Chapter 39 I Really Live for My Dream
Although Chu Feng was worried about Shen Lin's business, he had official business to attend to and could not stay for long, so after saying a few simple words, he got on his motorcycle and left quickly.
When Shen Lin returned to his seat, he found that Xu Laosan was looking at him differently.
"Shen Lin, do you know those police officers?" Xu Laosan asked with a hint of tentativeness in his words.
Shen Lin smiled and said, "Of course I know him, my brother-in-law and his colleagues."
Xu Laosan rubbed his hands and said, "Hey, your brother-in-law is so capable, why don't you ask him to find you a proper job? Why are you setting up a stall here?"
Shen Lin really didn't know how to answer Xu Laosan's question. If there was a correct answer, it would be that he, who was a very powerful brother-in-law in Xu Laosan's eyes, was actually not as powerful as Xu Laosan thought.
Of course not!
As for making up something else, Shen Lin was unwilling to do so. After a slight hesitation, Shen Lin looked up at the 45-degree sky and said with a hint of yearning in his voice: "If I say that all this is because of a dream, do you believe it?"
"What is a dream? Can you eat it?" Xu Laosan asked directly.
Just when Shen Lin felt that the conversation could not continue, a young girl walked over from the school gate accompanied by two middle-aged men and women.
As they walked, the woman continued, "When I came here, I said that I would buy all the things I needed for my dreams at home. But you insisted that there was everything in the city. What should we do next?"
"Mom, look here." The young girl pointed at the stall that Shen Lin had arranged, which was seven or eight meters long, and said happily, "Here are kettles, hooks, key chains, and..."
In the blink of an eye, the girl came to the rows of shelves where Shen Lin was, looked at the prices written on them, picked up a keychain with a small gourd hanging on it, and asked, "Is this really three cents?"
"It's Sanmao." Shen Lin said with certainty.
"Mom, this is exactly the same as what I saw in the Supply and Marketing Building. They charge 40 cents, but here it's only 30 cents." The girl said happily, "There are a lot of things here. I don't think we need to go to the department store."
Before the man could speak, the middle-aged woman said, "Dream, the things here are not guaranteed, let's go to the department store."
At this time, Shen Lin came to the middle-aged woman and said, "Sister, if you say my things are expensive, I won't argue with you. After all, this kind of thing is a matter of opinion, but you can't say my quality is not good."
"I can tell you that the quality of these things of mine can stand up to inspection."
Shen Lin said this, pointing to the banner behind him and said, "Since I have put up this sign, I will definitely not cheat anyone."
The middle-aged woman was at a loss for words for a moment, but the man saw the camphorwood box in Shen Lin's car and said, "Young man, do you really have orange soda here?"
"Not only that, but we also have iced ones, but the iced ones are 20 cents a bottle, and the regular ones are 10 cents a bottle."
The middle-aged man was already thirsty, and the weather was hot, so he immediately said, "Hurry up and give me a bottle of iced drink. I tell you, young man, if it's not cold, I won't pay you."
Shen Lin said: "Do you want it in a bottle or a bag?"
"The ones in bottles and bags are not comfortable to drink." The middle-aged man wiped his sweat and said panting.
Shen Lin stretched out his hand and took out a bottle of iced orange soda from the camphorwood box. When he took the soda out, traces of cold air continued to come out of the box.
This kind of situation made everyone who saw it swallow their saliva.
However, just as the middle-aged man took the iced soda, a hand had already taken the bottle of orange soda.
The middle-aged man frowned and looked like he wanted to curse, but when he saw clearly who the hand belonged to, he stopped talking immediately.
Because the person who took it was his wife.
"You have a bad stomach, why drink something cold? Dream, drink this one." The middle-aged woman said to Shen Lin, "Give me two bottles of ordinary orange soda!"
"Wife, it's too hot. Just buy me a bottle of iced drink. I don't mind spending a dime." The middle-aged man's words were full of grumbling.
But his words had no effect. The middle-aged woman remained unmoved and had no intention of changing her decision.
Shen Lin had no choice but to take out two bottles of ordinary soda from the car and handed them to the middle-aged man .
Although the middle-aged man was dissatisfied, he didn't care about anything else at this time. He picked up the soda and drank it.
In just four or five minutes, Dream, who had drunk iced soda, picked out a lot of things. Her mother carefully checked them and said, "Young man, let's settle the bill!"
Shen Lin looked at the water bottles and other items they brought over, thinking that they were really quite large. He quickly calculated and said, "These things of yours are worth twelve dollars and sixty cents in total. Since you are my first business today, I'll give you twelve dollars and fifty cents."
As a middle-aged woman who holds the financial power of the family, she knows very well how much the things she buys are worth.
Not only is Shen Lin’s price cheaper than that of the department store, but the young man’s attitude is also very nice.
"Twelve dollars and a half is twelve dollars and a half." The middle-aged woman said to the middle-aged man, "Pay the bill quickly."
"Wait a minute, give me a bag of orange soda, iced. I want to take it to the dormitory." The girl named Dream said loudly.
As a mother, the middle-aged woman is a little harsh on her husband, but she will always respond to the requests of her beloved daughter who goes to school.
Finally, after the middle-aged man paid thirteen yuan, Shen Lin gave them two bags of hard-frozen ice cubes, which made the middle-aged man, who was feeling uncomfortable from the heat, smile from ear to ear.
When Xu Laosan saw Shen Lin's business opening, he felt a little sour in his heart. He had been selling sesame cakes for half a day and made less than five yuan in total, but Shen Lin made more than ten yuan just after opening.
Although I don’t know how much money Shen Lin earns, we are all businessmen, so just by thinking about it, I know that Shen Lin must have earned some money.
"Xiao Shen, is that girl your dream?" Xu Laosan said as he came to the camphor wood box.
Shen Lin really had no way to respond to Xu Laosan's joke. He never thought that his first business deal would turn out to be a dream.
However, the swarm of customers helped him out. After paying the bill for Mengxiang's restaurant, someone shouted, "Young man, give me a bag of iced orange juice. I want it in a bag."
"Comrade, please tell me how much this tooth cup and toothbrush cost."
“I want this pen!”
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As the students reported in and put their luggage away and walked out of the school gate, Shen Lin's business suddenly became better. At around nine o'clock, he was surrounded by a group of people.
Xu Laosan, who was only ten meters away from Shen Lin, had to silently push his pancake stall outwards.
Fortunately, as more and more people came to Shen Lin to buy things, his pancake stall business also became better. He was so busy that he had no time to pay attention to Shen Lin.
