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

After that, Youcai didn't get involved in the affairs of his second apprentice brother and Zhenzhen. He focused on learning cooking from his master.

After Zheng Wenyan recovered from his illness, the restaurant was renovated and ready to reopen. Whenever he had time, he would go over to help and practice his cooking skills.

Zhang Xiuhua did not follow up on Youcai's relationship problems, but only asked him occasionally. Sometimes, as an elder, you have to know your limits. You can't make decisions for your child, nor can you nag him repeatedly, otherwise the child will get annoyed.

When she got home, the village had already started preparing for the autumn harvest.

Zhang Xiuhua's family was not busy, because the cabbage they planted would not be harvested until some time later. However, the Gala apples and blueberries in their orchard had reached their last crop, so they were looking for scattered fruits in the orchard.

There were no children to help this time because they also had to help with the autumn harvest at home.

Zhuzhu climbed up the tree to help pick the fruits. There were many fruits on the treetops, which were too high to pick normally, so they didn't pick them. The fruit trees in the garden were densely planted, and the fruit branches were very thin, so adults couldn't step on them. They had to let Zhuzhu stand on the branches and step on the branches, so that the people below could jump up and pick the fruits.

Zhang Xiuhua was picking fruits while chatting with Li Jianguo.

Li Jianguo told her that Fengjiao had taken Qiaoling to work in the south.

Zhang Xiuhua was not surprised at all. Qiaoling only scored over 200 points in the exam, so there was no hope for her to repeat the year. Fengjiao didn't want her daughter to get married so early, so she could only take her daughter to work in the south. In her hometown, all the major factories were full and there was no way to squeeze in. She was just curious, "Didn't Sun Guangming go with you?"

Li Jianguo shook his head. "He was reluctant to give up his job. After all, it was a stable job. Fengjiao didn't want Qiaoling to get married so early, so she took her to work in the south."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "That's good. At least your sister can relax a little."

Li Jianguo also told her another thing, "I estimate that the number of people from other villages going to the south to work will decrease next year."

Zhang Xiuhua thought that the fact that the strong laborers in Lijiatun did not get paid for their work at the construction site had spread to everyone. Farmers do the hardest and most tiring work, and if they don't get paid, they can't even live well.

But Li Jianguo told her that some girls working in the south had found boyfriends. Many families did not want their daughters to marry far away, so they did not allow them to work in the south.

There are many places in China that value sons over daughters, but there are also many families that treat their daughters well. They don't complain that the bride price given by outsiders is too little, but they simply don't want their daughters to marry far away. They would rather not let their daughters earn that money, but keep the girls at home.

This is human nature! Zhang Xiuhua didn't say it was good or bad.

She changed the subject and told him that she wanted to make fermented black beans and sell them on the train.

"How do you sell this?" Li Jianguo was stunned.

"I can ask a glass factory to customize a batch of glass bottles, and then put the products in jars one by one. I'll be the salesperson and I'll sell them!" The more Zhang Xiuhua thought about it, the better her idea became.

Li Jianguo understood, and she was responsible for coming up with ideas and then asking her family to help.

"Who are you looking for?"

Zhang Xiuhua made up her mind, "Let Aunt Wang help me. After she finishes harvesting the crops, she will be free and can help me."

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Li Jianguo didn't say anything more.

They would use a hand tractor to carry the gala apples and blueberries back home, and then she would drive the tractor to transport them to the two grocery stores the next day.

Because they didn’t grow much, they could just rely on two grocery stores to handle it. In the past, Li Jianguo would send the goods to the capital by train, but now there is an additional grocery store, so there is no need to go through so much trouble.

"Mom, these blueberries are so delicious." Zhuzhu washed a basin of blueberries and kept eating them with her little mouth.

The blueberry yield per acre is more than 1,000 kilograms, and the price is very expensive. Not many people in the county can afford it. Zhang Xiuhua plans to bring the blueberries to the capital to sell, where there are more wealthy people.

