Chapter 18 Then wait for about 11:40, wait...
Chen Pan didn't think of this coincidence for a moment. It was not that Chen Pan had a bad memory, but she was busy changing her family's destiny, busy working, busy opening and cleaning up the store, and had no time to think about anything else.
The most important thing is that the doctor who saved her in her previous life was quite tall. She was only 1.65 meters tall at the time, and she had to look up at him. His body shape was also the healthy shape of a mature man.
The Qin Yang she knew now was about the same height as she was now, a skinny and small boy who looked like a boiled chicken, less than 1.6 meters tall.
"Maybe they have the same name." Chen Pan quickly shook off the mess in his mind, and then immediately looked at the staff in front of him cautiously.
"Well, then please come over the day after tomorrow afternoon. Our leader is not here today."
The staff on the other side didn't look particularly experienced. After grabbing the money quickly and embarrassedly, the other party gave Chen Pan a more specific and earlier time.
"Thank you, I'll come back the day after tomorrow—"
Honestly, Chen Pan didn't particularly dislike this kind of thing. At least, after secretly accepting the money, they would actually help you. What Chen Pan feared most was the situation he'd encountered before, where someone would take advantage of their privilege and directly approach you with hints and demands. Then, after you'd satisfied them, they'd still do nothing, completely unhelpful.
After completing this task skillfully, Chen Pan went to the nearby fire station to inquire about where he could buy fire extinguishers. Then, before dark, Chen Pan returned to the store with two fire extinguishers.
The last bus to their village leaves at six o'clock, and her grandparents have been waiting anxiously for a long time.
Seeing her coming, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen hurriedly shouted at the same time: "Panpan, hurry up, you will miss it soon."
Chen Pan also reacted and quickly put down what he was holding and came out.
Her grandfather had already taken the key and grabbed the rolling door and pulled it down, and her grandmother also took her handbag and gloves and pulled the rolling door down together.
With a "bang" and a "click", everything was done in less than ten seconds.
After shaking the shutter door to make sure it was locked, Grandpa Chen took the lead and ran: "Hurry, four more minutes!"
"What the hell is going on!" It felt like running like this wasn't a good idea, but in order to catch the last bus, fifty-year-old Grandma Chen could only ignore the strange looks from the people around her and grit her teeth to fight.
"Grandpa and grandma, actually it should take enough time for us to walk there normally. Although the bus says it leaves at 6 o'clock, it always takes a few more minutes." Although he said this, Chen Pan covered his hat with his handbag and did not slow down at all.
"That's during normal times when there aren't many people. Now, during the Lunar New Year holiday, many people are coming into the city, so the cars must be full, and the drivers definitely won't wait any longer."
Chen Aiguo, who was running in the front, turned around and said something, then sped up even faster: "Take your time, I'll go to the front to block the drivers first."
"good!"
"Old man, watch your step and don't fall."
The three generations of the Chen family, grandparents and grandchildren, ran away in a mighty procession and soon disappeared at the street corner ahead.
In the bedroom behind her own store, Qin Guihua watched them while eating. Only then did she truly retract her gaze: "Look at this family, they look so energetic."
"Yeah!" Qin Yang, who had failed the college entrance examination and had been staying at home for half a year, nodded sullenly, then lowered his head and continued to eat the food in front of him.
"Oh!" Looking at her lifeless son, Qin Guihua didn't know what to say anymore. She could only raise her hand and pick up another piece of meat for him with her chopsticks.
*
"Grandpa and grandma, the tax registration certificate should be ready in two days. As for the food business license and health permit, we'll get them after we get the tax license and a health certificate. It should take about a week anyway."
Because he worked in this line of work in his previous life, Chen Pan spoke very clearly about these things.
"Luckily we still have you. Otherwise, let alone opening a store, just these procedures before opening a store would be a headache for us."
They were lucky today. They got on the bus as soon as they arrived, and there were exactly three seats left.
Sitting steadily in the back, seeing that there were no villagers she knew in front of her, Grandma Chen did not lower her voice, but praised Chen Pan in a normal tone.
"That's right. Our Panpan is completely different from before. She's become a sensible kid." Thinking about the fact that this shop was owned by the granddaughter next door, and her sophistication in helping with the paperwork and buying things over the past two days, as well as her mature behavior today of secretly giving money to the staff, Chen Aiguo looked at his granddaughter with increasing shock and satisfaction.
"This educated person is completely different from us."
Thinking of the young educated youth who had come to their village before, Chen Aiguo, who had learned to read and write with them, once again sighed in a low voice.
