small town story

Chapter 4 Daily Life

Su Youqin felt that she had forgotten something important, and she didn't remember what it was until the evening - she had made an appointment with Sister Cui to go to work, and she forgot to mention the hour of preparing the stuffing at night.

Fortunately, school has not yet started, and the things that need to be prepared in these two days are similar to those before. I can only discuss it with Sister Cui tomorrow. I hope Sister Cui doesn't mind.

Su Youqin was used to staying outside, so she took it for granted that if she made an appointment with the employer and changed it temporarily, the employer would make things difficult or add conditions, such as asking for a salary increase.

When Su Youqin mentioned the matter the next day, Sister Cui did not show any embarrassment.She said that including the time period from [-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m., she only works about seven hours a day, which is much easier than at school and more cost-effective than working at a supermarket.

Su Youqin roughly calculated his revenue and expenditure.

The breakfast shop has been open for more than a month, and has already earned back the cost of the purchased steamer cart, electric baking pan, disinfection cabinet, pots, dishes, etc. After removing water, electricity, and electricity, there are about [-] yuan left.

School is about to start, and she plans to increase the types of breakfast that children like, such as Xiaolongbao, butter buns, pig pig buns and small oil balls.

According to the current operating situation, after excluding the cost, the income can be about [-] on weekdays, and a little less on Saturdays, let’s say [-]. After calculating, the monthly income can be about [-]. Going to sister Cui's salary, you can earn [-] to [-].

This is based on the minimum situation. If the business situation is good, you should be able to get six or seven thousand a month.This income is considered good in a small town.

Sister Cui works very quickly and learns things quickly. She taught by hand, and Sister Cui can barely pinch the folds of the buns.Su Youqin found time to tell Sister Cui about her plan to increase the variety of breakfast in the future, and Sister Cui was very supportive.

Seeing that Sister Cui was so active, Su Youqin simply raised her salary to [-], and agreed with her that if the breakfast shop's business is good in the future, there will be a commission every month.

This made Sister Cui very happy. The average salary of the jobs in the small town was only one thousand two three.The courier station was busy from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm, and it cost [-] yuan a month; the waiters in the two big hotels on the street worked [-] hours a day, and it cost [-] yuan a month.

Su Youqin's breakfast restaurant has better treatment than those places.

What's more, Su Youqin is a good person, she can't speak, and every time she gives advice to Sister Cui, it is through words, and she just smiles when she encounters anything, and is gentle and gentle.With Sister Cui's voice recently, it's a little softer.

In addition, she inadvertently learned that the decorations on the table in the breakfast shop, the words written on the wall, and the leaflets of the breakfast shop on the street were all designed by Su Youqin herself.She admired her very much and added her affection for Su Youqin to the top.

She didn't want to call Su Youqin by other people's name anymore, she only called her boss, and occasionally jokingly called her little boss.

This made Su Youqin dumbfounded.

Shen Qianyao came to have breakfast, and when she heard Sister Cui calling, she also called Boss Su.After yelling for a few days, the people around listened to it and imitated it. Some townspeople who were not very familiar with it also yelled.

The 28-year-old, carrying the title Su Xiaobo, doesn't know where Xiao is.

Su Youqin couldn't stop it, not to mention that everyone had no bad intentions, so they could only laugh helplessly.But I got used to listening to it.

A week passed quickly, and Su Youqin tried to enrich the breakfast category the day before school started.

Butter buns, pig buns and small oil balls are warmly welcomed by nearby children. When the adults came to buy breakfast, they saw the cute butter buns and pig buns and brought them back to the children.Before the store closed that day, an adult passed by and said that their children like pig buns.

Su Youqin was encouraged.On the second day, the number of categories that these children like was decisively increased.

Many years ago, there were very few people in the town. There were village primary schools in the villages under the jurisdiction of Pingcun Town. Most of the students in the first and second grades in the village went to the village primary school, and after the third grade, they came to the central primary school in the town.In order to take care of the children in the village to go to school, the Central Primary School has set up a dormitory department, and the students from distant villages basically live in the school.

Boarding students eat in the school cafeteria every day.

Today, most of the people in the village have bought houses in the town.The village primary school has basically been withdrawn, and there are no boarding students in the central primary school. All the students go to school in the morning, eat at school at noon, and go home in the evening.

