"Everyone, at the beginning of Haishi tonight (21 o'clock), in order to congratulate the new dynasty and enjoy the joy of the people, His Majesty will set off fireworks in Jingshan. Please go home and watch."
The people who were queuing up roared again and started talking.
Every year, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the city's officials and citizens set off fireworks to watch the lanterns. That day is also when the Spring Festival festive atmosphere reaches its climax. Unexpectedly, there will be fireworks set off on New Year's Eve this year, and they will be set off on the top of Jingshan Mountain, the highest point in the city.
This way the whole city can see it.
The news was released from Xinghe Supermarket and quickly spread throughout the city. Every family had prepared a small horse and went to the yard to watch when the time came.
Zheng Sanfa's home is in Bingjiakou Hutong, Beicheng. This is a civilian area in Beicheng. They are all shanty houses. His family has a small mud house with three rooms. His parents live in one room, the couple lives in one room, and the two children live in one room.
A small side building was built on the east side of the house to serve as the kitchen.
Today I bought ten jins of rice, ten jins of flour, and five jins of fatty pork. The family is celebrating a prosperous new year with great joy.
Old man Zheng is lighting the fire, old woman Zheng is making noodles, the fourteen-year-old girl is handling cabbage, and Zheng Sanfa is chopping firewood and carrying water.
His wife was chopping meat fillings and preparing to make dumplings with the whole family. The family was very busy and happy.
Although I didn't make much money this year, Xinghe Supermarket opened this year as soon as possible because it has strong logistics and purchases goods directly from the place of production. There are no middlemen to make profit, and all products are much cheaper, directly benefiting the poor people in the capital.
Benefit.
This year's Spring Festival is better than any other year.
Yang Fan just wants to take out all the money from the rich and create jobs for the poor.
The items in the high-priced section of Xinghe Supermarket are really good, but none of them cost less than five cents each. As long as rich people see these good things and try them out, they will never be able to resist buying them.
It is easy for people to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to return from luxury to frugality.
Once you experience this kind of pleasure, you will never be able to quit.
Since Yang Fan got the mysterious ruby, the ring's teleportation ability has been strengthened, and now he has more things that can be teleported safely.
Just like the iron stove, within a month of opening, 20,000 units were sold, which was crazy.
In the end, the installers were exhausted.
I had no choice but to stop the installation service and give away 100 pieces of briquettes and let the customer go home and install it by themselves according to the instructions in the pictures.
Because it really can’t be installed.
Before Yang Fan started selling iron stoves, he bought all the coal mines in Mentougou in the west of Beijing. The coal he sells now is all from Mentougou. After all, this stuff is not worth transporting it long distances.
Zheng Sanfa’s neighbor Chen Xiaohu, his mother suffers from rheumatism, which is very difficult to bear in winter. Chen Xiaohu is a filial son. Although life is tight, Chen Xiaohu gritted his teeth and bought one. After buying an iron stove for his family, he became more flexible.
He quickly figured out how to install and use this thing.
When he saw that the iron stoves were out of stock, the supermarket simply gave up on installing them.
He immediately realized that this was a business opportunity. He no longer went to Beixincang to carry sacks.
He held a sign outside the supermarket door, asking people to install iron stoves. He didn't charge any wages, as long as he gave him a coupon of 100 pieces of briquettes that the supermarket would compensate for not installing it.
From then on, he installed stoves for people all day long, often working until midnight before returning home.
And his wife sells briquettes at home. The briquettes cost more than a thousand yuan at a time, and the supermarket delivers them to her home. She even saves on shipping costs. What she sells is cheaper than the coal stations in the supermarket, and many poor people come to buy it.
In less than a month, they made twenty taels of silver, which made the Chen family go crazy with joy.
At Xu time, Zheng Sanfa's family's big white steamed buns were cooked.
Her wife knocked off her son's little hands that were reaching for the steamed buns, quickly picked out the two roundest ones, put them into the only good bowl without gaps in the house, and placed them in front of the ancestor's memorial tablet. He also filled a large bowl of rice and placed it on the ancestor's tablet.
In front of the tablet.
