Chapter 109 Yao Dazui Wants to Start a Business
"bell--"
The clear and melodious bell for the end of get out of class rang throughout the campus through the loudspeakers.
Teacher Cai closed her notebook and said, "Okay, students, that's all for today's class. get out of class dismissed."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shi Qiushui, who was sitting upright, immediately shouted: "Stand up——"
The other students in the class quickly stood up. After Shi Qiushui stood up, he glanced around and saw that everyone was standing. Then he took the lead and shouted, "Goodbye, teacher—"
The classmates followed: "Goodbye, teacher——"
Teacher Cai nodded, picked up her lesson plan and books, and walked down from the podium. As she watched Teacher Cai leave, Shi Qiushui, whose back had been straight just a moment ago, suddenly slumped down in her chair, leaning against it like she had no bones.
To be a good monitor and set a good example of attentive listening, she maintained the straightest posture during class, not even scratching her back when it itched. By the end of the day, her entire back was stiff and unresponsive.
"Xiaoqiu, let's go... Hey, Xiaoqiu, why haven't you packed your schoolbag yet?"
Xiao Taozi in front packed his schoolbag, but turned around and found that Shi Qiu Shui had not started packing yet.
Shi Qiushui: "Oh, okay, wait for me."
She shoved the books on the table into her bag, zipped it up, and said, "Okay, okay, let's go."
Shi Qiu Shui stood up and put on his schoolbag.
"Let's go, Xiao Taozi, Xiaopang, Zhao Ran, let's go."
"good!"
The four of them put on their backpacks and walked out together.
They got along well in kindergarten, and now they are in the same class, their relationship is even better. On the first day of school, they were inseparable.
Seeing them walking out together, Xiong Jie, who was still chatting with his deskmate, became anxious. He picked up his schoolbag and hurriedly chased after them with big strides.
"Boss, boss, wait for me!"
Xiong Jie rushed to Shi Qiushui like a whirlwind. He pouted and complained, "Boss, why did you leave without even calling me? Don't you consider me your little brother?"
"Ahem."
Shi Qiu Shui coughed twice awkwardly. Could she say that she had really forgotten the existence of her younger brother Xiong Jie?
She pursed her lips and made an excuse for herself: "Well, it's not that I don't treat you as my younger brother, but you were talking to your deskmate just now. I thought you two had something else to talk about, so I didn't call you."
Xiong Jie was a simple-minded man, so he believed what Shi Qiu Shui said without any doubt.
He scratched his head and said, "Is that so? Hey, Boss, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. I thought you forgot to call me..."
Looking at Xiong Jie's innocent face, Shi Qiu Shui felt a little bit of a pang of conscience.
She rubbed her nose and said, "How could that be? I'm your boss, how could I forget you?"
Anyway, she won’t forget Xiong Jie next time!
Xiong Jie: "Hehe, Boss, you really are the best."
Shi Qiushui: "Ahem, alright, alright, let's go quickly, my dad should be waiting for me at the door by now."
Xiao Taozi: "My mother should be waiting for me at the door!"
Shi Qiushui: "Then let's go quickly!"
Several children walked briskly to the school gate, glanced at the group of parents outside the iron gate, and quickly found their parents.
"Mom~" Little Taozi trotted towards his mother.
"Dad~" Shi Qiu Shui also ran towards Shi Yue.
"Oh, my eldest daughter——"
Shi Yue steadily caught Shi Qiushui who ran over. He stroked Shi Qiushui's soft hair and asked, "My girl, how is it? How do you feel about your first day of school? How is your teacher? How is the lunch at school? Is it delicious? Is it much different from when you were in kindergarten? How about classes? How are you adapting?"
After all, it was Shi Qiu Shui's first day at school, so Shi Yue was still a little worried.
While he was at work today, his mind wandered from time to time, wondering how Shi Qiushui was doing at school, whether he could adapt, whether he would have trouble adapting to the teacher's teachings, whether he would be picky during lunch, whether he would have conflicts with his classmates, whether...
