A cold wind is blowing in Deyang, so Shu Hui cooks a pot of brown sugar and red date soup for them every day, afraid that they will catch a cold if they stand in the shop all day.
As Chen Yun sipped his jujube soup, he thought Mandarin's treatment was really good. The salary was high, and the employees were kind. He heard that the boss was still a student with top grades in Germany and China. Chen Yun felt that following such a boss would be promising and hopeful, and he was full of energy.
Her brother and sister-in-law didn't think that way; her sister-in-law had said some sarcastic things several times.
"Do you think they're doing charity work, making you sixty or seventy a month? Just wait and see, when payday comes, the boss will definitely deduct your wages. You'll be lucky to get twenty."
His brother also said, "I have a stable job and I only earn 30 yuan a month. You have no education and work for a self-employed person. If you can earn 60 or 70 yuan a month, where do we educated people with stable jobs put our faces?"
Chen Yun's older brother was always jealous. Whenever Chen Yun had better grades, made friends with people of higher status, or was valued by his superiors, he would always make sarcastic remarks, fearing that Chen Yun would surpass him. When it came time to go to the countryside, his brother didn't want to go, so he lied and said he was unwell, pushing Chen Yun to go instead.
Feeling guilty, Chen's mother wanted to leave the job to Chen Yun, but Chen Yun's brother quickly married his girlfriend and asked his mother to pass the job on to her daughter-in-law.
What could Chen's mother do? She also loved Chen Yun, her youngest daughter, but no matter how good her daughter was, she was still someone else's daughter. Once her daughter-in-law entered the family, she was one of them. Being good to her daughter-in-law was being good to her grandchildren, and that's how the benefits would stay in the Chen family.
Upon hearing that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, Chen's mother no longer hesitated and asked someone to handle the formalities to give the job to her daughter-in-law.
Chen Yun returned from his rural assignment in 1980 and waited for three whole years, only to receive this result. It would be a lie to say he wasn't heartbroken.
But her parents and relatives were like a cage. They treated her badly, yet she was expected to remember them with gratitude. They would bring up the few toys or popsicles they had bought for her when she was a few years old, fearing that she would be ungrateful and unwilling to let her family bleed her dry.
Chen Yun's mother added fuel to the fire:
"Quit your job tomorrow. Your sister-in-law is about to give birth. You should stay home to take care of her during her postpartum period and look after the baby. It's better than going out and causing trouble."
Chen Yun refused, and her mother forced her to pay 10 yuan to the family every month before she would let her go.
The boss treats her well, providing food and drinks, and snacks to keep her entertained. Chen Yun earns seventy yuan a month, gives ten yuan to her family, and manages to save sixty yuan.
Saving seven or eight hundred a year is better than having a stable job, isn't it? Although others look down on self-employed individuals, Chen Yun thinks these two bosses are really extraordinary. The bosses get the meat while she gets the soup. If she works for the bosses, she might actually make it big.
Chu Yu asked her to find someone to be a model, and Chen Yun chimed in, "Boss, can I give it a try?"
"Of course you can. The reason I chose you as a shop assistant was because you have well-defined features, a small face and head, and good body proportions. People like that look good on camera."
Chu Yu pondered for a moment: "You can give it a try. You can get paid as a model for taking photos, but if you skip work, the store will either deduct your wages or deduct it from your vacation days."
Chen Yun and Fang Fang are all quite good-looking. With a little makeover or even just a visit to a plastic surgery clinic, they all have the potential to become actors.
Chen Yun's eyes lit up. She thought that taking photos for the boss was her job, but she didn't expect the boss to give her two paychecks.
The modeling fee is 20 yuan a day. Based on the base salary, deducting one day's wages is less than one yuan. Deducting one day's leave is even less of a problem. She takes leave to earn modeling fees. She can't expect the boss to pay her wages on time, can she?
Chen Yun and Shen Zhuyu were in charge of contacting models, while Chu Yu wanted to find a suitable photographer. In the clothing industry, you can't do without a photographer you work with regularly. In the 1980s, it was hard to find a suitable person. If all else failed, she would find someone who knew photography and train them slowly.
Chu Yu took the opportunity of paying Ge Lanzhi a handling fee to go find Chen Baifu.
Ge Lanzhi refused to accept Chu Yu's money, only taking three hundred yuan from Shen Zhuyu. Chu Yu felt embarrassed, as she had asked her for help so many times, and giving three hundred yuan was not much.
Ge Lanzhi held her hand and said, "Old Chen and your uncle drink together every day. With our friendship, there's no need to be so formal."
Chu Yu offered the money several times, but she resolutely refused, so she had no choice but to put it away.
However, Chen Baifu didn't know any photographers either. "I'm just a lowly section chief. I can help you find a house, but I don't know any photographers."
Chu Yu had no choice but to ask Dai Donglin for help. During this time, Dai Donglin was busy with home appliance stores. He planned to open a chain store in every city with smuggling bases.
Dai Donglin was well-informed; he knew exactly how much cargo was coming in from Guangdong Province. When more smuggled goods came in, the price of home appliances would drop, and when less came in, the price would rise. Market price fluctuations were determined by the volume of goods coming in from the Guangdong port.
His ability is demonstrated here.
When there was an abundance of smuggled goods at the Guangdong port, Dai Donglin would sell off his home appliances in advance; when there was less smuggled goods, he would raise prices.
With no inventory, there was plenty of cash, and Dai Donglin made money exceptionally fast. Even Mi Fei was astonished and suspected that Donglin had changed his ways.
Little did he know, Dai Donglin was feeling a sense of crisis.
Chu Yu opened a clothing store, earning several thousand yuan a day, and then immediately opened a furniture store.
She may not earn as many as him, making hundreds of thousands from a single shipment, but she's still considered a small-time rich woman.
Women with money and ability have more choices. Dai Donglin's confidence comes from his family background, but besides his family background, how can he stand out from Chu Yu's suitors and firmly hold the position of the number one boyfriend?
There's nothing else to do but make more money. If ten million isn't enough, then twenty million. Smuggling isn't safe, so he'll launder his money and run an appliance store. As long as he can save enough for the dowry, he can marry her.
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