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"My aunt was in confinement twice. My mother went to school to ask for leave and took me to the city to take care of my aunt. Once my mother went out to buy groceries and I was washing the children's clothes in the bathroom. I heard a noise outside and saw a drunk person when I came out. My uncle pulled my aunt’s hair, dragged her off the bed and beat her.”

"Since then, I have been avoiding my uncle. Before, my aunt wanted me to follow her path. I knelt in front of my father and told him that I wanted to go out to work and send the money back every month. If I wanted to be a small boy, Honey, I will hang myself at home."

"Dad was relieved. At that time, Xiaobei wasn't very good at reading. I was afraid that my aunt might have ideas about her, so I took her away with her."

Lin Qian was sure that this episode was not in her memory. She only knew that Xu Xiaonan and Xu Xiaobei left suddenly.

When they came to Yangcheng, they first went to work in a shoe factory. The shoe factory worked two shifts, and they had to work at three o'clock, eat, and sleep every day.

Xu Xiaonan felt that this was not possible. She wanted to find other jobs, but she didn't even have a junior high school diploma. Finally, someone asked her to try out at a teahouse. If she was pretty, she could be a receptionist.

However, she didn't get the job the first time she went to the teahouse. Her Mandarin was not standard and she couldn't speak the local dialect.

When Xu Xiaonan talked about it, he didn't mention the suffering at all, only that he finally successfully applied for the job.

Lin Qian knew how much effort she had put into this. The local dialect of Yangcheng was notoriously difficult to learn, and some people who had lived here for more than ten years might not be able to understand it.

If you think about it carefully, it's really ironic.

The girls that Xu's father and Xu's mother didn't care about struggled in the mud one by one, and finally blossomed into graceful flowers. On the contrary, the son they thought of as their treasure became a puddle of mud that could not hold up the wall.

"My income is higher now than before. Apart from the money I send home every month, I save the rest. You should study more, and my eldest sister will help you!"

Xu Xiaobei took up what she said and continued: "Second sister can also make money now. You must study more. It was only when the eldest sister and I came out of society that we realized that a diploma is a stepping stone."

At this time, the food was served, but Lin Qian did not continue.

It wasn't until the four sisters were lying on their beds chatting at night that Lin Qian revealed her plan to sell milk tea.

Although there are many other ways, milk tea has the lowest start-up capital. When she went to Taiwan Province before, she learned about the history of an old milk tea shop and heard the other party introduce the original recipe.

Another thing Lin Qian remembers very clearly is that the other party said that 2002 was the most difficult year for milk tea brands entering big cities.

Milk tea became popular in China after the turn of the millennium, and subsequently attracted a large number of new entrants to join the raw material processing team. This caused the price of special plant powder for milk tea to fall quickly, with the lowest wholesale price being only 5 yuan per kilogram.

The dosage for a cup of milk tea is 30g, and one kilogram can make more than 30 cups.

Lin Qian had already received support from Xu Xiaodong when she was at home.

Since she was able to continue studying in high school, Lin Qian felt that Xu Xiaodong had developed a blind worship of her.

"Xiao Xi, how do you know so much?" Xu Xiaonan's voice was soft, but Lin Qian heard a trace of doubt.

Xu Xiaobei also said: "Yeah, Xiaoxi didn't talk much at home before, but now she has a lot of ideas."

People who have already left society are different. The two sisters are much more thoughtful than Xu Xiaodong.

Lin Qian was a little confused. Should she tell her story from childhood to adulthood in a sad tone? Or do you use a tone that sees things through and tells the story of your awakening after entering the hospital?

Before Lin Qian could choose one of the two, Best Mouth spoke first for Xu Xiaodong: "Sister, my little sister was quiet before and it wasn't because her parents were partial. Do you remember that when she first went to school, she took the test for the whole class? First?"

"Later, when she came back with a certificate at the end of the semester, her parents threw it aside. My younger brother was praised to the sky for scoring 70 points in the exam. In the end, my younger brother secretly took the certificate and made an origami airplane!"

