Chapter 13 Halved Pig's Hoof
It would have been fine if he hadn't said that. Once he said that, Jian Li was even more worried that this kid would pick up some bad habits without any instruction.
What are you going to do with the money if you don't spend it?
Jian Li remembered what Marshal Wang did in his previous life.
This kid has been naughty since he was young. He started hanging out in society when he was in junior high school. Going to the police station is like going back home. Later, he not only engaged in pyramid selling, but also fraud.
Before his sudden death in his previous life, this guy had just finished his second three-year sentence and called her to say that he had found a "good project" that was sure to make money.
Jian Li thought of her uncle and his wife, whose hair had already turned completely white before they were even sixty, and scolded him harshly on the phone.
In the end, they had a falling out over the phone. Before Wang Shuai hung up, he yelled, "Why don't you believe me? My dad is the same. He wanted to beat me to death since I was a child. He always denied everything I did. Do you think I'm willing to go around and make trouble? It's because he thinks I'm embarrassing. I just want to make a name for myself to show him!"
Thinking of this, Jian Li couldn't say the words she originally wanted to ask him what he was going to do with the money.
"…It's up to you to decide."
Jian Li encouraged herself.
one dollar.
The current Wang Shuai is not the person who is going further and further astray. It’s just a dollar, so she should give him a little trust.
The three of them walked around the city a few more times, and Jian Li quietly paid attention to where Wang Shuai spent his money.
But after waiting all the way, Wang Shuai didn't spend a penny.
Several times, Jian Li saw his eyes glued to something and unable to move away, but he still didn't lose focus.
Not only did he not spend any money, but Wang Shuai even tried to persuade him in various ways, trying to get a dollar today.
Jian Li: ...
Okay, the three of us will find a quiet place and divide the money on the spot.
Jian Li openly calculated today's bills and even had a book in her hand that recorded the daily flow of money.
"It's sixty yuan in total. Ten yuan must be shave off as the raw material fee. From the remaining fifty yuan, the stir-fried jelly noodles for lunch today are three yuan, and the popsicles are forty-five cents..."
Wang Shuai was anxious: "The popsicle I had today was only five cents! The two of you were eating 20-cent puddings!"
How can this be counted as common expenses?
Wang Yunyun: "I asked you to choose at that time. Who told you not to choose the expensive one?"
Wang Shuai: "I don't care, everyone pays for their own expenses, this money can't be counted."
Jian Li: "...Okay, okay, it's just a little over a dime, it depends on how much you dig."
Marshal Wang watched Jian Li cross out the expense from the account before he felt relieved.
Jian Li teased him deliberately: "Okay, today's money is paid by our sister. Since you said to split it, then you can deduct 5 cents from the one dollar today and give it to our sister."
Five cents!
Wang Shuai was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.
“…Give it to me.”
Jian Li and Wang Yunyun looked at each other, and smilingly changed the one-dollar bill that should have been given to Wang Shuai into a handful of banknotes.
Wang Shuai held the banknotes in his hand, looking as aggrieved as a puppy drenched in rain.
Jian Li was still making trouble: "Since you have money, let's split the bill for ice cream from now on."
Wang Yunyun: "What is AA?"
Jian Li: "It means paying with your own money."
When the weather is hot, eating ice cream is no longer just a matter of craving, it is a necessity.
Wang Yunyun only had books in her mind. Anyway, she had taken a ten-day advance and didn't want anything else afterwards. She could afford an ice cream a day, so she nodded and agreed.
Although General Wang disagreed a thousand times, he had no choice but to agree.
"All right……"
The three of them rode their bicycles back to Wangjiazhuang and agreed to take a day off tomorrow and go into the city the day after tomorrow.
Wang Shuai: "Rest? I don't need to rest!"
Jian Li ignored him: "You don't need me, but I do."
She hasn't had a rest since she came back, and she still has a lot of growth to do.
Jian Li took a comfortable shower beside the water pump, and then slept until ten o'clock in the morning the next day.
