Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Business is too profitable (Edit)
Liu Mianmian did not tell Shen Weiyun about what happened at school. In the days before the exam, she tried to keep a relaxed and cheerful atmosphere at home. Shen Weiyun also quickly adjusted his state and threw himself into the final sprint without any distractions.
Shen Bokang and Yu Wan were both very angry when they learned about Shen Weiyun's situation. If Jia Kexue had not been locked up in the police station, Shen Bokang, a scholar who was powerless, almost wanted to beat that guy up himself.
Naturally, they had no objections to Liu Mianmian's handling of the situation. If no one reported a student with this kind of character and allowed him to continue, he would only become more aggressive and might even cause harm to more female classmates in the future.
Moreover, he has good grades and may be admitted to university and enter the workplace. Especially after he obtains a certain status, the harm will be even greater.
After all, the college entrance examination can only screen out poor students, but it cannot screen out this kind of scum.
Sending someone to the police station before the college entrance examination can be considered as getting rid of harm to the people.
However, this incident also made Shen Bokang and Yu Wan deeply aware that they had not paid enough attention to their daughter. So starting in early July, they both took leave from their work and stayed at home to accompany their daughter to review. During the exam days, they also personally sent their daughter to the examination room.
Shen Weiyun had been left at large for so many years, but during the most stressful period of her life, she felt her parents' deep love for her. It can only be said that she felt both pain and happiness.
On the last day of the college entrance examination, Shen Weiyun came out of the examination room and saw his whole family standing under the big banyan tree outside the examination room. He immediately smiled and ran over.
"The exam is finally over, I'm free!"
It happened to be Sunday, and Liu Mianmian didn't have to go to work, so the family decided to go out and find a restaurant for a good meal. Originally, they had invited Aunt Liu and the others to join them, but Aunt Liu and Uncle Wang were already helping Wang Zhiyuan set up a stall at the market, so they said they would stop working when they got back and just eat something and rest.
In the hot summer, Liu Mianmian thought eating lobster was the most enjoyable thing. Unfortunately, there were no stalls selling crayfish at that time. It was not until the late 1990s that crayfish became really popular and became an indispensable summer delicacy.
Taking Shen Weizhuo's health into consideration, everyone finally chose a time-honored Huaiyang restaurant.
As policies are gradually relaxed, there are more and more private restaurants and shops, especially some old restaurants that were closed down in the early years. As long as the chefs are still alive or the family has inherited the business, these restaurants have sprung up like mushrooms in the past two years.
The food in this restaurant is very good. Liu Mianmian especially likes the crystal braised pork and crab meat lion head dishes.
Well, carnivores, for sure.
When I got home after dinner, Aunt Liu and her family had already finished dinner and were sitting in the yard eating watermelon to cool off. The watermelon was said to have been bought at the market. It had a thin skin, red skin, and was crisp and sweet, surpassing any other melon at the market.
"Oh wow, this melon is really good, and most importantly, it's cheap. We bought ten directly, and as soon as we got to the entrance of the alley, five of them were shared by the old neighbors."
Aunt Liu finished her talk about watermelon and then talked about selling cloth. "Our cloth is just like any other cloth. The patterns are beautiful and it's cheap. Everyone is scrambling to get it. Oh my! I'm almost breaking my hands from cutting cloth."
They took more than 30 pieces of cloth in total, and Liu Mianmian gave them a commission of three yuan per piece. At the end of the day, they earned more than 100 yuan.
Earning a hundred yuan a day, Aunt Liu never dared to dream so big.
Shen Weiyun was eager to make a move: "Brother Zhiyuan, are you still going tomorrow? Can you take me with you?"
Wang Zhiyuan scratched his head: "It's hot, and the sun is too strong during the day."
Shen Weiyun's heart longs to fly, and the scorching sun cannot stop it. She said that as the successor of socialism, she is not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and can carry out the revolution in the wind and snow!
