Anshan Town is small, the only primary school in Anshan Town.
It originally only had a long three-story building as a teaching building, but in recent years, more and more students have entered the school, and that building is not enough. In the first two years, the basketball court next to the town that originally belonged to the town's fertilizer factory was demolished. And some houses, one more teaching building was built.
Last year, there were already more than 200 students enrolled in the first grade of Anshan Township, and they were divided into six classes. According to this situation, it won't be long before Anshan Township's primary school building will not be enough.
Of course, ordinary residents in the town don't think about it. They feel that it's a little crowded to pick up and drop off from school every day.
This is also related to the increasing number of people setting up stalls at the entrance of the small school in Anshan Town.
The people who live near the town are basically retired teachers, retired workers, etc. There are not many shops, but there are quite a few people who set up stalls.
Ling Shengqiang is a second grade student in Anshan Town Primary School.
His home is in the town, not far from the school, and he goes to and from school by himself every day.
Early this morning, he got up early and was ready to go to school.
"Qianqiang, buy some breakfast yourself." Before Ling Shengqiang went out, his mother stopped him and gave him a dollar.
Ling Shengqiang's parents had to work, so their house opened fire at night and bought breakfast.
Ling Shengqiang took the money and went to school, while thinking about what to eat for breakfast today.
Is it to eat buns? Or eat wontons
Others are small, rice balls and biscuits are enough for 50 cents, or you can buy both, saving 50 cents to buy other snacks...
Ling Shengqiang thought about it while walking towards the school. Halfway through the road, he found that the recently rebuilt house at the fork near the school was now facing both sides of the road. The doors were open and many things were displayed.
Is there a grocery store here
No, it's not just the canteen, the two gates each have a signboard, one side says "Huaguang Stationery" and the other side says "Dalin Non-staple Food".
Is this a shop that sells snacks and stationery
Ling Shengqiang passes by here every day, watching the original dilapidated house being repaired little by little, and is full of curiosity about this store.
He headed into the store.
There are all kinds of snacks in the store, and they also sell pencils, pens, ballpoint pens, erasers, etc., and of course there are many books.
Ling Shengqiang was dazzled!
But he hadn't bought anything, he hadn't had breakfast yet, and was rushing to school.
Ling Shengqiang continued to walk forward, and then saw a familiar stall, drooling in his mouth, he ran towards the stall, squeezed into the crowd and handed out a dollar: "I want a large string of tenderloin with eggs!"
His favorite thing to eat lately is this sizzling pork loin.
With an egg on top of the large skewer of tenderloin, a total of one dollar is enough for him to eat it for breakfast.
Affordable to eat this, but also a lot of face.
After Ling Shengqiang finished eating, he wiped his mouth and entered the school. When it was time for school...
He had run out of money and couldn't afford snacks, so he ignored the fried skewers, stinky tofu, tea eggs, etc., and rushed to the small shop all the way.
The old stationery store in the town has a very high counter, and the people inside are serious, so you can just follow your parents. If Ling Shengqiang goes by himself, no one will pay attention to him, and he will not dare to talk to people... Out.
But here, many things are placed within his reach.
And such a small shop will not put pressure on him, he can browse all kinds of things at will.
For example, the bag with Ultraman printed on it, he couldn't tell how much he liked it.
"What is this?" Ling Shengqiang asked.
As soon as he asked, he saw a young woman in her twenties said softly, "This is a pencil case, for holding pens."
Ling Shengqiang felt that a pencil case would be better for a pen, but he liked the Ultraman on this bag!
Wait, there is also Ultraman on the bag hanging next to it!
Ling Shengqiang's eyes lit up.
The young woman who was talking to Ling Shengqiang was Zhao Qiujuan.
The Shi Dalin couple's shop opened on the first day of today, and she came here to help watch.
In this store, you can buy most of the things, but there are not too many varieties, such as soy sauce, there are only two varieties in total.
The most items in the store are stationery and snacks.
During the day, only a few people nearby came over and bought some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar sporadically, but now the store is crowded with children.
"How much is this eraser?"
"I want to buy this pen!"
"Give me a packet of Mimi shrimp sticks."
"I want to be good."
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Zhao Qiujuan and Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun, and Zhao Meiyun were not very skilled in taking things and collecting money, so they were busy.
Some children in grades 5 and 6 have a lot of money on hand, and some people even bought a pencil case after seeing five yuan.
There are also some children who are picked up by their parents. Parents bring their children in, and they are even more generous.
Seeing this, Zhao Qiujuan summoned the courage to introduce it to them: "This pencil case is now being used by people in big cities, and it sells very well."
"That schoolbag can be acquainted, one eighteen, we sold it very cheaply."
"What do the kids want to eat?"
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Zhao Qiujuan has been collecting money almost all the time.
The children in the school are open for one grade and one grade, and it will be more than an hour after all are released.
Finally, no one came in the store. Zhao Qiujuan and the others took out the gas stove and started cooking. As for the rice, they had already prepared it with a rice cooker.
This store needs someone to watch all day, and they simply eat in the store.
