After having breakfast at home, Lu Ye walked along the rural path towards the national highway.

Today is much earlier than yesterday. Apart from meeting one or two old people who wake up early on the road, I don’t think I’m going to meet acquaintances all the way.

"My mother came so early, so she wanted to earn more, and probably because she was afraid of meeting too many people."

Lu Ye thought for a while. He knew very well about his mother Ye Yuanqiu's character. First, he felt that the business was easy and afraid that people would follow the trend. Then, he felt uncomfortable when asked about it.

"I still have to gradually adjust my mother's mentality."

Lu Ye actually had many plans in his mind, but there was no shortage of opportunities. In the 1990s, if he was an adult with memories of later generations, it would be easy to get rid of poverty and business opportunities could be seen everywhere.

Just like Lu Ye saw the mini four-wheel drive car in his hand at his friend Peng Lingyun's house a few days ago, this toy is very popular and if he gets on the car, he can make a fortune.

For Lu Ye, his inability to implement the operation was mainly due to his age, so he could only change his mother Ye Yuanqiu's mentality and concept.

For example, many of the poverty alleviation work in later generations emphasized that poverty alleviation must first promote one's ambition and start to change from the perspective of ideas.

Lu Ye thought about the future "major plan" and unknowingly arrived at the edge of the national highway, a place called "Dayuntou" by the villagers.

I saw several large trucks parked on the side of the road from afar, and a voice was heard.

"Sister, thank you so much."

The edge of the national highway was covered with straw ash and the white frost had not yet melted.

A woman with fluffy hair and slightly dirty clothes was carrying a kettle to soak in an aluminum lunch box. She poured hot water and put a 50-cent banknote into Ye Yuanqiu's hand.

"I dare not say that, I am also doing business." Ye Yuanqiu smiled and stuffed the money into his pocket, with a little embarrassed look on his face.

"I want it, thank you very much."

The woman who looked a little dirty in clothes was speaking in a not-standard Mandarin, "My man has a bad stomach. There is no way to make him feel hot."

"If you want me to tell me, you should have got a water point here long ago."

Next to the woman and Ye Yuanqiu, a truck driver with heavy dark circles in his forties held a water cup just filled with hot water in one hand, and put the last bite of lamp cake into his mouth with the other hand, and vaguely interjected.

"Not..." the woman next to her responded, "It's really hard to eat some hot food in the morning in winter."

"I have a pot in my car and a stove. It's too troublesome and I don't have time to do it." The truck driver with very heavy dark circles wiped his oily fingers on his body casually and said to Ye Yuanqiu, "This lantern cake is delicious."

As he said that, he took a sip of hot tea and shook his hands, "Okay, let's not talk about it, I'm leaving, there are still hundreds of miles to unload the goods again, so I can go home for dinner tonight."

"Then Master, walk slowly and be careful when driving along the way."

Ye Yuanqiu watched the truck driver leave and said a polite word.

The woman standing next to her glanced at the driver leaving, then looked at the basket covered in cotton in front of Ye Yuanqiu, and asked tentatively: "Sister, did you make this lantern cake yourself? What kind of stuffing is it?"

"Made it yourself, the vegetable head and taro full shreds." Ye Yuanqiu gently pulled a corner of the covered cotton cloth, "Take one and try it."

"No, no, no." The woman shook her head repeatedly, "My man has a bad stomach now and is afraid of greasiness in the morning."

"The stomach really needs to be nourished." Ye Yuanqiu nodded, "This stomach is not delicious and it will be too bad. After a long time, your body will collapse. You are two parents-in-law's long-distance sports car, so you should pay more attention."

"Yes, there's nothing I can do." The woman sighed, suddenly saw Lu Ye walking to Ye Yuanqiu, and asked with a smile, "Sister, is this your child?"

"Ye Yuanqiu responded softly, then turned to look at Lu Ye, "Isn't it that I told you not to come, it's so cold."

"Mom, I'm here to accompany you." Lu Ye said with his head raised.

"Sister, your child is so obedient, it's good for the child to be by your side." The woman with a little dirty dress was not without emotion, "We have no choice but to throw the child away from home for the elderly."

As he said that, the woman shook her head and turned around to leave.

