Chapter 5 A small test
Friday, April 9, 1999, was still a sunny day.
Six days have passed since he made the decision to make an amusement project for a bouncy castle, and Li Xiaoming's uncle in Rongcheng finally found this kind of bouncy castle and found a truck to transport it to the county seat.
At noon, as soon as Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu got out of school, they didn't even bother to eat, so they ran all the way to the park with their legs.
When they arrived, Li Xiaoming's grandparents, father, and Chen Wu's father had already arrived, and the truck was parked on the road outside the park, and Li Dad and Chen Dad were helping the workers carry the bouncy castle.
The old man in the park management office was also smiling and chatting with Grandpa Li.
"Lao Li, your grandson is still in junior high school, right?
"Lao Zhang, how can this be compared with you, your grandson heard that he passed the fifth place in the county in this mock exam! This is about to go to high school, maybe those good schools outside will come to poach people, you have to treat you to dinner!"
"Haha, if it can really be that good, no problem, we old guys haven't been together for a long time, let's drink some when the time comes!"
"No problem!"
Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu ran over, said hello to a few old people, and then hurriedly ran to the side of the truck to help.
The main body of the bouncy castle is still quite large, and it is too heavy, Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu will definitely not be able to help. But there were two blowers and some wires and so on, and each of them carried a blower, and then they dragged the wires together, and swayed behind the adults towards the open space in the park.
It wasn't a very long road, and it took a few people about ten minutes to carry everything over.
"Whew, whew, whew......" didn't care to speak, the thing was just thrown on the ground, and several people were so tired that they couldn't do it, panting heavily.
The crowd rested for a while before they came to their senses. Then start unpacking, spread out this bouncy castle first, find the front and back, don't make it wrong to be fun, and then it will be interesting to inflate it is buckled.
Li Xiaoming tied the blower to the inflatable port of the bouncy castle, while Chen Wu dragged the line all the way to the small room in the management office, and when he plugged the line out, everyone's work was basically completed.
Dad Chen didn't know what he was thinking, he looked at Li Xiaoming, then at his son, and said, "If this thing is really as promising as you say, then I don't care how you use your New Year's money." The kid's wings are stiff, and he secretly went to your brother-in-law to do something for you?"
As soon as Dad Chen opened his mouth, he frightened Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu into a spirit, almost breaking out in a cold sweat, and the two looked at each other nervously: "Fortunately, my God, if I hadn't thought of this thing temporarily, it would have been possible for Dad Chen to stop him at that time, and then our plan to make a fortune would be in vain! This Comrade Wang Maoli is not firm enough in his thinking, what did he do to throw us out and take the blame?"
"Who is talking about me behind my back?" Comrade Wang Maoli, a fat man who was holding a fishing rod by the river with nothing to do, suddenly sneezed, rubbed his nose and said suspiciously.
"Uncle Chen, don't worry! It's no problem!" Li Xiaoming was full of confidence. That's not it, Goldfinger is reborn in a directional direction, and it's all played with time to prepare, so it's a fart.
"I'm going to be a big man in this era!" Li Xiaoming thought proudly.
"Keep a low profile, pretend to be more likely than to die suddenly. "The system is popping up again.
"What the hell ???. ”
Literally. ”
"Why, that sounds like you have a story?"
"......" waited for a while, but the system didn't squeak anymore, and it seemed that he was too lazy to talk to Li Xiaoming.
"How are you going to publicize it?" After all, Dad Chen is a businessman, and he still plans to consider these two boys, but he really can't dampen their enthusiasm, and it's not difficult to help out.
"This is too simple, Uncle Chen, we will find a printing shop later, put out some advertising lists, and then send one dollar to each of the students in our class, and ask them to go to the gate of our elementary school to send out these advertising sheets. ”
Li Xiaoming said confidently: "The content on the list is divided into two parts, the first is that we have a bouncy castle here, if you want to play, come on! The second piece is about the content of promotion, because now in fact, many parents still want their children to study hard, then, if the test paper of the latest exam is taken, the children who have improved compared with the previous test paper exam, and the children who have excellent grades, will be discounted by five yuan!"
"There are several advantages to this, first, of course, playful children have a new place to play. Second, parents of children who have improved their academic performance will not resist their children to play. Maybe in order to encourage the children to study hard, they will bring them over more. Nowadays, all the consumption of children is based on the support of their parents, which dispelles the concerns of their parents, and they are worried that business is not good?"
