Chapter 0004: Scalping
Since then, his father has become busy, and the work in the fields, in the mountains, and at home has fallen on him, and he has to take care of two babies who are still swaddling. In addition to the first few days of my father's scramble, gradually my father also arranged everything in an orderly manner.
Zheng Zhishang also helped to do some housework within his ability, as well as simple tasks such as drying shiitake mushrooms, fungus, and changing baby diapers.
Although his father was tired when he returned home every day, he still didn't forget to ask Zheng Zhishang about his studies, and he would take the time to teach for a while.
Two weeks after the mother left, in the grief of losing her daughter, the grandmother, who was gradually recovering, came to the house with her aunt, who was only nine years older than Zheng Zhishang.
Zheng Zhishang, who had been suppressed for a long time, also hid in the weeds alone and cried for a long time. This is the second time that Zheng Zhishang has cried since coming to this world.
At night, thinking that Zheng Zhishang was asleep, my grandmother called my father outside the house and whispered to my father: "Ah Sheng, you have stars, these two have just been born, and you can't see a big man, I have discussed with several of their sisters, and they are all willing to adopt ......"
"Grandma, don't mention this again, I can do it alone."
"We are also for your good, you are afraid that the baby will change her surname in the future, I can be a guarantee with you here, the baby is still surnamed Zheng, or your baby, even if they are adopted, they are still the baby's aunt."
"Grandma, you misunderstood, in fact, the baby has my surname and your surname, but they have no grandma, and I can't let them not have Abba. Besides, the three brothers-in-law's families are all a big family, and it's not easy. I'm doing a side hustle now, and no one cares about it, and dried shiitake mushrooms and fungus can be sold in the city, so it'll get better. ”
"It's good if you have an idea, but you're still young, so the way forward ......"
That night, my father and grandmother discussed outside the house for a long time, and Zheng Zhishang, who was hiding in the dark and eavesdropping, fell asleep in a daze with a splash in his eyes, and did not see them come back.
But one thing is certain, a month later, when my grandmother returned with her aunt, she did not take Zheng Zhishang's younger siblings with her.
I have never eaten breast milk since birth, and with soy milk powder, boiling water to wash eggs, and a small amount of milk milked from cultivated cows, it seems that I can't satisfy these two little guys. In order for the two little ones to be able to eat a mouthful of breast milk, the young father caught a lot of chickens and ducks raised by his mother before her death and sent them to the second aunt.
I hope that when the second aunt can feed her children again, she will also feed a few mouthfuls to the two little ones. The second aunt was also very generous and symbolically fed twice, but she didn't feed it on the grounds of insufficient milk.
The father had to continue to ask the families in the village who had given birth to children, and everyone in the village knew that the father's situation, although some people did not have enough milk, still helped to feed them once or twice. I drank Baijia milk like this, and it didn't end until the two little ones could start eating some rice porridge.
The two little guys, their father also named them, following Zheng Zhishang's name, his younger brother was named Zheng Zhihao, and his younger sister was named Zheng Zhixin.
Summer has passed in a blink of an eye, and the autumn harvest is about to start again, and this time the autumn harvest, my grandmother and a few aunts have no time to help. It was the fourth uncle, who came to help his father for a few days after finishing his family's work. At last the harvest was harvested.
In this high-yielding miscellaneous family, rice and chemical fertilizer have not yet been popularized, and the yield is not very high, but it is also a little better than the previous cooperative, in addition to public grain, rations, and some grain can be sold. However, most of the people in the village are reluctant to sell their food.
I'd rather hoard in the barn at home, but I've been hungry for the past few years. No matter what policy is good, it is not as useful as the valley is solid, who knows when the above policy will change again, and the field will be taken back again, only in their own barn is the most reassuring, that is to save life.
Therefore, the grain collection team of the thick station came, except for the public grain team that collected several large trucks, the other grain purchasing team was much bleak in comparison. There was only Zheng Zhishang's family, and under the persuasion of Zheng Zhishang, after his father left enough rations, the remaining grain was sold to the grain collection team.
Although it is south of the Yangtze River, this village is not like Zheng Zhishang saw in the book in his previous life, planting crops with two crops a year and three crops in two years. There are also a small number of people who will plant some peanuts or something before the cold winter comes.
However, the planting area is not large, and there is only a small piece, which is eaten by home. It was also at this time that even if a large number of peanuts were planted, no one would come to buy them, and if they couldn't finish eating, they could only be put in the warehouse and wait for them to sprout.
In addition to shiitake mushrooms and fungus, Zheng Zhishang has never stopped borrowing some things from his previous life in the past few months to guide his father to make a fortune, but he has never thought of any good ways. A lot of things are limited by geography.
