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

Zhang Xiuhua knew that the child was afraid to go to crowded places, so she made an excuse to go back home, and Juemei followed her.

She lay down behind the chicken coop at Zhang Xiuhua's house and asked Zhang Xiuhua, "Aunt Zhang, I heard that there are jobs in the south?"

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly startled, "Yes! What's wrong?"

"Do you want me?" Juemie stared at her with shining eyes.

Zhang Xiuhua really knew. Juemei is already fourteen years old this year, and in a few years, she will also be married off. Seeing her two elder sisters getting married like this, she must be scared, right?!

Zhang Xiuhua told her, "If you want, you are too young. Only illegal factories will hire child laborers. The wages are very low."

"Can I have enough food?" Jue Mei's request was not high. "Can I freeze to death?"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "I can eat enough! The temperature in the south is not high. When it is the coldest, you only need to wear a coat, not a cotton-padded jacket!"

Jue Mei was so happy that she almost jumped up. She grabbed the chicken coop net and asked anxiously, "How much is the ticket?"

"You need to change trains, at least 70 or 80 yuan. But it's hot in the south, so you have to buy food on the train." Zhang Xiuhua also reminded her, "You need a temporary residence permit in Pengcheng, otherwise you will be deported. And you will be deported after you have mined coal. The factories there are very strict in their inspections."

When Jue Mei heard that it would cost seventy or eighty, her smiling face froze immediately. She couldn't even afford that much money, not to mention the temporary residence permit.

"You don't have a household registration, so no one dares to employ you. This is very important." Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that she would climb onto the train, so she told her as much as possible.

Jue Mei could no longer hear anything, so she nodded randomly and turned away.

Zhang Xiuhua sighed. She could help her get through temporary difficulties, but she could not help her get through difficulties for a lifetime.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of August, and Jidong himself finally came back. Jidong and Jilin, who used to have very fair skin, became tanned, and Youcai, who was already dark, became even darker, like a charcoal head.

They each carried large and small bags, and were still wearing the clothes they wore when they left home. Jilin asked happily, "Mom, guess what we are going to sell in the county town?"

Zhang Xiuhua had no idea, but seeing that the three children were all looking at her with sparkling eyes and insisted that she guess, she guessed along with the children, "You brought your talents with you, so you must be selling food!"

Jilin shook his finger, "No!"

Baolin and the other two also came over.

Baolin jumped up and down to guess the answer, "Selling vegetables?"

"wrong!"

Yaoyao said shyly, "Selling fruit?"

"wrong!"

Zhuzhu raised her little hand, "Selling rice popcorn sticks?"

"wrong!"

Youcai looked at Zhang Xiuhua with a smile, "It's related to Aunt Zhang!"

Zhang Xiuhua pointed at herself in surprise, "It has to do with me? I can't do anything except cooking!"

Baolin raised his little hand, "Selling chickens!"

“Selling eggs!”

"wrong!"

After several guesses were rejected, the children lost interest in guessing. Jidong then revealed the answer with a smile, "It's a dress. The dress my aunt bought from the capital was really beautiful. I drew a picture based on that. It happened that a clothing factory was not doing well in business, so I asked them to make me 100 pieces with the remaining floral fabrics. Unexpectedly, they sold so well. Later we made many more."

Zhang Xiuhua twitched her lips. Three boys were selling dresses. How could they sell them?!

“How do you sell it?”

Jidong smiled and said, "We set up a stall in front of the factory and shouted, 'The garment factory is about to be sold off, big sale!'"

Zhang Xiuhua opened her mouth and said, "You just keep talking nonsense! Didn't the leader of the garment factory scold you?!"

"They don't care. As long as business is good!" Jidong said happily.

Jilin took out his wallet from his pocket and counted out five hundred yuan to Zhang Xiuhua, "Mom, I want a remote-controlled airplane model. Ask Uncle Li to buy it for me!"

After counting five hundred, there is still some left in my wallet!

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't hide the surprise in her eyes, but she couldn't stop Baolin from asking, "How much money did you make?"

Jidong was not afraid of others' jealousy. After all, he was only doing it once, and she would go to the capital to study soon. He pointed out, "More than 600!"

The six hundred yuan belonged to Jidong alone. He was the one who came up with the idea and negotiated it, so the three of them split the money in a ratio of 4:3:3. Jidong took the lion's share.

Baolin still owed Yaoyao a huge sum of money. When he heard that they had made so much money in just two months, he was extremely envious. "If I had known, I would have gone with you guys!"

Zhang Xiuhua asked Jidong if he had seen Xu Chunying and Jiwen.

Youcai interrupted, "Yes, I have. They go to sell vegetables! But their schedule doesn't overlap with ours. I've only seen them once. I met them when I went to buy vegetables in the morning."

In the county town, Youcai cooked the dishes and borrowed the landlord’s kitchen.

"How is her business?" Zhang Xiuhua was worried that Xu Chunying would be bullied. She was a bit unreasonable, and if she had a conflict with someone, it would probably lead to a quarrel.

Youcai nodded, "Very good. I see she sells very quickly. There are many varieties, and the vegetables are fresh! There are also fruits!"

However, he only encountered it once, and he had no idea how his business went afterwards.

Zhang Xiuhua asked the two children to finish their homework quickly, "School is about to start."

Youcai has the most homework. He will be in his senior year at the start of the school year, a graduating class, and is under a lot of pressure.

On the same day the three children came back, Xu Chunying also came back. Because they came back from selling vegetables and pushing a cart, they were three hours later than them. It was dark when they got home.

The three men did not pass by Zhang Xiuhua's house, so she didn't know about it until the next day.

After feeding the chickens, Zhang Xiuhua counted the eggs and handed them to Li Jianxin, who was responsible for transporting them to the commune.

"Now there are more and more eggs, one supply and marketing cooperative is not enough to sell! I will go to another supply and marketing cooperative to sell them tomorrow?" Li Jianxin counted a thousand eggs and found that there were at least a thousand left. He made a decision immediately.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Okay! Go ahead. Now you can lay 2,000 eggs a day. As time goes by, there will be more and more eggs. Until the weather gets cold!"

September, October and November are the peak egg-laying season, when the weather is neither too hot nor too cold.

Li Jianxin moved the eggs to the back of the tricycle, which he bought specially to transport eggs and tofu.

He was worried about the bad road conditions, so he laid a thick layer of cotton tire inside the tricycle.

He rode the tricycle, pedaling hard, and the eggs were transported away.

Xu Chunying happened to come over and saw his back. She clapped her hands and said, "Oh, if I transported so many eggs to the county town to sell, I could make a lot of money!"

She ran happily into the yard and saw Zhang Xiuhua carrying the remaining eggs back into the house. "Xiuhua?"

Zhang Xiuhua was startled, and when she saw it was her, she put down the egg and said, "You're back?!"

Xu Chunying was so happy that she looked at the egg, which was full and a circle larger than the local eggs. "Sell the remaining eggs to me! I will get them to the county town to sell for you."

"Ah!" Zhang Xiuhua was stunned. "School is about to start, and you still want to go to the county town?!"

"Yes!" Xu Chunying clapped her hands, pulled Zhang Xiuhua to sit in the shade, and began to tell her legendary experience of selling vegetables in the county town.