Chapter 412 You're talking as if I've bullied you before

On the other side of the county town, Xia Juanjuan also went back through the space and asked Li Jie to help find people to paint the shop surface near the train station, and also built the steamer, stove, etc. in the back kitchen.

As it happened, Li Jie and Zhou Qiuhe had already bought the shop, so Li Jie directly asked the village bricklayers to come over and help build his own shop and Xia Juanjuan's shop, paying them some wages every day and providing them with food. As for accommodation, they all brought their roofs and lived on the floor in the shop.

Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie planned to open a breakfast shop, open in the morning, selling steamed buns, homemade millet and sweet potato porridge, and homemade pickles and salted vegetables.

Zhou Qiuhe has not resigned from her job at the department store and has no plans to resign.

After all, no one can tell whether the store can make money. If it fails, Zhou Qiuhe still has her job, and at least her family will not be left with nothing.

Li Jie said, "You should go to work, and I'll run the store. Anyway, we'll start with the breakfast business, and close it around 10 in the morning. I can still do other work. If there's work for Luo Lao Da, we can just close the store for a few days, or we can hire someone later."

Zhou Qiuhe was also unsure, so the matter was settled.

The department store had helped her move her household registration to the county town, and her four children also moved there.

Li Jie's household registration has not been moved yet, mainly because Li Jie is reluctant to leave his land in the village.

What if they can no longer stay in the city and their entire family's household registration is moved to the city, and they even lose their land in the village? What should they do then?

Is it going to be starving in the county town?

Xia Juanjuan smiled and asked, "I plan to open after the Chinese New Year. Brother and sister-in-law, when are you planning to open?"

The New Year's Eve of 1979 was on January 28th of the solar calendar, which was the fifth day of the first lunar month, the day for the big business. Xia Juanjuan set the opening time for the two stores in Beijing on the fifth day, and the one in the county on the sixth day.

Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie laughed and said, "Then let's celebrate the sixth day of the Lunar New Year and open the store together to have more fun!"

Xia Juanjuan nodded and said, "That's fine. I have contacted a good food supplier in my store. If you want, you can also get some food from me in the future. The price should be cheaper than that of the grain station and the meat station."

Zhou Qiuhe heard this and said with a smile:

"That's great. We are worried about this as well! Li Jie went back to Qingshui Village a few days ago to inquire about the situation.

We originally thought that if things didn’t work out, we could just buy flour, vegetables, pork directly from Qingshui Village Commune. We also have wild mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, spring bamboo shoots, and black fungus from our own mountains, which are all great things!

After asking, we found out that although the village had secretly distributed land to each household and let everyone grow their own crops, they still did not dare to buy and sell grain at will. They did say that they could secretly give us some mountain products.

We went to the grain and meat stations to ask about flour, millet, pork, eggs, etc., and the prices are really not cheap. That’s why your third brother and I are worried that we might end up losing money and not be able to continue our business!”

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "That's fine. I'll go back and tell the supplier I know, and then I'll order an extra batch and have it delivered to your store."

After this matter was settled, Xia Juanjuan went to visit Master Liu again, brought some gifts, and told him when the store would open.

Upon hearing this, Master Liu couldn't help but laugh excitedly and said, "It's finally opening? The sixth day of the first lunar month! Great! By then, the neighbors will be able to eat the soup dumplings and Yangchun noodles made by me, Old Liu, again!"

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, it will all depend on you when the time comes! Don't worry about the ingredients, they will definitely be the freshest!"

By the end of October, Chunyan had been in Beijing for a month.

Xia Juanjuan took out thirty yuan and handed it to her.

Chunyan looked at it and looked up at Xia Juanjuan in astonishment: "Fourth Aunt, didn't you say twenty per month? Why did you only give thirty?"

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "I heard from your third aunt that your mother told you to send 15 yuan home every month, right? You should send 15 yuan back, and keep the remaining 15 yuan for yourself. If you see clothes or shoes you like, or snacks you want to eat, you can buy them with your own money. But there is one thing, you are not allowed to use this money to learn bad things, do you hear me?"

Chunyan looked at Xia Juanjuan in a daze, and only then did she believe that the extra ten yuan was not given to her by mistake, but was really given to her.

She couldn't help but get a little panicked: "Fourth aunt! Five yuan a month is enough for my pocket money! Fourth aunt, you've bought me two sets of clothes and shoes! And you don't have to spend any money on food and accommodation..."

Li Zhan came in at this time and said, "Chun Yan, your aunt asked you to take it, so just take it. Just don't mess with it."

Xia Juanjuan also joked, "Yes. You are seventeen years old, and it will be time for you to find a husband in two years. Save some money so that you can be confident when you go to your husband's house. If your future husband dares to bully you, just beat him up immediately and then take the money and leave. Don't suffer any grievances!"

Chunyan blushed and stamped her feet shyly, saying, "Oh, Fourth Aunt! Why are you talking about this?"

Having said that, he ran out with a red face.

Seeing that no one was in the room, Li Zhan could not help but hug his wife from behind and said with a smile, "You are telling others about your experience? Are you always thinking in your head that if I bully you, you will beat me up and run away?"

Xia Juanjuan's neck was itchy from the stubble on his chin, so she raised her hand to push his chin and said with a smile: "Isn't it? I tell you, I'm a wealthy woman now. If you dare to bully me again, I will run away immediately!"

Lizhan said aggrievedly, "Bully you again? You're talking as if I've bullied you before?"

Xia Juanjuan thought to herself, you may not have bullied me at other times, but you definitely bullied me a lot in bed.

The two of them argued with each other for a while, and Xia Juanjuan said, "Hey! Let me tell you something serious. My master should be back in December. How about we go pick him up and go back to Qingshui Village at the same time? I haven't been back for a long time!"

After hearing this, Li Zhan nodded and said, "Okay. I can also ask my parents. They probably have been thinking about going back to the village for a long time."

The days passed by neither fast nor slow.

Xia Juanjuan still found time to be with Qi Ningyu. When she was free, she would set up a stall outside to sell sweaters and jeans.

However, within a few days, Xia Juanjuan directly called Chen Lu over.

I didn't call them before, mainly because I thought Chen Lu was still a student. If people really knew that they were selling clothes outside, I don't know what the school would do.

She couldn't let Chen Lu take this risk.

However, Chen Lu saw that she had been very busy since the beginning of this semester, so she started asking her about it.

Xia Juanjuan secretly told Chen Lu about her clothes business. Chen Lu was very interested and Xia Juanjuan agreed to let her join.