Well, the next day when Uncle Wang went to work, she took over his job and went out with Aunt Liu and Wang Zhiyuan.
When she came back in the evening, her skin, which was originally as white as Shen Weizhou's, was visibly darker than Shen Weizhou's. However, she was very happy, especially when Liu Mianmian gave her the commission, Liu Mianmian felt that her eyes were shining.
After running around for a few more days, by the time the last batch of fabrics was sold out, Shen Weiyun's skin color was basically the same as Shen Weizhuo's.
When several people stood together, she looked more like Wang Zhiyuan's sister, with dark skin and a mouthful of white teeth when she smiled.
However, the hard work was not in vain. During this period of time, Shen Weiyun earned more than 200 yuan in commission.
All the cloth was sold out, and that day, everyone sat together in the yard to count the accounts.
Jiang Hongmei and Liu Anmin were also tanned, but they were both very happy. After deducting various expenses, they had earned a total of more than 8,000 yuan from this batch of fabric. Liu Mianmian had agreed with them that she would provide the majority of the investment, while they would mainly rely on sales, and the profits would be split equally.
Jiang Hongmei refused, saying that they had already received commission from selling goods. Liu Mianmian thought about it and added back the commission given to them, and then divided it in half again.
In addition to fabrics, a lot of mildew removers were also sold, with a profit of more than one thousand. Liu Mianmian gave them commission on this part, and the remaining profit went to Shen Weizhuo.
In other words, the couple earned five or six thousand yuan this time.
Even someone like Shen Bokang, who despised money, couldn't help but sigh that business was so profitable.
At his level, he doesn't earn that much salary in a year.
"We want to go to Guangshi to take a look," said Jiang Hongmei.
Liu Anmin's parents worked at a military factory, one at a food factory, the other at a reputable one. But with so many children, their family's financial situation was modest. As the third child, with younger siblings, he felt isolated and neglected from a young age. The little money he earned from his partnership with Jiang Hongmei was scraped together by doing odd jobs.
They have been selling clothing and fabrics for such a long time and have gained a certain understanding of the market, so they want to continue in this business.
Now that she had some money in her pocket, Jiang Hongmei always remembered what Liu Mianmian had said about the cheap fabrics and clothes in Guangzhou. After discussing with Liu Anmin, the two of them decided to go south together to take a look.
"Do you need me to invest some money?" Liu Mianmian asked.
Jiang Hongmei has never been one to shy away from words, and she always speaks directly: "Of course, with the little money Liu Anmin and I have, how much can we earn?"
Liu Mianmian laughed and said, "I only provide money but not work, and I always feel like I'm exploiting you."
Jiang Hongmei waved her hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense. If you don't invest money in me, we've been working so hard until now, and we can earn a thousand yuan, which is pretty good."
Doing business requires capital. Just like this time, if Liu Mianmian hadn't been able to come up with so much money, they wouldn't have been able to even think about getting this batch of goods from the garment factory.
The more capital you have, the more profit you will make. With the same amount of time and effort, who wouldn’t want to earn more?
Since they had no capital, they had to put in more effort. Since Liu Mianmian had money, she had to put in less effort. In Jiang Hongmei's opinion, this was fair, and they even made money. After all, there were many people who could put in the effort. Apart from Liu Mianmian, Jiang Hongmei really couldn't find anyone else who could be so confident in investing money in them.
"Okay, then I'll give you five thousand." Liu Mianmian counted the money she had just received, and then counted out another five thousand and handed it to Jiang Hongmei.
Jiang Hongmei glanced at Shen Weizhuo and found that he was reading a magazine full of foreign words without even raising his eyelids, as if Liu Mianmian had given her fifty yuan instead of five thousand yuan.
He glanced at Shen Bokang and Yu Wan again, and they both looked indifferent.
Recalling how the Liu family had disdained their daughter from the countryside for bringing shame upon them, they had secretly discussed marrying her off to the Shen family… Not to mention, she had even overheard them discussing this matter. In just six months, the situations on both sides had completely changed.
