Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

The winter snow melts and the earth warms up.

After the tenth day of the first lunar month, Gu Jiu went to buy a train ticket to the provincial capital.

The train left in the afternoon of the 12th and arrived in the provincial capital at around 3:00 in the morning of the 13th day of the first lunar month.

There were not many passengers getting off the train in the middle of the night. As soon as Gu Jiu walked out of the station, someone hugged his shoulders tightly again. He didn't need to turn around to see who was behind it, as he knew it was Gu Youhui's frivolous smile.

Gu Jiu threw the luggage he was holding in both hands to the ground, raised his hand to grab his wrist, and with a little force he broke free from his restraints.

"Where's the manners? Boy, I'm your uncle, don't act like we're buddies. What does it look like to be arm in arm with someone?"

"Aunt, long time no see." Gu Youhui greeted Lin Shu first, and then turned around and glanced at him after hearing Gu Jiu's words:

"Although you are my elder, our ages are not much different. Don't act so arrogantly in front of me. You may be younger and more worthy of my beautiful aunt. If you insist on acting like an old man in front of me, be careful that my aunt will despise you for being too old."

"Hey, you're always so talkative, right? Do you want me to sew your mouth shut?"

After being cramped in the train carriage for ten hours, there's some open space in front of the station. How about taking this guy to stretch his muscles?

Gu Youhui saw his uncle start to roll up his sleeves, and jumped back in fright, pulling the distance between them, and immediately admitted his fear: "No, no, uncle, I was just joking with you, you are too old to take a joke, right?"

"......You still want to talk!" Gu Jiu couldn't help it this time. He stepped forward, grabbed Gu Youhui's neck and pulled him back. The brat was thrown to the ground.

Fortunately, the snow melted and the weather has been sunny these days, with no water stains on the ground.

"Haha...Uncle, a gentleman uses words instead of fists."

Gu Youhui was knocked to the ground but he was not angry. He couldn't stop smiling. Perhaps they had been growing up together playing and fighting like this since they were young.

"Humph, you've always deserved a beating since you were a kid."

Gu Jiu snorted. Is it true that one can just talk about age casually?

"Are you guys going to go back? Otherwise, you two can fight each other in a fistfight, and I'll buy a bag of sunflower seeds and sit beside you to cheer for you?"

Lin Shu didn't know whether to laugh or cry when looking at the childish uncle and nephew.

"Back!"

The uncle and nephew said in unison.

Gu Jiu gently kicked Gu Youhui: "Get your luggage!"

"Why?" Gu Youhui glanced at the three bags of luggage thrown on the ground and picked up two of them. "I only have two hands, not three. You can carry the remaining bag yourself."

Gu Jiu saw that Lin Shu was about to say something, so he quickly picked up the last bag of luggage and said, "Let's go."

Seeing that his uncle was like a toothless tiger in front of his aunt, Gu Youhui laughed: "Uncle, you are a grown man carrying a luggage and you want to be lazy. Do you have no balls or are you a softie? If it was my aunt who came back alone today, I would definitely help her carry everything. You are a man and I will not be gentle with women."

Gu Jiuting's forehead was throbbing with veins, and he raised his foot and kicked him again, hitting him right on the butt: "Do you know how to speak? If not, shut up!"

"Oh, little aunt, look, my uncle is bullying me again. He has such a bad temper. How do you usually tolerate him? You should punish a bad temper like him severely!"

"Still talking!" Gu Jiu picked up the luggage and threw it at him.

There was no way Gu Youhui could just stand there and let him hit him, so he picked up his luggage and ran away.

Lin Shu looked at the uncle and nephew chasing each other and shook her head. When she walked to the jeep, Gu Youhui had been beaten by Gu Jiu to the point of crying for his parents.

"That's enough. Be careful or you'll attract the police from the station police station."

Gu Jiu loosened his grip and loaded all the luggage into the car.

Gu Youhui straightened up from the hood of the jeep and looked around. Fortunately, no police noticed him.

"Aunt, late-night snack stalls have appeared in our provincial capital in recent days. You probably didn't have a good dinner, and it would be troublesome to go home so late to make dinner. Why don't I take you out for a late-night snack?" Gu Youhui opened the door for Lin Shu.

"Midnight snack?"

Lin Shu knew that there were many night snack stalls in Guangdong Province in her previous life. When she first arrived in Guangdong Province, she worked at a night snack stall. She just didn't know what the night snack stalls in the provincial capital sold. "Then let's go and take a look."

"okay!"

After Gu Jiu got in the car, Gu Youhui couldn't wait to start the car and drive out.

Gu Jiu quickly warned: "Slow down, hold on. If your aunt gets bumped or hurt, I'll settle the score with you."

Gu Youhui curled his lips, but he drove much more steadily.

