Xiao Xiao took out a stack of red window paper from his bag.
She quickly put red window paper on the outside of part of the glass lamp, then lit the glass lamp as Gu Huai told them before, and carried it around.
These little girls are good-looking, and their glass lamps quickly attracted the attention of many people.
One of them looked at their shabby clothes and knew that they were definitely not here for fun, so they directly asked the price.
Xiao Xiao was very courageous, holding a lantern in each hand, and said sweetly: "The one with the red pattern on the left is sixty cents, and the one without flowers on the right is fifty cents."
Gu Huai has colluded with them, and all the red window glass lamps that cost only a dime will be shared with them!
People who come to the county town to visit the temple fair are people who have spare money and time, and they don’t care about buying a lantern. Besides, these lanterns are really beautiful. Even after the temple fair is over, they will be good to display at home.
In two hours, more than a hundred lanterns were sold.
Xiao Xiao and others took the cents and found Gu Huai who was eating hot and sour noodles at the stall.
Xiao Xiao gave all the money to Gu Huai.
Gu Huai asked her: "How much did you earn in total?"
Xiao Xiao: "All forty window lanterns were sold, totaling twenty-four yuan, and the remaining lanterns were sold for forty yuan."
Now they already have a huge sum of sixty-four yuan in their hands!
Gu Huai thought for a while, gave each of the three girls one dollar, put another twelve dollars out, and put twenty-four dollars into his pocket, before going to the wonton shop to find Gu Zhongyi.
When they got there, Gu Zhongyi was asking the wonton shop owner to add soup:
"Boss, give me another bowl of soup!"
The owner of the wonton shop was a bit hard to explain.
Ever since he learned that there was no charge for adding soup, he had been drinking soup as hard as he could. He had already drank four or five bowls!
Before the wonton soup was served, Gu Huai gave the remaining twenty-four yuan to Gu Zhongyi.
Gu Zhongyi pinched the money in his hand and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.
He said, how much is this?
Gu Huai: Twenty-four.
Gu Zhongyi's eyes widened.
twenty four!
He turned around and said proudly to the owner of the wonton shop: "Boss, give me four more bowls, no! Five bowls! Give me five more bowls of wontons! Add more black onion oil!"
After eating wontons, Gu Zhongyi took several children to the department store.
With a huge amount of money on his back, Gu Zhongyi felt more confident and spent more than one yuan to buy the most fashionable cotton-padded jacket for Huang Cuicui.
Don't buy clothes for your children. They grow up quickly and will be small in a few seconds.
Besides, he had seen it, and the cheapest clothes for children here cost only fifty or sixty cents. It's unnecessary, unnecessary.
As for myself...
He is a grown man and does not need to dress up. Besides, his mother-in-law has already made new clothes. He has new clothes to wear, so what does he need to do?
In this way, even though Gu Zhongyi went to the department store, he only bought one cotton-padded jacket.
He returned home with his children.
Huang Cuicui is angry at home.
She asked Gu Zhongyi to take Gu Huai to the county seat, but she didn't ask him to take the child with him!
Now she is fine, she is the only one at home, without even a helper!
Standing at the door, looking at the large family arriving in great numbers, Huang Cuicui held the big broom in her hand and decided to endure it before taking action.
Knowing that there are too many people going to the county seat, they are all crowded at the door to watch the excitement. From time to time, some people say:
"Zhongyi, have you made money back?"
Gu Zhongyi nodded shyly.
Everyone was surprised to see the hidden smile on his face.
He won't really make any money, right?
How is it possible? How can those broken lamps make money?
Huang Cuicui looked at the smile on Gu Zhongyi's face and felt angry.
Why is it that everyone is so shameless and he still has the nerve to smile at himself!
Gu Zhongyi pulled Huang Cuicui into the house. As soon as he entered the house, he excitedly said to Huang Cuicui: "Daughter-in-law, I bought you a beautiful dress."
Huang Cuicui turned to Gu Huai with a cold face, "Where's the money?"
She had told Gu Huai to keep every sum of money.
After all, the son is facing his mother, what if the dishonest Gu Zhongyi swallows it?
Gu Huai handed the twelve yuan to Huang Cuicui.
Huang Cuicui's eyes widened.
Is this handful of dimes real?
She couldn't wait to add her fingers and start counting the money.
Gu Huai: There are twelve yuan here, and dad and I didn’t spend a penny. We only bought you a new dress, and we spent two yuan.
Gu Zhongyi:?
Didn’t it cost one yuan and two? Why did it cost two yuan?
Oh, but adding up the money for wontons and clothes is almost two yuan.
No, didn’t he pay for the wontons and clothes himself?
But he couldn't say this because he couldn't keep the remaining twenty yuan.
Huang Cuicui counted the money twice and smiled broadly: "My dear son, you are the most considerate. Go, go, mom will cook delicious food for you. Tomorrow the money will be used to sell meat. We are preparing to celebrate the New Year."
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The children cheered, but Gu Huai did not move.
As soon as Huang Cuicui looked at him, she knew what the boy was thinking. She took out a few cents from the twenty yuan, which was about more than one yuan: "Here, it's Chinese New Year, you take your sister Xiao Xiao to buy some firecrackers and fireworks, be happy."
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Gu Huai accepted the money without ceremony.
Gu Zhongyi's eyes straightened when he saw it.
No, this kid is just like me! He also lost more than 20 yuan. He hasn’t invited wontons or bought clothes, he hasn’t spent a penny, yet he still needs two yuan at home?
This isn't fair!
Gu Zhongyi was about to speak, but saw the happy Huang Cuicui and closed his mouth.
No, if he opens his mouth, he will lose a penny himself. Forget it, let that brat A Gu get some advantages, but he won’t let him take advantage next time!
Less than a day after leaving, Gu Huai had twenty-seven yuan in his hand.
One semester's tuition is already paid, and it's even three yuan more.
However, tuition fees are not enough.
You know, the school is nearly an hour's walk from the village. There are no cars here, but you can buy bicycles yourself.
However, the mountain road is uneven, so riding a bike is not as good as walking.
The laziest way is to choose to stay in school to eat.
Therefore, in addition to tuition fees, it is best for him to find money for food before enrolling next fall.
It takes five years to study in primary school. If all the money is prepared, then he can lie down and do nothing for five years.
Making money is not difficult for Gu Huai.
But he wanted to take a break now, at least until after the New Year.
The village is particularly lively this New Year.
Thanks to Gu Huai, many families in the village have extra income from making lanterns. Basically every household has an extra cent or two.
For just one or two cents, you can add a meat dish.
On the 5th, when everyone bought meat with their meat coupons, Gu Huai asked Huang Cuicui to buy another pound of pure fat meat and come back to boil it.
He doesn't like vegetable oil.
Ever since she discovered that Gu Huai could make money, Huang Cuicui had become a treasure in Huang Cuicui's eyes. Not to mention if he wanted one pound of fat, Huang Cuicui would buy it for him even if he wanted two pounds.