60s: I have a store

Chapter 33: Each of us explains
With Zhou Yimin's words, Li Youde's movements in eating mutton hotpot became noticeably faster. He ate with great enthusiasm and enjoyed it very much. He had not eaten meat like this for many years, or even never tried it at all.

Even during those less difficult years, their family did not allow them to eat like this.

"I'm full. This is worthy of being called Donglaishun." Dapeng touched his stomach. For the first time, he felt such a real sense of satisfaction.

“Is that all you can achieve?” Zhou Yimin rolled his eyes.

As long as you work hard to sell goods, you can come here every now and then to eat, or even try the roast duck.

If you can sell goods worth 100 yuan a day, that's 3 yuan a day, or 90 yuan a month, which is higher than the salary of most people in the steel plant.

Of course, we can’t sell that much in the early stage. For their safety, Zhou Yimin will not provide so many things for the time being.

Li Youde and Dapeng ignored Zhou Yimin's teasing. They didn't actually have too high aspirations. Being able to eat meat was the wish of many people.

After eating and drinking, the three returned to the courtyard.

Zhou Yimin first went back to the unrenovated room of his home and took out some things, including 20 kilograms of millet, 4 kilograms of dried meat, 6 kilograms of brown sugar, and apples.

These are all prepared for Li Youde and Dapeng.

"Come in!"

Li Youde and Dapeng were also sensible. They deliberately chatted with Master Gu and the others outside and did not immediately follow them into the house. After hearing Zhou Yimin's words, they entered the house and closed the door behind them.

"You are so good! Living alone in such a big house." Dapeng felt a little tearful when he thought about how he, such a big person, was still squeezed in a small room.

"Don't be sentimental. We have an empty house in the front yard. I can help you run it if I have the chance."

After saying that, Zhou Yimin pointed at the things on the table and said, "Divide them among yourselves!"

Dapeng and Li Youde’s eyes almost popped out.

Millet, dried meat, brown sugar, and apples.

There are even apples.

As for Zhou Yimin's first sentence, they all chose to ignore it. It's not that the house is not important, but it is too important. He didn't expect Zhou Yimin to help him get it, nor did he have the nerve to do so.

Zhou Yimin is not his father.

In fact, Zhou Yimin wanted to get an empty house in the front yard not only to help Dapeng, but also to make it convenient for him to "pile" goods in it in the future.

"So much? Give it all to us?" Dapeng couldn't believe it. This must be more than 20 yuan.

"Stop talking too much nonsense, take it back quickly and don't let anyone see it.

Please help me do something later. Ride my bike to Zhoujiazhuang and tell the people in Zhoujiazhuang that the parts for the water pressure well are ready and ask them to go into the city and pull them back.

By the way, let them drive the tricycle back to me." Zhou Yimin said.

Li Youde and Dapeng quickly "fought the local tyrants" and divided things. Each person received 10 kilograms of millet, 2 kilograms of dried meat, 1 kilogram of brown sugar, and 3 apples, which were packed in cloth bags so that others could not see what was inside.

"Okay, I'll come over after I put my things away." Dapeng nodded.

Li Youde also wanted to help, but he didn't know how to ride a bike.

Each of them carried a cloth bag, walked out naturally, and went back to their homes.

After Li Youde returned home, he quickly closed the door. His mother and younger sister were at home. His mother must have just taken medicine and was lying inside; his younger sister secretly ate the medicine residue and saw his eldest brother coming back and ran into him. Her little face was very panicked.

Seeing this scene, Li Youde felt very sad, but instead of blaming her, he went up to her and touched her head.

"Brother brought you something delicious. Don't eat this in the future, okay?"

Children of a few years old are greedy. When the little girl heard her elder brother say there was something delicious, she immediately forgot what happened just now.

"Brother, what's delicious?"

Li Youde took out an apple and said, "Look." The little girl had only seen apples from a distance and had never touched one, but her eyes immediately lit up.

"This is an apple." Li Youde told her.

The little girl nodded quickly: "I know, I know, my sister told me that apples are very sweet. My sister's dream is to eat apples."

Li Youde cut the apple in half and gave both to his second sister.

"Give one piece to mom, and you eat one piece. Eat it at home, and don't go outside or tell anyone else, do you understand?" Li Youde didn't eat it himself.

It's not that he doesn't want to eat it, he really wants to eat it, it's been many years since he last ate an apple. But he just went to Donglaishun with Zhou Yimin for mutton hotpot, so he was already satisfied.

"Brother, I know!" the little girl was very excited.

Probably having heard the noise, their mother had already gotten up and walked out of the room. She was stunned to see her little daughter handing her half of an apple.

Li's mother's first reaction was not surprise, but worry.

"Youde, where did you get the apples?"

Apples are not something that ordinary people can get their hands on, and even fruit is difficult to get.

"Mom, this is it..."

Li Youde didn't intend to hide it from his family, and he couldn't hide it either, after all, he would be going out at night. When he was eating mutton hotpot at Donglaishun, he talked about this issue with Yimin, and Yimin didn't object.

After hearing this, Li's mother quickly opened the cloth bag and saw millet, dried meat, brown sugar, and two apples inside.

Finally sighed.

If it weren't for her illness, our family wouldn't be in such a difficult situation.

Although she knew it was unsafe to go to the black market, she couldn't stop her son. After all, the family was already in this state. Just now, her son said clearly that it was not only for the family, but also for himself.

Jobs are hard to come by now, so is he counting on his father to retire and inherit the job? He doesn't know when that will happen.

"Talk to your dad about this. You're grown up now and can make your own decisions on some things. In the future, listen to Yimin more. He's trustworthy and smart."

Li's mother was grateful to Zhou Yimin. She had watched the child grow up and she knew him well and could trust him.

"Okay! Mom, don't worry! Yimin said that if we really encounter an emergency, it doesn't matter if the goods are lost, just run away." Li Youde gave his mother a reassurance.

"That's good, that's good!"

After hearing this, Li's mother felt more at ease.

She put away the millet and other things. Grain, meat, and brown sugar were all very needed in their family, especially grain. Other things could be lacking, but grain was the only thing that could not be lacking. It would kill people.

She didn't eat the other half of the apple, saving it for her daughter who was going to school.

The little girl bit the apple and felt that it was the most delicious thing she had ever eaten in her life.

On the other hand, Dapeng returned home and hid an apple for himself, and gave the rest to his mother, and also told her about going to the black market in the future. However, he did not give Zhou Yimin away, but said that he was someone he knew outside.

"Mom, please stop trying to persuade me. If I don't make money, my sister-in-law will glare at me to death."

Dapeng's mother was speechless for a moment, and finally she sighed. Every family has its own problems!

I can only remind my son to be more careful in the future.

"Does your hand still hurt?"

As a mother, how could she not know that her son was injured? She could tell if there was anything wrong.

(End of this chapter)