Buy a house with 30,000 yuan and live in a small town

Chapter 522 Greedy
After marriage, Gu Xuemei not only had to take care of the housework but also the business of the store. She also had to go to Fuzhou to purchase goods every once in a while. Song Ningwei couldn't help her with everything, and he also caused trouble for her to clean up. She needed her help to mediate the conflicts between the factory and the workshop workers. She had to take Song Ningwei home from time to time to show her father's dislike for him. There were also relationships with relatives and friends, etc.

Liu Wangxue's grandmother felt so distressed when she saw Gu Xuemei after her marriage. That was her precious daughter, and she didn't raise her to be a free babysitter in other people's homes.

However, Gu Xuemei didn't think so. She didn't think these were troublesome at all. The 1.8-meter-tall super-thick filter made her happy. She thought that Song Ningwei was a college student, one of the few college students in the town. She held one of them in her hand, so she had to love and protect him. Moreover, Song Ningwei was good-looking, had a decent job, and had no bad habits. In her opinion, the things that Song Ningwei was criticized by others were just some harmless shortcomings. After all, no one is saintly, so who can be without shortcomings?
Gu Xuelan felt that the only advantage of Gu Xuemei and Song Ningwei's marriage was that Song Ningwei's parents treated Gu Xuemei very well and really loved her as their own daughter. The wedding house and car were all in her name. They thought of her in everything and considered everything from her perspective. Although they knew that she could make money, they still gave her pocket money from time to time. Mother Song often went to help her with housework at home. She was too busy to run the store, so Mother Song packed three meals a day from her own restaurant and sent them to her. They were all made by Father Song himself and were better than those sold in the restaurant. When she went to the south to purchase goods, Mother Song also went to help run the store.

Whether in the village or the town, no one does not envy Gu Xuemei. Young girls looking for a partner even raise their standards based on her situation.

Gu Xuemei also felt that she was very happy. She felt proud when she returned home. Although she still had to help Song Ningwei ease the relationship with his family, she felt that she had won in another sense. She thought, you guys don't think highly of my marriage with Song Ningwei, but what's wrong with my life? What's wrong with me?
Less than half a year after the marriage, Gu Xuemei became pregnant. Perhaps because of the arrival of this child, the Gu family finally stopped disliking Song Ningwei. Everyone thought that Song Ningwei would be a father anyway, and when the child was born in the future, not only would his identity change, but he would also have to shoulder responsibilities. He would probably become more mature and sensible.

It turns out that they thought too much.

When Song Jingyu was born and just learned to walk, Song Ningwei suddenly had the idea of ​​going into business. Why? Because he was jealous - jealous of Gu Xuehui and Liu Nanshan.

After graduating from university, Gu Xuehui went to work in a public institution in the city. He was smart, capable, and quick-witted, and was quickly recognized by his superiors. After only two years of working in the unit, his position was promoted.

When Gu Xuehui was single, he lived a comfortable life. But after he started dating and got married, he suddenly felt the pressure from life. Thinking of the time when his grandmother fell and was hospitalized for treatment, his family was worried about money. He was afraid that he would encounter such a situation. He always felt that he was the son and the eldest child, and the burden of his parents should be borne by him. If there is any emergency in the future, when the three brothers and sisters have started their own families, it is probably unlikely that they can take out money as Gu Xuemei did at that time. Therefore, he must find a way to make his wallet fatter.

Gu Xuehui also wanted to make more money by doing business based on the inside information he got from the company. The main reason was that he had always kept it in mind. If Gu Xuemei had not been there at the time, the reason for his grandmother's death would probably be the lack of timely medical treatment. However, his company had a rule that if he wanted to go into business, he had to resign. However, he did not want to give up such a good job with benefits, and his leader also promised him that as long as he worked hard, he would have more opportunities for promotion in the future.

Gu Xuehui was very conflicted. Whether to resign was only one of the reasons. The second was that even if he wanted to do this business, he and Yuan Lianyun together could not come up with enough start-up capital.

At that time, Gu Xuemei had run the shop in the town for half a year and had a lot of spare money in the account. When she found out about this, she took the initiative to give some money to Gu Xuehui and told him to go ahead and do it with confidence.

With the financial support from his sister, Gu Xuehui immediately started to prepare. He did not resign because Yuan Lianyun resigned. Yuan Lianyun was working as a secretary in a private company at that time. She and Gu Xuehui were able to meet and get together because the private company got in touch with a certain leader and cooperated with the public institution where Gu Xuehui worked. Yuan Lianyun was very supportive of Gu Xuehui's idea after learning about it. Working for others is not as good as working for your own family. At least no matter how much you earn, it is your own, so she resolutely resigned. The couple, one is a military advisor and the other is in charge of execution. They built up the business in this way, and their lives became visibly richer.

A large part of the reason why Liu Nanshan opened a fruit shop was inspired by Gu Xuehui.

