Chapter 16 Care
Song Xirong stewed the old hen over low heat for two hours and added some mountain products that she had exchanged from the village.
As soon as Jun Qiulan got home, she was intoxicated by the fragrance.
The crew's boxed lunches were salty and flavorful, and delicious, but Jun Qiulan always felt that the food was as if it had been dead for a long time.
Home-cooked food still tastes better.
The whole family hasn't eaten meat for a long time.
Song Xirong: "Stewed soup is better. The stomach needs to adapt. Everyone should drink a few more bowls of soup to nourish themselves."
If you want to make something else, they have limited seasonings nowadays.
Jun Qiulan smiled brightly, "Thank you for your hard work, mother. I brought you some supplies today. You and my little sister can go take a look after you finish eating. I don't know if I can use them."
Song Xirong and Jun Shuwan just thought it was a facial ointment for women, and they also blamed Jun Qiulan for spending money indiscriminately.
Speaking of spending money, Jun Qiulan took out his mobile phone and transferred today's remuneration directly to his WeChat account.
When he bought a Coke for Liu Yue, it was his first time using the money in his electronic account. He was not very familiar with the operation and it took him a long time to get the QR code.
With a flash of red light, the account balance changed from 120 to 117.
Although I don’t know what the principle is, it is really convenient.
However, this WeChat account always prompts him to bind a bank card.
After this period of time, he has learned a lot about the basic life of the people in the other world.
A bank card is an account opened at a bank, which is similar to a money house. Just like an ID card or a phone number, it belongs only to the owner of the account.
This technology is astonishing, but Jun Qiulan still doesn't understand its principles.
The more you learn, the more you realize the magic of that world.
I drank two bowls of chicken soup and ate a little bit of chicken.
The pheasant soup was rich, but the chicken was less than satisfactory.
I couldn’t eat it some time ago, and now I complain that the chicken is too old.
After dinner, Jun Qiulan talked about the side job he was planning to start.
"My son, isn't he working too hard?" Song Xirong said distressedly, "Now that we have enough food at home, and we have almost all the household items, Lan'er, please don't put so much pressure on yourself."
Jun Shuwan also said: "If it really doesn't work, brother, bring back a few more bottles, and we can ask someone to sell them. Life will not be too bad."
This kind of family atmosphere is truly warm, and it is a warmth that he has not felt in the past ten years.
Reselling supplies is not a long-term solution. There are too many of them entering the market, and even a fool can find something wrong.
But what they really want to spend money on is not the good things in the border town, but the good things in another world.
Jun Qiulan smiled and replied, "We can't use the money here to buy the supplies over there. Right now, we only have these three adobe houses. Even if we have the money, we wouldn't dare expand or renovate them. But how to replenish the supplies inside is our own business."
After a pause, he continued, "Mother and little sister, why don't you take a look at what I brought back today?"
"Why are you being so secretive?" Jun Shuwan took the item out and managed to read the missing words on it: "Toilet paper, sanitary napkin, what is this?"
Jun Qiulan was a little embarrassed. "Toilet paper is just toilet paper, and sanitary napkins... are what girls use during their menstrual period."
"Ouch." Song Xirong was shocked. "You are a man, how could you buy the filthy things used by these women?"
She couldn't imagine that such things could be bought outside.
Jun Shuwan's face turned red with embarrassment.
Jun Qiulan was also embarrassed. He had never even been exposed to these things before, and it was only today that his understanding was overturned.
"Don't worry, mother. These items are right on the supermarket shelves, and you can pick them up at will. I've even seen men choosing sanitary napkins while on the phone asking their partners what brand and type they want. And when they paid, they were completely natural. I guess, over there, these things are just common household items."
Even so, Song Xirong disagreed. "Forget about the straw paper. Don't buy this kind of thing in the future. You are a man, don't get involved in these things."
Jun Qiulan shook her head. "Mother, I looked it up on my phone. Every woman has her period. It's a perfectly normal physiological phenomenon and has nothing to do with being dirty."
The mother and son had different opinions.
After a while, Song Xirong sighed. Everything his son bought from there was good stuff.
It would be fine if she was an old woman, but her daughter was still young, and the sanitary conditions in this town were poor, so she might get sick.
Women's menstrual diseases are very difficult to treat, and it is probably impossible to find a female doctor in this border town. Thinking of this, she nodded.
Jun Qiulan knew that these ideas were difficult to change, so he took it slow.
He returned to the point, "These things aren't expensive. Two packs of toilet paper are five yuan, and a pack of sanitary napkins is eight yuan. If my son relies solely on extras, he can only ensure that our family doesn't go hungry. If we want to live a better life, we still have to make other plans."
He still bought cheap and discounted items today.
His father, mother, and younger sister were all wealthy people in the past. He didn't dwell on it, but the exile was still related to him.
