Chapter 72: While doing street business, Song and two others were arrested for disturbing public ord
Chapter 72: While doing street business, Song and two others were arrested for disturbing public ord
Yang Yuhan first resigned from her job at the second restaurant, and then, with the help of Liu Ying and her husband, she started a small business selling clothes on the street.
Liu Ying and her husband Sun Shangjun's rented apartment was not far from their street stall, which was located on a corner next to the pedestrian street in the city center.
This corner has stalls selling everything from clothes and other small commodities to vegetables and food—it attracts all sorts of people to come and see.
These stalls are all small spaces temporarily occupied by various vendors to set up and sell their goods. In other words, none of them are operating legally!
Whoever arrives first still gets to set up their stall and sell their goods, but they may be chased away by urban management officers at any time. If they are slow to run or if the urban management officers take a shortcut, they may snatch the goods from the vendors and take them to the urban management office. The vendors who were robbed will then have to pay money to get their goods back.
Then they would set up their stalls to sell goods, only to be robbed by the urban management officers, or a thug impersonating an urban management officer in the same uniform would come to illegally collect stall fees or impose fines on the vendors for being speculators, violating laws and regulations, and disturbing public order. Then they would pocket the collected fees and disappear!
Yang Yuhan's stall and Liu Ying's stall were separated by five other stalls selling different things.
The goods they supplied were all sent by Liu Ying's uncle and aunt, who lived in the south. The uncle and aunt were experienced merchants who ran a clothing business in a city in the south and had their own clothing factory.
It seems that the uncle and aunt need Liu Ying and Yang Yuhan to provide the goods themselves.
Of course, Liu Ying had called her uncle and aunt in the south beforehand to explain that there was a woman named Yang Yuhan who needed their clothing and goods.
My uncle and aunt were naturally delighted to hear this. Having another customer who needed their goods was certainly a good thing. It would be even better if this customer could visit their garment factory in person! And it would be even better if they could become a shareholder in their garment factory!
Liu Ying then told Yang Yuhan about it. Yang Yuhan smiled and said, "Liu Ying, first of all, I want to thank you and your brother-in-law for your help, and also your uncle and aunt for their expectations of me. I am currently studying at night school and cannot go for the time being. We will talk about it after I graduate."
"Yuhan, I'll wait for you to graduate from university, and then we'll go to your aunt and uncle's house together. I haven't seen them for several years, and I really miss them, as well as my cousin's two children."
"Okay. Definitely."
The two childhood friends' clothing business has been doing very well for over two months, selling different styles of clothing!
Yang Yuhan earned more than five times her monthly salary from selling clothes at her street stall.
She tasted the sweetness of her first business venture and never wanted to work as a laborer again. Business was definitely the fastest and most lucrative way to make money.
That day, Yang Yuhan received the goods that she had pre-ordered from her uncle's wife in the south. Of course, she also used the same term that Liu Ying used for her uncle's wife.
Yu Han and Liu Ying get up very early every day. In order to prevent other stall owners from taking away their good stalls, they have to get up earlier than anyone else.
Yang Yuhan got up early that day and rented three mud-brick houses with red tiles in the courtyard where Liu Ying lived in order to stock up on goods. The monthly rent was the same as other tenants, thirty yuan.
Liu Ying refused, but Yang Yuhan threatened that if she didn't take the rent money, she would leave immediately and rent a place elsewhere. Liu Ying smiled and reluctantly accepted the rent money, and then she still had to send the rent money to her uncle's family in the south and all the tenants in the compound.
The courtyard is large, with fifteen or sixteen rental houses connected by roof ridges. Each house is a three-room house with adobe bricks and red tiles. Currently, at least seven or eight houses are vacant and have not been rented out.
Then Yu Han paid one month's rent, and thereafter, each month's rent would be calculated from the first day of payment, and the rent would be paid on time.
She thought that if people wanted to stay, they could stay; if they didn't, they could stay. She planned to go back to the countryside when she had time, bring Liu Shulan over, and they could stay here. That would be a good place to settle down.
She glanced around and saw a yellow carriage and its wooden platform in the yard. At the southernmost end of the yard was a wooden stable for the yellow horse.
What struck her as odd was a long cotton coat with shimmering red scales hanging on a wire clothesline in the yard. It looked so familiar, yet she couldn't recall who owned it.
Liu Ying has a pedicab, which Sun Shangjun usually rides to deliver goods to the stalls at the corner of the pedestrian street.
After a while, Liu Ying also learned to ride this tricycle.
Yu Han tried several times but failed each time! Liu Ying persuaded her that it didn't matter if she couldn't ride a tricycle, she could just use their tricycle for now. When she learned how to ride, they would buy her one, or she could continue using theirs if she didn't want to buy one.
The couple were not particular about social niceties and had a good reputation; they were even related! Liu Ying hadn't forgotten that she had learned to ride a bicycle using Yu Han's family's large bicycle when she was a child. During her learning to ride, she didn't know how many times she had broken that bicycle. So how could she care if Yu Han used her family's tricycle now?
That day, Yu Han received a batch of bell-bottoms that her uncle from the south had consigned from the train freight station, as well as an order from Liu Ying.