Now that he saw Shi Qiu Shui, he had a lot of questions to ask Shi Qiu Shui.
Shi Qiushui failed to understand Shi Yue's father's mentality and said heartlessly with a pout, "Dad, you ask too many questions!"
When Shi Yue saw Shi Qiu Shui like this, he knew that his worries during the day were unnecessary, as his daughter was obviously adapting well.
Shi Yue: "Hey, it looks like you had a good day today?"
Shi Qiushui held his head high and said proudly, "Well! I'm even the squad leader now!"
When Shi Yue heard this, a proud smile immediately appeared on his face: "Wow, our Xiaoqiu has become an official. That's incredible! You're even better than dad. When dad was in school, he couldn't even get a group leader."
He smiled and asked, "Come on, Xiaoqiu, tell Dad how you became the class monitor?"
Shi Qiushui raised his head and said, "It was today in class. Our teacher asked us to elect a class monitor. If anyone wants to be the monitor, please raise your hand. I raised my hand, and the teacher asked me to stand up and explain why I wanted to be the monitor and what I could do for the class after becoming the monitor. I stood up and explained it. Since I was the only one standing up, the teacher let me be the monitor."
Shi Yue raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What did you say?"
Shi Qiushui: "I just said that being a squad leader is very impressive, so I want to be one."
Shi Yue couldn't help but twitch his lips. It seemed that his daughter was a little too honest.
He looked at Shi Qiushui with a smile and asked, "What can you do for the class after becoming the monitor? What did you say?"
Shi Qiushui: "I didn't say anything. I just said I would cooperate with the teacher and manage the class."
Shi Yue nodded and said, "Well, that's not a bad point."
But Shi Qiushui immediately added, "By the way, Dad, I also promised my classmates that after I become class monitor, I will treat everyone to chocolate."
Shi Yue: ...
He looked down at Shi Qiu Shui, and happened to meet the little girl's clear big eyes.
Shi Yue: "You said you would treat the whole class to chocolate after becoming the class monitor?"
Shi Qiushui nodded: "Yeah!"
Shi Yue: ...
Okay, I found the reason why his daughter successfully became the class monitor.
It turns out that he relies on spending money to buy people’s hearts!
Shi Yue pursed his lips, but didn't think there was anything wrong with Shi Qiu Shui's behavior.
Winning people's hearts is a science. How could his daughter use this to gain power for herself at such a young age? That's amazing!
Moreover, his daughter was able to stand up and run for class monitor when other students did not dare to raise their hands, which shows that his daughter has courage that other students do not have.
Shi Yue thought so, and reached out to rub the little girl's head, saying: "Well, she is worthy of being my daughter, she is really amazing."
Shi Qiushui smiled and chuckled, saying, "Well, Dad, I want to treat my classmates to chocolate tomorrow, so..."
Shi Yue: "I understand. I'm taking you to buy chocolate, right? Let's go now and buy some at the department store."
"Great!" Shi Qiushui clapped his hands and cheered, then made a small request to Shi Yue: "Dad, besides chocolate, can you buy me a bag of jelly? I want to eat it."
Shi Yue nodded readily: "Sure, I'll buy it for you."
Shi Qiushui jumped for joy, hugged Shi Yue's arm, and said sweetly, "Dad, you are so good. You are the best dad in the world!"
Shi Yue shook his head proudly and said, "Of course!"
Zhao Hui's eyes turned red with envy as he listened to the conversation between the father and daughter. He also wanted to have a sweet little daughter like Shi Qiu Shui, who would say that he was the best father in the world.
He lowered his head, glanced at Zhao Ran, and sighed helplessly.
Reality is always cruel. He doesn't have a sweet little daughter, but only a cold and hard son.
But the son had already been born. He couldn't possibly put the son back into his wife's belly and replace him with a daughter, so he could only accept this fact.
Zhao Ran heard Zhao Hui sigh and looked up at him strangely.
