Chapter 105 Chapter 105 Can't Be Romantic
It is not a good time to open a convenience store during the summer vacation, because children nowadays have no pocket money during the summer vacation.
If children don't have to buy breakfast outside during school hours, most parents in the town will give them 20 cents pocket money in the morning and another 20 cents in the afternoon when they go to school.
However, it is better to take advantage of the opportunity than to wait for a day. Since the opportunity has come, Zhao Ruyue's family members did not specially choose a good day.
As soon as the things arrived, they were all neatly placed on the shelves that Zhao Ruyue had made for them using angle iron, and they opened for business right away.
Zhao Ruyue's mother was also inspired by her father and wanted to sell something. After thinking about it, she didn't know what she could do.
I simply tried to make a pot of brown sugar and water chestnut syrup.
Take the sweet soup to Zhao Ruyue's place to cool it down in the evening, and bring it back in the morning.
By around noon, when we started selling them, only a layer of ice chips remained in the syrup.
It tastes cool and sweet, tastes good, and is not too cold, so it is very popular among children.
Because it is cheap, adults buy it from time to time.
Now that the weather is hot, her sugar water, which costs only one cent a cup, sells better than snacks.
The sweet soup she sells is not limited to water chestnuts. What she puts in the sweet soup depends on what else she grows at home.
So I only spend money on brown sugar. Although it is cheap, I still make some profit.
However, the vegetables in their vegetable garden still need someone to take care of them, someone needs to do the housework, their son and daughter-in-law also need to work in the fields, and an adult needs to stay at home to look after them.
She and Zhao Bin took turns to manage the store and the children at home, and do housework at the same time. They only sold one pot of sweet soup every day, and it was gone after it was sold out.
Zhao Ruyue took some time to visit her mother's house and saw many children there chattering about which movie to show next.
Or remind Zhao Siyun and Zhao Guangwei where they were watching yesterday, and ask them to fast forward. When they fast forward to the place where the video was played yesterday, they will shout: "This is it, this is it, stop it!"
The kid from next door who had bullied Zhao Guangwei was watching quietly at the door, and now he looked a little pitiful.
But no one paid any attention to him. He was very good at bullying people. He not only bullied Zhao Guangwei, but also other children on the street.
The child was dragged back home by his family not long after he peeked in. Soon, the sound of a child next door clamoring to buy a DVD player came, followed by the sound of adults beating and scolding the child, while loudly swearing at someone else.
Unfortunately, everyone in Xiaoqiao Street now knows what kind of people they are. There is no child in the neighborhood who has not been bullied by their children. It was just that his family used to have a TV, so many people endured it just to be able to go to his house to watch TV.
Now there are other options. They heard the noise but didn't try to stop it. The noise stopped after a while.
A few days later, Zhao Ruyue received a call from the person who had entrusted her with the house, who said that he had asked the owner of the house who was abroad and was willing to sell it for 55,000 yuan.
The house and the yard are over 210 square meters, and Zhao Ruyue thinks the price of 55,000 is very suitable. They can be said to have found a bargain.
Zhao Ruyue quickly made an appointment with the client and completed the transfer procedures, and also transferred the household registration of Zhao Ruyue and her two children to the house.
Because they still have houses and land in their hometown, Ning Shaoming's household registration continues to remain in his hometown.
But after getting the house, she and Ning Shaoming really didn't have even a thousand yuan left.
After the incident, they felt that they had taken a risky step. Fortunately, there were still a lot of food in the warehouse, so they didn't need to buy any for the time being.
Opening a shop and setting up a stall also brings in cash every day, so there is enough money to pay Ning Shichun and Ning Danping's wages, or for the whole family to have to live frugally.
Zhao Ruyue thought that many of the furniture in that building used to be made of good wood, and was planning to take some time to go there and sell the furniture that was still usable to make some money back.
But she forgot that it was the rainy season and the heavy rain came suddenly. She was about to go out with her bag on her back when it suddenly got dark outside. The whole day was like a leak and heavy rain poured down.
