A small goal
With her own tricycle, she no longer has to call for a taxi. Not only can she carry more things, but she may even be able to do wholesale business... Hu Yufeng was calculating in her mind, thinking about how to make a big move.
But he said, "Look at how cowardly you are. You have already bought it. It is also out of brotherly love. If you have a debt, just pay it back slowly. It's as if you don't have one."
Qin Shengtian felt sad when he heard this: How can it be the same? In the past, people wanted money but not their lives, so they would just pay off their debts like a dead dog. Now they are considered a well-known family in the village. Given the old woman's character, in order to pay off debts, especially the debts to the Wenli brothers, she will definitely spend every penny twice. How can he buy what he wants to eat?
Qin Yu couldn't understand his grandfather's sadness, so he ran in happily and said, "Grandma, where's the TV? Let's turn it on."
Oh, yes, the TV hasn't been installed yet. Qin Shengtian instantly forgot his sadness and actively got up to look for the pole.
Several people followed the instructions and images appeared on the TV.
The family gathered around and murmured:
"Why does this little guy look like he's performing an opera..."
"It's a play, it's called acting..." Qin Wenli did learn some new knowledge when he returned this time, and now he is responsible for answering questions for his family.
"I want to see the little bees..." Qin Shu shouted.
"Little Bee is a cartoon at 6 o'clock in the evening. It's not available now..." Qin Yao had just told Qin Yu about this. At this moment, she spoke seriously like a little adult.
"Okay, let's watch it at night. It wastes a lot of electricity..." Hu Yufeng turned off the TV. Due to Hu Yufeng's authority, everyone in the room could only look at the screen reluctantly.
*
"Wenli, did you buy a tricycle?" Qin Wenzhen saw the new tricycle at Qin Wenli's door as soon as he came back, and couldn't help but come over to take a look.
"Well, my fourth brother borrowed money to buy it. It's the same brand as yours..."
Qin Wenzheng looked at the engine, took a look around and praised: "The Lantuo is quite durable. It's a good buy. Now it will be convenient for you to go out..."
"I just wanted to run every day. It's not a long-term solution to keep using yours, so I gritted my teeth and borrowed money to buy it. Brother, I'll ask you for help if I have any questions in the future..."
Qin Wenzheng agreed immediately: "Come on, I've been running it for three years, so I have mastered the basics."
The two brothers chatted and laughed for a while, and then Qin Wenzhen went home.
Liu Rong glanced at the two people who were talking and laughing at the door of the cowshed from time to time, his eyes flickering.
*
"Hey, I see that the eldest and the second oldest have a very good relationship. They talk and laugh all the time. If you don't know, you would think they have the same mother." Liu Rong walked into the room and said to Qin Wenqing who was lying on the bed.
"It's fine, so what does it have to do with us..." Qin Wenqing didn't care. What's the use of having a good relationship? It can't be turned into money.
After failing to sow discord, Liu Rong rolled his eyes and said, "Does Lao Er's stall really make that much money? He bought a TV and a tricycle, and the two together made about five or six thousand."
Qin Wenqing became interested and stood up to look at Liu Rong. "The second brother's family was so poor two years ago that even mice didn't want to come to their house. This year, they can afford so many things. They must be making a lot of money. Do you have any skills? How about we set up a stall and make some money?"
Liu Rong glanced at him and said, "You are a man who lies around all day and doesn't make any money. How can you count on me? I have the skill of cursing. Can I make money?"
Qin Wenqing lay back down, resting his head on his arm and looking at Liu Rong: "The business of Lao Er's family was supported by his second aunt and sister-in-law. We are both women, why can't you learn from them?"
Liu Rong was so angry that he pushed him and turned to leave.
"Lingling, where are you being lazy? Why don't you go and clean up the cowshed? You act like a blind man day by day. Can't you see if I don't tell you?"
Qin Ling, who was helping Chen Xiu Lian with her work in the main room, shuddered and looked up at her grandmother for help.
Chen Xiulian cursed quietly, and when she looked up again, her face was full of smiles: "I'm spinning hemp thread, let Lingling stretch it for me, I'll be done soon..."
There was a pause outside the house, and then Liu Rong's scolding was heard again: "Every day, the old and the young are all thinking of ways to be lazy, leaving me to do the work alone. Am I marrying in to be a long-term worker in your family..."
Chen Xiulian listened quietly for a while, put down the spindle, and whispered to Qin Ling: "Listen to your mother, go and shovel the cowshed to avoid her nagging..."
Qin Ling glanced at her grandmother silently, put down the thread in her hand, and turned to leave.
*
After dinner, everyone in the Qin family gathered in the main room again.
Host Hu Yufeng spoke first: "Our family's goal for this year was to buy a tricycle. Now that we have bought the tricycle, we are also in debt. We gathered you all together tonight to discuss setting a new goal. If you have any ideas, please feel free to speak up."
As soon as the voice fell, Qin Shengtian said in a muffled voice: "What other goal can there be, to pay the debt?"
After he finished speaking, Qin Wenli also said: "Pay off the debt first, try to pay it off within half a year, and then save money..."
Yang Xiu also nodded in agreement.
The old lady sees herself as a pot cook, what ideas could she have?
Qin Yu said crisply: "My goal is to go to elementary school..."
Hu Yufeng laughed: "I can't say for sure about the other goals, but you can definitely accomplish this one."
"Anything else?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Hu Yufeng looked at everyone and said, "Then our goals for this year are: 1. Make money to pay off debts, 2. Continue to save money. Let's set a small goal first, to save 4,000 yuan by the end of the year. Do you think it's feasible?"
