The rise of a small town in shoe country

Chapter 7 Buying a Sewing Machine
Only one day later, grandpa sold both the sow and the piglets to an old friend in a neighboring village, who is also a professional pig breeder.

The price was not high. The two sows were four and a half years old and almost five years old. They were sold for only 230 yuan regardless of the weight.The price of sixteen piglets is not low, 360 catties, 380 cents higher than the price of meat pigs, and they were sold for a total of [-] yuan.

610 yuan is not a small amount, but unfortunately [-] yuan of it was borrowed as a professional pig raising household with an interest-free loan from the rural credit union.

The remaining more than 300 yuan will be handed over to Jin Yunfei.

With money, Jin Yunfei will not be idle. He gave one hundred yuan to his father, and asked him to take his family to level the pigsty, and then find the carpenters and plasterers in the village to build two small bungalows on the original site of the pigsty. .

With two hundred yuan in his pocket, Jin Yunfei walked to Hengfeng Street after dawn on the fourth day of the seventh lunar month.

From Jinjia Village to Hengfeng Street, it is shorter by land than by water. It is only less than six miles away, and it takes two ferries and eight small bridges.The road is a path less than two meters wide. It shuttles between the fields and is made of soil. There is a half-meter-wide canal on one side, and grass grows where people can't step.

The locals call this kind of road a "tractor" road, but it is actually very difficult for a tractor to pass through.

Jin Yunfei was quick on his feet and familiar with the road, and arrived at Hengfeng Street in more than half an hour.

The streets are full of people, bustling and crowded.

Jin Yunfei didn't enter the street, walked along the alleys, and came directly to the "Sanbao Bicycle Shop" at another street corner. The owner of the shop was Jin Yunfei's classmate Zheng Sanbao.

Throughout Hengfeng Street, Jin Yunfei had good male classmates, except for Chen Donghua and Zheng Sanbao.

Chen Donghua is simple-minded and ridiculously fat, while Zheng Sanbao is skinny and very scheming. The nickname Zheng Sanpao is just because of his name, which sounds similar to the bandit Zheng Sanpao in the novel "Lin Haixueyuan".

The bicycle shop had just opened, and apart from the owner Zheng Sanbao, there was also a boy he hired in the shop.

Jin Yunfei did not enter the shop, but sat down on a small stool, waiting for Zheng Sanbao to greet him.

Zheng Sanbao walked out, sat down on another stool, and asked with a smile, old classmate, have you figured it out?

Inexplicable, what figured out?Jin Yunfei asked back.

Hey, you promised to marry your eldest sister to me?

Jin Yunfei let out an oh, shook his head and said with a smile, no.

Why?Why?

Jin Yunfei said, it's very simple, my family is poor, very poor, your family is rich, very rich.

This is true. The Jin family is not only poor, but also has a large population. There is almost no hope of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich.

On the contrary, the Zheng family can be described as filthy rich. Zheng Sanbao's father works in the village, and his mother is a doctor in the township health center.A distant elder of the Zheng family lived in Taiwan Province. A few years ago, he returned to the mainland to seek his roots and visit relatives. He left a fortune for the Zheng family.

This bicycle shop was opened by Zheng's father and mother, who were afraid that Zheng Sanbao would have nothing to do and would go out and cause trouble, so they specially paid for him to open it. It doesn't matter if it makes money or not.

Zheng Sanbao said with a bitter face, "Da Fei, you are lying. My family is a little richer, so why did it become my crime?"

Jin Yunfei smiled, and said to himself that there is another reason. Your Sanpao's mother is a famous shrew on Hengfeng Street. I betrothed my eldest sister to you. Wouldn't my eldest sister be angry for half my life?

After all, he is still a classmate and a friend, Zheng Sanbao asked, Da Fei, what do you want from me?

Jin Yunfei said, I want to buy a sewing machine, I wonder if you have a way to help me get an industrial coupon for buying a sewing machine.

Zheng Sanbao nodded and said with a smile, yes, if you betroth your eldest sister to me, I will give you the Bee brand sewing machine I just bought at home.

When Jin Yunfei heard this, he stood up with a dark face and left.

Zheng Sanbao hurriedly grabbed Jin Yunfei, and said with a smile, I'm sorry, I take back what I just said.

Jin Yunfei was poor and ambitious, so he borrowed money from Chen Donghua, but he never borrowed from Zheng Sanbao.When I was studying, I would rather squeeze into the small attic of the Chen family than live in the new house of the Zheng family.

Zheng Sanbao asked, Da Fei, tell me, why buy a sewing machine?
For making shoes, Jin Yunfei said.

Zheng Sanbao said, do you use it yourself? I suggest you not buy new ones, those second-hand ones are easier to use.Look at my bike shop, eight bikes are used, how much money can I make on new ones?

Jin Yunfei said, old classmate, if I know where to buy second-hand goods, I won't bother you.

Zheng Sanbao said, far away in the sky, but close in front of us, the clothing store in the village has disbanded.The things they have there are distributed to various employees, including more than a dozen sewing machines.

It was Jin Yunfei's turn to make a bitter face, and said, I don't know anyone.

Zheng Sanbao took Jin Yunfei and walked to the street. On the way, he told Jin Yunfei that his parents had found him another partner. The target's mother used to work in a clothing store.

Jin Yunfei laughed and cursed as he walked, "Zheng Sanpao, you bastard, you have a date, and you still miss my big sister, you are looking for a beating."

Zheng Sanbao said with a smile, there is no other way, if my parents ordered me to make the decision, I will definitely marry your eldest sister.

Joking aside, Zheng Sanbao was serious about his work. He not only mobilized his partner to sell the sewing machine of his partner's mother to Jin Yunfei, but also helped Jin Yunfei bargain.

Jin Yunfei bought a second-hand Bee brand sewing machine for 80 yuan after trying it out.

Jin Yunfei is a caring person. When he saw that there was still a bag of cutting tools and a bunch of sewing machine accessories, he bought them all for another ten yuan.

Jin Yunfei disassembled the sewing machine, put all the accessories and cutting tools into a sack, and carried the fifty or sixty kilograms of things back home.

In the evening, the sewing machine comes in handy. The eldest sister Jin Xiaoling has learned how to use the sewing machine, which just happened to let her show off her skills.

With a sewing machine, not only has the production efficiency been improved, but it has also stimulated the energy of the whole family.

There is also Jin Yunfei's material stimulus policy, which pays everyone wages, and everyone works hard, especially the younger brothers and sisters.

In the next ten days, the whole family made more than 200 pairs of round-mouth cloth shoes and more than 150 pairs of flap-back cloth shoes.

Boss Zhao Yunlai did what he said, he took all the orders, paid for them, delivered them, and ordered cloth shoes for the next ten days.

As for the quality, Zhao Yunlai was very relieved. After several exchanges, Zhao Yunlai also saw that Jin Yunfei was a person who could do things.

September is here, and the [-]st is the first day of school. There are five younger siblings who are going to school, and the family suddenly lacks a lot of helpers.

The third sister, the younger sister and the younger brother are still in primary school, which is in the village, and their mother will send them to sign up, so Jin Yunfei doesn't have to worry about it.

The third brother, Jin Yunpeng, is in the third year of junior high school. He is a well-known old fritter in the school.The second younger sister, Jin Xiaoxia, is in the first grade of junior high school, and Jin Yunfei promised to send her off on the first day of school.

At that time, the township middle school did not live on campus, and the third younger brother and younger sister went out early and returned late, and could help the family with some work at night.

However, when we got to the school gate, the third brother suddenly said, "Brother, I don't want to study anymore."

(End of this chapter)