Chapter 127 Moving and Road Construction
On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Li Haoran moved his whole family to their new home in Paradise. The cave was to be converted into a special place for hatching chicks.
Li Youcai and several other families came to help Ziyi move. In fact, on the sixth day of the New Year, there was no need to move pots, pans, clothes, quilts and other things over, because they would take turns to keep watch here to hatch the chicks in the future.
If this place wasn't suitable for the newly hatched chicks to live in, I would really be reluctant to move away. But paradise also has its advantages. First of all, everyone lives together and can just shout if they want to do anything. Then there are fish raised in the lake and a lovely white geese. The most important thing is that this place is close to the fields, making it convenient for work.
Ziyi and his team paved the entrance to the paradise with stone slabs, and widened the two sides to make it easier for cows to pull wooden carts into the building. There was also a sturdy wooden door in the bamboo forest at the entrance.
The lakeside embankment was leveled and the ironwood that blocked the ox carts was cut down. The sand on the flat stone floor was washed clean with water and used as a threshing floor from now on. The cowshed was also built, and the cows and calves moved in. Everything was moving in the right direction.
If you want to be rich, build roads first. One suggestion is to build a stone road starting from the paradise and connecting it to the idyllic land, and also build a stone road on the other side of the field. There are a lot of rocks in this place. Just as Ziyi said, there was a volcanic eruption here before, so there are piles of rocks of all sizes everywhere outside the valley, but there are no stones in this valley.
After Ziyi explained Yi Ke's meaning to everyone, everyone responded positively. So people who couldn't find fruit trees in the forest turned their enthusiasm into building roads.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, a two-meter-wide gravel road was completed. From now on, whether it rains or not, it will be very convenient for everyone to go to the fields to work, and they can ride in ox carts to work in the fields.
"Comrade Hongjun, would you like to accompany us to experience the new road?" Ma Youcai drove out the ox cart and said to Wang Hongjun. His funny tone made everyone laugh.
"Comrade farmer, are you good at driving a cart? Don't let our Red Army comrades fall and get hurt! For safety reasons, I'd better accompany the Red Army comrades." Liu Bing also deliberately put on a stern face and said seriously.
Yike laughed so hard that his stomach hurt, and Ziyi waved his hand to tell them to leave quickly. Liu Bing and Wang Hongjun climbed onto the ox cart and sat on it, while Ma Youcai drove the cart around on the new road.
"This road is really good, very flat and not too bumpy." Liu Bing praised after the ox cart came back.
"In the future you can ride on a ox cart to go to the farmland. This is really good treatment. I really want to stay here, but what should I do?" Wang Hongjun said envious.
Ziyi glanced at Wang Hongjun, as if to say, "That's all you can do." Wang Hongjun actually understood from his eyes and couldn't help but yell, "Brother, what are you looking at? I really envy the life here. Outside, I have to think several times before I can say a word to others. It's not as free as here."
Dong Guoqing said: "Brother Red Army, we will sympathize with you for a few seconds, please stop playing the victim. You have ridden in a small car, but we have never even touched the door of a small car. How dare you compete with us for an ox cart?"
Wang Hongjun scratched his head. "Yes, I do ride in a small car occasionally in the provincial capital, but it belongs to someone else. What's there to be happy about? Bullock carts are better. They belong to our own people and are more intimate."
Yi Ke raised his eyes and said calmly: "If you have money, you can have any car. If other people's cars don't look good, just buy one for yourself. That will give you face, and it will be more convenient for brothers to visit each other in the future."
"Hongjun, listen to Yike girl, you are not without money, we all support you to buy one." Wang Feng pushed Wang Hongjun.
Dong Guoqing also agreed: "Yes, the Red Army should buy one, so that it will be convenient to transport goods in the future."
Zi Yiyi thought about it and said to Yi Ke, "How about we buy a truck to deliver goods?"
Yike thought it was feasible. Now there were more and more goods, and renting a car each time was a considerable expense. It would be better to buy a car by himself.
"Is the money enough?" Yike didn't know how much a car cost in this era.
"It would cost about 10,000 yuan, but brother, we can't buy it. What if those people ask you where the money came from?" Wang Hongjun poured cold water on everyone.
Yike also remembered that buying and selling was not so free in this era, and it was difficult to explain the source of the money. well! The plan to buy a car has failed. It seems that a bull cart is still more popular.
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On the 16th day of the first lunar month, Ziyi, Yike and Wang Hongjun went out of the mountains with canned meat to buy grain seeds. This time, part of the canned meat was taken to the provincial capital to sell, and a small portion was kept as a stepping stone to purchase grain.
"Ziyi, Yike, you are out." Tang Jianguo said in surprise.
Ziyi first took out a few dimes and distributed them to Tang Guoqing's children, and Yike also gave each of them a bag of dried fruit. This dried fruit is specially wrapped in small paper and is distributed to children during the Chinese New Year.
"Thank you, uncle! Thank you, sister!" The children wanted to eat the dried fruits but were too embarrassed to do so. They did not dare to take the money given by Ziyi. It was only until their uncle Tang Jianguo asked them to take it that they took it.
"Mom, these are the money and candies given by my uncle and sister." Tang Guoqing's wife came out, and the children swarmed towards her, holding up the dried fruits and money in their hands.
Tang Guoqing's wife said embarrassedly: "Ziyi, Yike, you guys are just here, there's nothing to do with the money given to children, there's no point in wasting it. Otherwise, this money..."
"Sister-in-law, why are you being so polite to him? He made a fortune last year. This little bit of rain won't affect him. Just rest assured." Tang Jianguo interrupted his sister-in-law.
"Thank you very much! Have you thanked your uncle and sister?"
