Reborn to Strive

Shi Zhen discussed with Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu and asked Guan Baiyu to teach Shi Ting from tomorrow.

The courses are arranged by Guan Baiyu, and the goal is to improve Shi Ting's foundation.

As for himself, besides selling rice balls, he wanted to manage Shi Ting's study here. As for how to do it... Isn't there Teacher Fei next door?

Before Shi Zhenzhong was alive, education was becoming more and more strict. If he wanted to study in most schools, he had to meet the conditions such as household registration and real estate certificates, and transfers could only be handled by the Municipal Education Bureau.

But at this time, the matter of studying is relatively easy to handle, and transferring schools can be handled by the principal.

Students in the countryside want to study in the town, so they can discuss it with the principal of the school in the town, and just pay a sponsorship fee.

Of course, since most of the parents at this time are not chicken babies, and the sponsorship fee is not a small amount, everyone generally lets their children study in a school that is close to their home, and will not go all out for a good school.

Shi Zhen had set up a stall in the town for several months and knew a few junior high school teachers in the town, but his friendship was limited to the stall owner and customers. thing.

Finding Teacher Fei doesn't have to be so troublesome.

Whenever Teacher Fei encounters any problems, he will take the initiative to help, and the two parties have already established friendship.

If Shi Ting wanted to study here, he didn't need to ask Teacher Fei specifically. As long as he mentioned Shi Ting's study in front of Teacher Fei, Teacher Fei would tell him what to do about it.

Shi Zhen was right, he just said a few words in front of Teacher Fei, and Teacher Fei said that it was not difficult to transfer schools, and that he knew the principal of the junior high school in the town.

According to Teacher Fei, it is perfectly fine for Shi Ting to borrow from the junior high school in the town, as long as there is some sponsorship fee.

Although Teacher Fei is not young, he never delays in doing things. This afternoon, he took Shi Zhen directly to the principal of the junior high school in the town.

The principal of the junior high school in the town lived not far away. He and Teacher Fei's son were classmates, so he respected Teacher Fei very much.

Of course, Shi Zhen felt that the headmaster's attitude was so good because Teacher Fei's children were all working in the education system.

In addition, Mr. Fei has been a teacher for a long time. Many teachers in Changxi City and even the staff of the Education Bureau will call Mr. Fei "teacher"... Even if Mr. Fei has retired, the principal will give him face.

The matter of Shi Ting's study in the town's junior high school was quickly negotiated, and it was enough to go to the school to go through the formalities before the start of school.

Even the sponsorship fee... Others' sponsorship fee was [-], but the principal only asked Shi Zhen for [-].

Coming out of the principal's house, Teacher Fei asked, "Shi Zhen, do you have enough money? If not, I can lend you some."

Mr. Fei is very clear about the Shi family's situation.

With such a large family here, they need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they all rely on Shi Zhen to set up a stall to support them... I am afraid that it will be a bit difficult.

Shi Zhendao: "Mr. Fei, no need, I have the money."

Shi Zhen doesn't have 2000 yuan in his hands now.

After the Shi family came, he bought some things more or less. It is summer and the weather is very hot. He also installed a ceiling fan in Shi's house, and bought a small electric fan for himself and Guan Baiyu.

In addition, there are so many people in the family now, and the food expenses will cost at least ten yuan a day... He really doesn't have much savings.

Fortunately, he paid 800 yuan for the cooked food stall before, and now he has about 1000 taels in his hand.

In the next two months, he must earn more.

Otherwise, Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu both have to study, and he doesn't have enough money.

As for how to make money... Shi Zhen thought about it for a while, and decided to hand over the fried skewers stall to his father first, and then start some other businesses by himself.

For example, selling cold drinks at night.

Breakfast is something everyone must buy. There will be more customers, but the profit is often very thin.

Cold drinks at night are different.

This kind of thing is more like the enjoyment of adding icing on the cake to life. If he buys it more expensive, everyone can accept it.

For example, after more than 250 years, if the daily [-]ml box of milk sold for [-] yuan, everyone will think it is expensive.

But milk tea made with boxed milk that costs a few dollars costs more than ten dollars a cup, and everyone will still buy it.

Many milk tea shops do not even use pure milk to make milk tea, but use milk powder with lower cost.

In Anshan Town at this time, there is no place that sells cold milk tea at all. If he does this, he will definitely have his own business, and the profit of cold drinks is still very high...

