The next morning, Shu Aiguo took the children and Chu Yu to the city to see Chu Chu. Chu Yu's back cart was carrying 300 jin of night-shining sand, and Shu Aiguo's oxcart was carrying 1,200 jin, all of which were shoveled back by Chu Xiang and the others.
"Second Uncle, will this work?"
"What's the big deal? When it came time to deliver grain, I've hauled two or three thousand catties before. If the oxen couldn't pull it, my second uncle would push from behind. He'll definitely help you get the Night-Shining Sand to Deyang!"
Even if she deducts one or two hundred pounds from the 1,500 jin of night-shining sand, there's still a profit of forty yuan. Sure enough, these days, the means of transportation determines income. Bicycles are not as good as oxcarts, oxcarts are not as good as trucks, and trucks are not as good as trains. If Chu Yu had an oxcart, she wouldn't have to ride her bicycle back and forth to Deyang to deliver goods every day.
The group arrived at the Chinese herbal medicine purchasing station at seven in the morning.
Making money is the most important thing in the world. Even if Xiao Wang has a problem with her, she is upright and honest and has not offended anyone. Selling Night-Shining Sand is doing business with the government's Chinese medicine station, not making money off Xiao Wang's family!
We can't let someone as unrelated as Xiao Wang give up such a great opportunity to make money!
She still had to sell it; as for whether the herbal medicine purchasing station would deduct from her profits, that was entirely up to her conscience.
To Chu Yu's surprise, Xiao Wang wasn't there today. His two colleagues, seeing Chu Yu arrive as usual, had subtle expressions, further confirming their suspicion that this woman was no ordinary person. Ordinary rural women, after offending the weighing clerk at the traditional Chinese medicine station, would be trembling with fear, afraid of being harassed next time, or simply too scared to come back. Chu Yu, however, walked in confidently, as if nothing had happened.
With that kind of audacity and courage, she might actually be able to persuade the man to go and complain to the stationmaster, and for a while, everyone would be trembling with fear.
"A total of 1,503 jin." The two looked embarrassed.
Chu Yu's expression became even more subtle. 1,503 jin? The sack has no weight? The weight of the water wasn't taken into account? Why not deduct a little extra for the usual kickback?
The fact that even three jin was suddenly included made this ordinary person, who had to rely on others' whims for a living, feel flattered and overwhelmed!
"Please process my order!"
The two closed the deal in a flash, as if they were sending away a plague god.
When Chu Yu walked out of the purchasing station, she was still a little dazed. Today, the money was too easy to earn. She made forty-five yuan without any trouble. It was so easy that it felt unreal to her.
On the way to the hospital, Chu Yu told Deng Fangping about the situation in Deyang.
Deng Fangping came to Deyang once four years ago to help the brigade buy seeds. Four years ago, there were no stalls or shops in Deyang city, only a few state-owned stores.
Unexpectedly, in just four years, Deyang has undergone a complete transformation. Small vendors selling vegetables can be seen everywhere on the streets. There are breakfast shops, stir-fry shops, grocery stores, hardware stores, and everything else. And every shop has no shortage of customers, which can be seen from the owners' expressions.
Business is good, the boss is in a good mood, and he's all smiles. Even the old man selling sweet potatoes has a different spirit than the country folk who toil in the fields. Something called "hope" appears on their faces.
Deng Fangping was deeply moved. She felt that the times were moving forward, and as an insignificant grain of sand in this long river, if she wanted to live a better life, she had to do what Chu Yu said and make money by being a self-employed individual!
So what if it's embarrassing? As long as I can make money!
There is only one disease in this world, and that is poverty!
People who are poor are looked down upon. When will they ever get rich by farming? Shu Aiguo raises quail, and she sells roujiamo (Chinese hamburger). The couple works together and will eventually build a grand house so that Shu Jiandang and his wife will never dare to look down on them again!
"Let's make a little cart like this, so we can push it around and sell wherever we go. In the morning, we'll sell at the pharmaceutical factory, at noon at the hospital, and in the evening after school at Dezhong High School, we'll sell at the school gate," Deng Fangping described her dream.
Shu Aiguo overheard this and realized that his niece and wife were planning to sell roujiamo (Chinese hamburger). Even though he, as the head of the family, didn't have much status in the family, he should at least have told him about it.
"Coming to Deyang to do business?"
Shu Aiguo was willing to raise quails, but he also followed the rural way of "keeping watch over the house" and believed that doing business had to be done near home, as Deyang was too far away.
Shu Aiguo raises quails, does farm work, and takes care of his children; there are always times when he's too busy to manage everything.
Chu Yu smiled. Land is the lifeblood of rural people. Shu Aiguo probably couldn't have imagined that many years later, few rural people would be willing to farm.
"Second Uncle, rice and flour aren't expensive. Even if you don't farm, how much money would you spend on rice and flour in a year?"
Shu Aiguo was stunned. He had never thought of this possibility. It was only natural for rural people to farm and pay grain taxes. What else could they do if they didn't farm?
If you abandon your land, are you still a rural person?
“There are always more solutions than problems. Deyang is not far from Shanguan Village. During the busy farming season, my mother can watch the stall while my aunt goes home to harvest. It’s not impossible. Children stand on the shoulders of their parents. If parents are doing well, their children will have a higher starting point, and their lives can change accordingly. Second Uncle, if you don’t think about yourself, you should at least think about Xiao Jiang and the others,” Chu Yu said.
Shu Aiguo was still hesitant, but when he thought of his eldest daughter who was dating, his heart sank again.
Last year, my eldest daughter, Shuyue, found a boyfriend from the city. The man's family were permanent employees with city residency, but they looked down on them because they were from the countryside. So they asked Shuyue to have a child out of wedlock, coaxed her to live with them, and told her to get married after she gave birth to a son.
How could Shu Aiguo, as a father, listen to such words? He forced Shu Yue to break up with him right then and there, but Shu Yue was a soft-hearted person, and even after more than a year, she was still entangled with that man.
Only by making money can they change their family's situation and ensure that their child won't be looked down upon when dating in the future.
Shu Aiguo didn't stop him anymore. He glanced at the small cart that Deng Fangping mentioned and secretly memorized its appearance.
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