Her mother said, "I have thought of a way. No matter what, you must ask your mother-in-law to write your name on the property title. I am thinking that when the time comes, I will ask you to mortgage the property title and borrow 10,000 yuan to build a mushroom greenhouse for your eldest brother. When the mushrooms are sold and we make money, I will return the 10,000 yuan to you."
"If Hong Gang doesn't want to, at most you can ask your eldest brother to calculate the interest for him. If that doesn't work, then we can just treat it as a partnership between the two families. He pays the money, and your eldest brother does the work. When the time comes, they can sit down and discuss how to divide the profits."
"What do you think?"
When Yang Xiaohui heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up.
Recently, it has become popular in many villages to build mushroom greenhouses. Many people have made a lot of money by selling mushrooms, earning 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year.
Isn’t this better than farming?
Moreover, her husband's family has always looked down on her parents' family, and they dislike that her parents' family always asks her for money and things. If one day, her husband's family and the fourth child Li Honggang make money, let's see what the mother-in-law will say.
"Mom, I think this is a good idea."
Yang Xiaohui's mother smiled, but she was still a little worried: "Hey, I'm still afraid your mother-in-law won't agree."
"Mom, it's okay. If she doesn't agree, I can find someone else to borrow." Yang Xiaohui is not like her mother. Her mother has never confronted her mother-in-law head-on. She doesn't know how cruel and cunning her mother-in-law Chen Xiaoying is now. The matter of mortgaging the house deed is not safe no matter how she thinks about it.
Yang Xiaohui's mother couldn't believe her daughter wanted to borrow money directly. She thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. Who are you going to borrow from?"
Now, the people in my daughter's husband's family have made a lot of money. Her niece Li Yutong has opened a hot pot restaurant in the town and also opened a hot pot ingredients workshop. Rumor has it that they have even bought a shop.
Ten thousand yuan is just a small amount of money in other people's eyes.
She counted on her fingers and talked to her daughter Yang Xiaohui about them one by one: "...Besides her, there is also your eldest brother Li Hongwei. Doesn't your mother-in-law own half of the small restaurant he runs? He will get a lot of money this year. You can ask them later."
Now there are many people in the village who want to build mushroom greenhouses, but there are still very few who actually build them. First, the work is too hard and tiring, and farmers can’t stand it; second, it requires capital; and third, many people cannot afford the consequences of failure.
If you lose money, it will take several years to pay it back.
Most people are waiting and watching.
What the mother and daughter could not have imagined was that this kind of mushroom cannot be grown simply by building a greenhouse and asking it to grow.
When the fourth brother Li Honggang knew nothing, Yang Xiaohui ran to the eldest brother Li Hongwei to borrow money.
Li Hongwei thought it was not possible: "Mushroom greenhouses are not something that most people can do. You need to invest money and have the skills. How can you dare to invest money in it when you don't know anything?"
The eldest sister-in-law Liu Lanxiang was also unhappy. The fourth brother's wife asked for 10,000 yuan, but she would not give it to her even if she had the money because she was not good at working. She was lazy and petty, and she couldn't count. She would definitely be cheated by her family in the future, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Just like that 5,000 yuan loan, not a penny has been repaid in ten years.
Yang Xiaohui finally wanted to do something big, so she said, "Brother, think about it, when Xiaoyu was doing business, didn't you disagree? But she still succeeded. Brother, you have to do everything before you know if you are suitable for it."
Li Hongwei turned his gaze to Liu Lanxiang.
Liu Lanxiang asked: "Does Hong Gang know?"
It's not up to her alone to decide on borrowing money.
Yang Xiaohui's eyes flickered: "He knows."
Liu Lanxiang has been dealing with fourth brother's wife Yang Xiaohui for ten years. One look at her eyes and she knows that fourth brother Li Honggang doesn't know about the loan.
"Let the fourth brother come and talk to us. Some things can only be explained clearly in person," she said.
Yang Xiaohui didn't expect that her elder brother and sister-in-law, whom she usually thought were honest and stupid, would play tricks on her and insist on seeing Li Hong just now.
She didn't want to expose the fact that she hadn't told Li Honggang, so she smiled and said, "Okay, I'll go to the county town tomorrow to ask him to go."
Yang Xiaohui left with a sullen face on the way. She had earned so much money, but she was unwilling to lend even ten thousand yuan to her brother's family.
After Yang Xiaohui left, Li Hongwei immediately called his mother Chen Xiaoying.
Chen Xiaoying had just closed the shop and returned to her residence when she answered the phone and found out what had happened.
She suddenly remembered that this happened in her previous life. Yang Xiaohui's parents wanted to build a mushroom greenhouse, so they asked Yang Xiaohui to borrow money. Yang Xiaohui didn't know where she borrowed the money from, and she didn't discuss it with the fourth brother.
Because the money has been invested, we have to do it.
So, for almost a year, the fourth brother and his wife helped with housework at Yang Xiaohui's parents' home. She cooked, washed clothes and took care of the children for Li Yumeng, who was in elementary school in the village.
She was also waiting for the couple to earn money so that they could live a better life.
As a result, they lost money in the first year. They hired a technician and cooked in the same way as others. Other people's mushrooms produced one crop after another, but Yang's mushrooms grew sparsely, were not big, and were of poor quality, looking black.
Shiitake mushrooms don't grow well if the wind is too strong, the humidity is too high or too low, or it's too hot or too cold. It's simply difficult to grow them.
She paid compensation, but she didn't know how much. The couple had a fight at home, and she went to stop them twice.
Then the next year, they continued working, and this time they made money. Then, the couple started arguing again.
It turned out that it was Yang Xiaohui's brother who calculated the wages of one person for the couple, saying that Yang Xiaohui was one of their family members and was working for them, so there was no reason to charge her. He only calculated the wages of Li Honggang.
Since his food and accommodation are provided, if I hire someone for 40 yuan a day, I will just charge him 20 yuan.
Then, after deducting the costs for rainy days, days without work, or days where he only worked for half a day and then gave him a salary of more than 2,000 yuan.
This is definitely a scam.
To do the job of picking mushrooms, one sometimes has to get up in the middle of the night and add firewood to the stove, which needs to be kept burning all night. Yang Xiaohui's elder brother is not a hard worker at all. He thinks of himself as the boss and only knows how to order his brother-in-law Li Honggang to do the work.
When Li Hong first heard what Yang Xiaohui said, he just thought that this was a business partnership between the two families. Since his brother-in-law didn't want to do it, he could do it himself. Anyway, if he did a good job, he could make a lot of money.
He was working very hard.
As a result, he turned around and became a laborer. The Yang family treated him like a beast and even considered it as the work they hired him to do. Isn't this a scam?
When the Yang family heard that he had made more than 30,000 yuan in the end, they only gave him more than 2,000 yuan.
"Okay, I know about this. Don't get involved in the Yang family's affairs. We don't have a penny." Chen Xiaoying said on the phone.
The eldest, Li Hongwei, breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, Mom, I get it. I was just worried that the fourth child would get confused."
Yang Xiaohui's elder brother is narrow-minded and unkind.
Many people in their Yangjia Village don't like to associate with him, and the fourth brother has suffered a lot of bullying over the years. If they were to go into business together, it goes without saying that the fourth brother would suffer losses.
Yang Xiaohui thinks her elder brother is a good person, but does her elder brother think of her as a human being?