Who can fall in love if he can cultivate immortality?

Chapter 132 The grudges of the previous life

Sunday.

Lao Gu went out early in the morning. An old man passed away in Dazhu Garden, so he had to go to have a meal.The five brothers and sisters rented a van and hurried off to drink.

Ms. Yuan Xin is too busy at home alone.

Originally, the business of hardware stores was not very good in winter, because the busy farming season was over, agricultural supplies were basically sold out, and only a few retail traders came to visit the market.

but.

Recently, a kettle has become popular in Shandong Province.

This kind of kettle is interesting because it looks like a big bucket.

The outside is made of a layer of iron sheet, and there is a hollow in the middle, which is specially used to put firewood.A kettle of water can be boiled to fill two or three large thermos bottles, and it can be boiled faster than an ordinary kettle.Somehow it spread to Hui Province. No one uses it in the city, but it is very popular in the countryside.

During this period, many merchants from towns and villages came to wholesale this kind of kettles, and the sales were quite large.

The kettle is light but takes up a lot of space.

There wasn't much room in the store, and the merchants bought too much. Ms. Yuan Xin had to make a special trip to the warehouse, so Gu Yuan was called down to inspect the store.

"Sit in front of the counter. No matter who comes, don't go away. I'll be right back. If someone buys something and you don't know the price, just call your dad and ask."

Ms. Yuan Xin warned quickly, and did not forget to add at the end, "The Chinese New Year is almost here, and there are more petty thefts."

"understood."

Gu Yuan responded impatiently, so he pretended to bring a physics book and flipped through it.

But after just two glances, Gu Yuan couldn't help but yawn, propped his head up, and looked out of the store in boredom.Hardware is not like clothing, which has business every season.In winter and summer, the business of hardware stores can be said to be quite sluggish.

But that's how business is, whether there are customers or not, you have to sit in the store and watch over it.

Otherwise, when a customer comes and sees no one in the store, he turns around and leaves.

Over time, guests will no longer come into your house, and even regular customers will run away.

Therefore, a person is required to make a special trip, and when meeting a large customer with a one-time wholesale price of several thousand yuan, he has to serve tea and cigarettes.

but,

This is considered a good thing. When I was doing business in the early years, whenever the Chinese New Year was approaching, there would be some pickpockets who would pick out the shops that were not crowded.One of them used cover and deliberately led the boss to a corner of the store, and then his accomplice secretly pried the cash box.

As long as the person who stole the money escapes, there is no point in catching the person who is covering up, because those who dare to do this kind of thing are basically repeat offenders.As long as the other party kills him, he doesn't know the person who stole the money, and in those days it was not popular to pretend to be a surveillance camera, so there was no evidence at all.

Even if you send him to the bureau, he will be released soon.

People were coming and going outside the store, most of them just walking around and looking around. Sometimes they stopped to take a look inside, and they asked all kinds of strange things:
“Do you sell raincloths?”

“Do you have rubber boots?”

"Is there any rope for sale? Is there any paint?"

Mostly cumbersome.

However, when meeting these customers, Gu Yuan would patiently give directions and tell them where to buy these goods.

It can be regarded as a continuation of the old couple's consistent style.

The old couple's business is not big, but their popularity in the market is not generally good.

"Steel wire mesh? If you walk a few dozen meters back, there is Lao Hou Hardware over there. He sells it."

Gu Yuan stood outside the store, giving directions to a customer.The other party plans to raise free-range chickens in the countryside, so steel wire mesh is needed to encircle the forest.

Laohou Hardware belongs to my uncle Gu Yuan.

"Thanks."

The other person smiled and handed over a cigarette.

"You're welcome, you can come to my house if you need it." Gu Yuan declined with a smile.

period.

Yuan Yin came back twice, but ended up going to the warehouse again.

Just after leaving this time, a shout came from outside the store door:
"What about people?"

"Here, may I ask..."

Gu Yuan responded and quickly raised his head.

I saw a woman in her fifties, wearing a black trench coat, a wavy haircut, and a colorful scarf, standing at the door with her hands in her pockets.The wrinkled face was covered with a thick layer of foundation and bright lipstick.

The first time he saw this old woman, Gu Yuan raised his eyebrows.

Good guy.

Junior high school English teacher: Li Shu.

That class is just like scolding a shrew. Each class lasts for 10 minutes. Half an hour is spent scolding students, and the remaining 10 minutes are spent following the instructions.

When I was in junior high school, although I had good grades, I was always targeted because I didn't give gifts.

And a girl with mediocre grades became the English class representative just because her parents gave her a gift.

Later, when Lao Gu found out, he had no choice but to stuff the red envelope.The other party knew that Gu Yuan's family sold hardware, so he would hint to Gu Yuan from time to time, saying that the kitchen knife at home was broken, the pot spatula was broken, and the wok should be replaced with a new one.

then.

During his junior high school years, Gu Yuan would often have some pots, pans, and even whetstones, dog leashes, wrenches, files and other gadgets in his schoolbag. He would secretly hand them over to him when no one was in the office after school.

Even so, the other party still thought it was too little, and still often made things difficult for him in class, and even verbally humiliated him more than once.

