Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Race against time to make money.

Lin Nanjiang had really thought about this. "Asking Quansheng to work here is based on his own willingness. As the saying goes, a forced melon doesn't taste good. If he wants to go out and work on his own, we won't stop him. Then, let's put it one way or the other. If he wants to imitate us and sell fried wontons, won't he have to pay tuition? If he doesn't want to leave the factory, he can just do part-time work for the next two months and then go back to the factory to screw in when he's done. If he also wants to learn how to set up a stall, he can resign from the factory and work for us for two years. As long as he does a good job, not only will he be paid for the two years, but we'll also teach him how to set up a stall after he's done. Isn't that too much to ask?"

Liu Suqin: ...

Seeing his wife's eyes wide open and slightly stunned, Lin Nanjiang looked very pleased with himself, but he still pretended to be humble, "Why do you look like you don't know me? After all, I've been doing business for a few months. I'm not called boss for nothing. Isn't it strange to consider all this?"

"It's not surprising, but I'm a little uncomfortable with you suddenly becoming so smart and bossy." Liu Suqin really looked at him with admiration. She thought that because he was so honest and valued brotherhood, he would just swallow his anger and give up his interests. Unexpectedly, when it came to core interests, even his half-brothers would not give in.

As expected, when men are shrewd and calculating, women have no chance at all.

Perhaps not wanting to ruin his perfect image in his wife's mind, Lin Nanjiang quickly explained, "I'm considering all this for you and the child. If we let Quansheng stay and work for us for two years, our baby will be almost two years old by the time he leaves to work on his own. I heard there's a nursery inside the customs. Once we send our baby to a nursery, you can relax a lot, daughter-in-law. Quansheng's help has also solved our urgent need. He's helping us in our time of need, and we can teach him how to make money. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"

Liu Suqin fully supported it, "It's really a win-win solution. By the time the child is two or three years old, we will have saved enough money to buy a house in the interior of the country, and we can move our business there. The stall in town can be left to Brother Quansheng, and we don't have to worry about our own people competing with each other for business."

In fact, even if the two companies do business in the same district, it will not affect anything. The Shenzhen market is so large and the economy is still developing rapidly. There is no need to worry about not making money.

Even in the worst-case scenario, there was a solution that would not hurt the relationship. Liu Suqin was naturally relieved and asked, "When are you going to talk to Brother Quansheng about this and how the salary will be calculated?"

"This should be done as soon as possible. As long as you have no objection, I'll give him a call on the way to the stall. It would be best if he can get his salary from the factory on the first day of the new year and come to work for us." Lin Nanjiang said briskly, "As for wages, let's set it at 1,000 yuan per month. He will definitely not accept it if it's more, and we won't accept it if it's less."

Liu Suqin was also straightforward, "I have no objection. Let Brother Quansheng live with us and eat and sleep with us. We can buy him some new clothes for the New Year, and that will be enough for us."

After the couple finished their discussion, they called the factory that day. Lin Quansheng was even more casual. When he heard that they were in urgent need of staff, he agreed without even asking about the salary.

The next day, Lin Quansheng quickly went to the boss's wife to collect his full salary, and came to find Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang with some simple luggage.

His arrival was very timely.

As the year draws to a close, many people, like Lin Quansheng, settle their wages as soon as possible. After working hard for a whole year, not everyone is eager to go home. Many young people who are not married and have no burdens will take the opportunity to make appointments with friends to go out and play, go shopping, sing, surf the Internet, watch movies, etc.

As more and more young people take to the streets, some people start setting up stalls during the day in the night snack streets where they set up stalls.

If it were just the two of them, Lin Nanjiang wouldn't have joined in the fun, considering his wife's health. But wasn't this the addition of a good brother? Two strong young men naturally weren't afraid of hardship or fatigue; their top priority was to securely handle this overwhelming wave of traffic.

So, after working for his brother for only two days, Lin Quansheng became a workhorse, being dragged around by Lin Nanjiang all day long to make money.

They were working hard, and Liu Suqin suddenly had some free time, feeling a little lost.

After being reborn for several months, she spun like a top every day and finally had a chance to rest. She was like an overused spring. There was no problem during work, but when she suddenly took a break, she felt that she had no energy at all. She slept soundly for two days at home before she recovered a little.

After barely adjusting herself, Liu Suqin stood up again. It wasn't easy for her. Lin Nanjiang and Lin Quansheng, who were scrambling to make money before the New Year, would have to work even harder. Even for the sake of the huge sums of money they brought home every day, she should provide them with good logistical support.

Even if I just make something delicious to nourish the three of them.

They were busy with their business before and could only make do with three meals a day. When they got tired of their own fried wontons, they would go to nearby stalls. Since they were not short of money, their stomachs were full of oil and fat, but it was definitely not nutritious and healthy.

Liu Suqin was thinking about sending them some food. It was time to find a chance to show off the cooking skills she had practiced so hard in a certain book in her previous life.

