Go back to 1980 and enjoy it

After returning from Nanning, Deng Shirong has been taking charge of Suifeng Hotel.

When renovations started on the second and third floors of Suifeng Hotel, Deng Shirong had already explained the concept of the supermarket clearly to his son and daughter-in-law.

During this time, Deng Yuntai has been busy contacting major manufacturers about purchasing goods. Fortunately, most of these manufacturers have telephone numbers. You can just call them directly to discuss. There is no need to go to each manufacturer, otherwise you will not know how many pairs of shoes will be damaged. .

It took more than half a month for Deng Yuntai to negotiate the purchasing prices of various commodities. He could just wait for the supermarket on the second floor to be decorated before going to purchase the goods.

After making these preparations, Deng Yuntai and his wife met with his father to discuss how many employees the supermarket would hire.

"Dad, how many employees should we hire for this supermarket?" Deng Yuntai asked.

Deng Shirong had already thought about this question, but he did not give a direct answer. Instead, he asked: "How many employees do you think we need to hire?"

Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping looked at each other and said, "I think there are several people responsible for collecting money, as well as people responsible for placing goods, guarding goods to prevent others from stealing, and people responsible for maintaining order. In total, I estimate that we need ten people." Five or six employees will do.”

Deng Shirong shook his head and said: "Not enough!"

Zhang Xiuping answered and asked, "Dad, where do you think there are not enough manpower?"

Deng Shirong said: "Every aspect is not enough. There must be at least ten people responsible for collecting money, as well as those responsible for tallying, maintaining order, cleaning, weighing, etc. The total number of people must be at least forty to barely be enough." use."

Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping were both shocked when they heard this. These fifteen or six employees felt like a lot to them. After all, how many employees did their hotel have? I didn't expect that there would be forty people there as soon as my father opened his mouth. It was really unbelievable.

Deng Yuntai couldn't help but ask: "Dad, if we hire forty employees, the monthly salary alone will probably be more than a thousand. Isn't this cost a bit too high?"

Deng Shirong said: "As long as a supermarket is run properly, it is more profitable than a restaurant. The salary of more than one thousand employees is naturally nothing. If it is not run well, even if the salary of the employees is only one hundred, they will not make much money. "

Supermarkets in later generations will naturally not need so many employees, but this era is incomparable with later generations.

Not to mention anything else, there is a huge difference in the checkout speed. In later generations, a cashier would use a cashier gun to scan the item barcode one by one and it would be OK. At the end of the checkout, the customer would show the WeChat or Alipay QR code to complete the payment. It was so fast. A batch.

But now, even computers are not yet popular. Many businesses still use primitive abacus, and the speed here is much worse. In addition, cash is used now, and it takes a lot of time to collect and change money. Naturally, the speed is not as fast as that of later generations. It's better than that.

And in terms of anti-theft, no matter what era you are in, there are black sheep. It is unrealistic to expect all customers to have good qualities. In future generations, surveillance videos will not be able to prevent this kind of thing. Now we can only rely on people to keep an eye on them. to minimize theft.

There is also weighing. In later generations of medium-sized supermarkets, it was enough to have one or two weighing places. However, in this era, there is no sealing equipment. Things that need to be weighed can only be taken to the cashier to be weighed and settled.

Calculated in this way, it is normal for the number of employees to be larger than that of later generations.

This is one of the main reasons why Deng Shirong delayed the opening of the supermarket until today. After all, he has to hire so many employees. If he had opened the supermarket two years earlier, he would have been jailed if he was not careful. This is no joke. matter.

There is no need to worry now, because Mr. Deng made a crucial speech on the issue of employment at an important meeting last year. His advice was to put it aside and wait a few years before looking at it.

After this speech came out, wage workers no longer had to walk on thin ice as before.

Deng Yuntai and Zhang Xiuping both know that their father considers the problem more comprehensively than the couple. Since the supermarket needs so many people, he must have a reason. They don't understand now and will understand after the supermarket opens, so they don't worry about it. this problem.

"Dad, do you plan to recruit these employees from within our clan, or directly from the outside world?"

"Recruit directly from the clan!"

Deng Shirong said: "Our Naye Deng community will be built this year. If the clan members want to move to the city, they must have something to do. Just living without doing anything is not enough. I want to lead the clan members to become rich." , but I don’t want to bring out a bunch of slackers waiting to die.”

Deng Yuntai nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll think about it and recruit a group of tribesmen who can do things down-to-earth."

Deng Shirong hummed, and then confided to his son and daughter-in-law: "When the supermarket opens, the restaurant will be left to A-Zhen to run. When she gets married next year, this hotel will be her dowry!"

