Mao Yuzhen is a woman with a tough personality.

In this era of barren life, losing her husband is equivalent to losing the breadwinner of the family, and she knows that she and her three children are like a small boat sailing in the stormy sea, and there is a possibility of falling apart and sinking at any time. So, she had to, and had to, make herself strong. In this way, she has the courage to continue to live with her three babies, so that she can not dare to come to the door to bully their orphans and widows.

Gradually, the years passed. She's used to being strong in this family.

"Mom, you are the hegemonism of US imperialism! The Chinese people will resolutely not agree!"

Han Chunlei found that he even spoke with the characteristics of this era, but at this time, these were not important, the important thing was to make Mao Yuzhen change her mind. After all, Mao Yuzhen is the head of the family and the leader of the Han family's finances, and the prerequisite for what she wants to do is to obtain the support of her mother.

As for going to the production team to work and earn work with coolies?

Han Chunlei never thought about it, and he didn't dare to think about it. He knew his virtue, so he really went to the production team to do hard work, and knelt down every minute.

"Don't use the US imperialist to bluff the old lady, this broadcast says that China and the United States have established diplomatic relations. The old lady is illiterate, but she can't understand the radio?" Mao Yuzhen said angrily, "You die of this thought, tomorrow you will go to work in the village stone field, and I will go to find the branch secretary in the afternoon." ”

"Sister......" Han Chunlei looked at Han Chuntao for help.

"Okay, your sister can't do this! If you don't earn work, it's useless to say that you can't go to the sky!"

Mao Yuzhen glanced at him and said, "You come and chop some firewood, and I'll see how much rice is left in the tank." I'll go to the rice jar to boil the pot porridge and boil it a little thicker, so that I can eat two meals together at noon, which is cheap! In the afternoon, I will go to the secretary's house to tell you something, and pass by your blacksmith's uncle's house to borrow some food by the way. Pay him back at the end of the year!"

Waiting for Mao Yuzhen to enter the house, Han Chuntao slowly stood up and said, "Eldest brother, she is right this time, my sister can't help you." ”

Han Chunlei sighed, looked at Han Chunfeng, the old man who was squatting at the door, and said with some distress: "Sister, look at our family, although it doesn't matter if he is young, he only has a pair of pants back and forth, and he washed his pants last night, so he didn't have to wear them this morning." Look at our family again, when will the rice in the jar be full? Our family hasn't smelled meat in the past half a month, right?"

As he spoke, Han Chunlei became more and more angry, "What can you do if you work all day long, even if you work to the death every day? Last year, the harvest in the village was not good, you see at the end of last year, the grain that our family workers exchanged for is still persisting until the beginning of spring, and today there is almost no rice in the tank." If this goes on for a long time, sooner or later our family will be scattered, and we will be starved alive!"

"This ......"

Han Chuntao was silent for a while, what Han Chunlei said was not the truth, but she really didn't think that there was any other good way to earn work without working.

Then he asked Han Chunlei what he wanted to do if he didn't want to earn work.

After Han Chunlei explained his thoughts, Han Chuntao was a little stunned, and asked in amazement: "Brother, are you going to dig into the corner of socialism and speculate?"

Han Chunlei shook his head and said: "Of course not, besides, I don't take money to buy what they have, I exchange fried jelly beans for it, and it's not speculation." I still remember when you were a child, you fried jelly beans for me and my wife, and they were so fragrant and sweet. ”

Although the state proposed reform and opening up last year, and Han Chunlei probably remembered that special economic zones would be opened in several cities in the south in a few months, for the time being, the state would definitely not encourage and expand the individual economy. The above is not clear, the local government naturally tends to be conservative, at most wait and see, it is already relaxed.

So Han Chunlei didn't dare to make a big fuss, otherwise he would really be convicted of speculation and thrown directly into prison, which would really make him cry without tears.

These days, he thinks about it, I secretly change my concept, it's no problem to barter, right? Isn't there a sugar knocking gang in Yiwu now? The history of the sugar knocking gang, Han Chunlei knows a little about it, but Han Chunlei has watched the related TV series of chicken feathers for sugar.

Sure enough, Han Chuntao had also seen Yiwu people come to the village with burdens in Chaijiawu, so he understood it as soon as he heard it, and asked, "Do you want to learn the sugar knocking gang of chicken feathers for sugar?"

Han Chunlei snorted, in fact, when he was four or five years old in his last life, that is, when he was in 9495, he also had an impression of knocking candy for sandals, toothpaste skin, and broken copper and iron. Unexpectedly, the memories of his childhood helped him so much.

"Secretly, that's fine. ”

Han Chuntao knew that the Yiwu Sugar Knocking Gang who passed by Chaijiawu from south to north, although these people were very hard to eat and sleep, they did have more money than working to earn work.

"I'm just thinking, in our area, every month or so there will be a group of Yiwu knocking sugar gang, they use maltose, I use fried jelly beans, jelly beans this snack adults and children can eat, children are hungry, adults sometimes grab a handful and put it in their pockets to fight hunger. Besides, sister, the jelly beans you fried are the best in our Chaijiawu. Han Chunlei said.

Fried jelly beans are more popular pasta snacks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the materials required are relatively simple, nothing more than glutinous rice flour, sesame, sugar, the production process is also relatively simple, nothing more than to fry the soybeans crispy, fry fragrant, and then boil the sugar, and finally pour the fried soybeans and the boiled sugar together, so that each soybean is covered with sugar as much as possible. The best fried jelly beans are golden in color, sweet and crispy.

Han Chunlei planned to take the jelly beans to the village near Chaijiawu to exchange for some broken sandals, toothpaste skins, broken copper and iron, etc., which could be sold to the scrap yard.

