"I have ten popsicles left here, and Wang Xingquan has sold them out. We thought we didn't have much left, so we wanted to take it back and eat it......" Wang Lei replied.

This result surprised Wang Manyin a little. I underestimated people's spending power...... The suffering people in the rural areas are really poor, but there are also many rich people.

For example, the residents of Shibijie Street are not underpaid. In addition, there are many people who work in factories or do small business......

These people are the first to get rich, and they have spare money in their hands, and it is not uncommon to eat a popsicle, after all, one is only five cents. Just like their own fried goods, there are also a lot of sales in the communes below.

The most important thing is that they are currently doing their own business. However, selling popsicles doesn't require much technical content, and I'm sure others will react soon.

At that point, it won't sell so fast.

The brother and sister didn't think much about it, and after giving the popsicle to the family, they took out the money from their pockets and counted it.

In less than two hours, they not only earned back their capital, but each also had a profit of two yuan.

Wang Tao was greedy from the sidelines, and he also shouted that he wanted to sell popsicles.

Wang Manyin naturally didn't allow it, so he could only persuade his youngest son to be a few years older.

After counting the money, Wang Lei proposed to go to Shuangshui Village again and give the remaining popsicles to his grandfather's family to eat. Otherwise, by the afternoon, it is estimated that it will be completely dissolved.

Seeing that his son was so filial, Orchid was naturally very satisfied. She hurriedly picked a few watermelons and melons from the vegetable garden and asked Wang Lei to carry them along the way.

Only twenty or thirty melon seedlings were planted in his vegetable field, but many melons bore fruit. Not only can it feed two families, but even the workers who come to work in the workshop have no shortage of food.

Seeing that at noon, Orchid sent her son away and started to make lunch.

It was too hot for other meals to eat, so she planned to make a few bowls of cold noodles. Some time ago, the family bought a noodle rolling machine, and it is much easier for the family to eat noodles, and they don't have to work hard to use a rolling pin.

As for cold noodles, they were not originally made here in Jar Village, and the orchid was learned from an aunt from another province.

Actually, it doesn't take much effort to do.

Put the noodles in a pot and boil them twice, then take them out and put them in the well water for a while.

Pat a few more heads of garlic, chop some shallots and spicy seeds, and add shredded cucumbers or beans as a topping. Of course, the point is to pour more sesame oil and vinegar so that it is enough to taste good......

In the summer, cold noodles taste smooth, sour and spicy, and can arouse people's appetite.

Wang Manyin also likes to eat cold noodles, so he directly served a bowl in a large bowl, squatting in the shade of the acacia tree and snoring.

The same is true for the three children, who are lined up with bowls and eat with relish.

Wang Tao was also restless when eating, and from time to time picked up a few noodles and threw them into the lotus pond next to him, attracting many small fish to compete for food.

Seeing this, Orchid picked up chopsticks and knocked twice on the little guy's head: "Itchy hands? Don't eat it and pour it into my bowl!? ”

She has lived through the most difficult times and cherishes food very much.

Although my own life is better now, I can't be so bad.

After being reprimanded, Wang Tao became honest.

However, Wang Lei unintentionally stared at the water surface for a few moments, and suddenly quietly shouted: "Dad, look at it, is there a big yellow eel over there!" Under the south ruffle! ”

In the early years, when rice was planted in Jarzi Village, there were many yellow eels and loaches in the fields, so the children were no strangers to it.

Following the direction pointed by his son, Wang Manyin turned his head to look over.

Soon, he saw a tawny stick-like object standing upright in the water, the head of the exposed part of the water the size of a duck's egg, covered with black spots.

If you don't look closely, you'll think it's a stick stuck in the water.

Wang Manyin also nodded in some surprise: "Good guy, such a big yellow eel is estimated to weigh half a catty!" ”

At the beginning, he stocked a lot of small fish and shrimp in the lotus pond, so it is not a new thing to have yellow eels.

The key is that such a big person will grow for at least three or four years...... Wang Manyin often eats by the lotus pond, and it is the first time he has seen him.

Of course, there must be larger individuals in the space, but every time he came and went, he never noticed it.

The larger the individual, the more vigilant it is.

Coupled with the lush lotus leaves in the pool, this guy has been hiding. The reason why it has emerged now is that it is hot in summer and there is a lack of oxygen in the water, so it has to be half-surfaced from the hole to breathe.

"Hurry up and eat, after eating, let's take the yellow eel hook to catch the yellow eel!" Seeing such a large individual yellow eel, Wang Lei became interested and urged his younger brother to eat.

There are fish in the water in the village of Jars, and people have naturally developed various instruments for catching fish, and the yellow eel hook is one of them. It's made with the spokes of a bicycle finely ground and the tip resembles a fishhook.

