Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 99 Boss Tong's Methods
Grandma Hu has amazing mobility.
After announcing her decision to her family , she immediately asked her granddaughter to take her to see Boss Tong and pay a year's rent.
This time, the old lady was dressed neatly and energetically, and she even changed into new clothes. Even the astute Boss Tong did not recognize that the old lady in front of him was the beggar who came to his house yesterday to ask for hot water.
I really admire Jiang Tian!
No wonder people say that her grandmother’s generation could farm, weave cloth, and carry guns to fight the Japanese. When the old lady was young, did she even deliver chicken feather letters to the Red Army?
The family was just building a house, so red bricks, cement, tiles and other materials were all readily available. In order to save money, Grandma Hu just wanted to build a small house.
Jiang Tian disagrees.
This is her grandmother!
The room is small. It’s warm in winter, but in summer, won’t the old lady get too hot?
I don’t know how she told her two uncles, but when Grandma Hu “inspected” the house, what she saw was a “small” house with a ceiling height of four meters.
The house is not very big, only less than 20 square meters.
There is a unique design inside: the part near the front counter is completely empty, but the part near the back has a loft supported by four concrete pillars, with a small staircase leading to it, where some of the rice, flour, oil and other items commonly used in the store can be temporarily stored.
This is to prevent the business from being too good and not enough to sell on the same day, so we can make another batch.
In this way, the air circulation in the house is good, and it will not be stuffy in the summer, and there is also an extra loft storage room.
How friendly for a place that has a rainy season every year!
Tong Zhiyuan came to visit when he had nothing to do. When he saw the design of the small building, he liked it very much and asked someone to build a similar one next to it.
There was no way, he was a person with "symmetry obsession". This small building with white walls and red tiles looked pretty good, but unfortunately there was only one and it was asymmetrical. He was embarrassed to ask the Hu family to pay for building him another one.
I had no choice but to pay for it myself and "copy" an identical small building next door.
Jiang Tian almost thought that Boss Tong had changed his mind and wanted to set up a stall to sell rice dumplings herself. Later, she found out that he had hired a clerk to sell motor oil and various car repair parts there.
He is a real capitalist who will squeeze every bit of profit out of you.
Hu Qiongfang's new house had just been roofed and the walls were still being painted when Grandma Hu's snack stand opened for business.
However, what made the "capitalist" Tong Zhiyuan speechless was that Jiang Tian, the "little capitalist", shamelessly wrote three huge words on the white wall of the new house with red paint: Service Office.
Good job!
Anyone who sees it would think that this small building is a gas station that provides services to truck drivers and passengers, right?
Plus there’s a place to get free water next to it, which is absolutely true.
Boss Tong has been doing business for so many years, but this is the first time he has experienced the feeling of being forced to "ride on the popularity" of others.
As soon as Jiang Tian typed out the three words "Service Center", there was no need for any explanation. Others would think that this small shop selling glutinous rice balls and rice dumplings was set up by a gas station to "serve the people".
This "daughter-in-law" is so outstanding that she must be brought home!
Having made up his mind, Tong Zhiyuan would try to get close to Grandma Hu whenever he could.
Unexpectedly, after the two became familiar with each other, Tong Zhiyuan found out another thing that made him unhappy .
It turned out that my daughter's junior high school classmate, Jiang Lesheng, who had come to their house to play a few times, looked gentle and had good academic performance, but I didn't expect that he had such a bad character behind the scenes!
Grandma Hu didn't say anything bad about Jiang Lesheng on purpose. It was Tong Zhiyuan himself who wanted to find out about Jiang Tian's family situation. As they chatted, they somehow ended up talking about why Hu Qiongfang moved out of the village and moved to the provincial road to open a shop selling boxed lunches.
Grandma Hu told me that Hu Qiongfang's husband died in the mine while supporting his brother and two children to go to school. As a result, his beloved brother took the money and separated from his eldest sister-in-law while his brother's body was still warm.
It seemed that he was following the orders of his eldest sister-in-law, and Tong Zhiyuan just wanted to spit in his face.
If you really remembered how good your elder brother was to you when he was alive, you shouldn't have taken this money when the family property was divided!
Besides, even if the family is divided, it doesn't mean you are no longer related. Who can stop you from taking care of your sister-in-law and nephews and nieces?
Jiang Lesheng, on the other hand, went to school peacefully and went home on Sundays to get clothes without even saying hello to his sister-in-law, nor did he bring any food for his nephews and nieces. Is there any uncle like this?
If the eldest brother of the Jiang family knew in the afterlife that his younger brother, whom he raised as his own son, turned out to be such a heartless and ungrateful person, I wonder if he would come to talk to him in the middle of the night.
Poor Tong Xiaoyan! This girl thought that without the "burden" of her sister-in-law and nephews and nieces, Jiang Lesheng's impression of her father would be improved.
I never expected that although Tong Zhiyuan was a profiteer, he was a conscientious businessman.
Unscrupulous businessmen are also afraid of being stabbed in the back by their own people.
If Jiang Lesheng could really remember how good his elder brother was to him, and was willing to take on the responsibilities of his sister-in-law and nephews and nieces like a real man, even though Tong Zhiyuan, as a father-in-law, didn't want his daughter to marry a man with such a heavy burden, he still had to praise him as a man!
But Jiang Lesheng got rid of these three burdens, his sister-in-law and nephew, without even thinking about it. He is so cold-blooded and ruthless to his own relatives, so how can we expect him to be loyal to his wife in the future?
Tong Zhiyuan snorted and silently crossed out Jiang Lesheng in his heart.
I have to keep an eye on my daughter on Sundays from now on and not let her get entangled with this ungrateful guy.
Jiang Lesheng, who was included in the "daughter's dating blacklist" by Boss Tong , was indeed a "time management master" in the 1980s.
Last week, he specially returned to his hometown and gave his "dear pen pal" Tong Xiaoyan the internal examination papers of the county's No. 1 High School that he had copied by hand.
He didn't come back this week because he went to the city to buy books with a female classmate.
This female classmate was the top student in the county’s high school that Jiang Tian had heard of in her previous life. It was said that her grandfather was an old leader of the county’s education bureau, and many of her relatives were in the education system, either as cadres or as teachers.
Jiang Lesheng did not dare to do anything big. He could only treat himself as a good classmate who was "working together and preparing for the college entrance examination" and get familiar with each other first. As for the rest, he would have to wait until he entered university.
I don’t know what’s going on. Tong Xiaoyan, who I thought had the upper hand and would definitely not be able to escape, has suddenly become too busy to reply to his letters.
I came back to play with her on Sunday, but unexpectedly her father said that she went to help out at a relative's store.
Is this girl out of her mind?
His family runs a gas station and he's not short of money. He's already a senior in high school, but instead of studying hard for the exam, he's asking his relatives for help?
Boss Tong is the same. He doesn’t care about his daughter’s studies at all . It turns out that his son is his treasure, right?
Fortunately, he has the granddaughter of the old leader of the county education bureau...
