Chapter 3 One Poor and Two White
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The next morning, Feng Yiping said that he would cut down the thatch and those small shrubs piece by piece and dry them like the second uncle and Dongmingge, and his parents were obviously a little relieved.
When he got to the mountain, the second uncle taught him how to do it. Go to a certain place, cut down a root and a long branch, and beat it in that place, lest there be snakes or insects or anything in it.
When chopping, don't be in a hurry, take your time, be careful to cut your hands, remember that the edge of the knife is oblique downward, so that it is labor-saving, and it is not easy to blunt the knife; but also pay attention to whether there are stones on the ground, do not hit the stone with the wood knife...... In short, learned.
When chopping, the other problems are fine, there are two very uncomfortable points, one is the heat, the heat below is steaming up, and the sun is basking on the top, and the other is the waist, because it is really uncomfortable to bend over all the time.
However, he didn't talk about the progress left and right, and when he was tired, Feng Yiping stood in place and rested, just like this. At ten o'clock, the sun was very strong, and the second uncle and their side also rested, and he also stopped and found a shady place to sit.
Sweating profusely, he felt very thirsty, and remembered that the ox also had to drink water, so he led the ox to the pond in the middle of the mountain. On the top of the pond, there was a clear spring, cold and sweet, he ran to the paulownia tree not far away, picked a large paulownia leaf, and made a nest in the middle, first filled with some water, swung a few times, and then scooped it to drink.
It's still the same taste as I remember, and it feels much better than those mineral waters!
After drinking the water, Feng Yiping led the cow to the mountain col, and it could be put away for a while. There are many shady places there, and when I go home for dinner at noon, I tie it there.
Feng Yiping sat in the shade of a tree, but his mind couldn't stop. Bizarre rebirth, good is good, but there is also a big problem in front of us, that is, money!
This year, 1992, is an era that deserves to go down in history.
This is a great era of turbulence, at the end of last year, the tragic collapse of the once pole of the world, the Soviet Union.
More than a month later, our chief designer made a series of speeches during his southern tour at the beginning of the year, which became known as the "Southern Tour Speech". It has once again pointed out the direction for the country's development, opened a new era of reform and opening up for our country, and provided a strong theoretical basis for us to develop a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics.
That is, from this year, we have embraced the dawn of a new era, and our country has begun to rise peacefully.
Although all this will profoundly affect the direction of the whole world, and ultimately directly affect Feng Yiping personally, at present, these are still far away from Feng Yiping.
All he's thinking about at the moment is, "Money, money, money!"
At least in Feng Yiping's generation, the problem of food and clothing has been solved. From childhood to adulthood, there are few times when you eat well, but you are definitely full.
However, money is very scarce. In addition to the two who work in the town and county, there is also a private teacher, three families with salaries, and a carpenter, a lacquer maker, a carpenter, and the one who runs a workshop, a total of six or seven families. The rest is not to worry about eating, but it is just not to worry about eating!
The situation of Feng Yiping's family is even more difficult, and until now, his family still owes more than 3,000 foreign debts.
At this time, the rural areas could only rely on pig raising, silkworm raising, and economic forests to realize some money, but there were also many places to spend money.
Adults and children, as well as pigs and cows, there are always three diseases and two pains; chemical fertilizers and pesticides in spring and autumn; children's school fees; at the end of the year, they always have to buy some vegetables, weigh a few catties of fruit, buy a few bottles of bottled wine to entertain guests, and buy new clothes for their children; in addition, there are human exchanges.
In the past, if there was a red and white celebration, you could bring something to the past, but now it is all money, at least three or five yuan.
Most of the people in the whole village are surnamed Feng, and they are all related to each family, and each family always has a few relatives, and if there is a matter, the whole village almost has to follow the ceremony. Moreover, Feng Zhenchang and his seniority are also old, when there is something, those people will make a special trip to invite, no matter how difficult it is, you can't wipe off your face.
In this year, it is really a lot to spend, and it is not enough to count on those few outputs.
The key is that Feng Yiping's family has a very thin foundation.
Soon after giving birth to her daughter, Mei Qiuping contracted tuberculosis. Eight years of tuberculosis is still a serious disease, in order to treat the disease, not to mention spending all the family funds, and also owing a lot of foreign debts. The money for treatment has not been repaid, and a new house has been built, and a lot of debts have been raised. It is mainly the wages of the helpers, the wages of the craftsmen, such as Feng Chuntang, the wages for building the house are still owed more than seventy yuan.
There are also loans of several hundred yuan from the credit union for treatment, money from the village processing mill, money from the oil mill, money from the tailor, money from the barefoot doctor, and money from the veterinarian...... , plus when it is usually used urgently, it is borrowed from this and that house scattered scattered together, adding up to more than 3,000.
When Feng Yiping was studying, he didn't charge money when he was in the first and second grades, but he asked for three yuan in the third grade. Since the fourth grade, the tuition fee has risen to more than a dozen yuan, which is not enough, and it is owed every year. At the beginning of the school year, those students who paid the tuition fees received new books on the same day, while those like him who did not pay them could not receive the books until two days later. Every month, at the end of the month, during the holidays, the head teacher leaves them behind, holds a small meeting, and asks when the tuition will be paid. I have the impression that this situation has been going on for a long time, as long as I go to school.
As for pocket money, well, for Feng Yiping, it has always been a legendary thing!
At that time, the new house was built for more than a year, because there was no money to buy wires, lights, switches, and a telephone pole, so the home has not been electrified, and kerosene lamps are still used.
Most families, during the Chinese New Year, always buy new clothes for their families, or buy ready-to-wear clothes, or go to the town department store to pull some cloth and ask the village tailor to do it. But Feng Yiping remembered that in the past three years, there were no new clothes for the Chinese New Year. Until now, some of the clothes he wears have been changed by his sister in small clothes.
