The Era of Hard Work

One autumn rain and one cold, in late October, the highest temperature drops to about 15 degrees, and food is no longer so easy to spoil.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Lu Dong and Qiao Weiguo packed up their things. The occupied area of ​​the daily necessities stall shrank like the flow of water in the past two days. Half of the braised pork biscuit stall was given up. And clean up.

Zhao Juanjuan was sitting on the horse, and asked with concern: "Lu Dong, is this booth no longer used?"

She knows that her tofu nao business can generate more than 300 turnovers every day, and the stewed meat and sesame cake stall attracts a considerable number of customers.

Lu Dong smiled and said, "A new business has been added."

Just as he was talking, the Jialing motorcycle rang, and Hu Chunlan arrived with a trailer. Lu Dong rushed to the intersection and waved: "Mom, this way."

Hu Chunlan rode over on a motorcycle, and many people in the market looked at this side curiously. Everyone knew that the young man in the south of the market had the best business and was also the person to be messed with the least.

Qiao Weiguo immediately came over to unload the car together.

Lu Dong introduced: "Mom, this is my friend, Qiao Weiguo, who has always helped me."

Qiao Weiguo called out, "Auntie."

Hu Chunlan smiled: "I've heard Dongzi talk about you a long time ago. It's been hard work helping Dongzi all day long."

Qiao Weiguo touched his bald head, embarrassed: "It's Dongzi who is helping me."

Hu Chunlan brought up the big child alone, and she had her own way of dealing with people. After talking for a while, she saw that Qiao Weiguo was a simple and down-to-earth person.

Three people set up the trailer, and the side baffle facing outwards of the trailer was opened and lowered, and the two-meter-long booth was directly fixed on the trailer. For cost considerations, the briquette stove was still used for heating.

Like the stewed meat stall, Uncle Qi's modification skills are top-notch.

In Lu Dong's personal opinion, if Uncle Qi can do it well, it will be absolutely top-notch.

The meeting is not busy. Seeing Lu Dong's old lady coming, Jiao Shougui, Jiao Sanhei, Lao Liu and Zhao Juanjuan all came to help, and Lu Dong also introduced them one by one.

Lu Dong can talk: "This is the first to set up a stall with me, and everyone takes good care of me."

Hu Chunlan is also polite when talking to others: "Thank you everyone."

Jiao Shougui smiled and said, "Auntie, don't say that, Lu Dong has always taken care of us."

Zhao Juanjuan looked at the stalls, then at the folding tables, and asked with a smile, "Lu Dong, what are you doing for a living?"

"Malatang." With everything pulled over, Lu Dong didn't need to hide it: "Try it first and see if it works."

He was straightforward enough: "Sister Juan, this stall is set up with you. I have a lot of tables here, and you can't sit there, so you can come here."

Zhao Juanjuan smiled brightly: "Okay! If you can't sit there, come to my side!"

This kind of connected snack business does not do the same variety, and they promote each other greatly.

Hu Chunlan silently looked at Zhao Juanjuan. This woman's skin was as white as tofu, she was also pretty, and she was...a bit old.

"Mom, go sell daily necessities." Lu Dong asked his old lady to do the easiest thing: "You know the prices of things, just look at the sales."

Hu Chunlan said, "I'll fix this side with you first."

When he was busy, Lu Dong said in a low voice: "The market is a bit chaotic, please pay more attention."

Hu Chunlan could hear it and said, "Don't worry, I have also sold things in the market."

In the past, after the apples fell, she often set up stalls to sell apples in markets and fairs, just to earn a few dollars more.

Looking at the present and thinking about the past, Hu Chunlan felt that after Lu Dong became sensible, he would get through this day in no time.

A store with a total price of 150,000 yuan, I bought it when I said I would buy it.

Lu Dong turned on the stove, added different soups to three rectangular soup plates, added water and simmered slowly, and divided them into three types according to taste: non-spicy, slightly spicy and medium-spicy.

After all, the customers are mainly Taito and the people around him.

For something spicier, there is also chili oil.

The modified scalding stove is more than two meters long and can cook hundreds of skewers at a time.

