Chapter 172 Return to the Provincial City
The winter snow melts and the earth warms up.
After the tenth day of the first lunar month, Gu Jiu bought a train ticket to the provincial capital.
The train departed on the twelfth afternoon, and it was already past three o'clock in the morning on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month when we arrived in the provincial capital.
There were not many passengers getting off the bus in the middle of the night. As soon as he walked out of the station, someone grabbed Gu Jiu's shoulders again. Without turning around, everyone knew it was Gu Youhui's cheeky smile.
Gu Jiu threw the luggage he was carrying on the ground, raised his hand to grab his wrist, and broke free from his restraint with a little force.
"What about manners? Boy, I am your brother-in-law. Don't act like buddies with me. What does it look like to have our arms around each other?"
"Little aunt, long time no see." Gu Youhui first said hello to Lin Shu. After hearing Gu Jiu's words, he turned around and glanced at him sideways:
"Although you are my elder, we are still the same age." There's not much difference. If you don't show off in front of me, you may be younger and more worthy of my beautiful aunt. If you insist on showing off in front of me, be careful that my little aunt thinks you are too old. ”
“Hey, you never have a good mouth, right? Do you need me to sew it shut for you?”
I've been suffocating in the train carriage for ten hours, and now the ground is open in front of the station. Why don't I stretch my muscles with this guy?
When Gu Youhui saw his uncle starting to roll up his sleeves, he jumped back in fright, distanced the two of them, and immediately gave up: "No, no, uncle, I'm just joking with you. You're too old to make jokes, right?"
".You still said! "Gu Jiu couldn't help it this time. He stepped forward and locked Gu Youhui's neck and pushed him back. The brat was knocked to the ground by him.
Fortunately, the snow has melted and the weather has been sunny these past few days, and there are no water stains on the ground.
"Haha. Uncle, a gentleman talks but never touches."
Gu Youhui was knocked to the ground and was not angry. His face could not stop being happy. Maybe they had grown up playing together like this.
“Hmph, you’ve always deserved a beating since you were a child.”
Gu Jiu snorted, is this something you can talk about casually at your age?
"Are you going back? Or, why don't you just put on a show and compete with each other, and I'll buy a bag of melon seeds and sit next to you and cheer for you?"
Lin Shu looked at the childish The uncle and nephew really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
"Go back!"
The uncle and nephew said in unison.
Gu Jiu lightly kicked Gu Youhui: "Get your luggage!"
"Why?" Gu Youhui glanced at the three bags of luggage thrown on the ground and picked up two of them, " I only grew two hands, not three. You can carry the remaining bag yourself."
Seeing what Lin Shu was about to say, Gu Jiu quickly picked up the last bag of luggage, "Let's go. .”
Gu Youhui saw that his uncle was like a tiger with his teeth pulled out in front of his little aunt, and he laughed: "Uncle, you are a grown man and want to be lazy even though you are carrying a baggage, you don't have eggs or you are a softie. If it were changed today My little aunt comes back alone, I will definitely help her carry it. You are a man and I will not pity you."
The veins in Gu Jiuting's forehead jumped, and he raised his feet again. She kicked him over and hit his butt: "If you can speak, shut up if you can't!"
"Oh, little aunt, look at my uncle bullying me again, his temper How do you tolerate him when he is so irritable? You should train him hard!"
" He said!" Gu Jiu picked up his luggage and threw it at him.
How could Gu Youhui just stand there and be hit by him? He just picked up his luggage and ran away.
Lin Shu looked at the uncle and nephew chasing each other and shook her head. By the time she walked to the jeep, Gu Youhui had been beaten by Gu Jiu until he cried for his father and mother.
"That's enough. Be careful, the police from the police station in front of the station will be attracted here."
Gu Jiu let go and loaded all the luggage into the car.
Gu Youhui straightened up from the front cover of the jeep and looked around. Fortunately, the police did not notice him.
"Little aunt, in the past few days, late-night snack stalls have appeared in our provincial capital. You probably didn't have a good dinner, and it would be troublesome to go home so late. How about I take you to have late-night snacks?" Gu Youhui said. Lin Shu opened the door.
"Late night snack?"
Lin Shu knew that there were many late night snack stalls in Guangdong Province in her previous life. She also worked at a late night snack stall when she first arrived in Guangdong Province. I just didn’t know what the late night snack stalls in the provincial capital were selling, “Let’s go and take a look.”
“Okay!”
When Gu Jiu got in the car, Gu Youhui couldn’t wait to start the car and drive away go out.
Gu Jiu quickly warned: "Slow down, hold still, if your little aunt gets bumped somewhere, I will settle the score with you."
Gu Youhui curled his lips, but the car drove much more steadily.
