Sun Erhu thought for a moment: "If we work day and night, we should be able to come up with fifty."
"You can't work day and night like that; even tigers need to take a nap sometimes."
Shiyue looked at Sun Yongfu: "The captain said, why don't you ask around and see if there are any other people in our team who can weave this kind of box? If their skills are similar to Erhu's, we can let them give it a try."
She paused for a moment, then added, "The factory will give us two cents for each one we make."
"Two cents?" Sun Erhu suddenly raised his head.
You know, these days, the bride price for getting married is usually only five yuan. If you can give ten yuan, you're considered a big spender!
Because he's getting married soon, his parents were just a few days ago calculating their savings and wondering if they could build him another house.
As a result, after calculating all their money, the elderly couple only had a little over twenty pieces of property in total.
This family's wealth was considered quite substantial even within their forward brigade.
But now, if he can weave these hundred bamboo boxes, he can earn twenty yuan!
Twenty!
That's equivalent to most of their family's wealth.
He immediately looked at his father: "Let Xiaohong and Sanping help me, Dad, I can do this job myself!"
This time, Sun Yongfu did not immediately agree.
He definitely thought much more than Sun Erhu did.
The time Shiyue asked for help, I only made two, so I only got two cents in total.
He could treat this as helping out as a neighbor, turning a blind eye to the younger generation's antics.
But this time it's different, this time there are a full one hundred!
Putting aside the fact that Erhu wouldn't be able to work if he took this job, they shouldn't be allowed to earn this twenty yuan themselves!
Otherwise, wouldn't that be running a family workshop and taking the capitalist road?
Sun Yongfu would never do something like being labeled for twenty yuan.
But he was reluctant to give up such a good opportunity.
Twenty yuan!
With so many people in their production team, their total work points for a month amounted to less than one hundred yuan.
This is a very large sum of money.
Sun Yongfu then took out some dried leaves that he had sun-dried, but he didn't know what they were, put them in his pipe, lit them, and took a few puffs.
Then he said, "I'll discuss this with Mantian and then get back to you."
After saying that, he looked at his son and said, "Do we still have a lot of bamboo strips left at home? I'll give you a day off today. Don't go to work. Go and finish the preparations."
Shiyue immediately beamed with joy upon hearing this.
That means she agreed; she understood.
Perhaps because Shiyue made such a suggestion, Sun Yongfu found her agreeable, so he specially arranged an easy task for her when she went to work today: to lead the three female educated youths to clear the fields.
The so-called clearing of the fields simply means removing broken stones and tiles from the edges of the fields and ditches.
If you see standing water, you must also clean up the silt.
Although it's still physical labor, it's much easier than tilling the land.
The forward brigade has a total of four cows and two mules.
It's impossible to expect these few animals to plow the entire brigade's land.
Therefore, farming still relies almost entirely on manual labor, requiring one person to hold the plow and another to pull it from the front.
Even if people take turns doing this, those who are not familiar with the routine can still be completely exhausted after a day's work.
It's common for shoulders to rub together until they bleed.
After work, she noticed that He Lixuan and the others didn't seem to want to come to her house for dinner again.
After thinking about it, Shiyue went back to get the gauze and iodine that she had left over from He Lixue and took them to the educated youth settlement.
When she arrived, Jiang Dong was squatting in the yard sorting dried vegetables, which they must have bought from someone in the team.
Upon seeing Shiyue, Jiang Dong immediately ran over: "Shiyue, what brings you here at this hour?"
Shiyue didn't go into the hospital. Instead, she stood at the door and handed him the bag she had brought: "Here's some medicine for you. You can apply it if your shoulder is swollen."
Jiang Dong was overjoyed when he saw the iodine and cotton wool inside, exclaiming, "Shiyue, this is a lifesaver! You've come at the perfect time!"
He pointed inside and chuckled in a low voice, "That kid Park An can't even get up anymore, he can't even lift his arms."
Shiyue nodded, then casually glanced inside and asked, "Where's He Lixuan? He should be alright, right?"
Jiang Dong didn't notice anything unusual and said, "Brother Xuan seems to be alright, I haven't heard him complain. But I don't think he's doing much better, my shoulder is completely swollen."
"Then you can all use it."
Seeing that no one had come out after she had been standing there for a long time, Shiyue was a little disappointed.
She didn't want to stay any longer, so she gave a perfunctory reply and prepared to leave.
At this moment, Jiang Dong finally snapped out of his daze and suddenly realized, "Shiyue, did you need to see my brother Xuan? He went to the river to wash clothes."
Knowing that He Lixuan was not there, Shiyue and Jiang Dong exchanged a few more words and then left.
She originally wanted to go to the riverbank to ask He Lixuan if he should collect some things from the team in advance, so that he could send them over once his older brother got his parents' address.
If we start preparing early, Shiyue can also take the opportunity to secretly slip in some group-buy items from the group chat.
Before she could even walk a few steps from the educated youth settlement, Sun Sanping called her back.
"Sister Shiyue, my father wants you to go home." He called out to Shiyue.
"Okay," Shiyue agreed and walked towards him.
As Shiyue approached, Sun Sanping added, "It's not just my father; Brother Mantian is here too."
Hearing that the captain and vice-captain had all arrived, Shiyue knew that they must have already discussed how to handle the batch of gift boxes.
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