Zhu Xiaohua listened to their conversation, his heart sank, he looked at the calendar, it was already late September. At this time, it has been more than 20 days since the start of school.

During this time, he was only busy running a photo studio, and accidentally missed the time for his younger brother and sister to start school.

Zhu Xiaohua put down his satchel and went to find Zhu Xiaoyan.

In the kitchen, Zhu Xiaoyan was lighting a fire, holding a sophomore "Physics" in her hand.

This younger sister's grades in other subjects are acceptable, but "Physics" is extremely poor, and she didn't pass last semester. During the summer vacation, she took out the "Physics" book and read it whenever she had free time.

At the moment, I was watching and indulging, and before I knew it, the fire under the stove was extinguished.

Zhu Xiaohua coughed twice and said, "School has opened, you can go to the school to report in two days." ”

Zhu Xiaoyan was stunned for a moment and raised her head.

Zhu Xiaoyan hurriedly put down the "Physics" textbook and rekindled the fire.

Zhu Xiaoyan said: "My brother and I don't go to school anymore, and I want to help you run a photo studio." Otherwise, you won't be able to do it alone. ”

Zhu Xiaohua smiled and thought to herself, these two children know how to run a photo studio.

However, thinking that they were so sensible and knew how to think about themselves at such a young age, Zhu Xiaohua was a little moved.

He decided that no matter what, he had to send his younger brother and sister to school first.

Zhu Xiaohua said: "The photo studio is too busy to close, and you two have to go to school." ”

Zhu Xiaoyan was anxious and said, "Brother, don't close the door." It's closed, and what will our family of three eat and drink in the future. I don't want to be sold by my uncle to work as a child laborer in a factory. I don't want to pick up trash anymore. ”

At this time, Zhu Xiaoming happened to enter the kitchen.

Zhu Xiaoming said: "I don't want to pick up garbage anymore, it's too embarrassing." Brother, my sister and I are going to help you make your photo studio bigger and make more and more money. ”

Zhu Xiaohua's heart sank again, these two younger brothers and sisters, one doesn't like school at all, and the other wants to go to school and thinks about his family, so he doesn't go.

But the two are still at the age of growing their bodies and learning knowledge.

Zhu Xiaohua felt that this matter was not negotiable.

"I've decided to close the photo studio tomorrow," he said solemnly. ”

My brother and sister were all panicked and asked, "Why?" ”

Zhu Xiaohua said: "Because it affects the future of our Zhu family too much. The whole family dropped out of school. If that's the case, it's better to have no photo studio and we starve together. ”

"Brother, please don't close the door, can't we go to school?"

Younger brother Zhu Xiaoming begged.

Zhu Xiaoyan said calmly: "We can go to school, but now there are so many people taking pictures, and you are the only one in the photo studio, I'm afraid it's really not good." Can you wait a few more days, when the number of people taking pictures is reduced, the photo studio is not busy, and we go to school again. ”

She thought that after waiting for so long, there were finally more people taking pictures in the photo studio, and she had to wait for the peak of these photo shoots to pass.

Zhu Xiaohua shook his head.

First, I can't wait for school, and if I wait any longer, my younger siblings won't be able to keep up with the teaching progress, and I won't pass the exam, and I'm afraid I'll have to repeat the grade next year.

Second, the business of photo studios may not be cold. If it's always so popular, what should my brother and sister do?

Zhu Xiaohua said: "You two don't have to worry about this. As long as you two go to school, I'll find someone to do. Your brother and I were born to be bosses, what's the matter, are you two unhappy? ”

Zhu Xiaoming retorted: "I'm happy that you are the boss." I was not happy if I was asked to go to school. ”

"If you can find someone to work, we'll go to school," Zhu said. ”

Zhu Xiaohua clapped his hands with them and swore and said, "That's it." In a word, I will recruit people, and you two will go back to school. ”

Zhu Xiaohua immediately found a paper shell, found a fountain pen, and wrote a few big words on it: "Photo studio recruitment, requirements: can use a camera, can take pictures, understand the process of printing photos, if you can paint makeup, it is better." salary, three dollars a day. ”

After Zhu Xiaohua finished writing, he read it twice again until it was confirmed, and then he put up the sign and showed it to his younger siblings.

When his younger brother Zhu Xiaoming saw the words on it, he shouted: "Three yuan a day, a lot." Uncle Qian's monthly salary is only more than 40 yuan. Three dollars a day, more than seventy dollars a month. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Xiaoyan laughed out loud and corrected: "If you can't memorize the multiplication formula well, it's more than seventy yuan, obviously it's ninety yuan."

"Give back your brother help like this, and I'm not afraid that I will miscalculate the account and compensate my brother's photo studio."

Zhu Xiaoming's words were choked, his face was full of confusion, and the second monk was confused.

Zhu Xiaohua concluded: "So you two, going to school is more important than making money. At the very least, you have to settle the accounts before you can come and help me. Otherwise, the photo studio will lose money, and our family will have to drink the northwest wind together. ”

Zhu Xiaoming listened to it this time.

He nodded and said, "I will definitely study hard, and I will help you when I finish learning numbers." I don't have to learn the rest. ”

Zhu Xiaoyan knocked on Zhu Xiaoming's head with a chestnut: "Whoever says it, you have to learn." ”

Zhu Xiaoming covered his head and shouted "wow": "Zhu Xiaoyan, you hit me again!" ”

After speaking, he stood up and was about to kick Zhu Xiaoyan.

Zhu Xiaoyan turned around and ran into the kitchen and closed the kitchen door with her hand.

The two men shouted through the kitchen door.

Zhu Xiaoyan said in the kitchen: "If you can't come in, you won't have anything to eat." ”

Zhu Xiaoming said: "If you can't get out, you will be so suffocated that you will pull your pants." ”

The two scolded and scolded, laughing at themselves from time to time, and laughed together. A battle just like that dissipated.

Zhu Xiaohua also smiled and took the sign to the door. He decided to hang the sign in front of the photo studio early tomorrow morning.

The task of recruiting workers is imminent.

For the next two days, the sign was hung at the door of the Seagull Photo Studio.

People passing by frequently praised: "The salary of three yuan a day is higher than the salary of the factory leader." ”

But looking at the following requirements, they can use cameras and take pictures, and they have retreated.

In this era, cameras are rare items, and many people have never seen what a camera looks like in their lives, let alone use it and take pictures.

At this time, the camera is still manual and mechanical, and it is necessary to manually adjust the focus and exposure, and the quality of the adjustment directly affects the quality of the film and photo. It's not like thirty years later, picking up a phone and just slapping it up. Its operation is relatively complex.

In addition, it is more expensive to take a photo at this time, and each time you take a photo, you waste a negative. If you add the cost of photo paper and printing, the cost of a photo is worth more than half a month's salary of ordinary people.

Therefore, there is not much opportunity for novices to try and make mistakes when taking pictures.

The most important thing is that there are a lot of tourists taking art photos in the Seagull Photo Studio, and everyone comes here, of course, hoping to have as few queues and waiting as possible, and they all hope to take as good photos as possible.

For two days, Zhu Xiaohua did not find a suitable candidate.