Chapter 212 Aoki Zhang Ning Red Army Arrives

They don't have many relatives in Beijing, just a few, and all of them left on New Year's Day.

The bakery opens on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Gu Jianhua quit his job at the Public Security Bureau and became a chef in a pancake shop.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Su He feels that her son Jianhua likes cooking more and more. In the past, he cooked just for meals or to entertain others.

Now it seems that he loves this job.

Very careful.

As if his Ren and Du meridians were opened, he suddenly learned how to flip the spoon, which shocked Father Su, "Jianhua, when did you learn this?"

Gu Jianhua, "I learned it when I cooked on New Year's Eve." He tried it that day and then he got it right. Flipping the wok seemed quite simple.

It's not as difficult as you think.

Father Su, "It's amazing! Your grandmother's chef blood has awakened."

I heard that his son-in-law's grandmother was a chef when she was young and even worked in a restaurant.

Gu Jianhua smiled and said, "I just think cooking is quite interesting."

Yes, that's how he suddenly felt.

It was last year that I started to feel like I was commanding an army when cooking in the kitchen.

Especially when you start by planning what dish you want to make, then go to the market to select the vegetables yourself, prepare them, and finally present them on the table step by step.

In short, Gu Jianhua is a very good chef, with Su's father guiding him. At first, it was Gu's mother who baked the pastries, but later when Gu Jianhua learned how to do it, she let him do it.

It is said that he opened the Ren and Du meridians without any instruction. After just a few brandings, he was almost as good as Gu's mother.

What is this called, talent!

There was still more than half a month before school started, and Su He was busy opening a clothing store.

There is no need for major renovation to open a clothing store. Just re-scrape the walls, put a few pots of plants in the house, and put up a beaded curtain at the door. However, there is no rush to put up the beaded curtain because it is winter now.

The beaded curtains are hung in summer.

As for what clothes to sell, I have been visiting all the department stores in Beijing these days, and then I have looked at the magazines in the system, and combined the most popular, newest and most fashionable styles at the moment.

Women's clothing, shirts and dresses, peak collar shirts, floral shirts, skirts, suits, jackets and skirts, jeans, denim jackets, etc.

Men's clothing, leather jackets, jackets, denim jackets, layered suits, denim vests, jacket vests, all kinds of shirts, etc.

There are not as many styles of men's clothing as women's clothing.

The above clothes are for summer or April and May.

It's a bit early to wear it now, but it doesn't matter. After the store is renovated, she will go to the factory to place an order, and it will be about time for the goods to arrive.

There were several kinds of dresses that were not available on the market, so Su He bought some cloth and asked Gu's mother and Su's mother to make samples for them.

Now all that’s left is to go to the factory to place orders and recruit store clerks.

Before a clothing store opens, you have to find sales clerks: two for men's clothing and two for women's clothing.

Su He originally wanted to ask Aunt Xu to introduce her to some young girls and boys, but then she received a letter from her hometown.

Sent by my second sister Gu.

The letter asked if the store was short of staff. If so, Hongjun and Zhang Ning and Qingmu were considering coming over.

Hongjun can understand this. That boy has always wanted to come to Beijing, but was stopped by Second Sister Gu. But why do Zhang Ning and Qingmu also want to come?

In the year when Gu's parents were brought to the capital, among the three aunts, it was Gu's second sister who wrote the most letters, asking about their work, Gu's parents' health, and the business of the bakery.

A letter also arrived before the Chinese New Year. Su He wrote back saying that she wanted to open a clothing store and mentioned in the letter whether she wanted Hong Jun to come and help her run the store.

She felt that there was a 90% chance that Second Sister Gu would agree. Second Sister Gu had said in a letter before that the Red Army particularly wanted to come to the capital, but her eldest sister and brother-in-law's supermarket and the pancake shop were not short of people.

Now that there is an opportunity, it will definitely come.

I just didn’t expect that Qingmu and Zhang Ning also wanted to come over.

That was good, as it saved her the trouble of looking for someone. Su He directly called her second brother Su Xiao and asked him to help convey the message. It would take a week for a written letter to be received.

Mother Gu was a little worried about Zhang Ning and Qing Mu's arrival. She whispered to Su He, "Was the young couple quarreling with your eldest sister?"

The eldest couple had never liked their son and daughter-in-law, Aoki Zhang Ning, because of the division of the family property that year, and Gu's mother knew this.

What she didn't tell Su He was that the eldest son used to complain to her about his daughter-in-law Zhang Ning whenever he came home, and Gu's mother also talked about her.

They no longer live together, and it has been so many years, so it’s not a big deal and they just need to get along well with the children. But the eldest child has never liked it very much.

So she wondered if they had quarreled again.

Su He shook his head, "That shouldn't be the reason."

When Aoki Zhang Ning and his wife came to the capital, they must have moved their entire family and brought their daughter with them, making the three of them come together.

She thought Zhang Ning wanted to develop in Beijing and didn't want to stay in the countryside. After all, she was a city girl and had no chance before.

Now that there is an opportunity, it is normal to develop in a big city.

Life in the village is indeed much better than before, but it is still a village, and there are all kinds of inconveniences in terms of medical conditions and educational conditions. Zhang Ning has seen big cities and knows the gap between the two.

She thought so.

It is impossible that he moved to Beijing with his family just because he had a quarrel with his mother-in-law.

