Chapter 182

Three days have passed since the big meal on the first night. The meals of father and daughter are steamed bread and baked cakes brought from home. Now it's cold and these things can last a long time.

These dry foods are not trapped, because the trapped things are not easy to preserve unless they are made very salty, and eating salty things will increase the amount of drinking water, which is not a good thing for people who go abroad and will increase the frequency of going to the toilet.

But before going out, the old lady brought a bag of pickles and chili sauce with these things, which made every meal less painful.

Thinking that it's time for dinner again, it's hard to have an appetite when half a bag of dry food is left in the bag.

"Eat."

Yan Jin took out five steamed buns from the bag. Her father usually eats two steamed buns. One and a half is enough for her and her sister.

Looking at her sister's Yan Yan expression, Yan Jin helped her break off the steamed bread, wiped a spoonful of her favorite chili sauce and handed it to her.

The situation at home is there, especially when buying a house owes a lot of money. The children at home know that the food in the restaurant is delicious. Compared with its high price, it is also prohibitive.

"I'd like a Beef Brisket with tomato sauce and a shredded pork with Hangzhou pepper."

Yan Chu's father and daughter's berth is just the upper, middle and lower berth on the left. When they don't sleep on weekdays, they all sit in the lower berth. The lower middle berth on their right is just a young couple. It seems that the conditions at home are good, so they are very generous in diet.

In addition to buying boxed meals from the dining car for each meal, when you stop at the station, you will also go to the platform to buy local snacks and some fresh fruits.

Whenever the meal is ordered, I eat dry food, while the people opposite eat delicious boxed lunch. This torture is even more painful.

"Comrade, give me a beef brisket rice with tomato sauce, too."

While the two girls were chewing dry steamed bread, Yan Chu suddenly asked for a covered rice.

It's been three days, and I can't really let the sisters eat dry food for seven days. I still have to adjust it halfway.

"Dad, it's too expensive. It cost a lot of money."

The price of a tomato sauce beef brisket covered rice is 80 cents. It must be cheaper than the price of the food in the train restaurant, but it seems a little high compared with its own price.

I was thinking about the round-trip fare for this trip, plus the big meal I had the first night. After calculating the total price, Yan Jin felt a little weak.

"This is only your first trip. You can't always deal with steamed bread and cakes like your father. Especially when you're still growing up, you have to eat something good."

Yan Chu patted the eldest daughter on the shoulder. This daughter may be because she is too old and always subconsciously takes care of her younger brothers and sisters and humiliates her younger brothers and sisters. She is too sensible and sensible.

However, everything is the opposite when things reach the extreme. When a person's sacrifice becomes a habit, and her kindness is also regarded as a habit. If she pays no return, she will always feel cold.

Yan Chu didn't think that the eldest daughter was so bad. It was too good. It was not so appropriate.

"It's time for this. Brother, we'll see you eat steamed bread and cakes these days. Adults are fine. Children always have to eat some good things so that they don't lose their health."

The young couple looked at the father and daughter of the opposite beds and finally ordered boxed lunch. They couldn't help but say.

They came up at the last station after the Yan family got on the train, so in their impression, the three father and daughter lived on steamed bread and dry food.

Now there are many people on the train who bring their own dry food and don't order boxed meals, but Yan Chu's father and daughter wear at least decent and clean clothes, not like a family that can't afford boxed meals.

"No, dad is very kind to us, but dad makes money alone at home, as well as grandma, brother and sister, so every penny should be spent on the blade."

Although the young couple didn't mean to accuse Yan Chu, they felt harsh in Yan Jin's eyes, as if everyone would feel that their father was irresponsible because of this sentence.

"Little sister, how many brothers and sisters are there in your family?"

The young woman with a box of lunch was stunned. Although Yan Jin's words meant a little criticism, she was not angry.

"There are three younger sisters and a younger brother. It's hard for my father to study for our sisters and brothers alone."

Yan Zhen added her sister's words. When she finished speaking, she looked at the steamed bread in her hand and the boxed lunch her father bought for their sisters. She felt a little empty in her heart.

She knew what the conditions were like at home. In the past, when her father went to Shenzhen alone to buy goods, he always asked her grandmother to make him enough dry food along the way. They just couldn't stand eating dry food for three days, but her father ate these things and ran back and forth on this line for four years.

