Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

"Why didn't you go upstairs to rest? Is the baby in your belly making a fuss today?"

Gu Jiu threw his purse onto the sofa, and first went forward to lie on Lin Shu's belly to listen to the movements of the fetus.

Perhaps sensing his arrival, the baby in her belly kicked with its little feet, and her belly instantly bulged out.

"Hey, kid, you know your dad is back, so you're saying hello to me." Gu Jiu kissed the bulge through his clothes, then reached out and rubbed it.

Lin Shu had long been accustomed to Gu Jiu's actions and chuckled: "Others greet people by extending their hands, but you, as a father, teach your son to greet people with his feet every day. Aren't you afraid that your child will kick you in the face when he is born?"

"The little hands are not as strong as the little feet. He is smart and knows how to use his feet to save energy." Seeing the bulge shrink back, Gu Jiu patted his belly and stood up.

Jiang Chaohong poured two glasses of water, one for Zhou Xinyue and the other for Gu Jiu. She handed it to Gu Jiu, "The child is still in your belly, and you chat with him every day without fail. When a guest came to your house, you didn't even say hello to the guest after he came in for a long time."

Gu Youhui noticed that Zhou Xinyue's face had turned extremely ugly, and he was happy in his heart, "Third Aunt, your words sound a bit sour. We all live under the same roof. Don't you know that in the eyes of the uncle, there is only the aunt, and we are all air."

Gu Jiu took the cup and thanked Jiang Chaohong. He took a sip and glanced at the others. When he saw Zhou Xinyue, he raised his eyebrows and said, "This person looks familiar. Which relative of ours is he?"

puff!

I said this without worrying about making the girl sad.

Lin Shu asked in surprise, "You don't know this person. She came in and introduced you to me, saying that you grew up together as childhood sweethearts. I thought you knew each other well."

"Childhood sweetheart? Who?" Gu Jiu asked with a frown.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with the term "childhood sweethearts" before, but after getting married, he would immediately get angry if any woman used the term "childhood sweethearts" to relate to him.

The other people present never expected Gu Jiu to react like this.

Jiang Chaohong reminded: "Nine brother, she is the daughter of the Zhou family, the Xinyue of the Zhou family, don't you remember her?"

“Brother Jiu, you’re married now, so you don’t have to be henpecked and even afraid to recognize me, right?” Zhou Xinyue was so angry when she saw Gu Jiu’s reaction.

Gu Jiu looked at Zhou Xinyue, as if he was trying hard to remember who she was. It took him a long time to react, "Zhou's girl, didn't you go to Beijing to get married? Why are you bringing your husband back to your parents' home to visit relatives?"

Lin Shu pursed her lips and rolled her eyes. Is there a story here?

Jiang Chaohong covered her mouth in shock: "Xinyue, didn't you say you were going to Beijing to visit relatives? How come it has become getting married now?"

This time Zhou Xinyue was so angry that she jumped up and down, her face flushed red, "Gu Jiu, if you don't know the fucking answer, don't say anything!"

Once you swear, you become a hot pepper.

"I heard from your brother that you went to Beijing for a blind date. You haven't come back for such a long time. Doesn't that mean you got married after the blind date? Did I understand it wrongly?" Gu Jiu acted very innocent when being scolded by a girl.

When Zhou Xinyue heard that it was his brother who let the secret slip, she cursed inwardly: Big mouth!

"Who said I was going on a blind date? I was just visiting my relatives for a few months. How come you gossipers said I was married? You are too outrageous. Why do you like to make up stories about people?"

It was the first time that Gu Jiu was called a gossip. His face darkened instantly. "If you want to call me a gossip, it's your brother. As for why you went to the capital, it has nothing to do with us. If you want to curse someone, go back home and curse your brother. Don't make a scene in my house!"

Affect his child’s prenatal education!

Thinking of the child's prenatal education, Gu Jiu didn't wait for Zhou Xinyue to say anything more unpleasant, and turned to Lin Shu and said, "Hurry upstairs with me, so that she won't poison the baby with dirty words here. Let's go upstairs and play some music to help the baby clean his ears."

"Gu Jiu! Explain what you mean to me clearly!" Zhou Xinyue was so angry at him that she almost lost her mind.

Why is this man's mouth always so disgusting?

"Hurry up, hurry up." Gu Jiu urged Lin Shu.

As the two of them went upstairs, Gu Jiu asked in a low voice, "Who brought this mad dog back?"

Lin Shu couldn't help laughing, "Third sister-in-law."

The two went upstairs. Gu Jiu heard what he said and turned back to shout downstairs: "Third sister-in-law, please deal with the trouble you brought back."

Lin Shu looked at him with a half-smile, "She claimed that she and you grew up together as childhood sweethearts. How could she be so heartless?"

Gu Jiu: "If I am not ruthless, you will be unloving to me. For my sexual happiness, it is better to be ruthless."

The couple's voices gradually faded away until the door opened and closed, isolating everything outside.

