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

Zhang Xiuhua is only concerned about making money now. Jidong is going to study abroad soon, and she needs to make more money so that Jidong can take him abroad. She also needs to invest in an instant noodle factory, which will cost a lot of money.

Originally she could earn 10,000 yuan for each trip, but in order to make more money, she increased her investment.

However, the reforms in Russia seem to have failed recently, and the country has been short of food. The food she brought over was quickly sold out. However, the intermediary's purchase of equipment was not so smooth.

Hesitantly, he asked her if he could exchange it for something else.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't understand.

Until the agent pulled out a gun, Zhang Xiuhua decisively refused, "Absolutely not. I can't sell this thing."

Even if she could sell it, she wouldn't dare to do so. What if it was bought by criminals who then committed a crime? Then she would become a criminal.

"If you want to sell it, you can dismantle the big pieces like before," Zhang Xiuhua suggested, "and melt them into small pieces so that it's easier for me to take."

The agent was speechless. If it turned into scrap, where could he get it? He could only take the risk and find a colleague he was not familiar with to help her get Russian tools. These things were low risk and only used iron, so few people checked them.

After settling the matter with the agency, Zhang Xiuhua took a bus back home. When she arrived home, it was already dark, but the village was full of dark shadows.

The long poles erected high in the threshing floor were hung with bright incandescent lamps, lighting up the threshing floor as bright as day. A closer look revealed that every household was busy harvesting vegetables.

This year, everyone in the village planted vegetables. Some planted radishes, some planted cabbages, and some planted celery.

There are not many varieties, and each family has its own business, so the villagers are very busy.

Zhang Xiuhua unloaded the luggage. Zhuzhu was not at home, so she went straight to the fields to help.

Li Jianguo was picking vegetables in the field, and Zhuzhu stayed in the orchard to watch over it.

Zhang Xiuhua asked Li Jianguo, "Can we sell all these vegetables if they ripen at the same time?"

Li Jianguo smiled, "It's okay. The family with the tractor decided to drive to another county to sell vegetables tomorrow."

Radishes and cabbages are not as fragile as eggs, so they are not afraid of being shaken. A load of 1,000 kilograms is still easy to sell.

People in the city don't have land, so if they want to eat vegetables, they can only buy them. Now that vegetables are in season, the price is cheap, so they are happy to buy more and store them.

"The price they sell is not expensive. This year's wholesale price is three cents per pound, and they sell it for four cents per pound, which is only a little more expensive than the wholesale price. It's still very cost-effective." Li Jianguo said with a smile.

Zhang Xiuhua thought this was fine.

She thinks it's okay as long as they don't go to the county to sell and disrupt the market price.

Li Jianguo also told her one thing, "A few days ago, another village ordered fox cubs from me. They also want to raise foxes."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes lit up. "Really? Then we can make money just by selling fox cubs?"

"Yes." Li Jianguo said happily, "We will only kill half of the foxes and keep the other half for reproduction. If other villages also have foxes, I can sell them continuously. I can even teach them how to raise foxes."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "This is Li Xing's experience in growing ginseng. I didn't expect that he hasn't made a fortune yet. We made a fortune by using this idea."

As for whether the fur would become cheaper if more people kept it, Zhang Xiuhua didn't care at all.

First of all, fox fur is different from radish and cabbage. It can be transported to the south and sold, and the price fluctuates with the national fox fur production. But cabbage and radish can only be sold to a few surrounding counties. It is not cost-effective to sell them further away.

She held her face in her hands and asked curiously, "Why doesn't anyone in the village learn how to raise foxes from us?"

"What are they going to learn? They don't have the space." Li Jianguo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "We have an orchard. It's such a large open space. If they raise foxes at home, they won't be able to raise chickens. It's more cost-effective to raise chickens."

Zhang Xiuhua thought about it and it made sense. From this point of view, buying an orchard was quite cost-effective.

The next morning, before daybreak, many families in the village drove their tractors out of the village. Zhang Xiuhua was also woken up, but she did not get up and continued to sleep.

