Liu Dongmei watched Tie Min push the cart to the vegetable market. Less than an hour later, the cart came back with all the pots and pans empty.

She was quite excited, so she rushed forward, grabbed Tiemin's small leather bag slung across her body, put her hand in, and then pulled it out again, confused: "Brother, where's the money?"

"What money?" Ironborn asked stupidly.

"The money from selling goods." Liu Dongmei noticed that Tie Min's expression was wrong and asked, "What happened."

Tiemin sighed and pushed the cart into the yard. He parked the cart, moved all the pots, pans, scales and other things into the house, then took off his white apron, lay down on the kang, and closed his eyes.

Liu Dongmei stared blankly at Tie Min, an ominous premonition welling up in her heart.

It's the first time that Ironborn sells goods at a stall. It's okay if he doesn't make any money. At least he can't even earn back his capital.

Liu Dongmei wanted to ask a few questions, but she was afraid of angering Tie Min. She was still panicking, so she felt depressed for a few times, turned around and went to the upper room, and said to Shengzi who was having lunch: "Do my sister-in-law a favor."

Shengzi glanced at Liu Dongmei but said nothing. The implication was that it was okay to help, but it had to be paid.

"Your brother went out to sell a cart of cooked food. He's back in a short time." Liu Dongmei's eyes immediately lit up when she heard the word "cooked food". She added: "The things are gone and the money is gone. You go

Ask, what happened."

"No need to ask, it must have been confiscated by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau." Zhou Zhiqiang interjected: "To do business now, you must apply for an industrial and commercial license. If you don't have that thing, it will be caught by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau."

"The investigation is very strict now." Aunt Zhou said in a supportive tone: "People from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau come to our purchasing station every three days to check this and that, and they talk a lot."

"I heard from Tie Min that he will test it for a few days and then apply for a license after the business is good." Liu Dongmei saw Shengzi sitting there with her head down, not knowing what she was thinking. She said dissatisfiedly: "You should go ahead."

"How can you thank me if I help you get your things back?" Before Shengzi finished speaking, the chopsticks from Zhou Zhiqiang's hand flew out and hit Shengzi on the head. "You bastard, you still want to negotiate terms with your own family."

Angrily, Shengzi threw down his chopsticks, jumped under the bed and said, "When I ask for help from someone, I can't just rely on words. I can't buy someone a pack of cigarettes or say a few nice words."

Zhou Zhiqiang originally planned to jump off the kang and kick Shengzi a few times. After hearing what Shengzi said, he looked at Shengzi up and down and said, "Where did you learn this?"

The son ignored his father, turned around and went out.

"Dongmei, help mom pick up the table. I'm tired. Let's sleep for a while." Aunt Zhou pushed the small kang table to the side, lay on the head of the kang and closed her eyes.

Liu Dongmei and Tie Min separated and had single families. Aunt Zhou had to get up early every morning to cook. When she came back at noon, she had to rush to help the family eat, and her tired feet hit the back of her head.

Ever since she asked Liu Dongmei for the hundred yuan and Liu Dongmei refused in disguise, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has become subtle.

Aunt Zhou encouraged Zhou Zhiqiang several times that he must get the 100 yuan back, otherwise he would not be able to speak forcefully in front of Shengzi and Yanzi from now on.

Zhou Zhiqiang said disapprovingly: "Isn't it just a hundred yuan? If you take it, you won't be able to make a fortune. If you don't, you won't be poor and can't eat. Forget it."

Zhou Zhiqiang couldn't say that he felt guilty towards his eldest son, but what surfaced unknowingly was an unreleased panic.

Yes, Zhou Zhiqiang is now a little afraid of Tiemin, afraid of his cold eyes, and afraid that one day he will no longer care about him as a father.

To put it bluntly, the traditional concept is still at play in Zhou Zhiqiang's mind. The eldest son of the head of the family is the support of his parents.

After Liu Dongmei got married, she found out she was pregnant and had an excuse to be lazy.

The mother-in-law opened her mouth to beg, but she had no reason to refuse. She picked up the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, washed and rinsed them, and even forgot what she had said to her son.

After giving birth to a son and receiving a slap on the head from his father, I felt extremely uncomfortable.

Even though Xiuzhen hit Shengzi on the head with a stick, also called a chopstick, it was as if his brain had collapsed, but the pain in his heart was huge.

When they were young, their parents favored their eldest brother and younger sister, and treated him as a superfluous thing. They scolded him a few times when they thought of it, and hit him a few times when they made trouble. He really had enough.

Since smashing up Xie Guizhi's cooked food stall, Shengzi's reputation has gradually increased. There are some minor disputes among classmates, and he has to be asked to help settle them.

Just with the cleverness of giving birth to a child, I took advantage of the lack of profit to the extreme.

Anyone who wants to ask him to do something should at least buy him a box of Dasan cigarettes, other things such as barbecue, sausages, bananas, apples and pears, not to mention.

When I gave birth to my son, I walked out of the house and kicked the wall angrily. I didn't give up until I felt my toes hurt terribly.

He limped to the lower room. When he entered the room, he asked the Ironborn, "Who confiscated your goods?"

"It's none of your business, just do whatever you have to do." Ironborn turned over, not caring about having children at all.

"We have people at the Industrial and Commercial Office." Instead of being angry, Shengzi said arrogantly: "You give me ten yuan, and I can help you get your things back."

"I'll give you fifty, what if you don't come back?" Tiemin looked at the child and said, "Hurry up and go to school."

