The Age of Rebirth: Struggle of the Eldest Daughter

Chapter 34 Building Pipeline Lifelines

New Year's Eve the next day.Family rest.

Zeng Meiyue's grocery store was busier in the evening than usual, and there was an endless stream of people buying firecrackers.

Su Manjin and Su Yuhui worked in the store until after seven o'clock in the evening, and the family of four closed the store and went back to the old house for a reunion dinner.

This is the best Spring Festival that Su Jinshun's family has had in the past few years.

Debt free.This is the most intuitive feeling of the Su family.

As the saying goes, money is not everything, but without money is absolutely impossible.

What Zhou Xiuni thinks is that this year the family's foreign debts have been paid off, and there is no need to avoid people when buying some meat and vegetables for the Spring Festival.

Su Yutian had a broken leg and couldn't go out to catch the sea with his father and brother, but when the neighbors came to deliver seafood, he could also help with weighing and sorting while sitting.With the 6.6% shares distributed by his niece, he is also a person with income!Although most of the income is kept by my parents, I finally have some money in my pocket!
Su Yuwen went out to learn decoration skills. At the beginning, he could only work as a small laborer. He didn't earn much money, but seeing the situation at home improved, he also felt much more relaxed.Early in the morning, I happily went to my daughter-in-law's natal home to pick up my wife.

Su Yuhui's family is also happy. The grocery store is doing well, and the income from traveling abroad is also good. In just one and a half months, in addition to paying off her natal family's debts, she also has some savings as working capital.

Su Yumei spent the Spring Festival at her husband's house, and Zhang Jinghuang came to invite someone early in the morning on New Year's Eve, so Su Yumei went home with her husband.This year, she has some personal money in her hands, and she has more confidence when she returns to her husband's house.

For the past one and a half months, Su Yumei learned to read and speak Mandarin with Zeng Meiyue every night. The two often listened to Su Manjin tell stories outside, and she couldn't help but yearn for it.

She thought that when she saved more money, she would be able to help her husband share some of the burden after she had a baby, and maybe she could go out to other provinces with her husband, so it would be good to see the world.

The family was reunited and after a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, Su Manjin took Su Jinyang to the yard to set off children's firecrackers.

According to folk customs, the night before the New Year is to keep the year old.On New Year's Eve, the family gathers together, and all the houses are lit with candles, which is called "lighting waste". It is said that after such lighting, the wealth of the family will be enriched in the coming year.

Zhou Xiuni and Zeng Meiyue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lit candles on all the desks in the house.The family guards the "year-old fire", bids farewell to the old and welcomes the new, waiting for the arrival of the new year.

After twelve o'clock, it is the first day of the new year.When the door is opened and the firecrackers are set off, it means that the door is opened and the new year begins.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Su Manjin and Su Jinyang put on new clothes and obediently greeted the elders.

"Grandpa and grandma, happy new year! I wish you good health and all the best, and our family is safe and auspicious!"

"Mom and Dad, Happy New Year! May the new year be blessed with auspicious stars, prosperous business and abundant wealth!"

"Second Uncle, Second Aunt, Younger Uncle, Happy New Year! I wish you good luck in the New Year, and wish you success!"

The two little dolls were like pouring beans, saying all kinds of blessings, and the elders looked at the siblings lovingly.

"After the new year, Xiaoman is ten years old, and Xiaoyang is six years old. Time flies so fast." Su Jinshun couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The siblings accepted several big red envelopes from the elders with a smile.

"Grandpa, sister said that I am five years old this year, not six." Xiao Jinyang corrected his grandfather.

Zeng Meiyue smiled and said, "Xiaoyang, what your elder sister said is real age, and what grandpa said is false age."

Xiao Jinyang immediately turned to look at his sister: "Sister, what's the difference between real age and false age?"

Su Manjin answered the curious baby: "The imaginary age is 1 year old when you are born, and one year is added every Spring Festival after that. The actual age is the age you have reached since the day you were born."

