Chapter 95 Chapter 95 Shop
Zhao Ruyue originally wanted to wait until the first class was over, and then take Ning Danping's MP3 to Xinhua Bookstore during the break to ask someone to help download songs.
But the van she took was not like the town's buses. Regardless of whether it had reached its stop or not, it would stop and let passengers get on and off as long as someone waved or shouted.
It is not as solid as a motorcycle, so you need to pay more attention to safety and not drive too fast.
The van drove fast, so they spent less time on the journey. When they arrived at the county town, Zhao Ruyue looked at the time and saw that she still had ten minutes before her class.
Let Zheng Xiu take me to Xinhua Bookstore first.
Arriving at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore, as soon as Zhao Ruyue walked in, she saw many students crowded in front of the counter. A few were buying MP3 and MP4, while most were crowded on the other side of the counter, waiting to download songs.
Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but feel lucky that she didn't wait until the first class was over before coming. Looking at the situation, if she came too late, it would be a question whether she could download the song today.
Her concerns were soon confirmed.
After she handed Ning Danping's MP3 and the piece of paper with the playlist to the person in charge of downloading.
The man collected MP3s and playlists from several people, and then said to the people in line behind him, "If you need it urgently today, don't queue up anymore. The quota is full. If you queue up again, you won't be able to download it today. You have to leave your MP3 here and you can only get it tomorrow."
After the clerk finished speaking, several people in the queue behind him wailed, but also left the line.
The rest of the people were not in a hurry to get it, so they just handed their MP3s and playlists to the clerk, told him when to pick it up the next day, and left.
As soon as these people left, the clerk put a sign on the counter saying "Today's quota is full", and the counter suddenly became much emptier.
The students who got a spot were not in a hurry to go home. They happened to be in a bookstore and could go directly to the second floor to find a book to kill time while waiting for the songs to be downloaded.
After a little delay, Zhao Ruyue rushed to school and walked into the classroom as the bell rang, feeling lucky that she was not late.
She brought her two children with her today. After getting off the car at the school gate, the three of them ran all the way together to save time.
Zheng Xiu found it interesting and stuck her head out of the car, cheering them on loudly, and even the security guard at the door followed suit.
The two children were so amused that they ran and giggled with joy.
The classroom is not small, and there are not many people in their major, less than thirty, so the seats in the back row are very empty.
The two children entered the classroom, ran to the back row on their own accord, took out their homework and started writing, only occasionally making the sound of turning pages so light that it was almost inaudible.
After class in the evening, a female classmate asked Zhao Ruyue if she wanted to go out for a midnight snack together: "Recently, a road near the riverside dock was closed at night, and a night market street was opened. I went to see it a few days ago. It was very lively. Do you want to go with me today?"
Zhao Ruyue didn't really want to go. Now she just wanted to go home, take a shower and lie down comfortably.
But she has two children with her, maybe the children want to go?
"Do you want to go?" Zhao Ruyue asked the two children.
Ning Shiqiu said he didn't want to.
Ning Shixia also shook her head, but said, "I kind of want to go, but the teacher said we can't play outside after school. We have to go home first. If the person who goes to school is my mother, she has to go home first, too."
She used the tone that adults usually used to coax her to coax her mother: "Mom, let's go home first today, tell our family in advance tomorrow, and then I'll go out to play with you, okay?"
Several female classmates who were waiting for Zhao Ruyue's reply couldn't help laughing at her: "How can such a small person act like a little adult and even coax people? So cute!"
Ning Shixia corrected the aunt: "I am not a little adult. Others say my brother is the little adult. I am my mother's parent."
She didn't quite understand that only elders can be parents. She just thought that whoever was responsible for sending children to school was the parent, so she and her brother were their mother's parents.
"Okay, okay, you're the parent, I'll listen to you," Zhao Ruyue said to her classmate apologetically, "I'll tell my kid's dad tomorrow, shall we make an appointment tomorrow?"
"That's fine. Tomorrow is Saturday. It will definitely be more lively."
Zhao Ruyue took the children out of the classroom, and Zheng Xiu was already waiting for them at the school gate.
Recently, she takes them to school in the evening and picks up short-distance passengers in the county town. She doesn't earn much, but any money she can earn counts.
After returning home, Zhao Ruyue talked to Ning Shaoming about the night market.