It doesn’t matter if you take all the pots and stoves at home out to set up a stall. You can talk to the landlord and pay to borrow his kitchen.

Uncle Chen is a pretty easy-going person. Basically, anything can be negotiated as long as the price is clearly stated. Xiaolin and his wife are both kind and generous. When they didn't borrow the kitchen, they would always give him and his wife a portion of any delicious food. Now that they have borrowed the kitchen, can he still miss out on his benefits?

The request to borrow the kitchen was approved without any suspense.

The landlord's wife, Aunt Chen, was kind and liked to be busy. Liu Suqin didn't want to add to the meal at first and wanted to wait until the landlord's family finished cooking before going to the kitchen. But under Aunt Chen's warm invitation, she gradually started to cook with the landlord's wife.

Perhaps it was a habit of frugality developed in the first half of their lives, but when their children were not home, the old couple would just have one meat dish, one vegetable dish and one soup. Aunt Chen was efficient at work and finished quickly. Then she took the initiative to help Liu Suqin, and when she was done she rushed to clean up the kitchen.

Aunt Chen's kindness was hard to refuse, and Liu Suqin had no choice but to accept it with an embarrassed smile. Cooking together was not boring at all. They talked and laughed the whole time, and their relationship improved rapidly. In addition, Liu Suqin had been doing business all her life, so she had also trained herself in dealing with people. After two days, she could already go shopping for groceries with Aunt Chen arm in arm.

Occasionally, when I met unfamiliar neighbors, seeing how affectionate these two were, I almost thought that Liu Suqin was the daughter-in-law of the Chen family.

However, such a small matter only needed to be explained clearly. Liu Suqin did not take it to heart. Instead, she hung out with Aunt Chen and enjoyed the treatment of a local. She could buy the freshest and most delicious chicken, duck, fish, meat and seafood without going to the vegetable market.

Although she had learned many recipes in her previous life, the little knowledge she had was obviously inadequate in front of the chicken experts from Guangdong Province. Liu Suqin has been obsessed with cooking chicken recently. Aunt Chen taught her step by step, and she makes different boiled chicken, soy sauce chicken, and salt-baked chicken every day.

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Liu Suqin went out on time to deliver lunch.

When she arrived at the night market, it was almost past the peak dining time, and there were only two customers waiting to take away their fried noodles in front of her stall. Lin Quansheng collected the money early and then looked around idly on the side of the road, trying to see where the delivery person had gone.

Seeing a familiar figure from afar, he turned around and greeted his good friend, then hurried forward to take the heavy thermos bucket, and asked with a smile, "What did your sister-in-law make today? It's so heavy..."

He was even more delighted when he opened it. "Wow, I ate chicken again today. My face is so rosy. I've eaten more chicken in the past few days than in the first half of my life! But today's chicken is so fragrant. It's not like the original recipe here. Why is there abalone in it?"

Liu Suqin smiled and said, "Then you're wrong. Abalone and chicken hotpot is also a local dish, but the ingredients and cooking method are not simple. I happened to go to a seafood store this morning. Uncle Chen and Aunt Chen said that the ingredients were very pure and there were no added messy things. They bought a lot of New Year's goods, so I also weighed some fish maw and abalone. You can see if you can accept the taste. If you like it, I will buy more in the future."

"Hehe, let me try it first." Lin Quansheng opened the lunch box without hesitation, poured a large spoonful of soup on the white rice, moved it a little, and started to eat.

The abalone and chicken stew that Aunt Chen taught Liu Suqin was an authentic recipe, but she made some improvements based on her personal taste. She added a few dried chilies when stewing to enhance the flavor and spiciness. It was more to Lin Nanjiang and Lin Quansheng's taste than the scallion oil chicken and salt-baked chicken from the previous two days. She brought a full thermos bucket of vegetables, and all the soup was scraped clean.

A man in his prime is indeed a glutton. Liu Suqin sighed and picked up the empty lunch box. "Then I'll go back. Don't work too hard. Find some time to sit down and rest."

"Don't worry about us." Lin Nanjiang reminded him worriedly, "Wife, walk slowly and watch your step. When you get home, don't work. Just lie down on the bed and rest."

He didn't personally send his wife home because even though it was past the peak meal time, there were still a few customers coming to order food from time to time.

Even though the business is not very prosperous during the day, it accumulates gradually. They bring their good friends to work from morning to night, and their daily net income gradually exceeds 2,000.

And this income continues to increase!

The peak season at the end of the year is very short. It is considered good if it can last for half a month. Every day you earn less, so you naturally have to race against time.

Even if Lin Nanjiang wanted to put down his business and send her back, Liu Suqin herself would not agree.

Liu Suqin was carrying a light lunch bag and walking back slowly alone. When she passed by a telephone supermarket, she found that there was no one in line at the moment, so she went in and made a few calls.

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