Students who hadn’t brought money were immediately delighted upon hearing this.
At ten cents per hair tie, it wasn’t expensive, looked quite pretty, and was bought from the city, which all the girls coveted.
At the age of sixteen or seventeen, they were at the age where beauty mattered the most, yet their families’ circumstances made it impossible to buy attractive clothes, so even purchasing a hair tie felt good.
In just a few minutes’ time, five or six students wanted to buy, with some even buying two at a go.
There were a few others who also wanted to buy, but hadn’t brought money with them.
As it neared class time, students who had been registered returned to their seats, and Shen Mianmian was about to close her notebook when someone suddenly placed ten cents on her desk.
A nasally voice sounded.
When Shen Mianmian looked up, she saw the class’s bottom-ranked student, who used to be second from the bottom, looking at her with a flushed face.
"Why would a boy like you want a girl’s hair tie?" Lu Siyuan asked with a puzzled face.
"I... Can’t I give it to someone?" The boy’s gaze shifted, and his cheeks turned even redder.
"If it’s a gift, then gift it. Why are you blushing?" Lu Siyuan didn’t think any further and assumed the boy was going to give it to his sister or female cousin.
The boy didn’t want to deal with Lu Siyuan anymore and directly said to Shen Mianmian, "I’ve given you the money, don’t forget it."
After speaking, he took a seat at his own desk, picked up a book and pretended to read, using it to cover his face. This update ıs available on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝘯𝘦𝘵
If it hadn’t been for his cheeks already being so red, Shen Mianmian would have struggled to hold back her laughter; it was obvious that the boy intended to give the hair tie to a girl, or else his face wouldn’t be so red.
Only someone as clueless as Lu Siyuan wouldn’t understand why the boy was blushing.
Zhao Xinlan saw everyone buying hair ties from Shen Mianmian and felt tempted too. In fact, she was quite far from Shen Mianmian and couldn’t clearly see if the hair ties were pretty, but seeing so many people wishing to buy, she didn’t want to miss out.
What a loss of face it would be if everyone in the class had one and only she didn’t?
However, since her relationship with Shen Mianmian wasn’t good, she naturally couldn’t ask her for one. After some thinking, she decided to approach Zhou Siyu.
"Siyu, I want a hair tie too. I’ll give you ten cents, give it to your sister and say it’s for you; then bring it to me later, okay?"
"A lousy hair tie, what’s there to fuss about?" Zhou Siyu disdainfully refused.
Seeing Zhou Siyu had no intention of helping, she couldn’t say much else.
After all, she had just been cursing Shen Mianmian with Zhou Siyu.
In just one morning, the news of Shen Mianmian buying hair ties spread throughout the school. Girls from ninth grade down to seventh started to get excited; some purposefully passed by the ninth-grade classroom windows to check out Shen Mianmian’s hair ties.
The more bold ones asked Shen Mianmian to purchase for them directly, while the shy ones asked their friends to approach Shen Mianmian.
A simple hair tie sparked a craze in the school.
In everyone’s casual conversations, the name "Shen Mianmian" would often come up; many who had not seen her had heard her name.
Shen Mianmian made a calculation, from Monday to Friday she had made five yuan and sixty cents, which equated to selling over fifty hair ties.
Her math notebook was crammed full of names.
Even though she hadn’t restocked, she knew that the cost price for those hair ties couldn’t be more than five cents each, meaning she could make a profit of two yuan and thirty cents.
Of course, the money made from selling hair ties was small change compared to selling vegetables, but Shen Mianmian had her own plans.