Chapter 67 Phone

After Lin Ting and Zhou Qing left, the whole house became deserted.

Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren ended their short period of relaxed life and returned to their busy life of going to work, doing laundry, cooking, cleaning and taking care of children.

Not to mention that Wang Shan kept asking for her grandparents every day, even Wang Xiuren missed the happy life with his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. This is absolutely true.

But life must go on!

As the weather gradually got hotter, Lin Qiu started thinking about making popsicles again.

To be precise, it's not just popsicles, but also soda drinks.

"I want to buy a freezer and put it in the newsstand, and put away the stove for cooking tea eggs and corn."

That night, Lin Qiu was lying on the bed, fanned by a fan, and turned his head to look at Wang Xiuren.

"Aren't tea eggs and corn selling well?"

"It's hot, and neither of these can be preserved."

Lin Qiu thought of the unsold tea eggs and corns in the past two days and added, "It's always these two things. The old customers are tired of eating them! Besides, I don't want to have tea eggs and corns for every meal like in the past two days. Even my speech smells like eggs now."

After saying that, he frowned in disgust.

"Then I'll drag the coal stove back tomorrow!" Wang Xiuren was tired of eating out in the tea shop these days, so he quickly agreed.

"I still think we should buy a freezer and put it in the newsstand." Lin Qiu suddenly sat up, but he was afraid of disturbing the sleeping Wang Shan, so he lowered his voice:

"Last year, when the garment factory was in the off-season, we were able to earn money by selling popsicles. Otherwise, how could we have rented a newsstand?"

Wang Xiuren also remembered the popsicle account book from last year, which contained quite a lot of profits.

"That's right, this popsicle may look insignificant, but it makes a lot of money!"

"You also think this business is feasible, right?"

Seeing that Wang Xiuren also agreed with the idea of ​​selling popsicles, Lin Qiu spoke out his idea all at once.

"I'll buy a freezer and put it in front of the newsstand. The newsstand is always busy and the weather is hot. I don't believe no one will buy popsicles!" Lin Qiu is sure that the popsicle business is good. "I'll also go wholesale some soft drinks. When those young guys come to buy cigarettes and see the iced ones, they will definitely be tempted!"

"Since you have an idea, buy it!"

After what he had experienced over the past year, Wang Xiuren no longer had any objection to Lin Qiu's ideas. Practice had proven to him that there was nothing wrong with Lin Qiu's ideas, and his family's life was getting better and better as a result.

Seeing that the matter of buying the freezer had been settled, Lin Qiu lay back down again and said, "There is no time to lose. Let's go to the mall tomorrow night and try to buy the freezer. I'll take some things to visit Director Chen and Xiao Li in a couple of days."

"I don't understand these things. You can handle it yourself. Just tell me if you need anything!" Wang Xiuren also lay down.

The next day after work, Wang Xiuren picked up his daughter and rushed to the newsstand to move the two coal stoves home.

After dinner, the family went to the mall to look at freezers.

The best-selling freezers on the market now are Rongsheng and Haier. Haier is a more famous brand, and Rongsheng is more than 300 yuan cheaper than Haier, so Lin Qiu hesitated between the two brands.

“What is the quality of these two brands?”

Seeing Lin Qiu's hesitation, Wang Xiuren interrupted Lin Qiu's thoughts.

“They should be about the same.”

Lin Qiu was not talking nonsense. Haier and Rongsheng are both old brands. Although Rongsheng may be slightly inferior to Haier in terms of technology, the quality of Rongsheng can also stand the test of time. In my previous life, the refrigerator I bought in 2005 has been used for more than 20 years and is still not broken. It was only replaced because there was not enough space and it was used as a storage cabinet.

"Then buy the cheap ones. They'll be put in the newsstands and exposed to the wind and sun anyway, so you won't feel bad about using them!"

What Wang Xiuren said is correct. It will be put in newsstands anyway. As long as it is useful, no one cares about the brand.

"You're right, let's buy Rongsheng's!" Lin Qiu made the final decision.

After paying the money, picking up the invoice and filling in the address, I'm waiting for the mall to deliver the freezer to the newsstand tomorrow.

Holding the light invoice, Wang Xiuren was shocked. His monthly salary was not even enough to buy a freezer.

It seems that I still need to keep working hard!

The next morning, the mall delivered the freezer to the newsstand. After Lin Qiu compared the invoice and signed it, the deliveryman carefully placed the freezer outside the newsstand.

Lin Qiu found a mop cord, plugged in the freezer, and put mineral water and soda into the freezer.

Sure enough, at noon, when customers saw the freezer outside the newsstand, they immediately asked if there were any popsicles, and a lot of iced soda and mineral water were sold as well.

As soon as Lin Qiu saw the situation, he knew it was settled.

Sure enough, when he got off work, Lin Qiu opened the freezer and saw that there was very little water and drinks left that he had put in the freezer in the morning. Lin Qiu gently closed the freezer door and wiped the invisible dust on it with a rag.

