good old days

Ding Changhai didn't take all the 6,000 yuan worth of fabric to sell in other cities at once. He had been doing business without incident for so many years because he put caution first.

After taking a car to the next city to find out the situation of the big factory, he took his wife and brother on his back and carried sixty pieces of cut cloth on his back.

He didn't open a guest house or go to a restaurant to eat. He slept like a homeless man in an inconspicuous place outside the factory area's family compound until it got dark. Then he hid half of the cloth and carried a bag with thirty pieces of cloth to the door of the family compound. .

Thirty pieces of two-meter cloth are not heavy. If someone comes, he can just pick up the things and run away. Nothing will happen to the custodian and the things will be indispensable. If he is in trouble, Jiang Xinyu will not lose much, and he can easily explain it.

"The defective ones in the southern factory are really good for sale. If you want to buy, come and take a look. There are not many, so don't post tickets. It's first come, first served!"

With a shout, many people burst out first.

The weather in April is no longer cold. Most of the people in the Tongzi Building are idle at the moment, and some are gathering together downstairs to talk.

People gather quickly, and Ding Changhai and Ding Changhai were quickly surrounded.

With the flashlight shining on it, everyone started to touch it. After touching it, they all nodded, "It's really good."

"Each horse is two meters long. No tickets are required. It costs sixteen yuan per horse. No bargaining. I have a total of sixty horses on hand. I don't have any more. First come, first served!"

Jiang Xinyu's suggested retail price was two meters and a half. Ding Changhai thought it was cheap, so he directly increased the price to sixteen meters.

In the supply and marketing cooperative, the price of a good-quality women's shirt starts at 4.5, and there is also a cloth ticket. A women's shirt uses about three feet of fabric, and a fat person can only use feet of fabric at most. How do you calculate the cost of buying fabric to make clothes? Good deal.

He can calculate, and so can others. Everyone's eyes are red when they stare at the cloth, but it is still cheaper.

Surely good, this is really good. There are good things that you may not be able to buy in the supply and marketing cooperatives. The clothes can be worn for seventy or eighty years without breaking. They are passed down from generation to generation as family heirlooms. No one wears really good clothes when they go out. Is it a good item that I only wear at the bottom of my box?

Ding Changhai rolled his eyes, "One horse is sixteen, two horses are thirty-one."

Some people are still hesitating, some have already run home to get money and are ready to make a move, and some want to team up and buy two horses for a dollar less.

Ding Changhai brought a total of thirty horses, and they were sold out in less than twenty minutes.

Those who didn't buy it stopped, and the two hurriedly sold the remaining thirty horses.

By the time they're sold out, it's just getting dark.

Both of them planned to wander around the city for two days to get rid of the goods before going back. Who would have expected to sell it so quickly.

Ding Changhai marveled in his heart that indeed Liang was so easy to sell.

The two grown men slept like homeless people in a haystack on the roadside with more than 900 yuan in their pockets. They waited until dawn to buy tickets and return to the county to prepare for the next trip.

Ding Changhai was working hard here, and Jiang Xinyu's family welcomed someone who wanted to rent a storefront.

This is not the first person who wants to rent a house, but he is the one who Jiang Xinyu and Wang Sumei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law think they can rent the house to.

Previously, a man who wanted to open an aquatic product store asked them to reduce their rent by 300 yuan, which he could use to renovate the house and improve water and electricity.

The reduction can be reduced, but the matter-of-fact attitude made both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law very unhappy. They also mentioned that the previous store was a coffin shop, and if it was unlucky, no one would rent it. The words were so unpleasant, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law simply refused. . The man named Wu in front of me wanted to open a restaurant, and he also asked for an appropriate rent reduction. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gave in to one hundred yuan. The tenant named Wu also said that if he wanted to sign a contract, he would rent for three years.

Jiang Xinyu did not let him control her, and made a request for a 30% rent increase in the third year. As for the fourth year and beyond, we will discuss it separately.

No one in the market rented a shop to help them share the decoration costs, and this year's rent plus management fee increased to 800 from the market management office.

The two parties reached a consensus, and the contract was written clearly in black and white. After signing her name and fingerprinting, Jiang Xinyu received the first year's rent of 900 yuan, and at the same time she gave the key out.

After the person left, Wang Sumei still felt a little uncomfortable.

"The rent of our shop has increased, but we haven't been able to open it for the past few months. Thinking about it, we are losing money."

Eight hundred yuan a year, if you don’t work in the past few months, won’t it be a total loss?

"It's okay. We have gained experience this year. If we buy more goods, we can earn back tenfold."

Goods are the foundation. Without goods, you can’t make a penny.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking, and Song Yahui, who had gone to the transportation company to shamelessly learn to drive, came back.

"How was your study today? Did you touch the car?"

Song Yahui first poured a jar of cold water, and then said proudly: "The hard work pays off. I have been riding for Brother Sheng for more than half a month. I was the one who took care of his father when he was hospitalized. It's unreasonable not to ask me to touch the car again."

Song Yahui went to the transportation company to pester Zhao Sheng to learn how to drive for a while. When he came back from his hometown, he happily went to Zhao Sheng's house to learn skills from his teacher with a gift in hand.

It is not so easy for truck drivers to teach apprentices to teachers who starve to death. They all know that there is a lot of money in this industry and their jobs are not secure. Who wants to have one more person competing with them for jobs?

Song Yahui has been pestering Zhao Sheng for almost a month. They didn't pay much attention to him a while ago. Although they talked and laughed with him on the surface, they just refused to teach him how to drive. If Zhao Sheng's father hadn't been hospitalized and he didn't have time to serve him, and his wife's pregnant belly allowed him to take advantage of this opportunity, he wouldn't have known that Zhao Sheng would let him sit in the passenger seat and teach him when he went to buy goods. Drive.

Song Yahui's eyebrows were beaming, "I don't think it's difficult to drive. Just let me drive a few more times to make sure I can get on the road safely."

"When I learn to drive, I will also find a way to learn to repair cars."

Having many skills does not overwhelm the body, and it can also be used as a cooking skill. Song Yahui feels that he can learn a lot of things at such a young age.

Wang Sumei was also happy for him when she saw him like this. She felt that the baby was growing vigorously like a willow sprouting and turning green by the roadside.

The sky was clear and the breeze was gentle. The dogs were chasing the kittens in the yard. Jiang Yan's mouth was drooling as he watched the cats and dogs chasing after the kittens.

Jiang Xinyu raised her chin to her mother-in-law, telling her to look at Jiang Yan.

Her child usually doesn't make noises and can sit quietly and play by himself. Whenever he is so quiet, she thinks he is a little old man, not like a child who doesn't understand anything at all. At this time, he is smiling. Her mouth was watering, and she thought he was just a kid with not all his teeth.

She was definitely not like this when she was a child, and the child's personality definitely didn't follow hers.

Half a month later, Jiang Xinyu's family received a barrel of sesame oil, a bottle of sesame paste, a large barrel of cooking oil, half a sack of sweet potato powder and 9,600 yuan from Ding Changhai.