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

Chapter 42 Accept reality
Having agreed to fair competition, Fang Mingche went back.

Old Cheng was naturally not polite. He saw that Fang Mingche and his wife could basically run a tea stall, and they also had an extra-staff water delivery worker.

He immediately divided the seven people in his team into two groups.

There are three people on one side and four people on the other side. These are the two tea stalls.

The things were basically divided equally. If there was not enough, everyone would try to get it together. They were from the nearby street office. For example, it was closer to where Fang Mingche rented a house.

Among the four directions, there are still no tea stalls in two directions.

Fang Mingche was not surprised. If you can't think of this, you are a fool.

His and Lin Yan's business today was inevitably affected by the two big bowl tea stalls led by Lao Cheng. Tourists must follow the principle of proximity.

However, they are still somewhat useful in attracting business, which offsets this effect to a certain extent.

Moreover, foreign tourists are indeed more generous in tipping.

So today, I made 18 dollars, including dollars in tips.

After only earning over twenty dollars in two days, her income dropped. Lin Yan was somewhat frustrated.

"In the future, as the customer flow increases, everyone's business will be better. Besides, you can go back and tell your father that some street offices arrange jobs for returned educated youth, that is, to open big bowl tea stalls. They get 36 yuan a month for the same job."

Lin Yan was surprised, "You even found out about his salary?"

"Yeah. But they are guaranteed to make money. As long as the business doesn't go bankrupt, they will get paid."

Therefore, my enthusiasm is definitely not as high as theirs.

Lin Yan asked, "If they estimate our income, will they be jealous?"

"Of course they will! But they will soon stop targeting us. Besides, they have three or four people per stall, while we have only two. Their business is better, and the overall income is actually not much different. It's mainly their profits that go to the street office."

This will definitely be unbalanced.

But the profits belong to the subdistrict office, and if the performance is good, some benefits will be given. If a member gets sick, the medical expenses can be reimbursed according to the proportion.

But as they are self-employed, they have to bear everything themselves.

The big bowl tea stalls are simple and can absorb a lot of labor. I guess there will be a few more in the square soon.

By then, even if we get rid of this company, we won’t be able to achieve a monopoly.

Of course, as self-employed individuals, they will definitely be excluded from collective industries.

But so what? As long as no one knows that he is an illegal immigrant.

Now that piece of happiness will never go away.

Lin Yan's neighbors all thought that he had taken his daughter back to the countryside to prepare for the college entrance examination and to come to BJ.

This way, no one will want to introduce her to someone anymore.

BJ has a population of 900 million and the distance is far. The probability of encountering those people is very low.

Moreover, the probability of those neighbors reporting him is very low, and there is no direct conflict of interest among everyone.

In order to compete with the two tea stalls, Lin Yan greeted customers more enthusiastically, especially to foreign customers, and she secretly practiced several sets of greetings.

Basically, foreign tourists all go to their tea stall.

There are tea stalls in several directions. If you are not far away, it is easy to walk over there when you see compatriots or foreigners.

Lao Cheng's two stalls relied on the power of numbers to compete with the couple.

However, it is true that there are many people in the square, and everyone can have good business. There is no need to tear each other apart!

When Lin Yan got home that day, she told her father that two more big bowl tea stalls run by other street offices had opened in the square.

Father Lin frowned, "Is this the kind of work the Street Office arranges?"

"Yes. I asked around and found out that there are also arrangements to open snack stands, car repair stands, shoe repair stands, fruit and vegetable stands. Oh, yes, there are also arrangements to open tricycles to solicit customers at the railway station. There are individuals and groups. Nowadays, there are all kinds of people, all of whom are in the business of serving others. Doesn't the Party Constitution say that we should serve the people? We are all servants and public servants of the people. It's a new society now, so don't divide people into different classes. Otherwise, people will say you have a problem with your thinking."

Father Lin was silent for a long time, "How about their collective business compared to yours?"

"They have more people, so tourists don't have to wait, so their business is better than ours. But per capita, it's definitely worse than ours."

Father Lin said, "Tourists don't care whether it's a group or an individual, right?"

"Just drink a cup of hot tea to warm yourself up, why think so much? What else can foreign tourists understand about the collective and the individual? Oh, Dad. Mingche can speak simple English and taught me. Most of the foreign tourists are attracted by us. English is the universal language!"

Lin Yan looked proud when she said this.

Father Lin raised his eyebrows, "He can speak English?"

"He only said a few simple sentences, but they are enough to attract foreign tourists!"

Father Lin nodded and said, "So, you need to study more."

For the first time, he realized that his ex-son-in-law had a higher level of education than his daughter.

"Dad, then I'll go to the neighborhood office and tell them I don't need them to arrange anything for me. The work is the same, and the income is less than what I have now. Besides, Mingche and I just want to avoid living off our savings while preparing for the exam."

Father Lin sighed. Nowadays, even to clean the public toilets in the factory, one needs connections.

The people who clean the toilets here are all employees of the factory. This area is the factory dormitory.

But they are also employed by large state-owned factories.

This system provides labor insurance, half of the medical expenses are covered, and a retirement salary in the future.

Naturally, many people are vying for it!

But if it is just a transition, since the street office has arranged these tasks, it seems that setting up a tea stall will be fine.

The key point is that if he doesn't retire early, he won't be able to arrange a job for his daughter.

If he retired early, it would only be after she failed the college entrance examination and decided not to take it again.

Otherwise, if you quit after a few months, it would not be cost-effective.

He finally stopped objecting to Lin Yan setting up a tea stall.

I just told her to give her all in preparation for the exam this time, because people still need a unit and a job after all.

A formal job is not only respectable, but also provides lifelong security. It can also be passed on to children and grandchildren, providing security for generations!

"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely try my best. I'm going to college this year, even if it's a technical secondary school, I'll go. Anything is better than having no place to go."

For Lin Yan, since Fang Mingche was preparing for the exam very seriously, the chances of passing were not small.

Even if she fails this time, she must pass the exam next time.

Even if she no longer has the pressure of household registration.

As Fang Mingche expected, two days later, several more big bowl tea stalls appeared around the square. They were all stalls run by nearby street offices or self-employed by unemployed young people nearby.

There was one more store in the direction where Fang Mingche and Lin Yan placed their stores every day, which directly affected their business.

(End of this chapter)