Pampered By All In Different Planes

Chapter 108: Chapter 108: After Raising a Child and Getting Rich in That Era, the Delicate Beauty Was Spoiled Rotten 28

“Let me have a word,” Su Zhiruan said as she saw the neighborly old lady slowly approach. As soon as she arrived, her gaze turned to Su Caixia, and she tsked, “You really have the nerve to show up!”

“The suppliers that girl Su contacts are all top-notch, their goods are clean and fresh, and I watched over the cleaning of the store myself. All you do is cause trouble, just trouble. We, the neighbors, have all seen Su’s diligence. As for you, pardon an old woman’s bluntness, but I think you’re really no good!”

Su Caixia’s face drained of color, tears welling up in her eyes, seeming ready to fall, yet they clung on.

If she looked pitiable before, now she was at a loss for words due to the rebuke.

“All those who are causing trouble, get out!” another neighbor, an old man on Su Zhiruan’s other side, also spoke up. He held a craft in his hand, which he handed to Su Zhiruan with a kind and gentle tone, “Ruanruan, consider this as my gift for your grand opening. As for certain people who claim to be family and come empty-handed just to make trouble, just call the police. Locking them up for ten days to half a month will probably teach them a lesson.”

This was the most humiliating moment in Su Caixia’s life. She stood inside a circle surrounded by people, all her ill intentions laid bare for all to see.

She even saw male classmates from her class who used to be attentive to her, now looking on in shock.

Su Caixia felt humiliated and ran back to hide behind the widow.

She didn’t show any signs of reflecting on her actions; instead, she blamed everything on Su Zhiruan. She believed it was all Su Zhiruan’s doing — if not for her! If not for her, how could she have lost so much face!

In that moment, Su Caixia harbored a seed of hatred.

And it started to grow.

She was determined to make Su Zhiruan pay!

She would have Su Zhiruan’s reputation ruined!!

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“We were the ones in the wrong this time, we heard things and believed rumors,” Su Caixia managed a forced smile, and after adding that, she grabbed the widow with one hand and reluctantly pulled the old lady with the other, “We heard that you were up to no good and, as family, we wanted you to realize the error of your ways. But now that the truth has come out, we’ll be leaving first.”

True to Su Caixia.

Su Zhiruan just smiled without a word.

Even if it was her own fault, she would push it onto someone else, clearing herself from any blame, as if she were truly an innocent girl.

Looking at her smile, Su Caixia suddenly felt a chill in her heart.

Su Zhiruan was not easy to deal with!

Just by looking into her eyes, Su Caixia felt as if all her little schemes had been exposed.

This feeling was terrifying.

Su Caixia had hurt many for her own ends. With her innocent appearance and knack for playing the victim, many who had been wronged ended up comforting her.

But Su Zhiruan was the first person who made her feel deep down that she absolutely had to deal with her.

With thoughts in mind, Su Caixia took the two and scurried away in disgrace.

“Since they’ve left, let’s continue with our event,” Su Zhiruan said with a smile. She was beautiful, and her behavior just now made her seem even more composed and logical. Many people genuinely took a liking to this young girl.

At that moment, within the crowd.

Qin Lianqi fiddled with a small box in his hands, a telephone.

Forget such a compact phone, in the small town where he lived, even a large mobile phone was a rare sight.

Qin Lianqi originally came to seek out Su Zhiruan, but he hadn’t expected to witness such an enthralling scene. His gaze hadn’t left Su Zhiruan.

She was so radiant that even standing there alone in debate, she held her ground.

He could feel his heart, steady for so many years, start to throb, bit by bit, gradually quickening.

After the girl had successfully resolved the issue, he smiled.

Indeed.

His judgment was never off.

She was certain that she would gradually climb higher and do even better.

Qin Lianqi thought, he might really like her now.

After he saw her in the crowd, holding her own with eloquent speech and dazzling presence, he felt a sense of pride welling up in his heart.

As the customers began to increase, Qin Lianqi quietly slipped away.

From afar, Su Zhiruan only saw the silhouette of someone who looked a lot like him turning to leave.

*

After being busy all day, Su Zhiruan finally had some free time to sit down, chat with Li Meihua, and take a sip of water.

The kerosene lamp was placed on the table in front of them, illuminating their little corner of the world.

Li Meihua’s eyes widened at the sight of the money on the table.

“My goodness, is this, all this ours?” She rubbed her eyes and looked again.

“It’s all ours. But this is just the first day, the profits may not be much, and including the cost of the prize giveaways, we might not make money the first day,” said Su Zhiruan as she bit into a large steamed bun, closed her eyes to recuperate, and slowly chewed.

Li Meihua still found it unbelievable.

Before, their home had been bare, the roof even leaked, chilling it like an ice cellar.

Under the warm yellow light, Li Meihua counted the money time and again before she was willing to put it down.

“We still have another day tomorrow, we must continue to press on,” Su Zhiruan’s voice grew increasingly sleepy.

Zhixiao, wrapped in a small blanket, covered Su Zhiruan with it. She and Zhishu had both been personally brought back by Qin Lianqi that evening.

Su Zhiruan thanked Qin Lianqi, as she and Li Meihua had no time to pick up her siblings on the opening day of their business.

The day passed quickly.

In the following days.

Su Zhiruan’s fried chicken shop became a huge success.

In that era, fried foods weren’t common because they wasted too much oil; ordinary people, even restaurants cooking meals wouldn’t use that much oil.

In that era, everyone was more concerned with eating their fill and working hard, with very few voluntarily dieting.

The fast food that Su Zhiruan created was delicious, meaty, and affordable.

Equipped with a modern mindset, even if she hadn’t studied marketing, she knew from exposure to modern methods to encourage consumer spending.

Bringing those strategies to this era, whether it was holding raffles, limiting quantities, or introducing loyalty cards and membership systems, she made a considerable income in a short amount of time.

Starting with slim margins for volume sales and gradually returning to normal pricing, many busy workers who didn’t have time to go to state-run canteens or small restaurants would buy a meal.

With Su Zhiruan’s aggressive advertising campaign, even schools considered it an honor to have “fast food.”

Zhishu and Zhixiao, as the younger siblings of the fast-food shop founder Su Zhiruan, almost became kings among the children in school, very popular with everyone.

Zhishu and Zhixiao could never have imagined that their previously malicious experiences in the village elementary school would turn into a happy childhood because of Su Zhiruan.

One month after opening, Su Zhiruan tallied up the earnings.

Excluding all costs, not counting the labor expenses, their income for the month had increased eightfold!

When Li Meihua saw the number in the bank book, she was nearly scared witless!

“So much!”