Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 36 Victory in the first battle
A total of three sets of kettles and stoves were prepared to cope with peak periods.

There are also two large teapots for brewing tea for guests.

At the beginning, a stove, a kettle and a teapot are enough.

The first pot of water boiled quickly, and Fang Mingche poured it into the teapot filled with coarse tea stems.

The cold wind was still a bit chilly. Selling hot tea at this time of year didn't require any gimmicks.

Soon a customer came and asked, "How much is a bowl?"

Fang Mingche pointed to the sign, on which "two cents a bowl" was embroidered in smaller letters.

He was too lazy to respond to them one by one and just marked them out.

"Two bowls, please."

Fang Mingche turned over two large bowls and poured the liquid from the kettle.

This is considered opening.

Two two-cent coins were put into a tin box that had been used to hold a large box of candy. Yanyan heard the jingle and looked over here.

She knows that this is money. She makes money and is happy!
Only with money can you go to Beijing to visit your mother and buy meat——

Fang Mingche set up a stall in the carriage and arranged for her to sit at the front of the carriage, away from the small stove and kettle.

She occasionally got up and moved around.

"Don't run around! Be sure to tell Daddy if you leave."

"Ah."

Fang Mingche is not worried about his daughter getting lost when setting up a stall here. There are PLA soldiers standing guard nearby!

It makes me feel so safe!
Besides, my father-in-law is worried and orders people around, so most people don't dare to show off their power to the service staff in Tiananmen Square.

Here, you have to act civilized.

Seeing more and more people coming to the square, a warm smile appeared on his face.

Someone was standing here drinking tea, and the sign was quite conspicuous.

Gradually, more and more tourists came to see it and drink tea.

Two cents is really not expensive. It is very comfortable to drink a bowl of hot tea on a cold day.

Fang Mingche gradually became overwhelmed.

Fortunately, A Yan also arrived on her bicycle.

Fang Mingche continued to make tea for people, and she quickly picked up the boiling pot of water.

Move one of the burning honeycomb coals to another stove, and then add another piece of honeycomb coal to each stove.

He filled the bucket with more water and boiled the second pot of hot water.

After finishing all this, she also brewed a pot of tea to pour for the guests.

The two of them collected money and poured tea for the people who came to drink hot tea.

Business is booming!
The money in the box gradually increased. Although most of it was cents and dimes, it was a lot!
Thirty-two bowls were washed and rotated non-stop, and a small half bucket of water was specially reserved for washing the dishes.

Fang Mingche was mainly responsible for making tea and collecting money, while Lin Yan occasionally did odd jobs.

The couple worked for two hours, and by 11:30, the morning's business was basically over.

At this moment, all three stoves are lit.

But near noon, you can stop one.

Fang Mingche checked the water in the bucket halfway through, and now poured the remaining one-sixth of the bucket into three kettles and continued to boil it.

I changed the water for washing dishes before I finished pouring it out. There is a drain next to it for rainwater.

Then he quickly hung the empty bucket on the back of his bicycle and went home to fill it with water.

There is no water tap near the square yet.

Going to households and paying for water for a long time is not that close. The nearest household is one kilometer away.

Just go back and get it. Just pedal your bike a few more times and you'll be there.

The covered bucket he bought early in the morning was bigger and taller than an ordinary water bucket.

It's a bit like a large wine barrel, and no matter how much water is shaken on the road, it can't be shaken out. At one-third of the height, I spent money to go to the iron factory to weld a row of very strong thick hooks, which are specially used to hang on the back seat of the bicycle.

Well, Lin Yan also went to an acquaintance in the iron factory to do it. He made some extra money.

After the bucket was hung up, it was not very high from the ground.

If Ayan can't borrow his father-in-law's car, he will plan to rent Uncle Gu's old bicycle.

There is no problem with load-bearing capacity. Our African brothers in later generations can even carry three or four hundred kilograms.

When Fang Mingche came back with two large buckets of clean water, the mother and daughter were sitting together, counting money with smiles on their faces.

It's almost twelve o'clock now, and the tourists have all gone to find a place to eat.

One of their stoves continued to boil water to accommodate the occasional guests.

On another stove, three lunch boxes were being heated in a tin pot and steamer. One lunch box was used on the train, and the other two were bought from a department store.

The lunch box contained one meat dish, two vegetable dishes and rice, which were the meals Fang Mingche had prepared early in the morning.

It was too early and the tourists hadn't arrived yet, so he cooked at eight o'clock and arrived here at nine o'clock.

Yanyan’s meals are prepared individually, just like those for her and her husband.

Seeing Ah Yan counting happily, Fang Mingche asked with a smile: "How many are there?"

Ah Yan smiled and lowered her voice and said, "It's more than seven dollars!"

I made over seven dollars in the morning. I'll make as much in the afternoon, maybe even more.

After all, the afternoon is longer!

I made twenty dollars that day.

She put away two one-dollar notes, a two-dollar note, and a fifty-cent note, leaving only the cents in there.

He couldn't help but stick to Fang Mingche and said, "I didn't expect it to be so profitable! It really took advantage of the traffic in the square."

Fang Mingche smiled, "This is Tiananmen Square! It's unreasonable that there is no such business. Moreover, there should be a lot of room for growth. However, it is definitely impossible for us to monopolize it. I say, you sold three or four hundred bowls of tea in the morning, aren't you tired?"

Nowadays, hiring people is not allowed. Hiring people means exploitation. Couples can only work on their own. It was not until 1987 that hired labor was explicitly allowed. The "seven ups and eight downs" were not proposed until .

It seems that two large buckets are enough for four hundred bowls of tea.

As the flow of repeat customers increases, we will see if we need to add more large buckets.

However, there will probably be other people competing soon. Maybe there will be no chance of increase!

Lin Yan tested her arm and found it was still a little tired. Fortunately, Mingche did all the heavy work.

But, "It's okay, I'm making money! At first, when you told me that BJ was full of opportunities, I didn't believe it."

Really, it’s a great profit!

After deducting the several hundred dollars spent on shopping, water is free, and the cost of honeycomb coal and coarse tea stalks is not high.

This way, the net profit is at least 500 yuan per month.

Fang Mingche laughed, and seeing his daughter also laughing along with her mother, he felt very happy.

However, the tourism industry is still very depressed nowadays. Only Tiananmen Square can have such a large number of tourists.

Others, including the Great Wall, are still overgrown with weeds.

He had expected this before, but now that he has actually made money, he feels truly at ease.

It is best to get rich through hard work.

This way he actually earns more than taking the risk of selling goods.

But the third time he went to sell goods, he probably didn’t dare to invest all his money.

Moreover, if you are lucky once or twice, nothing will happen, but it is hard to say what will happen if it happens too many times.

In his previous life, he was actually very indignant. Why did the college entrance examination scores of BJ candidates have to be several tens of points lower?

But if young people can’t find jobs and settle down, it will really be a big problem.

Especially in places like BJ, they need to be comforted.

In this life, he has to make Yanyan lose these few points. They rely on themselves!

(End of this chapter)