80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy - Chapter 512

80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy 
Chapter 512 – The charm of Lüdagun (1) 

Translator : Moon Lee
Editor : Tea
This translation made by Moonlight Teatime.
Please read my translation only at Moonlight Teatime. 
If you like our translation, please support us on Patreon or Ko-fi. 

-Lüdagun / Fried chop rice cake (驴打滚) : A classic Beijing snack of glutinous rice rolls coated in soybean powder, named whimsically after ‘donkeys rolling in dust’. 

Seeing that the old man’s expression had softened a little, Chu Qiao seized the chance and pressed on.

“Your boss surely wants to maximize profits while minimizing costs, right? Xingda’s machines are affordable and reliable, you won’t regret buying them. As for Southern’s? Who knows? You’d be upset as it was a bad deal.”

After saying so much in one breath, Chu Qiao’s mouth felt even drier. 

She gulped down half a pot of water, glanced around, and suddenly felt her heart sink halfway down her chest.

She was so stupid, why was she wasting her breath talking so much to a gatekeeper?

With a sigh, she muttered to herself,

“You’re not even the boss… Why am I telling you all this? Uncle, does your boss come to the factory often? How about introducing me so I can talk to him directly?”

“My boss is busy. Alright, you can go home now.”

The old man secretly found it funny but kept a straight face, waving her off.

“Oh.”

Chu Qiao felt a little discouraged. She realized that she just wasn’t cut out for sales. 

She had originally wanted to help Gu Ye, but ended up chatting with a gatekeeper for more than half an hour, and even wasted five pieces of Lüdagun in the process.

Thinking of the Lüdagun, she asked,

“Uncle, my Lüdagun are tasty, right?”

“They were so-so. Now hurry and go!”

The old man was stubborn, saying ‘so-so’ and yet he ate five of them. 

Chu Qiao pouted, waved goodbye, and went to check out a few other factories. 

But at each one, the gatekeepers drove her away before she even had the chance to speak. 

None were as ‘friendly’ as the black-faced old man who ate her donkey rolls.

Sigh!

Chu Qiao let out a heavy sigh, pedaled her bike slowly back home, and felt a little disheartened.

No wonder Gu Ye had been selling for nearly a month without any results, selling machine tools was really hard work. 

Tonight, she would make something delicious to cheer him up.

What she didn’t know was that right after she left, the black-faced old man went to find his son in the workshop. 

His son was actually the boss of this auto parts factory and spent his days busy in the workshop. 

“Lao San*, come here!” 

*Lao San (老三): literally ‘Old Three’, a familiar way to address the third-born child in the family. 

The old man called out, and a tall, broad-shouldered man in his early forties came over. 

He was wearing just a sweat-stained vest, both arms bare, a towel draped around his neck, and his head was beaded with sweat. 

Together with a group of workers, he was installing a machine tool.

Although he was the boss, he tried to save wherever he could. In the early stages of starting a business, money was very tight.

“What is it, Dad?” 

The middle-aged man, named Zheng Yuqiang, was a native of Beijing.

“Aren’t you going to the southern machine tool factory in a few days?” the old man asked.

“Yeah.”

“Don’t rush to buy one just yet. Go check the quality first. I heard that they’re not that good, you’d better be careful, or you’ll end up spending money on a pile of scrap iron.” The old man warned. 

He even repeated everything Chu Qiao had said earlier word for word, but Zheng Yuqiang didn’t take it to heart.

“Dad, she’s from Xingda Machine Tool. Of course she wouldn’t say anything nice about their competitor. You can’t take that kind of talk seriously.” 

“That young lady was pretty genuine. Her Lüdagun were really good. I’m telling you, someone who can make good food usually isn’t full of schemes. Just go and check, it won’t cost you any. What if there really is a problem? You’ve borrowed quite a bit from the bank.”

The old man trusted Chu Qiao quite a bit, partly because those Lüdagun were really irresistible, it was just a shame there were only five.

Zheng Yuqiang frowned slightly.

His father’s words made sense, just checking wouldn’t hurt, so he agreed,

“Alright, I’ll go look into it.”

The old man was pleased.

“Make sure you do. You can’t be sloppy when it comes to equipment worth hundreds of thousands. Ask around at the factory that bought those southern machine tools. That young lady said they’d have problems in two years, see if that’s true. We’re making parts for big manufacturers, precision is important.”

If you want to read the advanced chapters of 80s Wife is Sweet and Sassy,
you can support us on Patreon
or you can purchase stars to read advanced chapters.