Chapter 388: a lot of things go wrong
September 1st, monday, the new semester begins.
Brother and sister got up in time this morning, but they were very slow and called several times before sitting at the table to eat breakfast. After breakfast, she went back to her room and tidied up for half a day. Li Haitang urged her to carry her schoolbag to school.
"An' an, you brought your slingshot with you. You can't shoot people with your slingshot at school, and you can't kick people with the martial arts you learned during the summer vacation."
Sitting in the back row, An' an was holding his slingshot in his hands, listening to his mother's advice and nodding, "Okay."
"Duoduo, your lizard..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Duoduo said consciously, "Mom, I promise I won't let the little lizard show up. I will close it, and I won't scare the other students."
The two of them were twins, and the teacher arranged for them to sit together. In her opinion, even if the lizard accidentally ran out, she would ask her brother to help her catch it, and she would never scare anyone else.
"Okay, we'll talk to the teacher later. If the lizard comes out and scares the other students, then confiscate it immediately and never bring it to school again." Li Haitang said sternly.
"Okay." Mother rarely spoke to her like this, and Duoduo, who was sensitive to her thoughts, immediately nodded seriously.
After sending the siblings to school, Jiang Chuheng and his wife chatted with the class teacher at the school gate for a long time, naturally talking about the lizard.
Their new homeroom teacher was a very gentle female teacher, and she was not very old. When she heard that Duoduo had a lizard in her bag, her face turned pale on the spot. However, due to her parents' politeness and caution, she had to bite the bullet and agree to help look after her.
After the two children entered the school gate, Li Haitang turned to get in the car and sighed, "Hey, I think the teacher is going to be scared a lot."
"Get used to it for two days. Her novelty hasn't passed yet. If she's not allowed to bring it now, it's bound to stir up trouble and be stubborn with us."
Jiang Chuheng knew what kind of temperament his daughter had. Duoduo was usually very obedient and reasonable, but when it came to certain things, she was actually a little stubborn, and she was going to end up with one leg, which actually went with the couple.
"Let's go to work first. If anything happens, the teacher will call us in time." Li Haitang fastened his seat belt, urged him to drive, and said, "I might have to work overtime today. I might not be home for dinner. I'll leave it to you to pick up the children from school."
"Okay, I'll call you after work to confirm." Jiang Chuheng left immediately.
Not long after they left, Sun Bingqing, who was hurrying over from another path, glanced at the kindergarten casually. Today, he did not stop here to look at it. He hurried to the bookstore with his bag.
"Sister sun, you're here."
She soon arrived at the bookstore. The waiter had already opened the door and was cleaning up.
"Well, I have to go out later. My mom will come over later to help with the store." Sun Bingqing casually said, carrying the bag to the small office on the second floor, quickly took a file bag and came downstairs, carrying the bag and hurried away.
She had a talk with her sister, Sun Yujie, a few days ago. Both of them were thinking about printing the tutoring materials for primary and secondary schools on their own, but they needed a little more start-up money. Sun Bingqing was talking to the representatives of the manufacturers who provided the equipment these days. The funds in their hands were in short supply, so she planned to introduce one to try, but it was not cheap for a single machine. She had made another appointment with the other party today, and was rushing over to make a final confirmation.
It didn't end until noon. When Sun Bingqing came out of the teahouse, he called his sister, "Yujie, the other party is determined not to lower the price. A complete set of machines costs 600,000 yuan."
"Sis, I've asked a lot of people. The machine we like is the most advanced on the market, the fastest printing speed, and the brand new one needs this price. I think the price is a little too high. We can't afford it at the moment. Why don't we consider buying a second-hand one first?" Sun Yujie said on the other end of the phone. Most of her savings were spent on buying shops and real estate. She didn't have much cash on her, and it was hard for her to talk to her mother-in-law and husband, so she had to persuade Sun Bingqing.
"I'll think about it."
Sun Bingqing was feeling a little frustrated at the moment, feeling that he had finally brought up his confidence to do something, but he was frustrated and a little tired. After a few words with her sister, she hung up the phone. Seeing that it was getting late, she casually ordered some noodles in a small restaurant across the street.
While eating noodles, I saw two middle school students at the next table flipping through english tutorials in their hands, glancing at them casually, only to find that the books in their hands were all tutorials issued by China union education, and Li Haitang's photo was on the back.
This set of english tutoring books was also very popular in her bookstore. Almost every day, students came to buy them, and they sold out very quickly. She also took a book and read it carefully. Even she could not find any flaws in the contents of the book. She admired the writing skills of the teaching team led by Li Haitang in her heart.
With Li Haitang's current influence in the country, the book has long been popular in all the provinces and cities, almost all the country's high school students have bought the book to study.
Sun Bingqing was not envious of the profits and wealth this book had brought her. She had decided to follow the same path, but she had not yet found a way out. She did not even have enough money to buy a decent printing machine.
The more you compare, the more upset you get.
Before eating two mouthfuls of noodles, Sun Bingqing put down her chopsticks to pay the bill and left. She wandered around in the street, thinking of some crazy ideas to change the situation.
Six hundred thousand was a drop in the bucket for Li Haitang, but it was a huge sum of money for her. She really couldn't take it out unless she sold the bookstore.
But this was the foundation that her sister had given her and her mother, the source of their current income, the asset that they would never agree to move.
All the relatives in the family were now in dire straits. Each family owed a lot of foreign debts and was filling in the holes in Qiongzhou island. No one could afford to give her money to start a business. In addition, her former classmates and friends already knew about her family, and her reputation for doing stupid things had completely fallen to the bottom, no one would be willing to help her.
She had nothing but a little help from her sister's family. She had nothing to rely on and could only start from her own hands.
She kept thinking about things in her mind, and unknowingly walked to the vicinity of the kindergarten. She didn't know what was going on, but she thought of the dream she had that night, and the content of the dream came back clearly.
She stopped and stood behind the big tree trunk opposite the kindergarten, with uncontrollable waves rolling deep in her eyes. The more she thought about it, the more impulsive she became. The huge whirlpool seemed to completely drown her in that moment.
Sun Bingqing did not know how long she had been standing there. By the time she came to her senses, the kindergarten bell had already rung. Her eyes, which had changed their demeanor, glanced at the teaching building inside the kindergarten, and then walked away with big steps, carrying her bag.