Chapter 89 Chapter 89 The money she earned from her skills!
"Oh my god! You can't just put it in like that!"
There happened to be a rag that she usually used to wipe the table, so Zhao Ruyue picked it up and handed it to her: "When you cooked rice before, you put it in like this, and didn't you hear the sizzling sound of the rice cooker heating plate after turning on the power?"
"I heard it. I thought it was just like that..." Deng Ximei quickly wiped the outside of the liner with a rag.
Suddenly she realized that her previous approach was wrong, which made her a little unconfident. She checked several times to make sure there was no water and nothing stuck. She asked Zhao Ruyue to help check again to confirm that there was no problem before she carefully put the liner in.
"If there's anything else I need to pay attention to, tell me as well. Otherwise, I'll just keep using it the same as before and this rice cooker will break down again."
Zhao Ruyue thought for a moment and said to her, "Don't bump the inner pot hard, don't cook acidic or alkaline things, pay attention to electrical safety, and there doesn't seem to be anything else that needs special attention.
You don't need to be too nervous and treat it with care like a treasure. Electrical appliances have a lifespan. After using them for so many years, you have already paid for yourself. Using them for one more year will mean you earn one more year. ”
Deng Ximei thought about it and felt that what her daughter said made sense. Besides, things are different now than before. In the past, the only electrical appliance in the home was an electric light. Now, many families have electric rice cookers, radios, televisions and so on.
Although their family is not as well-off as others, they will be well-off soon.
Thinking of this, Deng Ximei finally remembered that there was something she almost forgot to tell her daughter.
"Your brother has saved some money, and asked me to ask you if you could help him check how much TVs are selling for in the county department store next time he goes there, and whether they are in stock. He can check the price first so that he can have a better idea of the price."
"Why did my brother want to buy a TV?"
Deng Ximei said: "It's not a good idea for our children to always go to other people's homes to visit."
Zhao Ruyue heard something wrong.
She didn't know much about the city, but she felt that most people had televisions.
But in the countryside where they live, which is not a wealthy area, not many families have televisions. Going to a neighbor's house with a television to watch TV is a very normal thing, and the neighbors generally won't chase you away.
Unless there is a conflict between the two families, but her mother doesn't say anything, she won't ask too much. After all, now is not as good as in the future, and many customs nowadays are based on tradition.
Her parents’ family won’t say anything about her daughter’s family affairs, and a married daughter should not interfere too much, otherwise she may easily become a troublemaker.
Of course, the responsibility for supporting her parents in their old age will not be shared equally. The main force will definitely be her brother and sister-in-law. She and her sisters do not need to give money on a regular basis. They only give a little when their parents are sick or during the New Year or other festivals.
If she gave her parents pension money every month, people would think there was something wrong with her.
"Did my brother tell you how much money he has saved?" Zhao Ruyue asked.
Deng Ximei nodded: "I said, I have saved more than 600, almost 700. I thought if the money is not enough, your father and I will give him some."
"It should be enough. The price of TVs hasn't increased much."
As they were talking, they didn't notice that it was time for the children to get out of school at noon.
Ning Shiqiu appeared from behind and said, "The price of TVs will soon drop." This scared both of them.
"Oh my! Why are these two kids walking so quietly?" Deng Ximei patted her chest. "Why are you two back?"
Ning Shixia saw that her grandmother was actually frightened like this, and laughed: "You were talking too seriously and didn't notice us. Look at the time, school has been dismissed for a long time."
Zhao Ruyue looked at the time—12:40.
"School is over so early. Is it your turn to clean up after school?" Otherwise, it wouldn't take them so long to run back home after school.
Ning Shixia explained: "No, it was after Children's Day, and my brother's class needed to change the blackboard newspaper. The teacher said my brother's handwriting was beautiful, so she asked him to help write it. That delayed his return."
As soon as she finished speaking, she rushed to the kitchen door and shouted, "Dad, I'm so hungry. Can I have one more cake today?"
"If you can eat eight vegetables today, I believe you are hungry enough to eat one more small cake." Ning Shaoming came out with two plates.
