Chapter 255 I Buy Them All

After National Day, Su He was busy opening her seventh shop.

Su He is planning to open a shoe store.

She discussed it with Gu Jianhua and decided that in addition to selling clothes, it would also be a good idea to sell shoes, including winter boots, small leather shoes, small high heels, summer sandals, loose shoes, small white shoes, etc.

We sell both women's and men's shoes.

Besides, a shoe store doesn’t need to be too big, it can be about the same size as a clothing store.

After deciding what kind of store to open, Su He went to look at shops, then went to manufacturers to place orders and recruit people.

The shoe store opened a month later.

This year's store opening mission has been completed.

The family has become accustomed to Su He opening stores one after another, and they have also figured out a pattern. Xiao He opens two stores a year, one at the beginning of the year and one at the end of the year.

Gu's mother also asked, "What kind of store does Xiaohe plan to open next year?"

We have catering, clothing, accessories, drinks, billiards, and now we’re opening a shoe store.

“I plan to open a flower shop and a skin care product store”

Of course, people make a living first and then pursue their dreams. Now they have seven stores and their net profit is nearly NT$30,000 per month.

So she wants to open a flower shop and a skin care product store next year.

Her jewelry store does sell some vanishing creams, hand creams, hair oils, etc., but there are only a few items, not many.

She wanted to open a comprehensive skin care product store, selling everything from face cream, pearl powder, eye shadow, lipstick, eyeliner, eyebrow pencil, soap, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, etc.

Her store has everything from cosmetics, skin care, to hair care.

Let customers shop in one stop without going to other stores.

As for the flower shop, it was her own idea to open one. She saw in a system magazine that the protagonist opened a flower shop with beautiful pictures, so she also wanted to open one.

It just so happened that during the system test, she had drawn a flower arrangement skill card, so she might as well use it.

The customer knows about skin care shops, which sell vanishing creams and the like. After opening one store after another in Suhe in the past two years, the customer has gained confidence. Generally speaking, as long as the store is open, the business will not be too bad.

The same goes for skin care products. Beijing is not like their small county town. In this big city, many people buy vanishing cream.

However, the flower shop owner is not very confident.

She understands people buying clothes, shoes, wine, cigarettes, and vanishing cream, but who would buy flowers for no reason? They can’t be eaten.

She asked worriedly, "Xiao He, will I lose money if I open a flower shop?"

Su He, "I don't know, but it shouldn't be. I saw that flower stall sells a lot every day."

"Mom, didn't I buy you a bouquet of flowers for Mother's Day this year?"

"In the summer, when the Red Army got married, didn't Xu Ying hold this flower in her hand?"

"Mom, ordinary people can't afford these flowers, so I'll just sell them to rich people."

When the Red Army got married, the bouquet of flowers in Xu Ying's hand cost about ten yuan.

Yes, it is expensive.

Xu Ying works in a clothing store. This year her monthly salary is 40 yuan. That bouquet of flowers costs only 10 yuan, a quarter of her salary.

More expensive than small leather shoes, more expensive than some skirts.

Moreover, it looks good but is not practical. It withers in a few days. It is a complete waste of money.

But there are many poor people and rich people in this world. Rich people are not short of money, they just lack the style.

It's a ten-dollar flower, just buy it.

For them, it doesn’t matter whether it’s expensive or not; what matters is that it provides emotional value.

Not only rich people like flowers, Su He also likes flowers. If they were not too expensive and wild flowers on the roadside could not be picked, she would buy a bouquet every day after get off work and put it on the living room table.

How nice!

After hearing this, Gu's mother said, "That's fine." But would rich people buy flowers every day?

Su He said, "Don't worry, mom. I won't lose money. If I lose money, I can just close the shop and start another business."

Mother Gu said, "Xiao He, take care of it yourself. I believe in you."

Her daughter-in-law has always been smart.

"Uh-huh."

After December, the shoe store's sales also came out, almost the same as the clothing store. Their monthly net income exceeded 30,000.

When doing the math, Gu Jianhua said, "According to this trend, our family will soon be able to save a million."

If you earn 30,000 a month, that's 360,000 a year. Wouldn't that be enough to save 1 million in three years?

Now the family savings amount to more than 100,000 yuan.

Su He nodded, "That's the plan, but we'll buy the shop until 1989. After 1989, we'll buy a house or a yard."

"Buy a courtyard house? What do you think?"