Zhao Hui: "Ahem, well, son, let me ask you something. Xiaoqiu is now the monitor. What about you? Have you managed to get a high position?"
Zhao Ran: "No, it's too troublesome."
Zhao Hui: ...
Well, considering his son's personality, he was not surprised to hear such words.
Zhao Hui: "So how was your class today? Did you adapt? Did anything special happen?"
Zhao Ran: "I've adapted quite well. Nothing special has happened."
Zhao Hui tried to get his son to talk more about school: "Nothing special, then tell me about your teacher and your classmates. Oh, by the way, didn't you meet new classmates today? Did you make any new friends?"
Zhao Ran: "There are new classmates, but I don't know them well yet."
Speaking of new classmates, Zhao Ran frowned for a moment, but quickly returned to normal, so quickly that Zhao Hui didn't even notice.
As for the new classmates in the class, Zhao Ran was just as he said, he didn't know them very well, except for Xiong Jie who was pestering Shi Qiu Shui.
He didn't like Xiong Jie, he really didn't like him. The moment Shi Qiushui took Xiong Jie in as his younger brother, he wanted to stand up and say he didn't want to come, but...
But he soon realized that he had no right to stop Shi Qiu Shui from playing with Xiong Jie.
Zhao Hui was completely oblivious to his son's unusual mood and continued ramblingly, "Well, you're new classmates. You've just met each other, so you're probably not familiar with each other yet. You'll become familiar with each other over time, just like you and Xiaoqiu. When Xiaoqiu first came back, she wasn't familiar with you either, but now you two are good friends. So, don't be shy. Talk to your new classmates more, and they'll definitely become friends with you."
Zhao Ran pursed his lips and said nothing.
However, he was silently refutating in his heart that other people were not Shi Qiu Shui, and he would not become friends with others easily.
Zhao Hui kept chattering as he led Zhao Ran back to the compound. Not long after they got home, Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui, father and daughter, also came back carrying two large bags of snacks.
Shi Qiushui crossed the yard and sweetly greeted the aunties in the yard: "Hello, Grandma Gao~Hello, Grandma Ma~Hello, Grandma Li~"
The aunties smiled and responded. Ma Yulan looked at Shi Qiushui's smiling face and asked, "Xiaoqiu, you are so happy today. Is there something good?"
Shi Qiushui smiled sweetly and said, "Grandma Ma, I'm the monitor now!"
Ma Yulan exclaimed in delight, "Wow? Xiaoqiu is an official now? That's incredible!"
Li Xiuying also praised him, saying, "Xiao Qiu is really amazing! Hey, squad leader, the most powerful official in the class!"
Gao Cuifen: "Hey, Xiaoqiu, how many people are there in your class?"
Shi Qiushui said crisply, "Thirty."
Gao Cuifen: "Wow, that's like you're in charge of thirty people. Oh, no, if you exclude yourself, that's twenty-nine people. Hey, your father doesn't even have twenty-nine people under him right now. You're even more powerful than your father."
Shi Qiu Shui smiled and raised her chin. If she were a kitten, her tail would have been raised up.
Everyone looked at Qiu Shui's smug little face and couldn't help laughing out loud.
"Hey, stop laughing, someone come and help me move my things."
Everyone was chatting and laughing when they heard Yao Dazui's struggling voice coming from the door.
When everyone turned around, they saw Yao Dazui carrying two large sacks that were more than half a person's height and struggling to move them into the yard.
"Hey, Aunt Yao, slow down, let me help you." Shi Yue hurried forward to help Yao Dazui move things.
Not to mention, Yao Dazui's big sack was quite heavy. Shi Yue almost couldn't lift it when he tried to pick it up.
He gritted his teeth and used both hands to bring the sack in.
He put the sack in the yard with great effort and asked curiously, "Auntie Yao, what are you carrying here? It's quite heavy."
Yao Dazui wiped the sweat off his face and panted heavily, saying, "Hey, these are raw melon seeds and wet peanuts. I specially brought them up from the countryside."
