Chapter 42: Twenty Thousand Yuan in Hand

When he returned home, he found that his parents were still awake.

“Little Feng, how was the business tonight?” his mother asked eagerly.

“Not bad! I made almost four hundred yuan,” Tang Feng answered.

“It seems that the grilled gluten business is quite good! Maybe we should also set up a stall in the night market,” his mother suggested.

“Do you want to open a restaurant or set up a stall in the night market?” Tang Feng couldn’t help but laugh.

“Of course, open a restaurant. I think the grilled gluten doesn’t involve much technique, and it won’t be long before many competitors emerge,” Tang Long answered.

Tang Feng gave him a thumbs up, saying, “Dad sees further.”

“Alright! Stop flattering here! You’ve been busy all night, go wash up and sleep,” his father said.

Tang Feng chuckled, said goodbye to them, and then went to the bathroom.

He quickly washed up and then returned to his room.

He lay in bed but didn’t fall asleep immediately.

Unless something unexpected happened, he would sell the grilled gluten recipe tomorrow.

This way, he would have twenty thousand yuan in hand.

He pondered over how to spend this money in his mind.

Besides buying a mobile phone, he could buy something else.

His idea was simple: to make his parents and Su Xiaoli happy.

He didn’t know how long he thought about it, but he eventually fell asleep with a smile on his face.

For him, the future was full of beautiful aspirations.

In the morning, before he woke up, Su Xiaoli had already appeared in front of him.

When he opened his eyes and saw her, he thought he was hallucinating.

He quickly rubbed his eyes.

He then realized that everything happening was real.

He immediately felt very shy.

Almost subconsciously, he covered himself with a thin blanket.

Seeing his action, Su Xiaoli couldn’t help but laugh.

“When did you come?” Tang Feng asked, looking at her.

“Just a little while ago. Hurry up and come eat breakfast!” Su Xiaoli said and then left the room.

Tang Feng quickly dressed.

Fortunately, he didn’t have the habit of sleeping naked, otherwise, it would have been very embarrassing just now.

After getting ready, he came to the dining table.

There were several meat buns and two bowls of tofu pudding on the table.

“I originally wanted to buy two bowls of wontons, but the usual shop wasn’t open. There was a meat bun shop next door, so I went in and bought a few. I don’t know if you like them,” Su Xiaoli explained.

“I like them. Not only do I like meat buns, but I also like spicy hot pot. Unfortunately, there aren’t many shops here,” Tang Feng sighed.

“That’s easy. If you want to eat, we can go this afternoon,” Su Xiaoli suggested.

“Let’s do it another day. It’s fine to eat at home for lunch,” Tang Feng suggested.

Seeing this, Su Xiaoli didn’t insist any further.

Tang Feng took a sip of the tofu pudding and said to Su Xiaoli, “I plan to call that buyer in a while and sell him the recipe.”

“So, you’re about to become a ten-thousandaire. How do you plan to spend so much money?” Su Xiaoli asked half-jokingly.

“Buy four mobile phones and two laptops. If there’s any money left, I’ll buy some new clothes for my parents,” Tang Feng answered.

“Why buy so many mobile phones?” Su Xiaoli was clearly stunned.

“One for my dad, one for my mom, one for me, one for you.”

“Ah? Do I also get one?”

“Of course! You supported me by taking out all the money from your savings. As the saying goes, remember the source when drinking water. Now that I’ve made money, of course, you’ll have a share.”

“That’s not how the calculation works. You helped me with tutoring for free before. Besides, if I wanted to buy a mobile phone, I could ask my dad to pay. You could buy a better phone for yourself,” Su Xiaoli hurriedly refused.

“A phone bought with your dad’s money and one bought by me, are they the same? Alright! It’s settled!” Tang Feng said and took a bite of the meat bun.

Seeing this, Su Xiaoli didn’t say anything more.

After eating, Tang Feng called the buyer, asking him to bring the money over.

In less than half an hour, the person appeared in front of him.

Tang Feng talked with him for a while, and then they signed a contract for the transfer of the recipe.

Tang Feng not only wrote down the recipe but even demonstrated it in the garage until the buyer fully mastered it.

Of course, the buyer paid the agreed twenty thousand yuan as promised.

Tang Feng looked at the bright red banknotes in front of him, his eyes sparkling with joy.

He counted the money several times very carefully.

In the end, he even handed the money to Su Xiaoli to count again.

After Su Xiaoli helped confirm that it was indeed twenty thousand yuan, the buyer left.

Unable to contain his joy, Tang Feng pocketed the money and then took Su Xiaoli to a mobile phone store.

In the current Binjiang District, mobile phones were still considered rare items.

Most people didn’t have one.

Even if they could afford it, they couldn’t afford to use it.

After all, even receiving calls was charged.

Four yuan per minute.

It didn’t sound very expensive.

But if you talked for a hundred minutes a month, that was forty yuan.

This was not a small amount.

Perhaps due to being in a county town, the mobile phone store didn’t have many models.

Tang Feng even saw a Nokia model that looked like a big brick.

There weren’t many mobile phone brands available.

Apart from Nokia and Motorola, there were Ericsson and Siemens, among others.

Most of them were foreign brands.

Chinese brands included TCL, Lenovo, and Kejian.

And from a design perspective, they were somewhat lackluster.

After all, Tang Feng, having lived through the development of mobile phones from feature phones to smartphones, had seen rapid progress.

The designs had become increasingly refined.

The clerk was very enthusiastic when he saw them.

“Xiaoli, which one do you want to buy?” Tang Feng asked with a smile.

“I want to buy this one,” Su Xiaoli pointed at a TCL phone.

“You have good taste! This is TCL’s latest flip phone model,” the clerk said with a smile.

“Can I take a look at it?” Su Xiaoli asked.

“These are all models. Just wait a moment; I’ll get you a real one,” the clerk said and took out a real phone from the cabinet.

At this time, the phone body and battery were separate.

The clerk installed the battery and then handed the phone to Su Xiaoli.

Su Xiaoli took it, flipped open the phone.

The mainstream phones at the time were either bar phones or flip phones.

To attract female consumers, TCL’s model had a diamond embedded on the cover.

Thus, under the sunlight, the diamond shone brightly, making it irresistible.

Su Xiaoli pressed and held the disconnect button on the top right of the keyboard.

Soon, the boot screen appeared.

The screen was blue,

a significant improvement over the previous black and white screens.

However, the functions were still very simple.

Apart from making calls and sending texts, there wasn’t much else it could do.

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