Zheng Zhishang's place is Tuken Village, T County, S City, Northwest Fujian, T County is a mountain county, and there are only two roads in the county, one through the next Y County to the urban area, and the other leads to the N County next door. Zheng Zhishang didn't know.
Tuken Village has more than 100 households as early as more than ten years ago, but there was no road before, only a narrow mountain road to walk, until ten years ago, under the joint efforts of the whole village, digging mountains and chiseling stones, there was finally a winding, but three meters wide road, leading to the township.
It's not easy to get something out of the village to sell, unless you wait for someone to come and buy it. However, in the early days of reform and opening up, it was rare for there to be no village sellers and collectors, not to mention who would go all the way to this deep mountain to collect any mountain goods.
There are some in this village, and there are also those villages near the township and county seat, so only the grain collection team will come.
Although Zheng Zhishang has no way to increase his family's income, Zheng Zhishang's father found another way this summer, perhaps inspired by selling shiitake mushrooms and fungus. Although the transportation in the mountain village is a little backward, fortunately, the products in the mountains are abundant.
Wild mushrooms are a wealth given to the villagers in the mountains by this mountain, but they don't know much about the value of this thing, although every summer, after the wild mushrooms in the mountains begin to grow, every family will also go into the mountains to pick, and each family has picked a lot, and most of them are just dried and eaten by themselves.
During that time, my father took advantage of his free time to go into the mountains to pick a lot, and after drying, he classified these wild mushrooms, and Zheng Zhishang was very clear about the classification of wild mushrooms, although his mother was there, the family also picked a lot, but most of them were dried by themselves, stored and eaten.
I won't be as careful as my father, and I will classify it. However, my father was obviously in a good mood, and while tidying up, he said to Zheng Zhishang: "The wild mushrooms in this mountain are the most nutritious, and the least and most difficult to pick are red mushrooms. ”
Zheng Zhishang is not very clear about history as to whether the red mushroom is a tribute to the emperor, especially the local history of this kind of local history, the approximate history of China for 5,000 years still remembers some, if you want to be specific, then I really don't remember, in the previous life, Zheng Zhishang because he worked in an electrical factory, self-study and retraining class learned things, all related to electronic technology.
What I learned in the secondary school is electronic circuits or something, and when I go to the teaching class, I learn about electronic computers, and I lack knowledge of literature and history.
If it wasn't for the self-exam, I was afraid that Zheng Zhishang wouldn't even look through history, and he would remember something related to the exam. If you want to talk about the most familiar history, it should belong to the history after the reform and opening up and the history of the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
I lived in that period in my previous life, and I was talking about it from bottom to bottom, whispering and seeing, plus the exams in my previous life, my favorite exam questions were topics related to reform and opening up, which was called factual politics, which made it difficult for Zheng Zhishang to be unfamiliar with it.
The other is due to the TV drama screenwriters in the previous life, who told them to like to write war dramas with the theme of the Anti-Japanese War when they have nothing to do, as soon as they turn on the TV, three hundred and sixty-five years a year, they are broadcasting TV dramas with this theme, ten channels, four variety shows, two Qing dramas, one Korean drama, and the rest are anti-Japanese war dramas.
Either way, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. The important thing is that Zheng Zhishang seems to have seen another set of financial roads. It's no wonder that Zheng Zhishang, who is young, always wants to get rich, his family is too poor, and he still lives in a cave, Zheng Zhihao and Zheng Zhixin are still young, and there are too many places where the family needs money.
During that time, when his father was busy with farming and had no time to go into the mountains to collect wild mushrooms, Zheng Zhishang took care of Zheng Zhihao and Zheng Zhixin's grandmother, and he called the fourth uncle and asked the fourth uncle to take him.
The fourth uncle has just come of age, although he is not at ease with Zheng Zhishang entering the mountain, but he can't resist the young Zheng Zhishang, so he still nodded in agreement and took Zheng Zhishang into the mountain to pick wild mushrooms, but the fourth uncle does not know about wild mushrooms like his father, and the two often come back empty-handed, and sometimes they will pick some toadstools back.
Later, under his father's repeated reprimands, Zheng Zhishang also gave up going into the mountains to collect wild mushrooms. Just help my father dry and bake wild mushrooms at home.
After the autumn harvest, the farmer's father, who was idle, was not idle, and brought the dried shiitake mushrooms, fungus, and a small amount of wild mushrooms made this year into the city.
Zheng Zhishang originally wanted to follow, but Zheng Zhihao and Zheng Zhixin had no one to take care of, so they finally had to give up this idea and rest assured at home.
It wasn't until dark that my father came back, and brought a gift to Zheng Zhishang, Zheng Zhihao, and Zheng Zhixin, brothers and sisters, although they walked nearly 100 miles, but in the face of Zheng Zhishang's inquiry, they still told Zheng Zhishang about today's situation.
