Before we knew it, the Lin family courtyard was bustling with activity, a scene of great activity.
Miao Qingsong rode his sidecar tricycle with great curiosity, making trip after trip to haul clay.
Chen Xin was indeed no good at working. He was exhausted after shoveling just a few sacks, his vision blurred, and he was panting heavily.
Miao Qingsong had to stop for a while and lend a hand by filling the clay.
Awang's mother and Qingsong's mother were mixing mud in the Lin family's courtyard. The two old Miao women were using wooden molds to shape the mud bricks, while Awang was watching the kiln, adding coal and stacking the mud bricks one by one to fire.
Lin Mo spends money every day, and his mother keeps track of how much money is saved at home.
He had spent several thousand yuan in the past few days, and was worried that Lin Mo would squander the family fortune again.
Without making a sound, Aunt Lin took Xiaohua to Luming Village to register for school at Luming Elementary School.
Lin Mo got so busy that he forgot about what he had promised Xiao Hua.
Right now, bricks are being fired in the courtyard, while he's busy in the kitchen, where the air is thick with steam.
After washing the tomatoes, you need to blanch them and then peel them.
After peeling all the tomatoes, put them in a big pot to simmer until they are soft and mushy, then add sugar.
The tomato sauce was made pot after pot, and in the end, only 40 jin of sauce was made from 200 jin of tomatoes. What a waste.
In just three days, with ten people hired each day at a cost of three hundred yuan, the fire bricks were produced with a humming sound.
They even stacked two spacious bungalows, each 12 square meters!
Six beams were laid across the roof, and then 24 square meters of sheet metal were bought from the county to be laid on top, costing ten yuan per square meter! That's only two hundred and forty yuan! Not expensive for Lin Mo!
The convenience store is finished!
Once Carpenter Su's legs are healed, we'll order a few more cabinets from him!
Outside the two single-story shops, a temporary shed has been erected using timber supports!
After everything is settled and the bill is paid!
Go to the county to buy goods!
I'll also buy a power strip to connect to the TV!
Once all the goods in the convenience store are set up, bring out the color TV to make sure a bunch of people come over to watch it!
hey-hey!
We'll stop stocking the things the supply and marketing cooperative is currently selling, and instead get things that the village doesn't have, such as—
Novels, comics, stationery, snacks.
Badminton, basketball, football, table tennis, and all kinds of balls.
A foot-operated sewing machine worth two hundred silver dollars was placed in a small shop for villagers to rent out for five cents an hour!
We'll have two ping-pong tables custom-made by carpenter Su so the village kids can play on them for free.
Lin Mo never intended to make money by selling things at the convenience store; his purpose in opening the store was to make it an information exchange center.
If the villagers all like to come here, then in the future we plan to set up a village cooperative and cultivate things like Pinus sylvestris. The villagers will know the news immediately and come to work.
It's a win-win situation.
This way we can bypass the production team and figure it out ourselves.
Meanwhile, Xu Zhenting, who had been wandering around the village for the past few days, hoping to catch Lin Mo red-handed, had not seen Lin Mo riding his tricycle around the village showing off for several days.
Chen Gang was also keeping an eye on things, lest Xu Zhenting catch him first and then report it to the county authorities.
Lin Mo wandered around the department store, only buying a few hundred yuan worth of items, and didn't plan to stock up on too many goods.
After finishing the shopping, I'll stop by the county health station to see if Xiaoxiao needs any help.
Uncle Su kept insisting on going back to the village, and Su Xiaoxiao had to rack her brains every day to find a reason to stop him.
The doctor's advice was effective; his leg injury required hospitalization for observation, and he needed to be monitored every day.
Su Xiaoxiao has been spending the last few days with her father at the health station, and she feels it's more tiring than doing a day's farm work in the village. Her stubborn father is really a handful.
When Lin Mo arrived, Aunt Su was still figuring out how to prepare for winter.
We haven't saved up enough coal at home, and we haven't even started curing the bacon for winter yet. In short, we're burdened with all the mundane details of survival.
"Xiaoxiao, do you want to go home and get a few changes of clothes? There's a bathroom and hot water in the ward," Lin Mo said smugly, waving the keys in his hand at her.
"We bought a vehicle, a sidecar tricycle."
Hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao was stunned, while Aunt Su was stunned for a moment before realizing she could hitch a ride:
“Hey, can you give us a ride back to the village? We were thinking of waiting for the village chief to bring his donkey cart so we could ride back to the village.”
"Of course I can," Lin Mo readily agreed, his eyes constantly darting towards Su Xiaoxiao with a grin.
"Are you going back to the village? Take some changes of clothes with you, and I'll bring you back."
"Old Su, you stay put and don't run around. Lin Mo, let's go back to the village. If we don't pickle meat and vegetables soon, we won't be able to stay home all winter."
Aunt Su urged Lin Mo even more enthusiastically than the father and daughter. Lin Mo smiled knowingly and pretended to be natural as he pulled Su Xiaoxiao away from the ward.
As they drove back to the village, Aunt Su's mouth never stopped moving; she kept exclaiming in amazement:
"Wow, this sidecar can go so fast!"
"Hey, you'd better ride slower, this road is so bumpy, it feels like sitting on a winnowing basket."
"We've really made something of ourselves, being able to ride this bus back to the village, haha."
Lin Mo rode his bike, feeling both happy and unhappy.
I was originally thinking that Aunt Su would sit in the side seat and Su Xiaoxiao would sit behind us, since the road was so bumpy, she would have to hug our waist.
However, at this moment, Su Xiaoxiao was sitting on the side seat, and Aunt Su was sitting behind him. His waist was about to be pinched purple by Aunt Su, who was always making a fuss.
This was the first time Lin Mo had ridden his bike back to the village on the main road. She pinched him so hard that he felt waves of pain and forgot all about being nervous.
Sure enough, as soon as the sidecar rumbled to the village entrance, Lin Mo spotted more than a dozen people staring at him from a distance along the roadside.
Wang Yanli, who always has a sharp eye, was stunned to see someone riding a military satchel back to the village.
Once they got closer and she recognized Lin Mo as the rider, Wang Yanli immediately started yelling:
"Hey! Where did this military satchel come from!"
Her shouts reached Lin Mo's ears. At the same time, a line of villagers suddenly blocked the village road, forcing him to slow down.
"We bought it ourselves," Lin Mo said, immediately drawing a clear line between them.
At this moment, Xu Zhenting, who had been observing the village openly for several days, saw the commotion and immediately called a large group of educated youth to come over with him.
They also dragged Chen Gang, who was busy at the supply and marketing cooperative, along with them.
"Lin Mo! This is pure speculation and profiteering! Pure crime! It seriously disrupts the economic order!"
Whoosh, the hat flew over as soon as we arrived at the village entrance.
Lin Mo rolled his eyes:
"And then, you're going to tattle again?"
Xu Zhenting, who was full of dissatisfaction, was just about to organize his thoughts to criticize Lin Mo, but he was unable to speak again.
Then, Wang Yanli, who was full of sour feelings, started to complain:
"Everything in our Laoshu Village belongs to the village collective. This military satchel cannot belong to you privately!"
"It must be handed over to the production team!"
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