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There is still more than a month to go before the Chinese New Year, and recently there are more and more people who go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to prepare New Year's goods, and the melon seeds and peanut pastry counter and cloth counter have become the busiest.

Jian Lu weighed half a catty of peach crisp and half a catty of peanut candy, and without raising her head, she looked at the next customer with her spare eyes, "What to buy?" ”

"I want a pound of peach cake, a pound of chicken cake, a pound of sesame cake, and a pound of fruit candy."

"Good..."

Jian Lu heard a somewhat familiar voice, and when she looked up, she saw a familiar and unfamiliar face in front of her - Cai Xiujuan.

I haven't seen her for a while, Cai Xiujuan cut her two braids, and now she has short ear-length hair, neat and neat, wearing a thin black coat and leading her daughter to stand in front of Jian Lu.

"Sister Jianlu."

"Sister Xiujuan, are you back?"

Cai Xiujuan came, and the other three also came to see it, but there was no way, because the scene of her beating people in the supply and marketing cooperatives was too shocking to forget.

"Yes, Sister Jianlu, I brought my daughter here." Cai Xiujuan glanced at her daughter and whispered to Jian Lu, "Let's handle the divorce procedures." ”

Jian Lu knew that Liu Santong should have been under trial before, and it should not be so convenient to get a divorce, but because the children were there, she only nodded and didn't say anything.

Waiting for Jian Lu to be busy with the busiest stubble, she gave Cai Xiujuan's daughter two pieces of candy from her pocket, the little girl was curious, and walked around the supply and marketing cooperative, just giving her mother a chance to talk to Jian Lu.

"Last time I left in a hurry, I was picked up by my mother's family, and then my daughter Duoduo fell ill again, and now she is getting better, so I have been delayed, and I haven't had time to say thank you to you." Cai Xiujuan thinks about it now, and it is thanks to Jian Lu who asked her at the beginning that she found out that Liu Santong was hooking up with people outside, and when she beat people in the supply and marketing cooperative, she was almost taken into the ditch by Liu Santong's calculations, and this salesman helped her to persuade her to calm down.

The few snacks she had just bought were packed in several oil-paper bags, and she handed them to Jian Lu, "This is specially bought for you, I haven't had time to prepare in a hurry, don't dislike it." ”

Where is Jian Lu good to collect so many things, everyone is not rich, these things are not only a matter of money, but also used a lot of dim sum tickets issued during the New Year, which are all precious.

The two pushed back and forth, but Jian Lu didn't resist Cai Xiujuan in the end, so she could only accept the things.

But she called Duoduo over and brought a piece of peach cake to the child to eat. Duoduo glanced at her mother first, and when she saw her mother nodding, she took the peach cake and thanked Aunt Jian Lu sweetly.

Cai Xiujuan told Jian Lu that now she is going back to her parents' house to live, although there are few divorces in ten miles and eight towns, and it is a bit embarrassing to go back like this, but fortunately, the family didn't mind, except that her mother secretly wiped her tears a few times. Even if someone in the commune made irresponsible remarks, she didn't hear it.

"Later, I am going to follow my brother and them to raise fish, but I can't go back to my parents' house to eat rice, and when the time comes, my brother and sister-in-law will not be good because of my quarrel." Cai Xiujuan's family has a large number of people, with three older brothers at the top and a younger brother and sister at the bottom, and when she returned from divorce, her parents and brother did not say anything, but the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law had some opinions.

"That's what you're doing."

After all, not everyone can accept that a sister-in-law who has already married has returned to live with her parents, and some people feel that divorced people are unlucky. Cai Xiujuan didn't have anything to say to Jian Lu, in fact, during the time she went back, her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law had already quarreled with the eldest brother and second brother a few times, "I want to save some money to move out with Duoduo to live, so as not to make a stumble at home." ”

Jian Lu looked at Cai Xiujuan, who was now refreshed, and admired her, because the natives of the 70s could have such courage and courage to divorce, you must know that the spittle stars outside can drown people.

