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Mingheng was also very excited to see Qiao Mingjin counting the money, so the ox stopped pulling and let it go on its own, and turned around and sat on the car floor with his legs bent and counted the copper coins with his sister one by one.

A total of 240 ones.

Excluding the cost of 120 pennies, I also earned 120 pennies.

Both siblings are very happy.

"Sister, let's see what else I can earn next time! Earning a hundred cash a day like this doesn't bother me, and I don't have to worry about anything. It's great."

Qiao Mingjin wrapped more than 200 copper coins in old cloth, and said with a smile: "Where does such a thing happen every day? It happened by chance."

"Then every day we sell the firewood, we will go around the city to see if there is anything else to do."

Qiao Mingjin nodded after hearing this.

You can only make ends meet by selling firewood, and you can't have any accidents.If someone is sick and needs to see a doctor and take medicine, it is really not enough.Poor families can't even afford to get sick.

It seems that we have to think of another way out.

"Sister, why don't we grow vegetables and sell them? Like uncle's. How about we sell firewood and vegetables in the morning?"

Qiao Mingjin looked at him and smiled: "My sister doesn't have any land, and even if there are all kinds of vegetables in the yard, it's only enough for us to eat."

Ming Heng was depressed for a while.

Qiao Mingjin rubbed his head and said, "Don't worry, my sister won't let you go hungry. After we sell firewood for a while, I won't have to worry about eating, then I will think of other ways."

Ming Heng pursed his lips and nodded emphatically at his sister.

Qiao Mingjin said again: "Look at the cow, don't be dragged astray."

"It's okay, the cow can know the way. Even if it is sold far away, it can be found back. The family next door to my uncle was stolen at night, and they searched everywhere, but within a few days, the cow was stolen. The cow came back by itself."

"Really?"

"Of course, my second brother and I were looking for it for several days..."

When the siblings talked and laughed together and returned home, it was an hour earlier than yesterday.

There was no one at home, so Ming Qi and Wan'er must still be on the mountain.The two of them didn't rest, they put down their burdens, packed a few knots of water, took some hemp rope machetes and the like, and led the cattle to the other side of the mountain.

When I met villagers on the road, they all greeted Qiao Mingjin, and Qiao Mingjin nodded in response.

"Hey, it's no different from Heli. How can this woman live with a child? I thought she was getting the best out of all hardships."

"I heard that she collects firewood and sells it. This can be sold for a few dollars, and food should not be a problem."

"How can firewood be so easy to sell? How much strength does she have as a woman! All the people in the city want are rough firewood, so whoever chops and chops firewood is not a man with strong strength? How can this last for long. Say it again The field will be busy for a while, and she has no cattle to carry firewood to sell in the city? There is no way to go.”

"The Yue family is not a thing. The mother and daughter moved out, and no one went to see it these days..."

The villagers passing by were talking behind their backs, but Qiao Mingjin didn't care at all.

Whether it is good words or bad words, each family lives its own life.She chose the path herself, and she didn't have time to think about the past and the future, the most important thing was to live the present life well.

"Sister, sister, you are here!"

"Mother, mother..."

Ming Qi and Xiao Wan'er saw Qiao Mingjin from a distance, and rushed over from a distance, Ming Qi was still holding a bamboo rake.

Qiao Mingjin touched the heads of the two of them, and said with a smile, "That's so good, did you have lunch at noon? Did you go to the back mountain?"

"We ate sweet potato porridge at noon. Instead of going to the back mountain, we went to the front mountain. There were also people from the village who came to collect firewood. Aunt Xiu brought Changhe and willow branches to help us move the firewood into a pile."

Qiao Mingjin nodded as she listened. The children of the poor have already been able to start a family, and the nine-year-old Ming Qi is already able to start a family.

He took the two of them to the woodpile and had a look, hey, my aunt and nephew picked up a lot this day!Although they are all twigs and twigs, there are a lot of them.You can have a half car.

After Qiao Mingjin praised the two of them, he led the three of them into the mountains and cut some thicker firewood...

After guessing that it was enough for a car, Qiao Mingjin looked at the sky, and the sun was still hanging in the sky.So he took a sack and a hoe from the bullock cart, found some rotting leaves and mud, and shoveled them into the sack.

"Sister, what do you want these for? The smell is not good."

