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

The three brothers of the Zhang family finally went ahead with the funeral.

That day, Zhang Xiuhua took Baolin and Yaoyao to do the accounting. They were wearing rubber shoes, but the shoes of the other children were all wet. Youcai wore Li Jianguo's rubber shoes before, but those shoes were too big, and the insoles were put in them to run around, which didn't keep warm at all. When he came back, his toes and heels were frozen cold. Jidong's cotton shoes were directly wet. Now they are still on the kang to dry.

Baolin and Yaoyao went to play with Xiangxiang, while Zhang Xiuhua went directly to register the accounts.

She did not stay to leave, but stood by and listened to the gossip of the villagers.

They happened to be talking about Zhang Sanxi, and they were discussing whether Zhang Sanxi's wife would come to the village. Every year during the festival, Zhang Sanxi would come back alone on his bicycle.

The only time his wife showed up was on the wedding day.

"I have to come to old man Zhang's funeral anyway."

You know what, it really came.

Zhang Sanxi was riding a bicycle with his wife sitting behind him and a child in his arms sitting on the big bar. After getting off the bike, he stamped his feet to keep warm.

The villagers hurriedly invited them to come in and sit down.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Zhang Sanxi's wife. She was indeed pretty. Although she was not a beauty, she was pretty. It was worth mentioning that she had fair skin, a pretty face, and looked very energetic. She was wearing clean clothes, and a brand new cotton-padded jacket. To Zhang Xiuhua, it looked very rustic, but to people at that time, it looked very fashionable.

Zhang Sanxi's son looked like his mother. After he came in, he went straight into the main hall and kowtowed to Old Man Zhang's coffin.

As soon as they left, others started talking about it again, "She really looks good."

"Zhang Sanxi is worth it!"

"Hey, which factory does Zhang Sanxi work in?" a villager who liked to ask immediately asked.

Aunt Li Si said hurriedly, "I heard he works at the agricultural machinery factory. His father-in-law is the workshop director, a high-ranking official."

Zhang Xiuhua is planning to get a crusher. Although she can use a wall breaker, it can only crush one or two sweet potatoes at a time, which is too slow. If she has a sweet potato crusher, the efficiency will be much higher.

She was looking forward to it, planning to go later, get acquainted with Zhang Sanxi, and ask him if he could ask the agricultural machinery station to make a machine. The principle of the sweet potato crusher is very simple, and it can definitely be made, but she doesn't know if it can be made.

Unexpectedly, before she found Zhang Sanxi, the other party came to her first.

His purpose of looking for her was very simple. He wanted her help to buy two quilts.

Even though they are regular workers and earn a fixed salary every month, cotton tickets are really scarce in the north. All factories are in a tight situation. Their quilts have not been changed for ten years. The cotton inside has lumps and is re-sprung, and it is no longer warm.

Last time, Zhang Sanxi heard from Old Man Zhang that there were new cotton quilts in the village, but he didn't catch the good time. Besides, he didn't bring any money that day. Today, he came here with money specially, and wanted to ask Zhang Xiuhua to help buy two quilts.

Zhang Xiuhua had clearly stated that it was over, but now he wanted to buy it again. This was like slapping herself in the face. But she was asking for help, so she could only agree to buy it for him, "But I asked someone to let me buy it. You can't bring it anymore."

Zhang Sanxi understood what she meant, "Okay. Just this once!"

Zhang Xiuhua took the opportunity to ask the agricultural machinery factory if they would accept external orders, as she wanted to make a sweet potato crusher.

Zhang Sanxi is a skilled worker, so he understands it immediately. To put it bluntly, it's just a few blades and a generator.

He nodded, "Of course you can. But if you use iron, it will cost a lot of money."

Zhang Xiuhua's eyes lit up. "Really? How much does it cost?"

Zhang Sanxi is not an accountant, so he can only roughly estimate, "It should be at least 3200 or . A hand tractor costs ."

Zhang Xiuhua scratched her head. She could pay the money, but how could she get the money out openly?

She asked Zhang Sanxi to go back to the factory and ask for her help.

Zhang Sanxi readily agreed and promised that he would come back on the seventh day after his father's death and give her news then.

Zhang Sanxi still had to keep accounts, so he left after discussing this matter.

Other villagers heard the conversation between the two and hurriedly pulled Zhang Xiuhua to ask, "Why did you buy that sweet potato crusher?"

"Every time I make sweet potato vermicelli, I can only rub it by hand, which is too slow. In a day, I can't even make a pound of vermicelli. I thought that if I had a machine, I could open a vermicelli workshop in the village. Then everyone in our village would be able to eat sweet potato vermicelli."

The villagers had eaten the sweet potato noodles she made before and found them to be really delicious. They all wanted to buy more, but she couldn’t make it and the quantity was not enough, so she had to politely decline everyone’s kindness.

Now that he knew she was planning to get a machine to expand production, his eyes lit up immediately, "Okay. I'll be the first one to go to your house to exchange for sweet potato flour then."

Some petty people started to get jealous, "You're willing to buy a phone worth four or five hundred yuan?"

Zhang Xiuhua knew what she was talking about and couldn't help but sigh, "I'm just worried. It's too expensive. I'm thinking of partnering with someone. Auntie, do you want to add one more serving?"

When she heard about the cooperation, the aunt immediately declined.

“We can’t afford that much money!”

A private workshop cannot have more than five people, otherwise it would be capitalism.

The brigade accountant just happened to come over, and an aunt said, "Why not let the village pay for this money, and all the money earned in the future will belong to the team."

The accountant of the brigade heard their conversation and immediately calculated for her, "The cost of ten kilograms of sweet potatoes is two kilograms of sweet potatoes. Even if you make one thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes a day, that's two hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes in our team are two cents per kilogram. Two hundred kilograms is four yuan. You have to work day and night for more than a hundred days to earn back the money for the machine. I haven't even counted the labor cost of fetching water and electricity."

You have to know that there were no water pumps at that time, all of them were wells, and you had to draw water yourself! You also had to pay for electricity.

The brigade accountant waved his hand and said, "No, this won't work. The money in the team is all the hard-earned money of the members. It can't be wasted."

The brigade calculated the amount without any problem. But he only calculated the amount for the village to make sweet potatoes. He did not calculate that she could secretly sell it on the black market.

The public sales cooperative sold sweet potato vermicelli for 25 cents per pound. The black market sold it at double or triple that. She didn't need food coupons, and she could earn at least cents per pound of sweet potato vermicelli. Two hundred pounds of sweet potatoes a day would be pounds, which is yuan. Ten work points in Lijiatun were only a little over cents, and she made four times as much as them. This was completely profitable.

But it's definitely not possible to do it alone. Zhang Xiuhua can't do it alone, she needs to find someone to partner with.

So she set her sights on the two educated youths. They were both intellectuals who were not used to farm work. If they could make more money by growing sweet potatoes, they would of course prefer to do that.

But if she partners with them, they will definitely sell the products secretly on the black market. Will these two people be unable to accept this?

She had to test them first.