Chapter 118: Ways to Make Money

Shen Xingchen asked them to get up, but both of them were extremely reluctant.

Mai Hongcai gave him some face and slowly got up from the bed.

Mai Laosan was ready to act like a father-in-law and lose his temper, but Mai Sui came to the door of his bedroom and kicked it open.

“Mai Laosan, get up right now!”

Mai Sui’s roar scared Mai Laosan so much that he rolled under the bed.

Mai Hongcai woke up from his sleep in an instant.

While Mai Laosan hurriedly put on his clothes, he glared at Shen Xingchen and complained in a low voice:

“Why didn’t you say earlier that Mai Sui was back? If you had said so earlier, I would have gotten up earlier!”

Really! It’s so scary!

Shen Xingchen whispered back: “Walls have ears. Mai Sui sneaked back. Be careful and don’t make too much noise. It will be troublesome if someone hears it.”

Mai Laosan silently turned his head and glanced at his shaky door. Isn’t this noise big?

Shen Xingchen touched his nose awkwardly: “Ahem… that was an accident.”

While the two of them were talking, Mai Hongcai had already started to express his heart.

“Sister, you’ve been gone for two months. I miss you so much!

I dreamed that you came to see me tonight. I didn’t expect that when I opened my eyes, you really came back to see me!

I knew that we are siblings. Even if our bones are broken, our tendons are still connected…”

How can you say that Mai Hongcai is the second child in the family? Look at his expression and tone, how touching it is.

Shen Xingchen came in and saw that his forehead was throbbing with veins, because from his perspective, Mai Hongcai was almost sticking to his wife.

Even though they are siblings, they are so old, why don’t they know how to avoid suspicion? Is there no one to teach this brother-in-law a lesson?

He is so angry!

Shen Xingchen immediately turned into a human shield and squeezed in between the two of them.

Mai Hongcai still didn’t understand, and he kept pulling towards Mai Sui.

Shen Xingchen grabbed Mai Hongcai’s shoulders and pushed him away: “Hongcai, stand up, your sister has something to say.”

Mai Hongcai stood up straight when he heard the words, as if he was ready to be dispatched at any time.

Mai Laosan also hurried over and stood up, with a diligent attitude and a smile on his face:

“Girl, what’s the matter with you running out so late at night?”

Mai Sui took out a stack of paper and handed it to Mai Hongcai: “This is a small sewing machine I designed. You can go find someone to see if you can make it.”

It’s better to say that it’s a small handheld sewing gun than a small sewing machine.

It’s the size of a pistol and the shape is similar, but Mai Sui modified it.

Isn’t a sewing machine very valuable? Mai Sui thought, let’s make a small sewing gun.

You can put it in your pocket anytime and anywhere, and you can take it out to mend your clothes when they are torn. It’s convenient and quick.

The most important thing is that it’s cheap!

Mai Sui plans to set the price at fifty, which is less than one-third of the price of an ordinary sewing machine.

Or it can be lowered a little bit, depending on the production cost.

Anyway, her design cost can be ignored, as she just draws them casually when she has nothing to do.

Mai Sui has even thought of the sales channel.

It is Lin Yanxi’s cousin Qiao Qingshi.

Today, the government implements a planned economy, and ordinary people are not allowed to do business on their own, but they can sell to supply and marketing cooperatives.

The supply and marketing cooperatives will purchase and sell them in a unified manner, which is in line with the current “unified purchase and unified sales” policy.

Qiao Qingshi does this.

If Lin Yanxi hadn’t mentioned it to Mai Sui accidentally, Mai Sui would not have thought of making a sewing gun.

The supply and marketing cooperatives that people usually talk about are actually the external sales outlets managed by the supply and marketing sales department.

But the actual supply and marketing cooperative is a large state-owned institution. In addition to the sales department, it also includes many other departments.

For example, the purchasing department where Qiao Qingshi works.

The government allows farmers to develop family sidelines during the slack season, such as weaving baskets and simple carpentry.

They can also form cooperatives and mutual aid groups through communes or village brigades to carry out agricultural production and agricultural product processing.

Finally, the supply and marketing cooperative will make unified purchases and then sell them to the outside at a planned price.

In a word, everything is for the collective, not for private transactions by individuals, which is in line with the policy.

Mai Sui felt that if this was the case, then the small sewing machine she designed would also be considered a “handicraft product”, and it should be no problem to hand it over to Qiao Qingshi for unified purchase.

Mai Hongcai couldn’t understand what was drawn on the drawings, but he could still understand the last picture of the finished product.

What kind of sewing machine is this? It’s clearly a pistol!

Although his family doesn’t have a sewing machine, his uncle’s family does. Don’t think of bullying him for not understanding!

Mai Hongcai was so scared that he stuttered: “Sister…you…I’m afraid this is not suitable?”

Shen Xingchen took it and looked at it, and immediately saw the trick.

At the same time, he couldn’t help but feel a little frightened, because the design of Mai Sui was so exquisite that he was fascinated by it and wanted to study it at night.

Mai Sui glared at Mai Hongcai with disdain and said unhappily: “Look at your useless look!

This is a sewing machine! It’s just a handheld portable one!

Doesn’t Maoqiu also have a wooden gun? And potatoes, they are not afraid of them. You are so old, what are you afraid of!”

“Sister, you also said that Maoqiu’s gun is made of wood, which is a toy for children to play house.

Yours doesn’t look like a toy. It looks much more serious than speculation. I’m afraid…”

Mai Laosan came to Shen Xingchen and took a look. He felt that the things drawn on it were a bit complicated.

At a glance, he knew that it was not at the same level as the wooden gun.

He also said with some worry: “Yes, my daughter, this thing is different from the prey we used to sell.

You are a soldier now, and you finally have a good future. You can’t make mistakes. If you are fired, what will happen to our family in the future?”

“What’s wrong with being a soldier? Soldiers have to eat too! Do you know how much allowance I get a month now?”

Speaking of this, Mai Sui was very depressed.

Who would have thought that she only had an allowance of 26 yuan a month.

That’s right, 26, which is 52 in two months!

It’s better to go to the mountains and catch a wild boar to earn more!

This is still high, because Mai Sui is a special forces soldier, not an ordinary recruit.

The average big-headed soldier earns less, less than ten yuan a month in the first year.

Fortunately, food and other things in the army are very cheap, and clothes are also distributed for free, otherwise how can they survive!

To be honest, Mai Sui sometimes really can’t understand their behavioral logic.

Later, Mai Sui knew that it was a kind of belief.

But Mai Sui doesn’t have this belief yet.

Apart from being poor, Mai Sui is still very satisfied with her current life, so she has to find a way to improve her economic conditions.

It just so happened that Lin Yanxi’s cousin had a channel, so Mai Sui naturally wanted to do a big job.

Just when Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai didn’t know how to persuade Mai Sui, Shen Xingchen suddenly said, “I can do it!”

Mai Sui was delighted and decided, “Okay, then leave it to you!”

Then, Mai Sui scolded Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai and told them to learn from Shen Xingchen.

“You are not good at anything and you are the number one dragger!”

In front of Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai, he rewarded Shen Xingchen with ten yuan as an encouragement.

Shen Xingchen’s mouth immediately curled up to the sky: “Sui Sui, don’t worry, I will definitely make it and will not let your design down!”

Mai Laosan & Mai Hongcai: Flatterer!