Chapter 547 - 184: The 80s Drama Queen, Forced to Do Business and Become a Top Student (19)
Chapter 547: Chapter 184: The 80s Drama Queen, Forced to Do Business and Become a Top Student (19)
They all ran home to ask the adults for sugar.
The children who lived nearby all came from well-to-do families, so no household would begrudge their kid a couple of spoonfuls of sugar.
And so, in no time at all, the children were lining up in front of the cotton candy machine.
Sheng Leyun used this crowd of kids as an opportunity to replicate all sorts of beautiful designs she had seen, while also guiding Grandma Guo to make similar ones.
Grandma Guo could hardly recognize the girl she’d come to see as her own granddaughter. She kept marveling to herself, ’How has no one else discovered what a wonderful young woman she is?’
A machine like this wasn’t just expensive to buy; the real issue was that even if you had the money, you didn’t necessarily have the connections to find one!
But now, this young woman had drawn up blueprints, found some secondhand parts, and assembled the machine herself—it was both practical and affordable.
Seeing the line of little ones unable to contain their love for cotton candy, Grandma Guo could already imagine the roaring success they’d have when they set up their stall!
This thing was practically a money printer!
Sheng Leyun started practicing with the simplest designs, changing up the colors and shapes to create lots of adorable and charming forms.
Grandma Guo was also quite deft with her hands. After getting the hang of it, she could replicate anything she saw, and her creations were even better than Sheng Leyun’s!
"All right, Yunyun, you go and focus on your work. I can handle this myself."
Grandma Guo shooed Sheng Leyun back into the house and got busy herself.
Grandma Guo was never one to sit idle and had plenty of stamina. Pumping the foot pedal wasn’t strenuous for her, and she rolled the cotton candy with clean, deft motions, each one turning out lovely and cute.
Almost every child had one in hand.
Xiao Hailan and Xiao Haiyang watched from afar, their eyes filled with intense longing. "Hmph. It’s all Sheng Leyun’s fault. If it weren’t for her, Dad wouldn’t have been arrested, and Grandpa and Grandma wouldn’t have disowned us."
"And we’d be able to eat as much cotton candy as we want," Xiao Haiyang added resentfully, practically drooling.
But the two of them remained standing where they were, looking utterly dejected.
When they visited Xiao Xuezhen, he had very seriously emphasized that he was getting what he deserved and that they must not think of helping him by causing trouble for Sheng Leyun.
Otherwise, he’d said, they would experience an even more miserable fate.
Xiao Xuezhen was their only family left. No matter how willful, spoiled, and disobedient they used to be, they had no choice but to obey him now.
"I’m too young to beat her right now. But I’m going to study hard. When I grow up, I’ll make Sheng Leyun taste the pain of having everything stripped away from her!"
Xiao Hailan swore in a low voice through gritted teeth, "Haiyang, you have to study hard, too. It’s our only way out."
Xiao Haiyang pouted. "But I’m dumb. I can’t learn."
Xiao Hailan glared at him. "There are no dumb kids, only lazy ones who don’t want to learn. I don’t care. From now on, you’re studying and doing homework with me."
With that, she started dragging a reluctant Xiao Haiyang home to study, though he kept looking back over his shoulder.
Inside the house, Sheng Leyun sorted the materials she had purchased and got busy again.
She planned to make several categories of items: flower hair clips, headbands, hairpins, keychains, dolls, pencil cases, shoulder bags, backpacks, hats, and so on.
Sheng Leyun designed each piece based on the color, size, and shape of the fabric, meaning that no two items were exactly alike.
Once Grandma Guo became proficient at making cotton candy, she packed everything up and prepared lunch.
After they finished their meal, Grandma Guo looked at the finished products Sheng Leyun had made, then grabbed a needle and thread to help.
Even though Grandma Guo wasn’t using a sewing machine, she worked surprisingly fast.
The two of them, one old and one young, worked for nearly the entire day.
The next day, when Gong Zicheng arrived with people a little after ten o’clock to help them haul their things to the stall, the two women were still hard at work...
The street behind the family residential compound wasn’t particularly wide. Usually, it was where farmers from the suburbs came to sell vegetables from carrying poles, so it was always bustling and lively.
But now, with the arrival of the Little New Year, the festive atmosphere was building, and the street had instantly transformed into a marketplace. Stalls were lined up one after another, selling everything imaginable.
The number of pedestrians was also several times greater than usual.
Their group hurriedly set up the stall, and this was where the importance of having connections became evident.
Sheng Leyun’s spot was located in the middle of the street, and it was a good size.
She spread out a few old tarps, considered the arrangement, and then upended the small bamboo baskets she’d just bought wholesale from a local farmer, placing her various small crafts on top of them one by one.
Of course, so as not to dampen everyone’s enthusiasm, she deliberately placed the simplest-to-make items in the first two rows.
There were already holes in the ground left by the other vendors who usually set up stalls there, and Sheng Leyun had simply had someone save two spots for her!