Chapter 96: Idleness
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Lin Ting invited the Yang family to a meal at the seafood city, and took them for a stroll on the pedestrian street to watch a performance on the "Da Jia Coral" stage.
On the tenth day, the whole family sent everyone except Yang Zhefeng on the train and gave them some special products from Pengcheng.
On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Lin Qiu started guarding the newsstand again.
Thanks to Ah Xing's wife, Wang Xiuren got a job renovating a post office. He was so busy every day that he was never seen except when sleeping.
Seeing her busy husband, Lin Qiu thought that they had enough fun during the New Year holidays and it would be better for her to stay in the newsstand longer and earn more money.
The newsstand is open all day, but the number of customers coming in has not increased, mainly because it is not yet the peak period for returning to work.
After all, the male and female workers in the factory are the loyal readers of various martial arts magazines and pocket romance novels.
With nothing to do, she went to the rental bookstore to check out the latest best-selling novels, and placed an order from the old lady at Debao Trading Market for a batch of various lanterns to be hung for the Lantern Festival.
The old couple Lin Ting and Zhou Qing, together with the young couple Lin Ping and Yang Zhefeng, started setting up stalls again.
"Don't work too hard." Wang Xiuren said to Lin Qiu before going to bed.
Lin Qiu didn't feel it was hard work. The next day, he was in high spirits and hung lanterns of various designs on the newly-stretched wire in front of the newsstand. Then he sat behind the counter and read a novel while waiting for customers to come.
After hanging up the lanterns, the number of customers coming to inquire increased significantly, and Zhou Qing came over with a thermos to deliver meals.
As soon as she came in, she said, "Stop looking and come eat!"
Lin Qiu put down the novel, took the thermos, and without opening the lid, took a sniff and said with certainty: "Fried radish peel with bacon!"
"Shanshan inherited her dog nose from you!" Zhou Qing glanced at the novel on the counter and said with a smile, "If you had studied as hard as you do now, you might have been admitted to university and got an office job!"
"If reading is as easy as reading a novel, then it would be possible!" Lin Qiu stuffed a mouthful of rice into his mouth.
Lin Qiu is very self-aware. She can basically do everything else except studying.
The middle school in Dongjiang Township can send several students to the county high school every year. Lin Qiu was forced by Lin Ting to repeat a year but still failed to pass the exam. Lin Ting could only help her find a way out and took a lot of effort to send her to an old tailor in the town to be an apprentice.
"Reading is difficult, and your Lin family's ancestors lacked a cultural heritage!"
In a rural area like my hometown, having a junior college student is big news, which shows that studying is really difficult.
In order to have a child in his family who could eat the government's food, Lin Ting spent a huge amount of money to send his four children to junior high school. However, none of them could get into high school, so he could only find ways to help his children in secret.
Lin Qiu stopped talking and concentrated on putting rice into his mouth.
After eating, Zhou Qing didn’t stay long. She was busy going back to set up her stall.
As the Lantern Festival is getting closer, the lantern business is very good. Even delivering meals to my daughter can be considered a break from my busy schedule.
The next few days were like this, and the whole family was busy.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is coming soon. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the whole family will join in the celebration.
In parks, vegetable markets, community entrances, and corners of pedestrian streets, lantern stalls are spreading further and further, and everyone is busy.
Even Wang Shan was holding a lantern and working as a waitress beside her grandparents' stall.
Lin Qiu also has a regular job to do. After all, more people are returning to work, and the newsstand business has improved a lot.
The newsstand had received a new batch of martial arts novels, and there were new pocket romance books. She placed the new novels in a prominent position for several days in a row, and her interest was much higher than in the previous few days.
After all, there is a lot more money in my pocket!
According to Lin Qiu's observation, the newsstand has seen significantly more customers after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and its turnover must have at least doubled compared to the previous half month.
This speculation was confirmed when the accounts were settled at the end of the month.
The newsstand calculates its total bill on the last day of every month, calculating the money according to the sales recorded by Lin Qiu every day and deducting the corresponding costs. As long as the daily records are kept, the results can be easily calculated by adding up the daily data at the end of the month.
As Lin Qiu expected, the turnover after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was more than twice that of the previous half month.
The old couple and the young couple also made some money during the Lantern Festival.
Not to mention Wang Xiuren, when the leaders of the Pengcheng Post Office came to inspect and saw that Bao'an's office was completely new, they also wanted to renovate the office of the General Administration, so Wang Xiuren took over another construction site.
This year can be considered a good start!
Now that everyone has made money, we must celebrate.
It happened that Lin Ping also had a vacation at the end of the month, so the whole family, including Yang Zhefeng, went to the newly opened Sichuan restaurant in the mall.
Sichuan cuisine is spicy, fresh and fragrant, which is very suitable for the taste of people in Hunan Province who can eat spicy food. The group of people ate until their mouths turned red and they were sweating profusely, and they kept saying it was "so delicious".
Wang Shan, who can't eat spicy food very well, also found the crispy sweet-skin duck and the smooth and chewy pork knuckle very appetizing, and she kept saying "I'll come again next time".
Lin Ping’s birthday is less than a month away.
On this day, Lin Qiu got off work half an hour early. After closing the rolling shutter, he rode his bicycle to the pedestrian street.
She pedaled her bicycle hard, crookedly, and soon a Santana whizzed past her, honking its horn.
Lin Qiu tilted the faucet a little to the side and said silently to himself: I will buy one in the future, a better and more expensive one!
They soon arrived at the agreed restaurant and Wang Xiuren was standing at the door waiting for her.
Seeing her coming, Wang Xiuren hurried to meet her, pushed the bicycle aside and locked it.
Then the two of them walked towards the lobby side by side.
"Mom, here!"
Wang Shan had sharp eyes and immediately saw Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren, and shouted loudly.
“Dad, I’m here!”
She was afraid that the two of them couldn't hear her, so she stretched out her right hand and waved it continuously.
Seeing this, Lin Qiu stretched out his hand to greet her, indicating that he heard it.
"Sister, I'm just waiting for you!"
Lin Ping was quite happy today, after all, today's dinner was arranged by Yang Zhefeng.
Today's menu was arranged by Yang Zhefeng based on everyone's tastes. Overall, it is very much to the Lin family's taste, and everyone praised him highly.
After dinner, Yang Zhefeng went out for a while, then came back with a big bouquet of red roses and a loving look on his face, followed by a cake with candles on it.
Lin Ping looked at Yang Zhefeng with emotion.
The two people looked at each other, and a pink atmosphere filled the air around them.
"Wow! So many flowers!"
Wang Shan was so excited that she didn't realize she was ruining the atmosphere created by Uncle Yang. "And there's cake!"
Yang Zhefeng...
What can I do but give the roses to my girlfriend and cut the cake for this little guy.
He also discovered that this little guy was the one who should not be offended the most in the family.
After eating the cake, the old couple, Lin Qiu and his wife, and Wang Shan, who still wanted to be a light bulb, went home first, leaving the rest of the time to the young couple.
"This young man Xiao Yang is quite caring towards us Pingping!" Zhou Qing was very satisfied with Yang Zhefeng's performance today.
"It's so romantic!" Lin Qiu also liked it.
"Hmph! Just doing all these fancy things!" Lin Ting said this, but there was a look of satisfaction in his eyes.
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