Huang Cuicui: "You actually want to go to the provincial capital? How many faces do you have to go to the provincial capital?"
"Business? I think you look like a businessman!"
"Do you know how much it costs to go to the provincial capital? Two cents! Two cents! With two cents, we can almost have a meal, you know?"
"Money? I don't have any money! Just stay at home! You're not allowed to go anywhere! Do you hear me?"
Huang Cuicui spoke quickly and harshly, which made Gu Zhongyi frown repeatedly.
He was going to give up.
The money and tickets at home are all in Huang Cuicui's place. If she doesn't give them to her, there really is nothing she can do.
Seeing that their mouths had stopped moving, Gu Huai opened his hearing and said to Huang Cuicui:
"But, Mom, Dad said he wants to go to the provincial capital and make some money to buy you some beautiful clothes."
Huang Cuicui opened her mouth for a long time, but not a single word came out.
Gu Huai: "Dad said that he is sorry for you. The big tiger mother next door has new floral clothes for the New Year. I have been married to you for more than 20 years, but I have never bought you a few new clothes. You are always embarrassed in front of the neighbors.
I can’t hold my head up.”
Huang Cuicui's eyes moved slightly.
Gu Huai: "I gave my father the idea of going to the provincial capital to make money. I saw that he was worried about this matter, so I told him that there was someone selling lanterns in the provincial capital for ten cents each, and that's when my father decided to go."
Huang Cuicui's voice was a little distorted.
She asked: "Is it really for me?"
Gu Huai looked at Gu Zhongyi, who immediately nodded: "Everything A Gu said is true!"
Huang Cuicui agreed with Gu Zhongyi to go to the provincial capital.
She gave Gu Huai the two dollars that Gu Huai had returned to her before: "Agu, you have to help mom watch your dad. If there is anything wrong with him, just wait for me to come back and break his legs!"
Gu Huai nodded sincerely, turned around and told Gu Zhongyi about the matter.
Gu Zhongyi's hands were trembling slightly: "Tell me, let's work together to deceive your mother. What should we do if we are discovered in the future?"
Gu Huai: "You won't find out. Dad, a lamp sells for 50 cents. You give mom 10 cents, and each of us has 20 cents."
"If I tell your mother that I only have a dime, wouldn't that reveal the truth?"
Gu Huai asked him very strangely: "But I have already told mom that the lanterns are only a dime."
Gu Zhongyi:???
He thought about it carefully and found that he seemed to be in a hurry to agree with Gu Huai's words and didn't notice that he mentioned the price of the lanterns.
I have boarded this kid's pirate ship! This kid even tricked his own father!
Gu Zhongyi stood up and was about to go to his wife to confess the matter when he heard Gu Huai ask: "Dad, don't you want to have some money in your hand?"
He thinks too much!
He also wanted to be like Huang Cuicui, put the money under the pillow and sleep soundly!
Under the temptation of money, Gu Zhongyi finally made a dishonest decision in his honest life - to cooperate with Gu Huai.
So Gu Zhongyi started making lanterns day and night.
His craftsmanship is very good, but the glass work is slow and he can only make three at most in one morning. He made a lot of small orange lamps, about twenty.
But Gu Huai told him that it was not worth the money and asked him to just make glass lamps.
There were only three or four days before the temple fair. Gu Zhongyi went home early to rest because of his work's New Year's holiday. He made lanterns for three days in a row and made fifteen lanterns.
He already felt very happy. Fifteen lanterns were sold for seven and a half yuan, which was a huge sum of money.
He originally planned to ask Gu Huai to go with him, but when he saw Gu Huai asking Xiao Xiao and Gu Xiaoliu to pull apart his pile of firewood and take out more than a hundred lanterns, he was completely dumbfounded.
Gu Zhongyi: "No, where did you get so many lanterns?"
Gu Xiaoliu answered this question for Gu Huai: "Agu, he bought someone else's lanterns, one for five cents."
People who had argued between Huang Cuicui and Gu Zhongyi before knew that Gu Zhongyi was going to the county to do business, but they didn't know what kind of business he wanted to do.
When everyone was curious, Gu Huai released the news that he wanted to buy a beautiful glass lantern, priced at 5 cents.
Except for the small half candle inside that costs a little, the glass lanterns outside are all wine bottles, or simply broken glass pieces picked up from outside.
This kind of costless thing can actually be purchased for five cents!
The boy from the Gu family is really famous for being a spendthrift, buying so many useless lanterns with only five cents.
What's the matter? He still wants to build a Milky Way, right?
Ridicule is ridicule, but you are a bastard who doesn't want to make money if you have money. Not only did everyone make the money, but they also hid it from the Gu family, for fear that they would ruin their financial path in the future.
So recently, besides Gu Zhongyi, there are many people making lanterns at home day and night.
Gu Huai spent all the five yuan he originally earned on buying lamps.
Gu Zhongyi flinched again.
If he failed to sell it, wouldn't he have to lose at least five yuan in vain?
no!
You also need to pay for two round trips!
Gu Huai: "There are too many lights, so I plan to take Xiao Xiao, Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu with me. Dad, don't you mind?"
Gu Xiaoliu stared with big eyes: "Dad, you don't care, do you?"
Gu Zhongyi felt that he had not boarded a pirate ship, but had entered a den of thieves!
Since the two yuan for travel expenses was in Gu Huai's hands, it was entirely up to Gu Huai himself to decide how to buy tickets and how many tickets to buy.
So he generously bought a ticket for each person, and also bought a candy ball for each person.
Gu Zhongyi's eyes almost fell out of his head.
He knew before that Gu Huai, a prodigal, lost money very quickly, but he didn't expect that he was such a loser!
Two dollars!
This guy spent more than half of it!
They don’t even have the fare to come back! If they don’t make any money, how will they come back? Are they living on the streets or living in a bridge?
Gu Zhongyi regretted more and more that he and Gu Huai were messing around together.
But he still got on the bus to the provincial capital.
The provincial capital is really lively.
People were coming and going on the street. Many people were wearing red, green and green. The colors and materials looked very good, which made Gu Zhongyi a little envious.
He glanced at the green clothes on his own body and the dusty clothes on his child's body, and shrank back into the crowd.
He bent down and asked Gu Huai: "Agu, where are you talking about? How can we sell it?"
Gu Huai: "It's fine for me and Xiao Xiao to go there. It's hard to sell when there are adults. Dad, just sit here and eat a bowl of wontons."
With that said, he paid the money first.
Gu Zhongyi's eyes widened.
Five cents! He was so generous and gave away the remaining half of the fare!
No, these wontons are wrapped in gold!
Such thin skin! Paper-like meat filling!
Looking at the wontons sprinkled with chopped green onion, Gu Zhongyi thought, is it too late for a refund now?
After leaving Gu Zhongyi at the wonton shop, Gu Huai took Xiao Xiao and others to the temple fair.
He asked several children: "Have you brought everything?"
Gu Xiaowu was the strongest and carried the largest number of lanterns. Gu Xiaoliu also carried some. Xiao Xiao carried a military green shoulder bag on his shoulder. It was very worn but bulging, and there seemed to be something inside.