Chapter 368: Not an Adoptive Mother 9
Next, Yuanchun received wave after wave of children who came to buy snacks.

It is August now and the children have not started school yet, so they are all playing at home. The locals living in this alley are all well-off, with dual-income families, and they all give their children some pocket money.

Therefore, Yuanchun’s grocery store consumes a lot of snacks.

The most profitable thing is snacks.

Don’t underestimate the sour plum powder at 5 cents a bag and the fruit candies at 10 cents for six. In fact, the cost is only half, so the profit of snacks is basically 50-50.

The smaller the item, the less the cost, but the more money you make.

This was the experience Yuanchun gained after selling groceries for half a month.

In September, when students go back to school, fewer children come to buy snacks. As they have pocket money, they will save it to buy food at school.

After school started, Yuanchun sent Xiaobao to a nearby nursery.

Yuanchun did not take on manual work in the store like the original owner did. Instead, she added marinated products for sale in the store.

Braised pork head, braised pork offal, braised beef, braised large bones...

There is a new counter at the entrance of the grocery store, on which are placed pots of fragrant, steaming braised meat. People who pass by the entrance of the grocery store after get off work, when they smell the fragrance, will jump off their bicycles, cut a plate and take it home to eat with a drink.

Yuanchun would secretly put away the unsold items into her space to keep them warm and fresh, and then take them out to sell the next day, so there would be no waste.

Later, Yuanchun bought a lot of fish, shrimp, and chicken legs and made fried fish, fried shrimp, and fried chicken legs...

The grocery store was small, so she bought bricks and hired a mason to double the size of the store. On one side was a shelf for groceries, and on the other side was a counter for selling braised and fried food. In order to make it easier to work, Yuanchun also specially customized a coal stove with nine coal briquette holes and placed it inside the braised food counter. She cooked food while watching the store.

With all her busy work, she also earns a considerable income.

When the original owner was there, the grocery store's average monthly income was around 750 yuan.

Yuanchun added braised and fried foods, as well as rice and noodles, and she can earn more than 3,000 yuan a month.

Three thousand yuan in the 1990s was two years’ salary for a worker.

Although it was tiring, Yuanchun felt very satisfied because she earned a lot.

Yuanchun was a young widow who had money, a house and was capable, so many people in the neighborhood had their eyes on her. However, Yuanchun had already made it clear that she would not remarry.

But there are always some people who don't understand what others say. Seeing that she makes a lot of money every day, some jealous people start to have some ulterior motives.

Just now, a lady named Li who lives in a nearby alley leaned against the braised food counter, looking at Yuanchun who was busy at the counter, and said, "Yuanchun, you said you have to look after the store, work, and pick up the children by yourself, how can you handle it? My nephew who is about your age just got divorced not long ago and is looking for another wife. I will take a look at you. Tomorrow I will bring my nephew to meet you. If you like each other, you can relax a little bit with him helping you with the work."

"Aunt Li, no need. I just need my son. I have sworn to my husband a long time ago that I would never remarry in this life and would just live with my son." Yuanchun raised her head and refused impatiently.

I mentioned this to her two days ago, but she refused.

It was mentioned again today, as if you don’t understand what I’m saying.

(End of this chapter)