His family never blamed him, but he couldn't let his family live such a hard life forever.
Jun Yu was silent for a moment before speaking, "Lan'er, just do what you want."
"Thank you for your understanding, Mom and Dad. I have some ideas too." Jun Qiulan said, "I want Mom to bring Old Madam Zhao and her family next door to make fan ribs and leaves together."
Sister Yuan Shu helped them sell the bottles, and they gave her a thank-you fee.
This money can only be used for emergency purposes, to buy some daily necessities and household expenses, and there won't be much left as a thank-you fee.
It is extremely difficult for a family consisting of women and children to find work outside. It will take more than a day or two to see results by learning from the villagers to farm and raise chickens.
Making fan ribs and fan leaves is an easy job that can be done by men, women, young and old.
There are few people, so we can't do much, but it just meets Jun Qiulan's needs of setting up a stall there.
He doesn't have much time to set up a stall, and he doesn't need to stock up on large quantities of goods.
I brought Mrs. Zhao and her family next door to do this together, also because I wanted to have one more person to take care of the family.
Jun Yu: "This method is feasible, but it may not reach the number that Lan'er wants."
Even if the demand is small or business is bad, three to five a day should still be necessary.
For the fan, just buy suitable paper, cut it, and stick it to the fan frame.
However, fan ribs are not so easy to make. Each piece of fan rib must be the same length and thickness, and it must be carefully polished and coated with tung oil for corrosion prevention.
The finer fan ribs even have carvings on them.
Although there are seven people in Mrs. Zhao's family, the old lady is old and has two children to take care of. The only ones who can really do the work are her three sisters-in-law and a girl. With just the four of them, I'm afraid they can't do more than three or five things a day.
Jun Qiulan felt ashamed, thinking that the structure of the fan was simple but not considering the complicated process.
"Dad, do you have other ideas?"
Jun Yu: "Since we need to have someone to look after Madam and Wan'er at home, why not go to the village and hire two more maids? Although the wages are not much, it is at least an income for farmers."
"Dad, you have been influenced by this." Jun Qiulan looked at his parents with a smile.
Song Xirong smiled. She was still a little concerned about the sanitary napkin issue and hadn't said anything.
"In my opinion, this matter can be handed over to Sister Yuan Shu. We don't need to show up in person to avoid being watched by the higher-ups. Wan'er and I can just treat it as a job, like the villagers on the surface, earning a few cents a day."
Song Xirong no longer worried about the previous problems, and became very knowledgeable when talking about business.
"Mrs. Zhao's family has received two favors from us. They should also know that our identities are not suitable for doing business now. They just need to make money to support their family. I believe they can understand the reasoning."
Only by supporting each other can we live a good life here.
Song Xirong added, "As for going to the village to select people, I'm afraid we have to get the approval of the village head, and we have to sell it to the villagers."
Not many people know their identities, but there is no doubt that they were exiled. Jun Shuwan is a harmless girl who can get along well with her peers in the village.
Except for the few times when they went to buy things, they hardly had any interaction with other villagers in the village. At least, no villager took the initiative to interact with them.
Since we need to take care of them, we should establish good relations with the villagers.
"Then I'll leave this matter to my parents," Jun Qiulan said. "It doesn't matter if the quantity is a little larger. We don't need the money here, and we don't have to worry about stockpiling. Once we reach a certain amount, we can just tell the villagers and stop accepting them for the time being."
"Dad knows, Lan'er, don't worry." Jun Yu smiled and said, "Even if we recruit two or three more people, it won't be too much."
After this matter was arranged, Jun Qiulan returned to the film and television city the next day and made an appointment to meet with Zhang Li to apply for an actor's certificate.
It wasn't difficult. After registering their information and receiving two hours of training, they were given a crudely made certificate and then added to several WeChat groups.
"The crews that have settled in the film and television city now have the person in charge of recruiting extras in the group. They will send a message in the group about whether they want to recruit people, how many people to recruit, and what the requirements are. Everyone should pay attention to the message and sign up on their own later."
This way, it will be convenient for everyone.
Jun Qiulan was a little helpless. After he returned to the border town, his cell phone could no longer receive a signal. This was really a troublesome thing.
We really need to hurry up and rent a house.
Jun Qiulan also did not forget to send a message to Uncle Chouqin, telling him where to do it and what to do.
After completing this, Jun Qiulan went to another bank, deposited 100 yuan, opened an account, and asked Zhang Li to help him bind his mobile phone so that he would have no restrictions on using electronic payments in the future.
Zhang Li felt a headache when he looked at his balance. "Is this really all the money you have?"
Jun Qiulan remained calm and said, "Master told us to go down the mountain to gain experience on our own and didn't give us any money."
Zhang Li didn't know what was going on in his mind. "Come on, I'll treat you to a meal, and then I'll think of a way to get some money."
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