A 1970s mom raises a cute baby, and a crazy boss spoils her

This money is all I earned in the past few days.

Nearly ten thousand dollars.

Zhong Zijun couldn't stop smiling, all her tiredness was swept away, and she looked radiant in an instant.

"I never thought that a small grocery store could make so much money in just a few days after school started." Gu Lanting said with emotion.

This number was within Gu Qinghuan's expectations and she was not surprised at all.

Zhong Zijun's grocery store has now officially gained a foothold.

You will make money in the future anyway.

Zhong Zijun divided the money into three parts: "Here, this is for you. You have been busy following me these days and it has been hard."

"I don't want it, just keep it." Gu Lanting didn't need anything else except living expenses.

“I don’t want it either, this shop is owned by you.

"When you become bigger and stronger, I will invest in you and you can give me dividends!" said Gu Qinghuan.

Zhong Zijun thought, they were her own children anyway, it would be the same if she gave them what they needed when they needed it.

The small success of this grocery store gave her great courage and encouragement.

After school started, the grocery store business gradually calmed down.

The flow of people gradually stabilized, and the situation was better than she had originally expected. The grocery store's net income basically remained stable at more than 30 yuan a day, and even more than 50 yuan on weekends.

Calculated in this way, the monthly income is about 1,000 yuan, and the annual income can reach more than 10,000 yuan, which is a very considerable figure.

Adding the annual welcome ceremony for new students and the high income during the first few days of a new semester, I can earn more than 20,000 yuan a year.

Zhong Zijun took over the undeveloped Feng Shui site of Huaqing, and he was the first person to try it out.

After school started, Gu Lanting and Gu Qinghuan came less often.

On the contrary, Wang Qingchuan often came to help her, looking after the store, moving things and so on.

Gu Qinghuan found a nanny at the beginning of the year, so Wang Xiaowei's work is much easier now. When she is free, she will come to the grocery store to help Zhong Zijun.

Wang Xiaowei mainly comes during the day, while Wang Qingchuan mainly comes in the evening after class. Both of them are hardworking and efficient, and have helped Zhong Zijun a lot.

Zhong Zijun would not treat them unfairly and would give them extra wages.

When doing business, it is difficult to find someone who is truly willing to help you. Fortunately, these two people know me well.

Wang Qingchuan and Wang Xiaowei are somewhat related. They are relatives within the fifth degree of mourning.

With their help, Zhong Zijun can still work and live a fulfilling life.

After a long wait.

Gu Qinghuan’s two luxury houses were finally restored.

Qiu Shan asked her to come over to collect the room.

Stepping into this ancient courtyard, it feels like traveling through time and space and returning to that distant era.

The blue bricks and gray tiles are simple and elegant, and every detail reveals the traces of time and the weight of history.

The courtyard is shaded by green trees, clusters of flowers, singing birds and fragrant flowers, giving people a sense of tranquility and harmony.

The sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves and falls on the ground, forming mottled light and shadows, adding a bit of vitality and vigor to the courtyard.

Walking into the house, you will see carved beams and painted buildings, full of ancient charm.

The furniture is elegant and generous, and every detail reveals the owner's taste and cultivation.

Every detail was taken care of, restoring the two houses to their former grandeur.

Gu Qinghuan was naturally extremely satisfied with Qiu Shan's craftsmanship and readily paid the balance of the project.

In the future, the house will need regular maintenance every year and will still need help.

He also helped introduce an experienced gardener who specialized in maintaining the garden. It was said that the gardener's ancestors had once taken care of the imperial garden for the emperor, and his skills were very good.

Gu Qinghuan, who was in charge of the garden, was very satisfied and paid generously.

Gu Qinghuan does not plan to live in these two houses. They need special people to maintain and clean them regularly, which is equivalent to raising two money-eating beasts. Fortunately, her current financial resources can still support it.

Although she collects a lot of rent every year, her current expenses are also not small, including the various maintenance expenses of the two large houses and the various expenses of leading her own team. Fortunately, research expenses can be subsidized.

But in the long run, her wallet is starting to feel overwhelmed. It seems she has to find a way to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

She still remembers vividly the hardships she experienced in starting a business in her previous life, and she really doesn't want to work so hard in this life.

Then just lie down, make others work hard, and fulfill yourself, how wonderful it is.

This year, Gu Qinghuan supported the people around him and gradually embarked on the road of entrepreneurship. As an investor, he only needed to own shares.

