Chapter 4 Ideas for Making Money

If Zhang Meng graduated from high school and went to the overpass to take the lead in building a commissary and restaurant at this time, he would definitely be able to take the lead. Thinking of this, Li Liang said: "Brother Meng, have you been to the 105 National Highway Interchange?"

"I've been there, my grandmother's house is near there, and I heard that an overpass is going to be built there, so it's almost finished!" Zhang Meng replied.

"Brother Meng, what do you say if you go there to open a small restaurant after graduation?" Li Liang continued.

Zhang Meng listened to Li Liang's words, and his eyes lit up. When Zhang Meng was a child, he often went to his grandmother's house to play, and occasionally there was a lack of salt and soy sauce at home, and if he wanted to buy some wine or something to entertain guests, he had to walk several miles from the village to the town to buy it, which was very inconvenient.

He pondered for a while and said, "Ryoko, tell me what you think!"

"Brother Meng, that's what I think. Li Liang casually found a section of dead branches, drew a cross line on the soft mud by the pond, and pointed out the location of the county cement factory and gas station, pointed to the map he had drawn, and said: "You see, this is an overpass, 50 meters west of the overpass is a gas station, and 500 meters east is a cement factory." I estimate that in the future, there will be a lot of trucks pulling cement from the cement factory, and cars from several surrounding counties will have to pass through this national highway to go to the city. The only place to eat in this neighborhood is the staff canteen of the cement factory, and the general foreign drivers can't find a place to eat, so they can only bring some dry food in the car, and they can't even drink hot water in winter. What do you think if we build a small restaurant opposite the gas station and provide them with food and water to wash their cars?"

Zhang Meng and Lei Lei stared at the picture drawn by Li Liang, and felt that what Li Liang said was very reasonable, but they were still a little ignorant, after all, they were only 18-year-old teenagers waiting to graduate from high school, and they had never done business.

At this time, Lei Lei asked a question: "If you want to open a small restaurant here, you must build a house, and there is also a matter of land, will the villagers over there allow us to occupy the land on the side of the road? Besides, where do we have such a big capital?" Zhang Meng also nodded, signaling that he was also about to say this.

Li Liang continued: "We don't need to build a formal house at the beginning, let's simply find some wood and linoleum to build a simple house that can shelter from the wind and rain, and then rebuild it when we earn money!" Li Liang paused at this point, "Brother Meng, your grandmother's house is over there, and the matter of the land shouldn't be difficult, right?" In fact, after Li Liang and Zhang Chen got married, they went to Zhang Chen's grandmother's house a lot, and he knew that Zhang Chen's grandmother's house happened to have a piece of land on the side of the road.

"This must be no problem, my uncle's house has a piece of land on the side of the road, and I have also watered there and picked vegetables!" Zhang Meng nodded.

"What if you don't make any money?" Lei Lei then asked, he just smiled after asking, if he didn't make money, naturally there would be no need to talk about the rest of the matter.

Li Liang also smiled: "Brother Meng, Erlei, don't worry, I think I will definitely be able to make money! Now it is different from a few years ago," when he said this, his face was full of a confident smile, it was the great changes in the development of reform and opening up in later generations that gave him such confidence.

Zhang Meng also nodded and said: "Liangzi is right, I am not pure in the rest, but I heard my father say that since last year, the output of briquettes in their coal yard has been rising, not to mention other places, on Jiefang Street in our county, there are many more small restaurants, these small restaurants you often see when you go to school, every time the owner goes to the coal yard to pull coal, it is hundreds of catties of pulling." ”

With his own understanding of Zhang Meng, Li Liang knew that running a small restaurant was not too difficult for Zhang Meng. This conclusion can be drawn from the amount of coal used, which shows that Zhang Meng's mind is quite flexible.

"Brother Meng, then you can start planning this matter when you finish the college entrance examination!" Li Liang said.

"Brother Meng, I'm here to help you too" Lei Lei also said, although he is waiting to take his mother's class to become a forest farm worker, but the replacement procedures are not a day or two can be completed, during this time he can take a helper to build the store first.

"Well, I'll discuss it with my dad when I get home tonight, and I guess my dad will be fine. Zhang Meng said, "When my dad agrees, I will start preparing for this matter immediately, anyway, according to my grades, I can't get into college, it doesn't matter if I take the college entrance examination or not!"

The three of them continued to discuss the details for a while, and then went back to class. Li Liang returned to the classroom, and Zhang Chen was holding a Chinese textbook to study seriously.

Seeing Li Liang coming back, Zhang Chen asked, "What are my brother and Er Lei looking for you?"

Li Liang whispered to Zhang Chen about the three of them discussing the construction of a small restaurant, Zhang Chen knew very well the situation at home, if his sister Zhang Xin went to take care of his mother's class, his brother Zhang Meng and his mother could go to run the small restaurant, and if it was run well, the situation in his family would be greatly improved. She already had a good impression of Li Liang, although this proposal was still only verbal, but there was a great possibility of success, and in the girl's heart, Li Liang's image was invisibly a little taller.

Soon the class bell rang, and Li Liang also let go of his worries, followed the teacher's rhythm, and listened carefully to the class. He knew very well in his heart that in China in the 80s, the best way to change his destiny was to rely on knowledge. Although there were many uneducated peasants in later generations who became rich and hired college students, most of the elites in the upper echelons of the Chinese pyramid were still intellectuals, and it was difficult to become that handful of elites without culture. So although there are many people who get rich overnight, most of them are prosperous and prosperous, and their death is also sudden. If virtue is not matched, there will be calamity, which is very reasonable.