The wipers on Zheng Xiu's car parked in front of her house were so hot that smoke was coming out of them.
"It seems that it is not suitable to go out today, but the summer rain comes quickly and goes quickly. Master Zheng, please go into the store to watch TV and wait. The rain may stop in half an hour or an hour."
This kind of weather was obviously not suitable for moving large furniture, so Zhao Ruyue had to temporarily put aside her plan of going to the newly purchased house and finding someone to collect the furniture.
I can’t go out for the time being and it’s still early for night school, so I have to stay home.
But Zhao Ruyue was not idle either. She took out her toolbox and started repairing the broken MP3 and MP4 she bought in the county town in the store.
She picked out machines that, after a simple inspection, she felt had minor problems.
I used to think that the county where I came from was a poor one and there definitely weren’t many rich people there.
In fact, there are quite a lot of rich people, just look at the things she found.
Some just freeze or won’t turn on, or have a cracked screen, so people just throw them away and buy a new one.
For example, an MP4 player may not be turned on because the battery is exhausted due to being unused for a long time.
This is commonly known as the battery 'starving to death'.
I guess the previous owner of this MP4 couldn't charge it at first and thought it was really broken.
Zhao Ruyue plugged it into the charging cable and left it aside, planning to wait an hour before doing anything else.
The others who were watching around her were confused.
Ning Shixia asked curiously, "Mom, when you repaired things before, didn't you take off the back cover and repair the inside after checking? What's your repair method this time?"
"It's not a repair now, it's a test. It will take some time."
An hour later, the rain outside didn't stop, but it just got lighter, and then a pleasant startup tone came from the MP4.
This made Zhao Ruyue feel relieved. If it couldn't be charged, she would have to replace the battery.
Now, without much effort, you can get an MP4 that is almost 90% new and has not been refurbished.
"Is that all? This is amazing!" Ning Danping felt that the profession of electronic repair had great potential.
She was eager to learn this if she was admitted to a technical secondary school.
However, reality poured a bucket of cold water on her. Seeing that she was interested and said she wanted to learn, Zhao Ruyue also thought that she could learn it and it could be considered a skill in the future.
Let her do some simple exercises with the broken clock at home, such as trying to take the broken clock apart and then put it back together.
Ning Danping tried it and the result was the same as her younger cousin Ning Shiqiu.
The clock was put back together, but there were a few extra parts and I didn't know where they were put.
After it was put back in place, the clock started to jingle when it was shaken.
Ning Shiqiu, who was watching, unceremoniously imitated his sister's laughter and laughed beside her.
Ning Danping was so angry that she chased him and beat him up.
But he didn't just make fun of his cousin. Based on his observation of her, he also gave her a useful suggestion: "Sister Danping, I think you are more suitable to be a doctor or a nurse."
"Why?"
"You work efficiently, you are not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and you are not afraid of blood. I still remember the first time you killed a chicken, you didn't even blink, your hand moved quickly and the knife fell, with a snap, it was amazing."
"The first time I killed a chicken..." Ning Danping thought for a long time, but she couldn't remember when it was.
But Ning Shiqiu still remembered: "It was when you were in fifth grade of elementary school. I was almost four years old at that time. The adults in the family were busy with the harvest and asked you to cook at home. A chicken fainted from the heat and the family thought it was dead. They thought it was a pity to throw it away, but they didn't have time to clean it up, so they asked you to come. Have you thought about it carefully?"
She was in the fifth grade of elementary school and was about eleven years old.
Ning Danping thought about it carefully and said, "It seems to be what happened at that time."
"Think about it again, how does it feel when you kill chickens, fish, ducks, and geese?"
In fact, when our family raised pigs, my cousin helped to train the pigs, but she never got to slaughter them.
At that time, I even complained to him privately, thinking that the adults' techniques were not good enough, and then I gestured and said: You should hold the knife like this, poke it in from this angle and scratch it, it shouldn't be done like that and so on.
