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

"Can I really make money?" When he arrived at the captain's house, he was still a little skeptical.

The brigade accountant showed him his accounts.

The captain took a closer look and found that it was indeed feasible. "Let's give it a try."

"Our village is still being bombed," the brigade accountant sighed. "There are 100 households, and many of them haven't come yet. Let's bomb other villages the day after tomorrow."

The captain nodded, "Okay."

Zhang Xiuhua saw that they had finished talking and asked, "Can you reimburse me for the extruder?"

The team leader and the team accountant looked at each other and shook their heads.

Zhang Xiuhua couldn't believe it. "You still want to default on your debt?"

“No! We only blast it in our own village and haven’t gone to other villages yet. What if other villages don’t blast it, then we’ll be wasting our money by buying that extruder, right?” the captain said earnestly.

The team still owes more than 2,000 yuan in foreign debt, so he has to think twice before spending a penny.

Zhang Xiuhua thought they were fools. "We only make a few bucks when we sell grain to the grain station. If we fry them into rice popcorn sticks and send them to the supply and marketing cooperative, we'll make a lot of money."

"Does the supply and marketing society want our rice popsicles?" The team leader and the team accountant shook their heads subconsciously.

Zhang Xiuhua was speechless. "If you don't try, how do you know they don't want it?"

"Here's what, if you try it, I'll reimburse you later."

Zhang Xiuhua was not happy about it. She should be reimbursed, why should she have to work for them to get reimbursed? She rolled her eyes and said, "How about this? I'll find someone to help you sell at the supply and marketing cooperative, and you can find her a good job later. There are several tractor drivers this time, so there should be a job for the scorekeeper, right?"

The captain thought this was feasible, "Okay! As long as the other party can sell it, we can let her be the scorekeeper."

Zhang Xiuhua added, "You also have to reimburse me for the money spent on the extruder."

"Okay!" The captain was very straightforward this time.

Zhang Xiuhua returned home happily. Several children were eating rice popsicles in the yard. They also knew how to be filial to their two teachers.

However, the two educated youths were embarrassed to keep eating it, so they only took one to test their appetite.

Zhang Xiuhua mentioned the idea of ​​selling rice popcorn sticks to Zhou Pandi. Based on her understanding of Zhou Pandi, she knew that it would be no problem for her to sell the rice popcorn sticks.

Zhou Pandi didn't expect that she would help her so much, so she smiled at her and said, "Okay, I'll try."

Li Xiaoying also wanted to try it after hearing it, "Can I do it too?"

"If you want to sell, you can only go to other communes."

Li Xiaoying raised her eyebrows proudly, "Do they think money is too much for them?"

Of course, Zhang Xiuhua didn’t mean that. “I’m afraid it’s too cold and it’ll be too cold for you to go to other communes.”

Zhou Pandi had heard Youcai say that the rice popcorn sticks were made by a hand tractor, so she suggested to Li Xiaoying, "If you want to sell them, I suggest you go to the Red Star Commune."

Li Xiaoying hesitated, "Red Star Commune is the richest commune in our county. They have so many production teams with tractors. Will they be taken advantage of by others?"

"It is because of wealth that everyone has money to eat this snack. If we were like Wuxing Commune, relying only on the villagers in the town, sales would not be much higher."

Li Xiaoying was quickly persuaded by her, "Okay, I'll go to Red Star Commune and give it a try."

The next morning, the two salesmen, Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying, set off with some samples.

The two men had good eloquence and were not shy in front of strangers, so after they came back, they went to find the team leader.

"What? The deal is done? How much do they want?"

"The supply and marketing cooperative in our commune sends 50 kilograms every day to test sales. If it sells well, the price will be increased later. The price is based on their unified purchase price, cents per kilogram."

The captain could hardly believe it. "53 cents?"

They bring their own food to the village, and the fee is twice that of corn. Frying a pound of rice popcorn sticks is equivalent to making 20 cents. When they send it to the supply and marketing cooperative, they have to pay for the food themselves, and minus the food, it is 43 cents. It has more than doubled.

“They ask for sugar in it though.”

The captain went to check and found that there wouldn't be much sugar in it. He waved his hand and said, "Sure. As long as they provide the sugar."

Zhou Pandi nodded, "I also made this request, and they agreed."

Li Xiaoying's sales were more successful than Zhou Pandi's, because Red Star Commune had money. They wanted 80 kilograms tomorrow.

That day, the amount was 130 kilograms. The team leader was so happy that his face was full of smiles, and the team meeting made a calculation.

Frying half a pound in five minutes means 24 pounds in an hour, and if you fry it non-stop for 288 hours, it will be pounds.

"We have to arrange for villagers to take turns."

Of course, that was no problem. Every autumn harvest, they would stay up all night to harvest grain. Besides, making popcorn sticks was not tiring. The team leader immediately arranged for several tractor drivers to take over.

While other villagers are resting, they can earn ten work points, which is naturally a good opportunity that they can't ask for.

The captain smiled at the two educated youths and said, "You two have made contributions this time. I will let you be the scorekeepers as agreed."

Zhou Pandi and Li Xiaoying nodded and thanked them. Just as they were about to leave, the team leader asked them to call Zhang Xiuhua over, "The team can reimburse her for the extruder."

Zhou Pandi suddenly realized that it was Zhang Xiuhua who proposed this business. She said that the team leader and the team accountant were not very smart, so how could they come up with such a good idea.

Zhang Xiuhua learned that they had completed their task and thanked them, "That's great! You don't have to work in the fields to earn work points anymore."

A scorekeeper can earn ten work points without having to do any hard work. This lucrative job is usually reserved for the closest people to the village cadres.

Zhou Pandi smiled and said, "Thank you very much."

Zhang Xiuhua waved her hand, "You're welcome."

She happily went to get her money back. The accountant of the brigade also praised her and told her not to forget to think about the villagers when she had good things in the future.

Zhang Xiuhua thought: I have already got a good job, and if I have a good idea, I will do it myself. However, she couldn't offend these village cadres, so she agreed.

On the way back, snow started falling from the sky again.

Zhang Xiuhua ran home quickly and sent all the children back home, "Don't get your shoes wet, or your feet will be frozen again."

Last time, in order to watch the fun, the children's feet were frozen solid and they even got frostbite.

Hearing the shouting, the children stopped playing and ran home immediately.

Before long, large flakes of snow began to fall, and the sky and earth were covered in silver.

The cold wind was howling, and occasionally the sound of branches breaking could be heard.

The wind blew all night, and the next day the outside was covered in white again. The children lay in front of the window and watched the heavy snow falling outside.

This time it was even colder than last time. Zhang Xiuhua was afraid that the children would get cold, so she heated up a kang for them so that they could sit on it and study.

Youcai felt that it was not lively enough, so he ran to the door of his house and took out some frozen persimmons and pears from a homemade iron bucket.

This iron bucket is equivalent to a refrigerator, which is specially used to store frozen food, such as frozen dumplings and frozen geese.

Yes, that's right, Zhang Xiuhua killed all the geese. It was too time-consuming to raise them, and they didn't grow meat, so it was better to kill them to save trouble.

So it was snowing outside, and the children hid in the house which was as warm as spring. Everyone wore a T-shirt and ate frozen persimmons and pears. The children were so happy that they kept jumping on the kang, and they looked like they wanted to jump it down.

Jidong held the frozen pear and kept away from Brother Youcai. He had a feeling that Brother Youcai was about to be beaten. Sure enough, not long after he got off the kang, he saw his aunt coming in angrily with a fire poker.