After graduating from university, Gu Xuelan did not stay in the province, but went to a junior college in the city to be a teacher. There was no other reason, just to be close to home. At that time, the town and the city were already connected by bus, and the route just passed through the entrance of the junior college. It took less than half an hour to take this bus from the town to the school. The school allocated dormitories for teachers. Gu Xuelan basically used the dormitory as a place for lunch break. She only lived in the dormitory when she had many classes or was particularly busy. She usually went home.

After Gu Xuelan graduated and returned, Liu Nanshan was determined to follow her, so he quit his job at a restaurant near the Provincial Normal University and found a new job at a Cantonese-style tea restaurant near the city's technical college.

When Gu Xuehui and Yuan Lianyun were just starting out, they were a little too busy to handle the business, so Liu Nanshan took a few days off to help them. After that, whenever he had time or passed by, he would go to see if there was anything they could help with. During this period, he was also subtly influenced and learned some business skills.

Once, when Liu Nanshan was on leave, he accompanied Gu Xuelan home. When they got off the train at the town station, they saw an old farmer selling fruits on his shoulder. He said that the fruits were all from his own trees and he was selling them because he couldn't finish them. The peaches were beautiful and looked delicious, so Liu Nanshan went over and bought a few pounds.

Gu Xuelan's home was not far from the town, and it only took about ten to twenty minutes to walk back from the station. In the morning, when she went to school to take the bus, she would ride Liu Wangxue's grandfather's bicycle, and when she got off work, she would walk home.

As they walked home, Liu Nanshan began to pay attention to the shops on both sides of the street. He had never noticed it before, but after observing it, he found that there were no fruit shops in the town - not that there were no fruits, but that there were no shops that specialized in selling fruits. Most people were like the old farmer just now, picking out the fruits that they couldn't finish eating from their own trees and selling them, or selling them in some food stores, vegetable stores, and grocery stores.

Liu Nanshan kept the fruit shop in mind, and the more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him. After returning to the city, he took the time to visit Gu Xuehui, told him about his idea, and asked him to help with the plan.

Gu Xuehui said, "This is a business opportunity." He encouraged Liu Nanshan to do it, and said that if he was short of money, he could just ask him and he would definitely support him.

Gu Xuehui said this for two reasons. One was that he believed in Liu Nanshan's character. When his grandmother was hospitalized, Liu Nanshan took out all his savings and gave them to Gu Xuelan to help with the family's emergency. Gu Xuelan refused, so Liu Nanshan secretly found Gu Xuehui and gave the money to this big brother.

Gu Xuehui certainly couldn't accept the money on behalf of his sister, but he changed his opinion of Liu Nanshan from then on. Before this, he thought Liu Nanshan was just a street thug and Gu Xuelan was blind to like him, but after this, he felt that Liu Nanshan was kind-hearted and loyal, and was sincere to Gu Xuelan.

After this, Gu Xuehui was willing to have more contact with Liu Nanshan. With the comparison of Song Ningwei later, he felt more and more that Gu Xuelan had good vision and could see the "gold and jade hidden in the rotten rags".

The second reason was that Gu Xuelan and Liu Nanshan were about to get married, but Liu Wangxue's grandparents had never agreed. They had seen how Liu Nanshan had behaved over the past few years, and they knew how good he was to Gu Xuelan, but they were not satisfied with his work.

Didn't Liu Nanshan always follow Gu Xuelan? He used to work in a barbecue restaurant in the town, but he felt that there was no future for him. After he followed Gu Xuelan to the province, he first worked in the cafeteria of the university where Gu Xuelan was studying. Later, he went out to find a job in a restaurant outside. Not long after working in this job, he changed to another restaurant. The restaurant he changed to was still a big restaurant in the province. Liu Wangxue's grandfather hoped that he could work hard in the big restaurant and become an apprentice to a master chef. With his talent and skills, he would definitely become a master chef in the future, and his life would be stable. He was also relieved to leave his daughter to him. Unexpectedly, Gu Xuelan came back after graduation, and Liu Nanshan quit this job and followed her back. When Liu Wangxue's grandfather found out, he was so angry that he wanted to beat him, but after all, Liu Nanshan's surname was not Gu, so he could only blow his beard and glare at him.

After learning that Liu Nanshan had found a job in the tea restaurant in the city, Liu Wangxue's grandfather felt a little relieved. He had heard of this restaurant and it was said to be one of the best in the city, so he once again told Liu Nanshan to be calm and work hard in this restaurant and not to think about it. Liu Nanshan agreed very happily. If Gu Xuelan's job was stable, he would definitely be stable too.

Gu Xuehui felt that it was only a matter of time before the old couple in his family gave in. Anyway, he already regarded Liu Nanshan as his brother-in-law in his heart. As the eldest brother, he would naturally help his family if they were living a good life.

So, Liu Nanshan’s fruit shop was opened with the help of Gu Xuehui.

Seeing that Liu Nanshan had really settled down, Liu Wangxue's grandparents became relieved about his marriage to Gu Xuelan.

More than a year later, when Gu Xuemei and Song Ningwei's daughter was born, both Gu Xuehui's family business and Liu Nanshan's fruit shop were already doing well.