"Okay..." Everyone nodded.
"People are not afraid of hardship, but they are afraid of not making any money after working hard. Go out and ask around, how many people work hard all year round and still have little to eat and wear? Only our family is lucky to have Xiuxiu, who happens to have a skill, so we can live like this today. People are most afraid of having no goals and no direction. We have now determined this year's goals, and the conditions for achieving the goals are: the tricycle and the skills are complete. Next, it depends on our actions and efforts. Whether we can complete it by the end of the year depends on how well each of us can do. Do you have confidence?"
"Yes..." Everyone was like being injected with chicken blood, with a raging fighting spirit in their hearts.
"Okay, our family is all great. The division of labor this year will remain the same. Xiuxiu and I will run the fried dough twist stall, Wenli will run the tofu stall, his father will take care of the cattle and sheep and the land, and his grandmother will cook and take care of the children... We will focus on one thing and do our job well, and this year's goal will definitely be achieved."
"Okay..." Everyone responded positively.
Hu Yufeng showed a satisfied smile: "Okay, as the old saying goes, 'When people are united, they can move mountains.' As long as our family is united, we don't have to worry about not having a good life..."
Qin Wenli smiled and said: Hope is like the sun, it will always rise above the horizon of reality.
*
Having a goal gives you a backbone, and you feel that whatever you do is towards the goal, rather than just busying yourself for nothing.
It is said that the first month of the year is a leisurely month, but how can a farmer sit back and watch the whole day go by in vain? Just after the tenth day of the first lunar month, some diligent families started cleaning up the manure in the sheep pens.
There are two types of composting in Xiaogou Village. One is to spread soil into the cattle and sheep pens every day, let it ferment and precipitate on the spot to form a thick layer which is then dug out.
Another way is what Lao Qin's family does. They sweep the cattle and sheep pens every day, collect the cattle and sheep manure together, bury it in the soil to ferment, and then "fatten" it when using it as fertilizer, which means digging up and breaking up the deposited manure, and then pulling it to the field for use.
Qin Wenli thought that the three of them would be busy as soon as the market started, and it would take Qin Shengtian forever to do it alone. So last night he proposed to take advantage of the two days' free time to quickly move the fertilizer to the fields, so that Qin Shengtian could handle it even if he spread out.
So at five o'clock in the morning, before the chickens woke up, Yang Xiu got up first.
She gently pushed her husband: "It's getting light, hurry up..."
Qin Wenli huddled in his quilt and muttered, "It's only a few hours now and you're already waking me up! You're not even as early as a chicken."
"If I don't ask you to, you will sleep until dawn. Don't dawdle. Didn't you say you would take a shit today?"
Qin Wenli got up reluctantly and pulled over his cotton-padded jacket reluctantly. The jacket, which had been hanging on the chair all night, was so cold that he immediately lost all desire to sleep.
What a cruel woman! Why does she keep the children’s coat warm before wearing it, but throws mine at me when it’s still cold?
After he put on his clothes and jumped off the kang, he closed the door quietly and came out, only to see his parents had already come out of the yard.
It was called dark, and there was really only a little light. Qin Wenli didn't know whether it was real sky light or the reflection of the snow.
He turned around and went to the utility room to get a butt, but there was none.
Well, it must be his hardworking wife who took care of it.
Sure enough, when they got there, they saw Yang Xiu already wielding a hoe and digging.
"Let me turn on the flashlight..."
He dug a flashlight out of his pocket, turned it on and placed it on the stump.
The dim light stretched the two people's shadows long.
Yang Xiu complained about the waste of electricity: "It's not like I can't see it, why are you doing this?"
What are you doing? "Of course I was afraid that you couldn't see clearly and dug me..." Qin Wenli joked.
Before Yang Xiu could refute, Hu Yufeng and Qin Shengtian also came over, and the four of them dug and shoveled in silence.
We kept digging until after six o'clock, when it was dawn.
Hu Yufeng looked at the large cone of manure in front of her, wiped the sweat off her head, and said to Qin Wenli, "Xiu'er and I will do it, you and your father will do it."
Upon hearing this, Qin Wenli put down his pout and called Qin Shengtian to walk towards the tricycle.
*
"Using a tricycle to pull it?" Qin Shengtian was surprised. He thought his family bought this thing just to pull the stove.
"Yes, this is much faster than a cart..."
Agricultural vehicle, agricultural vehicle, its primary function is of course agricultural use.
Besides, their feces are called manure and soil. It has been fermented for a long time and has no odor. It is also dry particles and can be swept away cleanly after defecation.
The tricycle probably never expected that its debut would be to transport manure!
In the cold first month of the year, the tricycle had to be filled with hot water before it could be started. Fortunately, as soon as they got up, the old lady didn't dare to sleep any longer and got up on her own to boil hot water.
At this moment, several pots of hot water were poured into the water tank. Qin Wenli was in front and Qin Shengtian was behind. They both held the joystick and pressed it down hard.
"Release..." Following Qin Wenli's instruction, Qin Shengtian suddenly released the start wrench. The two of them turned the rocker hard, and the tricycle started to move.
Qin Wenli drove the tricycle to the dung pile, and several people began to scramble to load the dung.
Although the Lantuo is a bit small compared to other tricycles, it is much bigger than Lao Qin's cart.
After several people filled the truck bed with manure, Qin Shengtian threw in a shovel, climbed on and squatted, and Qin Wenli drove the three-wheeler slowly to the field.
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