They disliked the dirty quilt and sheets of the hard sleeper, but before that, my father was reluctant to buy such a hard sleeper ticket, but chose to buy the cheapest station ticket. Perhaps at this time, my father just sat in the crowded carriage with newspapers or hard cardboard, and it was difficult to stretch his legs and feet.

I don't know why. It's a sour, sweet and delicious fat cow with tomato juice. Yan Zhen feels something bad in her heart.

Thinking about the pleasure of asking for money with my father for various reasons in the past few months, and then happily playing with my new friends in the skating rink, a kind of guilt arises spontaneously.

"Then your family has six brothers and sisters? Brother, I can't see that you are the father of so many children?"

People on the side suddenly realized that no wonder there are many children at home, and the cost is large. In particular, according to the little girl, the six children at home are in school, and the cost can't stop. How can you be willing to order boxed meals if you earn money alone.

No one asked the two children about their mother. I didn't see this person mention it in the girl's mouth from beginning to end. I'm afraid it's either dead or divorced. Either way, it's not a good thing.

Nowadays, people are more honest and kind. No one reveals the scars of several little girls for their gossip desire.

However, a big man raised six children and let each child study. Yan Chu suddenly received a lot of praise and admiration, including the young couple before. He also felt that the man who didn't talk much across the street was something great.

No matter how the law advocates giving birth to boys and girls, women can hold up half the sky. In the eyes of most people, daughters are always not as good as sons.

The concept of raising children and preventing old age was handed down thousands of years ago. How can it be easily changed.

Now family planning, each family can only have one child. How many people don't want the iron rice bowl in the conjoined system in order to have another child, which is enough to see the Chinese people's persistence in their son.

The man in front of him has five daughters and a son. Whether he is also the kind of person who is obsessed with his son or not, but he can let all five daughters go to school under the condition of financial constraints at home, which shows that he is a good father.

Besides, looking at the two girls' attitude towards their father, we can also see that this man is definitely not eccentric at home, otherwise the girl can protect him so much?

The man didn't say anything. Some women on the side rubbed up Yan Chu's senses and thought it was a rare good man and father.

The food in the train restaurant is delicious, and the boxed lunch in the dining car is not bad.

The tomato sauce fat beef is sour, sweet and delicious. The tender beef is sliced, pickled and then wrapped with water starch. Even after a long stew, it is still crispy and tender outside and melted in the mouth. The tomato has been boiled into mud and tightly wrapped with beef. Because it is stewed with fresh tomato, the taste is more sour and sweet, which is very appetizing.

Just like at home, when there was anything delicious, the first thought was that the whole family should share it equally. Therefore, even if Yan Chu bought this box of lunch for the two sisters, they still consciously gave one to their father.

With sweet and sour tomato juice, the dry steamed bread doesn't feel bad. In addition, the white rice under the fat cow with tomato juice has long been full of sauce. Even if three people eat a boxed meal, the average weight is not much, but everyone is particularly satisfied.

Perhaps with the adjustment of this meal in the middle of the way, there was only baked bread and pickled vegetables left in the next three days, and the two sisters didn't feel too uncomfortable.

Or maybe it was that day that I felt my father's difficulty because of others' words. Even if I felt that the taste of steamed bread and baked cakes was boring again, the sisters always showed their taste in front of my father.

In this way, all the way to the railway station peacefully, the sisters finally arrived at the rumored deep city full of gold.

******

On the first day, Yan Chu took the children to Shencheng's now famous wholesale Street.

"Ten yuan, three pieces, 30 pieces from the batch."

"Boss, how many more red coats are there? If I buy more, can I have a discount?"

"Don't touch it if you don't buy it. What did you just say you wanted?"

The street was filled with people and shouts.

At the end of the year, it is the time when everyone is most willing to spend money. Now the bastards all over the country are also concentrated in this city, ready to buy enough goods and return to their hometown to make a fortune during the new year.

Yan Chu was used to such an atmosphere of crowded people and buying goods by looting, while the Yan Jin and Yan Zhen sisters on the side were obviously not used to it.

