Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

A day passed quickly, they were busy in the supermarket all day, and Manager Xu was also checking the accounts and the day's turnover.

In the first three days of the opening, most products were discounted to attract customers, so the profit was definitely not as high as usual.

But the turnover is quite impressive, with a daily income of 3 yuan. Even if the profit is only 6%, it will be 20 yuan a day. It is a very proud achievement.

Manager Xu couldn't help but smile, "No wonder you want to open a supermarket. This business is really profitable."

Seeing that he had gained confidence, Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "The location is fine. Just change the business model and business will naturally come back."

Manager Xu nodded, and the three of them went to eat together.

After a good meal and a few drinks, Manager Xu complained to the two men, "Before, the business was running at a loss, my wife wanted to divorce me, my child had no place to go to college, and my mother was sick. My family was waiting for me to bring money back. Now everything is back on track. Come on! Brothers, let's have a drink!"

Zhang Xiuhua could tell that he was on the verge of losing his livelihood. No wonder he was willing to sell the mall even if she offered him a lower price of 100,000 yuan.

"If we run this supermarket well, we will make a considerable profit in a year." Li Jianguo is also a person who has experienced this. When his mother was sick and hospitalized a few years ago, the two brothers were also worried about the surgery fee. Now everything is over.

Manager Xu drank the wine in one gulp. "Okay! I won't say anything more. I will work hard in the future! I will definitely be able to open our supermarket and let the people of the whole county know about our Xifu Department Store."

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know how to drink, so she just watched the two of them drink one cup after another.

After eating and drinking, the two sides separated. Manager Xu lived close to home, so he walked back. Zhang Xiuhua helped Li Jianguo back to the brewery and rested in the unit's apartment there.

After waking up, Li Jianguo felt groggy.

Zhang Xiuhua went to the back kitchen and made him a bowl of hangover soup. "Drink it quickly. How can you go to work today when you are so drunk?"

Li Jianguo rubbed his forehead and said, "I'm happy! Our supermarket business is good, and we will have more money in the future. Judging from the lively scene yesterday, I think we will be able to open a branch soon."

Zhang Xiuhua thought he was just daydreaming. "Didn't Lao Xu say he would buy out our shares?"

"He can buy at most 51%. We won't sell more than that." Li Jianguo felt that he would not buy the remaining shares. "I heard what Lao Xu said. He will open a few small supermarkets in the future."

Zhang Xiuhua had no objection. Small supermarkets have low profits and are usually run by couples. If Lao Xu wants to open one, then let him do it.

"When Lao Xu buys the shares, I will use the money to buy a house." Li Jianguo said happily, "I only have two courtyard houses. I gave one to Youcai, and the others are Yaoyao and Zhuzhu."

"You actually bought a courtyard house for your daughter?" Zhang Xiuhua has been married in the north for more than ten years. The phenomenon of favoring boys over girls is less severe here than in the south. But there is still a long way to go to achieve true gender equality. Take buying a house for example, most families buy houses for boys, and very few families buy houses for girls.

"You are going to buy a house for Baolin, right? I can't do it too badly. The children will also be competitive." Li Jianguo wanted to give a dowry at first, but he took into account Yaoyao's sensitive personality since childhood.

He was afraid that Yaoyao would become alienated from him in the future, so he decided to treat them all equally and buy them all.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't say anything. "Yaoyao had a very hard time during her internship this year. She lost a lot of weight."

Yaoyao went to the hospital for internship, and the people in the department threw all the dirty and heavy work to her, and the key was that she didn't get paid. Zhang Xiuhua went to the capital and wanted to take her out to a restaurant, but Yaoyao didn't have time. She had to rush back to her post after eating in a hurry. Zhang Xiuhua sometimes blamed herself for suggesting Yaoyao to study medicine.

Li Jianguo sighed, "Studying medicine requires long-term investment to get rewards. Fortunately, Yaoyao has always been stable, I believe she can stick to it."

Zhang Xiuhua agreed with this. If it were Jilin, he probably wouldn't have survived the first year.

She urged him to get up quickly, "I want to go to your office to make a phone call. I wonder which factory Ergou is in?"

Li Jianguo got up quickly, washed up, and went to the cafeteria to have breakfast.

Arriving at the office, Zhang Xiuhua called everyone one by one. The factory in Nantong had been repaired, but the production line had been soaked in water and needed to be repaired. It would take some time before production could resume. Ergou was still there a week ago, but he went to the south last Monday, saying that someone wanted to discuss something with him.

Zhang Xiuhua called the Yangcheng Garment Factory, and the factory manager asked her to wait and call her back when the boss came back.

Zhang Xiuhua waited and waited until noon, when Ergou finally called her back.

It is very inconvenient to not have a mobile phone at this time. I am anxious to find someone, but I can't get in touch with them.

Ergou called and told Zhang Xiuhua the good news, "Godmother, I sold the electronics factory I bought last year. Guess how much money I made?"

How could Zhang Xiuhua know? "I think you spent three million to buy it?"

"Yes! Last year the foreigners left and sold it to me at a low price. This year they came back and spent an extra million to buy it back. In the past few months, I have made three million running the factory. The two together make four million." Ergou on the other end of the phone couldn't suppress his joy.

Li Jianguo was listening to this from the side, his eyes lit up amazingly, and he couldn't help but interrupt, "It's so profitable, why did you sell it?"

Such a high profit should be kept by himself, why did he sell it for only one million? He couldn't understand Ergou's idea.

If Ergou had been like him before, he would have kept this egg-laying hen in his own hands. But now he didn't dare to take risks, and said with a smile, "Godmother said that we should focus on breweries and instant noodle factories. I was just a stepping stone for these profitable factories. I would sell them if they only made short-term profits."

Li Jianguo looked at Zhang Xiuhua in surprise, and she nodded at him, "Yes, I told Ergou that."

Li Jianguo didn't understand his wife's train of thought, but he wouldn't argue about this issue in front of Ergou. Instead, he told her that he wanted to build another production line.

Ergou agreed without hesitation, "Sure. I'm going to re-introduce a production line in Nantong, and I'll buy you one then."

This matter is settled.

After hanging up the phone, Li Jianguo couldn't hold back any longer and asked her why she wanted to sell it.

Zhang Xiuhua spread her hands, "We know nothing about electronics factories, and neither does Ergou. Professionals do professional things. And our factory has limited funds. The reason I agreed to Ergou's acquisition of those factories is that I guessed that those people would come back sooner or later. We just want to make some quick money. If we really keep doing this for a long time, the factory will have problems sooner or later."

At first, the factory managers used Ergou as a lifeline and tried their best to show off. But after a long time, when they found out that Ergou knew nothing about the electronics factory, they would definitely have bad intentions. In the end, they might even empty the electronics factory. She didn't want her money to go to waste.

Li Jianguo really didn't think so much. He sighed and said, "Doing business is not as simple as I thought."

The managers of his brewery were all from his own village. Only the accountant and cashier were hired from outside. But Ergou was always worried. Every once in a while, he would send people from the south to check the accounts to prevent financial corruption.

"Who says it's not true?" Zhang Xiuhua had read a book before, and there was a sentence in it that she thought made a lot of sense, "People can't make money beyond their cognition." It was already a rare thing for her and Ergou to make a fortune. Biting off more than you can chew.

Li Jianguo smiled and said, "It's rare that he listens to you. He made his own decisions before."

Ergou has always had his own ideas. It's not that he doesn't listen to them. It's that Ergou has his own understanding and is more willing to believe in himself.

Zhang Xiuhua laughed, "Every failure makes you wiser. People grow up slowly."

Li Jianguo nodded, "This is also good."