Final Chapter
Chu Tong talked about the business of the three sisters' clothing store again: "Last time, the skirts sold well, but there was not enough fabric. You had to go to the textile factory to buy another batch of fabric."
In the past two years, there have been many foreign-funded factories. The machines in foreign-funded fabric and textile industrial factories are newer and better. The fabrics they produce are more colorful and have more patterns, which has already had an impact on the production of local textile factories.
Therefore, the cloth in textile factories is no longer in short supply, but there is a surplus.
Especially as the machine has been used for a long time, it will have more problems and will produce more defective cloth.
However, because it was a state-owned unit, the leaders did not dare to spend a lot of money to introduce new machines.
The cloth couldn't be sold, so people like Chu Hong could go to the factory and buy some cloth with their business license.
Chu Dan's eyes lit up: "Don't worry, big sister, I'm already on summer vacation, just leave it to me."
It was only after opening the clothing store that she realized that her second sister had a very good taste.
The floral shirts, bell-bottom pants, various floral dresses and skirts that she drew seemed exaggerated and ugly at first glance, but the batches of clothes that were made from the patterns were very popular.
When the shop first opened, they prepared several thousand pieces of clothes and pants. The three sisters wore them to entertain customers, and they were all sold out in three days.
Now their clothing store is considered a relatively well-known store with many repeat customers, and they don't worry about not being able to sell out.
The profit of the clothing store was so good that Chu Dan couldn't help but mutter again: "If my second sister opens a drugstore for Grandma Jia and our mother, I might as well quit my job and come back to look after our clothing store."
"No." Chu Hong still refused firmly: "Big sister, you can look after the shop and hire someone to do the tailoring, but you can't give up your job."
Chu Tong also nodded: "That's right, being a teacher is so respectable, and it sounds good when you say it to others."
Most people today feel ashamed to be self-employed, and few are willing to do the job.
Chu Hong also agreed with a smile: "Yes, and the younger ones will all go to junior high school in the second half of the year. You still need to take care of them."
Chu Tong thought about her youngest son going to junior high school, so she could only coax Chu Dan first: "You have been named an excellent teacher, and you will cry if the principal is gone."
Chu Dan couldn't suppress the smile on his face: "Hahaha, thanks to Grandpa Chu for teaching me English, and thanks to my second sister for urging me to learn English."
Then he asked Chu Hong: "Since the clothing store business is so good, should we expand production?"
Chu Hong vaguely remembered that for the sake of economic benefits, there was a period of time when self-employed individuals were very tolerant, but then they began to control them again after a period of time.
She didn't want to be a wealthy person, she just wanted to have enough food and clothing and buy some houses to collect rent.
Therefore, he shook his head and said, "Not yet. In a few years, private factories will be encouraged, and we will have enough time to start."
Because at the beginning most people will take a wait-and-see attitude, not daring to be the first to try something new, and just want to follow the trend.
At this time, Secretary Song also came back.
Now he spends most of his time in the clothing store. When clothes in the store are sold, he goes to the warehouse upstairs to get them.
When he came in and saw his three daughters were all there, he immediately said, "It just so happens that you are all here. Your second uncle wrote me a letter saying that there are more and more people doing breeding in your hometown, and they can't sell chicken and duck eggs. He wants to transport a truckload of them here so that we can help sell them. Is that okay?"
In recent years, in order to make money and also to help the villagers with old hens and ducks, Chu Hong and her colleagues would transport a truckload of repaired poultry in the twelfth lunar month, the end of the year, and the beginning of the first lunar month.
In the hot summer like now, the poultry must be unlucky. Even if they are alive, they will suffocate if they are carried too much.
Chicken, duck and goose eggs have low profit margins and are easy to spoil in the summer. Secretary Song was a little embarrassed to tell his daughter.
But he was in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han. No, it should be said that even after he left his hometown, he still thought about his fellow villagers and felt that he would help if he could, even if they earned less.