They stared at the scene in front of them, especially those self-employed bosses who stood in front of their booth and carried a purse around their waist. They were full of money, spit and red faced. They shrunk their necks slightly. They always felt that those bosses were so fierce.

Now the deep city is the seller's market. You don't want to buy these goods. Some others are willing. They don't have to worry that the things in the store can't be sold. Naturally, they don't have to have a good face for these foreign buyers.

Especially when there is a hot product, there is no time to drink. There is no time to squeeze out a smiling face.

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. It's best to sell bright red clothes. No matter what the style, they can be sold in the end. Look at it. Are there many businessmen staring at the red coat?"

Yan Chu took the two girls to squeeze in while giving them time to explain the secret of purchasing goods.

"And the TV play broadcast some time ago, in which the plaid shirt and knee length woolen skirt worn by the heroine are also very popular. This purchase can also buy more clothes of that style."

Because there were too many and chaotic voices, the sisters held their father's hand tightly for fear of being squeezed and lost. They didn't know whether those words were heard in their ears.

"Boss, give me twenty skirts and shirts of that style."

Yan Jin looked at his father, chose two clothes, and then talked to the boss who was accounting.

"From 30 pieces."

The skinny boss glanced, Yan Chu said, and then ignored him.

"Boss, give me 30 pieces each. If I buy more, can I have a discount?"

The wholesale price is written on each stall, and a batch of fixed price is placed together, so as to reduce the time wasted by the stall owner by inquiry.

"This is the lowest price. You buy 100 pieces and 300 pieces at this price. Do you understand?"

The boss was probably tired of being asked. He glared at Yan Chu and said that his clothes are at this price. In front of him, the man will buy them if he doesn't buy them. If he starts to reduce the price, he can be scolded to death by the merchants in this area.

"Sorry, sorry, boss, please wrap my clothes."

Yan Chu nodded apologetically to the boss, then took money out of his bag and settled the bill for the 60 clothes.

The boss took the money, took out a nylon bag from under the shelf with a smelly face, put all the clothes Yan Chu wanted into the bag, and then threw them to him at random.

The sisters Yan Jin and Yan Zhen have never seen such people selling things. Even the tellers of the supply and marketing cooperatives who have eyes above the top dare not do so.

In the hearts of the sisters, dad has always been an indomitable man. He worked hard to support the family.

They knew it was not easy for their father to make money outside, but they never thought that when their father made money, he was so humble.

They didn't think about why they used the word, but they could only think of the word when they saw their father smiling at the stall owner with a flattering face even if he was ridiculed.

"Dad, we can't buy clothes from that family."

As she squeezed out of the crowd, Yan Zhen choked for a while, pulled her father's clothes and said.

"Why?"

Yan Chu looked into the eyes of his second daughter and asked her gently.

"The boss is too fierce. We can buy clothes from other families. Anyway, the street is so long and there are so many shops selling clothes."

Yan Zhen felt that her father was too wronged. There were many wholesale clothes stores. Why did she go to that one to be wronged.

"Silly girl."

Yan Chu smiled and touched the second daughter's head, and then pointed to the shops on both sides of the street.

"They all sell clothes. Don't you see that one's business is particularly good?"

After Yan Chu's guidance, the sisters also found this. There seemed to be a lot of people around that shop. Even if the boss looked the most fierce, it didn't change the current situation.

"The quality of clothes in this shop is better than others. Although the purchase price is thirty or forty cents more expensive than others, once they are taken back to sell, the clothes in this shop can be sold for one or two yuan more. If more clothes are bought, the profits will rise."

"I'll give you an account. If each piece of clothes can make a profit of 50 cents higher, the profit of these 60 pieces of clothes is 30 yuan. In this case, what if I'm scolded and ridiculed? I just lost a few smiling faces. The benefit is real. 30 yuan is enough for our family's expenses for a month."

Yan Chu analyzed to his daughter: "besides, we should pay attention to word-of-mouth in this industry. If people buy clothes from you and wear them several times, who will come to you to buy them? Therefore, although the boss has a bad temper, many people are willing to come to their house to buy clothes."

"Today is your first day here. When you see more, you will know that those who do this business face so many businessmen every day. They are not good tempered."

Yan Chu quietly explained the business here to his daughter every day. In the next few days, the sisters really had a deeper understanding.

