Chapter 31

After Song’s mother Ye Hongmei sent Song Ruan away, she called Yang Bin in to talk.

Seeing that she had nothing to do, Song Ruan felt relieved and simply hid in the room and went to the space to build the remaining pig pens.

The next morning, Song Ruan brought the prepared red date cake and asked her second brother to accompany her to the town.

Song Ruan didn’t know what Yang Bin talked to them last night, but her parents accepted the bicycle he gave them.

Although she didn’t know the process, the result was good. She finally didn’t have to walk to town. With a bicycle, she could get there in half an hour.

However, when Song Ruan was sitting on the bicycle and being pushed all the way to the town, she…

She never expected that her second brother couldn’t ride a bicycle…

But this did not hinder Song Wu’s enthusiasm for the bicycle. He pushed it happily along the way and did not seem to feel tired at all.

When they almost reached the town, no matter how much her second brother tried to persuade her, Song Ruan refused to sit on it. It would be too embarrassing to be seen by others.

When they arrived in the town, Song Ruan took her second brother to the black market, told him that a piece of red date cake cost about 10 cents, asked him to try to sell it, and then she left.

Just like before, Song Ruan first hired a few temporary workers to go with her to the animal husbandry station to buy chicks and piglets. She pretended not to know the temporary workers and asked them to buy a few each, and then they pushed the carts back to the temporary warehouse she had rented before.

Because the pigpen and chicken coop built in the space are relatively large, it is no problem to raise dozens of them at the same time. However, what she didn’t expect was that there were only 16 piglets for sale at the farm. Fortunately, there were a lot of chicks, so she bought 30 in total.

After paying the temporary workers their wages, Song Ruan put the chicks and piglets that were stored in the temporary warehouse into the space, and then set out to look for his second brother.

This should be her second brother’s first time to come to the black market and also his first time to sell things in the black market. Song Ruan could imagine that her second brother was weak, pitiful and helpless waiting for her to rescue him.

However, when she arrived at the black market, she found a group of people surrounding her second brother.

Song Ruan was startled and thought something had happened, so she ran over quickly, but she didn’t expect that her second brother was not at all panicked in the crowd, and was talking fluently.

“Sister, this big red date cake is only 20 cents a piece, it’s not expensive at all.” Song Wu was talking to an aunt in her forties or fifties.

“Yes, 20 cents can buy a few eggs, but this red date cake contains not only eggs, but also the best flour, precious sugar, and red dates that are good for your health. It is carefully cooked, so isn’t it more nutritious than those eggs? What’s more, the red date cake I made is delicious. I’ll give these scraps to you for free to try.”

“Well, it tastes pretty good.”

“Not bad, isn’t it? Besides, your daughter-in-law is in confinement after childbirth, so she needs to be well nourished. Can you give me a few pieces?”

“Then give me five dollars.”

“This red date cake can be kept for a few days. How about you take ten pieces and I’ll give you one more piece.”

When she heard that she could get an extra dollar, the elder sister immediately said, “Okay, I’ll take ten dollars.”

“Okay.”

Song Wu wrapped the red date cakes more and more skillfully and handed them to the buyer. He looked at the two bright red one-dollar bills in his hand with a perverted smile.

Song Ruan: “…”

Song Ruan was amazed, and watched quietly as her second brother sold out the whole bamboo basket of red date cakes with ease, then she walked forward silently.

When Song Wu saw his sister coming over, he said happily, “Little sister, let me tell you, this thing is really easy to sell.”

Song Ruan shook her head: “It’s you, second brother, who is so awesome.”

Compared with her casual selling method, her second brother’s selling method of shouting, offering free gifts for more purchases, and being very sweet-talking simply crushed her.

As he spoke, Song Wu quickly packed up his stall, carried his things on his back and pushed his bicycle towards Song Ruan.

He handed over the money he earned and whispered, “Little sister, this is the money from selling red date cakes. The total is 17.6 yuan, and I sold them for 20 cents a piece.”

Song Ruan gave Song Wu a thumbs up: “Smart!”

Song Wu scratched his head and chuckled: “Little sister, how much does it cost for us to make this red date cake today?”

“I spent 14 yuan on flour and sugar before, but I only used less than one-sixth of it. Adding the cost of eggs, the cost is probably around 2.5 yuan.”

Song Wu’s eyes widened instantly: “That’s a profit…”

Song Ruan said calmly: “About 15 yuan.”

Song Wu: “!!!”

“Here, this is your labor fee.” Song Ruan handed three yuan to her second brother, “After deducting the cost, you will be given 20% of the labor fee for everything you sell in the future.”

Song Ruan’s eyes lit up at first, but after thinking about it, she held back and pushed the money back, “I didn’t do anything, I can’t ask for money, and you girls have a lot of things to buy, you keep it for yourself, my second brother doesn’t lack anything.”

Song Ruan smiled and stuffed the money into her second brother’s hand: “Second brother, I have money to use. We are called partners, so we have to share the money. I need you to continue selling in the future. Do you think we can make fifteen yuan each time? Shouldn’t I have enough money to spend?”

“…It seems so. If we calculate it this way, if we sell it a few more times, we can catch up with the money our parents have saved for several years with great effort.”

“That’s not true.” How could it be said that in this special era, those who dared to do business quickly became rich. This was not a big deal. After this special period in the dream ended, it would be the easiest time to make money.

Song Ruan brought her second brother to the small house that sold pork in the black market and popularized knowledge to her second brother: “Second brother, this house has a lot of things for sale, and they also buy things, but the prices are not as high as what you sell yourself.”

Song Wu said “Oh” and looked at this new place curiously.

Song Ruan walked to the pork stall and said, “Boss, I want these big bones and ten kilograms of pork.”

The boss said yes and cut the meat for her skillfully.

Song Wu secretly tugged at the corner of his sister’s clothes and whispered, “Why buy so much pork? It costs several dollars.”

Song Ruan also replied quietly: “Second brother, the purpose of making money is to spend it.”

We have eaten up all the dried meat we had at home, so we have to buy some.

Moreover, they don’t always have time to come to the town. Soon the production team will start harvesting spring wheat. After the harvest, they will plant cabbage and radishes in the fields. So once they get busy, they won’t have much time.

“Boss, are the pig offal gone? Why can’t I see any?”

“No, it’s strange, ever since you bought it that time, there’s an old lady behind you who often comes to buy pig offal. It’s her every time, and she bought it today too.”

After the boss finished speaking, Song Ruan remembered the lady next to her when she was selling braised pork offal. She wondered if it was her.

But it doesn’t matter whether it is true or not, because she has more than one thing to sell anyway.