Chapter 264 Uncle Cao's Past

Hearing Zheng Yue ask this, Cao Jinyang burst into laughter.

"Five hours of sleep a day is enough. People get more sleep after they die. Why do you sleep so long when you are alive?"

Cao Jinyang's question stumped Zheng Yue.

Netizens in the live broadcast room disagreed with Cao Jinyang's statement.

"Why do we need to sleep for a long time when we are alive? We will sleep forever after we die. What era is this? No one really believes this, right?"

"Sleeping is for better activities the next day. One yin and one yang, in line with the laws of nature. Sacrificing sleep time to do things like him won't last long."

"From a medical point of view, this is very harmful to his health. He could have lived to be 70 or 80 years old, but if he stays up late like this, I feel he may not even make it to 60."

Seeing Zheng Yue looking at him in surprise, Cao Jinyang continued to explain: "Aren't you young people quite educated? Do you know something called deep sleep?"

Zheng Yue nodded.

"I know that, but what does this have to do with deep sleep?"

"Of course it does."

Cao Jinyang said seriously: "You young people nowadays all sleep in a shallow state, so sleeping for more than ten hours a day is useless."

"But I'm different. I sleep deeply. Even though I only sleep five hours a day, the quality of my sleep is higher than yours even if you sleep for more than ten hours!"

Cao Jinyang was very confident when he said this and didn't feel there was any problem at all.

But Zheng Yue was stunned.

How else can it be explained this way?

If Cao Jinyang had deep sleep for those five hours, then he could indeed achieve the effect he mentioned.

But this is not scientific!

So far, no one has been able to master deep sleep for such a long period of time. In Zheng Yue's opinion, Cao Jinyang is hypnotizing himself.

However, Zheng Yue didn't come here today to expose counterfeiting, so she just listened to what Cao Jinyang said and didn't refute it.

As to whether it is true or false, it is up to netizens to judge.

"Uncle Cao, let me ask my second question."

"I feel like the meat in your dumplings is very fresh, not frozen, but why do you only sell them for ten yuan? Can you get back your cost?"

Cao Jinyang smiled and nodded.

"Of course I can get my money back. I'm not a fool."

"The meat in these dumplings you eat is the freshest. I just put more vegetables in them to make the portion look bigger. I also stuffed more vegetables in them to ensure the taste without making you feel that the dumplings are too small."

Cao Jinyang was not at all secretive and calculated the cost right in front of Zheng Yue.

After all this calculation, everyone understood.

After deducting rent, water, electricity and gas, Cao Jinyang earns 50 cents per plate of dumplings.

When she came to this conclusion, Zheng Yue even felt that Cao Jinyang had miscalculated.

"Uncle, you only make 50 cents from this plate of dumplings. How many can you sell in a day? Can you make dozens of dollars?"

Cao Jinyang waved his hand confidently.

"I didn't make a mistake. I've run this store for decades. How could I have made a mistake?"

"My daily net profit is 60 yuan when business is good, and around 30 yuan when business is bad. Anyway, I can make enough food and clothing every day."

Everyone was shocked to hear Cao Jinyang say this.

Netizens in the live broadcast room were discussing it. "Sixty yuan a day, only 1,800 yuan a month. This means that the uncle worked hard from dawn to dusk for decades, but in the end he doesn't even get 2,000 yuan a month?"

"This is amazing, but I don't understand why he did this. Can anyone explain it to me?"

"No, what's the point? I heard from Xu Gou before that the uncle has never taken a break in all these years. He insisted on opening the store even when he was sick. Just for 60 yuan a day?"

Netizens couldn’t understand it, and Zheng Yue couldn’t understand it either.

If it was 600 yuan a day, they could understand Cao Jinyang's hard work, after all, it was about making money.

But what are you doing with 60 dollars a day? This is when your business is at its best.

If business is bad, I can only make 30 yuan a day, and that’s all I can make from selling two packs of cigarettes.

Cao Jinyang was about to explain with a smile when another guest arrived.

The uncle asked the two to continue eating and he turned around to continue his work.

After Cao Jinyang left, Zheng Yue looked at Xu Wen and asked in confusion: "Brother Xu, what is going on? Is what the uncle said just now true?"

Until now, Zheng Yue still couldn't believe that what Cao Jinyang said was true, but the facts were right in front of her, and Zheng Yue had to believe it.

Xu Wen glanced at her and said, "What do you think is the purpose of life?"

Zheng Yue was stunned by Xu Wen's question and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Xu Wen smiled and said, "People live their whole lives to do what they want to do."

"Don't be fooled by the uncle's current appearance. He used to be a famous dumpling king in this area. The neighbors all loved the dumplings he made. In fact, in the beginning, he made a lot of money by selling dumplings. He even had a car and a house."

"But these are not what the uncle cares about most. He just likes making dumplings. His dream is to make dumplings for the rest of his life. It's that simple."

Xu Wen told the story of Cao Jinyang's past.

It turns out that Cao Jinyang once made a fortune by selling dumplings.

After becoming rich, he married a wife and had a son. He was definitely a winner in life.

It’s just that people worry not only when they have no money, but also when they have money.

After becoming rich, his wife and children hoped that the uncle would hand over the dumpling shop to someone else, and open a chain store himself.

Anyway, the brand has already been put up, and they think they can make more money by opening chain stores, and the uncle won’t have to work so hard, which is equivalent to going straight from selling dumplings to becoming a big boss.

But the uncle doesn't think so.

The uncle just likes selling dumplings, so no matter how his wife and children persuade him, he is unwilling to leave this store or open a branch.

Later, my wife and children often came to the kitchen to learn from me.

After they learned it, they opened a dumpling chain store without telling Cao Jinyang, and they still used Cao Jinyang's sign.

The business was indeed booming at the beginning, after all, everyone thought that this was a branch opened by Cao Jinyang himself.

But soon because of the taste problem, everyone realized that they had been cheated.

Some old customers even came to the store to curse Cao Jinyang.

Cao Jinyang was very angry when he found out about this. He went back to argue with his wife and children, but ended up being scolded instead.

In desperation, Cao Jinyang divorced and his son followed his wife.

Xu Wen glanced at Zheng Yue.

"Now you know why Uncle Cao is happy to make only 50 cents from a plate of dumplings, right?"

"Because dumplings are everything to him now."

(End of this chapter)

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