Ning Shaoming was also very interested in the night market after hearing this: "I'll go with you guys tomorrow to have a look."
"Okay, go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow. You have to go to the county town in the afternoon to meet with someone to discuss the house. You won't be able to catch up on your sleep in the afternoon."
They have to catch up with the breakfast crowd every morning, and almost every day they have to get up at four or five in the morning to prepare in advance. They can only take turns to catch up on sleep at two or three in the afternoon when there are fewer people.
But the appointment time for tomorrow is 1 p.m., so Ning Shaoming can only rest in the car for half an hour.
Ning Shaoming responded, lay down, and fell asleep in seconds as his head touched the pillow.
They sleep until the time when their biological clock wakes them up, and they open their eyes without an alarm clock.
Zhao Ruyue got up and went to the bathroom, and saw that Ning Danping had already washed up.
On Saturday, Zhao Ruyue had to go to school during the day, fortunately Ning Danping helped her.
Now Ning Danping is very familiar with the work in the store and can almost be used as a mature waiter.
She did a good job and Zhao Ruyue was not stingy. Now every time she came back from vacation to help in the store, it would be counted as a part-time job in the store, and she would be paid a part-time salary of ten yuan a day.
However, the money was not given for the time being. Instead, according to Ning Danping's request, it was all temporarily kept with Zhao Ruyue.
They didn't tell anyone about this either.
Apart from Ning Danping herself, only Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming knew about it. Even Ning Shichun didn't know.
Ning Danping helped on Saturdays and Sundays, and sometimes Zhao Ruyue's mother would bring her nephews and nieces to help, so there was no trouble in the store when she was not there.
Zhao Ruyue said to Ning Danping, "Why are you up so early? You are still growing at your age, so you should get more sleep. I won't be leaving until 7:40, so you can take over the store's business when I leave."
Ning Danping smiled and said, "It's okay, Third Aunt, I just get up this early occasionally."
Her brother has a craft, but he only makes 350 yuan a month. She makes 10 yuan a day, which means 300 yuan a month, only 50 yuan less than her brother. If she doesn't work more, she will feel sorry for the salary her uncle and aunt pay her.
Ning Danping forgot that her brother was learning the craft from his uncle, so he didn't have to pay for it and could still get paid, which was already a very good condition. She helped in the store and could only gain some experience as a waiter and cashier. It was difficult to compare their salaries.
Ning Danping is almost sixteen years old, but because her grades were too bad before, she was held back and is still in the second grade of junior high school.
There are many children in the town who are her age or even younger than her. They have borrowed the ID cards of adult relatives who do not go out to work and have gone to big cities to work in factories to earn money.
She had originally taken this path.
If she turns sixteen and goes out, she is of legal age and doesn't even need to borrow someone else's ID card.
But Ning Danping no longer wants to go down this path.
If she used to be timid and ignorant, not knowing where her own path was, and only knew to follow the crowd, and went out to work if her grades were not good.
Ever since Zhao Ruyue went to the town junior high school to find her and asked her to spend more time reading in the library before leaving, as she read more and more books and they became more diverse, her understanding of the world began to change.
She also has a clear goal for her future, which is to continue studying.
At least you need to get a diploma higher than junior high school and acquire a skill to make a living.
Ning Danping's grades used to be at least not the worst in school, but now, after hard work, they have improved to the middle level. However, at this stage, she has begun to feel that it is very difficult to improve her grades further.
After Ning Danping had a goal, she specifically asked her teacher about the scores of high school and college in recent years.
Then she gave up this path because she knew that she might not be able to get into university or even college after graduating from high school.
So after she and Zhao Ruyue went to the technical secondary school in the county last time, she set her goal there.
But now technical secondary school tuition is no longer free, and her family is in such a bad situation now that she probably can’t afford it, and probably won’t support her to continue her studies. If she wants to continue her studies, she has to find a way and plan for herself.
So even though Ning Danping felt that she was getting a great advantage by living and eating at her uncle and aunt's house, she still suppressed her shame and shamelessly accepted the salary given to her by her uncle and aunt.
In the past, Ning Danping was worried that the money she had saved would be discovered and confiscated by her family because she wanted to buy something.
Now she has bought what she wanted, and saved her salary with Zhao Ruyue for her future.
But Ning Danping didn't know that from Zhao Ruyue's perspective, she only felt how rare it was to have someone who knew her family's store well and was diligent and capable to help.
