Chapter 5757 [Update 1]

Three hundred yuan!

Many cadres’ salaries at that time were not that high!

It was estimated that it was more than what their brigade secretaries made.

Now, all the patrolling work and confusion are gone!

I can earn three hundred yuan a month. Even after deducting the rent, water and electricity, there will be at least more than a hundred yuan a month, right?

If I can make one hundred and twenty yuan a month, I will have fifteen hundred yuan a year, which is enough for my granddaughter’s tuition for two semesters a year.

When thinking of this, Grandpa Jiang, who was originally a little depressed and uncomfortable because of quitting the patrolling job, suddenly stood up. His waist was no longer sore, his legs no longer hurt, and the sky was blue.

At noon, Jiang Xi prepared stir-fried lotus root slices with green pepper and braised pork with pickled mustard greens for Grandpa Jiang.

The canteen’s dishes, except for braised pork with pickled mustard greens, remain unchanged all year round. The rest of the canteen’s dishes change according to the seasonal vegetables on the market.

For example, at this time, it is the season for lotus roots to be on the market. Lotus roots on the market are extremely cheap. In order to save costs, the school canteen will buy lotus roots. Every day, they either stir-fry lotus root slices or lotus root shreds. The lotus roots they buy are not the good middle ones, but the small lotus root nodes at both ends and the flat long lotus root nodes. Locals call them lotus root shit.

This kind of lotus root is not as good to sell as the one without a round middle. People who sell lotus roots usually cut off the small and long lotus root nodes at both ends, send the middle lotus root segments to the market, and send the cut lotus root nodes at both ends to the small canteen near the school. In order to reduce costs, the school canteen will also buy such lotus root nodes at a low price.

The taste and nutrition of these lotus root nodes are no different from the round lotus root segments in the middle, but they are smaller and flatter, and do not look as good as the lotus root in the middle. When cut into circles, they are just right for making fried lotus root slices.

As a person who was born and raised by the river, and whose hometown's river beach is full of wild lotus roots, Grandpa Jiang could tell at a glance what part of the lotus root the slices were from. He ate a piece of the slice with disdain and said, "Are these just small lotus root shit?"

The chef in the cafeteria was quite skilled. The slices were fried to be crispy and tender, and garnished with a little chili, which made people's appetites grow.

Jiang Wei ate with gusto, "So many slices of lotus root for only two taels of meal tickets."

If it wasn't cheap enough, there wouldn't be such a large amount.

In Jiang Wei's view, as long as there was no problem with food hygiene, it didn't matter which part of the lotus root you ate.

Grandpa Jiang only ate the lotus root slices, but he didn't touch a piece. He pushed it in front of Jiang Xiao and pretended to be disgusted: "I don't eat this stuff, you can eat it."

Jiang Xiao directly stretched out his rice bowl in front of Grandpa Jiang: "I have it too. The sisters who serve food in the cafeteria like me very much. Every time they serve me a lot of food, it's enough."

Grandpa Jiang was happy to hear that.

He thought his granddaughter was good in every way, and no one would dislike their eldest granddaughter.

He thought of Jiang's mother, and his smile faded again, and he sighed secretly in his heart.

"You are growing up, you need to eat more meat to grow taller, but you don't even have 200 grams of meat on your body." In his eyes, his granddaughter is always thin. After she went to college, she obviously gained a lot of meat, but every time he came home, he would still say with heartache: "You are thinner, thinner, are you not eating well?" Then he would take out the salted fish and salted meat that he usually didn't want to eat and steam them for Jiang Xiao to eat.

He was also reluctant to eat the longan and red dates that his children bought for him, and he kept them for Jiang Xiao to bring back to school, fearing that she would not eat well at school.

The longan and brown sugar had worms and lumps because they were stored for too long and had gone bad.

Jiang Xi ordered two portions of braised pork in red sauce to prevent Grandpa Jiang from letting her eat the meat. While eating, she said, "I'm tired of eating too much meat. I can't eat anymore. Grandpa, you eat it."

It was the first time that Grandpa Jiang heard someone say that eating meat can make people tired of it. At the same time, he felt that the lives of ordinary people were really getting better and better. His granddaughter could say something that he dared not even think about, such as being tired of eating meat.

He did not refuse his granddaughter's kindness and took a few pieces to eat.