There are various sauce bowls on the widened rim of the stove, as well as sauce bowls on each table.

In addition, cheap napkins are also prepared.

In terms of price, it is a unique business for the time being, and the price is on par with Quannan, 1 yuan for 5 skewers.

When Lu Dong and Hu Chunlan were testing the taste, they calculated that if they sell more, each skewer can make a profit of 10 cents.

Of course, the more you sell, the higher your profit margin.

This is because Lu Dongjin's raw materials are of relatively good quality and relatively high prices.

According to his on-the-spot investigation, some mala tang stalls can earn 10 skewers for 1 yuan.

Although it is said that there is no business and no adultery, Lu Dong's bottom line has never been the law, and he has his own standard of measurement in his heart.

Seeing that it was past eleven o'clock, Lu Dong pulled up the signboard and placed a striking sign in front of the braised pork biscuit stand in charge of Qiao Weiguo. Anyone who bought braised pork biscuits could come here and taste two skewers of spicy soup for free.

The braised pork biscuit stand has enough traffic, which is also attracting attention.

Over there, Qiao Weiguo started to put on clothes, and Lu Dong also took out the corresponding equipment to arm himself. This seemed to be very hygienic, and it was also one of the reasons why the braised pork biscuits became so popular.

Lu Dong and Qiao Weiguo were preparing for noon. Hu Chunlan carefully looked at the daily necessities on the stalls and recalled the specific prices.

The goods that came in were all packed by her in the Taoyuan before, and the purchase price is basically clear.

After moving the place, Jiao Shougui and Jiao Sanhei were closer to the daily necessities stall.

Jiao Sanhei looked at Hu Chunlan from time to time, a little nervous.

Jiao Shougui saw it and reminded: "What are you doing?"

Jiao Sanhei lowered his voice to a minimum: "Auntie is Lu Dong's mother..."

Jiao Shougui slapped him on the shoulder: "It's not clear!"

"No, that's not what I meant!" Jiao Sanhei couldn't find the right words for a while, and scratched his head anxiously: "The leader of the Five Poison Sect is my aunt's son."

Jiao Shougui slapped him on the back of the head again: "What do you want to say?"

Jiao Sanhei patted his forehead, swallowed his saliva, calmed down for a while, and then said: "The mother of the leader of the Five Poison Sect, is she a master?"

"That's needless to say." Jiao Shougui didn't think too much, and pointed to the books on the novel stand: "Isn't that what Jin Yong wrote?"

Maybe Jiao Shougui was influenced by Jiao Sanhei and Qiao Weiguo for a long time, and asked: "You said that Jin Yong and Gu Long are good at writing, is it because they know two tricks?"

Jiao Sanhei said seriously: "You have to ask Wei Guo about this, Wei Guo is a young neighbor... Anyway, he came out of Shaolin to learn martial arts."

While talking, he took a look at Hu Chunlan, this is the mother of the leader of the Five Poison Sect, she should be respected in the future, if any bugs come out, don't be scared to death?

"The Golden Retriever Lion King is here!" Jiao Shougui said at this moment.

Jiao Sanhei came back to his senses, saw the sneaky old man who spoke in Chinese say hello to Lu Dong, went to Qiao Weiguo's to ask for stewed pork pancakes, and soon returned to Lu Dong's new stall.

Ivan has been in Taidong for six years, and there is also a snack street near the provincial campus, so he naturally recognized it, and said to Lu Dong with a smile: "Lv Dong, your business is getting bigger and bigger, and you are opening Malatang!"

Lu Dong handed him a plate: "Have a taste?"

"Okay!" Iwan knew Lu Dong very well, took the plate and chose the skewers by himself.

There is a grid on the fence in front of the front of the car, and there are many vegetables on it. Lu Dong said: "You can choose the vegetables yourself."

Ivan took a few bunches of kohlrabi and potato slices and cooked them in non-spicy oil soup. He chose some meatballs, tofu, seaweed heads, sweet and spicy, etc., and found a place to sit down.

"It smells different from what Quannan ate." Ivan said.

