90s Little Struggle

Chapter 51 soliciting customers
Zhao Laosi is very satisfied with his current life: "It's not bad, we can earn a net 50 yuan a day."

This day can be worth ten days when he went to work in someone else's house.

For those of their generation who can endure hardship, it is much easier to open a shop than to plan food in the ground.

They really didn't feel tired and hard.

Therefore, when there were no customers in the afternoon, he still started to make bamboo strips, making some rattan baskets and sieves and selling them in the store. It would be a little more.

At this rate, the borrowed money will be repaid during the Chinese New Year.

Thinking about it this way makes life more exciting.

Seeing Xiao Hong frowning slightly, he quickly added: "Don't worry, the braised chicken will be sold out at noon, and the account book is in the drawer."

Before the store opened, the family agreed that all the money earned from selling the stewed chicken would belong to Xiao Hong, so even if the profit of the stewed chicken was good and the sales were good, they didn't think badly about it, and they kept it on account.

And if she hadn't taught them how to stew pig's head and do business, they really didn't expect that this food business could make so much money.

Therefore, he was grateful to Xiao Hong from the bottom of his heart, and he was not blinded by money, and wanted to covet her money.

In fact, at this time, most of the money earned by unmarried and unmarried young people is handed over to their parents.

If Xiao Hong was still at Xiao's house, Xiao Jianhua would definitely take the money he earned.

But it's different now, she just came to join her mother and stepfather this year, they think Xiao Hong is smart and capable, and can make money, so they already treat her as an adult in their hearts.

He was also worried that she would feel that they were looking at her money, so naturally she let her manage the money herself.

But Xiao Hong is now wondering: "This turnover is about the same as before school started?"

She chose to open a shop here in order to earn money from her high school classmates.

It now appears that this plan has clearly failed.

Xiao Fang also nodded: "Yes, not many students come here to eat dumplings."

She had discovered this problem a long time ago, but seeing that she was concentrating on studying, she didn't talk about it.

Anyway, in Xiao Fang's view, the family is earning a lot of money now, and it's rare to see Xiao Hong studying so hard, so don't mention these trivial things to her.

Now their most important task is to study hard.

But Xiao Hong didn't want to let go of the opportunity to roll wool. Her eyes fell on Zhao Laosi's hand, and she came up with an idea: "Uncle, can you make a small steamer?"

Seeing the size drawn by her gestures, Zhao Laosi was puzzled: "Is it so small that it's useless? You can only steam one bun?"

"It's getting cold, I want to try steamed dumplings."

Xiao Hong also had an idea: "After steaming in this way, it can be sent to the school gate to sell at meal time, and the heat preservation time will be long."

"Even if it can't be sold out, you can still sell it to the customers in the store when you bring it back."

After finishing speaking, I was a little depressed: "If our family is not good at making steamed buns, Xiaolongbao will sell better."

"Xiao Hong, you have a really good brain." Seeing that she had come up with a good idea again, Zhao Lao Si cooperated very well: "I'll start making a small steamer right now."

After working for more than two hours, he finally made a small steamer before dinner according to Xiao Hong's request.

Xiao Hong cut a straw mat and put it in the steamer, put ten dumplings on it and started steaming.

After 10 minutes, the steamed dumplings were placed on the table.

Now they own a dumpling shop and a lo-mei shop, and they want their children to be healthy, so they can eat some good ones, so they don't really want to eat dumplings anymore.

After Zhao Laosi picked up a steamed dumpling and ate it, his eyes lit up: "The steamed dumpling is more chewy."

Yanyan hurriedly agreed: "Yes, this is better than boiled dumplings."

Xiao Hong was quite satisfied after tasting it: "Uncle, make more steamers..."

After finishing talking, she thought it would take time to do this, so she changed her mind: "Let grandpa and the others help with this. Prepare a hundred or so steamers first, and then take some to sell at the school gate."

"After they eat, they will automatically come to the door in the future."

Xiao Fang also nodded: "That's a good idea. Steamed dumplings are delicious, much better than rice."

Resident students eat steamed rice for three meals a day. Those who are willing to go to the cafeteria to buy a la carte, but those who are not, have dried prunes for every meal.

It's really unappetizing.

If she could buy delicious dumplings at the school gate, she also felt that students with some pocket money would be willing to buy them.

Waited until Monday morning.

After the morning self-study, Xiao Hong greeted the students before they got up: "Xinning, we treat you to steamed dumplings this morning."

Her voice was crisp, and the students in front booed when they heard it: "Oh, Xiao Hong, why did you invite Xinning to eat dumplings?"

Although the schoolwork is tight in the third year of high school, this does not affect the students' love of gossip.

Especially for men and women of this age, it is easy to fall in love with Mo personally.

In their class, there are a few pairs of students who see each other and are a little ambiguous.

Now all the students in the class stopped and looked at them curiously.

Xiao Hong originally wanted to take the opportunity to advertise, so she said very generously: "My family runs a dumpling shop, and my parents sell dumplings at the school gate?"

Xiao Fang on the side looked at her in admiration, but she couldn't tell if it was her, she always felt embarrassed, as if she was pulling her classmates to buy her own dumplings.

Xu Xinning glanced at Xiao Fang who was blushing, and then looked at Xiao Hong who was calm and composed, but he was very cooperative: "Okay, your dumplings are delicious, I was thinking about them?"

Several male students shouted: "Then I will go too, I don't want to eat at all in the morning."

At this moment, Zhao Laosi was already waiting at the school gate.

He also borrowed a tricycle from the Huang family next door, which was full of small steamers with fifty baskets of steaming steamed dumplings.

When the school gate opened, the day students rushed out, looked at it curiously, and then went home playing with their classmates as before.

Zhao Laosi wanted to say something, but he couldn't say the words 'sell steamed dumplings'.

Fortunately, Xiao Hong and the others came out at this time.

Xiao Hong first lifted the lid of the small steamer, so that everyone could see the pink dumplings, and greeted the students generously: "Steamed dumplings cost [-] cents a basket. If they don't taste good, you don't need money. If you have a small appetite, you can buy them together. One cage."

"Today, the steamer can be taken away and eaten before being sent out. From tomorrow onwards, students will have to bring their own lunch boxes to pack the steamed dumplings."

"It smells so good!" A male classmate took a deep breath, and readily took out [-] cents and handed it to her: "Give me a basket too."

Zhao Laosi hurriedly handed him a cage as well.

Xu Xinning stood there holding a small steamer, and started eating with chopsticks without shyness, and asked a few male students who walked close to take a steamed dumpling from his own steamer to taste.

Nowadays, people don't think it's inappropriate to eat outside.

Many people who bought steamed dumplings drove around the tricycle to eat.

The students who came out from behind saw it, and some people followed to buy it.

Now, the students who had breakfast with plum dried vegetables in their lunch boxes couldn’t eat anymore after seeing it, and some of them started to buy a basket together for two to eat.

Xiao Hong took the opportunity to point everyone to her storefront: "My store is right there. When it rains, everyone will go to the store to eat. Does it still have vinegar and seasoning?"

(End of this chapter)