Chapter 213: Can’t I have children?

So it would be better for me to work in my aunt's store for a few years, save money to buy a shop, and then stay in Beijing to open a store.

I'm going to Beijing. Although I can take almost everything at home with me, it's impossible to take everything with me.

The cabinets and the big iron pots have to stay, this is still their home.

They might come back soon!

The house was handed over to Sister Gu and her husband. Zhang Ning thought that even if there had been unpleasantness in the past, they were still her husband and mother after all.

They are still a family behind closed doors, and things have been getting better between the two families over the years, not as tense as before.

Although she remembered that her mother-in-law did not come to take care of her during her confinement, so many years had passed and she no longer cared.

The main reason was that there was no one else in Dakuwa Village, and they had to go to work for their uncle and aunt, in order of proximity, first siblings, then uncle and nephew.

They have to wait in line and not make too much noise.

Sister Gu and her husband didn't say anything about this, they just asked, "Are you coming back for the New Year?"

Aoki: “It depends on the situation.”

He thinks he probably won't be able to come back for the Chinese New Year this year, but it depends on the situation.

However, the second son Qinglin's wife Chen Juan murmured to the elder sister Gu, "What are the elder brother and sister-in-law thinking? They want to live a good life but they have to go to a big place like Beijing!"

In her opinion, her eldest brother, his wife and their family of three went to Beijing to work for her uncle and aunt. They got paid every month, but the family of three had nothing in Beijing.

Just like duckweed in the water, I feel very insecure.

But I have a brick house and land for farming in my hometown. It’s so peaceful and stable.

Go to a big place like Beijing and live your life according to the people you meet.

How much salary can be given after the deductions from my aunt?

If she had separated the family business like her elder brother and sister-in-law, she would never have left and would have lived her own happy life.

Sister Gu said, "Your sister-in-law feels uncomfortable living in the village and is not as good as living in the city."

Not only Chen Juan didn't understand, Sister Gu also didn't understand. She had a good life but she had to go to the city to work. It wasn't the same wherever she went.

The key is Beijing, they have nothing.

Is it because she is jealous of her second and third younger sisters and their children who are running the shop and doing business?

Sister Gu felt that Xue'er, Mingyue, Xiaomei and their family were not living that well. I heard that they had opened a shop, but the rent and the purchase of various goods... wouldn't that cost money?

They don't even have a house to live in and have to rent one.

Money is needed everywhere in the city!

At least in the village, drinking water and burning firewood are free, and you can grow your own food and vegetables, and raise your own chickens, ducks, pigs and cows.

I heard from my third sister that Xueer and her husband opened a stationery store, and she knew that stationery stores sell books, pens and other things.

There are many educated people in Beijing and other big cities. You may make some money, but not much. After all, books and pens are not like other things. A pen can be used for a long time.

Mingyue and his wife opened a store selling vegetables and fruits. I heard from her second sister that they could barely make ends meet. They had to pay rent for the house and the store, and they also had to raise two children, so it was not just a living.

Xiaomei and Zhang Chen are selling steamed buns, which should be able to make some money.

Second Sister Gu was also tight-lipped. When people asked her about her daughter and son-in-law's life in Beijing, she said they were just making ends meet and never mentioned buying a house or a shop.

He didn't even tell his own elder sister, which resulted in Sister Gu always having a lack of information.

When Chen Juan heard her mother-in-law say this, she knew that she did not approve of her elder brother and sister-in-law's decision, and continued to add fuel to the fire, "Sister-in-law is a girl from the city, it's normal for her to look down on the countryside."

"But the countryside has its own advantages. At least life is comfortable here."

Sister Gu snorted coldly, "She despises the countryside, but she still married a farmer and has lived with him for more than ten years. You are just being pretentious."

Chen Juan laughed inwardly after hearing this. Her mother-in-law really hated her sister-in-law as always.

Su He didn't know when Zhang Ning, Qing Mu and the others would come, but she estimated that it would be in the next few days. She told them the address of the bakery when she wrote the letter.

If they come, they can just go directly to the pie shop.

Red Army soldiers Zhang Ning, Qing Mu and others set out on the 23rd and arrived in the capital on the morning of the 26th.

Hongjun had been to the capital before with his eldest brother-in-law, and as the saying goes, the first time is new, the second time is familiar, so he went directly to the pancake shop according to the address in the letter.

