Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 547: Sometimes loss is gain

Liu Guangfu followed behind. He was not fat or strong, but rather thin. He was wearing the same blue khaki cotton-padded jacket as most people.

His hands were shrunk in the sleeves of his cotton-padded jacket, his face was a little pale from the cold, his eyes were cunning, and he always pretended to be submissive, as if he was very courageless and cowardly.

In fact, the calculation in his heart is no less than that of Liu Guangtian.

He just said something to deliberately run against Liu Guangtian, just because he didn't want to help buy food.

Did he know that Liu Guangtian would not give him the money easily after buying the food?

It's true that they are brothers, but since they grew up together, others may not know Liu Guangtian well, but he, as his younger brother, knows it very well.

If you want to get money from Liu Guangtian, it will be even harder than going to heaven.

Liu Guangfu wouldn't do anything about losing money.

Following Liu Guangtian into the grain station, Liu Guangfu was immediately stunned. His eyes were as big as copper bells. He looked at the people who kept coming in and out, and he was speechless for a moment.

Liu Guangtian was also stunned by Shen'er, with a look of surprise on his face.

The grain station was overcrowded. The two brothers saw Xu Qing and saw that he was busy. They also saw Yu Li and Yan Jiecheng, a family of three, and also caught a glimpse of Yu Haitang.

Liu Guangtian's thoughts suddenly changed. He glanced at Yan Jiecheng and hummed lowly, guessing that Yan Jiecheng came here not just to buy food and draw a lottery.

But he didn't go over to talk to him. He and Yan Jiecheng had nothing to talk about. They couldn't urinate in the same pot. Although they lived in the same compound, they never had much contact with each other.

Less to work with.

When the compound was cleared of snow last time, Yan Jiecheng took Yu Li and scolded him for a long time in the front yard. He still remembered this matter and would have to settle the score with them sooner or later.

Liu Guangfu behaved as usual, pretending not to notice anyone he didn't want to pay attention to.

Originally standing behind Liu Guangtian, he now walked to the front and squeezed in the crowd. He slowly moved to the counter, took out money and food stamps, and handed them to Xu Qing and Jinghong, regardless of Yu Li standing beside Xu Qing. We chatted for a while and then opened our mouths and said:

"Qingzi, thirty kilograms of stick noodles, just the right amount of money and food stamps, please ask someone to pack it for me quickly. I'm going to draw a lottery."

Liu Guangtian stood on tiptoes outside the crowd, staring at his third brother who suddenly ran ahead. He cursed in his heart, thinking that Liu Guangfu was a villain who followed people's influence. He had just entered the grain station and was in a hurry to buy grain and draw prizes. He was so impatient. What big things can I do in the future?

However, he himself soon joined the crowd.

Xu Qing stood at the counter and was not surprised at all by the arrival of Li's family and the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu.

There were people from almost every house in the courtyard today, and he could guess what everyone was thinking without even thinking.

I have almost the same idea as others. While buying food, I can also draw a prize. It is best to win the first prize so that I can get a motorcycle to go back.

And this is actually the result Xu Qing wants to see.

This is the purpose of his activities.

The more people come to the store to buy food, the more prosperous the business will be, and the more he can make money to support his family.

Profitability of food is thin and depends on quantity.

If there are not many people coming to the door all day long, then his grain station will close down.

As for winning the jackpot.

He wasn't worried at all.

There is only one first prize, and there are many second and third prizes.

But now that his motorcycle is gone, the third prize is void.

This morning, seven or eight people won the second prize, and seven or eighty kilograms of white flour were given away.

But if you sell more, there is no such thing as losing money.

Business is about the long term, not just one day's gains and losses.

As the saying goes, sometimes losing means making money.

The truth lies in this subtlety.

Xu Qing didn't pay much attention to the entangled Yu Li. There were so many people and the business was so busy that he didn't have time to chat with her.

In the evening, Shazhu came and bought some food.

