Xu Yanshi Yin took the two little ones for a run every Sunday and practiced boxing. After the boxing practice, he took them to the street to drink soy milk and eat small steamed buns. After eating, they did their homework together, and she told them about it after they finished.
Wrong question, difficult question.
I have to say that Brother Jiang is much smarter than Xu Xiao. Xu Xiao was still biting his pen to digest the questions she asked, but Jiang Nianchen raised his hand to show that he understood.
She spends her days developing new products for her bakery and teaching boxing to her two little ones. She spends her days leisurely learning, busy and fulfilling.
Another year has passed.
Xu Xiao is in second grade, and Xu's Cake Shop has opened another one.
As the iron ore plant lays off workers again, employees in coal plants and hardware factories are also laid off one after another. More and more food stalls for laid-off workers pop up at the morning and evening market in front of the machinery factory, but the consumer base is gradually declining.
Seeing that the business of the Xu family's sesame cake stall was so good, naturally someone tried every means to modify the stove to sell sesame cakes.
Not to mention, there are actually people who know the structure of the hearth furnace. Although the sesame cake fillings are not as delicious as the Xu family, the price is cheaper. The Xu family sells them for 2 cents, and he sells them for 15 cents; the Xu family sells them for 50 cents, and he sells them.
Thirty-five cents, someone will always buy it.
Business people are most afraid of price wars. Over the past few days, the Xu family cake stall has been impacted.
Not only that, the other party didn't seem to sleep every day and came to occupy the stall at four o'clock in the morning.
Although the stalls at this time are all free and there are no fixed stalls. Whoever goes early will pick first. However, because the Xu family was the first to set up a stall here, it has been set up for two years, and everyone has a tacit agreement.
Unexpectedly, someone would seize the stall, and Ma Chunfang was so angry that they had a big quarrel.
But on the second and third days, the other party still came very early, and what he sold was also sesame seed cakes, which were still five cents cheaper than Xu’s. The sesame seed cakes were only ten cents cheaper, so he really took away a lot of business.
Ma Chunfang was so angry that she couldn't sleep well for several nights. She set the alarm clock and planned to get up at 3:30 to occupy the stall, but Xu Yin stopped her.
"Mom, what's more important, business or health? If you go back to your old stall at 3:30 today, and he'll take it up at 3 o'clock tomorrow, do you have to get up at 2:30 the day after tomorrow to take it up? There are only a few hours in one night, so why not?
Are you going to sleep? In my opinion, the breakfast stalls here are too full, so let’s just quit.”
"Quit? Accomplish them? Wouldn't it be too advantageous for them?"
"No, let's change the map and set up a stall."
"???"
Xu Yin found a shop near the government compound in the south of the city and persuaded her parents to open a shop there directly. Whoever liked the stall at the entrance of the machinery factory would occupy it.
This time it's not a rental, it's a direct sale of the shop.
The previous owner was also a businessman, so he divided the shop into two rooms, the front half for business and the back half for bedrooms.
In this way, Xu and Wu and his wife no longer have to travel back and forth every day. When they are busy late, they can rest in the store and get more sleep the next morning.
At the morning and evening market near the machinery factory, many regular customers saw that Xu’s cake stall had not been open for several days. They missed his sesame cakes and soybean-flavored cakes, so they went to the workers’ compound of the iron ore factory to inquire:
"Does the owner of Xu's cake stall live here? Or has he moved? Why haven't I seen them out of the stall for several days?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen the couple for several days."
"Chunfang's brother comes back every day. It's true that Chunfang and his wife haven't seen each other for several days."
"Isn't it because you were so angry that you fell ill?"
Jiao Dongmei came back from get off work and heard several laid-off female workers chatting about the Xu family in the courtyard. She listened for a while and gloated about their misfortune and went home.
"Lao Zhou, have you heard? Lao Xu and his wife are very angry because their stall was robbed."
"Who said that?" Zhou Quancai had just entered the house. When he got home, he took off his coat and lay on the bed. "How did I hear that Mr. and Mrs. Xu went to the south of the city to open a shop."
"What? It's impossible!"
"What's impossible? Lao Liu told me that Lao Xu was lucky enough to find a storefront near the government compound in the south of the city. The people living there were all people working in government agencies, and they were much richer than the workers in factories and mines.
, the business is even better than here. In the first three days of opening, there were people queuing up every day.”
Jiao Dongmei: "..."
The corners of his mouth suddenly drooped, and he was so happy for nothing!
In the blink of an eye, at the end of the month, the Xu Yin family gathered together again for a meeting.
"First of all, let's congratulate uncle for finally paying off all his gambling debts!"
Xu Yin handed the recovered IOU to Ma Jianbing and asked him to tear it up and burn it in front of everyone.
Ma Jianbing seemed to be dreaming.
"Have I really paid it all off?"
"It's all paid off! From now on, you will be debt-free and you can think about life-long events." Xu Yin teased him.
Ma Jianbing cried like a child.
Xu Wuyi patted his brother-in-law on the shoulder with emotion and said: "Jianbing, you see, as long as you work hard, it's not difficult to live a good life, right? Don't take any chances anymore in the future."
"No more! I won't even touch it to death! Now I have no interest in playing mahjong or pushing Pai Gow. I like to make pasta. Yinyin said that there will be a pasta competition in the neighboring city in the second half of the year, and I want to try it.
"
Ma Chunfang said happily: "Okay, okay! When we are closed for the day, we will go with you!"
"Uncle, how about I be your bodyguard? Look how powerful I am now!"
Xu Xiao made a pose bulging his biceps, which made everyone laugh.
Xu Yin smiled and rubbed her brother's head before continuing to talk about the next thing.
"Originally, I promised my uncle that after paying off the debt, I would leave the store to him and be responsible for its own profits and losses..."
"Yin Yin, how about it still be like this?" Ma Jianbing interrupted her, "I'm afraid I can't control it."
Xu Yin thought for a while and said, "Then I'll hire you as the store manager. Let me know anytime you want to go out and work alone."
Anyway, her uncle's craftsmanship has been completely perfected after two years of continuous kneading and making cakes.
"Okay, the main thing is these two things, and the next step is to pay wages!"
Everyone sat upright happily and looked forward to this day every month.
Xu Yin put everyone's salary in an envelope, handed it to everyone, and asked them to count it themselves, match a pair, and then take it back.
To put it bluntly, let them touch it, and after touching it, it will still be there for her.
At the same time, she recorded the amount of money in the salary books in their hands, wrote the date, and stamped her personal seal. Now that she had done it, she made it official to appease their hearts.
Because this month is also the last month of the quarter, there are dividends in addition to interest.
The dividend this time is a new sweater for each person.
The one knitted for Ma Chunfang was the mohair bat shirt that is currently popular. She was so happy to get it that she went to try it on in front of the mirror.
Ma Jianbing looked at it with eyes heated: "Yinyin, from now on I will also deposit my monthly salary with you. Can I also share benefits every quarter?"
Xu Yin twitched the corner of her mouth: "Uncle, my parents put money here with me because they don't have enough money for the time being. Aren't you talking about a partner? Don't you need to spend money to talk about a partner?"
"Then I save half?"
"..."
Xu Yin thought for a while and said, "That's fine. Let's keep it with my aunt after my uncle gets married."
Ma Jianbing scratched his head and laughed innocently.