Ma Yunfei gritted his teeth and said, "I can do it."
Ma Bajin nodded and said, "Let's go over there and get the tools."
Ma Yunfei took a pickaxe and a shovel and followed the others up the irrigation ditch.
I didn't expect the soil to be so hard. First, I had to use a pickaxe to loosen it, and then I had to use a shovel to remove it.
After working for a while, Ma Yunfei was drenched in sweat, panting heavily, and suffering from back pain.
He plopped down on the ground, thinking: "I work myself to the bone all day and only earn two dollars. If I keep doing this, even if I work for ten thousand years, becoming the richest person in the world, let alone the richest person in the whole village, will probably only be a dream."
Ma Yunfei threw his tools on the ground and said to Ma Bajin, "Village Chief, I can't do this anymore, I'm going home."
Ma Bajin stared at Ma Yunfei's retreating figure and cursed, "You gambler, you can't do anything but play mahjong. But you're quite lucky with your love life, you married a beautiful and virtuous wife. Damn it, I'm envious."
One villager said, "That kid is a lazybones; he'll only ever be a kept man."
Another villager said, "It's strange, how could Chen Yuyan fall for Ma Yunfei, that gambler? Isn't it like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung?"
"Haha... To say that Ma Yunfei is cow dung is to give him too much credit. Cow dung can be used for making fires and plastering walls. I think Ma Yunfei is just a pile of dog shit."
These sarcastic and mocking words reached Ma Yunfei's ears. He muttered to himself, "How can a sparrow know the ambition of a swan? I'm not cut out to fix the earth, but I'm a pillar of society destined for great things."
Ma Yunfei rushed to Qinglong Town and saw a group of old men sitting under a wall, boasting. So he went over to them.
He asked an old man, "Uncle, what does our Qinglong Town produce?"
The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Brother, are you from out of town?"
"No, I am from Majiawan."
"Brother, you look like an alien. Since you're a native, how come you don't know that we have a lot of yams here?"
"Ah! Yam is such a good thing, it's both nutritious and nourishing."
The old man sighed and said, "Yams are a good thing, but they're worthless. They're only four cents a pound and nobody wants them."
Ma Yunfei was surprised. In City A, yams sell for eight or nine yuan, and sometimes they are even out of stock.
However, these are prices from 2020. We'll have to find out the current price of yams in City A.
There was a library in the small town with about twenty kinds of newspapers. Ma Yunfei spent a full hour flipping through them before finally finding an advertisement in the middle of the newspaper: Buying large quantities of top-quality yams for one yuan per kilogram.
If you buy yams for four cents a pound and then transport them to City A to sell, even after deducting transportation costs, you can at least double your money. That would be a great business!
However, acquiring yams requires capital, a business license, and renting a car to transport them to City A.
In addition, I need to make a trip to City A first to investigate the market conditions and, ideally, contact a few wholesalers. This way, the yams can be sold as soon as they arrive in City A, allowing for rapid capital turnover.
Although reselling yams is a highly profitable business, Ma Yunfei has neither capital nor connections, so making this deal will be fraught with difficulties.
After walking around the town several times and conducting investigations, Ma Yunfei concluded that the yam business was the most viable option.
In the evening, Ma Yunfei returned home.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw Chen Yuyan holding Yueyue and crying.
"Honey, who bullied you?"
Chen Yuyan wiped away her tears and said, "Besides you, who else could bully me?"
"How...how did I bully you?"
Ma Yunfei was completely baffled.
"Yunfei, let me ask you: you only worked on the irrigation canal for an hour before running away. Did you go gambling again?"
“Wife, let me explain. I really only worked on the irrigation ditch for an hour. First, I’m not good at physical labor. Even though I only worked for an hour, I was already so tired that my back ached and I couldn’t bear it. Second, I can only earn two yuan a day working on the irrigation ditch. Even if I worked every day, I could only earn sixty yuan a month. If we keep doing this, our family will never be rich.”
With tears streaming down her face, Chen Yuyan said, "Yunfei, if you can't even do manual labor, then I ask you: what else can you do? If you idle away your days, you'll definitely go gambling again."
Ma Yunfei said firmly, "Wife, you have to believe me, I will never gamble again. I'm thinking: we can't just rely on physical strength to make money, we have to rely on our brains to get rich."
Chen Yuyan said angrily, "Yunfei, no matter what you say, you still want to gamble. Gambling does make money with your brain, but it's illegal."
"Honey, listen to me. Today, I went to Qinglong Town to investigate and found that it's a great place to grow yams. The price at the farm gate is only 40 cents a pound, which is incredibly cheap. If we buy the yams and take them to City A to sell, we can resell them for more than a dollar. Don't you think this business is worth doing?"
Chen Yuyan glared at Ma Yunfei and asked, "You want to do business? Where is your capital? We borrowed two hundred yuan from Yeya, spent fifty yuan on a gift for Ma Bajin, and only have one hundred and fifty yuan left. With this little money, how many kilograms of yams can you buy? Besides, even if you buy the yams, are you going to carry them to City A to sell them yourself?"
Ma Yunfei tapped his knee with his finger, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Wife, am I, Ma Yunfei, all alone, without a single friend?"
"Yes, ten years ago, you and two buddies formed a brotherhood in the melon garden."
Ma Yunfei asked eagerly, "You mean: I have two more sworn brothers?"
"Yes, one is called Abbot, who farms in the next village, and the other is called Erlv, who runs a small grocery store in Qinglong Town and is a small business owner."
Ma Yunfei asked eagerly, "What are the special characteristics of my two brothers? Tell me quickly."
"Yunfei, have you really lost your memory?"
"Yes, it's all your fault. You pushed me and made me hit my head."
“Yunfei is the abbot of the neighboring village who farms. He’s big and burly, like an iron tower. One of his uncles is a monk in a temple. He learned some martial arts from his uncle when he was young. This brother is very loyal. Sometimes when you’re short of money, you can go to his house to freeload. He’s never looked down on you.”
"Ah! The abbot is truly a good brother, a friend in need."
"I have another brother, Erlv. His uncle is the mayor of Qinglong Town. With this connection, he took over a shop in Qinglong Town and opened a general store. Originally, the business was very slow, but after people found out about his relationship with the mayor, many people went to his shop to buy things in order to curry favor with the mayor, and the business became booming. I heard he made a lot of money. However, your brother isn't very loyal to you. He hasn't been paying much attention to you these past two years."
"Hehe...it seems this Erlv isn't very loyal."
"Erlu is a bit shrewd, but he's still pretty decent in terms of appearances. Sometimes when I go to the market in town, as soon as I run into him, he calls me 'sister-in-law' all the time, and he seems quite friendly on the surface."
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