The chef in the canteen was really good. The braised pork was fat but not greasy, and the sour aroma of snow vegetables was just right.

After eating a few pieces, Grandpa Jiang said he didn't want to eat anything. Seeing that Jiang Liu didn't want to eat either, Grandpa Jiang said helplessly: "Then you take it back for your second brother to eat."

When Jiang Bai received the pottery bowl of braised pork from Jiang Liu, he realized that Grandpa Jiang had actually come to Wucheng.

"Why did Grandpa come to Wucheng? He doesn't patrol the mountains anymore?"

They followed Grandpa Jiang to patrol the mountains since they were young and grew up in the mountains. Therefore, in Jiang Bai's established thinking, Grandpa Jiang has always been tied to patrolling the mountains. At this time, he has not considered that Grandpa Jiang is getting old and is no longer suitable for patrolling the mountains.

Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai talked about the reason why Grandpa Jiang stopped patrolling the mountains. Jiang Bai actually considered this issue. He wanted to work and earn money as soon as possible so that Grandpa could retire earlier.

Unfortunately, after Jiang Bai graduated from high school in his previous life, he went to work as an apprentice in a car repair shop, hoping to learn the craft from the master. He worked for others for several years in vain. His ears and hands were frozen in winter and cracked. The master did not teach them the real skills.

Jiang Bai himself was interested in this aspect and had some understanding. After a long time, even if the master did not teach him, he occasionally saw it and slowly explored it by himself. Later, he became a master and got a salary. He worked slowly for a few more years. After accumulating funds, he finally opened his own car repair shop.

Just like Jiang Xi, when he finally got through it and Jiang Xi graduated from college, Grandpa Jiang was gone.

In the evening, Jiang Bai also came to Jiang Xi's store.

Jiang Bai then realized that Jiang Xi actually bought a store here and bought so many clothes!

He turned around and looked at Jiang Xi in surprise: "Where did you get the money?"

Jiang Xi said innocently: "Just... the royalties."

Grandpa Jiang had heard from Jiang Xi that if her articles were published in magazines, the magazine would give her royalties. After hearing their conversation, he didn't think it was a big deal.

Jiang Bai was shocked. Is the royalties so high?

He asked her about the rent of the store, and Jiang Xi showed Jiang Bai the rental contract.

The lease period in the contract was three years, and the rent was 75 yuan a month. Seeing such a high rent, Jiang Bai's heart suddenly tightened. 75 yuan was equivalent to half a month's salary for many people nowadays.

He looked at the few clothes left in the store, and it was hard to imagine whether these clothes would be enough to pay the rent. He also doubted whether Grandpa Jiang could do business and sell things.

In fact, Grandpa Jiang did not look like he could do business.

Grandpa Jiang was not convinced that his grandson looked down on his business and said, "What's so difficult about this? If someone comes to buy, just sell the clothes to him. I have sold more than 20 pieces today." Grandpa Jiang

proudly took out all the money he made today and handed it to Jiang Bai.

It was the first time that Jiang Bai saw so much money.

Hearing Grandpa Jiang's words, Jiang Bai, who had only sold loaches and eels, thought that he could only make one or two yuan for each piece of clothing. Thinking that if he sold more than 20 pieces a day, he could make more than 20 yuan, which was a month's profit, and Jiang Bai was shocked.

He looked at the street with some doubt, which was finally lively because of the school, and then saw that Grandpa Jiang's shop door was half closed because it was time to go home. He

didn't open the shop when the street was finally popular, but closed it instead. He opened the shop when there was no one on the street during the day. Can the clothes really be sold like this? Can he sell more than 20 pieces a day? Why did he sound so unconvinced? It must

be a fantasy, right?

Grandpa Jiang was still proud of himself for selling so many clothes a day. With this money, he could earn enough money for his granddaughter's high school tuition and college tuition.

That's right, there are not many clothes left in the shop.

He asked Jiang Xi with some concern: "Xi Xi, when that young man went back, did he say when he would send some more clothes? Several people came to buy today, and there were no sizes left." Otherwise, he could have made a few more dollars.

When Jiang Bai heard about the young man, alarm bells immediately went off in his heart. He turned to Jiang Wu and asked, "What young man?"

