When Guan Baiyu heard Shi Ting say that she also wanted to earn money through embroidery, she quickly grabbed twenty more pieces for herself.

Well, his brother should also be able to embroider; the more he takes, the more he earns.

Shi Ting picked up a sweater to look at, and even held it up against herself: "It's so pretty."

She used to knit her own sweaters, but none of them were this nice! If it weren't so hot, she would have worn one.

Shi Zhen didn't forget Shi Ting and Guan Baiyu either, and said at this moment, "Then you can earn money by embroidering and buy them later."

"Mmm!" Shi Ting nodded repeatedly.

Shi Zhen distributed the clothes to the people who had been waiting there; there were still more than two hundred pieces left in the room.

But he wasn't in a hurry.

At that time, there were no cell phones, and news spread slowly. Many people did not know that he had clothes to take. After those who took the clothes went home and told their neighbors, more people would come.

At this moment, Shi Zhen was quite pleasantly surprised by Shi Ting's request to do embroidery.

In his past life, his sister never wanted to work, and he never expected that she would take the initiative to find something to do now.

Although he wanted his sister to change for the better, to be honest, he didn't know how to teach her, so he could only keep an eye on her.

It's so great that his sister is willing to do things now.

Shi Zhen asked her, "Tingting, how many pieces of clothing do you want to take?"

Shi Ting glanced at Guan Baiyu and said, "Twenty items."

Guan Baiyu took twenty items, so she can definitely do it too.

Seven cents per piece, twenty pieces would be fourteen yuan... That's a huge sum of money for her!

Shi Zhen knew she was unlikely to finish embroidering them, but he still gave her twenty pieces and a sample piece to try embroidering.

She wasn't in a hurry to learn from Guan Baiyu, so Shi Zhen didn't mention it.

Shi Ting used to hold needles too. When they were little, there weren't many fun things to play with, so she loved playing with needles and thread, sewing things with a piece of cloth.

As she grew older, she became more vain. Even if she couldn't afford rubber bands, she would knit with yarn. Of course, she would also find other ways to make herself look better. For example, if her clothes were torn, she would cut a flower out of other fabric to mend them.

Of course, she hadn't formally studied it, and her skills weren't particularly good.

But it's still fine to embroider with thick yarn.

Shi Ting worked very diligently, without stopping, but she was a bit slow. It took her an hour to finish embroidering one garment.

During this time, women from the village came to Shi Zhen's place to pick up clothes, and Shi Zhen himself would embroider a few lines when he had free time.

He was used to manual labor, so his embroidery wasn't as delicate as Shi Ting's, but he was much faster, and the things he embroidered were up to standard.

Guan Baiyu's speed was somewhere between Shi Zhen and Shi Ting. She was faster than Shi Ting but not as fast as Shi Zhen, but her embroidered products were a bit more exquisite than Shi Zhen's.

Around 4 p.m., when Shi Ting was embroidering her second piece of clothing, Shi Zhen told her to go back and come back tomorrow.

"Brother, why don't I eat here?"

"I don't have anything good to eat here. Are you sure you want to eat here?" Shi Zhen asked. "I didn't buy any groceries today."

Shi Ting immediately fell silent.

Shi Zhen found a bag, packed up the clothes that Shi Ting hadn't finished embroidering, two other unembroidered clothes, and a sample for Shi Ting, and then let Shi Ting take them back.

Shi Ting is quite slow; she can only embroider two and a half pieces of clothing at most by the time she gets back in the evening.

After Shi Ting left, Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu went home. They hadn't bought any groceries that day, so they made noodles again.

The noodles were topped with stir-fried eggplant and cowpeas grown on their own land, along with a poached egg.

Guan Baiyu loves noodles, all kinds of noodles. He mixed the noodles and started eating them heartily.

Shi Zhen, on the other hand, doesn't care what he eats... He loves to eat everything except potatoes.

He's really tired of eating potatoes.

After having dinner, the two went to Guan Jianguo's place.

There are still some clothes left unclaimed; someone should come soon.

Someone actually came, and that person even arrived on a bicycle.