"When will the freezer be delivered?" Wang Xiuren walked over with his daughter.

As soon as Wang Shan saw the new refrigerator at home, she ran over and touched it here and looked at it there.

"It was delivered this morning." Lin Qiu pointed at the drinks and said to Wang Xiuren with a smile, "I put a box of water and a box of drinks in this morning, and they were almost all sold out in the afternoon."

"It seems that this is a golden hen that lays golden eggs!" Wang Xiuren joked while stroking the lid of the freezer with his hand.

"Ding-ling-ling-ling"

The phone rang.

"Who would call at this time?" Wang Xiuren asked as he picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Is it the second one? I am your mother."

Li Xiuying's voice came through the phone line. Maybe because she seldom made phone calls, her voice sounded a little dry and uncomfortable.

Wang Xiuren covered the receiver in surprise.

"Who is it?" Lin Qiu moved closer to the phone and lowered his voice.

"It's my mother, do you want to answer it?"

Wang Xiuren said this and handed the receiver to Lin Qiu.

Lin Qiu couldn't avoid it in time, and his hands were flying.

Wang Xiuren could only put the receiver to his ear and said, "Mom, I'm Xiuren."

On the other end of the phone, Li Xiuying quickly pulled Wang Zongsheng over and said, "Old man, it's Xiuren!"

Wang Zongsheng grabbed the phone and shouted, "Xiu Ren, I'm your father! Can you hear me?"

Wang Zongsheng's loud voice made Wang Xiuren's ears buzz, and he shouted "Dad!" into the phone.

"Dad, did you receive the things I brought back?" Wang Xiuren asked while rubbing his ears.

"I've received them all. Your father-in-law also brought me a hundred yuan, saying it was given by you!" Wang Zongsheng saw someone coming from the village committee and quickly raised his voice.

One hundred dollars?

Wang Xiuren looked at Lin Qiu, who also had a confused look on his face. It seemed that his father-in-law paid for it on his behalf to bring honor to himself.

"Just keep it! Why did you call me suddenly? Is there something wrong at home?"

Wang Zongsheng glanced around secretly and lowered his voice: "Why did your father-in-law and mother-in-law go to where you are? People say that you bought a house in Pengcheng. Is it true?"

Wang Xiuren frowned when he heard this. He knew that he couldn't tell the truth. If he did, his father and mother would definitely come running over. He didn't want any trouble to happen in his life again.

He answered evasively: "The house was bought, but the money was all taken out by Lin Qiu!"

"How is that possible? How can she come up with so much money?"

"She earns a lot now! I guess she also took some from my mother-in-law and mother-in-law. Dad, please don't tell anyone about this. I still have two brothers-in-law!"

When Wang Zongsheng heard what his son said, he covered the receiver with his hand and whispered, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about your father-in-law's subsidy to you. But, you didn't pay anything at all?"

Wang Zongsheng didn't believe that his son didn't pay anything. Just as he was about to continue speaking, Wang Xiuren said, "I must pay a little, otherwise the house can only be registered under Lin Qiu's name. Does Dad want the house to have nothing to do with me?"

No matter how partial Wang Zongsheng was to his other sons, he would definitely have to choose between his son and his daughter-in-law. He could only answer hesitantly after hearing this: "I definitely want the house to be in your name, but..."

"Dad, it's nothing! Do you have anything else to say? If not, then hang up. This phone bill is quite a lot!" Wang Xiuren took the lead in interrupting his father's words, "It seems that this call was made by you. Dad, do you have enough money?"

When Wang Zongsheng heard what his son said, he knew he had already found out the information he wanted to know, so he immediately said, "Everything is fine at home, I'm hanging up first!" and hung up the phone.

"Wang Xiuren, I didn't realize you are so good at fooling people!" Lin Qiu looked up and down at Wang Xiuren with a look of disbelief.

"I'm not doing this for you." Wang Xiuren felt a little nervous when Lin Qiu looked at him.

"Correct it, it's for the good of our family, right?" Lin Qiu rolled his eyes, "You did a good job today, Shanshan, come and applaud your father!"

Wang Shan clapped her hands vigorously in cooperation, "Dad is awesome!"

Wang Xiuren looked at his daughter who was clapping enthusiastically and didn't know what to say, so he decided to push the freezer in first.

"Wang Xiuren, you must always remember that you must protect our small family and work hard!" Lin Qiu was a little worried and reminded him again.

"I know!"

Wang Xiuren clenched his fists as if to cheer him on, but with the speechless expression on his face, he looked very much like the famous emoticon in his previous life.

“Puff!”

Lin Qiu laughed.

Wang Shan saw her mother smile and smiled too.

What could Wang Xiuren do as he looked at his smiling wife and daughter? I could only close the door quickly and go home to cook!