"Sunflower seeds and peanuts?!" Shi Yue glanced at the two large sacks and said with wide eyes, "Two large sacks full of sunflower seeds and peanuts? How many kilograms do they hold?"
He paused and said, "No, you're eating this by yourself. Wouldn't buying two kilograms be enough? Why did you go all the way to the countryside to buy it, and buy so much at once?"
The aunties in the courtyard also said, "Old Yao, these two big bags of food must weigh over 100 pounds, right? Can you finish them?"
"Yeah, these are all raw, and you have to dry them and fry them. It's so troublesome. It's better to go to the vegetable market and buy two kilograms of ready-made ones."
Gao Cuifen, smiling, came up to Yao Dazui and said, "Old Yao, you bought so much at once, you definitely can't finish it, right? So, I'll be kind enough to help you out and share the burden, how about that?"
Yao Dazui rolled his eyes and said, "Fuck you! You're helping me! You're so shameless! You even say taking advantage sounds so kind."
Gao Cuifen said with a playful smile: "Since you can't finish it, give me some~"
Yao Dazui: "Go away, I want to sell these."
"Take it out and sell it?!"
Everyone was shocked at the same time, and Shi Qi stared at Yao Dazui with wide eyes.
Under everyone's gaze, Yao Dazui nodded calmly and said, "Yes, I'm going to fry these and sell them at a stall to make money."
Everyone was surprised, not because they thought there was anything wrong with setting up a stall to do business. It was just that things were different now than they were ten years ago. It was no longer the era of speculation and profiteering. Everyone knew that business could make money. In their yard alone, there were two businesses, Yang Zhiqiang and Guo Pozi. Oh, yes, if you include Old Zhang who ran a car repair stall, then there were three businesses.
Everyone was surprised because Yao Dazui had a job. Both Yao Dazui and her husband had jobs, so why did they suddenly want to set up a stall?
Gao Cuifen asked what everyone was thinking: "Lao Yao, you're not going to work, so you want to set up a stall?"
Yao Dazui tsk-tsked and said, "Who said I'm not going to work? Setting up a stall is setting up a stall, and working is working. It's not like I can't set up a stall after work."
Li Xiuying frowned and asked, "So, can you handle both work and setting up a stall?"
Yao Dazui: "Come here if you are busy."
She explained, "I didn't plan to start any other business. I just wanted to sell sunflower seeds and peanuts. They're not that hard to make. I fried them on Sundays and packaged them. After work, I'd take them to the cinema entrance and sell them. It's a nearby cinema, not too far away."
Everyone thought about it and felt that there was nothing wrong with her arrangement.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Gao Cuifen said sourly: "You only sell melon seeds for a short while after work every day. How many melon seeds can you sell? Besides, melon seeds are not worth much money in a small bag. You put so much effort into it, can you really make back your money?..."
Yao Dazui glanced at Gao Cuifen and said nothing.
She had done her research and knew, of course, that selling sunflower seeds and peanuts was profitable! Don't underestimate this business. Although you don't make much money per serving, only about 30 or 50 cents, the portion size is also small. She herself squatted at the entrance of the cinema and observed that people selling a small bag of sunflower seeds, at most 200 grams, for only 30 cents. You have to know that she only paid this much for a pound of raw sunflower seeds. Just look at how much money there is in this business!
However, she didn't intend to tell this to Gao Cuifen.
As the saying goes, make a fortune in silence. She didn't tell Gao Cuifen about the secrets to making money that she had figured out on her own.
Yao Dazui ignored Gao Cuifen and asked Ma Yulan, "Oh, yes, what were you talking about just now? I was far away from our courtyard and I could hear you laughing. What were you laughing about?"
Ma Yulan: "Well, what about Xiaoqiu? Xiaoqiu has become an official."
Yao Dazui: "Be an official? What kind of official?"
Yao Dazui didn't react at all and was still wondering how a child like Shi Qiushui could hold an official position.
