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"It's okay, Dad, Uncle Sanquan, sit down and have a rest." It's the first day it opened today, and the business in the store is pretty good, so Boss Gu's mood is naturally not in a good mood.

Gu Changning invited someone to sit down on a chair in front of the store, and gave one of them a cup of soy milk and two pancakes, "Have a cup of soy milk and eat something to fill your stomach." He also took a sweet potato and peeled it to eat. Not to mention, after such a busy morning, I have digested all the food I ate in the morning, so I am hungry now.

Mmm, their baked sweet potatoes are delicious!It just needs to be put again, it will be even more delicious when it is put into flowing sugar!

I don't know whether their sweet potatoes can wait until they are sweetened according to the speed at which they sell sweet potatoes. It seems a bit unlikely...

"Oh, why did you bring them to us?" When the village chief saw that his son had brought food for them, he called Gu Sanquan to drink soy milk and eat pancakes. He also took a sip of soy milk and took a pancake eat up.

"Abba, is our family going to prepare for spring plowing?" He quickly ate a sweet potato to the end. Gu Changning didn't even let go of the last bit of tail, and even licked the peeled skin clean. It's not a waste at all.

"Yeah, I'm getting ready. I was just about to tell you about it." As soon as he talked about spring plowing, Village Chief Gu mentioned that the people in the village wanted to take the opportunity to plow the land with them, "... So, I want to ask you about this matter, should we borrow or not, if the land is turned over earlier, they can plant the crops earlier. "

"It's not impossible to borrow, even if I borrowed from them, they won't open it." Gu Changning is not stingy, his father is the village head, and his son should help his father with his affairs, and his village head father still goes to heaven every day. Come outside to help his son set up a stall to sell vegetables.

But since his father has spoken, of course he will not refuse this matter.

Meeting his father's gaze, Gu Changning said: "How about this, Uncle Sanquan goes back and drives the tiller, and whoever's land needs to be turned over, he will turn it over for them. I'll look at it later It’s good to transfer someone to the town to sell vegetables, and we don’t need to go to the intersection to sell them in the future, we can just set up a place here in front of the store and sell them.”

When renting the store, Gu Changning also thought about it. The store is used to sell roasted sweet potatoes and miscellaneous grain pancakes. They can set up a stall to sell vegetables at the entrance of the store, and put an umbrella here, so that even if it is windy and rainy I can't even get out of the sun.

Moreover, the presence of their vegetable stall can also stimulate the business in their store. After all, the father and son have been selling vegetables in the town for several months, and there are still many regular customers.

Village head Gu naturally agreed on the arrangements for his son, "Chengcheng, then I will trouble Sanquan with this matter."

"Okay, I'm fine here." Gu Sanquan didn't have any objections, the boss arranged things for him to do, so he naturally had to obey the boss's arrangement.

After negotiating with his father about borrowing the cultivator and people, Gu Changning became concerned about what their family's land will be planted this year, "Is our family's land still going to be planted with rice this year?"

"Yeah, I'm going to plant rice. Do you want to plant something else?" Village Chief Gu looked at his son with a strange expression.

"No, it's good to grow rice. I'll see if there is any land in the village that doesn't grow, and rent it out to grow sweet potatoes. If the store wants to sell sweet potatoes all year round, we have to grow a little more sweet potatoes to supply them." Only the sweet potatoes they grow themselves, and the baked sweet potatoes in the store can be sold so cheaply. If they go out to buy sweet potatoes and resell them, they will not make a profit, and there is no advantage in price.

The things in their store can be sold so cheaply, it can be said that they are basically produced by themselves, except that the flour for making pancakes is bought from people in the village, Gu Changning also plans to rent a little more land this year Come to grow food, and next year the food in their store can be supplied by themselves.

And if this store does well, they will have a second branch and a third branch in the future... Then they will need more things. If they can produce and sell themselves, the cost is low and the profit is also large. It's just a little hard work.

"There should be some free space, I'll ask you later." Village head Gu understood the meaning of his son's words. His son helped his father, and he had no reason not to help his son.

The father and son are you helping me and I helping you, mutual benefit, win-win together, and of course, emotional harmony.

Later, seeing that the business in the store was not so busy, Gu Changning was about to go back to the village with his father and Gu Sanquan, and told Liu Jinlan who stayed in the store, "Sister Lan, I will leave the store to you. I'm going back to the village with my dad."

"Look at your own arrangements at noon, whether to go to a nearby restaurant or eat in the store, you can eat whatever you want in the store, so you don't have to charge it to the account." You have to worry about every pancake, the food in the store is full of coarse grains, and the cost of eating two pancakes or sweet potatoes is not a few cents.

