Chapter 55: Don't seek merit and seek peace of mind
Zhang Tiande's second master came back, and he was happy for Zhang to buy more than 300 catties of raw melon seeds.
"Zhang Xingxing, let me tell you, I won't go if you give me a salary of 100 yuan!"
"Why?" Zhang asked with a roll of his eyes.
"I almost didn't die on the road, it's not worth exchanging my life for money!" Zhang Erye said ruthlessly.
"Did you meet a robber?"
"One of the cars on board had an accident and overturned, and the driver of the second cargo was drinking, and I picked up a life!"
Second Master Zhang said with palpitations.
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With the 600 catties of raw melon seeds purchased twice, Zhang Xingxing felt that he could start his secondary industry.
In later generations, there were five-spiced melon seeds, cream-flavored melon seeds, green tea-flavored melon seeds, red date-flavored melon seeds, original melon seeds, pecan-flavored melon seeds, and caramel flavored melon seeds......
The times are different, and the taste of popular melon seeds is getting more and more different, and later there are some charcoal-roasted melon seeds.
In this era, Zhang Xingxing didn't make any special innovations, and prepared three kinds of melon seeds, one is the original flavor, the second is caramel melon seeds, and the third is five spices
The original flavor is easy to do, don't put anything, just put it in the pot and fry it, mainly to control the heat, just don't let the melon seeds burn.
Add some sugar to the caramel and you're done.
This five-spice requires large ingredients of pepper, salt, sugar, bay leaves, and cinnamon, which is a bit complicated.
These three kinds of melon seeds can be set in three price grades.
Zhang Xingxing went to purchase the ingredients of the five spices in the afternoon of that year.
Cinnamon bark, this is not available in Pengbu Town, but Zhang Xingxing still has a lot of cinnamon in his hand to make tea eggs.
Zhang Erye slept for another day and night.
It looks like I'm really tired.
The next day at noon.
Zhang Xingxing cooked the meal, and Zhang Tiande also woke up.
"Second master, sit. ”
"I'll tell you, I'm glad you're a kid, I'm really not going to buy raw melon seeds anymore......"
The second master sat down, and Erlang continued to complain like yesterday while eating.
"Okay, I won't let you buy raw melon seeds anymore, you will go to Dongyang County to sell ripe melon seeds next, okay?"
"If you don't accept it, you're going to sell it, but will you fry it?"
"I've already fried three of them, why don't you try them?"
Three paper bags, each with some melon seeds.
During the day and night when Zhang Erye was sleepy, Zhang Xingxing tried to fry these three kinds of melon seeds in addition to selling tea eggs in the morning and morning.
The second master knocked a few grains.
The eyes narrowed, this taste is better than the melon seeds sold by the supply and marketing cooperative.
Crispy and fragrant.
Zhang happily said, "Second master, these three kinds of melon seeds are the original flavor, caramel flavor and five flavors, I am ready to set three prices, although we set three prices, but we still sell lower than the supply and marketing cooperatives...... Among them, I'll give you a ...... of melon seeds."
After Zhang Xingxing finished speaking, Zhang Tiande began to settle the accounts, buying a pound of melon seeds Zhang Tiande can get a commission of one dime and eight pounds, raw melon seeds are six hundred catties, fried mature melon seeds, add water and salt to add other things, the weight must be more than seven or eight hundred catties, even if it is calculated according to seven hundred catties, if he sells them all, he can get more than 100 yuan, this kid also gave himself a basic salary of forty yuan a month, that is to say, he can earn two or three hundred yuan in these months, which is much more than those workers in a year!
Zhang Tiande was suddenly full of strength again, as if he was alive again.
"I'll sell, I'll sell, tomorrow I'll go to those factories in the county to sell melon seeds!"
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The days passed mechanically every day, and Zhang Xingxing felt that sometimes the time passed quickly, and sometimes it felt like it passed very slowly.
In the first month that Zhang Erye returned to Pengbu Town, Zhang Xingxing's tea egg income was 700 yuan a month.
Melon seeds in a month Zhang Tiande sold more than 150 catties in the town, packaged in one tael, two taels of paper bags, although the original melon seeds are the cheapest, but the sales are not as good as the spiced, not as good as caramel, it seems that those workers like to have flavor, Zhang Xingxing cut off the original melon seeds, and now only make caramel melon seeds and spiced melon seeds.
