After putting the goods on the counter, Gao Mingcheng asked Song Jinzhang to go back first because the store was closed that day.
He took a game console and some game cartridges, closed the door, and prepared to go find Maozi.
One advantage of renting a counter in a shopping mall is that there are security guards within the mall. Even if Gao Mingcheng puts the TV and game consoles here, the security is still good.
When he went there, it was already eleven o'clock in the morning. There were only four or five people playing billiards in the billiard room. Maozi was chatting with them, and if anyone wanted to get some snacks or cigarettes, he was also responsible for selling them.
In addition, Maozi also sells meals.
Of course, the meal was not cooked by him, but by Monkey's mother and sister. Ever since Monkey was put in jail, Maozi and his younger brother Yangyang have been eating with Monkey's mother and sister. The two families have a close relationship and visit each other frequently.
"Brother Mingcheng! The last time I sent you the account book, I found out that you went to purchase goods." When Maozi saw Gao Mingcheng coming, he immediately went forward with a smile.
Maozi had sharp eyes and soon noticed what Gao Mingcheng was holding in his hand. He instinctively thought that it must be some new toy, and a look of curiosity appeared in his eyes.
Gao Mingcheng noticed it and handed the game console over directly, saying, "I rented a counter in the mall and I'm going to sell this kind of game console. This game console is called Subor. It has two parts, one is the main body of the game console, and the other is the cartridge. You can only play the game after inserting the cartridge. Different cartridges have different games. I'll send you a game console and bring various cartridges."
"You are responsible for learning how to play these games and introducing them to the customers in the store. You can let them play two rounds for free. If they want to continue playing, they can play for 50 cents per hour! If they want to buy a brand new game console, you can let them buy it at the mall."
While talking, Gao Mingcheng disassembled a game console and then called Maozi to go upstairs and bring down his TV.
Without a TV as a screen, you can't play game consoles.
Maozi did not hesitate and immediately went upstairs to bring down his second-hand color TV. After assembling it, Gao Mingcheng began to teach Maozi how to play games.
When the sound of the game sounded, it immediately attracted a lot of people's attention. The guests who were playing billiards couldn't help but put down their cues and looked over here curiously.
Seeing this, Gao Mingcheng also called those people to come and see.
The game interface is Contra, which is the most classic game and also the favorite game of men. Its attraction is simply invincible!
While operating the game, Gao Mingcheng introduced the gameplay and background of the game to everyone.
This exciting and novel game immediately attracted everyone's interest. Not only the Russians, but even the customers in the store expressed their desire to play it.
It is said that the customer is God, so of course God should play first. Gao Mingcheng gave this game console to the customer to play.
However, Gao Mingcheng did not leave. He stood by and instructed them how to play, while introducing his business.
The billiard room patrons apparently took well to the idea of having to pay to play the machines.
Because they have to pay to play billiard, there are two ways to pay for the pool table, one is to pay by time, and the other is by the number of plates.
But when playing billiards, you can invite a few friends to play together. The price of the pool table is fixed, but the number of friends can be unlimited. This way, whether someone treats or everyone splits the bill, each person doesn't have to spend much.
But if you play video games, everyone has to spend money to play.
However, the sense of participation in playing video games is obviously higher, and it gives people a greater spiritual pleasure.
Because there was only one game console, but many people wanted to play it, someone asked Gao Mingcheng to bring a few more.
Gao Mingcheng was too lazy to walk back and forth, and there weren't that many TVs anyway, so he said he would let them play for free today, but they would have to pay if they wanted to play tomorrow.
Hearing this, they immediately abandoned the billiards and prepared to take turns playing the game.
Gao Mingcheng reminded: "Each person plays two games, be gentle, don't break it, if you break it, you will be compensated at the original price!"
"Oh, I see."
Seeing that their attention was on the game console, Gao Mingcheng pulled Maozi aside.
Maozi's eyes were still lingering on the game screen, and he didn't come back to his senses until Gao Mingcheng spoke.
"Ah? The wife of Mr. Song, the manager of the department store? Oh, I see. I'll send someone to keep an eye on her."
Although Maozi didn't understand why Gao Mingcheng did this, but since the boss had spoken, his subordinates just had to get the job done!
There is funding for working for Gao Mingcheng, and Maozi can also take care of his brothers who are not doing their jobs properly.
Gao Mingcheng felt relieved when letting Maozi take care of the surveillance. This is called leaving professional matters to professionals!
After saying this, Gao Mingcheng looked around the store and saw that there were indeed some empty seats, so he pointed to a place near the socket and said, "Go find a furniture store and buy a long table and a few stools. If there is no suitable one, ask a carpenter to make a long table. It should not be too wide, about 40 centimeters wide will do. Put it against the wall, and just enough to put a few TVs on it."
