12. Confess
Seeing Zhou Fangyuan take out 500 yuan, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother's first thought was: Ah, did you really fail?
They said that they could fully understand this, after all, for the average working family in this era, 9,000 yuan was a huge amount of money from all angles. Take the Zhou family as an example, Zhou's mother is an ordinary worker in the factory, and her monthly salary is only more than 200 yuan, Zhou's father is a little better, probably less than 300 yuan, how much can the couple's annual salary add up?
Counting the daily expenses, counting the normal social entertainment, how much money can be left?
There is another problem that is not a problem, that is, the people of Beitong do not like to save money, which is the atmosphere of the whole city. The root cause is that there are too many factories in Beitong City. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was also a famous industrial base, so there were many factories, and most of the people in Beitong City had formal jobs in the factories. They eat, drink, and wear all in the factory, and they don't have to spend money to see a doctor, and their houses are all allocated by the factory, and they have pensions when they are old, so there seems to be no need to save money at all.
The Zhou family is a little special, because Zhou's mother's family is full of farmers, and it was only after marrying Zhou's father that she entered the factory under the operation of Zhou Fangyuan's grandfather, so she is different from the people in the city, she likes to save some money.
But under such a big atmosphere in Beitong City, Zhou's mother was actually somewhat affected.
Anyway, all in all, with the situation of the Zhou family, they have saved money for several years, and the family's savings are only a few thousand yuan. Zhou Fangyuan said that he had to find a way to earn 9,000 yuan in the last month, which was tantamount to a fool's dream in the eyes of Zhou's father and Zhou's mother. It's just that they don't want to dampen Zhou Fangyuan's enthusiasm, or rather, Zhou Fangyuan's performance from childhood to adulthood has nothing to do with the word "sensible", and now he finally wants to do something serious, standing in the position of his parents, Zhou's parents and Zhou's parents are willing to support him.
Even if he fails in the end, they won't say anything, power should be the price of growth, anyway, in the face of a gap of nine thousand yuan, five hundred yuan is nothing.
From Zhou Fangyuan's expression of mentality to today, it has only been ten days, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother subconsciously think that Zhou Fangyuan has failed, although they are still a little disappointed, but they don't take it too seriously. If the money is really so easy to make, then their husband and wife don't have to worry so much.
"In short, it's good that you can increase your experience, although I don't know what you've been busy with these days, but you've become thinner and darker these days, and your mother and I are both watching it. We are worried about you and feel sorry for you, but we don't stop you, this is a kind of growth, and it is only good for you.
You can get 500 yuan back, it's really beyond our expectations, this money will be used as a reward for you, we won't ask you, you can keep it as pocket money and buy something you like. ”
Dad Zhou said with a smile, and after speaking, he lit a cigarette for himself and smoked silently.
Zhou's mother didn't speak the whole time, just sat next to her and kept shaking her head.
Zhou Fangyuan looked at his father, and then at his mother, "Dad, Mom, do you really give me these five hundred?"
"Of course it's true, little fool, your dad can still lie to you. ”
Zhou's mother looked at Zhou Fangyuan and couldn't help but laugh and scold.
"Hehe, then thank you parents," Zhou Fangyuan smiled and put the money away, then he cleared his throat, "Then let's talk about the second thing, about the nine thousand yuan......
"I've already said, it doesn't matter if we fail, we'll find a way, don't worry about it, you don't want our family to sell the house and land, and your mother and I don't want to, if we can find other ways, maybe our yard can still be preserved, but that land, we don't have time to plant, and we have to worry about it, so it's better to sell it directly for money......"
Dad Zhou waved his hand and said to himself.
Zhou Fangyuan looked at his father a little helplessly, and then looked at his mother, she also looked like she agreed, which made Zhou Fangyuan even more helpless.
He could only stretch out his left hand, which had been hidden behind him, holding the iron moon cake box in his hand, and put it on the table with a bang, and the impact made Zhou's father close his mouth suddenly, and Zhou's mother's eyes were also attracted.
"Dad, Mom, what are you doing here, I never said I failed," Zhou Fangyuan grinned, reaching out to open the lid of the moon cake box, "Dangdang, nine thousand yuan! I earned !!"
Quiet......
There was silence in the room.
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother widened their eyes, and looked at the neatly stacked banknotes in the mooncake box in disbelief, large and small of various denominations, among which the blue fifty yuan was the majority, and the box was full of one. When Zhou Fangyuan just opened the iron cover, the money in it was slightly higher.
"This, this is ......"
Dad Zhou's words were not good, he stretched out his hand a little tremblingly, and rummaged through the money in the moon cake box, yes, it was indeed a box full of banknotes.