Silly Zhu was happy and in high spirits. After tidying up the house in the morning, he pushed his bicycle to visit his sister and brother-in-law's family. He wanted to go home at this time, so he came over. After buying the food, he also won a prize and followed Yu Lihe. The two sisters Yu Haitang, as well as the two brothers Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu, failed to win. They laughed without any dissatisfaction and said to Xu Qing:

"Qingzi, it's almost getting dark. Why don't you and Jinghong get off work early today?"

Xu Qing lowered his head and glanced at the radar watch on his wrist. It was really past six o'clock in the evening. He looked around the grain station and saw that there were not many people coming in. Most of them had bought grain and were leaving. He looked at After a tiring day, my sister Xiaoya, my daughter-in-law Jinghong, Sanhuzi’s daughter-in-law, Meijuan, Hui Lihua and others thought:

"Jinghong, you, Xiaoya and the others should get off work. There's not many people around. It's New Year's Day today. Jiefang and I will keep an eye on it for a while and then we'll close the door."

Ma Jinghong was indeed tired, her arms were sore and swollen, and she lowered her head and glanced under the counter.

Seeing his son Hongzhi holding the white cat Xiaobai, he didn't know how many sleeps he had slept today. He still had his eyes closed and his body curled up. The tiredness in his heart dissipated a lot in an instant.

It's just that business has been very good these days. She, Xiaoya, Hui Lihua and others have been busy all day long and have no time to rest, and their faces look a little haggard.

Hearing his man's words, a smile appeared on his tired face, he nodded, finished what he was doing, put his arm around his sister-in-law's shoulders and said:

"Xiaoya, don't settle the scores, let Brother You do the rest."

Then he said to Sanhuzi’s wife:

"Sister Wang, you, Meijuan, Lihua, Hongjuan, Xiuying, Shuzhen, please stop being busy. Let's get off work. Go back early and have a good rest."

Hui Lihua, Luo Hongjuan, Wu Xiuying, and Li Shuzhen were all unable to hold on any longer. Before they came to work at the grain station, they had hardly done any high-intensity and tiring work.

In fact, buying food is not too tiring, but there are more people and they are busy all the time, which makes them a little unbearable.

Sanhuzi's wife and Meijuan had done all kinds of work, but they couldn't hold on anymore. When they heard Xu Qing and Jinghong asked them to get off work, they straightened up and kept massaging the lower back with their right hands.

Before Xu Qing's motorcycle was published in the newspaper, the two of them, Hui Lihua and the others had a leisurely life every day.

But when I suddenly became busy, I continued for several days, and my body and bones could not adjust back to the state of regular labor.

Sanhuzi's wife said apologetically:

"Shopkeeper, if you don't want Jinghong, Xiaoya, and Meijuan to leave first, I'll help you guard them for a while."

Xu Qing waved his hand and smiled, "Sister Wang, don't hold on. Today is New Year's Day. If you are tired and something happens, I'm afraid that Sanhuzi will not be done with me. You can follow my sister, my wife and the others and go back from get off work together now. Come back early." Rest at home.”

When Sanhuzi's wife heard this, a smile appeared on her dark face, "Nacheng, shopkeeper, I listen to you and Jinghong."

As Sanhuzi's wife said, she took off the sleeves on her arms, folded them, and packed up her things with Meijuan, Hui Lihua and others.

Silly Zhu touched the big vat for the lottery and said to Xu Qing:

"Qingzi, what about you? Brother, I'll wait for you for a while, and then I'll take your wife back first. If there is any misunderstanding on the way, I won't be responsible for that, brother."

Xu Qing saw that Sha Zhu was in a really good mood today and had the time to tease himself, so he smiled and said:

"Brother Silly Zhu, if you want to have dinner at Yuyu's house, then stay with me for a while. If you haven't eaten yet, then go home quickly. My wife came here on a bicycle today, and my son is here, so there's no need. That's your bicycle."

