Reborn to be rich

Chapter 6 Negotiation
While cooking the offal, Zhang Guodong educated his fourth younger sister Zhang Xiaoyue.

It was getting late, and the mother's weaving sound disappeared. She saw the elder son teaching the younger daughter at the door, and turned her head to leave.The youngest daughter is smart and doesn't listen to discipline, which is the biggest headache for the family, and only the eldest son is likely to take care of her.

"I'll teach you a few simple pronunciations first. If you really want to learn to sing, you need to work hard. If you are willing to learn, I will teach you how to read the notation tomorrow morning."

Zhang Guodong uttered two simple tone-changing long practice tones, which are the simplest practice tones in the folk voice.

Feeling like a treasure, Xiaoyue has been thinking about the difference in pitch, and started practicing in the courtyard.

"Speak up, no one is going to laugh at you!" Zhang Guodong heard that the fourth sister couldn't let go, and said aloud, Zhang Xiaoyue then began to let go, and after a while she practiced well.

Seeing that the meat was almost cooked, Zhang Guodong put the crabs in another pot and started to steam them.Taking out the intestines from the cooked meat, Guodong cut them into sections and planned to stir-fry them. If the seasoning was not enough, he could only make up with dried chilies, and he planned to cool the liver.It is very good to make a new soup from the lungs.

For a meal, Zhang Guodong uses simple ingredients to make 8 dishes, 9 soup and 5 dishes, 4 meat and [-] vegetables, which is difficult for rural people to eat during the Chinese New Year.

"Guodong, you have nothing to say about your skills! When did you learn it? Let me have a taste first. How can you fry small fish so crispy this afternoon?" Uncle Wu came quietly without knowing when. Zhang Wenbin also seemed a little angry, but he spoke very loudly. Because of his health, Uncle Wu was doing a lot of heavy work at home with his father's help. He was familiar with Guodong's house just like his own.

"Uncle, come and try it. I don't usually cook it. Today, my dad asked me to make it. Don't mind if it's not good."

Uncle Wu took a bite of every dish, only the crab didn't move, and he kept nodding his head in praise after every bite.

Some people say that women cook in rural areas, and men who cook will be looked down upon, but this is not the case.

In China before the 21st century, during Chinese New Years and festivals, men would often do the cooking. Women generally did not cook meat and croquettes. When important guests came, sometimes men would cook by themselves.

"Xiaoyue, don't practice. Go and call our dad, and tell him that Uncle Wu is here."

Hearing Guodong's orders, Zhang Xiaoyue ran out of the yard to find her father.

Not long after, Zhang Chenglin came in from the courtyard, followed by a large group of people. Seeing that everyone had arrived, the mother moved the kang table out of the room, and Zhang Ping and Zhang Xiaoyue hurried to the neighbor's house to borrow stools.

There is no room for more than a dozen people to sit on the kang in their homes, and they have to borrow benches from neighbors.

"It's so rich today, third brother will be okay!" Uncle Jiu saw the eight dishes and one soup on the table, and asked with a smile.While talking, he picked up the chopsticks, picked up the vegetables and stuffed them into his mouth.

"You can't stop your mouth with meat. These are all made by Guodong. Guodong, you can sit down with a stool!" Uncle Wu shouted to Zhang Guodong when he saw a group of people only focused on eating vegetables.

Hearing this, Zhang Ping quickly took a small stool and put it beside the table, and Guodong sat down.

"You're here today, you can have a drink." Zhang Chenglin took out a bottle of Bai Xifeng from the room, poured it for everyone, and then poured a glass for his son.

"I called everyone here today! There is something to do!" Zhang Chenglin said when he saw that everyone ate and drank almost the same.

Everyone put down their chopsticks and listened quietly when they heard Zhang Chenglin's voice.

"The village brigade had a meeting this morning! The autumn harvest is over, and the village needs to build roads."

"Third Uncle, does the village want us to take money again?" The second brother's family situation is not good, so he interrupted when he heard this.

Zhang Chenglin ignored the interjection of the other party and continued: "The township said that the road from each village to the main road is repaired by itself, and each village decides whether to repair it or not. From the township to Xiguan Road, we will contribute from several villages along the way. Each household has 4 tons of yellow. It takes four months for a piece of labor to work out the materials.”

Before the 21st century, rural areas often had post-autumn labor tasks issued by the township, and before spring, there were usually "water treasure" tasks organized by the village. Along with the growth, the arable land is also growing.

"Which section is our team responsible for?" Heizi's father asked in a flat voice. Now that the decision has been made, everyone can only follow one path.

