Chapter 5 Opening of the business
The handwriting on the homework book is a little sloppy, Xia Luo knows in his heart, the little guy is in a hurry to practice calligraphy. As for the accuracy rate, it's a little miserable, and it matches the penultimate score of the child's return.
Xia Luo flipped through the child's homework yesterday, and the correct rate was higher than today's, and it seemed that he was still a little anxious.
Xia Luo put down the notebook and came to the bathroom, the child was a little hurried to wash up, Xia Luo sighed lightly in his heart, and reminded him loudly, "Wash well, you will be punished for rewashing if you are not qualified." ”
Li Miao's hurried movements stopped, pouted and began to wash seriously.
After washing, the child wanted to draw the red book, Xia Luo ignored him, put the homework book on the small table, pointed out the mistakes in it one by one, and after Li Miao finished correcting it again, it was already time to sleep.
Xia Luo pointed to his slightly sloppy handwriting and those mistakes, "The handwriting is too sloppy, have you ever thought about it, writing well in the homework book is also practicing words, or learning to practice words, and if you do your homework seriously, then these mistakes can be avoided because of sloppiness, which invisibly saves you time and trouble for revision, maybe you can really leave some time to practice words." ”
Xia Luo straightened his body, "Comrade Li Miao, think clearly and think long-term before doing things in the future, don't just look at the present!" ”
Li Miao nodded as if he didn't understand, he didn't understand everything his mother said, but he still understood the previous analysis, he was a little frustrated, he seemed to have done something stupid, he secretly made up his mind in his heart, there would be no more such stupid things in the future.
Children are growing their bodies, and they sleep much longer than adults, Li Miao has already fallen asleep, but Xia Luo is far from resting time, and there is no computer, TV, magazine, or novel at home, Xia Luo has nothing to do, so he simply went into the kitchen and pondered the recipes.
Large, cheap, tasty and clean. To meet these four points, business should not be difficult to do, with her current situation, or don't start to spread the stall too big, at home to do a good box directly to the school gate to sell is the safest way, save trouble, not to mention, mobility is strong, in case you really meet the city management of the horse, you can run with your bag.
Xia Luo's mind kept turning, one would open the refrigerator to see, one would open the spices to see, one would open the vegetable basket to see, in a blink of an eye, the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock, and there was still no sleepiness, but Xia Luo was not in a hurry, and took out the 'IELTS vocabulary' that he bought in the bookstore near the university town today from his bag and leaned on the head of the bed and carried it.
This is her previous trick, memorize words before going to bed, after more than a dozen words, to ensure that your sleepy eyes can't be opened, it's just sleeping and studying, that's how she spent her fourth and sixth grades in college.
However, Susie's body inertia is really strong, and she has to memorize more than 20 words before she has a deep sleep, kicking her slippers to turn off the lights, Xia Luo thought in a daze, "I must buy a bedside lamp tomorrow, and I have to go down to the ground to turn off the lights at this time, it's so inhumane!" Then he rolled over and fell into a sweet dream.
It took a week, after various observations and visits by Charlotte, and a comprehensive evaluation, she selected a school that was closer to her current place of residence - A University.
This is a liberal arts college, female students account for the majority, when Xia Luo went to buy a lunch box, he deliberately bought the more delicate one, although the cost is more than that of others, but it is much more high-grade at a glance, Xia Luo wants to take the aristocratic route among the commoners, so the price is slightly higher than others, and the packaging is better and more convincing.
She also deliberately ordered a small banner, in order to commemorate Susie, specially named: 'Asu's rice', and put the banner around the takeaway incubator - this is the brand!
She tentatively set the recipe for three dishes, a braised pork with shiitake mushrooms is a meat dish, a mapo tofu is a vegetarian dish, and a stir-fried rape to relieve greasy.
The first time he sold a boxed lunch, Xia Luo was still a little apprehensive, although after investigation, he felt that there should be no problem, but Xia Luo still beat a drum in his mind.
At eleven twenty, Xia Luo came to the gate of University A, and the students were out of class in ten minutes, Xia Luo put the incubator on the ground, rubbed his hands a little nervously, and exhaled a long breath, hoping to relieve his nervousness, on the first day, she didn't dare to do more, only made twenty boxes.
A burst of melodious music sounded in his ears, the students finished class, and the flow of people suddenly became dense, Xia Luo hurriedly took out a box of lunches from the incubator and pressed it on the box as an advertisement.
Xia Luo is a new face, and the ones that are sold are more expensive than others, and the ones who ask more buy less, but in the end, the customer flow is huge, and the nineteen boxes will be sold out in a while, and the remaining box is the one that looks outside, and it is already cold, Xia Luo decided to take it home and eat it hot.
The business on the first day was not a good start, but it was not an upset, the key was on the second day, Xia Luo deliberately wrote down the appearance of the classmates who bought the box lunch, if there were many repeat customers the next day, then she would definitely be able to do better and better. Charo clenched his hands into fists and cheered himself up.
Li Miao circled around Xia Luo after school, and couldn't wait to ask how the business was on the first day, he helped his mother wash the vegetables yesterday, Xia Luo rubbed the child's messy hair, took out a tissue, squatted/leaned, and carefully wiped the fine sweat running out of his forehead for him, "What can you see on the first day!" It would take a week to see why. ”
"Oh," Li Miao was a little depressed, "It's going to take so long!" ”
Xia Luo took his little hand, "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, little comrade~" Xia Luo deliberately lengthened his voice, and the child giggled.
