Chapter 10 [10] I need to get rich quick. …

The head of Tang Youshan's crutch is very thick. Although he doesn't have much strength now, it is a real wooden stick!

Tang Aiguo touched the back of his head with a headache.

It hurts so much!

My brain is really confused.

But he couldn't argue with a patient, so he angrily picked up his pipe and walked out.

Whether you are angry or sad, housework will not disappear after a quarrel.

The pots and pans were still there. Zhang Lancao wiped her tears as usual and went to clean up the dishes.

Prepare the family's bath water.

After everyone in the family has taken a shower, she still has to scrub the clothes and hang them out to dry before the day is over.

But because there is a seriously ill person in the family, she has to be on call at all times. But now Tang An and Tang Yuanyuan are angry with each other, so she stays in front of Tang Youshan, which saves her some trouble.

As soon as he touched the bed, he fell asleep.

Tang Aiguo walked around outside smoking his pipe, watching people play cards, chatting and laughing with them. He soon became in a good mood and returned home in the dark humming a little tune.

That night, Tang An woke up three times, but Zhang Lancao slept a full night's sleep for the first time. She got up at three o'clock in the middle of the night to cook and looked much more energetic.

Although she was reluctant to leave her father-in-law to her son to take care of, she now had to earn money to save for her daughter's tuition and to open a shop, so she knew that she was wronging her son.

When Tang Yuanyuan got off her night shift and came home, she felt much better when she saw the dark circles under Tang An's eyes.

Neither the brother nor the sister wants to pay attention to each other, and they just pretend not to see anything when they cover their faces at home.

Tang Yuanyuan slept particularly soundly. When she woke up in the afternoon, she was able to go to the street with her mother to set up a stall.

Tang An spent the whole day and night taking care of Tang Youshan, helping him go to the toilet, giving him a massage, and feeding him.

It was not until the afternoon that Li Mu knocked on his door and he was finally able to talk to his good friend.

"We're going to bathe in the river with Xiao Duo, and then pick peaches. Do you want to join us?"

Tang An shook his head: "No, I have to take care of grandpa, he needs someone to help him."

Li Mu: "You take care of it?"

Tang An nodded, "My dad went to work, and my mom and sister went to set up a stall to sell food."

Li Mu: "No wonder, I just saw your mother and your sister riding a bike with a lot of things hanging on it."

"I heard that your sister's business is doing well?"

Tang An nodded expressionlessly.

Li Mu: "It's just jelly, something so cheap, how can you make any money from it? Just keep bragging."

Tang An: "I'm not exaggerating. My mom said that my sister goes to the wholesale market every afternoon to sell jelly. Now my sister buys all the meat for our family."

"My mom said she has to go back to No. 1 Middle School after the summer vacation and has to earn enough money to cover her living expenses for the entire semester."

Li Mu: "Can I go in and see Grandpa Tang?"

During this day and night, Tang Youshan said the most curse words to the second and third wives, calling them ungrateful and saying that even Tang Dabao didn't come to see him.

Tang An said: "My grandfather is very thin now. My cousins ​​don't dare to come."

In the past, when their family cooked meat, Li Dabao would come over to eat just by smelling the meat.

It's been a day since he came back from his exams, and he hasn't seen anyone in the second or third room.

Li Mu just said: "What's there to be afraid of being thin? He won't eat people. Besides, Grandpa Tang once gave me peaches to eat."

Tang Youshan was notoriously stingy. He stole the peaches from a peach tree in the countryside. He stole a whole bag of them, but he didn't feel bad about giving away things that didn't cost him anything. Li Mu and Tang An were playing together, and there were a bunch of adults watching them. Tang Youshan could only give a peach to each of the children.

The reason why he knew that the peaches were stolen was because the owner of the peach tree came to his door later. Tang Aiguo felt ashamed and paid for the peaches.

When Li Mu saw Tang Youshan, he was not afraid at all. He held Tang Youshan's hand affectionately and called him Grandpa Tang.

Li An had a better impression of Li Mu.

Li Mu and Tang Youshan exchanged a few words before saying goodbye. As they walked out of the door, the well-behaved look on their faces faded and turned into a surly and gloomy one.

He curled his lips playfully. Tang Yuanyuan, that idiot, could actually do business now.

Tang Yuanyuan first took Zhang Lancao to the tailor shop and introduced her to Xu Xiaofeng.

Zhang Lancao knew that she was going to meet Xu Xiaofeng today and that she was her daughter's benefactor, so she hurriedly prepared some cloth shoes she had made and gave them to her.

Before giving it to them, he wiped the sweat off his hands and then took the cloth-wrapped shoes.

He has the same personality as his daughter and didn't know how to say anything polite. He just said thank you and smiled innocently.

