Chapter Thirty-Six: The Banner of Victory

  Afternoon back home, Qiu Ye hurriedly returned to her own room, stuffed all the money into her secret stash box. There was no time to count it now, only waiting until late at night when she could secretly count it herself. Qiu Ye held the money box and hehehe smiled foolishly.

  After being happy for a while, she remembered that there were still very important things she hadn't done yet. She quickly went out of the room to find her father. Her father was now her strongest backing. When in trouble, of course, she had to find her father. So she quickly pulled her father out from the kitchen where he was surrounded by her mother.

  Qiu Ye first mysteriously asked her dad: "Dad, do you know how my tea eggs sold today?"

  This question is really hard to answer for Old Qiu. Just now, although he saw the brother and sister bringing back empty bowls, he didn't dare guarantee that they were all sold out, because he had a spendthrift daughter, who knows how many of them were given away by his own daughter for people to taste? There is precedent for this after all. However, looking at his daughter asking like this now, it should be fine, so he replied uncertainly: "It should be fine, I suppose."

  Qiu Ye was furious at his father's distrust and immediately said: "How can that be okay, that's quite not okay."

  "Oh?" Qiu's father looked at the girl with interest. Selling things outside is indeed a way to train people, and the girl said it straightforwardly.

  "Dad, all of today's tea eggs have been sold out, really."

  "Are they all sold out? Not a single one given away for free?" Old Qiu was astonished, somewhat disbelieving. Nearly fifty eggs were sold out in just that short while?

  "Dad, eggs are so expensive, how can I just give them away for people to eat? Am I that stupid?" Tea leaf eggs and meatballs are different, meatballs basically have no cost, so giving some away for free is no big deal, at most it's just not making money. But tea leaf eggs do have a cost, if she gives one away, it's like losing the money for an egg! She's such a thrifty and clever person, how can she make such a low-level mistake?!

  Qiu's father heard the girl's words and wanted to say "You were so silly before." But he was afraid of hurting the child's self-esteem, so he held back and didn't say it.

  Qiu Ye put on a pitiful look and said to her father, "Dad, can you go to the market now and help me buy some eggs? I sold out all my tea eggs today and I won't have anything to sell tomorrow."

  Alas, I'm still too young, even getting goods requires asking for help. If I were an adult now, I wouldn't need to ask others, I could just go myself.

  "Go ahead, Dad supports you. I'll go to the market now, and in a while, tell your mom that dinner doesn't have to wait for me." Qiu's dad was a man of action, saying he would do something and then going to accomplish the task given to him by his daughter. Of course, making money for her was also his motivation, although it was his daughter's earnings, but also for their own family.

  "Wait, Dad, walking is too slow. I'll go borrow Grandpa's bike from next door. You ride it and can help me buy more things on the way back." Qiu Ye thought that from their home to the market was a 20-minute walk. It was easy for her dad to go there, but coming back with eggs would be tiring. It was better to ride a bike.

  Qiu's family didn't have a bicycle at that time, so Qiu Ye had to go to his father's house to borrow one. Qiu's father thought for a moment and agreed, as walking back and forth would indeed be a waste of time, so he stayed home waiting for Qiu Ye to come and borrow the bike.

  Qiu Ye took the 4 tea eggs she had left for her godparents and went downstairs. Her godparents were at home, so Qiu Ye took the opportunity to present them with the tea eggs in her hands. Of course, she also said some nice words to make the two elders happy.

  This is not what Qiu Ye did, she was trying to curry favor with her wealthy godparents. Qiu Ye thought that being filial had many forms, for people like her godparents who were well-off, giving them money didn't necessarily make them happy. What she could do now was to be more playful and affectionate with them, treat them as her own family, and not be too polite, so they would think she really considered herself their child, and they would be happy instead.

  It sounds a bit cheap, but it's really like this.

  Qiu Ye is now doing just that, treating Fang Haibo and Zhao Shuyan as her other parents, saying whatever she wants without any embarrassment.

  Fang Haibo and Zhao Shuyan were delighted to see the tea eggs that their dry daughter-in-law had brought them, thinking that they hadn't spoiled her in vain. Although the child had only brought over a few eggs, which weren't very valuable, her kind intentions were priceless.

  After saying a few words, Qiu Ye mentioned that she was going to sell tea eggs and then asked her godfather for his bicycle. Fang Haibo readily handed over the bike, and Qiu Ye said she would bring her brother along to learn soon, before running off with the keys.

  Qiu's father went to the market after dinner, and according to his daughter's instructions, he used the money she gave him to buy all the remaining eggs at the market that day, totaling over 200.

  That night, Qiu Ye asked her dad to cook 100 of them. Because the pot at home was small, they had to be cooked in three pots. As a result, Qiu's mom kept shouting and said that Qiu Ye should take responsibility for buying liquefied gas cylinders, as she used the most at home. Qiu Ye, with her wealth and boldness, patted her chest and guaranteed that she would buy the liquefied gas cylinder next month.

  The days went by in an orderly manner, and Qiu Ye went to the cafeteria entrance every day to sell glutinous rice balls and tea eggs. Business was very good, with an average of 1,000 glutinous rice balls sold per day, and 200 tea eggs sold per day, 100 at noon and 100 in the afternoon. The basin could no longer meet the demand, so Qiu Ye had long taken out the new bucket that Qiu's mother had placed in the warehouse to use.

  The problem of back-and-forth transportation was solved by Qiu Baba. Seeing that the tea egg business was doing well and making a lot of money, he bought two pushcarts for the family: one for Qiu Ma to sell tofu with, and one for Qiu Ye to use when she set up her stall in the cafeteria every day. Of course, it was always Qiu Feng who ended up doing the hard labor, but this arrangement greatly improved work efficiency and boosted sales.

  The egg supply mainly relies on Qiu Ma, who also goes to the market every day at noon to sell tofu and then brings back 200 eggs for the girls, saving Qiu Ye a lot of trouble.

  In just this one month of booming business, Qiu Ye's passbook already had 1000 yuan in savings. Every night before going to sleep, Qiu Ye would take out her passbook and look at it again, seeing the rapidly increasing numbers inside made her have a good dream for the whole night.

  There was just one thing that made Qiu Ye a little dissatisfied. She had agreed with Zhao Yanqing, an uncle from the post office, to buy monkey tickets on the 25th, but when she went to the post office that day, Uncle Zhao only brought out two monkey tickets. He said his friend's monkey tickets had just been sold out recently, and there were only these two left when he went, and they had even gone up in price, each one costing 40 yuan, and asked Qiu Ye if she wanted them.

  Qiu Ye Neng wouldn't refuse, would he? This is equivalent to buying two houses for 80 yuan. Only a fool wouldn't buy it. She also comforted herself in her heart, this is not bad at all. Even if she doesn't do anything else in this life, when she grows up, she can exchange the monkey tickets in her hand for 10 houses. Just collecting rent every month would be enough to live a carefree and worry-free life.

  Of course, she wants to keep 3 of the 10 monkey tickets for her brother, because at that time there was 100 yuan which belonged to her brother. Now she is keeping it temporarily and will return it to him when he grows up.

  She also knew that if people wanted to be happy, they had to learn to be content. How much money was a lot? As long as it was enough, it was fine! However... Qiu Ye sighed inwardly, the theory that enough money was good could be left for others to use. She still felt that having more money in her hands would make her feel at ease and give her a sense of security. Perhaps this was a leftover habit from her past life's marriage, but she still had to think about how to earn even more money.

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