These people arrived very early, and the bakery had just opened for a short time.

Although Gu Jianhua took over the bakery, the four elders still come to help every day.

Gu's mother was wiping the table as she was doing her pre-meal work when she heard the door creak and someone came in. Although she was seventy years old, her eyesight was sharp and she could tell at a glance that it was her Red Army.

"Grandma."

"You guys arrived pretty early considering the train time."

"It was seven o'clock in the evening when we set out from Meng Province." Several people chatted.

Mother Gu lovingly touched little Zhao Sitian's hair.

"Are you cold on the road? Grandma will make you some milk powder."

In the past, milk powder was a rare commodity and they were reluctant to drink it. It is still a rare commodity now, but they are willing to drink it and my son and daughter-in-law buy it for them every month.

Gu Jianhua also came out from the kitchen and said, "I'm here." He didn't say much.

Several children, "Uncle."

Gu Jianhua, "You haven't had breakfast yet, I'll make some pancakes for you."

The nurse didn't differentiate between the big and small ones and made a cup of milk powder for each of the four of them.

It was still winter in February and it was quite cold on the road. A cup of hot milk powder warmed them up a lot.

Gu Jianhua was very skillful at making stuffed buns and soon finished making fifteen. "You guys eat first."

Hongjun looked around the store for a long time, but didn't see his aunt, so he asked

"Uncle, where is my aunt?"

Gu's mother replied on behalf of Gu Jianhua, "Your aunt is at home."

I checked the time again and said, "He should be awake by now and will be here for dinner soon."

Red Army, "Are Changyi and Changan coming here too?"

Hongjun is twenty years old this year, one year older than Changyi and Changan. They got along best when they were young because they were close in age.

It's just that he is a bad student and can't keep up with his cousins.

"They can't come. They live in the school." Mother Gu shook her head.

The two eldest grandchildren love to study very much. After graduating from college, they plan to take the postgraduate entrance examination. Although she is not very clear about what the postgraduate entrance examination is, she has heard that taking this exam will raise their academic qualifications to a higher level.

Just like in ancient times, from scholar to Jinshi.

"Okay, I'll go to the school to find them later." He had been to Peking University.

As they were eating, they heard the door open. "Hey, you guys are here."

They turned around and saw that it was their aunt and mother, and they all stood up.

Su He, "Why are you standing up? Sit down."

She woke up and brought the two children over for breakfast. "I thought you should come over in the next few days."

Hongjun smiled and said, "Aunt, we packed up and prepared to leave the day we received the news from Uncle Su."

"What's the hurry?"

"Is everything settled at home?" Su He asked Zhang Ning and Qing Mu.

Aoki nodded, "It's all done, aunt."

Su He: "Okay."

Zhang Ning, "When will my aunt's clothing store open?"

"Next month, the ordered goods are not ready yet."

"Take advantage of these few days to go shopping in Beijing."

"good."

After the four of them finished their meal, Su He first led them to the small courtyard. The remaining room in the courtyard had also been equipped with a kang in the past few days. The kang was large enough to accommodate Zhang Ning, Qingmu and their family of three.

The Red Army liked this small courtyard very much. "This courtyard is paved with stones. It's quite stylish."

Su He, "Then can I find the worse one?"

“The house is nice, too.”

After entering the house, Hongjun looked around and commented.

Su He, "By the way, Red Army, where do you want to live? In the tube building with us, or here?"

"There are no extra rooms here. If you want to stay here, you can share a bed with your grandma and grandpa."

Hongjun had no objection, "Okay, aunt, I will live with my grandma and grandpa. It's warm on the kang."

"That's fine."

After helping them pack their things, Su He said, "You must be tired after sitting in the car for a few days. You should take a rest first."

"I'll take you to see the shop later."

"good."

Su He came to the pancake shop. With the Red Army here, Zhang Ning, Qingmu and the others would not get lost even if they wanted to go out for a walk.

They were indeed tired from the ride, and after eating and drinking enough, the kang was probably newly heated and very warm, so they simply washed up and went to sleep on it.

I slept until two in the afternoon.

A good sleep would help them to relax, so they were not that tired at the moment. The Red Army suggested doing it since they had nothing to do anyway.

It was better to go out for a walk. We first went to a pie shop for lunch, and then went to Peking University. Changyi saw his cousin and his wife coming, so he went out with them.

