Chapter 12 The Little Boy Who Sells Popsicles
"Sell popsicles! Sell popsicles!"
Guan Yang pushed a bicycle with 28 bars, and a large wooden box with white paint was tied to the back of the saddle, and a small quilt was stuffed in the box, and the quilt was wrapped in a big thick bag of materials, and in the bag were more than 200 popsicles specially wholesaled by Guan Yunshan from the county ice cream factory.
Guan Yunshan is extremely reluctant to travel twenty or thirty miles to wholesale this ice cream popsicle for Guan Xiaojun, according to him, it is not enough for gas!
However, Guan Xiaojun made a lot of trouble, Guan Yang also said that he wanted to make money, and he was annoyed, and Guan Hongda even made a sorbet box, if he didn't go, the child would make more trouble.
He was reluctant to drive, so he simply rode his bicycle to the county seat early in the morning, spent two yuan, approved several kinds of ice cream, and threw the bicycle to the Guan Yang sisters and brothers with a black face, "If you can't make money today, see how I clean you up!"
From his point of view, he didn't look down on the business of selling popsicles at all, and the annual income of his family's brick kiln factory was tens of thousands, and he had just bought a Wuling car, and after that, he would make fifty or sixty yuan a day by pulling sand and gravel every day, and his daily income would have to keep up with other people's monthly wages, and how much money could popsicles make? Even if it is ten times the profit, the cost of one dollar, he can earn fourteen yuan at the top of the sky, and this is still when the sorbet popsicles are sold out.
So this small income is nothing at all in Guan Yunshan's eyes, and he is very unhappy that his children go out to show up at such a young age.
My own family is not poor and has no food, so why should such a young child go out to do business? On a hot day, two dolls are running around in the sun, and it hurts to think about it.
Guan Hongda was not happy at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that he should support it.
Children, it's also good to suffer more sins when you are young, if you don't feel bitter, how can you know that the days are sweet now?
Although he doesn't know what kind of education method is bittersweet and sweet, his survival wisdom tells him that blindly accommodating children is not a good thing, Guan Xiaojun knows how to do business at such a young age, which means that this child has this mind, so he should be encouraged.
That's it, as soon as Guan Hongda spoke, the whole family had no objection, and in this matter, the majesty of the head of Guan Hongda's family was fully reflected.
This is bitter Guan Yunshan, early in the morning to ride to the county seat wholesale sorbet, back and forth for almost fifty miles, he has to ride for more than two hours, and then go home and have to be busy with farm work, it is really tired.
But that's exactly what Guan Xiaojun wants.
Guan Xiaojun once analyzed the reason for the decline of his family in later generations, to a large extent, because his father was too smooth in the first half of his life, and everything was blocked by his grandfather Guan Hongda, so that he did not practice the ability to communicate with people, and he was too willful, and he didn't think much about other people's feelings when he did things and spoke.
Especially he is still very high, looking down on this, looking down on that, and then the poor family can't afford to buy salt, he still can't pull his face to work with others, and still guards the family's few acres of land, plus he has to drink and smoke every day, and he spends a lot of money on wine and cigarettes a month.
After a long time, he couldn't make ends meet, he could only live on credit, the burden of the whole family was on Lu Xin'e, and the borrowing money was all relied on Lu Xin'e to go out to borrow, Guan Yunshan was embarrassed to borrow money from others, and he was wholeheartedly an ostrich buried in the sand, only hiding his head, pretending not to know about what was going on outside his buttocks, and he came to paralyze himself.
The family's arrears were not repaid until Guan Xiaojun graduated from university.
Later, Guan Xiaojun went to work in the government, and he was a civil servant, which reversed the image of his family in the village, but compared to when Guan Hongda was there, it was still inferior.
This time, Guan Xiaojun wanted to sharpen his father's temperament.
Aren't you a good face?
I'll pull your face down first!
Guan Yunshan speaks on weekdays, opening his mouth and closing his mouth without leaving the three words "do big things", for selling popsicles, selling tea eggs, selling snacks and other small things, it is one hundred and twenty people who look down on it.
