Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 210

Zvezda Hydroelectric Power Station.

There are several houses on the roadside between the factory building and the family quarters.

In one of the rooms, there was a large wooden board with the three characters "Shop" written on it in brush.

These three big characters were handwritten by a technical secondary school student who came to Fang Hongqiu Hydropower Station last year.

People were coming in and out of the convenience store from time to time. Apparently it was the end of the year and the convenience store was doing good business.

"Mom, my classmate wants me to go to town with him. Please give me five dollars."

Fang Dadi rushed in from outside, lay on the wooden cabinet and stretched out his hand towards Fang's mother who was counting money behind the counter.

Fang's mother glared at him and said, "You asked for five dollars. Do you think our family prints money?"

"Our store is doing so well, it's impossible that we can't even come up with five dollars. Mom, do you think I'm a three-year-old kid that's so easy to fool?"

"The money earned from the store should be saved. Do you want to get married when you grow up?"

"I need to marry a wife in the future, but I also need money now."

Fang Dadi took advantage of Fang's mother's distraction and took a big unity from her hand when she was not paying attention.

After getting the money he wanted, he ran out quickly, waving to Fang's mother behind him, "You don't have to save my lunch."

After the people ran far away, Fang's mother finally reacted and her nose almost got crooked with anger.

She yelled at the door: "You better not go home tonight, or I'll ask your father to break your legs."

Fang Hong, who was counting the goods in the back, heard the noise and came out, "Mom, stop saying harsh words here. Saying a hundred harsh words is not as good as just beating him up once. Your harmless harsh words won't have any deterrent effect on him at all."

Fang's mother rolled her eyes at her. "What else can I do if I don't say harsh words? I can't beat him, so what else can I do besides saying harsh words?"

Fang Hong counted the goods at the back and realized that there was not much inventory. Now she was too lazy to care about these trivial matters and started talking about business.

"Business is good at the end of the year. The goods we bought last time are almost sold out. I'd better go get more goods tomorrow. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't have any goods to sell during the first month of the year."

"I don't have much money on hand, and I'm afraid it's not enough to pay for the goods. Last time I told you not to return the betrothal money to the Lin family kid, but you refused. Now, we don't have enough money to pay for the goods."

Fang Hong was very angry when she heard Fang's mother's complaints. "Mom, are you being unreasonable? I have told you many times why we should return it to him. The source of our goods is the eldest nephew of the Lin family. If we don't return the betrothal money, how can we get the goods from the Lin family's trading company when we are already in the wrong?"

"You guys are here to blame me now, why don't you just close this store? Anyway, we have offended the Lin family, and we don't know if we can get any goods from them."

"I just don't believe that there is no other store in the city that can get the goods except theirs." Fang's mother said stubbornly.

Fang Hong was too lazy to argue with her. She put away the list of goods and took out her small cloth bag from the container. "Li Hua asked me to go out and play. You go with him. You take care of the house."

Fang's mother laughed when she heard this. "Okay, I'll stay at home and look after the store. You guys can have fun. Also, remind him to see if you can get your brother a job at the hydropower station next year?"

"I know, I know. You're the only one who's nagging!" Fang Hong threw the cloth bag over her shoulder and walked out.

When she arrived at the agreed place, Li Hua and several of his frequent playmates were standing on a concrete dam and throwing earth cannons into a shallow puddle in the river.

The so-called homemade firecrackers are firecrackers made by some private workshops in the countryside. They are as big as a thumb and very powerful.

If you are not careful, it is easy to explode your hands.

Fang Hong was very afraid of this kind of firecrackers and stayed far away from them, not daring to go forward.

The fat man noticed Fang Hong, whistled at her frivolously, and turned to remind Li Hua: "Hua Zi, your girlfriend is here."

Li Hua threw the firecracker in his hand into the water, turned around and found Fang Hong waving at him.

Li Hua waved his hand and the others stopped setting off firecrackers.

Fang Hong walked up to Li Hua amid the noise of others, "Hua Zi, where are you going to play today?"

Li Hua had a cigarette between his lips and spoke in a very arrogant manner, "What fun places are there in this remote place? My buddy and I have agreed to use homemade cannons to fry fish today. Are you willing to come with us?"

Fang Hong liked his cool look and thought that only people from well-off families could be that cool.

People like Lin Gang, who come from rural areas, like to please others when they interact with them.

Lin Gang didn't know at this moment that the gentlemanly demeanor he displayed during his relationship with her was seen by Fang Hong as servile and spineless.

"The firecrackers are too loud, I'm a little scared. But with you by my side, Huazi, I feel safe, so I'm not that scared."

Several other gay men standing not far away almost burst out laughing.

To be honest, they really envied Huazi for being so charming and being able to seduce Lin Gang's girlfriend.