After the two brothers dropped the bowl, they immediately turned out the yellow eel hook.

Then, they dug up a few earthworms from the dung heap and began to try to catch yellow eels on the edge of the lotus pond.

Wang Manyin was idle, and he also gathered next to watch the excitement.

As expected, as soon as Wang Lei pulled up his trousers and went down to the lotus pond, he alarmed the big yellow eel.

The guy quickly retracted his head and ducked into the depths of the cave completely.

Wang Lei put the yellow eel hook into the cave and kept shaking back and forth to test it. As soon as he tried it a few times, he shouted excitedly, "Eat, eat!" ”

As he spoke, the guy slowly lifted the yellow eel hook out of the water, but the next moment he showed a disappointed expression.

I saw that most of the earthworms on the hook were torn off, and I didn't see the body of the big yellow eel.

Obviously, this guy is far more cunning than he thinks, and when he sees the bait, he does not swallow it directly, but uses a tearing and dragging method.

Soon, the whole earthworm was eaten clean.

Wang Lei can only change his strategy, and only hang a small amount of earthworm meat on the hook each time.

After doing this a few times, I finally felt a heavy pulling force.

"Hooked!" He shouted, but he didn't rush to lift the eel hook out of the water.

On the contrary, Wang Lei's movements in his hands were very slow, but slowly pulled out of the hole. Mainly because of the huge strength of the large yellow eel, it is easy to scrape the mouth of the yellow eel under the pull of both sides, and finally make it escape from the hook.

For yellow eel fishing, he is also half an expert, and he knows the way very well.

After the yellow eel hooked out of the water, Wang Lei quickly buckled the yellow eel's body with his other hand and threw it to the opposite shore.

Wang Tao, who was waiting next to him, hurriedly buckled it with a net bag, and then put it in a bucket.

Wang Manyin stood in front of the bucket and looked at it a few times, feeling that he had underestimated it before. Such a yellow eel weighs at least seven taels, enough to make a plate of fried eel at night.

Fishing this eel ashore, Wang Lei still did not pay attention, and continued to look for a cave along the shallow water of the lotus pond.

Soon, another three-tael-heavy yellow eel took the bait.

In just ten minutes, the brothers caught seven or eight, almost two pounds.

At night, they were all fried and eaten, and by the way, you could catch some of them as side dishes.

Because of the frequent watering of the bushes around the fieldside, I know a lot in the soil, and I can catch twenty or thirty of them in one night.

Before, Wang Manyin was too lazy to bother, so he asked Wang Lei to put them under the stove and burn them to eat.

Now you can get together and pour it for frying. There are yellow rice noodles at home, and if you have to make a pot anyway, you can fry some more fried buns to eat.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the workers came to work one after another.

Wang Manyin hugged a big watermelon as usual and asked everyone to finish eating it before starting to work.

Now the frying of melon seeds is semi-automated, and the workers save a lot of labor. After the coal fire is lit, push the electric switch, and then you only need to check the raw materials in the roasting machine every once in a while.

In addition, the workshop has abundant manpower, and Wang Manyin rarely operates the machine now. But he has never relaxed on quality, and he checks it in detail every day.

When the workers got off work at seven o'clock, the two of them finished their day's work.

When it's dark, the strong smell of fried oil wafts from the sidelines!

Deep-fried yellow eel section, fried steamed bun, know the ...... Wang Manyin's family's life tonight is more abundant than the festival.

That is, now is the time to catch up, and a few years ago, he would never dare to be so high-profile.

Wang Manyin stood by the stove and was busy, even his clothes were sweaty, and finally fried a pot of oil buns.

After sending a bowl to Wang Qiusheng, his family sat on the sidelines and started eating. As for the old father-in-law's house, you can keep it for tomorrow.

Putting down the bowl, the three children went to the village as usual.

Wang Manyin and his wife were hot enough by the stove just now, so they took this opportunity to take a shower first.

Then, the two sat on the sidelines and fanned their fans, enjoying a rare tranquility.

Just chatting casually......

Summer nights on the Loess Plateau are particularly pleasant.

The cool breeze is blowing, and the galaxy above the head is unusually clear and visible.

Suddenly, a dark shadow swept overhead, and then disappeared into the dark mountains in the distance.

Wang Manyin cherishes such a leisurely time, especially when he is accompanied by his mother-in-law and children...... For him, it was very satisfying.

A lot of times, he wants to live like this forever.

But then, it seems that there is a force in the underworld, pushing Wang Manyin forward. Let the environment of Jar Village be a little better, the villagers live a better life, and by the way, take a look at the more beautiful scenery at the end.

