Chapter 14 Preparations
The car stopped in an unknown alley near the station, Zhang Chenyu and his father took down their things, carried their bags and walked to No. 1 Middle School, their parents didn't ask, they chose to believe Zhang Chenyu, from another aspect, they are extremely unfamiliar with the city, not to mention the mother, even the father has not been into the city a few times at this time, so they automatically choose to follow behind their son and move forward silently. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info they know that when they enter the city, they can only rely on their son, and this year's eighteen-year-old Zhang Chenyu is tall and strong, and he is not inferior to the young people in the village, and the strong body gives his parents a lot of confidence and security.
Zhang Chenyu didn't care about any other issues, he took his parents to the shop door on the side of No. 1 Middle School, took out the key to open the roller shutter door, beckoned his parents to go in, put down his things, and then he turned around and went to the phone booth opposite to make a call, now he has 1,700 yuan in his hand, so he will go through the transfer procedures for the house as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
Looking at Zhang Chenyu who was leaving, Wu Huijuan handed her husband Zhang Fucai and said in a low voice: "You said that how could he have the key here in Chenyu?" As he spoke, he looked at the empty room except for two small stools.
Zhang Fucai also looked around, and said affirmatively: "I'm afraid he has planned this matter for a day or two, and now it seems that even if we don't agree, he will do it!" ”
Wu Huijuan nodded, the key to this house is in Zhang Chenxi's hands, which means that the house has been rented, she turned to ask Zhang Fucai, "How much do you say this house costs a month?" ”
"It won't be cheap, will it?" Zhang Fucai couldn't tell how much it would cost to rent a house in the city at this time, if it was in the village, such a house would not be worth much at all.
Zhang Chenyu, who had finished the call, came back, he squatted in front of his parents and said, "It's about eleven o'clock in the morning, let's go to eat first, and then go buy pots and pans and other guys!" ”
After locking the shutter door, Zhang Chenyu's family of three walked towards the entrance of the street, there are still many shops on this street that are empty, and there are no shops selling food, so they can only walk in and eat on another street.
The place to eat is a small restaurant of only more than 20 square meters, there are three wooden tables in it, the floor is dark, the floor at this time is mostly cement floor, because the long-term stir-fry makes the ground slippery and dark, it looks very unhygienic, but there is no way, this is not the time to pay attention, a family of three walked in, Zhang Chenyu asked for a small stir-fry, two vegetarian dishes, three bowls of rice.
He really wanted his parents to eat better, but the current conditions really didn't allow it. The 1,763 yuan he carried was all the income from the sale of five fat pigs, corn and wheat, and it cost 15 yuan to ride in the car in the morning. I just called the landlord, and I said that the housing management will not work at noon, and I will hand over a thousand yuan in the afternoon and afternoon after completing the formalities, and I have little left in my hand, and I have to do the guy's business, this money has to be saved, otherwise it will be a big trouble.
After eating like a storm, Zhang Chenyu's family of three returned to the shop, he went to the small tailor shop next door to borrow a broom and a dustpan, and found an aluminum basin and a towel brought from home, and asked his mother to clean the house.
For the current Jingshui City, Zhang Chenyu walked with his father in a light car and took more than ten minutes to come to the thrift market located on the East Inner Ring Road, which is also a suburb of the city, next door to Jianshe Road, where No. 1 Middle School is located.
With the acceleration of reform and opening up, the spring breeze of economic development has also blown some, so in the poor and backward hinterland, a number of rich people like Zhao Wenhua's father and Hu Lan's father, as well as some people from the leadership class who work in factories, their consumption level is constantly improving, so there is a thrift market here.
Most of them are eliminated and replaced, and a lot of knowledge is simply cleaned and renovated to be new furniture, Zhang Chenyu chose to come here to buy everything he needs.
In front of a shop full of wood, iron rods and other miscellaneous items in front of the house, Zhang Chenyu stepped forward to take a look, he fell in love with two tables, the dark red table top looked very fresh, five or six tables were needed in the early shop, but it was difficult to find the same, the boss was a short man with a few thin beards fluttering on his lips, he came forward to look at Zhang Chenyu and Zhang Fucai, and asked, "What do you want, go inside and have a look?" ”
"How many tables do you have, how do you sell them?" Zhang Chenyu knew that these things were not worth two pennies when the master's family dealt with them, but now these hot ones are cleaned a little, and the asking price is outrageous, and the new guy is basically the same price, and you have to bargain hard enough here.
"How many do you want?" The man looked at Zhang Chenyu and Zhang Fucai, who were not very well dressed, and at first glance they were from the countryside, probably from a nearby village, and wanted to buy some furniture. "Five dollars a piece!"
Zhang Chenyu didn't bargain, and then asked: "Is there a stool that matches this table, the kind that is not tall or short when you sit and eat!" ”
"Yes," the man has been in this business for more than two years, and he knows that if these things are to be sold first, they must be put into a little thought, and they must be matched. Almost all of them are carpenters, and if they can't find a match, they will make some to match together, and that's how the business works. "Ask for a few, two yuan a stool!"
"Give me six tables, three yuan each, and forty stools for one dollar!" Zhang Chenyu bargained directly without blinking his eyes, and the bargain was ruthless enough, half of it directly.