Clothing wholesalers, electrical appliances and watches wholesalers are indifferent to their father. If you smile at him, you may not be able to welcome each other's good face.

Some popular goods are often looted as soon as they are put on the shelf. Therefore, people in this line need to be informed and stay outside the upper berth before the goods are put on the shelf, so as to grab several rare goods.

The sisters looked at their father, who had accompanied their sisters for several streets the night before, got up at three or four o'clock the next morning to grab goods, came out of the crowded crowd and laughed like a fool to grab those fashionable watches.

Watching him being ridiculed, he pretended that he didn't understand anything. He had the cheek to bargain with the boss, and was happy all day for the five cents and one hair cut.

In the five days in Shenzhen, they had never seen their father sleep for a whole night. Sometimes they slept for three or four hours, but seven or eight hours were spent carrying goods and running back and forth. They went out clean and came back sweating. Their clothes were squeezed into pickles and dried, and their shoes were full of footprints.

The more clearly it was not easy to see her father, the more distressed Yan Jin was, and the more guilty Yan Zhen was.

******

"Dad, I want to borrow five yuan from you."

Yan Jin whispered to his father.

"What do you want money for? Is there something you like?"

Yan Chu turned his pocket and asked quietly, without seriously questioning her behavior of asking for money.

"I saw the stickers sold in the stationery shop outside our school in the market here. The purchase price was only two cents a piece, but our school sold five cents outside. Moreover, the patterns of many stickers here were better than those sold in the school canteen, and some other stationery were cheaper and novel than those sold there. I wondered if I could buy a batch back and take advantage of the winter vacation I have to set up a small stall to sell. In this way, maybe I can scrape up next year's pocket money, which can also save a sum of expenses. "

Yan Jin blushed and explained that she didn't know whether her idea was right or not.

But looking at her father's hard work, she also wants to do something. Since she has spent the round-trip train ticket money, even if she doesn't have the ability to earn the ticket money, she can at least learn to do some small business and earn her pocket money.

"Dad lent you 20 yuan, but da Jin, you should remember that learning is the most important thing at your age. Only by studying hard can you do what you want to do in the future. You don't have to make such hard money like Dad, do you understand?"

Yan Chu didn't want his daughter to feel how important money was at her age, and even to relax his studies for money. Therefore, although the money was given, he warned her.

Yan Jin nodded and solemnly took over the pile of crumpled banknotes handed over by his father.

"Dad, I also want to borrow some money from you."

Yan Zhen was ashamed to hear her elder sister's words. Her fingers were almost numb. She thought again and again and said to Yan Chu in a hoarse voice.

"Well, give your sister twenty and you twenty."

Yan Chu paused and took out twenty yuan from the pile of loose money he had with him and handed it to his second daughter.

Thinking about her sister's frequent asking for money with her father this semester, Yan Jin frowned and looked at her second sister. After all, she didn't say anything, but she still wanted to have a good talk with her sister when she got home.

This is a small wholesale market. There is only one door, and there are patrol personnel in the market. Public security is relatively good. Now people go to rob some goods with high profits. Such a small commodity wholesale market is relatively less popular than usual.

Yan Chu stood close to the door. When the two sisters came out, everyone took two bags of things and didn't know what was inside.

Yan Chu left with the sisters without asking.

******

Less than half a month is used to purchase goods, but there is not much time to play in the end.

Today's Shencheng is far less prosperous than later generations. I really can't find anything to visit except those crowded wholesale markets.

On the last day before returning home, Yan Chu took his two daughters to the largest BB machine and semiconductor radio production factory in Shenzhen.

This factory is very large, and this area should be an industrial zone. However, this one occupies the largest area and looks the most dignified. Yan Chu took the two sisters through the back door, which looks a little sneaky.

"Brother Liu."

When a short, bald man came out, Yan Chu came forward and offered him a cigarette, flattering him.

"Come to purchase again?"

The man's body trembled secretly, then calmed down, looked arrogant and looked at Yan Chu and the two children behind him.

"Yes, thanks to brother Liu's care over the years, you have bought me so many good things at a low price. By the way, these are my two daughters, the eldest daughter Yan Jin, the second daughter Yan Zhen and the second daughter Jin Erzhen. Call uncle Liu."

