Chapter 69 I'm craving for food
Today, after closing the shop, Gu Siqing was the one who had to count the money. Han Deyi saw her grinning and squinting her eyes as she counted the bills one by one, and said with a smile, "Xiao Si, count carefully. It's embarrassing if you don't count correctly."
Gu Siqing secretly rolled her eyes. "How could I, a college graduate who had suffered so much in society, make a mistake in counting money?" What a joke.
Hey! What did you count to just now?
"Uncle Han, you have to understand that I'm young and my brain cells aren't fully developed yet. Don't talk to me."
This made everyone laugh. Gu Siqing sighed and counted again, determined to get it right this time.
"A total of 2241, with a profit of 1172." Gu Siqing was shocked after calculating the profits. Earning over a thousand yuan a day, that's over thirty thousand yuan a month. Not to mention now, even a few decades from now, an income of over thirty thousand a month would be considered high.
Doing business is really about making money.
Was the previous goal too small? It should be changed to buying six courtyard houses in Kyoto, one for each of the four sisters and their parents.
"Okay, the bill is settled, let's go home." Gu Jianguo put the money away and said.
The two families packed up their things, closed the door and took the bus home.
After getting off the bus, Gu Jianguo went home first. Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui took Wang Yueju and the other two to the vegetable market. After entering the vegetable market, Gu Siqing asked Gu Erhui: "What do you want to eat? I'll help you feel better today."
Gu Erhui smiled when she heard it, "Okay, I'll also cheer myself up today. Let's eat spareribs."
"Okay, spare ribs then." Wang Yueju went straight to the spare rib stall and bought four pounds of spare ribs. She was generous with her money when it came to buying meat. In the past, Wang Yueju would have thought twice before buying even two pounds of meat.
They bought some other vegetables and went home together with the mother and daughter.
On the way, Gu Sanjing said to Wang Yueju: "Mom, I will be in a bad mood tomorrow and I need to cheer up."
Gu Siqing and the others laughed when they heard this. Gu Erhui even asked her, "Sanjing, how did you know you'd be in a bad mood tomorrow?"
"Because I'm greedy." Gu Siqing said with a smile. Gu Sanjing felt shy and ran over to catch her. Gu Siqing quickly ran away, and Gu Sanjing chased after her.
The two sisters chased each other back home. Gu Jianguo was cleaning up the garbage in the yard. Seeing the two sisters rushing back, he smiled and said, "I won't be busy in a few days. I'll take you out to play."
"What fun things are there in the provincial capital?" Gu Sanjing approached Gu Jianguo and asked.
"There's a park, a zoo, and even a Children's Palace." Gu Jianguo shoveled the garbage into a borrowed mountain bike with a shovel and said, "Kids your age in the provincial capital all learn painting, dancing, piano, and so on. Do you two want to learn?"
Gu Jianguo has always known that it is good to let his children go to school more. He didn’t have the conditions before, but now that he has more money, he certainly wants to give his children the best education.
Gu Sanjing had no experience in painting, dancing, piano, etc. After hearing what Gu Jianguo said, she looked confused. At this time, Gu Siqing said, "Dad, when will you take us to a place where we can swim? My third sister is a great swimmer."
Gu Jianguo thought of what she had said before about participating in the Asian Games and the Olympics, and said with a smile, "Okay."
He didn't really want an athlete to appear in his family, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. What if?
Gu Sanjing was very happy, with a confident light in her eyes. No child in the village could swim as fast as she did.
"Xiao Si, what do you want to learn?" Gu Sanjing asked Gu Siqing.
Gu Siqing: "I need to think about it."
"Okay, Xiaosi, think about it carefully." Gu Jianguo said as he pushed the tricycle out. Gu Sanjing and Gu Siqing followed him to familiarize themselves with the surrounding environment.
The father and his two daughters were pushing a tricycle to take out the trash. When they met people from the alley on the way, Gu Jianguo smiled and greeted them. It had been a while since he bought the house, and Gu Jianguo knew many people in the alley.
The trash can wasn't far away, and it was only a couple of hundred meters away. On the way, she ran into Han Zhengping, who was also taking out the trash. After taking out the trash, Gu Siqing whispered to Han Zhengping, "Are you going to the store tomorrow?"
"I'm not going." Han Zhengping looked down at her. "What about you?"
"I can't help if I go, so I won't go." Gu Siqing said.
Han Zhengping: "Yeah."
Gu Siqing has a toothache. What does "hmm" mean? Since we're not going to the store, do you want to play together tomorrow? How should we play? Where should we go?
Suddenly I realized that this young boy, apart from being good looking, good at studying and clean, has no other advantages. His habit of not talking much is really annoying.
She had to be an aunt with an adult soul to take the initiative to invite him to play. It would be fine if she couldn't be a fairy, but she couldn't maintain the modesty of an adult woman.
Gu Siqing: "Then come to my house tomorrow."
Han Zhengping: "Yeah."
Rolling her eyes, Gu Siqing hurried home.
Han Zhengping: How did I offend Xiao Si?
When they got home, Wang Yueju, Gu Yimin and Gu Erhui were cooking in the kitchen, while Gu Siqing and Sanjing joined Gu Jianguo in cleaning up the garbage in the yard.
Dinner was braised pork ribs, and the whole family was very satisfied with the meal. Gu Sanjing also forgot that she would be in a bad mood tomorrow.
After dinner, Gu Jianguo brought a coal stove to the main room, and the family sat around it, warming themselves by the fire and chatting.
"Erhui, you did the right thing today," Gu Jianguo said, looking at his second daughter. "We don't usually cause trouble, but when trouble strikes us, we can't be afraid. We have to fight back. You don't have to be afraid either. When the enemy comes, we will fight him. No matter how powerful they are, we will deal with them together as a family."
"That's right, like Xiao Si said, at worst we can just do business somewhere else." Wang Yueju patted Gu Erhui's hand.
Gu Erhui's face broke into a big smile, "I know."
At first, she felt humiliated and angry, but also worried that Zhang Zijun and Zhu Yujiao's families would cause trouble for them.
But now she thought, no matter how scared she was, things would still happen when they were supposed to. She might as well calm down and think of a solution.
"You don't have to worry too much. This is a new society and we have a place to reason." Gu Jianguo said. He was ready to fight to the death with people from certain units.
The topic was getting a bit heavy at this point, so Gu Siqing changed the subject and asked, "Are the eldest and second sisters going to night school?"
"Well, Erhui and I went to inquire about the situation. For people like us, we can get a letter of introduction in our town and go to school with our junior high school diploma." Gu Yimin was a little excited when talking about going to night school.
She didn't feel it in the village, but when she arrived in the provincial capital, she felt how insecure it was to be uneducated.
"What can we learn?" Gu Siqing asked.
Because of the long hiatus in school education, night school was very popular during this era. Furthermore, the value of a school diploma during this period was quite high. While not as high as a formal university degree, it wasn't much different.
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