In the evening, Qi Mianmian did not go out with Qi Fang and Qi Tian.
She sat in the yard, knitting the sweater she had promised to make for Elderly Lady Qi, while instructing Qi Tian on how to make Sichuan spicy boiled pork slices and crispy fried pork. At the same time, she looked over the cakes and bread that Wan Meiling had baked, which would be sold the next day.
Wan Meiling had actually already learned the recipes.
After all, this was the most basic method of making cakes and bread.
It was just that she wasn't very experienced and needed Qi Mianmian to watch over her as she baked.
In less than two hours, the thousand cakes and the thousand loaves of bread that Qi Fang and Qi Zhen had pushed out in the cart were sold out.
Another three hundred were sold to customers who came to their house to buy their wares.
When the family gathered together to calculate their earnings, they almost died of joy.
They had made nearly four hundred yuan from today alone.
From the looks of it, they would earn even more tomorrow.
Wan Meiling was unaware that they made five cents of profit from each item instead of three cents. However, earning over two hundred yuan a day was already scary enough.
She secretly decided to resign tomorrow.
However, before she quit her job, she should still inform Qi Jingtang.
After dinner, Qi Mianmian and her family, except for Qi Jingtang, who was used to going to bed early, continued to bake.
Their goal tonight was to prepare ten thousand cakes and loaves of bread, then split up to go to both the north and west of the city the next day to sell them.
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In the middle of the night, after Qi Mianmian finished performing acupuncture on Qi Zhen, she climbed over the wall to look for Gu Zhan again. Unfortunately, he was still not at home…
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The next morning, when Wan Meiling woke up, she did not go to wash up immediately. Instead, she called out to Qi Jingtang, who was just preparing to get up from bed.
"Um, Mianmian asked me to quit my job, so I can stay at home to focus on making cakes."
Everyone else thought that Qi Jingtang and Wan Meiling were a normal couple with a quiet and mild relationship.
But only they themselves knew that they were just a fake couple.
Even Qi Yang was only conceived because Wan Meiling wanted a child to keep her company, and Qi Jingtang had gotten drunk one night.
When Wan Meiling finished speaking, she looked at Qi Jingtang's handsome face. It looked no different from when she had first met him. In her heart, she felt a wave of bitterness.
He was a fine specimen of a man, and it wasn't as if he lacked capability. Yet, because of Luo Qingwen's betrayal and the hurt she had inflicted upon him, Qi Jingtang had become a walking corpse of a man.
As for her, she had simply taken Old Master Qi's advice to find a place to settle down. In her marriage to Qi Jingtang, she did not ask for anything else. However, as time passed, feelings developed, and she could not help but be moved by him.
Qi Jingtang replied blandly, "Alright, you decide."
Normally, their conversation would end here.
But today, Wan Meiling found that she suddenly had more to say.
She gave a soft hum of assent, then asked, "Then who should I give this job to?"
Although she was a temporary worker, Old Master Qi had spent a lot of effort to get her this job. It was a job that many people, including Qi Shan, Zhao Xiulian, and her mother's family, were yearning for.
Qi Jingtang froze for a while, then said calmly, "You can ask Mianmian or Mom."
"Okay."
Wan Meiling's reply was in a high-pitched voice. She felt as if she had been bestowed with a great honor.
She initially thought that Qi Jingtang would give a perfunctory reply of "whatever you want", but she hadn't expected him to actually give some constructive advice. Did this mean that his heart was warming up to her?
It was such a pity that she was disfigured. Otherwise…
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After a while, Qi Mianmian and Wan Meiling pushed more than two thousand of their stocks to the west of the city with their bicycle, taking Qi Yang along.
Qi Fang and Qi Zhen used their little cart to push over three thousand of their stocks to the north of the city.
They did not go to the market today because the customers around the market had already gotten used to going directly to their house to buy their wares.
After just one morning, all ten thousand goods were sold out.
At noon, Qi Mianmian bought more meat and vegetables. She announced a piece of good news during lunch. "From tomorrow onwards, we'll only need to do wholesale retailing at home. There's no need for us to go out…"
Before she could finish her sentence, two of the shopkeepers who had rejected Qi Mianmian's proposal yesterday arrived at their house, asking to buy their goods wholesale.