"Grandpa and grandma, please stop talking. I was just following what others said. There's a girl in our class who transferred from the city. Her family owns several ramen shops. She told me about this when we were chatting. I was inspired by her to open this shop."
I feel a little embarrassed, but also a little happy.
Chen Pan, who was sandwiched between her grandparents, immediately held the bag of barley wine in her hand and told her grandfather about her imaginary good friend in the city.
The shuttle bus swayed in the darkness. Thinking back to the last few days of shopping and paperwork, she realized she hadn't encountered any real trouble or difficulty, and nothing had ever caused her to run back and forth with paperwork. Chen Pan smiled softly, once again feeling that this era was actually quite good.
"At least people in this era are really simple. There's no one who deliberately messes with others." She recalled a time in her past life when she went to handle a procedure. The person who handled it gave her one requirement at a time, and never told her everything each time she asked. She had to run back and forth four or five times, and only when she was really angry did someone finally intervene and quickly resolve the matter. Chen Pan felt once again that the 1990s weren't bad after all, and that being reborn was good too.
*
In the next few days, the three members of the Chen family were busy from dawn to dusk.
Because they have to take care of things in the store, they usually get up at five in the morning.
After getting up and feeding all the livestock at home, they took the flour, cooking oil, pots and pans, bedding, towels and other things they had prepared last night, and stood at the intersection to the west of them waiting for the bus.
At this time, the earliest bus departing from Chenjia Town will arrive here on time at 6:10.
"You guys are up pretty early again today!"
The driver of the car had become familiar with them recently and greeted them after they got on.
"Yeah, yeah, you're here pretty early too!"
After a quick response, Grandpa Chen took Grandma Chen and Chen Pan inside to find a seat.
"A total of one dollar and two cents!"
The conductor on this train was already familiar with them. Once they were seated, he quickly came over to collect their money. While handing them their tickets, he subconsciously glanced at their luggage. Seeing that their luggage wasn't particularly large, split into three parts, he hesitated for a moment, ultimately not charging them an extra portion of their luggage like he had last time.
After giving the tickets to three people with a heavy heart, the three people who habitually sat at the back closed their eyes and quickly took a rest.
After half an hour of swaying, their day began again.
As usual, Chen Pan's main task these days was to run those formalities. Almost as soon as she arrived, Chen Pan picked up her barley wine bag and continued to go out.
Chen Aiguo continued to tidy up the store. Since the store's layout had changed, the store's electrical circuits also had to be moved forward a bit. In addition to these, they also had to consider the subsequent living issues.
They'd basically put the stove, chopping board, and storage space in the front third of the shop. In the middle, Chen Aiguo had moved the wine cabinet partition forward and then created a small, 3-4 square meter room in the back, intended for his granddaughter to live in. This way, when Chen Pan came here, she'd have a separate sleeping area.
Grandpa Chen carefully planned the renovation according to the previous discussion with his wife. Later, when he realized that he couldn't handle it alone and needed to buy some boards, he told his wife and immediately went out to find a professional to build the partitions.
While Grandpa Chen went out to look for someone, Grandma Chen, who had been experimenting for several days, was kneading the dough over and over again, looking at the raw materials in her hands over and over again, changing the recipe and heat for making pancakes over and over again, striving to make the best pancakes.
After making pancakes for a few days, she is becoming less and less skilled at it, and she can't seem to tell whether the pancakes she makes are good or not.
So after making a few new pancakes, she hesitated for a moment, and finally carried two pancakes into the Qin family store next door for the first time.
"Yangyang, can you help grandma taste the pancakes I made?"
"good!"
Today is the fourteenth day of the lunar year. My mother has already gone with the aunts from the same village to the square not far away to watch the morning community performance.
Although he was a little surprised by the other party's visit, Qin Yang, who was wearing a red turtleneck sweater today, still stood up and politely took the things in the other party's hand, and found a stool for the other party to sit on.
Then, around 11:40, when Chen Pan came back with her barley wine bag, she saw the landlord Qin Yang, the poached chicken vendor, standing at the door of her shop, eating a pancake with a bitter taste.
As for why Chen Pan knew that the other party was helping their family taste the food as soon as she saw him like that, it was naturally because Chen Pan and her grandfather had been doing this frequently in recent days. Not only that, but recently, their three meals a day were actually all about eating various pancakes with pickles and stir-fried vegetables.
So now, whenever Chen Pan saw the other person like that, he felt his mouth go dry, and he could especially empathize with the other person's helplessness and pain.
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