There will be no other customers here, Lu Dong pointed to the huge "Lu's Mala Tang" signboard, and half-truthfully said: "Some of the seasonings in it are a century-old culinary heritage."

Definitely not from the Five Poisons.

Some people who don't believe it ask, it's still the same sentence, Lujia Village has a history of cooking stewed food for hundreds of years.

Lu Dong introduced again: "Three kinds of sauces, one is ordinary sesame sauce, and the other two are homemade by my mother and me. You can try it."

"I don't eat spicy food!" Ivan brushed on the stewed sauce, picked up a skewer with his brown-haired hands, took a few bites, and nodded frequently after eating: "Lu Dong, it's as good as stewed pork pancakes!"

"Just as long as you like it." Lu Dong knew very well that the taste of Big Ivan was more like that of a Taidong person. It is rare to see a foreigner like him whose stomach has been completely remodeled.

Big Iwan ate sesame seed cakes, and he just said Malatang, and said to Lu Dong in a short time, "The food you make is very delicious. I think you should find investment to make your business bigger."

Lu Dong joked: "How about we invest together?"

Ivan shrugged his shoulders: "I'm a poor man with only a salary and no other income."

Lu Dong said, "Ivan, do you have a misunderstanding of the concept of poverty?"

"Well, my salary is very high." Ivan smiled like a bear: "But I don't know how to do business."

Lu Dong said casually: "If you are willing to invest, many people are willing to cooperate with you."

The identity of a foreigner is very useful in Taidong... no, it is very useful in the whole country in this era.

After eating the biscuits and all the skewers, Ivan looked at the stall and seemed to want to eat more.

Lu Dong asked, "How many more strings?"

Ivan hesitated for a while, then shook his head: "I can't eat any more. I want to manage my body well. You may not know that we Russians tend to gain weight when we get older."

Lu Dong said seriously, "I've heard of it."

The characteristics of Russian aunts were once widely circulated.

"Okay, it's time for me to go!" Ivan took out the money: "I still have to train in the afternoon."

Lu Dong was not polite to him, he took money in change, and asked casually, "Training? Are you going to participate in training?"

Ivan said simply: "The school organizes basketball games, and I also serve as the basketball coach of the Foreign Language Institute to train the players." He remembered something Lu Dong had mentioned: "Do you have friends in the Physical Education Institute?"

Lu Dong said, "There is such a thing."

Ivan added: "You can invite a foreign aid for the competition. It is said that the Sports Academy has professional-level masters."

Lu Dong thought of Du Xiaobing's big blow, and said, "The guy I know is really good at basketball."

Ivan is very familiar with Lu Dong, and he himself has been assimilated, so he is not polite: "Can you ask for help."

"Yes." Lu Dong responded, and suddenly thought of something: "Ivan, does your team need sponsorship? I can sponsor your jersey."

That is to say, sponsoring a jersey doesn't cost a lot of money, and when the time comes, an advertisement will be printed.

"I'm not sure. It seems that there are people who specialize in soliciting sponsorship." Ivan said, "I can ask."

Lu Dong said, "Thank you."

Lao Du is a professional basketball player, boasting that a professional player in the sports academy should be very good among ordinary people.

Of course, Du Xiaobing had to be asked beforehand about this kind of situation, and it couldn't be forced.

Later, Lu Chun came over, had a conversation with Hu Chunlan, and said to Lu Dong: "Fang Yan called, your matter is settled, it is not far from the official announcement of the results and the commendation meeting, calm down, don't make trouble It’s only wrong to throw things away if people poke them up.”

He reminded Lu Dong: "For your matter, the Evening News, the County Youth League Committee, and Yang Liewen have made great efforts, and the county bureau has pushed a few times. Don't let people down."

"I understand." This obviously did not concern Lu Dong alone.

Lu Chun said again: "Next year, the two sessions of the county will be re-elected, and the county group will hold a few new places. If you become the top ten, the county group will definitely recommend you. Our county has had eighteen-year-olds before, and another nineteen-year-old would be fine." Not surprising, it will be good for you to do business in the university city in the future."

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