The sisters are following Yan Chu in some chaotic wholesale markets these days. It's the first time they've seen such a big formal factory.

They looked at the arrogant short fat man and shouted uncle Liu at him in a low voice.

"Well, your father often mentions your children, saying that you look good, study well and are promising. Although outsiders think that you are bad at your job, you only know the actual danger. You should cheer up for your father and don't let him sweat in vain."

The man who was called uncle Liu warned the sisters a few words, then turned his head and looked at Yan Chu: "is it still the old rule this time?"

"Yes, my children are filial and will not disappoint me in the future. However, to speak of it, efforts are also for themselves. When they grow up, I can still earn money. At most, I need to rely on them when I am old. Now I study hard and work hard for them in the future. I can't go in the wind and rain like me. I can't give up trying to eat something good Come on. "

Yan Chu nodded to the pudgy man, which meant that he would still buy goods according to the old rules, and then added a few words to his daughter's words.

"Dad, I'll raise you when I grow up."

You raise me young and I raise you old. Yan Jin knows better than ever that it's not easy for his father, and he has never wanted to succeed so urgently as today.

She wants to live a life where she doesn't care about lunch box money when she takes the train, and even can go to the restaurant on the train at will. She wants to earn a lot of money so that her father doesn't have to curry favor with others in order to feed their siblings. Even if she is wronged in her heart, she has to curry favor with a smile on her face.

Dad said that success was for herself, but Yan Jin felt that her success was also for her father and to live up to his hard work and expectations.

Yan Zhen was one step behind her eldest sister. Although she didn't say so, her expression showed that she thought the same as her eldest sister.

"Your two daughters are filial."

The man named brother Liu looked at Yan Jin and said to Yan Chu. Then he called a young man and took out several sealed boxes from the warehouse. He didn't know what was in it. He paid money and delivered goods with one hand.

When Yan Chu came, he brought a small cart. Those things just filled the cart.

After the father and daughter left, the short fat man who had just been arrogant quickly drooped his shoulders, wiped the sweat on his head, and did not forget to pat his chest to make his heart beat madly.

"Well, did I just play it?"

Liu pangzi asked the workers on the side.

"Yes, it's arrogant and powerful enough. I really treat the boss as a grandson. I'm sure the boss's daughter can't see anything."

The atmosphere in the factory was quite good. When hearing Liu pangzi's words, the workers beside him said with a thumbs up.

"Get out of here and watch the fun one by one."

Liu pangzi kicked the worker who laughed the loudest, then pointed to them and said angrily: "you should remember that there are several children in the boss's family. Next time, I'll see who you go."

As soon as these words were said, the workers nearby moaned and quickly flattered Liu pangzi, as if they were really worried that it would be their turn in the future.

Liu pangzi scolded on his mouth, but he was not really angry in his heart. With the workers' gags, he quickly put on a smile again.

"Brother Liu, what do you mean by the boss? No matter how many children there are in such a big factory, I can afford it. If my daughter is so obedient, I can pet her to heaven. I can give her whatever she wants. Anyway, the boss is poor and has only money left. Such a big factory will not be left for children in the future."

Some people don't understand why the boss wants to play such a play today. It seems that in the heart of the boss's family, he is still the man who risked to earn the price difference between the two places. He has some money, but he is not rich enough, and his life is tight.

If the boss has set up a new home in Shencheng, married a new wife and had other children, they can understand that they are biased by the pillow side wind. They just don't like the children there, so they should hide their development.

But this is obviously not the case now. People want to return home in good clothes, while their boss wants to work harder and be down as much as possible in front of their family. This is obviously not in line with common sense.

Besides, the boss seems to like his children very much. In that case, why cry poor and show that he has no money.

"Nonsense, if you can guess what the boss thinks, you are the boss now. Go to work quickly. Be careful that I write it down for you and let the boss deduct his salary at that time."

A group of jokers scattered in a crowd. Nonsense. The treatment in the factory is so good and the salary is so high that fools want to be recorded by the boss.

After the workers left, Liu pangzi touched his bare forehead. In fact, he didn't understand.

Perhaps this is the gap between stupid people and smart people. The boss is so smart that they can't guess his ideas.