Xu Xiaofeng opened it and saw a pair of dark blue cloth shoes embroidered with small flowers and plants. She was a clothes maker and she could tell at a glance that the shoes fit her feet perfectly and the pattern was very beautiful.

Plastic sandals have become popular in recent years. Although Teresa Teng makes clothes, she knows that plastic shoes are not good and are not as good as cloth shoes.

Don't be careless about your stomach.

What’s rare is that neither the mother nor the daughter was involved in the accident. You helped her, and she gave you back from the bottom of her heart.

It is not the kind of business where people take advantage of each other, gather when the profit comes and disperse when the profit goes.

Nowadays, businessmen are fighting like black-eyed chickens, and the personalities of the mother and daughter are just what Xu Xiaofeng likes.

It wouldn't be tiring to get along with them, so she gave another suggestion, asking Zhang Lancao to push the cart and follow Tang Yuanyuan to the market, and told her to set up a stall in front of her door.

Tang Yuanyuan felt that this was the truth.

The wholesale market in the afternoon is not as busy as in the morning, with not many customers wandering around.

As soon as Tang Yuanyuan's clear voice, selling jelly, rang out, the proprietress with permed hair and beautiful clothes came out with a bowl.

Tang Yuanyuan introduced her mother to everyone, saying that she would set up a stall in front of the tailor shop at the north gate in the future, and if anyone needed anything, they could go there to buy it.

Although Zhang Lancao's clothes were old, they looked clean and refreshing. The uppers of her cloth shoes were white, her hair was clean, and her nails were trimmed neatly and roundly, unlike the old ladies at the South Gate, who had dust in their nails and whose hair was sometimes greasy.

The bottoms of Tang Yuanyuan's porcelain basins and her daughter's are clean, and they look like honest people, which makes people like them.

After going around the market, all the items in Tang Yuanyuan's porcelain basin were sold out. Zhang Lancao set up a stall in front of Xu Xiaofeng's store. Tang Yuanyuan was a little worried, but since it was still early, she just stood at the door with her.

The South Gate is adjacent to the main street of Yucheng County and has a large passenger flow. The North Gate faces a multi-story residential complex, separated by a narrow road. Cars carrying goods usually enter and exit from here.

The weather was already hot, and the sun was still very strong at this time. Fortunately, Tang Yuanyuan had carefully asked Zhang Lancao to wear a hat made of bamboo strips. It was breathable and cool, so she wouldn't feel dizzy when standing in the sun. Of course, she also wore one herself.

The truck driver opened his first business and ordered a bowl of mung bean soup. He was not full after drinking the first bowl, so he bought another bowl.

Tang Yuanyuan took the initiative to scoop him another bowl: "Master, this bowl is free."

The truck driver thought it was funny: "Why do you want to deliver it for free?"

Tang Yuanyuan certainly had an intention. During this period, she was walking around the market every day, selling jelly while observing the business in the wholesale market.

Many stores in towns and villages come here to purchase goods. She has heard astonishing figures several times, with business volume of several thousand.

Of course, there is also retail here in the wholesale market, and the price is twice as expensive as the wholesale price.

Tang Yuanyuan became more and more certain that what her uncle said was false.

In other words, the prices through his purchasing channels are also relatively expensive.

She found that people's information seemed to be money. For example, setting up a stall was obviously much better than working, but if she didn't try it herself, no one around her would tell her.

According to her observation, these shops in the wholesale market also import goods from other places, and there must be a price difference. Tang Yuanyuan especially wants to know where they get these things from.

There was a truckload of goods, and workers were unloading the goods. The truck driver was fine at first, but Tang Yuanyuan asked him cleverly where he was from. The driver said he was from the border town.

Once the conversation started, the truck driver started to tell everything. The small commodity market in the border town is well developed, and there is a wholesale market over there, like a card market. The purchase price is only two yuan for a big bag, and handkerchiefs are one yuan for a dozen.

A bold idea suddenly popped up in Tang Yuanyuan's mind.

Xu Xiaofeng was not too busy at the moment. She noticed Tang Yuanyuan's cleverness and her eyes were full of admiration.

In business, vision is money.

Although this child is simple and honest, he still has some ideas.

He is just too young and has to go to school when school starts. He is already very outstanding now.

When the unloading workers are too hot from work, they also like to buy mung bean soup. It is cool, sweet and can relieve the heat. It is not expensive and a bowl of it will make you feel comfortable.

Setting up a stall is simpler than hawking goods. You just have to wait for people to buy. Zhang Lancao has a kind smile on her face and her hands are skillful. Seeing that she can do it, Tang Yuanyuan went to the noodle shop opposite to take a look.

She has been hawking her wares every day recently. She is no longer as shy as before and walked in confidently. She saw the price list posted on the wall. The noodles with braised pork are one yuan, the noodles with large intestine are 1 or 2 yuan, the noodles with pig liver are 80 cents a bowl, and the cheapest vegetarian noodles are 60 cents a bowl.