Afterwards, a few people went to the Medical University and pulled Chang'an out. Changyi and Chang'an led the way to the fruit, vegetable and daily necessities store opened by Mingyue and Tang Zexu, and chatted for a while.

After coming out, I went to the stationery store opened by Xueer and Tang Zeyan and just took a look around.

Finally, we visited their aunt's two clothing stores. The stores had been renovated, and they had bought potted plants and other things. The only thing left was to hang the clothes up.

Zhang Ning, "The two houses are right next to each other." She thought they were in two different places.

Changan, "The seller is one person, not just one, my mother bought both."

Red Army, "My aunt is very courageous."

Finally, a few people went to the tube building.

Su He had just returned from the factory with some sample goods. Seeing them all coming over, she suddenly had an idea and said, "You three go try on the clothes."

Zhang Ning is pretty and her clothes fit her well, but it feels like something is missing.

Su He looked around, let Zhang Ning's hair down, put on a headband, and put on some lipstick. "Hey, this looks good."

"I'll dress like this from now on."

As for Aoki and the Red Army, Aoki was a little reserved. Su He said, "Aoki, hold your head high and straighten your chest. In the future, customers will buy from you when they see the clothes you are wearing."

"Okay, aunt." Aoki stood like a soldier.

Zhang Ning understood what Su He meant, and she said to Qing Mu,

"Stand more casually, don't be so rigid, learn from the Red Army."

Su He smiled and said, "Take your time."

"These clothes are given to you, one for each of you."

Let the store staff wear it as an example to the customers.

“Oh, and this one, too.”

One of them handed me a bottle of hair oil and said, "Apply it on your hair. When you go to work, you should dress more fashionably."

"Thank you, Aunt."

Zhang Ning felt that her aunt was quite fashionable in the village. She was different from them. She had a special temperament. Art? Lady?

She couldn't explain it. Now that her aunt had come to Beijing, her temperament had become much better. It was hard to tell that she had lived in the village before.

She said, people still have to move forward.

Su He discussed the salary with Zhang Ning and Qing Mu separately. "Zhang Ning, you are the manager of the women's clothing store. Your salary is 40 yuan a month."

"Aoki, you're also 40 a month, so I'll leave the men's clothing store to you."

"There are three days off a month, so the four of you can arrange it accordingly."

"You can eat and sleep in the courtyard and the bakery. You don't have to pay for anything."

"Aunt, we will do our best." Upon hearing this, the couple immediately expressed their opinions.

They thought their salary would be the same as that of the Red Army and the other clerk, thirty yuan a month, but they didn't expect their aunt to give them forty yuan a month, which came to eighty yuan for the two of them.

They don't have to spend money on food and accommodation, only their daily expenses and the children's expenses cost them a little. But they have savings, although not much, but it is enough for this year.

This means that they can save all the money they earn this year.

Time passed quickly and it was March. The goods in the factory were ready and the Suhe clothing store was ready to open.

The bakery didn't have any opening ceremony, it just opened like that. But she wanted to have an opening ceremony for the clothing store, with firecrackers or something.

The day chosen is Saturday.

After the goods arrived from the factory, Su He gave the clothes to Chang Yi, Chang An, Ming Yue, Xiao Mei and others, and asked them to help promote the products at school.

It might be the large bouquet of flowers at the door and the sound of firecrackers that attracted customers. In addition, since it was Saturday, there were quite a lot of customers in both stores on the opening day.

Fortunately, Zhang Ning and his team received a few days of training before Suhe opened, so they are able to cope with the situation.

Because it is spring now and the weather is still a bit cold, when Su He purchased the goods, in addition to the specified clothes, he also bought some sweaters and thick clothes.

She thought that on the first day of business, the sales would be similar to that of a bakery, but when she counted the bill in the evening, it turned out to be quite a lot.

The total sales of men's and women's clothing amounted to more than 200 yuan. Su He sighed that there are still many rich people in the world.

You should know that the clothes in her store, whether men's or women's, are not cheap. Men's denim jackets, jeans, jackets, and leather jackets are all more than ten yuan each.

The women's clothing here is better, priced from four or five yuan, seven or eight yuan, and there are all kinds of prices, but they are not cheap.

Everyone in my family was shocked by the turnover.

Gu's mother said, "I only make 200 yuan a day, while the pie shop only makes 300 yuan a month!"

