Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 148: It's easy to make money by relying on the provincial road
If Boss Tong doesn't take action, it's fine, but once he does, it's a ruthless move that hurts the heart.
The thick stack of photos was like a huge rock falling from the sky, hitting Tong Xiaoyan's head and making it buzz.
"Impossible, Jiang Lesheng is not that kind of person. Someone must have slandered him." Tong Xiaoyan shook her head subconsciously, but her eyes were fixed on the photos.
Obviously, Jiang Lesheng's ambiguous attitude towards her, his non-confessional and non-public attitude, made Tong Xiaoyan lose all confidence in their "relationship".
Tong Zhiyuan sneered secretly.
He had anticipated his daughter's reaction.
Otherwise, why would he spend money to hire so many people to discredit someone with the surname Jiang?
The way to deal with love-brain is to let her find out that the boy she likes has countless "good sisters" besides her.
Do you think Jiang Lesheng didn't confess his feelings to you because he wanted you to concentrate on your studies?
Don't make me laugh! He has no idea how many girlfriends he has out there.
And as for the two pregnant women, who can prove that the babies in their bellies are not Jiang Lesheng’s?
In this matter, it’s useless even if Jiang Lesheng personally came out to protest his injustice!
Even if the child is born and it is determined that it is not Jiang Lesheng's, it cannot prove that Jiang Lesheng and the child's mother did not have that kind of relationship...
Ordinary people love to spread this kind of gossip the most, especially when a woman is pregnant but they are not sure who the father of the child is. Boss Tong doesn't even have to spend any money, and ordinary people across the county will spread this gossip crazily in private.
They don't care whether it's true or not.
Jiang Lesheng wanted to keep Tong Xiaoyan hanging and use the girl's reputation to threaten Boss Tong, hoping to make him suffer in silence.
Boss Tong didn't show any mercy to him and used the same method on Jiang Lesheng.
Now, even if Jiang Lesheng took out the letters between him and Tong Xiaoyan and told everyone that he and Tong Xiaoyan were a couple, no one would believe him anymore.
You might even think he's worse.
You already have a girlfriend, why are you still fooling around outside?
Tong Zhiyuan used his own methods to protect his daughter's reputation.
From now on, even if the people in the town knew that she and Jiang Lesheng were "pen pals", they would only sigh and think that this girl was really pitiful and silly, thinking that just because she wrote letters to her boyfriend frequently, the two of them were in a relationship.
I never thought that her boyfriend was not satisfied with just writing letters, otherwise how did the two young women get so big in the belly? Hehehe...
The Hu family heard that Jiang Lesheng was severely punished by Boss Tong. Except for Hu Qiongfang who felt a little embarrassed, everyone else felt that Jiang Lesheng deserved it.
In front of Grandpa Hu and Grandma Hu, the scheming Jiang Lesheng is just a clown running naked in the "Emperor's New Clothes".
Especially Grandma Hu, what she fears most in her life is that her children have evil minds and are not united. This Jiang Lesheng is simply a ready-made negative example!
Knowing that my eldest brother has two children to raise, if I were in an ordinary family, with Jiang Lesheng's good grades, I should have taken the entrance exam for a technical secondary school. Not only would I receive a government subsidy for my studies, but I would also be assigned a good job after graduation to supplement the family income.
He, on the other hand, hid behind his biological mother with a clear conscience, and spent the money his elder brother earned from working hard in the mine, and insisted on taking the college entrance examination.
If a rural family like theirs wants to maintain family harmony, brothers and sisters should help each other and be humble to each other. If everyone is like Jiang Lesheng, who only cares about his own future, why should other brothers and sisters in the family sacrifice for him alone?
As for this incident, let alone Boss Tong taking advantage of his power to bully others, if Jiang Lesheng had not plotted against his daughter, Boss Tong would have been crazy to spend money to deal with him. No one's money comes from the wind.
After all, it was Jiang Lesheng's evil intentions that led to his current fate.
"Let's not talk about that animal. Chinese New Year is the day after tomorrow. Let's talk about it. This year, should we go back to the village to celebrate the New Year, or celebrate it in the new house?" Grandma Hu brought up the topic of this "family meeting".
In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival of 1985.
During this period, although there were blizzards and car accidents, the two companies actually made a lot of money.
In the next few days, due to heavy snow blocking the roads, fresh fish from the countryside could not be transported, so Hu Qiongfang's smoked fish business was no longer doing.
However, because of heavy snow that blocked the roads, many passengers who were eager to return to their hometowns for the New Year were trapped on the provincial roads.
Although everyone carries dry food when going out these days, we can’t just eat dry food in such a cold day.
Therefore, in the past few days, Hu Qiongfang simply stopped the noodle and dumpling business in the store, and used the glutinous rice, bacon, sausage and other ingredients prepared in the store to make several buckets of glutinous rice every day, and then cut some sour beans and sour peppers, fried some peanuts and fried dough sticks. The glutinous rice was placed in a wooden barrel and surrounded by a thick, torn quilt to keep it warm.
The other side dishes were also put into covered soup pots, and the mother and daughter carried them on a shoulder pole, selling them along the provincial road.
In fact, there is no need to shout specifically. They have become familiar with the area in the past two days. When it is time for dinner, those who want to eat their glutinous rice balls will open the car door and wait.
During special times, rice balls are of course more expensive than usual, but Hu Qiongfang knows how to behave. Every time she goes out to sell rice, she brings a few thermoses with her. When you buy rice balls, she gives you a teacup of hot water. If you think the rice balls are not tasty enough, there are also cheap jasmine tea at two cents a pinch.
In this way, the mother and daughter could sell five or six buckets of glutinous rice every day, and earned three or four thousand in just a few days!
Both of them can earn so much, not to mention Grandma Hu.
The eldest uncle and the second uncle found a few idle men in the town who had no money to celebrate the New Year. They rode their bicycles and took jobs near the provincial road . They specialized in pushing carts that were slipping on slopes. They earned more than Hu Qiongfang from selling rice balls, and the "orders" were too numerous to keep up.
The two aunts followed Grandma Hu to make rice dumplings and sell them. They also sold some tea eggs and salted duck eggs. They made a lot of money in the past few days.
The most amazing one is Grandpa Hu. He started a business with zero cost and asked his grandson Jiang Cheng to help him write a big sign with cardboard, on which it was clearly written: Toilet, Boiling Water Supply.
Then he sat at the door of his house, guarding a pile of thermos bottles.
If you can't hold it in due to traffic jams, you can get off the bus to use the restroom. It costs two cents per person, whether it's for defecation or urination.
The water boiled that day cost one cent a teacup.
Even though he only made small profits from small profits, the toilet at home cost nothing, and the firewood for boiling water was also picked up by him himself - before winter, someone would trim the branches of the poplar trees planted along the provincial road, and people living nearby would come to pick up the diseased and insect-infested branches that were cut down.
Grandpa Hu picked up a lot and piled up a long row of firewood. With only two bundles of firewood every day, he could boil dozens of bottles of water. Just by selling boiled water, he earned enough money to buy cigarettes and food for the New Year.