But now, Guan Xiaojun wants Guan Yunshan to connect with the petty business he despises the most.
Originally, Guan Xiaojun told Guan Yunshan that he would sell popsicles for the first time today, don't wholesale too much, just one dollar, but Guan Yunshan wholesaled more than two yuan.
It is conceivable that he felt that a dollar was too little, a little unworth the trip, and because of his face, he was used to spending a lot of money, so he spent an extra dollar.
Regarding this point, Guan Xiaojun was soft-spoken, and he didn't dare to say anything, and he was afraid that he would be beaten if he said too much.
When the family went to work in the field, Guan Xiaojun and Guan Yang went to the nearby sales point to change a lot of change, and rested at home for a while.
In June, the sun was shining, and the heat seemed to reflect even the ground, and the sky and the earth were like steamers, and the crops in the fields were also sunburned and slumped, and they had no energy.
Guan Yang and Guan Xiaojun both had a towel around their necks, and they were all wet, just a few actions of pushing the cart out just now, and the two of them were sweating.
As soon as the sister and brother left the village, they saw an old threshing field at the head of the village.
It is said that this barn farm is ancient, because it is said that since the establishment of Guandimiao Village, this barn field has always existed, not to mention that it has existed for three or four hundred years, and it has been used until now.
Two years ago, after every household harvested wheat, they would line up to use this threshing field to mill wheat, but a large village of 2,000 people, one by one, God knows when it will be arranged, and then Guan Yunshan took the lead in building a wheat field on his own piece of land, which made the villagers suddenly realize that they can actually build a wheat field, and there is no need to queue up in the barn at all!
It can be said that Guan Hongda has completely broken through the inherent thinking of the villagers in this matter, so that the people in the village will no longer come to the grain drying field to line up at an unknown date as in previous years.
However, although everyone can build their own wheat farm, there are still people who like to use the threshing field in this village, after all, it does not need to be used in vain, and it saves a lot of trouble.
At this time, many figures were busy on the drying valley, and the large and empty barning field, which was much larger than the area of the driving school in later generations, was divided into several areas, and there were villagers with turbans in each area who were busy.
Several old men with whips in their hands, leading old cows and donkeys, pulling stone stones are turning around and crushing on the wheat that is spread on the ground, and from time to time a whip is struck, making a crisp sound.
In the process of crushing the ears of wheat by the stone stone, from time to time someone carries a fork to turn over the wheat straw, so that the stone can press the wheat thoroughly.
The whole threshing floor was a busy scene, revealing the joy of a bumper harvest.
It's harvest season.
When the siblings arrived near the threshing floor, they parked the car.
Guan Yang was a little shy, scanning the people in the entire wheat field, his small mouth opened a few times, and before he could shout, the sweat came out first.
She glanced at Guan Xiaojun, "You came up with this idea, you come up with it!"
Guan Xiaojun saw that his sister's shy appearance was extremely cute, and he couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, I'll shout if I shout, but give me more money!"
Guan Yang patted Guan Xiaojun's head, "What are so many things?"
Guan Xiaojun walked under the old willow tree in the barn and shouted at the top of his voice: "Popsicles! Cream popsicles! It's not delicious and doesn't cost money, hot popsicles will smoke under the sun!"
"Today's opening is a big reward, buy one and get one free, if you miss this village, you won't have this store!"
"Uncle Yunfeng, do you want one? You see how hot Sister Nan Nan is, why don't you buy two for her to quench her thirst?"
"Grandpa Hongguang, don't you want one? How much does it cost? Old people over fifty years old, we don't want money! Give one for free!"
Guan Xiaojun's voice was sharp, and when he shouted at the top of his voice, the people in the entire barn couldn't help but turn their heads to look over, and when they saw that it was Guan Yang and Guan Xiaojun, they were all curious.
"Huh, why did the children of the Yunshan family sell popsicles?"