The Era of Hard Work

In the next few days, the business gradually returned to normal. Most of the schools in the university city started school, and the school season was completely over, and Lu Dong's daily turnover was declining.

Lu Dong is also making new preparations. He has ordered a new large trailer and sent it to the construction site for Lu Jianren to help refit.

In addition, you have to purchase materials.

Of course, daily necessities stalls must continue. There are five universities near the central intersection, the Provincial University, the Normal University, the School of Finance, the School of Physical Education, and the School of Art. There are tens of thousands of students and faculty members. consumption demand.

Lu Dong's booth is fixed on the northwest side of the central intersection, closer to the Provincial University and Normal University where the most students are.

At the four corners of the intersection, the sidewalks are very wide, and the northeast side has the largest open space. There is a small square, which is also the location of the future night market.

However, the shops on the northeast side entered the sprint stage of digging foundations, and the sound of machinery and flying dust made it not suitable to set up stalls there for the time being.

After Teacher's Day, Lu Dong's daily turnover dropped below 1,000.

And it's dropping every day.

While this is still a huge market without too many competitors, commodities are not food and most last a long time.

After the outbreak of purchasing power at the beginning of school, there will inevitably be a trough in the consumption of daily necessities.

If you only buy one or two things, the prices in the on-campus store are not so dazzling.

When you don’t buy things together, the location advantage of the on-campus store is very great.

Lu Dong specifically asked Li Wenyue and Song Na to find out that the performance of the school store is very stable.

Furthermore, the students are adapting quickly to the environment, knowing that taking a minibus to the county will arrive soon, and it will not take long to ride a bicycle.

The street stall is really just a drink of soup.

At the same time, the number of street vendors has increased.

A young man in his twenties has become a regular member of the stall in the past two days, and he is also riding a small Jialing with a big trailer.

He sells pirated tapes, many of which are new this year, and so far they are scorpion shit, and the business is pretty good.

Then, a tricycle selling dried fruits such as peanuts and melon seeds joined in.

As time goes by, people continue to smell business opportunities in the university town.

After all, this is not a paradise isolated from society.

Society is changing, people's ideology is changing, and the way of making a living is also changing.

Even Lao Zhao, who sells sesame seed cakes, opened a new business after Teacher's Day.

Before noon, Lao Zhao and his daughter rode three-wheeled bicycles and pulled things over. From the intersection to the curb, they came to the side of Lu Dong's stall as before, and began to move things down.

Five folding tables and a dozen mazzas are placed on flat checkered bricks.

Is it going to be busy, Lu Dong took a second look, Lao Zhao's cart still had an incubator for biscuits, and his daughter's cart had a large metal thermos barrel and seven or eight bottles and cans.

You can often see it in big fairs, and Lu Dong asked: Old Zhao, what are you selling?

Old Zhao’s face full of life’s hardships showed a smile: “Tofu nao! Just sesame seed cakes are monotonous. I was thinking that students might like sesame seed cakes with tofu nao, so I called my daughter to try it together.”

He said to Lu Dong: This is my daughter, Juanjuan.

Zhao Juanjuan smiled at Lu Dong.

Lu Dong nodded with a smile. The few times Zhao Juanjuan came over, he was busy and didn't pay much attention. Looking at it, Zhao Juanjuan has fair skin and exquisite facial features. In the green photos, she is definitely a very outstanding one.

Old Zhao said to his daughter again: This is Lu Dong, your name is Brother Dong.

Lu Dong quickly waved his hands: No, don't! Just call me Dongzi...

Judging from her appearance, this Zhao Juanjuan is several years older than him.

Zhao Juanjuan smiled at this side.

Someone came to buy things again, Lu Dong entertained the customers, and sat under the sun umbrella when it was over, it wasn't just Lao Zhao who wanted to add new business, he also did the same.

I greeted Hong Xing last night, and after Hong Xing finished his business in the morning, he would come over and take him to Quannan for shopping.

For daily necessities, Qiao Weiguo is very familiar with it, and he doesn't need to deal with troublesome things. It's just a matter of quoting the price and collecting the money, which is enough for one person.

Moreover, Qiao Weiguo has his own principles and rules, so he won't leave suddenly.

This frees up your hands to develop new business.

Taking advantage of the lack of business, the two of them ate under the sun umbrella. Lu Dong said to Qiao Weiguo, I'll go to Quannan, and you can stay by yourself for a while.

Qiao Weiguo took a sip of water: Just go, I'm here.

Lu Dong reminded: In case something happens, don't worry about things, go directly to the construction site opposite, my seventh uncle and the others will recognize you.

Qiao Weiguo said, I know.

Lu Dong is quite relieved. As far as these days are concerned, the law and order in the university city is very good.

Thinking about it, the province and the city have invested a lot of resources and placed high hopes on it, and they will definitely not make the university town chaotic.

The place where Lu Chun is located can be said to be very busy.

People like Lu Dong who do business in a university town want to see a stable law and order environment.

The university city is still under construction. He heard from his uncle that more projects will start this month. Not to mention the places too far away, just at the intersection of the center, the affiliated schools of the Provincial University and Normal University, the faculty affiliated area, etc., all have new projects. project.

The Provincial University will also build an innovation port in the north, and the foundation stone will be laid this month.

There are also several commercial residential areas in the south and east respectively.

This will also allow more people to flood into the university town, bringing greater business opportunities, and at the same time, the security situation will inevitably face a severe test.

In less than one o'clock, Hong Xing drove over in a pickup truck, and Lu Dong got into the truck with a few bottles of water and rushed to Quannan.

First go to Shilibao Market, buy meat and eggs from Brother Niu,

Although we haven't seen each other for a few days, Brother Niu is quite refreshing.

