After dinner, Li Liang's family of three and Zhang Qingxiang went home together. Wang Xiuyan, Chen Run, and the rest of the store lived in a small warehouse that Zhang Qingxiang had rented from the supply and marketing cooperative.

The warehouse has been renovated to divide more than a dozen rooms, and new bathrooms and toilets for men and women have been built, making life more convenient. However, this is also Zhang Qingxiang's expedient measure, he is ready to continue to look for and rent two suitable small courtyards, and let Wang Xiuyan and Chen Run sisters move out at that time, and let other staff live in the renovated warehouse.

There are more guests who come at noon today, and these are considered free business, and some other individual customers do not have much turnover, but in the evening, they are all paying customers. After Wang Xiuyan's reconciliation, today's turnover has reached more than 300 yuan, which is nearly double the daily turnover of Wangkelai Branch. It is conceivable that as the main store of Wangkelai is gradually on the right track, the turnover will definitely increase in the future.

No matter what era it is, there is food in the mouth and there will be no panic in the heart, and in the past six months since the opening of a branch of Wangkelai, the family situation of the Zhang and Li families has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Recalling the time when Zhang Meng was about to graduate from high school in June, the family was still bothered about whether to arrange for Zhang Meng or Zhang Xin to go to the coal yard for the top shift, Zhang Qingxiang and Chen Chunhua had mixed feelings.

Zhang Qingxiang pushed the bicycle and said with emotion to Li Shuangzhu, who was also pushing the bicycle on the side: "Brother Shuangzhu, big brother, I recall that a few months ago, the family was still bothering Zhang Meng or Zhang Xin for your Chunhua sister-in-law's class, and the current situation at home really makes me undreamable." ”

"Yes, thanks to Liangzi, I came up with such a good idea for our family Zhang Meng, and I now regret letting Zhang Xin go to my class!" Chen Chunhua also said with emotion.

Zhang Xin is a girl after all, although she has suffered a lot in the countryside in recent years, she can work in the coal yard. But a girl who is not yet married, dealing with dirty coal all day long, the two of them are a little distressed in their hearts. And Zhang Xin was born in 55 years, and he is 25 years old this year, and he doesn't even have a boyfriend until now. Before, I didn't have a job because I had just returned home, but now I work in the coal yard and get dirty all day.

"Auntie, have you ever considered letting Sister Zhang Xin leave her job without pay from the coal yard and come to run Wangke!" Li Liang proposed.

"Son, what is leave without pay?" Wang Xiujuan said in surprise.

Leave without pay was something that was in vogue in the early 80s, first from some big cities along the coast. With the increasing number of people who are on leave without pay, in June 83, the Ministry of Labor and the State Economic Commission issued the "Notice on the Issue of Enterprise Employees Requesting "Leave Without Salary", which officially provided a policy basis for leave without pay.

Leave without pay was one of the domestic characteristics of the 80s and 90s, and to be precise, it was a product of the transition from a planned economy to a market economy. In the era of the planned economy, a group of people, including regular workers of enterprises and institutions, and functionaries of party and government organs, had in their hands an "iron rice bowl" that could not be broken; but when the tide of the market economy came, some of them resigned and went to sea, or left their original jobs for other reasons. However, because the transformation has not been completed, the plan and the market are still in the intersection period, so these people's "iron rice bowl" is still retained, and the benefits of both the plan and the market are occupied.

Li Liang briefly introduced to his parents and Zhang Qingxiang what it meant to leave without pay, Zhang Qingxiang pondered for a while and said: "This kind of manipulation seems to be really good!"

Many of the children of cadres and workers in their coal yard have grown up, but the top-shift system stipulates that there is only one place for a family, resulting in many families with multiple children like Zhang Qingxiang and his wife having to choose between one of the many children. With his relationship with the factory leaders, the field only needs to retain Zhang Xin's position but does not need to pay salaries, and the extra actual jobs can recruit one more worker to come in, such a good thing, no field leader will refuse.

Zhang Qingxiang and Chen Chunhua returned home happily, they were going to ask for the opinion of their eldest daughter Zhang Xin again, if Zhang Xin also agreed, Zhang Qingxiang would run the matter.

Li Liang and his parents also returned home, and his sister Li Meng and aunt Liu Juying were washing clothes in the yard. The light was on in the living room, and the brother-in-law Wang Fagen was sitting on the sofa with a notebook and looking at something.

Seeing her sister and brother-in-law come back, Liu Juying hurriedly said hello, Wang Fagen heard the movement and walked out of the living room, he raised the notebook in his hand, and said happily to Li Liang: "Liangzi, you see, today my uncle and I signed an agreement with the printing house, and tomorrow they can print New Year's pictures and Spring Festival couplets for us." ”

"Uncle, this is a great thing, how many copies are you going to print in the first batch?" Li Liang put down the schoolbag in his hand and asked.

Wang Xiujuan and her husband Li Shuangzhu were tired for a day today, Li Shuangzhu leaned on the sofa in the living room, Wang Xiujuan went to the kitchen to take a look, and found that the big aluminum pot in the kitchen had already boiled hot water, she went to the room to get a change of clothes and prepare to take a bath.

Wang Fagen pulled Li Liang to sit at the table in the living room and continued: "Liangzi, you quickly give advice to your uncle, what should your uncle do next?"

Wang Fagen's brain is very flexible, some time ago he helped Li Liang sell 1,000 memory learning methods, and during this time, he sold Li Liang newly compiled tutoring materials, and he has earned more than 100 yuan in less than a month. He was convinced of his little nephew.

"Uncle, tell me what you plan to do first?" Li Liang said, he knew his uncle's ability to do things, in order to prevent his uncle from developing the habit of asking himself about everything, Li Liang first asked his uncle Wang Fagen to use his brain first.

"Me!" Wang Fagen scratched his hair and said, "Then uncle, I'll talk about my thoughts first, I have been optimistic about a house facing the street these days, not far from the gate of the farmers' market at the entrance of the street, the house is not big, only about 10 square meters, and it used to be a lonely old man who lived. He passed away some time ago, and this house was left to his nephew, because there were dead people in the house, no one wanted to rent it, and my uncle and I were going to rent it. ”

As he spoke, Wang Fagen looked at Li Liang and wanted to hear Li Liang's opinion. Li Liang nodded at him and motioned for Wang Fagen to continue.

"Although the house is not big, it is better than facing the street, and it can be turned into a shop with a little renovation, and it is very close to the gate of the farmers' market, and when the New Year pictures and Spring Festival couplets are printed, I will sell them there!" Wang Fagen continued.