Return to the small mountain village in 1986

After laying out the goods at the counter, Gao Mingcheng asked Song Jinzhang to go back first because it was closed today.

He took a game console and some game cartridges, closed the door, and was ready to find Mao Zi.

One advantage of renting a counter in a shopping mall is that there are gatekeepers within the mall. Even if Gao Mingcheng puts the TV and game consoles here, the security is pretty good.

When he passed by, it was already eleven o'clock in the morning. There were only four or five people playing billiards in the billiard room. Maozi was chatting with them. If anyone wanted snacks or cigarettes, he was also responsible for selling them.

In addition, Maozi also sells rice.

Naturally, he didn't cook the rice, but Monkey's mother and sister cooked it. Ever since Monkey entered the bureau, Maozi and his younger brother Yangyang have been eating together with Monkey's mother and sister. The two families have a close relationship and often visit each other.

"Brother Mingcheng! I gave you the account book last time, and I didn't know you were going to buy goods." After Mao Zi saw Gao Mingcheng coming, he immediately stepped forward with a smile.

Mao Zi's sharp eyes soon saw what Gao Mingcheng was holding. He instinctively felt that it must be some novel gadget, and there was a curious look in his eyes.

After Gao Mingcheng noticed it, he handed over the game console directly and said: "I rented a counter in the mall to sell this game console. This game console is called Xiaobawang. It is divided into two parts. One is the game console. The main body, one is the cassette. Only after inserting the cassette can you play games. Different cassettes have different games. I will send you a game console and I will bring various cassettes."

"As for you, you are responsible for learning to play these games and then introducing them to the customers in the store. You can let them play two games for free first. If they want to continue playing, they can play for 50 cents for an hour! If they want to buy a new game console, Just let them come to the mall to buy it.”

Gao Mingcheng took apart a game console while talking, and then asked Maozi to move his TV upstairs.

If there is no TV as a screen, the game console cannot be played.

Maozi didn't hesitate and immediately went upstairs to move his second-hand color TV down. After assembling it, Gao Mingcheng began to teach Maozi how to play games.

When the sound of the game sounded, it immediately attracted the attention of many people. The few guests who were playing billiards couldn't help but put down their cues and looked here curiously.

Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng also called those people to come over and take a look.

The interface of the game is Contra, which is the most classic game and is also men’s favorite game. Its appeal is unparalleled!
Gao Mingcheng introduced the gameplay and game background to everyone while operating.

This exciting and novel game immediately aroused everyone's interest. Not to mention Mao Zi, even the customers in the store also expressed their desire to play.

It is said that the customer is God. Of course, God should play first. Gao Mingcheng let the customer play the game console.

However, Gao Mingcheng didn't leave. He just guided them around and introduced his business.

Billiard room patrons apparently took well to paying to play on the gaming machines.

Because they come to play billiards, they also have to spend money. There are two ways to pay for the billiard table, one is based on time, and the other is based on the number of sets.

It's just that when playing billiards, you can bring a few partners to play together. The price of the pool table is fixed, but the number of partners can be unlimited. In this way, whether someone is treating you or everyone is sharing the table, the money spent by each person is not the same. many.

But when it comes to playing game consoles, everyone who plays has to spend money.

However, the sense of participation in playing game consoles is obviously higher, and it makes people feel more spiritually happy.

Because there was only one game console, but many people wanted to play it, someone asked Gao Mingcheng to bring a few more.

Gao Mingcheng was too lazy to walk back and forth, and besides, there weren't that many TV sets. So I told them to let them play for free today, and if they want to play tomorrow, they will have to pay.

After hearing this, they immediately abandoned billiards and prepared to take turns playing games.

Gao Mingcheng warned: "Everyone plays two games, be careful with your hands and feet, and don't break it. If you break it, you will be compensated for the original price!"

"Hey, I see."

Seeing that their attention was focused on the game console, Gao Mingcheng pulled Maozi aside.

Mao Zi's eyes were still lingering on the game screen. It wasn't until Gao Mingcheng spoke that he came back to his senses.

"Ah? The wife of Manager Song from the department store? Oh, I know, I will ask someone to keep an eye on her."

Although Mao Zi didn't understand why Gao Mingcheng did this, the boss said that his subordinates should just get things done!
There are funds to work for Gao Mingcheng, and Mao Zi can also take care of his brothers who are not doing their jobs properly.

Gao Mingcheng is relieved to leave the tracking matters to Mao Zi. This is called leaving professional matters to professionals!

After saying this, Gao Mingcheng looked around the store and saw that there were indeed some empty seats, so he pointed to the place near the socket and said: "Go to a furniture store and buy a long table and some stools. If there is nothing suitable, ask a carpenter to make a long table, not too wide, just 40 centimeters wide, and place it against the wall, as long as it can accommodate a few TVs. "

"Hey, okay." Maozi nodded and remembered the words.