Liu pangzi wondered whether he should learn from his boss. Those kids at home have been spending a lot of money recently.

All this happened after Yan Chu left with his two children. Naturally, Yan Jin and Yan Zhen sisters did not know what happened in the factory. This trip to Shenzhen touched them too deeply. I'm afraid it will take a long time to digest.

******

The Yan Family sensitively noticed that after returning from Shencheng, Yan Jin and Yan Zhen changed a little. The most intuitive performance is that they are more active in housework and always get up very early every morning, then go out with a bag of things and don't go home until two or three hours later.

No one knew what the sisters were doing. They were mysterious. Yan Chu seemed to know, but the old lady or other children asked, and he didn't say anything. He followed them to remain mysterious.

"Big Jin Erzhen, the new year is coming soon. Don't run outside in the next few days. Give a hand to the milk, and we'll prepare the new year's goods in advance."

These days, the two granddaughters always play missing in the morning, and they usually have to go out early in the morning to buy new year's goods, otherwise they can't buy many things, so the old lady specially informed the two children the night before, so there will be no shadow at that time.

"Mom, I'll help you with some small tomorrow. Dajin and Erzhen may have something to do."

Yan Chu took a sip of warm soup and said to the old lady that what was lacking in buying new year's goods was the people carrying things. When her son was at home tomorrow, the old lady wouldn't force her two granddaughters. Although she was still curious about what the two granddaughters were busy with recently.

Yan Jin and Yan Zhen were relieved. They didn't want to be lazy, but there was something they couldn't get rid of. Years ago, everyone had the loosest wallet. After this point, it was difficult to take money out of the hands of those budget conscious customers.

Yan Chu looked at his second daughter and the old God smiled.

******

"Dad, this is the money I borrowed from you."

On the second day of the new year, the Yan family was jubilant because each child received the lucky money that grandma and dad put under their pillows one day in advance.

Each red envelope is stuffed with fifty cents. This money is allowed to be freely controlled by them. It will not be confiscated like other families. It is equivalent to an unexpected income. Therefore, every child is very happy.

Yan Yuanbao, like his name, is greedy for money. Every month's pocket money is hidden in his own iron jar. This new year's money is no exception.

As usual, he counted his current small Treasury and wondered how much it would cost to buy cloth. Anyway, he didn't want to wear pink clothes or die.

Yan Zhu and the jade sisters discussed whether to chip in to buy a bottle of soda. Everyone could drink a few mouthfuls, but the money spent was only one-third.

It was at this time that Yan Zhen sneaked into Yan Chu's room and stuffed a red envelope into his hand.

Previously, touched by her eldest sister, she bought two bags of couplets and Fu characters in Shencheng. The purchase price of this thing was cheaper than stationery, but it was more popular years ago.

There are many kinds of couplets in Shencheng. They are very easy to sell when they are taken back. In addition, she has a sweet mouth and looks good. She is still a child. Some aunts and aunts who buy new year goods are also happy to take care of her business.

This time she bought more than 20 yuan of goods and sold a total of 67 yuan, more than tripled. In addition to the 20 yuan she borrowed from her father, she can also pay off the several yuan she cheated her father last semester.

"Er Zhu, you are a good boy."

Yan Chu didn't open the red envelope to see the numbers inside. He just patted his daughter on the shoulder and said such a sentence.

His eyes were very transparent. Yan Zhen suddenly felt that his father knew all those things.

Her face turned white, but she was not so nervous when she looked at her father's comforting and encouraging eyes.

"Dad, I'm sorry."

Yan Zhen lowered her head and said to Yan Chu. When she said this, she felt relaxed.

Neither father nor daughter apologized for what happened in the end, but there was a tacit understanding between them. Father and daughter's feelings were more harmonious and closer than before.

Yan Zhen thoroughly understood the mistakes of her original behavior and silently vowed to change in her heart.

Because of the experience of Yan Jin and Yan Zhen sisters in Shencheng, the old lady and young siblings in the family also know that it is not easy for their father to make money.

Yan Chu, a good father loved by his family, couldn't help feeling a little proud when he looked at a remittance of 100000 from Shencheng.

He is indeed a good father with excellent educational ideas and a lot of money.