She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 919 - 825: Famine Era 66 (4000)_3
Because of the long-term cooperation, trust was established, so in the end, it saved a lot of trouble for both sides.
After the clothing store got on track, in the first half of ’85, her main focus was on the shoe store. Of course, both shops would promote each other, coordinating activities, and once the reputation of custom clothing spread, they were receiving seventy to eighty orders every month, and her tailor shop also gradually developed into a scale of ten to twenty people.
Along with it, the west wing room was also acquired and used entirely for residences. Of the three rooms in the main house, one was a warehouse, and the other two housed fifteen sewing machines, which worked at least 15 hours every day.
By the summer of ’85, the Yuan Family in the east wing room wanted to sell the house too. Their work unit had assigned them a house, this one was too small, and the elderly couple had passed away, so the Yuan Family children wanted to sell the house. Ye Huan was certainly willing and ultimately purchased it for twenty thousand yuan.
Back then, the three main house rooms were two thousand yuan; now, although the two east wing rooms were also two thousand yuan, after a year, shouldn’t the price of houses rise? Besides, the two elder Yuan Family members left a good impression on Ye Huan, so she didn’t dwell much on the price and happily bought it.
This time, the entire courtyard was their place, so Ye Huan cleaned up the east wing room and used it as a warehouse for the clothing and shoe stores.
By the end of ’85, Ye Huan’s net profit for the year reached 150,000 yuan, and the assets she could use amounted to 200,000 yuan.
Of course, she couldn’t save up all this money by the end of the year but used 170,000 yuan to buy two complete courtyard homes.
These two courtyard homes were both located in the excellent location of Shichahai, so after inquiring about these two properties, she bought them without hesitation.
Of the two courtyard homes, one cost 70,000 yuan and the other 100,000 yuan. The 70,000 one was in a serious state of disrepair. Although the main structure remained, there were severe illegal constructions, and the house also suffered damage. Otherwise, even 70,000 yuan wouldn’t have been enough to buy it.
After the year passed, Ye Huan used the remaining 30,000 yuan to start making a splash in the Year of the Tiger in ’86.
It was in this year that Ye Huan officially retired, and Tong Zhan, not wanting to live apart, politely declined the leadership’s offer to continue working and followed Ye Huan to Beijing.
Tong Zhan, coming from a military background, didn’t really understand business, but after a few trips with Ye Huan to Guangzhou, he realized how hard his wife was working.
So, even though he didn’t like this line of work, he still followed along. After all, if someone as hardcore as Ji Huzi could put on an apron and get into the kitchen, what did he have to get fussy about? And so he rolled up his sleeves and started running business with Ye Huan, expanding the market, and enlarging the store...
Nobody expected that the couple would work until 2000. In 2000, Ye Huan was seventy years old, and Tong Zhan was eighty years old.
Given their ages, they certainly couldn’t continue, but fortunately, over the ten years, Ye Huan found three capable daughters-in-law and two capable sons-in-law, all children of her business partners.
They were introduced through matchmakings, and she was glad that in this era, parents’ words still held some weight. Of course, she didn’t force her sons; she let them date first and see if they were suitable before talking further about marriage. Who knew they’d all find suitable partners? Of course, this also had something to do with her good judgment, after all, introducing them to her own sons and daughters, how could she not be careful and selective?
Her sons and daughters not being interested was no problem, as long as the daughters-in-law were interested. However, as for sons-in-law, they shouldn’t think about it.
She had two daughters; the eldest was an outstanding graduate of the Chinese Department at Beijing University, who became a teacher directly after completing her Ph.D. In Ye Huan’s view, the most comfortable job in Hua Country was being a university teacher, and her daughter being a teacher at the top university made her very gratified.
The eldest daughter was indeed capable, but she married such a capable husband; their family grew increasingly large and now wanted to expand abroad. Her daughter was unwilling to move abroad, and her husband traveled back and forth between foreign countries and home, which was exhausting. Recently, there’s been quite a fuss over immigrating the whole family.
Even though it upset Ye Huan, she still respected her daughter’s choices. After all, money can’t truly be all earned, but if the roots move, then in the future, they would only be distant relatives. She couldn’t intervene, so she let Ye Danfeng choose for herself. This way, no matter how things turned out in the future, it wouldn’t implicate her and her husband.
One must be responsible for oneself; no one can dictate your future for you.
