"Grandpa, can you please get some socks and pants for us?" The third brother's brain was not idle either. He had observed carefully these few days. The profit margins of those small items were very high. Some with some defects were sold in bulk. The cheap ones were not good. They would go and pick. The styles here were good. The good ones were sold at normal prices, and the bad ones were sold cheaply. There was definitely some profit to be made.
The old man didn't really pay attention to those things. He followed the third brother around and thought he was pretty good. This kid has some brains.
Zhao Xiaochuan just followed the two men. He thought everything they said was good and that everything they said was right. He just bought whatever he had with the little money he had.
The old man also started to buy. He found a factory store that was selling off some leftover stock, which included new spring clothes, new winter and autumn clothes, and some inventory from two decades ago. He bought them all for 4,000 yuan.
The old man saw that there were more winter and autumn clothes on sale, so it was a good time to sell them now.
The third child bought some pants and socks. When they left, Li Mancang secretly gave the old man 2,000 yuan to buy the third child. He didn't tell the third child because he was afraid that he would be cheated again.
Zhao Xiaochuan also bought a pair of socks worth 300 yuan. He also bought some spring clothes worth more than 100 yuan from a clearance sale.
Seeing that he still had some money, the old man bought some popular spring clothes and sold them together.
It was definitely impossible for a few people to carry so many things, so they had to spend money to send them by train. The three of them also took this train back.
The slum
On the 18th day of the first lunar month, Wu Huaian held a full-month banquet. Wu Zhiqiu and Li Mancang brought Chunni and Fenglan to help early.
It was just getting light when they arrived. Mr. Wu, the yard manager, his eldest brother and sister-in-law, his nephew, his niece's wife, and his eldest brother's married daughters and sons-in-law were all busy.
Wu Zhiqiu bought a silver lock for the child, and Fenglan and Chunni each gave a red envelope. The child was as small as a kitten, and the sister-in-law did not look happy at all, and was indifferent when she saw them.
Wu Huaian told her that they would no longer have children, which meant that Zhao Chunmei would never have a son in her life. How could she be happy about this?
She didn't want to hold this full moon banquet, as she felt that people who came would laugh at her for not being able to give birth to a son. So no matter how busy the nurses were, she stayed in the room and was indifferent to anyone who came.
We are all family, and we all do this for Wu Huaiqing's sake. No one is like her.
Wu Huaiqing bought a slaughtered pig, prepared chicken and fish from the slaughterhouse, and also hired a chef to cook.
There were not so many tables, chairs, dishes and chopsticks at home, so when it was daybreak, Wu Huaiqing borrowed all those from the neighbors. This was how it was in that era, things were used interchangeably, and good neighbors were closer than relatives.
Neighbors nearby also came to help.
Soon the aroma filled the air, and many people who had been polite to Wu Huaiqing came over. The courtyard was full of people talking and laughing.
"Hey, big sister, it's because you have a close relationship with my brother that you came here early in the morning to help with the work!"
The person Wu Zhiqiu hated the most came and went straight to her. I wonder how she thought the relationship between the two sisters was so good.
On this happy day, Wu Zhiqiu was too lazy to pay attention to her
Wu Lidong was wearing half-high heels and walking in front of the makeshift stove with a clattering sound.
She looked when she came in just now, and Li Xing'an, the guy with the bad mouth and pickled toilet, didn't come.
The eldest sister’s greatest helper didn’t show up, the sky cleared up, the rain stopped, and she felt like she was fine again!
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