Back to 80, start from gold digging

Chapter 66
"Look, stretch it out. Don't tell you to stand still, you're swaying left and right." Li Cuizhen stretched her head and looked at the street: "Why is it that the car hasn't come yet after such a long time? Can the bricks be pulled for such a long time?"

Zhao Wenduo stuffed Zhao Wennan with a third of the candied haws that had been eaten in his hand. She was afraid that if she was greedy for a while, the little girl would have a cat cub.Seeing that she is still limping, give her the rest.

Patting the crumbs stuck to his hands, he straightened his waist, looked around, and waved to a tricycle waiting for work along the road.

"What are you doing?" Li Cuizhen was taken aback and asked intuitively.

"Call a car." Zhao Wen cherished his words like gold. If he had known that her mother was standing here waiting for the mule cart on the return journey, he would have stopped waiting here.

Luckily, she thought that this stingy Bara would take it easy and was willing to take the two girls to the snack street.Even if they only bought these two, it is enough to prove that the position of the two of them in her mother's heart has risen.

Unexpectedly, I ran here specifically to go back and continue to rub the car, and it was just incidental to buy food.

I bought the same thing, but knowing the difference between them made my mood less beautiful.

Most likely, she was still taking advantage of Xiaosi's light, and Xiaosi was taking advantage of her lame leg, otherwise she wouldn't be able to eat these two cakes and one candied haws.

Li Cuizhen has spent half her life saving money, and has never spent money wrongly when she goes out.Instinctively, he yelled: "What kind of car is called a car? Your legs are used to breathe." Wang is used to this at home, and if the child is disobedient, it will be a yell.

Zhao Wenduo has become oily these days, and he is no longer uncomfortable with when he first came here.If Li Cuizhen wanted to yell at her, she would do whatever she should, without any delay.When the sound is loud, I dig out my ears, and it's all when the wind blows past.

"You brat, didn't you hear me? Return the car quickly." Seeing the tricycle coming towards this side, Li Cuizhen urged Zhao Wenduo.

Zhao Wenduo bared his teeth at her and laughed 'hehe' twice, then closed his mouth as if changing his face: "Don't retreat".

"Oh, you little bear—"

"Mom, let's take the car, my leg hurts and I can't walk." Zhao Wennan pulled Li Cuizhen's hand and shook it vigorously.

Li Cuizhen looked down at her pitiful little eyes, and finally chose to remain silent.She almost forgot that Xiaosi's leg was still hurt, and she just thought that she could save two bucks by rubbing people's mules and carts. She is really incompetent as a mother, and she can't catch up with being a sister.

In the blink of an eye, the tricycle came over.

The person who pedaled was a young man in his 20s, and he was quite dense.From the time the three of them got in the car, they chattered all the way until they got off the car.

The mother and daughter listened to the legendary history of characters. The protagonist is not himself, but his third uncle's family, his second sister-in-law's eldest sister's eldest sister's eldest sister's second girl's eldest brother, and he calls a man with the surname Shi his uncle.At first, the family was poor, but since I learned a kiln-making craft, I can do it.

There is an old kiln factory on the western outskirts of the town, which has been abandoned for many years.This Uncle Shi was also courageous. He spent all the savings of the family, a huge sum of 38 yuan, and bought this place from the village, saying that he would use it as a homestead to build a house for his sons.

We all know that he knows how to fire kilns, and the family is going to build a house, so no one takes it seriously when they see him coming in and out every day, picking mud and drying soil.

Until the spring breeze blew into the door, many people became the first wave of people who ate crabs.Uncle Shi didn't hide it anymore, and red bricks from kiln kilns were fired continuously.Only then did I know that it was just to build a new house for my son to marry a daughter-in-law. It was clearly prepared and dried so much soil for these batches of red bricks.

Don't look at this brick, which costs less than a penny, but it can't stand the amount of use.Whichever house builds at least ten thousand bricks, the number can be doubled if the house is bigger.

"It's only been a few months, and my uncle has earned more than a few dollars. He is definitely the first million-dollar household in this town."

"Is it really that profitable?" Li Cuizhen felt that this was a stupefied young man who could boast secret words.