When he got home, Xia Luo bought an ice cream at the warehouse at the door, the kind with two in a bag, and began to eat one by one with the children, and took out a piece of paper and wrote 'ice-cream' on it, and then snapped and pasted it on the wall, "Come, read with me, love hiss-kereme, ice cream means!" ”
Li Miao read along while licking/sipping the ice cream: "Ai Si-Ke Ruimu." ”
"Yes, it's worthy of being my son, just smart!" Xia Luo encouraged the child, patted his little shoulder and said: "Practice while eating ice cream, next time you want to eat ice cream, just talk to me in English, if the pronunciation is correct, mom will buy it for you!" "Then she bites her 'ice-cream' and goes to the kitchen to cook.
The child nodded, "Mom, you're so good, when will you be able to speak English?" ”
Xia Luo's body stiffened suddenly, and the ice cream in her mouth almost didn't fall off, "Uh......" She swept her eyes twice, and pointed to the 'IELTS vocabulary' placed next to the folding bed pillow, "Mom has been learning English by herself recently......" Xia Luo was a little nervous, afraid that the child would find out that it was not a book for beginners in English.
A phone ringtone rang in Xia Luo's ears like a sky, she breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist, and hurriedly ran to answer the phone, thinking about buying two children's English tomorrow, zero-based English or something to put on the bedside, so as to save one day accidentally revealing the stuffing.
The caller was Su Chu, Susie's younger brother, who is now in college in another province and is a sophomore, since he knew that his sister was divorced, he had to call his sister at least once a week, and this was the second time Xia Luo had answered his phone.
Listening to his voice combined with Susie's memory, Su Chu should be a well-behaved big boy, and the most concerned about the phone call is whether his sister is okay and whether she has been knocked down by the bad news of divorce, as long as Xia Luo is chatting with him on the phone, revealing his vigorous and prosperous/sheng desire to survive, revolving around the central idea that today is beautiful and tomorrow will be more beautiful, Su Chu usually hangs up the phone very satisfied.
After sending away the cheap brother, Xia Luo hurriedly ran to the kitchen to cook, cooking a little late today, she was already a little hungry, Xia Luo couldn't do those complicated things, just out of the pot, made a potato stew, and then mixed a small cold dish, half an hour, the meal was on the table.
After eating, the two worked together to pick up the table and wash the dishes as usual, and then Li Miao did her homework, while Xia Luo stewed the old soup while carrying out her fitness and beauty plan.
The next day, Xia Luo was apprehensive, with the mentality of accepting the judges' scores, carrying her twenty boxed lunches and coming to the gate of University A on time.
But the moment the bell rang again, my heart was suddenly hung high, hanging in my throat, boom! Boom! It's like knocking on your eardrums.
It wasn't until the first repeat customer appeared, then the second and third, Xia Luo's heart gradually fell, his breathing finally calmed down, and the twenty box lunches were sold out within a few minutes, and even the little cold goods were bought by a little girl without mind, Xia Luo's smile was about to grin behind her ears, and she finally put her mind at ease - she has the ability to survive, she can support herself and Li Miao.
Carrying empty boxes, taking two bus stops, humming a song and going to the market to buy twice as many materials as the previous two days, Charo decided to expand production, and with today's momentum, forty boxes should be no problem.
'Asu's Rice' is unstoppable, blowing a whirlwind in a small area, Xia Luo has expanded production three times, from 20 boxes a day to 80 boxes a day, still in short supply, but Xia Luo is temporarily unable to increase it, 80 boxes have reached her limit, she is tired every day to see people are double shadows, Li Miao's children are distressed, in addition to helping their mother wash vegetables after completing their homework, they also take care of cleaning the room, washing their mother's feet and other work.
Looking at the child's childish/tender face, with a serious expression and following his busy work, Xia Luo was moved and distressed, when the child took the basin of foot washing water and carefully placed it at his feet, Xia Luo's eyes were red in an instant, she wanted to say something but it seemed to be blocked in her throat, zuihou She could only hold the child, and a gentle kiss fell on the top of his head, and silently swore in her heart, "From now on, as long as I am here, no one can hurt you!" ”
She can't always make herself and her son so tired, she wants to live a life of enjoyment, and she is tired of trying to earn money, which is completely contrary to Xia Luo's life motto, it seems that she wants to recruit someone to help her.
In line with the mentality of preferring to kill mistakes and not letting go, Xia Luo hung his own recruitment revelations in the talent market, recruitment websites, telephone poles and walls in the streets and alleys. But the first to reply to the letter were those small advertisements without public morality posted on telephone poles and walls, and I think it was also the middle-aged women she recruited to help her wash and chop vegetables, not white-collar workers sitting in the office, and it was normal for those hanging on the website to not receive a response.
The person chosen by Xia Luo Zuihou is surnamed Xu, thirty-six or seventeen years old, and his temperament is a little pungent, but he does his work cleanly and neatly, and his hands and feet are nimble. With her help, Xia Luo was immediately relaxed, and one hundred and twenty boxes a day was stress-free.
A month has passed in a blink of an eye, excluding the salary for Sister Xu, the upfront investment, and the cost of buying vegetables, Xia Luo's income is already equivalent to a month's salary of a white-collar worker in the city, Xia Luo smiled at the end of the month, and what excited her the most was that she could clearly feel that such an income was far from reaching her limit, and she could do better!