The seven brothers and sisters of Deng Yuntai all have a good relationship. He, the eldest brother, has received the greatest care from his father. Now that his father wants to leave the restaurant to Azhen as a dowry, he naturally has no objection and directly echoed: "Dad, this is your arrangement. It’s good. With this dowry, Azhen’s status in her husband’s family will be different.”

Zhang Xiuping got along very well with her sister-in-law Deng Yunzhen. Her daughter Xiaodong'er and son Dongzi didn't have as much as her daughter-in-law Deng Yunzhen. When her father-in-law said he wanted to leave the restaurant to her sister-in-law as a dowry, she agreed with both hands. : "It's true. With this hotel, A-Zhen must have a high status in her husband's family, and she only needs to manage the hotel and doesn't have to do other things in her husband's family, which is also good."

Deng Shirong smiled and said: "Don't tell her yet, I will give her a surprise when she gets married."

When the eldest daughter gets married, this hotel can be used as a dowry for her, but the courtyard in the capital will be kept secret for now. Anyway, until the courtyard is not really valuable, he does not plan to tell any of his children. This is what he keeps for the whole family as a trump card. use.

Zhang Xiuping said with a smile: "Okay, let's keep it secret first."

Deng Yuntai said with a smile: "Dad, you have prepared such a good dowry for Azhen, what should Azhu do? She is also nineteen years old this year, and she will probably get married in a few years."

Deng Shirong said confidently: "Don't worry about this, I have already prepared Ah Zhu's dowry."

When the building in Chaoyang Square in Nanning was built, one floor was reserved for my little daughter.

As for the eldest daughter, Deng Shirong will not treat her badly. When the Internet cafe era comes ten years later, the third floor of Suifeng Hotel will be left to his eldest daughter to run the Internet cafe. In this way, the hotel and the Internet cafe together will not necessarily be worse than Nanning.

Deng Yuntai was just joking at first, but he didn't expect that his father had even prepared his little sister's dowry. He asked in surprise: "Dad, what dowry have you prepared for Azhu?"

Zhang Xiuping was also very curious. She knew her father-in-law quite well. The seven children were basically treated equally. Since he prepared the dowry of Suifeng Hotel for his sister-in-law Azhen, then the dowry of Aunt Azhu would definitely not be the same. Worse than this.

Her father-in-law actually said that he had prepared such a dowry. It was hard for Zhang Xiuping not to be curious.

"This will be kept secret for now. You will know in two years."

…

Deng Changyuan and the other two stayed in Guangzhou for three full days before returning to Bobai carrying a bag of clothes.

After returning, the four of them followed the example of other clothing stores in Guangzhou and hung up the sample clothes on hangers. The clothing store was officially opened.

Since many of the clothing styles selected by the four people were not available in Bobai County, they quickly attracted some customers. In addition, their sales prices were relatively not expensive. After a few days of deliberation, the business grew rapidly. Get better every day.

In less than half a month, the first batch of clothing was sold out, and the business was so good that the Ou sisters almost narrowed their eyes with laughter.

The first batch of clothing was considered a test. They only bought a few hundred yuan worth of goods. Excluding the purchase cost and the cost of four people traveling back and forth to Guangzhou, this batch of goods brought them a total profit of more than 500 yuan. Such a high income. , how can these two sisters be unhappy!

When some of the goods were sold, the sisters rushed the two men to Guangzhou to purchase goods.

When the first batch of goods is sold out, the second batch of goods will be available.

After a month of this, the profits of the Ou sisters' clothing store have reached more than 1,200 yuan. This is the first month when their sales methods are still relatively immature. With this month of training, the two sisters now have the ability. It feels like a complete transformation.

It is foreseeable that the next income will be higher and higher.

On this day, the sisters closed the shop early and told Sister Ping the good news.

Seeing that the little sisters had really made money, Zhang Xiuping was also very happy and said with a smile: "Congratulations to you two, and we will continue to work hard. We will not only capture customers in the county, but also find ways to capture customers in the towns. Just follow the instructions What my father-in-law said is that you can supply clothing stores or clothing stalls in towns and villages, and do wholesale while retailing, and your income will definitely get higher and higher. "

Ou Guohua nodded and smiled: "Sister Ping, we have to do this slowly. We will wait until we have stabilized the customers here in the county before we consider developing customers in the towns."

Zhang Xiuping hummed and said, "That's what I said, you have to take control of this yourself."

"When we were staying at my parents' house a few years ago, how could we have imagined that we would be here today!"

Ou Guofang's face was filled with emotion, and she looked at Zhang Xiuping and said, "Sister Ping, Ahua and I are all thanks to you. If you hadn't married well and given us a hand, we wouldn't have known which ravine we would have married into." Gou, living a life with your face facing the loess and your back turned to the sky.”

