After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 156 Zongzi Wrapping Competition

The competition was held on an open space in front of Su Xiaoxiao's workshop. Early that day, people from the neighboring village who came to watch the excitement had already secured their spots. Tables and chairs were set up, and everything was arranged. Seeing that the competition time was approaching, Su Xiaoxiao ordered her people to bring up all the ingredients for making zongzi (sticky rice dumplings). After the ingredients were brought out, everyone became very interested.

The village has never held such an event before, and they have never even heard of such an event.

Most of the contestants were employees from the workshop, and they were mostly women. Perhaps because they did not often celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, they were not very familiar with the techniques of wrapping zongzi.

However, everyone was very enthusiastic. Sometimes Su Xiaoxiao even wished she could go up and help everyone wrap the dumplings herself, because she felt that her wrapping skills were more experienced than theirs.

As the person in charge, Sun announced the prizes for the top three winners of the zongzi competition: the first place winner would receive 200 coins, the second place winner would receive 100 coins, and the third place winner would receive 50 coins.

Everyone showed great enthusiasm, with constant cheers at the competition venue, as no one wanted their family member to lose.

The village head was also watching on site. The wrinkles on his face relaxed with a smile. This competition made the villagers feel that the employees in Su Xiaoxiao's jam workshop were all harmonious, friendly, and united. Such a working atmosphere is actually very good and can also infect the people around them.

After a fierce competition, Su Xiaoxiao and Li Zheng, as judges for this competition, gave out the scores.

The top three winners of the competition not only receive money, but also share zongzi (sticky rice dumplings).

In the end, Su Xiaoxiao was very generous and distributed all the rice dumplings that everyone had wrapped to the audience.

Su Xiaoxiao gave extra portions to some impoverished families and elderly people living alone, as a way of showing them care. The village head was very grateful to Su Xiaoxiao for this, thinking that Su Xiaoxiao was a very generous person.

Everyone enjoyed a very pleasant Dragon Boat Festival in a harmonious and joyful atmosphere.

Pei Yuan stayed by Su Xiaoxiao's side the whole time, watching her busy herself. Although Su Xiaoxiao could no longer make zongzi for him alone, sharing is worse than enjoying alone. Now he could not only eat the zongzi made by Su Xiaoxiao, but also the zongzi made by the villagers. What a wonderful thing!

One should not be so petty; one must be more generous.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Qian Musheng returned from the capital.

He brought back both good news and bad news.

The good news is that there's progress on exporting jams to foreign countries; the bad news is that there are reportedly counterfeit and substandard brands of jam from Su Xiaoxiao's family.

The location was a relatively large general store in Beijing called Tianji General Store. This store was said to specialize in selling Baihuacun brand orange jam, and it seemed to be the exclusive distributor. This made Su Xiaoxiao so angry that she was about to burst into flames.

She didn't care about anything else; she was going to the capital immediately.

After getting into the carriage, Su Xiaoxiao handed over all the household affairs to Pei Yuan.

Although Pei Yuan also wanted to go, Su Xiaoxiao persuaded him to stay home, telling him that there were two children at home who needed his care.

There is no room for error or negotiation in this matter.

Su Xiaoxiao and Qian Musheng drove to Beijing together again, and it was almost dark when they got there.

After the two men found out the address of Tianji General Store, they were surprised to find that it was located next to the dock and had a large flow of customers, mainly targeting foreigners who frequently traveled to and from the area.

Therefore, this influence is quite significant. If everyone assumes that Baihuacun's jam is produced by them, wouldn't all of Su Xiaoxiao's previous efforts be in vain?
She couldn't successfully export the jam to foreign lands. Even after dark, some tourists were still queuing to buy jam.

The waiter standing at the door was extremely arrogant.

It was as if these customers were begging him to buy, but this guy was shameless; the more he acted this way, the more people thought the goods here were good, even though they were all fakes.

These tourists, for some reason, were buying things with great enthusiasm.

Su Xiaoxiao and Qian Musheng waited in line for quite a while before it was their turn. They bought a total of ten bottles of jam, because the rule here is that you have to buy at least ten bottles. Su Xiaoxiao noticed that although this was a general store, the other goods were very old and covered in dust, as if they had been sitting there for a long time without anyone buying them.

The remaining items were all jams. After the two of them bought the jams, they opened all ten jars and found that they all tasted the same, only the jars were different.

Could it be that the recipe for this jam was stolen? Su Xiaoxiao felt a chill run down her spine at the thought.

She never imagined that her jam recipe would be stolen; it seems this matter must be thoroughly investigated.

Su Xiaoxiao and Qian Musheng discussed how to go back to the jam workshop and catch the mole. They couldn't understand why there was a mole in their jam workshop.

Qian Musheng said to Su Xiaoxiao, "Let's go back and rest first. It's late, and there's no point in staying here any longer."

As they were talking, a very furtive-looking person appeared in front of them. He ran out from around the corner and almost bumped into Su Xiaoxiao.

Qian Musheng quickly pulled Su Xiaoxiao into his arms, and Su Xiaoxiao could feel that Qian Musheng's heart was beating very fast.

At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao smelled a natural body fragrance on Qian Musheng. She couldn't quite describe the scent, but it smelled very nice.

The man appeared to have a group of bodyguards behind him, and he looked like someone who was not to be trifled with.

Be careful when you walk.

The voice was so familiar that when Su Xiaoxiao turned around, she realized that the people had already gone far away.

However, Su Xiaoxiao still felt that she had heard this voice somewhere before, and it seemed to be from one of their villages.

"No. What's going on?"

Su Xiaoxiao watched as those people walked into Tianji General Store.

Su Xiaoxiao and Qian Musheng exchanged a glance.

The two secretly followed them all the way to the front of Tianji Grocery Store. When the shop assistant saw them coming, he waved them away, chasing away all the other people who were still queuing to buy jam.

Tell these people to come back tomorrow to queue up and buy things, and then let the two of them into Tianji General Store. At this moment, Su Xiaoxiao felt that the back view looked familiar.

Why does that bald head look so much like Liu Datou from their village?
And isn't the person next to Liu Datou his uncle, Scarface?
(End of this chapter)