Chapter 117 Birthday
The day after Jiang Qin set up a stall to sell cold noodles, someone imitated her and started selling it too.
But everyone is competing secretly, and no one will quarrel or anything.
After the other side started selling cold noodles, there were fewer people on the first day. Starting from the second day, there were fewer people in the other side.
As a result, Jiang Qin's stall was packed and even more popular than before.
Wen Zhu analyzed, "There may be new stalls selling noodles, and those who don't want to queue up go to try it out. But after trying and comparing, they find that our noodles are the best, have a good reputation, and are generous in quantity. So we have more repeat customers and new customers."
Jiang Qin thought it made sense, but he planned to take a day off from setting up the stall tomorrow, Saturday.
Wen Zhu didn't understand. Tomorrow was Saturday and there would be more people, so why did his mother suddenly stop setting up the stall?
"Mom, are you tired tomorrow? If you are, my third brother and I can go to the stall and you can rest at home for two days. Otherwise, the customer base you have worked so hard to build up will be lost."
Jiang Qin said, poking her forehead.
"You silly girl, there's no way to make enough money. If you want, you can go without sleep or food and keep making money. But we don't live to make money for the sake of making money. We make money to live a better life! If you ignore the quality of your life because of making money, then what's the point of making money?"
Wen Zhu felt her mother's words made sense. She was used to the overtime culture of later generations and ignored the current reality.
So he changed his words, "Then let's all take a day off tomorrow!"
"Have you forgotten something?"
Jiang Qin asked Wen Zhu with a smile, looking at her daughter with a loving face, stroking her dark hair, and sighing that her daughter had grown up and had become a big girl.
Wen Zhu thought for a long time. He had finished his homework at school, done the competition questions, and packed his clothes. After thinking about it, he couldn't remember what he had forgotten.
"Are we going to pick up Big Brother? Big Brother is coming back?"
Jiang Qin shook her head. "He's not a child who doesn't know the way. Why does he need us to pick him up? Think about it again."
Wen Zhu said, "Did my dad get his salary?"
Jiang Qin smiled and shook his head again.
"Could it be that I'm not your biological child?" Wen Zhu couldn't believe it and thought it was nonsense.
Then, as expected, she received a gentle punch of love from her mother.
"You girl, you are not my child. Did I pick you up on the street? That's not right."
Wen Zhu guessed several times, but Jiang Qin still said it was wrong.
Finally, Jiang Qin couldn't stand her daughter being both smart and not so smart anymore, so she reminded her, "It's Xiaozhu's birthday, and tomorrow is your birthday!"
Wen Zhu suddenly realized that she was going to celebrate her seventeenth birthday!
Wen Hong just happened to walk to the door and pushed it open. "I didn't forget about Xiaozhu's birthday, so I turned down any invitations to dinner tomorrow. No one else's invitation is as important as my daughter's birthday!"
"dad!"
"Dad, you're back!"
Wen Zhu and Jiang Jianye both shouted happily.
Wen Hong put his things down and then sighed, "Before, as soon as I walked in the door, they would rush over to hold the child. Now the child is older, I can't hold him anymore!"
Wen Zhu felt a little embarrassed. The child her father often wanted to hold when they were little was actually her.
Wen Hong took out a stack of money, handed it to Wen Zhu, and gave the rest to Jiang Qin.
"This is my salary for the past half month. I'll give some of it to Xiaozhu for her birthday tomorrow. Buy her whatever you want. Dad doesn't know what you like, so I didn't buy anything random. The rest will be saved for your mother. You can save it up slowly and use it as a dowry for Xiaozhu later."
Wen Zhu took the money, pulled her father's arm, put her head on his shoulder, and said thank you sweetly, "Thank you, Dad! You are so kind!"
Jiang Qin looked at the father and daughter, feeling completely helpless. She counted the money and asked her husband, "Hasn't it been less than two weeks since you left? How come you got so much money? It's only about a hundred yuan, which is a month's salary, right?"
Wen Hong explained, "I used to help the factory with my work and ideas. Now that the profits are good, the factory director decided to give me a full month's salary as a bonus. It's also been announced. No one objects, so you can keep it without worry!"
When Jiang Qin heard this, she smiled and put the money away.
The next day, Jiang Qin did not set up her stall, but she told her regular customers in advance if she had any business, so that they would not go empty-handed.
Looking at my daughter who is always wearing gray clothes, who is at such a good age but doesn't compromise on her clothes, I think about when I was her age, that was the age I loved the most.
Jiang Qin felt more and more indebted to her daughter, so she wanted to take Wen Zhu to the city to buy some nice clothes.
Wen Zhu thought it wasn't worth taking such a long bus ride to the city just to buy some clothes. The fare wasn't cheap either. Clothes these days aren't much different everywhere. It's only starting next year, with the gradual influx of Hong Kong films, that the Hong Kong style is starting to become more popular, and clothes are starting to look better.
She persuaded her mother, "I think the ones you make are very good, comfortable, and affordable. If you really want to buy me new ones, then make me two sets. I'll tell you the style, and see if you can make them, okay?"
Seeing that her daughter really didn't care about these things, Jiang Qin stopped dragging her to the city to buy them.
In the morning, Wen Zhu went to Wen's Medical Clinic as usual.
Jiang Qin was preparing food at home, intending to provide her two children with good nutrition. People on the radio said that eating well is the key to a healthy brain. Her family had one child in their third year of high school and one in their third year of junior high school, both of which were in need of nutrition.
She was killing chickens in the yard. Qian Xusen heard the noise and leaned over the wall to ask, "Aunt Jiang, you're killing chickens again today. Do you want my help?"
Jiang Qin smiled and said, "Today is Xiaozhu's birthday, so we killed a chicken. Let's eat together then!"
When Qian Xusen heard this, he realized that today was Wen Zhu's birthday. He said "Oh!" and quickly climbed down the wall.
Run back and rummage through the drawers.
Even though they are familiar with each other, it's someone's birthday, so you can't go empty-handed.
Then he was caught by his brother Sheng.
"Why are you looking through my closet? Are you trying to rob me?"
Qian Xusen said with a playful smile, "You're my brother, how could I do that? I just heard from Aunt Jiang that it's Xiao Ai... Wen Zhu's birthday today, and they invited us to dinner together. It's not right for me to not take anything. Didn't you teach me to reciprocate?"
Qian Jingsheng glanced at him coldly, "Why are you searching mine instead of your own?"
"Don't you have a lot of good stuff? We're brothers, who cares? If your stuff is similar, I'll give it to you as a gift. It's the same thing!"
Then he was swept by a fierce kick. He immediately jumped up, without any response, and slipped away like a loach.
"Look for it yourself, I'll go back and find mine!"
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