One dish is the honey-glazed barbecued pork made in the rice cooker this morning.
Zhao Ruyue gave Ning Danping one pound of the barbecued pork, leaving three pounds.
Although Zhao Ruyue told him to simply stir-fry two dishes, Ning Shaoming took a look and felt that the amount of meat was a bit too little for four adults and two children. In addition, his mother-in-law was also coming, so having only two dishes would not look good.
I made an extra dish of cold mutton offal and a dish of fried pork with green beans, and the soup was ready-made mutton soup.
We entertained my mother-in-law with four dishes and a soup, so the lunch was more decent, but the other dishes have not been served yet.
Ning Shixia stood on tiptoe and took a look. She saw that the other dish in his hand was stir-fried water spinach with garlic. She wailed, "Dad, we're eating water spinach again today?"
"These are what we eat most in summer. If I don't eat water spinach, I'll make stir-fried beans. Do you prefer beans?"
"Then I'll just eat water spinach. Can I put a little bit of your garlic chili sauce in it?"
"Okay, go wash your hands with your brother, and then take out the dishes."
Deng Ximei looked at her grandson and granddaughter lovingly as they ran into the yard. She turned to Zhao Ruyue and said, "Xiaoxia's taste is like yours. She always puts some chili sauce on vegetables and is not afraid of the heat."
Zhao Ruyue smiled and said, "She is not easily affected by heat like me, but her brother is not. If he eats too much, his tonsils will feel uncomfortable the next day. He has to drink some water boiled with monk fruit to suppress it. By the way, did he just say that the price of TV will drop? We were so busy watching Xiao Xia making a fuss that we forgot to ask him in detail. I wonder if it was his teacher who taught him this again."
"Teachers are still teaching these things?" Deng Ximei is old, but she has never heard that schools teach these things.
Zhao Ruyue didn't know how to explain to her that her grandson seemed to read books differently from others.
When others do questions, they just do them and that's enough, but he will also pay attention to other things and absorb some knowledge beyond the textbooks.
I could only vaguely say, "I've graduated for many years, how can I know what schools teach now? I heard that schools teach a lot of different things.
Xiaoqiu came back and told me that they have chemistry and physics classes, and can also go to the laboratory to do experiments. It is so interesting. I didn’t have these when I was in school. ”
"That's right, Siyun and Guangwei also told us when they got home that they had a spring outing in March and brought their pots to the riverbank for a picnic."
At the dinner table, Zhao Ruyue asked her son again: "Did your teacher tell you that the price of TV sets will be reduced soon?"
Ning Shiqiu shook his head: "No, today the teacher asked me and other class leaders to go to her office to discuss the blackboard newspaper. I was responsible for finding a short story suitable for writing on the blackboard newspaper. She asked me to read any book in her office. After I found the short story, I got bored waiting for my classmates, so I looked at the magazines on the teacher's desk. What was written in those magazines."
"Could it be a financial magazine?" Zhao Ruyue asked tentatively.
Ning Shiqiu thought for a moment and said, "There are indeed some financial news on the covers of magazines. There are too many of them, and I didn't pay attention."
Zhao Ruyue was really shocked: "You are so young, but you can already understand financial magazines?"
Ning Shiqiu didn't understand why his mother was so surprised: "Isn't reading those articles just like reading comprehension in Chinese class?"
"This..." What should she say?
It could also be that she was relatively uninformed, and it was the first time she had seen someone use reading comprehension to read articles in a financial magazine.
How to use it?
Zhao Ruyue thought so and asked, "What do you think?"
Now it was Ning Shiqiu's turn to scratch his head: "Ah? What do you mean by how to read it? Just read it like any other book, normally."
"Forget it..." Zhao Ruyue felt that her question was unnecessary. If she understood, she would have caught up with the trend of the times in the 1990s and become one of the first generation of rich people.
She simply asked her son directly: "When do you think it would be a good time to buy a TV?"
Ning Shiqiu didn't even think about it and blurted out: "They seem to be trying to snatch people away. I think it would be better to wait until the TV vendors are scrambling for people before buying."