Shi Zhen didn't know the woman, but Guan Jianguo's mother did, and confirmed that she was a local. So he gave her thirty pieces of clothing and even pointed out the parts that were easy to embroider wrong.

By 7 p.m., all 400-plus pieces of clothing had been distributed.

He can embroider some of the 500 pieces of clothing himself, and in the end... he can earn 200 yuan.

Shi Zhen was a little excited and whispered the matter to Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu's eyes lit up.

Shi Zhen added, "Being a capitalist really earns you more than working hard yourself."

Guan Baiyu: "..." Earning two hundred yuan, so everyone's a capitalist now?

Shi Zhen said to Guan Baiyu with a smile, "Sweaters are sold in autumn and winter. They will produce a lot this summer. I should be able to earn a lot during this period." He couldn't guarantee two hundred a day, but he could definitely earn more than one hundred a day. In two months, he estimated he could earn seven or eight thousand.

That's enough to buy two freezers, cough cough.

Guan Baiyu was also very happy. He knew that Shi Zhen had many expenses, and he was happy for Shi Zhen that Shi Zhen could earn more.

The two embroidered with Guan Jianguo until nine o'clock in the evening before going back to sleep.

Shi Xinghuo had already fallen asleep by then.

Guan Baiyu was delighted to see this.

Shi Zhen wanted to come back earlier, but he was unwilling, saying that the light bulbs were brighter over there and he wanted to embroider there.

Actually, Shi Zhen had specially replaced the lights in his house, and they were very bright. The main reason was... he wanted to be with Shi Zhen.

Unfortunately, Shi Zhen slept with Shi Xinghuo every day, but not with him.

The next day, Shi Zhen was spared the rare opportunity to not have to set up his rice ball stall.

He woke up at four o'clock as usual, stared blankly for a while, then fell asleep again, finally sleeping until seven o'clock.

It felt incredibly comfortable after sleeping there.

He always had trouble sleeping in his past life, but now that he's back to being eighteen, he's the one who's constantly sleep-deprived... which is fine too.

In the morning, Guan Baiyu cooked porridge, steamed salted duck eggs, and prepared pickled vegetables.

Some villagers raise ducks in the river, and when the duck eggs are laid, they coat them with a mixture of salt and mud to make salted duck eggs for sale.

These salted duck eggs are bought with mud on them. They are often not very salty at first, but they get saltier day by day because they have been pickled for a long time.

Shi Zhen ate a bowl of porridge with salted duck eggs, and then went to Guan Jian's country with Guan Baiyu.

He also brought along the small ceiling fan he had bought.

Compared to standing fans, ceiling fans are much cheaper, and this little ceiling fan is the cheapest of all ceiling fans, but you need to find a bracket to hang it above your head.

No one came to deliver the embroidered clothes in the morning, but by noon, people started arriving one after another.

Around 2 p.m., the sweater factory's truck arrived. They left behind another 500 pieces of clothing and also took away the ones that Shi Zhen had already embroidered.

This made things easier for the people who came to deliver clothes later; they could bring the embroidered clothes and take away the unembroidered ones as well...

In addition, Shi Ting arrived around 8 a.m.

Shi Ting brought the sweater she had embroidered yesterday, wanting to continue embroidering, but Shi Zhen wouldn't allow it. He told her to go with Guan Baiyu to learn in the morning, and then embroider to earn money after lunch.

At noon, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan also arrived.

After Shi Ting returned home yesterday, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan asked her about Shi Zhen's situation and also asked for directions.

Zhao Meiyun set up her stall late last night, and Zhao Qiujuan had to sell rice balls this morning, so they didn't come with Shi Ting when she came to Shi Zhen's place.

At noon, they ate lunch early and brought the meat and vegetables they had prepared at home to find Shi Zhen.

When they arrived, Shi Zhen and the others were just about to have lunch.

Shi Zhen was too lazy to go to town to buy vegetables, so his family didn't have any meat at noon, but they fried a few eggs, which was not bad. Anyway, Shi Ting ate with great relish.

They arrived while we were eating.

