good old days

Chapter 490 Rent
  When we returned to Stone Alley, a crowd of people gathered around the entrance of the courtyard.

Ding Lanhua, Wu Hongmei's mother-in-law at the front, was also in the crowd.

The guys kept talking to each other about the goods in the yard, and asked where Wang Sumei's shop was.

Seeing Jiang Xinyu, Ding Lanhua grabbed her arm and said, "Aren't you selling hair flowers? Why did you switch to selling dried fruits? Did Duoduo's father contact you for these goods?"

Jiang Xinyu pulled her arm back hard, speechless in her heart. Did she think she was stupid?
  "It's enough for you to sell large intestine flowers at this diagonal street. We won't compete with you for business."

These words were said so straightforwardly that Ding Lanhua's face was filled with sarcasm.

Someone answered: "Lao Ding is not the only one now. There is a little daughter-in-law in Xinghua Hutong who is very clever with her hands. I don't know where she got the beads. She sewed them into very fashionable hair. Now she sells them on the street. There are quite a few people with flowers on their heads.”

Ding Lanhua was not in a good mood. She had researched how to sew large intestine flowers. Her business was good before, but since three more companies selling large intestine flowers appeared, it has become difficult for her to do business.

It was sold for just over one yuan last Saturday, which is much worse than before. Although I still make money, the gap is a bit big.

Wang Sumei quit, but now she is not so happy. Seeing that the goods being brought in were all brought by trucks, she felt like a stick was twisting in her heart.

Jiang Xinyu was not surprised at all. The technology of large intestine flower is not very high. If you want to become bigger and stronger, you have to learn from the future Yiwu Small Jewelry Wholesale City, otherwise you will have to face Ding Lanhua's current situation.

Ding Changhai came back from wandering around by himself in the evening. Wang Sumei waited for him to come back and served him some cut noodles.

"Brother Changhai, how was your shopping?"

Ding Changhai swallowed the noodles and shook his head, "Our place is still not as good as the capital. The things sold on the streets are more diverse than ours. There is everything in the market. I have been dazzled these days. For the time being, I haven’t seen anything interesting yet.”

Chen Yi reassured: "Don't worry, you can still do your old job, just do well in the field you are most familiar with first." With more varieties, you can definitely build a supermarket.

Ding Changhai nodded, "I think so too, but I have to go to the Northeast a few years ago. When I come back, we can talk about cooperation."

When Ding Changhai took Song Yahui back to the guest house, Wang Sumei said: "Today Duoduo's mother is here again. She has been suffering from a bruise and swollen face for the past few days. She is dressed in rags and walks with a limp. She looks really pitiful. Duoduo, he The same goes for dad. Isn’t it normal for a mother to miss her child?”

"Mom, are you mistaken? Uncle Luo didn't hit Duoduo's mother with a bruised nose and face. What does her pity have to do with Uncle Luo?"

Jiang Xinyu met Liu Fengxi the day before yesterday. The woman looked timid and pitiful, but the eyes that flickered from time to time made her feel that she was not as honest as she appeared.

Wang Sumei was stunned by what she said. When she thought about it, she really thought that she had gone astray.

Duoduo's mother, with her bruised face, kept asking for a child, looking very pitiful.

"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten about this incident. She said that if she didn't return to her daughter, her man would beat her to death. No, why would her man want Duo Duo to go back?"

Wang Sumei couldn't figure it out, and Chen Yi and Jiang Xinyu didn't know the inside story, so they couldn't tell anything. She thought seriously for a long time but couldn't come up with anything.

Jiang Xinyu saw that the corners of the child's mouth were stained by Chen Yi's egg custard, and wiped the corners of the child's mouth with paper.

"Mom, Yan Yan ate a chicken cake soaked in hot water at noon. He likes it. I will buy him some more tomorrow."

Wang Sumei disagreed: "Eat less sweets, otherwise you will get tooth decay. Wait for two days before buying more."

Jiang Xinyu took out the payment for the goods sold today and took out her account book to start accounting.

Every income and expenditure is not omitted in the account book, and the accounts are clear.

Wang Sumei didn't expect that it would open today and sell more than [-] yuan. She couldn't be more surprised.

She thought to herself that if today's trend continued, their raisins would definitely not fall into their hands. Seeing that her mother-in-law was happy, Jiang Xinyu didn't mention to her that foreign boys accounted for a large portion of today's sales.

"Build a small bed and put it behind the counter and put a mattress on it. From now on, I can take the child and sleep there when he can nap in the shop."

Chen Yi has naturally thought of what Wang Sumei said. Not only that, he also wants to move. Shitou Hutong is not particularly close to the school and the market. He wants to either find a yard near the school or find a house near the Dongfeng Market, at least two You have to get close to one end, otherwise all your time will be wasted on the road.

Song Yahui and the warehouse must also be arranged properly.

As Wang Sumei spoke, she picked up the account book written by Jiang Xinyu and almost fainted when she saw the rent was forty per month.

Forty a month is four hundred and eighty a year.

Not everyone with a formal job has a salary of forty yuan a month.

"This is too high." She covered her heart.

Chen Yidao: "Mom, there aren't many vacancies in the market originally. Our shop was vacated by the barber shop that moved out. It's very popular. There are so many people in the market, we can make money back in a month no matter what."

Wang Sumei frowned and looked at the accounts and made a rough estimate. All in all, the store invested nearly [-] yuan.

There is no doubt that this is a huge sum of money.

If you can sell [-] yuan a day, can you make back the money in less than two months?
  I hope everything goes smoothly.

Wang Sumei still went to sleep in the courtyard. Although there was no room in the courtyard, she was afraid of being stolen if she didn't guard the goods.

Chen Yi hugged the child and coaxed him to sleep, and gently put him back on the bed. He turned around and saw her flipping through information, and said in a low voice: "It's not good for your eyes, go to sleep."

She shook her head, "No, it's almost due. I have to hurry up. I have to go to school tomorrow. I have to ask the teacher about some unfamiliar words."

The small reading materials she created have been temporarily put aside, and the translation task at hand must be completed quickly.

"I'll help you."

She hesitated for a moment and then nodded. She had accumulated a lot of medical terms since she started translating. Although some terms were not used in life, she felt that they were hers once they were remembered. There was no harm in learning more.

"Mark the nouns that you are not sure about, and copy some of the more unusual ones that you understand and put them aside for me."

There were several drafts before the final translation came out.

By the time the two of them finished, it was already two hours later.

After tidying up, and just about to go to sleep, the child started crying again.

Chen Yi probed skillfully and found that the diaper was wet.

Jiang Xinyu was quite convinced. As long as her child peed after half a year old, no matter whether he was awake or asleep, he would definitely cry. After cleaning up, he would stop automatically.

He seemed to be saying: Shit and urine must not stay on my body for more than three minutes!

How could there be such a fussy baby who doesn't know anything but knows how to make people tidy him up?

(End of this chapter)