Now that I have opened a shop, I will stay in the shop unless there is anything special. Especially at noon and night, I am very busy when I eat, and I need a helper. In addition, the business has just started, and we have to worry about the improvement of turnover and the management of the store.

Slowly, with more and more regular customers entering the store, the turnover began to grow slowly. It seems that business should not lose money, and maybe it will be better than I expected. It has been open for more than a month and has gained a large number of fans. For example, mother and son are eating chicken noodle soup.

The little boy is about four or five years old and his mother is very young. She is as young as me in Jiao Jiao, wearing western-style clothes and makeup. My son likes noodles. Every time he doesn't order our signature rice noodles, he just orders a big bowl of 18 yuan's chicken soup and silver noodles. I added a small bowl to the little boy, and the mother and son drank a bowl of hot chicken soup. Watching NianLia leave happily after dinner, I always feel a warm current in my heart, as if I had returned to my childhood with my son.

The second fan is a beautiful girl who often comes to the store to eat rice noodles soon after opening. She said that our rice noodles are super delicious, especially the taste of chicken soup is her favorite. Every time she ordered a small bowl of rice noodles for 15 yuan, she told the waiter that only a little rice noodles, more dishes and more soup, not more chicken. Then order a big chicken leg at thirteen yuan each. Eat chicken legs alone and drink chicken soup with our beautiful ceramic spoon.

I am always sad to see that she only eats a few rice noodles at a time. Several times, I gave her braised chicken wings, but she didn't want them. She said, "Sister, you really don't have to mention it. You are in business, too. It's not easy to make money, but I like to eat less rice noodles. I really can't eat. " My sister is not only beautiful, but also so considerate.

Talking to her, I learned that she is twenty-five years old and has a five-year-old daughter. She works in a nearby beauty salon and may open a nail salon in Chongqing in the future. My sister has a fleshy round face, attractive facial features, white and tender skin, and a little girl with collagen on her face, which is nothing like the mother of a five-year-old child. Especially every time she walks into the shop from the outside, she always looks shy and pleasant. She may be afraid that others will say she is a foodie. So every time I always greet her with a smile, for fear that she will feel embarrassed.

"Elder sister, here we are. Do you want to get off work early or rest today? " .

She took a photo of my rice noodles and sent it to a circle of friends. Then she said, "I just got back from Chongqing and came to eat rice noodles as soon as I got off the bus." I miss it all day. " Later, she brought a good friend to dinner, and the good friend ordered his own food in the US Mission. Gee, when I talk about this sister, I am filled with joy. Not only because she often takes care of my business, but every time I see her young, it always reminds me of those lush years when I was young. .

The third fan is a chef, a thin middle-aged man.

He often came to the store when he first started his business. Every time he has a bowl of rice noodles, a chicken leg, a chicken sausage and 34 yuan alone. Seeing that he is dressed ordinary, he doesn't think our rice noodles are expensive at all. At first glance, he is a complete foodie. Moreover, he also wants to drink a bottle of small white wine, which my family didn't sell, and he has to go to the supermarket next door to buy it for him. He drank some wine and ate the chicken leg alone, enjoying it. I just think that people's salary of more than 2,000 yuan a month has made their lives so happy, while many people around us have much better incomes, but they often look sad.

What is contentment? What do you mean by living in the present? The middle-aged man in front of me is.

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There is also an aunt who moved me very much. She likes to eat our chicken soup herself and even pays for it. Aunt said that she often passed by here, smelled the chicken soup coming out especially fragrant, and saw that the decoration in the store was also beautiful, so she came in to have a look. I explained to her in detail the process of making our chicken soup. Chicken is a live chicken slaughtered every day, which is very fresh. Then simmer for nearly ten hours. The materials are simple but exquisite, so it tastes delicious, light and healthy, and is suitable for everyone. After listening to my explanation, she said, I ate today and will come back tomorrow.

She did come the next day. I really like the taste when I taste it. She said that she was a patient and couldn't eat much, but her stomach was very comfortable after eating our chicken soup and rice noodles. So she often comes to the store, and every time she comes, she introduces chicken soup to the guests next to her while eating, saying it is authentic stewed chicken. Aunt speaks softly, and at first glance she is a very educated old man. Every time, she always likes to sit at the small table closest to the cashier. Then chat with me while eating.

She said that she was in poor health since she was a child, and her husband was very considerate to her. She almost took care of all the housework at home but never complained. They have three children, one is a civil servant, one is in business, and the other has just retired from a factory. Several children are good, three grandchildren are excellent, and the granddaughter is still studying in Singapore.

Through the heat of rice noodles and listening to my aunt's slow talk, you can feel that this is an old man who is very satisfied with his life. Speaking of the past, there was a smile on his face and a light in his eyes. That kind of happiness should be calm and gentle after being washed away by years.

This aunt has a cuter side. One day, after eating rice noodles, she actually paid three bowls, which she said was for others to eat. I gave her the receipt after collecting money to make the bill, and she said I had the ticket. Then a young mother brought two children. She told me her mother's name and wrote it on the receipt. The next morning, the young mother did come with her two sons. She said that this aunt is the mother of her good friend and kept telling her how delicious our chicken soup is.

