Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days
Chapter 33 Corn for Coal
After sending the children to school, Zhang Xiuhua returned to the village. The brigade cadres notified everyone to buy coal the next day and asked them to prepare money and carts. If they were late, they would have to go alone to transport the goods.
Zhang Xiuhua had just arrived and was unfamiliar with the area. If she asked someone to ask, she was afraid she would go to the wrong place. So she preferred to go with the villagers.
When Zhou Pandi heard this, she immediately went to the farm to borrow a cart.
The cart can carry up to four tons of coal, but Zhang Xiuhua is not that strong, so she plans to buy only two tons. But it can only carry 1,000 kilograms at a time, which means she has to go back and forth four times.
When Zhou Pandi heard that she spent so much money on coal, she looked at her in surprise several times, but in the end said nothing.
"I'll go with you. You can't pull it alone."
Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Okay."
She thought for a moment and asked Zhou Pandi, "Yongding Village should be able to make a lot of money from selling so much coal. What do you think if I sell some grain to them, will they buy it?"
Zhou Pandi was stunned. "You want to exchange food for coal?"
Zhang Xiuhua only realized after she reminded her that people at this time were very strict in what they said, and would say "exchange" instead of "buy". She said she had learned her lesson and would say the same thing next time.
Zhou Pandi stroked her chin and thought for a long time. "We should take it. I heard that there is not much land in Yongding Village, and they usually go there to mine."
Zhang Xiuhua was happy, "Okay. I'll transport some food over. Otherwise, I don't have that much money to exchange for coal."
Zhou Pandi hesitated to speak, thought for a while and finally said, "If you exchange food for coal, what will you do if there is not enough food?"
"No. When we exchanged food with the team, we got Jianguo's extra portion. He went to the army, and his extra portion was just enough to exchange for coal."
Zhou Pandi was slightly startled, thinking: using money to buy grain, and then using grain to exchange for coal. This is just a waste of time. But when she thought about it carefully, the production team did not need grain coupons, and the price was cheap.
So I didn't say anything else.
After deciding to transport coal, Zhang Xiuhua took her three children to her eldest brother's house and asked her mother-in-law to help take care of them. Of course, she did not want her mother-in-law's help to be in vain, so she also took two kilograms of grain.
Sister-in-law Xu Chunying had a smile on her face.
After giving a few instructions, Zhang Xiuhua set off with the rest of the team.
Seeing that Zhang Xiuhua was carrying food on her cart, everyone asked her a few questions out of curiosity. But when they learned that she wanted to exchange food for coal, they didn't take it seriously because everyone's food rations were only enough for their own family, and they didn't have extra food to exchange for coal.
After pushing for a while, Zhang Xiuhua felt a little tired, so she took over from Zhou Pandi. Zhang Xiuhua asked the people in front how much coal they wanted to buy.
Most of them were 200-300 kilograms, and the most were 800 kilograms. Because the team didn't have that many carts, several families would get together, and each family would send a strong laborer to take turns pulling.
When they asked Zhang Xiuhua how much coal she was going to haul, she laughed and said, "About the same as you guys."
After walking for about an hour and a half, we finally arrived at Yongdingzhuang.
Zhang Xiuhua almost had blisters on her feet. This is too far. If only she had an electric tricycle. Well, she did have one in her space, but she couldn't take it out.
She was still complaining in her heart that the brigade cadres had already negotiated the price with the captain of Yongding Village.
It seemed that they were old acquaintances. After negotiating the price, the person in front of them started weighing the items.
Zhang Xiuhua took the opportunity to sell her grain.
She took corn because she had plenty of space for it.
Captain Yongdingzhuang looked at her several times and smiled, "Sure. One pound of corn can be exchanged for 16 pounds of coal."
His price was based on the price of the public marketing cooperative. Corn was 1.4 cents, because the captain just negotiated the price, a ton of coal was 15 yuan, and 16 catties was exactly 1.4 cents.
Zhang Xiuhua thought: Who said that people at that time were simple and honest? This captain is a profiteer.
That's right. If he wasn't cunning, he wouldn't dare to take such a big risk to sell coal.
Zhang Xiuhua did the math for him. "The commune's corn is 1.4 cents, but you need food coupons, and the price of food coupons is 1 cent per catty. Add it up to 2.4 cents. The coal you sell doesn't require coal coupons, and the price is 15 yuan, but it's only 8 yuan at the coal factory. One catty of corn must be exchanged for at least 27.5 catties of coal, so I don't lose money. I'll deliver it to you, so you don't have to bear the risk."
Captain Yongdingzhuang didn't expect that she could calculate so clearly, and he couldn't fool such a smart person.
Other villagers were tempted when they learned that grain could be exchanged for coal, but when they thought about the fact that they did not have enough food at home, they gave up the idea.
Because she wanted to exchange grain for coal, the captain of Yongding Village gave it to her first.
This time she pulled a total of 200 kilograms of corn, which could be exchanged for 5,500 kilograms of coal.
Zhang Xiuhua received many envious and jealous looks.
But after all, we are from the same village, so even if I was envious, I didn't show it.
After she brought the coal home, she went back to get more coal. When she met villagers on the way, they knew she was exchanging food for coal again, but they didn't say anything.
After running four times in a row, Zhang Xiuhua and Zhou Pandi finally finished.
When I got home, it was already completely dark.
Fortunately, Youcai and his friends had already prepared the meal. Zhang Xiuhua invited Zhou Pandi to sit down and eat together.
The staple food is still steamed buns and sweet potato porridge, but the dishes have been changed to shredded radish and pickles.
Everyone ate with gusto. Zhang Xiuhua asked Baolin and Jidong about their schooling.
Baolin said happily, "I made a new friend. After class, we played shuttlecock together."
"Did you understand the lecture?" Zhang Xiuhua asked worriedly.
"I understand." Baolin said as a matter of course, "Teacher Zhou has already taught me, I know it all."
Baolin missed few classes, so Zhang Xiuhua no longer worried about him and asked Jidong.
Jidong scratched his head. "Chinese is OK. But math is a little difficult. I need to catch up."
Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Then you have to continue to make up for the lessons. Make up for all the lessons you missed before."
After dinner, Yaoyao was responsible for washing the dishes.
Li Xiaoying also came over to give the children extra lessons.
Zhang Xiuhua was sorting out the sweet potato flour she had dried. After a few days of washing and sun exposure, all the impurities were removed, and the sweet potatoes were white.
Someone came over and asked how to eat it.
He saw with his own eyes that two bags of sweet potatoes turned into a small bag of powder.
Zhang Xiuhua didn't weigh it, so she could only roughly estimate that it weighed about 25-6 jin, and no more than 30 jin. The sweet potatoes these days are very resistant to hunger, with red skin and white flesh. This kind of sweet potato is most suitable for making sweet potato flour and vermicelli.
I don’t know if it’s due to the climate or something else, but the flour yield is not as high as she imagined. It takes about 7 to 8 kilograms of sweet potato flour to produce one kilogram of sweet potato flour.
After weighing, Zhang Xiuhua answered Youcai's question, "It can be made into vermicelli."
Youcai was confused, "What is vermicelli?"
Zhang Xiuhua didn't know how to answer for a moment, "Tomorrow I will make it into vermicelli and cook it for you to eat."
Youcai was immediately happy, "Okay."
Zhang Xiuhua urged him to wash his homework, but Youcai shook his head and said he had no homework.
Zhang Xiuhua didn't take it seriously and thought the teacher was busy, so he didn't assign homework.
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