Tang Yuanyuan ordered a bowl of noodles with braised pork. It didn't taste particularly special, but it had a meaty aroma, and her mother could make it.

She only ate a few bites of her bowl of noodles and told the boss that she would serve it to her mother. The boss agreed because he saw that she was just across the street.

"You eat it, Mom doesn't like it."

Zhang Lancao still uses the same old tricks, and Tang Yuanyuan certainly has a way to deal with her.

"Mom, try it. I think your cooking skills are good enough to open a noodle shop."

Zhang Lancao herself didn't realize that deep down, she always felt inferior to everyone else because she couldn't read.

In other words, she has been denied for half of her life. She was denied by her father before marriage and by her husband after marriage. The only person who affirmed her was her child. She felt happy, but did not think that this affirmation was correct.

She felt that everyone in the world was better than her, and instinctively said, "You're talking nonsense again. How can I be that good?"

Tang Yuanyuan: "Jelly bean soup, canned plums, which one doesn't taste good and sell well? Mom, you're just too insecure about yourself."

"Try it first and see if you can make this flavor yourself."

Zhang Lancao took the bowl and tasted it, and found that she could really make it.

Tang Yuanyuan stopped taking the bowl and ran into the cloth shop to ask Xu Xiaofeng about the rent. The ones in the market are a bit more expensive, five hundred yuan a month, while the garage opposite is probably cheaper, about two hundred yuan a month.

Most people would think that the rent is expensive, but Tang Yuanyuan has a different idea. Since people are willing to pay two or three hundred yuan in rent a month, the profit must be more substantial.

Tang Yuanyuan could come up with two hundred yuan, but the problem was that the rent was paid annually, or at least quarterly.

Ultimately, it still comes down to money!

Tang Yuanyuan felt that she needed to get rich quickly, and the idea became stronger and stronger in her mind.

After seeing the profits from doing business, she felt more and more that working was a burden.

She only has 185 yuan in her hand now.

She couldn't rely on Tang Aiguo. Only now did she realize how stupid she had been before. Even though they were a family, the money should be in her own hands instead of being used to pay off debts.

If you save it all, you can use it to open a noodle shop or go to the border town.

Fortunately, her salary will be paid in a few days, and she can get 240 yuan. After saving for a few more days and getting 500 yuan, she will go to the border town!

Now that he needs to raise capital, Tang Yuanyuan can only go back to his old ways and save money.

She left the porcelain basin and bucket to her mother and went directly to the factory cafeteria to eat. There was free soup there and she only needed to spend ten cents to buy two steamed buns to fill her stomach.

Making money is addictive. Zhang Lancao's business was booming, so naturally she had no time to take care of her family. After all, Tang Aiguo was an adult, and at worst he could go to the cafeteria to eat.

Back to the Tang family, it was the first time that Tang Aiguo came home from get off work to find himself faced with an empty kitchen.

This feeling is terrible!

Tang An could make some simple noodles. The noodles were rolled out by Zhang Lancao before she left. He only needed to throw the noodles in after the water boiled, then cut a handful of washed vegetables, chop them up and put them in, and cook them together until soft.

He didn't know how to fry an egg, and didn't know that adding hot water would turn soup into a milky white color. The food he made was barely edible.

Tang Youshan was very dissatisfied and had to eat reluctantly all day.

He took his crutch and started beating Tang Aiguo. It was all his fault. He made his eldest daughter-in-law angry and run away!

He's not eating well.

Tang An's massage was always either too heavy or too light, never to my liking.

Tang Aiguo came back home tired after a day of work. Not only did he not have any food to eat, but he also had to be beaten by his father. He felt that this life was terrible!

Finally, Tang An ordered two more bowls of noodles. The noodles were naturally unsatisfactory. Fortunately, there were pickled cucumbers with orchid sauce in the jar to go with them. The father and son managed to eat half full.

Li Mu brought some peaches he had picked in the countryside. Tang An went to the kitchen to wash them and brought them out. They sat in the yard together to eat the peaches.

Zhou Wei rode her bicycle over to meet Tang Yuanyuan to go to work together, but Tang Yuanyuan was naturally not there.

There were two clean peaches in the enamel basin.

Tang An took a peach and handed it to him: "Eat a peach."

"The plum trees were just picked this afternoon. They are very sweet."

Zhou Wei stared at Tang An's hand in confusion: "Have you washed it?"

Tang An: "Well, it's washed, you can eat it."

Zhou Wei stared into Tang An's eyes and said, "It's not just peaches, your hands need to be washed every day."

Zhou Wei didn't take the peach.

Tang An stared at Zhou Wei's back in confusion, thinking that she was weird.

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