fringe artist

Chapter 108 106. Listen to me thank you
On the street in the evening, the voices of vendors hawking and bargaining can be heard endlessly.

Chen Li'an held an apple in his hand and took a bite. The flesh was sweet, crisp and juicy.

At a news stop on the side of the road, Qiao Mulin and the newsstand owner were rummaging through the newspapers and magazines from the previous two months.

The newsstand man wearing presbyopic glasses flipped through for a while and took out a magazine from a pile of magazines. He took a closer look and said, "I found it. Very few people buy this magazine. Last time I bought five copies, it was sold out." Three."

Qiao Linmu immediately leaned over and glanced at Chen Li'an, who was eating an apple, and asked, "Is it called World Art?"

"Well, there are my reports on it." Chen Li'an glanced at it, and then he didn't care, he didn't read those magazines himself.

In contrast, Chen Li'an was more interested in the recent issues of Yangcheng Daily, which reported on the proliferation of pirated CDs.

what does that mean?It means business opportunities!
Last year, the sales volume of VCDs nationwide was only over [-]. The high price was one of the reasons for the poor sales, and the other reason was that there were too few CDs.

If you don’t have a movie to watch at home, who will buy it? It’s not worth it to buy a genuine CD at such a high price.

VCD wants to enter thousands of households, what is missing is such an opportunity.

Chen Li'an and Qiao Linmu were in front of the newsstand, one reading the newspaper and the other reading a magazine.

The newsstand owner looked at him and knocked on the table with dissatisfaction and said, "Give me the money first and then read!"

The fascinated Chen Li'an finally realized it, and took out ten yuan from his pocket and handed it to the boss.

"It's not enough, it's still two yuan and two. That magazine is in full color." The boss said while helping his reading glasses.

Chen Li'an: "..." It's really expensive, no wonder it can't be sold!
After making another two yuan to the boss, Chen Li'an rolled up the newspaper, looked at Qiao Linmu and said, "Second Uncle, let's read it when we go home."

Qiao Linmu looked up at Chen Li'an, and nodded with a complicated expression.

There was a report about Chen Li'an in the magazine, this kid really became an artist.

A child who was so mischievous and mischievous when he was young, why does he suddenly feel that he doesn't know him?

artist alas...

Does the old Chen family still have this gene?Qiao Linmu touched his round chin with his chubby hand, and after thinking for a long time, he decided that it should be the gene of the old Qiao family!

When I was young, I was also an artistic youth!

Thinking of the suspicion in Qiao Linmu's eyes, he turned into relief. He patted Chen Li'an's shoulder with his chubby palm and said, "That's right, I inherited the talent from the old Qiao family."

Three question marks appeared on Chen Li'an's forehead. If I remember correctly, none of Old Qiao's family has artistic talent.

But looking at the happy Qiao Linmu, Chen Li'an just smiled, making the elders happy shouldn't be.

After the two returned home, Qiao Linmu happily ran to the kitchen with the magazine in hand.

"Linlin, your brother is in a magazine, he's really an artist." Qiao Linmu opened the magazine in his hand and handed it to Qiao Xiulin, "Look, everyone says that Li'an is an up-and-coming artist."

Qiao Xiulin hummed calmly, then poured the prawns into the hot water. She had read these magazines a long time ago, and Chen Li'an often talked with her on the phone.

After Qiao Linmu shared the good news, he said with some disappointment: "I wish I had learned to draw at the beginning. I blame your grandpa when I was in elementary school. When I was in elementary school, the teacher praised me for being talented."

Qiao Xiulin, who was fiddling with the prawns, glanced at Qiao Linmu, who was happy and regretful, and moved her lips, but she still didn't say the leaking words to hurt her old father's heart.

Chen Li'an leaned over to look at the gradually turning red prawns in the pot and asked, "Sister, let me help you."

"You don't need to wait, the last dish is served." Qiao Xiuling urged two men, one in the kitchen and the other standing at the door, please wait outside and don't get in the way.

Chen Li'an glanced around in the kitchen, and found that there was indeed nothing to cook, so he dragged his second uncle out.

Sitting on the sofa in the living room, he asked him: "Auntie is not at home, how about a drink tonight?"

Qiao Linmu nodded emotionally, then picked up the newspaper that Chen Li'an had put on the coffee table before, and asked, "What happened to the VCD you mentioned earlier?"

Chen Li'an opened a box of wine from the side of the sofa, and said: "Make money, you can tell by reading the newspaper yourself, now that pirated discs are so rampant, what it means, you should know better than me, you have been in business for many years .”

Qiao Linmu opened the newspaper and glanced at it. After a few minutes, he raised his head to look at Chen Li'an, and said with some doubts: "I didn't expect you to know how to do business. This is indeed a very good business opportunity, but now VCD manufacturers Not a lot."