Every time he went to the train station, Sun Shangjun would ride a pedicab alone to the freight station to pick up the goods.
In the morning, I set up my stall and laid out a large piece of tarpaulin on the cement ground, covering an area of several square meters. Then I scattered twenty pairs of black women's bell-bottoms that I had just picked up from the freight station on it.
Her flared pants were snapped up in no time by fashion-conscious girls as soon as they were put on display!
Yu Han is an experienced person; she is a reborn girl, so of course she has a precocious insight that others don't have. That's why she wore bell-bottoms, which were about to become popular.
She would also suggest to Liu Ying what was most fashionable. She told Liu Ying that she wanted to wear bell-bottoms, but she couldn't say it with certainty, lest people think she was a goddess. She just mentioned it lightly so as not to make people suspect that she had been reborn.
She had limited funds and couldn't ask Liu Ying for a loan, so she only used what she had on hand.
Gradually, she doubled her earnings and increased her stock. Since she had the special ability to foresee things, what was she afraid of? It was bound to be the kind of clothing that young people of this era would love.
Today, Liu Ying is selling ordinary men's and women's clothing, but sales are very slow. It's around 3 p.m. now. Yu Han has sold out 20 pairs of black women's flared pants, and then she will put out ordinary spring men's and women's clothing.
Strangely enough, the clothes were very ordinary, just like Liu Ying's black and dark blue trousers. There were more than twenty pairs of them on the stall, and they were immediately surrounded by men and women who wanted to buy them.
They were selling women's pants, but men were also scrambling to buy them. The women tried to lower the price, but the men wouldn't even budge; they said they'd buy them for their wives and daughters.
While buying the pants, the man stared intently at the seller, ignoring the pants on the stall, as if the seller was selling the man himself rather than the clothes.
The man had paid when he left, but he forgot to take his pants. It was only after Yu Han called out to him that he finally straightened his eyes and picked up the pants he had paid for.
After she finished selling her own pants and packed up her stall, she went to Liu Ying's stall to help her sell the same kind of baggy pants.
Liu Ying had only sold three pairs of pants after most of the day. Just when the couple was at their wits' end, Yu Han appeared at their stall, and the number of pants they sold immediately increased!
It attracted a lot of men who wanted to buy pants, and it sold very well. In no time, it sold more than a dozen pairs on hand, and with only a little more left, more men came up and rushed to buy and take them.
Three adults, with six eyes watching closely, are keeping a close watch. Don't let someone sneak in and steal it; otherwise, you'll lose more than you gain!
Just as the bustling sale was in full swing, three very familiar men suddenly barged in.
Without saying a word, the three men came up and started grabbing the goods that Liu Ying had placed on the ground.
It turns out that three thugs were acting as city management officers, collecting protection money!
"This is fucking insidious. Are they just going to execute me without warning?"
Yu Han looked and saw that it was Blind Song and his two henchmen, Hu Guang and Tao Yang.
What a small world! The three men had changed a bit in the years since I last saw them, but their hearts were still the same. Right here, they were once again posing as city management officers, extorting the hard-earned money of the small vendors on this street.
The two henchmen each held a short wooden stick about a foot long. Every now and then, they would gently tap the palm of their other, raised hand with the hand holding the stick, while their eyes darted around wildly as they shook their heads and wagged their tails!
Song the Blind Man had one eye covered by a piece of black cloth with thin black strings attached to both ends, squeezed together at the back of his head. Perhaps he really had become a one-eyed dragon.
The three men arrived on this street with great confidence, and began to make their presence felt by collecting a day's rent from the first small vendor they entered. They then continued to demand rent from vendors further down the street.
Yang Yuhan had closed her stall and escaped unscathed. Liu Ying was still selling her leggings.
How could I not obediently hand it over? As the saying goes, losing money is better than losing a lot of trouble! It's not that difficult to just pay the city management one yuan a day for the land occupation fee.
Everyone else had paid, so Liu Ying and her husband Sun Shangjun paid as well.
Yang Yuhan wanted to stop her, but later gave up, thinking it was better to avoid trouble. If she objected and caused problems, it would affect Liu Ying's business opportunities, which would be a loss.
Instead of becoming a good person, he turned out to be a bad one.
She simply doesn't get involved in other people's affairs.
Yang Yuhan had been selling clothes on this street for more than two months, and this was the first time someone had asked for a "landing fee." The people asking for the money were three thugs who were her childhood school bullies.
Yang Yuhan watched the three men busy collecting money and didn't recognize her. Just as the three men approached, Yang Yuhan put on a large white mask to cover her face, thus saving herself the trouble of talking.
Taking advantage of the three people's inattention, Yang Yuhan secretly took the back path and went to the police station not far away to report the case.
Before long, Liu Cheng, the police station chief, came to arrest them personally. Liu Cheng, dressed in uniform, and three other police officers suddenly appeared behind them and arrested the three men, taking them to the police station for interrogation. The three men were repeat offenders! They were frequent visitors to this Taonan police station.
The three then handed over all the money they had in their pockets and were detained for a week and fined 200 yuan.
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