Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 98 The old lady is a bit fierce
Tong Zhiyuan didn't expect that Jiang Tian would even think of this.
After secretly estimating Jiang Tian's age, Boss Tong suddenly felt that he was ready again!
Although he couldn't marry a good woman like Hu Qiongfang who was thrifty and managed the household well, he could marry a daughter-in-law like Jiang Tian who was good at business for his son.
Tong Zhiyuan was not disparaging his own child. His son Tong Xiaojun was obedient, but a little dull and timid. He didn't seem like his biological son at all. When Tong Zhiyuan thought that his son might not be able to keep the family business in the future, he couldn't help but want to travel back in time, first beat up the self who only cared about looks, and then find himself a reliable partner.
It’s a pity that there is no such thing as “time travel” now, and Boss Tong can’t just abandon his son who he has raised so badly, so he can only make up for it from other places.
For example, if your son is unreliable, why not find a reliable wife for him?
As the saying goes, "a cowardly father makes the whole family cowardly", and vice versa. If the father is unreliable, as long as the mother is reliable, just like Hu Qiongfang, without a man, didn't she raise two children so well?
If Jiang Tian could be arranged to be the wife of my son, so that my grandchildren will have such a reliable mother in the future, why would I worry about the prosperity of my family business?
The more he thought about it, the happier he became. Boss Tong couldn't help but give Jiang Tian a kind smile.
"Then it's settled. Five dollars a month. Go back and ask your family. If you're willing to rent it long term, I'll give you a lower price of fifty dollars a year."
He now hopes that Jiang Tian can convince her family to rent the house for a year at once.
I heard that this deal was done by Jiang Tian's grandmother. Nowadays, the marriages of children are mostly decided by the elders. Boss Tong decided that he must take good care of Grandma Hu and make her happy, and then he would personally act as a matchmaker. Could Hu Qiongfang dare not listen to her mother?
By the way, let Xiaojun go to help Grandma Hu on Sundays from now on, and first build up enough favorability in front of the old lady. Then Jiang Tian will definitely come often to help her grandma sell rice balls. The two young people will spend time together day and night, and fall in love with each other over time. With an emotional foundation, isn’t it more reliable than a blind date?
Boss Tong's abacus was clacking.
Jiang Tian never thought that she was already being targeted by someone when she was only in the first grade of junior high school.
She is thinking about how to convince her grandmother to open a shop and do business on the provincial road now.
It’s not that the countryside is bad, it’s just that farming is really too hard in this era.
Even though Grandma Hu was already very old, she still had to go to the fields to harvest rice and wheat during the busy farming season, and was often so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back.
The problem is that whether in this era or in China twenty years from now, farming is the industry with the lowest input-output ratio.
After working hard for a whole year, the harvested crops are sold, and after deducting the costs of seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, etc., the net profit may be less than what you can earn in a month working in the city.
Don’t say “the consumption level in rural areas is low”. Only those who have actually lived in rural areas know that not everything is cheap in rural areas.
Growing your own crops, vegetables and raising pigs does reduce your food expenses, but other things may not be cheap.
Let's talk about seeing a doctor. There is only one health station in their town, which can't treat even the most serious illnesses. They can only take a bus to the county hospital. The round trip, including the bus fare and the money for medicine, is several times a year, and the money earned from farming is not enough to pay for medical treatment.
Not to mention that the medical insurance reimbursement amounts are different for rural and urban residents.
In her previous life, Jiang Tian worked in a construction site canteen and often heard some older workers say they wanted to go back to their hometown.
It's not that they can't work anymore, they're sick, and their rural insurance can't be reimbursed in other places, so they can only go back to their hometowns for medical treatment. Some people with serious illnesses simply don't even seek treatment, and go back to their hometowns to wait for death.
It’s not that I don’t want to live, it’s that I can’t afford to live.
Living her life over again, Jiang Tian not only wants to change her own destiny, but also wants to change the destiny of her grandfather's family.
First trick grandma over to set up a stall to sell glutinous rice balls!
When business picked up, grandma could no longer handle it alone. With Grandma Hu's intelligence, she could naturally calculate that she could make much more money by doing business than by farming.
By then, she won't need to bother trying to persuade him, as Grandma Hu will call Grandpa Hu over to help.
When the two elders come here, it will be inconvenient to go home. The new house has been built, so they can live here usually. After all, it is very troublesome to run back and forth.
When my grandpa and two uncles’ businesses become stable and they see the family income every month, will they still want to go back to the village to farm?
Wait a few years and the Provincial Highway 336 will be widened and demolished. The government will then relocate those living along the highway. During the relocation, you can negotiate and move your entire family’s household registration here.
Although the family lost their arable land when changing from a rural household registration to a urban household registration, they no longer had to pay the retention fee and public grain.
Moreover, how much is the food? Even if my grandparents eat as much as they want, and each of them has 30 kilograms of food per month, there are only 60 kilograms of food for two people, and spending money to buy polished rice is only 12 yuan.
If the stall business at the gas station really becomes popular, the 12 yuan can be earned back in less than half a day.
Even Jiang Tian can do the math on this, not to mention an old lady as shrewd as Grandma Hu.
Jiang Tian decided not to play tricks on her family and told her grandparents the truth!
Hu family.
After hearing what her granddaughter said, Grandma Hu thought for less than ten seconds before deciding to go to Boss Tong’s gas station.
In fact, she was already moved in her heart. Jiang Tian was right. The old lady very clearly.
Her daughter has been selling lunch boxes on the provincial road recently. She probably has an idea of how many boxes she can sell in a day and how much money she can earn, otherwise she would not have agreed to let her two sons use the money to build a house on the provincial road.
She did not agree immediately, mainly because she wanted to see if there was any food for sale next to the gas station.
Also, is the owner of this gas station an honest person who is easy to get along with?
Jiang Tian still thought everything was too simple.
There are indeed a lot of cars going in and out of the gas station every day, but what if her business becomes popular and the gas station owner becomes jealous and takes back the place next year and lets his family members sell rice balls there? Then wouldn't she be doing something for nothing?
As expected of someone who had watched "The Feather Letter" and "Tunnel Warfare", Grandma Hu did not let her son and granddaughter follow her. She carried a patched woven bag, pretending to be a rag picker, and wandered around Boss Tong's gas station for two days.
I went in twice to ask for hot water.
When she came back, she told her two sons that she had decided to rent a place from Boss Tong to sell rice balls.
My uncle Hu Jianguo was shocked.
I've always known that my old lady is a bit fierce, but I didn't expect that she would become more fierce as she gets older!
