Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 160: Making a Fortune on New Year's Eve
Tong Xiaoyan could not accept such a cruel truth and fell seriously ill. She stayed in bed until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month before she got out of bed.
When Jiang Tian saw her again, she found that Tong Xiaoyan seemed like a different person. She never put down her books, reviewed even during meals, and didn't talk to her father.
Tong Zhiyuan didn't care about her because he suddenly discovered a problem:
Perhaps, it was because he and his ex-wife doted on their daughter too much and arranged everything for her, which gave Tong Xiaoyan the mind to think about those messy things.
Just look at Jiang Tian and you will know. This girl is a few years younger than his Xiaoyan. She helps her mother run a shop and does business, and she is already more experienced than some adults.
Boss Tong didn't receive much education and didn't know the truth that "Born in adversity, die in comfort", but he did know the truth that "Spoiling a child is like killing him".
I used to think that sons needed to be disciplined more strictly, but now it seems that daughters also need to suffer a little more to understand how difficult life is.
If he had been ruthless to Xiaoyan in the beginning, and asked her to come back to help him cook and do housework, and help him run the store and sell oil when she had nothing to do, with endless things to do all day, how could she have the mind to express her feelings to Jiang Lesheng?
Jiang Tian nodded, this is true.
Even with a handsome young man like Han Jisong , who does business with her every day, she can't have any dirty thoughts about him. Why?
Isn’t it because you are busy making money?
Originally they planned to open for business on the eighth day of the first lunar month, but because of Jiang Lesheng's arson, Hu Qiongfang and her children were delayed in the village for a few days. On the eighth day, they only had time to set off a string of firecrackers in the store and then hurried back to the village.
Fortunately, He Chunling and her family of three were all helping in the store.
Speaking of which, even Jiang Tian didn't expect that the store could make so much money just by selling dumplings during the ten days during the New Year.
Originally, she and Hu Qiongfang were just worried that He Chunling's family would have nowhere to go during the New Year and that it would be too boring to run a store, so they asked them to make some dumplings and sell them to kill time and earn some living expenses.
Who would have thought that this year, due to a sudden snowstorm before the New Year, a large number of passengers were trapped in the provincial bus station and railway station. Originally, many passenger buses at the bus station were to stop operating on New Year's Eve, but due to special circumstances this year, in order to prevent these tourists from being stranded at the station for the New Year, the bus station ran at full capacity and pulled out all the buses that could be driven out.
In previous years, there were not many passenger vehicles on Provincial Highway 336 during New Year’s Eve. But this year, there was something special!
Jiang Tian and her family returned to the village on the 29th day of the lunar year. From the evening of the 29th day until the third day of the first lunar month, the provincial road was bustling with cars, making it even busier than usual.
These passengers who had been trapped at the station for several days had long finished the dry food they brought with them. The driver did not dare to let them starve to death, so he could only drive all the way and look for places to eat.
But the problem is that it’s New Year’s Eve. Even if you have a shop open, you have to close it and go home to celebrate the New Year.
The driver drove along the road, becoming more and more desperate.
At first, I was thinking about finding a restaurant to stop and at least give the guests some hot meals.
Later I found that all the restaurants along the provincial road had red papers pasted with words "Closed for seven days during the Spring Festival", so I lowered my expectations a bit. If there were no restaurants, a roadside stall would be nice too.
In the end, I couldn’t find any roadside stalls.
Just when my stomach was growling with hunger, I suddenly saw the huge sign of Fang Jie Restaurant!
I took a closer look and saw that this restaurant was still open on New Year's Eve!
The driver didn't care whether Fangjie Restaurant had boxed lunches on New Year's Eve and quickly turned the car towards the entrance of the store.
Anyway, they have all gotten off the bus, so they can just eat whatever is available in the store. If all else fails, you can just cook them two pots of white noodles, right?
I never expected that happiness would come so suddenly: this store not only has hot sweet potato porridge, but also dumplings!
"Boss, give me three bowls of cabbage and pork dumplings, big ones!"
"A bowl of sweet potato porridge and a bowl of dumplings stuffed with pickled cabbage."
"Boss, what dishes do you have?"
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In this way, He Chunling's family of three were so busy all day long on New Year's Eve that they were dizzy.
Telephones were not convenient back then and the hotel didn't have a telephone. Even if there was one, He Chunling would be embarrassed to call the boss back when she knew that Hu Qiongfang's family was having a reunion dinner.
The mother and daughter, along with a free laborer, He Chunsheng, worked from a little after six in the morning on New Year's Eve until almost ten in the evening, and were so tired that they were almost exhausted.
But the turnover is also staggering.
On New Year's Eve alone, the three of them made a turnover of nearly one thousand yuan!
This won't work. Not to mention whether they are tired or not, the main problem is that they don't make enough dumplings to sell, which delays the store's profit.
Yao Huifen was a stubborn person. She was determined to repay Hu Qiongfang for the kindness she had shown to the three of them, and she was eager to make a fortune for Hu Qiongfang during the Spring Festival.
However, during the Chinese New Year, housewives like her are busy cooking and entertaining guests at home. Where can they find someone to help them make dumplings and knead the dough?
In the end, it was He Chunling who came up with a solution.
She asked a few female classmates to help.
During the Chinese New Year period, housewives who are usually willing to do odd jobs are unable to spare the time, but the children at home are all idle.
If He Chunling hadn't been afraid that the boys would be rough and ruin the dumplings, she would have called all the children in the village to come and help.
Since they have nothing to do anyway, they might as well come and help make dumplings and knead the dough. They can earn one dollar a day. It's such a good job, and they should thank themselves for it.
Sure enough, with these helpers, the speed of making dumplings and rolling noodles in the store suddenly increased.
Yao Huifen's injuries had not yet fully healed, but she was already responsible for leading a group of girls in the backyard to make dumplings and hand-rolled noodles.
He Chunling was making dumplings and noodles in the front.
He Chunsheng was responsible for collecting the money.
We also asked two female classmates to help collect the dishes and wipe the table.
During the Chinese New Year, Fangjie Restaurant's business is more prosperous than usual, which has greatly stimulated the surrounding neighbors. They are all wondering whether running a restaurant is really so profitable. If so, why don't they open one next year?
Unfortunately, many families were short-sighted when they built their houses. In order to save money, they only fenced off a small piece of land at the doorstep. Even if they wanted to open a restaurant, they could set up a street stall. Most people do not have the financial resources to open a large open space in front of their house like Hu Qiongfang, who could allow buses to drive directly to the doorstep.
I could only watch Hu Qiongfang make money.
During the twelve days of the Spring Festival, Yao Huifen and her family of three generated a turnover of more than 13,200 yuan for Hu Qiongfang's restaurant!
After deducting the wages of the helpers and the cost of rice, flour, grain, oil, meat and eggs in the store, it is conservatively estimated that Hu Qiongfang earned at least 5,000 yuan.
He Chunsheng, an honest child, calculated the daily turnover and expenses separately, made an account book using an old notebook, and submitted the accounts to Hu Qiongfang in an orderly manner.
