Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 103: A soft and sweet smile
Jiang Tian thought Han Jisong was pleasing to the eye, but little did she know that Han Jisong also thought she was quite sweet.
I heard from the boss lady that the young boss’s name seems to be “Tiantian”, right?
She really lives up to her name, her smile is soft and sweet, like the sorghum candy that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.
He was just too aggressive when bargaining.
A big deal was made. Han Jisong first weighed the dried fish and shrimps he brought today, and Jiang Tian paid him on the spot without following the bill signing method of construction site canteens in later generations.
Holding a handful of wet change, Han Jisong pedaled his broken bicycle very fast. It usually took him half an hour to ride, but on the return trip he only took 20 minutes to get home.
Han Jisong's "home" is an isolated thatched hut by the river.
At the door, an old fisherman with gray hair was busy sorting out his fishing nets. A tattered little fishing boat was tied to the riverside. This was the most valuable possession of Han Jisong and his grandfather.
Han Jisong is a child picked up by Grandpa Han.
More than ten years ago, when Grandpa Han came back from fishing, he vaguely heard a baby crying on a grave by the river. He was very brave and actually followed the direction of the crying.
As a result, a baby boy wrapped in a torn sheet was found under a crooked pine tree.
At that time, the child cried until his voice became hoarse, and his body was covered with mosquito bites.
Fortunately, the child was very strong. After he was brought home, he grew up very strong even without milk but drinking rice soup. Old Han held the fat boy in his arms and smiled so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. He specially invited a cultural person in the village to give him the name "Han Jisong".
When Grandpa Han was young, he was too poor to marry. When he got older, he wanted to find an old widow to start a family with. However, ever since he picked up a child, even the old widows in the village were unwilling to be with him.
Dislike the burden of raising a child.
The baby grew up gradually. Grandpa Han was too old to ask the child to call him dad, so he simply let Han Jisong call him grandpa. The grandfather and grandson depended on each other for survival. Relying on Grandpa Han's fishing skills and the few acres of land allocated by the village, they did not starve to death.
Although I wasn't starving, I didn't save much money.
Don’t think that fishing seems like a business with no capital. The fish and shrimp in the river are free, but repairing fishing boats, fishing nets, fish hooks and the like does cost money, right?
What's more, you can't catch fish every day.
During the dry season, the water level in the river drops and the fish die, and the grandfather and grandson will have no income for a long time.
In the past, as long as we didn’t starve to death, it was enough, but now it’s no longer possible.
Grandpa Han is old and suffers from all kinds of illnesses. It is very expensive to see a doctor. The family’s savings are not enough for Grandpa Han to go to the clinic several times a year.
Han Jisong didn't say anything, but he was already feeling anxious.
Before, his grandfather had been talking about supporting him to go to college, so how could Han Jisong dare to spend money on this? When he was in junior high school, he started to "not do his job properly". It was impossible for him to study seriously, but he often skipped classes to go out and make money.
He picked up scrap glass and waste paper and sold eggs, but finally found that selling fish was the most profitable.
After graduating from junior high school, Han Jisong failed to be admitted to high school. Grandpa Han was still in the dark. Worried that his grandson was upset, he comforted him and asked him to learn fishing from him, which was at least a skill to make a living.
When Jiang Tian took her mother to the provincial road to sell fish, Han Jisong had actually saved up a "startup fund" by selling fish.
Han Jisong had originally planned that once he had saved enough money, he would rent a stall in the town and expand his fish business. When he made enough money, he would be able to rent a house in the town and bring his grandfather to live there.
The town he was talking about was Shuangfeng Town on the provincial road.
Although they are all towns, the market towns in the countryside and the towns along the provincial roads are not the same thing.
Anyway, Han Jisong knew that it only took a dozen minutes to get to the county town from Shuangfeng Town by bus.
The People’s Hospital in the county is the largest and best hospital near them.
Everything was going according to plan. Han Jisong had imagined any difficulties he might encounter during this period, such as being blackmailed by gangsters, being squeezed by the original fish vendors in the town, and accidentally receiving counterfeit money when selling fish...
But he never expected that the reason why he couldn't work in the town was that he had such a good-looking face!
It makes me angry just thinking about it, but there is nothing I can do.
Han Jisong couldn't just hide at home like a grown-up girl and not let anyone see him, right?
Besides, it's a different era now. Men and women are equal. Women can also set up stalls and do business. I haven't seen any girl stay at home all the time.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and closed down the stall in the town in time to avoid causing greater losses.
And now we have found a big customer.
In order to negotiate the big account of "Sister Fang's Boxed Lunch", he observed Hu Qiongfang's stall for several days and even "spent a huge amount of money" to personally try two boxed lunches. Only then did he have the confidence to negotiate business with the boss lady.
Unexpectedly, the "Sister Fang's Lunch Box" business became so big, but the one in charge was not the boss's wife , but the boss's daughter!
Han Jisong was a little envious of Jiang Tian 's cooking skills.
These days, when he was squatting nearby "observing the enemy situation", he witnessed with his own eyes how profitable this stall selling box lunches was.
Originally, he thought that Sister Fang's lunch boxes were a bit expensive. Many people in the countryside brought their own dry food when they went out to do business, including himself, who came to the town to sell fish.
Who is willing to spend a dollar on a box lunch outside?
One dollar can buy four pounds of Fuqiang flour. How many steamed buns can be made? It's enough for the grandfather and grandson to eat for several days.
However, what he didn't expect was that every time it was mealtime, there would still be long queues of people coming here to buy lunch boxes.
However, to be fair, although it is a bit expensive, the food in Sister Fang’s lunch boxes is really delicious and it is definitely worth the money.
If you are reluctant to spend money on meat, you can spend 50 cents to buy a pure vegetarian lunch box. The proprietress is very kind. Generally, when you buy a vegetarian lunch box, as long as you ask for it when you serve the food, she will add two extra spoonfuls of braised pork soup.
Although there is only black broth without any meat, the broth tastes like meat!
Mix the soup and rice evenly, then get a spoonful of kimchi pickled by the proprietress herself, and the meal will be as delicious as at home.
However, more passengers getting off the buses and the chefs who run long-distance trucks would rather spend a few cents more to buy a box lunch with meat dishes.
There's nothing you can do about it. The boss's braised pork chops, pork heads, pork skin, as well as braised eggs, braised bean curd sheets, etc., are so fragrant that the aroma spreads from miles away. Who wouldn't drool when they smell it?
In addition to a variety of braised dishes, the one-dollar lunch box also includes two meat dishes, usually a meat dish made from fresh meat, plus a pickled or cured dish such as salted fish or salted duck.
Han Jisong roughly calculated the accounts for this box lunch shop. If so many people eat out for two meals a day, the net profit for that day would be at least one hundred yuan!
If you make one hundred yuan a day, wouldn’t that mean you can earn three thousand yuan a month?
Han Jisong was so envious that he almost cried.
After settling the bills, he also wanted to start the lunch box business.
It’s a pity...what prevented him from getting rich was that he only knew how to cook boiled dishes.