The most important thing is that this business is easy to get started, even without experience.

Shi Zhen thought about selling malatang before, but there is no malatang in Anshan Town at this time, if he set up a stall to sell it, the business would definitely be very good.

But his Malatang needs more or less technique, he may not be able to make Malatang delicious.

There are also tribute balls that can be bought at a low price in the future market, but now in Anshan Town, they can't be bought at all.

When selling fried skewers before, Shi Zhen actually thought of another kind of thing suitable for selling, that is "chuanchuan incense".

All kinds of skewers are boiled in water, and when guests want them, they are packed in disposable cups, and some soup is added to the guests... It is actually simpler and easier to make.

Because the cost of vegetarian dishes such as kelp, shiitake mushrooms, and fried tofu is very low, its profit should be very good.

Shi Zhen finally rejected this business because he couldn't buy cheap tribute balls, fish balls, fish tofu and other things suitable for cooking in Anshan Town and Changxi City.

He can't just sell vegetarian dishes and ham sausages.

Nowadays, people still prefer to eat some meat.

Fried skewers are different, sausage, ham sausage, chicken wings, chicken wings, chicken heart, tenderloin, etc. Many things that can be bought in the market can be fried.

In short, compared to Malatang, cold drinks are definitely a low-cost and easy-to-use business, and raw materials are easy to find. To do this business, you need at least a freezer.

In later generations, you can buy a large freezer for 1000 yuan, and you can buy second-hand ones for two to three hundred yuan, but at this time... a freezer costs at least two to three thousand yuan.

This is still the last two years, and the price of electrical appliances has come down a bit. In the 80s, it cost tens of thousands to buy a refrigerator.

However, he needs a freezer for a long time to do business, and he will have to buy it sooner or later, and he will not lose money if he buys it now.

Shi Zhen thought about this business, so he discussed it with Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu doesn't know much about business, but how smart his brother is!The business he thought of would definitely make money!

Guan Baiyu encouraged Shi Zhen, and kept boasting: "Brother, you must be fine, you are so good! I believe you will definitely make money..."

Shi Zhen looked at him with a smile, and saw his voice lowered and his face flushed.

The next morning, Shi Zhen sent Guan Baiyu, who followed him to the town to sell rice balls, to Shi Ting's home to teach Shi Ting, and then went to Changxi City.

He's going to check the price of the freezer and buy one.

If he doesn't have enough money... he can only use the tuition he saved for Guan Baiyu before.

With a freezer, even if he doesn't sell cold drinks, he can still make money selling popsicles in summer, so he won't be able to lose Guan Baiyu's tuition.

At this time, many people did not have refrigerators at home, and the status of popsicles was similar to that of milk tea in later generations. When they went shopping, they were willing to buy a popsicle to eat.

The simplest and extremely low-cost sugar water popsicles can be sold for two to three cents each. The profit in this business is really not low.

When he arrived in Changxi City, Shi Zhen found that there were more construction sites here.

In the past few years, Changxi City has really developed very fast.

Shi Zhen quickly found an electrical appliance store in Changxi City.

Most of today's refrigerators are divided into upper and lower layers, the top is frozen, and the bottom is refrigerated. The price of this kind of refrigerator is three to four thousand at the cheapest.

Black and white TVs are cheaper, and color TVs can sell for four to five thousand.

The freezer that Shi Zhen needs is cheaper than a refrigerator because it can only be set to one temperature, but it costs more than 2000.

Shi Zhen didn't bring enough money, and the cups and straws for selling cold drinks and the materials for making cold drinks haven't been found yet, so he didn't rush to buy a refrigerator, but went to other places.

For well-known drinks like Coke, he can sell them directly in cans, or pour them out in large bottles.

There are local manufacturers that produce soda, and if you buy some soda and freeze it in the refrigerator or pour it out and add ice cubes, you can also sell it directly.

You can also use condensed milk and milk powder to make ice milk, use orange powder to make orange water, and so on.

Shi Zhen ran for several hours in Changxi City, and after being so hot that his clothes were soaked with sweat several times, he had a good idea of ​​the cold drink business he wanted to do.

He also found out... There is a stall in Changxi City that sells iced cola and iced soda.

It would be really cool to have a bottle of Daxia's... It's a pity that he has no money.

Shi Zhen didn't buy anything in Changxi City. For lunch, he ate the rice balls he made in the morning and drank his own black tea with salt.

This black tea tastes weird, but it quenches your thirst.