Ning Shiqiu felt that since his cousin could even hold down a pig, if she really studied medicine in the future, she would definitely be able to hold down a struggling patient.
Ning Danping had never paid attention to what that feeling was like. Who in every household around here doesn't kill chickens and ducks?
So Ning Danping thought that it was no big deal since she knew how to do it, so she said, "I don't feel anything. I just need to find the throat, pluck some hair from the chicken's neck, and then scratch it. It's very simple.
Just be careful not to make the knife too blunt, you have to sharpen it in advance, otherwise it won’t be enough to just scratch it, the chicken won’t be killed in one go, it will pretend to be dead to deceive people, once you throw it out, it will stand up and run around the room, splashing blood all over the floor and walls…”
Ning Danping said it simply and easily, but suddenly she felt that the surroundings were very quiet: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Ning Shixia imitated what he saw on TV and clasped his hands together: "Lady, please accept my greeting!"
Then he asked with sparkling eyes: "Sister Danping, can you teach me in the future?"
Ning Danping nodded: "Okay, but you have to wait until you are older and no longer faint at the sight of blood."
After listening to Ning Shiqiu's words, Ning Danping took the matter to heart, but she felt that her chances of becoming a doctor were slim, so she set her sights on the nursing major in a technical secondary school.
Because the score required to become a doctor is too high and it requires a long period of study, her family situation does not allow it.
Since her family couldn't rely on her, she had to finish her studies as soon as possible and start earning money to support herself.
Zhao Ruyue was next to a few children, repairing other machines while listening to them talking.
She thought to herself that if Ning Danping really studied nursing, she could go back to her parents' home to ask for help during her internship, and arrange a job in a better hospital for her and keep her there. However, whether she could pass the exam and get a job in the government depended on herself.
The treatment of contract workers is different from that of regular employees.
Zhao Ruyue cleaned the surface of the recharged MP4 and knocked on the table, interrupting the children who were discussing enthusiastically what they would do in the future.
“Who wants this?”
She was worried that they would fight over it, and had already thought about how to persuade them.
As a result, the other three thought about it and all pointed at Ning Shichun.
Ning Shichun was a little slow to react and hadn't figured out who needed it more.
Seeing them all pointing at me, I was a little confused: "I don't need this, right?"
The three people pointed at him and said in unison: "It will be useful."
"Ah?" Ning Shichun couldn't help scratching his head, "Why?"
Seeing that they all gave it to Ning Shichun, Zhao Ruyue pushed the MP4 towards him. However, she didn't understand why they all agreed that Ning Shichun needed it.
Ning Shiqiu was too embarrassed to say it, so he asked his sister to say, "Xiao Xia, you come and speak as our representative."
"Okay!" Ning Shixia cleared his throat and said something that made Ning Shichun blush, "Because Xiaochun wants to fall in love and go on a date, so he needs it the most!"
"Well, well, this, this is..." Ning Shichun looked at his third uncle.
His uncle felt that he was innocent: "I didn't tell them that. If you don't believe me, ask them how they knew."
Ning Shixia said directly without asking: "Brother Xiaochun doesn't even blink when he sees Sun Yijie's sister. Every time his sister comes to buy rice noodles for Sun Yijie, Brother Xiaochun will give her a bowl of mutton soup with lots of meat, and secretly tell her to eat it before going home, so as not to let herself suffer a loss.
Then their faces turned as red as big apples, and my brother said that this is what love is like.
I heard that they were going on a date. At that time, I was squatting on the ground playing with watermelon worms. They didn't know I was there. I went there first. I didn't mean to eavesdrop! ”
Ning Shichun's face was so red that blood was about to drip out. However, his sister continued Xiaoqiu's words, "Just think about it. When the time comes, my brother and sister Jiajia will take the bus to the county town for a date. The two of them will sit in the two-person seat by the window, and each of them will wear headphones to listen to music. At this time, the wind from the window will blow in and blow the girls' hair. Oh my god, how romantic it will be~ It will be just like the scene on TV!"