The retail price of tenderloin and hind leg lean meat can reach 5 yuan, but the price is not stable and fluctuates from time to time. Lu Dong does not need lean meat, and other parts are much cheaper. Brother Niu also gave the wholesale price, which is only 3 yuan and 5 yuan on average.

Eggs are cheaper, the wholesale price is less than two yuan.

In the past two years, prices have been relatively stable, even slightly lower than the previous two years.

In several other places, I bought some peppers, coriander, and other miscellaneous things.

Lu Dong's main purpose was not to buy these, but went to the nearest Sanlian Mall and spent more than 2,000 to buy a refrigerator for storing food.

The weather is still hot, and meat products are easy to spoil.

Sanlian city delivery, out of the city is not responsible for delivery, can only find a car to pull, currently belongs to Quannan Electric's sales.

When private electric appliance stores that deliver goods to remote rural areas come in, Sanlian, like many state-owned shopping malls, will quickly go downhill.

In the end, it fell on the real estate, cheating a large number of people with the down payment.

Lu Dong went to the big market in Beiyuan to buy iron sheets, stoves, large casserole pots, and stainless steel plates.

Today, this is still the northern suburb of Quannan, a villa with a small courtyard with a construction area of ​​more than 200 square meters, at most 100,000 yuan.

Quannan people seldom come here to buy a house, one is biased, and the other is chaos.

The entire street is densely covered with dozens or even hundreds of large and small dance halls, karaoke halls and bathing centers.

As for the nearby alleys, you can imagine for yourself.

How do you sing a song? It seems to be: Some people are not there once they miss it.

This street has been prosperous for at least 15 years.

It was past six o'clock when Lu Dong and Hong Xing returned to the University City.

The construction site just got off work, and Lu Dong asked Hongxing to pull things into the construction site.

The big trailer that Lu Dong bought before has been sent to the construction site and placed in the welding area.

Lu Dong and Hong Xing unloaded things from the car, and Lu Jianren took the box ruler to measure the materials, talking to himself from time to time.

After unloading, Lu Dong went over, Seventh Uncle.

With a pencil pinned to his ear, Lu Jianren asked, Just follow what was agreed last night?

Lu Dong nodded: Fix everything that can be fixed. With the operating table as the center, the place where the briquettes are placed must be separated from the food. It is best to add a cover.

Don't worry, little job. Lu Jianren moved his hands and feet: I will fix it for you tonight.

He greeted the two apprentices: Xiaoguang, Red Soldier, work has started!

Lu Jianren took down the pencil to draw the line, and he was ready to work.

Lu Dong and Seventh Uncle were not polite, and said to their apprentices, I'm sorry.

The Red Soldier laughed and said, Dongzi, what you said is too far-fetched.

Xiaoguang said: Speaking of it, you are still our big brother.

Lu Dong was speechless, and if he really wanted to speak strictly, it wouldn't be wrong.

Lu Jianren waved away people: Dongzi, go do your work, don't make trouble here.

Lu Dong responded, went back and rode on Xiao Jialing, and followed Hong Xing back to the village to unload the goods.

The truck stopped at the gate of the orchard. Lu Kun came from the north on his bicycle. When he saw the unloading, he offered to help.

Brother Dong, why did you buy so many things? Lu Kun helped carry the freezer together.

Lu Dong said vaguely: Didn't I do some small business, I bought the goods. The freezer was moved into the house and put away, and he asked Lu Kun: When are you going to the army?

Lu Kun replied: My father has found a good man, and he will leave after the winter conscription.

Lu Dong said, It hasn't been long. He asked, Where's Li Lin? Still wandering around all day?

Going to the construction site. Lu Kun walked behind Lu Dong: I learned decoration with Uncle Li, and I got up early and returned late every day.

Lu Dong nodded: That's good too. If you have skills, you can make money at any time.

Renovation is a job that will only become more prosperous in the next decade or so.

In this day and age, as long as you work hard and work hard, earning money is not a problem, and if your mind is more active, you can even become a little rich.

After unloading the goods, he stuffed Lu Kun with a bottle of drink, Lu Dong settled the bill with Hongxing, rode on the Jialing bicycle and returned to the University City.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Lu Jianren and Li Jiazhu completed the modification of the new trailer, and Lu Dong pulled the cargo and the new trailer back separately.

On the following day, the booth was temporarily handed over to Qiao Weiguo, and Lu Dong began to make final preparations for the new business.

Eggs were boiled at home, and the fat and lean meat bought was stewed slowly according to Hu Chunlan's method. I went to the coal station in Liuwan Village to buy a batch of briquettes, picked out the daily amount and put it in a box specially welded on the new car body, and sorted it out. A large waste paint bucket is used as a trash can, so that it can put coal ash and the like.

There are biscuits in this village who use the dough-making process, and the biscuits made are big and full.

Lu Dong negotiated with him for 4 pieces for 1 yuan, if you can get more than 200 pieces a day, you can get 9 pieces for 2 yuan, and delivery is also available.

I can make sesame seed cakes at home, and there is no rent.

Lao Zhao told him that if there is no rent for a sesame seed cake at 30 cents, and a coal stove is used, at least half of the income will be paid.

Then I went to the county to find some advertising posters printed at the door, a thin piece of paper, and the price was low.

After finishing all this work, I went back to the orchard. The stewed meat and eggs were ready. Lu Dong tasted it. My mother made it with her own hands, and it tasted much better than the ones he made before.

Lu Dong also considered opening a stewed meat stall, but the current conditions are not suitable, he himself is busy going around, and Hu Chunlan needs to take care of the orchard, so it is impossible to spare a lot of time to go to the stewed meat stall.

Let's talk about it after the apples are finished in the orchard and the night market in University City opens.

At that time, we must plan for a fixed booth, so that students can also have a fixed place to go, and the business is more secure.