good old days

Zhao Ying turned her mind away from her brother. Thinking of half of the goods that had been robbed, she felt nervous and asked quickly: "The goods were robbed, but the payment was not stolen, right?"

Ding Changhai actually regretted it. In the past, for safety reasons, he would not bring all the fabrics at once, but the success of the first two times made him careless, so this time the loss was not small.

"All the money in your brother's pocket was robbed. I only have about a thousand yuan left in this trip."

Zhao Ying sat down on the ground, "What should we do? Chen Yi and Xiao Jiang came to our place at noon. Their family has returned to the commune. When we go back tomorrow, you can tell them."

Ding Changhai shook his head, "Stop talking, I'm going to make up for all their capital and profits. I won't go to that city again in the future."

Zhao Ying thought she heard wrong, "Full payment? Cost is six thousand, profit is three thousand six? All of a sudden, nine thousand six. In addition to the thousand or so you got back, we have to add more than eight thousand to it ourselves!" "

Ding Changhai nodded: "The first two times combined earned more than 10,000 yuan. After making up for it, we still have a lot left, so we still make money."

Zhao Ying refused: "No, I don't care if it's less. How can our family survive with more than 9,000? Have you worked in vain before? If you can't shame it, I'll go to them and tell them. They don't care about it." People also know that scalping is risky."

Ding Changhai asked her: "Then what do you mean? You don't want to lose a penny? If you make a profit, we will take the lion's share, and if you lose, we will lose other people's capital?"

Zhao Ying: "Am I the kind of person who doesn't know good and evil? What I mean is that the capital belongs to us, and we won't let Xiao Jiang and the others lose their capital. But this time the profit can no longer be given, and there are also shipping costs. We also It’s all inclusive.”

To make up for six thousand, her heart was bleeding. She thought it was interesting enough.

The cigarette butt fell to the ground, and Ding Changhai stepped on it with his foot, "You have long hair and short knowledge. You have already earned 6,000 yuan, but you still care about the 3,000 yuan? Without Xiao Jiang, how could we have made so much before? We are equivalent to four I got the goods from her at a cost of eight yuan!"

This matter is very simple in his opinion. The capital is paid by Jiang Xinyu. The risk of selling goods here is quite high, but the profit is also quite high. He can earn more than 6,000 yuan from one sale. It makes no sense. Jiang Xinyu also had to bear the risk.

Zhao Ying didn't speak, and Ding Changhai thought she agreed with his method.

I rested all night at the commune guest house last night. There was a light rain during the night. When I woke up in the morning, the ground was not so dry, but there was no trace of rain. Instead, the sun came out early, bursting with scorching brilliance. Today is another day. A sunny day with a scorching sun.

On the familiar yet unfamiliar road, a family of four sat on a donkey cart returning to the team.

Looking at the scenery along the way, Jiang Xinyu pointed out to her children what crops were grown in the fields along the road.

When I came back this time, in addition to Chen Xiuyun's affairs, I also wanted to accompany my mother-in-law.

I only brought a change of clothes, so I could travel lightly.

I only went back last year. Wang Sumei looked at the road she had walked many times and her eyes widened. "The riverside has been reinforced and the surrounding land has been turned into fields. I just don't know when this dirt road will become an asphalt road."

"I want to renovate the courtyard in the village, but I have to go to Xinjiang Province in a few days, and I don't have time to stay and watch the repairs." There was regret in her tone.

Jiang Xinyu always felt that there was no need to rebuild the yard here, but she probably understood her mother-in-law's feelings about being unable to leave the country.

Compared to my mother-in-law's real hometown, this place is more like her hometown.

Chen Yidao: "It doesn't take much time to build a yard. You can wait until I come back next time to build it with you."

The fine lines at the corners of Wang Sumei's eyes deepened, and she said hello several times. Everyone in the village is working in the fields, but now they are not working for the team, but for their own families. One or two of them can only use up their endless strength.

Jiang Xinyu thought that her parents' yard was dilapidated, with dust everywhere. Who would have thought that apart from the main house, the houses in the yard showed signs of being lived in. There was also a not-so-fat pig in the pig pen, and it was still running in the yard. Seven or eight free-range chickens.

Zhang Lanxiang, who was in the yard next door, heard the commotion here and looked over. Unexpectedly, they were back.

After greeting her warmly, Jiang Xinyu learned that Old Jiang lived alone in her yard.

"Your father is probably working in the fields. He will come back at noon and sleep until mid-afternoon. The chickens in the yard are his treasures. He cannot let the chickens escape from the yard gate. He always said before that he would wait until his granddaughter comes back. I’ll kill a chicken for you to eat.”

Jiang Xinyu: "Sister Lanxiang, when did you have such a good relationship with my father and keep talking to him?"

It's really weird. In the past, Old Man Jiang was hated by everyone in the team, but no one had a few good words to say about him.

Zhang Lanxiang waved her hand and said "Hi", "I didn't say anything nice about him. Not long ago, a chicken ran into my yard and he came to make trouble, claiming that it was my child who stole his chicken. He is still the same as before. But it's much more decent than in the past few years. At least I go to the fields every day. Every day when I get home, I clean the yard and feed the pigs and chickens. I don't have as much on my mind as before. I think I can live a calm life. I walk up to the gate of the courtyard. Sitting there, grinding the sickle, he looks like any other uncle in our village."

Looking around, there were chickens running all over the yard, but there wasn't much chicken poop. It was obvious that Old Man Jiang should clean it every day.

Has this old man changed his gender?

Are you getting older and finally reaching the age of understanding?

Or do you want to make this yard your own?

"My family received a lot of cantaloupe today. I will send you some later."

Zhang Lanxiang turned around and left, and Wang Sumei couldn't wait to return to her courtyard.

Jiang Xinyu looked at several large round watermelons under the shed, and immediately cut them open and ate them.

Yan Yan pointed at the chicken in the yard and called "Beibei". Jiang Xinyu knew that he missed the dog.

"When this yard was built, I thought it was pretty decent. When I come back this time, do you think it's short and earthy?"

Compared with the yard of their house in the capital, this mud house looked like it was uninhabitable, and even lying in it was afraid that the house would collapse in the middle of the night.

Chen Yi's emotion was even more obvious. There are so many high-rise buildings in the United States, but they can't compare with those in China. Returning to the village seems to have spanned decades.

The two adults and one child were sitting under the shed eating melons. Old Man Jiang, who came back with a basket and humming a song, saw that the door to the yard was unlocked. He opened the door and ran a few steps, shouting excitedly: "Xiuyun, come back." Already?"

Instead of seeing Chen Xiuyun, he saw his promising granddaughter and grandson-in-law, and his eyes were as bright as light bulbs.

"I didn't say anything in advance when I came back. Did you see the chickens in the yard? I raised them just for you! I'm just waiting for you to come back and kill them for you to eat."

Seeing Old Jiang's face glowing red as if he had taken some elixir, Jiang Xinyu fell silent.