Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

There were still two days before the Chinese New Year. Early in the morning, Lin Shu bought half a pig's leg and asked Gu Jiu to deliver it to the old house.

She then went to the market and bought a plate of tofu and two plates of eggs and sent them to the old house.

There were only two days until the Chinese New Year, and she planned to ask her elder sister to make some braised pork, and fry some tofu and meatballs.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, all the businesses in the city were closed, and Dongfa would bring his elder and second sister-in-law back.

Today Lin Xue is also going back to Xianfeng Village to celebrate the New Year. Early in the morning, Liu Xiao'e helped her pack a few pounds of fried meat and a few pounds of candy. Lin Shu gave her four pieces of cloth so that each member of her family could make a piece of clothing.

When Fang Hong saw such a generous gift, she was secretly amazed, thinking it was really generous.

Lin Xue felt a little guilty after receiving this generous gift. "Youngest, Mom has already prepared meat and candy for me, which is enough. You are generous to give me a few pieces of cloth, but I am afraid that my brother-in-law will have a problem with you. When a woman gets married, she is in charge of the family. It is not good for you to care so much about your natal family. Have you ever thought about what your husband's family will think?

Besides, your belly is already five months old. When the baby is born next year, there will be a lot of places to use the cloth. You should take it back."

"Sister, I'll give it to you, just keep it." Lin Shu didn't like to refuse a gift. "Go back and talk to your brother-in-law to see if he's willing to come to the city to work. If he's willing, come to the store to help. You can help cook, and you can help look after the store at other times."

Next year, Lin Shu doesn't want his eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law to go to the city. He wants to leave them in the county and let his eldest sister and her husband go to the city to work with Dongfa.

If you are still short of people, then hire.

"I'll go back and do some ideological work for your brother-in-law. I'll give you a reply after I come to pay New Year's greetings." Lin Xue was very willing to come to the city to work.

Coming to the city, making money is at least easier than in the countryside.

In the countryside, people face the earth and work hard every day, doing the most tiring work, but the money they get each year is only a few dozen yuan and not enough food for the family, which is really not enough to cover the family expenses.

"Okay, go back and discuss it with him. I'll give him the same salary as my sister-in-law and the others, thirty yuan a month."

If the convenience store had just opened, it would definitely not have been able to pay the wages of so many people. However, since it started to engage in wholesale, its turnover has increased two or three times.

Business in the city is even better.

When Lin Xue and Zhuang Zhuang went back, it was naturally Lin Wei who rode his bicycle to take them back.

After she left, Fang Hong peeled a grapefruit and put it on the table, then took half of it and gave it to Lin Shu, "Lin Shu, will your store be hiring next year?"

Lin Shu looked at her, and when her eyes began to evade, he smiled and said, "In addition to my cousin, the store will also have my eldest and second sisters-in-law working next year, so we are not short of people for the time being."

"Oh." Fang Hong was not disappointed, it was just that the county town didn't need people, so what about the urban area?

But before she could ask, Lin Shu seemed to know what she wanted to ask, and said before she could ask, "I have handed over the urban area to Dongfa. I don't know if he is short of people. He will take care of everything, and I don't need to intervene."

Fang Hong saw that the other party cleverly blocked her words in her throat, and the smile on her face froze slightly, but soon she returned to her smile, "The business is really good. The first two times we helped in the city for a few days, we were busy from morning to night, sometimes we didn't even have time to eat."

"There are fewer people doing business nowadays. As long as there is a source of goods, it is generally not difficult to do business." Lin Shu told the truth.

People who have jobs look down on self-employed individuals, thinking that business can make profits and losses, and it is better to work in a company where you can get a stable income regardless of the market conditions.

"What I mean is that you still have the power to do business."

In response to Fang Hong's compliment, Lin Shu simply smiled and waited for her next move.

"I followed Lin Gang to help out in the downtown store a few times. I heard that the company does wholesale business. I just want to ask, if I want to open a small store at our power station, I wonder if I can buy goods from the company?"

Lin Shu looked at Fang Hong in surprise. She had a good brain. The power station was in a remote place in the mountains. And there were more than 300 employees in the power station, not counting the employees' families.

Together with several nearby villages, it forms a large and fixed shopping group.

If Fang Hong opens a small shop in her unit, there is no doubt that the business will be good.

Fang Hong was stared at by Lin Shu. After all, she had never done business before. She asked with a guilty conscience: "What's wrong? Am I just imagining things?"

Lin Shu shook his head: "We operate in a business in the city and anyone can buy goods. If you want to open a small shop, you can go directly to Dongfa to buy goods. You don't need my permission."

Of course, payment is required for all purchases.

The business operates at low profit margins and does not accept credit.

Fang Hong showed a genuine smile on her face and asked excitedly, "Really? That's great. What procedures do I need to go through to open a small shop?"

"Business license, tax registration, I'm not sure about the details, you can go to the Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau to ask."

After lunch, Lin Shu did not wait for Dongfa and the others to come back, and he and Gu Jiu carried some prepared braised pork, meatballs, and tofu back to the Gu family's ancestral home.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and Comrade Liu Xiao'e wants them to have a reunion dinner with their families. But Gu Jiu thought that New Year's Eve would be spent at home, and the couple could spend the New Year together, in a quiet and natural way, and they could spend it the way they wanted.

After returning home, Gu Jiu explained: "I want to spend New Year's Eve at home. The main reason is that it is very late after the New Year's Eve dinner, and it is not safe to ride a bike back home in the cold weather. If we have a reunion dinner at home, it doesn't matter how late we stay up. We can go to bed whenever we want."

"I don't blame you. In fact, I'm in a heavy body now and don't want to bother with it."

Gu Jiu is willing to cook the New Year’s Eve dinner, so what objection can she, a person who specializes in eating, have?

Around 4pm, Dongfa came over and brought the account book of the business and a bag of glutinous rice cakes. He asked an acquaintance to make the glutinous rice cakes for him. He made more than ten kilograms of glutinous rice and sent a few kilograms to them.

"Aunt, uncle, An Fan didn't come back with us this time. He stayed in the city to help us run the store."

Gu Jiu just nodded after hearing this, "I don't know where he will go to celebrate the New Year after he comes back, it's better for him to be at ease in the city."

Being homeless, I guess that kid would feel uncomfortable spending the New Year with them.

Dongfa patted the account book and said, "This year's account book is all here. You said that the dividends were for expanding the business next year, but I didn't take the money."

"Okay, you can arrange the business."

Gu Jiu thought for a moment and said, "I have discussed with your aunt that this small shop in the county wants to transfer to you. Go back and discuss it with your family to see what they think."

If the family agrees, they will go to the functional department to handle the formalities when the unit’s staff start working next year.

Now that the business is on the rise, Lin Shu and Gu Jiu both want to take care of the business in the provincial capital and the urban area, and leave the business in the county town to the Lin family.

The business model is the same as that of urban businesses, retail and wholesale.

There are many towns and villages under the jurisdiction of a county, and even in the county town, two more stores can be opened. As long as they are managed properly, they can earn a lot of money a year, which is enough to cover all the expenses of the Lin family.

Dongfa has already contacted many county-level distributors in the city and knows that as long as there is sufficient supply of goods, opening a store now is basically a gift from God.

Lin Shu transferred the store to his family, which was equivalent to giving the family a stable source of income.

"I'll go back and discuss this with them and get back to you."

Gu Jiu poured him some tea and said, "Well, no hurry, we can discuss it in the next few days during the New Year."