Now that Mu Jingzhe had quite a few contacts, she took fewer detours. She started selling toilet paper to the entire province and even outside of the province.
Sanitary pads were actually harder to sell. Many people weren’t in the habit of using them, especially in the countryside. For the time being, she could only start selling in the city.
In order to increase the popularity of the products, Mu Jingzhe even specifically paid to have them advertised. The effect was pretty good, and everything was finally on track.
Meanwhile, Shao Dong’s scavenging business also finally developed. Mu Han had been staying outside all this while, but he had earned quite a bit.
Previously, Shao Dong had said that he wanted to open a fruit factory and make soda and juice to sell them. This plan was slowly put into action. Coincidentally, there was quite a lot of fruit in the county, and there were also many varieties. In addition, he could buy some from the surrounding county. This was completely doable.
Before the winter break, Shao Dong had been preparing to skip grades while he and Mu Jingzhe had been busy with this matter. Finally, before the winter break arrived, he had forcefully opened the factory in the county.
Although the factory wasn’t large at first, it was one of the few factories in the county. On the surface, Mu Jingzhe was in charge, but Shao Dong was actually in charge of many things.
Shao Dong was currently only eight years old.
“What is a business genius? Our Little Dong is one!” Mu Jingzhe rubbed Shao Dong’s face. “You’re incredible.”
Shao Dong’s face was a little red. “It’s all because of Mommy’s help.”
“You really are incredible. No need to be humble.”
“That’s right, Big Brother. You’re incredible!” Little Bei and the rest joined in by praising him as well. Shao Nan praised him, but he seemed to be deep in thought.
As they were praising him, the voice of an auntie came from outside. It turned out that she was there to sell walnuts.
There were many walnuts in the village. After the factory was opened, the family started collecting walnuts and preparing to make walnut juice.
Anyone in the village who had walnuts sold them to the Shao Family, which acquired another source of income. Everyone praised Mu Jingzhe and the children of the Shao Family whenever they saw them. Mu Xue had thought that everyone would scold Mu Jingzhe behind her back, but it never happened.
There simply wasn’t a chance for it to happen. How could they scold Mu Jingzhe when she even increased their income? Was there anyone in the surrounding villages who didn’t envy Great Eastern Village?
It wasn’t like people from other villages couldn’t sell their produce to other factories. It was just that Mu Jingzhe and the Shao kids were fair and wouldn’t cheat honest people. It would definitely be better to sell to them since they were from the same village. Therefore, everyone regarded Mu Jingzhe as the little god of wealth in the village.
“Jingzhe, take a look. These are the walnuts that my family peeled. I’ve separated them. I’ve picked out the small black ones.”
It was hard to peel walnuts, so the factory mainly collected peeled walnuts. The price of unpeeled walnuts was lower. The prices also varied according to the quality. Everyone in Great Eastern Village was obedient and did whatever they were told.
“Alright, wait for me to weigh them,” Mu Jingzhe said. Shao Dong recorded the information while Shao Xi gave the auntie the money. They cooperated very well.
The auntie left with a satisfied smile after receiving the money.
When the factory started operating, Shao Nan said that he wanted Mu Jingzhe to accompany him to the capital to participate in the recording of a game show.
This was a nationwide quiz game show. There wasn’t much of a script, and the participants relied on their abilities. Many of them were young geniuses, and the older kids were even in high school.
Although it was considered to be a new program, which meant that relatively fewer people were registering for it, because it was open to the entire country, the competition was no joke. In the end, Shao Nan silently obtained one of the top 100 spots.
“When did you register for the preliminaries? Why didn’t I know this before? Did you participate in secret?”
“Mm, I thought I’d tell you guys about it if I got in. And if I didn’t, I’d forget about it.” Shao Nan nodded.
Previously, he had discovered that everyone in the family had already started earning money. Big Brother was doing business. Second Brother’s essays were being published everywhere, and he had already gained some fame and earned quite a lot of royalties. Little Bei had acted in a television drama and then in a movie. The television drama was about to be broadcast, and the movie was about to be released. Given her talent, she would definitely become famous in the future.
Even the youngest, Xiao Wu, who had previously helped compose songs to earn money, didn’t have to worry about his future. From the looks of it, out of the five of them, he was the only one who had yet to earn money and was still holding them back.
Shao Nan felt that this couldn’t go on. He had to earn money too. None of the five of them should fall behind. It would be best if all of them became famous. Only then would Shao Qihai, who had abandoned them, regret it when he saw how successful they were.
Shao Nan, who didn’t want to be a burden, had happened to see the announcement of the television station’s program. Seeing that the reward was generous and that he would be able to appear on television, he felt that it sounded pretty good overall, so he’d signed up to participate.
The preliminary round was held in the county, and not many people participated in it. He was the only person in the county who passed the preliminary round. After that, it was time for the semi-finals, which were held in the city. Fortunately, it was no longer troublesome for them to go to the city.
After half a day, he passed the semi-finals and even made it to the top 100 in the country thanks to his outstanding performance. He only informed Mu Jingzhe after receiving the notice that he was going to the capital to record the show.
“You sure are capable.”
Mu Jingzhe hurriedly prepared to go to the capital. After Ji Buwang heard about it, he said that he was also going to the capital because he wanted to go home and take a look.
When Ji Buwang found out the date of departure, he directly booked a plane ticket. Hence, Mu Jingzhe took the plane for the first time after transmigrating. Shao Nan was also the first to get on a plane among the five kids.
Little Bei and the rest were very envious. Little Bei even swore. “I want to take a plane next time too!”
With Ji Buwang traveling with them, Mu Jingzhe didn’t have to worry too much on the way. When they boarded the plane, Mu Jingzhe was afraid that Shao Nan wouldn’t be used to the feeling of the plane taking off, so she gave him a few pointers.
The three of them traveled together and were successfully mistaken for a family of three.
The plane carried Mu Jingzhe and the others far away. While gazing at the plane flying overhead, Shao Qihai was speechless.
During this period, Shao Qihai had been secretly changing his identity from time to time, disguising himself to protect Mu Jingzhe and the kids. Although he didn’t go to the village, he never lost them.
Shao Nan had participated in the show quietly, so Shao Qihai hadn’t known about it. When he’d suddenly found out that they were going to the capital, he felt determined to follow them there. In the end, he’d bought a train ticket, but Mu Jingzhe and Shao Nan took a plane.
By the time Shao Qihai realized that, he could no longer buy a plane ticket, so he could only hold on to his train ticket and watch Ji Buwang fly away with his wife and kid as though they were a family of three.
Oh no, he still had to run to the train station to catch up with them.
Although Mu Jingzhe and Shao Nan might already be returning by the time he arrived in the capital by train, he still had to go.
By the time Shao Qihai boarded the train, Mu Jingzhe had already gotten off the plane and arrived at the capital.
Along the way, Mu Jingzhe took several photos of Shao Nan, including photos of him sitting on the plane next to the fluffy white clouds.
Previously, Mu Jingzhe had regretted not having a camera to capture precious moments. Once she had the money, she’d immediately bought one and taken photos of memorable moments or photos of them in a good mood.
These photos might not feel like much when they were taken, but as time passed, they would become the most precious things.
Ji Buwang took a photo of Mu Jingzhe and Shao Nan. Mu Jingzhe wasn’t stingy and took two photos of Ji Buwang as well. Then, before they got off the plane, the air stewardess enthusiastically took a group photo of their ‘family of three’.
As Shao Nan walked out of the plane, he turned back to explain to the air stewardess that Ji Buwang wasn’t his father and they weren’t a family of three.