Chapter 115 114: Rice Bowl
Yang Chunyan and the other two crossed the bridge and went uphill. They saw Zhou Xiaowen and Zhou Xiaoru picking wild flowers on the roadside. "Xiaowen, Xiaoru, why are you here?"
Zhou Xiaoru threw the wild flowers away and ran over, "Mom, old man, I want to take the chicken bus!"
Zhou Xiaowen, "I want to sit too!"
Li Qiuyue looked at the wild flowers on their heads with amusement, "You two little fairies, why do you put so many wild flowers on your heads?"
The two of them touched Xiaotu and looked at her proudly, "It looks good!"
Zhou Huaishan stopped the bus and carried the two of them up and sat them down.
Zhou Xiaowen looked at Yang Chunyan, "Aunt, Huang Binbin's mother collected eels, and Dad went to fight with Cai Ermei, and grandma scolded him and made him cry."
Zhou Huaishan said with a smile: "Little mosquito, why is your father crying?"
Zhou Xiaowen frowned and pouted, "That's how you cry."
The three of them laughed when they saw it.
Li Qiuyue curled her lips, "How dare these two shameless people come back!"
Zhou Huaishan glanced at her and said, "Stop meddling in other people's business."
Li Qiuyue glared at him and said to Yang Chunyan, "Looks like we'll have to go out and collect eels tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "We have been collecting eels for two days. The families in our brigade who have a lot of eels may have sold them. Tomorrow, one person will carry a bucket to several nearby brigades to collect them."
"Yes, they will wait at home, and we will go out to collect them ourselves. Those who find it troublesome will definitely be willing to sell to us."
When they were about to reach the brigade's dam, Li Qiuyue said to Zhou Huaishan, "You go back first. Chunyan and I will go and see how those two shameless people collected it."
"What's the point? Just do your own thing."
"You know shit!"
Li Qiuyue took Yang Chunyan and walked away. When they were almost at Ye's agency store, two women carrying bamboo baskets came towards them.
As soon as he saw the two of them, he said unhappily, "Qiuyue, I lost money selling my eels to you. Ye Xiaoshuang charges 29 cents per pound."
Another person said, "That's right. I caught 16 or 17 jin of eels, but I only lost a little over 10 cents. If I had known, I would have kept them and sold them in the afternoon. A little over 10 cents! I can buy a jin of salt, and the remaining money can buy a few boxes of matches.
"Mrs. Xu, we earn a little money from hard labor, so we really don't dare to pay a high price." Li Qiuyue looked at the agency and said loudly, "There are many people who spend money to fill a bottomless pit. Let alone 29 cents, even if they charge 39 cents a pound, they are not afraid of losing money."
Those who knew the inside story nodded and said, "Qiuyue, your family also charges 29 cents per pound. We will send them to your family next time."
Li Qiuyue said with a bitter face, "We don't have the ability to find a rich boss to buy it. If the price is too high, we will lose money."
Several women who were drying mushrooms in the drying dam came over and looked at the Ye family's sales agency with disdain. "That's right, we never go there to buy things. You can go to the backyard and see that there are two or three tables of men there every day. Even if they don't make money, they have men to support them."
"Qiuyue," someone patted Li Qiuyue and pouted at her towards the agency, "Did you see those two when you went to Ning'an?"
"Haha!" Li Qiuyue laughed dryly, "Sisters-in-law, we're leaving first, leaving first!" After that, she pulled Yang Chunyan away.
Yang Chunyan glanced at the agency store and suddenly remembered that in her previous life, ever since Cai Ermei instigated people to make a scene at Zhou's house and got the medical expenses paid by the Zhou family, it wasn't long before Wang Chunhua discovered his affair with Ye Xiaoshuang.
Wang Chunhua was also a ruthless character. While the two were having a tryst, he went home and called his brothers over. He stripped Ye Xiaoshuang naked and hung her at the door of her house.