"These are all fertilizers. While it's still early in the day, let's bury some fertilizer in the yard and plant all the vegetables today. Otherwise, we will have no fields and no land. What will we eat in the future?"

As soon as the three of them heard this, they helped grab the opening of the sack and asked Qiao Mingjin to put all the mud and rotten leaves in it.Soon a full sack was filled, and the three of them grabbed the three corners of the sack together and lifted it onto the bullock cart.

He loaded the car with firewood and pine hair again, and went home.

When they arrived at home, they didn't unload the firewood, but put it in the car, and it happened to take this car to send it tomorrow morning.

Qiao Mingjin took out another 25 copper coins and handed them to Ming Heng, and ordered: "Take this to Aunt Xiu, and say it's the fare for these two days. Then take five Wen to buy some vegetables with her, any food will do." You don't need much, and you can't give money, remember?"

"Remember." Mingheng replied and went out the door.

Qiao Mingjin asked Ming Qi to cook again, while she raised a bed in the yard, buried mud and rotten leaves as fertilizer, and covered the fertilizer with a layer of soil.The yard was tidied up and it didn't take long.

After leveling the ground, she started digging pits to bury the rapeseed.

I planted some short-lived green leafy vegetables, some easy-to-live winter squash and pumpkins, and some loofah cucumbers that needed trellises.

Xiao Wan'er has been following her step by step, helping to pass some things from time to time.Qiao Mingjin looked at her three-year-old daughter, who was sensible and well-behaved, and couldn't help but feel sour. They said that children from poor families had already taken charge of their families, but her daughter is only a little over three years old now...

"Is Wan'er tired?"

"Wan'er is not tired. Wan'er picked up a lot of firewood today, and will help my mother pick it up tomorrow!"

"Well, Wan'er is so good, mother will take Wan'er to the city to eat noodles in a few days, okay?"

"Okay. Mother will eat too."

"Well, mother also eats..."

Qiao Mingjin planted all the rapeseed, and Ming Heng came back.

Holding a big basket in his arms, and a small basket in the other hand, unable to free his hand, he moved his body and squeezed open the courtyard door. After entering the courtyard, he turned around and reached for the courtyard door with his legs, trying to close the door. closed.

Qiao Mingjin stepped forward and fastened the courtyard door, and took the basket in his arms: "Why did you bring so many things back?"

"Aunt Xiu forced it for me, and Aunt Qian Xiu accepted it."

Qiao Mingjin looked at the basket he was carrying. There were two bundles of vegetables in the basket, a few white radishes, two cabbages, three eggs, and a dozen sweet potatoes.

"Aunt Xiu said that if you want to eat vegetables in the future, you will go to her field to pull them, and they are not worth much. The things in the box of my sister are all given by Aunt Xiu, and she said they were sold to our family for five yuan. I have some in this box. Aunt Xiu asked me to bring fifty eggs to the city to help sell them, and said that they would go bad if they were left out."

After hearing this, Qiao Mingjin looked at the egg in Ming Heng's hand.

"Sister, Auntie Xiu said that Songshan collected two eggs for three renminbi, and also said that if they are sold at a high price in Qingchuan County, it is our hard work. The box of vegetables and sweet potatoes is a thank you gift."

After a pause, he said, "Sister, you said we collect eggs in the village and sell them, can we make some money?"

Qiao Mingjin glanced at him, but he didn't expect that this younger brother was quite economically savvy, and his brain was very active.

Then he said: "We loaded a car full of firewood, but we didn't have any place to put eggs. We walked all the way to the city. If it was broken on the way, the gain would outweigh the loss."

"It's all right. I'm holding the egg. It won't break."

Qiao Mingjin looked at him with hope, and said, "Let my sister think about it, wait until we sell eggs for sister Xiu tomorrow, and see the situation."

Qiao Mingjin did the math, Songshan collected five coins for one penny, and if it was two pennies in the city, she could make a difference of fifty pennies for a hundred eggs.This business can be done.

Eggs are fragile, and it takes a long way to get to Songshan Ji. If the price is the same, or if they can be sold for more money, someone must be willing to sell the eggs to her...

After thinking about it for a while, he put it aside, everything will have to wait until tomorrow when he goes to the city to have a look.

So without thinking too much, he washed his hands and tidied up his things.When I entered the kitchen, I saw that Ming Qi was cooking well, and I didn't need her to worry about it, so I found a wooden barrel to carry water...