Chapter 48: Treating Money Like Dung
[Yesterday, we recommended fewer votes than Monday and Tuesday, and today everyone is working hard. 】
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"Chen Yang, have you slept?" was the voice of village chief Lu Wenxing.
Chen Yang hurriedly stepped forward to open the hidden courtyard door and replied, "I'm about to sleep." ”
"Don't sleep yet. Lu Wenxing walked in with a headlamp on his forehead and a big bag of things on his shoulder, "First help me weigh how many catties of peanuts there are." ”
Chen Yang was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "Village chief, you want to sell peanuts to me?"
It stands to reason that Chen Yang is confident in the price at which he buys peanuts, so he should not be surprised by the fact that others sell peanuts.
But this man was the village chief, and he must be surprised.
The conditions of the village chief's family are very good in the village, because both his husband and wife are very hardworking.
Not only did they do the wood business, but they also planted a lot of crops.
Think that's the end of it? Then you're really underestimating the village chief.
The village chief also has to put dozens of wooden boxes into the mountains every year to collect bees, and at the end of the year, when he is lucky, he can have dozens of catties of honey, and even when he is unlucky, there are more than a dozen catties of honey.
The honey was real wild honey, and he was only responsible for smearing the wooden boxes with beeswax left over from previous years, and then placing them under the roots of the big trees in the mountains, while the industrious little bees in the field were responsible for collecting the honey, without any artificial addition.
So his honey is famous throughout Redwood Town and even the county, and many people who sit in the office and work want to buy honey from him.
But the village chief is awesome, he is unmoved in the face of the price of two hundred yuan a catty, and I am not short of those hundreds of yuan......
He's really not bad for that money.
A pound of wild honey costs 200 yuan, and 10 pounds is only 2,000.
You know, wild honey is so precious, those who sit in the office are willing to spend money to eat it, can't we eat it ourselves?
Therefore, the village chief's wild honey is never sold, but only given as a gift.
Many old people in the village have eaten the honey he gave them.
That's right, he is such a village chief who treats money like dung.
Therefore, is it a bit unbelievable that the village chief actually sells his own peanuts for three yuan a catty?
Although the money from selling fresh peanuts is more than the money from selling oil after oil extraction, according to the village chief's idea that 'others are willing to eat, we ourselves must be willing to eat', he will never sell peanut oil.
He is a person who is not even interested in two hundred yuan, how can he be tempted by three yuan?
Chen Yang couldn't figure it out, but since the village chief wanted to sell, he couldn't drive the village chief out.
Lu Wenxing said: "Nonsense, if I don't sell it to you, what am I carrying it for?"
He lifted his shirt, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and saw that Chen Yang was still standing stupidly, so he smiled innocently again, revealing two rows of white teeth: "You should hurry up and weigh it, I have to go into the mountains to move a beehive home later." ”
Chen Yang came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly found the big pole scale at home, and passed the peanuts through the scale with the village chief.
The peanuts weighed eighty-one catties, and the village chief said: "This snakeskin bag also has some weight, just count eighty catties, three hundred and eighty-twenty-four, two hundred and forty yuan, I want to go into the mountain now, it is inconvenient to take the money, you can give it to me in two days." ”
After that, without waiting for Chen Yang to refute, he turned around and walked away.
"But the village chief ......"
Lu Wenxing had already walked outside the courtyard gate, and interrupted Chen Yang's words again: "It's cold at night, hurry up and take Xiaoqian in." ”
Chen Yang glanced back at Xiao Qian, and Xiao Qian's kid kicked the blanket away again at some point.
He turned his head to look at the courtyard gate again. The village chief was no longer visible at the gate of the courtyard, and only some flying insects could be vaguely seen dancing in the dim light leaking out of the courtyard.
Chen Yang picked up Xiao Qian, who was already asleep, returned to the house, put him on the diaper pad, covered him with a thin blanket, and then returned to the yard to continue soaking peanuts.
Although only the village chief came to sell peanuts today, Chen Yang was no longer depressed.
He knew that the village chief was not short of a few hundred yuan, and the reason why he would sell peanuts was just to help him.
What to do, it seems that I owe a lot of debt to the village chief.
Although the village chief never mentioned half a word about his own good deeds, as long as he is not a fool, he must be able to feel the warmth from his words and deeds.
Chen Yang looked at the dark sky, and the bright stars were shining in the dark night.
Although there is only one moon in the sky, and not everyone can become a moon, it seems that it is not bad to become a shining star. Although it can't light up the whole world, it can at least bring some light to the people around you.
He stood for a moment in the night wind and then immediately began to work.
The peanuts brought by the village chief have been washed so clean that they can be soaked directly.
Because there is only one big plastic bucket at home, Chen Yang found the big iron pot at home. This is a wide-mouthed oversized iron pot with a diameter of about one meter and a half.
This kind of large iron pot can only be used for happy events or funerals.
Almost every household in the village has this kind of large iron pot, and if anyone has a big banquet, they will borrow a few large iron pots from relatives in the village to boil water or cook vegetables.
Chen Yang has two large iron pots at home, which are said to have been purchased by his grandparents when they were young.
I can only sigh that the quality of the things in that era is really good, after so many years, the iron pot is still intact, and there is not even a trace of rust.
Although there are quite a lot of peanuts today, it is enough to use a large iron pot.
A large iron pot can boil about 200 catties of peanuts.
Pick up the large iron pot, clean it, and place it on the fire on the kitchen stove.
There are three fire vents on the stove, the small fire is usually used for stir-frying and boiling water, and the medium fire is usually only used to boil things such as dried sweet potatoes and pumpkin for chickens and ducks.
There is also an oversized fire vent, which is not used several times a year, and is often only used once or twice during the Chinese New Year.
He placed the large iron pot on the largest flame and then went to clean the oversized lid.
Although the lid of this pot is not as big as the iron pot, it is only a small circle, and it can just be covered on the iron pot tightly.
It's already nine o'clock in the evening.
But Chen Yang had to pour the peanuts brought by the village chief into a large iron pot, add spices and water to sleep......
So, in order to save the dog's life, he didn't get up until four o'clock in the morning.
Either way, it is essential to get at least six hours of sleep. He was not afraid that he would not be able to hold on and die suddenly, but that once he died, Xiao Qian would have no one to take care of him.
Even if the relatives in the village will help take care of it, he knows that in this world, there will never be anyone who loves Xiaoqian as much as he does.
So compared to wealth, compared to money, Xiaoqian's happiness is the first.
And he is the source of Xiao Qian's happiness.
Therefore, no matter what, he must take good care of his body. Only when he is healthy can he be happy.
Waking up at four o'clock meant that it was at least half past six when he left the house.
And at this time, he has already appeared at the school gate.