Chapter 358 Completion
By nightfall, more than half of the oyster mushrooms in the greenhouse had been picked.
Looking at this quantity, plus what Yangmei had at home, it was enough to supply the South Street Food Store and the four supply and marketing cooperatives, so no one continued to work late.
Everyone worked hard, so Mrs. Shang went home early to prepare a sumptuous dinner. This time, Zhao Dan and Wang Xigui stayed at home to eat together.
The next day, the pickup trucks from the four supply and marketing cooperatives and the South Street Grocery Store arrived as scheduled and loaded all the picked oyster mushrooms onto the trucks and took them away.
At the same time, Shang Ruoting also wholesaled 3,000 large strawberries to Nanjie Food Store at the price of three triangles each, which increased her income by another 900 yuan.
Because Yangmei planted oyster mushrooms this year and was busy with the tofu shop, and Yangtao was in the hard work period before the high school entrance examination, their family did not plant strawberries with Shang Ruoting.
However, they still grow a small amount in their backyard vegetable garden.
Although the output is not high, my family cannot finish eating them all. I cannot wholesale them to Nanjie Food Store like Shang Ruoting did. But I can pick one or two hundred and sell them in the city.
Yangmei planned that after she finished her work in the greenhouse, she would go to the city to sell some strawberries to increase her family's income.
After several days of hard work, the two families sold out all the oyster mushrooms. At the same time, the third batch of cultivation substrates were also in place, waiting for the harvest.
Yang Mei earned twice as much this time as she did the first time, and Shang Ruoting knew that she had saved a lot of money.
Thinking that she and Yangmei had contracted the tofu shop together as a disguised way of helping a good friend, she proposed to withdraw her investment when Yangmei had the ability to contract independently.
In fact, the tofu shop's business has been pretty good recently. Yang Mei and Shang Ruoting can get about 100 yuan every month, which is much more than what they earned when they were in the production team.
In Yangmei's eyes, an income of one hundred yuan is very high, and she hopes Ruoting will continue to receive this dividend.
No matter how Shang Ruoting proposed to withdraw her investment, she firmly disagreed.
Yang Mei thought that she had benefited too much from Ruoting. She had finally found a business that could generate some profit for her, so she had to stick to it.
Therefore, Shang Ruoting failed to withdraw her investment this time and continued to receive her half of the tofu shop dividends.
This also made Shang Ruoting more impressed with the character of Yang Mei, her good sister, who always remembered those who were good to her no matter when.
The house that Tan Chen helped Zhou Ergu build was basically completed, and he also helped design some furniture drawings according to his own ideas.
Zhou Ergu was very satisfied with the furniture designed by Tan Chen, and decided on the spot to contract the furniture making to him again. At the same time, she also gave the balance of the house construction payment to Tan Chen.
It took a total of eighteen days to complete these four houses. After deducting the workers' wages and food expenses, Tan Chen made a net profit of one hundred and forty.
Zhang Wenfu is considered to be Tan Chen's deputy. Without him, Tan Chen would definitely not be able to have it so easy.
Therefore, Tan Chen gave Zhang Wenfu double the wages.
Zhang Wenfu refused at first, but Tan Chen insisted, so he had no choice but to accept.
After working with Tan Chen for some time, Zhang Wenfu has decided on the construction industry.
He felt that he earned 36 yuan in 18 days, which was more than what he earned in his previous stable job.
In his joy, he bought a pound of meat and planned to celebrate with his father and son.
Leaving a few carpenters in Zhuang City, Tan Chen, Zhang Wenfu and others returned to Sihe Village together.
The first thing he did when he got home was to hand over all the money he had earned during that period.
In order to complete the work on Tan Chen's side, Old Lady Shang prepared another table of delicious food.
Just as the family was happily having dinner, there was a knock on the door.
Tan Chen opened the door and saw that the person coming was Li Jiasheng.
Li Jiasheng looked depressed, his clothes were not as straight as before, and this time he was not wearing a military uniform.
When Tan Chen saw Li Jiasheng's decadent look, his first reaction was that something bad must have happened to him.
"What's wrong with you? Did something happen?"
Li Jiasheng stood there silently, not knowing what to say.
Seeing that Tan Chen had been away opening the door for so long, Shang Ruoting also walked to the door to check.
She and Tan Chen had the same feeling when they saw Li Jiasheng, that something must have happened to the latter.
No wonder Yang Tao said when she came to her for extra lessons a few days ago that Yang Mei hadn't received a letter from Brother Li for more than a month.
Thinking of this and looking at Li Jiasheng's appearance, one can't help but think the worst.
Seeing that Li Jiasheng was slow to speak, Tan Chen pulled him into the yard and closed the door.
As soon as Li Jiasheng came in, he inserted his fingers into his long hair and squatted in the corner with a painful expression.
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