When Wan Chao arrived home, Bai Zhexi was so busy that the sky had turned dark. She didn't even notice that her daughter had returned half an hour later than usual.
Tomorrow, she was going to bring some pickles to the second batch of restaurants, and there were also quite a few of them. She had to pack up all the different dishes.
After that, there was still a batch of food that wasn't properly pickled. She was afraid that the food wouldn't be fresh for a long time, so she also worked overtime to cook.
The house was now filled with pots and vegetables everywhere.
As soon as Wan Chao entered the house, she smelled the scent of pickled vegetables. She frowned, thinking that this was not the way to go about it. In the future, the number of pickles she could cook would increase, and the family would definitely not be able to keep them.
Bai Zhexi was packing the pickles she would send out tomorrow. When she heard the sound of her daughter's arrival, she didn't even raise her head. She was doing the work in her hands as she said:
"Chao'er, there are still two steamed buns in the wok. If you're hungry, you can eat. If you study so late at night, how can you endure if you don't eat something?"
Wan Chao agreed, put down her schoolbag, and went over to help Bai Zhexi, pasting a small note on each bag that was already packed.
The name of the restaurant, the weight of the sauces, the name and time of the sauces were detailed on each note.
When the pickles were all packed, Bai Zhexi hurried Wan'er to eat.
"Hurry up and go eat buns. After eating, go back to your room to read some books and rest early."
"Mom, you should rest early as well. Don't stay up late." Then she went into the kitchen to get some buns and went into her own room.
She took out the contents of today's class and reviewed it once more. She then prepared the content she wanted to learn tomorrow and prepared a set of English test papers. It was now 12 o'clock in the evening.
She listened outside and saw that there were no more sounds. Bai Zhexi should have already gone to sleep. Then she gently went out to the bathroom, washed her face, and lay down to sleep.
On several occasions Bai Zhexi discovered that Wan Chao always went to bed late at night. When she entered her daughter's room during the day, she discovered that it was filled with textbooks and exercise books.
She also found the schedule her daughter had pasted on the bedside table, and after that, she didn't urge her daughter to rest early.
The next morning, Wan Chao went to school as usual. She first ran for thirty minutes on the playground before entering the classroom to study.
When it was almost school time, Liu Li threw five yuan and a note on Wan Chao's table.
Wan Chao was silent for a few seconds, then picked up the note. It read: "Ten dollars is owed to you. I'll return it to you tomorrow."
It seemed like Liu Li was planning to go to the Earthly Paradise.
Before Liu Li went to the Earthly Paradise, she had to meet Manager Bai, so at noon, as soon as school was over, Wan Chao would run to the Earthly Paradise. As soon as she ran out of the school gate, she heard the sound of a car horn.
She followed the voice and looked ahead. She saw Manager Bai standing in the doorway of a car, wearing a flirtatious white outfit. He was smiling at her.
Wan Chao didn't even think as she walked over, opened the car door and got in.
Manager Bai was stunned. This little girl was really bold. Was she not afraid that he was a bad guy?
Wan Chao saw that he was still grumbling, so she urged him, "What are you staring at? Hurry up and leave, I don't want to be surrounded by other students."
There weren't many cars in Wutong County in the '90s, and there were almost no female high school students who took the initiative to sit in cars. Moreover, everyone who knew her knows that she came from a single parent family and her family was very poor.
Manager Bai smiled, opened the door, and entered the driver's seat.
"I heard you were looking for me? "What is it?"
"Walk down the road to the end, turn right, and get to the Glassworks Home."
"Wan Chao, I bet your mom didn't know that you were so daring that you would casually get into a strange man's car and proudly command the owner to drive."
"Aren't you looking for me?" Then why are you waiting at the school gate?
After thinking for a moment, in order to appease the arrogance of this fuerdai, she said, "Manager Bai, I know you're not such a pretentious person, let's talk as we walk."
Manager Bai shook his head helplessly and started the car.
"I hope that Earthly Paradise can sign a labor contract with Liu Li and give her an advance of one thousand yuan."
Hearing this, Manager Bai's eyes lit up and he asked, "What good idea do you have now? Tell me quickly. "
Wan Chao: "…" Are you very idle? "
"Yeah, how did you know?"
The corner of Wan Chao's mouth twitched as she said, "Liu Li owes me one thousand and two hundred dollars. She has almost paid me back two hundred dollars already." I don't want to waste anymore time with her. I'll finish everything in one fell swoop. "
Manager Bai chuckled and said, "If you do that, won't you be transferring the debt she owes you to me? What benefits will I get? Why would I do that? "
Wan Chao froze for a moment. That's right, this Manager Bai had only met her a few times and didn't know her at all. She didn't even know his name, so why would he help her? How could she be so natural?
Her personality still hadn't changed much.
Manager Bai couldn't hear Wan Chao's words for a while, and thought that he had hit the little girl hard. He couldn't help but say, "It's fine, it's fine. I'm just spouting nonsense. Anyways, I won't lose out if I help you …"
"I can help you." Wan Chao suddenly said.
Manager Bai cut him off and laughed. "You're a high school student, what can you help me with? Introduce me to a cleaner? Haha, if you really want to help me, then just give me some of your family's pickled vegetables. "
"I can help you. I can make you more money."
No matter what, she had at least lived for 20 more years.
In the future, she knew the most profitable industry, how to do business in the future, and so on. She revealed a few stocks, or a few top companies, so that manager Bai could invest early.
If she had the money, she would have bought some stocks and put them away earlier.
Or she could suggest improvements on the way the universe works, or could increase the flow of customers.