Chapter 185 The tacit understanding of the three children
On the way back, she said to Zhuang Chaoying:
"That small restaurant charges a little over one yuan per table. For a full meal, they can serve at least ten tables. For two meals, that's twenty tables. They can make over ten or twenty yuan a day, and several hundred yuan a month!"
"How can every table cost more than one yuan? And it's impossible to have so many tables for every meal. Besides, you haven't calculated the costs! The rent, the materials, the staff."
Zhuang Chaoying counted on his fingers and told Zhu Xiuyu, laughing at her for thinking too simply.
"Yeah, that's right. We also need to buy tables, chairs, pots, pans, and utensils, which is also a big expense." Zhu Xiu Yu nodded.
"Yes! It will cost hundreds or thousands of dollars at any cost, and that's only if the business is good. If the business is bad, once you lose money, it will take years to recover." Zhuang Chaoying felt terrible just thinking about it.
"Huang Ling is the bravest one. She took a leave of absence from work and rented a shop behind the factory wall. It's facing the street and it's very expensive. No one else dared to rent it, but she did."
"Oh" Zhuang Chaoying thought of Huang Ling's workshop. She probably made clothes in the workshop and then sold them in the shop.
"I heard that people don't go to department stores anymore to buy clothes. They go to her shop instead. It's cheap, fashionable, and they even give her free alterations. Now it's the most profitable shop on that street! I heard she makes a net profit of several hundred yuan a month."
There was some envy in his words.
Zhuang Chaoying suddenly turned his head to look at Zhu Xiuyu. This means that Huang Ling now earns more in a month than he does in a year. He couldn't help but feel jealous.
For a moment, he didn't know what Zhu Xiuyu meant by suddenly mentioning Huang Ling. She rarely mentioned Huang Ling in front of Zhuang Chaoying.
It means that he is not capable of being Zhu Xiuyu's backer or it suggests that he is not worthy of Huang Ling but only worthy of her, Zhu Xiuyu.
He thought about how Tunan and Pengfei often went back to the alley but never told him anything about it, and he couldn't help feeling annoyed.
"If anything goes wrong with her, the whole family will be bankrupt. Every family has their own life, and we can't envy each other. Our family must seek stability." Zhuang Chaoying said coldly.
Zhuang Chaoying was not worried about Xiaoting. In his opinion, if Huang Ling failed, Zhou Huaiyi would help her, and if she could not raise the child, her family would help. Even if Huang Ling handed Xiaoting over to her family, she would not leave her to him.
Zhu Xiuyu nodded, but still not giving up, and suggested:
"That's right. You said that now that we have our own yard, why don't we buy a few chickens like the Wu family did and raise them? We can feed the children with eggs and sell them when they are fat."
"Don't do that. You've never been to their house. The house is filled with stench. Hongbin is studying under the window, and the chickens are noisy and smelly. Do you still want him to go to college?"
"Chaoying, you're right. I'm so stupid. Why didn't I think of this? I can't raise any crops, so I'll just grow some vegetables."
"Forget about the vegetables. If you don't water them, they won't have fertilizer. If you water them, they'll smell bad and there will be mosquitoes. It's not good for the children. Let's wait until they go to college! In short, just keep quiet and don't do anything for the next two years." Zhuang Chaoying denied it again.
"Okay, I understand." Zhu Xiu Yu nodded quickly.
She stopped talking and slowly thought about it in her mind.
Just a few words made her know all of Zhuang Chaoying's thoughts, and she would not get any support from Zhuang Chaoying.
To be honest, given the current situation in the factory, she has a sense of crisis.
She still had to think of a way to prepare for the new plan. However, as Zhuang Chaoying said, for the sake of Hongbin, she had to focus on stability in the next two years.
Three children were walking in a row, also discussing something:
"Several street light bulbs are broken. Where should I find them?" Hongbin looked up.
"Let's go to the neighborhood committee tomorrow at noon. It's not safe to come back from evening self-study." Tuanan nodded.
"Brother, take me with you. I just bruised my knee yesterday. Tomorrow, just say I fell on this road and I'll cry again. Otherwise, they won't care, or at least not so quickly." Pengfei continued.
"You kid!" Tuanan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he had to admit that Pengfei's method was definitely effective.
"Then I'll come along! I scraped my hand while moving furniture today." Hongbin added.
The three of them looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
The three of them knew that they had an irresponsible father and could not let their mother do everything. As for the things they could do, the three of them would discuss and do them themselves.
This seemed to have become a tacit understanding between the three of them.
On the first night back in their new home, the whole family seemed a little sleepless:
Some of it is because of excitement.
Some are out of jealousy.
Some are out of worry.
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After moving, Zhuang Chaoying and Zhu Xiuyu returned to the Zhuang family.
Before Zhuang Chaoying was preparing to invite Pengfei to come to the Zhuang family, he was planning to come back. Later, Huang Ling agreed, so he had an excuse not to come.
Zhuang's mother had long been extremely disappointed in him.
Every time she was too tired to come and called Zhuang Chaoying, he would use the excuse of being busy with work as an excuse not to come, and instead sent Zhu Xiu Yu.
He felt that outsourcing his filial piety to Zhu Xiu Yu was equivalent to fulfilling his filial piety, so he did not feel guilty.
Zhu Xiuyu no longer pretended when Zhuang Chaoying was not around. She never even reached out when asked to get a glass of water.
After returning home, Zhu Xiuyu would usually tell Zhuang Chaoying that Dad was actually fine and Mom was just being pitiful and asking him to go back. Actually, it was nothing else, she just had poop and didn't want to wash it, so she was waiting for him to wash it.
She even showed Zhuang Chaoying her red hands.
Once, twice, and many times, Zhu Xiu Yu's words have penetrated deeply into Zhuang Chaoying's heart.
The two entered the Zhuang's house, and Zhuang Chaoying took a look and found that the house was indeed clean.
He didn't know that it was actually because Zhu Xiu Yu came to help clean up yesterday.
Yesterday, Zhuang's mother was still wondering why she was so kind as to help.
"Mom, we have moved." Zhuang Chaoying told her mother.
Yesterday, Zhu Xiu Yu came without mentioning anything about moving. When Zhuang's mother heard that they had moved, she thought that Zhuang Chao Ying was here to pick her up to visit their new home.
"That's great. Chaoying finally has his own house." Zhuang's mother had a happy look on her face.
She knew that she couldn't fall out with her eldest son and daughter-in-law, and when things got critical, she would still have to rely on them.
Unexpectedly, Zhuang Chaoying said to her:
"Mom, we'll spend our 30th birthday in our new home this year."
Zhuang's mother was stunned for a moment, then said: "It is true that the new house will be ready after the New Year, but if we go..."
Zhuang Chaoying glanced at Zhu Xiuyu.
Zhu Xiuyu then took over:
"Mom, for Dad's health, we think it's best for you not to move. We'll come back on the first day of the new year to wish you a happy new year."
Zhuang's mother understood that he didn't want to come to the Zhuang family to celebrate the New Year, nor did he want them to go there to celebrate the New Year.
"Okay! Then how do you arrange things for Tunan and Pengfei?"
"Tuanan is spending the New Year with her mother, and Pengfei has gone back to Guizhou with his Uncle Qian in the past two days." Zhu Xiu Yu answered again.
Uncle Qian will go back to Guizhou to visit old friends and then return to Suzhou before the New Year. After the New Year, Zhuang Hualin will send Pengfei back and visit his father by the way.
"Oh, so the three of you will spend the New Year in your new home, right?" Zhuang's mother drew out her tone and looked at her silly son.
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