After getting up, I ate something and started doing my summer homework.
I have to say, the most convenient thing after rebirth is to do homework.
In addition to the liberal arts, where many things are forgotten and need to be memorized again, mathematics is simply a dimensionality reduction blow.
Jian Li finished half of the homework in just one afternoon.
Originally, they planned to wait until Wang Shuai finished having fun outside, and then the three of them would go catch crabs.
Who knew that before the sun set, General Wang came back from outside, all dirty.
He sneaked up to Jian Li like a thief.
She lowered her voice and said, "Sister, I found some helpers for us."
As he spoke, several dirty heads popped out from the door.
From top to bottom, there are five of them. They all look here with bright eyes, but they dare not come in.
Jian Li: ...
Wang Shuai smiled at his sister ingratiatingly: "I've already told them that if they help us catch a bucket of crabs, I'll give them... two yuan."
It seemed like Jian Li was meeting this naughty little brother for the first time.
Wang Yunyun put down the book in her hand with a frown, "Who are you looking for? Could it be Xiao Douzi and the others? Didn't they say you can't play with them?"
Wang Shuai shrank his head, then stubbornly retorted: "I'm not doing this randomly. We only caught so few in one night. If we have more people, we can catch more..."
Jian Li rubbed her face and said, "You are right."
She turned her head and said to Wang Yunyun, "I forgot about this. If we rely on ourselves, our efficiency will be a bit low."
Two pieces in a bucket, it's totally worth the money compared to catching them in the dark by yourself.
Wang Shuai smiled with two rows of white teeth on his dark face: "Then I'll go tell them!"
Jian Li was quite relieved that her naughty brother could actually use his brain, so she let go generously.
"Go ahead, and tell me our standards. We don't want crabs that are too small, and there can't be any dead crabs. We need a maximum of five buckets today."
If there are more, it will be too late to deal with them tomorrow.
Wang Shuaitou didn't even reply, but answered loudly: "Okay!"
The five little black guys at the door ran after Wang Shuai. Even from a distance Jian Li could hear their loud discussions.
"I know where the crabs are! Right next to where we are soaking in the water, there is a large patch of water plants and there are lots of crabs underneath!"
"Let's go and turn over the water plants, and we can catch enough in no time!"
"Don't tell Shitou and the others. They will definitely try to steal it if you tell them."
"I don't have an empty bucket at home. Wait for me for a moment. I'll go to my second uncle's house to get one."
…
Wang Yunyun: "Are we still going today?"
Jian Li: “Not going.”
Wang Yunyun picked up the book and immersed herself in the joy of reading again.
I don't know how these kids caught them, but after just over an hour, five black eggs were barefoot and standing awkwardly in front of Jian Li to deliver the goods.
Jian Li checked and found no problem, so she paid the money directly.
A total of ten yuan was given to Wang Shuai, who took the little black eggs out to divide the money.
The next day, Jian Li started cooking crabs in the morning and worked until noon when she finally finished processing five buckets of crabs. The three of them went into the city again.
This time, Wang Shuai didn't complain about the popsicle.
Because this guy brought his own water!
Jian Li: ...Why didn't I see before that this kid has really reached a new level?
The third time, the crabs were sold for 80 yuan. Jian Li watched the stall owner accept all the money without changing her expression. She estimated in her heart that the other party was probably also selling out.
Otherwise, with her small stall that can't serve more than 20 tables a night, where would she get so many crabs?
Jian Li did not expose her. It was their ability to sell the products. She was unfamiliar with the place and it was not a long-term business. It would be putting the cart before the horse to go to each store to market.
She had nearly two hundred yuan in her hand, of which nearly a hundred belonged to her. Jian Li was in a good mood and bought two halved pig's trotters and a portion of halved pig's face at a roadside stall.
Planning to take the pig's trotters home, Jian Li bought three steamed buns and asked the store to cut them in half and put slices of hot pig's cheek meat in each one.
The crispy and fragrant sesame pancakes are paired with the soft and smooth pork cheek meat, which is delicious with every bite.