Gao Mingcheng added: "When the tables and stools are ready, you go to the mall and bring a few more game consoles. Remember the location of my store. If someone wants to buy a brand new one, just call him to the store. Come and buy.”

"Okay." Mao Zi nodded frequently, and then asked Gao Mingcheng to buy the TV or him.

Gao Mingcheng said: "I'll go see if there are suitable second-hand color TVs first, otherwise I will buy a few black and white TVs first. After I buy them, I will send them over."

The price of color TV is still quite high now. Even domestic color TV is very expensive for the average person’s salary. Fortunately, you don’t need a very large screen to play games. A 14-inch screen is good enough. If conditions are not good, a 9-inch black and white TV will also work, but that will affect the gaming experience.

Gao Mingcheng planned to buy a few black-and-white TV sets first. When domestic color TV sets began to compete in price wars in the mid-1990s, he would switch from shotgun to cannon.

Changhong Color TV was most keen on price wars, and because of it, at that time, the ownership rate of color TV sets in urban areas was rising!

After explaining the matter, Gao Mingcheng was ready to leave. Before leaving, he told Mao Zi to take care of the game console and don't let anyone break it.

"I got it, Brother Mingcheng!" Mao Zi continued to nod, and then watched Gao Mingcheng leave.

When Gao Mingcheng's back completely disappeared in the alley, Mao Zi hurriedly walked towards the game console, shouting: "It's my turn to play, it's my turn to play, I haven't even played it yet!"

The people who were playing billiards just now were said to be customers, but they were also friends that Maozi knew, so Maozi was a little anxious and wanted to play two games.

But in the face of novel and exciting games, what does this friendship mean?

Those people just complain that they haven't played long enough, so how could they be willing to let the Russians join?

So someone said: "Maozi, why are you joining in the fun? When we leave, or at night, you can play as much as you like! We will have to spend money to play in the future, but when you get there, you can play for free! Maozi , can you see this store by yourself? Why don’t you tell Boss Gao next time and ask me to come and see the store too?”

"Bah, I think you have bad intentions! Come on, each of you will play two games, and I will be the last to play. Is that okay?"

Mao Zi laughed and cursed, and could only continue to endure it, watching others play. When he saw others making mistakes, he had a look of regret on his face, wishing he could do it himself.

Since then, the Xiaobawang game console has initially attracted attention in the county!

After Gao Mingcheng arranged the matter, he felt relieved.

He drove the car and came to the kindergarten.

His wife and children were all here, so naturally he had to come here. When he passed by, the children in the kindergarten were eating.

In the kitchen, after Hu Yinchen prepared the children's meals, she started cooking the staff meals. The children's meals are large pot dishes. In addition to the children, the employees also eat. However, the employees are adults. Naturally, they cannot only eat light dishes. They must fry two spicy dishes to go with the meal. Like this season, there is no fresh food. There is no chili, but you can add sun-dried chili powder and the flavor will still be sufficient.

At this time, Hu Yinchen was cooking fish. Today she bought a five or six kilogram grass carp. After cleaning it, she marinated it, fried it, stir-fried it with seasonings, and finally boiled it in water for a while, so that the grass carp would be very tasty.

The smell of stewed fish filled the kitchen, making Gao Mingcheng's stomach growl.

In addition to the aroma of stewed fish, there is also the aroma of oil residue. The smell of boiled lard is also quite overbearing and can float far away.

On the table, there is a plate of oil residue with some sugar sprinkled on it, which can be used as a dish or snack.

As soon as Gao Mingcheng saw this oil residue, he knew that lard was boiled in kindergarten today!

For cooking in kindergarten kitchens, lard and soybean oil are the main ingredients. As for rapeseed oil, it has a strong smell. People who like it find it very fragrant, but people who don't like it find it pungent. Children are sensitive to smells, and some children are not. Willing to eat vegetables fried in rapeseed oil.

Gao Mingcheng washed his hands and couldn't wait to pick up a piece of oil residue and eat it.

The oil residue still has a little bit of residual warmth, which makes people feel like they are fragrant after eating.

If it is freshly baked, it will taste even better!
Gao Mingcheng looked around and saw that there was only a small plate of oil residue, so he asked where the other oil residue had gone.

Hu Yinchen said with a smile: "As soon as it came out of the pot, I sprinkled it with sugar and gave it to the children to eat! They all ate deliciously!"

Gao Mingcheng stopped talking after hearing this.

In an era when supplies were scarce, oil residue was a good thing. It could be eaten sprinkled with sugar or fried with chili peppers.

If you don't eat it yourself, you can sell it for money, and someone will collect the oil residue.

