Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

The children went to school that day, and Zhang Xiuhua was cleaning up the chicken coop. The house had already been built, just a long room, and there was no need to paint or add furniture.

Li Jianguo came back with his luggage. Zhang Xiuhua immediately put down the broom and got him some hot water to take a bath.

Li Jianguo said no, "I took a shower when I came here."

Zhang Xiuhua went to the kitchen to cook for him, and Li Jianguo helped to light the fire. The two chatted while cooking.

He hadn't been back for a month, but this time he lived up to Zhang Xiuhua's expectations and brought good news.

"My friend asked for me. If we want to raise chickens on a large scale and buy equipment, it is not cost-effective to raise 500 chickens at a time. We need at least 10,000 chickens. He said the equipment alone would cost 50,000. In addition, there are chicken breeds, chicken feed, vaccines, chicken raising equipment, and water and electricity costs."

"So expensive?" Zhang Xiuhua knew the price in 30 years, but it was still so expensive now. But if you think about it carefully, electrical appliances are so expensive at that time, not to mention these machines.

"The equipment are a manure cleaner, a feeder and an egg collector. If you raise chickens alone, you must automate it. If you do it manually, it is easy to get chicken plague." Li Jianguo feels that this money cannot be saved.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't want to save money, but 50,000 yuan was not a small amount. Even if she took out all her private savings, it was still not enough. She only had more than 30,000 yuan in private savings, plus the more than 10,000 yuan she earned from selling tofu and vermicelli. That was almost 40,000 yuan, and the two together were almost 50,000 yuan.

But can this money be taken out?

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Li Jianguo guessed that she was struggling. You know, the entire production team didn't have that much money combined.

"Xiuhua, if you really want to raise one, I can help you borrow money. I have a few comrades who have fought side by side with me, as well as my eldest brother. I should be able to borrow more than 30,000 yuan. But it's still a little short."

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned. "Can your comrade lend you so much money?"

"Some people were injured and couldn't find work, so they took retirement pay."

The retirement pay these days is not that high, about 10,000 yuan for ten years, but it is already a considerable sum of money.

Li Jianguo asked for the money, which was a loss of face for him and a great favor. Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment and said, "In fact, I have made more than 20,000 yuan by secretly selling vermicelli and tofu over the years."

Li Jianguo's eyes lit up, "Sure. Is that enough?!"

He jumped up, rubbing his hands, and wanted to make a phone call right away, but Zhang Xiuhua stopped him, "Don't rush it. I feel like we owe this person such a big favor, how can we repay him in the future?"

Li Jianguo smiled, "So you're worried about this. I was just about to tell you. If your chicken farm is open, we'll pay you back, and then we can let him come over to learn from us. Then they can open their own chicken farm in the countryside. They're tens of thousands of miles away from us, so it won't affect you. What do you think?"

Zhang Xiuhua breathed a sigh of relief. So this was how one returned a favor.

"In fact, they have no choice but to return to their hometown to farm. With a lame leg, they can't farm well. If they can really open a chicken farm, at least they can make a living." Li Jianguo smiled, "That was their plan before, but no one knows how to raise chickens, and they are afraid of losing money. We can help them avoid risks."

"Aren't they afraid that we will lose money and have no money to pay them back?" Zhang Xiuhua felt that it was normal for these people to want to get rich but not dare to take risks. After all, they don't know how to raise so many chickens at once. To put it bluntly, if there is a chicken plague, all of them will be destroyed in an instant.

"I'm still working, I'll pay them back slowly in the future. We're all brothers. If they didn't trust me, they wouldn't lend me the money." Li Jianguo felt that Xiuhua underestimated their comradeship. That was a life-and-death brother who could protect him from bullets.

Zhang Xiuhua took a deep breath and said, "I understand! I will definitely take good care of it!"

Li Jianguo told her not to worry, "Fifty thousand is enough to buy equipment. Ten thousand chicks are not counted. Feed is the big expense. Especially the feed that foreign chickens eat must be good stuff. This is also a lot of money."

Zhang Xiuhua knows the formula of foreign chicken feed, which is indeed good stuff. All chickens must be fed with grains, and they will not grow if they are only fed with wheat bran.

She asked tentatively, "Can I get a loan from a bank here?"

She only knew that after the reform and opening up, banks relaxed lending. But the reform and opening up had not yet begun in the Northeast. The policies must be different.

Li Jianguo really didn't know, "How about I go ask tomorrow?"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "By the way, how much does the feed cost?"

"For 10,000 chickens, the feed would cost about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan." Li Jianguo asked in detail.

Zhang Xiuhua thought for a moment and said, "It's okay! If I really can't get a loan, I'll think of a way."

When the time comes, she will find an excuse to take out her own private money. She can say that Zhou Pandi lent it to her. She has been in contact with her for the past few years, and Zhou Pandi has also sent her a lot of books, hoping that she will not forget to study.

While they were talking, the meal was ready. Li Jianguo ate voraciously. Suddenly he remembered something and asked Zhang Xiuhua to take out the things in his bag.

Zhang Xiuhua opened it as she was told, and inside was a big box. "What is this?"

"I brought this gift for Jilin. I found out that this kid likes models. Last time I went to the mall, he couldn't take his eyes off the airplane model. I went to the capital to sell ginseng and happened to see someone selling this ship model, so I bought him one." Li Jianguo liked all kinds of models when he was a child, but his family was poor at that time and he couldn't afford them. When he saw that Jilin also liked them, he felt like he had found a kindred spirit.

Zhang Xiuhua also smiled when she saw how attentive he was to Jilin, "Jilin will definitely be happy!"

She rolled her eyes and told me about how she had recently asked Jilin to wake up. "If he promises me to get up on time every day, you can give him this thing. I really can't handle him."

Li Jianguo laughed, "I need conditions for a gift? Are you my biological mother? That's too..."

Zhang Xiuhua narrowed her eyes, and Li Jianguo decisively changed his words, "I love him too much."

Zhang Xiuhua narrowed her eyes in a smile, "I can't bear to hit the child, otherwise I wouldn't bother to coax him and would just hit him with a stick!"

Thinking of ginseng, she asked how much it was sold for.

Li Jianguo's expression was a little serious, "Not sold."

"Ah?!" Zhang Xiuhua was shocked, "Why?!"

Is there no one in the capital who knows what's good? No way. That's where the talents gather.

"I met my former leader. He was in poor health and I didn't have any other good gifts, so I gave him the ginseng." Li Jianguo sighed, "His illness was caused by injuries from the battlefield."

Zhang Xiuhua heard how sad he sounded, so she didn't say anything else. "I hope he'll get better after eating your ginseng."

Li Jianguo said "hmm" and did not continue the question. Instead, he asked about the situation of the children in the family.

Zhang Xiuhua told some interesting stories about the children, and Li Jianguo smiled. The two talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.