Chapter 170 Do you want to make money?
"You little lazy bug," Ziyi pinched her chubby face and said lovingly, "Okay, you're responsible for coming up with ideas, and I'll be responsible for hitting the target. All actions are under my wife's command. With a flick of my wife's golden finger, mountains of gold and silver will immediately grow."
"Of course." Yi Ke said shamelessly: "I have a golden idea, which will make everyone earn a lot of money and never go hungry again."
"What my wife said is so right. The villagers are short of food and money now. The women in the village are good at sewing. They can do it at home after work and recycle it. Whether it's the black market or the supply and marketing cooperative, as long as they are willing to buy, we can sell it. But I don't know if the village can apply to set up a small processing workshop? If it is possible, we can do it openly."
"I don't know. This world is a little different from our time. Why don't we go ask the team leader first? He also needs to register my household registration in the village." Yi Ke suggested.
"The captain may not be asleep yet, why don't we go find him now? This matter cannot be explained in a few words, and the night is long enough." Ziyi said.
"Okay, let's go. Let's take our own backpacks as samples to show to the captain so that he can be reassured." Yi Ke said as he took out his mountaineering bag, small backpack and waist bag and put them on.
Ziyi took the flashlight and took Yike to the captain's house.
The two were walking in the quiet village. Ziyi's flashlight flashed like "lightning" in the dark night, and the two were walking slowly on the "lightning".
Ziyi held Yike's hand and recalled the scene of the two of them walking together in their previous life. But in this era, they had to be sneaky if they wanted to hold hands, which was so depressing.
The light from the captain's house playfully squeezed out from the crack of the door. Yike scratched Ziyi's palm. Ziyi pinched Yike's hand knowingly, then walked forward and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" A hoarse female voice sounded from inside the door in the dark night, like the sound of a dull saw cutting wood, which was uncomfortable to hear.
"Aunt, it's me, Ziyi. Is Uncle Wang asleep?" Ziyi answered slowly.
"Creaky", the wooden door was opened. The woman's face could not be seen clearly in the hazy night, but her eyes were particularly bright at night, like a small star that accidentally fell into her eye socket.
"Hello, auntie!" Ziyi said.
Yi Ke also greeted: "Hello, Auntie!"
"Yike is here too, come in quickly. Your uncle hasn't gone to bed yet." The captain's wife quickly turned aside to let the two men in, and then closed the door again after they came in.
The captain stood in the main room and invited Ziyi and Yike to sit down. Yike took off his backpack and handed a bag of corn flour and a bag of fruit candies to the captain's wife: "Aunt, these are for Yongqiang and Jianqiang."
"This, this is not possible. This is too precious, and there is too much. You silly child, bring it to your aunt. What do you want to eat? You just come here, why do you bring anything? Take it back when you leave. Don't be polite to your aunt, just come empty-handed, and your aunt will welcome you all the same." The captain's wife hurriedly declined and refused to accept it no matter what.
Yike thought: "Maybe my aunt saw that there were too many gifts, or she might be afraid that if she accepted them, we would ask her husband to do something bad."
"Aunt, I'm telling you in secret. We bought a lot on the black market this time, really. You can take it and feed Jianqiang and the others. They are in the growing period and can't go hungry. I'll help you put it in the kitchen." Yi Ke said as he took the things and walked towards the kitchen.
"My dear daughter, please don't come to get things next time. I feel bad when you always bring so many things every time." The captain's wife followed him into the kitchen, opened the cupboard and let Yike put the noodles in the cupboard, then opened the can and poured the corn flour into it.
Yike glanced at the cupboard and found it empty. The jar of grains was open, with only about half of the jar filled. There were also two handfuls of dried wild vegetables, and then nothing else. The captain's wife looked at the scarce items in her cupboard and said embarrassedly, "These grains were exchanged for the meat and noodles you gave me last time. There are too many mouths to feed at home, and the few work points we have are not enough to feed them. In the past, when there was a shortage of food like this, we basically relied on wild vegetables to fill our stomachs. But, I won't say thank you. If there is anything I can help with in the future, just let me know and I will definitely help."
But when I think of their family's six children, the oldest of whom is only 17 years old this year, and the fact that two people earn work points to support eight mouths, it's overwhelming just to think about it. There was a drought in the past few years, and I don’t know how they survived. Although I wanted to know, it was difficult to ask.
"Aunt, Uncle Wang has helped us a lot. We are family. We can't watch you starve while we have food to eat, right? Ziyi and my father are great hunters. As long as we go around the mountains, we won't have to worry about having no money to buy food. Ziyi said that he regards Uncle Wang as his own uncle, so everyone can do as they please."
The two of them returned to the main room while talking, and Yike sat down next to Ziyi. Ziyi has already talked to the team leader about the household registration issue, and the team leader said that he will register tomorrow. Ziyi talked about the bag again. The captain was studying it carefully and Ziyi explained a few words from time to time. The captain's wife poured two glasses of boiled water for Ziyi and Yike, and said apologetically that there was no sugar at home, otherwise she would have given them sugared boiled water.
"Auntie. Do you want to make money?" Yike said slowly.
The captain's wife's eyes lit up like a light bulb: "Do you have a way to make money?"
"Yes!" Yi Ke nodded affirmatively and said, "It depends on whether Wang Shutong agrees or not?"
The captain's wife said without asking the captain, "I agree. Why not? People are starving to death. As long as we can make money, why not agree?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Don't say anything without knowing the facts clearly." The captain blamed his wife.
"You don't have to figure it out, just follow Ziyi and Yike. Do you think they can harm you? Or is your brain better than Ziyi's?" The captain's wife said to her husband without any hesitation.
"You, you, I won't talk to you." The captain turned to Yike and said, "Yike, Ziyi said that this bag was your idea? Is it really as useful as Ziyi said?"
"Uncle Wang, it was inconvenient for me to carry things in a basket in the mountains, so I made this backpack. This not only makes it convenient to move around in the mountains, but also saves energy, and there's no need to worry about things in the bag falling out..." Yi Ke talked eloquently, listing the advantages of various backpacks one by one, and calculated the cost of making the bag. In a word, making bags requires little cost, has high profits, and makes money quickly, which can immediately solve the villagers' urgent needs.
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