Chapter 27: Memorabilia of Entering the City
Li Qiong didn't sleep well all night.
The son has killed hundreds of yuan, and she doesn't know how many hundreds, but where can she rent a storefront? This is the whole of a big fat pig in the family.
Early the next morning, she sent Tang Lingfeng to Uncle Tang Mingyao's house, asked them to take care of them for two days, and then asked her neighbors to help feed the livestock, so she pulled Tang Mingyao and rushed to the city in a hurry.
When I entered the city, I didn't go to my aunt's house, so I went straight to the school gate and looked at the store first.
When Tang Mingyao opened the roller shutter door, and the colorful furnishings inside appeared in front of her eyes, her heart was a little relieved.
At least, this façade is real!
The son really has the key in his hand.
Still, she felt that it was unreliable. Don't you see, after two generations of struggle, my aunt's family bought a small façade in the county? A family of five was crammed into the basement, and they were not even willing to change their new house.
My own son, who has been honest since he was a child, got a façade in a month?
Anyway, I feel unsure, and I made up my mind to quit the rent!
Tang Mingyao couldn't resist her, so he had to find the landlord and aunt, but as soon as his mother said what she meant, the woman screamed: "This can't be done, the money has been paid, where is the reason to return!" No way, no way! We are doing business seriously, we have signed a contract, and if you want to return the money, I will sue you! ”
Mother: "......"
If this way doesn't work, she can't help it, mainly because she heard that the other party was going to the court to sue her, and she was frightened.
Tang Mingyao couldn't wait for the landlord to be fierce at this time, so naturally he wouldn't talk to him.
The two sat on plastic stools, silent.
"Excuse me, do you sell anything here?" A young woman in her twenties stood in the doorway and asked.
"Sell! Come in and take a look. ”
Tang Mingyao beckoned the guests to enter the door.
The other party walked around the store, chose two colored hair ties, and asked, "How much are these two?" ”
"Two pieces."
The woman took out two yuan, handed it to Li Qiong, and walked away.
Li Qiongleng was there.
She hasn't done anything yet, and she has two dollars to come to the door? How do people in the city do business? It's not what I imagined.
Tang Mingyao was secretly happy in his heart, and thanked the young lady for his assistance.
Then the atmosphere was not so dull, he organized the language, and said: "Mom, the house can't be returned, it's rented anyway, let's try it for three months first." It's really not good, these three months are over, don't you continue to pay, right? If we don't pay, the landlord can't do anything to us! ”
What can Li Qiong do?
It's all come to this, that's all.
She ran from the countryside to the city today, her heartstrings have been tense, and when she relaxes a little, she is so tired that she seems to be out of strength, and she doesn't want to go anywhere, so the two of them open the door of the store and sit in the house to guard.
During this period, Tang Mingyao also put the table and plastic basket at the door, and went to find a large cardboard to make a simple shop sign and hang it on the door.
After sitting for several hours, four or five customers came to the door and sold something for about ten yuan.
Mainly during the holidays, the flow of people at the school gate is very low, and you can only see a passerby in half a day. If it were a normal school day, business would definitely be more than that.
But this bit of business is beyond Li Qiong's understanding, and she thinks that doing business is really magical, and she can collect money while sitting.
At noon, it wasn't until more than two o'clock that the two of them ate something casually at the school gate, stayed in the store for another afternoon, and after dark, they went to my aunt's house together.
"Hey, I don't know what this baby thinks in his heart, he rented a store quietly, I don't know what to do now? I really want to kill him! ”
"That place, how is the business?"
"I don't know, wow, we arrived at ten o'clock this morning, closed at six o'clock in the afternoon, and sold for seventeen or eighteen yuan, I don't know if I lost or earned?"
Under the not-so-bright light, the mother and aunt sat together muttering and sighing.
As a bystander, the aunt was much calmer than her mother, asked some key questions, and asked Tang Mingyao: "How much does your house cost?" ”
Tang Mingyao replied honestly: "One hundred and twenty months." ”
"What about the cost of those things?"
"A dollar of something, the purchase price is about three cents."
My aunt is bored and does arithmetic: the rent is an average of 4 yuan a day, and today I sold 18 yuan of goods, and the cost was 5.4 yuan...... Hey, it seems that you still made some money?
Earned 8.6 yuan.
In addition to a day's food money, there can be a surplus of three or four yuan.
Tang Mingyao said: "Auntie, don't forget it, today is the National Day, the business is so weak, when the school starts, selling thirty or fifty yuan a day is not much, and at least one or two hundred ...... can be sold on weekends."
"I'll tell you the truth, in the past few weekends, I have already gone to the station to buy a batch of goods to set up a stall and tried it, just setting up a stall, I can sell dozens or hundreds of goods a day on weekends, and there will only be more stores."
Auntie stopped talking.
If what Tang Mingyao said was true, the profit of that store, in a month, would be much higher than the income of her own cigarette and alcohol grocery store.
There's definitely something to do!
She persuaded Li Qiong in turn: "Anyway, it's like this, you just wait in the city for a few more days, and tomorrow the school will be closed, and then make a decision after seeing how the business is." ”
And so it was settled.
On the side of his father Tang Hui, because he worked in a rented house, there was no fixed telephone, and every time he had to wait for him to find a phone booth to call back, he couldn't be notified for a while, so he could only put it first.
slept all night, and the next day my mother got up early again, and before eight o'clock, she pulled Tang Mingyao to the store and opened for business.
In the morning, business was still very deserted, and in the afternoon, there was only the last half day of the three-day National Day holiday, and rural students walked into the school, put down their things and went out to the city.
The small shop business immediately became popular.
On average, a few minutes of students come in to see and buy a few dimes, or a dollar or two of gadgets, and at the most crowded, there are more than a dozen people in the store at the same time.
In the afternoon, Li Qiongguang was busy collecting money, and he pinched a lot of change, and finally there was almost no place to put it.
When the bell rang for the evening self-study at school, she had time to sit down, holding the money, feeling like a dream.
How much did you earn today?
It took ten minutes to count the tickets, a total of 129 yuan. After deducting the cost of rent and the cost of purchase, he also made a net profit of more than 80 yuan.
This is more than Tang Hui earning more than working outside for a day!
It's like a dream.
After relieving herself, she slowly realized that this thing could be done, and she was not as anxious as she was when she first got the news yesterday.
Why don't you really try it for a while?
Tang Mingyao was going to study at night tonight, Li Qiong locked the door by herself, returned to her sister's house, and said today's income, the two of them totaled half a day, and finally decided, do!
The road has been paved, and if you can't make up your mind, then it's not cowardice, but stupidity.
So for the next week, Li Qiong went out early and returned late, guarding this shop with no decoration, selling things and counting money every day.