Yun Jin and Li Aimei were picking vegetables in the garden, which Li's mother had planted in her spare time.
Yun Jin picked a cucumber and ate it: "Did you give your little nephew the gift you bought?"
"I gave it to her, and my sister-in-law liked it very much. She said I have good taste," Li Aimei said with a smile.
Yun Jin found it amusing. Of course, how could a gold bracelet not be good?
"I also want to thank you for lending me the money, sister-in-law!" Li Aimei didn't have enough money. Even though she saved every penny, she was still short by several tens of yuan, so she borrowed twenty yuan from Yun Jin to buy a bracelet.
Originally, she only needed to buy one, which would only weigh three to five grams. But since they said they would give her a pair as a gift, Li Aimei gritted her teeth and bought a pair, spending almost a hundred yuan.
The current price of gold is over eight yuan per gram, and a pair of bracelets weighs eleven grams. That's eighty-eight yuan.
There were also labor costs and other expenses, which added up to almost a hundred.
"I'm not in a hurry." Yun Jin wasn't pressuring for repayment.
Li Aimei understood what she meant and said with distress, "If only I could do something to earn money, that would be great. It's a two-month summer vacation, and I can't just stay at home eating, drinking, and playing every day."
There wasn't much to do, really; Li Aimei had to help take care of her nephew.
Reminded by her, Yun Jin seemed to realize something and asked with a smile, "You want to make money?"
Li Aimei's eyes lit up: "Sister-in-law, do you have any ways to make money?"
Yun Jin beckoned with her finger: "If you can endure hardship, I do have a way."
Li Aimei's eyes lit up even more: "I can endure hardship, I can endure any kind of hardship."
“Okay, let’s talk to Nian Gao’s dad tonight and see if he agrees. If he has no objections, we can make money together!” Yun Jin blinked.
Li Aimei is already looking forward to it.
......
When He Tingchuan returned from the training ground, Yun Jin had already prepared the vegetables, waiting for him to come back and cook them.
While Yun Jin was cooking rice, she also steamed two egg custards. Xiao Niangao likes egg custard, so she gave her father a spoonful, her mother a spoonful, and then gave Xiao Doubao a spoonful of egg custard in her bowl. The rest was all for her.
Today I had minced meat and egg custard, which tasted much better than regular egg custard; it had a meaty flavor.
After a satisfying meal, the family of four went for a stroll.
Listening to the croaking of frogs outside the courtyard, Yun Jin said to He Tingchuan, "I'm thinking of setting up a barbecue stall, what do you think?"
He Tingchuan thought he had misheard: "What are you trying to do?"
"Sell barbecue." Yun Jin's eyes sparkled. "I'm so bored every day. Why don't I set up a barbecue stall at night? Anyway, they're not cracking down on speculation anymore, so it's not too much for me to set up a stall, right?"
"It will be very tiring." He Tingchuan knew that his wife was not the type to do housework.
"It's alright, I'll come up with the ideas, and Aimei will be in charge of the work." Yun Jin had already thought it through.
He Tingchuan was reluctant, feeling that she would only be there for two months, and his salary was enough to support her and her daughter. He didn't want her to work so hard; he just wanted Yun Jin to be happy and carefree.
Seeing his resistance, Yun Jin used all her charm and coquettishness.
He Tingchuan did not budge.
Yun Jin had no choice but to use her trump card. She whispered a few words to him, and He Tingchuan wanted to refuse, but since his wife had said those things, he had to give her face.
At night, after Xiao Niangao fell asleep, she was taken away. The couple closed the door, and when it was Yun Jin's turn to fulfill her promise, she kept her word, cooperated in every way, and was very proactive. He Tingchuan was happy again.
The next day, after He Tingchuan went to training, Li Aimei came to inquire about the situation. Seeing Yun Jin looking completely drained, she asked anxiously, "Sister-in-law, are you feeling unwell?"
Yun Jin waved her hand: "It's nothing. There were mosquitoes last night, and I spent the whole night swatting them, so I didn't sleep well. I must swat mosquitoes early tonight."
Li Aimei, this naive little girl, really thought it was the mosquitoes' fault. She cursed the mosquitoes a few times and said that she would go and cut some mugwort later to fumigate it at night, so that even the fiercest mosquitoes would run away.
Yun Jin, even mosquitoes can run away, right?
Getting back to the point, Yun Jin said excitedly, "I've already talked to Nian Gao's dad. He agreed and told me to handle it myself. If you're willing, we can start preparing today."
"Great!" Li Aimei exclaimed excitedly; she was desperate to make money.
In this way, Yun Jin and Li Aimei went out of the compound in the morning, ordered a few simple tables and benches, and then went to the village to buy a lot of bamboo from a bamboo basket weaver. They paid him to whittle the bamboo into bamboo sticks.
With Little Rice Cake by my side, I spent the whole day running around outside.
When they returned before dark, all three of them were exhausted.
After cooking the dishes, He Tingchuan looked at the person who didn't want to talk and scratched his head: "Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Not yet, but I'll let you know when I need it." Yun Jin leaned on his back. "When my barbecue starts, you'll have to come."
"good!"
Yun Jin hugged him and laughed, "You have to pay."
He Tingchuan's lips curled up: "Okay, I'll do the work for you."
Yun Jin: "..."
Is it about doing the work, or about dealing with people?
The next day, all the women in the compound knew that Yun Jin and Li Aimei were going to buy barbecue.
"What, buying barbecue?"
"With Deputy Brigade Commander He's high salary, how could she still be thinking of making money off us?"
"Isn't this woman afraid of getting arrested? Isn't she being told she can't do business?"
"She's engaging in speculation and profiteering!"
When Sister-in-law Gao heard this, she argued, "How is this speculation? They call it individual economy, and they said they've already applied to the Industry and Commerce Bureau. It's legal and compliant."
"I think I heard it mentioned on the radio, something about reform and opening up, and the individual economy."
"Yes, yes, that's it. We've seen it on TV. The leaders even spoke about it, saying it's a good business opportunity."
Upon hearing that they could do business with Yun Jin, those who had planned to report her for speculation and profiteering were so angry that they stomped their feet.
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