As soon as these words came out, several elders all looked at Li Xiaoming in surprise, and Dad Chen spoke first: "It seems that you don't need my help." Lao Li, our nephew is good. Let's go. After Dad Chen finished speaking, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, turned around and left.
"Hey boy, yes, it's not easy to give your dad a long face, so that your Uncle Chen can praise you. Dad Li's eyes were full of smiles, and he felt that this kid had been reborn in the past few days.
"That's it, Lao Tzu is a hero, of course I can't be worse if my dad is so good. Li Xiaoming slapped a sycophant without a trace, which made Dad Li infinitely useful.
"By the way, Dad, I have written the content on the advertising sheet, we are about to go to class, you can help us to make a list, and I will be sent to the school and handed over to the doorman after I have finished school, and we will send it after school in the afternoon." ”
"Okay, go, go quickly, don't be late, if you haven't eaten, go buy a few buns to pad your stomach, and you will be me and Uncle Chen will invite you to eat spicy tang in the evening!"
Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu were overjoyed: "That's decided, dad (Uncle Li), let's go! Goodbye dad (Uncle Li) grandparents!"
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By the time Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu arrived at the school, it was already almost class, so after they finished each class, they all began to call their friends: "Let's go for a walk, buddies, let's go to the gate of the county primary school to distribute leaflets after class today! One dollar per person for labor fees, and you want to sign up!"
"Xiao Ming, Xiao Wu, what are you two doing?" asked the uninformed classmates.
"Hey, make money, a dollar, do you make money?"
"Earn, of course earn, I'll go, four coins, if you're lucky, I can clear the customs of "Heroes of the Three Kingdoms"!"
"That's it, you can eat ten fried potatoes!"
"Tang Seng meat hawthorn rolls can be bought a lot!It's so good, what are you doing, Xiao Ming, Xiao Wu?"
Chen Wu saw a large group of friends who came over in an instant, so he stepped onto the bench and began to shout: "In the afternoon, I will go to the guard room to get a leaflet, and I will take one person and give a stack, let's go to the gate of the primary school quickly, they are almost out of school, and when I see the children, I will send them one and tell them that it is fun!
"It's as simple as that, right?"
"Yes, that's right, it's as simple as that, if you want to go to school, run faster!
"Oh! good! Xiao Ming is mighty! Xiao Wu is mighty!" A large number of students were happily jumping around the classroom, but all of them were male students, and most of the female students were watching from the sidelines.
In the next afternoon's class, there were endless whispers, so that the teachers caught several unlucky ghosts in a row and went out to punish them, and there were also unlucky people who were left behind after school because they were too noisy. Dead friends don't die poor!
"Bell bell bell ......"
"Okay, that's all for today, students are out of class. The teacher's announcement of the end of class in the last class was like a sound of heaven.
"Yes, brothers, follow me, rush!" Li Xiaoming stood up suddenly, didn't want his schoolbag, and rushed to the outside of the classroom first.
"Rush! oh!" In an instant, almost all the boys in the class rushed out with Li Xiaoming.
Li Xiaoming ran all the way to the guard's room, and at a glance he saw the two packs of squares as high as calves on the side of the doorman's chair, and his face was full of joy.
"Uncle, this is the advertising sheet that my dad put here, right?"
The uncle lazily took this enamel tea pot, squinted his eyes and opened a small slit to look at Li Xiaoming: "Oh, Xiao Ming, yes, your father put it here, take it!"
"Thank you, uncle!" Li Xiaoming said happily.
Then he directly began to dismantle the woven bag outside, and the classmates behind him swarmed around: "One person and one stack, take it and send it quickly! Look at the contents, and then fool those children, have you heard? If anyone secretly throws it away halfway, it will lose money!"
Li Xiaoming felt that it was better to say hello to the front, after all, he and Chen Wu were going to distribute tasks here, these guys were not supervised, who knows if they would be lazy and secretly throw away these leaflets halfway, and make a fortune by relying on these lists!
"Xiao Ming, don't worry! Let's supervise each other, if someone secretly throws it away, let's report him, and then you two will divide the money that should be sent to him, and we'll be done!"