Zhong Zijun's small grocery store earned her her first pot of gold and also made her realize the potential of self-service supermarkets.

Unable to contain her excitement and not satisfied with her current small-scale operations, she decided to give it a try and open a large self-service supermarket in Beijing.

But in this case, she would have to resign.

Zhong Zijun actually wanted to resign because ever since she opened the grocery store, some high-minded people always talked about her behind her back.

People said she was not doing her job properly. She actually knew that a teacher was doing these improper things, but she just didn't want to break up with them.

This time I took this opportunity to resign.

Ji Linhai fully and unconditionally supports her. People of their age just want to live comfortably and happily for the rest of their lives.

If you are not happy doing this, just stop doing it.

Children like Gu Qinghuan and Gu Lanting would not say anything.

Spend your own money, do what you want to do, and become who you want to be. This kind of life is really cool.

Gu Lanting feels that his mother is his role model.

Not only did Gu Qinghuan not stop her, he also looked up information from later generations, sorted it out, and gave her many highly feasible suggestions and plans, both in terms of business and management.

The investment in a self-service supermarket is huge. Once it suffers losses, it may be difficult for her to get back on her feet.

I hope she can really do it well. After all, this is not like a grocery store, it's just a small business.

If Zhong Zijun wants to open a self-service supermarket, he has to let go of the grocery store business first and free up his hands.

Finally, she thought of Wang Xiaowei. After several years of hard work, this girl has become calm and capable, gentle and polite, and treats people well.

And when I usually help her here, I basically know everything about her store, including the stocking, prices, and everything.

If Wang Xiaowei could help her run the store, she could completely free herself to do other things.

With the addition of Wang Qingchuan, who can often come to help when he doesn’t have classes, the store is able to operate smoothly.

So Zhong Zijun mentioned this matter to Gu Qinghuan.

Gu Qinghuan had no objection, and the current nanny at home was also suitable. In fact, she sometimes wondered what Wang Xiaowei’s future should be.

She couldn't keep someone as her nanny for life, could she? She was still so young.

But besides being a nanny, what else can she do? Can it be better than now?

This is a great opportunity for her. Only by stepping out first can she slowly find her way forward.

Gu Qinghuan cannot make decisions for others.

So Zhong Zijun discussed this matter with Wang Xiaowei in person.

“Xiao Wei, you have been helping out in the store during this period. I think you have done a great job and everything is in order.

I want to hire you as a salesperson in the store and take full charge of all the affairs of the store. Are you willing?"

Wang Xiaowei was anxious and waved her hands quickly: "I can't do it, and Sister Qinghuan still needs me..."

In fact, she was a little moved.

After all, she is a young girl who has been working as a nanny at home in the past few years. She goes back and forth between home and the vegetable market, and occasionally goes to school to pick up the children.

Apart from being with Gu Qinghuan and the others, she had almost no social interaction and no time to make friends, which was indeed a bit cruel to her.

It's just that she is a hard-working person, so she doesn't think it's a big deal.

During the time she went to help Zhong Zijun, she was able to come into contact with those lively college students every day and talk with people of her own age. She felt that she had become a better person.

Although she was tempted, she still refused.

When she returned to her hometown during the Chinese New Year, her parents knew about Gu Qinghuan's care and help for her, and they told her not to be ungrateful and to be a person who repays kindness.

She was full of gratitude, and everything she had today was because of Gu Qinghuan.

In fact, she was already prepared to be Gu Qinghuan's nanny for the rest of her life, as long as she needed her.

Zhong Zijun felt a lump in her throat, and was somewhat moved by the child's simplicity.

"Silly girl, I only asked you because your sister Qing Huan agreed. You are still young and you can't be a nanny for the rest of your life.

In the past, you were with Yan Qing, you had no choice, but now that the child is older and in the red education class, you can try to go out."

Wang Xiaowei said in surprise and timidity: "Is it possible? But I'm afraid I can't do it well."

“You’re actually very smart and hardworking, and you’ve helped me a lot during this time, so I think you’ll be fine.

If there is anything you don’t understand, I will teach you. I will protect you, so what are you afraid of?

Besides, don't you ask me how much I'm going to give you?" Zhong Zijun teased her with a mysterious look on his face.

Wang Xiaowei said a little embarrassedly: "I am very grateful that you can give me a chance, and I know you will not treat me unfairly."

Zhong Zijun smiled brightly.

"Haha, you're smart.