Ou Guohua heard the words and echoed: "Yes, fortunately Sister Ping gave us a hand, otherwise I wouldn't dare to think about what kind of life I am living now."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiuping couldn't help but sigh: "This can be regarded as a good life for the three of us sisters. On that day five years ago, we chose to eat noodles at that noodle stall, and then met my father-in-law. If it hadn't been for that Once we meet, the fate of the three of us sisters may really be different.”

Ou Guofang and Ou Guohua nodded repeatedly. It was that accidental encounter at the powder stall that completely changed the fate of the three sisters.

Moreover, fortunately, the three of them have a deep love for each other as sisters. After Sister Ping married to Naye Village, they also tried their best to marry there, thinking that the three sisters could be together forever.

If they hadn't made such a choice, they would be far apart, and if they didn't contact each other for a long time, no matter how good the relationship was, it would slowly fade away.

After Sister Ping soars into the sky, it's hard to say whether she will still be willing to pull them like this!

…

In a blink of an eye, time has come again in the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

In the countryside of Bobai, every household has a taro field, and the taro field is also called the "Hundred Treasure Garden" by farmers.

Because everyone will sow cucumbers, pumpkins, stone gourds, beans, large soybeans, large black beans, amaranth, leeks, veins, celery, thistles, kale, beans, potatoes, etc. in the taro fields. Sweet potato, cassava, agarwood, dog beans, onions, garlic, etc.

In short, almost all the cereals, melons and vegetables used by farmers can be produced in taro fields.

In Bobai, the planting area and output of taro are second only to sweet potatoes among many miscellaneous grains.

Every year in the fifth lunar month, farmers across the county begin to cut taro seedlings to make one of the most famous pickles in Bobai County.

There are two pickling methods for taro sprouts in Bobai, one is peeling and the other is not peeling.

Peeled taro sprouts are more common. They are used to cook with tempeh and chili. It is also a very delicious pickle, as shown below:

I found this picture randomly, just take a look at it and get a feel for it.

In addition to being cooked with peppers and black beans, it can also be used to cook small fish caught from the river. If it is done well, the taste will be very good.

Unpeeled taro sprouts are generally made into sweet and sour or sweet and sour flavors in Bobai, as shown below:

No matter what kind of taro sprouts they are, they are very delicious as long as they are cooked well. They are perfect for serving porridge. They are two major pickles that can be compared with sauerkraut.

Deng Shirong used to be able to make these things, but since he was reborn, he no longer plowed the fields or planted them.

However, although Deng Shirong no longer cultivates the land, his family produces much more miscellaneous grains and various pickles every year than when he plowed the land before, because relatives, friends and clan members are rushing to get all kinds of miscellaneous grains. Give it to him with pickles.

After everyone had pickled the taro seedlings, the lychees and watermelons began to ripen one after another.

Nowadays, most families of the Deng family in Naye have planted lychees, but only Naye village has begun to harvest them. People in other villages have not yet harvested this year because they planted them later. Their main source of income from the mountains is Plant watermelons.

At present, lychees and watermelons are still purchased by supply and marketing cooperatives. Now with the rise of the self-employed economy, although supply and marketing cooperatives have been affected to a certain extent, in the 1980s, supply and marketing cooperatives were still an unshakable behemoth. Its sales channels even included department stores. No company can compare, let alone others.

Therefore, watermelons are grown throughout Bangjie. Although the output is large, it is still very easy for the supply and marketing cooperative to digest it.

With lychees and watermelons on sale, and a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes grown in the paddy fields, the entire Naye Deng clan is filled with joy.

Compared with the Nayedeng family, the farmers in other places frowned so much that they could kill flies.

Because the early rice they planted this year suffered from serious diseases and insect pests. At this time in previous years, the rice in the fields used to look golden and they felt at ease. But this year, when they looked at the bare scene in the fields, their mood changed. Extremely heavy.

Food has been the foundation of farmers since ancient times.

It is now 1985. Except for the Naye Deng family, which has undergone great changes compared to the previous life due to the leadership of Deng Shirong, the other farmers a little further away from Bangjie Village are still no different from the previous life, and their lives are more difficult. .

In this case, early rice production is severely reduced or even lost, which really makes things worse.

But what can they do when faced with natural disasters like pests and diseases?

There are more than 3,000 members of the Yedeng clan, who are married to every township in the county. At first, everyone thought that this kind of serious natural disaster was just a local phenomenon, so they didn't discuss it too much. After all, such things have never happened before. It's not like it never happened.

But as more and more Naye Deng’s daughters-in-law communicated with their parents’ families, they discovered that things were not that simple.

“I don’t know what happened this year, but all the rice in my parents’ home was eaten up by insects!”

"Ah? Is it like this at your parents' place? My parents' place also encountered the same situation. All the early rice in the village got diseases and there were a lot of insects. When I went back to my parents' place this time, the whole village was sighing and worried. no."