Then Old Zhengtou and his wife took the whole family to offer incense and kowtow to their ancestors. They asked their ancestors to bless the Zheng family's life for a better life.
Then the family brought the wrapped dumplings to the yard with a curtain to freeze them, waiting for them to be put into the pot at midnight. Mrs. Zheng then covered the pot with a lid and pressed it with stones to prevent the cat from eating it.
At this time, the stewed tofu in the pot was also ready. Four dishes were placed on the simple wooden table, stewed tofu, minced pork with red snow, vinegared cabbage, minced white meat with garlic, and a pot of radish soup.
The staple food is rice and freshly steamed white flour steamed buns.
The whole family became happy when they saw this sumptuous dinner.
Old Zhengtou took out the half-small jar of roasting knives that had been there for half a year from under the bed, and poured a bowl for his son and himself.
"Thanks to His Majesty, I can live a good year this year. Let's take a sip." Old Man Zheng said happily.
Zheng Sanfa quickly banged the bowl with his father and took a sip of the hot roasted knife.
Most of this kind of bad wine is made from plant roots and a small amount of bran. There is not much grain, so there is too much methanol, less ethanol, and too much fusel alcohol. Drinking more fusel alcohol makes it very spicy, and it can burn the heart and lungs, but just drinking this is not
You can drink it every Spring Festival.
"Dad, I want to tell you something." Seeing the old man's happiness, Zheng Sanfa said tentatively.
"What's the matter? Tell me." The old man glanced at him.
"I don't want to work in Wang's shoe repair shop anymore."
Before he finished speaking, his father slapped him on the head, and Mr. Zheng immediately became angry.
"You're crazy. It's hard to find a job now. What about the whole family? Why don't you quit and go drink the northwest wind?"
"Dad, don't be angry. I met a noble man. Yesterday I gave Xiaohu next door his repaired boots. I happened to meet a young man named Zhuzhu. He is one of the supervisors of the supermarket. Chen Xiaohu caused trouble by installing an iron stove for someone.
They paid attention to the fact that they did not have enough manpower, so they supported Chen Xiaohu to recruit a few people to set up an after-sales service shop, which was responsible for installing and repairing iron stoves, delivering coal for a fee, etc. In the future, the supermarket would no longer do these things, leaving everything to Chen Xiaohu and the others.
Come and do it.”
Zheng Sanfa's mother-in-law immediately exclaimed: "Chen Xiaohu is not going to make a fortune. Now that iron stoves are so easy to sell, after-sales work is indispensable. He really has met a noble man."
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They make shoes and boots, the supermarket provides raw materials and tools, the products are underwritten, and the workshop earns wages."
Old Man Zheng nodded and said: "This is a good deal. If you sell it under the guarantee, you don't have to worry about selling it. Your mother and I can make shoes. With you and two children, your wife can open a workshop, but we don't have the capital.
Doesn’t that supermarket charge money for purchasing raw materials?”
Zheng Sanfa said: "The supermarket can hand over the raw materials and tools to the workshop first, but there must be a guarantor. Chen Xiaohu and I are close friends, and he agrees to guarantee me. As long as you agree, our family can start from
The supermarket is taking orders."
Mr. Zheng and his wife also made shoes when they were young, but the price of leather has been unstable in recent years, and many family workshops have stopped running because they cannot withstand the risks. Now the whole family relies on their son to earn wages repairing shoes in the shop. After all, the wages are stable.
Guaranteed harvest regardless of drought or flood, no risk.
Now that supermarkets have borne all the risks, they only earn piece-rate wages. With such a good thing, there is no need to hesitate.
"Let's do it. Your mother and I are only in our early fifties and can still work for another ten years. Our family's inherited crafts cannot be lost. With two children as apprentices, let's take over this job."
When Zheng Sanfa and his wife saw that the old man agreed, they immediately became happy and the whole family started eating happily.
"Grandpa, grandpa, after dinner, how about we go to the yard and watch the fireworks?" the little grandson begged.
"Okay, let's all go, let's watch it with the whole family." The old man fondly took a slice of boiled, thinly sliced, almost transparent white meat, dipped it in garlic sauce, and put it in his grandson's rice bowl.
