Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 87: Grandma Hu
Fang Jie’s lunch box has become popular.
Fangjie’s spicy and sour kimchi is more popular than lunch boxes!
Nowadays, who doesn't have a few pickle jars in their homes? The most indispensable thing all year round is various pickles and kimchi.
But no one can make the taste of kimchi made by Jiang Tian.
Ever since the bus conductor spent two dollars to buy four large boxes of kimchi from Hu Qiongfang, other guests who came to her house for dinner knew that they could also buy the kimchi.
Who would leave the money unearned?
This season is the time when there are more vegetables than can be eaten in every household’s vegetable garden. You can buy a whole woven bag of fresh vegetables for one dollar.
Buy some large-grain coarse salt and make kimchi. The cost is no more than two dollars, and you can make more than ten dollars by reselling it.
After discovering this "business opportunity", Jiang Tian pulled her two aunts over without hesitation.
Both uncles were busy building a house for their family. They didn't ask for any wages and often contributed money. Although I know that the eldest and second uncles were making up for the lack of affection for their sister over the past ten years, relatives should not always let one other pay.
The two aunts had to farm and raise pigs at home, take care of the children, and often pick vegetables and save eggs to send to them. They loved Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng very much.
Jiang Tian's uncle went to high school in the county town for three years. Every time he came back, he never thought of buying some delicious food for his sister and brother.
The two aunts lived in the countryside. Whenever there was something delicious at home, no matter how expensive or cheap it was, they would always save a portion for the brother and sister.
So, whether a person cares about you or not can be known by looking at his or her usual behavior.
Jiang Tian was grateful to her uncles and aunts for being so kind to them and wanted to give something back.
Isn't the opportunity here?
Now, a big bowl of free kimchi is an indispensable item at their lunch box stall every day, which is simply the best advertisement.
What should I do if I want to eat more but can’t take it away?
There are ready-made kimchi in the store. After eating, clean the lunch box and fill it with kimchi for 50 cents. I believe many people are willing to buy a box.
Although it is a bit more expensive than the kimchi she makes herself, Jiang Tian is confident that the locals will never be able to make kimchi as tasty as hers.
It’s a one-of-a-kind deal. If you don’t make it yourself, are you going to wait for others to buy it and “imitate” you?
Jiang Xiuxiu and Chen Xiaohong were still a little embarrassed.
After all, this kimchi is a "secret recipe" figured out by the niece. According to what Jiang Tian told them, one woven bag of fresh vegetables can make at least a dozen yuan by making kimchi. If they can sell two bags a day, wouldn't each of them be able to earn more than a dozen yuan a day?
You can earn hundreds of dollars a month by making kimchi, so why bother raising pigs?
It takes ten months of hard work to raise a pig, and after deducting the cost of feed, all you earn in a year is hard-earned money.
But if these kimchi can really be sold, according to Xiaomei and Tiantian, if they make kimchi and sell it in the store, they can earn two to three hundred yuan a month, which means two to three thousand yuan a year!
Wow! The cadres at the grain station in their town don’t even make that much in a year.
The two sisters-in-law looked at each other and were very worried at home.
It would be a lie to say that I am not tempted by such a lucrative business. But if I just take it for free, I will feel sorry for my little sister.
Chen Xiaohong thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we ask our mother?"
When Grandma Hu heard her daughter-in-law say that it was her daughter and granddaughter who took the initiative to pass such a profitable business to their two uncles, she was very proud.
As expected, she was not wrong. Although her daughter was a little confused, she had a good heart. Plus, with the help of Jiang Tian, a shrewd girl, who was there to give her advice, her daughter's future was going to be prosperous.
The two aunts were in the middle of the situation and might not be able to figure out what was going on for a while.
But Grandma Hu was such a smart person. With just a glance, she guessed what Tiantian was planning.
It seems that the Jiang family is unreliable. The only direct relative elder, Jiang Lesheng, who is said to be very good at studying, is also a selfish person. To put it bluntly, Hu Qiongfang has two children, so if she wants someone to support her in the future, she really has to rely on her mother's family.
Family ties also need to be maintained with care. Even if they are your biological uncles, if you haven't been in touch with them for a year or two, and you really have to ask them for help, will they know who you are?
In this matter, it seems that Jiang Tian and her daughter suffered a loss. They gave away this business that could earn them two to three thousand yuan a year to their two uncles for nothing.
But in the long run, this deal will definitely not be a loss.
This is not a small matter of giving two bottles of wine or two pieces of pork during festivals; it is a long-term business.
As long as the two aunts continue to make money from this business, they will count the money they earn every month and always think of the good things that Jiang Tian and her daughter have done for them.
When the time comes, if Jiang Tian and her daughter really encounter difficulties, they don’t even need to ask, the two uncles will roll up their sleeves and help.
However, after all, it is a good business that can earn two to three thousand yuan a year, and I can't really let my two sons take my sister for free.
Grandma Hu pondered for a moment and gave her two daughters-in-law an idea:
"We are siblings, so it's inappropriate to talk about money, but we can't just say nothing at all."
"In this way, your sister's new house will be completed by the end of the year. When they move into the new house at the end of the year, they will definitely invite people to a banquet. Each of your two families will give 200 yuan at that time, which will be regarded as buying Tiantian's kimchi recipe."
"Besides, when we go to the store to sell kimchi in the future, are you just going to sit there and watch Fangfang busying herself? When the store is too busy, you can lend a hand."
Grandma Hu's "instructions" finally put her two daughters-in-law at ease.
The eldest daughter-in-law Jiang Xiuxiu is a die-hard fan of her mother-in-law. She will listen to whatever her mother-in-law says.
Anyway, ever since she got married, everything her mother-in-law said has come true.
I remember that my sister-in-law was abducted and eloped by the beheading ghost of the Jiang family. At that time, my mother-in-law said that if the Jiang family did not follow the right path, they would be killed by evil thoughts sooner or later.
At that time, everyone in the village thought that the mother-in-law was just speaking in anger, but what happened? Jiang Leping, who abducted my younger sister, and the old woman in the Jiang family who was full of evil intentions, did not end well.
The second daughter-in-law, Chen Xiaohong, was quicker in thinking than her eldest sister-in-law. Thinking of her mother-in-law's greatest , which was to hope that her three children could work together, she quickly pulled her eldest sister-in-law's sleeve and assured her mother-in-law:
"Don't worry, mom. We understand. There's really no need to divide the family so clearly. Tiantian knows how to be filial to her two uncles. Won't the uncles feel sorry for their niece?"
"Besides, we will also build a house next to the provincial road in the future, and my younger sister will live next to us. Let's see who dares to bully the three of them!"
This is what Grandma Hu loves to hear!
Jiang Xiuxiu looked at her sister-in-law and then at her mother-in-law. She always felt that she seemed to understand what her sister-in-law said, but she didn't seem to understand it very well.
