Chapter 142 Me! Ye Zhaodi!

Coincidentally, the next day was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Chinese New Year begins. It is a very special day.

Chu Yue has been busy since she got up in the morning. She first prepared the glutinous rice flour needed for making dumplings in advance. As for the sweet rice wine, she didn't dare to drink too much this time, so as to avoid making the same drunken joke as on New Year's Eve.

Next is the chicken blood vine obtained from Han Shi, which has been cut into pieces and neatly displayed to dry. The weather is good and the sun is shining, which is very suitable for drying quilts and medicinal herbs.

So Chu Yue took out all the quilts and chicken blood vines in the house and dried them all in the sun.

She was busy in the front, and Lu Yuanbao was behind with a small pillow. He imitated Chu Yue's movements, patting the pillow in a very realistic way to make the cotton fluffy and flicking off the dust.

In addition, Chu Yue once again tied the bamboo backpack to the bicycle.

When Lu Zhanlin got up in the morning and took a look, he probably guessed what was going on. While eating breakfast, he asked Chu Yue, "Are you going to the market today?"

"Yeah, I'm going." Chu Yue nodded, her eyes sparkling as she said, "Today is the Lantern Festival, there must be a lot of people in the city. When there are a lot of people, there will be a lot of people buying things, which will be good for business."

This is also the reason why Chu Yue has been full of energy since early morning, because she can make money!

Lu Zhanlin originally did not approve of Chu Yue being so busy, mainly because he was worried that she would be too tired. After all, the military compound was too far from the city. However, the 28-bar bicycle was given by him, and it became his invisible support for Chu Yue.

Looking at Chu Yue's curved eyebrows and her happy expression when she talked about making money, she was like a mouse that fell into a rice jar. I just let her be.

Lu Zhanlin's worry finally turned into one sentence, "Be careful on the road and do what you can."

"Don't worry, I understand." Chu Yue said as she put the peeled eggs into Lu Yuanbao's bowl, then turned her head and looked straight at Lu Zhanlin with her bright eyes.

Seeing this, Lu Zhanlin's heart suddenly jumped, and his heartbeat fluctuated.

Chu Yue looked at him and asked, "Can you get off work on time today? Will it be late again?"

After all, it was a holiday, and Chu Yue still hoped that the whole family would be together. However, Lu Zhanlin had been very busy recently, and it was common for him to come back at eight or nine o'clock in the evening. Chu Yue had always accepted all this calmly and never complained.

After Chu Yue asked this question, not only Chu Yue looked at Lu Zhanlin, but even Lu Yuanbao stopped eating the egg, staring at Lu Zhanlin with his black eyes, waiting for his answer.

Under the gazes of the two, one big and one small, Lu Zhanlin felt a surge of guilt in his chest.

After thinking it over, he said, "I'll try to come back as early as possible."

Hearing this, Lu Yuanbao's eyes lit up. He went to bed early last night and didn't even know when Lu Zhanlin came back. The father and son could only meet briefly at breakfast every day.

The two of them didn't spend much time together, but in Lu Yuanbao's heart, he truly regarded Lu Zhanlin as his father.

Lu Zhanlin is so tall and so powerful, and he wears a military uniform. He is more powerful than the fathers of all the children in the village. Lu Yuanbao often thought to himself.

He happily took a big bite of the egg. It was fragrant and delicious!

After hearing this, Chu Yue was not as excited as Lu Yuanbao. She just nodded, and then she said calmly, "We had sesame dumplings on New Year's Eve. I'm making fresh meat dumplings today. Dumplings are best eaten while hot. If they are soaked for too long, they will become clumpy and not tasty. I'll make the dumplings and wait for you to come back and cook them."

Lu Zhanlin listened quietly and nodded solemnly, "Okay."

After a while, Lu Zhanlin went out to the military camp under Chu Yue's gaze, thinking about the fresh meat dumplings in the evening.

As soon as Lu Zhanlin left, Chu Yue dried the quilt, tidied the house, checked it inside and out, and then gave Lu Yuanbao a few words of advice before going out.

But a pair of piercing eyes were fixed on her, which made it impossible to ignore them.

Chu Yue finally turned her head helplessly and looked at the follower behind her.

Lu Yuanbao looked up at Chu Yue and said loudly, "I want to go too."

In the past, although Lu Yuanbao liked to stick to Chu Yue, Chu Yue would let him go back to the house if she told him to, and would let him stay at home if she told him to. Even if he had some thoughts in his mind, he didn't dare to say them out loud.

After a new year, Lu Yuanbao, who had grown one year older, became bolder and became a more independent little adult.

He actually dared to make a request to Chu Yue.

From another perspective, Lu Yuanbao trusts Chu Yue more and more and regards Chu Yue as his mother.

Because only mothers will indulge their children unconditionally.

At this moment, there was a tenacious persistence in Lu Yuanbao's bright dark eyes.

He said seriously, "I can help with the accounting, I can help with carrying things, I will be obedient and will never run around. I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Chu Yue looked at his stubborn little face and couldn't help but feel soft in her heart.