Families who did not buy a house in the town either drove various cars to pick up their children, or rented a house in the town.

Therefore, after school starts, the majority of students will buy breakfast at the breakfast shop outside the school, and making more products that children like is considered precision marketing.

On the day of the school report, Su Youqin and Sister Cui opened the door early to prepare.It's hot in summer, and some parents in the distance are very active. They want to let their children go home early after reporting. The adults do some work before noon when it's the hottest.

At 05:30, the sky was only slightly bright, and a middle-aged man and a boy about ten years old walked into the breakfast shop that opened the door.

The man was stunned for a moment when he saw the scar on Su Youqin's face, and then walked into the house naturally: "Morning, you open the door quite early. Bring me two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge." Then he said to the child behind him: "You want to eat What, choose by yourself."

Su Youqin smiled.

Sister Cui opened the steamer to pick out steamed buns for the man, and pointed to the disinfection cabinet and the porridge pot inside the room: "You guys are also quite early, here are steamed buns, porridge and pickled radish to serve yourself."

The man was not polite either, and responded to Sister Cui while serving porridge: "Hurry up to Tanmu Village to do some work, first send the child to school and let him report."

"After the report, will the children go home by themselves? Where are you from? Tanmu Village is a bit far away."

The man returned to the table with two bowls of porridge: "No, let him go to his second uncle's house on the street after the report, and I will pick him up in the evening. We are from Longlin Township."

Sister Cui was puzzled: "Isn't there a primary school in Longlin Township?"

The man is also good at chattering: "Hey, why not have the township primary school. Several good teachers from Longlin Township have come to the township primary school. I heard that the teachers who are admitted to the township primary school are all undergraduates."

Sister Cui seemed to regard herself as a townsman, and she was very proud when she heard the man say that the elementary school in the town was good: "Undergraduate? Graduate students."

The man was surprised: "Hey, this is amazing. There are postgraduate teachers, and the primary school in the town is good." He looked at the pork buns and steamed buns brought to the table by the child, and said with a smile, "Your buns are so good. It's pretty cool, kids will love it."

"That's right. Our little boss is also an undergraduate student, and he still pays a lot of money. Because he came back to open a breakfast shop because of something, can the buns he makes be the same? It has a cultural flavor." Sister Cui said proudly, while going Put the lid of the porridge pot in place.

Sister Cui and the man seemed to be talking about cross talk, Su Youqin was amused to hear it.

She took out her mask and gloves, and prepared fried pancakes and small oil balls. The man's admiring voice came: "Wow, that's amazing, Bin'er, eat more, come here to eat in the morning, and soak up the culture of the little boss."

This man can really talk, it should be a mouth that was tempered by running outside.He answered Sister Cui's obviously embarrassing words very naturally, and he didn't ask the little boss who had graduated from a heavy education why he came back to open a breakfast shop like others.

Su Youqin couldn't hold back a curious glance at the man. The man held the steamed bun between his chopsticks and looked at the boy who was buried in his meal with gentle eyes.Both he and the boy were wearing old clothes, but they were neat and clean from head to toe. Su Youqin guessed that someone in his family should be good at housework.

The oil in the pan was hot, and Su Youqin put the spreaded oil cakes into the hot pan.Shen Qianyao approached with a yawn, met Su Youqin's gaze, hurriedly ended her yawn, and greeted Zao with a smile.

"Teacher Shen? It's so early today? It's not yet dawn." Seeing her, Sister Cui politely lifted the lid of the steamer: "What's for dinner today?"

"School report today. A pancake, a vegetable bun, and a bowl of soy milk." Shen Qianyao ordered proficiently, "The teacher will come later."

As soon as she finished speaking, the boy's crisp voice sounded: "Teacher Shen."

It was a little boy with a man.

Only then did Shen Qianyao see someone in the store, and she was a little surprised: "Wu Binyan, are you here so early?"

"Well, my father has something to do, so send me to the school to report first." The little boy's voice was clear and generous.

In contrast, the man was a bit cautious, and quickly put down the steamed buns he was holding with his chopsticks, and stood up: "Oh, hello, Mr. Shen, I'm Wu Binyan's father, Wu Mujin."