I just don’t know if Fang Hong will cheat again if she meets someone more powerful next time after she cheated once.

However, these were not what they should worry about. Besides, they didn't know whether Huazi was serious about Fang Hong.

Until they figure it out, they should take it easy.

Li Hua put his arm around Fang Hong's shoulders and signaled his companions to fry the fish quickly to see who could make the highest splash of water and catch the most fish.

Of course, during the fish frying, Fang Hong was so scared that she screamed repeatedly and went straight into Li Hua's arms. Holding such a warm and soft girl in his arms, Li Hua felt extremely happy.

The fat man pushed Gao Zi and said, "Hey, Hua Zi is so lucky. He must be so happy."

Although Gao Zi is in the same group as Li Hua, he can't stand Fang Hong.

He looked at the two people hugging each other and asked the fat man, "I heard that Lin Gang went home for the New Year. If he was on duty at the power station and saw them hugging each other, do you think he would be so angry that he would vomit blood?"

"It's useless to be angry." The fat man didn't have much sympathy and sneered, "Don't forget, Lin Gang has no one to back him up. How can he possibly win over Hua Zi?"

Gao Zi said: "I heard that the small shop opened by Fang Hong's family was funded by Lin Gang's family."

"Lin Gang came back after the Chinese New Year. How about we treat him to a drink to thank him for helping Fang Hong open the store? Fang Hong made money, so she had the money to support Hua Zixiaosha, and we also benefited from it."

The fat man felt sorry for Lin Gang for a second when he thought about how he had done something for others.

"Forget it. I'm afraid he will treat us as enemies and look for a fight with us." Gao Zi shook his head.

The fat man lit a firecracker and threw it into the water. With a bang, Fang Hong screamed and buried her head in Li Hua's arms.

Looking at the delicate and artificial Fang Hong, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's not necessarily a good thing for a woman to be beautiful. When we find a wife in the future, she must not be too outstanding. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to control her, and one day I will become a cuckold."

Gao Zi felt the same way. "That's right, that's right. My mother asked me to go on a blind date in the first month of the year. I will do what you asked me to do."

"Hua Zi and Fang Hong are having a hot relationship, but the director doesn't know that his beloved son is dating a country girl. If he knew, do you think he would agree?"

"I'm looking at Xuan!"

"Tsk, Fang Hong is really brave, she even dared to take such a gamble." The fat man whispered in Gao Zi's ear, "I heard that although Lin Gang's family is from the countryside, their family conditions are not bad. For a little power, Fang Hong kicked out such an excellent partner. What do you think, if there is no possibility for her and Hua Zi in the future, will she regret it?"

Lin Gang, who was the subject of their conversation, was forced by Lin Dashan and Lin Shu to give a brief account of the situation between him and Fang Hong.

Lin Shu looked him up and down and asked, "Where is the betrothal money that Fang Hong returned? Since it has been returned, should you give it back to your parents?"

Lin Gang was a mediocre person in his previous life, but now he has a formal job in this life. Lin Shu cannot guarantee that he will change.

Lin Shu was worried about him because she had to give him a large sum of money for the wedding gift, fearing that he would squander the money his parents had saved with great difficulty.

Lin Gang glared at Lin Shu, stood up, picked up the luggage bag on the bed next to him, took out a paper bag from the bag and handed it to Lin Dashan.

Needless to say, this should be the bride price.

Sure enough, when Lin Dashan opened the paper package, there was a thick stack of big unity notes inside.

"Fortunately, the girl had some shame. Even though she didn't want to be with you, she voluntarily returned the betrothal money." Lin Dashan was very grateful as he held a thick stack of big unity banknotes.

"Does she dare not to return?" Lin Shu sneered, "Don't forget that her store was opened with our help. Both in terms of funds and goods!"

Lin Dashan counted the money and put the newspaper back into the wallet.

Finally, he handed the money to Lin Shu, "It's not like being at home. It's not safe to keep money with you when you live outside. You should keep it for me."

Lin Shu glanced at Lin Gang and asked with a smile: "Dad, are you confident in me?"

Lin Dashan couldn't help laughing: "Why should you worry about this? You are the richest person in our family now. Would you still be greedy for our little money?"

Lin Shu smiled and shook his head, "Okay, leave the money with me for now."

Then, she looked at Lin Gang and said, "Today is the 28th. If you have nothing to do in the next two days, you can take some goods from my warehouse and set up a street stall."

When Lin Dashan heard this, he thought it was a good idea. "Youngest brother is right. Third brother, you have nothing to do these days anyway, why not go and set up a street stall for a few days?"

"Setting up a street stall? What are you selling?" Lin Gang looked at Lin Shu with an inquiring look.

"Daily necessities, hardware and department stores, etc. It's the end of the year, and the street stall business is really good. It's easy to make a hundred or eighty yuan a day."

