Chiang Xiao suddenly brought back an order of seventeen boxes of tea snacks, which really stunned them. Among them were eight boxes of tea powder alone, adding up to four hundred and eighty yuan! Including the honey and red and green beans, it amounted to nearly a thousand yuan!
They could really earn from this!
"Yeah, that’s why I’ll trouble Grandma and Grandpa with this. I’ll help out after school too," remarked Chiang Xiao, who was already done with her excitement on the road and was now calm.
This time, she had also collected several hundred yuan from selling game, and together with the money from this batch of tea snacks, she would have enough to start renovating the apartment in the provincial city after receiving it!
With the money issue resolved, her mood had significantly improved.
Filled with apprehension, Chiang Songhai and Ge Liutao prepared the tea snacks, packed them one by one, and affixed the stickers Chiang Xiao had personally drawn. Looking at the nearly twenty boxes of tea snacks, they were both eagerly fixated on Chiang Xiao.
Because there were so many tea snacks this time, Chiang Xiao simply asked Xu Linjiang to help deliver them to the county town.
Xu Linjiang had left bright and early, and Chiang Songhai and Ge Liutao waited all day long at home. In the evening, Xu Linjiang returned, dusty and weary, and handed the remaining money to Chiang Xiao. Seeing the money, the old couple finally felt a great weight lifted off their shoulders.
"The people in the county really are rich!" Liu Pei exclaimed, eyes wide as she looked at the bulging money pouch: "To think they would buy such expensive desserts on a whim!"
After all, those were snacks that would be gone once eaten!
As a poor person, she truly couldn’t understand the mentality of rich people.
To spend enough money to feed her family and cook meals for a month on a box of desserts that would be gone in four bites, she thought she might as well bump her head against the wall.
"We really don’t get it, but Little really has foresight," said Ge Dejun.
Ge Liutao also wore a face full of joy and quietly tugged at Chiang Songhai’s clothes, whispering, "Now we don’t have to worry, we’ve earned back all the money in one go, and from now on, what we make is pure profit."
They still had plenty of tea powder and honey left.
They had initially feared that Chiang Xiao was going to lose a lot of money, but to their surprise, one order had recouped all the costs.
Both were greatly encouraged and felt they were not so useless after all, wishing for more orders to come in so that they could eagerly make tea snacks.
"Indeed!" Chiang Songhai agreed, nodding his head in uncontrollable joy. He felt once more that when it came to anything in the future, they should listen to Chiang Xiao.
"Who knows, we might get some orders in a few days," said Chiang Xiao, her mind drifting to Tyrant Meng, who had gone to the Capital City.
He had said that after arriving in the Capital, he would find time to call her, but he hadn’t yet, and she wondered whether he had returned home.
At this moment, Meng Xinian was being cornered by Gao Wei in an ancient alley.
This alley was the way to the Chen Family residence, where Chen Yin, one of Meng Xinian’s closest childhood friends, lived.
"Well, I thought you wouldn’t dare return to the Capital," said Gao Wei with folded arms, standing in front of Meng Xinian, shaking his foot and giving him a sidelong glance. "What, you didn’t dare fight me last time, tucked your tail and ran away to hide, and now you’ve come back to the Capital but still don’t dare to go to the big courtyard, finding your way to Chen Yin’s place instead?"
The young man standing beside him was Fong Jianye, who was close enough to Gao Wei to wear the same pair of trousers. Similarly, he had been a childhood rival of Meng Xinian’s since they were little.
Ever since Meng Xinian left the Capital for the Alliance District at the age of fifteen, he hadn’t paid much attention to these two, but they had always been fixated on him, keeping an eye on his whereabouts. They never missed a chance to trip up Meng Xinian.