Chapter 4: Thinking about making money
Father Fang nodded and said "hmm".
Mother Fang said, "Why are you faking a divorce again? You're married and you still want to go back to your parents' home. When you get married, you belong to your husband's family, right?"
The two old people live at home, four kilometers away from the village primary school.
The news was not received until the afternoon, so they hurried to ask what happened.
Anyway, there is no work in the fields at this time of year, so you can leave at any time.
As a result, when I arrived, I saw my son cooking. My granddaughter was playing with a small ball next to her, smiling.
The son told them that it was a fake divorce. Let his daughter-in-law go back first and get a Beijing residence permit first.
He will take the college entrance examination again this year and do his best to get into Beijing.
How can a divorce be fake? The official seal of the commune has been stamped, so it is a real divorce.
Mother Fang is reluctant to part with Lin Yan, a daughter-in-law who has a stable job and receives a monthly salary.
Such a daughter-in-law earns more and spends less! Her parents' home is far away, so there are not so many things to do. Besides, both of the in-laws are workers, so they don't need subsidies from the young couple. They just need to be careful about the brother-in-law. It will be a big deal for him to get married and buy a house.
But these two people acted first and asked for permission later, and all the procedures were completed.
She wanted to ask how their money was divided, but her son was busy cooking and asked her to watch her granddaughter. Well, she would ask later.
Humph, Lin Yan can be a teacher only because of the relationship with the Fang family.
And Mingche earned more in the first place.
She should leave the house with nothing!
Just to prove that she was really "fake divorced", she must leave the house with nothing.
Fang Mingche has already fried green pepper and potato shreds, two-sided yellow tofu, and scrambled eggs with chives, and he will serve the mushroom and shredded pork soup on the table.
Two pots, one for soup and one for cooking. It saves the preparation of the back and the cold of the front. In this weather, it gets cold when the wind blows.
There are many people, so he makes more of each dish. Otherwise, it won't be enough!
People at this time don't have much fat in their stomachs, so they can eat more.
They definitely can't eat so well at other times.
But isn't it that Ah Yan is about to leave, and her parents are here too?
"Mom and Dad, wash your hands and eat--" Fang Mingche said, and turned to add a few bowls of rice to the steamer.
Nowadays, they use coarse bowls, and are reluctant to spend a lot of money to buy beautiful fine porcelain bowls.
Fang's mother looked at the white rice and said, "Do you eat it all day long?"
Life is too good. Only the old man and the eldest son, the two main workers in the family, eat pure rice during the busy farming season.
"No, we usually add sweet potatoes. Aren't you two here?"
Fang Mingche put eggs, tofu, meat, and mushrooms in his daughter's bowl. These will be his job from now on.
Yanyan took her own small bowl.
Her bowl is unbreakable, a real "iron rice bowl". It has been left to dry for a while and is not hot.
The little girl smiled, "Eat well tonight!"
Fang Mingche felt a pang in his heart.
He came from the materially abundant era of the future.
Seeing his daughter like this made him so happy that he became more determined to make more money.
Lin Yan used chopsticks to cut meat into small pieces for her daughter to eat more easily.
Fang's mother also hurriedly picked up meat for Fang's father. Half a pound of meat, for so many people to eat. If you are slow with your chopsticks, you will suffer!
After the divorce, she is an outsider, why should she eat such a good meal?
Fang Mingche wanted to buy more meat, but he only found a half-pound meat ticket. This is the ration for their family of three for the first half of the month, and they bought it all today.
Families also need to plan so that they can get through the end of the month more evenly. There are too many monks and too little porridge, so everything is equivalent to purchase restrictions.
Moreover, the meat processing plant has a time period for supply. It is not a supermarket in the future where you can buy whenever you want.
After eating, Lin Yan cleaned up the dishes and went to wash them. Yanyan followed her.
Fang's mother took her son into the inner room, "How did you divide the family property?"
Fang Mingche knew what she wanted to ask, "Give her one-third of the family savings. The rest of the things you bought must be left to me."
Fang's father thought that this division was fine. If someone was really kicked out of the house, he would definitely be criticized.
So he stopped Fang's mother from talking, "You already have children, and we can't control you. It's okay for you to go to college, anyway, you can work and prepare for the exam at the same time. If Yanyan can't be taken with you, send her back."
"I'm going to go on a long trip later, and Yanyan will really have to be entrusted to the two elders. But I'm at home usually, so she can just stay with me."
Fang's father said, "Where are you going on a long trip?"
"To Guangzhou, help Brother Mingfeng drive and deliver goods."
After Fang Mingche calmed down, he thought carefully about what he could do to make money now.
In his previous life, he was a retired rural teacher, and he didn't have any special skills.
There were only a few ways to make a lot of money in 1979.
They didn't have the conditions to live by the mountains and the water.
He wasn't good at writing.
He couldn't steal the works of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Jia Pingwa, etc. He didn't memorize the whole text, but only read it
. The only thing left was to do business.
However, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee had just been held. Not to mention their small place, even the big cities had not made any movement.
If he wanted to get the first pot of gold, he had to take an unconventional way. That was risky!
But he couldn't wait. He felt uneasy without money.
When Yan returned to the city, she must have waited for him to take her daughter to reunite with her. But objectively, everything might not go as they expected.
The longer the night, the more dreams there are!
Moreover, if he could get the first pot of gold as soon as possible, he would have a first-mover advantage in doing business.
He thought about it and realized that he had one thing that stood out from his contemporaries: he could drive!
His cousin Fang Mingfeng from the next room was a driver who drove a car to transport goods for a big boss in the black market. He
originally worked with his brother-in-law. The two uncles could help each other when they were away from home.
But last month, they encountered someone who forced them to stop the car and robbed them halfway. His brother-in-law was seriously injured and needed to rest for a while.
It was not easy to find other people to partner temporarily. Nowadays, there are
very few people who can drive. Moreover, who would dare to give their backs to others if they were not familiar with each other?
Also, he had to keep a place for his brother-in-law to come back.
But this time the purchase of goods was for the New Year's goods, which was particularly important. He did not dare to refuse it, for fear that there would be no next time.
After all, everyone knows that drivers who can drive everywhere these days are the ones who make the most money.
Fang Mingche certainly did not fancy the hard work fee.
He planned to ask his cousin to lend him 700 yuan and bring some goods from Guangzhou to sell.
Drivers make money, in addition to high wages, by selling goods along the way.
His cousin's family lives better than anyone else in the village, and that's how they live a good life.
Although it is still dangerous to be on the road now, it should be much better than two years ago.
Father Fang asked, "Can you drive?"
"Yes, I learned it when I accompanied Ayan back to her parents' home."
Father Fang thought for a moment, "Your cousin is worried. Since you can drive, you can give him a hand. But you must pay attention to safety."
The nephew has been driving for several years, and he has only encountered one or two accidents.
"Dad, I know. Ask him to come to me after the fifth."
(End of this chapter)
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