In fact, the book said that one should grab the market, but he had also seen in another book a sentence that the core of the market is people.
He was worried that his mother wouldn't understand, so he just said that he had kidnapped the person.
Sure enough, this time his mother understood and said a word he didn't understand.
"Wait until they start a price war? That will definitely lower the price," Zhao Ruyue said to Deng Ximei, "Mom, ask my eldest brother to wait a little longer and not buy the TV so early. Shaoming and I will pay more attention to the price of TVs when we go to the county town next time. We will buy it when they start a price war and offer the lowest price."
Ning Shiqiu tugged at her sleeve and said, "Mom, what is a price war? Is it the same as a war? Didn't they say that our country is at peace and there will be no more wars?"
How to explain "this..."?
Zhao Ruyue knew what that meant and what happened.
But if you ask her to explain it seriously, it would be like explaining terms in an exam.
She had never memorized it, so she could only write the general idea in her own words, but she probably wouldn't get any points that way.
Zhao Ruyue was afraid that what she said was wrong and would mislead the child, so she could only say, "It seems like a way for businesses to compete with each other. I don't really understand it. Why don't you go back to school and ask your teacher? Or ask your teacher to recommend you a book on this."
Ning Shiqiu let go of his hand: "Okay, I'll go to school this afternoon and ask the teacher."
Her son was easy to deal with. If she told him she didn't understand, he wouldn't ask for clarification.
Unfortunately, opening a shop means that I can't have a peaceful lunch from start to finish.
While they were eating, guests would come to eat from time to time, and Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming would have to get up and greet the guests first.
It wasn't very busy in the afternoon, so Zhao Ruyue asked Deng Ximei to go back and rest.
Deng Ximei carried the repaired rice cooker back home, meeting acquaintances along the way.
When I met acquaintances, I couldn't help but stop and talk. The journey that was supposed to take ten minutes ended up taking me half an hour and I still hadn't reached home.
By the time she got home, the entire Xiaoqiao Street and the neighboring Daqiao Street knew that her daughter Zhao Ruyue could repair electrical appliances.
In the afternoon when the children were out of school, a neighbor who brought his children to buy Dorayaki asked her, "I heard from your mother that you can repair TVs?"
Before Zhao Ruyue repaired the rice cooker for her mother, she guessed that after the rice cooker was fixed, her mother might tell everyone that it was she who repaired the rice cooker.
But I didn't expect that this matter would spread so outrageously.
The most outrageous thing was that when there were no customers in the afternoon and she was closing the shop, her elder sister-in-law came to her carrying a radio and some tapes.
"Third sister-in-law, can you help me check if my radio is broken?"
Zhao Ruyue felt tired: "Sister, I don't know how to fix this."
Ning Meiting was surprised and said, "You can't repair it? I heard that you learned home appliance repair in Pengcheng, just like the guy in the repair shop in town, you can repair a little bit of everything, so you brought the radio here.
This... I've already moved here, so it's better to make money for myself than to let others make it. Why don't you try it first? Once it's repaired, I'll pay you every penny for the repair. ”
"This is not about money. We are family. Even if I can fix it, I can't ask you for money. Not to mention that I can't fix it at all."
"Let's take a look first. Anyway, this radio has some problems to begin with. I have no complaints if I can't put it back together after taking it apart."
Ning Meiting insisted that she help take a look, Zhao Ruyue had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask: "What's wrong with your radio?"
"I'll play it for you. My radio can listen to radio stations and tapes to listen to songs, but these tapes of mine suddenly can't play any songs."
"Could it be the tape? Have you tried other tapes?"
"No, I just like listening to these. I've bought them for a year. I've seen other people use their tapes for years. Mine won't break down as easily, will they?"
Zhao Ruyue saw her pressing the rewind button.
After the tape was rewound, he pressed the play button again and a crackling sound came from the radio.
Occasionally you'd hear one or two distorted lyrics.
Zhao Ruyue asked inexplicably, "Do you usually rewind and play like this?"
