Shi Zhen negotiated with Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu, and asked Guan Baiyu to teach Shi Ting a lesson from tomorrow.
The course was arranged by Guan Baiyu, and the goal was to make up Shi Ting's foundation.
As for himself, apart from selling rice balls, he wants to run Shi Ting's study here well. As for how to run... Isn't there a teacher next door
Before Shi Zhenzhong's death, education had become more and more strictly controlled. If most schools wanted to study, they had to meet the requirements such as household registration and real estate certificates. Transferring schools could only be handled at the Municipal Education Bureau.
But at this time, the matter of reading is relatively easy to handle, and the transfer can be handled by the principal.
Students in the countryside who want to study in the town, consult with the principal of the school in the town, and pay some sponsorship fees.
Of course, given that most of the parents at this time are not chickens, and the sponsorship fee is not a small amount, everyone generally sends their children to study in a school that is close to their counterparts, and will not struggle desperately for a good school.
Shi Zhen has set up a stall in the town for several months, and knows several teachers from the junior high school in the town, but his friendship is limited to the stall owner and customers. matter.
Finding Teacher Fei doesn't have to be such a hassle.
Usually, when Teacher Fei encounters anything, he will take the initiative to help, and the two sides already have friendship.
Shi Ting wants to study here, he doesn't need to ask Teacher Fei specifically, as long as he mentions Shi Ting's study in front of Teacher Fei, Teacher Fei should tell him what to do about it.
Shi Zhen thought right, he just said a few words in front of Teacher Fei, and Teacher Fei said that it was not difficult to transfer, and also said that he knew the principal of the junior high school in the town.
According to Teacher Fei, Shi Ting had no problem if she wanted to borrow from a junior high school in the town, she just had to pay some sponsorship fees.
Although Mr. Fei was not young, he did not delay at all. This afternoon, he took Shi Zhen directly to the principal of the town's junior high school.
The principal of the town's junior high school lives not far away. He is a classmate with Mr. Fei's son, so he respects Mr. Fei very much.
Of course, Shi Zhen felt that the principal had such a good attitude, but also because Teacher Fei's children are now working in the education system.
In addition, Mr. Fei has been a teacher for a long time. Many teachers in Changxi City and even the staff of the Education Bureau have to call Mr. Fei "teacher"... Even if Mr. Fei has retired, the principal gives him a lot of face.
Shi Ting's study in the town's junior high school was settled soon. Just go to the school to go through the formalities before school starts.
Even the sponsorship fee... Other people's sponsorship fee is three thousand, but the principal only asked Shi Zhen for two thousand.
After leaving the principal's house, Teacher Fei asked, "Shi Zhen, do you have enough money? I can lend you a little."
Teacher Fei is very clear about the Shi family's situation.
With such a large family here, they all need money for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and they all rely on Shi Zhen to set up a stall to support themselves... I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to live.
Shi Zhen said: "Mr. Fei, no need, I have the money."
In fact, Shi Zhen didn't have 2,000 yuan in his hands.
After the Shi family came, he bought some things more or less. Now it's summer and the weather is very hot. He also installed a ceiling fan in the Shi family and bought a small electric fan for himself and Guan Baiyu.
In addition, there are so many people in his family now that he needs at least ten yuan for food a day... He really doesn't have much savings.
Luckily, he paid 800 yuan for the cooked food stall before, and now he has about 1,000 taels in his hands.
In the next two months, he must earn more.
Otherwise, Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu would have to study, and he would not have enough money.
As for how to make money... Shi Zhen thought about it for a while, and decided to hand over the whole kushikushi stall to his father, and then start other business by himself.
Such as selling cold drinks in the evening.
Breakfast is a must-buy thing for everyone, and there will be more guests, but the profit is often very thin.
Cold drinks at night are different.
This kind of thing is more like the icing on the cake for the enjoyment of life. If he buys it a little more expensively, everyone can accept it.
For example, after more than 20 years, if a 250ml box of milk is sold for ten yuan, everyone will think it is expensive.
However, milk tea made with boxed milk that costs a few dollars costs more than ten yuan a cup, and everyone will still buy it.
Many milk tea shops do not even use pure milk, but use lower-cost milk powder.
At this time in Anshan Town, there is no place to sell cold drink milk tea at all. If he does this, he will definitely have a unique business, and the profit of cold drink is still very high...