Jiang Chaohong looked at Zhou Xinyue, whose tears were falling like beads from a broken string, and she and Gu Youhui looked at each other in bewilderment.

Gu Youhui suddenly jumped up from the sofa, "Well, well, Third Aunt, I have something else to do so I'll go upstairs first."

Having said that, he quickly ran upstairs.

"Well, Xinyue, I think I'd better take you back first. I told you a long time ago that Laojiu has changed since he got married."

Jiang Chaohong supported her and dragged her out forcibly.

If you ask her, you have lived in the same courtyard since childhood, and you have never asked him to make an exception for you. The man is now married, can he still embarrass the wife he chose for you?

Instead of wasting your expressions here, you might as well go home, clean yourself up and find a better man to marry.

When I brought Zhou Xinyue home, I just wanted her to embarrass Lin Shu, but I didn't expect her to really cause chaos in the house.

"No need for you to drag me, I can walk by myself!"

After walking a few steps, Zhou Xinyue came to her senses, shook off Jiang Chaohong's hand with a grim look, and walked away aggressively with her head held high and chest puffed out.

When he reached the gate of the courtyard, he almost bumped into Gu Zhiyuan who was just about to enter the courtyard.

"Hey, it's the girl from the Zhou family, you..."

"Humph!"

Zhou Xinyue realized that there was no possibility for her to be with Gu Jiu, so she didn't even bother to do anything to save his face. She snorted coldly and left.

Gu Zhiyuan scratched his head, wondering what kind of injustice this person had suffered in his family. His eyes were red.

"Chaohong, what happened to that girl from the Zhou family just now?"

"Some things just aren't going her way. Don't meddle in women's affairs." Jiang Chaohong poured himself a glass of water irritably, and walked to sit on the sofa while drinking it, his face not looking good.

Gu Zhiyuan thought that the two of them were having a quarrel and didn't take it seriously. He turned around and asked, "Is that kid Youhui back?"

Jiang Chaohong: "I'm back. I'm upstairs."

"Oh, then I'll go find him." Gu Zhiyuan said this and went upstairs without even having time to drink a sip of water.

Thinking about it, when Gu Jiu returned home, all he had in his eyes and heart was Lin Shu, and this person of his own... Jiang Chaohong was so angry at his attitude that her chest heaved.

Gu Zhiyuan climbed up to the third floor in one breath and knocked on Gu Youhui's room door.

There are two beds in the room. This is his and Gu Youtao's room. Now that Gu Youtao has gone to study in another province, he lives alone in this room.

"Uncle San, why are you here? Do you have something to talk to me about?"

The quilt in the room was not folded, and there were a few pieces of clothes thrown on the bed. Gu Zhiyuan picked up a piece of clothing on the bed and threw it away before sitting down.

"I say, kid, how come you don't know how to keep your house in order? Your room is so messy. Do you think you are comfortable living in it?"

"I'm so busy every day, how can I have time to clean the room." Gu Youhui took off his shoes, lay down on the bed, and pulled the quilt to cover his stomach.

Gu Zhiyuan said disdainfully: "I'm busy too. Look at my room, it's clean. Unlike yours, it's like a doghouse."

"laugh!"

Gu Youhui sneered, turned over and lay on his side to look at him: "A full man does not know the hunger of a hungry man. If my Third Aunt didn't clean it, Third Uncle, can you guarantee that your room is cleaner than mine?"

"Why can't I guarantee it? I'm in the dormitory at work and I keep it very clean."

"Tsk, how many times a year do you live in your company's dormitory? No one lives there, so what are you cleaning up?"

Gu Youhui was too lazy to argue with him about this issue, so he changed the subject and asked, "You can't come up to me just to discuss my internal affairs, right? Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"

Gu Zhiyuan pinched his brows, coughed twice and said, "I heard that your restaurant business is good?"

"Well, it's okay. It's mainly because old customers give me face and are willing to take care of my business." Gu Youhui said modestly.

"Does your restaurant still need anyone?"

Gu Youhui stared at him warily: "What do you want to do? Want to stuff people into my restaurant?"

"Ahem!" Gu Zhiyuan put his fist to his lips and coughed a few times, "Is my purpose so obvious?"

Gu Youhui asked back: "What do you think?"

"So you're still short of people?"

"Uncle San, my restaurant is not short of people."

"Can't you find a way to arrange a few?" Gu Zhiyuan asked, not giving up.

Gu Youhui found it funny: "Uncle San, your job is official business, and my restaurant is my private property. Can't we confuse public and private? My restaurant is not a charity organization. I can't arrange it.

I run a restaurant to make a profit. I can't possibly let you squeeze in more people when I already have enough staff. Paying you a few extra salaries every month is like spending my own money. Do you think I'm such a fool?"

His restaurant is not a state-owned enterprise, so he can cram more people in as long as he gets notice from above.

"Of course I know you are a smart person, otherwise you wouldn't be able to be your own boss. It's just that I am under a lot of pressure too. The boss gave me a target, but I can't complete it."