At the beginning, my father sold dried shiitake mushrooms, fungus, and dried wild mushrooms in the township, except for dried shiitake mushrooms and fungus, and some of them were sold, and the dried wild mushrooms were not sold well, and finally my father walked more than 20 miles and went to the county seat, and sold all the dry goods in his hand in the county, and sold only one catty according to the estimated 20 yuan, and then sold the remaining three catties in 15 years.
Zheng Zhishang had already expected this result, at this time, the salary of the average wage earner was only about 20 yuan, and selling 20 yuan of dried red mushrooms in a small county town, there are really few people who can afford it, unless they buy it in a big city outside. I gave my father a price opinion last night, just to see the market.
Knowing these circumstances, Zheng Zhishang thought for a while, and said to his father: "Abba, you said that if we buy dried red mushrooms in the village at a price of eight yuan, will they sell them to us?" ”
Father also understood what Zheng Zhishang meant, and thought about it for a long time, "Will it be too low, we will sell fifteen yuan outside, if it is known by the villagers in the future......"
Zheng Zhishang also understood his father's concerns in his heart, after all, he was in the same village, and he didn't see anyone looking down when he looked up, so he shook his head and said: "No, no one collected it before, they didn't even have 8 yuan, so they could only eat it themselves, but now that we collect it, they can earn an extra eight yuan, and you also need to pay for labor?" ”
Looking at his father, who was still a little hesitant, Zheng Zhishang said again: "Besides, now it's just your father who is selling alone, if there are more people, I don't know if the red mushrooms in the county town can be sold for fifteen or twenty?" ”
On the same day, my father took out all the cash in the family according to what Zheng Zhishang said, adding up to more than 200 yuan, and prepared to buy dried red mushrooms, most of which were all the money that my father sold dried shiitake mushrooms, fungus, and grain last time, which was a huge amount of money at that time.
The effect of buying it at a price of eight yuan is still very good, after all, eight yuan was already a lot of money at that time, and at that time, the middle school tuition seemed to be only a few yuan, which was enough to pay for a child's tuition for a semester.
There are also some people with some vision, who are reluctant to sell, and my father does not force this, so he went to the next few villages and left, not only did he spend more than 200 yuan, but he also brought back an IOU of nearly 200 yuan. Although I was very tired in those days, the money in my hand was exchanged for these dry goods, but my father was not in a hurry, because these dried red mushrooms were sold in the county seat, and they could be sold for fifteen yuan per catty, which was nearly double the profit.
However, this time, Zheng Zhishang does not plan to sell it only in his own county, and plans to take out a small part and sell it in several counties next door, or even in the urban area.
Zheng Zhishang didn't know how to explain his father's confusion to his father, but said: "Abba, you just listen to me, half of it can be sold in this county, and the other half should be sold in several other counties, and it is best to sell it in the urban area." There are only a few people in our county, and how many people can afford to buy red mushrooms. ”
The father, who had gradually become accustomed to discussing with Zheng Zhishang, did not doubt Zheng Zhishang's judgment. The next day, he went out to find someone to help, originally his father wanted to go to the fourth uncle to help, how to say that it was a way to make money, as soon as he heard that he came to find someone to help, the fourth uncle had no opinion, but grandma was furious on the spot, picked up the broom, and drove his father out.
In desperation, my father could only go to my grandmother's house in the neighboring township, and although my grandmother and grandfather didn't know if I could make money in response to my father's request, I still asked my aunt to come over to help, selling dried red mushrooms in the county market, and I took other dried red mushrooms to other counties.
It only took a week for my father to take some of the dried red mushrooms that my father brought to the next county town for 20 yuan, and when I arrived in the city, there were only a few catties of dried red mushrooms left, which were also sold out at 25 yuan.
As for the county, it was not so smooth, and it took a week to sell all the dried red mushrooms. It is no wonder that some sharp-eyed people, after seeing my aunt selling dried red mushrooms, some people are moved and take the mountain goods at home to the market to sell, which is a competition for my aunt.
However, fortunately, the number is limited, and the competitive pressure is not very large. My father made a simple settlement of all the accounts, although I knew that I had made a lot of money on this trip, but when the results came out, my father and aunt were still taken aback by the numbers in front of them, huge profits, absolute huge profits.
In particular, reselling in other counties and urban areas is even more profitable. This trip deducted the more than 200 yuan owed before, and after deducting the cost, in just ten days, it made a profit of nearly 500 yuan. Five hundred yuan, at that time, whether in some big cities or rural areas, was a huge amount of money.
Although the aunt came to help, her father still gave her aunt a benefit, although the aunt said that she didn't want anything, but in the end she still couldn't insist on her father and Zheng Zhishang's father and son.