When they finished the dishes, Shi Dashan and his wife, who had set up a stall not far away, followed.
Shi Dalin called Shi Dashan and the others to eat at their store.
When Shi Dashan and Chen Xiaofen came in from the outside, they were carrying a bowl with some meat dishes from their fried skewer stand.
The fried tenderloin, ham, sausage, and seven or eight chicken wing tips are placed in a bowl, exuding a tempting aroma.
Chen Xiaofen put it on the counter: "I took something and came over to add vegetables.
This store is quite small. They can only put the dishes on the counter when they eat. They bring a bowl and eat it while standing.
The conditions are poor, but everyone is happy.
Shi Dashan and his wife didn't want to leave their hometown.
But recently they made money, and they sensed that it was good.
If nothing else, how could they eat meat every day in the mountains
Now not only do they eat meat every day, they occasionally sell well, and they can earn 100 yuan a day!
On average, they can earn two thousand a month.
God, that's two thousand!
In their mountains, the gift money for marrying a daughter-in-law is only one or two thousand!
When they asked their eldest son to follow Shi Zhen out to work, what they thought was to let him work hard outside for a few years, earn one or two thousand dollars, and then go back to marry a wife.
But now... what is one or two thousand
Shi Dashan has swelled recently, and plans to buy a color TV as well.
Speaking of color TVs, Shi Dalin also moved the color TVs to the canteen. His shop also has business during the day. People nearby will come to buy things, but there are not many people, so he can sit in the store with Zhao Meiyun. watch TV.
In the winter, you can add a curtain to the door to block the wind, and in the summer you can blow an electric fan in the house... Opening a store is really much more comfortable than selling fried skewers outside.
They were eating when Shi Zhen came.
Seeing Shi Zhen, Zhao Meiyun hurriedly greeted Shi Zhen to eat, and then brought out the dishes reserved for Shi Zhen to Shi Zhen - Shi Zhen said before that he might come later, so they ate first.
Shi Zhen asked how the business was going.
"Business is very good," Shi Dalin smiled, "it's just that there is no work to do during the day, so I'm a little uncomfortable."
Shi Zhen smiled and asked Shi Dashan how their business was going.
Shi Dashan was delighted: "The business is going well! I'm going to buy one for Xingxing as well for the bicycle that your sister Qiujuan bought."
Zhao Qiujuan bought a pink women's bicycle a few days ago.
The tires of this car are not big, and it is a little low. Zhao Qiujuan is sitting on it, and her toes can touch the ground, so she quickly learned to ride a bicycle.
The first time Shi Zhen saw her riding a bicycle, she was sitting on the bicycle with her head up high, her face full of smiles, young and full of vigor.
Shi Zhen liked her like this.
He even thought that Zhao Qiujuan was much prettier.
In the past, Zhao Qiujuan never dressed herself.
She looks ordinary, but really speaking, her facial features are not flawed.
Her skin is dark, but not rough, her hair is a little rough, but very much, her eyebrows are scattered, but thick black, and her eyes are double inner, neither big nor small...
After buying a bicycle, Xu Qiujuan cut off her long hair and bought some new clothes in order to match her own bicycle.
Shi Zhen noticed that she had put on a little bit of lipstick today, and her eyebrows were obviously trimmed.
Zhao Qiujuan's original eyebrows were dark and thick. After plucking some of them, the whole person was much more delicate. Her skin was dark, and her lips were the same color as her skin. She put on some lipstick and looked very energetic.
In fact, Zhao Dongjuan is not better-looking than Zhao Qiujuan, but Zhao Qiujuan didn't dress up before.
"Sister, you look beautiful today." Shi Zhen smiled.
Zhao Qiujuan's eyes suddenly lit up.
Chen Xiaofen also said: "Qiu Juan is not only beautiful today, but she is getting better every day recently."
Shi Zhen noticed that Zhao Qiujuan, who was praised, was in a particularly good mood.
Shi Zhen and Shi Dashan chatted about Shi Xingxing: "Xingxing is still embroidering recently."
"Yes, she embroiders at home and cooks by the way." Chen Xiaofen said.
"Auntie, have you ever thought about letting Xingxing come out to set up a stall?"
"Then there will be no one in the family..." Chen Xiaofen struggled, there are so many people in his family, he needs someone to cook at home.
Shi Zhen said: "If you only sell breakfast, don't delay cooking at home, or let Brother Xingchao cook, just give him money."
"That's it! Oh, I only now know that Xingchao is so rude!" Chen Xiaofen mentioned her second son, and she felt a little helpless.
Before in the mountains, she only thought that her second son was a little stingy, but now that she came out, she realized... This is not a little stingy anymore, it's a lot of stingy!
But her son is in his twenties, and she can't do anything about him.
Better than throwing money away.
As for her daughter... Chen Xiaofen said: "Azhen, if Xingxing... What do you think she can do?"
Shi Zhen said: "Auntie, you can let Xingxing come out to sell egg cakes."
