Chapter 92 A Motivated Life
Hao Mei thought she would feel sad and cry for a while, mourning the end of her twenty-one-year marriage.
But the fact is, after returning from the Civil Affairs Bureau, Rutang dragged her to D Port to set up a stall.
There was no time for Hao Mei to shed tears.
Hao Mei's complicated mood only lasted for a moment, and soon she was diverted by her daughter's booming business.
In two hours, the three large hot pots were sold out, and the two large barrels of beer were gone.
It was particularly hot today, and the workers drank a lot of beer. One barrel was sold out, so Rutang asked Xiaoyue to ride her bike to the brewery to buy another barrel.
"Mom, let's start adding the dumplings project tomorrow. Can you make them? If you can, I'll give you a 50-50 split." Rutang said to her mother.
"What's the point of sharing? How can a mother ask her child for money?" Hao Mei felt that it was her duty to help her daughter.
It’s not easy for a young couple to start a business, so she would help in any way she can.
"That won't do. You've been helping me cook these past few days, and I haven't done much. Brother Yaoyang was the one who suggested splitting the bill. He said that if I gave you money, you might not want it, so it's better to split the bill, even if we're doing business together."
"You are my only daughter, and all my money is given to you." Hao Mei felt warm in her heart when she heard her son-in-law say this.
It's good for children to be filial, but she can't accept it.
"Okay, if you don't want a share, then Brother Yaoyang and I will be filial to you. You can't refuse." Rutang guessed that her mother would not want it, but it didn't matter. She would compensate her mother from other places.
In fact, Rutang can do all the work that Hao Mei does by herself.
It’s not that she is lazy and doesn’t want to help her mother, it’s that her mother just got divorced and needs something to divert her attention. She can’t be left alone to think about things.
Seeing that Hao Mei agreed to help make dumplings, Rutang gave her the profit analysis.
"We sell dumplings stuffed with Spanish mackerel. People living by the sea love to eat this. Spanish mackerel doesn't require a ticket, and the cost is low when we buy it from fishermen. It's 30 cents per plate, and there are 15 dumplings in a plate. We can make more than half of the profit."
Not everyone can make dumplings stuffed with Spanish mackerel well, as it will taste fishy if not done properly.
But Hao Mei has mastered the secret of removing fishy smell, and the dumplings stuffed with Spanish mackerel that she makes are truly unique.
"Mom, at your speed, you can wrap at least five in a minute, and you can make 15 cents in three minutes. You wrap for two hours a day, how much do you make? Six dollars."
Rutang calculated the number of outsourced workers in Port D and realized that selling forty more plates of dumplings a day would be a piece of cake.
"Two hours is not enough. I have nothing to do here anyway, so I might as well make more!" Hao Mei suddenly became energetic and forgot about Chen Fu for a moment.
Rutang knew that she had made the right move by looking at her expression, and continued to paint a rosy picture for her mother.
"I asked about houses in the city. A house like Sister Hua's with a yard can be bought for more than 2,000 yuan. If we work hard for two months, we can settle down in the city."
Although there is no concept of commercial housing yet, it is possible to choose a factory with poor performance and buy a family house. An ordinary worker would have to go without food and drink for several years to save up the money for more than 2,000 yuan, but for a small trader like the Tang family, it is not a difficult thing.
"Buy a house for yourself?! Settle down in the city?" Hao Mei was surprised.
Rutang nodded. Why not?
Since she has divorced Chen Fu, she should not go back to Dali Village. Although her mother is in good health, farming is too tiring after all. The land will be distributed to households in the next few months. Once the production team is disbanded, a divorced rural woman like her mother who has no land will have a hard time in the village.
Grandma has made it clear that her mother's parents will not give her mother any land, and Chen Fu will definitely not give a penny either, so it is better for her to stay in the city and enjoy a good life.
"Mom, Brother Yaoyang and I already have several plans to make money. Setting up a stall to sell food is just a transition. When we have enough capital, we can have other livelihoods, and then we won't be so tired. I remember that the current house in the capital is only more than 30,000 yuan."
Housing prices in the capital are always expensive. In a northern coastal city like City D, you can buy a small bungalow outside the city for 2,000 yuan. The price in the capital is more than ten times higher. However, if you save enough money to buy a house in the capital now, it will be a huge profit.
Buying a few courtyard houses in the second ring road and hoarding them will be worth sky-high prices in the future. A price of 30,000 yuan per set will not be enough to buy even one square meter in the future. For Rutang, hoarding houses in the capital is almost like picking up money for free. When his family has money, he will definitely buy more, the better.
To Hao Mei, these words sounded like fairy tales.
"A house that costs 30,000 yuan?! Is the roof made of gold, or are the walls made of gold? Why is it so expensive? Just rob them." Hao Mei thinks that being a millionaire with a monthly income of 10,000 yuan is already amazing, and buying a house with a monthly income of tens of thousands is crazy to her.
"Big cities have a lot of room for development and appreciation, but that's all in the future. Let's just take care of the things in front of us now. There's a future to look forward to, and..." Rutang paused and put his hand on his stomach.
"Brother Yaoyang and I are planning to have a baby soon. You have to help me. I don't know how to take care of a child."
"That's great!" Hao Mei lit up when she heard her daughter was going to have a baby.
Rutang's trick works well against her mother-in-law, and even better against her own mother.
Hao Mei feels that the future is very promising. Her daughter plans to have a baby, so she has to help her daughter make money and buy a house so that the child will have a home after it is born.
Thinking of this, I wished I could grow wings and go home quickly to make dough, steam buns, and make dumplings. I didn’t want to waste even a minute.
Hao Mei's mind was full of helping her daughter make money, and thinking about Chen Fu for even one more second would be a waste of money.
Life is full of motivation. No matter whether that old scumbag is dead or alive, she will be satisfied as long as she takes good care of her daughter.
Yu Yaoyang was a man of his word. He returned to the village and took out 500 yuan from his pocket.
When Chen Fu saw the money, his whole face lit up and he reached out to take it with a smile, but Yu Yaoyang took the money back.
"Go to the village chief and get a witness."
Chen Fu nodded hurriedly. His mind was only on money. He would be happy even if he was asked to kneel down and bark like a dog.
When he arrived at the village chief's place, Yu Yaoyang gave the money to Chen Fu in front of the village chief and declared that the two families would no longer have any relationship. If anyone in the village said that his wife was unfilial in the future, he would really take action.
The village chief wanted to persuade Chen Fu to stop doing evil. Hao Mei was a woman who knew how to live a good life. He would definitely regret it later if he abandoned his wife and daughter for a few hundred dollars.
But when he heard Chen Fu say that he was divorced, the village chief could only shake his head. Chen Fu was really asking for trouble. He would cry a lot in the future.
Chen Fu carried a huge sum of money and went straight to the gambling place. He didn't even want to go back home, for fear that his brothers would ask him to borrow money. So he gambled a few times first to satisfy his gambling addiction.
He didn't know what was going on today. His card-playing partners were not here. There were only a few young street urchins at the table, all of whom were Yu Yaoyang's subordinates.
Chen Fu had no idea that he had fallen into the trap set by the Rutang couple, and he sat down and started gambling stupidly.
Chen Fu was lucky and kept winning money. He became more and more arrogant. When he was in high spirits, the door opened.
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