Song Ningwei had no intuitive feeling about Gu Xuehui's business, because what kind of business he did in what time period depended entirely on what kind of inside information he got. The storefront in the city looked like a shell company. Except for his sister-in-law and two or three employees, there was almost nothing inside.

Liu Nanshan was different. He had moved from a small shop to a large shop, twice as big as Gu Xuemei's shop. The variety of fruits in the shop increased, and the number of customers increased. Seeing that his fruit shop was doing well, people in the town also opened several shops in imitation of him, but they closed down soon because they could not compare with him in terms of variety, quality or price.

The day when Gu Xuemei came back from the south to buy goods was a day off. Song's mother was helping her in her store, while Song Ningwei was taking care of the children at home. When Gu Xuemei came home, she saw Song Ningwei leading little Jingyu to practice walking. A belt as wide as a palm went around little Jingyu's chest and passed under her armpits, with both ends held in Song Ningwei's hands. Little Jingyu walked very fast, and when she saw her mother coming back, she happily jumped into her arms.

Gu Xuemei hadn't rested for long when she heard Song Ningwei say that he wanted to do business like his elder brother and brother-in-law. Gu Xuemei asked him, "Why did you suddenly have this idea?"

Song Ningwei never beats around the bush when speaking. He tells Gu Xuemei directly that he is just jealous, and he believes that as long as he is determined to do it, although he cannot reach the level of his elder brother Gu Xuehui, he will be more than capable of reaching the level of his brother-in-law Liu Nanshan.

At this time, Gu Xuemei still had a filter for Song Ningwei, and didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said, but she had another guess in her mind: "Did your work at the factory go wrong again?"

"I don't want to work in the factory anymore." Song Ningwei spoke the truth again. "Just think about it. I have been in the factory since I graduated, and it has been more than three years now. Those with lower education and less experience than me have been promoted, but I am still a team leader in the workshop. This job has no future at all. I can't be a team leader until I retire, right? So I think it is more promising to be like my eldest brother and brother-in-law."

"That's fine," Gu Xuemei said, and continued to ask him, "Have you decided what kind of business to start? Or why don't you discuss it with your eldest brother first and ask him and his wife to help you with the plan?"

Song Ningwei said: "No, I have already thought about it. We have a restaurant at home, and my parents are old now. I plan to take over the restaurant and let them enjoy a peaceful life."

He had made a plan in his mind. The decoration of the restaurant at home had not changed in all these years. The aesthetics could not keep up with the times. It had to be changed. Moreover, the restaurant was too small. It would be crowded when there were too many people during the peak dining hours. It had to be expanded. The menu and dishes also had to be changed. A chef could be invited back from outside...

When Song's mother and father heard this, they immediately refused and told him to go back to work in the factory and not to get involved in these messy things. How could they not know what kind of person their son was?
Song's mother told Song Ningwei the truth: "Your father and I plan to hand over our restaurant to Xuemei in the future. Don't come here and mess around. It's better for you to work quietly."

Song Ningwei was turned down by his parents, so he went home to seek comfort from his wife and told Gu Xuemei about his parents' plan.

After hearing this, Gu Xuemei was surprised and moved. She wondered how she could have met such good parents-in-law, so she advised Song Ningwei to listen to his parents and continue to work hard in the factory. After all, doing business is not that easy. It seems that you can make money, but it is all hard-earned money and you have to take certain risks.

She didn't talk about her previous experience. Later, she opened this store in the town. Business was good, but it also meant that she had to run south every once in a while to bring back large and small packages of goods. She was too tired to move every time. Besides that, what else in the store did she not have to worry about? She used to think about making the store bigger, but after getting married and having Jingyu, the things she had to worry about suddenly increased exponentially, and she really didn't have the energy.

Gu Xuemei went on to say to Song Ningwei, "Speaking of the fruit shop opened by your brother-in-law, you only see that his shop has become bigger and has more customers, but you have no idea how much hard work he has put in behind the scenes. I heard from my sister that my brother-in-law has run to many places in order to find the source of goods, and after finding the source of goods, he still has to contact the transportation. I won't say much about other things, just think about it, how many people he has to deal with during this period? If anything goes wrong in any link." She felt that whether Song Ningwei could endure this hardship was another matter, and he was not good at socializing alone.

Song Ningwei was scolded by his parents and educated by his wife. He felt a little depressed. He didn't understand why his family didn't support him when he just wanted to change the direction of his career.

Song Ningwei then continued to go to work obediently, but the thought did not disappear. It popped up several times afterwards, but was suppressed by Song's mother and father all of them. However, the more a situation is suppressed, the more likely it is to rebound.

Finally, after little Jingyu was able to run and jump and went to kindergarten, Song Ningwei set his sights on Gu Xuemei's store. He said to Gu Xuemei, "Jingyu is now in school, and there are not so many things to do at home. How about we expand the store? I see that the economy has been developing well in the past two years, and people in the town have more spare money and are willing to spend money on food and clothing. Didn't you say before that your aunt and her friend started a high-end clothing business in the south? How about we follow suit?"