Fortunately, Li Liang is only 15 years old after all, his memory and other aspects are good, and he is the most veteran normal student who graduated, so it is a little difficult to regain control of the content in the textbook, but it is not too difficult at all.

The afternoon passed quickly, and after the bell rang for the end of class, Li Liang packed his schoolbag and went home with Zhang Chen. The two families are very close, along Jiefang Avenue all the way to the west, and it only takes ten minutes to reach home. Li Liang sent Zhang Chen home first, and then returned to his home, his sister hadn't gotten off work at this time, but Li Liang's parents had already returned, and the puppy Heizi happily greeted Li Liang who was going home.

Mother Wang Xiujuan is cooking in the kitchen, and father Li Shuangzhu is chopping wood in the yard with an axe. Li Liang's father, Li Shuangzhu, is as his name suggests, tall and strong, he was chopping firewood, and when he saw Li Liang coming back, he stopped what he was doing and said to Li Liang: "Liangzi, did your homeroom teacher criticize you at school today?"

In fact, Li Liang's academic performance is good, otherwise he would not have been admitted to the regional normal school in 81; everyone knows that in school, students who generally study well are particularly favored by teachers, and Li Liang is no exception, if it weren't for the fight with the classmates next door before and made a bit of a big move, Wang Na would not have stopped Li Liang from studying for a few days. Therefore, the head teacher Wang Na did not talk to Li Liang today, and Li Liang almost forgot about this matter.

"Dad, the teacher has forgotten about this matter for a long time, and he didn't mention it today. Li Liang replied, "Dad, I'll help you chop wood?"

"Okay, take it, be careful with the axe" Li Shuangzhu was very happy, he handed the axe to his son, Li Liang is the only son in the family, he has always been favored by him, his wife and daughter Li Meng, and he rarely takes the initiative to do housework. At the same time, he shouted to his wife, who was busy in the kitchen: "Xiujuan, come out and see our son, learn to take the initiative to chop wood!"

Wang Xiujuan was brushing the pot in the stove, and walked out when she heard the sound, looked at her son who was chopping wood with an axe in the corner, and said to her husband, "You watch from the side, be careful that your son doesn't chop your hand!" said and said to Li Liang: "Son, you are doing well today, your mother will make you braised pork to eat!"

Although Wang Xiujuan is in her 40s, her figure has not been out of shape, she is 165 tall, her figure is very slender, her face is good, and her daughter Li Meng and son Li Liang have inherited her excellent genes.

"Mom, you're so good!" In the original history, mother Wang Xiujuan has been frail and sickly since the death of her sister, and she has been a little old since she was in her 50s, and she was in her 70s before Li Liang was reborn. Li Liang was also very happy to see his mother, who was in her 30s younger.

Soon Wang Xiujuan made dinner, and her sister Li Meng also came back from work, and the family happily ate in the living room. Today's dinner is richer, Wang Xiujuan made braised pork and tiger skin green peppers, as well as stir-fried cabbage and mapo tofu, and made a seaweed egg soup. In these years, there is relatively little seafood in the inland area, and this bit of seaweed was brought back by my father when he went on a business trip to FJ Province at the beginning of the year.

During the meal, Li Liang told him about his suggestion to Zhang Meng, and Li Shuangzhu and Wang Xiujuan also agreed with Li Liang's point of view, and they both felt that building a small restaurant at the national highway overpass should be a good business.

However, Li Shuangzhu is still a little worried that the policy will change, although there is news that the next door Hui'an Province is currently carrying out a pilot project of package production to households, but at this time Hek County has not yet begun a large-scale experiment, only a few towns and towns with few suburbs and dense populations have secretly begun to divide the land, because the general environment is improving, the county leaders are also turning a blind eye, pretending not to know, not to interfere with these behaviors of farmers.

"Liangzi, do you think Zhang Meng can do it?" asked Li Meng with a red face.

Zhang Meng and Li Meng are junior high school classmates, the difference is that Li Meng went to the health school after graduating from junior high school, and was assigned to the county people's hospital to become a nurse after graduation. In Li Liang's impression, Zhang Meng and Li Meng both have a good impression of each other, but with the death of his sister Li Meng and Zhang Meng's imprisonment, all the good things have passed away with the wind.

"Sister, don't worry, although Brother Meng's grades are not very good, he still has a score in doing things, and besides, I have ideas on the side!" Li Liang laughed jokingly.

"What do you know about a little brat!" Li Meng said angrily.

It was still early after eating, so Li Liang simply went to Zhang Meng's house.

At this time, Zhang Meng's family was eating, and when they saw Li Liang coming to visit the door, the family welcomed in.

"Liangzi, have you eaten, eat at your aunt's house. Zhang Meng's parents are also very familiar with Li Liang's family, and his mother Chen Chunhua greeted Li Liangdao, and said to her little daughter: "Chenchen, go and get two bowls and chopsticks for Liangzi." ”

Li Liang hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Auntie, you're welcome, I just put down the bowl and came over." Eat it!" said Li Liang and found a stool to sit on.

Zhang Meng's sisters and brothers have a heavy burden, the eldest sister Zhang Xin is unemployed at home, Zhang Meng and his younger brother Zhang Junjie are still studying, and the second sister Zhang Jia has just joined the work, and the salary is not high. His parents worked in the coal yard to earn hard money, which is why he was so interested in Li Liang's proposal.