Chapter 54: Work
Since Xia Yumei went to the county seat to pick up the child in vain, she never mentioned it again, and she couldn't be idle every day.
is either harvesting yellow eels, doing laundry, cooking, and hygiene at home, or delivering food and drink to Meng Guoqiang, who is rooted in the fields.
With the arrival of the farming season, there are not many people in the village who come to send yellow eels, but in addition to this village, there are several people from neighboring villages who come to send yellow eels, and the overall number can be maintained every day to a hundred catties.
In these days in Yanhe Village, Xia Yumei doesn't need to do any heavy work, she has hope for her life every day, her mood is naturally good, and her arm recovers quickly.
When it was time to farm busy, Xia Yumei's arm was almost recovered, and she also began to go to the field to help Meng Guoqiang.
Meng Chuntao ran back and forth at home in the provincial capital, went to the provincial capital to sell yellow eel, and brought some oil residue when he came back. When the crops are harvested, you have to dry the grain and renovate the field to fertilize it, and the oil residue of Meng Chun peach is particularly easy to sell at this time, after all, it is cheaper to fertilize the field than the orthodox urea fertilizer.
If it weren't for the fact that the provincial capital was too far away, she would want to run back and forth twice a day with this oil residue hot market.
Although she didn't run twice, Meng Chuntao also changed from 300 catties of oil residue at the beginning to 500 catties, all piled up on the bicycle and faster than her.
If it weren't for the fact that the maximum carrying capacity of the bicycle had been reached, Meng Chuntao would have wanted to carry more.
Meng Chuntao not only sells these oil residues in his own village, but also rides to nearby villages to sell them, and the results of the peddling are gratifying, and his wallet is also happy.
In the busy farming season, every family is busy, and they can't wait to break one person into three people to work, so naturally they don't have time to gossip, and no one pays attention to the college entrance examination of the two people in the educated youth institute on the west side of the village.
During this time, Meng Chuntao's yellow eel was also sold into state-run restaurants in the provincial capital, and there was an additional supply channel, and her daily retail pressure plummeted.
Speaking of which, she was able to open the supply channel of the state-run hotel, thanks to the public security propaganda to strengthen the prevention of hooligans, and many people in the provincial capital knew that Meng Chuntao was the heroine of this incident.
There are also many people who specifically learn from Meng Chuntao for this matter, and she didn't hide her selfishness at all, and contributed the private goods in her stomach without hesitation.
Coincidentally, there was a person who came to ask for advice, and a relative of the family worked in a state-run hotel.
After receiving Meng Chuntao's selfless teaching, she also helped to sell Meng Chuntao's yellow eel into a state-run hotel.
At this time, most of them pay attention to human relationships, and they are basically easy to do things with acquaintances, such as Li Yanying's nephew Liu Shanming.
If there is no Li Yanying's line, if she wants to sell the yellow eel into the Yellow River Hotel, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort.
Being able to sell the yellow eel into a state-run hotel, Meng Chuntao was very happy and wanted to invite the man to a meal, but was politely refused.
Meng Chuntao didn't force it, and went back and bought some gifts to give it over. As for the relatives in the state-run hotel, they naturally can't escape the sugar-coated shells sent by Meng Chuntao.
Send things back to send things, Meng Chuntao's yellow eel quality control has always been unconnected, and naturally it can also get the acceptance standards of state-run hotels.
The rest of the thing is natural, over-weighing the money.
In the busy farming season, Meng Chuntao's savings have also reached 2,000, and her desire to do other businesses has taken another step.
During this time, the Dong family moved out of the family home and moved to a public rental house in a dilapidated and old box.
The environment, naturally, can't be compared with what you want in the family home.
The six people squeezed into a cramped room, Mrs. Wu was still lying on the bed and couldn't move, and Dong Dahan and her two daughters were responsible for eating, drinking, and Lazar.
In such a cramped room, the rent and utility bills for a month are a total of 8 yuan.
Not counting the rice, oil, salt and the like that you usually eat, you don't have to think about the sauce and vinegar seasoning, and you have to pay more than 10 yuan a month for living expenses, plus the rent, water and electricity bills are about 20 yuan a month.
Dong Wuliang has a pension of 30 yuan a month, and now all the funds for his family are on his pension. As for Mrs. Wu's injuries, under the mediation of the public security, the Zhu family paid 100 yuan.
Originally, the Dong family had some family background, but with the loss of Xia Yumei of 100 yuan, as well as other expenses before, now Dong Wuliang only has less than 200 yuan left in his hand.
There is not much money, and Dong Wuliang also has crooked thoughts and wants to continue to make trouble and ask for money.
But in the end, it is missing Mrs. Wu, a person with strong combat effectiveness, Dong Wuliang and Dong Dahan are both face-loving people, and they can't make trouble at all.
Moreover, they also made a fuss once, but the people of the Zhu family reported to the public security directly without saying a word.
As a result, they didn't get any benefits, and they were educated, and they stopped thinking about it.
Without Xia Yumei, an old scalper, Dong Dahan and his two daughters have to do a lot of work every day, in addition to laundry and cooking, they also have to take care of Mrs. Wu lying on the bed.
At first, this matter was on Dong Dahan, but after a long time, he became annoyed and handed over the matter to his two daughters.
Dong Zhaodi and Dong Niandi were also forced to drop out of school because of this.
After dropping out of school, they had more time, so Dong Wuliang asked Dong Zhaodi and Dong Niandi to paste paper shells at home, but their income was still not as good as before, and their quality of life also declined due to the large shrinkage of their income.
In the past, as the most favored grandson in the family, Dong Zihao could get an egg to eat every day, but since the accident at home, let alone eggs, he eats green vegetable leaves every day.
Those green vegetables Dong Zhaodi picked up those leaves that were sold in the vegetable market and came back, and they were not delicious at all when cooked, and there was no oil and water.
After persisting for a few days, Dong Zihao couldn't bear it anymore, and he was clamoring to eat egg and meat buns at home.
Dong Zihao is also shrewd, knowing that the family's money is on Dong Wuliang, holding Dong Wuliang to eat, he doesn't have a good face for others at all.
Dong Wuliang already hurts Dong Zihao, and he does eat this dish every day, and there is no oil and water. He gave six cents to Dong Zihao to buy a meat bun and come back, and the grandfather and grandson subcontracted to eat.
In fact, not only Dong Wuliang and Dong Zihao have no oil and water in their stomachs, but other people also have no oil and water in their stomachs, especially Dong Zhaodi and Dong Niandi are growing their bodies, and they eat these non-nutritious dishes every day, and they are all yellow and thin.
Looking at the meat buns eaten by the grandfather and grandson, Dong Dahan, who was standing on the side, swallowed his saliva, and didn't dare to lose his temper, the waist of the person who had no money in his pocket was really not straight.
Once you have eaten the meat, it is particularly boring to eat those bland and tasteless vegetables.
Dong Zihao couldn't eat food, and wanted to eat meat buns and meatloaf and the like, and wanted to continue to pester Dong Wuliang to give money.
Although Dong Wuliang searched for it, he had nothing to say to his little grandson, and he still gave money.
Over time, Dong Zihao also pinched Dong Wuliang, and if he wanted to eat delicious food, he would make a fuss.
Dong Zhaodi and Dong Niandi, who do hard work every day, can only look at Dong Zihao eating with envy, and then lower their heads and slowly do endless work.
In just half a month, the two of them also had calluses on their hands because of non-stop work.