Having decided to open a fruit shop, Song Huizhen has been carefully observing the shops near the market these past few days, and Liu Yihai, who has been keeping a close eye on her, has also learned about this.
"Huizhen, are you looking for a shop lately? What kind are you looking for? I'll keep an eye out for you."
Liu Yihai was always a public-spirited person in the market, and Song Huizhen didn't think much of it and decided to rent a larger shop on the roadside to open a fruit store.
"It's on the side of the road! Okay, I understand. I'll give you an answer in the next couple of days."
His face was full of a simple smile, but he was secretly calculating whether any of his family's shops were about to expire and that he needed to go back and check the accounts.
While Song Hye-jin was looking for a shop to open a fruit store, Chang Kyung had already used his past life's experience to open a clothing store using Song Hye-jin's ID card.
In the late 1990s, the Xingxing Clothing City in Huacheng saw a daily foot traffic of tens of thousands of people. Chang Jing's fourth aunt, Song Huisong, opened a clothing store there. Simple T-shirts could be bought for ten yuan and sold for three or four times that price, and people would scramble to buy them. The small ten-square-meter shop had a daily turnover of several thousand yuan.
More than a month ago, when Chang Jing went to buy fruit wholesale, he was handed several advertising leaflets for Xingxing Clothing City, advertising prime locations for sale or rent. At that time, Chang Jing had not yet made much money, but he already had plans to open a clothing store.
During this period, Chang Jing had his mother and sister set up a stall to sell fruits from his space during the day, and at night he would manage the space to grow more fruits. By selling them one by one, Chang Jing had accumulated more wealth than his mother.
Chang Jing bought the shop, which cost a full 80,000 yuan, in full and then hired someone to renovate it.
At that time, clothing stores were decorated in a very simple way. They would just paint the walls and put up lots of clothes hangers, and that would be enough.
With a high-volume business model, Changjing didn't pay much attention to interior design. Nowadays, people have fewer styles to choose from when buying clothes; as long as they are comfortable and affordable, that's enough!
However, Chang Jing is a student, and the clothing store needs to be run by someone, so special attention must be paid to the character of the employees when recruiting.
"You can't just hire strangers, otherwise if the shop makes money, the employees will get jealous and work their way up the shelves."
Sigh, it's really not easy for minors to earn money. They know exactly how to pick up money, but they still lack manpower.
Chang Jing, who had been troubled for two days, had his manpower shortage resolved thanks to the appearance of his eldest aunt.
Chang's eldest aunt learned from others that her beloved younger brother had gotten divorced and that Song Huizhen had taken his child away.
How could this be allowed? As the eldest daughter of the Chang family, Aunt Chang had grown up in hardship like a maid. When she reached marriageable age, Old Lady Chang arranged for her to marry a man from a neighboring village.
However, Aunt Chang was a tall and strong woman, standing at 1.7 meters, while Uncle Chang was a short man, standing at 1.6 meters. It was clear that they were not a good match in terms of appearance, and after their marriage, they had two daughters and a son, which was full of quarrels.
The eldest aunt of the Chang family was the poorest among her younger sisters and brothers, so the Chang family did not like her. She rarely returned to her parents' home. After Chang Guomin's divorce, this older sister was neglected and not notified.
When she learned from gossip that her younger brother had gotten divorced, she immediately left her family's vegetable stall and took the bus to the market where Song Huizhen had her stall.
With the start of the school year approaching, the two siblings had decided to stop setting up their stall, so both siblings were there when Aunt Chang went to Song Huizhen's stall.
“Huizhen, Xiaojing, Xiaoling.”
Song Huizhen wasn't too surprised by the arrival of Aunt Chang. She calmly took a folding stool from the basket and placed it next to her, then invited Aunt Chang to sit down.
"Xiao Jing, go buy your aunt a soda."
The brother and sister obediently greeted the servants and followed Song Huizhen's instructions to buy soda. When the two siblings returned, Aunt Chang's face was full of helplessness and frustration.
Chang Jing guessed that his aunt must have been trying to persuade his mother to just bear with it, but his mother must have refused, which was why she looked so upset!
"Auntie, what kind of job does my cousin Meizi do now?"
The appearance of Chang's aunt reminded Chang Jing of his cousin Xu Yumei. Since graduating from vocational school, Xu Yumei had rarely visited the Chang family, and Chang Jing had only occasionally heard about her frequent job changes.
"She recently found a leisurely job at a music and video store. The pay is quite good, 500 yuan a month, but it doesn't include food or accommodation. The only downside is the long working hours, from 8:30 in the morning to midnight every day."
Speaking of her daughter, Aunt Chang was also annoyed. She couldn't hold down any job for long, and being too honest always made her an easy target for petty people.
"Auntie, does Sister Mei have a pager? I need to talk to her about something."
His older cousin has always been honest, so having her do his bookkeeping and work as a cashier wouldn't be bad. The most important thing is that he can't let her continue working at the record store.
In her past life, this cousin met her unreliable husband in a video store. She got pregnant out of wedlock, and less than a year after they got married, her husband cheated on her. She was left with nothing and her daughter who was less than a year old.
"Yes, you can write down her number, or you can go directly to a music and video store to find her."
Chang's aunt gave Chang Jing the phone number and the address of the audio-visual store. She chatted with Chang Jing and Chang Ling for a while, telling them to study hard and get into a good university. Seeing that it was getting late, she hurriedly caught the bus home.
“Ah Jing, when you have time, go visit your cousin. Your aunt said she’s sharing an apartment in Wuhuapaifang. The urban villages there are quite chaotic.”
"Okay, I'll go find her in a bit."
The rent for suites in urban villages is cheap, usually less than 100 yuan a month. Migrant workers from all over the country gather here, and the security situation has never been very good.
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