"Yaozipo, if the rocks at home can't be reached within the specified time, they will pay 20 yuan for a ton missing, and another 20 yuan for families who don't have people."

Zhangjialing Village is located in the west of Ganjing Township, the distance between the two is less than 10 kilometers, and Yaozipo is between the two, about 4 kilometers away from Zhangjialing.

"A ton of yellow stone is 20 yuan, and 4 tons is 80 yuan. If you don't pay 20 yuan a day, it will be 100 yuan. How can we get 100 yuan in our family." The second brother said dejectedly, and the others did not do it in silence. Voice.

"It's easy to dig yellow stones. We have them all over the ditch, but how to transport them to Yaozipo? In our entire second team, only Wen Bin's family has a rack truck. 4 tons of yellow stones need at least 20 trips. We can't finish it even if we use them in rotation." Task."

Road construction after autumn is a common thing in many places. Everyone works together to build roads. In this big battle, people from many villages will be encountered. At this time, many trivial things may become groups of several villages. frame, so everyone has to be careful.

"I was wondering if everyone could chip in to buy a few car racks. The racks are only sent when there are too many stones. I don't think everyone will go if they participate in road repairs. Who didn't pool 20 yuan with each other. We have nothing to do recently. When the time comes, we will transport some yellow stones to the house, and each of the 14 households with 56 tons of yellow stones will produce a young man, and women and children should try not to go there."

Everyone nodded in agreement with this decision. Each family left one person to repair the road. The work of transporting yellow stones must be done by the women and children of the family. When the project is large, there are all kinds of people in every village, and no one can guarantee their safety. To be safe, it is most realistic to produce stones. 4 tons of yellow stones cost 80 yuan, and everyone can work together to complete it.

"That's okay. Everyone is talking about whether the family has enough money. If not, let's figure out a solution together. Fifth, you talk about it first."

Dad is the backbone of the 14 households in the second team. He basically takes everyone into consideration. For the first time, Zhang Guodong realized how poor everyone is. More than half of the 14 households are still living in debt, which cannot be squeezed out with ten yuan.

"The fifth one wants to buy medicine, and the family has no money. Guorong, you paid off the debt. Now Heizi and I have 20 yuan in our family. Heizi's father, how much does your family have?" Zhang Chenglin said with some disappointment.

"I only have 36 yuan and 4 cents. I have to save 1 yuan to buy sickle blades in a few days..." Heizi's father's name is Heiwa, and since he named his son Heizi, everyone has seen him as Heizi's father .

"I only have 62 yuan here, and there is still 190 yuan short, what can I do!" Zhang Chenglin took out all the money at home, only 62 yuan, and this money was the money from Hu Yue'e's weaving and selling a few days ago.

Everyone kept their heads down and didn't speak, the atmosphere was very depressing, Zhang Guodong couldn't bear this atmosphere, he thought of ways to help his neighbors make money, but he couldn't think of a short time without leaving Ganjing Township.

"We can only see how the wheat harvest is doing this year. If it doesn't work, we can sell some grain first, and let's talk about road construction first." The second brother said dejectedly. There is not enough food for myself, but there is no way.

"Harvest wheat, by the way, Dad, we can go to other villages to harvest wheat for others! I heard that those counties south of the provincial capital are very rich. There is no one to harvest wheat for 3 yuan per mu. It is far away from us to harvest wheat." There's still nearly a month left, and the wheat is probably going to be harvested soon!" Zhang Guodong said suddenly, and upon hearing Guodong's voice, everyone couldn't help but look at him.

Guodong knows that some of these neighbors may not have even been to the county seat until now, and asking them to travel hundreds of miles to earn money seems to them to risk their lives to earn money.

"I have been studying in the county for three years, and many of my classmates have been to Chang'an. I am very familiar with the situation there. If everyone is willing to go, at least three farms can be rushed, and it takes about ten days to harvest. When we come back, we just have time to harvest our own wheat. " Zhang Guodong saw that everyone turned their hopeful eyes to the old man, and the old man lit a cigarette and smoked "crack...crack".

"Can cutting wheat in Chang'an make money? How sure are you!" After a long time, Zhang Chenglin looked at his son solemnly.

"Ninety percent sure! We can ask along the way. We can build a simple tent at night, and now we don't have to worry about the cold at night. We can take turns to watch the night. You know me when you meet a father who is looking for trouble..." The old man stopped him from continuing .

"Is there any more?" Zhang Chenglin lowered his head and continued to ask, it was also difficult for him to take this step.

"The national crackdown has just passed, and those who dance well in various places have been arrested. Now as long as we don't cause trouble, we will not be in danger." Zhang Guodong said.