"Hello." Shen Qianyao brought over a bowl of soy milk by himself, and sat at the table next to the two, "Didn't Wu Binyan's mother come to deliver it today?"

Shen Qianyao was kind and approachable, Wu Mujin let go of his restraint, sat down and continued to eat breakfast: "It was hot a few days ago, and Yun'er was a little bit hot and cold. I just happened to be going to work in Tanmu Village, and I dropped off my children to school."

When Su Youqin heard the word Yun'er, his heart moved slightly.When a man calls his wife like this, the relationship between the two should be very good.She remembered that she also called someone Yun'er back then, but that Yun'er is now in a foreign country and seemed to be married last year.

Shen Qianyao and Wu Mujin were talking behind him, but Su Youqin was not in the mood to listen.A drop of oil from the pan splashed on her hand, she regained her senses and took a step back.

Shi Mi walked into the breakfast shop with two young teachers.She turned over Youbing, smiled at Shi Mi, and it was up to Sister Cui to greet them.

It was getting brighter.Several teachers in the store hurriedly finished their breakfast and rushed to the school to prepare.Before Shen Qianyao left, she said goodbye to Su Youqin. Su Youqin was busy frying small oil balls, so she only nodded slightly.

There are more children and parents on the road, and it is noisy, even more lively than a market day.Su Youqin didn't stop for a moment. After frying the oil pancakes and small oil balls, she was busy serving breakfast for the takeaway.Sister Cui cleaned up the used dishes while serving breakfast to diners.

The two of them kept busy until about nine o'clock, and all the things they had prepared were sold out.Nothing was left, not even a bowl of soy milk porridge.

Su Youqin and Sister Cui sat at two tables behind the door, resting against the wall for a while.There were also people who came to buy breakfast, and Sister Cui waved her hands: "It's late, today's breakfast is sold out, come back tomorrow."

She has a thick voice, but the rhythm of her speech is a bit lazy after fatigue, as if she is singing.Su Youqin looked funny, took out 50 yuan from the drawer, typed on the tablet, and handed it to Sister Cui: "Sister Cui, there is no breakfast. Go to the shop diagonally opposite to buy two bowls of noodles. I want Two taels of beef noodles with a fried egg."

Sister Cui moved amazingly. She was too tired to slump on the bench just now, but now she stood up quickly: "Okay, sit down for a while, and I'll go buy it."

Taking advantage of no cars passing by, she crossed the road to the opposite side.Diagonally opposite the breakfast shop is a restaurant that serves rice noodles and noodles in the morning.

Su Youqin stood up and was about to put away the remaining bowls and chopsticks on the table. Uncle walked in with a three-year-old child and called her, "Youqin."

My uncle is the brother-in-law of Grandma Su Youqin, who lives in a village more than half an hour's walk away from the town.Su Youqin's aunt died of cancer two years ago, and the family spent a lot of money on treatment.Not long after the aunt died, her son and daughter-in-law went to work in big cities to earn money to pay off their debts, and the uncle stayed at home alone with his grandson, Xiaojin.

The uncle and aunt's family treated Su Youqin very well.When I was young, Su Youqin would go to their house to play during the summer vacation.She just came back three months ago, and when she stayed at home every day and did not go out, her uncle came to visit her specially and brought her fresh vegetables, telling her not to worry, just stay at home, and wait for her voice to recover slowly.

A few days ago, my uncle came to the market and mentioned that Xiaojin went to kindergarten. Kindergarten can eat at school at noon, but he was worried that Xiaojin would not be able to eat at school because he was still young. An hour is such a waste of time.

Su Youqin took the initiative to mention that she would pick Xiaojin up for dinner at noon, and her uncle would pick her up again after school in the afternoon.

At first, my uncle refused to agree, thinking it would cause trouble for her.After all, Su Youqin is still recovering and cannot speak.But Su Youqin took Xiaojin for more than two hours, and found that the child was easy to take care of, and he didn't cry or make trouble.If Su Youqin needed to say something, she just typed it on the phone and let the voice read it, and Xiao Jin could understand it.

Uncle saw the scene and thought it was feasible.Kindergarten breaks at noon for almost two hours.He called Xiaojin's parents and told them about it.

Xiaojin's parents have a good relationship with Su Youqin, and Su Youqin refused when he heard that he wanted to give Su Youqin living expenses.Several people discussed and entrusted Su Youqin to pick up Xiaojin at noon.