By two o'clock in the afternoon, Shi Zhen couldn't hold on anymore.

There are still many dormitory buildings built by state-owned factories in Changxi City today. These dormitory buildings are generally four or five floors, relatively close to each other, and there is no greenery downstairs, at most there is a small narrow flower bed.

Shi Zhen sat down on a small flower bed in the shade on the east side of a dormitory building, planning to rest for a while.

Besides him, there are other people here. Some middle-aged and elderly women gather together, either knitting sweaters, or... sewing buttons, beads, and embroidery for sweaters.

Of course, this embroidery is not the exquisite embroidery of ancient times, but the kind that uses very thick threads to sew simple flowers on sweaters. As long as you are not stupid, you can get started quickly.

Shi Zhen took a look and thought he could embroider too.

It's the kind of sweater with beads and embroidery on it. In his opinion, it's really very rustic...but people at this time like fancy things.

These days, the price of this kind of sweater is not cheap compared to the per capita income.

and many more!

Shi Zhen suddenly found that there were many identical sweaters beside these people, and they were sewing one by one...

Instead of decorating their own sweaters, they take over the work and do it at home to subsidize the family.

Shi Zhen smiled and leaned over to talk to them, asking them where they got the sweater and how much it cost to embroider it.

These people got the sweater from a nearby factory, and the price of embroidering a piece of clothing depends on whether the clothing is well embroidered or not.

Some clothes only need to sew buttons, and it costs a few cents per piece. Some clothes have more places to sew, and you can get a few cents per piece. Especially complicated clothes that take a lot of time to embroider...Embroider one piece and get one yuan or two. There are also.

They just take the clothes home and embroider them. If they do it long enough, they can earn more than 20 yuan a day.

Of course, most of them have other jobs to do at home, and often have to take care of children, so they can only spare time to do it, so they can earn about five or six yuan a day.

After hearing this, Shi Zhen felt that this was a good business.

Of course, he didn't plan to embroider, but took a fancy to the business opportunities.

He can contact the factory and help dispatch work!

There are several sweater factories in Changxi City, as well as many small workshops that produce sweaters.

And those sweaters that are produced, there are many that need secondary processing.

There are many job opportunities in urban areas, and fewer women are at home, and they may not be willing to do these tedious jobs.

But if this job is brought to Anshan Town, especially the countryside near Anshan Town...

The women there must be very happy to do these jobs!

Although young women in Anshan Town can generally find jobs now, those women born before the 60s generally have no jobs because they have not studied, because they have to take care of the family and other reasons, and it is difficult to go out to work.

But this kind of manual work that can be taken home...they can do it.

Shi Zhen felt that he could pick up jobs from the factory and distribute them to the villagers.

If the price given to him by the factory is one yuan for one piece of embroidery, he distributes it to the villagers, and he can give them [-] cents for one piece of embroidery.

In this way... he can make a net profit of [-] cents.

Shi shook his head, and walked towards the garment factory without even thinking about it.

Speaking of the coast in [-], it was really an era when the economy was taking off.

At this time, no matter what is produced, there are people rushing to buy it.

Just a few years ago, there was a ham sausage factory, and the door was jammed with sellers, robbing them of the ham sausage they produced!

The woolen sweaters in Changxi City are not worried about selling. Those factories are almost non-stop around the clock, and they are working in three shifts.

The factory manager doesn't have to worry about no orders at all. What they have to worry about is that there is always not enough raw materials for production.

There is also the current sweater, which can be sold at a high price with some embroidery and beads, but they don't have the manpower to do it.

Let the people around you do the work... The people around here can't do too much.

On the factory side, we can only produce simple styles as much as possible.

It was at this time that Shi Zhen came to the door.

When he arrived, it happened to be four o'clock, the time for the day shift to get off work among the three shift workers.

The female workers came out of the factory talking and laughing, and then washed their feet under the faucet at the factory gate.

They usually wear slippers in the factory. After eight hours of work, their feet are always dirty, and they have to wash their feet before going home.

After washing, the older ones just left in slippers, while the younger ones usually put on nice sandals before leaving. As for the slippers, they can be stored in the factory.

At this time, the factory was not big, and the management was not strict. Shi Zhen came to Changxi City this time, and he was well dressed. The uncle at the door asked him what he was doing, and he said in dialect that he was looking for someone. Just let him in.

