Chapter 188: Counting Money Until Your Hands Are Tired
Buying food, cooking, selling snacks...
Huang Xinran was busy with her work as planned, and when she had free time, she would start planting vegetables and removing pests in the garden of the house she had bought.
The old lady had said nicely that she would give the vegetables from the garden to her, but when she saw Huang Xinran plowing the land, she pulled the vegetables very skillfully.
By the time they moved out, not a single hair was left in the garden.
Fortunately, Huang Xinran never thought of taking advantage of this!
She has supernatural powers. As long as she has land, it won’t take her only a few minutes to grow vegetables, right?
However, she does not plan to use all the gardens to grow vegetables. In addition to growing some vegetables in the back garden and the side garden, the garden in front of the house has particularly good sunlight, so she plans to use it to grow flowers.
For this reason, the old lady pulled out all the vegetables, which saved her a lot of trouble.
With her skillful planning, the front garden was soon divided into different plots, where sunflowers, roses, peonies, marigolds and irises were planted. Cannas, grapes, osmanthus trees, cherry trees and other plants were planted near the edge of the courtyard wall.
Fortunately, the weather is suitable now, the sun is shining, and it is suitable for growing anything.
Looking at the well-planned courtyard, Huang Xinran felt full of accomplishment.
After the exterior was planned and the aunt's family had moved out, Huang Xinran began to measure the size of the house, intending to change the layout of the house to see if he could expand the space.
This house is much larger than the one in the family compound. Even if she doesn't move in, she will have to hire a helper given the current business of the shop. Most of the time, hiring a helper requires providing a place to stay, and this house is just the right place.
It's not far from the shop and convenient for travel.
After measuring the dimensions, Huang Xinran unexpectedly discovered that the house was called a bungalow, not because its roof was flat, but because it had only one floor. The highest point of the house's pointed sloping roof was 5.4 meters high, and the lowest point was 4.2 meters.
I carefully checked the foundation of the house and found that there were stairs leading into the house. The three-story stairs raised the room by about 0.3 meters.
If waterproofing is done, then remove the raised part...
Can it be divided into two-story small houses?
Huang Xinran couldn't help but laugh. The thought of having an extra floor made him suddenly excited.
Now that we have a preliminary idea, what remains is how to come up with a plan and then implement it.
And she can only do all this by writing and painting in her busy free time.
For this, she was almost busy like a dog.
She lost weight rapidly, but the fat on her belly just wouldn't go away, and it even became more prominent.
Could this be...
A certain thought suddenly flashed through my mind, and at this moment, Aunt He came in and folded the umbrella and put it aside.
"It's raining really hard! Oh, that's right!"
Aunt He shook off the mud on her feet. "When I went to the post office just now, I saw your registered letter and several large packages. I wanted to bring them back for you, but the staff said you have to pick them up in person. Please go pick them up when you have time!"
"Several packages? Sure, I'll pick them up right away."
Huang Xinran hurriedly put the things away and told Aunt He: "Aunt He, take the meat out of the refrigerator and thaw it. Wash and cut it. When I come back, we will skewer it together."
At first, Aunt He saw that she was too busy to handle it, so she came to help during the children's school hours.
But after helping for a long time, Huang Xinran thought that she had to hire someone anyway, so she discussed with Aunt He and let her stay in the store to work.
She paid her 50 yuan a month and provided her with two meals (lunch and dinner).
Aunt He agreed to help, but she felt that Huang Xinran's salary was too high, so she was only willing to accept 30 yuan. Later, Huang Xinran persuaded her, saying that when she had money to hire a helper, Aunt He would be an old employee and had to help train the newcomers. Only then did they decide to take a compromise and accept 40 yuan a month.
40 yuan a month’s salary!
How can this be called a handyman?
These days, many state-owned factories are not performing well. Temporary workers in these factories only get about 30 yuan a month. Some are even worse off and cannot even get their wages paid.
A small job for 40 yuan, not to mention others, even in the family compound, how many people are jealous?
Wang Ping also came several times with her daughter Wenwen, and sat in the store and refused to leave, just wanting to get a piece of the pie.
Huang Xinran, however, felt that she and Wang Ping were the type who had nothing in common and therefore did not nod.
For this, Wang Ping hated her.
Not only did he gossip about them everywhere, he even stole the vegetables grown by Huang Xinran several times. He was caught by Aunt He once, and Huang Xinran caught him once. However, he did not feel guilty at all, and instead said, "It's just some vegetable seedlings. If you want to eat them, you can pick any one you want from my vegetable garden. I'm not that stingy!"
She was being stingy. The weeds in her field were taller than the vegetable seedlings. If she wanted to eat vegetables, she could just go and dig in the weeds!
Huang Xinran naturally looked down on it, "I am stingy, so my vegetable seedlings are valuable. Next time, if anyone dares to pick my vegetables without my personal consent, I will go to the political commissar and the instructor to talk to them. I want to see who will be more embarrassed in the end!"
Wang Ping's face was darker than a dark cloud.
However, she did not dare to continue to challenge Huang Xinran.
The vegetables in Huang Xinran's yard had never been stolen, but the vegetables in her field would disappear from time to time.
After a while, Huang Xinran decided that the few acres of land he wanted were too far away and inconvenient to cultivate, and that he could get away from seeing them without having to farm.
After thinking about it, I decided to just plant some vegetables like radish, chives, and onions.
I see you are still stealing!
There's nothing she can do. She can't afford to offend someone who has conjunctivitis.
Aunt He felt embarrassed because of Wang Ping's incident. "If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have made such a fuss. Now, it's my fault. Alas..."
"She is jealous of your money. Unless you give her all the money you earn and hand over the work to her, you will still not get a good word from her. She may even laugh at you and call you stupid behind your back. In the end, you don't need to pay attention to her. Look how she is used to it!"
"Yes, you still think clearly!"
Aunt He also figured it out and laughed immediately.
When working, he is also full of energy and vitality.
On the contrary, Huang Xinran was getting more and more tired. She also had to worry about the renovation. She had to go back and forth between the store and the family compound every day. She really didn't have that much energy. After thinking about it, she decided to hire two small workers to keep busy.
At worst, she could start the dine-in business.
Not long after the job posting was posted, more than a dozen people came to ask for jobs. Huang Xinran considered it comprehensively and kept two experienced people.
Each of them is good at making pasta, and they can make the local people's favorite big buns and steamed bread very smoothly. The other one is a helper, and he is very familiar with washing and cutting.
After deciding on the number of people, they were assigned to work the next day. They were very efficient in their work, and it was obvious that they were used to doing this job. Of course, they had tried it yesterday, so there was no problem of being a novice.
With two people helping him, Huang Xinran only needs to control the ingredients and the heat, and the food will taste good naturally.
Both of them did a good job and Huang Xinran was very satisfied.
The next day, the stall had more steamed buns, dumplings, flower rolls, steamed cakes and freshly made pancakes.
After three days, she started to add dine-in food, such as dumplings, wontons, and noodles.
The store's opening hours also gradually lengthened, from initially opening only when students were going to and from school to selling food from morning to night.
Therefore, the turnover will naturally increase!
Huang Xinran's hands are tired from counting money. Who told us that people are still used to using rounded corners when spending money nowadays?