Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The next morning, Zhang Xiuhua asked the children in the family to look after the orchard. After breakfast, she took Xu Chunying's hand tractor to the county town.

The truck is filled with gala apples, cabbage, radish, tofu and bean sprouts. As for black fungus, it is a dry good and is delivered once a month.

The two strong laborers Xu Chunying found were Jianxin’s eldest brother Jianmin. He did not go out to work because there were too many fields to take care of at home and his wife could not handle it alone.

Another one is Zhang Sixi, who cannot endure hardships, cannot do heavy work on the construction site, and is unwilling to go out to work. Fortunately, the land has been divided now, and the three acres of land at home are enough for the three of them to live on.

Xu Chunying first sent them to the factory gate and asked Zhang Xiuhua to go in and talk to the factory director. Jianmin and Zhang Sixi stood at the factory gate waiting for her.

After Zhang Xiuhua entered, she soon met the factory director. After a brief greeting, the two signed the contract.

Zhang Xiuhua paid the rent, got the key, left the factory, and took them to the house.

"We have to get it done in one day. Otherwise, if something is missing from the factory, they will definitely suspect us."

Jianmin and Zhang Sixi didn't waste any time and started working immediately.

This house is just an ordinary bungalow, just a little small.

If Zhang Xiuhua wanted to expand it, she only needed to deepen the length without changing the width, so the original wooden board could still be used.

The two were busy drawing on the spot. Xu Chunying came over after delivering the goods and took Zhang Xiuhua to the brick kiln factory to pull bricks, and then back to the village to pull wooden boards.

Jianmin and Zhang Sixi knocked down one wall, so there was no need to rebuild the factory wall, only two walls needed to be built.

Zhang Xiuhua and Xu Chunying also helped with odd jobs, mixing mud and pulling bricks. The four of them worked together to finish building the house.

Zhang Xiuhua thought the door was too small, so she opened a four-meter-wide door. She planned to use a rolling door, which would not need to be pushed or pulled, and could make better use of the space. She had already called Jidong and asked him to order the goods from the south, have the manufacturer deliver them to the capital, and then have them shipped here by train.

After the house was built, the walls had to be painted. Painting it white would make the house brighter. Zhang Xiuhua also had to spend money to buy paint.

After returning home, Zhang Xiuhua settled the wages for Jianmin and Zhang Sixi. After seeing them off, Zhang Xiuhua asked Xu Chunying, "How much do you make a month now?" Zhang Xiuhua never asked Xu Chunying about her business. But she saw Sun Xiaofeng's hand tractor, which was fully loaded with all kinds of goods.

"About a hundred." Xu Chunying sighed, "She sets the price too low. She has a wide range of products, so the prices are a little higher, but the store owners are willing to buy them. She makes more money than I do from shipping a truckload of goods. I only make these few items, and my prices are cheaper than hers, so the store owners are willing to buy my goods!"

She is now worried, "When the Gala fruit in your orchard is gone, I will lose something else. What should I sell then?"

"The Gala fruit season ends at the end of September, so you can still sell vegetables for another month. When winter comes and the roads are blocked by snow, what will you sell? We are not in the south, where we need to eat green leafy vegetables every day." Zhang Xiuhua reminded her, "You don't have to worry. When September comes and every household is stockpiling autumn vegetables, your business will be better than hers."

When I stock up on autumn vegetables, I buy them in batches of several hundred kilograms. By then, I will earn more from a single order than she does.

Xu Chunying nodded, "After all, it's more profitable for you to grow cabbage!"

"Of course, if I can't make money, why would I grow cabbage?"

"I see that other people's cabbages haven't yet formed cores, but you've been planting them for a long time. They've already formed cores. By the time the large quantities of cabbages are on the market, your cabbages will have been sold out."

Zhang Xiuhua used a time difference. She used the seeds sown in her family's private plot first, and then waited until all the radishes planted in early spring were harvested. After plowing the land, she directly moved the cabbage seedlings that had been planted for more than 20 days to the field. Other families did not plant vegetables in the fields, but all planted vegetables in their private plots. There were two crops a year, and they had to wait until the vegetables in the private plots were eaten before they could plow the land and plant other things again. The time for maturity was a little later.