Then Ye Xiaoshuang's in-laws had another fight with the Ye family. No one knew what the two families talked about, but within two months, Ye Xiaoshuang married a bachelor from the mountains as her son-in-law.
After Cai Ermei was caught committing adultery, he couldn't even raise his head in front of his wife and children. No one knew when he ran away. It was not until he was sentenced that everyone realized he had been in Ning'an.
"Chunyan, what are you thinking about?" Li Qiuyue pulled her aside, "Widow Ye is charging 2.9 cents per pound, should we also raise the price by one cent?"
Yang Chunyan came to her senses. She had never done business in her previous life, but after watching so much TV, she knew some business tips. "It's not impossible to raise the price by one cent. What I'm worried about is that if we raise the price by one cent, they will raise the price by one cent as well, and in the end, no one will make any money."
"What should I do?"
"I think we should go farther away to collect the goods first. When it becomes difficult to collect the goods, we will raise the price."
"That's the only way. Let's go back and see how much the youngest one has collected today. How many mushrooms did the eldest sister-in-law and the others pick up?"
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. Even if we don't have eels to sell, we can still dig herbs and pick mushrooms to sell."
"That's right. I didn't do anything before, but I still passed."
When the two sisters-in-law got home, they saw Zhou Huaishan holding a bamboo pole and measuring the empty space next to the washboard. Zhou Huaian was gesturing, "Youngest, how many eels did you catch today?"
"165 pounds!" Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan, "Don't go to the agency store to look at it in the future. I beat Cai Ermei today and broke up with him."
"Did you really hit him?" Li Qiuyue couldn't believe her ears.
"Hit him!" Zhou Huaian said calmly.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan was completely relieved. As long as she broke up with Cai Ermei, she would not have to go into the mountains to look for honey and get into trouble next spring.
Li Qiuyue gave him a thumbs up, "Well done! Scum like Cai Ermei deserves to be beaten!"
Zhou's mother came over from the backyard, "Qiuyue, Chunyan, there is still rice left in the pot. Go and eat some if you are hungry."
"No, we ate the rice balls we brought with us, so we're not hungry at all." Yang Chunyan looked around, "Are sister-in-law and the others not back yet?"
"No, Jiaming, Xiaoqian and Jialiang all went together."
Yang Chunyan looked at Li Qiuyue and said, "Third sister-in-law, it's still early. Let's go and cut the herbs we saw yesterday."
"Yes! I'll go change my clothes and leave." Li Qiuyue hurried towards the room.
"Mom, this is the money from selling corn!" Yang Chunyan gave the money from selling corn to Zhou's mother and went back to the house to change clothes and shoes.
Zhou Huaian followed her back to the room, looked at her and said, "Yan'er, I just found out yesterday that Erchun also saved more than 300 yuan. Ye Xiaoshuang's agency store was co-opened by Cai Ermei. I am the most useless one. I didn't even save a dollar."
Yang Chunyan looked at him and said, "If you want, it's not too late to start saving money today."
Zhou Huaian said somewhat frustratedly: "Yan'er, Cai Ermei's problems are all my fault! I won't tell everything to others in the future. Today I finally understand what it means that trouble comes from the mouth and disease comes from the mouth."
Yang Chunyan said gently, "You are right to think so. Think about it, if our family had not kept the secret after selling the bezoar, the money would have been gone long ago. Not to mention the money, what else might have happened?"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian remembered that after the story of the bezoar spread, Xiong Dahai came to his uncle's house to inquire about the news, his aunt came to borrow money, and all the relatives and friends asked about it in a roundabout way, all of them came for the money from selling the bezoar.
Thinking back, I felt a little sorry for not telling Yiding and the others the truth. Now it seems that telling them would be unfair to my own family.
Yang Chunyan changed her shoes and saw him sitting there with his head down. She said softly, "I still say that as long as you have a little brain, you can do business. The ability to grow herbs is a skill. Once you learn it, no one can steal it. This is our future job."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Don't worry, I will read the book carefully and learn the planting techniques!"
(End of this chapter)
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