"Wait a moment."

Ye Yuanqiu looked at the woman's preparation to leave, reached out and grabbed two lantern cakes, stuffed them on the other party's lunch box lid, "Take it on the way."

"This...this..." The woman seemed a little embarrassed, "Everyone, my man can't eat it now."

"You eat." Ye Yuanqiu's voice was crisp and he smiled, "I heard your accent, it's not our side, try it."

"Oh, then...thank you, sister."

...

Lu Ye stood aside, watching the woman carrying rice bowls and carrying two lantern cakes back to the side of the road, carefully climbed into the car, and looked up at Ye Yuanqiu.

"Mom, if someone told you so long, I just wanted to eat one of your lantern cakes for free, and you would give them two more."

"I can see it." Ye Yuanqiu didn't care at all, "I just gave it 50 cents in front of me."

"Mom, that's not the case. We are doing business, the prices must be unified, and other drivers are watching."

The smaller the business, the less generous he was. Later, he heard from a friend’s mother that he also sold box cakes when he was young, and then he met acquaintances and children from time to time. He couldn’t save face and collect money. As a result, the business could not continue in a few days.

Lu Ye really felt that he could not have such a "generous" idea.

Besides, the woman who left just now looked a little unkempt and dirty and her clothes were dirty, but she actually bought the clothes, but it was because it was difficult to clean it for a long time. Compared to Lu Ye’s family, most of them were cut and made by themselves, which was obviously much better in terms of financial ability.

To be more utilitarian, this kind of stall is set up by national highway, and long-distance truck drivers are used to attract customers. It is useless to attract customers, and it is also easy to affect other truck drivers who want to buy lamp cakes.

"Okay, OK."

Ye Yuanqiu looked at Lu Ye pouting, looking unhappy, and couldn't help but reach out and pat Lu Ye's little face, "Why have you become so stingy? You need to be a little more."

"Oh--" Lu Ye felt helpless. He didn't really care about the two lantern cakes, but he was mainly worried that Ye Yuanqiu's concept could not be changed.

Now it is a real small-scale business, and it requires careful calculations. In this place called "Dayuntou" next to the national highway, Lu Ye did not think of it as a long-term development goal, but just to improve the current family environment as soon as possible.

More importantly, Lu Ye hopes that his mother Ye Yuanqiu can take steps forward and cultivate the thinking of businessmen.

But he also knew that with his mother's personality and way of dealing with people, he probably would have to be a long time.

...

"Master, I'm sorry, I'm sold out."

Under the rice fields beside the national highway, Ye Yuanqiu looked at the driver who was cursing and leaving, with apology and annoyance on his face.

Today is probably more than an hour earlier than yesterday, and many truck drivers driving night are obviously in a state of thirst and hungry.

More than thirty-odd lantern cakes are not enough to sell. This fried food may not be healthy, but not many people can resist it at this time.

As for the pots of hot water, they were even snatched by several truck drivers who arrived early.

"If I had known so many people, I would have prepared more." Ye Yuanqiu looked sore, "Why didn't you notice that there were so many cars before?"

Lu Ye was watching it funny. He still remembered that he was still muttering when he went out this morning, worried that he would not sell it all, but he would start to regret it.

Although he had predictions and made some observations, things actually went smoother than he thought.

National Highway 205 is not busy, but now it is the stage of rapid development in the Yangtze River Delta. Although Hanx County is not considered a radiation area, it is still affected more or less.

For example, the simplest river sand, wood, and bamboo materials have been flowing out from the 1990s to the next twenty or thirty years later. Even if many protection policies were introduced later, it is difficult to eliminate sand digging and cutting.

In Lu Ye’s impression, when he was a child, he was covered with fine sand and long pebbles on both sides of Zhexi River, but later he was almost all the rivers were hollowed out.

Under such development conditions, the traffic volume of various trucks on National Highway 205 is not too high every day, and one or two thousand vehicles a day is at least. However, except for this period of the morning, most of the vehicles are distributed throughout the day, and it is difficult for ordinary people to feel it if they just pass by.

For example, the towns in Yangxin Town and several towns along other national highways have developed around this national highway.
Chapter completed!