The three of them wolfed down the pancakes and returned home with the pig's trotters.
Dinner was green bean porridge to clear heat, served with freshly baked scallion pancakes.
The halved pig's trotter was not rotten enough and tasted tough, but the halved ingredients were well matched and the thick pig's trotter was very tasty. The rich halved aroma was intoxicating. Jian Li liked the tendons in the pig's trotter the most, which were crispy and tender.
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With the help of five "young farmhands", Jian Li sold three or four more times smoothly, each time selling fifty or sixty kilograms of pears.
After doing this for ten days or so, General Wang brought back some bad news.
The crabs nearby are almost all gone.
Wang Shuai was like an eggplant hit by frost: "We have recently gone to Zhaojiazhuang to catch them, but there are still not many."
It was easy to catch five buckets of crabs at the beginning, but later it became very difficult to catch five buckets, and now I can't even catch five buckets.
Jian Li comforted him: "It's okay, we've caught all the crabs, let's catch some lobsters."
So I went back to my old job and started catching crayfish.
But this time it's very troublesome.
Crayfish are not only difficult to catch, but also difficult to handle.
More importantly, it can’t be sold at a high price!
Jian Li was holding half a watermelon, fanning herself with air, and was in a very bad mood.
Yesterday she spent ten yuan to buy lobsters, spent more time processing them, added more ingredients, and finally took them to the city, but she could only sell them for 40 cents per pound.
The female stall owner said there was nothing she could do.
"The crab still has some meat, and it's dry, so it can be used as a snack. But this thing needs to be handled, and it's also soupy, so it's hard to eat it. Don't spend money on this."
She admitted that it tasted good, but what good was it?
Can't sell!
Jian Li had no choice but to exclude crayfish from her plan.
Just when Jian Li was worrying about how to find another business, a business opportunity came to her door.
The five little black eggs are still struggling these past two days. Wang Shuai follows them out to catch crabs early every morning. Jian Li is afraid that these kids will run too far and be taken away by traffickers, so she says she doesn't want any crabs anymore.
So these little black guys who had just tasted the sweetness of making money were suddenly dumbfounded.
The group of young guys had been arguing secretly for who knows how long, but in the end they came to look for Jian Li.
Wang Shuai appeared in front of Jian Li with a little fat boy with a dark red face.
The little fat boy was holding a urea bag in his hand. The bag was open and inside was half a bag of cicada shells.
Wang Shuai: "Sister, he wants to ask if we will accept this."
Children love to pick up cicada shells, and some old Chinese doctors will collect them. But the price is not high, only a few cents per pound. Even so, country children still go to pick them up enthusiastically.
Wang Shuai was not sure whether his idea was right or not, and he scratched his head: "Sister, do you think this thing can be sold in the city?"
After selling crabs, Wang Shuai had an idea in his mind.
It’s just that things from the countryside seem to be quite expensive when sold in the city.
Take crabs for example, they are everywhere in the ditches. They used to be unpopular with people because they tasted bad and had little meat.
But city dwellers are willing to spend several dollars just for these worthless crabs?
Wang Shuai thought, if crabs can do it, why can't cicadas?
The article he just learned is about the kings, princes, generals and ministers. How can they be of any kind?
Cicadas and crabs...are all meat!
Jian Li thought about it for a moment and felt that this was also a way.
Maybe the Chinese medicine clinic in the city would accept it?
"Then put it down for now. I'll take him to the Chinese medicine hospital tomorrow to ask if he needs it."
Jian Li asked Wang Shuai to find a beam scale and calculate the weight.
If it can be sold, the price is yet to be determined.
The fat guy left, and no one knew what he said. Soon a little bald guy with an unfamiliar face came in.
The little bald guy took out a plastic bottle and spoke with a lisp due to his missing teeth.
"Sister, do you want this?"
When Jian Li saw clearly what was inside, she was immediately scared out of her wits.
"Hold it farther! Aaaaah!"
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