Back in the rented courtyard.

Sister Wang couldn't wait to start counting the money and doing the accounting.

She was shocked when she calculated that the meat she prepared today actually brought her an income of 18.6 yuan.

"Oh My God!"

Sister Wang's daughter-in-law, Zhao Jinhua, exclaimed in surprise, "Selling braised pork is so profitable!"

Sister Wang was also stunned.

This is just the income from one morning.

If she sets up her stall for a day, wouldn't she be able to earn thirty or forty yuan?

Many temporary workers in the city only earn forty yuan a month.

Sister Wang was overjoyed. She had been envious of Zhang Guiying's successful business for a long time, but selling braised meat was more expensive than selling sesame cakes. She hesitated for many days before finally deciding to compete with Zhang Guiying for business.

Unexpectedly, the first day was a great start.

"Mom, you're amazing! You earn almost as much in a day as Dali does in a month."

Holding her child, Zhao Jinhua's eyes shone with excitement, showering her with compliments like water off the top of her lungs. "Thirty a day, that's nine hundred a month! Mom, if you work for a year or two, we can buy a house in the city and won't have to rent anymore!"

"Mom, starting today, you don't need to do any housework. Just focus on your stall, and I'll take care of all the housework! You're a great contributor to our family; whether we can establish ourselves in the city depends entirely on you!"

Sister Wang was very proud.

When she first came to the city to help her son and daughter-in-law take care of their child, her daughter-in-law looked down on her so much.

After she started selling pancakes at her stall and made money, her daughter-in-law's attitude towards her improved. Now that she's made a lot of money, her daughter-in-law is even more affectionate towards her.

Sister Wang thoroughly enjoyed her daughter-in-law's flattery.

After a busy morning, my back and legs no longer ached, and I said cheerfully, "This little bit of money is nothing. Zhang Guiying sells much more braised meat than I do."

As she spoke, Sister Wang sighed, "If only Zhang Guiying didn't set up a stall at the cotton mill. If I were the only one selling braised meat at the factory gate, I could easily earn a hundred or eighty yuan a day."

Sister Wang was just saying it casually.

Zhao Jinhua took these words to heart.

One hundred or two hundred a day.

She never dared to dream of earning this much income before.

In the evening, when Sister Wang went to set up her stall, her son Zhou Dali came home from get off work. Zhao Jinhua first told him about Sister Wang's income from selling braised meat, and Zhou Dali was even more excited than Zhao Jinhua.

"Making so much money? I'll go help Mom out at this stall!"

"Wait a minute!"

Zhao Jinhua grabbed Zhou Dali and said, "Mom said that the braised pork stall next door does better business than ours. We can earn thirty or forty yuan a day just by picking up the leftovers from their business. Just think how much money the stall next door can make in a day."

"you mean……"

Zhao Jinhua said excitedly, "We need to find a way to squeeze the stall next door out, then all the business will be ours!"

Zhou Dali squinted and fell into deep thought.

……

Zhang Guiying was unaware that someone had designs on her.

She had estimated that Sister Wang's business would only affect her for three to five days, but to her surprise, her own business improved significantly the next day.

No matter how much Sister Wang shouted.

There were only a few people in front of the stall.

A customer who had bought braised pork from Sister Wang's shop secretly told Zhang Guiying, "I don't know how the braised pork next door is made, it has a strong fishy and musty smell, it can't compare to your braised pork at all."

"Don't even mention it. I bought some yesterday, and when I was eating it, I saw a pig hair that hadn't been plucked out inside the pig's ear. It disgusted me."

"With skills like that, she dares to set up a stall? She might as well sell her sesame cakes."

That's how fast it overturned.

It happened earlier than Zhang Guiying had anticipated.

Zhang Guiying took a quick look at the stall next door.

Sister Wang was cutting meat, and she was busy cutting meat and collecting and giving change. She looked flustered. The weather was particularly humid today, and before long, her face was covered in sweat.

When you're busy, you don't even have time to wipe it.

Sweat dripped from the tip of her nose onto the meat on the cutting board... Zhang Guiying felt a little nauseous at the sight.

The woman who bought the meat also saw it.

He immediately objected, "Hey? How can you be so unhygienic? I bought meat to eat, and your sweat is dripping into it! How can anyone eat it? I don't want this one, get me a different one!"

Sister Wang didn't want to switch; who would buy hers if she did? She hurriedly wiped the sweat from her brow with her sleeve. "Little sister, don't talk nonsense. I'm a very hygienic person."

"Your eyes are blinded by the sun, the meat is already cut, and you want me to change it for you? Isn't that making things difficult for me?"

He quickly mixed and wrapped the meat, then pushed it in front of the older woman, saying, "Alright, alright, don't say anything more. Just give me 1.5 yuan instead of 1.6 yuan."

The older sister was so angry her nose was crooked.

Is this a trivial matter?

How can you eat meat when the sweat is dripping into it? The older sister couldn't get over this mental hurdle. "I don't want this meat anymore. You can sell it to whoever you want."

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Sister Wang was furious and quickly grabbed the person, saying, "How can you be like this? Everything I sell has a cost basis. If you just say you don't want it, then I'll lose all of that pound of meat!"

"No, you have to buy this meat today."

The woman buying the meat wasn't one to be trifled with either. She shoved Sister Wang aside, put her hands on her hips, and yelled, "You're trying to force me to buy this? I'm paying for clean and delicious meat, and your meat is all dirty. Who's going to buy it? I'm not buying it. Let's see what you can do to me today."

The two of them were arguing back and forth.

Seeing this scene.

The few customers at the meat stall looked at each other and then left.

That morning, Zhang Guiying's braised meat wasn't even enough to sell one and a half buckets.

Sister Wang is in a terrible situation.

Business was good yesterday, so she braised extra meat today. As a result, business plummeted today, and by the time all the cotton mill workers had left, she still had more than half a bucket of braised meat left.

Sister Wang was dumbfounded.

What should we do with all this leftover meat?

I should have known better than to argue with that woman.

It's too late to regret it now; all I can do is pull the cart home.

Zhao Jinhua was waiting at the door with her child in tow. Seeing the old lady return, she quickly and eagerly went to greet her, "Mom, how was business today?"

"Don't even mention it."

Back in the courtyard, Sister Wang opened the bucket, and Zhao Jinhua's face changed drastically when she saw that there was still more than half a bucket of meat left. "Mom, why is there so much left today?"

Sister Wang gritted her teeth, "Someone's causing trouble."

After telling her daughter-in-law about the situation, Zhao Jinhua immediately sensed something was wrong. "Mom, could that troublemaking worker have been hired by Zhang Guiying to cause trouble on purpose?"

"..."

Sister Wang slapped her thigh, "You know what, it's actually possible!"

"I chatted with Zhang Guiying when I was selling sesame cakes. She was a retired worker from the cotton mill... Zhang Guiying worked in the cotton mill for decades, so she must know a lot of the workers there. If she tells them something, they'll start targeting me!"

Sister Wang was furious. "It must be Zhang Guiying who deliberately hired someone to mess with me because she thought I was affecting her business! She's a retired old lady from the city, trying to steal my food, a country bumpkin like me! How could she be so heartless!"

Sister Wang was crying and cursing.

When Zhou Dali returned that evening, Sister Wang embellished the story and told him what had happened.

Zhou Dali slammed his fist on the table. "This is outrageous! Do they really think we country folk are easy to bully?! Mom, don't get involved in this. Watch me teach that old hag a lesson!"

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