Chapter 40: Good luck
Fan Xiumei nodded her forehead: "Your father, you still don't understand, if you are really angry, can you have this attitude?" I've cleaned you up a long time ago. ”
Lin Xi pursed his lips and smiled, just if he wasn't angry.
She went back to her room, took out her textbook and began to write her homework seriously.
After dark, the whole family fell asleep, and she turned off the lights and sneaked into the space to continue studying.
This is another benefit of the space that she has only recently discovered.
Time is almost still, and the surroundings are as bright as day, so it is easier for her to calm down and read with half the effort.
After completing all the homework, Lin Xi bought two more workbooks for the third year of high school.
After making two sets of rolls carefully, I came out of the space. Listening to the snoring sound coming from the next room, she gradually fell asleep.
"Little sister, little sister, wake up." She was still dreaming, and suddenly someone pushed her.
Lin Xi turned over impatiently: "Fifth brother, don't make noise, I'll sleep for a while." ”
"Don't sleep, after eating for a while, you're going to go to the team to catch piglets, you have good luck, go and catch one for the family."
Lin Xi sat up in a daze, looked at the sky that was only bright outside, and although he was not very happy in his heart, he still yawned and began to get dressed.
After the family had eaten, they locked the courtyard door and began to walk towards the brigade headquarters.
Each team of the production team will raise two sows, and every year the sow gives birth to cubs, which has become the most important event for the members.
Each team has forty households, and each litter of piglets is numbered and of different sizes.
Therefore, each piglet can only be marked, and then one, two, three, four and five can be selected by drawing lots.
The reason why everyone is keen on raising pigs is because a pig is sold to the purchasing station for about five to six cents a pound of meat, and a pig of more than 100 catties can be sold for dozens of yuan. For the people of the village, this is a lot of income.
The Lin family didn't catch a single pig last year, so all their hopes this time were pinned on Lin Xi.
Looking at the little piglet with a shiny white belly tied to the flat pole, Lin Xi turned his head: "What if I can't catch it?" ”
Lin Jiancheng: "Bah, bad and bad spirits, fifth brother believes in you." ”
Soon the captain put all the notes in a basket and asked one representative from each household to go and draw lots.
Lin Xi picked one up from it casually, and before she could open it, she was snatched by the third brother Lin Jiandang.
Lin Xi stood on tiptoe anxiously: "Third brother, what is written on it?" ”
At this time, someone next to him was already shouting: "Hit, three, I'm three above this!" ”
Those who draw blank can only sigh their poor luck.
If you draw the youngest piglet, you won't be too happy.
The piglets who can't grab food are destined to be physically strong, and if there is a disease that is gone, it will even lose the capital.
"One, it's one!" Lin Laosan raised the note in his hand and hurriedly rushed to the captain.
A little piglet is about ten pounds, and in order to take care of everyone, the team will sell it to members according to the price of pork, and will also give half a bag of chaff.
The little pig drawn by the Lin family was the largest, with twelve catties, and it cost a total of seven yuan.
"Thanks to Xiaomei, I was able to catch such a good piglet." Lin Jianguo hugged the little piglet with a sincere smile on his face.
It's almost mid-November, and it's cold every day after winter, in order to ensure that the little piglets can survive this winter safely, Lin Youfa and his sons took a wooden board to build a nest for the little piglets, and put it in the kitchen near the back window.
"Next month, your sister-in-law will enter the door, set on the sixteenth day of the winter month, and seeing that the day is approaching, I think that tomorrow you and your mother will go to the commune, see how to tear two pieces of cloth to make two beds of bedding, and then make a new dress for your sister-in-law and the child."
Although the woman asked for nothing else as long as she had a bicycle, marriage was a big event after all, and everything she should have had to be prepared.
Lin Xi nodded in response.
At the same time, I was also thinking in my heart that I should buy something from the space and sell it.
Since the last time she went to the provincial capital with her fourth brother to earn a little money, she has spent a lot of money to buy materials during this time, and there is not much money left in her hand.
It is definitely not possible to sell fabrics again, the cost is too high. Thinking of the end of the year, it is better to sell nodding ropes and small hair accessories.
These things are low-cost, but the sales are definitely not bad.
Nowadays, there are very few rubber bands used by girls to tie their hair, and most of them are glass wires or red head ropes.
Those with better conditions may buy a red ribbon or a plastic hairpin for their children during the holidays.
There are very few styles.
Thinking of this, after Lin Xi returned to the room, he hurriedly entered the space and began to check.
Sure enough, as she expected, the original colorful rubber bands for tying her hair can be bought for only four yuan.
On average, it only costs a quarter of a penny!
She definitely didn't have that time for retail, and if she was wholesaled at the same rate of eight yuan, someone should take over.
Looking at the little money left in his hand, Lin Xi chose to buy 200 first.
The next day, she put all the headbands in her schoolbag and went to the commune with Fan Xiumei.
Because of the previous cooperation, when Zhao Hongqi heard that the mother and daughter wanted to buy fabrics, they were very enthusiastic.
"Auntie, this fabric is particularly good for quilt covers, it's for newcomers, right? Look at the pattern of the dragon and phoenix, auspicious. To tell you the truth, this is why I know Sister Lin Xi, otherwise I wouldn't have taken it out to ordinary people. ”
Fan Xiumei was very happy to be coaxed by her, and praised her for her sweetness again and again.
A quilt is 12 yuan, and after hesitating for a while, Fan Xiumei bought two beds.
One is rose-red, the other is emerald green.
In addition, I bought a fuchsia corduroy fabric and a red checkered fabric.
All of them cost a total of 31 yuan, plus a ten-foot cloth ticket. This is almost half a year's worth of cloth tickets that the family has saved.
When Zhao Hongqi was pulling the fabric, he deliberately let two fingers.
There are also a lot of doorways in the middle of the fabric.
If it is more real, the salesperson will stretch the fabric tightly, and if it is familiar, it will release water.
Anyway, the salesperson also has a loss index when selling goods, and it has nothing to do with them if they lose money and make money, and they still get paid every month.
Lin Xi would not be stupid to poke it, but smiled at her to thank her.
After accompanying Fan Xiumei to buy the fabric, when she went to other counters to look at things, Lin Xi took out the head rope prepared in advance.
"Sister Hongqi, eight yuan and 100 sticks, do you want it?"
I thought she was here to buy goods, but I didn't expect there to be an unexpected gain.
Zhao Hongqi took the head rope in his hand and tried it, this thing was much better than the glass filament that had no elasticity.
And it's festive to look at at the colors.
Eight yuan for 100 sticks, that's eight cents a piece, she has been in contact with customers in the store for a long time, let alone selling for a dime, it is a dime or a dime, and someone must buy it.
Because the whole store doesn't sell this thing!
Her eyes lit up: "Sister, just these 100?" ”