At the beginning, it was agreed that they would take care of lunch here. If they went out to eat, they would subsidize ten yuan a day for the meal, but if they ate in the store, the money for this subsidy would be gone. It all depends on the taste of the employees. Well, his boss will not be stingy about these few dollars.

"Hey, okay, we will arrange it ourselves. Boss, if you have something to do, go back first." Liu Jinlan is the store manager. The owner of this store is entrusted to her to take care of it. She manages.

The other two clerks in the shop are from their village, and they were recruited by Liu Jinlan. They are both women who work relatively quickly. Looking at the movements of the two of them making pancakes this morning, it seems that they are not usually at home. Fewer people doing these jobs.

Gu Changning handed over all these matters to Liu Jinlan. From the food in the store to the management of the personnel, he had already agreed with Liu Jinlan at the beginning, and now he has the full authority to hand over these matters to the other party, which also represents him. The boss trusts his subordinates.

When he was leaving, Gu Changning also asked Liu Jinlan to pack twenty coarse grain pancakes and a few roasted sweet potatoes for him, and took them back at noon to invite everyone to taste the things in their shop. He sat on the back of the tricycle, followed his father and Gu Sanquan went back to the village together.

Qin You, Master Gao and the others were walking on the road in the village when they saw Village Chief Gu coming back in a tricycle and saw the young man sitting behind the cart.

Gu Changning, who was sitting in the back of the car, naturally also saw his senior brother Qin, and asked the village head Gu who was driving to stop the car, and he jumped out of the car, and distributed warm coarse grain pancakes to senior brother Qin and Gao Master they eat.

"It's still hot." Master Gao took a pancake and took a bite. Not to mention, the pancake was hot and crispy, which was quite delicious.

A bag of pancakes and baked sweet potatoes was quickly divided by everyone.

Senior Brother Qin and a few younger juniors were also given pancakes and roasted sweet potatoes. Qin You also took a coarse-grain pancake. He took a bite and couldn't help but nodded, "The taste is not bad, mainly because the taste is good. , is this what your store sells?"

Gu Changning nodded, and replied: "Yes, the coarse-grain pancakes sold in the store cost two yuan each, and many people bought them. There were too many people buying roasted sweet potatoes this morning, and the speed of roasting sweet potatoes was not as fast as selling them. Yes, I wondered if I would have to find someone to make two more stoves later.”

"Okay, it should be enough to buy one more stove, one for spare and one for use." They were busy this morning, so Qin You didn't go to the opening ceremony of her boyfriend, but when the store was being renovated, he was He has participated in and given advice to those who have been there, including what utensils the young people want to buy.

The two walked slowly behind the crowd, with smiles on their faces as they spoke.

***

It was already noon now, and everyone walked to the back mountain to have lunch.

Today, on the first day of Liu Jinlan's work in the store in the town, her three children came to eat lunch with them after they came back from school at noon.

"Little Chenchen, you guys are here. Go wash your hands and eat. Did the teacher assign homework in the morning? You have to write your homework after dinner." Gu's mother knows what kind of person Liu Jinlan's mother-in-law is. , so I have a lot of sympathy for Liu Jinlan and her three children, so I am also very kind to the three children who come to their house for dinner.

"I finished my homework in class." As a little girl, Zhou Xiaoxiao was more active and diligent in studying than her elder brother and younger brother. She only came back after finishing her homework at school, but the other two older brothers and younger brothers The homework has not been written.

The youngest boy is a little shy. Since his mother was not at home, he has been with his brothers and sisters. The stitches on his forehead were removed, leaving a pink scar , I don't know if it will grow well in the future, but it seems quite obvious now.

Every time she saw the scar on the child's forehead, Gu's mother scolded Zhou Gui for being too cruel, even her own wife and child. Such a small child with such a scar on his forehead would be disfigured.

During the meal, Gu's mother secretly said to her son, "Zhou Gui came back this morning."

"Are you back?" Gu Changning raised his eyebrows, and was not surprised by Zhou Gui's return. Originally, the domestic violence was only locked up for ten days and half a month at most. Now that he has been locked up for so many days, it is not surprising that he was released. Nothing strange.

"That's right. Zhou Gui doesn't know about Liu Jinlan going to work in town, right?" Gu's mother asked a little worried.

"Zhou Gui doesn't know, his mother knows too. Don't worry, so what if you know, I just asked Liu Jinlan to come to my store to do something, and I'm sorry they don't dare to come to our place to cause trouble." Chang Ning wasn't too worried. A woman as tricky as Zhou Gui's mother wouldn't dare come to them, let alone Zhou Gui, a wimpy man who only knew how to beat his wife at home.

Originally, he wanted to find a suitable job for Zhou Gui in the future, but after learning that this man beat his wife and children, he completely dismissed this idea.

Although he himself is also a man, the ones he hates and despises the most in his life are those men who beat their wives and children...