Chapter 282 The coolie who came to the door
Li Yu'e still had some food in her hands, not much, but it was no problem to use some of it to catch steel-toothed rabbits.
Not long after she sent people to catch the Steel-tooth Rabbit, she had someone spread the news, telling everyone that the Lingxu Gang would sell the Steel-tooth Rabbit's internal organs in two hours, a pair of internal organs in exchange for one Steel-tooth Rabbit, and those who didn't have a Steel-tooth Rabbit could use their ID card as collateral.
Because she was afraid that those people would not dare to come to buy, she specially selected five or six people to pretend to be ordinary survivors to buy the internal organs.
After experiencing two or three years of turbulent times, everyone has become much more vigilant. Not many people came to buy offal on the first day, as they were worried that it was a scam.
The next day, people found out that the people who bought the entrails had really caught the steel-toothed rabbit, and people started to come to buy the entrails. Of course, some of them wanted to cheat for a set of entrails to cook and eat.
Every day at 6 p.m., Li Yu'e would ask people to count the pledged ID cards. If the ID cards had not been redeemed, she would send people to the garrison with the ID cards to find out the people who had cheated people out of their internal organs.
She didn't beat up those people who cheated her of internal organs, but let them work for her. Lingxu helped so many houses to be built and farmed, so there was plenty of work for them to do.
Xia Xiaoman helped sell the offal for two or three days, and only stopped after everything was on track.
She and Li Yu'e split the profit of the offal business 30:70. She took 30 and Li Yu'e took 70. After all, she only came up with the idea, and Li Yu'e did the rest of the work.
The world is unstable and no one knows whether they can see the sun the next day, so she settles her accounts with Li Yu'e on a daily basis.
Every night at 7:30, Li Yu'e would bring the processed steel-tooth rabbit meat to her, and she would make it into dried meat.
Li Yu'e saw Xia Xiaoman hanging the rabbit meat in the air and asked curiously, "You just hang the rabbit meat outside like this, aren't you afraid that someone will come and steal the meat?"
Xia Xiaoman pinched Maodan's ears and said, "With Maodan here, there's nothing to be afraid of."
"That's true, but you'd better build a proper yard to at least block the view from outside." Hanging the meat out like this is simply inviting crime.
Xia Xiaoman had originally planned to build a house, but she was very busy these few days since she came back and had no time to plan. Now when she heard Li Yu'e mention it, she said, "Sister Yu'e, how much materials did you spend when you asked people from Heizhu Village to dig a well last time?"
"I traded for materials for building a greenhouse. The materials added together should be enough to build a greenhouse that is 3 meters wide and 4 meters long." Most of her supplies now are materials for building greenhouses, so she used these materials to ask people from Heizhu Village to dig a well.
Li Yu'e looked at Xia Xiaoman, "Do you want to dig a well?"
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "If you want to build a house, you have to dig a well first. Otherwise, how can you make mud bricks?"
"Then you will probably have to wait for a while. The two people who are good at digging wells have been invited by the higher-ups to dig wells in the garrison. They will probably have to dig several wells, and it will take at least ten days or half a month."
The well dug by the Lingxu Gang was discovered by others within two days. When the news reached the authorities, they immediately sent people to invite the villagers of Heizhu Village to dig a well.
Xia Xiaoman heard this and said, "Didn't Heizhu Village have a bad impression of the government? Why are they willing to work for them now?"
Li Yu'e sneered and said, "Who would have a problem with food these days? Filling your stomach is the most important thing."
"It's ridiculous. There are more than two million people stationed in the garrison, but not one of them knows how to dig a well. At the critical moment, we still have to rely on the farmers."
Xia Xiaoman didn't say anything. She was born into a peasant family and didn't know how to dig a well. Without the inheritance of the older generation, who would know how to do this kind of technical work?
Li Yu'e patted Xia Xiaoman on the shoulder and said, "If you want to build a house and make mud bricks, you can come to me to get water. Otherwise, you don't know how long you will have to wait for the people in Heizhu Village to dig a well before you can use water."
"This is not a good idea!" Xia Xiaoman was afraid that Lingxu would have opinions about helping others.
Li Yu'e said, "There's nothing wrong with it. You gave us the idea of selling the internal organs, which allowed us to earn so much money. It's just a matter of getting some water. Who dares not agree? It's settled. Just go get the water from me."
Xia Xiaoman thought about it and realized that it would take too much time to wait for Heizhu Village to dig a well, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go to your place to get water tomorrow."
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The next day, Xia Xiaoman left Maodan in the tent to look after the house, and went out on his tricycle to dig a cartload of clay.
When she came back, she saw Maodan sitting on a person. She parked the car and walked over slowly, "Maodan, get down."
Maodan stood up and stepped on the man several times before slowly getting down from him.
Xia Xiaoman kicked the other person with her foot, "Hey, are you still breathing?"
The man was still lying there motionless. Suddenly, he stood up and tried to rush forward. Before he could stand up, Xia Xiaoman stepped on him and pushed him back to the ground.
"You want to escape? You come to steal rabbit meat from me and expect to leave safely. Are you dreaming?"
When the other party heard this, he retorted loudly: "Who stole the rabbit meat? Don't make up stories here. I was just passing by here. It was your wolf that attacked me like crazy. I haven't asked you for compensation yet!"
Xia Xiaoman chuckled, "You have good eyesight. You can even recognize that my Maodan is a wolf. Since you know it is a wolf, aren't you afraid that I will let it eat you?"
"You, you...what do you want?" The man gave up struggling.
Xia Xiaoman took back her foot from his back and said, "Get up and unload the dirt from the car."
The man stood up and patted the dirt off his body, then said with a dead pig fearless of boiling water: "I'm too hungry to take off the clothes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xia Xiaoman punched him in the face, and the man was knocked to the ground instantly.
Xia Xiaoman blew on his fist and asked, "Do you have strength now?"
The man with his teeth knocked out and his mouth full of blood: "..."
After unloading the clay, Xia Xiaoman took the man to fetch water. Xiao Zheyu was also fetching water, and when he saw her bringing this stranger over, he asked casually, "Sister Xiaoman, who is this person?"
Xia Xiaoman smiled and said, "I will let the coolie I captured help me make mud bricks in the future."
Xiao Zheyu knew something was wrong when he heard it, and looked at the man with sympathy, "Brother, why don't you mess with our sister Xiaoman? You are lucky to be alive."
The man took a look at Xiao Zeyu and was shocked by the uneven scars on his face. He lowered his voice and said, "Brother, was the scar on your face caused by that crazy woman?"
Xiao Zeyu smiled when he heard this. The next second, he grabbed the man's neck and pressed him to the ground. "Sister Xiaoman, you are a hard worker but you are not very sensible. How about I help you discipline him?"
Xia Xiaoman shrugged, "Whatever you want, just don't cripple him. There's a lot of work waiting for him to do."
"Okay!" Xiao Zheyu dragged the man out. After a while, a scream broke out in the distance.
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