Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

In the winter in Northeast China, there are not many kinds of fruits to eat.

The most common ones are apples, frozen pears, oranges, and a kind of red fruit from the mountains called Huahong. After being frozen and then soaked in water at room temperature, the red fruit will taste extra sweet and delicious.

As for other fresh fruits, they are really rare in this era of inconvenient logistics.

Chu Xinyan happened to be pregnant, and her taste changed drastically.

Li Youjie sent two boxes of soft-fleshed kiwifruit at this time, which really touched Li Youcai's heart.

"Youjie is here."

"Sister-in-law, I got some fruit for you. See if you like to eat it. If you do, I'll get more for you." Li Youjie put the box on the floor in the room.

"Thank you, Youjie." Chu Xinyan looked at the green fruit in the box and didn't know what it was. It was the first time she saw it.

"It's okay, I'll wash a few and let you try them. They are delicious." Li Youjie took some out of the box and then went to the kitchen to wash them.

After Li Youcai finished pasting the couplets, he took Duoduo back to the house.

Duoduo held the chocolate in her hand and her mouth was covered in black chocolate from eating it.

"Look, Mom, this is what my uncle gave me. It's delicious. You should eat it too."

Duoduo handed the half of the chocolate in her hand to Chu Xinyan.

But he was hurriedly stopped by Li Youcai.

"Oh my dear, your mother can't eat this chocolate, you should eat it slowly by yourself."

The main cost of chocolate is cocoa powder and sugar, which contains certain blood-activating ingredients. Eating this in the early stages of pregnancy may cause miscarriage, so it is not suitable for consumption.

Duoduo looked at her father and didn't understand why her mother couldn't eat.

"Mom doesn't like sweets, you eat it yourself." Chu Xinyan carried Duoduo onto the kang and said to her.

Duoduo kicked off her shoes and ran to the kang to play.

Li Youcai continued to paste paper-cut window decorations on the windows with Jianghu in his hand.

"Brother, sister-in-law, I've washed them, you can try them." Li Youjie was holding a small basin containing the soft-fleshed kiwifruit he had just washed.

Li Youcai picked one up and ate it. It was really delicious.

Chu Xinyan also ate one. The sour and sweet taste was just what she wanted.

“This is really delicious.”

"Sister-in-law likes it. I'll make it for you next time."

"It's quite tiring to do this, isn't it?"

“It’s not hard.”

Li Youjie looked at Li Youcai excitedly, and then said, "Brother, I just happen to have something I want to discuss with you."

"What's the matter?"

Li Youcai finished pasting the last window paper-cut and put down the work in his hands.

"Brother, I want to buy a truck." Li Youjie came to Li Youcai and said confidently.

Buy a truck?

In this day and age, cars are luxury goods among luxuries, and their prices can easily reach tens of thousands of dollars, making them out of reach for smaller companies, let alone ordinary people.

Seeing that his elder brother didn't say anything, Li Youjie hurriedly pulled Li Youcai to sit down and explained confidently, "Brother, let me tell you, the market has changed a lot this year. The merchants are all settled in, and the number of customers coming every day is more than half the number before."

"For example, during the period before the Lunar New Year this year, many merchants in the market sold out of their goods because they had no vehicles to transport the goods. In the end, they had to close early and saw that they could not make any money."

"I asked several merchants, and it's not that they don't have a way to purchase goods, but they can't find trucks to deliver them."

"We run the market. Once we buy a truck, we won't have to worry about finding work. We can make a lot of money just by transporting goods for the merchants in our market."

"Brother, I've asked someone about it. A Dongfeng truck can be bought for about 2 yuan. Even if I only drive around the provincial capital, I can make at least yuan a year, and I can make back my investment in two years!"

Li Youjie became more and more excited as he spoke. This was a way to make money that he had found himself, and telling Li Youcai about it was also a way to show off.

Li Youcai had thought about setting up his own transport team.

After all, the bread from his factory also needs to be transported. Until now, he has been spending a high price to rent a truck from the city transportation company to help him run back and forth.

Not only is the cost high, but you also have to constantly look after the transport company.

Li Youcai had long wanted to buy a few trucks to transport his own goods, but he had been putting it off for a long time. The most important reason was that the trucks were too expensive.

An imported Isuzu light truck costs around 4 yuan.

A domestically produced Dongfeng light truck costs around 2 yuan.

It can be said that the money to buy two domestic trucks is equivalent to half a bakery, which is really unaffordable.

"It would be a good thing to buy a truck and do the transportation myself."

Li Youcai pondered for a moment.

The bakery had made good profits this year. After setting aside production reserves and distributing dividends to the flour mill and Wang Qiang, he saved nearly 5 yuan for himself.

"How much capital is there in the market now?" Li Youcai looked at Li Youjie and asked.

The market's main source of income is rent, and the sanitation fees paid by the vegetable stalls every day are basically used for the market's maintenance expenses.

"The previous funds were all used to build the restaurant. Now there is still a little over 1 yuan on the account. After the Chinese New Year, there are still some stalls that need to be renewed. In addition, the ice cream business has made a profit of 1 yuan so far. All in all, it can be combined into about 3 yuan." Li Youjie replied after calculating.

The farmers' market, including the buildings and land, were all Li Youcai's own business. He used most of the rent he received in the first year to prepare for the construction of the Zhenweiju restaurant.

It’s already very good that we can raise 3 yuan now.

Li Youcai pondered for a moment, then said, "How about this? I'll give you another 10,000 yuan. First, buy two Dongfeng trucks and set up a transport team. You'll be in charge."

"Really, brother?" Li Youjie looked at his elder brother happily.

"You're right. We have our own market. We don't have to worry about work to maintain the cars. It takes two years to get a return on investment after buying a car. This is a good business and worth doing." Li Youcai said.

"Okay, then I'll start preparing to buy a car after the New Year."

His elder brother agreed to let him buy a car and let him buy two at a time, which made Li Youjie very happy. It was not only because of the two trucks, but more importantly, this idea was Li Youjie's own, and now it was adopted by his elder brother, which made Li Youjie feel a sense of accomplishment.

"Brother, sister-in-law, I still have to go to Huang Juan's house, so I'll leave first."

"Go."

Li Youjie pushed his bicycle home, packed two boxes of fruit and some cigarettes and alcohol, and hurried to Huang Juan's house.

After Li Youcai pasted up the couplets and window decorations, he hung two big red lanterns on the door.

After finishing all this, he took Chu Xinyan and Duoduo back to his father Li Guanghu's house.

Li Guanghu wrapped himself in an apron and sat in front of the stove, humming a little tune while adding firewood to the stove to stew meat. He was in such a good mood.

The Li family is going to have more children. For a man of his age, there is nothing more exciting than this.

"Grandpa, Happy New Year! I wish you good health..."

As soon as Duoduo entered the door, she knelt down and kowtowed to Li Guanghu as Li Youcai had taught her.

"Oh, my eldest granddaughter, get up quickly and see that grandpa has prepared a big red envelope for you!" Li Guanghu hurriedly took out the New Year's money he had prepared in advance.