mtl008 Chapter 297 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 13
Chapter 297 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 13
There were still three days until the registration date on the admission notice, but the school's orientation activities had already begun.
Liu Yumei and Liu Yuxi both chose the Literature Department. Perhaps because their names are similar, they were assigned to the same dormitory room, so they didn't need to go to the teacher anymore.
Liu Yushan and Liu Yuhe both chose the market economy major and were in the same dormitory. They had settled their luggage, and kept their valuables on their person. There were small lockers in the dormitory, but they didn't have locks, and they still had a lot of things to buy.
They had lunch at the school cafeteria at noon, and in the afternoon they bought all the things. Because Liu Yuxi asked her father to stay for a couple more days, the group went to explore Beijing together. Liu Erzhu thought that he had a lot of money on him, so it wouldn't hurt to go sightseeing. They stayed in Liu Yushan's dormitory that night.
Over the next two days, the five of them went to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony, visited the Forbidden City, and climbed the Great Wall. Yes, they went to three places in two days. The rest of the time they just strolled around the streets and took a photo at a photo studio.
When it was time for the official school registration, Liu Erzhu met with the roommates of the children, asked them to take good care of his children, and then went home.
The four people who stayed home during holidays could only communicate with their families through letters.
Two years ago, all of them went to school obediently. Nowadays, students are still the kind of students who are self-disciplined. In this kind of atmosphere, if you slack off even a little, you will feel guilty.
When college students return to their villages during winter and summer vacations, they all have to tutor other children in the village. Of course, the villagers will give them work points in return, and it is essential to ensure that more college students can be admitted from the village.
All that effort paid off. For several years, Liujia Village produced about ten college students every year until the village was full of recent graduates, at which point the initiative was discontinued.
By 80, the market economy had begun to recover, and many street vendors could be seen on the streets of Beijing, selling snacks, clothes, and cassette tapes.
This summer, the four siblings didn't go back to their hometown. It was all because Liu Yuxi kept nagging them that it would be great if they could buy a house here.
After hearing this so many times, they naturally started to have the same idea. Each month, the students had a surplus of their stipends after starting school, which their families didn't accept. They only used the money to buy gifts for their families when they went back to their hometown. But when they left to study elsewhere, their families would give them double the amount back, so even the student with the least amount, Liu Yuhe, had over two hundred yuan.
The group had a little over a thousand yuan saved up, and instead of heading south, they found a source of goods in Beijing under Liu Yuxi's guidance. Although the purchase price was a bit higher than in the south, it was safer.
The group sold women's clothing. Liu Yuxi was good at selecting the goods, Liu Yumei negotiated prices with the seller, and Liu Yushan and Liu Yuhe were responsible for carrying the goods. The goods were stored in the school dormitory, which consisted of only two large bags.
At first, they had little money and little stock, so the group set up a stall. Liu Yuxi asked a local classmate who knew carpentry to make a clothes rack like the ones in later generations, which was detachable.
Every day, at a busy street corner they had found out in advance, Liu Yumei and Liu Yuxi would set up their stall, wearing sample clothes, with a monochrome sheet spread on the ground and matching women's outfits on it. Behind them, clothes would hang on a clothes rack, and the group would begin their stall business.
They sell summer clothes. The factory price in the south is about 8 to 15 yuan per piece, but the price in Beijing becomes 10 to 18 yuan. The profit of the wholesalers mainly depends on the volume of goods they ship, so the price increase per piece is not much.
When Liu Yuxi and his group resold it, the price became 15 to 25 yuan. Of course, this was basically the bottom price. When they were selling, they would ask for a little more on top of this price, so as to leave some room for customers to bargain.
Although ordinary workers only earned thirty or forty yuan a month at that time, the market had just opened up, and people who had lived in blue, white, gray and black for more than ten years could no longer suppress their pursuit of beautiful things.
Therefore, many young women and married women are willing to spend most of their monthly salary to buy a beautiful dress.
Liu Yuxi has a great sense of style and a silver tongue, so her business is surprisingly good. In less than two days, the first batch of goods was almost sold out.
The four siblings had already calculated that they could earn about 450 yuan by selling all the goods, but Liu Yushan and his friends did not expect to earn that 450 yuan in just two days.
After calculating, earning over 200 yuan a day, that's 12,000 yuan over two months of summer vacation! Buying a house is definitely not a dream! Having figured out the numbers, the three of them were no longer shy. Every time they sold goods, they were even more enthusiastic than Liu Yuxi. What was there to be ashamed of? Making money! It's not shameful!
A week later, the four siblings started "splitting the stalls". Two people could manage one stall, one looking at the goods and the other selling and collecting money. After buying goods for a week, their money more than doubled, so the four of them split into two groups.
After a week, the older brothers and sisters had already trained well, and Liu Yuxi was quite relieved. She was in a group with Liu Yushan, and Liu Yumei was in a group with Liu Yuhe.
The four of them didn't have a fixed location for their stall. They inquired about several suitable places in advance and rotated between them for a week. By the end of August, they had 20,000 yuan in their hands.
With school starting soon, the group decided to look for a place to live first. Since they no longer had to live off campus, they could continue their street vending on weekends once they had a place to live.
Liu Yuhe and Liu Yumei continued selling goods at their stall, while Liu Yushan and Liu Yuxi started looking for houses around the school. Since they didn't have many connections, they could only inquire at the neighborhood office first.
Fortunately, the neighborhood committee was involved in everything at that time. There were quite a few houses sold in the past two years, and the housing prices this year have risen a lot compared to the previous two years. However, they still had enough money to buy three small courtyard houses. If they wanted four, they would be short of money.
In 77, a small courtyard with three main houses could sell for about 2500 to 3500 yuan. This year, it would be 5 to 6 yuan. However, Liu Yumei and her stall still make money every day. By the end of the month, they will definitely be able to raise enough for four courtyards.
Over two days, Liu Yushan and Liu Yuxi, accompanied by people from the subdistrict office, looked at all the courtyard houses for sale in the surrounding area, selected three that were ready to move into, and immediately paid for and transferred the properties to Liu Yumei, Liu Yuhe, and Liu Yuxi respectively.
Liu Yushan had also found a suitable property, but because he didn't have enough money, he agreed on a price with the owner and would complete the transaction at the end of the month. Since he had bought three small courtyard houses in the same area, the street office worker who accompanied them spoke well of him, so the owner was at ease and it was just a matter of waiting a few more days.
In the following days, Liu Yushan and Liu Yuxi joined the ranks of sellers to earn money for their rent. Finally, by the end of the month, each of the four siblings had acquired a small courtyard house. Of course, they only had a little over a thousand yuan and some unsold clothes left.
The group chose a courtyard house closest to the school to live in. They plan to move back to their own courtyard house after graduation, depending on the situation.