Lin Yinghui was sowhat disappointed.
Lin Wan smiled and wasn’t in a hurry. It was unlikely they’d just co and find the right place imdiately. Things aren’t that coincidental. After all, she wasn’t in a rush, so she intended to take her ti.
The two of them spent two or three hours at the entrance of the hospital before going back.
"How was it over there?" As soon as they got ho, Liang Hongi asked eagerly.
"It’s alright, we’ll observe for a few more days." Lin Wan took a sip of cool boiled water but didn’t ntion that they’d found a shop they liked; it was just too expensive to rent.
"There are quite a lot of people eating, and most of the consurs at the hospital entrance are the hospital’s patients. There is foot traffic, but there isn’t a suitable location yet. It will take ti to find one." Lin Yinghui was sowhat worried; generally, places that can earn money are costly.
"That’s true, to do business you need to find a good location. There’s no rush with this, we can take our ti," Liang Hongi reflected over the past few days.
She bought a pancake at the morning market; if the spot isn’t good, no one sees you. Let alone a storefront.
Now that she has sothing to do, she isn’t in such a hurry. This matter takes ti.
"If we’re really going to open, we should keep a low profile and avoid causing trouble," Lin Yinghui reminded Lin Wan.
Lin Wan nodded. She realized over the past few days that in big cities, individual households selling their own things is fine, but there aren’t many actually doing business.
There’s not even an individual business yet; Lin Wan rembers that the first individual business license in the country wouldn’t be issued until the latter half of ’81. They still had a couple of years to wait.
After her brother went to school, Lin Wan went to the hospital area to look around again. The cart business was good during alti. However, Lin Wan didn’t want to sell food from a cart. It’s fine in sumr, but once winter hits, it could freeze people outside. It’s not a long-term solution.
That day, Lin Wan took a stroll around the city.
The architecture in S City bears so resemblance to Russian architecture. She didn’t go to her brother’s school but instead headed to the most famous shopping street in S City.
The departnt stores were dazzling, selling all sorts of things. The most popular were Shanghai watches, semiconductor radios, Phoenix bicycles, Seagull caras, and Butterfly sewing machines. Nationalized departnt stores required coupons to purchase these items, and they were in short supply.
There were also TVs, but not many. It seed that in a year or two, black-and-white TVs would beco popular.
Lin Wan inquired about the price of a watch, which cost over a hundred and required an industrial coupon. Radios weren’t expensive, costing over seventy yuan each. Bicycles were even pricier, exceeding two hundred, and sewing machines cost more than two hundred as well, all needing coupons.
These items were luxuries for her at the mont. Lin Wan walked around the mall, eyeing an Anchor brand chanical alarm clock with a wooden case. It was priced at thirty, but without a coupon. Lin Wan asked the salesperson, who whispered, "I have it. If you want to buy, give five yuan extra."
Lin Wan raised an eyebrow, looked around, nodded, and reluctantly took out thirty-five yuan.
Ah, regardless of the era, money certainly makes things easier.
After bringing back the alarm clock, although Liang Hongi felt it was extravagant, she thought about it and realized it could be earned back in two mornings. She didn’t say much.
Instead, she curiously asked Lin Wan to teach her how to read the ti.
Liang Hongi had learned for more than half a year, and now she recognized most of the arithtic and texts from elentary school.
She could read an entire newspaper article.
She could be considered an elentary school graduate now.
In the following days, Lin Wan left early and returned late. She accompanied her mom in the morning market, selling pancakes with vegetables and fried rice cakes, and took the opportunity to inquire about local prices, contemplating whether the three hundred yuan they needed to open a shop was enough.
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