Zhao Meiyun brought over a large bowl of stewed pork with soybeans, glistening with oil and smelling delicious: "Ah Zhen, I heard you didn't have time to buy groceries, so I brought you some food."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at what Shi Zhen and the others were eating and felt that she had made the right decision to come.

Shi Zhen and the others didn't buy any meat.

"Aunt Zhao, thank you," Shi Zhen said.

"Why are you thanking me?" Zhao Meiyun said. The two stalls that Shi Zhen gave them were worth a lot of money, especially since Shi Zhen had even given them the capital to start a business.

Now, she and Shi Dalin provide for their two daughters' food and drink, and they can't just ignore their son Shi Zhen's needs.

Zhao Meiyun thought that if Shi Zhen didn't have time to go to town for a meal, she could come and bring him food.

Also, she heard from Shi Ting that Shi Zhen was currently doing embroidery work on wool sweaters, which was quite busy, and she thought she could come and help out.

Running a fried food stall isn't tiring.

You can buy more sausages and ham at once, and you can buy other miscellaneous items on the way to the market in the morning.

It does take time to string them together. Shi Zhen had previously asked Shi Xinghuo for help, but that was because he usually ran the stall alone. Once the stall was set up, he was busy frying things for customers and didn't have time to do anything else.

When Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun were two people, the situation was different. When Shi Dalin was frying skewers for people, Zhao Meiyun could help him skewer them.

They didn't need to do much preparation; Zhao Meiyun was free during the day.

Upon learning that Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan were coming to help, Shi Zhen said, "Aunt Zhao, Sister, if you want to embroider the clothes here, the price is the same as the villagers, seven cents per piece."

"No, no, we're just trying to help you, how could we possibly take your money?" Zhao Meiyun quickly replied.

Zhao Qiujuan also felt that doing this kind of handicraft work was not troublesome. She could do it at noon or in the evening anyway, so she could just help Shi Zhen with some work and not charge him any money.

However, Shi Zhen had no intention of taking advantage of them: "Tingting gets clothes from me to embroider, and I pay her. You will too, but the payment will be settled later. If you want to embroider, come to me to get your clothes."

"This..." Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan were a little embarrassed. They... were going to make money from Shi Zhen again?

“If you don’t embroider these clothes, you’ll have someone else embroider them,” Shi Zhen said.

Embroidering just one piece of clothing like this earns seven cents!

Ever since Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan had the idea of ​​buying a house, they had been single-mindedly focused on saving money and really didn't want to miss out on such an opportunity to make money.

The two of them first tried embroidering on Shi Zhen's side.

Zhao Qiujuan is quick, while Zhao Meiyun is a bit slower, but they can both finish embroidering the clothes within an hour.

Zhao Meiyun figured that if she embroidered in her spare time throughout the day, she could embroider at least five pieces. Zhao Qiujuan was skilled enough to embroider two pieces an hour, so she could embroider at least ten pieces... In the end, they took fifteen pieces of clothing home.

“Once these fifteen pieces of clothing are finished, we’ll earn ten yuan!” Zhao Meiyun exclaimed excitedly. “Qiujuan, there are so many ways to earn money outside. No wonder your brother is so determined to come out here.”

No one from their village had ever come out before; Shi Zhen was the first.

He's still young, so they're not entirely at ease with him. They think it would be fine for him to stay home, farm, grow mushrooms, and raise rabbits.

But now that Shi Zhen has come out, his family has come out too, and the villagers are starting to have ideas... I guess in the future, all the villagers will come out.

After all, it's so nice outside.

Zhao Qiujuan said, "There are plenty of jobs that can make money, but there are also many people who don't have any work... It's because Azhen is capable."

If it weren't for Shi Zhen, they wouldn't know where to find work.

“He was different from others since he was a child; he was single-mindedly focused on making money,” Zhao Meiyun said with emotion.

Shi Zhen used to always think of ways to make money. He even raised rabbits at home, saying he wanted to sell rabbit skins. Unfortunately, he didn't make much money, but he did manage to get some rabbit meat for them.

Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan sighed and felt that Shi Zhen's idea was probably right, so they followed Shi Zhen's advice and tried to save money to buy a house.

