69novels Chapter 256
Chapter 256
Under the autumn wind, Qu Lan cried bitterly while holding five sweet potatoes. She stopped begging her relatives from her natal family and left with her family.
At that time, Qu Lan was desperate. Meng Guangzhu even thought of cutting his own flesh to feed the three children.
At this time, Qu Jingzhou's father Qu Nan gave the Meng family a small basket of sweet potatoes, which allowed the Meng family's children to survive.
Whenever she thought of the scene of that year, Qu Lan would cry.
Those days were really hard.
Later, fortunately, the state distributed some food in time, which allowed the people affected by the disaster to survive.
It was also from that time that Qu Lan and her natal family became estranged.
She was really cold. She would not blame her natal family at all if she starved to death, but she still had three children.
Qu Lan was a person who clearly distinguished between love and hate. Later, when the Meng family's life was a little better, Qu Lan and Meng Guangzhu walked more than 80 miles on a cart to deliver a cart of sweet potatoes to Qu Nan.
The two families often visited each other in recent years.
Meng Haisheng had heard a lot of these trivial things when he went to the streets with Qu Lan to enjoy the cool air when he was a child.
At that time, many people from Xiashan Village went out to seek refuge with relatives, and many tragic stories happened.
Whenever everyone thought of these past events, almost everyone would quietly wipe their tears. Those days were more bitter than eating coptis.
But it was not easy for them to survive. Many relatives in the same village died of hunger.
"Mom, let my eldest cousin come too. Learn the skills of repairing TVs, and he will definitely not starve in the future."
"Well, let the villagers see who to let go, and your dad and I will discuss it carefully."
"You should hurry up. I just rented a counter in Ninggang City, and I need manpower at this time."
Meng Haisheng gave Qu Lan a few more instructions, and then went back with Qu Dayong.
He thought that this matter would take a few days, but he didn't expect that when he went to the store the next day, Qu Jingzhou came with five young people from Xiashan Village.
Except for Qu Jingzhou, the other five people were really young, basically around 18-19.
Looking at these young boys with green faces, Meng Haisheng thought that he had to go to junior high school and learn to read, so he directly screened out the older ones.
There are really not many people in the village who can go to junior high school. Among Meng Haisheng and Meng Hailian's generation, most of them can go to elementary school.
So many people came at once, which caught Meng Haisheng off guard. His parents were so quick.
The first thing Meng Haisheng did was to run to the small western-style building and buy a small western-style building that was about the same size as his home.
This small western-style building is a little old, but it is definitely no problem for people to live in.
The two floors upstairs were converted into employee dormitories by Meng Haisheng, and the first floor was used to store TVs.
In this way, Yu Shilong would not have to live in the small room upstairs of the TV store, and Meng Xiaomi would not have to go to the textile factory staff community.
All of them lived in the small western-style building.
The three bedrooms and a living room downstairs were connected to let them use it as a repair room.
The store no longer repairs TVs, but only sells them.
Whether it is one person or a group of people, Meng Haisheng has started teaching his apprentices like crazy.
They all live in the small western-style building area. Meng Haisheng really goes to the repair room after breakfast.
He will come to take a look after picking up Momo in the afternoon.
When Lin Mucheng went to the college entrance examination sprint class, he brought three little babies to take another look.
A group of boys, being stared at by Meng Haisheng all day, don't learn too fast.
"Brother Haisheng, don't watch me repair the TV anymore. If you watch me again, I won't be able to repair it."
Meng Daniu was the one who was stared at the most by Meng Haisheng. He often stood beside him for an hour.
In the evening, Meng Haisheng stood beside the little spoiled girl Yanyan and watched. Yanyan fell asleep out of boredom.
"I have to keep an eye on you. You are slow to learn. I have to pay attention to some small details. Otherwise, you won't be able to fix it well and waste too much time."
Meng Haisheng paid all apprentices 35 yuan a month. He also raised the salary of Yu Shilong and Jin Da, who were already able to take apprentices. Both of them now get 45 yuan a month.
Meng Haisheng's apprentices are provided with food and accommodation, and they also have such high salaries. He doesn't let them cheat.
Not to mention that they have to study hard, if they can't get the simplest repair done in a week, he will really consider firing them.
He put in so much effort, not for charity, but he hopes that everyone can work together to repair the broken TV as soon as possible so that he can sell it and get his capital back first.
Now he is still waiting for money to buy Angora rabbits.
At Jin Da's place, Meng Haisheng found a truck driver at noon the next day and pulled 300 TVs over. Now he can see the benefits of having more people.
When delivering goods to Jinda, Meng Haisheng directlyHe brought two apprentices to help with loading and unloading.
Watching the apprentices working hard, Meng Haisheng couldn't help but think of Zhou Wenqi.
No wonder he has so many apprentices. It feels great to be a master.
"Haisheng, this is Comrade Zhang, and this is Comrade Liu. They were introduced by Manager Song. They said they have experience as salesmen."
"This is Zhao Feng, also a retired soldier, and my former comrade-in-arms."
Jin Da looked at Meng Haisheng a little embarrassed.
"You told me to find an apprentice myself, and I remembered that Zhao Feng was from Ninggang City, so I called him over."
"Okay, your own apprentice, you can do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't delay the work."
"Don't worry, we are not the kind of people who cheat."
Everyone moved 20 TVs to the counter together. Before they started to sell them at a price, they attracted a lot of people.
Televisions are a rarity in both Quyang County and Ninggang City. Suddenly, so many televisions were moved to the counter, which naturally attracted many people to watch.
Meng Haisheng had the experience of the last opening. He pasted a big red paper on the wall and began to greet the people who came to watch the fun with the salesmen.
And Jinda had already connected the TV wires yesterday.
Now when the TV arrives, you can watch TV immediately by plugging it in.
"Comrade, are the prices on your wall real?"
"Of course, all the TVs here are made in Japan and Hong Kong, regardless of brand, only size, 14-inch black and white 260, 14-inch color 700, 18-inch color 1200."
"All the TVs just arrived this morning, if you want, you can pick the ones with good quality first."
"What if we buy it home and it breaks again after one or two months? After all, it's a second-hand TV, and no one knows the good parts inside. Have you replaced them?"
Meng Haisheng saw that the uncle in front of him was quite thoughtful, and he said with a smile, "As long as any TV sold from our store has quality problems within one year, we will provide warranty."
"If it breaks in the original repair place, it will be guaranteed for five years."
Everyone was relieved when they heard Meng Haisheng say this. If a second-hand TV keeps breaking, it will be a troublesome thing.
The reason why Meng Haisheng dared to say this is because he has great trust in the quality of current TVs.
He remembered that in his previous life, after he made money, he bought a TV for Meng Guangzhu, and Meng Guangzhu used that TV for more than ten years without breaking down.
Later, because the tube had aged after a long time, he replaced it with a new one, and used it for several more years, and it didn't break down until he sold it.