"Oh, Qian Ming, this method is good, do you hear it, brothers, just do it! Come on, take it one by one, take it and set off quickly, go ahead!"
"Let's go, let's go, go quickly, hurry up and get the money, today Friday, we can go to the game hall to buy coins and play games!"
"Let's go!"
One after another, a group of people rushed towards the entrance of the elementary school with a stack of leaflets that had been given to them.
After a while, the leaflets were finished. Then Li Xiaoming stood up and patted Chen Wu on the shoulder: "Let's go, I'll bring the passbook, they will go and distribute leaflets, we will take out the labor fee for them." ”
The two talked and laughed, and walked to the county credit union without hurrying.
In this era, credit unions can still withdraw so much change, and they can withdraw a dime, unlike the bank counters of later generations, if you take a lot of dime and a half cents to deposit money, it is estimated that few banks will take care of you. Not to mention taking. If you really want change, you probably have to make an appointment.
When Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu took out fifty yuan of change and walked to the gate of the primary school, they saw the crowded scene of large-scale activities in later generations.
"Children, come and see this, there is fun in our park!
"Children, come and take this list, you can let your parents take you to have a good time tomorrow weekend!
Around each student holding a list, there was a large circle of tall and short children. It wasn't used at all, and those children all reached out and grabbed it.
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Not only is it not excluded to distribute leaflets, but it is also quite popular, which is also the advertising effect that can only be seen in this era......
"What a good era!" Li Xiaoming sighed.
"Yes, if you want to change the next generation, it's almost the same as dumping your white face, even if you don't take two steps, you probably throw it in the trash, and no one cares about what is written on the flyer. Chen Wu also said with great shock.
"It seems that we don't have to worry about it, let's wait here for them to get the money after they finish sending!"
In about ten minutes at most, people came to collect the money one after another, and everyone happily took the money: "Thank you, Brother Xiaoming, Brother Wu!"
"Xiao Ming, Xiao Wu is mighty, remember to think about us if there is such a good thing in the future!"
"Don't worry, there will be more later!"
"Really, then we're just waiting for your good news!"
A group of teenagers happily took the money and slaughtered the food stalls and game halls.
"Whew. Li Xiaoming let out a sigh of relief and smiled at Chen Wu. Holding the back of his head with both hands, he staggered home. After all, those game halls in this era are really not very attractive to them, but they are the little overlord learning machine at home, and they are a little more kind.
Besides, in order to let the respective elders worry less, hurry up and get the studies done, and there will be fewer constraints in the future, how good.
Today's propaganda looks at the speed of those children grabbing flyers, and you can see how successful it is. It's all up to tomorrow.
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There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Li Xiaoming hurriedly got up, and as soon as he went downstairs, he saw Chen Wu just downstairs.
"Hey, I was about to call you, but I didn't expect you to get up too. Chen Wu said with a grin.
"That's a must. Let's go, hurry up and eat a bowl of specialty noodles, and then go to the park to prepare for the opening. ”
"Good!"
The two of them each had a large bowl of beef noodles in their stomachs, wiped their chins full of red oil, and ran to the park with a smoke.
"Yo, are the grandchildren all up?yes, come on, I don't know how to get this old man with a blower, you see the children are waiting!" Grandpa Li and Grandma Li had actually arrived at the park, and were standing on the edge of this bouncy castle, talking to a group of children and adults, and when they turned their heads and saw Xiao Ming and them, they hurriedly called Xiao Ming and them to do business.
"Okay, everyone, please wait a minute, it'll be more than ten minutes!" Li Xiaoming looked at the morning when it was only less than nine o'clock, and there were already twenty or thirty children here, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled Chen Wu towards the park management office.
The bouncy castle is spread out and put in the park covered with a tarp, but the blower is not allowed to be put in the open air, and the rain is a trivial matter, in case it is stolen, it will be caught blind.
When Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu took out the blower and connected it and turned on the power, they looked up and found that there were many more children and parents, and many of them were holding a big piece of paper in their hands.
Li Xiaoming took a closer look, heh, it's done. The rolls are all in hand, and you can see the satisfied expressions of the accompanying parents that this wave of publicity is stable!
In the past ten minutes, watching this castle covering an area of eighty square meters slowly stand up, Li Xiaoming and Chen Wu seemed to see a golden mountain rising from the ground, and the corners of their mouths were almost pulling to the root of their ears.