Lin Gang was a little unconvinced: "A hundred or eighty? Don't fool me!"

One hundred and eighty?

Is money so easy to make?

You have to know that his monthly salary is only thirty or forty yuan, but he can earn one hundred or eighty yuan a day by setting up a street stall in the provincial capital. Isn't that faster than picking up money?

Lin Shu said unhappily, "It's up to you to go or not. What do you have that's worth my deceiving you?"

Lin Dashan raised his hand and slapped him, "Listen to the youngest one. You don't know, everyone I know in the provincial capital is working hard to make money. Especially the Gu family, there is a young man named Youhui, who opened a store after setting up a stall for a few months before the New Year last year. Now he is the boss of several stores."

"Is setting up a stall really so profitable?" Lin Gang was skeptical.

Whether he believed it or not, he was taken to the warehouse by Lin Dashan early the next morning and bought a lot of goods from the warehouse keeper.

Then, Lin Dashan accompanied him to the street and chose an open space with more traffic to set up the place.

Before the table was completely set up, someone came up and picked up a fruit knife and asked the price: "Boss, how much is this knife?"

"Well...wait a minute, let me take a look..."

Lin Gang picked up the purchase book and found the purchase price of the knife, 1.2 yuan. "This fruit knife is 1.5 yuan each. No receipt required."

"Can it be less?"

Lin Gang was about to refuse the bargain.

Lin Dashan spoke before him, "You can get a fifty-cent discount on all items over ten yuan."

"Only fifty cents off for orders over ten yuan." Although the customer said this with a hint of disdain, his eyes kept looking around the stall.

I guess he wanted to see if there were any products he needed.

"How do you sell lunch boxes?"

Lin Dashan brought over the stainless steel insulation box. "This is an insulation lunch box. It has a lot of space inside. It can hold rice, soup, or porridge. It's very convenient for sending meals to your family."

Lin Dashan opened the lunch box and showed him what was inside. There were two smaller bowls inside, which could hold the rice and dishes separately.

The customer had never seen such an exquisite lunch box before, and when he asked the price, he found out it was only five dollars.

It just so happens that his wife is about to give birth, and when she gives birth in the hospital, this lunch box can be used to deliver meals to his wife.

"I want this insulated lunch box, and give me a matching stainless steel spoon."

"Okay, the insulated lunch box is five yuan, the fruit knife is one dollar and fifty cents, and the stainless steel spoon is eighty cents. The total is seven yuan and thirty cents, and with the fifty cents discount, it's six yuan and eighty cents."

Lin Dashan completed his first business deal and waited for the customer to pay and then left.

He turned around and saw Lin Gang still standing there in a daze. He was so angry that he yelled at him: "You little bastard, the stall is not even set up yet, what are you standing there in a daze for? Hurry up and put the goods out!"

"Oh oh oh, okay!"

Lin Gang came back to his senses in shock. He never knew that an honest and simple old farmer would one day trick passers-by into buying things.

This is seriously inconsistent with the image of his father.

In order to boost Lin Gang's confidence, Lin Dashan walked up to him and whispered, "The purchase price of the insulated lunch box just now was four yuan, the spoon was fifty cents, and the fruit knife was one dollar and twenty cents. Can you calculate how much we earned just now?"

As Lin Gang was displaying the goods, he calculated in his mind: "The cost was 5.7 yuan, and the customer paid 6.8 yuan, which means we made a net profit of 1.1 yuan."

One order is one dollar and one cent, ten orders are eleven dollars, so one hundred orders is one hundred and one cent, right?

Lin Gang was shocked by his own algorithm. When he came to his senses, he saw passers-by being attracted by his stall.

At the beginning, it was Lin Dashan who was shouting, and gradually Lin Gang also let go.

He started to cooperate with Lin Dashan. They each took care of a part of the stall and greeted the nearest customers. They really made business.

At the beginning, the number of orders completed was small, and Lin Gang would calculate how much he earned on each order.

Gradually, as the number of customers increased, the two of them became too busy to handle it, and Lin Gang had no time to calculate how much he had earned.

The street stall business was good, so at noon, Lin Dashan and Lin Gang took a break to eat a steamed bun. After filling their stomachs, they started to get busy again.

Finally, the goods on the stall were almost sold out around three in the afternoon, with only some small commodities left.

The father and son picked up the few small commodities left on the stall, packed up and went home.

"Dad, how much do you think we made today?"

On the way back, Lin Gang asked Lin Dashan impatiently.

After all, the canvas bag containing the money is now on Lin Dashan's back.

"I estimate at least a hundred."

Lin Dashan had never set up a street stall, so the number he reported was just a guess.

Lin Gang urged excitedly, "Hurry up, let's go back and count. If we make a lot, we can get more goods tomorrow and sell them until the evening before going home. Wouldn't that mean we can make more money?"