Just buy a round iron pan that Chen Xiaofen used to sell teppanyaki, and you can sell egg pancakes.
Shi Zhen told Chen Xiaofen how to make two kinds of egg pancakes. Chen Xiaofen immediately became interested and planned to go back in the evening, so she asked her daughter to use them to make a pan for sizzling tenderloin and try to make it.
At this time, Shi Zhen looked at Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun again: "Dad, Aunt Zhao, let's get acquainted with this commissary first, and once you are familiar with it, you can go to school in the morning and after school in the evening, you can also sell something else."
"What are we selling?" Zhao Meiyun asked, she wanted to make more money.
"Such as selling instant noodles." Shi Zhen laughed.
At this time, the child liked instant noodles very much. He remembered that a few years later in his last life, there would be a stall selling instant noodles at the entrance of the primary school.
Freshly boiled instant noodles sold for 1 yuan a pack, plus a ham sausage for 1 yuan and 5 yuan. At that time, there were quite a few children who bought this for breakfast.
Selling this alone won't make much money, but when Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun opened the store, they sold it along the way. Even if they sold ten packs a day, they could earn five yuan.
At this time, the purchase price of instant noodles is generally 40 to 50 cents. For some rural children, it is even a luxury item. If you sell it, you can sell it for 1 yuan a bowl.
In the evening, a pack of instant noodles is divided into two parts and placed in a plastic cup, and then a plastic fork is given, and many children who are hungry after school will come to buy it.
So can vermicelli soup.
Shi Zhen randomly came up with some ideas, and the ones he picked were those who didn't pay attention to cooking.
Zhao Meiyun and Shi Dalin have no cooking skills. Zhao Meiyun believed in Shi Zhen very much, and when she heard it, she felt that this could be done: "When the weather is good, we can put a folding table and a few stools at the door, and we can sell instant noodles in the morning!"
A few days later, Monday.
Ling Shengqiang lived with his grandparents on Saturday and Sunday.
His grandparents are retired workers, their wages are not lower than his parents, and he is generously given pocket money, so that when he goes to school on Monday, he has five yuan in his pocket!
He's going to buy a pencil case.
Well, in that small shop, some toys look good too...
Ling Shengqiang arrived at the small shop early in the morning to buy a pencil case.
He bought a three-dollar pencil case. After buying it, he suddenly saw "one dollar instant noodles" written on a piece of cardboard next to it, and there was a table next to it...
"Selling instant noodles here?" Ling Shengqiang asked.
"Yeah," Zhao Meiyun asked with a smile, "you either? I'll burn it for you if you want."
"Yes!" Ling Shengqiang said without thinking.
"Want to add ham sausage? Ham sausage five hairs."
"Yes!" Ling Shengqiang still had two yuan in his hand, and he was generous with his spending.
There is a stove in the store, Zhao Meiyun heated water in the pot, opened a bag of instant noodles and put it in to cook, and then put a slice of ham sausage into it...
After a while, she brought a bowl of instant noodles to Ling Shengqiang.
Ling Shengqiang was very satisfied.
When other children who came to school saw it... Immediately, some people came to buy instant noodles to eat.
They usually go to the commissary to buy bags of instant noodles, and the cheapest ones cost 60 to 70 cents. Now they sell cooked noodles for 1 yuan, and they don’t think it’s expensive at all.
Zhao Meiyun sold about twenty packs of instant noodles this morning.
In the evening, as Shi Zhen said, she cooked instant noodles and put them in disposable plastic cups. For each cup of instant noodles, she put a piece of ham sausage, and sold them for 50 cents a cup.
The children in the town had a lot of pocket money, and many children paid for it. Later, many children waited around her, waiting for her to cook the instant noodles.
After such a day, Zhao Meiyun earned twenty dollars just selling instant noodles.
Of course it's the first day, so make more money, but later... can she sell something else!
Such as tea egg vermicelli soup or something!
She is very bright during the day, and after making it, she can sell it at the door of the store, so she can earn more or less.
As for when school is over at night, the store is very lively. If she sells these, Shi Dalin can't take care of it alone... Isn't that Qiujuan's help
After Zhao Qiujuan set up a stall in the morning, she came to sit in the store and embroidered sweaters here, so she could help her.
Some time ago, Zhao Dongjuan's tossing made Zhao Meiyun very uneasy.
But then she fell ill and Shi Dalin didn't dislike it at all. Now she opened a shop with Shi Dalin and made a lot of money. The fear in her heart disappeared immediately.
She said to Zhao Qiujuan in private: "Qiujuan, now we are opening this shop, and we can earn more than setting up a stall to sell fried skewers. It is estimated that it will not be long before we can pay you back, and then we will pay Azhen some money... You next year. If you want to buy a house, you can borrow money from your father, and we will definitely have money by then."
"Well." Zhao Qiujuan was delighted.
She has been in town selling rice balls for a long time, many people in town know her, now her parents have a shop, she helps in the shop...
People nearby thought she was a diligent girl, and many people said she was beautiful.
In the past few days, some people even inquired about her situation and wanted to match her... She was very happy.