Su Jinyang obediently put the red envelope into his coat pocket, and made a cute face at Su Manjin again:)
"Sister, happy new year! I wish you a happy new year, more beautiful, and your dreams come true!" After speaking, she handed her little hand in front of her sister, making several elders laugh.

Su Manjin looked at her younger brother's mischievous and money-hungry appearance, and cheerfully gave him the red envelope prepared in his pocket.

Xiao Jinyang didn't expect her sister to actually give him a red envelope, and jumped up on the spot: "Yeah~ my sister also gave me a red envelope~~"

The happy little appearance made the whole family raise their mouths.

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According to rural customs, on the first day of the first lunar month, except for giving red envelopes to juniors, generally no money will be paid out.

There were no customers, so Zeng Meiyue simply closed the shop and concentrated on preparing offerings with Zhou Xiuni, and had to go to the ancestral hall to pay respects to the ancestors on the morning of the first day of the new year.

The three Su Yuhui brothers sat and chatted with the cousins ​​who came to visit, and Su Jinshun was also on the side, chatting with the nephews from time to time.

Su Jinyang had already gone somewhere to play with his friends in the village.

Although Su Manjin also enjoys a carefree rest time, she still has one more important thing to do.

She sat in front of the desk, and took out her final exam prize from her schoolbag—the notebook, which was also her account book.

She carefully calculated last year's income, and took advantage of her spare time to reorganize her plans and budget for the new year.

There are a lot of data written horizontally and vertically in the notebook. If someone looks at it carefully at this time, they will be surprised: Isn’t this the prototype of an excel table?

Who would have thought that a ten-year-old girl could sum up plans and final accounts so smoothly.

After careful calculation, Su Manjin found that her income for this month and a half was quite a lot, and she wrote it down in detail on the summary page.

Summary of income in 1998 (as of February 1999, 2, New Year's Eve):

1. Personal income from traveling to the sea (100%): starting from the 2652th day of the [-]th lunar month, [-] yuan.

2. The family's sea-going share (20%): 5245 yuan starting from the [-]th day of the [-]th lunar month.

3. Neighborhood supply share (60%): from the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, 3876 yuan.

4. Restaurant cooperation share (20%): 8250 yuan at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month.

5. Real estate cooperation share (30%): 0 yuan, not started yet.

Total: 20023 yuan.After deducting expenses and input costs, the balance is 17630 yuan.

Su Manjin opened her "combination box" - a locked cabinet, took out the iron box, and checked that the cash in the box was consistent with the accounts, and then happily hugged the box and the account book.

The books I read in my previous life do not deceive me. "Bucket Carriers" exchange time for money, work for a day, and get a day's wages. Once they stop earning, they will lose their income.

Therefore, instead of being a "bucket carrier" all the time, you have to be a "pipeline builder" and use your time outside of work to repair pipelines. Once the pipeline is completed, you will have a steady stream of income.

Time freedom and financial freedom will be achieved at that time.What a wonderful purpose in life!

Su Manjin looked at her income summary.

I earn the least income from going to the sea, because I don’t go often, and I go to the beach with Su Xiaosheng from time to time as a way to relax, and to find some good things by the way, this income is the most unreliable.

The family’s share of income from catching the sea is good, because the grandfather, father, and aunt don’t stop all day, and they go twice when encountering high tides, so they contribute this part of the income to themselves.

This income does not need to be contributed by oneself, it is a good channel for oneself.But for the family, they are "bucket carriers".It seems that I have to re-plan for my family.

The neighbors share the supply, this income is a good channel for myself and my family.Utilizing the channel resources of the restaurant, the supply method is simple, the time spent is not much, and the profit is quite considerable.

The income from the restaurant cooperation is considered to be the most impressive in this period of time.This income is based on my advanced knowledge. I don’t need to participate in the daily operation of the technical shares. I just need to help Wang Chunfeng in the promotion of dishes and the expansion of restaurants in the later stage. It is a good channel.

It seems that we still need to continue to build multiple lifelines!Tomorrow, I will go back to my mother's house with my mother, and then I will find a chance to chat with my uncles.

(End of this chapter)