095: Are you selling your firewood?
As he was thinking, Yu Daye said to himself:
"We have to find a way. We can't just waste time like this."
Yu Erye heard his elder brother's incoherent words and said:
"Didn't you say that we'd just stay at the Li family and eat free meals until he found us a job?"
"That was my original plan, but the Li family is more difficult to deal with than I thought. They are determined to make things difficult for us. We are both wasting time now, and we don't know how long it will last. We have to prepare for both situations."
"So what do you say we should do?"
"I haven't figured it out yet, but I can't keep wasting time like this."
During this period, the two brothers lived and ate at Li Dasong's house. No matter what means Li Dasong's family used to drive them away, they remained indifferent.
The two sides started arguing with each other.
It was also thanks to the thick-skinned Yu brothers that they replaced them. If they were thin-skinned and had poor psychological quality, they would have been unable to stay and would have packed up and left in a minute.
However, continuing to argue with the Li family is not the solution to the problem after all.
They regarded this as their only way out. Once the Li family completely blocked this way out, they would not be able to survive.
Besides, isn’t their time valuable?
Therefore, they had to keep some tricks up their sleeves and fight with the Li family while looking for all possible ways to survive.
However, the two brothers were really at a loss as to what to do.
They have no special skills and can do nothing. It's really difficult for them!
However, what the brothers did not expect was that they really waited for a turning point that afternoon.
At noon that day, after lunch, the two brothers went out with axes to chop wood.
Shortly after leaving the company headquarters, I met a young man on the road who was also carrying an axe and wanted to chop wood.
The two brothers did not know the man, but they guessed that he was an educated youth, about twenty years old, with a handsome appearance, but not very tall, and looked very smart.
The short educated youth looked at the two brothers and asked casually:
"You two chop so much firewood for Li Dasong's family every day. Can they burn it all?"
The Yu brothers did not expect that this educated youth would take the initiative to talk to them. Yu Daye said casually:
"Whether they can finish burning it is their business, we just cut it."
The male educated youth smiled and suddenly thought of something:
"Oh, right, how about this: you sell me the extra firewood you cut?"
Yu Daye's eyes flickered like a thousand-watt light bulb. He stared at the young man and asked:
"What did you say? You want to buy our firewood?"
"Yeah, will you sell it?"
"Sell!!!!!!"
If someone wants to buy their firewood, why not sell it?!
Although Yu Daye had never done business himself, he had often seen others doing business. He especially liked to travel a long way to the commune to see how people sold things when there was a market.
The feeling of handing over money and receiving goods at the same time made him feel magical.
He also wanted to do some business, but he had neither money to buy other people's things nor anything to sell.
Now, there is actually someone willing to spend money to buy their firewood. This is simply pie in the sky for him!
There is plenty of firewood everywhere in the mountains. As long as you are willing to spend the effort, you can cut as much as you want and sell it for money. What's the difference between this and picking it up for free?
So the three of them stopped at the same time and started to negotiate the price.
The male educated youth made the first offer:
"A bundle of firewood, twenty pounds, ten cents. And I don't want those small branches that don't burn well, I want the kind that burns well. How about that?"
How about it?
Yu Daye really didn't know what the price was, but he saw that other people never gave a fixed price when buying or selling, and they always bargained. He also imitated their bargaining tone:
"This price is too low, make it higher."
"Then how much do you say?"
Yu Daye was unsure, but he pretended to be calm and gave a number:
"One and a half cents."
"Lower, it's too high."
"Brother, the price can't be lowered," Yu Daye seemed to have found the feeling of bargaining, "This is hard work. It will take me a long time to chop 20 kilograms of firewood-----"
The two of them haggled back and forth, and finally settled on a price of 1.1 cents.
He actually managed to raise a penny!
Yu Daye: I think I can do it!
Yu Daye promised sincerely:
"Don't worry, we won't cut corners or shortchange you on weights. We'll get what we say."
Seeing that Yu Daye had a good attitude, the male educated youth nodded:
"Okay, deal. When you're done chopping, send it to my house. My name is Du Lianxi, and my house is over there, in those two houses in front—"
Before Du Lianxi finished speaking, Yu Daye thought of something else and interrupted:
"By the way, we can't let anyone else know about selling firewood to you. Let's meet in private to do the transaction."
Du Lianxi smiled:
"You're so cautious. Don't worry, selling firewood is just a few cents. No one will be so bored as to report it."
Yu Daye moved his lips and said:
“We are not afraid of being reported.”
"What does that mean?"
Yu Daye hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to take the risk and tell the truth:
"We don't want the Li family to know."
Du Lianxi was slightly surprised at first, then suddenly understood:
"Oh, I see," Du Lianxi smiled again, "Okay then, I'm not a heartless person. Let's do this privately, and I won't tell anyone."
Yu Daye felt relieved.
He couldn't let the Li family know that they made money by selling firewood.
First, I'm afraid of them
My family will make trouble when they find out.
Secondly, why should I let the Li family know that I made some money secretly?
It’s better if they don’t know.
Fortunately, Du Lianxi seemed easy to talk to and was willing to help them keep it a secret.
Let’s not worry about it for now. We’ll keep it a secret as long as we can.
Tell me when you can’t hide it anymore!
They agreed that after finishing work in the afternoon and having dinner, they would meet secretly in the woods at night, handing over firewood in one hand and money in the other.
Du Lianxi agreed and turned around and left with the hatchet in his hand.
It turned out that Du Lianxi got married last winter. His wife was a local girl who had just become pregnant. She had severe morning sickness and had to sleep twenty hours a day. She couldn't do any housework, and of course she had no energy to go out and collect firewood.
The two of them had no parents or relatives to help them here, and Du Lianxi had to go out to work and had no time to chop wood.
It is always inconvenient to go to the cafeteria to eat. Although it is almost May in the Gregorian calendar, the weather in the Great Northern Wilderness is still very cold and we have to heat the kang at night.
Seeing that there was no firewood left at home, and if he didn't chop firewood, there would not even be hot water to drink, Du Lianxi had to take half a day off to chop firewood.
Coincidentally, I met the two brothers of the Yu family as soon as I came out.
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