9. Pay back the money
After Xiao Zhengping left, Hu Shanchuan's wife suddenly jumped over from the rattan chair and pinched Hu Shanchuan's neck.
"You don't have a heart, huh? Seeing that the forest is about to arrive, you are good, when you have a good heart, what kind of living Bodhisattva are you pretending! ”
Hu Shanchuan's wife is well-known in the team, not only at home, but also outside, even though Hu Shanchuan has been a family for decades, he is still scared of the tigress at home.
"Oh, that forest is not cut if you want to, why are you in a hurry, we have to look farther!"
"Go far! If you put it far away, you can't even catch the grass, and I really can't point to you! ”
"Listen to me, the Xiao family only has that forest left, you said that I really want to come over, and I will be infamous for taking advantage of the fire to rob, how can I get votes when the time comes?"
When Hu Shanchuan's wife heard this, she remembered that there was such a big thing.
"Oh! Yes, yes, I almost forgot, we can't leave a handle at this time. ”
Hu Shanchuan smiled with satisfaction, "Alas! Everything is prioritized. You can rest assured, the Xiao family's forest will be ours sooner or later, and it is only our delaying tactic at present. ”
Hu Shanchuan's wife nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something, pulled Hu Shanchuan and asked, "Hey, the master, this Pingzi today, what do I look at, something is wrong?" A mouthful of uncles and a mouthful of aunts, returning yours is very different from usual. I also heard that in the past two days, he not only went up the mountain to collect mushrooms and sell them for money, but also sent his family Ye'er to school, saying that he wanted her to go to high school! ”
Hu Shanchuan snorted coldly, "Hmph, I think he is just a rice bowl filled with boiling water - three minutes of heat, Xiao Kunshan, this old thing is really a weasel and a bean rat - a generation is not as good as a generation, and he gave birth to such a loser." As the old saying goes, dogs can't change their, look at it, it won't take three days, and this flat will have to change back. ”
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Xiao Zhengping got up very early today, and Xiuye didn't get up until he made breakfast.
Xiuye asked him why he got up so early, Xiao Zhengping smiled and said that he wanted to go to the township early to see the market today.
After hurriedly finishing breakfast, Xiao Zhengping set off with a bamboo basket - he thought about it carefully last night, and he still had to wait for the time to repay the money to find the uncle, this broken bamboo basket can be used for a few days.
Because he was in a hurry, Xiao Zhengping didn't go too deep into the mountain, picked mushrooms and sold them for eight yuan and six cents to He Yongfu, Xiao Zhengping went to the market, of course, he didn't forget to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a pack of cigarettes for Yongfu's eldest brother.
was different from Xiao Zhengping's imagination, there were quite a lot of people in the bazaar, but after turning around, he found that there were more people shopping and fewer people selling.
Look at the sellers, the extra potatoes at home, the eggs that I just picked up yesterday, the brooms and dustpans that I made myself, the wild vegetables and multigrain buns that have no heat, and there are no fashionable things anyway.
At the end of the walk, Xiao Zhengping finally saw something that made his eyes shine - embroidered cloth shoes!
In fact, there are cloth shoes supply and marketing cooperatives, and the style is better than the one in the market, Xiao Zhengping thought about buying two pairs for Xiuye before, but he was in a hurry to raise money now, so he put it down for the time being, thinking that he still had to buy it when Xiuye was in high school anyway, so he would just buy it together when the time came.
The cloth shoe seller was a middle-aged woman, and when she saw Xiao Zhengping stop in front of her stall, she immediately greeted her warmly.
Xiao Zhengping asked the price and found that it was much cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperative, and the texture was thicker, so he decided to buy a pair. He didn't remember the size of Xiuye's feet, so he probably bought a pair. Before leaving, I bought a set of brooms and dustpans, and together with shoes, it cost less than a dollar.
On the way home, Xiao Zhengping had a plan in his heart, the market has only been restored for a short time, people's courage has not been completely released, not only the people who sell dare not sell boldly, but the people who buy do not dare to buy boldly, so if he wants to buy and sell in the bazaar, he has to find a product that is both the cost of people's daily needs and relatively low.