Before leaving, Cai Xiujuan went to buy some food to take back to her nephews and nieces at home.

"Aunt Lulu, I'll give it to you." Duoduo remembers her mother, Aunt Lulu is a good person, and her mother wants to give Aunt Lulu something. She's going to send it too.

Jian Lu raised her hand and saw that it was actually a pearl!

The round and smooth pearl is lying in Jian Lu's palm, take a closer look, the size is small, dark, naturally far less than the pearl luster of later generations, but it is still rare today.

After all, Jian Lu hadn't seen a pearl since she crossed over.

Where did this little girl come from?

When Cai Xiujuan came back from shopping, she found Jian Lu talking to her daughter, and when she looked again, her daughter actually gave someone a pearl.

"That's what I used to play with her, and I used to have a few mussels in our pond, and I kept them for fun."

Keep it for fun!

Jian Lu looked at the past in shock, Comrade Cai Xiujuan, is this a child? That's a pearl!

"Sister Xiujuan, do you still raise pearls?" Jian Lu knows that the technical content of pearl cultivation is quite high, especially in this era, many people should not be able to, otherwise pearls would not be so in demand.

"I grew up by the river, and our family used to have a big lake, and I loved to study these things since I was a child."

Cai Xiujuan, raising pearls? Jian Lu's mind was like a flash of lightning What did she think, could it be that the later Pearl King mentioned in the original book was her?

Jian Lu remembered that the book had mentioned the Pearl King, a hard-working and wealthy lesbian, who seemed to be surnamed Cai? Her memory is vague, and now she probably recalls, the book says that the pearl king was abandoned by her husband in her thirties, took her daughter to live alone, and started to study pearl farming by mistake, took many detours, and finally cultivated high-quality pearls, and also led her hometown to become rich, and even helped many female comrades, became pearl farmers, and earned a very considerable daily income.

Although he was tired of life in the past and started late, he still did a great job.

"Do you still have it?"

"Why do you raise this? There are several of them for Duoduo to play with. Cai Xiujuan didn't know why Jian Lu suddenly asked about this.

Because she and Duoduo were still in a hurry to go back, and there would be no boat when it was late, Jian Lu couldn't say much at this time, but simply mentioned the matter of raising pearls to make money, which surprised Cai Xiujuan.

In the end, the two made an appointment, and four days later, Jian Lu took a day off and went to the county seat, she remembered the history of the pearl king, which started from selling pearls to pharmaceutical companies, and she could just go to inquire about the situation.

Now that she has changed her fate and divorced her eight years ahead of schedule, it is better to help her get on the right track of her career as soon as possible.

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Four days later, Jian Lu was ready to take advantage of the supply and marketing cooperative's shift rest day holiday to take a boat out of the island to the county seat, now private trading is not allowed, even if she raises pearls, she can not directly sell them to private individuals, but can be purchased and sold, now, pearls are still famous medicinal materials, that day Cai Xiujuan raised pearls are very average in color, and it may be almost good to make jewelry, but there should be a way to enter medicine.

When Cheng Zheng learned that his daughter-in-law was going to leave the island, he thought that she was going to go to a department store to buy something, but unfortunately he had a training mission in the army.

"You're going alone?" Cheng Zheng was a little uneasy, although his daughter-in-law had been here for almost a year, he always felt that he had to follow to feel at ease.

Jian Lu ignored this man's worries, "Captain Cheng, don't worry, I know the road and I am literate and open my mouth." ”

Cheng Zheng couldn't argue with his daughter-in-law, so he only told her to go out and put the money and tickets in the inner pocket of her coat, and be careful along the way, "There are still those who abduct and sell women and children, don't you go with strangers, you know?" ”

Jian Lu, who is already twenty years old: "..."

seems to be treated like a three-year-old child, isn't this person the legendary father's boyfriend?