Shi Yue explained: "Well, actually, she's just a class monitor. Xiaoqiu's school starts today, and her class is electing a class monitor, and Xiaoqiu was chosen."
"Oh, such an official!" Yao Dazui understood, and she was quite flattering: "That's impressive, class monitor, in charge of a whole class, that's really good! Even your uncle Chao didn't hold this position when he was in school."
Shi Qiu Shui raised the corners of his mouth and smiled brightly.
"Hey, Xiaoqiu, how do you choose class leaders?"
Shi Qiushui: "Oh, in our class, we raise our hands to sign up, and then..."
Not only did the discussion turn out to be boring, but Gao Cuifen also curled her lips when she saw everyone change the topic. She stopped participating in the conversation and went home with a gloomy face.
Old Zhang was sitting on the sofa listening to the radio. When he saw Gao Cuifen coming back, he casually asked, "Why are you back so early? Are you going to cook?"
Gao Cuifen: "Cooking a shit meal, do you think I'm your babysitter? I come back just to cook, can't I come back later?"
Old Zhang said aggrievedly, "Of course I can. Why not? No one told you you can't come back. I'm just curious. Why are you so angry?"
Gao Cuifen: "Stop talking, I'm annoyed."
Old Zhang stopped listening to the radio, turned around and approached Gao Cuifen, asking, "What's wrong with you? What's bothering you?"
Gao Cuifen sat on the sofa and said, "You don't know, Yao Dazui just said she's going to set up a stall to do business!"
Old Zhang: "Doing business? She does business? What kind of business is she doing? She's not working?!"
Gao Cuifen: "Yes, of course not. She said she was going to set up a stall after work, selling roasted sunflower seeds and peanuts."
"Oh, so..." Old Zhang said, "I thought she was not going to work anymore and was going to set up a stall."
But Old Zhang still didn't understand. He asked, "If Yao Dazui wants to set up a stall, then go ahead. What's so annoying about that?"
Gao Cuifen's face darkened. "You're asking me what's bothering me? What can I possibly be bothered by?"
She frowned and asked, "Why do you think Yao Dazui wants to set up a stall?"
Old Zhang didn't think twice: "For money."
Gao Cuifen: "Yeah, it's all about money! You said their family, both of them are employees, what's there to worry about money? Isn't it because they want to save money for her son to get married? Her son is not married yet, but your son is married? Tell me, don't you have to save money for your son too?"
Old Zhang wilted when he heard this. He trembled his lips and said, "Well, our little fourth son doesn't have a partner yet, so there's no need to rush this matter."
Gao Cuifen's rage instantly flared up. She stood up, pointed at Old Zhang's nose, and said, "Listen to what you're saying. You're not in a hurry because you don't have a partner? You're not in a hurry now, but it will be too late when Xiao Si finds one! When Xiao Si brings his girlfriend home and says they're getting married, and he asks you for money, where are you going to give it to him? I'm asking you, where are you going to give him the money?!"
"Uh..." Old Zhang stammered and was unable to speak.
Gao Cuifen: "Besides, in our courtyard, only Chao from Yao Dazui's family is of similar age to our Xiao Si. Tell me, would people outside compare Chao with our Xiao Si? Can our family compare with the Yao family?"
There is definitely no comparison. Just the fact that the old couple in the Yao family have jobs makes Gao Cuifen and Old Zhang no match.
Old Zhang stammered: "Then, then..."
Gao Cuifen was already annoyed, and seeing Old Zhang stuttering made her even more annoyed. She slapped Old Zhang on the back and said, "Go away! I get annoyed just by seeing you."
Old Zhang shut up and rolled away.
Gao Cuifen sat on the sofa and began to think. She and her old man didn't have proper jobs now and relied on setting up stalls to get work. Why don't they be more flexible and do some small business like Yao Dazui?
But what can she do in business?
Also selling melon seeds and peanuts?
How much can melon seeds and peanuts be sold for? No way.
So what does she sell?
Gao Cuifen fell into deep thought.
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