"Yeah, there are two circles inside the tape, and the thing that holds the songs is called a magnetic strip or something? Anyway, it's rolled up like a rope. When you listen to a song, the magnetic strip rolls from the left circle to the right circle. If you don't rewind it back to the left, it won't play."
"There are ten songs on a tape, but you can only listen to five of them?"
After hearing what Zhao Ruyue said, Ning Meiting finally found a soulmate.
She slapped her thigh and cursed the profiteer: "When he sold it to me, he said I could listen to ten songs, but when I played it back, I could only listen to five. I also bought several cassettes from him! If the cassette store wasn't in the city and it was too troublesome to go there, I would definitely go to him to settle the score!"
Zhao Ruyue: “…” She felt a little sorry for the merchant selling the tapes.
She pressed the stop button, took out the tape, turned it over and put it back in.
Press the play button again.
So, Ning Meiting finally heard the other five songs.
"No, what's going on?"
"This is the correct way to use a tape. There are songs on both sides of the magnetic strip. If you want to rewind the tape, it's best not to do it directly in the machine. You can take it out and insert two pens between the two small circles and rewind it while rotating. Otherwise, it may damage the contents of the magnetic strip."
"So that's how it's used, haha," Ning Meiting laughed dryly, "I was wrong about the store where I bought the tape."
Ever since she first heard the song, she cursed in her heart that the store that sold her the tape would go out of business soon. She didn't expect that she had wrongly blamed the store and felt very embarrassed.
"Can you fix the other five?"
Zhao Ruyue really can't do this: "Repairing a tape requires specialized equipment. I really don't know how to do it. The first five songs on your tape are probably unplayable."
"Okay, I'll buy a new one when I have time. It's fine as long as I can still listen to it."
Ning Meiting left with the radio. She thought that her third brother and sister-in-law might not want the money, so she decided to give them a big pig's trotter tomorrow.
Before she left, Zhao Ruyue pulled her aside and warned her, "Sister, don't be like my mom and tell everyone that I can fix things. My skills are mediocre and I haven't learned anything properly, so I can't show them off. What if someone really believes me and they bring their stuff to me with great effort, but I can't fix it, and then they have to take it back for nothing? How hard it will be and they will be blamed, right?"
"You're right," Ning Meiting assured her, "I won't tell anyone when I get back."
On her way back, she actually chose a less crowded path. The sun was very hot in the afternoon, and she was lucky enough not to meet many people along the way, so she naturally had no chance to tell others.
However, when she came, she made a big fuss and told everyone who asked that she was taking the radio to show her third brother's wife, as she heard that her third brother's wife could repair it.
The next day she brought the radio to the stall to listen to music. No one knew, without asking, that her radio was working again and she could listen to music again.
Who else could have repaired the radio? It must have been her third brother’s wife!
That day, Zhao Ruyue was entertaining customers in the store. She was asked the same question eight hundred times in the morning and she became numb from answering.
And more people come to her to repair their things. Fortunately, they all ask her to repair rice cookers, not other things.
The person who came was quite considerate, knowing that she was busy in the morning and would only be free in the afternoon.
They all came to see her in the afternoon in a group, there were seven or eight of them!
The people who came were her mother's old girlfriends and the aunties and grandmas from her mother's side.
These people not only have a good relationship with her mother, but are also her relatives.
When she was a child, these people not only gave her food, but also helped take care of her when her mother was busy from time to time.
Zhao Ruyue couldn't refuse them either, so she could only roll up her sleeves and look at them one by one.
These old girlfriends who are good friends with her mother have the same habit of using rice cookers as she does.
Maybe that's why her mother didn't know for so many years that the inner pot of the rice cooker needs to be wiped clean with water.
So the problems they brought with the rice cookers were almost the same, except that two of the rice cookers had more problems.
Of these two rice cookers, one needs to be cleaned and the fuse replaced, and the heating plate of the other one is broken and needs to be replaced.
Replacing the heating plate was not a problem. Zhao Ruyue asked them to go to the hardware store or repair shop to buy the parts themselves. The fuse cost no more than five dollars, and the heating plate cost no more than fifteen dollars. They could just come back and replace them and use them.