Gu Jianhua doesn't know if the price of courtyard houses will soar in the future. He said, "My wife, I think it's better to buy a villa like Uncle Feng's."

He doesn't really like living in a courtyard surrounded by trees, it feels a bit cramped.

Su He, "Buy them all, a courtyard house and a villa."

She wants to buy farmhouses around Peking University, courtyard houses within the Second Ring Road, villas, shops, and commercial housing. She doesn't want to choose just one, she wants to buy them all.

She ensured that her children would never lack money and would not have to worry about it.

“Are we going out again this year?”

She is on vacation and there is still more than a month before the Chinese New Year. She can go out for a walk, but she is not very interested. If the four elders are willing, they can go out for a walk too.

Gu Jianhua, "Let my parents go."

His father-in-law, mother-in-law and parents are all old, and he is not comfortable letting them look after the store.

Su He: "Okay, I'll talk to them tomorrow."

After the couple finished their accounts and lay down to rest, Su He remembered, "Your eldest daughter will graduate from graduate school at the end of next year, right?"

The research and development of Chang Yi Du took two years.

Changan's is three years, but Changan just graduated from university this year. He studied clinical medicine for five years, and the postgraduate program is three years.

A total of eight years of study is indeed a bit long, but studying medicine requires a few more years than other majors.

Gu Jianhua, "Let me calculate. On September 1st of next year, Changjun and Changhuan will go to junior high school. At the end of next year, Changyi will graduate from graduate school, and Changan will study for a year."

Su He, "We have four children, and three of them will still be in school next year."

Only she, the eldest daughter, graduated.

Gu Jianhua, "Did Changyi tell you what she planned to do after graduation? Will she work for her third uncle? Or go to another unit?"

Su He, "She didn't say it, but I guess she knows it in her heart."

Gu Jianhua: "It would be good for her to work for her third uncle, who can still take care of her."

Parents, no matter how old their children are, worry.

"There's still a year left. I'll talk to her then."

Su He is fine. She thinks that as long as she has good business skills, she can get ahead anywhere.

She didn't ask much of her children, just that they could get into college, find a job to support themselves after graduation, and become useful to society and responsible to their families.

Gu Jianhua nodded. He used to not understand why parents still worried about their children even though they were so old. They would even ask about their children's basic eating and drinking, worry about whether they had enough, whether they had covered themselves with blankets at night, etc.

Later, after I had children, I understood. For example, now he is his daughter, a Peking University graduate. With this title, no company will treat her unfairly, and she will never be bullied by colleagues.

But as a father, he still couldn't help but worry and thought about going to her third uncle. Her third uncle could at least help her, and other colleagues would also take care of her more for the sake of her third uncle.

Su He knew what the old father Gu Jianhua was concerned about, so he said, "Don't worry, your daughter has been very capable since she was young and has her own ideas. We two outsiders don't understand her profession."

“I will definitely discuss with my mentors and classmates to decide on my job when the time comes.”

Gu Jianhua: "Yeah."

"By the way, did Han Shuyan join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?"

Su He, "Yes." Han Shuyan did not go to graduate school and went straight to work.

Originally, the two families knew each other, and the two children were dating, so Han Shuyan often came to the pancake shop. Eating was secondary, but he came mainly to find Changyi.

This year, Changyi and Changan's two children have returned home more often, basically once every two days.

I stayed at home or in the bakery during summer and winter vacations.

In the past, we asked them to come back but they refused.

"I heard that this job requires them to go abroad and live in other countries for several years." Gu Jianhua also heard this from others.

When the customers who came to their restaurant to eat heard that his daughter was studying diplomacy, they said they wanted to live in another country abroad.

It's called an embassy abroad.

He used to think that the job of a lady was just to receive foreign leaders and act as a translator or something.

I didn't expect to go abroad

Su He, "That's right, what are you worried about?"

Gu Jianhua, "I think it's best to stay in China, but if I want to go abroad, you say I'm going to a war-torn country, their personal safety..."

Gu Jianhua didn't finish his words, but Su He understood.

"That's true, but there's nothing we can do. We have to follow the leadership's orders, and this is their job."

"But don't worry about it now. Both your daughter-in-law and your future son-in-law, as fresh graduates, are not qualified to go abroad."

"You have to work in the country for a few years before you can go."

Gu Jianhua sighed, "You'll have to go sooner or later, right?"

In the past, he thought that the profession of prostitute was very noble and impressive.

