Chapter 215 The pressure is coming
Gu Jianhua asked, "Buy a car? What kind of car?" Was it the car he had in mind?
"Four wheels." Su He said with a smile.
At present, the country does not allow ordinary people to buy private cars. They can only do so after 1985. It will probably be around the 1990s before ordinary people can buy one.
But this doesn't prevent her from dreaming first.
Having a goal is motivation.
"A four-wheeler? How much would that cost?"
Gu Jianhua had seen and ridden in four-wheeled vehicles. When he was in the army, he once followed his leader on an outing and rode in a military vehicle. The four-wheeled vehicle was indeed four-wheeled. It was completely different from a bicycle or a horse-drawn carriage, and it traveled much faster.
"At least a few hundred thousand!"
Su He looked up the prices of small cars of this era in the system book. Small ones would cost 70,000 to 80,000 or more than 100,000 yuan, medium ones would cost more than 300,000 yuan, and good ones would cost over a million yuan.
“It’s too expensive.”
Gu Jianhua thought it would be expensive, at least tens of thousands, but he didn't expect it to cost hundreds of thousands.
Su He, "Cars are definitely expensive."
She saw in the system book that the price of cars had not changed much from the beginning to the end. At the beginning, it was 70,000 to 80,000 or even 100,000 yuan, and it was still the same price in the 21st century.
However, at that time, people's quality of life had improved and their wages had increased, so they could afford it, and almost every family had one.
"So we need to open more stores and make more money in the future. I want to buy not only one car for ourselves but also one for each of our four children."
It may be due to her original family, the fact that her husband and her in-laws were all very nice, and then the relationship of the binding system.
She doesn't have any patriarchal ideas, not at all.
She just wanted to divide the money and property they earned into five parts, one for them and one for each of their four children.
There is no such idea as there are more boys and fewer girls.
The four kids must be the same, to be fair and just.
"If we calculate based on 150,000 per car, we will make at least 1 million."
You can't just buy a car for your children's weddings, you have to prepare other things. Thinking of this, Gu Jianhua suddenly felt a little stressed.
Su He smiled and said, "Yes, and one million is not enough. We want to travel around the world when we are old."
Gu Jianhua, "Actually, when I get older, it would be nice to go fishing in the river like my dad did."
"What for? I want to travel around the world when I get old. You go fishing, and I'll travel around the world with other old men." Su He walked quickly in front of Gu Jianhua in her high heels.
Gu Jianhua caught up with him and said, "What are you talking about, daughter-in-law? Let's go together."
"Yeah, anyway, we should make more money in the future."
Gu Jianhua never expected that after living for most of his life and being in his forties, the pressure would only come upon him.
Before, he thought his life was pretty good. His wife was a teacher at Peking University, his children were all college students, and he looked very happy. His youngest son and daughter had good grades, and his parents, father-in-law and mother-in-law were all in good health and had no illnesses or accidents.
The shop business is also good.
Everything is good, but now hearing what his wife said, it is still far from being good enough.
But his wife is right. There are four children in the family. The eldest and second child will definitely have a good job after graduating from college. It is definitely no problem for them to be self-reliant, but if their parents help, they will go to a higher level.
Well, I still have to work harder.
The bakery bought a refrigerator. Zhang Chenxiaomei and her husband, who also run a restaurant, also wanted to buy one, but the price was too expensive.
Two thousand yuan is almost the turnover of their steamed bun shop for three months.
Zhang Chen, "Wife, let's buy one. We can't live without a refrigerator in the summer. You can pay me back in two months."
"Let me ask my elder sister if they need it urgently. If they don't, we won't buy another refrigerator."
Why don't you pay back the money you owe her by buying things for her? It's as if you are deliberately not paying her back. Even though she is your sister, Xiaomei is afraid that she will think too much.
So ask first.
So Xiaomei went to ask Mingyue, and Mingyue said, "Don't worry, don't worry, you can use it first."
Even though the fruit, vegetable and daily necessities store opened by Mingyue and Tang Zexu seems not to make much money every day, their monthly turnover is really quite high.
It’s almost a thousand yuan, which is more than the bakery and bun shop.
Their store is big and has a wide variety of products, including fruits, vegetables, rice and noodles, as well as daily necessities, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. The couple knows how to run the business, and they usually give customers gifts, so they have a lot of customers.
However, Xiaomei's words did remind Mingyue that their store didn't have a freezer yet. Summer was coming, and it was time for people to eat popsicles!
Got to buy one.
So the two sisters went to the department store to buy a refrigerator the next day.
Aunt Li works in a steamed bun shop. By looking at the number of customers who come to eat every day, she can roughly calculate the daily or monthly turnover.
But I was still surprised to see the money turned into something in front of me.
The couple bought a refrigerator!
A refrigerator costs several thousand dollars, but they bought it just as they said they would. It turns out that running a store is really profitable.
Aunt Li got off work early, and so did Aunt Xu. When the two old ladies got home and went to the kitchen to cook, they started chatting.
Aunt Li pulled Aunt Xu aside and said, "These people look down on those who are self-employed. Self-employed people make money."
"Our boss just went to the department store and bought a refrigerator today."
"A refrigerator costs thousands of yuan, but they bought it just like that. How could the owner buy a refrigerator if the store doesn't make money?"
Aunt Xu said, "People who open a store will definitely make money. You know Mr. Su and his wife. They bought a refrigerator for the store a few days ago, and also bought a TV and a washing machine for the parents."
TVs and washing machines are cheaper than refrigerators, but not much cheaper, still costing more than 500 yuan.
Aunt Li was shocked. "How can Teacher Su's pastry shop make so much money?"
Aunt Xu, "You don't know that Teacher Su also opened two clothing stores. The pancake store also makes money, but the clothing store makes more money."
I heard from my granddaughter that there were many more customers coming in to buy clothes, and each piece of clothing cost several yuan, some even twenty yuan.
Teacher Su gave a skirt to her granddaughter, and her granddaughter said that the same skirt cost seven or eight yuan in the store.
"I don't know. I'm busy every day." The key point is that she didn't listen to what the boss and his wife said.
Aunt Xu: "We opened two stores, one for women's clothing and one for men's clothing. They are right next to each other on South Street."
Aunt Li heard this and said, "Okay, I'll go for a walk when I have time."
After cooking, Aunt Li went home and talked about this with her family. She said it was impossible not to be jealous, as being a self-employed person was too profitable.
It made her want to quit her job and work on her own.
She now earns 15 yuan a month. If she wants to work on her own, she will have to earn at least 200 yuan a month.
Just like the young daughter-in-law Qian Sui'er who lives upstairs from them. Qian Sui'er started selling steamed buns herself last year, and the couple opened a shop this year.
Just by looking at the clothes worn by their children, which get better day by day, you can tell that they make a lot of money.