"Every time my little sister was bullied by her younger brother at school, my parents would always argue with each other. They would say that the younger brother was ignorant and the older sister would give in to him. Later, the little sister started to dislike talking less and less."

At this point, Xu Xiaodong became excited: "Fortunately, my little sister is lucky this time, otherwise Xu Dazhong would be a murderer!"

The other three were speechless for a moment after listening.

Lin Qian closed her eyes and recalled. The little girl got double hundred in the exam when she was a child. She came back happily. What she got was not praise, but couldn't you give in to your brother? How sad it is that he got so bad in the exam!

Later, when Xu Dazhong grew up, he directly threatened Xu Xiaoxi not to pass the exam if she was too good, and asked her to help with homework and daily duties, including writing self-criticisms, which were commonplace.

The teacher didn't pay much attention to her because her grades were average and she had an annoying younger brother.

Lin Qian let out a long sigh: "Yes, it has been really difficult for so many years."

"But luckily the English teacher was a nice guy and told me everything."

"I thought at that time, since there are still people on the side of justice, I will risk my life to seek justice. Justice may be late, but it will never be absent."

Lin Qian sighed in her heart. In fact, she agreed with that sentence: If justice is late, it is equivalent to absence.

The conversation ended here, and few people continued to speak. Except for Lin Qian who slept peacefully that night, the other three had insomnia all night long.

The next morning, Xu Xiaonan gave Lin Qian 1000 yuan in cash, saying that it was the eldest and second sisters' support for the younger sisters.

They have to rent a house and make a living. In the past, they had to send money home. 1000 yuan is already a lot.

Lin Qian calmly accepted the money and told Xu Xiaonan seriously that the 1000 yuan was considered a shareholding for two people, plus Xu Xiaodong's 600 yuan savings, it was enough.

Xu Xiaobei went out early in the morning. She was going to the train station to pick up the goods with the proprietress. Before going out, she said to them: "I will pick out some good-looking outfits for you when I come back!"

Xu Xiaonan was on the afternoon shift today. She took Xu Xiaodong to the second-hand home appliance wholesale market and rented a small freezer. Then they rented a tricycle.

Lin Qian first went to find a small single room on the first floor nearby to store her things. The weather in Yangcheng was hot and humid, and lower floors were often the most difficult to rent, so the landlord didn't dislike her short-term renting.

Then go to the wholesale market to buy the raw materials for making milk tea. The place is not far away, right next to the urban village.

Lin Qian and Xu Xiaodong spent another day deciding on the types and flavors of milk tea to be sold, and made a cute sign out of white cardboard.

Lin Qian followed the cartoon and drew two Q-version little girls under the sign, and wrote "Sisters Milk Tea" next to it - iced milk tea, the taste is right!

After careful consideration, she decided not to add the pearls and just make milk tea. It was too troublesome to cook the pearls.

Two yuan a cup, mainly selling fast.

In 2002, Yangcheng was not like 20 years later, when small vendors and urban management were fighting guerrillas everywhere. In the spring breeze of reform, as long as you had skills, you could make money.

The cost of milk tea is low and the profit is high. Lin Qian even bought small squares to make milk tea ice.

The ice in other milk teas is pure water, but their ice is frozen milk tea, so after the ice melts, the taste of the milk tea will not be weak.

Lin Qian and Xu Xiaodong start preparing at two o'clock every afternoon and set off at four thirty. They only do night market business and finish work at ten o'clock.

The least I can sell is about 200 cups a day, and the most I can sell is 300 cups a day. If the tea base stock hadn't been gone, I could have sold more.

However, Xu Xiaodong was a little anxious and asked Lin Qian if she went to tourist attractions to sell milk tea during the day. The milk tea they made tasted good, and the milk tea ice was also a novelty, with many repeat customers.

Now they are only sold in night markets. After deducting the cost, they can only earn up to one semester's tuition and fees for two people in a month.

Lin Qian shook her head and refused. This is not how money is earned.

On the morning of the sixteenth day after arriving in Yangcheng, Lin Qian and Xu Xiaodong went to find a lawyer to make an agreement. They transferred all the milk tea recipes and all the things used to set up the stall and got 5.