60s: I have a store

Chapter 96: Exchanging Old Books (Supplement)
Zhou Yimin doesn't need any positions, but he has a bunch of nephews in the village!
Director Yang decided to try it out first to see if he could make it. If his own people could make it, he wouldn't have to bother Zhou Yimin and wouldn't have to owe him so many favors.

Of course, even if I did it myself, the idea was still provided by Zhou Yimin, and that has to be acknowledged.

So, he selected several experienced chefs from the factory and brought them together to develop a new ramen.

After hearing this, several old masters looked at each other in bewilderment.

Director, are you kidding?
Don’t want to cook noodles? You can eat them dry or soak them in boiling water for two or three minutes.

In all their lives, they had never heard of noodles like that.

Doesn't this make things difficult for them?

A bit whimsical, isn’t it?

"Director, we have never heard of it!" One of the old masters couldn't help but say.

"That's right, how can there be noodles like that? Who can eat noodles without cooking them?"

Director Yang held his hand in the air, motioning for everyone to be quiet, and then said, "If foreigners can do it, why can't we?
Moreover, I heard people say that we had this kind of noodles in ancient times. If the ancients could make it, are we worse than them now? If we can't make it once, then make it several times. I still don't believe it.

In this way, whoever makes instant noodles like that will be given a 100 yuan bonus by the factory..."

Finally, Director Yang promised a lot of rewards.

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward!

No matter what the result is, after hearing about the generous reward, the masters have been excited and started to get ready.

The most important thing is that the factory manager said that foreigners and ancient people can make that kind of noodles. In this case, they can't be stupider than the ancients, right?

If Zhou Yimin knew what they were thinking, he would definitely laugh.

What courage gives you the illusion that you are smarter than the ancients?
There are many things that the ancients were able to make, and they were made under such a low level of productivity, but modern people can't even copy them.

For example, the seismometer, the wooden ox and the flowing horse, etc.

When Zhou Yimin returned to the courtyard, he saw Li Youde collecting teaching materials.

He was also smart. He did not give money directly to avoid being caught. Instead, he bought popsicles, soda and other food and asked the children to exchange them for their unused textbooks.

Popsicles are not expensive at that time, you can buy one for one or two cents.

"So much?" Zhou Yimin was surprised.

Didn’t I tell you that ten or so copies of each textbook would be enough?
Li Youde smiled bitterly: "They've already brought their children here, how can we let them down?"

All right! That's right, we can't let them go home disappointed. Children, don't they just want a few bites of food? This request is not too much.

Zhou Yimin returned to his room and came out with a bag of sugar and a bag of melon seeds.

Said to Li Youde: "Give them another handful of melon seeds and two candies."

When these words were spoken, the children were overjoyed.

Li Youde took a few more textbooks and flipped through them casually, mainly to see if there were any missing pages. But when he looked, he saw that there were words written on the front and the back was brand new.

"You didn't take out everything you're reading now, did you? That won't do, take it back." Li Youde glared.

You kid are trying to harm me!

What if your parents knew about this? Wouldn't they hold me responsible?
Zhou Yimin was speechless. It seems that students who don't want to study and don't like studying have existed from ancient times to the present. Do you think you can avoid going to school by selling your books?

This reminded Zhou Yimin of some students in later generations who, in order to avoid doing their homework, deliberately put their homework books into the stove to burn them, or even deliberately lost them. In the end, they were "rescued" and cried so sadly.

The behavior of this little guy in front of me is similar.

"Be more conscious and take back the books you are still using. Otherwise, you will be discovered and have nothing to eat." Zhou Yimin said to the group of little kids. Several of the little kids quietly took back some of the books.

I dare not gamble!

If they are discovered, they can't even exchange their old books. Wouldn't they be left with nothing? They can only watch others eat. How miserable would that be?

Zhou Yimin also had an unexpected gain.

In addition to textbooks, there are also some study materials, etc. These are what Zhoujiazhuang Primary School needs. The school in Zhoujiazhuang is too simple and lacks many things, not just textbooks.

Soon, Li Youde collected a lot of old books. He moved these old books to Dapeng's room. Zhou Yimin would take them away anyway, so there was no need to move them to the middle courtyard.

Then, he took a watermelon from Dapeng's house.

Li Youde couldn't hide such a big watermelon. All the residents in the yard saw it along the way. Especially the children in the yard, they looked at it eagerly.

Zhou Yimin had no choice but to take out three more and gave one to the front yard, middle yard and back yard respectively.

"Auntie one, auntie two, auntie three, each of you take one and share it in the yard. Everyone can try it. This is a gift from a friend." Zhou Yimin always mentions "friends".

None of the residents in the courtyard suspected anything.

Everyone knows that Zhou Yimin has many friends, even Director Li of the Street Office is his "relative", and he has a wide network of contacts. It is reasonable for him to get a few watermelons.

"Yimin, thank you!" The aunties and others expressed their gratitude one after another.

Watermelons are a scarce commodity, especially those that big.

Cut it into smaller pieces so that not only the children can have a share, but the adults can also have a taste.

It’s so sweet, just like eating candy.

"This watermelon is growing really well. Look, the skin is really thin."

"Yes! This watermelon is really red and sweet. I'm afraid most people can't eat this kind of watermelon. Yimin's friends are really amazing."

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Zhou Yimin thought to himself, you have never seen a real dream melon, the skin is so thin that it will break if you flick it with your fingers.

I still remember that some foreigners ate Chinese watermelons and questioned whether they had been injected with saccharin because the watermelons in their country were not that sweet.

It really makes Chinese people laugh to death. How many cents a pound of watermelon is added with sweetener? What are you thinking?

If you want to get saccharin, buy it and get it at home.

Now that he had the old books, Zhou Yimin started to think about the old clothes.

To be honest, old clothes are more difficult for him to deal with than new clothes. It’s really better to just buy a few rolls of cloth from the store in your mind and let them make one or two new clothes.

A child's clothes don't require much cloth.

It is really difficult to deal with old clothes, but people are reluctant to throw away their old clothes. They will mend them and keep them for another three years. This is not just empty talk.

Unlike later generations, there are piles of old clothes and we don’t know what to do with them.

It is said that some people donated their old clothes and even went to Africa.

In some backward countries, used clothes are very popular. Even if they cost money, they are very cheap, which is a great deal for the people in those backward countries.

After careful consideration, Zhou Yimin made a decision and decided to buy a few rolls of cloth.

This chapter makes up for yesterday's.

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(End of this chapter)