That really saved their family a lot of trouble, so the little salary they paid out was nothing in Zhao Ruyue's view.
There were problems with Wang Haiyan's education of Ning Danping, but Zhao Ruyue had to admit that she did raise a daughter who was very capable of working, but she was too altruistic and not good for the child herself.
Zhao Ruyue knew that Wang Haiyan’s way of education was wrong, but now her two children were so old that it was useless to know.
Zhao Ruyue did not dare to interfere in other people's education issues. She could only help within her ability. There was no way she could do more than that. After all, she had her own children to raise.
Moreover, Zhao Ruyue knew that she was not someone who knew how to educate children.
Now she mainly adopts a laissez-faire approach to her family's education and dares not interfere too much in her children's growth process.
After Zhao Ruyue left, another half an hour passed before Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia got up.
After Ning Shixia had breakfast, she began to sort out the pile of junk she had saved for her grandfather.
Hearing the sound of his brother pushing his bicycle out, Ning Shixia ran out in a hurry: "Brother, don't go out to play yet, help me carry these things to grandpa later."
Ning Shiqiu got a headache when he saw her pile of rags: "I think the aunts in mom's class are indeed wrong. You are not a little adult, but a little old lady. You started collecting these at such a young age."
"This is what Grandpa wants, and it doesn't take much time. Will you help?"
"Help, help, help. Hurry up and clean up. I've made an appointment with my cousin and others to help pick the flowers today..." Ning Shiqiu realized that he had let the cat out of the bag and quickly kept silent.
But it was too late.
"Huh? What are you picking?" Ning Shixia stared at him, not even bothering to clean up his pile of junk. "Tell me the truth now!"
Ning Shiqiu had no choice but to say, "Go to grandma's vegetable garden and help pick grapes."
Their grandmother's vegetable garden is close to the mountains. In the past, they reclaimed wasteland on the hillside, and in recent years, they planted grapes on half of the hillside.
This year, the grapes of other people's houses in the town are still half purple and half green, but the grapes of his grandmother's house are ripe and can be picked.
So my grandparents thought that they should pick and sell the grapes in their garden as soon as possible while they were ripe.
"Why did grandma call you and not me?" Ning Shixia was not convinced. She also wanted to pick grapes.
"You are too small to reach the grapes on the shelf. And there are mosquitoes in the grape field. Have you forgotten how many big bites you got last year?"
Ning Shixia didn't forget, and she felt itchy when she thought about it, but she still refused to accept it: "You should have told me, how could you only tell you and not me!"
She decided to go and talk to her grandparents and uncle and aunt some other day when they were free.
"Who told you to go with me last year? If I didn't let you go, you would cry so hard that I couldn't comfort you."
"I didn't cry!" She did cry, but she wanted to save face and would never admit it.
"Okay, okay, since you didn't cry, are you still going with me? Come with me to feed the mosquitoes."
"No." Ning Shixia hates mosquitoes the most.
She couldn't help scratching her plump white calves that had no mosquito bites at all: "I'm going to sell junk with Grandpa."
Ning Shiqiu had no choice but to go with her and sort out the things she had collected.
I helped her transport it to her grandfather's house, and then turned the bicycle around and headed to her grandmother's vegetable garden.
Ning Shixia rushed into his grandfather's house excitedly, only to see his grandfather eating breakfast alone.
She came several times in the past few days, and each time she saw grandpa eating alone, while in the past he always ate with grandma.
Ning Shixia didn’t feel anything was wrong the first few times, but today she finally noticed it.
"Grandpa, where's my grandma? Why haven't I seen her these past few days? Is she in her room?"
Ning Shixia was a little worried because his uncle had been hiding in the room before, but later he stopped hiding and seldom came out to see people. Later he was caught by the police.
Mom said that her uncle was arrested because he did something bad. Could her grandmother have done something bad too?
Ning Da saw his granddaughter, put down his bowl and said with a smile: "She went to your second uncle's house to play, have you had breakfast?"
"I came here after I've eaten. Grandpa, come out after you finish eating. I've saved a lot of stuff. Let's sell it today!"
Ning Da was also full, so he covered the unfinished food with a vegetable cover, washed the bowl and went out to take a look. There were indeed a lot of dishes: "Okay, I'll sell them today."
He has a three-wheeled cart, where he puts his things and his granddaughter on and pushes her around.
