Chapter 19: Warmth and Beauty
After dinner, someone knocked on the door, it was Lao Zhao.
"I'll discuss something with you."
"You say."
"I bought a shop in the busiest part of the free market, do you have time, I want to take you to see it?"
"Yes"
We came to the store.
"The newly built commercial house in the market has to buy three floors, but it's good, I live in the basement by myself, sell fruits on the first floor, and rent out on the second floor."
"That's great!" I watched jokingly said.
"That's the case, opening a store is not like pushing a flatbed truck, I'm too busy alone, I want to ask you to help me, the basic salary is 600 yuan, plus a commission, do you think it's okay?"
"I now rent a stall selling eggs, and the stall has been rented for a year, and I can't sublet."
"Ahh That's right! That's great, business is okay, right? β
"It's okay, I can earn a living allowance every day."
"Dry it slowly, it will get better and better."
I still go wholesale in the early hours of the morning, sell eggs during the day, I don't compete with the vendors around me, they are very friendly to me and often help me. It doesn't matter if they look good and are kind, they go out early and return late, in order to save money, they generally rent in other people's basements, and it's inconvenient to take a bath, I'm also in this class, and slowly I blended in with them.
One morning, a man in a suit said to me, "Can you get more cheap eggs, how much do I want?" β
"How much do you want?"
"Twenty boards a day."
"Yes, yes." The eldest sister who was selling vegetables next to her hurriedly said.
"This is a big buyer, you make less money per catty, rely on the volume."
"I said yes"
"I'm from the staff canteen of Shen Chen Switch Factory, just around here, there is a person who sends us eggs and is unwilling to do it, can you send it to us? Do you have a car? β
"I can send it, I have a car, and I have a good feeling." The eldest sister helped me answer and pushed me at the same time.
I didn't know what to do, so I said yes.
The man gave me the address, and the link left.
"You stupid! A staff canteen, 20 boards a day, you come back wholesale in the morning and send it to him first, and then come back to sell, don't delay things, pull the list first, and then talk about it later. The eldest sister said.
I nodded gratefully.
I lived a life of four points and one line, home - wholesale market - Shen Chen switch factory staff canteen - vegetable market - home
The people in the staff canteen of Shen Chen Switch Factory said that they couldn't settle it in cash and settle it once a month, what should I do? I have to post money for a month's amount, how can I have so much money?
"You can discuss with the wholesale boss and ask her to give you credit." A big vendor gave me an idea.
It's a good idea.
But the wholesale market didn't give me credit, saying that I had to find someone with a regular job to guarantee it. I called Mr. Liu.
"What a big deal, I'll go with you tomorrow morning."
At four o'clock in the morning, an intellectual took my tricycle to the farmer's market.
"This is my cousin, don't worry, this is my work card, ID card."
So I took the eggs without paying a penny.
"You prepare a book, you have to keep accounts every day, especially for the canteen, write it after delivery, I will write a sample for you, and then you write it down, and ask their people to sign it, just like signing it at the wholesale boss today."
The consignee signs the total amount of the unit price, quantity, and quantity of eggs on a certain day
What a beautiful handwriting, his writing is strong and powerful, very beautiful.
When I came out of the Shen Chen switch factory, the sky was shimmering, and the sun was about to shine on the earth.
One day at noon, Lao Zhao came to see me: "I have a fellow who works in a kindergarten, and the person who said that the person who gave them eggs was short of two pounds, and he had a big temper, I thought you were more suitable, do you want to send them to?" β
"Yes."
"Then I'll tell him, you're going to deliver it next Monday."
"Oh, Boss Zhao, it is said that you have become a big boss?"
"Where, where, eat with a mouthful."
"You're not called a mixed meal, we are the one who eats mixed rice?"
"This is my godsister, you all take care of it."
"Godsister?" Okay, okay, no problem, it's good for you to my sister, we all like her very much.
I'm a little embarrassed, when did I become his godsister?
"I'll give you my PHS number, just call me if you have something in the future, don't run back and forth."
"It's okay, I'm used to running errands, and I still feel uncomfortable when I'm idle, but give me your phone, I have something urgent to call you."
Lao Zhao left.
"How did you meet Lao Zhao?" Several eldest sisters came around.
"I met when I was selling fruit."
"If others are good, but their fate is not good, he is an orphan, and when he grew up, he finally found a wife, but he thought he was poor and ran away with others, and he didn't mention finding a wife anymore."
"Well, I don't know."
"He is really good, we are all fellow countrymen, he is enthusiastic, kind, he will help whoever has something, whoever asks him to eat, he will eat, and he never dislikes what he eats."
"Now that people are out of business, they can afford to buy a faΓ§ade house in that place, and it is impossible to have three or five hundred thousand yuan."
They were babbling.
My business is getting better and better, and several kindergartens want me to deliver eggs, and I am almost in the morning in delivering eggs to the unit.
Teacher Liu called: "You have to be enthusiastic about the people in the canteen, try to help move the eggs in, trust them, but not completely, the key is to keep accounts every day, and make everything clear in person." β
"I can't seem to be busy in the morning."
"That's your tricycle is too slow, buy you an electric one."
I bought an electric car, but I couldn't ride it, so Mr. Liu looked at the manual and learned to teach me, so my delivery speed was much faster and easier.
Without the help of Lao Zhao and Teacher Liu, what would my life be like?
I have to treat Lao Zhao to dinner
Lao Zhao happily agreed.
I found a better restaurant, Lao Zhao wore a new set of clothes, like a different person, he was not outside in the wind and sun, became white, his hair was not furry anymore, and he was in good spirits.
The two of us sat down and faced Lao Zhao, I didn't feel inhibited, maybe I was from the same class as him.
"You're getting handsome!"
"Didn't you?"
He blushed and became shy like a girl, what was wrong with him?
He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose bridge, a medium build, not fat or thin, he is really a beautiful man.
"No woman has ever complimented me on being handsome."
"It's not a boast, it's a description of the facts."
We were eating, drinking, and talking.
"Can you tell us about your past?" He said
"Don't talk about it, it's all painful, I don't want to think about it."
"Then I'll tell me about myself."
"Okay."
"I am an orphan, I still don't know who my parents are, I was picked up by my grandfather, and after five years of living with my grandfather, my grandfather died. He has no children and no daughters, just a grandson like me, I grew up eating hundreds of family meals and wearing hundreds of family clothes. When I was twenty-six years old, the villagers brought a woman, a native of Sichuan, who was very beautiful, and said that she couldn't accept her husband's domestic violence and ran out, and as long as I treated her well, she was willing to live with me. β
He took a sip of tea, and then said, "I really like her, although the family is poor, but I have a meal for her to eat first, I plant a few acres of thin fields, one year of the grain is tight enough to eat, the second year, the rain is good, the crops are growing very well, just when I am looking forward to a better future and a better life, he ran away with a man in the village, I will not farm in my hometown, I followed the villagers here." β
"Aren't you rich now, living a good life! Let him pass the past, and the future beckons to us! Lao Zhao, I believe you will be happy. Because you're a good person. Let's have a toast, we raise the teaglass, touch it, and finish it. β
It's the same end of the world!
As long as you live strongly, you will encounter warmth and beauty, I believe.