Chapter 28 Earning Money

Jiang Mingyue left Wuyi Road, planning to take the old lady out for a bowl of rice noodles before going home.

"No, I'm not hungry now. Let's go home and eat." Old Mrs. Jiang couldn't bear to waste her granddaughter's money.

It only takes about half an hour to walk home, so you can have breakfast when you get home.

Jiang Mingyue understood what her grandmother meant.

She felt a little sad, but at the same time she realized that she would have to eat something before going out tomorrow.

Otherwise, you will feel hungry and uncomfortable.

"Grandma, let's go to the department store to buy some flour and meat, and then we'll go back."

"good."

This time when Jiang Mingyue went to the department store, she bought thirty kilograms of flour and ten kilograms of meat.

After shopping, she went home with the old lady.

After I got home and put my things away, I took out the money I earned from selling cakes today and counted it. I found that I was twenty cents short of fifty yuan.

Ten pounds of flour at three cents a pound, five pounds of meat at one dollar and seventy cents, plus two pounds of oil at one dollar and eighty cents, yeast and baking powder at three cents, plus coal briquettes, which cost less than one dollar.

Let’s calculate the cost of twenty dollars.

Forty-nine dollars and eighty cents, minus the twenty dollars in costs, they earned almost thirty dollars in two hours today!

Jiang Mingyue held the money and looked at her grandmother.

Mrs. Jiang smiled and stroked her hair. "Our Mingyue is really capable."

"This is the result of the joint efforts of my grandmother and I." Jiang Mingyue replied with a smile.

She divided the money she earned into two parts and gave one part to the old lady.

The old lady rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think your grandma is a miser? She helped her granddaughter collect money for a while, and now she took away half of it?"

"I don't want your money. Please keep it and take good care of my little great-grandson."

"Milk"

Jiang Mingyue's eyes were a little hot. No matter whether the old lady accepted or refused, she still took out five yuan and put it in her hand.

"From now on, you can help me for only five dollars a day."

"You must accept it, otherwise I won't call you tomorrow." Jiang Mingyue threatened.

The old lady looked at the five yuan in her hand and couldn't help laughing, "Okay, okay, then I will work for Boss Jiang in the future?"

"Hey!"

Jiang Mingyue smiled, put away the remaining money, turned around and went back to her room to rest.

In the next half month, as long as it didn't rain, Jiang Mingyue and her friends would set up the stall. They would walk from the village to the town before dawn every day.

Occasionally, she would run into some drunkards who did not return home at night and wandered around on the streets, but since they were alone, Jiang Mingyue was not afraid.

He pulled out the hatchet hidden under the backpack and held it in front of him, sharpening it to a cold gleam. No matter how aggressive the opponent was, he would walk away in disgrace with his tail between his legs.

Half a month passed in a flash.

The beautiful granddaughter and the kind grandmother, as soon as they are mentioned on Wuyi Road, everyone will know that they are the pair selling pork boxes.

It’s a pity that I haven’t seen them here in the past few days.

Fang Xiaoli hadn't eaten the pork box made by Jiang Mingyue for a few days and missed it a little.

Although there are several stalls selling pork boxes on Wuyi Road, none of theirs is as delicious as Jiang Mingyue's.

It's said to be pork stuffing, but it actually contains a lot of beans and only a little bit of meat.

This makes people miss the pork box made by Jiang Mingyue even more.

Jiang Mingyue hadn't been out at the stall for three days in a row, not because she had made a little money and was feeling bloated, but because she had some family matters these days.

In addition to transporting food to pay for the public rations, she also played drums at home on the tricycle she bought the day before for fifty yuan.

Going to town to do business every day, relying on two feet to walk is not a long-term solution. Let's not talk about grandma, just her, she has been carrying a backpack and walking for half a month without rest, and she also feels a little tired.

Thinking that she would walk even slower as her belly got bigger, she thought about finding a means of transportation.

After asking around in town for several days, I finally bought this tricycle, which was who knows how many years old, from a scrap dealer.

When I bought it, all three tires of the tricycle were broken, the chain had fallen off, and the brakes didn't work properly.

Jiang Mingyue pushed the car to a repair shop, and spent thirty-six yuan to replace three high-quality wheels, and then tightened the chain and adjusted the brakes.

She rode back to the village from the town, soaked a rag in water, and carefully scrubbed the tricycle clean.

After paying the public rations in the next two days, she rode her tricycle to the town to do business.

During the time she was doing business, she never forgot to inquire about the Dong family.

She felt relieved when she learned that the Dong family was getting worse day by day, Duan Ping and Dong Meiyu had become the rats crossing the street that everyone wanted to kill, and Dong Chengcai also stayed at home every day like a rat in the sewer, afraid of the light.

I felt better and ate half a bowl more of rice.

At this moment, she had just delivered the rice to the village office. Her grandparents stayed there, so she went home first, fetched some water, and used a rag to carefully wipe the work that had been done over the past few days.

Some time ago, when she didn't have a car, she sold more and more every day. Now that she has a car, she must want to make a big profit.

Jiang Mingyue was planning the next business when the half-closed courtyard door was pushed open from the outside.

Jiang Mingyue raised her head while washing the rag. When she first saw the bearded man appearing at the door, she thought he was a stranger passing by.

The words "you" were about to come out of her mouth, but were interrupted by the man's familiar eyes. She asked tentatively, "Gu Dongqing?"

In her understanding, although Gu Dongqing is mature, he has never had a beard.

So it was understandable that she was a little hesitant to recognize him when she suddenly saw such a sloppy and shabby man.

Gu Dongqing looked at her and did not answer, but stepped forward.

His eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he hadn't had a good rest for a long time. The clothes he was wearing also looked like he hadn't had time to change them for many days.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Jiang Mingyue's first reaction was to think that something had happened to him.

"It's OK."

Gu Dongqing's voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't had water for a long time. "I haven't eaten for a day, is there anything to eat?"

"Uh..." Jiang Mingyue responded, "You sit here and take a rest. I'll go cook the noodles."

"good."

Jiang Mingyue turned and went into the kitchen, took out the dried noodles she had bought in town a few days ago, blanched them in water, put them in a pot, added lard and water to make soup.

When the soup was boiling, I beat two eggs in it, added a handful of green vegetables that I had picked and washed in the morning, and then poured the noodles in and cooked for about a minute.

Add salt and green onions and it's ready to serve.

A big bowl full.

She put the noodles on the table and went out to call Gu Dongqing to come and eat noodles.

As she walked to the kitchen door, she saw the clean and shiny tricycle, and a man with his back to her, wiping the tricycle carefully.

For a moment, she admitted, her defenses came down.

If she was just divorced and not pregnant with an unknown child, she thought she would have been brave enough to hold on to the man in front of her.

"Didn't you miss your meal? How do you still have the energy to work?" Jiang Mingyue calmed down and walked forward with a faint smile on her face, "The noodles are ready, go and eat."

"good."

Gu Dongqing put down the rag, washed his hands and went to the kitchen to eat noodles. Jiang Mingyue looked at his back, thought for a while and went to her room.

He just happened to come.

Originally he wasn't coming, and she was planning to visit him in the next few days and give him the things.