"Okay." Maozi nodded and remembered the words.
Gao Mingcheng added, "When the tables and chairs are ready, go to the mall and bring a few more game consoles. Remember the location of my store. If anyone wants to buy a brand new one, tell them to come to my store and buy it."
"Okay." Maozi nodded repeatedly, and then asked whether Gao Mingcheng bought the TV or he bought it.
Gao Mingcheng said: "I will go see if there are any suitable second-hand color TVs, or I will buy a few black and white TVs first. I will send them over after I buy them."
The price of color TV is still quite high now. Even domestic color TV is very expensive for the average person’s salary. Fortunately, you don’t need a very large screen to play games. A 14-inch screen is good enough. If conditions are not good, a 9-inch black and white TV will also work, but that will affect the gaming experience.
Gao Mingcheng planned to buy a few black-and-white televisions first, and then when the price war of domestic color TVs began in the mid-1990s, he would upgrade to a bigger one.
Changhong TV was the most enthusiastic about price wars, and it was also because of it that the ownership rate of color TVs in cities and towns increased rapidly at that time!
After explaining everything, Gao Mingcheng prepared to leave. Before leaving, he reminded Maozi to take good care of the game console and not let anyone damage it.
"I understand, Brother Mingcheng!" Maozi continued to nod, and then watched Gao Mingcheng leave.
When Gao Mingcheng's back completely disappeared in the alley, Maozi hurriedly walked towards the game console, shouting: "It's my turn to play, it's my turn to play, I haven't even played it yet!"
Those people who were playing billiards just now were said to be customers, but they were also friends of Maozi, so Maozi was a little anxious and wanted to play a few games as well.
But in the face of new and exciting games, what does this friendship mean?
Those people just complain that they haven't played long enough, so how could they be willing to let the Russians join?
So someone said, "Maozi, why are you joining in the fun? Wait until we leave, or at night, and you can have fun to your heart's content! We have to pay to play in the future, but you can play for free! Maozi, can you manage this store by yourself? Why don't you tell Boss Gao next time and ask him to come and look after the store too!"
"Bah, I think you have bad intentions! Come on, come on, each of you play two games, and I'll play last, is that okay?"
Maozi cursed with a smile, but could only continue to endure and watch others play. When he saw others make mistakes in operation, his face was full of regret and he wished he could play it himself.
Since then, the Subor game console has initially attracted attention in the county!
After Gao Mingcheng arranged things, he was relieved.
He drove to the kindergarten.
His wife and children were here, so naturally he had to come here too. When he went over, the kindergarten children were eating.
In the kitchen, after Hu Yinchen prepared the children's meals, she started to cook meals for the staff.
The children’s meals are prepared in a big pot. In addition to the children, the employees also eat. However, since the employees are adults, they naturally cannot eat only light dishes. They must stir-fry two spicy dishes to go with the rice. In this season, there are no fresh peppers, but you can add dried chili powder, and the taste will still be good.
At this time, Hu Yinchen was cooking fish. Today she bought a grass carp weighing five or six pounds. After cleaning it, she marinated it first, then fried it, then added seasonings and stir-fried it, and finally put it in water and boiled it for a while, so that the grass carp would be very tasty.
The aroma of stewed fish filled the kitchen, making Gao Mingcheng's stomach growl.
In addition to the aroma of stewed fish, there is also the aroma of oil residue. The smell of boiled lard is also quite overbearing and can drift from far away.
On the table, there is a plate of oil residue with some white sugar sprinkled on it. It can be eaten as a dish or as a snack.
As soon as Gao Mingcheng saw the oil residue, he knew that the kindergarten had made lard today!
The kindergarten kitchen mainly uses lard and soybean oil for cooking. As for rapeseed oil, its smell is a bit strong. People who like it find it very fragrant, while people who don’t like it find it pungent. Children are sensitive to smells, and some children are unwilling to eat dishes cooked with rapeseed oil.
Gao Mingcheng washed his hands and couldn't wait to pick up a piece of oil residue and eat it.
The oil residue still has a little bit of residual warmth, and after eating it, it leaves a delicious taste in your mouth.
If it is the oil residue just out of the pan, the taste will be even better!
Gao Mingcheng looked around and saw that there was only that small plate of oil residue, so he asked where the rest of the oil residue had gone.
Hu Yinchen smiled and said, "As soon as it came out of the pot, I sprinkled some sugar on it and gave it to the children to eat! They all ate it with relish!"
After hearing this, Gao Mingcheng stopped talking.
In the era of material scarcity, oil residue is a good thing. It can be eaten with sugar sprinkled on it or fried with chili peppers.
If you don’t eat it yourself, you can sell it for money and someone will buy the oil residue.