"Give me the money first, and I will ask for something for you." Shengzi came to Tiemin and said very seriously: "The son of the director of the small town's industrial and commercial director is my classmate. I protected him in school.

, no one dares to bully him. I will ask him to do this, and it will be done."

Ironborn sat up, startling his son.

Shengzi thought Tiemin was going to beat him, so he ran away, but Tiemin grabbed him and said, "Let his father help me apply for a business license."

"Apply for a license... Okay, please give me fifty yuan first." Shengzi was sure that he could earn the fifty yuan.

"My goods have all been robbed. Who can you find to help me?" Tiemin told Shengzi that his goods had been robbed. He went to the police station to report the case because he did not have a business license and was operating illegally.

The police station agreed to accept his case, but it must be approved by the Industrial and Commercial Administration Office before opening the case for investigation.

When the Ironborn heard this, they ran home through the urethra.

He only lost less than a hundred yuan worth of goods. If the Industrial and Commercial Office were alerted, he might be fined several hundred yuan.

He was thinking about applying for a business license and felt confident about having a baby, so he came to help.

After bargaining, Tiemin reached an agreement with Shengzi for ten yuan, and Shengzi came forward to find his classmate to help Tiemin apply for a business license.

In the early 1980s, applying for an industrial and commercial business license was quite troublesome.

Fortunately, the classmate who gave birth to the child was very helpful and successfully helped Tiemin apply for a business license.

During this period, Tiemin processed cooked food every day and took Liu Dongmei with him to the market, one selling goods and the other looking at stalls.

The goods were no longer robbed, but the business was extremely bleak.

Those who had taken advantage, seeing that the Ironborn no longer gave away gifts, walked to the cooked food stall, sniffed their noses, satisfied their taste buds, and then left.

Tiemin was very puzzled as to why Xie Guizhi's business was so good in the first place.

He forgot a sentence: Everything is difficult at the beginning.

Xie Guizhi's business was bleak at first, and no one cared about it. She learned business skills from her brother Xie Ronghao, selling at a normal price, giving away alternative products, and doing marketing promotions.

For example, if you buy half a pound of pork head from me, and I give you two slices of sausage, I say that I want you to taste it, but in fact I am cultivating a potential sausage buyer.

Over time, people accepted the taste of Xie's cooked food and began to take care of her business selectively.

Tiemin only knew that Xie Guizhi had engaged in giveaways. He was a toddler and was robbed of a truckload of goods. The police were also called, which also aroused people's resentment.

The main reason is that his sauce-making skills still need to be improved, and he is currently unable to capture the taste buds of consumers.

Xie Guizhi makes cooked food, and if it cannot be sold that day, it can be put in the refrigerator, heated with old soup and sold again the next day.

The Ironborn did not have a refrigerator, so they could only boil cooked food in old soup, then reheat it the next day and take it out for sale.

Just because of its appearance, it doesn’t attract customers, so you can only take it home and eat it yourself.

Liu Dongmei was pregnant and could not eat much due to her greedy appetite, which caused problems for the Zhou family. Every meal must have cooked food, otherwise the food would be difficult to swallow.

Tie Min's cooked food business has been losing a hundred yuan a day since the day it opened, gradually accumulating to a level that Liu Dongmei couldn't bear, and she finally broke out against Tie Min.

"If you didn't do this crappy business, we would have earned 10,000 yuan. If you did, we would have lost more than 3,000 yuan a month." Liu Dongmei clapped her fingers to settle the score for Tiemin and said, "You didn't mean to lose.

Money."

Tiemin refused to admit defeat. He blamed the poor business on the old soup.

He comforted Liu Dongmei and said: "Don't worry, within two months, I guarantee that your business will be booming."

"You are just trying to trick me." Liu Dongmei finally figured out that Tie Min was determined to squander the ten thousand yuan.

She was too angry to break up with Tie Min, so she ran to the upper room to complain to Zhou Zhiqiang, hoping that Zhou Zhiqiang could come forward to stop Tie Min and stop squandering the family.

"He is not a businessman at all." When Zhou Zhiqiang heard that Tiemin had lost more than 3,000 yuan a month, his heart, stomach, and lungs all ached.

Fortunately, this is money borrowed from his father-in-law. He can pay it back one day earlier or one day later, but he still has to pay it back in the end.

Tiemin has made a lot of money in the past few years of working. It will take ten or eight years for him to repay his father-in-law.

What to do?

Zhou Zhiqiang sighed and thought about it all night, and finally made up his mind that he must have a good talk with Tiemin.

The next day, Zhou Zhiqiang was off work. He got on his bicycle and went for a spin. When he came back, he went directly to the lower room.

Liu Dongmei no longer gives Tiemin money to stock goods.

Tiemin saw a pot of old soup sitting there with no content in it. He was anxious but couldn't think of a way to do it.

Dad is here. He walked into the yard, sniffed as he walked and said, "Not to mention, it smells really good."

When Ironborn saw his father, his originally unhappy face became frosty again.

"Where's Dongmei?" Zhou Zhiqiang took the initiative to greet Tiemin.

"I don't know." Ironborn didn't lie.

Liu Dongmei was afraid that Tiemin would ask her for money to load the goods, so she hid out early in the morning. Tiemin looked around for several times, but was surprised to see no sign of Liu Dongmei.

"Come in, I have something to say." Zhou Zhiqiang walked into Tiemin's home.

Tiemin hesitated in the yard for five minutes, and finally walked into the house bravely.
To be continued...