She asked, "Are you really obedient?"

Lu Yuanbao nodded without hesitation, "Yes, I'll listen to you." Then he added softly, "I can do a lot of things and help you with your work."

How could Chu Yue bear to refuse such a child? Besides, Lu Yuanbao would be going to school soon and would not be able to go out for many days.

She touched Lu Yuanbao's head and said, "Go change your shoes, and bring your scarf and hat. It will be cold if you ride a bicycle in the wind."

Lu Yuanbao was stunned at first, then he reacted. He said yes loudly and ran to his little room. He quickly changed his shoes and put on himself carefully.

When he came out with his head tilted, Chu Yue had already fixed the bicycle and was waiting for him in the yard.

…

In the city.

Chu Yue's itinerary was similar to usual. She first set up a stall in the market, but the food she sold was no longer the food she made, but the side dishes she took out from her personal space, which were suitable for this era.

For example, mung bean cakes, thousand-layer pastries, and red bean cakes, as long as the packaging is changed, you can't tell the difference at all.

This thing is usually only available in grocery stores and is relatively rare in the market. Chu Yue sells it at a price a few cents lower than the grocery store, which attracted many customers.

With low prices and the influx of holiday customers, everything Chu Yue prepared was sold out in less than an hour.

Lu Yuanbao's small purse was bulging, and he hid the money carefully, feeling so happy.

If it was a normal arrangement, Chu Yue should take Lu Yuanbao to a state-owned restaurant for a good meal to celebrate.

But Chu Yue did not do so. Instead, she bought two bamboo tube rices at the market, one for her and one for Lu Yuanbao, and then pushed her bicycle through the streets and alleys of the city. She walked through one street after another without getting tired of it.

Chu Yue didn't say why, and Lu Yuanbao didn't ask either, he just followed silently.

At first, he ate while walking. After finishing the bamboo tube rice, Lu Yuanbao rubbed his hands and looked carefully at the small shops around him and the passers-by.

This was Lu Yuanbao's first time shopping in the city in the true sense. Everything he saw seemed new and interesting. It was completely different from the village where he had lived before.

Just walk... walk... walk...

Chu Yue passed a crossroads, turned a corner, walked a few steps inside, and saw a piece of red paper on the wall by the roadside.

On the big red paper, written in black brushstrokes were the words: Jipu is for sublease.

Chu Yue's eyes suddenly lit up. This is it!

She had previously asked Pei Hanchuan for a "medical fee" - a franchise business license. After Pei Hanchuan's hands, it was only a matter of time before the certificate was issued. Chu Yue had to make preparations in advance and decide on the location of the store.

So Chu Yue came to the city today, not only to set up a stall at the market to make money, but also to find a store to do business.

She knew that this trip would not be easy, so she had not thought of bringing Lu Yuanbao along from the beginning. However, the child had now learned to act cute and pitiful, so Chu Yue softened her heart and took him along.

Chu Yue had already walked around the area. This intersection was very close to the bus station, state-owned restaurant, supply and marketing cooperative, and post office, making it a good location.

This store is on the side of the corner, and the largest store at the intersection is being renovated, so this location looks inconspicuous.

But once the big store was renovated and traffic was restored on all sides, the value of the shops on the side also increased.

It is definitely a potential stock, Chu Yue is quite optimistic about it.

She looked up at the shop sign, which read "Lao Zhou Tailor Shop".

In recent years, with the progress of the country's light industry, clothes are all made in garment factories, which are beautiful and cheap. Small tailor shops can only take on some manual work such as altering clothes and repairing trouser legs, so it is normal for tailor shops to go out of business.

After looking around, Chu Yue was about to walk into the tailor shop. As soon as she raised her leg, she heard a crackling sound!

Crash!

Something fell to the ground again!

The noise was quite loud, it seemed there was a big commotion inside.

Wow! This is going to be a good show!

Chu Yue said to Lu Yuanbao outside the door, "Yuanbao, don't come in."

But it was too late for Chu Yue to speak, as Lu Yuanbao had already followed her footsteps and stood beside her.

The mother and son, one big and one small, happened to see the intense scene going on in the store.

A girl who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a round oval face, big black eyes, two thick pigtails, and a not-very-thick cotton jacket. She was obviously not tall, but she looked very imposing.

Such a young girl grabbed a bald middle-aged man in his thirties or forties with both hands and forced the man onto the table next to the sewing machine.

The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect that a thin-looking girl could be so strong and so fierce.

He was frightened for a moment, trembling, "You...you...what do you want to do?"

"What? I'm not doing anything! I just want my wages back! I agreed to be an apprentice, with food and accommodation provided and five dollars a month!" The little girl's face turned red with anger in the middle of winter, and she pressed the bald middle-aged man tightly.

The middle-aged man recovered from his initial shock and returned to his original greedy self. He taunted the girl, "Go out and ask around. How can apprentices get paid these days? You're here to learn a trade, so you should be paying me as a tribute to your master. You're secretly happy that I didn't charge you, but you're still asking for wages? You're dreaming!"