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

Zhang Xiuhua returned home and originally wanted to find an opportunity to test the two of them, but she didn't expect them to tell her something first.

Zhou Pandi pulled Zhang Xiuhua into the house and said, "I have a way to get some rubber shoes. Do you want some?"

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned. How could she, an educated youth, get rubber shoes? Even if she had connections in her hometown, she couldn't make much profit by sending them by express delivery.

Seeing her staring at her, Zhou Pandi touched her nose and said, "I have a friend who does this. If you want rubber shoes, I can buy them for you. But they are only in black."

Zhang Xiuhua suddenly realized that she had got it on the black market.

She nodded and agreed, "Sure, buy a pair for each of the children."

She took a pen and was about to write down the child's size, but Zhou Pandi held her hand and asked her if she could still get the quilt.

"I have friends who also want to sell. But they don't have the connections."

In such cold weather, the sales of quilts are naturally considerable.

Zhang Xiuhua sold quilts to villagers in order not to attract attention, but if she sold them to outsiders at this price, it would definitely cause a sensation and she would be exposed.

She thought for a moment and said, "The previous price definitely won't work. It has to be at least 30 yuan."

30 is the usual price on the black market, but the quantity on the black market is very small. The reason is very simple, because quilts are not produced in the north, they are all transported from the south or Xinjiang. The journey is long and the area is large, so it is not cost-effective to resell them.

Zhou Pandi thought about it and agreed, "Okay. Please order ten beds for me first, and I'll ask them to come and pick up the goods later."

"When?"

"It's dark." Zhou Pandi was very cautious in doing things, fearing that she would be discovered during the day.

Zhang Xiuhua was worried that the other party would expose her, "You can't come to our village."

"Well, we always go to that shabby house in Zhangjiatun."

Zhang Xiuhua knew about the dilapidated house in Zhangjiatun because she passed by the village when she went to the commune. The dilapidated house was called a house, but in fact, the roof had been blown off, so it was just a decoration.

Perhaps because they shared a secret, Zhang Xiuhua was not as cautious with Zhou Pandi as before. She told her about buying a sweet potato crusher.

After hearing this, Zhou Pandi's eyes lit up, "There are very few vermicelli on the black market. This should be marketable."

Zhang Xiuhua could pay 300 yuan, and Zhou Pandi could pay the rest. As for Li Xiaoying, she had no money and could only work as a technician.

"If we can really open it, we can make sweet potato vermicelli during the slack season." Zhou Pandi also detailed her process, "We don't need so much sweet potato residue. When the villagers come to beat the sweet potatoes, we can directly help them break them and let them take care of the rest of the steps. They can also take all the sweet potato residue away. It doesn't take up our basins."

Speaking of pots, Zhang Xiuhua also remembered that if she really wanted to expand, the few pots at home would definitely not be enough.

But if she ordered a large coarse porcelain jar, it would be easily broken and heavy. But she had no way to buy a plastic plate, and she didn't know if she could get one on the black market.

She had only been to the black market a few times. Apart from agricultural products produced in the Northeast, other industrial products depended on luck.

Zhou Pandi had seen it on the black market before, but the plate was not as big as a tub. The largest was only the size of a bath tray, but its mouth was very shallow.

Zhang Xiuhua was already very satisfied, "Then buy a few more."

Seven days later, Zhang Sanxi returned with his wife.

Because it was cold, my son didn't come with me.

Zhang Xiuhua had already got him two quilts. Zhang Sanai touched them lovingly and then started talking about the sweet potato crusher. "I asked for you. You need at least 430 to make a machine like this."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded decisively, "Okay. How do I place an order?"

"The team will issue a letter of introduction, then you go to the commune to get a letter of introduction, and then go to the agricultural machinery station to place an order and pay. Our agricultural machinery station is in deficit, so we only accept cash."

Zhang Xiuhua naturally knew this. If it was possible to owe debts, the captain would have used this relationship to place an order long ago.

She went home and brought two kilograms of brown sugar to the team leader's house and told him her idea, "It will be much more convenient for villagers to come to my house to crush sweet potatoes in the future."

The captain had heard the accountant of the brigade report this matter before. When he heard that she was going to invest so much money, he was a little worried, "Such an expensive machine, are you sure you want to buy it alone?"

Zhang Xiuhua waved her hands, "I can't afford it by myself. When Zhou and Li heard that I wanted to buy a machine but didn't have enough money, they came to help me. Anyway, I need help to run this small workshop, so I let them work with me. Don't worry, team leader, we will definitely not delay the work in the fields."

The team leader also knew that it was difficult for her to earn work points by herself. Although Li Jianguo received a salary every month, it would not last long just by buying food. This sweet potato flour workshop could allow her to earn a little money, and he was doing a good thing.

"Okay! I'll give you a letter of introduction."

Zhang Xiuhua successfully obtained the letter of introduction and went to the commune to find someone to stamp it.

When she arrived at the commune, she first went to see the commune director, who was in charge of this area.

Seeing a strange lady coming in, the commune director was a little confused, "Who are you?"

Zhang Xiuhua told the other party why she came. Before the other party could express his opinion, she started to praise him, "New China is still good. Every household can get some food rations. I have six children in my family. Even if I earn ten work points, I can't get much food. So I want to open a small workshop. This... I need a sweet potato crusher. I need to come to the team to get a letter of introduction."

The sweet potato processing workshop had been agreed last time, and this time she wanted to buy a sweet potato crusher, which was a relatively small matter. The commune director asked symbolically, "Is the money enough? There is no debt there."

Wuxing Commune has always been very poor, with only one kiln factory. If they can have another factory, it will be a great achievement for them. Of course, the scale of this workshop is still small, but if she can really make it, she can still expand it in the future.

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Several educated youths want to work with me. If this workshop is successful, other villages can follow our example."

There are workshops in the village, such as the rice and flour milling workshops, which are all public property of the village. Unfortunately, Lijiatun is poor and cannot afford to build such workshops. Every time they grind rice and flour, they borrow from Zhoujiatun.

The commune director smiled and said, "You have great ambitions. Okay, I'll see if you can accomplish it."

As long as the commune doesn't have to pay and it doesn't violate any rules, he doesn't bother with these little things.

After getting the two letters of introduction, Zhang Xiuhua locked her bicycle in the commune's parking lot and took the bus to the county town.

This was her first time in the county. There were no buildings at that time, and the houses were all low-rise family compounds and old-style houses, but there was a factory in every place she passed. This proved that the current Northeast was better developed than Jiangxi Province.

When she arrived at the agricultural machinery station and got off the car, she saw the doorplate written in black and white. She walked up to the security guard and showed him the letter of introduction.

The security guard let her in.

Zhang Xiuhua did the job without meeting Zhang Sanxi. She found the sales director. Their agricultural machinery station now mainly produces walk-behind tractors. Because the price is too high, most farms can only afford it. Many production teams cannot afford it. The agricultural machinery station has produced so many tractors that they have been kept in the warehouse and cannot be sold. The factory leaders can only stop the machines.

I heard that some villagers wanted to make sweet potato crushers. The amount of money was secondary. The most important thing was that this order would not lose money. And it would give the factory workers something to do, so we decided to do it.