Sometimes in class, he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.And he never mentioned these things to his parents once.

It can be said.

He knew this old guy even if he turned into ashes.

Also because of this old guy, he never showed up at the junior high school reunion.

"Hey, he turns out to be a student, and where is your adult!"

Li Shu took a look at Gu Yuan, but didn't recognize him at all.

"My lord has gone to the warehouse to get the goods. What do you want to buy?" Gu Yuan asked with a smile on his face and a confused heart.

True.

Since his cultivation, his height has increased to 1.8 meters, but the outline of his facial features has not changed much.A teacher of three years, anyone would recognize him.But the other party couldn't recognize her, which meant that she was always just a delivery machine in her eyes.

"Do you have a padlock?" Li Shu stood there with her hands in her pockets and asked coldly.

"Yes, how big do you want, how many do you want?"

Gu Yuan asked.

"If you don't show it to me, how will I know?" Li Shu asked back.

Damn, this birdman.

You are shopping for yourself, but don’t know how big to buy?

Gu Yuan cursed in his mind and simply took out all the padlocks in the store.With a cold face, Li Shu studied each one and finally chose two models, "Give me two boxes of each of these two locks. How much will it cost..."

"Wait a moment, I'll call and ask."

Gu Yuan said with a smile.

When he was in elementary school, he helped to look after the store, and an old woman sold the five-yuan 'Hot Fast' product on the grounds that 'everyone else sells it for fifty cents, why are you selling it for five yuan?'I don't know if Lao Gu was too busy and didn't hear the ringing. Gu Yuan called three times in a row without answering.

Just when Gu Yuan was on the phone, Li Shu kept beeping:

“I don’t even know the prices when I look at the store, so what kind of business do I do?”

"If I had a student like this, I would have kicked him out of the classroom a long time ago. It's just a joke that he can still go to high school."

Gu Yuan glanced at her and said nothing.

In later generations, there was a young man who slapped his class teacher from 20 years ago, which made him a hot topic.

When Gu Yuan saw this news, his only thought was to slap Li Shuji.But he also understood that people like Li Shu had some energy behind them, and he didn't want to embarrass his parents.

It wasn't until the fourth call that the call was connected. Lao Gu's angry voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello?"

Gu Yuan quickly reported the model number and asked, "Dad, how do you sell these two kinds of three-ring locks?"

Lao Gu said: "For wholesale, it's two and a half yuan each, and three and a half yuan each."

"Why is this broken lock so cheap?"

Gu Yuan thought to himself, hung up the phone, looked at Li Shu, doubled the price, and said: "One is five yuan, the other is seven yuan."

Li Shu didn't say a word, turned around and left the store.

"Damn, I'm just like a dick a few years ago. She really thinks she is the Empress Dowager Cixi."

Watching her leave the store and walk in another direction.

"This idiot doesn't know why he bought so many locks? He also wasted my [-] cents on the phone bill."

Gu Yuan thought for a moment.

Suddenly I remembered that after they graduated from junior high school, the old campus moved and Li Shu's family opened a canteen outside the school.

"She probably bought the locks back and sold them to students."

So I quickly rang the number and called my aunt, who quickly answered the call, "Uncle, there is a woman in her 50s and wearing a black windbreaker going to buy something soon. Don't sell anything to her."

Uncle: "What's going on?"

Gu Yuandao: "This woman seems to have dirty hands and feet. I think she went towards you."

Uncle: "Yes, I understand."

……

"This store is huge."

Li Shu walked into Laohou Hardware and nodded with satisfaction.

after all.

The sales department connected by four stores looks wider and brighter than the one store in Gu Yuan's family.As soon as my aunt Hou Hong hung up the phone, he saw Li Shu entering the store.

Due to his preconception, he suddenly became wary of Li Shu.

"What do you want to buy?" Hou Hong asked.

"Buy a padlock."

"What model?"

"I don't know, just show it to me."

"How big is it?"

"Show it to me first!"

Hou Hong frowned.

Suddenly the same thought as Gu Yuan came into his mind.

If you don’t know the model number, forget it.

I don't even know how big it is.

Coupled with the previous phone call from Gu Yuan, he suddenly lost much patience.

"It's on the shelf. Take a look at what size you want."

"Aren't you going to show it to me?" Li Shu asked back.

Hou Hong said: "They are all placed on the shelves..."

Even Yuan Xin would tell Gu Yuan not to leave the counter casually. How could Hou Hong walk away?

In addition, there were other customers in the store, so he simply ignored her and left her alone.

Maybe it’s because I’m groveling to please the students’ parents, or maybe I’m used to being arrogant in front of the students.Seeing that Hou Hong ignored her, Li Shu stamped her feet and snorted, "What kind of service attitude are you doing? What kind of business are you doing? Sooner or later it will go bankrupt!"

Hou Hong did not reply.

It wasn't until the other party left that he smiled and explained to the regular customers in the store, "My eldest nephew called just now and said that her hands and feet were dirty..."

……

After a while.

Li Shu appeared in front of Gu Yuan again.

(End of this chapter)