The most important thing is that this business is easy to get started with, and you can do it even without experience.
Shi Zhen had thought about selling Mala Tang before. At this time, there was no Mala Tang in Anshan Town. If he set up a stall to sell it, the business would definitely be very good.
But his Mala Tang is more or less technical, and he may not be able to make Mala Tang well.
There are also tribute pills that can be purchased at a low price in the market outlook, but now in Anshan Town, you can't buy them at all.
When selling fried skewers before, Shi Zhen actually thought of another thing suitable for selling, that is "chuanchuanxiang".
All kinds of skewers are boiled in water, and when guests want, they can be filled in disposable cups, and some soup is added to the guests... It is actually simpler and easier to make.
Because the cost of vegetarian dishes such as kelp, shiitake mushrooms, and oily tofu is very low, its profit should be very good.
Shi Zhen finally vetoed this business because he couldn't buy cheap fish balls, fish balls, fish tofu and other things suitable for cooking in Anshan Town and Changxi City.
He can't just sell veggies and ham.
Nowadays, people still prefer to eat meat.
The fried skewers are different, sausage ham sausage chicken wing tip chicken middle wing chicken heart loin and so on, many things that can be bought in the market can be fried.
In short, compared to Mala Tang, cold drinks are definitely a business that is easy to get started with at low cost and easy to find raw materials. To do this business, you need at least a freezer.
In later generations, a thousand yuan can buy a large freezer, and a second-hand one can be bought for two or three hundred, but at this time... a freezer, at least two or three thousand.
This is the last two years, and the price of electrical appliances has come down a little. In the 1980s, it cost tens of thousands to buy a refrigerator.
However, when he was in business, he needed a freezer for a long time. Sooner or later, he would have to buy it. If he buys it now, he will never lose money.
Shi Zhen thought of this business and discussed it with Guan Baiyu.
Guan Baiyu doesn't know much about doing business, but how smart is his brother! The business he thought of would definitely make money!
Guan Baiyu encouraged Shi Zhen and kept bragging: "Brother, you must be fine, you are so powerful! I believe you can make money..."
Shi Zhen looked at him with a smile, until he saw his voice lowered and his face blushed.
The next morning, Shi Zhen sent Guan Baiyu, who followed him to the town to sell rice balls, to Shi's house to teach Shi Ting a lesson, and then went to Changxi City.
He's going to look at the price of the freezer and buy one.
If he doesn't have enough money... The tuition he saved for Guan Baiyu before can only be used first.
With the freezer, even if he doesn't sell cold drinks, he can still make money selling popsicles in the summer, and he won't lose Guan Baiyu's tuition.
At this time, many people did not have refrigerators at home, and the status of popsicles was similar to that of milk tea in later generations. When they went shopping or something, they were happy to buy a popsicle to eat.
The simplest and very low-cost sugar water popsicles can be sold for two or three cents a piece. The profits of this line are really not low.
When he arrived in Changxi City, Shi Zhen found that there were more construction sites here.
In recent years, Changxi City has really developed rapidly.
Shi Zhen soon found an electrical appliance store in Changxi City.
Most of today's refrigerators are divided into upper and lower layers, the top is frozen, and the bottom is refrigerated, and the price of this kind of refrigerator, the cheapest is three or four thousand.
Black and white TVs are cheaper, and color TVs can sell for four or five thousand.
The freezer that Shi Zhen needs because it can only set one temperature is cheaper than the refrigerator, but it costs more than 2,000.
Shi Zhen didn't bring enough money, and he still hadn't found the cups and straws for selling cold drinks and the materials for making cold drinks, so he didn't rush to buy a refrigerator, but went to other places.
For well-known beverages like Coke, he can directly sell them in cans, or they can be sold in large bottles.
There are local manufacturers of soda, which can be sold directly after putting in some soda and freezing it in the refrigerator or pouring it out and adding ice cubes.
You can also use condensed milk and milk powder to make ice milk, use orange powder to make orange water, and so on.
Shi Zhen ran for a few hours in Changxi City, and his clothes were soaked with sweat several times.
He also found out... There is a stall in Changxi City that sells ice-cold soft drinks.
It would be really cool to have a bottle in the summer... It's a pity that he has no money.
