Chapter 499

The boxes under the tent were piled up high, Li Du went up to have a look, and asked, "Are these the biscuits that the children want to sell?"

Mama Mesa smiled, "Yes, this is the first batch, and we're working hard to make more cookies."

As she spoke, she opened the box and took out a pack of biscuits and handed it to him, beckoning him to try it.

The package contained ordinary cookies. Li Du took a bite, and the taste was very good. Because it was freshly baked, it was fragrant and crispy.

The biscuit tastes like mint, with a cool and sweet feeling, and it tastes better than the biscuits he bought in the supermarket.

Li Du said: "It's delicious. No wonder you have the confidence to produce so many. Come on, Mama Mesa, buy me two big boxes, um, no, four big boxes."

The black woman's eyes rolled into a smile, and she said, "You can take back the two big boxes first, the freshly baked ones are delicious, and you can come and get them later if you want to eat them, that kid Hans likes it too."

Li Du asked, "How much?"

Mama Mesa waved her hand and said, "What money do you want? Mom baked it for the children."

Hearing what she said, Li Du felt embarrassed to be polite.

A few children ran back, sweating profusely pushing a small cart, and said, "Mother Mesa, we sold it and put in a new one."

The weather has become cooler, but the temperature is still very high at noon. These children are hot and tired pushing the carts by hand.

In this way, Li Du had a clue, and said: "Mother Mesa, I can't eat your biscuits for free. How about it, I will help today. I will be the driver for the boys and girls, and the reward is biscuits."

Mama Mesa asked, "Aren't you busy today?"

Li Du said, "Nothing happened."

Hearing this, the children were first happy. They were not happy that there was a car delivering biscuits, but: "Wow, can we work with Tiger Cat?"

"Take the tiger cat to the door to sell, and you will definitely be able to sell more biscuits!"

"It's called Meow, and it's a good partner of Brother Hans."

"And crispy noodles, I know it!"

Li Du opened the car door with a smile, took out Ah Ao, and said, "There is a new little friend named Ah Ao, and he is a well-behaved child."

Mama Mesa took one look and said, "Oh, where did you get a wolf pup?"

Li Du asked in surprise, "How did you find out?"

Mesa's mother smiled and said, "My dad used to be a hunter in Tucson, protecting farms and pastures. They often hunt wolves. I followed them when I was a child, and of course I know them."

As she spoke, she showed a nostalgic expression: "How time flies. At that time, there were many wolves and they were very common. When we talked about them, we feared and hated them. Now, they are all protected animals."

The children have to take a break when they come back, but it's not just a rest, they also need to help with work.

There is an empty house in the orphanage, which is temporarily used as a bakery. There are two large ovens in it, and some old people are busy making biscuits.

Eggs, milk, butter, flour and other raw materials are mixed together. Someone weighs, someone adjusts the ratio, someone stirs, someone kneads the dough, and the people in the orphanage form a production line.

The kneaded dough will be carved into different shapes of biscuits with a template, and then baked in an oven, and then sorted after baking. There is also a packaging machine here, and finally packaged and shaped.

The children were responsible for the packaging. They were busy and sweaty, but they were in a good state of mind, talking and laughing, and enjoying themselves while suffering.

Li Du asked, "Is this how you rest?"

Mother Mesa smiled helplessly: "Yes, I know, the children are very tired, but the Boy Scouts don't have much time to sell cookies, we have to seize this opportunity."

The activity of selling cookies by the Boy Scouts is not carried out at any time. If there is no activity, it is not allowed to carry out commercial activities in their name.

This is done to prevent children from being exploited and to avoid affecting their growth and studies. After all, for most children, this activity is just for fun.

But for the children in the orphanage, this is a good opportunity to earn money to support themselves.

Looking at the children busy in front of the packaging machine, Li Du suddenly thought of himself when he was a teenager.

At that time, when he was in school, he was under a lot of pressure. He studied mathematics for a while and Chinese for a while, so that he could take a break when he alternated between studies.

Children are similar, alternating work with rest, which is very tiring.

But with Li Du's help, they were at ease.

He loaded boxes of biscuits into the car, a total of 100 small boxes, and then helped to pull them to places with a lot of traffic, such as communities, squares, and shops.

When she was about to leave, the energetic little girl Sally climbed into the car and took a look, then shook her head and said, "It's not enough, brother, I have to pack another fifty boxes!"

Li Du was surprised and said, "So many?"

"Each of us can sell forty or fifty boxes of biscuits every day." The little boy Kanter said quite proudly.

Li Du exclaimed, "It's really amazing."

The children of the poor families have already taken charge of their families. They must be good and make money. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for the orphanage to operate only with the government's appropriation and people's donations.

For ordinary Boy Scouts, maybe their sales target for one event is about 100 boxes, and it takes one week to hold one event.

But the children in the orphanage can't, they have to sell more cookies.

But they are more motivated than ordinary children, because according to the rules of the Boy Scouts, ordinary children sell biscuits to donate to the army, and children in welfare institutions can stay if they make money.

Mama Mesa was a great black woman who not only adopted these children but made sure they were healthy.

This health is not only physical health, but also mental health.

The children who were with Li Du did not feel tired, but felt happy after receiving his help.

Li Du brought a pickup truck as a means of transportation, and brought more small carts, so that they didn't have to share a car with several people.

In the car, several children discussed sales skills together with great interest.

After listening to their chat, Li Du found out that the Boy Scouts training camp invited sales experts to teach them how to sell biscuits.

These children are easy to learn. In addition to applying what they have learned in the classroom, they also combine practice to summarize experience and communicate with each other.

After driving to a square, Li Du wanted to put down a child, and saw a few boy scouts pushing carts around, and they all had monitors by their side.

Then he suddenly noticed something, and said: "You didn't monitor people before, so you came out by yourself? Isn't this very dangerous?!"

In Li Du's view, the law and order in the United States is far worse than that in China. Even in China, the parents of children dare not let them go door-to-door to sell, let alone the United States?

And I don't know why, there are so many sex addicts in the United States. After he came to Flagstaff City, he watched the news and saw someone molesting a child from time to time.