"By the way, I heard that Liu Jinshi went to the northwest." Jiang Hongmei has been busy recently and has spent very little time at home. It was only after the fabrics were sold out in the past two days that she finally had two days of rest at home. Only then did she hear some "news" in the military industrial compound.
Liu Jinshi, once a "proud child of heaven," was assigned to sweep the floors, which made everyone in the military industrial compound sigh for a while. However, the fact that she could continue to stay in the factory was also the result of her mother's constant visits to the factory to make trouble.
But unexpectedly, Liu Jinshi suddenly resigned without saying a word.
"The military factory recently hired a new deputy director, a retired soldier named Shen Wenshan." Jiang Hongmei glanced at the Shen family. "Someone at the factory said this deputy director is my uncle's younger brother?"
Her cautious look made Shen Bokang laugh. He said frankly, "In terms of blood relationship, he is the child of my father's second wife."
Jiang Hongmei understood immediately. They were brothers in terms of blood relationship, but emotionally, he didn't want to acknowledge this brother at all, right?
Liu Mianmian asked curiously, "Did he transfer to the military factory?" The old man was indeed decisive in his actions. He said that Shen Wenshan should transfer and he really did. Judging from the expressions of Shen Bokang and Yu Wan, they should know about it, but they never mentioned the family's affairs at home.
She thought for a moment and said, "Shen Weihong also went to the northwest, right? So Liu Jinshi followed Shen Weihong?"
Jiang Hongmei was gossiping, "People in the compound are saying that Deputy Director Shen's son has gone to the Northwest Research Institute to serve the country. It seems that Liu Jinshi has a special relationship with him, so she resigned and followed him."
Liu Mianmian thought to herself that people in the military industrial compound were very good at gossiping, so this news should be almost true.
However, this completely changes the plot of the original book. The hero travels to the northwest, and the female supporting character follows him thousands of miles away. The female protagonist seems to be a career-oriented person. I wonder if she will follow the hero to the northwest, or stay in the bookstore to look for business opportunities?
Liu Mianmian didn't know that Jiang Yingxue had also wanted to fight for the batch of fabrics she had obtained.
However, Shen Weihong used Jiang Yingxue's money to invest in fertilizer resale, and he lost everything. Shen Weihong did manage to pay her back a little, but it was still a long way from the defective fabrics from the garment factory, and in the end, he failed to buy them.
No matter what, Liu Mianmian wished these people would stay away from her. She subconsciously felt that these people were a bit "ominous" and could easily bring bad things to Shen Weizhou and his family.
There is a feeling of "one gains while the other loses".
This was an inexplicable intuition that came to her after reading the plot of the original book. Liu Mianmian didn't care whether it was just her own imagination. Anyway, it was always right to stay as far away from people you don't like as possible.
"Let's go, pick some vegetables. Hongmei and Anmin, you guys stay for dinner." Liu Mianmian didn't think about Shen Weihong anymore, and said as she glanced at the darkening sky.
The vegetable plots that Yu Guoliang had planted in the backyard were growing well, especially after Wang Zhiyuan came. Even though he went out early and came back late every day, he still found time to tidy up the vegetable garden. Recently, the tomatoes, cucumbers and beans in the garden have been growing one after another.
Shen Weiyun followed like a little tail, picked a bright red tomato and started chewing it, saying as he ate it, "Sister Hongmei is going to the south, so Zhiyuan and I will have nothing to do this summer vacation, right?"
This market has become interesting. Liu Mianmian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She picked two handfuls of beans and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind. She said, "How about we go to An County for a few days?"
A while ago, Yu Guoliang called and said that her parents missed her very much and asked her to take time to go home if she had time.
Liu Mianmian thought about what the original owner had done, which must have hurt her adoptive parents. She had been thinking about going back sometime. Now that this was the case, she didn't have to wait until Yu Guodong got married before going back.
