90s Little Struggle

Chapter 76 Competition
But now when people buy clothes, they like to buy big and fat clothes. By the time they can't wear them, they have already been washed and turned white, and they already need sewing and mending.

The cotton padded clothes made by myself, although warm, are bulky and bloated.

Yanyan kept her head down and said nothing.

Xiao Hong smiled and blinked at her: "Yanyan, if your grades are No. 1 in the class, and my sister will buy you a complete set of clothes, pants, shoes and socks, if you are No. 2, then you can only buy three items. For No.3, you can only buy two items, and if you are in the top five, you can only buy one item.”

She really likes Yanyan, a cheap little sister. Although she is a bit greedy, it is normal.

Moreover, Yanyan is young but sensible, and usually helps sweep the floor, wash dishes and light the fire, and the family's words will not be spread. Many people asked her how much money she can earn in the shop, but she shook her head and said she didn't know, and she didn't show any words. .

Yanyan jumped up in surprise: "Thank you, eldest sister, you are the best."

The older sisters in the family love to study, and they even do their homework consciously for her. She is usually the top three in the class. If there is no accident, she can at least have new clothes to wear.

This made her feel that the eldest sister really wanted to buy clothes for herself, so she put forward such a favorable condition for her.

Wu Julan couldn't help feeling distressed when she heard this: "Don't waste money recklessly, it's not easy to earn money now."

After hesitating for a while, he still revealed the concealed matter: "A few days ago, a store selling lo mei opened in the old street, and our business has suffered a lot in the past two days."

They often go to the street to buy vegetables, meat, seasonings, etc., and because they own a lo mei shop, they pay special attention to the newly opened shop.

But I was afraid of what to come, they just sell braised meat, and there are more varieties than their own.

Originally, she wanted to talk to her daughter, but her man stopped her, saying that her daughters were about to take an exam, so she couldn't speak out, so as not to distract them.

Don't look at them earning thousands of dollars in half a year, but now most people have difficulty earning money, and they will feel heartbroken for ten dollars for a long time.

Ten yuan can buy six catties of meat, but many people are frugal. There is not a single bit of meat on the table for ten days and a half months.

If it is known that making lo mei can make money so much, there will definitely be many people following in the food business.

Now that there is a second one, they feel that the third lo mei shop is not far away.

Then it will be difficult for them to earn money in the future, and now Wu Julan doesn't want her daughter to spend money lavishly.

"They sell it cheaper than us," Wu Julan asked Xiao Hong worriedly, "How about we lower the price too?"

Xiao Hong already knew in her heart that there will be more and more people doing business in the future, and the competition will become more and more fierce. Now she is not too shocked to hear the news: "What do they sell?"

"It also sells stewed pig's head meat, stewed pig's trotters, as well as stewed beef and roast chicken." Zhao Laosi saw that his wife had already said it, so he simply said it carefully: "It is the one who followed us to sell stewed pigs into the water. The store opened by my family, I heard that they specially invited old masters to teach them, which is cheaper than ours by [-] cents a catty."

Xiao Hong thought for a while before saying, "I personally suggest that our family can't lower the price."

"Prices are rising fast now. If our prices go down, it will not be easy to go up."

She vaccinated them first: "According to the current situation, I am afraid that prices will rise again next year."

"Besides, the location of our house is good, and the taste is good. After all, there are not many people in the town who are willing to spend money. The bosses on our street are also willing."

She reckoned that most of these bosses already had million-dollar households.

It was their family and the uncle's family that held them back and embarrassing their tens of thousands of bosses.

However, most people nowadays dare not publicize because of the events of those special times, for fear of being targeted.

"Even if we sell less lo mei, we can still earn some money for lunch and dinner."

"I'll think about other ways."

Zhao Laosi has been brainwashed by his mother long ago, and firmly believes that he can have so much money now because of the fortune brought by Xiao Hong.

Now Xiao Hong is very willing to listen to what Xiao Hong said, but instead comforted her: "Don't worry, our family now has its own house, even if we pay off the money, there will be more than 1000 left, plus we open a shop We can still earn money, which is enough for us to live on.”

When Xiao Hong heard what he said, she couldn't help but smile: "Uncle is right, we can only be happy when we are content."

But she felt that 1000 yuan was not much.

Although now a piece of Da Tuan can buy six catties of meat, which can be eaten for a week.

But the last time she went to the city, she heard people in the hospital say that a sandwich in a western food restaurant costs 30 yuan, a steak costs 300 yuan, and a first-class seat in the Hyatt Hotel costs [-] yuan. .

There are also refrigerators, TV sets, washing machines, etc., each costing thousands of dollars.

There are also mobile phones and telephones, either thousands or tens of thousands.

Therefore, when households with ten thousand yuan are rich, there are still some bigwigs with tens of millions.

She still wants to go to the provincial capital to buy a house, so she naturally wants to take advantage of the holiday to see if there is any way to make money.

Yanyan rolled her eyes cleverly at them, and said in a sensible way: "Then I don't want new clothes. After the elder sister came, she already bought several for me."

"But it's for summer and autumn." Xiao Hong touched the little girl's slippery face: "My sister hopes that you will have good grades, and you will be rewarded according to this year's standard every year in the future."

Xiao Hong didn't know at the moment, but because of the way she encouraged, Yanyan wanted to take the No.1 exam every time.

So much so that she got used to studying hard later, and they didn't have to worry about her academic performance.

The guests left after eating, and only two bosses made reservations for the evening meal. Xiao Fang stepped forward to make a note, collected the deposit, and then started to clean up the dishes with Yanyan.

Xiao Hong began to look at the ledger.

I haven't looked at the account book for almost ten days because of the exam.

Looking at it now, I found that what my stepfather said was true. The addition of a lo mei shop had a great influence on them.

In the past, the net income of the store, not counting the stewed chicken, could be fifty or sixty yuan, and the net income of the stewed chicken that belonged to her was also about twenty yuan.

But in these eight days, the income of lo mei has dropped by more than half.

Although there are meals ordered every day, they also eat together, so that although they can earn some money, there will not be too much oil and seasoning.

She also discovered that she actually took a bit too much. She took all the money she earned from the stewed chicken, but the seasoning of the stewed meat was not cheap, and the briquettes were all subsidized by her stepfather and the others.

Thinking of this incident, even Xiao Hong felt that his stepfather was a really nice person, and never said a word about it.

But she is also planning to go to college by herself, so she doesn't want this benefit.

Of course, the premise is that she can be admitted to university.

(End of this chapter)