Chen Li'an unscrewed the bottle cap, sniffed it, frowned and said, "Although there are many manufacturers, there are not many truly competitive competitors. As long as the price of the machine is low, the quality is good, and we are willing to spend money on advertising, we can take the opportunity to occupy Not a small market."

Qiao Linmu glanced at Chen Li'an angrily, snatched the bottle from him, sniffed it himself, a smile suddenly appeared on his chubby little face, then swallowed and said, "It's easy for you to say, but these Which one is easy to do?"

Chen Li'an said with a playful smile: "Second Uncle, these things are not difficult for you, right? I believe in Second Uncle! I will pay for it and you will work hard. Let us earn seven or eight small goals for him!"

"Small target?"

Qiao Linmu didn't understand the meaning of the small target, but he could hear Chen Li'an's intention to work hard for himself, and couldn't help cursing: "You are here to recruit me, right? Let me work for you!"

"How can it be considered a part-time job? A partnership. If you are the boss, I'll just follow behind and drink some soup." Chen Li'an said with some distress: "You asked me to engage in an art business. I'm really not good at business."

Thinking about Chen Li'an's eloquent appearance just now, Qiao Linmu said angrily: "I think you are quite good at it! Now you are richer than me, and have more talent than you in painting."

"I really can't do it, I don't have time, and I still have to go to school." Chen Li'an knew how much money he had, and he probably could find the wrong money when he opened a supermarket, so he just had to think about it when doing business.

"Let me think about this matter, and I will investigate it later."

Qiao Linmu didn't expect Chen Li'an to do business either. The artist said it would be a face-saving thing. Throwing a brick in Yangcheng can kill a bunch of small bosses these days.

Artists are scarce. In Qiao Linmu's mind, cultural people have a much higher status than businessmen.

After a while, Qiao Xiulin came out of the kitchen and shouted, "It's time to eat."

"coming!"

Chen Lin'an immediately ran to the kitchen to help serve the dishes. The dishes tonight were very good, including boiled prawns, roast goose, steamed sea bass and a boiled chicken.

All meat dishes, Chen Lian likes it very much!
After sitting at the dinner table, Qiao Xiulin picked up a piece of roast goose for Chen Li'an and said, "Try how it tastes, I made a detour to buy it."

"Delicious!" Chen Li'an said as he put the roast goose in his mouth and took a bite.

"Eat more if it's delicious."

Qiao Xiulin smiled and put the plate of roast goose in front of Chen Li'an, and the goose head that Qiao Linmu had just picked up fell onto the plate again after such a movement.

Qiao Linmu: "."

Chen Li'an had a very happy meal at night, Qiao Linmu was not very happy at first, but after the wine was poured, he also became happy. Finally, his wife was not at home, and his daughter ignored him for the sake of face, but he drank well.

The drunk Qiao Linmu sat on the sofa, patted Chen Li'an's thigh and said with his tongue, "Li'an, you are promising now, uncle is very happy!"

Chen Li'an, who was talking to his cousin, hummed perfunctorily, then looked at Qiao Xiulin and asked, "Sister, have you always planned to be a teacher in school?"

Qiao Xiulin took a sip of tea and said, "Well, it suits me very leisurely."

"Then I don't see you looking for someone." Before Chen Li'an could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Qiao Linmu.

"Let me tell you, you must get married quickly and continue the incense for your old Chen family, or I will be sorry for my brother-in-law." Qiao Linmu suddenly put his arm around Chen Li'an's shoulder and chattered: "You don't know, when you When mom married your dad, I wouldn't even agree to it."

Chen Li'an and Qiao Xiulin looked at each other, and they both smiled helplessly. They couldn't drink and they liked to show off. Once they drank too much, they became like Tang Monk.

Chen Li'an and Qiao Xiulin had no choice but to simply scrub the nagging alcoholic and send him back to his room to sleep.

"Huh..." Chen Li'an shook his hands and said, "Second Uncle should lose weight, it's almost one hundred and eighty."

"My mother told him to lose weight every day, but he didn't listen." Qiao Xiulin put a glass of water by the bed, then looked at Chen Li'an and said, "You are tired too, go to bed early tonight, and I will take you out for a stroll tomorrow."

Chen Li'an also drank a lot, nodded and said, "Okay, I'm really a little tired."

"In the second bedroom next to you, I changed the sheets and quilts." Qiao Xiulin went to get a new towel and toothbrush, and said with some disgust: "Hurry up and wash it, it smells like alcohol, don't drink in the future. "

Chen Li'an pursed his lips, he knew what it was like for his second uncle to be controlled by two women.