However, not many people were willing to sell the oil residue for money. It was in the late 1990s, when everyone's living conditions generally improved, that some people sold the excess oil residue at home in exchange for money.

The money you can exchange for isn’t much, but it counts!

In later generations, the treatment of lard has plummeted. Some people may still eat lard, but few people are willing to touch the lard!
Many people just throw away the oil residue after cooking lard.

Gao Mingcheng took two mouthfuls of the oil residue and stopped eating. Although it was very fragrant, he didn't lack oil and water in his stomach, so he didn't eat much.

Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu are not here, they are obviously in the classroom.

It would be a while before Hu Yinchen was cooking, so Gao Mingcheng was going to see how the children were eating.

Looking from the window, the children were eating their meals obediently under the teacher's instructions. Children in the kindergarten class used spoons to eat, while those in preschool class could use chopsticks.

The children's dishes are two dishes and one soup, one meat and one vegetable. The soup is either bone soup or seaweed and egg soup.

What we prepared today was bone and winter melon soup. Each child had half a bowl of soup, and there were some minced meat and winter melon slices in the soup.

It is worth mentioning that when Gao Mingcheng was eating winter melon soup in Yangcheng, he found that some stores there made winter melon soup without peeling it, and said that it is nutritious only if it is not peeled!

But Gao Mingcheng is still used to peeling. Gao Mingcheng didn't know that the skin of old winter melon was hard and not nutritious, but he knew that the skin of winter melon had a bad taste.

Duo Mei, He Xiuman and others were in various classes, leading the children to eat.

After the children have finished eating, they can move freely for more than ten minutes, and then they will be arranged to take a nap.

While the children are free to move around, it’s time for the teachers to eat staff meals.

After Gao Mingcheng took a look at the situation in each class, he returned to the backyard and chatted a few words with Grandma Xi, who was sitting under the eaves and basking in the sun.

Grandma Xi is older, but she can't sit still and often helps with things. However, the weather has changed recently. She has a cold and coughs from time to time. Hu Yinchen won't let her go to the kitchen to help with things anymore.

Coughs are contagious, and the saliva produced during coughing can also contaminate food. Therefore, Hu Yinchen, who has certain medical knowledge, made the right decision.

Gao Mingcheng asked about Grandma Xi's physical condition and asked her if she had gone to the doctor or bought medicine.

Grandma Xin smiled and looked extremely kind.

"I've seen the doctor and bought some medicine. Don't worry, Mingcheng, it's not a big problem." Grandma Xi is still very confident in her body. Although she has a slight cough, she doesn't have a headache and she doesn't lose strength.

So this is just a minor problem, just take some medicine, even if you don't take any medicine.

Originally, Grandma Xi thought there was no need to take medicine, but He Xiuman persuaded her to go to the doctor and buy medicine because there were many children in the kindergarten.

Now that she has taken the medicine for two days in a row, Grandma Xi feels almost better, except that she still coughs occasionally.

Gao Mingcheng was in a good mood as he listened to Grandma Xi's words.

He said jokingly: "Grandma, my second child is still waiting for you to help take care of it. You must take care of your health. By the way, when are Gao Zhuang and Xiuman planning to have a second child?"

Strange to say, as soon as Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman got married, He Xiuman became pregnant within a month!

In October, when the melons were ripe and the stems fell, little Yuanyuan was born!

But now, Gao Mingcheng has his youngest son, but Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman have been silent.

Before there was any awareness of contraception, many people had one child after another. It is common to have five or six children, and seven or eight children is not uncommon.

Of course, not many can feed them all.

It was later that family planning was introduced, so people no longer had one child after another, but ordinary people still chose to have two children.

In his previous life, Gao Zhuang blocked a knife for him, but unfortunately died young and did not marry a wife and have children. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng did not know when Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman would have a second child, and whether there would be a second child.

When this topic was brought up, a trace of melancholy flashed through Grandma Xiao's eyes, but she still had a smile on her face and said relaxedly: "It's not urgent. As long as the two of them are healthy and have a good relationship, they will have children sooner or later. I'll give it to you first. You can take care of your children, and you can take care of them as well!”

Gao Mingcheng laughed when he heard this.

At this time, many beauties came over from the teaching building.

She heard Gao Mingcheng's laughter and asked what they were talking about.

But the person following Duo Mei was none other than He Xiuman, so Gao Mingcheng said it was nothing, and Grandma Xi also said they just chatted a few words.

Mentioning the matter of a second child in front of He Xiuman would inevitably give off a feeling of urging her to give birth, which would make He Xiuman feel pressured.

Grandma Xi is really good at being a good person, and she is not as patriarchal as most people. She will not force He Xiuman to get pregnant and give birth to a son quickly. When taking care of Xiao Yuanyuan, she is still enthusiastic and attentive. (End of chapter)