Jiang Wu: "It's... the supplier of these clothes. Their garment factory went bankrupt and they couldn't pay the wages. The factory used the clothes in the warehouse to pay the wages. He took so many clothes and wanted to sell them in Wucheng. He was unfamiliar with the place and couldn't speak the language. I happened to have a shop but hadn't decided what to sell, so I cooperated with him. I provided the shop and he provided the clothes. He took 70% and I took 30%. We sold clothes together. Now that the clothes are almost sold out, he went back. The remaining profits are all mine. When the clothes are sold out, he will send them to me."

"There are a lot of goods piled up in their factory, and the employees are all selling them."

Jiang Bai wanted to find some loopholes, but he couldn't. Who made it so that there were closed factories and laid-off workers everywhere in this era? It was very common in this era for factories to close down and not be able to pay wages and use clothes to pay for wages.

Moreover, the clothes had already been sold in the store, and the money was in Jiang Xi's hands. If she was cheated, there was nothing to cheat about. Even the money in her hand was enough to pay the rent of this store for half a year.

He then said, "Tell me in detail about the situation of that young man."

"He has gone back. His home is hundreds of kilometers away. I don't know if we can see each other in the future. What are you talking about?"

Although the gossip about Jiang Xi and GG was very popular, Jiang Bo was a senior high school student. Except for Sundays, he basically studied in school. Even on Sundays, he was mostly studying. Few people would pay attention to the gossip outside. Therefore, Jiang Bo didn't know about the bloody gossip that was spreading in Wucheng.

Jiang Xi didn't want Jiang Bai to ask further questions, and the evening self-study time was approaching, so he told Grandpa Jiang: "Grandpa, you should close the store at this time every day. There are not many clothes in the store. It is estimated that they will be sold out in a few days. Just sell them casually. Don't be too tired. I'll put hot water here for you."

Grandpa Jiang didn't feel tired at all. He waved his hand and said, "I understand, I understand. You can read your books and study your studies. I understand everything."

Where can you sell clothes casually? The monthly rent is so much!

Grandpa Jiang was thinking in his heart whether he could take the clothes back to Shuibu Town to sell them.

As an ancient town with a long history, Shuibu Town has convenient water and land transportation. It is also connected to the neighboring city of Wucheng. There are charcoal mountains and cement factories in the middle. Every time there is a market, people from all over the country gather in Shuibu Town. Shuibu Town is so crowded that people are crowded and crowded. The flow of people is huge.

The clothes in Sunnu's store are sold cheaply. If they are sold at the market in Shuibu Town, they can bring cheap and good clothes to the people in their town, and they don't have to pay rent, and they can sell the clothes.

With the bustle of their market, these clothes are estimated to be sold out in one morning.

He looked at the many out-of-size clothes in the store with some regret. The clothes are good, but there are not enough.

In Grandpa Jiang's simple mind, all small stalls that do not need rent are his first choice. He has been involved in temple fairs since he was a child. The farmers in the towns and villages are used to selling things at temple fairs and markets.

The rent of 75 yuan a month is almost as much as his monthly salary for patrolling the mountains.

In the next few days, Grandpa Jiang's store can sell at least 20 pieces a day, and even more than 30 or 40 orders of shoes a day.

Uncle Wang Yong sent the clothes on Sunday. According to the speed of postal delivery at that time, Jiang Xi estimated that it would arrive in a week. She was not in a hurry these days. She went to school as usual during the day and continued to attend the competition class at night. After school, she brought water and food to Grandpa Jiang on time. On Saturday, she went to the Internet cafe to write. After sending out the 15,000 words she had written, she came to the post office to check the mail.

The mail sent by Uncle Wang Yong finally arrived.

Just looking at the size, Jiang Xi was really shocked.

Jiang Xi was very suspicious whether Uncle Wang Yong sent her all the inventory accumulated in his factory last year.

She really guessed it right. There were not only winter clothes accumulated last year, but also spring clothes and summer clothes.

Some of the fabrics have been piled up for a long time, and they are slightly yellowed. Uncle Wang Yong charges her by weight. If the price is really calculated for each piece, the price is incredibly low, but the materials of the clothes are all good materials.

Grandpa Jiang still wanted to pull his cart to move it. According to Jiang Xi's idea, it would be much easier to call a tricycle and pull it back in one car.

