60s Splendid Life

The next few men asked Mrs. Qin how to sell the cold bean curd stick.

"Let's sell this mixed bean curd stick for ten cents a bowl, and if you give me some cucumbers, it will look better." Aunt Qin told everyone the price she negotiated with Lu Jin yesterday, and took four bowls from them. For a few people, a bowl like this sells for a dime, and if you mix some cucumber shreds into it, it looks like a lot.

"Well, I see it works."

Several men felt that this business could be tried, and at worst they would not sell it tomorrow.

This season is the harvest season of cucumbers. Who doesn’t grow cucumbers in the vegetable garden? A vine can be covered with cucumbers, and one crop after another. Some people have to take out what they can’t eat at home. Give it away.

For example, there are few people in Lu Jin's family, and the cucumbers are too fruit-bearing, so they can't finish eating what they grow at home, but he is not willing to give away what they have grown, so he picks them all and throws them in the space for storage until winter When you can eat slowly.Yesterday, when I discussed with Mrs. Qin about selling cold salad, he picked a basket of cucumbers when he came here this morning, but when Mrs. Qin came, he also brought a basket.

In the morning, when he had time, he cut a large plate of shredded cucumbers.The bean curd sticks had been soaked in advance, and as soon as a few people outside asked for bean curd sticks, he would boil the soaked bean curd sticks in a pot, scoop them up, and quickly mix them up and take them out to a few people.

Some people want more and some want less, but this is also normal. When four people go out to sell things every day, some people will sell more tofu every day, and some will sell less tofu. When they come back after finishing their work, they will reduce the commission, and they may even lose the job they have finally obtained.

Everyone cherishes the job of selling things in the tofu shop. In fact, many families in rural areas have too many brothers and sisters at this time. When there are too many children in the family, they have to eat, drink and wear clothes. A place where you can't afford to spend money.When they work in the production team, they are paid according to their work points, and all they receive is food and meat from the production team. If there are a few members of the family working in the team, they can earn enough food for the whole family.

There is only so much food in the team. If there are fewer people who work, each person will get more food. If there are more people who work, the food will be relatively less. Many people understand this truth, so some families have more people. For many families, only a few people are arranged to work in the production team, not all members of the family go.But people who don't earn work points still have to eat, so they have to find a way to find some work.

Rural areas are not like cities. There are factories in cities, and people in cities still have the opportunity to work in factories.But the countryside is different, there is no factory here, and it is very difficult for them to find a job, so after they have a tofu workshop in their village, everyone in the village is staring at such a big place as the tofu workshop, wanting to work here While looking for a job to do, even if the money is not much, many people are still very willing to do it.It's just that there are too many monks and too little porridge, and a place as big as a tofu shop can't accommodate so many people. The four extra people in the back are the four people that Aunt Qin went to the village to find because they needed someone to help sell tofu.

After loading the things on the car, the four men pushed the car and left their village to sell things in several nearby villages.

At noon, they also launched cold bean curd sticks at the tofu shop. Some people who come to buy tofu will buy some stewed tofu, and some people are willing to try something new and buy some cold bean curd sticks to eat at home.Because there are not many preparations, a pot of cold bean curd sticks is still sold out.

After finishing her work at the tofu shop that day, Wang Xiumei handed her two sons over to her mother-in-law to watch over, and told her to go back to her mother's house.

"Why are you going back now? The sun is so hot at the moment, why don't you go back tomorrow morning." Seeing that the sun was so hot at noon, Aunt Qin wanted her daughter-in-law to wait until tomorrow morning before going back.

Wang Xiumei usually has nothing to do and rarely goes back to her mother's house. Now she is in a hurry to go back because she has something to do. After deciding to go back, she doesn't want to wait until tomorrow. In case there are other things tomorrow, she said: "It's okay, I'll call Go with an umbrella, walk faster and you will be there in a short time. There will be sun tomorrow morning, the same."

"Don't go back empty-handed, don't we still have a lot of bean curd sticks at home, take some back and feed them to your mother." Aunt Qin saw that her daughter-in-law was going back to her mother's house, so she couldn't let her go back empty-handed. I also made bean curd sticks twice, and there were a lot of bean curd sticks at home, so she asked her daughter-in-law to carry bean curd sticks to her in-laws.

"Hey, good good."

It happened that Wang Xiumei wanted to go back home to get an umbrella. When she went out, she had an umbrella in her hand and a small basket on her shoulder, and went out in a hurry. The two sons didn't take them with them, and they both stayed at home.

Lu Jin learned from Aunt Qin that his sister-in-law Xiumei had returned to her natal family, so she knew that sister-in-law Xiumei was because of the chili peppers he talked about yesterday.

