Rebirth of the Boy in This World

Chapter 6

"I said you're fine, kid. I talked back and forth with you, Uncle Han."

On the way home, Jiang Guoping supported Jiang Mu's shoulders. He didn't realize that his son was so capable before.

"You don't want to see whose son it is?" Xie Junfen also stood up for his son along the way, "I just said, my son is so smart, how could he do those stupid things."

Jiang Guoping is fine, but Xie Junfen is actually a little indignant.

It was obvious that the two children were strengthening their literature studies, but a phone call from her parents in the morning made it... as if her son had cheated on their cabbages!

Jiang Guoping and his wife thought that if Jiang Mu really bullied Xiaoxue, it wouldn't be too much to buy something and apologize.

Fortunately, they had a big oolong, and the reversal of these two extremes really made their brains hurt.

Since it was a weekday morning, Xie Junfen had to be busy with her work, so everyone made an agreement to get together again when everyone was not busy on the next holiday.

"So, your kid just recommended a book and made Han Xue cry all night?" Jiang Guoping asked.

"Yes, I always felt that Han Xue was missing something on the route of upgrading from a class flower to a school flower. Now I finally figured out that what is missing is a baptism of 'pear blossoms with rain'!"

Jiang Mu raised his head and said thoughtfully.

"What do you say?"

Xie Junfen stared at Jiang Mu with wide eyes. She wondered if this kid was going to mess with him again, and she felt a little angry again.

"No! Nothing." Jiang Mu smiled obsequiously.

……

On the way, Xie Junfen's cell phone rang suddenly!

"Hey! What? Alright, I'll go over and urge her today!"

Jiang Mu heard that his mother seemed to be on the phone with someone to discuss work matters...

After Xie Junfen hung up the phone, he directly hailed a taxi.

"Mom, where are you going in such a hurry?" Jiang Mu asked.

"Go to work!" Xie Junfen said angrily.

According to Jiang Mu's understanding, many of the department stores at this time were factory outlet stores, and the other part was wholesale and retail. Jiang Mu thought that if he went shopping with his mother, he might be able to find the source of goods he wanted.
So he said: "Mom, I have nothing to do after the exam, so let's go shopping in your mall."

"It's okay to go shopping, it's better than spending all day in an Internet cafe and being an Internet addicted teenager!"

Xie Junfen just shook his head when he thought of those listless internet-addicted teenagers.

"Don't look down on those Internet-addicted teenagers. The rise of the Internet in the future cannot do without the support of these netizens."

Jiang Mu knows that when the e-commerce industry rises with unstoppable momentum in the future, those post-80s and post-90s netizens who have played PC and mobile terminals will become the main force of business.

After entering the era of nationwide mobile shopping,
Such large wholesale markets, small commodity city markets, and the former pedestrian streets and downtown bookstores have all become deserted and depressed with the naked eye.

This also confirms the saying that when the times are about to abandon you, they will not even say hello to you.

Xie Junfen in her previous life was also forced to be laid off due to the restructuring of the old state-owned enterprises.

During that period, she also worked as a housewife, but she couldn't help but have a strong heart. She asked her connections to find a job, or opened a clothing store with her friends, but they all made little profit.

"Cut! Don't talk about what's there or what's not. I have something to do today. You can go shopping, but remember not to make trouble for me!"

At this time, Xie Junfen remembered that at Han Xue's house, her son said that she wanted to start a business, so she said:
"You don't really want to start a business, do you? Tell you, I don't have the capital to build it for you!"

"It's okay, don't make it, don't worry." Jiang Mu said with a smile.

Xie Junfen thought to herself that since she had all the family's financial power in her hands, the two of them wouldn't be able to do anything wrong.

In 08, Hucheng had not yet been upgraded to a city, so it was still a county seat. The department store was located in the center of the old city. Although it only had three floors, it occupied a huge area.

In Jiang Mu's memory, the shops here are cramped, and the roads are narrow and crowded; before the old city was abandoned by the public, there were quite a lot of people coming and going, and there were many shops.

Xie Junfen works here as the manager of a department store. Her daily work includes collecting rent, inspecting, supervising and managing the shops.

More than ten years ago, the department stores in the county were still state-owned enterprises. After the system reform, many departments like department stores in various places have followed the reorganization or merger model. Of course, some companies have adopted the more commercialized contracting system and leasing system.

