As soon as it spread to the ears of the leaders of other large factories, they were also curious and sent secretaries to buy cakes.

At this time, the director of the textile factory found that there was a share of Xu's cake stall at the entrance of his factory, and he smiled from ear to ear.

So he asked Ma Jianbing, who was sweating profusely with his hands and feet: "The young man is a capable man, why don't you consider renting a store next to our factory for long-term business?" In this way, you don't have to go out of the stall twice a day to close the stall, and you don't have to worry about the wind and rain. ”

Ma Jianbing was flattered: "I, this, just started ......"

"Hahaha! That's right, too! There is always a process for starting a business! Well done! I'm optimistic about you! It's sure to be a big achievement! When it's time to rent a storefront, consider the vicinity of our factory! ”

The factory director patted him on the shoulder, and walked away contentedly with the freshly baked baked cakes and sauce-flavored cakes.

Ma Jianbing learned from the female textile factory workers who were buying cakes around the stall that the person he was talking to just now was their factory director, and he instantly felt like he had been beaten with chicken blood.

automatically ignored the last sentence of the factory director, and his mind was full of: The dignified factory director praised him for his potential and great achievements in the future!

So I worked harder!

Xu Yin saw that her uncle didn't need her to carry a carrot and wave a pony whip during this time, so she was very conscious, and gradually let him be in charge of the stall alone, she couldn't accompany him to bake and sell cakes every day, the master led him into the door to practice in person, and it was time to let him do it himself.

However, Xu Xiao still followed, helping to collect money and find change, in case there was any sign of something, it would be better to let her know as soon as possible, and then extinguish it in time.

Thinking that my younger brother will start school in September and will go to elementary school, it seems that the school has not yet been implemented.

She's been concentrating on this matter these days.

I also took the time to put a small slipped land on the south window of the first floor into two small pieces, and the side near the eaves was paved with broken bricks eliminated by the construction site, which was used to stack two baked cake stoves and bamboo baskets containing briquettes, and a few wooden strips were supported on the eaves, and a simple rain shelter was nailed, and there was no place to put it on rainy days.

The land on the side of the courtyard wall was opened by her and planted vegetables.

In addition to the spices commonly used in the cake stalls such as onions, ginger and garlic, a few seasonal vegetables are also planted, eggplant, radish, and water spinach are planted on the ground, and loofahs, gourds, and long cowpeas are climbed on the shelves built with bamboo poles, and two lentils are planted next to the courtyard wall.

A small piece of land of about ten square meters was fully used by Xu Yin.

On the floor in front of the house, others use it to grow vegetables, and she uses broken bricks to lay a small platform that does not stick to mud, drying clothes and quilts during the day, and putting a reclining chair at night to cool off.

A circle of mud was left around, and a narrow flower bed was woven with bamboo strips, planted with spice crops such as mint, rosemary, and wormwood, which can be used as food, as well as repellent insects and mosquitoes.

At first, everyone didn't pay attention, after all, they were all busy, some were busy going to work, some were busy going out of the stall, until the flowers and plants, vegetables and fruits planted were relatively lush, and even flowered and fruitful, and the neighbors in the tube building found that the small yard of Lao Xu's house was really well maintained!

At noon that day, Ma Chunfang walked into the house with a bucket of tap water from the patio and complained:

"Jiao Dongmei is so embarrassed that she actually asked me to give her a mint, saying that there are mosquitoes in her house recently and she wants to smoke it with mint. If there are mosquitoes, you can order mosquito coils, oh, mosquito coils are reluctant to use them, come and ask me for mint. If I give, and others come and ask me, to give or not to give? This wants, that wants, do we still have mint left? There weren't many ...... in the first place."

Xu Yin didn't expect that a few mint plants could also lead to a complaining lawsuit.

But Ms. Ma Chunfang's worries are not unreasonable, this time Jiao Dongmei asked her to ask, if she gave it, others also came to ask her to ask for it, to give it or not to give it?

There are so many neighbors in the tube building, everyone comes to take a look, and the small platform of her house can be bald.

So she gave her mother an idea: "Mom, you said that mint is easy to plant, and I still have some leftover mint seeds here, and her family can give her a few if they want to plant." ”

"Peppermint seeds are really cheap?" Ma Chunfang is focused on this.

Xu Yin smiled and said, "Yes." ”

"Well, for the sake of the old neighbor, I'll talk to her in a while...... Forget it, don't ask, just give her a few. I still have to catch up on sleep, so I can go out of the stall in good spirits in the evening, but I don't have time to run one by one. ”

So, Ma Chunmei put the bucket down, took the five or six mint seeds wrapped in a small piece of newspaper that Xu Yin cut off and went back to the patio, and stuffed them into Jiao Dongmei's hand: "Oh, don't you want to plant mint?" My family Yinyin said that she still has a lot of seeds to buy, so I'll give you a few, you're welcome! ”

After saying that, he left.

Jiao Dongmei: "......"

She really wanted to grow mint, but she saw that the narrow circle of flowers in front of Xu's house was growing so well, and she was envious and jealous so she temporarily opened her mouth to ask for it.

At that time, I thought that if Ma Chunfang really gave her a mint, don't be in vain; If you don't give it, you will have something to say to the other little sisters: it's not the same when the business is good and you make money, and the old neighbors for many years are not willing to give even mint.

Unexpectedly, Ma Chunfang went and returned and gave her a few mint seeds.

“……”

It's so angry!

I'm!

What is the use of her seeds!

She doesn't know how to plant!

No one in her family will plant these flowers and plants!

Jiaojiao planted a pot of copper coin grass a while ago and died in the sun.

The other women said enviously:

"It's still a good relationship with old neighbors, there are seeds that are only given to Dongmei, not to us."

"Dongmei and Chunfang seem to have entered the factory in the same year, and they have lived next door for so many years, and their relationship is definitely better than ours."

Jiao Dongmei smiled: "That's because you didn't ask her to ask for it, and if you ask for it, I will definitely give you a few grains." ”

"Speaking of which, the two houses of the old Xu family are really bought right, listening to Xiao He of the factory office, starting in September, the factory will officially implement the housing reform, and the house we live in will either be bought with money, or it will have to be returned to the factory, so as to improve the housing environment for those who are willing to pay for it. As rich as Dongmei, your family will definitely buy another one, right? ”

When Jiao Dongmei heard this, she couldn't say anything bitter in her heart.

She is at work normally, and the news in this regard is naturally more informed than these laid-off workers in the building, and she has the money to respond to the call of the factory a long time ago - to buy the room she lives in, so why wait for others to remind her.

It's not that after lending 30,000 yuan to the factory to tide over the difficulties, the family has no savings.

Don't say it's a few thousand, you can't make up a few hundred.

Life is not as easy as before, the gas runs out and you have to wait for the salary to be paid before you have money to irrigate, but even if the fire is not turned on at home, you have to go to the canteen to buy three meals, the water always has to be drunk, you can only make a coal stove, and the smoke in the corridor provokes the neighbors to complain, and the smoke is still drilled into the house, not to mention the smoke eyes.

(End of chapter)