Now I eat only bland food and I am already starving.
Normally, we have nothing to eat and have to go hungry. Now, there is food to eat, so who would go hungry?
Both of them happily cooked a pot of chestnuts and ate them. However, after eating this meal, they felt nauseous for three days. From then on, they felt like vomiting when they saw chestnuts.
Seeing Captain Chen solve the problem quickly, Su Nian gave up the idea of quitting.
There really isn't enough work to go around right now. If Captain Chen is really too busy, it's understandable for him to ask someone to help keep track of the work. But if someone comes uninvited just to get a piece of the pie, then that's a bit of a greedy act!
"Captain Chen! Is the problem resolved?" Su Nian asked after the old women had left.
"It's solved. From now on, we can send roasted chestnuts to the supply and marketing cooperative at 20 cents per pound!" Captain Chen smiled again when he said that the problem had been solved.
"Really? That's great! At 20 cents a pound, we can make more than a dollar for ten pounds!" Su Nian said with a smile.
"That's great!" Sun Yanyan said happily.
"How many kilograms do you deliver in a day, Captain Chen?" Qin Yuxian couldn't help but ask.
"We deliver 40 kilograms of roasted chestnuts and 30 strings of candied haws a day!" Captain Chen said with a smile.
"Wow, Captain Chen, then we can earn five dollars and sixty dollars a day, and one hundred and sixty-eight dollars a month! That's nearly half a year's salary for an ordinary worker!" Sun Yanyan said quickly.
For a moment, the people in the yard were all grinning from ear to ear, their faces flushed with excitement!
Su Nian didn't want to dampen their enthusiasm, so she laughed along.
One hundred and sixty-eight a month, can they last a month with this kind of salary? Can we get enough sugar?
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