"Auntie, don't believe it. Now people who buy bricks to build houses are old-nosed people. Not only in our town, but also in other towns, there are people who are not allowed to come and buy bricks. I heard that they are all in line
Went after half a year. "

Afraid that they would not believe it, the young man explained again: "It is too cold to burn bricks now, and the kiln can only be opened after spring. Now they are grabbing all the bricks that have been fired before, but there are plenty of them. The more you buy, the less you buy, and if you really can’t grab it, you can only make a reservation first, and the rows one after another are so far away.”

Although he repeatedly emphasized that what he said was true, Li Cuizhen still didn't believe it.He also complained to the two girls: "Don't listen to him talking nonsense, there are only a few families in this town, and the bricks he said seem to want money, and they are rushing to line up. It's true that every family has paid for it now. Wealth, if you say you want to build a house, you can build a house, that’s not money.”

Now that one house is built, the few can afford three hundred and two hundred. Take Bailangli Village as an example, how many houses with more than 100 houses can afford this amount.

"If you can earn a ten thousand yuan household in a few months, how many households need to build a house to earn this money, and more than a thousand households in the whole town must go there."

Seeing her mother's angry appearance, she is a typical hatred of the rich.Zhao Wenduo pointed to his chin and said, "You don't have to go all of them, one-tenth of them is enough."

After a rough estimate, based on the average calculation, a house of 2 yuan can make a profit of 40 yuan, and 250 houses can earn [-] yuan.There are about [-] households in the whole town, including a part of the outer town, and about one out of ten households needs to use bricks to build a house.

Generally speaking, this ratio cannot be reached under normal circumstances.There are more than 300 days a year, and there are many days to build a house, and the chances of getting together are not very high.

It's not entirely because of that kid's bragging that such a dense situation can occur. It is a product of a special era and cannot be seen by ordinary laws.

Bailangli is a small village with more than 100 households. 90.00% are almost like the Zhao family, living in a courtyard surrounded on three sides.There are at least four or five families in a courtyard, and each family has at most two rooms, usually one.

The whole family, men, women, old and young, add up to seven or eight people, all sleeping on a kang.If it is not limited by the conditions, who would be willing to live in such a crowded and inconvenient environment.

The daily life of ordinary people is food, clothing, housing and transportation. When the first two have been significantly improved, the third will be proposed to solve.

Anyone who has spare energy wants to move out of this kind of place where several families live together and build a house of their own.It doesn't matter the size, the important thing is that it is a single house, so you don't have to be crowded with other people's houses.

Zhao Wenduo didn't quite agree with what Li Cuizhen said.

It is true that their village started later than others, and they are poorer in comparison.But there are no absolutes in everything, and the same is true for a village.Not everyone knows it late, just like the car that passed by in the morning, the pace is earlier.

Taking advantage of the convenience of taking care of the big animals in the village, he bought the old horse to be culled for only half the price, took it to the nearby village to have a donkey and a mule.

With this liberalization, various small businesses followed.His family relies on mules to pull goods back and forth, and can have a good income every month.

With this stable income, and slowly saving some money in his hand, he is also able to leave the courtyard where he lives.

To build a house, red bricks must be prepared first. At this time, the spring soil can be used as soon as it is thawed.

People are like this, when there are no conditions, you can do anything.Once the conditions are sufficient, I don't want to make up any more.Together with the idea of ​​building a house, I became more and more impatient to live on.It's like growing grass in my heart, thinking about moving into my own big house earlier every day.

Unlike his family who made money first, there is another family with good economic conditions.For example, the Jiang family lived in the next room. There were several workers in the family, and only the youngest son did not earn money.Such a family must have savings in their hands, and the amount is not small.Enough to cover several large tile-roofed houses.

Their kind of family is not unconditional to live in a big house, it is entirely because the general environment does not allow it.Now the spring breeze is blowing into the house, and the village has approved homesteads. This is a family that can build a house in minutes.

The above two kinds, the whole village does not need much, ten households are enough.After careful calculation, this [-]-yuan household is really not a boast.

"I don't understand what ten points are. We don't buy bricks either, so what's the use of comparing them."

