Chapter 217 Money Can Make People Cheerful
Zhou Miaoqing's mouth was dry, and she hesitated to speak. After a long while, she spoke apologetically, "Mom, can I discuss with you and go home after the Spring Festival?"
Mother Zhou was like being splashed with a basin of cold water, but she did not immediately start to scold him. Instead, she asked calmly, "Why?"
Zhou Miaoqing quickly told her about the stall she and her roommate had set up to sell shoes. "Now my roommate and her brothers are going home. I want to sell some of the unsold goods. I can make more money. This way, I will have a place to live for the next semester, and my parents won't have to work so hard."
The anger that Zhou's mother had suppressed disappeared in an instant, leaving only emotion and reluctance. She choked up a little as she spoke, "Silly girl, our family is not so poor that we can't let you go to school and make money at the same time. You are tearing my heart out!"
"Mom." Zhou Miaoqing also cried.
After hearing her daughter crying, Zhou's mother finally responded, "Forget it, forget it. Since you are willing to endure this hardship, I won't say anything. Take care of yourself outside. Also, if you have a lot of money, put it in the bank. It's not safe to carry it with you."
"Thank you, Mom!" Zhou Miaoqing was immediately happy.
Zhou's mother hung up the phone and went home to tell Zhou's father about it.
Father Zhou rarely praised his daughter. "She is grown up now and knows how to share our burden. You should be happy. It would be sad if she was like other children who were still at home and depended on their parents for support in their twenties."
Mother Zhou changed her mind and felt that what Father Zhou said made sense, and she felt much better.
After Zhou Miaoqing dealt with his parents, he ran excitedly to find Chen Xinyue and Tang Jing and told them the good news, "My mother agreed that I can stay and go back after the Chinese New Year. I have made up my mind. Jingjing and I will set up a stall together until New Year's Eve and buy train tickets for the first day of the new year. If we can't buy tickets on the first day, we will go on the second day."
Chen Xinyue gave her a thumbs up and said, "You have great ambition. Keep going! My cousin sent me a new batch of goods. I've sold all of them to you. I have the payment list with me. Please check it carefully and we'll settle the bill after school starts.
If you can’t sell all the stuff, don’t worry. If you have too much, you can lower the price. If that doesn’t work, just keep it in this rental house. At most you’ll have to pay one more month’s rent, which isn’t much.”
Zhou Miaoqing and Tang Jing nodded repeatedly.
Now that everyone is making money, no one will be stingy with the rent.
After Chen Xinyue finished handling various matters, she followed her two brothers on the journey back home.
Three of the five stalls were gone all of a sudden, and the goods were given to Zhou Miaoqing and Tang Jing. The two of them simply could not afford to run such a large stall, so they decided to set up a stall together and split the profits equally.
The morning market gets busier and busier towards the end of the year. It used to be closed around 11 or 12 noon, but in the last week the market was open all day and there were people there from morning till night.
In order to sell the goods as quickly as possible, the two of them did not dare to close the stall and set up the stall from morning to night.
They originally thought that the goods would not be sold, but by the 26th, most of the clothes and shoes were sold out, and the remaining ones were out-of-stock sizes. The two of them cleared out the stock and reduced the prices as planned.
Business became even more booming, and part of the inventory was cleared out on the first day.
The next day, the remaining part was sold out, and most of the skin care products and electronic products were also sold.
Until New Year's Eve, they only had enough goods left to fill a woven bag.
It is obviously not cost-effective to keep this amount of goods in the rental house.
Zhou Miaoqing looked at Tang Jing, "Jingjing, there is still half a month before school starts, what are your plans?"
It is obviously not cost-effective to stay in the rental house for these goods.
Tang Jing's eyes flashed with confusion. "I originally wanted to go home like you, but my home is in the mountains. It takes two days and two nights to go back by train. When I arrive in the provincial capital, I have to transfer to a bus. The bus has to transfer again to the county. It takes about four or five days to go home. If I really go back, I will stay for less than five days and have to leave again. It also costs a lot of money for travel. I don't think it's cost-effective."
"But it's not safe for you to stay here alone for the New Year. The most important thing is that eating will be a hassle. Why don't you come home with me? My home is in the southern provincial capital, and there's a direct train, so it only takes two days to get there.
Besides, I am your only daughter. You can live with me, and we can contact Xinyue. She is from the same province as me. It only takes a day to get there by bus. I can settle the bill and return the goods to her at the same time.
You haven't been to the south yet! It's totally different from the north. It's spring-like all year round, the winter isn't that cold, and it's especially lively outside during the New Year. How is it?"
Tang Jing originally wanted to refuse, but when she heard Zhou Miaoqing say that he was going to find Chen Xinyue to settle the account and return the goods, she was immediately tempted.
"Okay! I'll go back with you, but I want to send some money to my family first."
Looking at the sky, I think it's still possible to make it if I rush over now.
Zhou Miaoqing was overjoyed. He first accompanied Tang Jing to send the money and then went to buy train tickets.
The tickets I buy now are all refunded tickets, luckily there are still some left.
The two returned to the rental house and hurriedly packed their luggage.
It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, and the landlady invited them to have New Year's Eve dinner together.
The two men declined, wished the old lady a happy new year, and mentioned that they would check out and go home.
The landlady was a little surprised. "Didn't you say you'd stay for a month? It's only been half a month."
Zhou Miaoqing said with a smile: "I have bought a train ticket for tomorrow morning. Now I have to go to the train station to stay in the guesthouse, otherwise I will miss the train tomorrow."
The old landlady suddenly understood, smiled kindly, and wished them a safe journey.
This was Tang Jing's first time going to the south. The moment she stepped on the train, she felt extremely nervous.
Along the way, Zhou Miaoqing told her a lot about the scenery in the south and her family situation.
Tang Jing listened very carefully and was very curious. "My family lives in the mountains. I have two older brothers, two older sisters, and a younger brother. Studying is our only way out. My parents said that no matter if it's a boy or a girl, as long as they can study, they will support them. With so many children in our family, one of them will be capable.
My brothers and sisters are not good at studying and they don’t like studying. My eldest brother went out to make money with my father before finishing junior high school. My second brother went to work in the south and might not go back throughout the year. He rarely sent money home.
My mother said that it is not easy for my second brother to make money outside. Food and accommodation all cost money and he cannot save any. They do not expect my second brother to send money back home, they just hope he can support himself.
My third and fourth sisters stopped going to school after graduating from elementary school and got married early. The men were also from our area. Everyone had similar conditions. Poverty meant that life was just about the daily necessities of life, and they would quarrel over a penny.
I grew up watching my parents quarrel over money, and later I saw my sister and brother-in-law quarrel over money. That kind of life was not what I wanted, so I studied hard and tried my best to make a name for myself, just because I didn’t want to live a life like theirs.”
She had never said these words to anyone else. It was only after she made money this time and felt much more cheerful that she felt the desire to tell them.
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