"Brother, please persuade Erwa." Lin Minjun said.

Erwa immediately said, "Brother, I think things are dead, but people are alive. It's snowing now. What if my sister gets frozen while setting up the stall?"

Yan Li was stared at by two pairs of big eyes. He was silent for a long time and only said one sentence, "You can borrow it."

Lin Minjun almost fell headfirst under the table.

What's wrong with these two brothers! Is she the only one who thinks that their family property should be kept well and not sold carelessly?

Lin Minjun was overwhelmed. What was wrong with them? When she helped take care of Erwa, she never thought about repaying them. If she really wanted to repay them, she could wait until Erwa grew up and became independent. Why did they have to sell their baby?

Lin Minjun was about to persuade him, but Yan Li said, "You don't have to sell anything. I have a military pension, not much, 5,000 yuan, which I can lend to you to open a store."

He thought for a moment and asked again, "Is that enough?"

"What will you do if you lend it to me?"

Yan Li said in a gentle tone, "I will go to work tomorrow and get paid."

"Sister, just agree to it. You can make money faster by opening a store, and you can pay it back earlier." Erwa said while rubbing his hands. He looked so cute that Lin Minjun reminded her of the hamster she raised in her previous life.

Lin Minjun couldn't refuse, so she agreed, "Okay, then I'll write you an IOU. It doesn't need to be 3,000. It will cost about 2,000 yuan to open a store. I have 900 yuan in savings."

"Then borrow two thousand."

Yan Li had made up his mind when he said this. He immediately went home and got a big stack of Tuanjie. He counted out two thousand yuan in front of Lin Minjun. He wanted to hand it to her, but seeing that the girl was stunned, he gently put it on the table and said, "If you don't have enough, ask me for more. It's okay."

The two brothers had been gone for a long time, and Lin Minjun was still in a daze until the wind and snow outside howled and hit the window, making a bang, and she came to her senses.

Turning around, she saw that the window was not closed tightly and the bolt was loose, so she walked over to close the window tightly and filled the leak with something. Then she walked back to the table and picked up the two thousand yuan.

The paper money was slightly cool, but Lin Minjun's heart was boiling hot. The heat kept rising up to her heart and eye sockets, making her nose sore.

She had thought about the problems Erwa mentioned, and she knew that her business would become more and more difficult as time went on. She had to fry potatoes under the scorching sun, and not everyone could endure that kind of heat.

The only solution was to open a store. With a store, at least she would have a place to rest her feet. If she made enough money, she could even install a small fan.

But I only had so much money on me, and there was no way I could afford to open a store.

She thought she was going to miss it, but she didn't expect that she would have her own store so soon!

Since the money has already been borrowed, there is no point in saying any more words of gratitude. What Lin Minjun wants to do is to open the store as soon as possible, get the gears turning, and make money continuously so that she can return the money to Brother Yan Li as soon as possible.

So the next day Lin Minjun went to the store again, hoping to find the owner and ask if the store was still there.

The hostess still remembered her and recognized her at once. She said in surprise, "It's you! I remember you. How did you get the money together so quickly?"

"It's me, sister. Is your store still there?" Lin Minjun said with a smile.

Female lesbian: "Still! Actually, there are a lot of people asking these days, but not many can afford it. Yesterday, a male lesbian said he could afford it, but I saw that he had poor hygiene habits and was afraid that he would mess up the store, so I didn't agree."

Hope arose in Lin Minjun's heart.

The female comrade saw her impatience and smiled cheerfully, "We are very compatible, and I can tell from your appearance that you are a clean person. I will keep the same price, 1,750 yuan, and you can rent it today."

Lin Minjun pinched the big knot in her clothes and said, "Can I go in and take a look? Because I run a restaurant, I need to see if the water and electricity are easy to fix."

"Okay, come on, I'll take you to see it."

The female comrade took away the wooden board, walked in and introduced, "It used to be a barber shop. There was a faucet at the door for washing hair. You can make a sink here to wash vegetables and dishes, and put the pot on the other side. The environment is definitely not as good as a big state-owned hotel, but you can do it at the door. Everyone can see how you cook, and they can rest assured when eating, right?"

Lin Minjun nodded and began to think about where to make a small sink, where to put the pot, and where to put tables and chairs for everyone to sit and eat.

This store looks small from the outside, but the space inside is actually quite large. It is vertical, with a large area at the back where you can put tables, and it can also be partitioned to serve as a warehouse.

What surprised Lin Minjun even more was that there were actually two sets of tables, chairs and benches in the room. Although they looked a bit shabby, the wood was in good condition and not rotten, so they could still be used!

"Is this table yours?" she turned and asked.

The female comrade smiled as soon as she saw it, walked over and shook it, and found that it was not overturned. She was also a little surprised and said, "This is my old furniture. My husband works at a recycling station. A few years ago, many people threw away their good things, so my wife moved it home and replaced it with tables, chairs and benches at home. There was no place to put it, so she had to put it here."