Shi Zhen didn't buy anything in Changxi City. For lunch, he ate the rice balls he made in the morning, and he also drank his own black tea with salt added.
This black tea tastes weird but quenches thirst.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, Shi Zhen couldn't hold on anymore.
Today, there are many dormitory buildings built by state-run factories in Changxi City. These dormitory buildings are generally four or five floors, and they are relatively close to each other. There is no greenery downstairs, and at most there is a small narrow flower bed.
Shi Zhen sat down on a small flower bed in the shade to the east of a dormitory building, intending to rest for a while.
In addition to him, there are other people here, some middle-aged and elderly women gather together, either knitting sweaters, or... sewing buttons, sewing beads, and embroidering sweaters.
Of course, this kind of embroidery is not the exquisite embroidery in ancient times, but the kind of simple flowers that are sewn on sweaters with very thick threads.
Shi Zhen glanced at it and felt that he could embroider too.
It's this sweater with beads and embroidery on it. In his opinion, it's really, really dirty... But people at this time like fancy things.
These days, the price of such sweaters is not cheap compared to per capita income.
and many more!
Shi Zhen suddenly discovered that there were many identical sweaters beside these people, and they were sewing one by one...
Instead of decorating their own sweaters, they pick up the work and bring it home to do it to subsidize the family.
Shi Zhen smiled and approached them to talk to them, asking them where they got this sweater and how much it cost to embroider it.
This sweater was taken by these people from a nearby factory. The price of embroidering a piece of clothing depends on whether it is well embroidered or not.
Some clothes only need to sew buttons, which cost a few cents a piece. Some clothes have a lot of places to be sewn, and a piece of clothing can cost a few cents. When the embroidery is particularly complicated, it takes a lot of time to embroider a piece of clothing that costs one or two yuan. There are also.
They just take their clothes home and embroider them. If they do it for a long time, they can earn more than ten or twenty yuan a day.
Of course, most of them have other work to do at home, and often have to take care of their children.
After Shi Zhen heard this, he felt that this was a good business.
Of course, he did not intend to embroider, but took a fancy to the business opportunities.
He can contact the factory to help dispatch work!
There are several sweater factories in Changxi City, as well as many small workshops producing sweaters.
And those sweaters that are produced require secondary processing.
There are more job opportunities in urban areas, and fewer women are idle at home, and they are not necessarily willing to do these tedious tasks.
But if this job is taken to Anshan Town, especially the countryside near Anshan Town...
The women there must be especially happy to do these jobs!
Although young women in Anshan Town can generally find jobs now, those women born before the 1960s, because they have not read a book, have to take care of the family and other reasons, generally do not have a job, and it is difficult to go out to work.
But this kind of handwork that you can take home and do... they can do it.
Shi Zhen felt that he could pick up the work from the factory and distribute it to the villagers.
If the price the factory gave him was one yuan for a piece of embroidery, he distributed it to the villagers, who could embroider one piece for eight cents.
So... he could net two cents.
Shi Zhen thought about it and walked towards the garment factory without even thinking about it.
To say that the coast of 1994 is really an era when the economy is taking off.
At this time, no matter what is produced, there are people rushing to buy it.
Just a few years ago, there was a ham sausage factory, and the door was full of sellers, robbing them of the ham sausages they produced!
Changxi City does not worry about selling wool sweaters. Those factories are almost non-stop around the clock, and three shifts are on the ground.
Factory managers don't have to worry about not having orders at all. What they have to worry about is that there are always not enough raw materials for production.
And the current sweaters, embroidered with flowers and beads, can sell for high prices, but they don't have anyone to do it.
Let the people around you do the work... The people around here can't do much.
On the factory side, only simple styles can be produced as much as possible.
It was at this time that Shi Zhen came to the door.
When he arrived, it was exactly four o'clock, when the three-shift employees were off work.
The female workers came out of the factory talking and laughing, and then washed their feet under the faucet at the factory entrance.
They usually wear slippers in the factory. After working for eight hours, their feet are always dirty, and they have to wash their feet before going home.
After washing, the older ones wear slippers and go straight away, while the younger ones usually put on nice sandals and go. As for slippers, they can be stored in the factory.
At this time, the factory was not big and the management was not strict. Shi Zhen came to Changxi City this time, and he was well dressed. The uncle at the door asked him why he was here. He said in dialect that he was looking for someone Just let him in.