Zhao Ruyue understood after hearing her description.
Ning Danping saw this scene when she was watching TV with her two children. At that time, the three of them were covering their mouths and laughing.
At that time, Zhao Ruyue thought they were embarrassed, but who knew that they were thinking about Ning Shichun and his girlfriend. No wonder they all felt that giving it to Ning Shichun was the most suitable.
But have they forgotten that the bus ride from the town to the county seat is filled with the crowing of roosters, ducks and local accents, and it is hardly as romantic as it is on TV.
But since they all said they would give it to Ning Shichun, Zhao Ruyue just stuffed it into his hand.
Regardless of Ning Shichun's blushing face, he asked, "Do you know what songs your partner likes to listen to? If you know, you can write them down now. I will download them for you when I go to the county town, and you can listen to them together then."
Ning Shichun waved his hands and said, "No, no, Third Aunt, we really don't need to listen to music."
Zhao Ruyue thought he was embarrassed to ask for the MP4 and was about to persuade him that it didn't cost him much.
But he continued, "Jia Jia and I will go to the county town separately. We won't take the same car."
"How can that be possible?" The first of several assistants and military advisors to disagree.
"We are not officially together yet." He was embarrassed to say that Jia Jia's family did not agree with her being with him because of his father's affairs, but Jia Jia herself was willing, so she agreed to go to the county town with him on Valentine's Day.
Ning Danping slapped her brother in frustration: "No one says that we can't listen to music together before we're officially together. You have to be a little more romantic and proactive, then she will agree to be with you! If you, a man, don't take the initiative, do you expect the girl to take the initiative?"
“That’s right!”
Ning Shichun had no choice but to accept the MP4, but he didn't know what songs Sun Jiajia liked to listen to, so he could only say: "You don't need to download the songs."
Zhao Ruyue nodded: "That's fine, I've seen what's in it, there are quite a lot of songs."
Later, Ning Shichun met Sun Jiajia and told her that his third aunt had given him an MP4.
He mustered up the courage to ask, "Why don't you come with us when we go to the county town? We can sit together and listen to music. Didn't you say you always feel a little dizzy when riding the bus? I heard that listening to music on the bus will make you less likely to feel dizzy."
Sun Jiajia lowered her head shyly, then nodded imperceptibly.
If Ning Shichun hadn't kept his eyes on her, he might not have noticed that she nodded in agreement.
"Well, then we have a deal." Ning Shichun felt that his sister's words made sense after taking the initiative. He continued to work harder. "How about we take the first bus in the morning? I think we can play longer if we go earlier."
Sun Jiajia continued to nod. In fact, when Ning Shichun suggested that they go there together, Sun Jiajia felt relieved.
Ning Shichun knew that her family didn't treat her well, so if she took the car with him, he would definitely not let her pay.
In fact, Sun Jiajia originally wanted to tell Ning Shichun that she didn't want to go anymore because she didn't even have the bus fare to the county town.
She originally went to pick summer cypress to sell and secretly saved five dollars, hiding it in a pillowcase, but somehow her brother found it.
Her brother stole all the money. She told her parents, but they didn't think it was stealing. Instead, they scolded her for wrongly accusing her brother, saying that she had bad intentions, was selfish and vicious, and that she would get retribution sooner or later for treating her brother like this.
Sun Jiajia felt very aggrieved, but couldn't win the argument with her family, so she could only come to Ning Shichun to cancel her date plans.
Now that things have taken a turn for the better, I'm even more determined to talk to Ning Shichun.
However, it would not do if she did not have any money in her pocket. As Sun Jiajia walked home, she was also thinking about how to make some more money. Unfortunately, it was too difficult to make money in the town, and it was even more difficult to make money without letting her family find out.
I thought the rain would come and go quickly, but this time it lasted for a week.
There was some flooding in the town and the county seat. It took another day until the weather finally cleared up before the water completely receded.