Anyway, An County is not too far from Nancheng. At most, Yu Guodong will have to make another trip when he gets married.
Shen Weiyun suddenly became excited: "Okay, okay."
Soon he frowned again: "Sister-in-law, you have to go to work, how can you have time to go?"
Liu Mianmian smiled and said, "Our restaurant has hired a new pianist. We will take turns working there from now on."
The original Sunday part-timer had resigned, so the job was for a music teacher. These days, art competitions were rare, and not many people were taking the art specialization route, so music teachers had a very leisurely schedule. In any case, from Liu Mianmian's observation, Teacher Jin was working two jobs, and it was quite relaxing.
Although the two of them had a much lower salary after taking turns working, Liu Mianmian now had a "huge sum of money" in her hands, so she didn't really care about the salary at the Western restaurant.
It’s summer vacation now, and Teacher Jin said it’s okay to leave it to her during the summer vacation.
Liu Mianmian heard from Alin that Teacher Jin's child was in poor health, and she worked so hard to earn money so that she could save enough to take her child to a big hospital in Beijing or Shanghai for treatment.
The proposal to go to An County was supported by Shen Bokang and Yu Wan. Liu Mianmian and Shen Weizhou had been married for so long, and it was reasonable for them to visit their adoptive parents, but Shen Bokang and Yu Wan had taken too much leave recently, so it was difficult for them to take more leave during this period.
So the family discussed it and decided that Shen Weizhou would take a few days off and go back with Liu Mianmian. Taking Shen Weizhou's health into consideration, they finally decided to let Wang Zhiyuan, who was still unemployed, accompany them so that they could take care of him.
A few days later, Liu Mianmian and others sent Jiang Hongmei and Liu Anmin, whose faces were smeared with dust and whose clothes were tattered, to the train. Then they carried their luggage to the bus station next door and took a bus to An County.
Liuxia Village, Qianjin Township, An County.
A group of people came out of the village committee office. The Yu family members all frowned, especially Yu Yongcheng, who glared at his eldest son Yu Guoliang for a few seconds, then walked away angrily with unsteady steps.
Yu Guoliang's wife Ye Lan was also frowning. She pulled her husband and muttered, "One hundred and fifty yuan a year, and we have only saved about two hundred yuan in total." They were able to save so much money because Yu Guoliang was the village accountant and could get a salary of more than ten yuan a month.
As a result, Yu Guoliang spent all the money he had saved after years of frugality and contracted a large piece of mountain land and a pond behind the village.
You might be able to make a little money by raising fish in the pond, but what’s the use of that large piece of mountain land? No one wants such barren land, so the village contracted it out.
Originally, Yu Guoliang had a salary, and Ye Lan could also do some small jobs on her own. Compared with other people in the village, their family's living conditions were actually quite good.
Now, I’m afraid they will soon become the poorest in the village.
Second Uncle Yu Yongfeng walked past them, turned back, sighed, and said, "Guoliang, I think you went to South City and saw the outside world, and your heart has become wild. For us farmers, the land is our foundation. You contracted a piece of barren land and a pond, but do you really think you can make a fortune with these? Raising fish is not like putting fish fry into the pond and expecting them to grow."
Second Aunt Yang Qiaoqiao followed behind and said, "Guoliang, don't listen to your second uncle. I think you are capable and can definitely make a lot of money."
The words sound nice, but they always sound like sarcasm.
Ever since his family made some fortune from somewhere two years ago and used their connections to get his son a temporary job in the village, the originally dull and honest Yang Qiaoqiao seemed to have changed.
Only after they walked away did Yu Guodong make a "Pooh" sound and roll his eyes.
He patted Yu Guoliang on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, brother. If we really lose money, we can go to the south to work and earn money to pay off the debt. I heard that many construction sites in the south are hiring people now, and you can earn 70 or 80 yuan a month."
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