The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Chapter 111 Demonstration

Before coming, Chen Cui gave Sui Sui some instructions, teaching her how to greet others with "Hello, Madam", and to remember to say thank you if someone gave her food or drinks.

That was all she said. If she said more, such a young child wouldn't be able to remember anything and would just have to improvise.

However, no matter how naughty Suisui is at home, she is still very well-behaved when she goes out. Even if she sees something she wants, she will only beg instead of crying and making a fuss.

This is also because Chen Cui used practical actions to make her understand since she was a child that crying and making a fuss is useless. She can make requests and adults will consider them. If not, it will be useless even if she throws a tantrum.

As long as adults have principles and are ruthless enough, even a one-year-old child can understand this truth.

After Chen Cui finished her greetings, she introduced Zhang Ruomei: "Madam, this is our little girl Suisui. Her three brothers all went to school today, so I brought her here with me."

Zhang Ruomei looked at this girl with bright eyes and honey-colored skin. She was cute but also full of health and vitality.

Moreover, the child was not afraid of strangers. Under the gaze of so many people, he saluted her crisply: "Hello, Madam!"

It is really rare that a child who is barely waist-tall can be so sensible and not stage-frightened.

After all, Zhang Ruomei had seen children from other farmers' families before. No matter how neatly and decently they were dressed, they acted timidly. Some of them were very tall and dared not speak no matter how much their family members urged them.

In fact, there is a reason why Suisui is so bold.

In the past few months, Chen Cui has been taking Sui Sui to and from town every day to pick up and drop off her three sons. She also takes Sui Sui with her when she goes shopping. Whenever she encounters something new, she patiently teaches her about it and lets her speak up. This has helped her develop a fearless personality.

Generally, children in the village rarely go to the town. They hang around in the village all day, rarely see strangers, and dare not speak in front of strangers.

Zhang Ruomei asked someone to bring snacks that were suitable for children to Suisui. Suisui began to swallow his saliva when he saw the sweet snacks, but he did not forget to look up at Chen Cui's face first, waiting for her to speak.

"Thank you, madam, before you eat." Chen Cui said, touching Sui Sui's head.

"Thank you, ma'am!" Sui Sui's thanks were particularly sincere and loud. Seeing Chen Cui nodded, she reached out to take the snacks.

Zhang Ruomei began to feel envious again. How nice it would be if she had such a well-behaved child, even if it was a daughter. It would be better than having a lonely and bored child like now.

Yes, she felt that her life was boring. Her master was busy with his official business all day long, and she was too impatient to deal with the wives and daughters of the landlords and wealthy families, so she stayed in the backyard all day long with nothing to do.

The master didn't allow himself to compete with the common people for profit, and he only opened one fruit shop in the local area, which was half loss-making and he had no intention of managing it.

The reason why she was interested in canned fruit was, firstly, because she came from a business family and saw the business opportunity and thought it was profitable; secondly, she wanted to find something to do to pass the time so that her life would not be so boring.

Since the person has already arrived, Zhang Ruomei doesn't plan to beat around the bush and instead gets straight to the point.

"Mrs. Liu, I agree to your request to invest in the company with your recipe, but I can only give you 20% of the shares, and you can only provide guidance on production, and you cannot interfere in the operation without authorization. What do you think?"

Zhang Ruomei stated her decision in one breath.

This surprised Chen Cui a little. In fact, she had already prepared herself for the other party not to agree to her investment and to buy out the prescription in one go. She didn't expect that the county magistrate's wife would be so straightforward and not only agreed but also stated her requirements. So what was she waiting for if she didn't agree?

"Thank you for your generosity, Madam. I will definitely share all the processes of canning with you without reservation, and I promise not to hide anything."

Chen Cui quickly expressed her sincerity.

Sure enough, Zhang Ruomei nodded with satisfaction: "Words are not enough, so let's sign a contract, put everything on paper, and you and I will sign and put our fingerprints on it."

After that, someone brought paper and pen, and the county magistrate's wife wrote two contracts on the spot.

"Chun Tao, read the contract to Mrs. Liu."

"Madam, I can recognize a few words. Can you let me see?" Chen Cui said a little embarrassedly.

"You can read?" Zhang Ruomei was very surprised.

The Zhang family was considered a prominent family in Shuzhong. They had a clan school funded by the clan, which only charged a meager tuition. However, not all men could go to school, let alone women.

Because her family was wealthy, her parents knew that the man she would marry in the future would not be bad, so she had to learn housekeeping and accounting skills at a very young age, and knowing how to read was a must.

Mrs. Liu is just a village woman, how could she know how to read?

"I learned from my three sons. They came back to teach me what they learned in school every day. I learned from them. I can only read the almanac and not be a blind person."

Chen Cui said modestly.

Zhang Ruomei couldn't help but sigh that Mrs. Liu was really not an ordinary person.

After making money, ordinary farmers would mostly think about buying land and building houses. It was already good enough for her to think about sending her children to school, and she even thought about studying herself. This is something that ordinary village women cannot do.

No wonder he came up with the idea of ​​profit sharing but refused to buy it out. It turned out that it was because he gained knowledge through reading and learning to read.

Zhang Ruomei secretly admired her in her heart and felt that Mrs. Liu was much more interesting than those rich ladies she had met.

Chen Cui quickly glanced through the deed and found no problem, so she signed her name and put her fingerprints on it.

Then, Zhang Ruomei also signed and stamped her own seal.

The two of them each held a copy of the contract. Zhang Ruomei gave hers to the maid, and Chen Cui's copy seemed to be put in her arms, but in fact it was transferred to the space. She was afraid that it would get soaked by sweat if she put it on her body.

Chen Cui was anxious and wanted someone to prepare things so that she could demonstrate the process of making canned fruit.

Zhang Ruomei just had the same idea: "I have prepared some fruit in the kitchen, you can try it now. I also want to know how canned fruit is made!"

Fruits, ice cubes, salt, rock sugar, candles, all of these are available in the backyard of the county government. The only thing that is uncertain is the small jar for the fruit, which is very important.

"Buy those with a fine and solid texture that can withstand cold and heat." Zhang Ruomei asked someone to buy them, and Chen Cui reminded her.

After everything was prepared, it was transported to the kitchen. The kitchen helpers processed the fruits according to Chen Cui's requirements and then cleared them out. Apart from Chen Cui, only Zhang Ruomei and her two maids were left in the kitchen.

Chen Cui first used apricots as an example and explained as she went along, beginning the demonstration of making canned fruit.