Silly Zhu grinned and said, "Qingzi, your Hongzhi didn't go back? Why didn't I see them? Where are the others?"

Silly Zhu turned his head and looked around.

"Brother Silly Zhu, stop looking. My son is asleep at the counter."

Silly Zhu leaned down on the counter, looked inside, and suddenly said with joy:

"Qingzi, your Hongzhi is really capable. Jinghong brought him over to help him early in the morning. It's better for him to learn to be lazy and not go back. He has to hide at the counter and sleep."

Ma Jinghong walked to Xu Qing and said to Shazhu: "Brother Qing, I'll stay and watch with you, and let Brother Yuzhu take our son back first."

Xu Qing thought it was okay and looked up at Silly Zhu.

Shazhu straightened up from the counter, picked up the 30-pound arm noodle that Sanhuzi's wife had packed for him with his right hand and said:

"Qingzi, Jinghong is right. I will take your son back to our compound first, and you two will return slowly later."

After Silly Zhu finished speaking, he turned around and was about to take the grain to the outside of the grain station and put it on his bicycle. Suddenly he turned around again, slapped the counter hard several times, and said happily:

"Hey, kid, wake up quickly, don't sleep here, come back to our compound with your Uncle He."

Xu Hongzhi was woken up, let go of the clingy Xiaobai in his arms, stood up faintly, and slowly poked his head out of the counter. When he saw that it was Silly Zhu who disturbed his sleep, he flattened the corners of his mouth, dwarfed his body, and retracted back. Squinting and taking a nap under the counter.

After the four Huilihuas and Sanhuzi's daughter-in-law and Meijuan left, Xu Hongzhi rubbed his sleepy eyes and walked out of the grain station. He turned back to Xu Qing and Jinghong and said:

"Dad, Mom, Uncle He and I are going back."

Then he yawned and waved to Xu Xiaoya, Liu Jianjun, and Ma Jiefang:

"Sister-in-law, uncle-in-law, uncle-in-law, I'm leaving."

Xu Hongzhi was still drowsy from his sleep. After speaking, he walked out of the grain station and sat on the back seat of Shazhu's bicycle. He was awakened by the biting cold wind.

"Son, use your hands to hold on to your Uncle He's clothes."

Ma Jinghong stood at the door of the grain station and warned her son that she was afraid that Hongzhi would fall off Shazhu's bicycle while he was half asleep.

Silly Zhu turned his head and looked at Xu Hongzhi. After seeing that he was sitting firmly, he slowly pedaled his bicycle along the lonely and dark street back to the compound.

Ma Jinghong stared at it for a while, then returned to the grain station and said to her sister-in-law who refused to leave:

"Xiaoya, you and Jianjun should go back as well. Your eldest brother, me, and my younger brother will take care of the rest."

"Sister-in-law, I'm not tired. Jianjun and I will get off work with you."

Xu Xiaoya moved the abacus dexterously with her fingers, and the beads on the abacus flew around without raising her head.

Seeing that her persuasion was fruitless, Ma Jinghong had no choice but to ask Xu Qing to persuade her.

Xu Qing looked at his serious-looking sister, frowning slightly, and wanted to open his mouth to persuade, but couldn't bear to disturb her.

Because he felt that his sister looked the most beautiful right now!

Just like when I was a child, I was lying on the edge of the kang at home doing my homework, with my hair hanging down beside my pretty face, my slender eyebrows full of life, and my watery eyes, unblinking and adorable.

Xu Qing turned around and saw that there was no one in the store. There were only two or three customers left. After drawing the prizes, he left and said to Ma Jiefang:

"Liberation, why don't you pack up and go back first, and we'll get off work as soon as Xiaoya finishes settling the accounts."

Ma Jiefang smoked a cigarette to relieve his fatigue, scratched his head, shook his left hand, glanced at the time, and said:

"Brother-in-law, you, my sister, Xiaoya, Jianjun, you should also close the door and go back early,"

Xu Qing raised his hand and took Ma Jiefang's scarf and hat from Jinghong from the counter, and said:

"I know, go home quickly, don't let Yuemei wait and make trouble with you."

