When the young couple chatted, it was all "black talk" among businessmen.
He persuaded people with his virtues and catered to his liking. It was like giving moral education with a loudspeaker in the village. He said a lot, but not a word Hao Mei could understand.
"Mom, just leave these matters to me and Brother Yaoyang. Just listen and I will continue to settle the accounts for you. Our cost today is 25 yuan. We sold it at the train station for 13 yuan and at the entrance of the cannery for 80 yuan. We deducted 27 yuan.
With a cost of 5 yuan, we made 65 yuan5.”
The cost of giving gifts is not included, but this money cannot be saved and must be spent when it should be spent.
Hao Mei thought about her daughter making money, but she never thought about making money like this. She opened her mouth for a while and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
"It's more than sixty yuan. You can make this amount in one day... Can you two earn a month's salary of a city worker in one day?"
"We will make more money in the beginning, especially after midsummer, our business will be better. However, this business can only be done for three months. After autumn, people will no longer drink beer, so we have to find
Other livelihood."
"March, that's a lot of money..." Hao Mei couldn't figure it out with her head, so she stretched out her hand and started counting her fingers.
60 a day, 1,800 a month, three months - Hao Mei took a breath, close to 5,000 yuan!
If we work hard for two years, won't we become a household worth ten thousand yuan?
"This is just the income from our stall. Brother Yaoyang also sells agricultural products. When the food comes in the autumn, he can still make a fortune."
Hao Mei was shocked by this astonishing number, and suddenly thought of last year's autumn harvest.
She was sitting on a horse-drawn carriage piled with rice, thinking about the ten thousand-yuan household reported on the radio, and yearning for it. She did not dare to hope that Chen Fu, a gambler, would one day become a ten-thousand-yuan household.
What she thinks is that if her daughter can go to college, be assigned to a good work unit, be assigned a city household registration, and settle down in the city, she may hope to become a household worth ten thousand yuan.
The sun was so bright that day that Hao Mei was sweating all over her head, with a smile on her face brought about by her beautiful fantasy.
Because I was so happy, I even expressed my thoughts.
Chen Fu was hit on the head by the corn pole thrown by Chen Fu. Chen Fu's sarcastic expression was still vivid in her mind. Hao Mei even remembered what he said——
What kind of university should a girl go to? If she is like your daughter, she still wants to be a householder with ten thousand yuan? Become a daddy household!
A nerd like Chen Rutang who doesn't do housework has no other advantages except being good-looking. It's good that she won't be beaten back by her husband's family. Do you expect her to be a householder worth ten thousand yuan?
When Hao Mei thought about that part, she clenched her fists with anger and her eyes were red.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Rutang saw something was wrong with her mother's expression and waved her hand in front of Hao Mei.
"It's okay, just do your best! Let those who look down on us see it! We can definitely make a household worth ten thousand yuan!" Hao Mei grabbed her daughter's hand and said through gritted teeth.
"Okay!" Rutang wanted to say, wouldn't it be humiliating to her and Yu Yaoyang to become a householder worth ten thousand yuan?
It’s not enough to add a thousand words in front of it.
With the motivation to make money, Hao Mei also started thinking.
"Rutang, why don't we stop collecting small seafood? Can't we get up early and dig it ourselves? It's just tiring. It only takes about three months, so I'm not afraid."
Rutang had just calculated the cost, and Hao Mei had listened.
Collecting seafood costs more than ten yuan a day. If their whole family works together, it will be tiring, but they can still collect it, so why do they have to spend this money?
"If we dig it ourselves, we can save a little money, but it will be very tiring. If we work too long a day, we can easily make people sick from fatigue, but this is not the main reason." Rutang paused.
"Our village in Dali has been having a hard time these past few months. The production team has collapsed and there is no income from food. There is not much we can do to help. This little money at least gives everyone something to look forward to. Just get through this period."
Okay, when doing business, don’t think about forcing others to death. Where the path is narrow, stay one step away from others. Where the flavor is strong, take three points off for others to taste.”
"What are you talking about? It's so elegant...Yangzi, do you understand?"
"What she means is, don't always think about taking advantage of others, leave a good impression on everyone, and think of us first if there is an opportunity to cooperate next time."
The last sentence Rutang said came from "Cai Gen Tan". It was so literate that Yu Yaoyang didn't understand it, but considering the context, it was not difficult to guess the meaning.
"Many people in business think that being cunning is the fastest way to make money. They do everything possible to take advantage of others. In order to save a little money and gain credibility, they can make short-term profits. In the long run, transaction and trust costs will increase, and the gains outweigh the losses."
Rutang took out the business experience of her previous life and told it to Hao Mei. She believed that Yu Yaoyang had realized this a long time ago, just by watching him collect rice.
For aged rice, he charges a higher price than the market price. Farmers feel that they have taken advantage and are willing to cooperate with him. They will also come to him for other agricultural products in the future. It will be difficult for others to pry away his business.
"I seem to understand a little bit - but we dig our own seafood, and we don't take advantage of the villagers, right?" Hao Mei's understanding is not as good as these two, and what she is thinking about now is how to save 10 yuan a day.
Collect money for small seafood.
"You didn't take advantage of the fellow villagers, but did you take advantage of your own body? You saw it when we went to the hospital to see a doctor today. It only costs a few yuan to get some medicine for a checkup. This is still a minor illness.
Think about it, in order to save ten yuan, our family spends all day soaking in water, waking up early and staying up late at night. If we are tired, we will get sick. How much will it cost to cure it?"
Health is more important to Rutang than making money. Her business philosophy is completely different from Chen Guilan's. Chen Guilan only values immediate benefits, while Rutang and Yu Yaoyang value long-term development.
Hao Mei nodded repeatedly.
The atmosphere had already reached this point, so Rutang simply told her a little more deeply: "Don't be angry in the future, especially not with Chen Fu. Losing your temper will increase the risk of breast disease, and holding it in can lead to ovarian cysts.
If it develops further, it will be cancer. Do you calculate how much seafood our family has to sell to earn a healthy body?"
Hao Mei converted the money for medical treatment into small seafood, and suddenly felt that the past years were not worth it. The tears she shed for Chen Fusheng could pile up into a mountain of seafood!
Scumbag, not worth it!
With the guidance of Rutang, a caring little cotton-padded jacket, Hao Mei no longer got angry at all.
I moved into the lower house rented by Rutang and tidied it up a little. It was no worse than at home, but I was a little frustrated not being able to farm.
In the evening, Yu Yaoyang did not return to the village. Although the lower house he and Rutang rented only had one room, the enthusiastic Li Hua arranged for him to stay in the staff dormitory of the candy factory and play poker with a bunch of bachelors for half the night.
Tian Rutang turned around and went to the stall with Yu Yaoyang, leaving Hao Mei at home and asking her to study with Li Hua about reclaiming land and growing vegetables.
After working at the stall all day, she came back in the afternoon. Hao Mei was a little surprised. This question made her angry.
"How come this income is only half of yesterday's?!"
Isn’t it getting farther and farther away from a household worth ten thousand yuan?