Chapter 46 Setting up a stall at the entrance of the community
Hua Xiali also knew that one could not become fat in one bite, so after picking a basket of bamboo fungi, she stopped picking and turned back.
It was impossible for her to stay in the mountains all day to pick bamboo fungi, and it was even more impossible for her to ask others to pick them for her, because if the bamboo fungi were not transferred to the Lingquan space for preservation in time, they would rot over time.
So she just needs to come and pick for a while every day. No one will snatch it from her for the time being anyway.
Afterwards, Hua Xiali went down the mountain directly and left. She did not go to her fourth uncle's house again. It was a good thing that her fourth uncle and his wife thought she had gone back a long time ago. Otherwise, they would definitely ask her what she had been doing in the mountain for so long.
After taking a bus from her fourth uncle's house to the town, Hua Xiali went directly to the wholesale market to first buy packaging boxes, convenient bags and other packaging items. Then she went to the farmers' market to collect pig offal from stall to stall. Fortunately, there was no surveillance in that era, so she could find a corner or a forest to collect the things into the Lingquan space.
But this won't be the case anymore after a few years.
Hua Xiali wholesaled a total of 2,000 kilograms of pork offal. She wanted to try and see if she could make money. If she could, she would start to vigorously engage in the salty business.
In her previous life, after she had a cell phone and the Internet, she also read a lot of period novels. Those period novels were not in line with reality at all. She complained as she read. In many period novels, the heroines made their fortunes by selling salt. Now that she has the spiritual spring water, it can be said that she has a most capable assistant, and she will definitely be able to make money.
Hua Xiali wanted to take a 200-pound pig back to Shui for processing, so she stopped a three-wheeled truck and had it take her directly to her doorstep. However, she didn't want strangers to know the exact location of her home, so she let the three-wheeled truck park in the alley next to her uncle's house. After the three-wheeled truck left, Hua Xiali called her mother over, and the two of them carried the 200-pound pig back home and into the backyard.
Because the front yard is small and it is their living area, if they process the pig offal in the front yard, no one will be able to stay. The backyard is different. Chickens, ducks and pigs are raised in the backyard, and the smell is strong. It is also convenient to get water from the public well in the backyard, which is only a few meters away. Unlike getting water from the well in the front yard, you have to go through the house, making the mud floor in the house wet and slippery when walking.
Hua Xiali didn't want too many people to know that she was going to start a halogen business, so she called the aunt next door to come over and help clean the pig offal.
After a few days when the business became bigger and stronger, we invited Fourth Aunt to come over. Although grandpa and grandma didn't like them and treated them badly when they were alive, it didn't affect their relationship and they didn't have any major conflicts on a daily basis.
Now that there is a good thing, Hua Xiali will definitely give priority to looking for her relatives. If there are not enough people, she will look for people who are good to her family. Those who want to take advantage of her misfortune should forget about making money with her.
Cleaning the pig offal took time, so Hua Xiali did not wait any longer. Instead, he went to the bamboo forest in Hewan and collected all the bamboo shoots and bamboo joints that Lu Xiaozhi had broken off and chopped. He put down the money and left.
If this Lu Xiaozhi is still willing to work with her and listen to her in the future, she can always take Lu Xiaozhi with her. After all, he is an illiterate child who probably can't even write his own name. He will be dead if he goes out. It's better for him to follow her!
When returning to the village, Hua Xiali went to Hua Si Nian's house and asked Hua Si Nian to meet her at 4:30 in the afternoon, because she wanted Hua Si Nian to help her sell salt, so that she could free herself and do more things in the time saved.
At that time, the legal marriage age for girls was 20 years old, but it was not popular to get a marriage certificate in the countryside, so it would not affect getting married earlier. Hua Si Nian was two years younger than her and was 17 years old this year. She would definitely get married in two years, so her parents would not have to wait too long to find a husband for her, allowing Hua Si Nian to save some money so that even after getting married, she would not have to rely on others to make a living.
Moreover, when Hua Si Nian has money and good conditions, she will definitely not look down on those who are not worthy of her. Then her life in this life should be better than the previous one.
They are ordinary country girls, with no education and no skills, so they can only marry ordinary boys in the countryside. Their life is just like that, neither good nor bad, but it is impossible for them to spend money freely, so they just save again and again.
During the more than ten years that Hua Xiali lived in Wang Liang's home, Wang Liang's family never gave her a penny. She and her children's living expenses, as well as tuition, all depended on her going out at night to catch eels and sell them for money. At that time, wild eels were really expensive, one pound could be sold for ten yuan. It was because of this that she was able to support her two children all the way through, until they had to go to the city to study in junior high school, and she followed them to the city to do odd jobs to earn money.
Hua Xiali returned home and waited for her mother and aunt to clean the pig offal before putting it into the pot to blanch. She did not cut the offal but kept it whole. She planned to take it out after the brine was finished and let it cool before cutting and packing it.
Pig offal contains a lot of things, but what Hua Xiali is talking about today is pig intestines.
After cooking two hundred kilograms of halved pig intestines, only one hundred and twenty boxes were packed. Each box cost one yuan, so a total of one hundred and twenty yuan could be sold. Excluding the sixty yuan of capital, labor costs, seasoning costs, and firewood costs, I could only make about fifty yuan. But it was not bad. After all, today was just a trial. Once I started working hard in the future, I could make many fifty yuan a day.
After Hua Si'nian arrived, the two of them each picked up 60 boxes of pig offal and set off. 60 boxes means 60 kilograms, which is too heavy for two weak little girls. But there was no other way. In order to make money, they had to become stronger.
Hua Xiali agreed with Hua Si Nian that he would temporarily give her three yuan a day, which would be ninety yuan a month, and it would only be for a short period of time in the evening, so it wouldn't be a big deal.
Unlike Zhang Yongfeng's previous job in the brick factory, where he worked hard for only 80 to 120 yuan a month, Hua Si Nian was quite satisfied with this price.
Hua Xiali decided that once the business was stable, he would just hire a three-wheeled motorcycle to pick them up every day. This way, the three-wheeled motorcycle wouldn't have to worry about having no business, and they wouldn't have to walk by themselves.
The two girls walked and rested along the way without saying a word. They just walked forward quietly. When they arrived at the town and rested for a while, Hua Xiali took Hua Si Nian to the gate of a community and set up a stall there.
It was already getting dark, the sun wasn't that strong anymore, and it wasn't that hot setting up the stall at the entrance of the community.