He doesn't just think about it in his heart, he does it all the time.

Now workers who work in the workshop get at least two dollars a day...... Sixty dollars a month, six hundred dollars a year. For many families on the Loess Plateau, the harvest in a year does not reach 600 yuan.

It may seem like a small thing, but it quietly changed the course of life for six families.

Next, Wang Manyin will recruit more people from the village.

After buying a house in Huangyuan City, Wang Manyin thought about moving the workshop there. With the current salary, it should be easy to recruit workers even in urban areas.

The geographical location there is far more advantageous than that of Shibijie Commune, which can directly radiate more than a dozen counties below, saving him from pulling raw materials back and forth.

In this way, the cost of production should be reduced even more.

But as soon as this thought came to him, he extinguished it.

Wang Manyin always had some feelings in his heart, and wanted to see the Jar Village change little by little in his hands.

In addition, the production cost of its own house is definitely much lower than that of the melon seed king...... Speaking of the other party, he remembered the newspaper he had read some time ago.

At that time, many newspapers had reports on the front page of the melon seed king, and they called it "the first merchant in China". Even, his deeds were arranged into a play by the repertory troupe for public performance.

Thanks to these reports, people from all over the country are now ordering melon seeds.

The king of melon seeds has now taken advantage of the situation to open three processing plants, which can produce tens of thousands of catties of melon seeds a day. Moreover, in order to unify the market, the other party also started a price war during this time.

For a time, the king of melon seeds was unlimited.

Even Tian Fujun was affected by the report, a few months ago, when Wang Manyin came to visit, the other party specially told him that he could take a bigger step!

For the king of melon seeds, Wang Manyin naturally admires it very much.

But in his heart, he was never afraid.

No matter how famous it is, in the final analysis, it still depends on the product.

Even if you open your own workshop in Jar Village, the production cost should be much lower than that of the other party. If it does, it's over......

It wasn't until almost eleven o'clock that the two went to the village to call Wang Lei and they went home to sleep.

At this time, the dinner was still very lively, and the radio was on and wah. Many adults got together to gossip, from domestic to international......

There are also many broken babies with sacks or snakeskin bags spread on the sidelines, apparently planning to sleep outside at night.

Wang Manyin was not very interested in these topics, chatted a few words, and then took his family home.

Before going to bed, he lit a pile of firewood on the side of the field as usual, and spread fresh wormwood for hundreds of years.

For a while, the courtyard was shrouded in the fragrance of plants and trees.

***

In the expectation of Wang Manyin and Orchid, Wang Lei's primary school to junior high school results finally came out.

Wang Xing's grades are as stable as ever, with 93 in Chinese and 98 in mathematics, which can be regarded as earning a lot of face for the two of them.

As for Wang Lei, both homework scores are more than 60 points, and it is estimated that it is a little difficult to go to junior high school.

Wang Manyin had already thought about it, looking for a relationship before school started, and tried to stuff the child into the school. It doesn't cost too much, just get two cigarettes at most.

Seeing his terrible results, Wang Lei didn't react, and continued to be busy selling popsicles to make money.

In just seven or eight days, the two brothers and sisters earned more than ten yuan each.

But the good days are over...... Just like Wang Manyin expected in advance, people saw that they could make money by selling popsicles, and they all moved their minds.

In the past two days, there have been a few more popsicles in the Shibi Festival Commune.

After getting the news of the meeting, Wang Manyin felt early in the village after dinner.

It was too hot, and Wang Manchu didn't talk nonsense, and directly talked about two things. The first is that it has been confirmed above that all villages in the Shibi Festival Commune are exempt from paying summer food this year.

Hearing the news, the villagers spontaneously applauded.

Another thing is that the Shibijie Commune is preparing to electrify all villages in the near future, and whoever has an idea can sign up later, and each family will have an account opening fee of ten yuan.

It's finally going to be powered on.

In other words, Wang Manyin doesn't know how many years he has been looking forward to.

After the power is on, I don't need to let Shao'an take the battery to the supply and marketing cooperatives every day to charge, just add a small transformer to the roasting machine, and you can use it directly.

In addition, the TV and electric fan that Wang Manyin had in mind should also be bought. Although it is a bit difficult to get an industrial ticket now, as long as you have money, you can still buy it.

He originally thought that it would be delayed until after the autumn harvest, but he did not expect that just two days after the meeting, the commune had already sent electricians to start erection.

There was originally an electric pole from the Shibijie Commune to the village of Jar, but there was a radio line on it. These electricians are lazy and pull wires directly on the poles.

It is naturally unsafe to use the same electric pole. However, it is the same everywhere now, and it is impossible to plant another electric pole in the commune for the village of cans, so it can only be used.

(End of chapter)