Chapter 72: Store Merchandising
In Beigou Village, Tong Fucheng and Lin Wanru looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little tense.
"Lao Tong, I've been talking to you for so long, can you help the child with this job?", Lin Wanru still sat in a wheelchair and looked up at Tong Fucheng and said.
"Look at me, since he has gone out, what else will he send to the county seat?" The expression on Tong Fucheng's face was obviously a little unwilling.
"You don't have any work these days, why can't you help deliver the goods?".
"I don't work, I have to help cook at home, take care of the commissary, and even earn a lot of money by giving away that little thing," Tong Fucheng argued.
"My son told me that it is not a problem to buy a few hundred a day, and the profit is three or four hundred, how much money can you earn as a big man staying at home? Although I can't stand up and walk around, but I can eat and drink myself, don't use taking care of me as an excuse for being disabled, I haven't reached the time when I can't move in bed, and I can earn a few dollars by relying on this commissary, and I have the cheekiness to think that this job earns less money" Lin Wanru said more and more excited.
Tong Fucheng breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's not that I don't want to go out to deliver goods, but I think that he can't deliver the goods when he comes back, so he will naturally go out to find a job and do it well";
"It's not a good thing to work in the village for a long time."
"If you let your son go out to find a job, is he willing? If he doesn't want to, what you do will have no effect, not to mention that his son is not young, he is already an adult, no longer a child, sometimes we don't have to point fingers at him, he should know what he is doing, what we need to do is to help him when he needs help", Lin Wanru's tone was still flat when she said these words, and she couldn't hear joy, anger and sorrow.
"Sometimes when we think we should choose this, in the eyes of our son we don't think so, we also have parents, we also come from this age, we put ourselves in their shoes, let go may not be a bad thing, and the son is not as those people in our village say, idle, not doing business, he is also trying to earn money, every morning earlier than us, not too cold to go to the county to sell things, no matter what, at least he is still working hard."
After a long time, Tong Fucheng suddenly spoke: "You said that your son has to go out every time he stays at home for a few days, what is he doing outside, it's not like he said to do odd jobs."
"If my son wants to say it, he will naturally say it, if he doesn't say it, you can't guess it, we can't ask in vain, so let's pretend to be confused."
On the third day, Tong Chen got out of the shelter very early and started to act, and when he couldn't sleep last night, he remembered one thing he had overlooked, although the water in the stream was not drinkable, but the other animals didn't think so, they would definitely have to go there to drink water, and this was not a good time for him to catch his prey.
Tong Chen came to the side of this dark stream again and began to observe whether there were any traces left by other animals, and the so-called signs left by animals were nothing more than the footprints left by them, or the excrement discharged, or the fallen animal hair.
"Hey, what kind of animal feces is this?", Tong Chen suddenly found a small lump of feces in the weeds, he reached out and picked up a piece, this brown feces can still be pinched open, and there is no longer any smell, according to this information, Tong Chen judged that these feces have not been left here for too long, but there are also a few days, and this kind of feces is animal feces that he has never seen in his memory.
This unexpected discovery surprised Tong Chen, which also proved that his previous speculation was completely correct, and he muttered to himself in his heart, is he about to transfer.
According to the feces of this unknown animal, Tong Chen slowly found traces left on the ground that were not very obvious, and the distance was not very far, this animal should be much larger than a rabbit, what kind of animal could it be in such a place?
There is no clear main target to catch prey, what kind of trap should be set up Tong Chen made a difficulty, he learned only a handful of prey traps, the rockfall trap that catches mice is a kind, and a simple looper is also a kind of trap with a wide range of uses.
First of all, it takes power to set a trap, there is no ready-made source of power, it must be artificially made, there is also the rope needed to lay the trap, and there is a bait to lure the animal to take the bait.
Tong Chen squatted on the ground and thought for a long time before he remembered a more suitable trap, but he didn't know whether it would work or not.
Power Tong Chen had no extra choice, he just looked for various branches that were more elastic again as before, in order to increase the overall strength, Tong Chen tied several branches of moderate thickness with bark firmly, so that the elasticity was enhanced a lot.
Necessities rope Tong Chen had to weave with his own grass or bark, in fact, the rope used to arrange the trap is best or a thin steel wire, and the second is an ordinary rope, there is no way, the most primitive method is to weave the rope by hand, but using this rope to make a trap is very limited.
As for what bait was needed, Tong Chen couldn't think of it, not to mention that he couldn't find anything to eat, if he could eat it, he would have filled it into his stomach earlier.
Tong Chen then carefully examined the traces of the animals on one side, and finally chose a place that seemed more suitable to him, and then buried a bundle of branches as a power plant in the soil, especially the depth must be deep enough, otherwise it could not be bent at all and used as a power device.
With no tools at hand, even the simplest digging pits became a difficult task, and Tong Chen had to use stone chips or wooden sticks as digging tools.
With the mechanism, the next step is to set up the trigger mechanism, this time to capture large animals, Tong Chen remembered a pedal mechanism, the mechanical principle is the same as the principle of the bird trap he arranged last time.
First dig a pit that is not very large, set up the trigger mechanism, and spread a thin layer of branches on it, and once the prey is in the air, it will be hoisted.
Although the idea is very good, no one dares to guarantee that it will succeed, and then the illusory luck is very important.
In addition, he has set up several more bird traps, and even if he can't catch any big animals, he may be able to catch a bird by chance.
Another day passed in a busy situation, Tong Chen felt flustered and dizzy, and even walked as if he was stepping on cotton, and he couldn't use his strength, he felt that he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on this time.
Either give up the task, it's not a big deal to give up once, who hasn't been able to persevere, even if the mission fails, it won't be a big punishment, at least it won't be life-threatening, but now their lives have been seriously threatened, compared with the two, choosing to give up should be the wisest choice.
There was a fierce debate in Tong Chen's heart, a large part of them advocated giving up quickly, but the remaining part shouted, I can't stand this bit of suffering, so let's give up as soon as possible, and I don't need to continue to complete any tasks in the future; Hunger and starvation are already the norm for survival in the wilderness, and I will definitely encounter similar situations in the future, just like playing a game, I can't pass the first few levels, and I don't have to think about it later.