When he arrived at the county seat, it was already five o'clock, Chen Shi ate a bowl of noodles at the station to satisfy his hunger, and found a small hotel to stay.

The owner of the small hotel is an aunt, very welcoming, warm and attentive. In these years, this kind of service attitude can be described as rare, he can see that the boss's business is relatively good, people come and go, in and out, almost every customer greets her.

After bringing Chen Shi to the room, the boss said with a smile: "What do you think of this room for five yuan a night?"

The price of five yuan a night Chen Shi has not met for a long, long time, and if it is not for a rebirth, he will not be able to find such an affordable hotel anyway. In these years, prices are not so expensive, and the currency has not depreciated so much, so the owner of the five-dollar house definitely has something to earn.

Chen Shi was very satisfied, immediately paid for it, and then asked the boss, "Can you rent here for a long time?"

Although the rent of five yuan is not expensive, it is not cost-effective in the long run, because as far as he knows, the general rent can be done for dozens of yuan a month, and if you live in a hotel every day, it will cost almost half of the room money every month.

The boss said: "This is the station, and I don't plan to rent it for a long time, but I have a spare house at home, so if you want to, I'll take you to see it." ”

Chen Shi hurriedly agreed, put down his luggage and followed the boss to the outskirts of the city, the boss's house is in the suburbs, the house is a small western-style building, but her family is small, a son and daughter are going to school outside, only she and her husband live in it, so she plans to rent out the empty room.

Chen Shi was the first tenant of his family.

The small western-style building has a total of three floors, the landlord lives on the second floor, and the first floor puts some sundries, so Chen Shi's room is on the third floor, about 20 square meters, and there is no separate bathroom, but Chen Shi is very satisfied, because the rent for a total of 50 yuan is only 50 yuan.

After negotiating, the boss gave him two keys and said: "This is to open the door, this is your room, keep it yourself, my family name is Zheng, usually everyone calls me Aunt Zheng, you can find me directly if there is anything." ”

Chen Shi took the key, called her Aunt Zheng, and then went to the hotel with her to get the luggage, as for the hotel room money, Aunt Zheng immediately returned it to him, he did not refuse, put the luggage away, and after paying the rent, he was ready to buy daily necessities.

There is only one vegetable market in the county, and the department store market is also here, so he happened to stop by and first bought daily necessities and bedding in the department store, and then went to the vegetable market to buy rice noodles. But after a while, he walked out with a large bag of things, and he couldn't finish it at one time, and he had to come several times to get it done.

After three or four runs, he had finally moved all his things, and he had almost everything he needed to buy, and now there were only two things left, one was a suitable tricycle, and the other was liquefied gas.

Taking advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark, Chen Shi quickly whipped up his horse and went straight to the hardware market, after buying a tricycle, he had to go through a simple modification, otherwise the liquefied gas tank could not be placed, and after explaining his requirements in detail in the hardware market, he didn't care about fatigue, and went directly to the gas company to pull a tank of liquefied gas.

By the time everything was done, it was already dark, but fortunately it was in the city, and there were street lights, otherwise he would have been blinded.

When I returned to the rented house, Aunt Zheng and her husband Uncle Zheng were eating, and the two asked Chen Shi to eat together, but he was very busy, and he had just eaten at about five o'clock, and he didn't feel hungry, so he refused.

Uncle Zheng was eating outside with a bowl of rice, and while watching Chen Shi busy, he asked, "Xiao Chen, what are you going to do here?"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Uncle Zheng, I'm going to have some rice noodles and try it near the school tomorrow to see if there is any business." ”

Uncle Zheng said: "Rice noodles look very good, but it's not useful, I'm hungry and croaking after just eating for a while, I don't think business will be too good." ”

Chen Shi smiled and did not refute, but Aunt Zheng on the side retorted: "If others are not hungry, there will be no business, I think Xiao Chen is smart, this selling things has to hang people's appetites, if everyone is like you, eat two potatoes for a long time, then there will be no business." ”

Chen Shi said with a smile: "This is my first time doing business, so let's try it first and see how the market reacts." ”

The next day, Chen Shi was ready to open early in the morning, but after thinking about it, he gave up, fried noodles may not be sold in the morning, and he had to wait until after school at twelve o'clock, so he waited early in the morning, and only pushed the tricycle to the door of No. 1 Middle School at half past eleven.

When I came to school, it was not yet out of school, and it was quiet outside, but there were four or five food stalls at the school gate, one selling barbecue, one selling baked potatoes, and the other selling roasted sweet potatoes.

Seeing Chen Shi coming, several people looked at him in surprise, but he was not familiar with the place, he didn't greet others, and there was no need to be close, just do your own business.