In the future, I will kill you and not get married!
The next morning, as soon as Chen Li'an got up, he heard the voice of his second uncle admitting his mistake and begging for mercy from the living room.

"I really only drank a little bit, not too much, Lianfei dragged me to drink it!"

The second aunt who just got off the night shift in the living room said with a stern face: "Li'an is so old, he can pull you to drink! I think you want to drink!"

Chen Li'an, who originally wanted to go out to wash his face and brush his teeth to say hello, immediately shrank his neck when he heard this, and lay back under the covers to continue sleeping.

The second aunt's fighting power is too strong, so I better not go out and be a target, wait for her to sleep and feel better before going out to be good.

After about half an hour, the outside became quiet again. Only then did Chen Li'an get up from the bed, and carefully opened the door to take a look.

"Come out, your aunt is sleeping." Qiao Lin Musheng sat on the sofa unrequitedly, regretting why he had to drink last night.

Qiao Xiulin, who was sitting at the dining table, saw Chen Li'an shouting, "Go brush your teeth and wash your face, and come over to eat."

Without the threat of his aunt, Chen Li'an felt much more at ease. After brushing his teeth and washing his face quickly, he sat down at the dining table and had breakfast.

"How many days are you going to stay this time?" Qiao Xiulin asked while biting the custard bun.

"Two or three days." Chen Li'an paused and said, "There are still things to do in the capital, and it will be busy later."

Qiao Linmu, who had already finished his breakfast, came over and asked, "Two or three days? I'm going to take you to inspect the market. What do you think about the VCD?"

Chen Li'an swallowed the shrimp dumpling in his mouth and said, "I think it's really possible to make it, but I really don't understand it. I'll just drink some soup."

"How much are you going to invest?" Qiao Linmu asked after pulling out his chair and sitting down.

"I don't know, how much does it cost to open a factory?" Chen Li'an really doesn't understand at all, he only knows that VCD will be very popular in the next few years.

Looking at his big nephew, Qiao Linmu couldn't even scold him if he wanted to. He dared to trick him into starting a factory without knowing anything!

"I really don't know what to say about you!" Qiao Linmu sighed, and then said, "I'll investigate first myself, and I'll tell you when I have a plan. Don't even think about investing how much money, save money to buy Getting a wife in the house is the business."

"Oh." Chen Li'an responded. He was planning to buy a house, but he didn't plan to marry a wife. He couldn't tell the second uncle about this, otherwise he should educate himself.

After breakfast, Chen Li'an went out with his cousin. There was nothing interesting in Yangcheng, but there were a lot of delicious food.

Chen Li'an ate all the way, Qiao Xiulin bought all the way, and bought everything for Chen Li'an, including seven or eight T-shirts for summer.

Chen Li'an was carrying big and small bags, and felt that his arms were about to no longer belong to him.

"Sister, it's okay if we don't buy it, I'll buy it myself later." Chen Li'an couldn't take it anymore, and looked at Qiao Xiulin begging for mercy.

Qiao Xiulin looked at the dozen or so bags in Chen Li'an's hands, hesitated and said, "I'm going to buy you a few more pairs of shoes. You are alone in the capital and you don't have anyone to take care of you."

"That doesn't need so many, these clothes are enough for me to wear for several years."

"Okay then, let's get here first."

Qiao Xiulin was a little disappointed. The shopping desire that had just been ignited just disappeared. How long has it been shopping? Her cousin is not good either. What will happen if she finds a girlfriend in the future.

Qiao Xiulin, who was a bit depressed, took Chen Li'an home, and was going to come out tomorrow to continue!
In the next two days, Qiao Linmu went out early and returned late every day to investigate the market, while Chen Li'an was dragged out by Qiao Xiulin to go shopping every day, as if he wanted to buy everything he would wear for a lifetime.

Being dragged out by Qiao Xiulin to go shopping for two days in a row, Chen Li'an really felt that he had to find a boyfriend for his cousin as soon as possible, he couldn't hurt his younger brother!
"Sister, you should find a boyfriend and let your boyfriend go shopping with you." Chen Li'an sat on the stone pier exhaustedly and looked at Qiao Xiulin and said.

Qiao Xiulin frowned and said, "I don't plan to find a boyfriend, love is the most useless thing."

Chen Li'an: "." My cousin's values ​​are very similar to mine, it's hard not to agree!

"Then you should find a girlfriend, the one who can go shopping with you, even a male girlfriend if you can't, just in case something sparks." Chen Li'an suggested.

Qiao Xiulin pulled her hair and said, "No need, I don't like shopping, this time I'm shopping for you."

Chen Li'an: "Listen to me and thank you."

　There will be another chapter later, I will start working today, it is so miserable!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)