After listening to Su He's analysis, Gu's mother said, "It's good that they didn't quarrel. Let them come if they want. There is enough room for them to stay in this courtyard."

The small courtyard where the four elders lived had a total of three bedrooms, but two of them had kangs, while the remaining one did not.

Su He: "Well, we'll make arrangements when they come."

This courtyard must be where Zhang Ning, Qingmu and their family of three live. It seems that Hongjun wants to live there. He can sleep with Changyun in the tube-shaped building, or of course he can sleep with Gu's father and mother.

There is room for one more person to sleep on the kang in Gu's father and mother's room.

Mother Gu asked, "With these three of them here, will the clothing store be staffed enough?"

"The women's clothing store is still short of one person."

Men's clothing can be done by one person, but a women's clothing store requires two people, and they must be girls, not boys.

It doesn't work for a man to sell women's clothing.

"I'll ask Aunt Xu to help look for it." I heard that Aunt Xu's granddaughter was staying at home with nothing to do, so I wanted to see if she wanted to do it.

Actually, Aunt Xu had wanted to ask Su He about this matter for a long time, but when she heard that someone from her hometown was coming to see her, she gave up the idea.

"Sure, why not? I heard from Jianhua that someone from his hometown came to look after us, so I thought we had enough manpower."

Su He smiled and said, "Madam, your women's clothing store is still short of one person."

Aunt Xu: "Okay, okay, I'll talk to her parents tonight."

The salary in the clothing store is 30 yuan a month, with three days off, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Of course, the salary will increase in the future. This year, Aunt Xu’s salary was raised from 15 yuan to 20 yuan.

After getting off work in the evening, Aunt Xu packed a few pancakes from the pancake shop for Grandpa Xu to eat. She then went to her youngest son's house and explained the matter to him and his wife.

Aunt Xu's granddaughter was called Xu Ying. When she heard this, she said, "Let me go to work. I am willing to go."

Xu Yingke wanted to go out to work so much that she even wanted to wash dishes in the kitchen of the bakery for her grandmother, but her grandmother didn't want to.

She has been staying at home for more than a year since she graduated from high school and failed to get into college.

She almost shut herself off from the world.

Now I finally have a job.

Aunt Xu said to her daughter-in-law, "They pay 30 yuan a month and give you three days off, which is more than what I get. Besides, working in a clothing store is not tiring. You just need to sell clothes and organize them."

"Well, it's pretty good. I get thirty yuan in the first month." She has worked in the factory for so many years, and her salary was only more than 40 yuan, while the lady only gets thirty yuan in the first month.

You have to know that her salary in her first year at the factory was only 17 yuan.

After all the employees were in place, Su He took the sample skirts made by her mother Gu and Su Mu to the factory to have them custom-made.

This clothing factory was introduced to her by her third sister-in-law, and the factory director is her classmate.

She selected 200 pieces of clothing, both men's and women's.

Su He took a look and found that both men's clothes and women's skirts could be paired with a belt, so the magazine was paired with a belt.

She went back and discussed with Gu Jianhua, "Should we buy some belts and sell them in the clothing store?"

"So if customers want to match their clothes, they can just buy them from our store, right?"

Gu Jianhua nodded after hearing this, "Of course, I can, but do we have enough money, wife?"

Belts are not cheap.

Su He said, "That's enough. There's more. My second brother and his wife gave me some."

She didn't lie to Gu Jianhua. She told her second brother about this over the phone, and he asked her if she had enough money and told her to give her some money if she didn't.

After all, she had bought two shops before.

She said that was enough and didn't send the mail.

"Okay, you decide. You know more about this than I do."

Su He went to order belts. The belt manufacturer was introduced to her by the manager of the clothing factory. Apart from being worn on trousers, women's belts are mostly paired with skirts, and in winter, with sweaters.

So we decided on the detailed colors: white, red, brown, and black. These four colors are the most common.

For men, it's the thick belt.

We will then sell them in the store.

Let’s go back to two days ago. The moment Hongjun received the news, he resigned and went home, and told Aoki Zhangning and his wife about it.

It's easy for a Red Army soldier to bring a few pieces of clothes with him.

Zhang Ning and Qingmu's family of three moved, so they had to take a lot of things with them.

You have to bring bedding, some spare clothes, and the girl's things.

Finally, the couple figured out what to send by mail and took the other half with them on the road.

Zhang Ning thought just like Su He, she really wanted to develop in the city, but she never had the chance before. This year during the Chinese New Year, she heard from her second aunt that her aunt was going to open two clothing stores, and she knew that the opportunity had come.

She thought that it would be a good idea for the couple to work for their uncle and aunt for two or three years, then save some money and buy a shop in the capital to start a business.

The couple also raised chickens. Everything was fine in the first and second years, but in the third year, which was last year, all of the more than 300 chickens they raised died.

The chickens that the villagers kept also died, and it was said to be chicken plague.

So they don’t dare to keep it anymore.

Speaking of this, Chunqing and Baishitou were the smart ones. They did not raise chickens last year, but raised a few pigs instead, and did not lose money like the villagers.

She felt that raising fish was too costly and risky, and that it would be better to do something else, but in the village, the only things she could do were raising fish and farming.

There is some profit in raising livestock, but farming doesn't make much money in a year.