Chapter 79: Dongmei's First Job
It is not difficult to repair shoes and mend shoes, and the ingenious Dongmei only observed for a while, and before she could do it, she learned some basic skills. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When Dongmei was learning to repair shoes with relish, she suddenly saw a familiar figure walking not far away, and the frightened Dongmei hurriedly turned her head, trying to avoid the woman's gaze.
Dongmei, who turned her head, felt that Kang Ping had already walked past the old Zhou shoe repair stall, and then slowly turned her head back.
Lao Zhou saw Dongmei's shyness and guessed that she had met an acquaintance, so he comforted Dongmei and said: "At the beginning, it was all like this, timid, shy, afraid of being ridiculed by others, afraid of being looked down upon by others, after a long time, it will be fine." ā
Dongmei's face was flushed, in fact, her shyness and worry were not aimed at everyone, but only at certain groups of people, such as Kang Ping, who used to be a family member like herself, but now she has become a worker's woman.
She couldn't say why, but she was afraid of meeting them, and she was even more afraid of meeting them.
In this way, Dongmei followed Lao Zhou to study for a morning, and when the child was about to get out of school, she said goodbye to Lao Zhou, returned home, and cooked for the child.
At the dinner table, Dongmei looked at the thin Taotao and the not tall Nana, and wondered in her heart, how can we increase the nutrition of the two children under the conditions of the existing economy?
Suddenly, she thought of the leather-clad man she had met on the long-distance bus before, and the bucket of instant noodles he gave her.
He remembered that the man in leather once told her that instant noodles are nutritious, and the reason why he grew so tall and handsome was because he ate instant noodles every day.
So, Dongmei took out the pack of instant noodles that the leather-clad man gave her from the box.
When the two children saw the instant noodles, they rushed over, and after disassembling it, they had to eat it dry.
Seeing that the two children were going to eat dry, Dongmei hurriedly stepped forward to stop her and said, "This is instant noodles, not dry noodles, they need to be soaked in hot water, don't you see that there are soup buns, material buns, and meat buns in it?"
Hearing that dry noodles could be eaten by soaking, the two children turned their eyes to their mother, hoping that their mother could give them instant noodles to eat.
Dongmei looked at the greedy appearance of the two children, so she followed the example of the man in leather clothes, first tore open the three material bags, poured them into the noodles, and then poured boiling water into them.
About three hours later, Dongmei opened the plastic lid.
When the children smelled the fragrance, they couldn't help it anymore, took the chopsticks, and solved the bucket of instant noodles with three strokes and five divisions.
Dongmei looked at the children's delicious food, and suddenly had a wish in her heart, when can I make a pack of instant noodles for the children every day, how good it would be.
At this moment, Liu Hongxia hurriedly walked in from outside the house.
Dongmei looked at Liu Hongxia's anxious appearance and hurriedly asked, "Hongxia, what are you busy with?"
After Liu Hongxia came in, she asked Dongmei directly: "Dongmei, I heard that you are learning to mend shoes from Lao Zhou at that shoe mending stall, is it true or fake?"
Although Dongmei was shy, Kang Ping knew that she was mending her shoes, but she was not shy at all, and Liu Hongxia knew that she was mending her shoes.
So, she nodded bluntly and said, "yes, what's wrong?"
Liu Hongxia looked left and right, specifically avoided the child, and whispered to Dongmei: "Who to learn the craft from, you can't learn from that old Zhou." ā
Dongmei looked at Liu Hongxia in surprise and said, "Why?"
Liu Hongxia paused and said, "You don't know yet, the people in the yard of our base have spread, and the old Zhou who mends shoes is a hooligan." ā
Hearing this, Dongmei's eyes widened in surprise and she couldn't say a word.
In those conservative times, anyone who labeled a man as a scoundrel was guilty of a heinous crime.
Dongmei suddenly said in fear: "No, I think that old Zhou man is quite honest, not like the kind of hooligan who specializes in women?"
Liu Hongxia approached Dongmei and said, "I said Dongmei, you are also a family member of our base compound, why haven't you even heard any rumors?"
Dongmei asked curiously, "What kind of rumors?"
Liu Hongxia suddenly raised her voice and said: "That Lao Zhou is not only divorced, but also takes a nineteen-year-old young girl to live together in a cave rented by a fellow villager." ā
In those days, as long as there was no marriage, then cohabitation was illegal and despised by everyone.
Hearing that Lao Zhou was living together illegally, Dongmei was startled, held Liu Hongxia's hand, thanked her and said: "Hongxia, thank you for coming to tell me the news, otherwise I really didn't know that Lao Zhou was that kind of person, fortunately, I only studied with him for one morning, otherwise I would have become a non-trivial person." ā
Liu Hongxia glared and said, "Dongmei, even if we don't work, we can't mix with people like Lao Zhou." ā
Dongmei nodded and said: "Yes, people who live together illegally are hooligans, and they must not be in the company of such people." ā
The child was playing next to him, and the two women chatted endlessly, and Liu Hongxia did not sit up until it was time for the child to go to school.
However, just as she turned to leave, she suddenly saw a box of instant noodles thrown by her two children in the trash can in the corner.