Chu Hong was delighted when she heard this: "Sure, it doesn't matter if we bring a few more trucks over. We can make salted duck eggs and preserved eggs to sell."
Although the profit is small, the quantity is large. If you calculate it this way, the profit of a truckload of poultry eggs is actually quite high.
Moreover, pickled duck eggs are delicious and can be sold at a higher price.
If the eggs sell well, the villagers will be more interested in breeding, and they will make money by selling chickens and ducks at the end of the year.
Chu Tong also chimed in: "It's summer vacation now, the kids are at home, let them work."
"But there are no vacant stores here?" Secretary Song looked at Chu Hong: "Do we have to sell them at the university? That's a bit far."
After Chu Hong graduated, she moved into the new house, which was close to her workplace and where she and her sisters were neighbors, so it was lively.
Therefore, all eight houses at the university were rented out.
Chu Hong smiled and said, "Dad, it's okay. I just happened to have three old houses that I've found. I'll sell the poultry before I tear them down and rebuild them."
Chu Dan calculated her family's savings and asked weakly, "Second sister, I can still scrape together another 2,000 yuan. Can you ask your classmates at the Housing Management Office to find a suitable house for me to sell?"
Thanks to the clothing store and the considerable dividends from selling poultry, she was able to buy the five houses here.
Although she still didn't quite understand why her second sister was so keen on buying real estate, both her husband and herself still trusted Chu Hong in their hearts.
Just like Song Dongzheng said to her, it doesn’t matter if they are not foresighted enough, just believe in Chu Hong and Gu Ci’s abilities and follow their footsteps.
It cost me more than 6,000 yuan to buy the house here, and now it costs nearly 8,000 yuan to build it.
They didn’t have enough money of their own, so their parents-in-law gave them some subsidies.
These two thousand yuan are the total amount I earned at the end of last year and this year.
"That's great," Chu Hong praised her, "We've saved a lot this year, and we'll have three thousand by the end of the year."
Secretary Song got the good news he wanted and hurried back to reply. When he reached the stairs, he turned around and looked at them: "Why is the house so quiet? Where are the children?"
"Everyone is going to the movies." Chu Dan also stood up and left with him: "Dad, let's go buy some popsicles."
Chu Tong waited for them to leave, and asked Chu Hong with some embarrassment: "I have also saved two thousand yuan. Do you think I should buy a house? Or save it for the children to start a family?"
Chu Hong asked curiously: "Jiang Yu is only 20 years old and still in college? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"It's Xiaoyu." Chu Tong said in a low voice a little embarrassedly: "I accidentally saw Chu Yan and Xiaoyu hugging each other in the house one time? Chu Yan is four years older than her. Now that he is working, he should come to propose marriage soon, right?"
Chu Hong had actually seen something was going on a long time ago, and couldn't help but smile like an auntie: "I saw something was going on a long time ago, too. When they looked at each other, their eyes were particularly bright."
Then he said seriously, "However, our Xiaoyu hasn't graduated from university yet, so we really can't get engaged. Let's wait until Xiaoyu graduates next year."
"It would be better to buy a house for Xiaoyu as a dowry. A woman with a job and a house is confident."
Chu Tong thought the same and said, "Then I will buy a house first as a dowry for Xiaoyu."
Thinking of the three boys at home, he couldn't help but sigh: "There are still three more at home, I have to prepare three houses for them."
He then reached out and held Chu Hong's arm: "Thanks to you, you gave me a way to make money, otherwise I wouldn't have the good life I have now."
After all, it is a reconstituted family. She earns her own money now and uses her own money to buy a house for Xiaoyu. She doesn't have to worry about Jiang Mingche and Jiang Yu having any objections to this.
Chu Hong leaned against her and smiled: "Big sister, you are capable, and I owe it to you to give me dividends. You are the best."
She believes that as long as they work hard and make progress, they will definitely get better and better in the future.
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