Uncle came today, probably to sign up for Xiao Jin.Su Youqin typed on the tablet and pressed the voice to play. The mechanical voice sounded a little funny: "Uncle, do you want to bring Xiaojin to sign up? Will you have class today?"

Uncle grabbed Xiao Jin's hand and asked him to say hello to Su Youqin: "Wait to report. Today I only receive books and no class. Tomorrow."

"Then have you had breakfast? If you haven't eaten, I'll ask Sister Cui to buy two more bowls of noodles. Today's breakfast is sold out."

Uncle quickly refused: "Eat, eat. I just took Xiaojin to have a look, and brought some clothes over by the way. He was playing and sweating at school. When you come back at noon, you help him change his clothes."

Su Youqin stood up and followed her uncle out.In the next stairwell, there was a small box. She carried the box up to the second floor and put it away. When she came down, she held two bottles of Wahaha in her hand and knelt down to give it to Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin timidly said thank her sister, and her uncle took him to the school to report.

Sister Cui came back face to face and asked Su Youqin who it was.

Su Youqin talked about picking up Xiaojin at noon.Sister Cui repeatedly said yes, saying that when her child was in school, she was looking forward to having a good relative who could help, but no one helped.

Sister Cui's child is 24 years old and works with his father in a coastal factory.She dropped out of school before graduating from junior high school and went home. At that time, Sister Cui’s family was poor, and there were two old people above her. She never thought of sending her child to learn a craft, so she asked her father to take her and a group of people from the village to the factory. .

A few years ago when the old man in the family left, Sister Cui came to the town to find a job, and she had to take care of the family's several acres of land. Last year, her son came back and bought a house in the town with his father and his savings. Usually live.Originally they wanted to take Sister Cui to work as well, but Sister Cui said that she was not used to it, so she just earned a little money at home and saved seven or eight hundred a month.

Seven or eight hundred a month, less than ten thousand a year, but for Sister Cui, she is already very satisfied.

After the two finished their noodles, they started to clean up the shop.Sister Cui washed things, while Su Youqin wiped the table and swept the floor.

A man walked in from outside the store.The man was tall and strong, with a weathered face, dusty clothes, and a dusty look.Su Youqin stood between the two tables, and pointed to the man at the steamer cart that had been turned off, signaling that breakfast was sold out.

The man smiled and said, "Boss Su? I'm looking for Li Cui. Are you done?"

Su Youqin shook her head and looked at the kitchen inside the store.Sister Cui was washing the dishes with her head buried. When she looked up and saw the man, she quickly dropped the things in her hand and walked out in a hurry: "What's wrong? Why are you here? What's the matter?"

"I brought you food. It's okay, you go first."

Sister Cui nodded, and introduced to Su Youqin: "Little boss, this is Chen Jianhua, we are from the same village." She said to Chen Jianhua, "Then you stand outside for a while, we will be busy for a while."

Chen Jianhua smiled: "It's okay, you're busy, I'll wait for you outside." He smiled honestly, and his words were straightforward.

Su Youqin wanted him to sit in the store and wait, but Chen Jianhua didn't see her movements, so he went straight to the sidewalk under the tree, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and glanced into the store from time to time.

Su Youqin took the tablet into the kitchen, and Sister Cui moved neatly and quickly, placing a pile of washed dishes.Su Youqin clicked on the voice broadcast, and the mechanical female voice was emotionless: "Sister Cui, let him come to the store and wait."

Sister Cui was amused by the voice and laughed out loud: "Oh, it's okay, he stands outside for a while, does your back hurt? You put the bowl in the disinfection cabinet, and I'll mop the floor. Hey, this is pretty easy to use. I can read the typed words, but the sound is a bit strange.”

Su Youqin nodded.It's very strange. When she has time to find some time to think about it, there should be a more natural voice playback software.

After the two finished their work, Chen Jianhua came out from under the tree. After smoking, he stood under the tree with his mobile phone, as if watching a short video.Su Youqin glanced at him from time to time, always feeling that the way he was waiting for Sister Cui was like a young man waiting for his girlfriend to get off work.