She looked at the trash can and said, "Dongmei, you cry poor in front of me every day, it turns out that you are all pretending." ā
Dongmei stood up and was about to send Liu Hongxia, she said: "I am already poor, what else is there to pretend." ā
Liu Hongxia approached the trash can, picked up the instant noodle box from it and said: "Since you are poor, you still give your children such expensive instant noodles, and my family only gave the children Xiong Yiwu, you actually gave the children Master Kong, you are really rich." ā
Dongmei is planning to give her children instant noodles every day, but she has no place to buy them and doesn't know the price.
When he heard that Liu Hongxia gave her children instant noodles every day, he was surprised and said: "Since this thing is so expensive, you still give it to your children every day, or do you have money." By the way, where did you buy your Xiong Yiwu?"
Liu Hongxia said: "Master Kong is expensive, Xiong Yiwu is not expensive, and it is a double package of noodles, a plastic bag contains two packs of noodles, which tastes good." There are some sold in the state-owned supply and marketing cooperatives in the county. ā
Hearing that there were some sold in the county, Dongmei happily asked, "How much is a pack?"
Liu Hongxia said: "For children to eat, who still buys a pack, we are all a box, a box to buy, in fact, it is not expensive, just a few dollars a box." ā
After speaking, Liu Hongxia continued to instruct Dongmei on how to use instant noodles.
She told Dongmei that instant noodles are mainly for breakfast.
When you cook the noodles, put some greens in them, and if you have an egg, beat an egg in it, and it will taste even better.
Dongmei said, "Is it okay to boil the blister?"
Liu Hongxia shook her head and said, "It's not okay to soak it out, it still has to be cooked." I get up every morning and give two children, one of whom a pack of Xiong Yiwu, and the children eat better than anyone else. Don't say it, my Li Mao used to be sick, and since he started eating this instant noodle every morning, not only did he not catch a cold, but the child also gained weight. ā
Listening to Liu Hongxia's words, Dongmei was envious.
Her goal now is to make Taotao gain more weight and Nana grow taller.
So, while the two children were in school, Dongmei followed Liu Hongxia to the county and bought a box of instant noodles and came back.
She plans to cook noodles for her children every morning, and expects her children to see significant changes in their bodies after eating instant noodles.
At that time, it seemed particularly popular for students to eat boiled instant noodles for breakfast.
Whenever the children go to school, everyone discusses on the road, my family eats Huafeng, your family eats Sanxian Yi noodles, and my family eats Xiong Yiwu......
Due to information blockage, everyone doesn't know that giving children instant noodles for breakfast is a great harm to children's bodies, especially to the stomach.
Eating instant noodles can be said to be not only not nutritious, but also harmful and not beneficial.
However, in that era, without Baidu, everyone could not search for information and could not obtain information, so they were deceived by the rumors that instant noodles were nutritious.
In the following days, Dongmei tried to find several jobs, but they all failed.
At noon, the dejected Dongmei was sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, and Taotao and Nana came over to pester their mother to eat popsicles.
Dongmei took out two dimes from her pocket, gave one dime to each of them, and then told them that they could only eat once a week.
Taotao and Nana looked at each other and ran out happily.
When the two children ran away, Dongmei suddenly realized something?
Since you can't work part-time, why don't you start a small business yourself?
For example, selling popsicles in front of the school?
Seeing that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, there will definitely be more and more people eating popsicles, so why don't you sell popsicles?
And selling popsicles doesn't require any technical content at all, it only requires a bicycle, then a wooden box to store popsicles, and a quilt to cover the popsicles.
Thinking of this, Dongmei jumped off the bed excitedly.
At the moment, she only needs to find someone to borrow more than 100 yuan to buy a 38 weighted bicycle.
As for popsicles, of course, you can sell as much as you want, and if you can't sell all of them, you can put them in the freezer of the wholesale department and sell them again the next day.
Thinking of this, Dongmei said just do it.
She first came to the school gate to inspect the market.
When she saw that there was only one local villager girl selling popsicles at the entrance of the school, she realized that a business opportunity was coming.
I saw that the villager girl sold popsicles on the left side of the school gate, and she would sell popsicles on the right side of the school gate in the future.
And after selling popsicles at the school gate, you can go to the lighting court and other places where people are more concentrated, and then sell popsicles.
When you think about it, you do it.
Dongmei, who has a quick personality, first borrowed 200 yuan from Liu Hongxia, and 100 yuan was used to purchase a 28 weighted bicycle, and the rest of the money he bought a wooden box for popsicles.
The box is not large, and it can be fixed in the back seat of the car, which is very convenient.
As for the quilt, Dongmei simply removed the quilt that Wei Guo had covered for many years and directly made a quilt covered with popsicles.
I don't have much money left, so I'll wait for tomorrow to wholesale popsicles.
In the evening, when the two children came back from school, Dongmei began to ask for the children's opinions.
When she told the children about her idea of selling popsicles, she saw the children's surprised expressions, and Dongmei's first reaction was that as a mother, going to sell popsicles at the school gate would not affect the children's face at school?
Will the child be ridiculed by other children?
Will the child feel inferior because his mother sells popsicles?
However, to Dongmei's surprise, when the two children learned that Dongmei was going to sell popsicles, not only did they not object, but they also jumped up happily and agreed with both hands.
Nana happily hugged her mother and said, "Mom, my wish to eat a popsicle every day has finally come true." ā
Tao Tao also hugged Dongmei and said, "Mom, my life dream of being able to drink a bag of frozen juice for two cents a day is also going to be realized." ā