Yan Ningning was still in disbelief: "This...but the other instructors listen to you...the chief instructor must be joking with us."
The other instructors are on active duty!
Rong Zhaonan said calmly: "I'm not kidding, I am a temporary worker. After retirement, I will be considered a militiaman at most."
His personal files had already been transferred out of the army. I don't know how it came to be in the hands of General Chen, and this trip to Shanghai was only possible.
Just think of it as doing the old leader a favor and doing yourself a favor.
As for reinstatement and return to the team, they are not planned for the time being. He is indeed "doing odd jobs" here and there.
After all, if he wants to escape the control of his old man, he must have enough capital and connections to compete with him.
What's more, some people in the capital probably wanted to crush his bones in the mud, so they didn't kill him in the countryside.
Unexpectedly, the situation changed. One day, the breeze blew away the smog and the bright moon appeared. At this time, I saw that he did not die in the countryside. I am afraid I will regret it very much.
Rong Zhaonan lowered his long eyelashes, hiding the darkness in his eyes with a cold and deep light.
Ning Yuan was keenly aware that something was wrong with his mood and felt a little puzzled.
Chu Hongyu looked at Ning Yuan and kept looking at Rong Zhaonan.
She raised her eyebrows and suddenly asked with a smile: "Then why does the chief instructor come to our school to do this temporary job?"
Rong Zhaonan raised his eyes and regained his composure: "Because I am short of money, my wife has all my wages. I have to pay her wages and buy her a dress."
The people around him couldn't help but burst out laughing: "The chief instructor is so pitiful, he doesn't have any money!"
"Haha..." Ning Yuan looked at her nose, her nose and her heart, listening to your nonsense, obviously because you have your own mission.
Chu Hongyu glanced at Ning Yuan with a half-smile: "What do you know? Where a man's money is, there is his heart."
Ning Yuan's round face started to feel a little warm. This...she recognized this sentence very much.
Rong Zhaonan's money is all with her, but it's all investment, well, investment!
Chu Hongyu held her chin and said with a smile——
"Tsk, tsk, the chief instructor is telling everyone that he has a wife and asking others not to pester him. He is very clear about things. He looks a bit like the good men we have in Shanghai!"
When the chief instructor announced in public that he had a wife, the girls who originally looked at him with admiring eyes were instantly disappointed.
"No, Chief Instructor, this is our Sichuan and Chongqing rake ears - commonly known as henpecked!" A girl from Sichuan and Chongqing couldn't help but raise her voice.
Everyone burst into laughter and the atmosphere was full of joy.
"Ahem..." Ning Yuan coughed, being provoked.
My heart felt inexplicably like eating ice cream in the summer, it was cold and sweet.
Rong Zhaonan looked at her little ears and turned red. He looked down at her toes and chuckled.
He didn't pay much attention to the female students' teasing, and just announced calmly——
"Jing Jing, you are the only female phalanx participating in the performance during the review. I will keep an eye on you personally. Your training instructors will be your trainers!"
After saying that, Rong Zhaonan left.
Chu Hongyu's calm and teasing smile froze on her face.
Oh my God, the sparring partners are instructors? ! These girls must not be beaten and beaten like flour balls!
Ning Yuan looked at Rong Zhaonan's back, feeling a little strange. He was fulfilling his promise to teach her self-defense.
Either this man doesn't say it, or if he says it, he will definitely do it!
Ning Yuan's mood was a little complicated, and she said to Chu Hongyu and Yan Yangyang: "Just wait, I'll get you something to drink!"
After saying that, she trotted towards the edge of the football playground.
There was a trolley parked next to the playground. The trolley was already crowded with military training students resting on the third floor and the third floor outside.
Not for anything else, just because the old grandma and grandpa sell cold, sweet and refreshing fruit mint sparkling water!
Sweet and juicy Nanhui peaches, crisp and sweet Songjiang crystal pears, and golden and sweet Fengxian peaches are all cut into cubes and slices.
A bamboo tube cup of sparkling water contains ice, mint, sweet and sour, and can be garnished with a small piece of fruit according to the student's preference.
Although it’s not much, it’s beautiful and appetizing floating in the sparkling water, and it sells well! Very accented!
"Grandpa, give me a drink!"
"Grandma, I want yellow peach flavor!"
Students crowded together holding coins and dime tickets in their hands.
"Slow down, slow down, kids, and don't be in a hurry!" Mr. Tang looked at the students around him with a smile while sipping sparkling water.
Grandma Xia was busy collecting the money while muttering: "Fortunately, Ning Yuan insisted on getting the bamboo cup."
At first, she thought it was too heavy and troublesome to transport hundreds of cups on the train, so she had to rely on Zhang Er's connections to spend money to send them on the train.
Now I find that the business is so good, it may not be enough.
Ning Yuan squeezed over at this time and smiled: "It doesn't matter, I bought the spoon for making soy sauce. Starting tomorrow, we can also sell it by the spoon and let the students bring their own cups!"
"What a great idea!" Grandma Xia's eyes lit up. This was a great idea. It also saved them the trouble of washing the cups and finding a deposit!
Ning Yuan's current fruit sparkling water is an improved version. A cup costs eight cents, but it's still half cheaper than regular soda at 15 cents!
Military training is extremely hot, but college students are still willing to buy a glass of ice to cool them down!
The reputation is out there, including students from the other three grades, graduate students, and teachers.
Ning Yuan conservatively estimates that she can sell three to four hundred cups every day. Even if the business is not good, she still sells more than two hundred cups!
The daily income is as little as a dozen yuan, and as much as more than thirty yuan. After one month, after considering the costs and expenses, the minimum is more than four hundred yuan!
At the end of 1979, the salary of a formal university teacher was only a few dozen yuan. For an old professor like Mr. Tang, with some subsidies, his retirement salary was only more than 100 yuan a month.
The first batch of 10,000-yuan households after the reform in China were all the 10,000-yuan households that everyone once looked down upon!
Ning Yuan drank a glass of sparkling water in a good mood, and gave Chu Hongyu and Yan Ningning two more glasses!
If you want wealth and freedom, you still have to do business!
Ning Yuan told Grandma Xia: "When Grandma is selling sparkling water, remember to advertise that you have also opened a small shop on the first floor of the teachers' dormitory so that everyone can go there often!"
This is called drainage!
These 'customers' need to know where the fixed sales points of their products are!
Grandma Xia understood it and nodded like a fool: "Don't worry!"
Ning Yuan went to find Chu Hongyu and Yan Ningning with sparkling water with a smile.
Chu Hongyu had actually seen the small cart selling things a long time ago, but there were too many people, so she didn't want to squeeze in, and would rather drink cold drinks for free.
This time, Ning Yuan brought it over. She took a sip and her eyes suddenly lit up: "It tastes really good!"
Ning Yuan rolled her eyes: "My grandfather and grandma sell it to supplement their living expenses. They will also sell it at home on the first floor of the teaching building in the future. Remember to take care of their small business!"
Yan Yangyang drank a little and nodded: "Don't worry, I will definitely go!!"
Chu Hongyu looked at Ning Yuan with a charming look and a smile: "Ning Ning, your grandfather is the retired professor who protected you last time, right? The school is also very respectable, not everyone is selling things on the side of the military training ground."
Ning Yuan never thought that she could hide this from Chu Hongyu, a shrewd Shanghai girl, and smiled frankly: "Yes! The school is taking care of it. Retirement and re-employment can use your spare energy!
Of course, the school will not allow anyone to push a cart or set up a street stall to sell things. Otherwise, would it still be called a school? This is called a market!
But many of Grandpa Tang's students are now leaders in the school, and they feel guilty about what their teacher did back then.
In addition, the small store on campus cannot meet the needs of students for military training.
That's why the security department allowed Grandpa Tang and Grandma Xia to sell sparkling water during this month's military training.
Chu Hongyu thought for a while: "There are many retired faculty and staff who have been rehabilitated. This kind of thing is not a matter of small numbers but of inequality. The families of other faculty and staff may have ideas."
Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment and said thoughtfully: "You are right, I didn't expect this."
After all, Chu Hongyu was born in a big city and had worked before. She had a different vision and made the right points.
Who wouldn’t be jealous of the money-making business?
I just didn't expect that the impact of jealousy would come so quickly.
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On the Friday afternoon of the second week of military training, Grandma and Mr. Tang’s car never appeared at the edge of the playground.
The students are even more listless. On a hot day, they are looking forward to some cheap and delicious ice sparkling water!
Ning Yuan was puzzled, but she couldn't leave during military training. Rong Zhaonan, the chief instructor, had to go somewhere else for a few days to attend to business, not at school.
She could only finish all the training uneasily.
As soon as the military training ended, Chu Hongyu's family took her home directly, and Ning Yuan and Yan Yangyang hurried to the teachers' compound.
Sure enough, as soon as she got closer, Ning Yuan saw a circle of people surrounding her door, and it was noisy inside.
"Why can these two immortal old men go to the playground to sell drinks, but I, Lao Yu, can't go to the playground to sell noodles?"
"Yes, my father also came back from the countryside to be rehabilitated. If the school doesn't give an explanation, they won't even think about showing off today!"
As soon as Ning Yuan got closer, she saw that the cart she had specially hired someone to make was kicked to the ground.
Fruit, cups and drinks were poured on the floor, and the newly purchased large ceramic jar was broken.
A skinny woman in her fifties with a crotch haircut, wearing a gray short-sleeved work suit, staring like a cockfighting cock, stood at the door of her house with her arms akimbo.
Behind him were two men in their twenties and thirties, also shouting -
"That's right, everyone is judging, as long as their family can make money by selling things, how fair is it!"