If you can’t sell them, it doesn’t matter, just freeze them in the freezer and sell them slowly in the winter. The price won’t be much different.

Zhuzhu grabbed a handful of blueberries and stuffed them into Zhang Xiuhua's mouth, "Mom, you eat some too!"

Zhang Xiuhua was forced to accept her kindness, "Yeah, it's really sweet."

The blueberry variety she introduced from Japan is sweeter than wild blueberries and has a floral flavor, and most importantly, the fruits are very large.

Of course, picking the blueberries took a lot of work. The blueberries were big and small, and in order not to damage the small ones, they could only pick them one by one, which wasted a lot of time.

Zhang Xiuhua brought Gala apples and blueberries into the house, and Zhuzhu ran to watch TV. After just a few minutes, she yelled, "Mom, come and see! I'm on TV!"

Zhang Xiuhua immediately put down the basket and ran to the TV. It was really Zhuzhu. But it was not a TV series, but an advertisement.

"Is this the advertisement you shot? It's actually for a beverage. Is it delicious?" Zhang Xiuhua asked curiously.

Zhuzhu nodded, "It tastes good! It has a milky flavor. My second brother said that this drink is a foreign brand that has just been introduced to the mainland, so they need to advertise it. The boss saw the TV series I acted in and fell in love with me at first sight."

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly realized, no wonder the couple was willing to pay 50,000 yuan to hire Zhuzhu to shoot a commercial.

The advertisement at this time is very simple and only lasts ten seconds, but it is played repeatedly. It really shows that they are willing to spend money on it.

After Zhang Xiuhua finished her work here, she went to the team leader's house to get some vegetables.

Now that everyone is busy, Zhang Xiuhua's family cannot deliver the vegetables in time. Since she is at home at the right time, she transports the vegetables herself and saves the shipping cost.

She loaded up the walk-behind tractor and set out early the next morning, before daybreak.

When we arrived at the county, the salesman came to open the door and move the things.

Gala apples, blueberries, eggs, chicken, cabbage, radish, celery, potatoes, etc., dozens of vegetables were brought down one by one.

After delivering the goods to this store, she looked through the account book and went to another one.

When she arrived at the sugar factory and moved all the goods, she did not leave in a hurry because the salesperson asked her to leave later because he had something to report to her.

From her tone it sounded like something big was going to happen, so Zhang Xiuhua parked the tractor in the open space of the sugar factory so as not to block the entrance.

Customers came in waves, and Zhang Xiuhua also watched nearby. In the morning when the patrol team was not on duty, many old men and women would bring vegetables to the city to sell. Knowing that their store had a lot of traffic, they would sit nearby, but when the patrol team came on duty, they would run away.

Customers came one after another in the morning, and it was not until ten o'clock that the customers gradually disappeared.

The salesperson secretly told Zhang Xiuhua, "The sugar factory has a new director, and the original director has been promoted."

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly startled, but she didn't take it seriously. "We signed a five-year contract with the factory. It's only the second year now, so it's still a long way from the expiration date."

The salesperson was not as optimistic as she was. He told her another story, "The factory manager came yesterday. He owed us money on credit. We didn't dare to owe him. He asked you to go find him when you get here."

Zhang Xiuhua frowned. Credit? Her grocery store never sold things on credit. Because the clerks were just workers and had no right to sell on credit. But this factory manager took the goods without paying, and it seemed like he wanted a benefit.

She told them to work first, "I'll go see what he says now!"

The contract is still in place, so the other party won't raise the rent right now, right? If they just want some benefits, she can give them a little.

She originally wanted to take some things to the factory manager, but with so many people watching in the factory, he probably wouldn't dare to accept them openly. So she took the envelope and put two hundred yuan in it.

She walked to the guard room of the sugar factory, where the guard recognized her and let her in.

When she arrived at the factory director's office, the assistant said that the director was not there and had gone to inspect the workshop, and asked her to wait outside.