The short man touched his oily hair, as if he was weighing something, and then smiled: "Brother, this price is low, we have to eat more when we do business!" As he spoke, he looked at Zhang Chenyu with an aggrieved face, and then looked at Zhang Fucai, who had been silent.
Zhang Fucai also felt that his son's price was a little low, and he realized that these people would not ask for too outrageous prices! But Zhang Chenyu was unmoved, and when he saw that his father was going to speak, he smiled and said: "If we sell it, we will all have food, and if the price is increased, we will have no food!" "Insist on not giving an inch. Zhang Fucai wanted to say something, but when he heard his son's words, he understood that he still didn't know much about them, and it was better to talk less, so he kept silent. Zhang Chenyu turned around and prepared to leave here as he spoke.
Where can people in ninety-three years stand this, and the buyers who will turn around and leave if they don't agree with each other are too awesome. This business is difficult to do in the cliff of 93 years, don't look at such a big city, but you can't stand the bad economic situation, the floating population is pitiful, how to do it? If you don't sell it, you can still keep it for your eyes, or can you eat it? The man shouted loudly: "Come back, take it, let's make a friend, you take it at a loss, if you need to come to me again to get it!" ”
Zhang Chenyu laughed and said, "That's nature!" ”
Zhang Fucai looked at the man who turned around and went into the house to find a table and stool, and couldn't help but feel relieved, fortunately he didn't open his mouth at that time, and he wanted to buy it according to his own wishes, which was a loss of dozens of yuan!
When the man took out the table and stool and took a black towel to dust it on, Zhang Chenyu smiled: "Look, it's not easy for us to take so much, you have to help send it to me!" ”
The man looked embarrassed, "If you want to deliver the goods, then you have to add some money, otherwise it will be too much of a loss!" ”
"It's not far away, just at the door, a matter of minutes!" Zhang Chenyu is also slamming the door to the extreme at this moment.
The man spread his hands helplessly, "Okay, you wait a minute, how about sending it to you in a while?" Don't wait for it, right? ”
Zhang Chenyu smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll come to you for that moment and send you the money!" ”
Looking at Zhang Chenyu who was leaving, the man took a sip gently, "How can there be people who pick the door like this, and they don't give money?" "But there's no other way, it's a big deal, and you can do it if you don't do anything else.
Turning around, at the end of the street, I bought three large honeycomb coal stoves, at this time it is more practical to use this, I can't afford to use electricity, I can't afford to use gas, and it's not safe. This honeycomb coal stove is considered to have cost a lot of money, three of them cost thirty-six yuan, or ask the boss to send it to the store and pay for it, this boss is happy to launch the tricycle, and said to the woman in the house and happily rode the car to send it over, Zhang Chenyu hurriedly shouted: "Go to the front house and go together!" The man nodded, rode to a few houses and waited.
After walking around, I returned to the short man and bought a desk for the students, the oldest kind of iron table, which could be placed in front of the table to place small ingredients such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. In line with the intention of not bothering the two masters, he bought all the things in his family and sent them over together. This time, the man's bid was not high, and Zhang Chenyu did not make a counteroffer. The man finally laughed: "Little brother is so familiar with our business, what do you do?" ”
"No, I've helped people carry it, so I know the price!" Zhang Chenyu said nonsense.
Even if it was bought here, Zhang Chenyu and his father sat on a tricycle and walked towards the store.
Unloading the things and putting them in the store, Zhang Chenyu suddenly remembered after paying the money, there is still a wall between the two shops, and now it is all his own, in order to open the store, he said to the master who sold the stove: "Master, can you smash the wall?" ”
"Yes, I can do everything, make doors, windows, stoves, tongs, smash walls, and so on!" The man's face was excited. The short man watched the two talk, but unfortunately he couldn't!
"Nacheng, you can help me see first, can this wall be smashed open? As long as the front half is smashed, the back half is left for me, and it will be completed today, and the overtime work will also be completed! Zhang Chenyu said.
"After this work is done in one day, I have to find a few people to help, and I have to move the sand and bricks, which takes a lot of work!" The man patted the wall as he spoke.
"You don't have to move it, the bricks will be removed and I will build a wall in the next room two-thirds, just these bricks, as long as they can be built a little more than two meters and three meters high! Do you think so? "No way, a family of three must have a place to live, and buy a small wooden bed in a place of six or seven square meters at the back, so that parents can live in it, as for himself, he thought about it last night, and he has to take advantage of the school, this is not a holiday, there are so many empty beds in the school dormitory, and his quilt is ready-made, and he can live in it secretly at night. It's a point to be able to save!
"I can do it, but I still have to buy two packs of putty powder and lime, cement, and some sand!" The man looked like a real person, Zhang Chenyu smiled: "You go to prepare everything, with materials, you see how much money you can do well!" ”
"Give me a hundred and twenty dollars, and I'll promise to do it for you before dark!" He really didn't understand this, so he nodded, "Cheng, then let's go and prepare now!" "According to the old rules, do your job well and settle the bill at the end. The man rode his tricycle away happily.
"Yes, Mom, you just did it in vain, and you forgot about it in the morning, then you just sit here and wait for them to get it and we'll clean it up!" After Zhang Chenyu finished speaking, he and his father went out, and they had to buy dishes and chopsticks, meat, chili, pepper, grass and fruit star anise and other ingredients, and they had to be busy.