Zhang Xiuhua sighed, "But I can only make good money for one year. There will definitely be a lot of people following suit next year."

Xu Chunying also nodded in agreement. "I heard from Xiangxiang's mother that someone in the village asked her how to grow fungus. But greenhouses are too expensive, and the villagers can't afford to build them. But growing vegetables doesn't cost much, so they will definitely learn from you."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded and said, "I'll plant something else next year."

She thought for a moment and said, "You help me deliver vegetables to the county every day, I can't let you work for nothing. How about this, you deliver vegetables to me every month, and I'll pay you 80 yuan."

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't ask Xu Chunying for help for nothing. Once or twice is fine, but if she gave it to him for free every day, Xu Chunying would be dissatisfied. She herself felt that taking advantage of others was not good.

Because Xu Chunying delivers food, she also checks whether the clerks are cheating. Eighty yuan a month is a reasonable range.

Xu Chunying was surprised, "You have a tractor at home, why don't you deliver the goods yourself?"

"I have to stay at home and look after the orchard. The children will be going to school soon."

Xu Chunying was puzzled, "I will help you deliver, but who will help you sell?"

"I'm looking for someone to help me sell vegetables!" Zhang Xiuhua had already thought about it, and she wanted to hire someone to do the job.

Xu Chunying was stunned. "You have to pay two people's wages and rent to run this store. Do you make money?"

Zhang Xiuhua corrected her, "One person may not be enough. I need two people. There are so many people buying groceries, and one person can't handle it."

Xu Chunying took a breath. Even if she expanded the store, it would only be 50 square meters. But such a store actually hired three people. This was too extravagant. "Aren't you afraid of losing money?"

Zhang Xiuhua shook her head. "Let's give it a try. We have to give it a try after all."

Seeing that she insisted, Xu Chunying didn't know what to say, "Okay then. If you lose money, just close it as soon as possible."

It took a week to finish the painting. The painted wall was dry. After the rolling door was installed, the rack was transported from home.

The shelves were made of wood, the work of a village carpenter. There was a lot of wood piled up at her home. She found usable wood and quickly made six shelves.

After everything is installed, we start business.

Zhang Xiuhua did not work as a salesperson herself, she recruited two locals from the county. Many people in the county were unemployed, and the salary she offered was not as good as the factory, only 60 yuan a month, but since it was right next to her home, many people still came to apply.

She picked two friendly girls and marked the prices on the dishes with signs. The prices were the same as those at the supply and marketing cooperative. The only difference was that she didn't need a ticket.

She would place the cheap and abundant dishes in the most prominent places for promotion, and put the dishes with less demand at the back. The variety is as complete as possible!

Zhang Xiuhua lives in the village, and it is as easy for her to collect vegetables as the village chief. Every morning, Xu Chunying delivers the vegetables to the county town, and after delivering the vegetables, Xu Chunying will bring yesterday's sales back to Zhang Xiuhua.

She has one account book, the salesperson has another, and both parties sign it.

Zhang Xiuhua does the accounting at home every day.

After a week, Zhang Xiuhua felt a little disappointed. This didn't seem to make much money!

After deducting the wages and rent of three people, she still had 400 yuan left. If Jidong's shop was divided among three people, they could get thousands of yuan a month. She didn't even get half of Jidong's. This was not acceptable.

She thought that it would not be good to have only vegetables in the store, so she discussed with Jidong whether the goods sent to him from the south could also be sent to the northeast.

Jidong was willing to help her make the contact and deliver it to the county. "But a truckload of goods is not cheap. Aunt, I have a guarantor, but your store doesn't. You have to pay the full amount."

"How much?" Zhang Xiuhua's heart skipped a beat.

"At least fifty thousand, right?"

Zhang Xiuhua had 26,000 yuan on her. Since the dual-track pricing system was introduced, the price of courtyard houses has skyrocketed, and the smallest courtyard house costs more than 40,000 yuan. The 26,000 yuan she had was not enough, so she kept it in her hand. But 26,000 yuan was still halfway to 50,000 yuan.