"Mom, thank you. Mom, can we eat this candy?" The children asked their mother, holding up the dried fruits in their hands.
This is the case in many families. Gifts given by guests cannot be eaten and must be kept for visiting relatives as gifts. Often a package of gifts is sent to many families. If the gifts are cakes, biscuits, etc., they will eventually escape the fate of being broken.
Children are very sensible and know not to eat anything without asking adults before eating.
"This is dried fruit, made of fruit, not candy." Yi Ke corrected the child.
"Eat it, eat it, eat one packet first and save the rest for later. This is a precious thing."
So the children put the money and dried fruits in their hands into their mothers' hands. Only the oldest child took a bag of dried fruits and took his younger brothers and sisters to share the dried fruits.
Tang Jianguo took Ziyi and Yike to sit in the main hall, and Tang Guoqing's wife went to the kitchen and brought a bowl of sugar water to Ziyi and Yike respectively.
Ziyi put a package on the table and said, "Sister-in-law, this is a little gift from Yike and I. You must accept it."
"We are brothers, so why are you still so polite? You bring gifts every time you come. This is unacceptable." Tang Guoqing's wife opened the bag and saw two boxes of canned meat, a large piece of cured pork, a bag of sweet potato flour weighing more than five pounds, and two salt-baked chickens.
Tang Guoqing's wife was shocked by this lavish gift. She packed the things in a hurry and sent them back to Ziyi, saying, "We can't do this. There are too many of them. They are too valuable. We can't accept them."
"Sister-in-law, please accept it. These are our own fish and are not worth much. Besides, this is for the children to taste. Please don't be polite. I have something to ask you for help later." Ziyi said sincerely. Tang Jianguo saw that Ziyi was giving the gift sincerely, so he unceremoniously asked her sister-in-law to accept it.
Tang Guoqing's wife's eyes were red with emotion, and she carried the things into the kitchen and put them down. Although their family had their brother-in-law to help them and they were not starving, it was really difficult for them to eat meat.
"Did you bring any goods this time? The canned food sells really well. Many people give canned food as gifts during the Chinese New Year. Dried fruits also sell well, mainly because there is no fruit in winter." Tang Jianguo said excitedly.
Ziyi and Yike had already imagined this situation. Meat products are scarce nowadays, and it would be very prestigious to give it as a gift, so everyone would definitely rush to buy it.
"We have no more dried fruits. I gave the canned meat to Wang Hongjun to take to the provincial capital. The remaining ones will be given away."
"Who is it for? What do you want to do?"
"Buy seeds, lots of seeds. Do you think this can can open the door?"
"As many as you want. So shall we take action tonight?"
"Okay. The sooner the better. Wang Feng and the others will also try to find a way to buy it."
Yike sat beside them, drinking the water slowly, watching them make things clear and settle the matter in just a few words.
"Brother Tang, I have one more thing to ask you. Is it okay? We want to make tofu and sell it in the county town. How about asking my sister-in-law to make it?"
Tang Jianguo stood up suddenly, with the same reaction as Wang Hongjun did at the beginning.
"What did you say? Making tofu?" Tang Jianguo asked in disbelief.
“Yes, making tofu.”
"Who will do it? You?"
"It's not me, it's Yi Ke."
"Yike, can you really make tofu?"
"Yes, it's very simple."
"???"
Tang Jianguo might have been shocked. The person who knew how to make tofu didn't tell anyone the secret recipe, but Yi Ke said it was very simple. Why can't he do it? So it’s actually not that simple.
"You mean to ask my sister-in-law to do it and teach her the method?"
"If I don't teach her, will she do it? You are talking nonsense."
"Aren't you afraid that she will learn not to help you and do it herself? You should think about it. They are not as close to you as the two of us."
"Don't worry, we know the most important things ourselves and won't tell her." Ziyi and Yike also considered this problem and decided to control the raw materials for tofu coagulation themselves, process it into something that others can't recognize, and then give the tofu coagulant to them. In this way, they can't make tofu without their own coagulant, so there is no need to worry that they will not do it after learning the technology.
"Sister-in-law, please come out for a moment." Tang Jianguo shouted loudly.
"What's the matter? I'm preparing dinner. Ziyi and Yike can eat here before leaving." Tang Guoqing's wife still had flour in her hands. It seemed that she was preparing to make steamed buns.
"Sister-in-law, we would like to ask you to make tofu." Ziyi expressed his intention.
"What? Making tofu?"
Exactly the same tone and surprise, I was really convinced. Is it always like this? Is it so incredible?
"Ziyi, it's not that sister-in-law doesn't want to help, it's just that sister-in-law doesn't know how to make it. There's only one family in our county who knows how to make it, and it's passed down from son to son, not daughter to daughter. I heard that after liberation, the government took her away to the provincial capital, where she made tofu for the country, and she's a formal employee."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will teach you how to do this. We will pay you a salary every month according to the factory salary. How about 30 yuan a month?" Yi Ke said that technology was not a problem, as long as she was willing to do it, he could teach her at any time.
"Can I really learn it? Are you really willing to teach me?" Tang Guoqing's wife still couldn't believe it.
"Really, even pearls are not so real." Yi Ke joked.
"Then I'm willing to do it. Thank you so much. Now that I have a job, the father of the children can reduce his burden. The children don't need my uncle to pay for their education, and my uncle can save money to marry a wife. My uncle is being dragged down by us."
"Sister-in-law, look at what you are saying. There is no such thing as a burden in a family. Go and cook. Ziyi and Yike can eat here before leaving."
So Yike went to help prepare dinner, while Ziyi and Tang Jianguo discussed the details of making tofu and selling it.
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