Rebirth 85: Profits start from repairing sewing machines

Chapter 5 Repairing Electrical Appliances
Late at night.

Chen Cheng put his quilt under the bed and spread it out.

"You guys sleep on it, it's cold, don't catch Nian Nian, I'll sleep on the floor from now on!" Chen Cheng was a little ashamed.

The house they rented only had a kitchen and a small living room. There was only one 1.2-meter bed in the room. It was okay for two adults to sleep, but two adults felt a bit cramped.

So when Nian Nian was a little older, Chen Cheng always slept on the bed, and the mother and daughter slept on the floor.

Shen Zhihua didn't make a sound.

Turn off the lights, and it's dark in an instant.

"When I make money, I'll rent you a better house." In the darkness, Chen Cheng's voice seemed to be heard.

But with just one sentence, it fell silent again.

It seems to be just Chen Cheng's dream!
Yes, it is definitely a dream!
Early the next morning, before Shen Zhihua woke up, Chen Cheng had already started making breakfast.

Before long, breakfast was ready.

The smell of meat came from the living room.

After eating, Chen Cheng came in to take a look, and said: "Zhihua, you and Niannian go to bed slowly, I have already put breakfast there, if it gets cold later, you can heat it up again, I will Went out to work."

After speaking, the others have already left.

It wasn't until the sound of Chen Cheng's footsteps disappeared at home that Shen Zhihua opened his eyes.

She didn't sleep well that night, because she had never done such physical work before, and her waist and back were aching all over her body at the moment.

However, she sat up with difficulty. After washing, she glanced at the breakfast outside.

It is a soup rice noodle often eaten by people in Guangdong Province. It is luxuriously covered with a few pieces of meat.

"Mom, there's meat!" Nian Nian seemed to be dripping from her lips.

"Hurry up and eat, we have to go to work after eating!" Shen Zhihua murmured.

At around eight o'clock in the morning, Chen Cheng took a broken basin in one hand and a steel bar he found somewhere in the other, knocking and shouting in the streets and alleys: "The sewing machine is repaired, the electrical appliance is repaired..."

Chen Cheng's original idea was to open a small repair shop, but it needs money to open a shop. With their current wealth, they probably don't even have the money to rent a shop.

So he can't do it in a short time.

I can only settle for the second best, and go to people to repair electrical appliances.

Almost all households now have sewing machines.

And that's what he's good at!
Of course, besides repairing the sewing machine, he actually knows a lot more. After all, in his previous life, he taught himself a lot of repairing skills in order to live out his own personality.

From the marriage in the 70s, there are three turns and one sound, that is, bicycles, watches, sewing machines and radios.

In the 80s, the three major items of marriage were refrigerators, televisions, and washing machines.

Without him he wouldn't!
Of course, compared with three turns and one sound, refrigerators, TVs and washing machines in this era are actually relatively rare.

But sewing machines were basically equipped for people of that era!
At the end of 1983, the cloth ticket was officially abolished, but many housewives still used to pull cloth outside and go home to make clothes by themselves.

"Young man!" Just as Chen Cheng walked two streets and shouted out his voice, finally a family opened the door and waved to Chen Cheng.

"Big sister!" Chen Cheng stepped forward and found a woman in her forties, and called out sweetly.

The woman couldn't help laughing when she heard the title.

The young man has a really sweet mouth and can really talk.

"Can you repair a sewing machine?"

No, business is coming!
"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Chen Cheng kept nodding, "I know how to repair!"

"What's the charging method?" the woman asked.

"That depends on the situation. What's your problem?" Chen Cheng asked.

"It's the jumper!" said the woman.

"Jumper, let me take a look first, okay?"

"Okay then, come in!"

The woman led Chen Cheng in.

"Look, that's the jumper!" The woman picked up a piece of scrap cloth with the thread from her car on it.

"Let me take a look inside first!" Chen Cheng said and began to disassemble it.

"How is it?" the woman asked.

"Small problem!" Chen Cheng said, "It should be a problem with the bobbin, I can adjust it and it should be fine."

"Then... how much is it?" At that time, everyone was not rich and cared about money.

"Well, I'll charge one yuan!" Chen Cheng said.

After all, it was just for debugging, and there was no need to replace anything, so Chen Cheng proposed such a price.

A happy face appeared on the woman's face.

Machine repair is a rare job nowadays, but most of the time I really don't know how to adjust it, so I ask a machine repair to do it. Even if it is a household sewing machine, it costs at least three yuan to start. Chen Cheng's price is already very conscientious.

Seeing that the woman had no objection, Chen Cheng began to debug.

About 2 minutes later, after several adjustments, Chen Cheng put the things back together.

"Sister, come and try it!" Chen Cheng said.

The woman sat down and drove for a while.

He picked it up and looked at it, and his face was happy: "Stop dancing!"

"Okay!" Chen Cheng said with a smile.

"Young man, your skills are good!" The eldest sister was also a straightforward person, and gave Chen Cheng a dollar. "It's fine to adjust it like this. I can't adjust it myself."

Chen Cheng smiled.

Don’t underestimate debugging, it’s a technical task, and it needs to be done by feeling. Sometimes you can’t adjust it even after a day.

"Big sister, you can come to me if you need to repair anything in the future!" Chen Cheng received the money and was in a good mood.

"Okay, by the way, where is your repair shop?" Chen Cheng is cheap, if there is such a thing in the future, the woman still wants to ask Chen Cheng to repair it.

"Uh...there is no store yet, but this is my address. You can find me there if you need anything. If I am not at home, you can leave a note on the windowsill and write the address. I will see it later. I came to see you." Chen Cheng wrote an address to the woman.

These are all resources, they come and go.

This is the case at this time, it is very inconvenient to not have a mobile phone.

But there is no way, take your time!
"Okay, okay, your name is Chen Cheng, right? Oh, that's a pretty word!"

After coming out of here, looking at the one dollar, Chen Cheng's face was full of smiles.

Next, Chen Cheng started shouting along the street again.

At this moment, a head popped out from a canteen, looked anxiously at Chen Cheng and asked, "Young man, can you repair the TV?"

TV set?
Chen Cheng couldn't help but look at the shop owner twice.

In this day and age, it is not an ordinary person who can have a TV!
Most people can't afford such a luxury at all!
"Yes!"

"Hurry up and help me fix it!" The boss said, "I don't know why, but it can't be turned on, so hurry up and help me check it out, I have to show everyone on TV at night."

Chen Cheng smiled.

At that time, if someone had a TV at home, the whole village had to go to their house to watch TV.

"Boss, you're very kind." Chen Cheng asked with a smile.

"They come here to watch TV, maybe they will buy my things." The store owner chuckled, "Isn't it good for everyone."

Chen Cheng gave a thumbs up, "The boss is very good at business."

The boss was a little proud, "I have more than one small store in these streets, but I have the best business here. Why? Because I have a TV set here! Although it is a second-hand one, it is worth nearly 200 yuan, really. Expensive, but worth it!"

(End of this chapter)