After the banquet, Yang Chunyan and his wife played for two hours, then walked back with Xiao Jiuer, looking at the bulging rapeseed pods in the field, "The rapeseed will be harvested in the middle of next month."
Yang Dongmei pointed to the field in front and said, "This year, our family planted four mu of rapeseed. It will take several days to harvest it all."
Zhou Huaian turned his head and looked at Wang Zhen, "Your shop should be finished by the end of the month, right?"
Wang Zhen: "We will open on Labor Day. A batch of goods will arrive the day after tomorrow, and there will be a TV among them. Remember to come and pick it up."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "When the shop opens, you won't be free. Come to my house tomorrow and we'll take you to hunt gray storks in the evening. How about turtledoves?"
Wang Zhen thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go to your house tomorrow afternoon and go back to Ning'an with you the day after tomorrow morning."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Then I'll go catch a few tonight. The turtledoves stewed with mushrooms and the gray storks braised in brown sauce will taste delicious."
After hearing this, Yang Dongmei touched her face and said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister, you see, I have gained weight from eating delicious food every day."
Yang Chunyan turned her head and saw her pink and tender skin. She touched it with a smile and said, "It's just right now. It will look better if you are a little fatter."
"I know. It means you have to stay like this. If you get fatter, you won't look good." Yang Dongmei held her hand affectionately. "Sister, is your aunt's shop ready?"
Yang Chunyan: "Big brother and the others are helping out there today, we'll go check on her later."
Yang Dongmei: "My sister-in-law said yesterday that after your aunt has worked for a while, she wants to lend some money to her sister so that she can set up a stall in our town to sell clothes and make some money to pay off the debt."
"My elder sister-in-law and younger sister are married in Hengshan Town?"
"Have you forgotten? Her mother-in-law's family lives behind the town. Two years ago, a fire broke out and burned down most of the house next door. The compensation to that family has not been paid off yet, and the family is in great difficulty."
"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten."
Yang Dongmei looked at her reproachfully, "No wonder people say that pregnancy makes people stupid for three years. I think you have become much dumber since you gave birth to Xiao Jiuer."
Yang Chunyan blinked after hearing this and said, "It seems so!"
It’s none of Xiaojiuer’s business. After all, so many years have passed, and she has almost forgotten everything about outsiders except her own family matters.
Yang Dongmei looked at her and said, "Sister, I am now worried that I will end up like you in the future."
Yang Chunyan said hurriedly, "No, I can't remember what happened in other people's families because I didn't take it to heart. I remember everything about my family, even the smallest things, clearly."
Yang Dongmei laughed after hearing this, "Fortunately, the eldest sister-in-law is not here. She feels really bad for her youngest sister."
"The youngest should be pampered, and you are one of them."
“I think so too!”
As they were talking, they reached the intersection. Zhou Huaian put Xiao Jiuer in the backpack and took the bicycle pushed by Wang Zhen, "Let's go!"
The two nodded, "Ride slowly on the road!"
"Don't worry!" Yang Chunyan waved to the two of them, got on her bicycle and caught up with Zhou Huaian.
When the two arrived at Baima Town, they saw the carpenter and Zhou Huaishan standing on a stepladder installing iron pipes for hanging clothes. There was a cigarette counter left in the container at the door.
Zhou Yumei and Luo Haili squatted at the door of the store, picking up the cartons and bottles and cans scattered on the ground.
Zhou Huaian braked the car and stopped at the door. "Sister, where is Xiaoxi? Where are your things?"
"Qiaoling took her to school to play, and everything in the store was sold out." Zhou Yumei stood up with a smile, "I told Aunt Li that I wanted to sell some clothes, and people from the neighborhood came. Matches, flashlights, batteries, needles and thread were cheaper than usual, and they were all gone in less than an hour."
Luo Haili took over the conversation, "You didn't see that when we usually buy salt, soy sauce and vinegar, we only buy one kilogram at most. I heard that now they are buying 10 or 8 kilograms. We still save the ones we eat in advance, otherwise they will snatch them all up."
Yang Chunyan feels that clearance goods are particularly easy to sell these days. As long as they are a little cheaper than usual, everyone will rush to buy them.
Zhou Huaian pointed at the cigarette cabinet and asked, "Why haven't you disposed of the cigarettes?"
Zhou Yumei smiled and said, "Keep these. Sell 20 to 30 bags a day, and it's enough for the day's expenses. As for the potatoes, ice powder seeds, and rice noodles, my third brother brought Qiuxia to take them away. She said they're not as cheap as here in the county town."
Yang Chunyan took Xiao Jiuer out of the basket and asked, "How's the business of Qiuxia's snack stand?"
Zhou Yumei hurriedly took out a piece of chili candy from her pocket and gave it to Xiao Jiuer. "I heard that on a good day, you can earn 20 or 30 yuan, and on the worst day, you can still earn 10 yuan a day. Qiuxia said that if you work for two months, you can pay off the debt.
The couple likes cleanliness, has good tempers, and the food they make tastes good. If they keep doing this for a while, their business should be even better.”
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Third sister-in-law is worried that they won't last long, but they are doing well."
Zhou Huaishan: "Qiuxia and her husband have been training in the county for a while. They are much bolder than before. They plan to work for another month and then return to Jianshanzi to transfer their household registration."
Zhou Huaian: "I think it's better for Sister Haili and her family. The village didn't give them any land, and they don't have to pay public grain or agricultural taxes. It's not like us. At the end of the year, we only have a little food left."
