Chapter 394
Cui Li also laughed: "Zhong Lan and I are both tired of being poor. Now that we have finally found a way to make a living, we want to earn more."
"Okay, if you want to sell buns, you can continue to sell them. Just remember to keep a record. I may come here less often during this period." Ye Fuyue said.
Zhong Lan and Cui Li nodded: "We will keep a good account."
"How much did you two sell today?" Ye Fuyue asked.
Zhong Lan took out all the money in her pocket and said, "I sold eleven dollars and eighty cents today."
Cui Li also took out all the money in her pocket: "I sold thirteen yuan and sixty-two cents today. With the New Year approaching, meat buns are more popular than vegetarian buns."
Ye Fuyue counted the money one by one and recorded the accounts in the account book.
"I've already recorded the money you two earned today in my account book. I've added up all the money we earned before today, subtracted the money we spent on food, and will give you this month's dividends first so that everyone can have a good New Year."
Ye Fuyue said this and gave the dividends prepared in advance to Zhong Lan and Cui Li respectively.
From the first of this month to yesterday, a total of twenty-three days, Zhong Lan and Cui Li each received a dividend of ninety-three yuan and eight cents.
After the two received the money, they counted it in front of Ye Fuyue.
Both of them were very happy to see so much money.
Ye Fuyue took out the other two red envelopes she had prepared and handed them to the two of them: "These are New Year's red envelopes, you two accept them."
"We still have red envelopes?" Zhong Lan and Cui Li were both surprised.
"You two have been busy for half a year. This red envelope is equivalent to the extra year-end bonus I give you." Ye Fuyue explained.
Zhong Lan and Cui Li understood now, and opened the red envelopes with a smile on their faces. There was ten yuan in each of the two red envelopes.
"Fu Yue, thank you." Zhong Lan and Cui Li both smiled gratefully.
Ye Fuyue also smiled and talked about other things.
"You two and a few children have been living here all this time, without a man. I'm worried it might be unsafe at times. Think about getting a dog to guard the house."
Cui Li said, "I talked about this with Zhong Lan a few days ago. If there's no man at home, it's easy for people with bad intentions to target you. But Zhong Lan and I are both worried that if we get a dog, it might damage your things."
Zhong Lan nodded.
"It's okay, it's broken, so it's broken. Your safety is more important than the broken things here." Ye Fuyue said.
"It just so happens that I plan to go back to my mother's house on the first day of the Lunar New Year. I'll see if there is a dog there and bring one back." Zhong Lan said.
"Okay." Ye Fuyue said.
She took out two bicycle tickets and handed them to Zhong Lan and Cui Li: "I got the bicycle tickets. You two can decide when to buy bicycles."
"Okay. After we buy a bicycle and save some money, we will return the bicycle ticket money to you." Cui Li said.
"There's no rush." Ye Fuyue said, "If you two feel you don't have enough money, you can save up for a few more months before buying a bicycle."
Although Ye Fuyue asked Zhong Lan and Cui Li to buy bicycles for their own good, she did not want to push them too hard. In the end, she ended up doing something bad with good intentions, as if she had forced them to buy bicycles.
Ye Fuyue took out another book and handed it to Cui Li.
"When you have free time, learn to read. If you don't know how, you can ask Zhong Lan and me to teach you. If we want to expand our business, you must learn more characters, otherwise you will suffer losses."
Cui Li took the literacy book that Ye Fuyue had found for her from the scrap yard and nodded gratefully, "Okay!"
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In the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.
The Shen family's New Year's Eve dinner was arguably the most sumptuous in the compound. Chen Guifeng and Ye Fuyue cooked a total of ten dishes, including steamed fish, sweet and sour carp, crispy pork, roasted chicken with chestnuts, and steamed pork with rice flour.
Ye Fuyue even bought some soda and filled everyone's cups.
Everyone clinked their glasses and said auspicious words to each other in a festive manner, while Haohao and Ranran couldn't help but drink soda.
Although Qiqi was already one year old, Ye Fuyue was more controlling of her. She only allowed her to take a few sips of soda and was not allowed to drink too much.
Seeing that her brothers could drink but she couldn't, Qiqi burst into tears at the top of her lungs, crying, "Mom is so bad! Mom is biased!"
Chen Yao held Qiqi and sat her on his lap, coaxing her, "Mom is doing this for your own good. When you're as old as your brothers, you can eat whatever you want and drink whatever you want."
Haohao said, "We don't eat or drink whatever we want. Mom said the soda is too cold, so she only lets us have two glasses."
Ranran nodded and added, "We are not allowed to eat too much sugar either."
Ye Fuyue: "..."
Chen Yao said to Hao Haoranran seriously, "Mom is doing this for you two. If I don't care about you, you'll drink soda until you have diarrhea and eat too much candy until your teeth are damaged."
When Qiqi heard her father say that about her brother, she blinked her big eyes and counted on her little finger. Her brothers could only drink two glasses of soda, so she could only drink two sips, which didn't seem to make much difference.
Qiqi felt a little regretful at once. She shouldn't have said that her mother was bad.
She opened her arms towards Ye Fuyue and said nervously, "Mom, hold me—"
Ye Fuyue smiled and hugged her.
Qiqi rubbed herself in Ye Fuyue's arms, smiling with tears on her face.
Since her mother is willing to hug her, she must not be angry with her.
"Mom, when can we wear new clothes?" Ranran asked.
Ye Fuyue bought new clothes for her three children, herself, Chen Yao, and Chen Guifeng from a street vendor. The day they got the new clothes, Haohao, Ranran, and Qiqi loved them so much that they looked forward to wearing them every day.
"Take a good bath tonight so you can wear new clothes tomorrow." Ye Fuyue said.
Haohao and Ranran cheered happily, and Qiqi cheered too.
The new clothes for Chen Kang and Shen Shun were prepared by Chen Guifeng, and Ye Fuyue accompanied Chen Guifeng to buy them.
At first, Chen Guifeng thought that Ye Fuyue would take her to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy clothes, but she was surprised to see that Ye Fuyue took her to a small stall and there were many people gathered in front of the stall.
She whispered to Ye Fuyue, "Now you can sell clothes outside."
Ye Fuyue also whispered to her, "Yes, these clothes are better-looking than those in the supply and marketing cooperative, and they don't even require a ticket."
Chen Guifeng picked out two pieces for Chen Kang and Shen Shun. She originally wanted to pick out some for Ye Fuyue and Shen Yao, but Ye Fuyue said she had already bought them and also bought one for Chen Guifeng. Only then did Chen Guifeng give up.
Now, the whole family has new clothes to wear and the New Year’s Eve dinner is so sumptuous, which shows that this year is a year of harvest for the Shen family.
But in this world, there are always people whose joys and sorrows are incomparable.
While the Shen family was celebrating the New Year happily, the atmosphere in the Duan family was very bad.
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