"If you can't complete it, don't accept it. If you accept it and can't complete it, you will embarrass your relatives, which will make things difficult for us. Third Uncle, are you stupid?" Gu Youhui was speechless.

After thinking for a while, he said, "If you really can't arrange it, Third Uncle, you can arrange for them to mend pots. That skill doesn't require any technical skills and anyone can learn it. Otherwise, arrange for them to set up stalls on the street to sell tea and sugar water. It doesn't matter what kind of job it is, as long as they can make money to support the family."

"Let them mend the pot, otherwise the hole in the pot will get bigger instead of being repaired." Gu Zhiyuan thought this idea was unreliable.

"If you don't mend pots, you're clumsy, but you can polish shoes for others, right?" Gu Youhui stared at him, "If they can't even polish shoes, then these people should just stop living. Living is a waste of food."

There is no such good thing in the world as wanting someone to put food into your mouth.

"Shoe polish?" Gu Zhiyuan's eyes widened. "How could you come up with such an idea? Who has so much money that they would go out and have their shoes polished? You might as well buy some shoe polish and polish as many pairs of shoes as you want at home."

"Okay, just pretend I didn't say anything." Gu Youhui made a pause gesture. "Whether they have a job or income is none of my business. I won't give you any advice."

"Hey, you're getting really mad. Well, since you don't need any help, I'll think of another way."

Gu Zhiyuan hadn't completed his task and was no longer in the mood to chat.

After he left, Gu Youhui shook his head, stood up and closed the door.

At dinner in the evening, Wang Suzhen asked Gu Jiu and Gu Youhui: "How is your business going recently?"

"It's OK. What's wrong?" Gu Jiu looked at Wang Suzhen in confusion. She never cared about their business. "Why did you think of asking about our business today?"

Wang Suzhen groaned, "There are a lot of unemployed young people in the compound recently. Everyone in the neighborhood knows the situation of each family, so someone came to ask me."

"We are self-employed. Are they willing to let their children hang out with us?" Gu Jiu knew that many people looked down on him. They despised him for being a street urchin, and later they despised him for being a self-employed person.

Why are things reversed now?

"Ahem." Gu Changsheng coughed lightly, put down his bowl and chopsticks, and said, "The employment situation is grim now. It's good enough to have a job in the city. Who dares to despise it?"

Of course, this does not apply to those who have the capital and ability.

Gu Youhui nodded: "Yes, Grandpa is right. Uncle San wanted me to arrange a few positions for him this afternoon."

When the others heard this, they all looked at Gu Zhiyuan.

It turns out that since he has no ability to make arrangements, he has turned his attention to his own family members.

Facing the condemning gazes of most of his family members, Gu Zhiyuan explained: "I can't do anything about the rigid targets given by the higher-ups."

Gu Changsheng snorted coldly: "Don't involve family members in official business. Even if Youhui can free up a few positions, how much can it solve? It's a drop in the bucket and can't change the current situation. Instead of asking him to free up a few positions, it's better to think about expanding production and how to provide more jobs."

"Dad, I understand." Gu Zhiyuan glanced at Gu Youhui helplessly, and felt that the food in the bowl no longer smelled good.

After this incident was exposed, Gu Changsheng asked Gu Jiu again: "I heard that you bought two dilapidated houses in Chang'an Lane. How are the reconstructions going now?"

"Cough cough..."

Gu Jiu didn't expect that the old man also knew about this. He was startled and choked on his food.

Gu Changsheng frowned in disdain: "You are useless. Where is your determination?"

Other people were also shocked, except Lin Shu and Gu Youhui.

"When did Xiaojiu buy a house outside?"

"No, I bought a house and I have to rebuild it. What's going on?"

"It would cost a lot to buy two houses. My brother-in-law just got married not long ago. Where did he get so much money?"

Gu Jiu took the water that Lin Shu pushed over and drank two sips to calm down. After he calmed down, he explained, "I bought it at the end of last year. I bought it because it was a run-down house and the price was cheap. As for the money to buy the house, of course it was earned by Lin Shu and I together."

"Earned money, what did you do to make so much money in such a short time?" Jiang Chaohong still had some doubts.

I suspect that the money was paid by my parents-in-law.

"Third sister-in-law, of course it's earned from business. Don't forget, Youhui has opened a fruit store and a restaurant in just a few months. We have been doing business since our hometown, so is it strange that we can save enough money to buy a house?"

After this reminder, everyone remembered that Gu Jiu and Lin Shu also had a small store in the county town.

Jiang Chaohong asked in surprise: "How can you make so much money by opening a small store in the county?"

"I don't make much money, only about a hundred yuan a day."

hiss!

So jealous!

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that at the end of last year we opened a trading company in the city above the county, doing both wholesale and retail business. Our business is better than in the county."

Jiang Chaohong silently calculated the daily income of the county town, the daily income of the urban area, and the income of the provincial capital...

hiss!

What should I do if I get red eyes?