"It's not that it's useless, we can also take a number and order some bricks—"

"What are you doing? There is nowhere to spend the money? If you don't build a house, what kind of bricks should you buy?"

Li Cuizhen didn't realize Zhao Wenduo's real intention at the moment, she just thought it was stimulated by the stunned young man just now, and those who followed the trend would also join in the fun.I don't even think about it, that thing is not suitable for eating or drinking, and it still takes up space after buying it, so why follow this trend.

Zhao Wenduo carried Zhao Wennan on his back, walked slowly, and said, "Who says we can't do it? If other people can build it, why can't we?"

Realizing that she wasn't joking, Li Cuizhen stopped in her tracks and asked, "Sir, are you serious?"

Zhao Wenduo nodded and said, "Yes, it's not like we can't afford it." In fact, she had already wanted to say that living in a house is too boring, wouldn't it be better to move out earlier.

Li Cuizhen's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and said, "Tell me honestly, have you made a lot of money by making leather during this time?"

Zhao Wenduo had been doing business for half a month, and he went back to report the income on the first day, and then he didn't tell his family anymore.

There is no such thing as a fixed purchase of things. If there is more today, there will be less tomorrow, and the situation will be different every day.Even though he knew that Zhao Wen had made a lot of money, he didn't know how much. In addition, he kept receiving the goods to hold down the principal, so the exact amount was really hard to come by.

"It's not much. However, it should be enough to build five large tile-roofed houses." Zhao Wenduo didn't report the number in detail, but gave a rough estimate in vague terms.

Five large tile-roofed houses, if all the materials are selected well, it will cost 600 yuan at least.

"Oh, that's really a lot of money." Li Cuizhen smiled brightly. Who doesn't like money, and if you have money, you can build a big house.I don't have to look down and see the gang of people surnamed Jiang in the next house anymore, I feel happy thinking about it.

"What do you mean, we really should order this brick. The sooner you line up, the sooner you can get it." Li Cuizhen has already started to figure out that if everything goes well, she will be able to live in a new house in the second half of next year.

"What I mean is, we can ask someone to make a relationship, and a team can be inserted in the middle, and maybe a batch of bricks will be given to us in the first spring." The house can be built earlier, and there will be more room for privacy earlier.Even though they lived together for more than 300 days, she still couldn't adapt to sleeping next to others.

Maybe those nightmares at night are related to this. After all, she is used to being alone, and she has lived by herself for so many years. She sleeps suddenly and squeezes into canned sardines. This serious decline in sleep quality directly leads to nightmares again and again .

The mother and daughter spoke to each other, discussing the matter of building a house and ordering bricks, and they arrived home soon.

The room was quiet and there was no movement at all. I pushed the half-open door and saw the old and the young sleeping on the kang, and then I realized it.

"It's nothing to see a child falling asleep." Although Li Cuizhen murmured distaste for a while, she stretched out her hand to cover the quilt with gentleness and care, and she was the kind of person she said.

Zhao Wenduo put Zhao Wennan on his back and carried him to Kang Yan.The little girl was also tired, she couldn't open her eyelids, and her little head slumped.

"Put the quilt on and let her sleep, eat when she wakes up, and apply medicine." Taking advantage of the free time, she just smashed the medicine.

Li Cuizhen stretched her neck and glanced outside, and said, "It's already noon, why hasn't your elder sister come back yet. What kind of nonsense work has to be done for so long."

"The work is done, let's stay for lunch." Zhao Wenduo tidied up the quilt and put the little girl on it.She didn't take it seriously at all, she was already engaged to be a daughter-in-law-to-be, so it's not normal to have a meal.

Li Cuizhen snorted: "That's because you don't know what the old Luo's family is like. They can still have that open-minded spirit. They can't wait to cook a pot of porridge with a grain of corn, and they are willing to feed others. meal?"

"Isn't that the eldest sister, and she's not an outsider." No matter how stingy she is, she'll be rewarded. She's only one step away from becoming a family member. Does she still have the same treatment as an outsider?

"Whether you're an outsider or not, you'll know in a while." Li Cuizhen pointed out with her chin: "Here, I'm back. You can ask me later."

