Back to the 90s, I just want to make money

The house felt much quieter without Xu Yuxiang around.

Chen Guilan couldn't sit still, so she bent over the sewing machine, piecing together the remaining fabric and making a waist bag. She also instructed Su Jiaojiao: "When you have time, go to Hualian Department Store and buy some fabric. I will make some waist bags at home. People at the market are asking me for them!"

"Mom, making waist bags is too tiring, let's not do it anymore." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to put the money into waist bags, nor did she want her mother to work so hard. The autumn harvest would be in a few days, and she couldn't take care of it. Su Houli was not coming back, and all the work in the fields depended on Chen Guilan. If Chen Guilan still made waist bags at night and took time to go to the market, it would be too tiring.

She wanted to make money as quickly as possible and bring Chen Guilan to her side as soon as possible.

She doesn't want to be separated from her mother again in this life.

"Mom isn't tired." Chen Guilan finally found a way to make money and refused to give up easily. "I'm idle anyway, so any money I can earn is good. You'll go to college in the future, and you'll have plenty of other expenses!"

"Mom, don't worry about money." Su Jiaojiao simply took out the money she earned from selling leggings and showed her, "Look, I made five dollars and fifty cents per pair of leggings. I sold sixty pairs in one afternoon, which means I can make three hundred dollars. Why should I worry about tuition and living expenses?"

Anyway, Chen Guilan is not someone else.

In the future, she will need her mother's support and understanding when doing business.

"So much?" Chen Guilan couldn't believe her ears. It was almost as much as Su Houli's monthly salary.

"Mom, making money requires business acumen and intelligence, not just hard work." Su Jiaojiao said seriously, "The only thing you need to do now is not to work too hard. After the autumn harvest is over, you can go to the city to help me manage the stall. I guarantee you will make more than you earn from selling your own money."

"Okay, Mom will listen to you." Chen Guilan was happy to be with her daughter. "I'll go with you to sell goods tomorrow. Your second uncle is going to sell tofu on his bicycle, so we can walk."

She was happy that her daughter could make money, but also felt sorry for her daughter's difficulties.

No one's money comes from the wind, especially when I see Su Jiaojiao squeezed together with those old men and women to sell goods, I feel very uncomfortable as a mother.

If the family is rich, who would be willing to let a child who is still in school go out to make money in public?

"Okay, after we sell this batch of goods, the first thing we will do is buy a bicycle." Su Jiaojiao didn't want to buy the Big Golden Deer anymore. She wanted to buy a lighter bicycle with a flat handlebar that both she and her mother could ride. This kind of bicycle was sold in the shops outside the market.

The next day, the mother and daughter walked to the market early.

What made Su Jiaojiao happy was that Aunt Liu was still selling vegetables at the old place. Aunt Liu was very happy to see her and held her hand tightly: "Xiao Su, I thought you were not coming. I am glad to see you."

Without waiting for Su Jiaojiao to ask, Aunt Liu rambled on about what happened that day: "Xiao Li was kind enough to give me a ride, but somehow I fell off my bike. I wasn't hurt, but I stayed in the hospital for a few days. After I was discharged, I always felt empty inside. I asked someone to check on me, and they said I had lost my soul."

"Auntie, if you've lost your soul, just call it back." Chen Guilan kindly reminded her, "There's an old lady named Yin in our village who can call back souls. You can go and try."

"Xiao Su, you're from Wutong Village, right?" Aunt Liu asked Su Jiaojiao. After getting a positive answer, Aunt Liu slapped her thigh and said, "What a coincidence! My neighbor also told me to go to Wutong Village to call back Old Lady Yin's soul. I'll go after the market."

"Auntie, we live in the same alley as Old Lady Yin. If you need anything, just come to me." Seeing how friendly she and Su Jiaojiao were, Chen Guilan also felt that Auntie Liu was particularly kind. Auntie Liu nodded happily, "Okay, okay, if I go, I'll definitely trouble you."

What made the mother and daughter even happier was that before noon, the leggings were sold out. To be more precise, they were snatched away, and not a single pair was left.

Su Jiaojiao was surprised and went to the market to find out that her leggings were sold for 25 yuan and 20 yuan in the market. Although they would sell them for 18 yuan after bargaining, they would not easily sell them for 15 yuan.

In comparison, Su Jiaojiao’s products are indeed cheap.

But Su Jiaojiao was not worried about gains and losses. She believed that selling at a low price would sell quickly, and she did not have time to bargain with others on price.

With the money, Su Jiaojiao became wealthy and immediately took Chen Guilan to a bicycle shop to buy a flat-handle bicycle for three hundred yuan. She heard it right, three hundred yuan. A bicycle made in 1995 was not cheap.

"Isn't it too expensive?" Chen Guilan touched it here and there, and was reluctant to ride it.

"Mom, we need a bicycle. Besides, we can afford it." A bicycle is nothing. When she makes money in the future, buying a house and a car will be no problem. Excluding the cost of leggings and the money for the bicycle, she still has 700 yuan left. Next weekend, she will make another trip to Mo City, and naturally she will earn more and more.

After obtaining the bicycle documents and license plate, the mother and daughter happily rode their new bicycles back to the village.

As luck would have it, she ran into Xu Yuxiang and Feng Yuefen. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were arguing at the entrance of the alley. They were surprised to see them riding back on a new bicycle. Xu Yuxiang stepped forward and asked, "Guilan, whose bicycle is this?"

"Mom, I bought it." Chen Guilan said in a low voice, feeling a little guilty and a little unreasonable.

"You bought it?" Xu Yuxiang yelled at the top of her lungs. "Houli wasn't home, and you actually secretly bought a bicycle. Do you know how hard it is for Houli to work? How dare you buy a bicycle? Does Houli know?"

"Oh, his second aunt, when did you become so rich?" Feng Yuefen was so envious and jealous that her eyes were almost glued to the bicycle. This was the latest fashionable flat-handle bicycle, and it was very expensive!

"We bought the bicycles with our own money, so what does it have to do with you?" Su Jiaojiao knew that Xu Yuxiang and Feng Yuefen had different ways of thinking. They had things that others didn't have, so they had no use for them. They had things that others had but they didn't, so they had obtained them through improper means. What the hell!

"What do you mean it has nothing to do with us?" Xu Yuxiang was furious when she heard this. "How dare you say that? You didn't ask your dad for money. How much does your dad make in a month? And you guys are wasting it like this!"

She had heard that this damn girl had asked Su Houli for tuition and living expenses at school.

She asked for several hundred dollars, but she still hasn't settled the bill with the mother and daughter!

"Even if I spend my dad's money, so what?" Su Jiaojiao asked righteously, "He's my dad. It's only natural for me to spend his money. I'm not spending anyone else's dad's money."

"Even your father's money can't be spent like this?" Feng Yuefen looked at the shiny new bicycle with jealous eyes. Why? Why could they ride such a good bicycle while her family could only ride that bulky Golden Deer.

"Mom, sister-in-law, the money for the bicycle wasn't a gift. We earned it ourselves." Chen Guilan wasn't one for arguments, and she couldn't argue with Xu Yuxiang and Feng Yuefen. In front of the neighbors, she became even more timid, explaining repeatedly, "The money for Jiaojiao's gift went toward her tuition and fees. We don't have a bicycle at home, and it's inconvenient for me to always go to my second brother's house to borrow one, so we bought one."

Everyone present was whispering to each other.

How can a mother, a rural woman and a schoolgirl, earn so much money?