"Third brother, I heard about this! Our county has been swept up, and now the county is patrolled by the police every day, and those who cause trouble are arrested directly." The second brother obviously agrees to go out, and he urgently needs money to pay for road repairs , his daughter-in-law has to take care of two children who cannot speak, and it is impossible for the family to transport stones and build roads at the same time.

"What are your opinions?" Zhang Chenglin looked at the others.

"Brother, I'm not in good health. Wen Bin can't hold a sickle when he's young, so I can't do this as a hacker." Uncle Wu took the lead in expressing his opinion.

"Third brother, my family also..."

"Third brother..."

In the end, only six of the 14 households in the second team of Zhangjialing Village were willing to go out to harvest wheat, and Zhang Guodong felt a sense of loss.

"In our family, the three of us, father and son, are all on the battlefield. You all said how many people are going to go. Are there enough sickles? You all go back first! Come back tomorrow afternoon with five of you, and we will discuss what to bring when we go out and when to leave. After Zhang Chenglin finished speaking, he fell into deep thought. He wanted to roll another cigarette after smoking one, but was blocked by Zhang Guodong.

"Dad, you can't smoke like this! You can smoke two or three a day! It's no good to smoke too much of this stuff."

"Well, tell me about the harvesting of wheat. I still don't know what to do about it."

Zhang Guodong told his father the map of the entire Qin Province, the division of northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong, and southern Shaanxi, and when he mentioned that one mu of land in the southern county of Chang'an can sow more than 800 catties of wheat, his father looked disbelieving.

"According to what you said, now everyone outside has bicycles and can't finish eating white noodles?" The old man said that he didn't believe it, but he could see that he was yearning in his heart.

"What is this? Now that Chang'an is connected to electricity, every family uses lights at night, and many people have TV sets."

Guodong's words finally convinced his father, his eyes became firm, and he sat up from the stool. If he hadn't committed the beating incident back then, his father would not have ended up like that in the end!
The next day, Zhang Guodong dragged his second brother to get up as before. Before they got dressed and went out, they heard the fourth sister standing in the courtyard and shouting. I didn’t expect her to be serious. It’s really nice to have something to make her serious. not easy.

"How's the training going?" Guodong went out and gave Zhang Xiaoyue a jump.

"Brother, listen to my pronunciation this time, is it correct?"

ah... ah... ah...

Mi... eh... also... huh... ah... ah...

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After several calls, Zhang Guodong couldn't imagine that it had been less than a day since the fourth sister contacted and spoke.

"You didn't sleep much last night, right? Since you have decided to sing for a month, I'll start asking you to read music today. I will teach you some musical instruments when I have a chance." It is still possible to teach children the erhu to get started.

Guodong didn't go to pick mulberry leaves this morning, he was left behind to teach his fourth sister how to sing, Zhang Xiaoyue had never studied something so seriously, her parents hoped that she could take it easy and stop doing nothing every day.

Zhang Xiaoyue studied very seriously, and he could draw inferences about every basic knowledge Zhang Guodong taught him. When asked repeatedly for inaccurate understanding, Guodong began to have some brain twitches when asked by her.

"Okay, let's pay attention for a while, our mother has already fed the silkworms, and we are about to eat."

"I have to wait a while, brother, tell me what this symbol means."

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In the morning, the children didn't have any appetite. There was still half a pot of fried small yellow croaker yesterday, and my younger brother kept nagging about eating small fish just after eating.My mother always said that Zhang Guodong raised his younger brothers and sisters.

"It's time for them to grow their bodies, and they can grow strong with more oil and water. From now on, I will stay at home and not go out, and I can make them have no meat to eat!" Zhang Guodong has carefully thought about it, and he chose to lead the villagers out of a road first. The road to wealth, after solving the problem of being alone, then consider the problem of securing the world.Anyway, there are still a few years before the urgent opening of the reform and opening up, and it is not in conflict to think about the country's economic development after he solves the poverty problem in his hometown.

"I told your uncle that I will find you a job to settle accounts in the countryside first. How can you stay at home when you are so old. If you perform well in the village and can be transferred to the county, then you will become a commercial grain account. "Zhang Chenglin still doesn't want his son to stay at home, because there is no future in the rural land.

"Dad, don't you believe me? My mind is full of ways to make money. If you put me in the countryside and earn tens of dollars a month, I can think of more than that." Zhang Guodong pointed His own head, said proudly.Zhang Chenglin didn't refute, if it's a good thing for others to find a job in the village, but for his son, he might really look down on him.

"You can do it!" Hu Yue'e happily tapped her eldest son's forehead with her fingers, and went to clean up the dishes happily.

(End of this chapter)