"Don't be fooled by the fact that they are old furniture. They were made by craftsmen from my hometown who carried wood from the mountains. They are very sturdy."

Lin Minjun was so excited that she mustered up the courage to ask, "Do you still want it? I can buy it for you."

The female comrade laughed heartily, "No need to pay, I'll lend it to you. You can clean it yourself, find someone to take care of it, and nail it to stabilize the table legs. As long as you don't chop it up for firewood, it's fine."

"Thank you, sister!" Lin Minjun thanked sincerely, "You are such a nice person. I felt like we got along great the moment I saw you. You have a really kind heart."

Lesbians come from good families and have many people fawning on them. People are tired of hearing such words, but Lin Minjun smiled, blinked her almond-shaped eyes, and spoke in a particularly sincere tone, which made people feel sincerity and admiration from the heart.

She smiled and looked back, "It's not easy for us women to start a business. If you can help, please help. If there is anything, don't be so polite."

The store was settled. Lin Minjun followed the female comrade to the Housing Authority to register, signed the contract, and paid one year's rent.

After paying the rent, you have to start decorating right away. After all, if the house is vacant for one day, you will waste several dollars in rent.

The store does not require major decoration. It mainly requires finding someone to improve the wiring, paint the walls white, level the floor and lay bricks, build a partition wall, make a door, and find a carpenter to repair the tables, chairs and benches. The two long tables are large and can seat twelve people when placed in the store, which is more than enough.

If you have any problems with the wiring, you can ask the power supply company to fix it directly. As for the work of painting the walls and building a wall, you have to find someone who knows how to build a house to do it.

But who can build a house? Lin Minjun searched among the people she knew, but couldn't think of anyone who could do this.

I was a little embarrassed for a moment. Should I go to the construction team of Capital Construction for this small job?

It is said that when Lin Minjun first set up her stall, she rode a tricycle to the countryside to collect potatoes. Because of this, she became acquainted with the village party secretary of a suburban village. At that time, the party secretary collected all the good potatoes in the village and supplied them to her, out of a sense of favor.

That day, Lin Minjun was setting up his stall at the original location, thinking about who to find to decorate his store, when he saw the village party secretary coming over, "Comrade Xiaolin, are you still going to harvest potatoes?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" Lin Minjun invited him to sit at the table and poured him a glass of hot water.

The village party secretary was embarrassed. "This matter is actually a trouble for you. Our village has a good potato harvest this time, but because of the heavy snow, the potato harvesters have not come yet. Every household has a lot of potatoes and can't sell them. I'm very anxious. I want to ask you, if you harvest them, can you consider us? They are all new potatoes and very sticky."

Lin Minjun had also farmed when she was at home, and knew how hard it was to farm. She couldn't bear to see them so anxious, so she counted the food in her home and said, "I can harvest it here, but I don't need that much. I guess we can only eat a little bit."

“What should we do? If we leave it any longer, it will sprout when the weather gets warmer and we will be inedible.” The village party secretary was extremely anxious.

"You just said that the potatoes this year are very sticky. Why not make them into potato flour and sell them?" Lin Minjun said.

The village party secretary was stunned. "Will it work? We haven't tried it."

"Why not? If you can't sell it in the north, then ask someone to sell it in the northeast. I remember that many places love to eat potato flour and make rice noodle skins and rice noodle slices. Nowadays, everyone likes fresh food. You don't need a ticket for the potato rice noodle skins and rice noodle slices you produce yourself, so why worry about no one buying them?"

This idea obviously opened up a new world. The village party secretary's eyes lit up, and after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it was a good idea. At worst, he could try to cook his own potatoes first, and if he could sell them, he would bring everyone to do it together. It was better than letting the potatoes sprout at home and be wasted.

"Every household in our village used to make tofu. There's a big millstone in the village. Maybe it can really work!"

Lin Minjun thought for a moment and asked, "If we can make tofu, can we grind rice into milk and make rice noodles?"

The village party secretary said: "Of course we can. If we can grind beans, we can grind rice. But we don't know how to make rice flour."

"I have a recipe here. We can cooperate. I will provide the recipe and you will make the rice noodles. Give me a lower price and the rice noodles you produce will be supplied to me first. The rest can be sold to others. Neither of us will suffer a loss. What do you think?" Lin Minjun said with a smile.

The recipe is not her own, but was passed down from mouth to mouth by the elders in her hometown. The rice noodles made with it are not easy to break and are chewy when eaten.

I have been in the capital for such a long time, and what I miss most is the chewy and smooth rice noodles. Unfortunately, rice noodles are not produced in the north, and they are very expensive in stores. If we can convince them to cooperate, we can supply the stores and the village can also earn more income. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?

The village party secretary was obviously tempted, but he didn't agree right away. "Wait for me to think about it. I'll go back and discuss it with everyone and let you know tomorrow. Is that okay?"

"Sure!" Lin Minjun smiled, her heart full of anticipation.

After all, this is related to what she sells in her store and whether she can have a taste of her hometown in the future!

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