“Five-spice ones.” The man in the uniform replied.
The girl from the Wang family ordered a five-spice one, a spicy one, and a sauce-flavored one. Then she suggested to Zhuang Jie in a low voice, “Your chicken is not really, very good, it’s a little fat, and it gets greasy too easily.”
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“Don’t buy fodder chickens, you go to Wuliang Village to buy free-range chickens. The chickens there are firm.”
Zhuang Jie nodded and smiled, expressing that she would seriously consider it.
The girl from the Wang family was talking, when the female director patted her head from behind, saying that she was all over the place, running all day long, everywhere.
The mother and daughter of the Wang family left, and not even a minute later the kid came back and said to Zhuang Jie, “Sister, I have a business and I want to partner with you.”
“What business is that?”
“There are a lot of tourists in Xiaxi Village, I can help you sell roast chicken, but you will have to pay me…” Before he could finish speaking, he was taken out by the man in police uniform.
Zhuang Jie laughed out loud, she knew who the child was.
Later in the afternoon, Grandma Chen dragged Chen Maidong out for a stroll, and when she saw Zhuang Jie, she chatted warmly with her. Chen Maidong watched the artesian that was blowing sugar across from her stall. He might as well have been poked secretly by Zhuang Jie, as she winked signaling for him to look towards that particular direction. He looked where she signaled to him, it was a girl of marriageable age.
Chen Maidong glanced at her, took out the cigarette in his pocket, put it in his mouth, and took a puff against the wind, then squinted at her, “Want me to WeChat her?” Grandma Chen, while hitting him repeatedly, said, “Arrogant, Arrogant!”