Chapter 110 Return to the city soon
After reading this, An Zhiqiu and An Zhixia looked at each other, both feeling a little gloating. Look at what kind of disaster this man who only cared about his own comfort had brought to his family!
This gossip was shared by people from several factories in the community. Kang Xiaohua's oldest child is already in his twenties and has found a partner. He is pregnant with a younger child. Maybe in a year, his son and grandson will be together. Everyone secretly said, "Kang Xiaohua looks like a decent person, why is she so shameless behind his back? She is a grandmother, but she doesn't know how to be shy. If she gets pregnant now, won't it affect her children's marriage?"
Xue Guofei wrote about some exciting things happening in the An and Kang families, and then said that according to gossip, there will be an internal recruitment in all major factories in Kyoto after the fall. He will pay close attention to the specific situation. He hopes that the An brothers and sisters will not throw away their books and be ready to return to the city for exams at any time.
An Zhiqiu read the letter three or five times, took a deep breath, pointed to the end and said, "Xia Xia, did you see it? Maybe we can return to the city this fall!"
"Brother, this is just a rumor. The Xue family doesn't have many connections just like ours. Maybe by the time Brother Hu hears the news next time, they will have already recruited enough people." An Zhixia hit him bluntly.
"No way? We can always get some reliable information, right?"
"Even if we know about the recruitment, brother, how many children of factory workers are waiting to take the exam? How many children like us who have temporarily moved to the countryside are waiting to return to the city to take the exam? There must be at least 100 or 200 people competing for one position, if not 1,800. As long as there is one person with strong connections, the others are just there to take the exam. Are we just going back and forth for fun?"
An Zhiqiu pursed his lips and stared at the letter, and asked dejectedly: "Xia Xia, do you mean that there is no hope for us to return?"
"Brother, do you want to go back so much?" An Zhixia hesitated, and suddenly realized that she had overlooked something. She knew that the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, so she enjoyed and was curious about the current rural life and was very patient.
But the brother is different. He is the older brother, and he consciously takes on the responsibility of taking care of his younger sister. He tries not to show his hesitation, anxiety, and desire to return to the city in front of her, otherwise he would not be so persistent in cooking. He wants a way to see hope!
Moreover, even if the elder brother did not acknowledge his father, he had to make a bet for his mother and return to the city as soon as possible to leave behind the children born by Kang Xiaohua. This was his responsibility as a son and elder brother.
"Of course I do," An Zhiqiu looked at the uniquely shaped chimney on the brick kiln, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "We were born and raised in Kyoto for eighteen years. That is our home and where we should go back to. We went to the countryside just to escape from that home. We didn't really want to settle down in a small village by getting married and having children like other educated youth.
Xia Xia, Kang Xiaohua is sweet on the outside but bitter on the inside. If the factory hadn't asked her to support us through high school, and if our mother hadn't been strict with us since we were young, we would have developed a self-disciplined and hardworking character. I'm afraid our lives would have been wasted!
So, no matter who we are doing it for, ourselves, our mother, that man or Kang Xiaohua, we all have to go back to the city and live like a decent person.
Besides, we can’t suffer for seven or eight years in vain, we have to get it back double.
How can one repay kindness by repaying evil with kindness? "
An Zhixia pursed her lips tightly and nodded heavily: "Brother, we will be back to the city soon!"
An Zhiqiu smiled, carefully put away the letter, and sighed softly: "It would be great if mother was still alive. Even if we can't see her, writing letters and sending food from time to time will always be a thought for her."
The original owner's memory of his mother was already vague, and I believe the same is true for his brother of the same age. They were more attached to the word "mother", longing for the care from their elders to give their hearts a place to rest.
Knowing Kang Xiaohua’s moves, the An siblings put their minds at ease and their lives continued to go on busy and trivial.
After wheat harvest and corn planting at the end of June, the chicken farm finally received good news. After a combination of free-range and artificial balanced scientific feeding, the first batch of hens have already laid eggs! Because chickens are raised on the chicken farm not only for laying eggs, but also for eating, roosters and hens are raised in a certain ratio, and the ratio is different in each growth period, adjusted between 8% and 15%.
The employees at the chicken farm strictly followed the scientific feeding method given by An Zhixia. After the first batch of hens laid eggs, other hens also began to lay eggs one after another. Every flock of chickens can lay more than a thousand small and beautiful local eggs every day!
There are more than 20,000 pieces in twenty flocks of chickens!
The current market price of eggs is four cents each. Every household in the countryside raises a few chickens, counting on them to lay eggs to supplement the family income. Except for pregnant women and children, no one else can afford to eat them. The same is true in the city. Except for women who are about to give birth, they can apply to raise chickens for one or two months. If you want to eat eggs, you have to queue up at the grain and oil station to buy them. The price is expensive and you may not be able to buy them.
It can be seen that the shortage of eggs is still huge. Of course, raising chickens is risky. If you are not careful and get chicken plague, the whole chicken farm will be ruined. In addition, the difficulty in transporting eggs is also a reason that limits the scale of chicken farms.
An Zhixia had money in her hands. Apart from the brick-making project, which required capital investment and the monthly payment of wages to workers, she had no other expenses. So she spent money early on, followed the president around, and shamelessly asked for discounts. Finally, she spent 30,000 yuan to build a not-so-wide asphalt road from the chicken farm to the provincial highway!
Not only did it allow the members of Wuqi Commune to see that the commune was truly undergoing transformation, it also provided young and middle-aged people with a short-term job with a good salary.
Fang Yuan contacted many parties and managed to buy a 60% new two-ton J truck that was about to be scrapped from the provincial capital at a low price of 10,000 yuan.
The flat road is now open and the truck is in place. Now that the eggs are finally produced in batches and in a stable manner, everyone is happy to separate the eggs with thick layers of chaff, wheat straw, rice straw, sawdust, etc., and pack them one by one into customized wooden boxes. There are 30 eggs in a box, and one truck can carry them all!
The eggs will be transported directly to the provincial grain and oil station, which will then distribute them in batches. More than 20,000 eggs may seem like a lot, but if they are spread out evenly in each city, there are only a few hundred eggs, which is not enough.
Therefore, as long as the chicken farm operates normally and all hens lay eggs normally, there is no worry about not being able to sell the 30,000 eggs a day. The purchase price of each egg is three cents, and the chicken farm earns about 800 yuan a day, which is 24,000 yuan a month.
This project alone meets the minimum profit standard set for her by the province!
What’s more, chicken farms not only produce eggs, but also delicious chicken!
In the agreement that An Zhixia signed with the village, she had to share 20% of the profits. But is it so easy to share the money that has entered her hands?
(End of this chapter)
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