Chapter 356 You can only control your own money
Li Ye has always believed that behind every proverb about growing flowers, there is a solid factual basis.
For example, the saying "A son does not despise his mother's ugliness, and a dog does not despise his family's poverty" is to warn people not to do something that would get them struck by lightning, such as "despising their parents", and not to blame their poor background for dragging themselves down.
So when he saw Yang Yujiao avoiding him, Li Ye decided to go to the store to see what was going on.
Whenever Yang Yumin had the slightest thought of disliking his mother, Li Ye felt that he was blind and had misjudged him for such a long time.
But when Li Ye left, Zhen Rongrong and others also followed.
When Li Ye and others arrived at Yang Yumin's family's small restaurant, Yang Yumin was sweating profusely as he kneaded dough, while his mother Yang Huaihua was busy making dumplings.
Seeing Yang Yujiao coming in, Yang Huaihua hurriedly urged: "Ni'er, you are back. Hurry up and deliver the lunch in the East District to them. It is almost past one o'clock."
As a result, as soon as Yang Huaihua stood up, she saw Li Ye and others following her daughter.
She was stunned for a moment, then showed a simple smile, but did not talk to Li Ye immediately. Instead, she looked at Yang Yumin who was concentrating on kneading dough.
Li Ye also smiled, and then said: "Lao Yang, the brothers came to take care of your business, why don't you greet them?"
"ah?"
Yang Yumin then raised his head and saw Li Ye and others.
"Li Ye, why are you here?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "I just ran into your sister, but she pretended not to know me. What's going on? Is she afraid that we'll see you, a college student, making noodles here? Are you embarrassed?"
"What's there to be embarrassed about? Everyone, take a seat! If you feel thirsty, just grab a bowl and scoop some noodle soup for yourself."
Yang Yumin didn't stop working, and smiled at Li Ye and said, "Help me greet the students. I'll be done in a moment. There are too many people here on May Day, and my mother is too busy to handle it."
Li Ye looked at Yang Yumin's reaction and found that he was really honest, without any feeling of shame or embarrassment.
This kind of person is completely different from those people who got into college but despise their parents for being old-fashioned and bringing shame upon themselves.
Poverty is not scary, and hardship is even less scary. As long as your three values are correct, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Not to mention that Yang Yumin is an outstanding person, even if his qualifications are average, Li Ye only needs to make a slight move to remind Yang Yumin to pay attention to some potential risks and help him rise to the top smoothly.
Li Ye rolled up his sleeves and said, "Forget it, I'll help you knead the dough. We're all hungry, so hurry up and make noodles. Dumplings are also fine."
Yang Yumin quickly raised his hand to block him, saying, "Forget it! I'm not as good as you at writing articles, but you definitely can't knead dough as well as me. I'll be done soon. Wait for me for 20 minutes. I'll make sure everyone has lunch."
Yang Huaihua also came out and said to Li Ye: "Kid, just sit down. How can I let you do it? Just wait, it will be cooked in a while."
However, Yang Huaihua persuaded Li Ye to stop, and Zhen Rongrong and others began to help enthusiastically.
"Don't worry about us, Auntie. We can do it ourselves."
"That's right. We all know Yang Yumin. We are not outsiders."
Several girls started to get started, some taking bowls, some putting dumplings in. Although there were not enough stools in the room and some people had to stand, everyone was able to eat lunch.
Then Zhen Rongrong, Chen Xiaoling and others quietly passed the message, asking everyone to pool their change and food coupons and pay the bill when they finished eating.
Of course Yang Huaihua didn't want it. She anxiously pushed and tugged at Zhen Rongrong as if they were going to fight.
"Why are you kids so stubborn? You can't even afford a meal for our family? Isn't this looking down on others?"
"Auntie, Auntie, you are wrong. Even though we are the younger generation, we are all salaried people. It's more than 20 yuan a month! Just keep it!"
"No, no, if I take the money, won't people laugh at me?"
Seeing Yang Huaihua and Zhen Rongrong arguing endlessly, Yang Yumin came over and took the banknotes and food coupons from Zhen Rongrong's hand.
Then he smiled and said, "Thank you all for coming today! I will treat you all to a meal at school some other day."
Yang Huaihua was stunned and said angrily: "Yumin, how could you take money? How could you?"
"Oh, Mom, they won't leave if you don't collect the money today."
"That won't work either!"