"Hold on tight, let's go!"
"Okay! Let's go!"
The grandfather and grandson sold the rags they had saved up during this period and got ten yuan. Ning Da gave two yuan to his granddaughter as pocket money, and then took out the remaining seven yuan and put it away: "Grandpa will save this seven yuan for our Xiaoxia, and I will give it all to you when you grow up and enter university. The other dollar will be used to buy spicy noodles later, and we will eat them together."
The owner of the recycling station standing nearby laughed when he heard this and joked to Ning Shixia, "Your grandfather is fooling you. By the time you grow up, the seven dollars will have been spent!"
Adults are all like this, he sees it a lot during the Chinese New Year.
Moreover, in the town’s convenience stores and stalls in front of the elementary school, a piece of spicy strips is only one cent.
One dollar can buy ten slices of spicy strips. How could an adult buy so many for a child? The old man must have bought something else, and then spent ten cents to buy a piece of spicy strips to appease the child.
He never thought that adults would also eat spicy strips.
Ning Shixia had asked her brother to save more than 70 yuan for her, and she didn't care about it at all: "My grandfather will spend it, and it's a blessing to be able to spend it."
The recycling station owner laughed out loud when he heard this.
The grandfather and grandson pushed the tricycle back home and put it away. Ningda was old and loved to eat spicy noodles but was too embarrassed to buy them, so he gave the money to his granddaughter and asked her to buy them.
Ning Shixia has gained experience in buying. If she directly uses one dollar to buy ten pieces, the boss will definitely think that she has bought too much and that she is spending money recklessly without the knowledge of her parents.
Then I went to her house to find her father and ask him clearly, otherwise I was afraid that after I sold it to the child, the other parent would come to my house and complain.
After she went out, she first bought four slices at a convenience store near her home. The owner knew her and thought she was buying them for herself and her brother, so she bought four slices and gave two to his brother.
Then she would go to the stall at the school gate to buy four slices, and when she came back she would pass by the store near her home and buy two more slices. The owner of the store would think that she and her brother had not eaten enough and came to buy more slices.
In fact, his brother doesn’t like spicy strips at all. He prefers sweet and soft things.
Normally when he wanted to eat, he would just take a bite of her spicy strips to taste it, and he would only take one bite and would not eat any more.
After buying the ten slices of spicy strips, the grandfather and grandson each got five slices, sat in a row, and ate with great relish.
After eating, Ning Da wiped her granddaughter's mouth and rinsed her mouth: "Don't let your dad know that you ate so much when you go back, otherwise you won't have anything to eat next time."
Ning Da also knew that it was not good for children to eat too much of this stuff, but he did not often let his children eat so much at one time. He would only occasionally collect enough scraps to sell for money and eat it once a day.
Normally when he wants to eat it himself, he would most of the time buy it in the name of buying it for his children, and then eat it secretly without telling his children.
Ning Shixia kept nodding, but the truth was revealed when she got home.
The smell of the spicy strips was so strong that the grandfather and grandson's noses were filled with the aroma and they didn't notice how strong the smell was on their bodies.
But people who have never eaten spicy strips can smell it at once.
Ning Shaoming was both angry and amused. He boiled a pot of herbal tea, brought it to the old house, and asked the two men to divide the tea equally and drink it all.
The father and son could only sit side by side and drink herbal tea again, which made them feel so bitter that they wanted to cry.
In order to divert his son's attention and stop him from staring at him while drinking, Ning Da mentioned Huang Xiuhua's visit to his second brother's house: "Your mother has been at your second brother's house for several days. I don't know how she is doing now."
Ning Shaoming wanted to sneer, but he held back and started to lie with his eyes open: "My second brother is so filial, how can he not take good care of my mother? Isn't he worried that my mother is living too comfortably over there and doesn't want to come back?"
Huang Xiuhua, who had quietly returned home, stood at the door and heard Ning Shaoming's words. She felt it was not right to come in, nor was it right not to come in.
The life she had been spending at her second brother's house during this period was not at all comfortable.
It was fine at the beginning. She took the money with her and gave him the money she had taken from the second brother before.
Although the money was also the subsidy she gave to Ning Shaode, in Ning Shaode's eyes, no matter who gave it to him, it was his once it was given to him. Forcing him to spit out the money would be like asking for his life.