"Oh my god, my parents' side also encountered the same situation. I thought it was a special situation, but when you guys said it, the situation seems a bit serious!"

"..."

As Naye Deng's daughters-in-law mentioned this matter in their chats, they discovered that their natal villages had all suffered from severe pests and diseases. The rice production had been reduced across the board, and there was a serious phenomenon of no grains being harvested.

If this was the case in only one or two villages, it wouldn't be a big deal, but after communication, they found out that it was happening in all villages. Then they could be sure that this year's early rice diseases and insect pests had spread throughout the county.

Such a big thing naturally spread throughout the entire Naye Deng clan very quickly.

"Oh my god, luckily we listened to the clan leader's advice and planted sweet potatoes instead of rice this year, otherwise it would have been in vain!"

"Yes, our Ye Deng family has a leader like Jiu Gong. It is really the blessing of our ancestors!"

"We can avoid this kind of natural disaster that spreads all over the county. It seems that our Yedeng family is really starting to have good luck!"

"In the final analysis, it's because we have a good clan leader. According to the words passed down from our ancestors, the clan leader knew that there was a high possibility of extremely low temperature weather that year, so he gave everyone an early warning so that we, the whole Bangjie, wouldn't have to worry about it. A cow froze to death.

Now, because of the clan leader’s advice, we have successfully escaped this natural disaster.

It can be said that the life we ​​live now is all due to the clan leader. "

"Yes, people with other surnames don't know how envious we are of having a clan leader like Jiu Gong!"

"..."

When the Yedeng clan members discussed this matter, they inevitably mentioned Deng Shirong, the leader of the clan, which made his already extremely high prestige rise again.

During the harvest of lychees and watermelons, Deng Shirong also went to the water chestnut realm and began to receive wood pineapples from Ding Qiang.

The fruiting period of wood pineapple is relatively long, starting from May and lasting for several months.

Anyway, Deng Shirong only leaves the capital after harvesting longan in July every year, so he plans to purchase the pineapples until July.

In nearly three months from May to July of the lunar calendar, Deng Shirong purchased a total of 836 tons of wood pineapples, 1,209 tons of ground pineapples, and 274 tons of Shiqi longan.

The purchase price of wood pineapple is 0.16 yuan/jin, and the cost of 836 tons is 267,520 yuan.

The purchase price of ground pineapples is 0.1 yuan/catty, and the cost of 1,209 tons is 241,800 yuan.

The purchase price of longan is 0.3 yuan/jin, and the cost of 274 tons is 164,400 yuan.

The total expenditure was 673,720 yuan.

This wave directly reduced Deng Shirong's cash to just over 1.08 million.

…

Beijing.

Deng Yunheng, who had graduated from university, came to a certain department of the central government to report with excitement.

This department is a department composed of 8 units including national planning, economy, labor, materials, and statistics. It has a famous name in later generations-the National Development and Reform Commission.

After a conversation with his father, and consulting with his mentor and alumni with more backgrounds such as Li Haibo (1981-1984 Chairman of the Peking University Union), he finally chose this department. This is the starting point of his career. Where can he go in the future? One step depends on his ability and luck.

…

On the train from Nanning to Beijing, Deng Shirong was thinking about his second son's job.

Among Deng Shirong's seven children, the eldest son has a supermarket chain business route that he has arranged. With his relatively mature and steady character, as long as he does not make rash advances and operates the business step by step, he will be successful in the future, but his net worth More than one billion should be no problem.

The eldest daughter will have a Suifeng Hotel and an Internet cafe in the future. He will continue to provide help to the eldest daughter according to the situation, and she will definitely be able to live a prosperous life in the future.

The youngest daughter Deng Shirong has also made arrangements, and her future life will not be bad.

The third son took the path of politics in his previous life. He only graduated from a technical secondary school and could enjoy the treatment of a senior officer after retirement without any background. There is absolutely no need to worry about his political wisdom.

In this life, the third son's academic performance is affected by the family and the second son's influence, and is much better than in the previous life. When the time comes, he will enter the official career with a higher education. Normally, it is absolutely impossible to do worse than in the previous life.

In other words, the third son is guaranteed to be in good shape. If he can seize the opportunity, his future prospects are limitless.

The same goes for the fourth son and the youngest son. Deng Shirong has arranged a path for them, and they will all develop very well in the future.

It can be said that Deng Shirong does not need to worry about these children.

It is difficult for Deng Shirong not to worry about his second son who chose to go into politics.

After all, the second son in his previous life was a real professional gambler.

Fortunately, the only thing that gives Deng Shirong some comfort is that although his second son has embarked on the road of no return, there is still a difference between a professional gambler like him and a bad gambler like Deng Changqi (the neighbor who chopped off his fingers). .

I won’t go into detail here, but there are essential differences between the two.