Chapter 231 Mother and Sons Partner Together
Yang Jiabao's eyes began to wander when asked, "Well, well, we were just joking, right, Jiadong."
"Brother, Mom won't believe it," Yang Jiadong glanced at his mother and then confessed, "Mom, it was all pocket money given to us by grandma. She didn't let us tell you and Dad."
"Did your grandma give it to you? How much did she give?" Jiang Xinbai was immediately relieved when he heard that it was given by her mother-in-law. Fortunately, the child did not take it from home.
Yang Jiadong glanced at his brother, then whispered, "Grandma started giving me pocket money when I was ten years old, one dollar a week, two years later, I have saved more than eighty dollars now."
When Yang Jinsheng heard that his youngest son had saved more than 80 yuan, his eyes widened. This was two months' salary for him. He couldn't help but ask curiously, "Your grandma gives you one yuan a week, which is 40 or 50 yuan a year. Did you save it all?"
"Yeah, I basically saved it all, and only bought something occasionally." Yang Jiadong is very good at saving money.
Seeing this, Jiang Xinbai turned his gaze to his eldest son, "Xiaobao, what about you? You should have saved more than Xiaodong, right?"
"Hehe, not much more, just a little over a hundred." Yang Jiabao was still cautious and did not tell the full amount.
Yang Jinsheng looked at his eldest son suspiciously and asked, "That's not right. Didn't your grandma also start giving you pocket money when you were ten? You're already fifteen and a half this year. You should have more than two hundred and eighty. How could it be only a little over a hundred? Are you hiding it?"
"Dad, I don't have a house to save. I've spent all the money I had before. Don't disbelieve me!"
Yang Jiabao couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw his father's suspicious eyes. Oh, I shouldn't have told him earlier. Now, all my secrets have been exposed.
The son was Jiang Xinbai's own, so she could understand his little thoughts, but she was just too lazy to say it.
"Okay, no matter how much money you have, you just said you want to join us, is that true?"
"Really, Mom, I think the melon seeds you roast are better and more fragrant than those from the supply and marketing cooperative. You can roast them at home, and my brother and I will go out to sell them. How about we cooperate?" When talking about small business, Yang Jiabao's eyes lit up. It seemed that this was very much to his liking.
Jiang Xin rolled his eyes and nodded, "Okay, then how much money do you want to invest? How do we divide the profits?"
Yang Jiabao calculated in his mind, then asked, "Mom, how much is a pound of raw melon seeds?"
"Oh, I bought it for 40 cents a pound. If we buy 100 pounds, it should be cheaper. 35 cents a pound should be fine."
When Jiang Xinbai said this, Yang Jinsheng was shocked. He was coveting his two sons' money! Before he could think of a way to get some to spend, his wife took the initiative.
Jiang Xinbai didn't feel that she was cheating the children's money at all. It was better to be cheated by herself than by outsiders. Besides, why would a child need so much money? It would be better to let her, as their mother, keep it for them first!
"Well, thirty-five cents. If you buy one hundred kilograms, it will be thirty-five yuan. Okay, or my brother and I will each pay twelve yuan and fifty cents, and you will pay ten yuan, and then we will split it equally among the three of us. After all, you are the one who knows the secret recipe, so you can invest in the technology." Yang Jiabao said with a smile.
"What do you mean by technology investment? Where did you learn these words?" Yang Jinsheng was curious. Do schools still teach these things?
"Well, I heard it from my classmates, and he heard it from his uncle. Anyway, that's what I meant."
Yang Jiabao seemed to understand it, but he felt that roasting melon seeds was a skill.
Jiang Xinbai raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Okay, I won't take advantage of you. I'll just put the remaining eight kilograms of raw melon seeds in it! Then I'll buy another hundred kilograms. Pay for it!"
After all, Yang Jiabao and Yang Jiadong were still young and had not seen the dangers of society, so they naturally did not notice their old father who was struggling to hold back his laughter. The two happily returned to the house, each took out ten yuan and handed it to Jiang Xinbai, and then happily went to deliver the melon seeds.
Yang Jinsheng looked at the big unity in his wife's hand with envy, and joked: "Everyone who sees it gets a share, why don't you give me some?"
Jiang Xinbai directly handed the two large unity notes to her husband, "Here, here you go. Go and order 100 kilograms of melon seeds tomorrow."
"Tsk tsk, you're such a bad middleman. You made 15 bucks just by reselling it. You're really a ruthless person."
"Haha, I just thought I said too little, I should say 50 cents per pound."
Jiang Xinbai felt a little regretful as he spoke. Anyway, these two idiots would not really ask people the price of raw melon seeds.
"You're almost there, 50 cents. If you dare to say that the truth will be revealed the next day, it will be as expensive as cooked melon seeds."
"So I didn't say it was that high. By the way, do you think my eldest and second brothers know about the pocket money that mom gives to Xiaobao and Xiaodong? Or is it just our two children who get it, or do all the children get it?"
Jiang Xinbai also did the math in her mind. There are fifty-two weeks in a year. At one dollar a week, that would be fifty-two dollars a year. For two children, that would be one hundred and eight dollars. Add to that the New Year's money for each child, so the extra expenses for mother-in-law this year would be quite a lot!
"It should be Xiaobao and his family who have it. Think about it, Dad's monthly salary is now over 80. After deducting the cost of food and drink, he can only save 400 or 500 at most a year. If every child has it, can you calculate how much money it will cost a year?"
Yang Jinsheng thought that his mother was not a very generous person, and that his family should be the only two people who deserved this treatment.
"Yeah, that's right. If there are six children, the annual expenditure will be more than three hundred, which is too much."
"However, Xiaobai, let's pretend we don't know about this, so as not to make Big Brother and the others feel uncomfortable."
This is not just a few cents, it's about a hundred dollars a year. Anyone would feel uncomfortable if they were in this situation.
"I definitely know that, I'm stupid!"
Friday came quickly. Jiang Xinbai looked at the last few melon seeds in the pot, rubbed his arm that was sore from swinging the spatula, and complained, "You two better sell all these 100 kilograms of melon seeds. Otherwise, my arm won't be big enough. I feel like my left arm is getting too thick."
"Hey, Mom, you take a rest, I'll do it." Yang Jiabao smiled ingratiatingly. Hey, he has not been idle these days. He carries a bag of melon seeds to school every day. He has successfully sold more than 20 kilograms. If he hadn't been concerned about the teacher, he could have sold even more!
"Okay, it's all ready. What else do you need? Okay, put it all in the dustpan to let the heat go."
You know what, frying melon seeds is something that only men should do. After frying 100 kilograms of melon seeds, she felt like her arms were going to be broken.
"You guys should get up early tomorrow, don't sleep in, and go to the cinema to grab a good seat."
"Mom, it's too early to go to the cinema. I think we should go to Eighth Street first. There are still many aunties and grandmas who get up early to buy vegetables there. We should squat there and sell melon seeds first."
Yang Jiabao has explored the market these days. That street is the busiest in the morning. The good seats in the cinema have already been taken by others, so it will be useless even if they go earlier.
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