But the packages are really big and there are too many of them. The tricycles at this time are small, and one car cannot pull them back. Now she is the only one at the door of the post office. She can only temporarily deposit the packages at the post office and say that she will call someone to help when she gets back. The people at the post office told her to hurry up because their post office will be closed at five o'clock and there will be no one in the post office after five o'clock.

Because there are not many clothes in the store, Jiang Xi did not play the recorded gg today.

When Grandpa Jiang heard Jiang Xi say that Wang Yong's package had arrived, he wanted to pull a cart to bring it back himself, but Jiang Xi stopped him: "You still think you are a 20-year-old man! If you have the time, you can sell so many clothes in the store, and you still save these two yuan?"

Grandpa Jiang was reluctant to spend money, and said: "Ask your second brother to pull it! We have a cart at home, why spend that money?"

Jiang Bai had classes on Saturdays and finished school at 4 pm.

As soon as school was over, Jiang Bai immediately left school and went to Jiang Xi's shop to find Jiang Xi. Hearing that the clothes sent by the garment factory had arrived, his idea was exactly the same as Grandpa Jiang's, and he used a cart to pull it.

Seeing that he insisted, Jiang Bai thought that this young man really had a lot of energy and strength that he had nowhere to release, so he let him go.

When they arrived at the post office, Jiang Bai looked at the several huge packages and wondered how he could sell all the clothes.

Because there were too many clothes, one cart could not carry them all, so he divided them into two trips.

When he finally pulled the first trip to the store, he saw his sister, who was supposed to stay at the post office and wait for him to go for the second trip, was already in the store with her packages, unpacking bags and hanging clothes.

The post office was not close to the store, and Jiang Bai himself was exhausted. He sat on the recliner that Jiang Bai bought for Grandpa Jiang, drank a glass of water, and rested for a while before getting up to unload the large bags of goods from the cart and piled them behind the curtain of the store.

The owner of the egg cake shop next door saw that the shop next door was almost sold out, and brought back so many packages. He asked Grandpa Jiang who was sitting at the door: "Grandpa, are you getting more stock?"

Grandpa Jiang smiled and said: "Yes, Boss Wang went back after selling the goods. He knew that the shop was running out of stock, so he sent some more."

Grandpa Jiang himself firmly believed that Wang Yong was from Jiangnan Garment Factory. Seeing his grandchildren bringing back so many goods, he was afraid that they would not be able to sell them all in Wucheng, so he looked in the direction of his hometown.

The cake shop owner smiled and asked him, "What are you looking at, grandpa?"

Grandpa Jiang said with a smile, "My granddaughter's clothes are cheap, I'm thinking of taking them back to Shuibu Town to sell, so that the rural children can also have new clothes to wear during the New Year."

This is his true thought in his heart.

When the hostess of the cake shop heard that the old man actually wanted to bring cheap clothes to their town to sell, wanting to benefit the rural children in their town, she immediately washed her hands and came to Grandpa Jiang's shop. She watched Jiang Xi and Jiang Bai sorting out clothes, and she picked out several pieces on the side: "Little sister, I want these pieces, you tell me the price."

Jiang Xi took a rough look and revealed the price. As before, the coat was 39, and the sweater and pants were 29.

The cake shop owner bought four pieces at once: a red cotton shirt for herself, a dark blue down jacket for the shop owner, and one each for her two children.

The cake shop owner felt sorry for his wife when he saw her buying so many clothes at once: "Why did you buy so many clothes at once?"

The cake shop hostess said: "Didn't you hear that old man say that he wanted to take the clothes back to his town to sell? You know those clothing stores in the center of the street. The clothes are so expensive. If you buy one piece there, you can buy two here. I have to buy more while there are still some in the store."

Because she lived nearby, she went back and told her familiar neighbors. The neighbors had already come to buy clothes. When they heard that there were new clothes, they wanted to take them back to Shuibu Town to sell them. They hurried down to check, but the store was closed.

Jiang Bai was very puzzled that his sister closed the store so early.

My sister really doesn't know how to run a business. She didn't sell the clothes quickly on Saturday when there were still some people on the street. She

actually closed the store at this time? But this store is not his after all, and so many goods have just arrived. It really takes time to sort them out. Jiang Bai silently swallowed his words back, thinking that neither his grandfather nor his sister knew how to run a business, so he had to come to help his sister tomorrow morning.

Otherwise, with so many clothes, it is estimated that they will not be sold out until the New Year.