According to the young mother, my aunt is 80 years old. She suffered from cancer not long ago and just had an operation some time ago. I am surprised that my aunt is not old at all, her thinking is clear and her speech is crisp and neat. She doesn't look like an old man who is seriously ill.

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Busy, autumn just slipped away.

In the evening, there is light rain in the sky, people in the street are in a hurry, and the night is slowly coming. There are also some scattered and crumbling osmanthus trees on the street. Maybe a gust of wind will blow and disappear tomorrow morning.

At this time, the fragrance of osmanthus is not strong. Unlike when the branches are just covered, even if they are far away from it, you can smell its rich floral fragrance and can't see the shadow of the trees. Let you look around, where does this smell come from?

While I was daydreaming, a handsome guy in yellow came into the shop from the outside and asked if there was anything delicious in our house. The waiter recognized him as a takeaway brother who had just come to pick up the meal. I immediately got up and introduced the characteristics of our family to him, and then told the girl at the cashier:

"Cook a big bowl of eighteen yuan for the handsome guy, and only charge him fifteen yuan for the small bowl."

The handsome boy said shyly, "Thank you!"

Then sit in the chair in front of the dining table. This young man is about the same age as my son. He has a strong body, regular facial features and big eyes. It is obviously a childish face, but it reveals the maturity and skill of some adult talents.

He chatted with me while eating and learned that he was twenty years old this year. He began to deliver takeout after graduating from vocational high school last year, and has been working for more than a year now.

"How much salary did you earn on average every month in the past year?"

I have always been curious about how much money these takeaway brothers can earn in a month. It is said that as long as you are diligent and can bear hardships, your income is still good.

The young man replied, "Five or six thousand on average."

"Not bad! This salary can be earned in Qijiang County. "

This makes me feel a little surprised and a little relieved. He said that some colleagues can earn more than 10 thousand a month if they do well. Mei, I can feel that he is not very satisfied with himself. I also revealed that I don't earn much because I am young and I haven't been in this industry for a long time. In a word, the message he brought me is that one day he can earn more than 10 thousand a month.

"Where do you live? What do parents do? "

He said that his family lives in a village in our county, and his parents are in their early forties and have been working in other places. When he was a child, he lived with his mother-in-law and grandfather, and his parents only went home during the Spring Festival. His family didn't buy a house in the county either. At present, sharing an old house with colleagues, the rent is not expensive, more than 200 yuan per month. The young man is sunny and cheerful, and he is somewhat shy in his composure. Chatting with a strange aunt, I didn't hide anything, and he was happy to answer anything I asked.

I respect being able to support my teenager at such a young age. I can't help but think that "the children of poor families are in charge early", and I sincerely feel gratified for their parents.

The simplest purpose of educating children is to hope that children can be independent and not old. Being able to support yourself is the minimum responsibility and dignity for a person to live in the world, and this child has done it.

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Looking at this excellent teenager in front of me, I can't help but get lost in thought. Among my acquaintances and friends, there are many children of his age who are superior to him in living environment, but the children are not so independent and capable.

For example, some children of this age can't cook and clean up housework. Everything has parents, and the child's task is to read. He is tall and big, but he has a childish face. I often see such a scene. For example, every year when the university starts, you will always see such a scene. Young parents are no longer struggling to carry a big box, while tall children are only carrying a light bag.

Children feel that they will always be children, and parents also feel that children are still children.

On the surface, such children are not sensible and do not know how to take care of their parents. The problem lies with the children. What I see from my eyes is the parents themselves and the social environment, which has caused this worrying scene today.

Around me, many families are better than this takeaway boy. For example, parents have stable jobs and bought houses for their children in the county town very early, and some even went to the city to buy them. Not to mention that a small number of parents who do business will create better conditions for their children than ordinary working-class people.

From the gossip of colleagues and friends, it is also said that when a child grows up, he must buy a house for him, just like the legal provisions. Children seem to be inseparable from money and houses.

Having said that, I feel a little wronged, thinking that I am not among these parents. In fact, I am also such a parent. Therefore, I feel sorry for myself and for these hard-working parents in the world. This reminds me of a folk proverb, "It is better to raise a child than to raise me. Why save money?" Raising children is better than me. Why save money?

When I was a child, I didn't quite understand the true meaning of this sentence, and even thought it was an excuse made up by irresponsible parents. Traditionally, people think that parents should be frugal and child-centered, thinking that parents should try their best to create better conditions for their children, and children will stand on their shoulders and fly higher and higher.

Actually, not necessarily.

As everyone knows, parents' overprotection of their children is actually killing their right to grow up freely. Just like the wild flowers and weeds that only drink dew on the hillside, they have always had a very tenacious vitality. The flowers and plants planted in the balcony greenhouse are not as bright as wild flowers. That's the reason.

If you don't know how to grow flowers, you might as well throw them into nature. Without the shackles of bottles and jars, flowers still bloom freely. Therefore, raising children is the same. Unless you really understand children's education, you might as well be free-range like the parents of this takeaway brother.

Even if he didn't go to college, he knew how to work hard, how to persist, and how to treat himself as an adult at the age of twenty. So I want to say that parents in the world really should not hold their children too tightly, just like the brilliant wild flowers on the hillside, give them enough space to bloom freely.