Shi Zhen looked around, asked a few people, and found the factory leader who was in charge of distributing woolen sweaters to the surrounding women and letting them embroider and sew buttons.
Shi Zhen came here this time because he was just trying his luck. He didn't expect the leader of the factory to speak so well. After listening to his ideas, he became interested.
Shi Zhen immediately talked to the other party.
This business was quickly negotiated, that is, to give the leader a rebate.
The leader said that he can use a car to help pull the sweaters from the factory to Anshan Town, and he can also offer a high price to Shi Zhen, but if the price given by the factory is one piece One yuan, then Shi Zhen wants to give him a rebate of a dime, a tenth of it.
Shi Zhen has no objection to this, this kind of thing happens everywhere, it is inevitable.
But in this way, if he dispatches jobs further down, he can only give them seventy cents. Of course, this is not a definite number. Some jobs are easy to do, and even lower prices, some people will pick them up.
He is responsible for sending and receiving proofs, checking the quality of finished products, and taking responsibility for lost clothes, and he must take money.
The sweater factory has its own truck, which can help Shi Zhen deliver the sweaters to Anshan Town. When the time comes, they will pack the sweaters away.
Shi Zhen thought about it and planned to send these sweaters to the house he rented in Guan Jianguo.
All the utensils and utensils of the cooked food stall have been taken away. The fried skewers and rice ball stalls need not many things, and they have already been put in the town house. Now he rents the house in Guan Jianguo and the house in the Bai Yu family. , are all empty.
Guan Baiyu's house is muddy, and sweaters are not easy to put away, but the main room that Guan Jianguo rented to him has a concrete floor, and the walls are painted with lime.
At that time, he will lay a plastic sheet on the ground, and he will be able to put his clothes directly on the ground.
Shi Zhen negotiated with others, and agreed that he would come to pick up the goods the next day, so he hurried to the car.
It was also his luck that he caught the last bus, but even so, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening when he returned to Anshan Town.
Fortunately, before he went out, he mentioned to his parents that if he could not come back, let them go out and set up a stall by themselves, so that they would not delay business.
Shi Zhen passed his own stall on the way home, and saw Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan watching the stall together, orderly, and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
And when he returned to where the Shi family lived...
Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting were waiting for him, while Guan Baiyu was teaching Shi Ting pinyin.
Shi Ting's pinyin learning is not good, and Mandarin is not standard.
Guan Baiyu actually has a common problem with southerners speaking Mandarin. For example, he can't distinguish the front nasal and the back nasal, but Shi Ting... She has reached the point where she can't distinguish the flat tongue and the warped tongue!
Of course, Shi Zhen remembered that Shi Ting who spoke Mandarin more than 20 years later had no accent at all.
At this moment, Shi Ting is also studying very seriously, which makes Shi Zhen a little relieved: "Tingting is very hardworking."
"Well," Shi Ting nodded earnestly, "Brother, I was not good at speaking Mandarin before, and I don't want to be laughed at by others!"
No wonder he studied so hard...
When Shi Zhen was talking to Shi Ting, Guan Baiyu brought out the meal reserved for Shi Zhen.
He warmed this rice in the pot, it was neither hot nor cold, it was just right to eat.
Shi Zhen, who had been starving for a long time, ate his food almost immediately, and had nothing to eat.
After Shi Zhen finished eating, he felt his whole body relax.
Knowing that Shi Ting had been studying for an afternoon, he asked Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting to follow him to the fried skewer stall.
The three came outside, and Shi Ting ran to the front in a flash.
Shi Zhen explained to Shi Ting that Shi Ting could only walk in prosperous places at night, not in small alleys.
Shi Ting is still very obedient in these aspects, and she is still afraid of the dark... Shi Zhen didn't tell her to stop and watched her run away.
When she ran away, Shi Zhen asked Guan Baiyu, "How is Tingting's foundation?"
Guan Baiyu was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Brother... my sister's language is still good, math..."
How should I put it, Shi Ting can still do the Chinese homework, and the math homework is...
Guan Baiyu was really puzzled. He didn't understand why it was such a simple question. He had said it several times, but Shi Ting just couldn't understand it.
Shi Zhen was silent for a while after listening to Guan Baiyu.
Alas, he couldn't understand the junior high school math problems that Guan Baiyu did.