From the moment the guest gave the gift, Bai Zong began to hold the camera and keep clicking.

Even at the stall where he eats, he is not idle, and captures the happy moments of Liu Qingtao's family from time to time.

When leaving, Liu Qingtao was grateful to the brothers, and handed Bai Zong five pieces of unity.

Bai Zong was stunned for a moment: "Man, what are you doing?

Liu Qingtao smiled: "I know this money is nothing in your eyes, but I do it for your good." ”

Bai Zong was suddenly stunned: "Good for me?"

"Think about it, you are famous now, and it is inevitable that someone will ask you to take pictures in the future. It's all about all kinds of trusts coming to the door. If you say yes to one, you can't say no to the others. It won't be long before you'll be able to exhaust yourself to death. ”

"It can't be that serious, right?"

"It's not serious, you think about it. ”

Listening to Liu Qingtao's analysis on the side, Bai Ke was very pleased.

He was relieved that he hadn't looked away.

At the beginning, when Bai Zong and Bai Ke met Liu Qingtao at the door of the post office, Bai Ke was impressed by him.

In these years, I love stamp collecting, and I can make a little money from stamps.

Definitely a financially minded and forward-thinking person.

In the previous life, Bai Ke and Liu Qingtao had no intersection.

But he felt that with Liu Qingtao's cleverness, he would not be too bad in his previous life.

Bai Ke pulled Bai Zong's arm: "Brother Tao is right, if you don't set a threshold, you can only refuse those who come, then you can't exhaust yourself to death." ”

Liu Qingtao gave Bai Ke a thumbs up, and Bai Zong also nodded: "I understand." ”

Only then did he accept fifty dollars.

On the way back, Bai Zong was still excited.

"Film, developing powder, photographic paper...... It adds up to less than 10 yuan, and it should be quite profitable to get married and take pictures of people. ”

"Of course, the weather is warmer, and more and more people are getting married. There are also many children who celebrate the full moon, 100 days, and birthdays. ”

"Hmm. I remember you said last year that we could open a photo studio. ”

"Yes, there were too few people taking pictures last year, and there should be more this year. ”

"Actually, we don't expect to make much money, we just work first. When I'm busy, I'll let Yanan help watch. ”

"Well, I'll see. ”

"Then I'm looking for a place to rent a house these days. ”

"Why do you rent a house? Isn't it over if you buy a yard facing the street?"

"yes, I'll ask people to ask. ”

When the brothers returned home, the eldest aunt, the eldest aunt and the third aunt were all in the yard, looking strange, as if something had happened.

Bai Zong and Bai Ke got closer only to see Grandpa squatting on the ground fiddling with his little flowers.

It turned out that the daughter of the second cousin-in-law was running around in the yard and trampled on her grandfather's little flowers, and her grandfather was so angry that she choked.

Grandpa is not stingy either.

Two days ago, the cousin of the third uncle's family tossed the hen, which made the grandfather a little annoyed.

The roosters and hens raised by my grandfather were originally raised to play, and they were willing to pick up and eat an egg if they were willing to lay it.

If you don't want to play, let them play on their own, and don't force it.

The cousin of the third uncle's family, Qin Yanjun, is probably hungry for eggs, so he will harass the little hen if he has nothing to do.

The little hen was frightened, and he didn't like to eat chicken food anymore, and he was slumped every day, and his grandfather was distressed.

Now that his little flower is in trouble again, can grandpa not be angry?

Bai Ke was thinking about what to say to comfort and comfort his grandfather.

Unexpectedly, the third aunt came and said: "Oh, we rural people have nothing to do, what are we doing with those flowers and plants?

Grandpa stood up and kicked the large clay flower pot beside him with a kick.

Grandpa is half-paralyzed, one arm and one leg are not good, I didn't expect to be so powerful.

Scared the big guy so much that he didn't dare to speak.

Grandpa snorted angrily and picked up his "pistol" and shouted loudly: "Go home! Go home!"