The so-called late-night snack stalls in the provincial capital are located on the Renmin Middle Road street in the center of the city. There are a few light bulbs hung along the street. There are about five or six stalls, which have not yet formed a large scale.
In this era, no one is willing to set up a stall unless absolutely necessary. Most people prefer to work in factories or various institutions.
Gu Youhui parked the car in an open space on the side of the road, and several people got out of the car.
“Auntie, what do you want to eat? I’ve eaten at all these stalls and they taste good.”
"I just want to eat something spicy right now." After riding the train for ten hours, I felt like I was craving something spicy.
Lin Shu looked at these stalls. Some of them sold barbecue, soup noodles, sugar and oil cakes, fried noodles, and the last one was knife-shaped noodles.
“You can eat spicy noodles and barbecue.” Gu Youhui found a table in front of the barbecue stall for the two of them to sit down.
Lin Shu: "Go and order me another bowl of shaved noodles."
"Okay, I'll order a bowl too." Gu Jiu walked towards the last stall.
Lin Shu hadn't eaten authentic knife-cut noodles for a long time. When knife-cut noodles were popular in the last generation, they only cost one or two yuan a bowl. Later, they cost nearly twenty yuan a bowl, which made many people feel that it was unaffordable.
Smelling the aroma from the barbecue stall, it is not as strong as the addictive aroma of later generations, but Lin Shu believes that today's barbecue stalls do not have the technology and ruthless work of later generations. As long as the food is fresh, you can eat with confidence.
Gu Youhui finally brought over two plates of barbecue skewers, and the barbecue stall owner finally brought him a bowl of eight-treasure porridge.
“Little aunt, do you want eight-treasure porridge.”
Lin Shu shook his head: “Your uncle and I ordered a bowl of shaved noodles.”
"Oh, the shaved noodles taste good too. Auntie, try the taste here and see if it suits your taste."
Lin Shu first picked up a bunch of chicken noodle and took a bite. The taste was not bad, but the taste was not good. It’s very heavy. “Where do you think these stall owners get the goods they sell every day?”
You must know that this is basically an era when buying many things requires a ticket. When Gu Youhui saw Gu Jiu coming back, he waited for him to sit down and pushed a plate of barbecue in front of him: "Uncle, you can try it too. If you like it, I'll call you next time I come for supper."
Care After picking up a bunch of meat skewers for a long time, Gu Youhui answered Lin Shu's question: "I heard someone say this. The meat at the barbecue stall is very small, mainly roasted bean products and vegetarian dishes. The meat dishes have to go to the countryside. Collect.
As for those noodle stalls, they also go to the countryside to buy food from villagers, or buy it on the black market. However, if you go to the black market to buy food to make noodles, you just make less money, but you still have profits. "
Lin Shu had an idea in his mind and asked Gu Jiu: "What do you think of our company's rice and flour wholesale business? ”
“Wholesale rice noodles? "
"What I mean is to open up an area to sell rice, noodles and other grains as well as meat and eggs. ”
Lin Shu gritted her teeth and couldn’t think of a good solution, but she felt uncomfortable having money but not making money. Anyway, Gu Jiu had long thought that she had a problem, so why not put it out there and let him know that there was a problem and let him know that she had a problem? He was embarrassed to ask the exit.
I returned to the provincial capital and lived with a large family. If I didn't run a small stove, I would have to add food and meat to the house frequently. Just let Gu Jiu know that she was not normal and he had to cover for her.
Hearing this, Gu Youhui almost screamed in excitement. In order to prevent others from listening, he had to suppress his excitement and asked in a low voice: "Little aunt, do you have a way to get food, meat and eggs?"
"Try it, I can't guarantee it." Lin Shu replied calmly and remained calm in front of him.
Gu Youhui put down the skewers excitedly and rubbed his hands, "If you can get grain, meat and eggs, I would like to come and set up a stall. You don't know, it's just such a small stall , I can earn more than ten yuan a night, which is three or four yuan a month, and more than four thousand yuan a year.
Oh, I can’t calculate it. If I continue to calculate it, I will not be able to sleep at night. ”< br>
Lin Shu and Gu Jiu looked at each other. They did not expect that the Gu family would also have a weirdo like Gu Youhui.
I am so passionate about doing business that I am going crazy.
"You have to look after the shop during the day and set up the stall at night. Aren't you afraid that you will be squeezed into a piece of paper?" Lin Shu asked.
The reason why she said this is because this kid rented a large storefront on the street near the front gate of the compound and opened a fruit shop. During the day, he basically stayed in the shop. Or go get the goods.
Opening a shop during the day and setting up a stall at night. How can my body bear it for a long time?
Young people should take good care of their bodies when they are young. Don't wait to make up for it when you are old. By then it will be too late.
"If you make money, don't treat yourself badly when it comes to food, you will become a paper person wherever you go." Gu Youhui didn't care much in his heart. The young man's energy and physical strength will definitely be enough to set up a stall at night after working hard during the day. .