Sister Cui and Su Youqin greeted each other and said they would come back at eight o'clock in the evening.Su Youqin nodded, and watched her turn around to follow Chen Jianhua, only to see that Chen Jianhua came on a motorcycle. The motorcycle was placed in front of Huazi's shop next door, with a bag tied on the back seat.

Su Youqin pulled down the shutter door, Sister Cui called her to stop, she walked over, Chen Jianhua put down the bag behind the motorcycle and opened it.Sister Cui looked at him picking at the bag: "He brought up the food, I can't finish it, so you take some to eat."

Su Youqin quickly waved his hand.How dare she accept the things that were specially sent to her.

"Oh, it's not worth anything. Besides, I planted these vegetables together. They didn't use pesticides or anything. If you take it, don't there be children coming to eat at noon?" Sister Cui's voice was not low, Like a cannonball, everyone in Huazi's shop looked towards them.

Su Youqin couldn't postpone it any longer.Chen Jianhua opened his pocket, and Sister Cui lowered her head to take it out, and took out sweet potato leaves, green beans, eggplant, and peppers from her pocket. Su Youqin couldn't hold it with both hands, and was about to put it on the ground and go upstairs to get things to pack. Stepping over, he handed over a big bag: "Use this."

Sister Cui raised her head to say thank you, put all the things she had picked into a bag, and then bent over to take out. She looked at Chen Jianhua: "Didn't you dig the lotus root?"

"Below." Chen Jianhua said, motioning for Sister Cui to stand up. He shook his pocket and pulled out a piece of lotus root.

"He dug it in the pond yesterday. It's lotus root noodles. It's delicious." Sister Cui smiled at Su Youqin as if asking for credit.Chen Jianhua laughed.

Su Youqin could see a sense of compatibility from the two of them.But she couldn't say it and didn't dare to say it. She raised her hand and grabbed Sister Cui's wrist and shook it, opening and closing her lips to say thank you.

Sister Cui waved her hand: "You're welcome. Let him deliver it after you're done eating. These home-grown vegetables are definitely better than supermarket greenhouse vegetables."

A bag of vegetables was divided in half for Su Youqin. Chen Jianhua got on the motorcycle and lit the fire. Sister Cui sat on the back seat holding the mouth of the bag and waved to Su Youqin. The motorcycle drove across the sidewalk from the dam and merged into the traffic on the road.

Su Youqin carried the vegetables and went back to the house to catch up on sleepiness.

Su Youqin gave her the plan that the former leader asked for three days ago, and also attached a document of the idea of ​​the plan.I heard that the partner was very satisfied after reading the plan. Yesterday morning, the finance side transferred the money to Su Youqin's card, which is 500 more than the [-] originally said.

Yesterday afternoon, the former leader sent another job, asking Su Youqin to help publish a real estate brand soft article, which is free, but if this soft article is suitable, I can give Su Youqin to write all the soft articles of this brand later, twice a week, one month 3000 yuan.

Su Youqin agreed, and planned to find time in the afternoon to look at the brand information and soft article needs.

Su Youqin felt that her days had formed a cycle like this.Selling things from early morning to morning, making up for drowsiness after selling things, busy with other things in the afternoon to earn pocket money, taking a walk in the evening, preparing for the opening of the store the next day, and then going to sleep.

Day after day, it seems to be no different from the days of working outside.

Thinking about it, it is better and more free than working outside.At least now I don't have to worry about the WeChat ringing in the middle of the night, or a phone call while playing around.

If the throat has been bad, it may really be like this for the rest of my life.In fact, even if she has a bad voice, she can still stay in the outer city with her own ability, but she feels that instead of paying rent to others in the outer city, it is better to come back and live at home. Find a suitable place to retire.

As for the scars on her face, she looked away now.

For a long time, unlike many people, she didn't pay much attention to her appearance.Although people praised her for being good-looking since she was a child, and many people said she was good-looking when she grew up, she didn't think her appearance was her advantage.Since appearance is not an advantage, what does it matter if there are two more scars?

After the sun went down, Su Youqin had dinner and was going to go for a walk on Guolin Road.

Just past Huazi's shop, several acquaintances ran out from the dormitory building of the old primary school teachers diagonally across the road. Except for Shen Qianyao and Shi Mi, Teacher Wang, who was in charge of the logistics of the primary school, came out with a middle-aged woman, and three young teachers followed her. behind.