The carpenter who was working said, "Young man, it's good to have food. You are young and don't know that during a famine, even if you have gold cakes in your pocket, you can't exchange them for food."
Zhou Huaishan shrugged. "Where did Brother Nong get the gold cake? He doesn't even have a penny in his pocket. If he doesn't store more food, he will starve if there is a famine someday!"
Although Yang Chunyan knew that she could buy food as long as she had money in the future, everyone here had experienced those years and knew what it felt like to be hungry, so they all liked to stock up on food.
Otherwise, why would Zhou Huaian buy two thousand kilograms of millet every year and store it in the granary? It was probably because he had had enough of the corn flour and sorghum that irritated his throat.
In fact, it is good to have coarse grains to eat. I am just afraid that I will eat sweet potatoes every day until I get heartburn and drool, and I won’t be able to eat coarse grains.
Zhou Huaian helped the two put away the bottles and jars. Zhou Yumei pointed to a few glass jars and said to Yang Chunyan, "Take some back to store honey and sugar."
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan looked around the store and asked, "Sister, when do you plan to open the store?"
"It's better to do it today than to postpone it. Tomorrow is the tenth day of the lunar calendar, which is the twenty-second day of the solar calendar. Hang up the clothes today and open for business tomorrow." Zhou Yumei said with a smile, "Brother has gone back to pick up my sister-in-law and the others. You guys stay here and help me hang up the goods."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "With so many people, it won't take long to hang it up."
After a while, Zhou Huaishan and the carpenter finished making the clothes hanging racks. Zhou Yumei paid the workers, cleaned up the debris in the shop, and prepared to hang the goods.
Yang Chunyan asked Zhou Huaian to look after the child and help take the clothes out of the bag. Only then did she realize that the clothes in the package were wrinkled and did not look good at all when hung up.
She thought of the clothing stores she used to go to, where the owners would iron the clothes straight before hanging them up. "Oh no, I forgot to buy an iron."
Luo Haili picked up a shirt and shook it vigorously a few times. "It's okay. It will be straight after hanging for a while."
Zhou Yumei took it and put it on the hanger, holding the hem of the clothes and saying, "Sell it for a few days first, and buy another one next time you go to restock."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Sister, you are very confident!"
Zhou Yumei nodded, "I'm very confident. I'll take care of your family's clothes from now on."
She went to Ning'an this morning and took a look around. At the clothing stalls in the city, clothes were crowded together and hung on small stalls. You couldn't even see the styles, but the owners were still too busy to handle it.
There was a clothing stall that had two beige shirts like the one Chunyan picked up yesterday. The purchase price was about ten yuan each, but the owner asked for twenty-six and sold them for twenty-three, which was exactly double the price.
They sell jelly and fried potatoes for more than ten yuan, and they have to sell more than twenty bowls, including the cost and profit, to make enough. No wonder Chunyan said that the more expensive the things are, the more money they can make.
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "You don't have to pack it. Just sell it to me with a little extra shipping fee later."
Zhou Yumei glared at him in reproach, "Either give it away for free, or buy it at a discounted price, you choose whichever you want."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Sister, your money didn't come from the wind, you still have to pay the purchase price."
Zhou Yumei glanced at the two of them, thinking that the dividends she had received from them in the past two years were just like the wind blowing in!
Only the youngest child in the family would treat himself like this. What does a few sets of clothes in a year mean?
The three of them were busy for a while, and then Zhao Huifang, Zhang Xiuxiang and Li Qiuyue came. When they saw the clothes that were already hung up, they thought that the style was nice and the look was very fashionable.
Zhou Huaian helped hang up two pieces of clothing. He felt that the chirping of several women in the shop was as lively as the sparrows in the woods returning to their nests. He picked up Xiao Jiuer who was playing nearby and went to the backyard to watch Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaishan digging in the vegetable garden.
Luo Haili came out with a kettle and said to Zhou Yumei, "Look, Fang Dongming is here."
Zhou Yumei turned her head and took a look. "Come on."
Yang Chunyan and the others all turned their heads to look over. Zhao Huifang turned to Zhou Yumei and said, "Yumei, ask them to come in and sit down!"
Their family all thought that Fang Dongming was a good man, but Zhou Yumei had never agreed. She might have given up on the man and didn't want to look for another one.
Zhou Yumei turned around and saw him still standing outside the shop. After thinking about it, she walked over and asked, "Are you off work?"
She knew Fang Dongming was a good man, but she thought about how she was still a virgin and it would not be a good ending for her if she married He Jianjun.
Now that I have a child, if I really agree to marry Fang Dongming, and if he treats the child badly and then divorces me, my spine will be broken.
She is living a good life with her child now and doesn't want to hire someone to serve her, who would make her work tiringly and then have to endure the humiliation.
"Hey!" Fang Dongming handed over a net bag, "These are apples given by the company. I'm giving them to Xiaoxi to eat."
Seeing that a large net bag was full, Zhou Yumei said hurriedly, "No need, we have fruit at home."
"Xiaoxi likes to eat fruit." Fang Dongming hadn't finished speaking when he heard Zhou Xiaoxi's cheerful voice behind him, "Uncle Fang, you're here to see me!"
"Uncle will bring you some fruit." Fang Dongming stuffed the net bag into Zhou Yumei's hands, walked forward and picked her up, "Uncle will hold her up high!" (End of this chapter)
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