Going through the book and raising younger siblings

Chapter 6 Rumors
6. Rumors
"How to make money, do you work as a temporary worker in the hospital like Grandpa Zhao said? Can the salary income be spent by the three of us?"

"Of course the income from working as a temporary worker cannot support the three of us. I want to start a business and earn money to support my family."

"Sister, is it more difficult to make money in business than farming?"

"For me, making money in business should be easier than farming."

Er Niu was surprised: "How do you know that making money in business is easier than farming, and you have never made money in business."

Zhang Yu couldn't answer for a while, and could only argue: "I just know."

"If you farm the land, you throw the seeds into the soil, and the food can grow. But in business, what do you do? How do you do it?"

"I haven't thought of doing business yet."

"I haven't thought of what to do yet, so you dare to say that it is easy to make money in business?"

Zhang Yu sighed and was speechless. This younger sister has a sense of family responsibility. In later generations, an 11-year-old girl will not think about family livelihood issues at all except for studying and playing.And he thought so concretely, this child is really not easy to fool, it turns out that being an older sister is not so easy.

"Er Niu, take good care of Xiao Bao, study hard, and make money to support the family. As a big sister, I will consider it."

Zhang Yu asked Er Niu to accompany her to the village head Uncle Tian's house.

The reason why Er Niu was with her was because she didn't even know where the village head lived, who the village head was, or everyone else in the village.

She was afraid that people would see her flaws, so she asked Er Niu to walk in front of her. Er Niu had a sweet mouth and would greet everyone she saw, so Zhang Yu followed her uncles, aunts, and grandparents.

When he arrived at the village chief's house, Zhang Yu explained his purpose.

"Uncle Tian, ​​you know, after grandpa passed away, he entrusted us, my siblings, to a friend of his. Today they came and said they would take us to the city."

The village chief took a puff of dry tobacco and coughed twice.

"Okay! This is a good thing!"

"Uncle, after our household registration is moved to the city, the family's responsibility field can only be returned to the village. Now, the rice in the field will be harvested in another month. I want to sell the rice now. In this way, we Only when you arrive in the city can you have money and settle down.”

"Now the rice is not fully mature, how to sell it?"

"Uncle, my parents died because of rushing to repair the reservoir. In order to take care of us, the village distributed the best three mu of land in the village to our family. Therefore, our family's rice yield is high, and each mu can harvest 800 catties of rice. I Let’s talk less! Calculated on the basis of 700 catties per mu, three mu is 2100 catties. The rice is ground into rice. According to the yield rate of 70.00%, it is 1470 catties of rice. Whoever helps me harvest, I only need 400 catties of rice, and the rest In fact, based on the 70-jin yield per mu in previous years, he can get 800 catties of rice, which is enough for one person for a year."

In those days, food was the most expensive thing, and labor was the cheapest. It took only one month of labor to get food rations for almost a year. This was a good deal.So Zhang Yu believes that someone is willing to accept her proposal.

The village chief smiled and nodded.

"Big girl, your calculations are quite accurate."

"Uncle, the conditions I give are not low!"

"The conditions you put forward are neither high nor low, and they are almost acceptable! That's why I say your calculations are quite accurate."

"Then trouble uncle to help me publicize it in the village. I hope this matter can be settled as soon as possible."

"No problem, I can help you with a question. If there is not enough food for a family with a large population, they will definitely be willing to take over."

The wife of the village chief came over and said, "Girl, you can go to the pond at the entrance of the village to publicize this kind of thing by yourself. There are many people washing clothes and vegetables at any time, and carrying water. You can go there to publicize, and you will be paid for half a day." Spread the word throughout the village."

The so-called pond is a pond next to the well in the village. It is built by the villagers with stones and cement. The water in it overflows from the well. People in the village wash their clothes and vegetables here, so there are always people there during the day. .

"But it's getting late now, let's go tomorrow morning."

Zhang Yu thought that he had heard that the wells or ponds in the village were the places where the most women gathered, and the place where the women gathered in the village was the source of the news.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yu packed some clothes at home and went to the well to wash clothes. Sure enough, there were many women washing clothes laughing and laughing there, and some went to fetch water. Let's chat.

Seeing Zhang Yu, someone said curiously: "Big girl, tell me, how did you know that Yingzi would meet bad guys when he went up the mountain yesterday."

Zhang Yu had no choice but to continue the previous lie, "I told you that you might not believe it, I dreamed about it."

"Hey! It's really a dream, it's amazing."

"Hey! Yingzi is also pitiful. She was only 16 years old, and she was killed by that. How can she find her husband's family in the future?"

"Yes! What a pity!"

Zhang Yu felt something was wrong.

She said dissatisfiedly: "What's that? Why is it hard to find a husband's family? Since she hasn't been raped, why is it difficult to find a husband's family?"

"Big girl, you little girl, what do you know? The little girl's family is broken, so it's hard to find a husband's family."

"Who said Yingzi was broken? She didn't."

"How could it not be? I heard that the clothes were all torn, and people passed out from being abused. That man is a beast."

"Don't talk nonsense, I was there yesterday! So I have the most say in this matter. Yingzi was just stunned by that beast, and her clothes were torn when she was struggling. She didn't get hurt by that, you guys Don't talk nonsense, this is a matter of a girl's reputation."

"Didn't it mean that when you arrived, that person had already run away? Then it's over!"

"That person heard us call Yingzi, so he put Yingzi down and ran away with a guilty conscience. Didn't he be caught by us just after running away? So please don't say such things in the future. This is spreading rumors, and it is more abominable than that beast's behavior."

Zhang Yu knew how much these rumors would hurt a girl, so she spoke very aggressively out of anger.

Everyone was not annoyed, but laughed and laughed. They took Zhang Yu's words as a child's angry words.

"Look, I made the big girl anxious. Big girl, you really deserve to be Yingzi's best friend. Well, well, well, she didn't get caught by that. If you say no, you won't."

"It's not that I said that if there is no, there is no. There is no." Zhang Yu emphasized again that Yingzi was not caught by that, but she felt that her argument was weak.

Everyone didn't say anything more, but whispered and whispered there.

It seemed that they didn't believe Zhang Yu's words at all.

(End of this chapter)