Then he walked into the house with his hands behind his back.

The aunt sighed: "It's time to go back, it's strange to stay with the old girl." ”

The eldest aunt also nodded.

The next day, the aunt's family left crackling.

After staying for another day, the third aunt also went home in a sense of boredom.

Bai Zong's photo matter is really as Liu Qingtao said, and more and more people are introduced to ask for help.

Fortunately, Liu Qingtao helped set a threshold, and many people who didn't want to spend money or felt that 50 yuan was too expensive left on their own.

After Bai Zong did two more jobs, the street house was finally found.

This house is in a more prosperous area, and the damage is not serious, so it is slightly more expensive.

The brothers bought it for 1,000 yuan.

Since the side facing the street was behind the house, Bai Ke found two migrant workers from the construction site to pick it up.

"What's the name of the photo studio?"

"Just call you by your nickname, Daqi Photo Studio. ”

"Well, a lot of people know me by that nickname. ”

It was the signboard that my father helped write, and after it was done, it was hung in front of the store on the street.

Then Bai Zong became a self-employed person.

There is no way, at the moment private people can't open a company.

I can only get a self-employed person to do it first.

In fact, many of the equipment of this household cannot be bought by white customers at the moment.

For example, a color amplifier.

This thing is worth about 200,000 at the moment.

In the past two years, Bai Zong and Bai Ke have earned a total of 150,000 or 60,000 yuan by doing projects and reselling Chinese medicinal materials.

After removing the investment in real estate, antiques, etc., there is only about 100,000 yuan left in cash.

It's only enough to buy half a color amplifier.

However, there is no point in buying a color amplifier at the moment.

There are also several super-large cities such as Kyoto, Yangcheng, and Shanghai in the country.

And the average big city doesn't use it at all.

Because there are still quite few people who consume color photos.

Spending 200,000 yuan to buy such a big machine will not be able to return to its roots in ten or twenty years.

Not to mention a small county town like Baike.

It wasn't until at least the mid-eighties that color photographs began to gain popularity.

By that time, Bai Ke would already be a millionaire nine times out of ten, and 200,000 yuan would be nothing to him.

Besides, the color amplifier must have been much cheaper at that time.

Because in these days, although people have very little money in their pockets, the price of electrical appliances is ridiculously high.

At the beginning of the year, the brothers spent 360 yuan to carry back a black and white TV from Mukden.

Before May Day, Bai Zong gave his cousin another one.

After May Day, the brothers spent more than 800 yuan to move back a refrigerator from the new department store.

Although the money was from Bai Zong, Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei were distressed.

That's the equivalent of a year's salary for the two of them.

Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei are both a little unbalanced in their hearts at the moment.

Since the first half of the 80s, the salaries of public institutions such as teachers and police officers have gradually begun to fall behind by enterprises.

Because at this time, enterprises began to have another kind of salary in addition to ordinary wages - benefit wages.

This is what is called a bonus after a few years.

For example, a textile factory worker like Liu Qingtao earns a monthly salary of thirty or forty yuan.

And Qin Yongmei and Bai Ce have a salary of forty or fifty yuan per month.

However, when the textile mill is profitable, it will pay additional benefit wages every month.

This benefit wage is often higher than the basic salary.

Therefore, the young workers of a small enterprise sometimes earn more than the old workers of government agencies and institutions.

Of course, their little benefit salary is nothing compared to Bai Zong's photo studio.

Before Bai Zong opened a photo studio, someone came to him every once in a while to take pictures.

After the photo studio opened, it was full of customers.

Run at least two places a day.

Sometimes you even have to run three or four places.

When Bai Zong went out, Lu Yanan came over to help take care of the photo studio, and sometimes Liu Qingtao also came over to help.

Bai Ke suggested that Bai Zong raise the cost by another one or twenty yuan to achieve a balance between supply and demand.

Bai Zong refused.