With the timely and selfless help of grandpa, we successfully got through the difficulties, and we had a very happy Spring Festival this year, and maybe there is a taste of raising eyebrows, and everything is developing in a good direction. Although we still owe grandpa 3,000 yuan because of the house, I believe that when the baby is over the first birthday, Ye'er can go out to work, I believe: as long as the two of us work together, in the near future, we will definitely earn enough money to repay the money owed to grandpa.

Good things are coming our way, and everything is on the road to happiness. After the Spring Festival, the school decided to tear down the courtyard wall along the street, and then rebuild a dozen street façade houses along the street in the original location, this is a golden opportunity, Ye Er and I decided to rent a façade room, used to sell student supplies, we believe that the store we opened is close to the school, there are so many students to consume, the future business will not be bad.

Soon, the storefront along the street of the school had been built, and I borrowed 5,000 yuan from a small school, of which 3,000 yuan was used to pay the school's rent, and the other 2,000 yuan was used to purchase goods and add some counter shelves.

There is also a small episode about this small loan. First of all, even now I have to thank this Fa Xiao for his help, because the 5,000 yuan at that time was really an astronomical amount, which was equivalent to my salary for a year at that time. At that time, he was the richest, because he was a city hukou, he was recruited and arranged to work in a state-owned enterprise, and his usual salary income was almost twice that of mine, as well as monthly bonuses, quarterly bonuses and year-end bonuses, at that time, his year-end bonuses were at least five or six thousand yuan a year, that is, he didn't do anything for a year, and the year-end bonus alone was my annual salary income so much, and the teacher's salary at that time was really low.

When Ye'er and I took the baby to his house that night and told him about borrowing money, he hesitated, but after all, he didn't save face and agreed to lend us 5,000 yuan. I also agreed to repay his loan within a year, and I gave him an IOU. With the help of Fa Xiao, our small shop was quickly opened, which was in the early nineties of the last century, when the economy of society was developing rapidly, and as long as we opened a store, we could almost make money. Because at that time, in our urban-rural junction and in rural areas, there were no supermarkets at all, and there were very few supermarkets in the cities, so as long as we could rent a façade room, we could make money, and in less than half a year, we paid off the small loan.

It's really profitable to open a store, but it's not something that anyone can make money by opening a store. Since opening the store, I have a deep understanding that real merchants will not set sales prices according to fixed profits, but will always create market demand according to market demand, so as to maximize profits.

At that time, when we first opened the store, we originally mainly dealt in student stationery, as well as student snacks and the like, but the profit was very low, and we couldn't make a lot of money at all. After opening the store, we found many business opportunities, so in the end, our store opened into what makes money, and we sell what products according to the characteristics of our store.

At that time, every once in a while, students came to our store to ask if there were any myopia glasses for sale, and I immediately caught this business opportunity and told these students who needed myopia glasses to come and buy them on weekend afternoons. When it was time to stock up on the weekend, I immediately went to wholesale myopia glasses of various common specifications and rushed back to the store at noon. I remember very clearly that the myopia glasses we wholesaled at that time were made of resin, the purchase price was 5 yuan per pair, and we sold a pair of 40 yuan. Because I heard from them that the same glasses like mine are sold for 80 yuan in the city's optical shop, and they have to take a day to go back to the city, which is not only troublesome and time-consuming, but also more expensive than what my family sells. Later, when other people saw that we sold glasses in our store, they also sold them, and when they started selling eyes, we reduced the price of eyes from the original 40 yuan per pair to 20 yuan per pair.

I remember that there was another product and service that made us a lot of profit at that time. It was a period of rapid social and economic transformation and development, the economy was rapidly transforming and developing, followed by rapid changes in people's dress, many girls wanted to wear stud earrings, but they did not pierce their ears and eyes when they were young, which is a distressing and embarrassing thing. Ye'er is a person who loves beauty, women know women best, she knows that there is no store on this street that has this service, Ye'er and I discussed our store to decide on this project: help others pierce their ears and eyes, 10 yuan per pair.

When buying goods on the weekend, Ye Er personally went to the wholesale market and wholesaled a piercing earring gun, and by the way, she also wholesaled all kinds of dazzling earrings. Ye Er and I experimented on our ears first, and at the beginning, we were both very afraid of pain, but just like the advertising slogan "painless ear stud gun" on the ear stud gun, we really didn't feel the pain, so we pierced our ears and eyes.

The ear stud gun is really like a pistol, the only difference is that the front of the barrel of the ear stud gun is filled with a metal nail, each time you use it, first put the metal nail in the alcohol to disinfect, and pull the trigger on the customer's earlobe that has been sterilized by alcohol, and the metal nail passes through the person's earlobe at the moment when the trigger is pulled, and then we quickly remove the metal nail and put it into the bottle with alcohol on the side to disinfect, and then reinsert a small plastic stick that is also sterilized in this ear and eye. One eye and ears and you're done. Because of the rapid excitation of the earring gun, when you haven't had time to react, the earrings have already passed through the earlobe, so it is really painless to hit the ears and eyes.

I remember that it cost us 80 yuan to buy an earring gun at that time, and we helped those customers who love beauty to pay 10 yuan per pair of ears and eyes, and by the way we also sold a lot of earrings and earrings, I wrote an advertising slogan "10 yuan painless ear and eye injection, pain does not need money" pasted on the door of the store, business is surprisingly good, sometimes those who need to have ears and eyes on weekends even lined up in a long line one by one waiting for us to beat their ears and eyes.