I plan to give you 80 yuan first, and then increase it later as appropriate."

"what!?"

Wang Xiaowei opened her mouth in surprise.

Eighty dollars, that's too much!

If she had known this earlier, Zhong Zijun's previous salary at Huaqing was only slightly better than this.

Her previous salary was fifty yuan, which she already felt was a lot.

In fact, Zhong Zijun had also thought it over carefully. If you doubt someone, don't employ him, and if you employ someone, don't doubt him. It would be difficult to find someone else around her to do this.

"Don't worry, there must be a reason for giving this salary.

Although the grocery store is small, there is a lot to do. You have to communicate with suppliers, contact delivery staff, move goods, stock the goods, watch the store, check out, and keep accounts. These tasks basically have to be done by yourself in the future, which is indeed not easy.

You have to believe that your efforts are worth the price!"

After Zhong Zijun said so much, Wang Xiaowei naturally accepted it.

"I don't know how to thank you. Anyway, I will do my best."

The matter was settled just like that.

Gu Qinghuan told Wang Xiaowei that she could continue to live at home. After all, the mother and son were only using a small room in the front, and the house was so big that it wouldn’t affect anything.

But Wang Xiaowei is a principled person. After all, she no longer works for others, but she still shamelessly lives in someone else's house, which causes too much trouble.

So she rented a small bungalow in a nearby village, which was not far away.

In addition, Zhong Zijun also discussed the work-study program with Wang Qingchuan.

Whenever Wang Qingchuan has time, he goes to the store to help out, mainly doing physical work. He can arrange his own time and has more freedom. He is paid 20 yuan a month.

In fact, this is also a disguised way of supporting him.

He was embarrassed to give him money directly. This method could not only help the store solve the labor problem, but also allow him to get paid through his own labor, which made him feel at ease.

Wang Qingchuan naturally agreed.

With a monthly labor cost of 100 yuan, the store still makes a profit, and Zhong Zijun can also rest assured to do other things.

She quickly selected a new address in the most prosperous area in the city center with a lot of traffic and residents.

Coincidentally, the house chosen this time was Xiao Fengying's storefront, which had already been rented out and she didn't care much about it.

The tenants thought she was easy to talk to and had no shortage of money, so they recently united and tried to challenge her to reduce the rent, threatening her with collective rent refusal.

Is Xiao Fengying the kind of person who needs these little things? Once she got angry, she simply refused to rent the house and told everyone to go wherever they like.

So several rooms in this row became vacant.

Zhong Zijun just happened to like these houses. After asking around, she found out that they were Xiao Fengying's houses. What a coincidence.

Given the relationship between the two families, Xiao Fengying let her use the house without saying anything and she didn't have to pay any money.

Of course, Zhong Zijun was not a person who was greedy for small profits, so she paid the rent directly according to the market price. She just told Xiao Fengying that she had to change the layout of the house before she could use it, which might destroy her original layout.

Xiao Fengying agreed without thinking.

Are you kidding? With the relationship between their two families now, you could just give the house to her.

She has no lack of that.

After Zhong Zijun completed the construction of the house, it turned out to be a large bungalow of about 300 square meters.

Compared with the large supermarkets of later generations, this is still too small, but she is also feeling her way forward, and it is already very good to have such a large scale.

Simple decoration of the house, customizing shelves, contacting suppliers, recruiting workers, training workers, applying for permits, preparing flyers...

She has to do everything herself.

Because of some experience in grocery stores, she was completely able to handle it with ease.

It was a busy month.

"Gujia Supermarket" officially opened.

Speaking of the name "Gu Family", Ji Linhai felt jealous.

He thought Zhong Zijun was still thinking about Gu Yunchuan.

This “Gu family” is not that “Gu family”.

The "Gujia" here means caring for the family.

Zhong Zijun explained for a long time before Ji Linhai believed her. He took the opportunity to make a lot of unreasonable demands before letting her go.

The business model is different from that of the Shiguang Grocery Store, and the self-selection here cannot be called completely self-selection.

After all, there is no surveillance now. If you let customers choose on their own, then don’t even think about making money, because I’m afraid someone will steal the items.

So there are several service staff in the supermarket, and basically there is one service staff in every area.

On the one hand, it plays a supervisory role, and on the other hand, it makes it convenient for customers to inquire about the goods, which is similar to the shopping guides of later generations.

Many people came to the Gujia Supermarket on the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony.