"Everyone. To celebrate the new dynasty at 21 o'clock tonight, His Majesty will set off fireworks in Jingshan to celebrate the new dynasty with the people. Please go home and watch."
The people who were queuing up roared again and started talking.
Every year, on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the government and the people of the city set off fireworks to watch the lanterns. That day is also when the Spring Festival festive atmosphere reaches its climax. Unexpectedly, there will be fireworks on New Year's Eve this year, and they will be set off on the top of Jingshan, the highest point in the city. This way the whole city can see it.
The news was released from Xinghe Supermarket and quickly spread throughout the city. Every family prepared a small horse and went to the yard to watch when the time came.
Zheng Sanfa's home is in Beicheng Bingjiakou Hutong, which is a civilian area in Beicheng. They are all shanty houses. His family has a small mud house with three rooms. His parents live in one room, the couple lives in one room, and the two children live in one room. A small side building was built on the east side of the house to serve as the kitchen.
Today I bought ten pounds of rice, ten pounds of flour, and five pounds of fat pork. The family is celebrating a prosperous new year with great joy.
Old man Zheng is lighting the fire, old woman Zheng is making noodles, the fourteen-year-old girl is handling cabbage, and Zheng Sanfa is chopping firewood and carrying water.
His wife was chopping meat fillings. Prepare for a while and make dumplings with the whole family. The family was very busy and happy.
Although I didn’t make much money this year, Xinghe Supermarket opened this year as soon as possible. Because it has strong logistics and purchases goods directly from the place of production, there are no middlemen to make profit. All products are much cheaper, directly benefiting the poor people in the capital. Benefit.
This year's Spring Festival is better than any other year.
Yang Fan just wants to take out all the money from the rich and create jobs for the poor.
The items in the high-priced section of Xinghe Supermarket are really good, but there are no products with a unit price lower than five yuan. As long as rich people see these good things and try them out, they will never be able to resist buying them.
It is easy for people to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go back from luxury to frugality.
Once you experience this kind of pleasure, you will never be able to quit.
Since Yang Fan got the mysterious ruby, the ring's teleportation ability has been strengthened. Now he has more things that can be teleported safely.
Just like the iron stove, within a month of opening, 20,000 units were sold, which was crazy.
In the end, the installers were exhausted.
I had no choice but to stop the installation service and give away 100 pieces of briquettes, allowing the customer to follow the instructions in the pictures and install them at home.
Because it really can’t be installed.
Before Yang Fan started selling iron stoves, he bought all the coal mines in Mentougou in the west of Beijing. The coal he sells now is all from Mentougou. After all, this stuff is not worth transporting it long distances.
Zheng Sanfa's neighbor, Chen Xiaohu, has rheumatism, which makes her very sick in the winter. Chen Xiaohu is a filial son. Although life was tight, Chen Xiaohu still gritted his teeth and bought one. After buying an iron stove for his home, he was quick-minded and quickly figured out how to install and use this thing.
When he saw that the iron stoves were out of stock, the supermarket simply gave up on installing them.
He immediately recognized this as a business opportunity. He no longer carries sacks in Beixincang.
A sign was held just outside the supermarket door, asking people to install iron stoves. He doesn't charge any wages, he just needs to give him a coupon worth 100 yuan of briquettes that the supermarket will compensate for not installing it.
From then on, he installed stoves for people all day long, often working until midnight before returning home.
His wife sells briquettes at home. A delivery of briquettes worth more than 1,000 yuan was delivered to your home by the supermarket. Even the shipping cost is saved. What he sells is cheaper than the coal stations in supermarkets, and many poor people come to buy it.
In less than a month, they made twenty taels of silver, which made the Chen family go crazy with joy.
At Xu time, Zheng Sanfa's family's big white steamed buns were out of the pot.
Gu Ta's wife knocked off her son's little hand that was reaching for the steamed buns, quickly picked out the two roundest ones, put them into the only good bowl without gaps in the house, and placed them in front of the ancestral tablet. Another large bowl of rice was served and placed in front of the ancestor's memorial tablet.
Then Lao Zhengtou and his wife took the whole family to offer incense and kowtow to their ancestors. Ask the ancestors to bless the Zheng family to have a better life.
Then the family brings the wrapped dumplings to the yard with a curtain to freeze them, waiting for them to be cooked at midnight. Mrs. Zheng put the lid on the pot and pressed it with stones to prevent the cat from eating it.
At this time, the soybean tofu stewed in the pot is ready. There were four dishes placed on the simple wooden table, stewed tofu, minced pork with red porridge, vinegared cabbage, and white meat with garlic paste. There is also a pot of radish soup.
The staple food is rice and freshly steamed white flour buns.
The whole family looked at this sumptuous dinner and became happy.
Old Zhengtou took out the half-small jar of roasting knives that had been there for half a year from under the bed, and poured a bowl for his son and himself.
"Thanks to His Majesty, I can live a good year this year. Let's have a drink." Old Man Zheng said happily.
Zheng Sanfa quickly banged the bowl with his father and took a sip of the hot roasted knife.
Most of this kind of bad wine is made from plant roots and a small amount of bran, and there is not much grain, so there is too much methanol, less ethanol, and too much fusel alcohol. Drinking more fusel alcohol makes it very spicy, and it can burn the heart and lungs, but it is not You can drink it every Spring Festival.
"Dad, I want to tell you something." Seeing the old man happy, Zheng Sanfa said tentatively.
"What's the matter? Tell me." The old man glanced at him.
"I don't want to work in Wang's shoe repair shop anymore."
Before he finished speaking, his father slapped him on the head, and Mr. Zheng immediately became angry.
"You're crazy. It's so hard to find work now, even for the whole family. Why don't you quit and go drink the northwest wind?"
"Dad, don't be angry. I met a noble man. Yesterday I gave Xiaohu next door his repaired boots. I happened to meet a young man named Zhuzhu. He is one of the supervisors of the supermarket. Chen Xiaohu caused a problem when he installed an iron stove for someone. They noticed that they did not have enough manpower, so they supported Chen Xiaohu to recruit a few people to set up an after-sales service shop, which was responsible for installing and repairing iron stoves, delivering coal for a fee, etc. In the future, the supermarket would no longer do these things, leaving them all to Chen Xiaohu and the others. Come and do it.”
Zheng Sanfa's mother-in-law immediately exclaimed: "Chen Xiaohu is not going to make a fortune. Now that iron stoves are so easy to sell, after-sales work is indispensable. He really has met a noble man."
Zheng Sanfa nodded and said: "There are special counters selling leather shoes and boots in the supermarket, but they are not satisfied with the current styles. They plan to support some family workshops to make shoes and boots according to their styles. The supermarket provides raw materials, tools, and products. Underwriting, the workshop earns wages.”
Old Man Zheng nodded and said: "This is a good deal. If you sell it under the guarantee, you don't have to worry about selling it. Your mother and I can make shoes. With you and two children, your wife can open a workshop, but we don't have the capital. Doesn’t that supermarket charge money for purchasing raw materials?”
Zheng Sanfa said: "The supermarket can hand over the raw materials and tools to the workshop first, but there must be a guarantor. Chen Xiaohu and I are close friends, and he agrees to guarantee me. As long as you agree, our family can start from The supermarket is taking orders.”
Mr. Zheng and his wife also made shoes when they were young, but the price of leather has been unstable in recent years, and many family workshops have stopped doing it because they cannot withstand the risks. Now the whole family relies on the wages earned by the son repairing shoes in the shop. After all, the wages are stable and the income is guaranteed during droughts and floods, so there is no risk.
Now that supermarkets have borne all the risks, they only earn piece-rate wages. With such a good thing, there is no need to hesitate.
"Let's do it. Your mother and I are only in our early fifties and can still work for another ten years. Our family's inherited craftsmanship cannot be lost. With two children as apprentices, let's take over this job."
When Zheng Sanfa and his wife saw that the old man agreed, they immediately became happy, and the family happily ate.
"Grandpa, grandpa, after dinner, can we go to the yard and watch the fireworks?" the little grandson begged.
"Okay, let's all go, the whole family will watch." The old man fondly took a slice of boiled, thinly sliced, almost transparent white meat, dipped it in garlic sauce, and put it in his grandson's rice bowl.