The so-called late-night snack stalls in the provincial capital are in the city center, on Renmin Middle Road. There are a few light bulbs hung along the street, and there are about five or six stalls, which have not yet grown into a large scale.

In this day and age, no one is willing to set up a stall unless it is absolutely necessary. Most people prefer to work in factories or various public institutions.

Gu Youhui parked the car at an open space on the side of the road and several people got out.

"Aunt, what do you want to eat? I've tried all of these stalls, and they taste great."

"I want to eat something spicy right now." After sitting on the train for ten hours, my mouth was tasteless and I wanted to eat something spicy.

Lin Shu looked at the stalls. Some were selling barbecue, noodle soup, sugar-coated rice cakes, fried noodles, and the last one was knife-cut noodles.

"If you like spicy food, you can try noodles or barbecue." Gu Youhui found a table in front of the barbecue stall and asked the two to sit down.

Lin Shu: "Go and order me another bowl of knife-cut noodles."

"Okay, I'll order one bowl too." Gu Jiu walked towards the last stall.

Lin Shu hadn't eaten authentic knife-cut noodles for a long time. When knife-cut noodles were popular in the previous life, they only cost one or two yuan a bowl. Later, they cost nearly twenty yuan a bowl, making many people feel that they were out of their affordability.

Smelling the aroma emanating from the barbecue stall, the flavor is not as strong as the irresistible aroma of later generations, but Lin Shu believes that the barbecue stalls nowadays do not have the technology and hard work of later generations. As long as the dishes are fresh, you should be able to eat them with confidence.

Gu Youhui finally brought over two plates of grilled skewers, and the owner of the barbecue stall finally brought him a bowl of eight-treasure porridge.

"Aunt, do you want eight-treasure porridge?"

Lin Shu shook his head: "Your uncle and I ordered a bowl of knife-cut noodles."

"Oh, the sliced ​​noodles are also delicious. Auntie, try the flavor here and see if it suits your taste."

Lin Shu first picked up a string of chicken gizzards and took a bite. It tasted good, not too strong. "Where do you think these stall owners get the goods they sell every day?"

You have to know that at that time, you needed tickets to buy many things.

Gu Youhui saw Gu Jiu coming back, waited for him to sit down, and pushed a plate of barbecue in front of him: "Uncle, you can try it too. If you like it, I will invite you guys for supper next time."

Seeing Gu Jiu pick up a skewer of meat, Gu Youhui answered Lin Shu’s question: “I heard about this from others. There is very little meat in the barbecue stalls. They mainly grill soy products and vegetarian dishes. Meat and vegetables have to be collected from the countryside.

As for the noodle stalls, they also go to the countryside to buy food from villagers, or buy it on the black market. However, buying food on the black market to make noodles only makes a little less money, but there is still profit. "

Lin Shu suddenly had an idea and asked Gu Jiu, "What do you think of our company's wholesale rice and flour business?"

"Wholesale rice and flour?"

"What I mean is to open up an area to sell rice, flour and other food, as well as meat and eggs."

Lin Shu gritted her teeth and couldn't think of a good solution, but she felt bad for not making money. Anyway, Gu Jiu had long felt that there was something wrong with her, so it would be better to put it out in the open so that he would know that there was a problem but would be too embarrassed to ask.

After returning to the provincial capital and living with a large family, if she didn't cook for herself, she would have to add more food and meat to the family frequently. This would let Gu Jiu know that she was abnormal and he would have to cover for her.

Gu Youhui almost screamed with excitement when he heard this, but he had to suppress his excitement to avoid being heard by others, and asked in a low voice: "Aunt, do you have a way to get food and meat and eggs?"

"Try it. I can't guarantee it." Lin Shu remained calm and answered calmly in front of him.

Gu Youhui put down the skewers excitedly and rubbed his hands. "If you can get food, meat and eggs, I would also like to come and set up a stall. You don't know that with such a small stall, I can earn more than ten yuan a night, three or four yuan a month, and more than four thousand yuan a year.

Oh, I can’t calculate it, I can’t calculate it. If I continue to calculate it, I won’t be able to sleep at night. "

Lin Shu and Gu Jiu looked at each other in surprise. They didn't expect that the Gu family would also have such a weirdo like Gu Youhui.

I am so passionate about doing business that I am almost crazy about it.

"You have to run the store during the day and set up a stall at night. Aren't you afraid that you will be squeezed into a paper man?" Lin Shu asked.

The reason why she said this was because this guy had rented a large storefront on the street in front of the compound and opened a fruit shop before the New Year. He basically stayed in the shop during the day, or went to purchase or transport goods.

Opening a shop during the day and setting up a stall at night, how can your body bear it in the long run?

Young people should take good care of their bodies when they are young, and don't wait until they are old to make up for their losses. By then it will be too late.