A few people stood still downstairs in the dormitory, and the others blocked the middle-aged woman behind them. A shirtless man came out and yelled at them. Two old people came down the stairwell and stood not far behind the man. .

People in the surrounding stores came out one after another to take a look.

Su Youqin is not a person who likes to join in the fun, but she saw Huazi's youngest daughter Xinxin running across the road alone, and hurried forward to grab her.The little girl Xiaoai joined in the fun, seeing Su Youqin grabbing her, thinking that the other party wanted to follow her, she called Aunt Su sweetly, and took Su Youqin's hand to the side of the noisy crowd.

"Damn, there are so many people crammed into such a small house, what a fart to live in! What a rotten thing." The man's mouth was not clean, no matter how many people surrounded him, he yelled in Teacher Wang's direction.

Teacher Wang said in a slow voice, "Hey, how do you speak, be more civilized."

The man ignored her. He didn't know what he saw, and rushed towards the middle-aged woman: "If you don't want to stay in the country, you want to come here to be angry. Get out of here."

Several young teachers screamed in shock, and two men came out from the mahjong parlor next to them, blocking the shirtless man: "Hey, what are you doing? Still beating the teacher?"

Teacher Wang signaled to the young teacher behind him: "Take Teacher Wu back to school, call the police, and ask the police station to come." The two elderly people stepped forward to stop Teacher Wang: "Hey, talk about it, talk about it, don't call the police. It's about housework. , let's go back and talk together, go back and talk."

When the old man said this, Teacher Wang hesitated, and seemed to agree with the two old men.

Shen Qianyao picked up the phone and started to call the police, saying loudly: "What housework. This person slapped Teacher Wu twice and pulled my hair. This is beating."

She dialed the number of the police station and said clearly into the handset: "I want to call the police. There are gangsters beating the teacher under the old teachers' dormitory of the elementary school. Come quickly. Yes, the old teachers' dormitory of the elementary school." She repeated the address twice, Shirtless men looking at each other.

Seeing that she really called the police.The shirtless man pushed away the person who blocked him, as if he wanted to hit Shen Qianyao, two security guards from the school rushed over from across the road, and together with the two men who came out of the mahjong parlor, stopped him again.

The shirtless man cursed: "Fuck you, what the hell are you!..."

He scolded badly, and the people around him scolded him one after another.

Shen Qianyao took a step forward, raised her head and waited for him: "Keep your mouth clean!"

"It's none of your business whether I keep my mouth clean or not. Look at you, whether you can do it or not... Fuck!" A small car drove by on the road, and a tire rolled over a stone, which hit the shirtless man's arm, causing him pain. A loud cry.

The retribution came too fast, everyone was stunned, and the onlookers laughed.Shen Qianyao also laughed, took two steps forward, and wanted to say something more, but Su Youqin pulled Xinxin behind her, and grabbed Shen Qianyao's arm with the other hand.

Shen Qianyao was taken aback for a moment, and when she turned around, she saw Su Youqin, and pulled her off her hand: "It's okay, I'll just..." She saw Xinxin hiding behind Su Youqin, the little girl's big eyes were full of ignorance and curiosity.

The teacher has the consciousness of setting an example in front of the children. She opened her mouth and gave up: "Forget it, I won't say it."

She took a step back.

Shi Mi went to hold the middle-aged woman behind her, only then did Su Youqin see that the woman's eyes were swollen and there were red marks on her face.It should be Mr. Wu who Shen Qianyao said was beaten by a shirtless man.

The town police station is only four to five hundred meters away.The school security guards grabbed the shirtless man and let him swear at him alone.

After a while, a car with flashing lights pulled up next to a group of people.The two policemen got out of the car, and the middle-aged policeman asked in a loud voice, "What's the matter? What are you all doing standing on the road? Stand aside, don't worry if a car doesn't have long eyes and hits you? Which gangster is beating someone? Hit the teacher?"

A group of people were shouted by the police to walk towards the sidewalk. When Shen Qianyao moved, he grabbed Su Youqin. Su Youqin moved his arms and led Xinxin to follow.

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The author has something to say:

Ah, there is one more thing to ask for in the essay call.I went out to bask in the sun first, and I will write later when I come back.