During the rainy week, Zhao Ruyue was able to go to class in the first few days, but later she was unable to go out. Ning Shaoming was unable to set up a stall at the night market on the first day of the rain. Suddenly with free time, he had to tinker with the oven at home and make delicious food for his children in different ways.
Sometimes we make too much bread and sell it in the store.
It’s just that not many people come when it rains, and sometimes even if there isn’t much stock on that day, there will still be some left.
Zhao Ruyue asked him to put the unsold bread into plastic bags and freeze them in the freezer, and then take them out and re-bake them when he wanted to eat them.
This seemed to have opened up Ning Shaoming's Ren and Du meridians. He no longer had to worry about not being able to finish the bread and had to control himself when making it.
The freezer soon had a large pile of frozen bread and cakes, waiting for the weather to finally clear up.
People in the town who don't like to go out when it rains come to his house to buy things again and find that the variety of bread he sells that day is much richer.
Zhao Ruyue finally had time to go and see the house in the demolition area. As a result, when she got there, she saw that a small house built against the wall in the yard had collapsed. It was probably because the wind was too strong in the past few days, which blew open the window on one side of the upstairs, and all the furniture inside was soaked by the rain.
The tiles that originally seemed to be fine were also leaking.
Zhao Ruyue thought: Fortunately I didn’t buy it to live in, otherwise it would cost more to renovate it than to buy the house if it were in this state.
No wonder no one liked to buy houses here before.
When she went out, she met the owner of the neighbor's convenience store, who greeted her warmly.
Zhao Ruyue exchanged a few polite words with her and was about to find an excuse to leave.
The lady boss just got to the point: "I wonder when you plan to renovate this house? If you want to renovate it, you can find my husband. He has a construction team. He and his team members are all very skilled. I can take you to see the houses they have renovated. I guarantee it will be cheap, good, and quick to renovate."
"This..." Zhao Ruyue acted embarrassed, "We are still saving money for renovation. It will probably take two to three years. By the time the house is finished, my eldest child will be in junior high school, so he can go to school in the county town."
"It doesn't matter if it's two or three years later," she took out a business card and stuffed it into Zhao Ruyue's hand. "Keep this business card. If you need anything, feel free to contact me."
Zhao Ruyue nodded, found an excuse to leave, glanced at the business card and casually stuffed it into her bag.
It is impossible to renovate that house. Zhang Yanjun called and said that fortunately she and her two children moved their household registration quickly, otherwise it would be impossible to move their household registration there now.
At the same time, along with the clear weather came not only the sunshine, but also the members of the investigation team.
Before Ji Huixuan had time to inform Zhao Ruyue, someone came to her family to find out what happened.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming did not tell anyone that they had seen Ji Huixuan in the Internet cafe in the city.
He just regarded himself as an ordinary parent of a student, describing the facts that he knew, and he was not shy about telling the school that he had thought about finding other parents to make trouble together.
After all, they didn't really cause any trouble, and they only found one family, so no one else could do anything to them.
That was all they found out, and the investigators left quickly.
Ning Shiqiu didn't know that his class teacher was planning to resign, and he thought that after someone came to investigate, the matter would be resolved satisfactorily and everything would return to normal.
The day before Chinese Valentine's Day, Sun Jiajia came to see Ning Shichun again.
Ning Shichun was both happy and surprised. In order to avoid being discovered by her family, they met very rarely.
He had thought he wouldn't see her until tomorrow morning.
"Jia Jia, why are you here at this time? Wait a minute, I'll get you something delicious."
"No need," Sun Jiajia pulled Ning Shichun's sleeve, gritted her teeth and seemed to have made a difficult decision, "Shichun, I don't want to go to the county town tomorrow."
When Ning Shichun heard this, he felt like the sky was falling.
Without waiting for him to ask why.
Sun Jiajia's words made his broken heart stick together again.
"I want to go to the city, can I?"
Ning Shichun didn't understand why she suddenly changed her mind, but he still agreed: "Okay, you can go wherever you want to go, I'll listen to you."
Sun Jiajia smiled: "Then I'll go first, Shichun, see you tomorrow."
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