Li Ye and others took advantage of the time when the mother and daughter were arguing and quickly left the Yang family's restaurant.
Zhen Rongrong heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that she would never shop at a store owned by an acquaintance again. Not charging money was more uncomfortable than charging an exorbitant price.
However, although everyone is studying economics, some people have particularly good economic acumen.
"Did you see it just now? Yang Yumin's small restaurant sent out two batches of food in a short while. Each time, two large food boxes, each containing at least 20 to 30 portions.
By this calculation, two meals a day would require at least two to three hundred servings. Even if you make ten cents per serving, that would be twenty or thirty per day, and every month... Oh my God."
He Dazhuang immediately said disdainfully: "Only earning ten cents for a meal? You really don't know the difference between grains. Do you know how many noodles you can make from one pound of flour?
Just for the noodles we had just now, they made at least 15 cents per serving, and for dumplings they made at least 20 cents from us."
“.”
Li Ye stopped walking and said with an unhappy face: "I'm telling you, classmates, I made two cents from you, and you feel like you've lost out?"
“.”
No one expected Li Ye's sudden change of expression, and no one responded for a while, because Li Ye usually doesn't like to talk much, but when it comes to arguing with people, he is at the level of the school debate team.
But today Li Ye did not give up and said: "The noodles we had just now cost 35 cents per bowl and dumplings 50 cents, but the state-owned restaurants outside cost 40 cents for noodles and 60 cents for dumplings.
Why do you not think state-owned food is expensive, but find other people’s food expensive? ”
"How much money they make is their business. Do we really need to calculate their profits? Do you have to eat for free to feel comfortable?"
“.”
"No, no, no, Li Ye, you're wrong. We don't feel comfortable eating for free!"
"Yes, yes. Even if we know Yang Yumin, it is only natural to pay for the meal. Not paying is not right."
Everyone was stunned for several seconds, and then several students hurried to explain, fearing that they would be accused of being freeloaders.
Li Ye was really angry. The portion Yang Huaihua gave everyone just now was half as much as other restaurants, and the price was a few cents cheaper. As a result, He Dazhuang and others even included the profit for them.
If a glass of boiled water in the middle of winter were sold to you for five dollars, wouldn't you be so excited that you would stick a Gatling gun in your eyes and fly into the sky with sparks flying?
He Dazhuang felt that Li Ye's criticism was totally unreasonable.
He couldn't help but said weakly: "But the money earned by state-owned restaurants belongs to everyone, while the money earned by private restaurants belongs to individuals!"
“.”
Everyone was stunned, thinking that it seemed to be the case, but then they heard someone shouting behind them.
"Wait a moment, students, wait a moment."
Everyone looked back and found that it was Yang Yumin who had caught up with them.
Yang Yumin didn't catch up empty-handed, but was carrying two boxes of Pengcheng Red Bull. Judging from the direction he was running from, it was obvious that he had just bought them from a Pengcheng Red Bull store.
After catching up with them, he opened the package and handed a can to each of them like smokers handing out cigarettes.
"Everyone, please try it. Don't be disrespectful!"
"What do you mean you're full? If you're full, take it and drink it later. What do you mean you look down on me?"
After a while, Li Ye and others had a can of Pengcheng Red Bull in their hands.
Li Ye smiled and took the lead in opening it, took a sip, and then said, "Do you understand what's going on?"
“.”
Zhen Rongrong didn't understand what Li Ye was talking about and could only shake her head slowly.
Li Ye raised the can in his hand and said, "This drink was given to us by Yang Yumin. It was paid for with his royalties. The meal we just had was the fruit of the labor of Yang Yumin's mother.
Yang Yumin can spend his own money as he pleases, but he cannot decide how other people's money should be spent, not even his mother. What we just gave was not just meal money, but also respect for a working person. ”
"So how other people make money and how they spend it is not something we should be thinking about. What we should be thinking about is how we should make money and how we should spend it ourselves."
“.”
. . . . . . . .
Zhen Rongrong and others continued their social practice, while Li Ye stayed and chatted with Yang Yumin.
Li Ye said: "Your mother's store is too busy, we need to hire a few people to help."
Yang Yumin shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Do you think I didn't tell my mother? But she refused to agree! Hiring someone would cost 20 or 30 yuan a month, and she really couldn't bear it."
Li Ye said, "That won't work either. If you keep going like this, your mother will be exhausted and your sister's homework will be delayed. In addition, you have to equip the store with a refrigerator and pack the dumplings in advance and store them."