Mother Zhou's eyes widened and her mouth opened wide, her face was also full of surprise.
"Hahahaha, how is it, it's a surprise. I just want to surprise you, so I deliberately suppressed it, thinking that I had failed, and you didn't look at who your son was, how could I fail? This is a whole nine thousand yuan, Dad, Mom, you can count it. ”
Zhou Fangyuan tilted his head and said with a smug expression.
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother were completely dumbfounded, they looked at the banknotes in front of them, and they looked at Zhou Fangyuan, and it took a long time to come back to their senses.
Zhou's mother took the box into her arms for the first time and began to count, while Zhou's father wanted to look at his son like an alien, looking left and right, looking up and down, and seeing that Zhou Fangyuan was a little uncomfortable, he retracted his gaze.
At this time, Zhou's mother also counted the money in the box.
"No more, no less, exactly nine thousand yuan!"
Zhou's mother looked at Zhou's father, and Zhou's father nodded silently.
Zhou's mother took the lid, re-closed the mooncake box, and then put it on the table.
Dad Zhou pinched out the cigarette butt that had burned to the filter, and then lit it again.
"Tell me how you did it, your mother and I are very curious, how can you make nine thousand dollars in ten days. ”
"Yes, your dad and I only make a lot of money in a year, you only took ten days to earn our money for three years, although we want to believe you, but we believe that normal methods will definitely not make so much money. Although our family is poor, but we must be poor and ambitious, we can't do the things of adulterers, son, if you can't explain clearly, your father and I ...... Not only can we not ask you for this money, but we will even take the initiative to pay it back for you. ”
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother's expression was unprecedentedly serious,
Zhou Fangyuan looked at his parents in amazement, and after a while, he smiled dumbly.
"Dad, Mom, where do you want to go, still be a traitor, and go back...... You think your son is a thief, and even if I am a thief, how much money do I have to steal to steal so much money......"
Zhou Fangyuan shook his head helplessly, but he also understood his parents' thoughts in his heart, his family was a decent family after all, and his parents were also decent people, of course they didn't want their son to become a thief or other criminals.
"Actually, that's how it is......"
Then, Zhou Fangyuan told everything that happened after he got the five hundred yuan that day, including how he knew about the barbecued sausage, how he went to Dongguan to find relevant sellers, and then how to make a price, how to practice the stall on Daxi Street, and how to negotiate the price with the bearded couple, etc., all without omission.
Except for the source of the grilled sausage, he lied, and everything else was something he had personally experienced, with a nose and eyes, without any omissions and contradictions.
Zhou's father and Zhou's mother were stunned when they heard this, they never thought that Zhou Fangyuan's solution to the problem would be to sell grilled sausages, and they couldn't imagine that a small sausage would have such a big profit.
"Dad, Mom, don't you know, this thing is so popular, when I first set up a stall on the first day, I sold out all 300 grilled sausages at noon, and then sold more than 2,000 every day, which is almost like robbing money......
Zhou Fangyuan described in detail the popular scene when he set up his stall, proving that he was not lying, and proving that everything he said was well documented.
By the time he finished telling all about his last day's experience, including how to subcontract a barbecued sausage stall and how to deal with those thugs who were subject to protection money, Zhou's father and mother were all stunned.
The expressions on their faces changed in various ways, happy, excited, dazed, and incredulous, just like Sichuan Opera changing faces, Zhou Fangyuan even thought to himself that it was a waste for his parents not to be actors.
It took a while for Zhou's father and Zhou's mother to fully come to their senses.
Dad Zhou didn't say anything, just shook his head and smiled bitterly.
On the contrary, it was Zhou's mother, her eyebrows furrowed, and her eyes widened, "You loser child, why did you get out of the money-making stall? Even if you lose 3,000 yuan, 3,000 yuan is equivalent to your turnover for two days, oops, I'm really angry, why are you so stupid, give away such a good opportunity to make money in vain, if you tell us earlier, I'll ...... with your dad and us."
"No, Yang Yang did the right thing!"
Before Zhou's mother finished speaking, Zhou's father suddenly interrupted.
"Didn't you listen to Yangyang? It's only been a few days, and there are four more identical sausage stalls on Daxi Street, which have no technical content, they can be made by one person, and there is no threshold at all. And the more people who do it, the faster the price of this thing will be reduced, and in the end there will be only a very small profit, or even no profit at all.
What's more, Yang Yang has already met those thugs who collect protection money today, if he doesn't withdraw in time, will he still want Yang Yang to deal with those thugs?
At this moment, Zhou Fangyuan just wanted to give a thumbs up and give his father a big thumbs up.