"Qiujuan, go open a savings account. Save up 100 yuan and deposit it... or save up 200 yuan and deposit it. Your dad and I will open one too. Sigh, I don't know how to do this... or maybe ask your brother for help?" Zhao Meiyun said.

Zhao Qiujuan had never been to a bank before and was a little apprehensive about opening a savings account.

But Shi Zhen is very busy, and he may need to earn money to pay off his debts, so how could they bother him again?

That afternoon, Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Meiyun, along with Shi Dalin, peeked around the bank entrance.

It took them a long time to finally muster the courage to enter the bank.

You can't say it's a bank; it's a rural credit cooperative, so they only recognize that.

Of the three of them, only Zhao Qiujuan could read a few words, but she didn't know how to use the passbook.

Fortunately, the bank staff were very easy to talk to and helped them open two passbooks, and even explained how to deposit money into them in the future.

Zhao Meiyun gave her private savings to Zhao Qiujuan, who then put together 100 yuan into her own savings account, while Shi Dalin put 400 yuan into his savings account.

When Shi Dalin was in the village, he grew shiitake mushrooms quite well. Although he didn't earn much, he still made some money. Recently, he started a stall, and Shi Zhen gave him a lot of capital, so he earned a little more, bringing his total to four hundred yuan.

After the three of them finished opening their bank accounts, they all breathed a sigh of relief as they left the bank.

They felt they had accomplished something significant, and that they were no longer the same people they once were.

The next day, Zhao Meiyun went to deliver vegetables to Shi Zhen again, and also gave him the clothes that she and Zhao Qiujuan had embroidered. Then she talked about the bank.

She repeated it several times, emphasizing that Shi Dalin almost pressed his fingerprint in the wrong place, and it was only because she noticed it.

Shi Zhen knew that if he let go, they might grow up faster, but seeing it with his own eyes now still made him happy.

He was also glad that he had picked them up several years earlier than in his previous life.

In their previous life, they didn't emerge until several years later. The outside world had changed even more. Zhao Qiujuan was sick at that time, and Zhao Meiyun, needless to say, had her leg amputated. The two of them were even more timid and introverted than they are now, wishing they could hide at home every day.

His father is a quiet, reserved person.

So everyone, big or small, from home to outside, would turn to him for everything.

He remembered that when he first installed air conditioners for them, they didn't know how to use the remote control, and the cold air would turn on as hot air. They would all rush to him to "fix" it.

Such a thing should never happen in my lifetime.

"Aunt Zhao, you're really amazing," Shi Zhen praised her.

Zhao Meiyun's eyes lit up, and her dark, ordinary face shone with light.

She also thought she was amazing.

She can even open a bank account now!

Shi Zhen then said, "Aunt Zhao, you and Dad can save up some money and buy a bicycle, so you can ride one when you come to my place."

Zhao Meiyun brought him meals, always walking the way.

While there's nothing wrong with getting some exercise, walking in the sweltering summer heat is really tiring. If they could buy a bicycle, it would be much more convenient for them.

A bicycle? That used to be something very far away, but now... maybe it's not so far away after all?

When Zhao Meiyun saw young girls riding bicycles to pick up sweaters, she actually had an idea.

She probably can't learn this, but her daughter Qiujuan can.

Well, it's not that she can't learn it... she also wants to try this thing.

Shi Zhen didn't talk to Zhao Meiyun much.

Recently, a wool sweater factory has been sending him 500 wool sweaters every day. He has to send them out, collect them, and check their quality, so he's very busy.

Shi Zhen was in a good mood because he could make money from such busy work, and quite a lot of money at that.

He has already done a lot of work for the sweater factory, but they haven't settled accounts with him yet and still owe him money... Shi Zhen thought that he could get his deposit back, and then use his savings plus the 1,500 yuan tuition fee he had previously saved for Guan Baiyu to buy a freezer.

If he hadn't suddenly taken on a job at a wool sweater factory, he should have bought this freezer a long time ago.

Shi Zhen discovered that he wanted quite a few things, such as a freezer and a television.

However, he is still very poor and wants to save money to build up his capital... The freezer can make him money, so he bought it; the TV can't bring him income, so he doesn't want it.