"If I had known this, I would have borrowed money to rent that shop." Li Hongwei was a little discouraged. He felt that things were not going well from the beginning and was afraid that he would not be able to succeed.

Li Yutong thought about it and suddenly said, "We have achieved our goal in one step. We sell breakfast in the morning and fried skewers and hot dishes at noon. Business is booming. Students love fried skewers and hot dishes."

"Then, I spread out the bunk bed at night and slept in it, and folded it up in the morning."

"How do you know?" Li Hongwei looked at Li Yutong.

Li Yutong said: "I heard it from someone when I came back last time."

Chen Xiaoying immediately said, "Okay, let's sell this."

At that moment, Liu Lanxiang was there. After the family of four cleaned up the place, Chen Xiaoying followed Li Yutong's instructions and pushed the cash counter at the door to the back corner.

There was a thigh-high table at the door, with a wooden stick tied to each corner of the table and surrounded by a large transparent plastic sheet. On the table, there were two soup pots on one side, one with boiling oil for frying skewers, and the other with boiling broth for blanching vegetables. The seasoning was prepared by Li Yutong.

All they need to do is go to a shop selling steamed buns and order the steamed buns they need for their daily needs. If they order more, they can get it at a lower price.

Then, early in the morning, I go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. I need tofu skin, bean curd sticks, ham, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, radish, mushrooms, beans, etc., string them with thin bamboo sticks and place them neatly on the table.

Red is bright, green is fresh, white is clean, healthy and hygienic.

As the broth boils, steam rises and the aroma fills the air.

As soon as students get home from school, they can look here and see clearly through the plastic what vegetables are inside. A bunch costs 1 cent, and five bunches come with a steamed bun, and they are coated with special seasonings.

The skewers only require a quick fry in oil and the vegetables are cooked almost instantly.

Therefore, it sells out quickly.

The business took off quickly, and the day's revenue stunned both Li Hongwei and Liu Lanxiang.

"No wonder the monthly rent is two thousand six hundred," said Li Hongwei.

"The main reason is that the cost of skewering vegetables is low." Liu Lanxiang couldn't help but say: "One cabbage can be used to string a lot of skewers, and there are also lettuce leaves and tofu skin."

"Yes, the main expense is rent," said Li Yutong.

Chen Xiaoying smiled with joy and touched Li Yutong's head. Fortunately, this eldest granddaughter was also reborn and was helping her make money with her own abilities. Otherwise, if she relied on selling sesame cakes at the market, it would take many years to build the house.

It is summer vacation now, and Li Yutong has been admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the county and has become a first-year junior high school student.

During the long summer vacation, Li Hongwei and Liu Lanxiang were busy with farming and needed to work in the fields. Li Yutong brought Li Yuhan here as a handyman, supervising her studies while making skewers in her spare time, which did not require any technical skills.

Li Yutong was also quick in calculating the accounts.

Because the blanched vegetables and fried skewers business was so popular, they didn't have time to sell the egg-filled pancakes they wanted to sell at first. So they got up early in the morning, mixed four kinds of bun fillings, and made steamed dumplings. By ten o'clock, all the buns were sold out.

They started to put the skewers of vegetables on the table and began to sell fried skewers and hot vegetables all day long.

On this day, when I was busy with business, I saw a familiar figure.

Li Hongyan looked at her mother Chen Xiaoying in surprise, who was working skillfully and collecting money. She had been standing by for more than half an hour, and there was a constant stream of customers at the door of the hot pot restaurant.

"Aunt." Li Yutong greeted.

Only then did Chen Xiaoying see that it was Li Hongyan who came.

Liu Hongyan glanced at Li Yutong and ignored her coldly. She had heard from Zhao Xueyan that Li Yutong was a little girl with a lot of ideas and was very talkative.

She is so young, but she is not a good student and plays tricks on adults.

Then he looked at Chen Xiaoying again: "Mom, I heard that you are selling buns in the county. I have been busy with farm work for more than a month and have no time to visit you."