"I know, I know it, I'm clear, you should go to the army quickly." Jian Lu pushed people out of the door, disgusted on her lips, but still warm in her heart, and went out with her.

After taking a boat out of the island and meeting Cai Xiujuan at the door of the agreed department store, Jian Lu briefly told her about pearl farming. Cai Xiujuan's family raises fish, she grew up at the water's edge, can hold boats and raise fish, now every household does not look down on the river mussels are used to feed chickens and ducks, she is also young in the past, curiosity, the river mussels raised to play, by mistake, how did she think that a few months later actually found that there were pearls raised in it.

However, the pearl was small and dull, and no one in the family took it seriously, but she liked it, and oh, and her daughter.

At this time, when she heard Comrade Jian Lu say that she could earn money by raising pearls, Cai Xiujuan could not believe it and faintly looked forward to it.

The two of them inquired all the way and found the store department of the H City Pharmaceutical Company in Haiwu County, and the nurse comrade who grabbed the medicine glanced at the two of them, only to think that the female comrade on the left was also too beautiful, so she couldn't help but look at it again and said, "What kind of medicine do you catch, do you have a medical certificate with the hospital?" ”

Nowadays, it is not possible to buy medicine casually at the sales department of a hospital company, but to have a medical record certificate to go to a health center or hospital for medical treatment.

Jian Lu glanced at the dark brown medicine cabinet behind her, about a few dozen squares, "Comrade, how much is the pearl powder?" ”

Comrade Nurse wondered how anyone could grab the medicine and buy pearl powder alone, and said impatiently, "This is not only for sale, but if you don't grab the medicine, you will stay on the side." ”

Jian Lu didn't annoy this person's attitude, and only whispered, "Then do you accept pearls?" ”

Collecting pearls? When the nurse comrade heard this, she looked at Jian Lu seriously, and asked the lesbians who looked so beautiful that they still wanted to sell pearls?

"What do you think?"

Jian Lu didn't talk nonsense, and showed her the pearl that Duoduo gave, "That's it, do you pharmaceutical companies accept it?" ”

I didn't expect this person to really have pearls! The nurse comrade pinched the pearl and looked at it, asked Jian Lu to wait, and she hurriedly went to the back room to call someone.

Not long after, a middle-aged man came out of it, and Jian Lu heard the nurse just now call him Director Wang, who should be able to take care of things.

Director Wang followed the direction of the nurse's hand and saw an extremely beautiful lesbian standing at the entrance of the store, and it was difficult to ignore her face at first glance, but he was more concerned about the pearl at the moment.

"Lesbian, where did you get your pearls?"

Jian Lu didn't answer directly, but said, "I was lucky to pick it up in the river mussel, so I wanted to try my luck." ”

"How many can you pick up?"

"Then you can't look at it, now the pharmaceutical company can't accept it, otherwise wouldn't it be for nothing?"

Director Wang was not in a hurry when she chatted, but only asked her, "How do you know that the pharmaceutical company wants to accept this?" ”

"Now that private buying and selling are not allowed, is there anything that must be purchased and sold in a unified manner? I've heard that this kind of stuff can be collected by pharmaceutical companies. Jian Lu naturally knew that the later pearl king Cai Xiujuan made a fortune in this way, so she dared to bring someone to inquire, she remembered that Cai Xiujuan, who had become famous at that time, also thanked the director of the pharmaceutical company at that time, allowing her to earn her first pot of gold.

"You're a spirit." Director Wang has contacts with many private individuals, and he is able to directly purchase medicinal herbs from private individuals because of the relaxed policy in this regard. "If you have it, bring it, we are short of pearls here, but your pearls are a little worse, 385 a catty, we can ask for as many as we want."

When Cai Xiujuan heard this price, she suddenly glared at the almond eyes, 385 a catty? As if she couldn't believe her ears, her mind was so dazed that she could barely stand.

