Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

"tired?"

Gu Jiu felt the person behind him leaning his head against his body and asked with concern.

"Not bad." Lin Shu rubbed his back, "I just feel very comfortable leaning against him like this."

The road was not smooth enough. Under the dim street lights, Gu Jiu kept paying attention to the road conditions ahead. Feeling his wife's dependence on him, he felt so soft-hearted.

"I think our store will have good business in the future. It will probably be very busy every day. Do you want to hire someone to help?"

"An Fan has been out of the hospital for a few days. Let him take over your current job and collect the herbs on time every day. You can come to the store to help me, and then I will hire someone else."

Lin Shu thought for a moment and asked, "What do you think about recruiting my cousin Zaichun to help?"

"Cousin Zaichun, is it Ding Zaichun?" Gu Jiu asked.

"Do you know him?" Lin Shu looked up in surprise.

Gu Jiu: "I heard Xu Ming mention that he met you through Ding Zaichun."

Otherwise, Xu Ming wouldn't have called Lin Shu "cousin" when he first met her.

He even thought that Lin Shu was really Xu Ming's cousin.

"Well, what do you think about letting him come?"

Gu Jiu agreed, "Okay, wait for Dongfa to deliver the herbs tomorrow, and ask him to go to Cousin Ding's house and tell him when he returns. The main thing is to see if he is willing to help."

"After the autumn harvest, there is nothing to do at home. He would be very happy to come out and earn some money. He should be willing to come up."

Lin Shu thought that if Ding Zaichun was willing to come, he would be the first person in their village to work outside the village.

From now on, no matter what I do, I will always be one step faster than the villagers.

The two chatted about things in the shop along the way and soon arrived home.

When Lin Shu got home, he washed up and fell asleep in seconds when he lay on the bed.

Gu Jiu came back after washing up and found Lin Shu had fallen asleep. He shook his head. He was really tired after a whole day. The workload was heavy. Although he didn't put in much effort, he still felt tired.

Of course, the harvest should be considerable.

The next day, he forced himself to wake up from his sleep, got up, had breakfast, and rushed to the convenience store with Gu Jiu.

When they arrived at the store, the two brothers who lived in the old house had already gone to work. Lin Shu opened the door and took out the money collected yesterday from the box and sorted it out.

"How much did it sell for yesterday afternoon?" Gu Jiu asked.

Lin Shu yawned, tears welling up in her eyes. She wiped them with a handkerchief and said, "More than three hundred yuan. After deducting the cost, I probably made more than sixty yuan."

Earning more than 60 yuan in an afternoon is a lot for ordinary people, but compared to Lin Shu going up the mountain to dig herbs, it is really a bit too little.

Gu Jiu frowned: "Only over sixty?"

"Well, the profit of a small shop is about 20%. More than 300 yuan is just over 60 yuan." Lin Shu glanced at the goods on the shelf. "Of course, if the goods are complete, the profit will definitely be more. I think this store should find someone to help as soon as possible, or find someone to help watch the store."

If he had to run the store by himself all day, Lin Shu thought he didn't have that much patience.

"At present, the city and county are basically fully stocked with goods. If we want to add more categories, we can only order from other cities."

Lin Shu looked at Gu Jiu and said with a smile, "Those people came to deliver herbs this afternoon. Ask them if they can help buy some peanuts."

In later generations, fried peanuts and fried melon seeds also became a major sales item in convenience stores.

Gu Jiu nodded. Just at this moment, an old lady with a basket of vegetables came over and asked, "What do you want to buy?"

"Do you have soy sauce here?" The old lady craned her neck to look inside the store.

Gu Jiu asked, "Yes, do you want it in bulk or in bottles?"

When the aunt heard that there was soy sauce, she quickly took out a glass bottle from her basket and put it on the counter: "I wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy soy sauce, but I didn't expect you really have it here. I'll buy a pound of soy sauce. Do you have matches? If you do, I'll give you two boxes."

Gu Jiu took the soy sauce bottle and helped her weigh the soy sauce. Lin Shu took out two boxes of matches from the counter. "Soy sauce is ten cents per pound, and two boxes of matches are four cents."

The old lady gave the change and accidentally glanced at the several bags of dried fish on the second level of the counter. "Do you still have dried fish for sale here?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Yes, wild dried fish from the Qingjiang River, half a pound per bag, three yuan per bag."

"It's so expensive. River fish is only 70 cents per pound." The auntie widened her eyes. Three dollars can buy more than three pounds of pork.

"Big sister, it takes four or five kilograms of fresh fish to make one kilogram of dried fish. The most important thing is that you don't need a ticket to buy dried fish. You need a ticket to buy fish and meat at the farmer's market. How can you buy it without a ticket?"

In this era of scarcity, many men like to eat dried fish with wine. Fry it in oil, then add some chopped chili, garlic and ginger and stir-fry. It goes well with rice.

The aunt thought that the men in the family had not seen meat for a week, and even the side dishes they had were pickles, so she gritted her teeth and bought a bag.

As people who went to the vegetable market early in the morning walked back, Lin Shu's store became busy again.

Lin Shu was busy when she saw a man carrying a load of vegetables walking over and leaving the shop to Gu Jiumang. She hurried out of the shop.

"Hey, wait, let me buy some food."

"Do you want to buy vegetables?" The man stopped.

"Yes, did you grow all these vegetables yourself?" Lin Shu selected four pounds of spinach and a few radishes, and saw that there was a bucket hanging on his shoulder pole, which contained some small fish and shrimps.

"Is anyone interested in buying your fresh fish and shrimp?"

The man smiled and said, "Someone wants it. Do you want it? It's two cents a pound."

"Tsk, this is too cheap. Wouldn't it be easier to sell if you dried it? And you don't have to worry about it going bad."

"Dried ones are not as cost-effective as fresh ones. In the state-owned market's harvesting section, fresh ones are two cents a pound, and dried ones are five cents a pound. They can't be sold at a high price."

Lin Shu weighed the vegetables and gave the change. From their conversation, he also learned that this man's vegetables were grown in his own plot of land, and each time he picked them up, he would send them to the harvesting department of the state-owned farmers' market.

Although the price in the harvesting department is a bit lower, it saves time and you can get the money after selling all at once.

"If you have these small fish and shrimps to dry in the future, you can send them to my store. I will give you 10 cents per pound." Lin Shu pointed to the store not far away that was already crowded with people.

"Are you really going to accept it?" the man confirmed.

Lin Shu chuckled and said, "Well, I won't lie to you."

The man nodded and said, "Okay, I'll send it here first. If you don't want it, I'll send it to the state-owned vegetable market."

The man left carrying the vegetables. Lin Shu first put the vegetables into the kitchen and then went into the store to get busy.

When Dongfa delivered the goods, she saw such a busy scene and said, "Aunt, your business is so good that you are so busy that you don't even have time to cook."

When Lin Shu heard this, he raised his wrist to check the time. It was already half past eleven.

"You help here, I'll go cook."

"Well, okay, I think we should ask grandma to come up and help you cook, or my mom will do, my mom's cooking is pretty good."

As Dongfa was speaking, he heard someone asking for an enamel basin and quickly took one down from the shelf.

Gu Jiu saw it and said, "Dongfa, the big enamel basin is five yuan each, and the small one is three yuan."

"Okay." Dongfa handed the basin to the customer, "Here you go, five dollars."