Reborn in the 90s, I traded my ex-husband for eight apartments.

"Uncle Huo came by?"

Bai Zhenzhu put the bag on the table and patted Shuo Shuo's head.

Shuo Shuo's eyes are completely glued to the remote-controlled car:

"Yes, Uncle Huo picked Jiajia and me up from school, and we rode back in his car."

"Mom, the car is so comfortable to ride in."

The white pearl was somewhat strange:

Did Uncle Huo say anything?

Shuo Shuo shook his head:

"No, I invited him to stay for dinner, but he said he was busy."

Jiajia said, "Uncle Huo said he was passing by."

Bai Zhenzhu looked at the remote-controlled car running on the ground. This was clearly not just passing by; it had come all the way here.

Worried that something might have happened to Huo Zheng, she went into the living room and called him.

He was on a mobile phone when Huo Zheng entered the house.

"Mr. Huo, Shuo Shuo said you came to our house. Is there something you need?"

Huo Zheng, who was changing his shoes, paused:

"Nothing."

"I was passing by your house and remembered that I had a few toys in my car that Shuo Shuo would like, so I delivered them to him on the way."

Hearing that he was alright, Bai Zhenzhu felt relieved.

"It's good that you're alright. I was worried that something might have happened to you and the children wouldn't have been able to relay the message clearly."

Huo Zheng breathed a sigh of relief almost imperceptibly:

"It's okay, I'll call you if anything happens."

"You just got home and haven't eaten yet, have you?"

"How's the renovation of the shop on Qingfeng Road going?"

Bai Zhenzhu: "The framework is almost finished. Once the second floor is built, the decoration will be completed soon. However, we won't be able to open for business this year."

Huo Zheng: "No rush, take your time to assemble, and make sure the quality of the construction is guaranteed."

White Pearl: "Yes, I know."

There wasn't much more to say at this point, so to avoid awkwardness, Huo Zheng said:

"Let's go eat. Contact me if you need anything."

Bai Zhenzhu: "Okay, goodbye Mr. Huo."

Huo Zheng: "Goodbye."

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Qi Yunzhu brought out the dishes and gave him a strange look:

"Whose call was that? You've changed one shoe, aren't you planning to change the other one?"

Huo Zheng looked down and saw that he was wearing a leather shoe and a slipper.

He went back to change his shoes, giving a perfunctory reply:

"The company phone."

Qi Yunzhu watched her son's retreating figure as he went upstairs, somewhat puzzled:

"I clearly heard the name Shuo Shuo just now. Isn't Xiao Bai's son named Shuo Shuo?"

He yelled upstairs again:

"We're about to eat, what are you doing upstairs? Do you need your mom to treat you to a meal?"

Huo Zheng's voice came from upstairs:

"Change."

After he changed his clothes and came downstairs, Qi Yunzhu couldn't help but look at him:

"Have you been working too hard lately? You don't look well."

Huo Zheng shook his head, then, seeing more braised meat on the table, casually asked:

"You went to buy braised meat again?"

Qi Yunzhu rolled her eyes at her son:

"It's because you said you wanted to come home for dinner that your mom went out to buy it for you. How long has it been since you ate at home?"

Before Huo Zheng even started eating, he first put a piece of food on his mother's plate:

"I've been busy lately, running between the factory and the subsidiary, there's a lot to do."

Qi Yunzhu started rambling on and on:

No matter how busy you are, you must eat your meals properly.

"There's a woman over on East Street who used to starve herself, and now she has stomach cancer and is on her deathbed."

"And then that heartless man of hers actually started an affair with a married woman at this very moment..."

"Cough cough..." A mouthful of porridge went straight down his throat, and Huo Zheng coughed for a long time in a very unladylike manner.

Qi Yunzhu took the opportunity to mock her son:

"He can choke even while drinking porridge, and he's only been away from the army for a few days."

Huo Zheng: "..."

The weather is getting cooler, and December is here in the blink of an eye.

Bai Zhenzhu received money from Liu Fang and Xu Yin one after another.

Xu Yin's business has seen an increase in profits due to the addition of two more stores in the food court.

However, Chaoyang Building has not officially opened for business yet, and the foot traffic is not high. In November, Xu Yin's side transferred more than 18,000 yuan.

However, Bai Chengxiang's business is doing very well; he just delivered more than 13,000 yuan to her yesterday.

The second brother received 32,000 from Bai Zhenzhu.

Because Liu Fang opened a hot pot restaurant, her profits almost doubled last month, and a total of more than 53,000 yuan was transferred to her.

The clothing stores in Yuan County are doing as well as ever; even with little foot traffic at Chaoyang Building, they still sold over 30,000 yuan worth of goods.

I just received a large shipment at the end of the month, which basically wiped out all the sales revenue of several clothing stores from last month.

Bai Zhenzhu calculated that she had transferred more than 260,000 yuan to Xia He's god-sister last month.

In Chengdu alone, a total of 140,000 yuan worth of goods were purchased.

She currently has a total balance of approximately 410,000 yuan.

Seeing this balance, Bai Zhenzhu was no longer as excited as before.

Because this amount of money is still far from what she wants to do.

She wants to build the "Good Taste" brand and open more braised meat and hot pot restaurants in Chengdu.

She wanted to accumulate capital so that she could acquire land and build a factory like Huo Zheng did.

If a hot pot restaurant wants to open a chain, it's definitely not realistic to rely solely on Liang Jinlong's broth-making skills.

But what if you opened a factory that specializes in producing hot pot base?

In this way, could she open hot pot restaurants all over the country?

This idea didn't come out suddenly; she had thought of it when she wanted to turn the hot pot restaurant into a chain.

How much sauce can Liang Jinlong and his apprentice cook?

If you want to open a hot pot restaurant, you have to mass-produce the hot pot base.

However, these are just her ideas, and can be considered her ambitions.

The most important thing right now is to make money.

There isn't a suitable hot pot restaurant available right now, but she has a new idea for a braised meat shop.

A few days ago, when I was buying groceries, an auntie selling vegetables approached me, wanting to get some meat from Hao Weidao Braised Meat Shop to resell.

The auntie observed for a long time and found that the Good Taste Braised Meat Shop was doing particularly well.

It just so happens that her family has a small shop selling grains, oils and groceries in another market, so they thought of getting the goods from Haoweidao and having their daughter-in-law sell them there.

Bai Zhenzhu thought about it and realized that this was the same thing as Tang Shan getting goods from her clothing store.

of course can.

However, she had a requirement: the shop must display a sign saying "Good Taste" and can only sell good-tasting braised meat.

The other party agreed, and Bai Zhenzhu wrote a special agreement for the aunt's daughter-in-law to sign.

Once the shop's signboard was finished, Bai Chengxiang started supplying goods to that shop every morning.

Inspired by this, Bai Chengxiang found someone who sourced his meat from a braised meat shop a few days later.

With a large supply, Bai Zhenzhu asked Bai Chengxiang to hire another person.

She also equipped the store with a freezer.

Bai Zhenzhu no longer manages the braised meat shop, and Bai Chengxiang is also inquiring about shops everywhere. She is currently busy looking for a warehouse.

This batch of winter clothes is quite large, and since the store on Qingfeng Road opened, the volume of goods we need to purchase here has become even larger, so we have to rent a separate warehouse.

Ideally, it should be located near the Qingfeng Road store.

White Pearl spent a whole day wandering around the area but couldn't find anywhere to rent a warehouse.

Back at the shop, she suddenly remembered Huo Zheng's words.

A shopping mall will be opened upstairs in the future, and such a large shopping mall will definitely need a warehouse to stock up on goods.

So Bai Zhenzhu went to find the mall owner.