"Well, how's business?"

Chen Xiaoying is now extremely wary of her eldest daughter Li Hongyan.

"It's okay. I can barely pay the rent." As she said that, she saw Zhao Pengle in front of Li Hongyan.

Zhao Pengle and Li Yutong are now attending the same school, one is in the third year of junior high school and the other is in the first year of junior high school, but the cousins ​​basically have no communication. The only time they can see each other is when they see each other's age ranking.

Zhao Pengle was very happy because he ranked among the top 30 in the grade. It was not that he did not work hard. Sometimes studying also requires talent. Hard work alone is useless.

But Li Yutong, an undergraduate who had attended university, always made sure to rank in the top 30 in junior high school in order not to stand out.

So, the academic performance is pretty much the same.

"Pengle, have you eaten? Grandma will get you some buns. Or if you want some hot dishes, grandma will fry them for you." Chen Xiaoying was just greeting her grandson Zhao Pengle.

The child did nothing wrong. In her previous life, her three grandsons had all become successful and would give her two or three hundred yuan when they met her. Pengle was very honest. Seeing that she was still washing clothes by hand at her age, she could not even lift up her clothes after they were soaked in water in winter and her hands were covered with frostbite.

So he bought her a washing machine.

At that time, Li Hongyan said that his salary was more than 6,000 yuan, which was high, but not as high as his second brother Zhao Pengbo's. He said that engineers were rich and earned more than 10,000 yuan a month, but at the end of the year, he only earned 100 yuan for a box of milk.

Zhao Pengle was a down-to-earth person, so she accepted it. However, after only two days, he asked Li Hongyan to move out and sent her the used one, which could not be washed clean either.

Before putting the clothes in, she would still scrub them, then throw them into the washing machine to rinse and dry.

Zhao Pengle was honest and shook his head: "Grandma, I don't want to eat."

He knew that these were the things his grandmother sold for money, and if he ate them, he wouldn't have to pay for them.

"It's not something valuable. I told you to eat it, but you didn't eat it." Seeing that the third brother was so honest that he didn't know how to take advantage of others, Li Hongyan said to him.

Zhao Pengle is still a fifteen-year-old child, a little naive, and smiled.

"If you have something to do, just go and take a look. You can leave Pengle with me." Chen Xiaoying said to Li Hongyan while she was busy.

Li Hongyan pushed Zhao Pengle and said, "I don't have anything to do. I'll help you clean up."

Zhao Pengle had no choice but to continue sitting down.

Li Hongyan looked around the shop. The small tables outside were put together to form two large tables. One was filled with vegetables and other things like chopsticks and paper towels, while the other was filled with books and homework, with a curtain hanging inside.

She walked in and took a look. There was a bed with a quilt and mattress. It was obvious that this was where people slept at night.

When cleaning up, the oil stains on the wall had been cleaned, and the parts that could not be cleaned were covered with wallpaper. The room was cleaned fairly cleanly. There was a washbasin, towels and other things on the shelf next to it, and there were two large boxes next to it, filled with clothes.

The business is not tiring or dirty at all, it is easy and you make money quickly.

Zhao Peng was happy to see Li Yutong and Li Yuhan stringing together food, so he helped them as well.

"Brother, I'll fry anything you like to eat for you." Li Yutong chatted with Zhao Pengle. She had no opinion about Zhao Pengle.

In her previous life, she was short of money once and borrowed from everywhere, but still lacked some. So she tried to borrow from her three cousins. The eldest, Zhao Pengfei, said directly, "Brother is short of money and wants to borrow some from you." The second cousin, Zhao Pengbo, was very smart and said that he had owed some debts from his credit card some time ago. Only the third cousin heard it and said nothing. He directly transferred 10,000 yuan to her, which was not a small amount for him.

After all, in later generations, society developed rapidly and people were under great pressure in life and work. When it came to borrowing money, people generally would not lend money if they could avoid it unless they trusted the person very much.