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The next morning, the news that Li had opened a grocery store next to the workshop spread throughout Kaoshan Village, and many villagers rushed to join in the fun.

Mrs. Xie from the first wife and Mrs. Jiang from the third wife had also been busy all morning. Mrs. Li told them to cut a piece of pork and prepare the things for worshiping the gods.

The shop opened and people wanted to worship their ancestors, so Li prepared some candies and eggs and told them to go to the ancestral hall to burn paper first and then go to the shop to worship heaven and earth.

Zhang Tiezhu and his wife opened the shop early in the morning to check if there were any problems. Many early risers were looking around at the door.

The main entrance of the grocery store is inside the workshop and is open to the workers, but outsiders are not allowed to enter the workshop. Villagers can only buy things at the back window of the Tiezhu Grocery Store.

The back window is not small, about one meter wide, and is separated by wooden strips in the middle. Through the back window, you can see everything inside the grocery store.

Many villagers crowded forward to see what was inside, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

The workers knew yesterday that Zhang Tiezhu's family was going to open a grocery store, and many of them praised the plan.

We have been working in this workshop for a while and feel that everything is good here, except that sometimes when we want to buy something, we have nowhere to buy it.

Especially for young men who are not married yet, they feel itchy when they have some money on hand and always want to buy something.

Now, Li opened this grocery store, which just filled this gap.

After paying homage to their ancestors in the ancestral hall, Mrs. Xie and Mrs. Jiang came to the grocery store carrying their baskets. Old Mrs. Li had already prepared the table.

Xie placed the things on the table and burned some incense, candles and paper money. Li looked very pious, clasped her hands together and muttered something.

Seeing that it was almost ready, Zhang Tiezhu stood outside with firecrackers in his hand and shouted loudly, "Light the firecrackers! When the firecrackers go off, it will be worth a fortune..." After that, he picked up the firecrackers and lit them.

The workers covered their ears, fearing that they would not be able to avoid the explosion in time. Suddenly, deafening firecrackers sounded, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.

After a while, the sound of firecrackers finally stopped, and Li smiled and said to everyone, "Hello, everyone! Today is the opening day of Tiezhu Grocery Store, and everyone is welcome to shop.

If there is something that is not in the store, as long as you place an order, you can also tell me in advance and I can help you get it back..."

The man named Datou walked in first, and Li greeted him warmly, "Young man, what do you want to buy?"

"Auntie, do you have any cigarettes?"

Li laughed: "Yes~Yes!"

Other workers also walked in one after another, looked around, and began to ask about the price.

"Uncle Tiezhu, how much do you sell this candy for?"

"Auntie, how much do you sell these hawthorns for?"

Li was responsible for collecting the money, Zhang Tiezhu was responsible for packing them, and Jiang negotiated the price with them.

Xie carefully observed everyone, on guard against anyone doing something dishonest, and at the same time watched the villagers at the back window to see if they needed to buy anything else. The family worked together, busy but not chaotic.

Shen Ping had wanted to come over and take a look in the morning, but after thinking about it, she felt it was inappropriate. She had already separated the family business, and besides, it was her mother-in-law who opened the shop, so she had already helped in every way she could.

Everyone found the new shop interesting and many people bought things. Soon, many items were left empty on the shelves. Li collected the money and smiled from ear to ear.

This is truly a great opening!

Looking at the money in the drawer, Li's heart was pounding. She roughly calculated that there were at least three hundred copper coins. Not to mention anything else, she must have earned at least seventy or eighty copper coins.

It was time to start work, and the workers began to get busy. Gradually, there were fewer people.

Zhang Tiezhu and his two wives had gone to work a long time ago. Occasionally, there would be groups of three or four villagers coming to the back window, asking about the price from time to time.

Aunt Big Foot smiled enviously at the back window and said, "Sister Li, I really envy you. Your second branch has made a name for itself, and now you are also benefiting from it.

Everyone has a job to do, and now even you have opened a shop, so you really won’t have to worry about food and clothing in the future!"

Mrs. Li listened with a serious face: "Auntie Big Foot, look at what you said, if you talk about benefiting from others' help, every family in our village benefited from my second son's wife.

Let's talk about your family. Don't Tongsuo and his wife work at Chili Workshop? Have you ever had any good thing happen to you?"

"hey-hey……"

Aunt Big Foot chuckled and said with an embarrassed look: "Sister Li, you are right. Thanks to Mother Dachun, we are now living a good life and no longer have to worry about food."

Seeing that Li was a little angry, and fearing that she would not give up, Aunt Big Foot quickly changed the subject: "Sister Li, do you have any candy? Give me some candy, and I will go back to comfort my grandson."

Hearing her words, Li quickly forgot the unpleasantness just now and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, two cents a candy."

Aunt Big Foot's eyes widened: "What kind of candy is this? Why is it so expensive?"

Li said seriously, "Aunt Big Foot, you don't know that sugar is very expensive. We have money now. No matter how hard life is, we still need some sweetness occasionally."

Aunt Big Foot gritted her teeth and said, "Okay! Give me five~"

"Okay~" Li immediately laughed, counted out five candies from the shelf, and handed them to Aunt Big Foot outside the window.

This candy is only the size of a thumb, but it costs two cents each. Aunt Big Foot's heart is bleeding. But she must not let Li look down on her.

So he forced a smile, took out a wallet from his waist, counted out ten copper coins and said, "Sister-in-law, count them."

"Okay!" Li took the copper coin and said to Aunt Big Foot with a smile: "This candy is delicious. Come again next time!"

Aunt Big Foot carefully took the candy, put it in her wallet, turned around and left the grocery store.

The moment she turned around, Aunt Big Foot's face immediately fell. These ten cents could almost buy a pound of black flour.

Li was very happy at the moment, as she could buy the candy at only one penny per piece.

Now, he sold two cents a piece, which was equivalent to earning half of the profit. He earned five copper coins from five candies. This felt so good. For the first time, Li felt how easy it was to make money.

Gradually, everyone went to work, and those who went to the fields were busy working in the fields, and this person gradually left.

Taking advantage of this free time, Li counted all the money in the drawer. The number was beyond his expectation. There were almost 400 copper coins.

Although Li could not read, she knew basic math. She checked the items on the shelves, did some calculations, and found that she had made a net profit of almost 300 copper coins.

Now, more than half of the things on the shelves are gone, and I have to think about restocking them.

Thinking about purchasing goods, Li started to worry again. Dadong was a servant of the second son's wife, and she couldn't always let him take her to purchase goods.

After thinking about it, Li came up with a good idea. She planned to ask Zhang Daniu and Zhang Sanniu to buy these things for her when they went out to collect the pigs' offal.

Thinking that there weren't many people around, Li put the money in her pocket and took some candies and hawthorns to comfort her grandson, as she still had to work in the fields later.

Da Hu and Er Hu originally wanted to come out to help her sell things, but Li used both soft and hard tactics to prevent them from coming out.

I thought that if they followed me out, the things on the shelves would not be enough for them to eat.

When the grandchildren heard Li say that they would have no candy if they came out, they did not follow.