The winter vacation life began, Chaoying and Lin Ningning also began to prepare their own small shops, just doing pastry business is definitely not enough, but now that the New Year has passed, there is still a market for Spring Festival gifts and New Year's goods. As early as half a month ago, the two rented half a room with a store in the county seat, and there were not many people doing business at this time, but there were some people who dared to try to eat crabs.

The store owner is in the clothing business, specializing in bringing back some fashionable and trendy clothing from the south, Chaoying and Lin Ningning happened to see the boss's house half empty when they were bored shopping, and they wanted to rent it and continue to sell pastries, but Chaoying's cooking skills for themselves to eat are OK, large-scale production and sales can't keep up, and then it's too hard. Head Gu strongly objected, and in the end, the two had to change their thinking.

In this era, various units still attach great importance to the Spring Festival, and will organize a party before the holiday, and some units will send some New Year's goods to employees. And some self-employed people do not have enough operating capital, Chaoying and Lin Ningning put together all their savings of 10,000 yuan, went to the fruit market in the provincial capital to buy apples, frozen pears and rare oranges and other fruits, and went to the canning factory to wholesale 100 boxes of canned food, and contacted acquaintances in the candy factory to order 1,000 catties of sugar cubes, these are all New Year's goods that every household will prepare in this era. Chaoying thinks that the sales of these things will definitely not be bad. You have to queue up to buy something from the supply and marketing cooperative, and you have to queue up to buy it at your own store, and it is not only not expensive to buy it at your own store, but also more convenient and simple. I believe there will be a lot of customers. After the purchase, there are still 4,000 yuan left in the 10,000 yuan of the two, which has to make people sigh that the money in this era is too anti-spending.

It happened that Gu Weidong's comrade-in-arms Wang Dalong drove a big car to run freight after retiring, and finally Chaoying used the American trick to ask Gu Weidong to help find this friend to run a private job. The freight was transported back to the county seat over the years. The goods were transported to Chaoying, gave Wang Dalong a hundred yuan, and invited someone to eat a hot pot. Wang Dalong excused himself in every possible way, it was okay to eat, but he didn't want money, Chaoying knew that people who went out of the army were very righteous, but everyone's life was not easy in this era, and a hundred yuan could make the family live a fat year. In the end, Chaoying said: "In the future, my sister-in-law will not trouble you when pulling goods, if you don't accept this money, how can I be embarrassed to ask you to help pull goods in the future?" In this way, Wang Dalong accepted the money.

When the goods arrived, Chaoying hired a pair of small couples from the county town Wang Guifang and Liu Zhu to help sell the goods, and the four of them put the canned apples and oranges that were afraid of freezing into the store, put the frozen pear candy cubes at the door of the store, and were busy all afternoon before finishing the cleanup. There is still a month before the New Year, at this time many people have begun to do New Year's goods, in the morning Chaoying asked Liu Zhu to put a string of firecrackers at the door of the store, which is a good luck, and the small store is opened.

At the beginning, many people had a wait-and-see attitude, after all, only supply and marketing cooperatives sold in the past, and this year there is such a small shop, and everyone can't accept it for a while.

However, the things sold every day in the supply and marketing cooperatives are quantitative, and you can't buy them if you go late. And many people come from the town or the countryside to catch the market, and if they don't buy what they want to buy, it will be in vain, and many people come to Chaoying's small shop with the attitude of giving it a try. As soon as I saw that the things in the store were quite complete, I just went directly to the door to settle the bill after purchase, and there was no need to queue up at one window after another, so it was very convenient for everyone. After the customer went back, he told his relatives and friends about the situation, and the next day Chaoying's small shop had a lot of customers, and they spread the word from ten to hundred, which made Chaoying and Lin Ningning's small business very good. Especially oranges and sugar cubes, which sold very well, were sold out in a few days, and Lin Ningning had to go back to the provincial capital to buy them again, and it was another thousand catties of sugar cubes and 800 catties of oranges. In the end, Wang Dalong, who was asked to help pull it back. This time, Lin Ningning entered another twenty cans of malt milk essence, as well as four hundred catties of brown sugar and white sugar.

"Do you know? This time, I asked someone to go into the sugar cube to see that they also produce brown sugar and white sugar, and they also asked for 200 catties. Lin Ningning said proudly.

"And malt milk is too expensive, so I put in twenty cans, which is what I can only get from someone. ”

"Great, Lin Ningning, you are such a little genius. Chaoying said playfully.

"That's it, you just wait for my sister-in-law and I will take you to make a fortune!" The tiredness of many days made the two of them laugh out loud with a rare relaxation.

The store was busy until the twenty-second day of the lunar month, and the next day was the New Year, and the goods were almost sold. Because the Gu brothers got married this year, the old people in the family have long been talking about having a reunion year, and the family has a good reunion. I have to go home for the Spring Festival. So Chaoying discussed with Lin Ningning for a while, Xiao Nian sold the rest of the goods for another day, and then closed the store.

In the past, Chaoying learned calligraphy, went to the supply and marketing cooperative, bought red paper and ink, wrote Spring Festival couplets by hand, divided the remaining canned apples and oranges into piles, and sent a pair of Spring Festival couplets to sell in the form of gift packages. Because he had never seen such a way of selling, Liu Zhu couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

The next day, business was really good, and the goods in the store were sold out in a few hours. Chaoying paid Liu Zhu and his family, and he agreed to pay 60 yuan a month, but the business in the store was good, and Chaoying didn't plan to treat people badly, although he only worked for 20 days, he gave 100 yuan in wages, and gave the two of them a gift bag left in advance. Liu Zhuxiao and his wife were very happy.

"Sister Chen and Sister Lin are really generous, they have given so much money and things, remember to find us if you want to hire someone next year. ”

"This is what you deserve, during this time you have done your best to help us sell goods, we all see it, here I thank you too, what to do next year has not been decided, but if you are in the county, you will definitely be looking for you. Chaoying said sincerely.

No matter when, what is needed to do business is a down-to-earth and hard-working guy like Liu Zhu and his wife.

"You also have a good rest before the year, spend the New Year with your family, and we may also go to the provincial capital to do business next year, if you can get away from the family, you can also go with us." Lin Ningning is also very satisfied with the couple.

"Okay, I'll make money next year with Sister Chen and Sister Lin," Liu Zhu said innocently.

Chaoying said: "Then I wish you a happy new year first, and we will see you next year." ”

The four said goodbye, Chaoying and Lin Ningning sent another gift package to the landlord, said some polite words and left.

During the Spring Festival, for more than 20 days, the cost of 6,000 yuan has increased several times, and the net profit is more than 10,000 yuan. Chaoying and Lin Ningning finished dividing the money, and they couldn't close their mouths. I am also full of confidence in the road to prosperity in the future.

Chaoying took the fruit candy cubes reserved for friends in advance, cleaned up the store, and went to the train station with her sister-in-law Lin Ningning to catch the train.

The two young couples have been separated for almost a month, and they are both like arrows in their hearts, eager to go home immediately.