Liu Ni also said cautiously that they still had to go home to work. Mainly because she had just accepted the pens and notebooks given by Lin Shuying and others two days ago, so she felt embarrassed to refuse. Finally, she added, "Why don't we wait until Sunday to help?"
Wu Ni, on the other hand, thinks much quicker than Liu Ni. Her uncle and aunt would not ask for help for no reason, especially since they are such young children.
"How do you help?"
Lin Shuying whispered in Wu Ni's ear the process that she had memorized three times last night.
Wu Ni's eyes lit up as she listened, and at the end she held Liu Ni's hand tightly, "I, we will raise ducks."
The Ma family had been raising ducks for the past two years, but later they raised a few chickens. Raising chickens and ducks together did not help either of them grow well. Old Mrs. Ma said that chicken eggs could be sold for 4 cents more per pound than duck eggs, so they just raised chickens.
When Ma Wu Ni was four years old, she followed San Ni and Si Ni to feed the ducks, and she even raised ducklings by herself. Everyone she should know knows that it was the right person to do this job.
The most important thing was to share the money. Although she was only 9 years old, she had truly experienced the anxiety of being in debt as an adult over the past two days. Even though she knew her sisters wouldn't press her to pay it back, even if she wanted to default on it, her eldest sister wouldn't say anything.
But she didn't want to, she wasn't a leper.
When Lin Shuying said that her uncle and aunt wanted to share the profits with her, she was deeply moved. What was the difference between this and working with adults? Then what was the difference between her and adults!
"We'll go to your house after school!" Ma Wuni said quickly, as if she was afraid that Lin Shuying would change her mind the next second.
Liu Ni was a little hesitant, "Fifth sister, what about home..."
Wu Ni: "We don't really have much to do when we get home from school. We mainly have to do our morning clothes. We can do our homework at school, then go pick some water hyacinths after school and take them to my uncle's house to feed the ducks.
We still have time to go home after we finish our work over there. At worst, we can have dinner later and ask our third sister to save some sweet potatoes for us.
I get up early in the morning, wash clothes, and rush to my uncle's house to see the ducks. I can also go to school with Shuying and the others."
In a flash, she had already arranged her future schedule, which not only stunned Liu Ni, but also left Lin Shuying and Lin Shugan with their mouths wide open.
Lin Shuying stammered, "Well, my dad's duck house, they just finished firing the bricks these past two days, and it hasn't been covered yet..."
"It's okay, let's go over after school and see if there's anything we can help with." Wu Ni didn't care if it was sooner or later, at least now she had hope of making money.
"Six Ni, don't worry about this or that. We have to make money so that we can pay back the debt owed to Big Sister and the others. Maybe in two years when Qi Ni starts school, we can even pay for her tuition!"
This was indeed quite ambitious, but it also excited Liu Ni. She gritted her teeth and thought, forget it, making money is important. At worst, she can go back and get beaten up with her fifth sister.
They wouldn't be beaten because when Liang Shengdi went to deliver fish soup to Lin Yulan, she gave a warning to several adults in the Ma family.
"These kids are so young, the older ones are supporting the younger ones in school, and the younger ones are still thinking about raising some animals to pay off their debts. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, what's the point of you old guys doing this? If I were you, I'd just stretch my legs and stare and report to the police station tonight."
Liang Shengdi sat on the chair and kept making sarcastic remarks, which made Old Man Ma and Old Mrs. Ma so angry that they fell backwards. Ma Dexiang kept smiling and tried his best to avoid a three-hundred-round battle between old people at home.
Lin Yulan was glad that she could sit on the bed instead of facing Liang Shengdi in the main room. Even if she did, she didn't dare to confront her mother.
I wonder if Mrs. Liang ever thought about the time when she raised her and her brother. It seems that being a mother is useless, right? Now that she is old and strong, she suddenly thinks about living a good life and working hard, and she has the nerve to criticize others.
Liang Shengdi didn't care. She would just listen to her son and daughter-in-law. She would say a few unpleasant words first so that her two granddaughters would be scolded less.
Ma Dexiang was a little tough this time and stood on the side of the children. He thought more than others and advised his parents when they talked together.
"Since we're planning to have a live-in son-in-law, we'll have to raise this daughter as a son. Someone has to go to school and learn to read, otherwise if we take the surname Ma and go to town to register our household registration with a stranger's surname, we won't even know about it and it'll be all over!"
When the old man and the old woman heard this, they thought it made sense. Since the fifth and sixth children were already in school, they should let them go. If they wanted to raise some ducks, they could do so. It wouldn't take up space or food at home anyway.
After ten years, when they are older, we will choose one of them and keep one at home to find a son-in-law.
They didn't even think about whether the fifth and sixth daughters were willing to stay at home, or whether the seventh, eighth and ninth daughters wanted to go to school. They just followed their own train of thought.
Little do people know that what makes humans different from other animals is that they have their own thoughts, can think, can fight, and can even be born rebellious.
Of course, this is all later.
Now, Ma Wuni drags Ma Liuni to run behind the Lin family's house after school every day. She is happy to help Lin Guoqing pass a brick and feels that the day is not in vain.
Lin Guoqing was amused by her enthusiasm. "That's it. I, your uncle, originally wanted to spend a month building it. Seeing how enthusiastic you are, shouldn't you work overtime to finish building the shed tonight?"
Ma Wu Ni was a little embarrassed. "Uncle...you don't have to work overtime at night. Just build it normally. Liu Ni and I just have nothing to do and are here to help. Don't worry, don't worry..."
Although he said he was not in a hurry, he was more anxious than anyone else. Lin Guoqing's duck house was still under construction. Ma Wuni and Ma Liuni had caught a large piece of water hyacinths and threw them directly into the creek, saying that they were prepared for the ducks.
There were also stone troughs, broken tiles, and half a broken wooden fence that were picked up from somewhere... Lin Guoqing was worried that if his duck house was not completed, she would be able to pick up a roof.
The next day after the duck house was built, he borrowed a bicycle and went to the provincial capital. Of course, he did not go empty-handed. He still brought two baskets of eggs, a crate and two baskets of mushrooms. When he came back, he not only brought back 8 kilograms of rice, but also 20 ducklings. They were padded with cloth at the bottom, squeezed into the basket, and covered with cloth. They chirped all the way.
Fortunately, the weather is still hot, and the wind is warm even at night. Lin Guoqing rode back carefully all the way. When he got home, the ducklings were still lively and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Chunhua! Chunhua! Has the duck house been fumigated? Is the water warm? Can we put the ducks in?"
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