Chapter 43 Use money to make a way for the eldest brother to survive
"Today, we people, really, really happy~"
Li Tong covered the cabbage seeds in his schoolbag, hummed a cheerful tune, jumped and jumped out of the vegetable seed station on East Street outside Chongwenmen.
Ever since Li Tong accidentally got the wild ginseng seeds that didn't cost money in Qianzhitang, everything seemed to have suddenly become much simpler.
It doesn't matter if you don't know how to carpentry, we can be self-taught, and we can save money on furniture when we get married in the future.
Find a relatively large national bookstore on the side of the road, from the simple introduction of carpentry to the simple calculation of carpentry, a total of seven books cost 1 yuan 8.
The seeds for planting Chinese cabbage were also bought in the vegetable seed station just now, and a pound of cabbage seeds was only sold for 6 cents and 5 cents, and Li Tong bought three catties for less than 2 cents.
As for the agreement reached between Wei Changchun and Li Tong of Qianzhitang, it is even more interesting, this old man doesn't know what he likes about himself, and he actually wants to accept Li Tong as an apprentice to learn Chinese medicine with him.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to take out a 100ml glass bottle of 50 wild ginseng seeds, and made a bet with Li Tong that if he couldn't grow ginseng flowers, Li Tong would go to Qianzhitang to be his apprentice.
Li Tong almost didn't laugh out loud on the spot at that time~
Wei Changchun, Wei Changchun, did you say you hit the muzzle of the gun?
Ginseng flower Li Tong will definitely not be able to grow it, and it may be similar in a year, but Li Tong feels that he will not return to Qianzhitang within a year.
On the one hand, Li Tong has no interest in working as a doctor, and how fierce the conflict between doctors and patients will be in the future, and others don't know if he can know? That's a direct live performance of the whole martial arts, it's too bloody.
On the other hand, Li Tong knows what kind of material he is, maybe in Wei Changchun's eyes, Li Tong is a talented and intelligent child, but in fact, Li Tong is only precocious because of the blessing of his previous life experience, but this does not mean that Li Tong has really become smarter.
People can't be too greedy, God appreciates food, and there is also a KPI assessment.
The preliminary work has been fully prepared, just waiting for Li Tong to start working after returning home, and now the time is very precious, and it is not easy to waste.
"Rickshaw! Rickshaw! Li Tong stood on the side of the road and stood on tiptoe and shook his hand at a rickshaw that had just turned into the intersection and shouted.
The dilapidated tricycle creaked to a halt in front of Li Tong, and when he saw the appearance of the bald driver on the rickshaw stool, Li Tong's mouth was about to smile.
"Uncle, do you remember me?"
"Ah, tanuki! Why can you come out in the daytime and be scary? ”
The bald coachman shouted in panic as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime, and his feet, which had just reached the ground, seemed to be electrocuted and quickly retracted back onto the pedals.
"Haha, uncle, see if there is a shadow behind me, where is the shadow of the monster?" Li Tong pointed to the faint shadow behind him.
The bald coachman's long face suddenly stiffened, and his tone was a little unhappy: "There is really a shadow, I feel that your kid coaxed me to play last night?" ”
"Uncle, I'm not lying, but you have to mistake me for a tanuki. Besides, I don't have a penny less than 2 cents for the car, and everyone else only charges me 1 cent? Li Tong rubbed his cold little hands and retorted.
"Didn't I tell you in advance that the extra 1 cent was the money for moving the goods, and your five bags of eggs were too heavy, so I had a backache all night after I got home yesterday." The bald coachman was exposed by Li Tong on the spot and made a big red face, but he quickly explained himself.
"By the way, you kid is quite capable, how did you drag so many eggs out of the grass on the riverbank at night, tell your uncle?"
"It's not an egg, but don't ask what it is, it's a secret. If I have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, I will ask you to use the car again, or 2 cents for the car, how about it? After Li Tong finished speaking, he got on the car with the handrails of the tricycle, and without taking off his shoes, he curled up and lay on the cushion like a tanuki.
"You're really a tanuki, are you?" The bald coachman hesitated to look at Li Tong, who was in the same posture as last night, and asked.
"Oops, it's annoying! If you don't leave, I'll change someone else. ”
"Uncle is just joking with you kid, sit tight, let's go!"
Seeing that Li Tong was about to get out of the car, the bald coachman hurriedly stopped it, in fact, it didn't take 1 cent to start from Chongwenmen to Beiyanhe Street, and it was already very good to be able to charge 5 cents.
