Chapter 83 Doorway
early morning.
Wangou Village.
Zhao Laowu's home.
After getting the wild boar and selling it to Zhao Yi, Zhao Laowu went to Li Dequan to apply for a residential plot and asked the villagers to help build a house.
Before the snow fell, the house that belonged to me was finally completed, and I hired a carpenter to make a simple set of ordinary furniture.
Now all we need is someone to cook for us to live with.
Zhao Laowu, who woke up from the cold in bed, got up.
I went to Liu Qi's house with a bottle of liquor.
"Captain Liu."
As soon as Zhao Laowu entered the Liu family courtyard, his face was immediately filled with smiles.
Liu Qi also smiled when he saw the bottle of wine in Zhao Laowu's hand.
Liu Qi was only the captain of the militia, not the team leader. There were not many things he could manage and he hardly received any gifts. At most, the members respected him more.
The militia captain's annual work point subsidy is not much, not as much as Wu Lan, the director of the Women's Federation. The only advantage is that when the county armed forces department leads the militia for training, he can follow them and have a few full meals.
I wouldn’t dare eat as much as I want at home.
"You just moved into your new house, what are you planning to do?"
Liu Qi and Zhao Laowu have a good relationship. They chat happily and often joke with each other.
"Brother Liu, I came here to tell you something. It's about how to make money. If it were anyone else, I definitely wouldn't tell you. But we're brothers, so how can I forget you if there's something good going on?"
Zhao Laowu looked at Liu Qi and said.
"Old Five, if you have anything to say, just tell me directly. There's no need to play these confusing games. If I can do it, I will definitely help you find a way to do it."
Liu Qi and Zhao Laowu sat in the main room and talked in a low voice.
Liu Qi is not a fool as to how to make money. He knows what ways there are to make money now. Wangou Village is too far away from the county town and there is not even a side job. As for how to make money in the village, there is only one way, which is the coal mine job vacated by Li Chao.
But many people in the village are also afraid of this. Didn’t they see that two people were killed in the landslide incident in Zhangjia Village?
The coal mine compensated the coal miners who had the accident with 120 yuan, and they are still being supported. They go to the coal mine to collect 40 kilograms of food every month until they are able to work again.
Who wants to die while alive? No matter how poor Wangou Village is, people can still have enough to eat.
Liu Qi thought that Zhao Laowu was thinking about the job in the coal mine. Now Li Dequan asked the villagers to draw lots. Not many people from the village went. All of them were men with many children and a lot of pressure at home.
There is no way, sometimes poverty is more terrible than death.
"If I can't help you with the coal mine, two people have already signed up."
Liu Qi took a sip of the wine poured by Zhao Laowu and said.
"Brother Liu, how can such a dangerous thing be called a way to make money? I'm talking about mountain products. The mountains are all covered with snow now. Wild boars leave footprints wherever they go. Let's go into the mountains and hunt wild boars. I've already contacted the buyer and he'll charge 50 cents per pound."
Zhao Laowu muttered softly.
"this."
The words Liu Qi wanted to say were stuck in his throat. He originally thought that Zhao Laowu was begging him to find a way to get him in. Not to mention that he didn't have the right, even if he did, he didn't want Zhao Laowu to work in the coal mine. It was too dangerous.
"Old Five is trying to fleece the team. If the team finds out, we'll have to bear the consequences if we can't finish the money."
Liu Qi lowered the volume of his conversation by one notch, for fear that passers-by might hear him. However, the temptation of fifty cents per pound was too great. Even a small wild boar could fetch dozens of dollars.
A few dozen dollars can do a lot in the village.
Food was only seven cents a pound.
"Brother Liu, if you don't tell me about this, and I don't tell you either, let's just do it in the mountains and not bring it back to the village, and go straight to the district, who would know?"
Zhao Laowu said with a smile.
It's not that Zhao Laowu doesn't want to go to Qixingao to collect wild boar meat and sell it. He can earn a lot of money from each trip, but going to Qixingao requires capital. How much capital does it take to go into the mountains to hunt? On a snowy day, as long as you pass by nearby, the footprints will basically not disappear. Even if it is covered by snow immediately, there are still some traces that can be seen.
"Done it, wealth and honor come from risk."
Liu Qi nodded.
Afterwards, the two men packed up their team's stuff and headed into the mountain carrying two backpacks.
area.
Department store repair shop.
The whole morning passed and no maintenance workers came. Zhao Yi locked the door and went back home. The weather was getting colder day by day.
As soon as I got home, I saw Zhang Fusheng at the door.
"dad."
Zhao Yi was not surprised. Zhang Fusheng had business dealings with the supply and marketing cooperative and would come to collect scraps of cloth on the first of every month. Now that the villagers didn't have to work, everyone in the family could help make soles.
Of course, Zhang Fusheng said that now there are only the two old people and Zhang Jing’s second brother and sister-in-law left in the family.
Zhang Jun took his wife to the county town, and only after he received his salary would he let his wife buy some things and bring a few dollars home to visit them.
"It's not easy to travel on the mountain road in this weather. Your mother asked me to come and bring you some eggs, saying that Xiaojing is pregnant and she has to spend money to buy everything in the city."
Zhang Fusheng carried the basket into the house and carefully took the eggs inside to where Zhao Yi's family kept eggs.
There are more than seventy eggs, and there is almost no space at home to store them.
"Dad, just keep it for yourself. It's not easy to come all the way here."
Zhao Yi said.
"Your elder brother went to the county town and brought five yuan to the family every month. Thanks to you, Xiaojing, your mother and I can also earn a lot of money every month. Now we don't send the eggs to the commune anymore, but keep them for ourselves.
How can we eat all the hens? The rest will be sent to you. ”
Zhang Fusheng waved his hand and said.
It is right to keep the eggs for your own consumption at home, but that is for the eldest and second oldest children to eat themselves. How could those two old people bear to eat them like that?
"Oh, this is the cotton malted milk that the eldest brother asked me to bring to you. This is the loach that the second brother got."
Zhang Fusheng put the things in the bag on the table again.
"Dad, we already have these things at home. Why did you have to run such a long way?"
Zhao Yi looked at Zhang Fusheng and said.
"You've helped them so much, it's only natural that you send them something. We're a family, so don't be polite. Without your help, they wouldn't even be able to send me off. Well, I'll go back to the supply and marketing cooperative to get the scraps of cloth. When I came here, Xiao Deng from the supply and marketing cooperative insisted on treating me to a meal, so I had lunch with them there.
If you get back late, your mother will nag you again. ”
Zhang Fusheng left in a hurry after he finished speaking. Looking at Zhang Fusheng's back, Zhao Yi swallowed his words. With such heavy snow, Zhao Yi was a little worried about asking his father-in-law to help deliver the charcoal.
It’s better to wait until Zhao Laowu comes into the city before telling the other party.
Zhao Yi followed Zhang Fusheng for a while.
"Just send it here when it's ready. Go back and cook. Xiaojing should be off work soon."
After Zhang Fusheng finished speaking, he rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative without looking back. Zhao Yi watched him for a while before turning around.
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