Now that it's back, he only feels happy that his money has been recovered, without a trace of gratitude at all.
He could still pretend during the first two days when Huang Xiuhua moved in, but after living there for a long time, the old woman's living habits were different from theirs, and he always had conflicts with his wife.
The money they were short of for buying a house was still waiting for his wife to go back to her parents' home and ask her father-in-law and brother-in-law for additional money.
Not to mention a week, in less than five days, Ning Shaode asked Huang Xiuhua in a roundabout way when she would return home.
Huang Xiuhua was so sad. After so many days here, she only had meat on the first night.
For several days afterwards, all I had for dinner was a plate of stir-fried vegetables and some pickles or sauerkraut.
During the whole meal, she heard the couple complaining about being poor in various ways. She thought they were really not well off and was about to buy them some meat. As soon as she went out, she saw the second son's wife taking their daughter to a restaurant for dinner at the corner of the street.
Huang Xiuhua wiped away her tears in secret for half the night.
I packed up my things and came back today.
She had originally thought of returning quietly at a time when there was a high probability that no one would be at home and there would be few people walking around in the town. Now, at lunch time, would be a good time.
It was too hot and sunny outside, so people in the town either didn't go home and ate lunch in the fields, or they stayed at home and turned on the fans. There were almost no pedestrians on the road.
When the time comes, she will say that she must come back and the second brother has taken special leave to send her back. No one should know whether she is lying or not, and she can save face.
I didn't expect that the third brother actually returned to the old house. Doesn't this rebellious third brother always say that he is busy in the store and doesn't like to come back?
Huang Xiuhua was thinking that the eldest son's wife should be in the field at this moment, so why not go to the house next door to hide for a while, and wait for the third son and Xiao Xia to leave before sneaking back home.
Ning Shaoming had an appointment with someone to discuss a house in the afternoon and was rushing to the county town. He walked out quickly and bumped into Huang Xiuhua.
Huang Xiuhua's face turned red, but she couldn't utter a word.
Ning Shaoming glanced at the luggage his mother brought back. It was probably the same luggage she brought back the same way she left. His second son was reluctant to even buy her a bag of fruit or a bottle of water.
Feeling that it would be pointless to say anything more mocking or poking at her heart, Ning Shaoming said calmly, "I'm back. Dad made lunch, but he probably can't eat it himself."
Ning Da had a bitter face. That’s right. He was full after drinking the herbal tea.
Ning Shaoming didn't say much, which made Huang Xiuhua feel relieved.
After returning home, she felt much more relaxed and less tense.
Ning Shaoming went home, changed into clean and decent clothes, and got into Zheng Xiu's car to go to the hotel booked by Zhao Ruyue in the county town.
Today, Zhao Ruyue's cousin also came here specially. When Ning Shaoming arrived, Zhao Ruyue and Zhao Ruyu had been waiting here for a while.
Seeing that Zhao Ruyu actually took the time to help them, Ning Shaoming hurriedly expressed a series of words of gratitude.
Zhao Ruyu had worked in the county for so many years and married a local, so she knew more about the county than they did.
Sure enough, when the two brothers arrived, as soon as they saw Zhao Ruyu, they smiled and said, "I didn't expect you to be an acquaintance. If I had known, I would have given you the lowest price!"
The two brothers also greeted Zhao Ruyu's parents-in-law warmly and asked her to take good care of them and her parents-in-law when she returned.
Things went much more smoothly afterwards. The original price of 35,000 per house was negotiated to a total of 120,000 for four rooms.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming were both very satisfied with the price they could negotiate.
However, the two selling brothers required that the house price be paid in one lump sum within one month after signing the contract.
Originally, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming were a little hesitant when they heard this condition, because the total money they had on hand was only 100,000 yuan.
They also have to keep some cash for the store and home as a backup. One hundred and twenty thousand is really beyond their budget.
But Zhao Ruyu secretly told Zhao Ruyue that if they didn't have enough money, she could lend them some, as long as it was within 30,000.
Zhao Ruyue discussed with Ning Shaoming and believed that with the profit from their store, they could pay back the twenty thousand yuan quickly.
The two immediately decided to sign the contract and take over the four houses.
However, after buying these four bungalows, he couldn't even come up with the down payment for the walk-up apartment in the community that he had originally planned to buy with a loan, so he had to put it on hold for the time being.
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