Back at home, Xiuye made dinner as usual, Xiao Zhengping took out cloth shoes and forced Xiuye to change them, and was relieved to find that the size was just right.
It can be seen that Xiuye likes these shoes very much, and she has looked at them several times with her feet crossed.
Although I like it very much on my face, my mouth has to be hard, "It's not that rubber shoes can't be worn, what are you spending this money for?" ”
"The girl has to be beautiful, and when my brother earns enough money, I will change your clothes."
After dinner, Xiao Zhengping took out the rest of the money and handed it to Xiuye, and then after a pause, he told him about the arrival of the mountains and forests to Hu Shanchuan.
Sooner or later, Xiuye will know about this matter, and when the time comes, she will have to pay back the fifty yuan to the eldest and second uncle, so it is impossible to hide it, rather than letting Xiuye find out by herself, it is better to be honest and honest now.
As Xiao Zhengping expected, Xiuye's brows tightened the more she listened, and when she heard the end, she stuffed the money back, turned her head, and stopped talking.
"Ye'er, you heard my brother say," Xiao Zhengping stretched out his hand and turned Xiuye's body over, "It used to be my brother's fault, but didn't my brother change it?" Don't worry, I won't make this kind of mistake in the future. Please, excuse me one last time, okay? ”
To say that Xiao Xiuye has the deepest experience of Xiao Zhengping's changes in the past two days, it is none other than Xiao Xiuye, until now she still feels very awkward, and sometimes she even feels that it is difficult for her eldest brother to become like this.
Looking at Xiao Zhengping's sincere eyes, Xiao Xiuye's frowning brows gradually relaxed.
"Hmm!" Xiuye nodded, suddenly remembered something, got up and said, "I still have the ten yuan subsidized by the township there, and the one you gave me last time, I'll bring it to you." ”
Xiao Zhengping hurriedly grabbed her and pushed her back into the chair.
"What are you doing! Let Uncle know that I take your money again, and he has to beat me to death. Okay, I told the eldest and second uncles that they would pay back the money within a month, and it's still early. As he spoke, Xiao Zhengping took out five yuan from the money that Xiuye stuffed back, and then stuffed the rest to Xiuye, "You take these, you can spend the money subsidized by the township, you don't need to save it, my brother assures you, our family will get better soon." ”
After brushing the pots and bowls and settling down Xiuye, Xiao Zhengping took the money and went out again.
Hu Shanchuan was really surprised that Xiao Zhengping took five yuan in just one day, you must know that his accountant only has a salary of twenty-six yuan a month, and the eldest brother with the highest income in the family is only thirty-eight yuan a month, Xiao Zhengping earns five yuan a day, and it is a hundred yuan a month!
Hu Shanchuan was the same as yesterday, enthusiastically let Xiao Zhengping into the house and poured another cup of hot tea.
"Pingzi, I've been in good luck lately, this money is more enjoyable than the tap water in the city."
The sour taste in Hu Shanchuan's words, even the dumb people in the camellia tree nest could hear it, Xiao Zhengping smiled, "Uncle, are you joking." I haven't served it for a few days, and I picked the mushrooms and sold them for the money. ”
Although Hu Shanchuan is the accountant of the brigade, he is also from the mountains in the end, and there is something he doesn't know about the things in the mountains.
"Nonsense, you don't sell mushrooms alone, why haven't I heard that you can sell them for five yuan a day? Not to mention five yuan, it can be sold for two or three yuan a day, and the big guys are not rushing to do it. ”
Hu Shanchuan said casually, and immediately woke up Xiao Zhengping. Indeed, a small part of the reason why he can collect mushrooms and sell them for money is that the team still mainly uses flue-cured tobacco, but a large part of the reason is that the information of the team is not smooth, and they don't know that they can sell mushrooms for so much money.
The news of selling mushrooms to make a lot of money will soon spread in the team, and once it spreads, there will definitely be people who will follow suit, and by that time, I am afraid that the entire camphor tree will be lighted.
Thinking of this, Xiao Zheng said that his steps had to be a little faster.
"Uncle, don't care how the money comes from, in short, you can rest assured, this money is clean, you can take it with peace of mind. Xiuye is alone at home, so I won't bother. ”
After that, Xiao Zhengping hurried home.