Gu Huai found that no matter what world he was in, the elders seemed to have nothing to do except to promote marriage or birth.
He said smoothly: "It's up to you."
Xiao Xiao's face turned slightly red.
Gu Huai ignored her because Li Zimin was thunderous as soon as he opened his mouth:
"Eight thousand yuan? Brother Gu, do you need a wife? Can you count me in?"
Li Zhonghua put down the paper in his hand, stood up, covered Li Zimin's mouth, and dragged him away.
Xiao Xiao became more and more embarrassed and stood there at a loss.
Dahu looked at her and knew what she was thinking. He sat aside and pretended to be relaxed:
"Master, how is your training here? How are you doing?"
Gu Huai: "It's okay."
Someone brings food every day, so I don’t have to worry about anything, which is really good. Except for the occasional tutoring for the two Li brothers.
It's said to be tutoring, but in fact it's just to see if they have questions they don't understand and give them a few words of advice.
Xiao Xiao relaxed a lot when Dahu made a joke. They chatted for a while and gave the room to the two Li brothers.
Gu Huai didn't need to read his homework, but others did. They stayed in the dormitory for a while and decided to go out for a walk.
The central school is not in the city center, but the surrounding area is very lively.
Just outside the back door of the school is a residential area, all of which are old red brick houses covered with blue tiles.
The aroma of wontons came from the alley, and occasionally a few dogs barked.
The aunt carrying the vegetable basket saw Gu Huai and greeted warmly: "Hey, Xiao Gu, are you bringing your friends to eat again?"
Gu Huai smiled and nodded, as if he was familiar with everything here.
Xiao Xiao was curious and asked him: "Do you come here often?"
Gu Huai: "I don't come often."
He led the two men up and down the alley, and finally stopped in front of a broken green sign.
The signboard is very shabby, you can almost see the light when looking at the sky, and the white painted words on it are very blurry, and you can't make out a single word clearly.
Gu Huai walked in with a familiar face and was immediately greeted by an old man:
"A Gu? It's A Gu who's here!"
Xiao Xiao stood behind Gu Huai, and a large group of gray-haired elderly people surrounded him.
One of them, a chubby, slightly young old man, clapped his hands and spoke with a big smile:
"A-Gu is here. I'm going to get some good dishes. You guys wait."
As he said that, he went to a small room next to him and listened to the sound of pots and pans being knocked. It was probably a makeshift kitchen.
Sure enough, firewood smoke soon came out of it.
Dahu whispered: "Master, where is this?"
Gu Huai: "It's a nursing home."
Nursing homes in this era were not common, and many people had not even heard of them.
However, this nursing home is different from the others in the past. It is mainly a place for the elderly to relax. Xiao Xiao walked into the yard and found that it was very clean. Some old ladies were sitting in the sun, squinting and knitting.
Xiao Xiao looked at the balls of wool in their hands and felt that something was not right.
She asked: "Grandma, are you making these yarns for your own children?"
Old lady: "Ah? What to eat?"
Xiao Xiao raised her voice and said: "Is this a call for children?"
Old lady: "No, no, I don't spank children."
Xiao Xiao:......
There is no way to communicate at all.
Xiao Xiao tried several times to no avail, so he could only return to Gu Huai and Dahu in despair.
At the same time, the old lady also moved.
After finishing the stitching, she walked to Gu Huai and gave the clothes to him: "Xiao Gu, see if this one looks good."
Gu Huai took the clothes and praised, "Grandma, your hands are getting better and better. When the time comes to knit your grandson, he will be the proudest in the class."
Grandma's mouth was grinning from ear to ear.
She got yarn from another person and sat there knitting in the sun.
Xiao Xiao was shocked.
Why was she speaking so loudly to her grandma, but grandma couldn't hear her? Gu Huai's voice didn't change at all, and he could still communicate with them normally?
However, what makes Xiao Xiao even more curious is what does Gu Huai want a child's sweater for?
Gu Huai told her, of course she would sell it, otherwise what would she do?
After several rounds of understanding, Xiao Xiao finally figured out what exactly Gu Huai was doing, oh, no, it was a career.
Gu Huai relied on the contacts he had accumulated while fishing in the village to gather all the idle old people in the old city. The old people of that generation had few hobbies, and their biggest hobby was arithmetic.
Counting money can also be regarded as a kind of arithmetic.
It turned out that one of the old people was from their village. Because his child had become successful, he moved to the city. He was very happy to see Gu Huai and often invited him to come to his home for dinner.
After going back and forth, I became more familiar with him than in the village.
Seeing that there were many idle old people in the residential area, Gu Huai asked him to gather the old people in the village and rented this place for them to sit and play together.
At first, he bought a mahjong table to earn some table fees. There were more old men playing mahjong, but the old ladies gave up and often came here to lose their temper.
So Gu Huai asked people to buy wool for the old people and asked them to sit and knit the wool. Gu Huai would buy the knitted sweaters for a certain price and sell them to other people.
Based on this calculation, Gu Huai already has a considerable amount of savings.
The old people didn't know Gu Huai's plan, but they knew that Gu Huai provided them with a place to go.
An old lady in a green cloth skirt smiled and said to Xiao Xiao: "Xiao Gu is a good boy, much better than the one in my family! He dislikes me for this and that every day. It's not as good as Xiao Gu. Just looking at him makes me happy."
Gu Huai smiled: "Aunt Huang's new clothes look good. Next time Uncle Mo goes out, ask him to bring you some more fashionable ones."
Uncle Mo is an old man from their village. He is in his fifties this year and is in good health. He is the one who brings out sweaters for the nursing home to sell.
He was a loyal person, and he just lowered his head and smiled when he saw Gu Huai talking nonsense.
He now has money and can hold his head high in front of his wife in the city, all thanks to Xiao Gu, who remembers Gu Huai's kindness.
Everyone in the nursing home praised Gu Huai, which made Dahu dizzy.
He never knew he could do this. Gu Huai easily gained everyone's love and filled his own pockets from them.
Dahu looked at Xiao Xiao, whose eyes were full of admiration. He was determined to be someone like Gu Huai!
Dahu tugged on Gu Huai's sleeve, not letting Xiao Xiao hear what he said: "Master, how can I be like you?"
This was what Gu Huai was waiting for.
In the original plot, Dahu has nothing to do with reading.
What he is best at is doing business.
The reason why he and Xiao Xiao live a prosperous life is because Xiao Xiao is the heroine and because Dahu is down-to-earth and hard-working and has a great business acumen.
Gu Huai would be a fool not to use his existing business partners here.