Chapter 6 It's worth buying
Now we are finally working!
Building the railway will take at least several months, which is enough time for everyone to make some money.
"Have you asked clearly? Are you going to recruit workers tomorrow?" Gao Yuanjian asked again with a smile.
"Of course I have asked clearly. You can go to work tomorrow. There is not much work in the fields recently. I plan to take my two sons to work on the railway. Brother, what do you think about the arrangements at home? The eldest, second and third sons can also go, but the fourth son is still a little young."
Speaking of the fourth child, Gao Yuanjian said, "School will start in two days, and the fourth child still needs to go to school."
"Oh, the fourth child is in the third year of junior high school, right? Is he planning to take the senior high school entrance exam?" Gao Fanmao also took the opportunity to ask about the academic performance of the fourth child, Gao Mingli.
The poor student Gao Mingli smiled a little embarrassedly and hid aside.
Gao Yuanjian sighed. There was no scholar in his family, but in order not to be a blind man, he had to go to school for a few more years. Anyway, the child was young and couldn't do anything if he stayed at home.
Of course, when he thought this, he completely forgot that his younger daughter was even younger, but was no longer studying and was staying at home to help with housework.
In rural areas, people generally prefer boys to girls.
The four brothers of Gao Mingcheng all went to junior high school, but the youngest sister was not allowed to continue her studies after finishing elementary school. The reason was that the junior high school was too far away and it was inconvenient for her as a girl to live in the school.
As for girls, it’s enough for them to learn to read after finishing primary school. It won’t interfere with doing housework or getting married and having children!
The topic only deviated for a moment and then returned to the main track.
Gao Yuanjian looked at his sons and said, "It's a rare opportunity to make money right next door. Tomorrow, all three of you will follow me to work on the railway!"
Gao Yuanjian was used to being the boss, so he spoke in an imperative tone.
However, the eldest brother Gao Mingpeng and the third brother Gao Mingwan did not object to this. Gao Mingwan just asked, "Dad, do we get the wages ourselves?"
The Gao family has not yet split up. The family's source of income is the millet and agricultural products sold from the fields every year, watermelons in summer, sugarcane in autumn, and some vegetables.
In addition to these, Gao Yuanjian has other ways to make money. Every late autumn, when others start to be idle, Gao Yuanjian starts to get busy.
Because he knows how to steam wine.
By late autumn, people would start asking him to come to their homes to make wine. In addition to making wine, Gao Yuanjian would also be the chef for weddings and funerals. With these two jobs, he could earn over a thousand yuan a year, and as much as two to three thousand yuan.
Because of this, Gao Yuanjian was able to support his five children and send his four sons to junior high school.
Hearing the third brother mention money, Gao Yuanjian subconsciously glared at him, and Gao Mingwan immediately shrank his head.
Gao Yuanjian wanted to say that he would naturally hand over the wages to his family, but his wife next to him suddenly bumped his arm and signaled him with her eyes to go see his eldest daughter-in-law Huang Su'e.
He saw expectation in his eldest daughter-in-law's eyes.
After a few seconds of pausing, Gao Yuanjian said, "You eat at home, you live at home, which one doesn't cost money? Besides, you are old now, and your family still needs to find you a wife to start a family, and all of these things cost money!"
"But you are grown up now, and it is not convenient for you to be without money. How about this, you can take one dollar out of the two dollars and ninety cents for your wages, and give the rest to your family."
When Gao Mingwan heard the previous part, his face was filled with disappointment and he thought there was no hope. But his father agreed to let them keep one dollar for themselves!
Gao Mingwan immediately smiled happily, and even Gao Mingpeng and eldest daughter-in-law Huang Su'e also smiled.
Gao Mingcheng didn't say a word from beginning to end. Although he often caused trouble outside and had a rather nonchalant personality, he was actually relatively taciturn at home. Because he had always been like this, his family members were used to his silence and would even ignore his existence.
Gao Mingcheng knew that the construction of the railway had begun. In his previous life, he also worked on the railway for a few days. But building a railway is actually a very tiring job, not to mention that the weather is very hot now. Carrying stones, repairing the ground, mixing cement, etc. under the hot sun would make people exhausted after a day.
In his previous life, he worked on the railway for three days, and then he met a group of tomb robbers who came into the mountains to scout the area. He then joined forces with the tomb robbers to rob tombs. Afterwards, someone came to collect the items, but he thought the price was too low, so he made up his mind and dragged Gao Zhuang to Nanchang to sell them. However, when he arrived in Nanchang, he heard that he could sell them for a higher price in Hong Kong.
After this trip, his life path became completely different from that of the villagers.
At night, Gao Mingcheng lay in bed for a long time and couldn't fall asleep.
The Gao family has many people but a small house. Before, he and his eldest brother slept in one room, while his third and fourth brothers slept in the small room next door. But now that his eldest brother is married, he naturally has to move out, and now the three brothers have to sleep in one small room.
The whole room had only a cabinet and a large bed.
It was getting dark, there was nothing to do in the countryside, and people were reluctant to use electricity or kerosene lamps, so they went to bed early.
His third and fourth brothers were already snoring, and it was getting even more noisy and it was making it harder for him to sleep.
He simply got up and wanted to go to the yard to enjoy the cool air, but after thinking about it, he took out the "Shaolin Kung Fu Secrets" from the cabinet.
After his rebirth, he has not read this book carefully.
In fact, after a lifetime of experience, he already knew that this book was not a martial arts secret book, but just some fancy stuff.
If you want to learn martial arts, you need a master to guide you.
For each movement, how to exert force and how to train to achieve the desired effect, all these need to be passed down orally from a master. You cannot learn them just by reading a book.
After he became rich in his previous life, he knew that martial arts also had to be learned systematically, so he spent a lot of money and hired a master who had won a grand prize in martial arts competitions to teach him.
Relying on the skills he learned, he successfully survived several struggles.
Thinking of his ups and downs in his previous life, Gao Mingcheng sighed.
The moonlight is like water. Although there is no light, the sky is clear and the moonlight can illuminate everything.
But this light is still not enough to support reading.
Gao Mingcheng's family has electricity, but he is reluctant to use it on weekdays. He only uses electricity when he uses the radio.
He went to find a kerosene lamp as if he knew the way.
Most of them use kerosene lamps here. The kerosene is bought from the cooperative at 30 cents per pound.
After the kerosene lamp was lit, the orange-red flame swayed slightly in the night breeze.
Taking advantage of the light, Gao Mingcheng took out the book "Shaolin Kung Fu Secrets" and flipped through it with nostalgia.
After a lifetime, he actually couldn't remember what the book contained. Now reading it again, it was like the first time, with a feeling of both familiarity and strangeness.
After reading it through, he suddenly found that the book was actually quite interesting.
In his previous life, he was ignorant and had no idea of the essence of martial arts. He fought based on instinct, and usually won because of his good physical fitness, quick eyes and quick hands.
When you learn the moves from this book, you are just learning the moves, but you cannot use these moves in a real fight.
But now he had the foundation he had learned from a martial arts master in his previous life, so when he read the book again, he knew how to integrate it and how to use the moves to subdue the enemy.
"Hey, this book is worth buying!" Gao Mingcheng smiled, a little excited.
(End of this chapter)
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