Lin Shu shook his head, the young man was seriously ill.
Gu Jiu hit him on the head with chopsticks and scolded him with a smile: "Eat quickly, you will bite off more than you can chew."
After finishing the midnight snack, the group of people drove back to the compound. It was almost five o'clock, and since it was winter, it was still very dark.
The three of them entered the house quietly, not wanting to disturb the family. When they reached the second floor, the door of the old man's and old lady's rooms opened.
Wang Suzhen walked out of the house wearing a cotton coat, "You are back, do you want to have something to eat before resting?"
Lin Shu: "Mom."
Gu Jiu quickly stopped him: "Mom, no need, we just came back after eating outside. Yes, you can continue to sleep. We will go back to the room to rest."
Wang Suzhen looked at Lin Shu and nodded doubtfully when she saw the other party nodding, "Okay, you guys go to bed early and wait for breakfast. I won’t call you then.”
"Well, there's no need to call. We'll come out when we've had enough sleep." Gu Jiu carried his luggage and walked past Wang Suzhen to their room.
"They just arrived?"
Wang Suzhen closed the door and heard Gu Changsheng, who had woken up on the bed, ask.
"Well, I just arrived. They said they came back after eating outside. I think they are lying. They just don't want me to worry. Do you think any restaurant is open in the middle of the night?"
Gu Changsheng sat up and leaned against the bed. "Now the employment pressure in the city has increased sharply. Even if each unit expands its recruitment, it cannot arrange 100,000 jobs. Now the above means to encourage everyone to start their own businesses. There are many young people who are willing to save face and set up stalls outside, no matter what they sell. It’s always an income.”
"Setting up a stall is precarious, and it is not a long-term solution after all." Wang Suzhen said this casually without thinking.
Gu Changsheng coughed twice and said disapprovingly: "There is no distinction between high and low professions. As long as you rely on your own hands to earn money to support the family, there is nothing shameful. Don't forget that our boy Youhui also started out as a stall owner. What happened now? You have opened the second fruit store in the provincial capital.”
The first one is the fruit wholesale store opened by Gu Jiu and Chen Fei.
Speaking of Gu Youhui, I believe that except for Gu Jiu and Lin Shu, no one else in the family expected that he would become famous.
During those days, everyone watched him go through wind and rain every day. The hard work was really hard, but the money he earned was also really considerable.
Wang Suzhen: "That boy is someone who can endure hardships."
Gu Changsheng nodded, with pride in his eyes: "Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. At the beginning, we were worried that Lao Jiu would not do his job properly all his life. When we get old, he will Life will be difficult, look at what he is doing now. Besides, the boss always wanted to help him find a job. Look at that kid’s attitude, he is just as stubborn as Lao Jiu. "
“Pfft !”
Recalling that the uncle and nephew had the same temper, Wang Suzhen couldn’t help laughing, “For the two of them, official work is nothing more than a scourge. They all say that the nephew is like an uncle. "You're right."
Speaking of setting up a stall, Gu Changsheng asked: "At the end of last year, Zhiyuan and his wife had a quarrel, and they finally agreed to let her biological brother learn from Youhui in setting up a stall. How did it go? ?”
Wang Suzhen said contemptuously: "At the end of last year, in the twelfth month of winter, do you believe that the boy from the Jiang family is a hard worker? He can't learn from our Youhui. I heard that the stall refused to go after two days, saying that his toes and fingers hurt from the cold. . ”
“Oh, there’s also this matter. It seems that the Jiang family boy is indeed spoiled by his mother-in-law.” Gu Changsheng shook his head after hearing this. , "Then it just ended like this?"
Wang Suzhen snorted coldly, "Huh, later, their family forced the third family to find a way. I heard that Zhiyuan was forced to have no choice in the end. She used the money to rent a storefront for her brother to sell fruits.”
Moreover, the fruits were wholesaled from Jiu Geer’s shop.
“I don’t know if he can do it for a long time. If we fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, we in Zhiyuan will be in trouble again. Things at work every day will be very annoying, and we have to worry about it when we come back. Her mother’s family is troubled.”
The mother is always the most worried about her children. When it comes to the Jiang family, Wang Suzhen gets a headache.
"Take it one step at a time. The Jiang family boy is not our son. There is no need for you to worry about him." Gu Changsheng yawned and lay down again, "There is still some time before dawn. Let’s sleep a little longer.”
Sitting on the bed in this weather, Wang Suzhen felt that her upper body was already freezing as soon as she was reminded, so she quickly took off the cotton coat draped over her shoulders and got into the quilt.
"Hey, you're cold, don't stick to my back, I'm cold too." Gu Changsheng shivered from the cold when he was stuck on his back.
"You are warm."
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