He still remembers that when he was in the fifth grade, he wore the pants worn by his sister, the kind of pants with side openings to go to the toilet, and after being laughed at by his classmates, his parents stopped letting him wear his sister's pants that were smaller.
Every year a few days before the Chinese New Year, there is an endless stream of people at home asking for accounts, Feng Zhenchang is busy saying good things every day, and in addition, he always has to prepare the most popular meals at home and accompany others to eat.
Of course, they are all from the same village, and everyone knows the situation at home, and they all know that it is really difficult, and it is not that they have money to rely on and do not pay it back, but at the end of the year, this account must be corrected.
For example, like Feng Chuntang, the old debts have not been repaid, and new accounts have been added, and similar ones are processing workshops, doctors, and loans. In rural credit cooperatives, if the interest is not paid off in the current year, it will be transferred to the cost in the second year, and more will be repaid, and it will naturally have to be reconciled at the end of the year.
It just so happens that the two families next door to Feng Yiping are among the best in the village, Feng Jiasheng works in the town government canteen, and Feng Weidong is a temporary worker in the county winery, although the salary is not high, but at least a few hundred yuan a year can be saved.
In the countryside, with an additional salary of a few hundred yuan a year, life is very good. Feng Jiachong currently has three TVs, one was bought by the one who opened the workshop, and the other two are them.
In this comparison, their family is even more difficult. However, Feng Yiping has always been very sensible and has never taken the initiative to ask for anything. The only time was when I was in the fourth grade, a photographer came to the village with a red horse, and his parents didn't let him take pictures, so he cried once, and this was the only time.
He is still a twelve-year-old kid on the surface, but he has memories of more than 20 years inside, and it is important to change the status quo.
So, what is the way to make money now? In particular, if we can make money as soon as possible! Not to mention that the school year will start in less than a month, and the tuition and miscellaneous fees for the first year of junior high school will be doubled again, asking for 45 yuan! As usual, the family still doesn't have a penny.
Clothes, even less. It's okay to say that the pants can be worn in winter, and the heat is hot. However, the shirt, whether it is long-sleeved or short-sleeved, is not at all, and the undershirt is not only yellowed after washing, but the key is that there are holes on it.
Money, money, how can I make money? More than 20 years later, multimillionaires are at a loss at this time.
Feng Yiping had just ten days of chopping wood while herding cattle before he had to stop for some reason - he injured his right foot.
That day, while chopping and chopping, a snake slipped out of the grass, and of course the snake was also startled by him, and fled in a hurry, and did not do anything to him.
The problem is that he is most afraid of this thing, he always feels that even in the face of a tiger, he may still have the courage to touch its butt, but the snake, he is afraid when he thinks about it.
He was startled, subconsciously stepped back, his right foot just stepped on the bush stubble he had just chopped, the back of the old liberation shoe was broken, and the oblique bush stubble pierced directly into it, almost to the ankle, and a stubble with the length of the little finger was broken inside, and the blood immediately did not stop.
He endured the pain, pulled out the stubble, tore off the hem of his sweatshirt and wrapped it there a few times, and handed the cow to Dongming, who was going to carry him home when he saw this, but he said no, tiptoed, and walked back slowly.
Feng Zhenchang was still in the field, and Mei Qiuping hurriedly used earthwork to help him stop the bleeding first, that is, on the wound, apply the ashes of the grass and wood in the stove. Then he hurriedly ran to the village to find the barefoot doctor, and the doctor was seeing a doctor in another mound, and when Mei Qiuping and the doctor arrived home, it was already evening, and Feng Yiping had already cooked the rice and fed the pigs.
Wash it with alcohol, then apply Yunnan Baiyao, and then a pack of gauze, and it's done.
Of course, the doctor stayed at home for dinner.
After staying at home for two more days and changing the medicine twice, Feng Yiping limped up the mountain to herd cattle, but there was no way to continue chopping firewood.
Finally, when there were still more than ten days left for school, Feng Yiping finally found a direction for his money-making plan.
That night, Feng Weidong's son, Feng Hongbing, invited him to watch TV. Feng Hongbing is three years older than him, and he is going to be in the third year of junior high school at the beginning of school, and he is usually a little friend who plays together.
At this time, there was no such pot-shaped antenna, and it was still the old-fashioned kind with a lot of branches, and the number of stations received was limited. However, in addition to the county and city TV stations, the central government can receive it, and he also wants to see the news at this time, so he goes.
It's a 14-inch black-and-white TV, and a tall TV cabinet is specially made, which is placed next to the desk in the middle of the hall, and the picture is quite clear. However, Feng Yiping, who is used to watching the large screen in high definition, still feels tired after watching it for a while, turns his head, and sees a book on the dining table, takes it and takes a look, and the three words on the color cover come into view, "Story Meeting".
It's a great magazine, because it was still being published vigorously until 2014, and of course, he rarely reads it. He also vaguely felt that when he read this book, he seemed to have some thoughts, but it was not so clear.
When it was time to leave, he asked Feng Hongbing to borrow this story book, it is very boring to herd cattle on the mountain, and there is always a book to pass the time.
In the evening, as soon as he read the first few humorous stories, he understood what the unclear idea was, and he could submit it to the story club and other magazines!
Isn't it just a joke about humorous stories, and he has this one! More than 20 years later, society has made great progress, and the pressure on everyone has also increased greatly. In order to reduce pressure, various jokes came into being, and they emerged in endlessly. In the mailbox, in the QQ group, and in the circle of friends, there are often people who send jokes to share. In general, he can't remember it for a while, but he still remembers a lot of classics and widely circulated ones. Isn't this a way to make money?
Excited, he pulled out a pen and paper and jotted down the mailing address on the back cover.
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