Yang Yumin became even more depressed and confided to Li Ye: "I've thought about this too. I still have some foreign exchange, which is enough to buy a refrigerator, but my mother said I was a spendthrift and hit me with a rolling pin."
“.”
Li Ye looked at the "crying" Yang Yumin, and found a relieved smile on his face, as if his mother Yang Huaihua beat him with a rolling pin, but he was happy to do it.
Actually, think about it, when I feel embarrassed to beat you, you should reflect on why.
Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "Old Yang, you should be able to see that your mother's business will definitely grow bigger in the future, so you should guide her to learn management now. You can't just think of yourself as a cook."
"My mother is worried!" Yang Yumin said worriedly, "Your sister has told me all these things. She is learning economics from you now, and that's a whole set of things."
Li Ye: “.”
Li Ye knew that after his sister Li Yue arrived in Beijing, she did not rely on her status to live a life of idleness in Pengcheng Seventh Factory.
Not only did she work hard to master her part of the business, she also studied on her own and enrolled in night school.
But Li Ye really couldn't have imagined that Li Yue would be so confident that he could give Yang Yumin a "lesson".
This is also good. At least sister Li Yue does not feel inferior to Yang Yumin because of her academic qualifications.
And looking at Yang Yumin's current expression, he didn't seem to have any intention of making fun of Li Yue.
"Old Yang, there are always more solutions than problems. If all else fails, you can ask for help! Sometimes it's not unfilial to be considerate of an old man."
Li Ye patted Yang Yumin on the shoulder and left.
“.”
Yang Yumin returned to his own restaurant, opened the remaining can of Pengcheng Red Bull, and handed it to his sister.
He knew that if he didn't open it, his sister would keep it in the quilt for half a month and would not be willing to open it.
Yang Yujiao delivered countless takeouts at noon and was so tired that she was sticking out her tongue like a husky! He took the drink and took a sip immediately, then uttered a note with satisfaction and joy.
“Ah~”
But just as Yang Yujiao was enjoying her second sip, the old lady started nagging, "You two are just showing off! You spent several days' salary on a can of horse urine."
"Mom, it doesn't smell like horse urine! Try it."
"Go away, can't you see I'm still busy here? When you're done, go and do your homework. It's not easy to find a school for you. If you don't study hard."
"Mom, I finished my homework yesterday!"
"Then write it again!"
“.”
Yang Yujiao pursed her lips, quietly placed half a can of Pengcheng Red Bull next to her mother, then obediently picked up her schoolbag and walked away.
I am more stubborn than myself!
Seeing the girl walking away, Yang Yumin walked to Yang Huaihua and said in a deep voice, "Mom, Li Ye just said something to me."
Yang Huaihua was stunned, and immediately asked nervously: "What did he say?"
Yang Yumin said: "He said I was unfilial and would not hire anyone for you or buy you a refrigerator."
"Then explain it to him clearly!" Yang Huaihua said anxiously, "I didn't want to do this. What's that thing under your nose? Are you speechless at the critical moment?"
Yang Yumin pulled a bitter face and said, "I told you, but my classmate Li Ye is not a good-tempered person. He said I am not filial, so I am not filial.
You don’t know him, he has been the little emperor of the family since he was young, even his father and grandfather listen to him, not to mention Li Yue.”
Li Ye asked Yang Yumin to call for help, but actually he wanted his sister Li Yue to persuade him.
So how smart is Yang Yumin? How can you destroy the relationship between me and Li Yue?
With Li Ye as a ready-made guy, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use him as a sacrifice?
"That"
Yang Huaihua finally said helplessly: "Then let's hire someone first! Alas. How come Xiaoyue is such a good girl, but she has such a domineering brother!"
"Mom, please don't say bad things about his brother in front of Li Yue! Otherwise, I will be implicated."
"I know, I know. Go do your job! Work will be assigned soon. Don't come to me all the time."
After Yang Huaihua drove Yang Yumin away, she began to clean up the stove with a sigh.
But then she thought again and felt that even if she hired one person, there would still be profit to be made. Once she hired someone, she would have a clear conscience and forbid Yang Yumin from coming to help again, which would be a good thing.
After figuring it out, Yang Huaihua saw the half-empty can of Pengcheng Red Bull.
I took it and tasted it.
sweet.
As sweet as a good day.
(End of this chapter)
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