"If you can make money and don't treat yourself badly when it comes to food, you will become a paper man wherever you go." Gu Youhui didn't care much about it. Young people have the energy and physical strength to set up a stall at night after a busy day.

Lin Shu shook his head. The young man was ill.

Gu Jiu knocked his head with chopsticks and scolded him with a smile: "Eat quickly, you can't chew too much."

After having supper, it was almost five o'clock when they drove back to the compound. Because it was winter, it was still very dark.

The three of them tiptoed into the house, trying not to disturb the family. When they reached the second floor, the door of the old man and the old woman's room opened.

Wang Suzhen came out of the house wearing a cotton coat, "You guys are back, do you want to eat something and rest?"

Lin Shu: "Mom."

Gu Jiu quickly stopped her: "Mom, no need, we just came back after eating outside, you can continue to sleep, we will go back to the room to rest."

Wang Suzhen looked at Lin Shu, and when she saw him nod, she nodded doubtfully, "Okay, then you guys go to bed early, and I won't call you for breakfast."

"Well, no need to call us, we will come out when we have had enough sleep." Gu Jiu carried the luggage and walked past Wang Suzhen towards their room.

"Did they just arrive?"

Wang Suzhen closed the door and heard Gu Changsheng, who had already woken up in bed, asking.

"Yeah, I just arrived. They said they had something to eat outside before coming back. I think they are lying because they don't want me to worry. How can a restaurant be open in the middle of the night?"

Gu Changsheng propped himself up and sat up, leaning against the head of the bed. "Now the employment pressure in the city has increased sharply. Even if each unit expands its recruitment, it cannot provide 100,000 positions. Now the authorities are encouraging everyone to start their own businesses. Many young people who are willing to sacrifice their reputation set up stalls outside. No matter what they sell, it is always an income."

"Setting up a street stall is uncertain and it is not a long-term solution." Wang Suzhen said this without thinking.

Gu Changsheng coughed twice and disagreed, "There is no distinction between high and low occupations. As long as you earn money to support your family with your own hands, there is nothing shameful. Don't forget that our boy Youhui also started out by setting up a stall. How is he now? He has opened a second fruit shop in the provincial capital."

The first one is a fruit wholesale store opened by Gu Jiu and Chen Fei.

Speaking of Gu Youhui, I believe that except for Gu Jiu and Lin Shu, no one else in the family thought that he would become famous.

During that period, everyone watched him going out in the wind and rain every day. It was really hard work, but the money he earned was really considerable.

Wang Suzhen: "That boy is a man who can endure hardships."

Gu Changsheng nodded, with pride in his eyes: "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. We were worried that Laojiu would be idle all his life and his life would be difficult when we were old. Look at what he is doing now. As for Youhui, the eldest brother also wanted to find a job for him. Look at that kid's attitude, he is just as stubborn as Laojiu back then."

"Pfft!"

Thinking of the similar tempers of the uncle and nephew, Wang Suzhen couldn't help laughing. "Formal work is like a scourge to both of them. It's true that nephews are like uncles."

Speaking of setting up stalls, Gu Changsheng asked, "At the end of last year, Zhiyuan and his wife had a quarrel, and in the end they said that they wanted her brother from her mother's side to learn from Youhui to set up a stall. Did he go in the end? How was it going?"

Wang Suzhen said disdainfully, "At the end of last year, in the cold winter, do you believe that the boy from the Jiang family is a hard-working person? He can't learn from our Youhui. I heard that he refused to go to the stall after setting it up for two days, saying that his toes and fingers were sore from the cold."

"Oh, there is also this matter. It seems that the Jiang family kid is indeed spoiled by his mother-in-law." Gu Changsheng shook his head after hearing this. "So it just ended like this?"

Wang Suzhen snorted coldly, "Humph, later on, their family forced the third brother's family to find a solution. I heard that Zhiyuan was forced into no choice but to lend money to her brother to rent a storefront to sell fruit."

Moreover, those fruits were wholesaled from Jiuger’s store.

"I don't know if he can do this for long. If he doesn't work hard for three days and rests for two days, our Zhiyuan will suffer again. He is already very annoyed with work every day, and when he comes home, he has to worry about her family affairs."

When it comes to children, the one who is most worried is always the mother. Wang Suzhen gets a headache when the Jiang family is mentioned.

"Let's take it one step at a time. The Jiang family kid is not our son, so there's no need for you to worry about him." Gu Changsheng yawned and lay down again. "There's still some time before dawn, so sleep a little longer."

Sitting on the bed in this weather, Wang Suzhen felt that her upper body was frozen, so she quickly took off the cotton coat on her shoulders and got into the quilt.

"Hey, you're cold, don't get close to my back, I'm cold too." Gu Changsheng shivered because of the coldness of the person who was sticking to him.

"You're warm."