Lin Guoqing felt deeply wronged. Hadn't he just complained about the taste of autumn bamboo shoots? How did that make him lazy? Or the laziest man in the village?
He doesn't make any money in the factory every day! He is the busiest person in the factory running sales!
He's been a factory activist for two years straight! The factory manager has to greet him whenever he sees him! How come he's the laziest one at home?
Chen Chunhua felt like the man sitting next to her was about to break, so she quickly put down her chopsticks and patted his leg to comfort him.
"Mom! Guoqing is also working. It doesn't mean that sitting in the office without sunlight doesn't count as working. He is doing brain work and is fighting with customers for a few cents every day!
It's no more tiring than doing manual labor for us. If you say that about him..." Chen Chunhua winked at Liang Shengdi frantically, "...he'll be sad."
Liang Shengdi curled her lips. Men's self-esteem is so fragile.
So she changed to a softer approach.
"Oh, sorry, are you going to take a nap later? If not, go work in the fields. Your wife and I are a little busy trying to make money, would you like to lend a hand?
I'll make some money and buy you something to eat. What do you want to eat?"
Chen Chunhua could hardly hold it in any longer. The old lady's elegant tone was not only hurtful but also extremely insulting. What do you want to eat? Was she treating her thirty-year-old son like a grandson?
Now only the third and fourth sons still fall for this trick.
Lin Guoqing closed his eyes in despair, "I'm not going to sleep anymore! I don't go to work until 2 o'clock! I'll be fishing in the fields before 2 o'clock!"
After saying that, he shoveled the last mouthful of rice into his mouth, stood up like a puffer fish, and angrily took his empty bowl to the kitchen to put it down. However, Liang Shengdi still did not let him go.
"Hey, don't come out. I'm almost done eating. Wash the dishes. Your wife and I are in a hurry to go out!"
Lin Guoqing: ...
Chen Chunhua was almost shaking with laughter. She lowered her head and quickly stuffed the remaining rice in her bowl into her mouth, then followed Liang Shengdi to take the dishes on the table in. She kept her head down the whole time and didn't dare to look at her man.
"Hey, Guoqing, and this table, you should clean it together later!"
Liang Shengdi wiped her mouth casually, then walked out to the corner of the yard like a big boss, picking up a hoe for digging bamboo shoots. Chen Chunhua quickly followed, "Hey, Mom, can you take me to the farm on your tricycle first... Hahahaha..."
Lin Guoqing was standing in the kitchen and could hear Chen Chunhua's uncontrollable laughter as soon as she left. He was so angry that he picked up the rag and started wiping the table.
Work! Work! Lin Guoqing! He must be the most diligent and money-making man in the village! Barely one of them!
***
After Chen Chunhua arrived at the farm, she first visited the poultry. It was still a bit stuffy at noon in October. The clucking chickens, quacking ducks and big white geese were all hiding in the shade for their afternoon nap, and would only coo when they saw Chen Chunhua.
A few energetic and hardworking chickens and ducks would circle around her. Apart from being a little smelly, there was nothing wrong with her.
Chen Chunhua filled all the water tanks with water, poured feed into the troughs, then put on a large homemade mask, fully armed, and went into the enlarged mushroom house to pick mushrooms.
Liu Ni had told her a few days ago that her night school teacher had mentioned that there seemed to be a mushroom class at a night school in the next county. She planned to finish her cultivation studies and then go to the next county to take the mushroom class. She was determined to expand her current business.
Chen Chunhua originally told her to stabilize her daytime studies first, and there would still be enough time for her to join the mushroom class, but Liu Ni shook her head and told her aunt the truth.
"Aunt, my grades aren't as good as my cousin's or my fifth sister's. I'm always at the bottom of the class on every test. I'm not cut out for studying. Math and physics classes are like reading a foreign language every day. I definitely won't be able to get into high school."
"I said I didn't want to study anymore during the summer vacation, but my fifth sister told me to finish junior high school. That way, I would have a degree and would be able to marry better."
"But I don't really want to go out and look for a job. I think I quite like working on the farm. Aunt, when I graduate from junior high school, can I continue to work here?"
Wu Ni told her that after they went to high school, they would probably return their share of the farm to their aunt. After all, the academic pressure in high school would definitely be greater, and even if they went to high school in the countryside, they would not have time to manage the farm.
If I'm lucky enough to get into a technical secondary school, I'll have to go to school in the city like Shuying, and I won't be able to control me even more.
Wu Ni knew very well that her uncle and aunt were taking care of them by sharing the dividends with them. Over the years, the money they had received could have been enough to pay for several rounds of education.
Ma Wu Ni divided the money into portions, some for the sisters' studies, some for their daily lives, and even some for each sister's wedding. She divided it all up carefully.
It was enough, so she didn't want to take advantage of it. If her sisters wanted to continue earning this money, they would have to talk to their uncle and aunt to see if they could be hired to work and earn some pocket money.
So there was this scene where Liu Ni asked Chen Chunhua: she didn't want to work to earn a small amount of money, but she also didn't want to take advantage of anyone. Although she didn't like studying math, physics, and chemistry, she liked farming! She could study professional poultry farming and mushroom cultivation!
Chen Chunhua suddenly remembered the time when her second child was still confused about the future. She looked at this 13-year-old girl in surprise. She was so sure about her future goals. She asked again,
"Are you sure you want to stay in the farm? It's so dirty and smelly here, even skirts are hard to wear. Don't you want to go out and find a clean and easy job as a little girl? Working in a farm isn't as respectable as working in an office."
Liu Ni shook her head and said, "It doesn't matter whether I wear a skirt or not. It's clean, easy and doesn't make money. Teachers in our school only make a few dozen yuan a month, and the farm can sell that many eggs in a day.
"Appearance is not as important as substance. A person with a ten-thousand-yuan salary can be dirty and smelly, but he is still a person with a ten-thousand-yuan salary. A person with a salary of only a few dozen yuan a month can still live a tight life no matter how well he dresses."
As she spoke, she glanced at Chen Chunhua a little embarrassedly, worried that her aunt would think she was a money-grubber whose mind was only on money. After all, the mainstream thinking nowadays was to find a decent job, just like her sister thought.
Unexpectedly, Chen Chunhua's eyes were shining, and she looked at her with approval.
"You're right! Money doesn't stop being money just because it's dirty!"
"As long as you are sure of what you want, you are always welcome here."
"But your fifth sister is right. You're already in junior high school, so you have to get your junior high school diploma, otherwise the tuition will be wasted!"
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