The bald coachman didn't want to let go of Li Tong, the little fat sheep, and stepped on the pedals with a loud voice, and the tricycle creaked all the way north.
got out of the car on the side of the road on North Yanhe Street and paid the bald driver 1 cent for the car, and Li Tong hurried home along North Yanhe Street. I slipped out of the house today for a day of shopping, and not to mention the wound on my buttocks began to hurt again, and when I got home, I didn't know how my mother would reprimand me.
Tugging the schoolbag straps, and touching the small glass bottle containing wild ginseng seeds and the paper bag containing Chinese cabbage seeds in his pocket, Li Tong felt a sense of relief.
How to interpret this sentence?
In fact, Li Tong didn't want to do business with Xu Huizhen so soon.
One is that Li Tong is still young, and although the life at home is hard, it has not yet reached the dilemma of having no food and no clothes to wear.
Second, as long as Li Tong can go to school and study safely, with the blessing of his previous life experience, he doesn't dare to say that he will be the first in the school every year, but it is always okay to take a good junior high school.
When the time comes, I will find a way to contact my father's old comrades-in-arms and ask them to help send him to the army, and after ten years, he will be discharged from the army as a regiment commander or battalion commander or something.
After working diligently in the post for a few more years to accumulate some experience, by the way, when the aftermath of this big wave has completely subsided, Li Tong can officially go to the sea to do business.
Going to Hainan to speculate in houses, or to hoarding land in a small fishing village in Shenzhen to set up a factory, Li Tong is confident that he can become the first batch of multimillionaires in China before the age of 35.
In the next few decades, the sea is even wider with the leap of the fish, the sky is high and the birds fly, and it is not good that in the future, the fruit brand mobile phones of the United States will have to become kiwi brand mobile phones in the hands of Li Tong, or lychee brand mobile phones.
However, none of this can solve a thorny problem in front of Li Tong.
Big brother Li Guoqing, what should he do?
Will he be able to escape this?
Is it because you can't stand the humiliation and choose to commit suicide? Or was he beaten to death by a fight?
Li Tong is a person who has already died once, and he lives a boring life in this era of lack of spiritual entertainment, so Li Tong dares to gamble with his life.
But Li Tong didn't dare to bet on whether the life of the eldest brother Li Guoqing was hard enough!
Letting Li Guoqing flee Hong Kong with the Lou family is the best way out that Li Tong can think of.
In 1963, the average monthly salary of Hong Kong Island workers was 200~300 Hong Kong dollars, and according to the exchange rate of 1.2 Hong Kong dollars to RMB at that time, the monthly wages of Hong Kong Island workers were more than the annual wages of ordinary domestic workers.
In those days, the gap between the wage and income levels of the people on both sides of the strait was so huge!
At that time, a 300-square-foot apartment in Kowloon was sold for 15,000 to 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, and a 1,000-foot bungalow was sold for 80,000 to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.
If you have no money, how can you survive on Hong Kong Island, do you want to learn from Po Hao to sell white noodles in Yau Ma Tei?
Li Tong neither wants his eldest brother Li Guoqing to cling to the Lou family to be a dog for others, nor does he want him to be a big circle boy and take his life to break through, so Li Tong is in a hurry to catch Xu Huizhen's line and try to make money.
But even so, according to Li Tong's current speed of making money, four years later, he wants to give Li Guoqing the money to buy a small apartment in Kowloon.
Housing prices in the New Territories and Yau Ma Tei are cheaper than in Kowloon, but they are too close to the shantytowns on the outskirts of the Kowloon Walled City, and basic personal safety is not guaranteed.
Kowloon is Li Tong's first choice.
Therefore, Li Tong is so persistent in launching the ginseng garden project as soon as possible, and ranks this project in the first place in the virtual farm infrastructure construction 1.0.
According to Li Tong's calculations, if the ginseng seeds could be successfully planted in 1963, at least a batch of wild ginseng that was 20 years old would be harvested four years later.
These wild ginseng will be the biggest reliance of the eldest brother Li Guoqing on Hong Kong Island!
Regarding how to explain the origin of these wild ginseng to his family, Li Tong has not thought of a reasonable explanation for the time being, but when it comes to the life and death of the eldest brother, let's do it first.
As for whether the Lou family will choose to flee Hong Kong according to the development of the original work?
Li Tong sneered and stepped into the courtyard, this matter is not up to the Lou family to decide?
At that time, even if Xu Damao doesn't report the Lou family, Li Tong will personally give the Lou family a point!
If people don't do it for themselves, heaven and earth will be destroyed!