After the rice cooker was repaired, Zhao Ruyue listened to a series of compliments. After sending everyone away, she hurriedly closed the shop door and ran back to the backyard, fearing that someone else would come to her with an electrical appliance to be repaired.
Ning Shaoming handed her a cup of water soaked with Sterculia lychnophora: "Are you tired? Drink some water to moisten your throat."
Zhao Ruyue took the cup and took a big sip before saying, "It's OK. I'm not too tired, but I feel guilty."
She put the cup on the table next to her and pulled a handful of banknotes from her pocket.
These were the money forced upon her by the aunties and grandmas who came to her to get their rice cookers repaired.
Zhao Ruyue smoothed out the wrinkles on the money and counted it: "There are actually eighty-five yuan!"
She thought about it and realized that there were eight people in total and they brought nine rice cookers.
An aunt brought two rice cookers. One of them needed to have the heating plate replaced. This rice cooker could still be repaired, but the other one was completely broken and could not be repaired.
The aunt gave her fifteen yuan, and the others should have given her ten yuan.
"I didn't expect that repairing electrical appliances could make so much money!" Zhao Ruyue counted the money happily, and suddenly the guilty feeling came up again.
She looked at Ning Shaoming and asked, "I have never learned how to repair electrical appliances. Is it not good to charge me this way? I always feel that I am not professional and it is not good to take this money."
Ning Shaoming didn't think so: "If they go to other places to fix it, it will cost more than this amount of money. You helped them solve the problem and saved them money, so you should be happy. When I saw you fixing those rice cookers, you looked very happy, with a smile on your face. It wasn't a perfunctory smile, but a genuine smile."
"Really?" Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but touch her face. She thought she was smiling just because she needed to be polite to her elders. "How can you see this?"
Ning Shaoming was very confident about this: "If I couldn't see it, you wouldn't be marrying me."
Thinking of Zhao Ruyue who was always worried about whether she had learned it or not and whether she was a professional or not.
He simply said to Zhao Ruyue, "Why don't you find someone to learn from? I heard that the guy who opened a repair shop in town only learned from his uncle for a period of time, maybe even a year, and then he came back and opened his own shop. You can learn just by watching, you must be better than him!"
Zhao Ruyue's first reaction after hearing his words was to wave her hands: "Why should I learn this? When the store is busy, I'm so busy that I want to hit my head with my feet. How can I have time to learn it?"
"What's the big deal? It's not expensive to hire someone in town. During busy times, we can hire a temporary worker to help."
Zhao Ruyue was a little tempted, but after thinking about it, she shook her head: "This is not a good idea. Many shops in this town want to know how to make some of the things in our store. If we hire temporary workers, what if they reveal the secrets?"
Ning Shaoming's eyes never left her face. He saw that it was not that she didn't want to learn, but she just didn't think she could learn it, and she was not worried about the things in the store and at home.
Ning Shaoming felt that she really liked doing this and didn't want her to regret it in the future.
Then he tried another way to persuade her: "How about this, after we find a master, we can discuss with him and only go to learn from him from Monday to Friday afternoons. You can continue to work in the store during the rest of the time?"
Zhao Ruyue vaguely felt that this might work, but for some reason, her heart suddenly started beating rapidly, a feeling that was both excitement and panic.
She subconsciously waved her hands and refused again: "No, no, that's too much trouble, and it would be so tiring for me. After finishing the store work every day, I have to take care of the family affairs. How can I have the energy to learn? I can't do it."
Having said this, he stood up hastily, as if he was avoiding something, and walked out.
Ning Shaoming had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being and not talk about it anymore.
However, Ning Shaoming knew that Zhao Ruyue liked this, and he himself was a person who benefited greatly from learning a craft.
It is inevitable that he would be concerned about finding a master for Zhao Ruyue to learn the craft.
When it was Ning Shaoming's turn to go to the county town to purchase, he went to his brother-in-law's house to see if the price of televisions had dropped.
He would always subconsciously look for information related to learning repairs, and unexpectedly he actually found it!
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