Now I feel a little regretful. I should have let her choose another major. If she had chosen this one, even if students of this major can do other jobs besides joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there is still a certain probability of joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then a certain probability of going abroad, and then another certain probability of going to a war-torn country.

He himself had no fear of going to the battlefield, but he could not let his own children go to a war-torn country. He just wanted his daughter to be safe.

Su He hugged him and said, "Jianhua, don't worry. I have calculated the fortunes of several of our children and they all have longevity."

"Is it true or false?"

"Of course it is."

At worst, if it really comes to that, she can just hang copper coin amulets all over Changyi's body.

"Besides, your daughter hasn't even graduated yet. It's too early for us to worry about her now."

Gu Jianhua: "Hey."

I don’t worry, I don’t worry, but I can’t help but worry!

Winter and summer vacations are the time for Su He's family to travel. This winter vacation, Gu Jianhua and his wife from Su He did not plan to go out, so they asked the four elders.

The four elders said they would not go either.

"It's okay to go for a stroll in the summer, but it's freezing cold now, and we, with our old limbs, would rather not go," said Su's mother with a smile.

Mother Gu said, "Yes, we won't go. You two can go if you want."

Although they are healthy and have no illness or pain, they are old after all, in their seventies. It is freezing cold in the winter, and if they accidentally fall or get bumped, it will be a big trouble.

Start with at least a fracture.

Su He shook his head, "We won't go either. Let Changyi and Changan go, and bring their brothers and sisters with them."

Changjun and Changhuan have always wanted to go out and play.

Changjun and Changhuan felt a little disappointed when they heard that their parents were not going because they wanted to go out and play, but they became happy after hearing the last sentence.

The two of them looked at their sister and brother with hope in their eyes.

Changyi and Changan, as older siblings, certainly would not let their younger siblings down, so they asked, "Where do you two want to go?"

"Going to Dalian?"

"Yeah." Changjun and Changhuan nodded.

“We want to see the sea.”

"Okay, let's go, to Dalian." Dalian is indeed nice. I went there once in the summer and I want to go there again.

Su He, "When you go back, bring some dried seafood with you. I will mail it to your uncle and aunt."

In the summer, Gu's father and his family went there, but they did not bring much with them, just enough for their family to eat.

Changan, "Mom, how about this? When we get to Dalian, I'll give you the seafood store owner's phone number and you can call and make the reservation directly, okay?"

His mother asked them to buy more, but it must be by the box, not just a little more, but a lot more.

"That's fine."

The dried shrimps, dried squid and dried shrimps they brought back in the summer were all very good and Su He liked them very much.

Especially dried shrimps and dried shreds are delicious when added to porridge.

Mother Gu said, "Xiao He, just mail it to the children's uncle. Don't mail it to their aunt. They won't eat it. It's a waste to leave it there."

It's not that Mrs. Gu is being polite. This summer, a large group of them came, and He Jianhua bought them all kinds of seafood, including prawns and scallops, but they don't eat them because they are not used to them.

Especially the eldest couple, they were scared of the giant shrimps, but no one knew what they were afraid of.

Mother Gu is now very dissatisfied with Sister Gu and her husband.

Su He, "No way, mom, my second sister and the others are eating well, and Chunqing and the others are eating too."

It was just that the eldest sister Gu and her brother-in-law were afraid of the prawns and did not eat them, and the third sister Gu simply did not like eating seafood and could not stand the taste so did not eat them, but Team Leader Wang Yaoyao and the others ate them.

This is understandable. Some people don't like to eat seafood. She even doesn't like to eat Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, which is filled with expensive ingredients.

Mother Gu said, "Just give me less mail, no need to send too much."

Xiaohe has always been generous.

Su He smiled and said nothing else. It was definitely a shortage of mailing addresses, but she couldn't say it directly.

We decided to travel to Dalian, and the four kids set off the next day.

When we arrived at the destination, Changan found a seafood restaurant.

"Boss, this thing of yours can be mailed, right?"

Boss: "Sure, where should I mail it to?"

"In Beijing."

The seafood shop owner had a phone number, so Chang An called the pie shop directly and said a few words, "Mom, tell the boss what you need?"

Su He didn't know what the seafood restaurant sold, so he asked the boss to tell him what the store had.

“Grilled dried shrimps, dried scallops, sea cucumbers, abalone…”

Except for the grilled dried shrimps, I ordered a portion or a box of everything else in Suho.

I bought two boxes of grilled dried shrimps in Soho.