Caramel melon seeds are bought by many people to eat at home children, daughters-in-law and the elderly, and they like to eat sweet.
The sales are very good.
The income of the whole melon seeds reached more than 600 yuan, and the profit of the whole melon seeds was remarkable, and Zhang Tiande felt that the commission before proposing it was low, one hundred and fifty pounds of melon seeds, and he raised the achievement of 28 yuan, and Zhang Xingxing was carrying more than 600 huge sums of money.
His eyes were red.
"I said second master, I will give you a salary of 40 yuan, you propose 28 yuan, you 68 yuan a month, you still dislike less, you are so dissatisfied. ”
"I'm just a fraction of yours, if you don't give me a commission, I won't do it!"
"Second master, you really don't do it, this is what you said, if you don't do it, I'll find someone else, I think others must be rushing to do it for my 68 yuan. ”
68 yuan a month, which was an unthinkable number for Zhang Tiande before, but the money Zhang Xingxing made directly made him feel that the 68 yuan was too little, and that melon baby was too black-hearted!
"I'm forced to go it alone. Second Master Zhang said ruthlessly.
"Do you know how to fry melon seeds, is your current capital enough, second master?"
Zhang Xingxing shook his head.
The wings are not hard enough, his second master has not yet negotiated the capital, and he still can't fry melon seeds.
Zhang Erye is also convinced that Zhang is happy now, that kid really has a hand, the melon seeds are fried and fragrant, and they are cheaper and more delicious than those sold by the supply and marketing cooperatives, so they can be popular.
And if he works alone, he first says that he has less than 100 yuan in his pocket now, and he is ready to give this money to a surprise to Osmanthus, and his man can earn money, and he is ready to make up 100 yuan for his family.
Zhang Erye had no choice but to continue to work for Zhang Xingxing.
After another month, Zhang Erye sold another 1780 catties of melon seeds, and this time he had a huge sum of more than 100 yuan.
Zhang Erye bought new clothes for himself, and also bought osmanthus and children.
"Happy, I'm going to take a day off tomorrow and go home to see your second mother and my dolls. ”
Zhang Xingxing smiled and said, "Go ahead, don't let anyone know what we are doing, including Erniang." ”
"Well, I know. ”
He knew that this second master Zhang was going home to show off, so he told him to talk about it.
The ghost in Zhangjiahe Village came back more than three months after leaving home, which became the news of Zhangjiahe Village, and the ghost did not come back for a year, or more than two years, and now I didn't expect to come back in a few months......
Here Zhang Xingxing originally planned to go back too, but thinking about it, it was very urgent, he dispelled the idea, he studied the basic knowledge of geography for a period of time, and began to write a book called "Nature's Warning Before the Earthquake - The Great Escape of Animals" In this article, magma and hot matter from the upper mantle and lower crust migrate upwards to the crust, causing vertical forces, which will slowly produce some fluctuations first, and some small earthquakes occur, but humans cannot perceive them, but the signs before such a major earthquake, animals will perceive them first, such as the fish in the pond as if they are crazy and have risen to the surface and jumped out of the water.
Swarms of butterflies, dragonflies, and locusts gather together......
In broad daylight, bats will fly all over the sky, swallows will frantically throw their little swallows out of their nests, and rats will run wildly...... Cats and dogs don't eat and bark.
These natural warnings occur a few days and hours before an earthquake, because a major earthquake is preceded by a small earthquake.
Zhang Xingxing wrote a lot about some memories of the earthquake in the newspaper in his previous life, as well as the methods of escaping and saving himself from the earthquake.
He sent it to the TS City Newspaper Submission Office in the form of a pseudonym, hoping that there would be editors and others to put these into the newspaper as soon as possible, especially a few days before the earth demon, if people can pay attention to it, they will inevitably find that the animals around them are abnormally associated with a major earthquake, then Zhang Xingxing will do a great meritorious thing.
For him, he does not seek merit, but peace of mind.
He only hates himself now for being just a small person, with limited abilities, unable to do more, and he has to work harder to grow.