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It was around three or four o'clock in the afternoon that Wang Xiumei came back from her natal home, and her eldest brother Wang Chenglin came with her.

This time, Wang Chenglin went to the village to find someone to borrow a mule cart, and drove the mule cart to take his sister back to her husband's house. There were things behind the cart, sacks of sacks, and no one could tell what was on it.

On the way, she met people who greeted them and asked them what they were pulling in the car. Wang Xiumei smiled and said that it was sweet potatoes and peppers grown by her natal family, and her brother sent some to their home.

There were indeed two packs of sweet potatoes in the car, but more peppers.

Back at the door of the house, Wang Xiumei dragged two sacks of sweet potatoes to her house, and asked her elder brother to drive the mule cart to Lu Jin's side. Jin is here.

It happened that Lu Jin was at home at this moment. He heard a knock on the door, and opened the door. He saw Wang Chenglin coming up from the mule cart. There were bags of things on the cart, needless to say, they were all peppers he wanted.

Seeing that the two were sweating profusely, Lu Jin felt a little guilty, "Sister-in-law, brother, you brought the things to me so quickly, come in and have a drink of water to rest."

"No hurry, no hurry, I'll move the things on the cart for you first. Move it inside, I'll move it in for you." Wang Chenglin turned his head to remove the things on the cart after getting off the mule cart. Put it in the courtyard inside Lu Jin.

Lu Jin and Wang Xiumei also came to help, and the three quickly moved down several large bags.

In addition to several large bags of peppers, there is also a large bag of sweet potatoes, which Wang Chenglin gave to Lu Jin's family. Their family has newly dug sweet potatoes this year.

"How dare you ask my brother to send me sweet potatoes from so far away." Lu Jin looked at the extra bag of sweet potatoes and knew that it was someone else's kindness. He was too embarrassed to refuse, and asked someone to come inside drink water to go.

"Do you have water in it? I'll fetch a bucket of water for the mules to drink."

Wang Chenglin raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, he didn't even bother to drink water himself, he just thought about finding water for the mule cart that brought them here first.

"Yes, there is a well inside. I'll dig it for you." The well in their yard was on the right hand side of the door. Lu Jin unlocked the well cover with the key he was wearing, and went to the bucket to fetch water.Before the well cover was pressed with stones, he thought it was not safe enough, so he asked a carpenter to come over and install the cover, and added a lock to lock it.He usually holds the key in his hand, and no one else can open the manhole except the person holding the key.

Seeing that Wang Chenglin wanted to feed the mules with water, he went to find a broken basin filled with water, fetched water and brought it out for the mules to drink.

The weather is so hot, not to mention mules walking for several kilometers with a load of several hundred catties, even people pulling a cart for several kilometers are a little out of breath.

People in the country love their livestock. Whether it is a cow or a donkey, they all work for the farmers. For many families, it is also a large amount of property for the family. Therefore, Wang Chenglin dare not let the mules of the borrowed carts exhausted.

Lu Jin also went to their yard to pull some cucumbers for the mules to eat. After several people finished serving the mules, he invited Wang Chenglin and his sister-in-law Xiumei to go inside to drink water.

At this time, Xiao Baoer had already woken up, and was sitting on the mat at the door to play, with a cat sleeping next to it, and saw guests coming to their house, and there was an unknown one among them, Xiao Baoer. Bo'er's eyes stared at others.

Wang Chenglin felt that the child was good-looking at first glance, and praised, "The eyes of this child are really beautiful."

"No, the first time I saw it, I thought it was the first time I saw such a beautiful doll." Wang Xiumei often came to Lu Jin's house and was familiar with Lu Jin's brothers and sisters.Little Bao'er was not afraid of life when she saw her, and even smiled at her and called out "sister-in-law."

"And this is Uncle Cheng Lin, Xiaobao should call him Uncle too." Lu Jin reached out and touched the child's head, telling the child to call someone.

But the child may be unfamiliar with Wang Chenglin, but he just refuses to call out when he sees people.

"This kid is a little shy. Brother Cheng Lin, get to know him first. Sister-in-law, sit down, and I'll get you a glass of water." Lu Jin knew the temperament of their kid and knew that he was a little shy, so he didn't force him to shout People are gone, moved two stools over for people to sit on, and poured two glasses of water over, "Sister-in-law, brother Cheng Lin, you drink water."

After pouring the water, Lu Jin opened two more cans, put two spoons in them, and brought them to the guests.

Seeing that Lu Jin had opened a can for them, Wang Xiumei hurriedly said, "You kid, why are you still opening a can? Let's just drink a glass of water." The can is very expensive, and they usually don't want to eat it at home. Stuff, this kid opened a can for each of them as soon as he opened it!