The county is financially poor and unable to fund education.

Most of the teachers are private teachers, but they are also farmers, and they all farm in their own homes.

It is difficult to support their families on the meager salary of a private teacher, and every time there is a wheat break and autumn vacation, the teachers are busy harvesting their own crops.

In addition, in order to prevent some parents in the village from letting their children go to school because they are too poor, the school will also let the children go back to the fields to help during the busy farming season, and the wheat, millet, and sorghum harvested can be used to cover the tuition fees.

The first is to respond to the national policy of "returning grains to the warehouse";

Second, the school paid the "food tuition" to the teachers as it was, and used it to offset the long-overdue teachers' salaries.

"Whose house do you want to go to borrow some grain?"

"No, no, I don't cause trouble to the unit, the school said that if you don't pay food, you can pay 15 yuan, so I want to take duck meat and duck eggs to the door of the family home to sell, uncles and aunts have worked hard all day, and you can eat a meal of meat when you go home, do you say it's okay?"

Su Xiaoli didn't say that her sister-in-law had snatched away the old Su family's money, and she didn't want to shake this kind of out.

"Haha, you little girl, your brain is as good as your father's, dare to think and dare to do, according to me, you can do it. The great leader said, self-reliance, abundant food and clothing! ”

With the support of Li Zhengde, this deal can be regarded as a clear road.

Su Xiaoli felt a lot more down-to-earth.

Li Zhengde was short-mouthed, and not only agreed with her to set up a stall at the entrance of the family home, but also agreed with her to borrow pots and pans from the canteen.

Just after five o'clock, Su Xiaoli carried a pot of stewed duck meat and more than 40 wild duck eggs to the gate of the Shouzheng Canal family courtyard to guard.

The ingredients for marinating salted duck eggs were not enough, so she discussed with her grandmother and simply sold the fresh duck eggs first.

After setting up the cauldron, Su Xiaoli stood a waste wooden board next to it, writing "One fresh duck egg with two corners, and a bowl of stewed duck meat with seven corners." ”

Many of the people who came home from work knew their grandparents and grandchildren, and when they saw Su Xiaoli selling at the gate, they couldn't help but walk over.

"Yo, this isn't Xiao Li. What are you doing here? "An uncle surnamed Liu on the channel passed by.

"Hello Uncle Liu, I'm working and studying here, can you bring back a bowl of freshly stewed duck meat to my grandfather?"

In front of him, Uncle Liu lives in the family courtyard for three generations, and the old man in the family is over 70 years old.

Uncle Liu took a look at the pot, and his reaction was stronger than Li Zhengde's, he had been working on the dam for a day today, and he was already hungry.

"Okay, you little girl doesn't study well, but you're doing business, I support you!" Uncle Liu didn't bargain and handed Su Xiaoli 7 dimes.

When the business was opened, Su Xiaoli filled a bowl full of meat and poured two spoonfuls of thick soup into it.

"Uncle Liu, you have finished serving, the bowl will be returned to the canteen tomorrow, and you can come back if it is delicious."

As soon as Uncle Liu was sent away, a fat aunt came over with her new daughter-in-law.

"Xiao Li, why are you here?"

"Aunt Shen, sister-in-law Hongxia, you're back, I'm a work-study." Su Xiaoli greeted by showing eight teeth.

"Yo, that's sensible. What are you...... Duck egg bar. Aunt Shen asked.

"You're right, I'm a fresh duck egg, bigger than an egg, and it's the same price as an egg. You come a few, give my sister-in-law Hongxia some food to replenish her body, and strive to hug her eldest grandson as soon as possible. Su Xiaoli smiled.

"You kid really talk." Aunt Shen was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth, she just married her daughter-in-law two months ago.

The new national policy of "family planning, eugenics, and only one child in a family is good", and his own family is a public unit, so he naturally has to respond to the call.

It's just that......

The old man's family is three generations of single generations, and now the whole family is looking forward to the daughter-in-law getting pregnant as soon as possible.

The new daughter-in-law is good anywhere, but she is too thin, she doesn't get fat, and she is not wronged by her future eldest grandson.

"Okay, Hongxia, do you want to eat?" Aunt Shen looked at her daughter-in-law Guo Hongxia.

Guo Hongxia blushed, thinking about how this teenage girl could talk more pungent than the aunts, and at the same time, she saw that this duck egg was really good, and she was quite moved.

"Mom, I can't make this duck egg...... Guo Hongxia whispered.

"Hey, what's not going to do this, the steamed egg custard is a little fishy, and the fried leeks are just right."

Aunt Shen has been a housewife for many years, and she is full of mother-in-law style.

"But we didn't buy leeks today......"

Su Xiaoli's eyes lit up, "Aunt Shen, leeks are planted in my backyard, and the price is the same as that of the vegetable market, 2 cents a catty, you can eat and cut it now, it's fresh." ”

"Isn't that what you and your grandmother ate for?" Aunt Shen looked at the vegetables in the basket, she had already bought a lot today, and I was afraid that it would be a waste to buy again.

"Where can the two of us finish eating, you can take my sister-in-law to have a look, and if you like it, I'll have a handful." Su Xiaoli did not give up and continued to encourage the two.

Although Lingzheng County is a poor county, Aunt Shen has two sons, one who works on the Shouzheng Canal River, the other at the veterinary station, and her son Da Zhuang is still a worker in a fertilizer factory.

A family of four and three make money, and they can get more than 100 yuan a month, and there is no shortage of money in their pockets.

Aunt Shen was obviously moved, "Hongxia, I'll take you to have a look, and if you want to eat it, let's buy a handful." ”

"Well, I listen to you." Guo Hongxia nodded.

Her hometown is in the mountains, her family is poor, and she can't eat eggs a few times a year.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bought ten duck eggs in one go, and went to Grandma Su's vegetable field in the backyard of the unit.

Grandma Su was recognized as a good farmer in the brigade that year, and the leeks were raised with strong roots and fat leaves, and the oil was shiny.

Aunt Shen was not polite to Grandma Su, and cut two dimes for two dimes before leaving with her daughter-in-law satisfied.

On the way back, Aunt Shen met several aunts in the family courtyard, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law chatted with a few people about Su Xiaoli's small business at the gate of the courtyard.

In these years, meat, eggs, and milk are all rare, and it is even rarer to dare to do small business in a poor county, not to mention that Su Xiaoli is just a teenage girl.

The aunts received the latest information from Aunt Shen, and ran to the gate of the courtyard one after another to see the excitement.

Su Xiaoli has a sweet mouth and a sharp hand, and always smiles and welcomes people.

These aunts are the "bank presidents" of the family, and they all have cash in their hands.

Some people bought duck eggs and stewed duck meat on the spot, and a few heard that they could go directly to the backyard to pick vegetables, and went straight to Grandma Su's vegetable field.

An aunt saw that the leeks were finished, and in line with the guiding ideology of never going empty, she picked a large handful of long beans for two cents and went back to boil vegetables to eat.

Su Xiaoli welcomed the aunts back with the newly picked vegetables at the gate of the compound.

After selling the last drop of soup in the pot, she touched her bulging trouser pocket and walked home happily.

"Grandma, guess how much you earned today?"

Su Xiaoli handed a wad of gross tickets to Grandma Su.