After waking up, she had breakfast and went to the orchard to help weed.

In half a month, the Gala fruit will be ready for harvest, and the yield this year is even higher, because all the fruit seedlings she planted have grown and are in their peak fruit-bearing period.

Li Jianguo discussed something with Zhang Xiuhua, "Jidong will be studying abroad in August. Shouldn't we give him some money to support himself? We can't just rely on the school's funding, right?"

The living expenses provided by the school were not much, but they were enough to keep them from starving. I heard that many international students had to work part-time when they arrived there. But Li Jianguo felt that one should act like a student when studying. Working part-time during school would only delay one's studies.

"The prices in the United States are quite high. Books are especially outrageously expensive." Li Jianguo discussed with her, "We have 46,000 yuan in savings. I think we should give him 40,000 yuan. We can't let our children suffer from poverty."

Zhang Xiuhua looked at him in surprise. He was really willing to give so much money. And the child he gave was not his own, but Jidong.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Li Jianguo thought she thought it was too little, so he thought for a moment and said, "How about we wait until we sell the radishes and gala fruits and collect the 50,000?"

He was worried that he might not be able to raise 50,000 yuan after selling the radishes and gala fruits. "How about I borrow some more from my eldest brother?"

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "There's no need for so much. 20,000 yuan, maybe. We have to live on our own. We can't rely on Jidong alone. Yaoyao and Jilin's tuition fees are quite a lot."

She would pay Jidong from her own pocket money. As for the public school, she felt that it was unnecessary to give so much. The money in the public school belonged to their common property and was used to support the whole family. If she only gave it to Jidong and not to other children, the other children would think she was biased. But she couldn't give so much to all the children, otherwise they would be exhausted!

Li Jianguo hesitated, "Is that enough?"

"That's enough!" Zhang Xiuhua made the final decision. "That's all. Youcai will have to get married soon. We can't ask others to borrow even the betrothal gift, right? That would be too embarrassing."

"No need! Don't I have some private money? It's enough to pay the bride price." Li Jianguo told her not to worry.

"Zhuzhu will go to junior high school in the second half of the year, and Jilin and Yaoyao will also need money. We can't rely on Jidong alone." Zhang Xiuhua is willing to spend money on tutoring for her children. Especially since Yaoyao is in her second year of high school, she didn't listen carefully in class before and fell behind in many classes. She needs to continue to find a teacher for tutoring to catch up.

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Li Jianguo stopped talking and said, "Studying abroad is really expensive. This is still public funding. If you go abroad privately, wouldn't it be even more expensive?!"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Yaoyao wants to study architecture, but schools only teach Western-style architecture now. She may have to study abroad, so we have to save more money."

She didn't know how long the government-funded study abroad program would last. She remembered that before she traveled through time, government-funded study abroad programs only occupied a small number of places. She didn't know if Yaoyao's grades would allow her to be selected.

Li Jianguo sighed, "Children are all debts! We just dealt with one, and the next one is coming!"

If all six children went abroad to study, it would be the end of him.

He couldn't help but feel lucky, "Fortunately, Youcai studied cooking and didn't need to study abroad."

Zhang Xiuhua saw that he had changed his excitement and had a sad face. She just found it funny, "You didn't say that with your real father. Youcai is a chef, and he will definitely go abroad to learn Western cuisine in the future. Now let's refine our domestic cooking skills first."

Li Jianguo looked at the fox in the cage with a look of melancholy, "Then we have to make more money."

"I think we don't need to cut down the remaining trees. We should keep them all for fox farming. There are many kinds of fruits in our country, especially apples, which can be kept for several months and can be transported from the south to the north without much trouble. It's better to raise foxes. When more and more people raise foxes around us, the fox skins will not be sold at a high price. We can only drink soup from them. By then, it will not be cost-effective to raise foxes. Let's cut down the trees and plant fruit trees instead." Zhang Xiuhua thinks that farming is also a business. If everyone raises something, the price is bound to be low.

Li Jianguo thought about it and said, "I'll listen to you."