Chaijiawu is under the management of Changhe Commune, and Han Chunlei has inquired these days that there is a state-run scrap collection station in Hongqi Village, where Changhe Commune is located.

He also thought about using fried jelly beans to go to the countryside to exchange for some mountain goods that can be seen in people's homes every day, such as bamboo shoots, dried sweet potatoes, and even dried fish. These can be sold at the market of Changhe Commune. Although it is not good to set up stalls with great fanfare, there are still people who set up there, and the Changhe Commune does not interfere.

"So you are looking for your mother, just to ask her to give you some money to buy glutinous rice flour, sugar or something?" asked Han Chuntao.

Han Chunlei nodded: "Of course, the financial power of our family is in her hands, and I am cleaner than my face now." ”

Han Chuntao said: "She doesn't have any savings, otherwise she would have to borrow food from Uncle Blacksmith?"

Han Chunlei cut off, "You still don't know our mother, even if the family is interrupted, she has the money at the bottom of the box, as she said herself, the money at the bottom of the box is used to save her life." ”

Han Chuntao couldn't help but smile, Han Chunlei said it vividly, his mother Mao Yuzhen is this kind of person.

She struggled for a while, and finally looked at Han Chunlei seriously, and asked solemnly: "Chunlei, you fried jelly beans for you, can you really make money?"

Han Chunlei nodded heavily, and then lowered his face again, "Sister, fry five catties of jelly beans, you get a lot of raw materials, and it costs a lot of white sugar alone, where do you get the money to buy raw materials?"

"I'm sure I don't have any money, but ......"

Han Chuntao said and turned her head to the makeshift chicken coop at the edge of her house, listened to the clucking rooster, and whispered: "The daughter-in-law of the Wu family at the head of the village just gave birth to a big fat boy and is in confinement. Her husband met me on the road two days ago and asked me if we could even the two old hens we raised. said that he wanted to buy it back to make up for his daughter-in-law. ”

Han Chunlei's eyes lit up, he gave a thumbs up, and praised: "Sister, reliable!"

"Don't let Mom know!"

The sister and brother spoke in unison, tacitly.

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The next day, Mao Yuzhen went to work in the quarry, and the village party secretary also gave Zhun Xin'er, and the village committee agreed that Han Chunlei would go to work in the quarry two days later to earn work.

After waiting for Mao Yuzhen to leave for a while, Han Chuntao and Han Chunlei took Han Chunfeng and secretly began to fry jelly beans at home. Other raw materials are good to say, glutinous rice flour, soybeans are not a sought-after material, but this sugar is to be bought at the supply and marketing cooperative, and it will not be sold without a sugar ticket. Yesterday evening, Han Chunlei bought it from someone else's house for a half-percent increase in the unjust money of the supply and marketing cooperatives in the next village.

After all, there is a shortage of materials in these years, especially oil tickets, sugar tickets, cloth tickets, etc., which are very popular.

Han Chuntao is very skillful and very neat in his work, and he fried five catties of jelly beans before noon. Then it was dried again, and it was almost around 12 noon that five catties of fried jelly beans were put into a basket and placed on the burden.

Five catties of jelly beans are divided into two burdens, which are very light. The burden is very large, mainly to carry the things that will be exchanged when the time comes. Han Chunlei took out two palm-sized pieces of iron from his home, and prepared to ring them while walking to attract customers.

"Sister, then I'm leaving!"

Han Chunlei picked up the burden very easily, holding the flat burden with one hand, holding the iron piece with the other hand like holding an allegro, and knocked it with a gesture, making a pleasant tinkling sound.

Han Chuntao pursed her lips and smiled, "Hehe, it's quite like that." Which village to go to first?"

Han Chunlei said: "Of course, it is the closest Jiadi village to Chaijiawu, that village is big and there are many people. I may not be able to rush back to Chaijiawu tonight, and when I turn around, you tell my mother that I went to my aunt's house in Hongqi Village. ”

Han Chuntao snorted, "Go ahead, pay attention to safety on the road!"

Han Chunlei was just about to set off, but was stopped by the old man Han Chunfeng, the kid put on pants and shoes, and ran out of the house, "Brother, take me, take me, I'll go too!"

Han Chunfeng smiled angrily: "I can help you shout, take me." ”

Han Chuntao nodded, "Take the old man with you, there is a companion on the road, and you also have someone to chat with and won't walk." If you are tired of shouting, I can also help you shout twice. ”

"Done!"

After speaking, he carried the burden and took Han Chunfeng on the road.

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Starting from Chaijiawu, I walked for about two hours on the mountain road, and finally vaguely saw the entrance of Jiadi Village.

Han Chunlei walked with sweat on his forehead, listening to the crisp sound of gaba and gaba behind him, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and reprimanded: "Han Chunfeng, you kid are not finished? You eat jelly beans all the way this way, this is only five catties of jelly beans and then be eaten like this, and you won't need jelly beans to change sandals for a while......"

"Hiccup~~"

Han Chunfeng hiccuped fiercely, stepped forward to take the iron piece in Han Chunlei's hand, and jingled while knocking on it, while following what Han Chunlei taught on the road, and shouted loudly:

"Fried jelly beans, fragrant and sweet fried jelly beans!"

"Jelly beans for broken sandals, toothpaste skin, copper, aluminum and iron skins and mountain goods!"

"Come and see, come and see, the Han family jelly beans, Tong Su is not bullied!"

......

The words are correct and round, and the shouting is very professional, Han Chunfeng did not eat jelly beans in vain this way.

Han Chunlei smiled knowingly, accompanied by Han Chunfeng's shouting, and walked briskly towards the entrance of Jiadi Village.