However, not many people were willing to sell the oil residue for money. It was not until the late 1990s, when everyone's living conditions generally improved, that some people began to sell the excess oil residue at home for money.
The money I can exchange for isn’t much, but it counts!
In later generations, the treatment of oil residue plummeted. Some people might still eat lard, but few people were willing to touch oil residue!
Many people simply throw away the lard residue after making it.
Gao Mingcheng ate two mouthfuls of the oil residue and stopped eating. Although it was delicious, his stomach was not short of oil, so he couldn't eat much.
Xuanyuemei and Xiaoxuxu are not here, obviously they are in the classroom.
Seeing that it would take a while for Hu Yinchen to cook, Gao Mingcheng prepared to go and see how the children were eating.
Looking from the window, the children were eating obediently under the arrangement of the teacher. The children in the small class ate with spoons, and those in the preschool class could use chopsticks.
The children have two dishes and one soup. The dishes are one meat and one vegetable, and the soup is either bone soup or seaweed and egg soup.
What we prepared today is bone and winter melon soup. Each child will have half a bowl of soup, which contains some minced meat and winter melon slices.
It is worth mentioning that when Gao Mingcheng was eating winter melon soup in Yangcheng, he found that some stores there did not peel the winter melon soup, and they even said that it was more nutritious without peeling the skin!
But Gao Mingcheng is used to peeling the skin. The skin of old winter melon is hard, and Gao Mingcheng doesn't know whether it is nutritious or not, but he knows that the taste of winter melon skin is not good.
Xuanyue, He Xiuman and others were in each class, leading the children in eating.
After the children finish their meal, they can move freely for more than ten minutes, and then they will be arranged to take a nap.
While the children are free, it is time for the teachers to have their staff meals.
After checking the situation in each class, Gao Mingcheng returned to the backyard and chatted with the grandmother who was sitting under the eaves basking in the sun.
Grandma Xi is older, but she can't sit still and often helps out with chores. However, the weather has been bad recently and she has caught a cold and coughs from time to time, so Hu Yinchen doesn't let her go to the kitchen to help out anymore.
Coughing is contagious, and the saliva produced by coughing can also contaminate food. Therefore, Hu Yinchen, who had some medical knowledge, made the right decision.
Gao Mingcheng asked about his grandmother's health and whether she had seen a doctor or bought any medicine.
The grandmother was smiling and looked very kind.
"I've seen a doctor and bought some medicine. Don't worry, Mingcheng, it's not a serious illness." Grandma is still very confident about her health. Although she has a little cough, she doesn't have a headache and she doesn't feel weak.
So this is just a minor problem, just take some medicine or you don’t even need to take any medicine.
Originally, the grandmother felt that there was no need to take medicine, but He Xiuman persuaded her to see a doctor and buy medicine on the grounds that there were many children in the kindergarten.
After taking the medicine for two days in a row, my grandmother feels almost recovered, except that she still coughs occasionally.
Gao Mingcheng felt a little better as he listened to his grandmother's story.
He said jokingly, "Grandma, my second child is still waiting for you to help take care of him, so you must take good care of yourself. By the way, when do Gao Zhuang and Xiu Man plan to have a second child?"
It’s strange to say, but within a month after Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman got married, He Xiuman became pregnant!
In October, when the fruits of the season were ripe, little Yuanyuan was born!
But now, Gao Mingcheng already has a little son, but Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman have been silent.
Before people had the idea of contraception, many people had children one after another. It was common to have five or six children, and seven or eight was not uncommon.
Of course, not many people can feed all of them.
It was only after the implementation of family planning that people stopped having one child after another, but most people still choose to have two children.
In his previous life, Gao Zhuang blocked a knife for him, but unfortunately died early and did not marry or have children. Therefore, Gao Mingcheng did not know when Gao Zhuang and He Xiuman would have a second child, or whether they would have a second child.
When this topic was brought up, a trace of melancholy flashed through the eyes of the grandmother, but she still had a smile on her face and said easily: "There is no rush. As long as the two of them are healthy and have a good relationship, they will have a child sooner or later. I will take care of your child first, and then I can take care of theirs!"
Gao Mingcheng laughed when he heard this.
At this time, many beauties came over from the teaching building.
She heard Gao Mingcheng's laughter and asked what they were talking about.
It turned out that the person following behind Xuanyuemei was He Xiuman, so Gao Mingcheng said it was nothing, and Xiniang also said that they were just chatting casually.
Mentioning the matter of a second child in front of He Xiuman would inevitably give off a feeling of urging her to give birth, which would make He Xiuman feel pressured.
The grandmother is indeed a good person. She is not like most people who favor boys over girls. She will not force He Xiuman to get pregnant and give birth to a son quickly. When taking care of Xiao Yuanyuan, she is still enthusiastic and careful. (End of this chapter)
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