He found a wide place, a little further away from the school gates, but he didn't worry about business. After taking out the things in the tricycle and placing them one by one, he took out a large paper shell, with a big "fried rice noodles" written in the middle with a brush, and a few small words on the side, mainly introducing the price of fried rice noodles, such as a piece of vegetarian fried five, plus eggs or two pieces of minced meat.

This is the simplest advertisement in the world, Chen Yongyong made it in five minutes, and hung it in front of the tricycle, which looks very eye-catching, but he is still a little dissatisfied, if it is written with a colored pen.

At twelve o'clock, as a bell rang, the students walked out of the school gate one after another, and the business of the small vendors outside came, first of all, the barbecue stall, because he was the closest to the school, and after a while, a group of people surrounded him, and it seemed that the business was good.

The baked potatoes also opened, and the roasted sweet potato business was the most deserted, but it was better than Chen Shi, because he hadn't opened it after ten minutes, he was a little anxious, looked at the barbecue stall, a little envious, but he didn't have a jealous mind, but the big brother who sold the barbecue looked at him deliberately provocatively, and the look seemed to say: "See, right? This is called business, boy, learn something." ”

Chen Shi was slightly angry, but it was not easy to attack, because people didn't say anything, just glanced at you, and it was impossible to say that others were finding fault because of this, so he had to hold back the anger in his heart.

At this moment, a student came over curiously, seemingly hesitant, but couldn't help the curiosity in his heart, so he looked a little cringe, like a sneaky bad person.

Chen Shi looked at it, no matter whether it was good or bad, and immediately asked: "Do you want to fry noodles?"

The man walked up to him, pointed to the tricycle stall and said, "Can rice noodles still be fried?"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Just taste it, it's not expensive, one or two yuan, but it's just a pack of cigarettes." ”

"Okay, then fry me for a two-piece one. ”

Chen Shi asked whether to add eggs or minced meat, he chose eggs, Chen Shi asked him again if he ate spicy, he said to have a little more chili, and then Chen Shi turned on the liquefied gas, poured cooking oil into the pot, first scrambled eggs after heating, then added seasonings, then added a little vegetables, mainly lotus white, and finally fried rice noodles that had been boiled to control the moisture.

It only took five or six minutes, a bowl of egg scrambled rice noodles was fragrantly baked, Chen Yongyong put the rice noodles in a disposable bowl, handed it to the student, and then gave him disposable chopsticks, and finally said, "Thank you for two yuan." ”

Finally opened, Chen Shi was overjoyed, next, with the first one, there was a second, and soon he was busy, the people who ate fried rice noodles had begun to line up, looking at more and more people, of course he was excited, but he was also anxious, because the more people, the more he wanted to speed up, but if the heat was not enough, the taste was worse, and there would be a lot fewer people in the future, so he didn't dare to speed up in order to save time.

Later, he thought of a solution, which was to fry several bowls in one pot.

Originally, he fried one bowl in one pot, so of course the speed was much slower, but he first asked the people in line behind him to see how many were the same, if there were three vegetarian fried in a row, then he would fry three bowls in one pot, so the time was saved by two-thirds.

In this way, his speed accelerated, and the business was unexpectedly hot. He secretly estimated that on average, he could fry two to three bowls in five minutes, and if he didn't stop or rest, then two hours at noon would be about fifty or sixty bowls, and the gross profit of one bowl would be about seven or eight cents, and sixty bowls would be about fifty yuan, and this would be only noon, and what about the afternoon? Will there be more people at night?

It's just the first day, what about the second day?

Chen Shi was full of joy, and involuntarily looked at the barbecue stall, only to see that the eldest brother was dejected, looking at him angrily, Chen Shi learned from his eyes before, deliberately provoked, and then the speed of the spoon was accelerated, and two bowls of rice noodles were baked.

Less than two o'clock, there were fewer and fewer people, the students began to go back to school, and it gradually quieted down outside, and the barbecue brother sat on a chair, with resentment in his eyes, and looked at Chen Shi from time to time.

Chen Shi didn't care, because he was leaving, in the afternoon, he decided to go to the station, although the school's business can't be done, but the station is full of people, there must be business, of course he won't give up the school's business, and he must come when school ends in the afternoon.

Students' money is the best to earn, and as long as they have money in their hands, it is easy to take the profit out of their pockets.

The school is a little far from the station, it takes nearly half an hour to walk, and it takes an hour to go back and forth, but he was not frightened by the distance of the road, when he went to school, the school was more than an hour away from home, and he still went out early and returned late, and he was never late, it was still a mountain road, compared to the spacious and smooth asphalt road in the city, the difference was 108,000 miles.

When he came to the station, it was not far from what he had imagined, people came and went, mostly people who went out to work, or people who came back from other places, and the business opened quickly, and once it opened, he hardly stopped, until the afternoon, when the students were about to leave school, he put away his things and rushed back.