Ma Jiefang grabbed the hat and put it on his head, wrapped a scarf around it and said:

"Hey, brother-in-law, I'm not Yan Jiecheng from your compound."

Xu Qing and Liu Jianjun laughed at the same time.

"Fifth sister, brother-in-law, Xiaoya, Jianjun, I'm leaving."

After Ma Jiefang was fully dressed, he waved his newly gloved right hand, stood at the entrance of the grain station, got on his bicycle and left.

At this time, the few customers who participated in the lottery also ran out of prizes.

None of them were lucky enough to win. They walked out of the grain station unwillingly one by one, carrying the grain they bought. They shrunk up, lowered their heads to avoid the wind blowing in their faces, and hurried back to their homes.

At the grain station which had been busy all day, only Xu Qing, Jinghong, Xiaoya and Jianjun were left.

Xu Xiaoya was still settling the accounts, while Xu Qing and Jianjun were busy packing up the other items. They gathered all the buckets in the open noodle bags together and placed them on the right side of the counter. Then they also placed dustpans, scales and other items. piece.

Ma Jinghong stood at the counter, next to Xu Xiaoya, counting food stamps and money.

More than twenty minutes later, Xu Xiaoya raised her head, stopped her abacus, took a long breath, combed her hair behind her ears with her hands, and said with a smile:

"Brother, sister-in-law, on New Year's Day today, we sold more food than last weekend."

Xu Qing laughed and said:

"How many?"

"More than 20,000 kilograms. Throw away the 130 kilograms given away for winning the second prize. To be precise, it is 21,080 kilograms."

Xu Qing felt indescribable joy when he heard his sister's words.

More than 21,000 kilograms of grain were sold out in one day.

Good days are becoming more and more promising.

Compared to places like state-owned stores and supply and marketing cooperatives, there are not many.

After all, the state has set up a point to buy grain, and there is no day when tens of thousands of kilograms of grain are not sold out.

These days, people have unconditional trust in places where the country is behind them.

I opened it personally, but I still have some doubts.

Xu Qing's personal grain station only opened at the beginning of the year before last year. It is really not easy to achieve such sales volume.

"Xiaoya, come on, drink some hot water to warm yourself up."

Xu Qing saw his sister working on the abacus for nearly half an hour, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to him.

Of course, his wife Jinghong will not be left behind either.

One is a sister and the other is a daughter-in-law.

Xu Qing had to take care of both ends.

As for brother-in-law Jianjun, just pour yourself some water.

It was just seven o'clock in the evening. Xu Qing and Jing Hong put on scarves and gave Xiaoya and Jianjun the thirty kilograms of white noodles they had scooped out in advance to take home and eat.

Xu Xiaoya hurriedly took off her blue woolen gloves and took out money and food stamps from the lady's small leather bag hanging on her body.

Xu Qing stopped and said, "It's New Year's Day. Brother and your sister-in-law would like to share your thoughts."

"But brother, this"

Xu Xiaoya was mid-sentence when Xu Qing interrupted:

"This, this, this, brother, you are the only sister, so don't worry too much."

Xu Xiaoya's pretty face turned shy, she held Xu Qing's arm and said: "Brother, you are serious, I just said, there was no one just now, and you and my sister-in-law were scooping up white noodles and filling them, I thought you were giving them to the courtyard Whose neighbor brought it to me? I didn’t expect you to give it to me and Jian’s army.”

Ma Jing stood aside, looking at the two brothers and sisters who had a harmonious relationship, and smiled with her lips pursed.

Liu Jianjun looked troubled. He had already taken out the money and food stamps from his trouser pocket.

Don't know what to do at the moment.

Xu Qing caught a glimpse and said, "Jianjun, put the things in your hands away and put the noodles on your bicycle."

(End of this chapter)