This purchase price is already sky-high at the current economic level, but it is also normal, scarcity is expensive, and now when most people don't know how to raise pearls, you can make money with this brain and technology.

After inquiring about the situation, Jian Lu knew what to expect, and left with Cai Xiujuan, discussing that she could start pearl farming. However, according to her memory, the small size and poor color and luster of the pearls that Cai Xiujuan is cultivating now are due to the problems of cultivation time.

"Sister Jianlu, do you still know this?" Cai Xiujuan crossed the river by feeling the stones, fooling around, and it was only by chance that she found something glowing in the mussels that she had raised for a long time before she tossed around and took out the pearls, but her method was wrong, and she only succeeded in taking out six or seven of the more than 20 pearls in a mussel.

Jian Lu told her some basic pearl farming knowledge that she had seen on the Internet before, for example, the current pearl farming time is too short, about one year is not enough, two years is better, at this time the technology is limited, the easiest way is to raise the bottom......

She didn't know much, but Cai Xiujuan already felt that it was a book from heaven when she heard it, and she only remembered it with one mind, and after hearing the price, she was moved, and it was better to be able to make money reasonably and legally.

"You go back and put a batch of river mussels at the bottom of your fish pond to raise, you can raise them for nearly a year first, and then let the pharmaceutical company collect them, and then improve the quality and raise them on a large scale when you have the capital, but you had better report this matter to the brigade."

Cai Xiujuan felt that Comrade Jian Lu was too thoughtful, so she only nodded again and again, eager to fly home immediately to find mussels to raise mussels.

Before leaving, she held Jian Lu's hand and said excitedly, "Sister Jian Lu, if I can really earn money by raising pearls, I will give you half of what I earn!" ”

Chapter 41

Jian Lu originally wanted to help Cai Xiujuan take fewer detours, but now this person really regards Jian Lu as a big man, although the pearl farming business has not started at all, he has already released a bold statement that he wants to give Jian Lu money.

Jian Lu, who was painted by the future pearl king, smiled and bent her eyebrows, and only encouraged her, "Sister Xiujuan, then you can do a good job."

"Definitely!"

A divorced woman who went back to her parents' house to live a good life, no matter what, she has also suffered some grievances that others can't see, and now she just wants to take her daughter to live a good life.

Before leaving, she left the address of her hometown, so that Jian Lu could send a letter to her or call the commune.

Jian Lu watched the future pearl king leave energetically, and didn't say anything more, and went to the department store again.

Ever since she became a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative, every time she went to a department store, she couldn't help but look at the layout and structure of people's houses, the position and order of each counter, and she called herself an occupational disease.

When I got home, Cheng Zheng hadn't come back yet, Jian Lu washed her hands and prepared to cook, and she was a little tired from running around all day, so let's simply eat something tonight.

There are six fresh abalone left over from yesterday, all cut flowers, boiling water in a pot to boil noodles, and on the other hand, stir-fry minced garlic in a pot until fragrant, then add abalone, add soy sauce, oyster sauce, a little sugar, simmer for three minutes, and finally collect the juice and pour it into two bowls of noodles with raw white noodles.

When Cheng Zheng returned home, he smelled a fresh fragrance as soon as he walked to the door.

Two bowls of braised noodles with abalone are placed on a square table, and the white noodles in the bowls are distinctly rooted, and the brown abalone is in the shape of flowers, and the soup completely penetrates it, and dyes the noodles into an attractive thick soup.

"You came back on time." As soon as Jian Lu returned to the kitchen to put off the fire and take chopsticks, she heard the footsteps of the man returning to the house.

"It smells so good."

Cheng Zheng put the two yellow envelopes on the table, turned around and went to the kitchen to wash his hands, accompanied by the sound of rushing water, the voice kept coming, "I just took your two letters, Lulu, you are still very diligent in receiving these letters." ”