CHAPTER 261: CHAPTER 261: ONE STEP CLOSER TO BECOMING THE RICHEST

She turned her head and got a fright.

No wonder he looked familiar; it turned out to be their general manager, Yan Guohua.

The crowd around Su Xiaoxiao also turned their heads to look and saw Yan Guohua standing behind them with a serious face.

They all gasped in shock; they were buying stuff during work hours, doing private transactions, and of all times, the general manager had to catch them red-handed.

This is...

Better run while we can!

The few exchanged glances and turned to run.

Only Su Xiaoxiao, who was busy noting down names, reacted a beat too late, and by the time she regained her senses, everyone else had vanished.

She blinked and guiltily looked towards Yan Guohua.

She was in the middle of an internal struggle, wondering if it would be more useful to kneel and beg for forgiveness or to hold the general manager’s leg and plead, when she saw Yan Guohua striding up to her with a solemn look as if he were about to join the Party.

"General Manager, uh, let me, um, explain!"

Yan Guohua coughed lightly, leaned in a bit, and lowered his voice. "Well... Comrade Su, save a sewing machine for me too, will you?"

Su Xiaoxiao: "..."

Turns out she was worried for nothing; the general manager was here to buy a sewing machine as well.

"General Manager, you’re not upset with me for selling things privately?"

In principle, a salesperson selling things privately is a violation and grounds for dismissal.

But Comrade Su wasn’t selling items from their department store, and she even managed to source goods for the store, so Yan Guohua wouldn’t praise her enough.

"It’s your own skill; there are more and more individual vendors out there. One more doesn’t matter. Just remember to think of our unit when you have good stuff in the future."

Yan Guohua looked at Su Xiaoxiao with admiration.

Su Xiaoxiao didn’t expect him to say that and was somewhat moved instantly.

She didn’t expect the general manager to be so sensible.

She immediately nodded, "Rest assured, General Manager, our department store is like my second home. I may forget anyone, but I won’t forget my own family."

"I’ll bring you the sewing machine tomorrow; luckily, I have an extra one on hand, which I initially intended for a friend."

"Great, great, thank you so much."

Yan Guohua nodded at her and walked away feeling extremely content.

Su Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief and counted the names on her notepad; in no time, she had more than ten names.

With the orders from the department store, over a hundred and ten electric sewing machines were sold all of a sudden. Truly, she felt successful.

She felt like she was one step closer to becoming the richest person.

As she happily thought about it, Su Xiaoxiao quickly put away her notebook and ran back to the fine foods counter.

Qin Shuang and Zhang Yulan greeted her warmly as soon as they saw her.

"Xiaoxiao, you didn’t have breakfast again today, did you? Here, have this to eat."

Qin Shuang handed her a piece of walnut cookie from an oil paper bag.

The walnut cookie was golden and crispy, and as soon as it was taken out, a sweet aroma wafted over, making Su Xiaoxiao’s mouth water.

Though she had had breakfast this morning and quite a lot at that, she couldn’t resist her craving.

The two of them were close, so Su Xiaoxiao didn’t stand on ceremony, reached over for the cookie, and took a big bite, "Thanks, Shuangshuang, it’s delicious!"

One bite, and the flavor filled her mouth.

Zhang Yulan also slipped her a chive bun, "Made it at home this morning; give it a try."

Su Xiaoxiao looked grateful, "Thank you, Sister Zhang."

"We’re so close; why be polite with us."

She wasn’t very hungry, but she finished everything. One could easily tell that these two must have especially brought food fearing she wouldn’t have time for breakfast.

Su Xiaoxiao thought, she must also remember them if she ever has good things in the future.

After finishing the chive bun and walnut cookie, Su Xiaoxiao patted her round and full belly and burped in satisfaction. She ate quite lavishly this morning.

She wondered if the mini sewing machine news had spread, as many people came to inquire if there were still electric sewing machines available.

The fine foods counter had become relatively idle, with just the occasional customer here and there.

Su Xiaoxiao was quite content with the leisure time.

With nothing much to do, she opened the game interface during a break.

Anyway, she was the only one who could see it.

One glance at the coins and she realized her small treasury already had over ten thousand gold coins; she was practically a well-off little lady.

Su Xiaoxiao took the chance to pay off the balance on the sewing machines, and was about to exit when a promotional message popped up at the top of the interface.

The manufacturer was offloading electronic watches at a low price, nineteen ninety with free shipping, and bulk orders could be negotiated.

Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes widened immediately; a watch now costs over a hundred bucks and requires a ticket, but these electronic watches were way cheaper.

She rubbed her hands with excitement and directly clicked on the interface to ask the boss for the bottom price.

Upon learning that she wanted a hundred watches, the boss graciously gave her a ten percent discount.

Su Xiaoxiao joyously stored those watches in her small warehouse and turned around to find Zhang Yulan and Qin Shuang staring at her in confusion.

Zhang Yulan: "Xiaoxiao, what’s going on with you?"

They’d just seen this girl grinning foolishly while gesturing at the air, looking exactly like the silly girl from the neighboring village.

This couldn’t be the result of some stimulus, right?

Only then did Su Xiaoxiao realize that the two couldn’t see what she was doing; they could only see her acting strange at the air.

"Uh, just now there was a mosquito here, I was swatting at it."

She quickly explained.

"A mosquito?"

Qin Shuang puzzledly looked around; with the weather getting colder lately, how could there be mosquitoes?

Just then, someone came over to buy stuff, and Su Xiaoxiao quickly attended to the customer, using this as a way to brush it off.

After a bout of busy work, it was soon noon.

The three of them linked arms and headed to the cafeteria.

Ever since the unit had its own little cafeteria, there’s been no need to go out for lunch, giving them much more relaxed meal breaks.

The dishes for today were written on the small blackboard.

There were minced meat with eggplant, vinegar potato shreds, potato stew with meat, stir-fried cabbage...

The dishes were plentiful, and the fragrance of the food filled the entire cafeteria.

Su Xiaoxiao had eaten quite a bit in the morning, and originally intended to eat less for lunch, but not long after being enveloped by the aroma, her stomach felt hungry again.

She queued up to get a portion of the potato stew with meat and stir-fried cabbage, as usual doubling the quantity. The potato stew with meat was generously loaded with meat but had little potato.

Zhang Yulan and Qin Shuang had come to know Xu Zhaodi and Liu Cuilan well enough to also receive the same treatment as Su Xiaoxiao.

The three of them carried their loaded lunchboxes and found a place to sit, while envy-filled eyes occasionally shot their way.

Zhang Dongmei poked at the measly bit of minced meat in her lunchbox, chewing fiercely on her cornbread, her teeth scraping making a squeaky sound.

Imagining the cornbread as Su Xiaoxiao, she wished she could devour her whole.

Despite her anger, Su Xiaoxiao carried on unaffected, going about her business as usual.

Zhang Dongmei got even more furious at being ignored.

Time flew by quickly, and the day of the event with the military unit arrived.