Su's mother said, "That's right. If we calculate it this way, the monthly turnover of the two shops should be at least 5,000 yuan."

Five thousand a month, how much a year, sixty thousand yuan, my God, Su's mother didn't dare to think about it.

Is it so profitable to open a clothing store?

Su He smiled and said, "When the sales next month come in, we'll buy a refrigerator for the bakery, and buy a TV for you and your parents."

Father Su, "A refrigerator is good. With a refrigerator, we don't have to worry about things going bad."

Father Gu: "Yes."

Although the store purchases all its dishes every morning, some of the dishes may not be available that day but may be available the next day, but customers may want to eat them that day.

So all I can say is that I can’t cook it because I don’t have the ingredients. If I have a refrigerator, I can buy it in advance and put it in the refrigerator.

"Mom and Dad, are we really going to buy a TV next month?" Changjun and Changhuan's two children were focused on the TV.

Su He, "Buy it, buy a color TV."

Her third brother and his wife bought a TV last year. When she went to visit them during the Chinese New Year, the two kids were so engrossed in watching TV that they were reluctant to leave.

"Oh Yeah! Mom, you're the best!" The two kids were happy.

Zhang Ning and Qing Mu had never expected that opening a clothing store would make so much money. They thought the monthly turnover would be similar to that of a bakery, or maybe a little higher, but they never expected to make two hundred in one day.

Zhang Ning, "Qingmu, we must open our own store in the future." She didn't want to open two stores like her aunt.

She can just open a women's clothing store.

Aoki: "Okay, let's work hard to save money these years and buy a shop soon."

The clothing store business is getting better day by day, especially as the weather gets warmer, more customers come to buy clothes.

Whether it is the bakery, Zhang Chenxiaomei's steamed buns shop, Mingyue fruit and vegetable store, or Xueer's stationery store, this year's sales are much higher than last year.

If we run the business with integrity, we will have many regular customers. With the addition of new customers, our turnover will definitely increase.

After school started in March, Xiaomei went to school, leaving only Aunt Li and Zhang Chen in the store.

They were not very familiar with the job at first, but after working in the shop for about a month, Aunt Li and Zhang Chen became quite familiar with each other.

Once this person gets familiar with you, he likes to ask about things.

Aunt Li asked Zhang Chen, "Don't you two want a child?"

"I suggest that you have children early."

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "I'll wait until Xiaomei graduates."

Otherwise, his wife is in school and he is busy running the shop and cannot take care of her.

The couple must have given birth to the child before my brother-in-law got married, and his wife needed her mother-in-law to take care of her during the confinement period after giving birth.

Aunt Li heard this and said, "That's fine."

Aunt Li didn't think much about it and talked about it with her daughter-in-law after getting home from get off work.

Her daughter-in-law asked, "Mom, how many years have they been married?"

"I heard it's been six or seven years." Aunt Li wasn't exactly sure, it seemed like that.

I asked casually that day, and this is what the boss lady said.

In all likelihood, it will be either six or seven years.

The daughter-in-law heard this and asked suspiciously, "Mom, don't you think this is strange?"

"They have been married for so many years and yet they haven't gotten pregnant. Not to mention the years in college, how come they didn't get pregnant before that?"

"Mom, do you think that woman is infertile?"

Aunt Li waved her hands quickly, "Don't talk nonsense!"

Daughter-in-law: "Mom, let's speculate on this at home among our family members. We definitely won't tell your boss about it."

"I just think it's very strange. You see, I got pregnant less than half a year after I got married, and Ling'er got pregnant three months after we got married." Although they later divorced.

But this proves that they are all fine and can have children.

Aunt Li shook her head. "I don't know about that. It's just a young couple's business."

Daughter-in-law, "I think having a child after graduation is just an excuse. The truth is that the woman can't have children."

Aunt Li didn't say anything, and her daughter-in-law continued, "If a woman can't have children, the man will divorce her sooner or later."

In her opinion, her mother-in-law's boss did not divorce the boss's wife simply because of the woman's status. It would be very prestigious to tell others that she had a college student daughter-in-law.

Aunt Li sighed and said, "Let's not get involved in other people's business."

It doesn’t matter whether the boss’s wife can have children or not, as long as the boss pays her on time.

The daughter-in-law rolled her eyes but said nothing.