Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 122 - 119 Testing the Waters

Chapter 122: Chapter 119 Testing the Waters

Lu Yun then simply explained the function of the air fryer and the solar panels before commanding Lu Aiguo and Shitou to place the solar panels in the sunny part of the yard, and ingeniously added some concealment.

The group then started discussing the brand name that Lu Yun had mentioned, but unfortunately, despite their excited chatter, they couldn’t agree on a name that satisfied everyone at once. In the end, it was Xia Yuan who grew impatient and sent them out to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy the greaseproof paper.

Xia Yuan stayed home to make paste from flour.

Lu Yun wasn’t idle either, using her spiritual power in the space to try peeling potatoes and slicing them thinly. Luckily, the storage of potatoes in the space was quite large, otherwise relying on the few that Xia Yuan had previously bought would definitely not have been enough.

By the afternoon, indeed they had fried a good number of potato chips with the air fryer. After tasting them, Lu Aiguo, Xia Yuan, and Shitou all agreed that the flavor was not much different from the chips that Lu Yun had brought out.

Lu Aiguo and Shitou were action-oriented, the type to start immediately once they decided to do something. Considering that a cinema is different from other places and could become even more lively at night, they decided to immediately take the five hundred cones of potato chips, wrapped in the greaseproof paper, to test the waters.

Seeing their determination, and since it was already past five in the afternoon, it was certain that they wouldn’t be able to return home for dinner by six. Therefore, Xia Yuan had Lu Yun bring out the meals from the space, and the family simply had their dinner early.

Fearing they would be hungry later since they had eaten early, Xia Yuan insisted on them taking several large pork buns as snacks. Lu Yun carefully placed a large thermos of warm water and a big bag of unwrapped potato chips into their baskets, to be used for sampling.

At home, from the moment Lu Aiguo and Shitou left, Xia Yuan became visibly anxious, peppering Lu Yun with questions every so often, such as "Do you think they will be successful?" "Can the potato chips really be sold?" "Is it just us who think they’re good, or will others not like them?" "Our cost isn’t even a penny, isn’t selling them for ten cents too expensive?"... and other similar concerns.

Lu Yun would comfort her with utmost patience each time, thoroughly explaining and confidence.

"Mom, you can rest assured, dad and the others will definitely be successful. Didn’t you taste how good the potato chips are? As long as people try them once, they will surely want to buy them. Ten cents is already too low, and our cost isn’t as low as you said. If it were someone else’s business, peeling potatoes, slicing, and frying would all require labor and material costs, right?"

After listening, Xia Yuan nodded, thinking it made sense.

But after a while, she couldn’t help but repeat the same questions, trying to alleviate her unease. After she had repeated herself multiple times, Lu Yun still didn’t show any impatience, but Xia Yuan herself started to feel embarrassed. After asking another round of questions and getting answers from Lu Yun, she would involuntarily steal glances at Lu Yun, worried that she had annoyed her.

Seeing her like this, Lu Yun felt both amused and heartached. Mothers all over the world are the same. In her past life, she always remembered her mother as the strongest woman in the world, hardly ever witnessing any sign of weakness. But in recent days, she increasingly realized that her mother also had the softness, dependence, anxiety, and lack of strength that most women possess.

So, is a woman’s strength merely a result of not having a person strong enough to rely on, and therefore, she has no choice but to be strong? Just like herself in her past life.

Suddenly feeling a lump in her throat, Lu Yun quickly bowed her head and pulled out a large mug, using it to hide her face as she blinked away the moisture in her eyes...

To prevent her mother from overthinking, Lu Yun eventually took out some potatoes. Together, they peeled and sliced them, occasionally checking on the potato chips frying in the air fryer.

After experiencing the tedium of peeling potatoes and the difficulty of slicing them thinly, Xia Yuan no longer brought up the subject of the selling price being too high. Instead, she began to wonder if their set price was too low.

Besides frying potato chips, they also tried slicing yams and frying them, and eventually found that the fried yam slices tasted even better. Thus, they excitedly made quite many, planning to save them for the family of four to eat.