Shi Zhen searched around, asked a few people, and finally found the leader of the factory who was in charge of distributing woolen sweaters to surrounding women and asking them to embroider and sew buttons.

When Shi Zhen came here this time, he was just trying his luck. He didn't expect the leader of this factory to be very talkative. After hearing his thoughts, he became interested.

Shi Zhen immediately started talking with the other party.

The business was negotiated soon, and the purpose was to give the leader a kickback.

The leader said that he can use a car to help drive the woolen sweaters from the factory to Anshan Town, and he can offer Shi Zhen a not-so-low price, but if the price offered by the factory is one One yuan, then Shi Zhen will give him a kickback of ten cents, one tenth.

Shi Zhen has no objection to this, such things happen everywhere, it is inevitable.

But in this way, if he further distributes jobs, he can only give them seventy cents. Of course, this is not a definite number. Some jobs are easy to do, and some people will take them at a lower price.

He is responsible for sending and receiving samples, checking the quality of finished products, and taking responsibility for lost clothes, and he must be paid.

The sweater factory has its own truck, which can help Shi Zhen deliver the sweaters to Anshan Town, and when the time comes, they will pack the sweaters away.

Shi Zhen thought about it, and planned to send these sweaters to Guan Jianguo's rented house.

All the utensils from the cooked food stall have been taken away after the money is paid, and the fried skewers and rice ball stalls don’t need many things, and they have already been placed in the house in the town. Now he rents Guan Jianguo’s house and Guan Baiyu’s house. , all empty.

Guan Baiyu's house is a muddy floor, and sweaters are not easy to mess around, but the main room that Guan Jianguo rented to him has a concrete floor and plaster on the walls.

When the time comes, he will spread a plastic sheet on the ground, so that he can put the clothes directly on the ground.

Shi Zhen discussed it with others, and agreed that he would come to pick up the goods the next day, so he hurried to the car.

It was also his luck that he caught the last bus, but even so, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening when he returned to Anshan Town.

Fortunately, before he went out, he mentioned it to his parents, saying that if he couldn't come back, he would let them go out to set up a stall by themselves, so that the business would not be delayed.

Shi Zhen passed by his own stall on the way home, seeing Shi Dalin, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan looking at the stall together, orderly, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

And when he returned to the place where the Shi family lived...

Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting were waiting for him. While waiting, Guan Baiyu was teaching Shi Ting pinyin.

Shi Ting's pinyin is not good, and her Mandarin is not standard.

Guan Baiyu actually has a common problem of southerners speaking Mandarin, for example, she can't distinguish the front nasal sound from the back nasal sound, but Shi Ting...she has reached the point where she can't distinguish the flat tongue sound and the warped tongue sound!

Of course, Shi Zhen remembered that Shi Ting, who was speaking Mandarin more than 20 years later, did not have an accent at all.

Now Shi Ting is also studying very seriously, which makes Shi Zhen feel a little relieved: "Tingting is very hardworking."

"Well," Shi Ting nodded earnestly, "Brother, I couldn't speak Mandarin well before, and I don't want to be laughed at by others!"

No wonder you study so hard...

When Shi Zhen was talking to Shi Ting, Guan Baiyu brought out the meal reserved for Shi Zhen.

He put the rice in the pot to warm it up, and it's neither hot nor cold, and it's just right to eat.

Shi Zhen, who had been starved for a long time, started to eat almost immediately, and he didn't even look like eating.

After Shi Zhen finished eating, he felt himself recovering.

Knowing that Shi Ting had been studying all afternoon, he asked Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting to follow him to the fried skewer stand.

When the three of them came outside, Shi Ting ran to the front in no time.

Shi Zhen told Shi Ting that Shi Ting could only walk in the bustling places at night and not go to the alleys.

Shi Ting is still very obedient in these aspects, she is still afraid of the dark... Shi Zhen didn't tell her to stop, but watched her run away.

When she ran away, Shi Zhen asked Guan Baiyu, "How is Tingting doing?"

Guan Baiyu was silent for a moment, and finally said: "Brother... sister Chinese is still good, math..."

How should I put it, Shi Ting can still do Chinese homework, but math homework...

Guan Baiyu was really puzzled. He didn't understand why he had explained such a simple question several times, but Shi Ting just couldn't figure it out.

After hearing Guan Baiyu finish speaking, Shi Zhen was silent for a while.

Alas, he couldn't figure out those junior high school math problems that Guan Baiyu did.