Xie Junfen's company is a product of the mixed-ownership reform and is managed by the leasing office of the housing management department.

It is a subordinate enterprise unit managed by Jiang Guoping's unit, so Jiang Mu always jokes:
Regardless of his father's family status, his father is indeed the leader of his mother Xie Junfen.

After the taxi sent Jiang Guoping away, he brought his wife here,
Xie Junfen started to work as soon as he arrived, and took the notebook on the table and began to shuttle back and forth among the small shops one by one, looking for work targets and urging them to pay rent.

"Hey, sister Junfen, why did you bring a handsome follower behind you today!" A middle-aged woman in a dress greeted with a smile.

"Hi, this is my son! Xiao Mu quickly call you Aunt Xu." Xie Junfen introduced.

"Good morning, Aunt Xu!" Jiang Mu said, "Aunt Xu, you have such a good temperament!"

"It's been a while since I saw you, Xiao Mu is so tall! His mouth is so sweet!" This Aunt Xu smiled like a peach blossom: "Junfen, your son will be great in the future!"

"Hehe, let me do this EQ!" After finishing speaking, Xie Junfen took out a 50 yuan bill in his pocket and handed it to Jiang Mu, saying, "Go shopping by yourself, and buy whatever you want. I'm off to work!"

Xie Junfen went to collect rent from the unit after speaking.

At this moment, young women from some shops came out to look at Jiang Mu as if they were looking for something new.

"Sister Junfen brought her handsome son over here? Where is it, let me see..."

"Oh, the little guy is really handsome, how great it would be to be my boyfriend!" A young woman with a fluffy waist came out and said with a smile.

"Go, go! Aren't you married? Besides, you're still a child!" said Aunt Xu just now.

"Hey!" The young woman sighed, "If I had known how wonderful the colorful world in the city is, I wouldn't have gotten married so early."

The middle-aged male owner of the Huaniaoyu shop on the side joked: "It's okay, it can be exciting even if you get married, people in the city can play, when will I take you out to play?"

"Don't pay attention to him, who doesn't know the three major hobbies of Wang Laoba in the flower and bird market in this old city area? I told my sister Sun, this Wang Laoba..."

A middle-aged woman next to her snorted.

"Hahaha! Sister, your words are too funny!"

"You..." The male shopkeeper spat angrily: "Bah, what a bad luck! I've only been to her place once, this second girl Sun, why do you keep bringing this up to people?"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Aunt Xu came out and shouted, "The child is here! Be careful what you say."

Jiang Mu felt that each of them seemed to be watching something new, and then they seemed to be talking in the 'comment area', so enthusiastic!

He thought it was nothing, after all, what hadn't he experienced in his previous life?

Jiang Mu smiled. He didn't expect that his arrival would add a lot of topics and fun to the usually dull shopkeeper life of these shopkeepers.

In the following time, Jiang Mu turned on the sweeping mode.

He visited several stores upstairs and downstairs in the department store. He made a series of category plans in his mind for some products that might be involved in the future, and asked the stores for many business cards to put in his bag.

Looking at the time, unexpectedly it took an hour and a half to sweep the two floors, which shows how big the site is here!

Going forward, there is only the third floor left. Just when Jiang Mu was about to go up, he saw a familiar figure at the corner ahead.

"Can it be cheaper?"

"It can't be any cheaper. If it's any cheaper, I'll lose money!"

A beautiful girl with long hair wearing denim shorts and a striped shoulder strap vest politely said to the bargaining customer: "Sister, touch me, this is authentic pure cotton fabric."

"Well, take a step back, and you will be half cheaper, forty!" The fat middle-aged woman said, "I'll buy it for 40 yuan!"

"I can't afford this price, I really can't! I paid you all my money." The sales lady said, "Why don't you take a look at this one?"

"Hey, why are you so stupid, little girl?" As she spoke, the elder sister was about to leave, holding her companion's elbow: "Forget it, I'll go to another store to see!"

"Hey..." The young lady selling clothes seemed to hesitate to speak.

She could see that the two customers had deliberately slowed down, as if waiting for her to make a final compromise.

But the little sister got angry, and out of her last stubbornness, she let the customers go to other stores.

Jiang Mu put his pockets in, walked forward, leaned against the door frame and said, "You are always like this, one of you thinks you won't leave, and the other thinks you will stay!"

(End of this chapter)