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

When Zhang Xiuhua said that the baskets that could not be sold out would be returned, the smile on the captain's face disappeared, "Well... it's okay to return the items, but the baskets were made with great effort by everyone."

Zhang Xiuhua spread her hands, "But the supply and marketing cooperative can't possibly hold so many baskets."

Song Lianhua asked him to agree, "It's impossible that there is no risk at all. If you don't agree, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative can look for other villages. Those things are available in every household, and they are not exclusive to our village. I think the director wants our goods because of Xiuhua. Don't be ungrateful, old man."

The captain was embarrassed to be scolded by his wife. His face turned red. "I'm afraid the team members will have complaints. How can they be happy if you make them work for nothing?!"

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't make any promises, so she just said, "Otherwise, the team will pay for it. As for the baskets, keep them for now and sell them slowly after the New Year. They don't want many, only fifty."

The captain took a long drag on his pipe and slapped his thigh, "Yes! Let's do it!"

In the afternoon, the four people came back and the samples were delivered. It would take two days to get a reply from them.

Zhang Xiuhua told him that the director of the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative had come.

Zhou Pandi then remembered that she had been too busy recently and had not gone to sell tofu. "Then I'll go to Hongxin Commune tomorrow. They should also want to sell tofu. How about I sell some New Year gifts while I'm at it?"

Zhang Xiuhua told her not to worry, "The supply and marketing cooperative will definitely not hold back the goods. If they can't sell so many during the New Year, they will definitely return them to us. It's fine if the goods are returned, but if the baskets are returned, every household doesn't need so many baskets. There might be conflicts. The team leader is not someone who can take responsibility."

The captain was probably old, so he was cautious and not aggressive enough. He was unwilling to take even the slightest risk. It was not his fault. In this era, the first bird to stick out gets shot. He just went with the flow and survived until now.

Zhou Pandi sneered, "You want to make money, but you're afraid of taking risks? The captain is ridiculous!"

Although her words showed her disdain for the captain, Zhou Pandyi did not make any more sales pitches and just followed Xiuhua's advice.

Speaking of this, Zhou Pandi suddenly thought of something else: "What if other factories take our samples and ask other production teams to make them?"

Everyone was stunned.

Li Jianxin thought it was impossible. "We don't sell it at a high price. We only make a profit from the labor of making the basket. The team only makes 30 cents from a five-yuan gift box. The price is very cheap."

Li Xiaoying thinks nothing is impossible. "If I change the items, maybe I can get a lower price."

Zhou Pandi rubbed her brows and said, "Maybe I am being petty, but there is one advantage of placing an order with a factory. They will pay the deposit first and will not go back on their word. At least we don't have to worry about returns."

That's all we can think.

But Li Xiaoying was right. Except for Li Jianxin and Zhou Pandi, the other two failed in this promotion.

Li Jianxin was successful because of the help of Zhang Sanxi's father-in-law. Zhou Pandi was successful because she was willing to invest money and gave benefits to the purchasing director, who helped to make connections, and the matter was settled.

Li Xiaoying was rejected and returned with her basket. An Rou, however, was a person who wanted to get to the bottom of things. She went to the family quarters to inquire and learned that the purchasing director of the factory was a person who was always greedy for bargains. Then she understood.

"He must be dissatisfied that we didn't give him any benefits. So he changed our gift box." An Rou was indignant.

Zhou Pandi told her not to be angry, "If you don't want others to reject your products, your products must be competitive. What we provide can be easily replaced by others."

Zhang Xiuhua was thoughtful. It was true. Everything she made was something that everyone could make. Others could just copy her ideas.

An Rou couldn't swallow this breath, "Should we just forget about it?"

"What else can I do if I don't count?" Zhou Pandi made her so angry. "It's still several months before the Chinese New Year. You can go to other factories to sell. Remember to be willing to invest."

An Rou is just too stingy and is always reluctant to give gifts.

Li Xiaoying was willing to invest, but she was not good at speaking and was easily rejected.

Eventually, the two of them went to other factories and were rejected once or twice. It was not until the third time that they finally found a factory willing to buy New Year goods from them. Although the quantity was a little less, they were sold anyway.

Days passed and the weather became colder. With last year's experience, Zhang Xiuhua learned her lesson this year. She went to the mountains early to chop firewood and bought a lot of charcoal so that she could stay indoors for the winter.

The weather forecast said it would snow tomorrow, and the children at home jumped on their beds, "Great! If it snows we don't have to go to school!"

Zhang Xiuhua asked them to take it easy and not to collapse the kang.

Youcai shouted excitedly, "No way. This kang was built by my father, it's very solid."

Baolin and the children decided to make candied haws in the house if it snowed tomorrow.

This proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone. Zhang Xiuhua suddenly asked her, "Baolin, Yaoyao, have you made the bunny's nest thicker?"

The two children were stunned. Zhang Xiuhua didn't allow them to raise rabbits in the house, so they built a shed at the door, filled it with Ula grass and covered it with straw, but such a shed couldn't withstand a snowstorm, right?

But Baolin didn't want to go out to set up the tent at all because it was too cold.

"Mom, can I not raise rabbits?" Baolin acted coquettishly to her mother.

Zhang Xiuhua wanted Baolin to know the importance of responsibility. In her previous life, Baolin was moved by a man's sweet words and got married and had children early. She was only in her twenties and looked very old. She refused, "No! Since you raised it, you have to be responsible for its life. Just like I gave birth to you, I have to raise you to adulthood. You are my responsibility, and the rabbit is your responsibility. You two promised me to raise little rabbits, you can't go back on your word. When have you ever said something that was not right?"

That's not true. I can do whatever my mother promised. Baolin wrinkled his face and looked at his mother pitifully, trying to get away with it. Yaoyao followed suit. But Zhang Xiuhua was determined and refused to be moved.

The two had no choice but to put on their shoes along the kang, "Okay then. I'll build a shed for it now."

Other children also came over to help. They found some old cotton mattresses, fixed them on the grass with yellow mud, and then put a few tiles to hold them down.

The children worked for more than three hours to build the rabbit's kennel, their little faces flushed red from the wind.

Back on the kang, Baolin was shivering with cold, but he did not forget to ask Zhang Xiuhua to buy a male rabbit as soon as possible so that the rabbit could get pregnant and give birth to baby rabbits earlier, and she would be relieved.

Zhang Xiuhua promised to buy it after the Chinese New Year. Then her mission would be complete.

In the evening, snowflakes began to fall outside. When I woke up the next morning, everything in front of and behind the house was covered in white.

A few days ago, Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying came to Zhang Xiuhua's place to spend the winter. They brought food and stored vegetables and pickles in advance.

Everyone was warming themselves by the fire in the house, the children were doing their homework, and Zhou Pandi was tutoring them.

It was so icy and snowy that every household closed their doors and hibernated indoors.

Someone knocked on her door from outside.

Everyone else was busy, except Zhang Xiuhua, so she went to open the door.

When the door was opened, cold wind rushed into the room. Ergou was outside, shivering with cold.