Through the window glass, Zhao Wenduo saw Zhao Wenying's figure appearing outside the courtyard wall.Only the upper body was exposed, the head bowed, and the movement was very slow, looking very tired.

There is a half-high blue rock at the gate of the courtyard, which seems to be standing there with a wooden stake close to the courtyard wall.Usually, no one sits there, and it is usually used as a sign of boundaries.

It snowed two days ago, and the stones were covered with a thick layer of white.No one thought about cleaning things that were not used.

Zhao Wenying turned around the courtyard wall and appeared at the gate of the courtyard, took two steps forward, and sat down on the stone.

How tiring it must be, the distance from the door of the house is only more than ten meters away, and I can't hold on to it.And he didn't even care about sweeping the snow off, so he just sat on it.

With just these two movements, Zhao Wenduo could tell that Zhao Wenying must be very tired.It's only half the morning, what kind of work can make a person who usually does physical work so tired.

After Li Cuizhen told Zhao Wenduo, she looked away and looked down at the baby's youngest son.But after looking at it for a long time, I didn't hear the sound of the door opening.

It's only a short journey from the yard to the door of the house, and it's gone in the blink of an eye.But she blinked dozens of times, and there was no movement.

I missed that scene earlier, so Li Cuizhen didn't know that the eldest girl was resting on a rock with her legs on her back.When she looked up again, Zhao Wenying had already stood up from the rock.

As a result, the middle section was directly edited, leaving only the beginning and the end connected, which caused some misunderstandings.

"Boss moved step by step, snails can go faster than her. Or, the in-law's family stayed all afternoon, and they are not happy to come back."

Zhao Wenduo didn't bother to explain to her, so he opened the door and greeted her.

Zhao Wenduo hadn't come back from the town when she went out in the morning, Zhao Wenying just thought she was the same as before, and went to the village to collect the leather after coming back for a while.Seeing her coming out, he was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Third brother, why are you at home?" Immediately afterwards, he thought that he was sitting on a big rock to rest his feet just now, and he didn't know if he was seen.

Zhao Wenduo acted as if he didn't see her feeling a little embarrassed, and hummed softly: "I didn't go down today, so I'll take a day off."

"Ah, yes, it's time to rest. I haven't stopped for so many days, and I'm tired enough. You are still young, so you have to pay attention, don't get tired and grow taller."

Zhao Wenying's words can be regarded as emotional, except for the three, four, and five little guys who have not yet grown up in the whole family, she is the shortest among the four adults.Even the most delicate Zhao Wenlan is half a head taller than her.

Children generally follow their parents in size. Zhao Mingyu and Li Cuizhen are not short, and the average should be about the same as Zhao Wenlan. The reason why Zhao Wenying is so much lower is purely due to acquired factors.

The family is old, weak and sick, and only one person is disabled.As the boss, Zhao Wenying took up the burden of supporting the family prematurely.Jiang started to work with the adults in the village when he was only 14 years old, and at the age of 16, he received full work points like an adult man.It can be seen that she is completely on the top of a strong labor force, and the daily work is heavy and tiring.

At that time, she hadn't fully grown up yet, she would only be a half-grown child.Excessive labor and lack of nutrition directly reduced her room for growth.In the words of some old people, it means that the child is too young to be tired from doing physical work.

Having suffered this herself, Zhao Wenying didn't want her sister to follow her old path again, so she was very concerned when this topic was mentioned.

"Well, I know." Zhao Wenduo responded, "What did they tell you to do, why are you so tired?"

Zhao Wenying smiled wryly, knowing that she was sitting on the rock just now and let her younger sister see it.I thought that at this time, Li Cuizhen and Xiao Wu were the only ones left in the house. Both of them were lying on the kang and fell asleep, not paying attention to the movement at the gate, but Sanmeizi didn't go out.

"New Year's is coming, and Yubao's mother said to tidy up the barn. There are a lot of things in it, and the light is not very good, so I asked me to help support the wooden shelves for a while, and dumped some old boxes."

It's quite easy, but if it's really that simple, it can make people so tired that they can't even walk a few steps, and have to sit on a rock to rest and breathe before moving?

(End of this chapter)