Zhang Xiaojun gave half of the money he earned from selling couplets to his father-in-law. If it dropped to fifty cents a pair, he and his wife would be busy in vain. Zhang Xiaojun looked at Ye Fan's guests one after another. He was so angry that his head was smoking, so he packed up the Spring Festival couplets and went to another park with his wife.
The uncle and aunt who were chatting beside Ye Fan waited until the couple walked away and said, "Your neighbors are not particular."
Zhang Xiaojun is not afraid of losing face, so what is Ye Fan afraid of? So Ye Fan directly told the uncles and aunts that they were none other than the younger brother and sister-in-law of Xiao Ming, who was driving and selling vegetables.
In recent months, Zhang Xiaoming has been selling vegetables around Ye Fan's house. The uncles and aunts in the park are also from nearby, and almost all of them have bought pork, mutton, eggs, and duck eggs from Xiao Ming.
If the uncle and aunt are not in a hurry, they will chat with Xiao Ming for a while, and they will find out that he and Ye Fan bought the car. Xiao Ming also told the uncles and aunts that Ye Fan went to the park to sell couplets during the winter vacation.
Upon hearing this, the aunt thought that Zhang Xiaoming had a share in the Spring Festival couplet business: "Then he is robbing his brother's business?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "You can't say that. If he doesn't sell couplets, there are others who do. But they shouldn't be around me on purpose."
The uncle couldn't help but nod: "Yes! The park is so big, I can't sell it anywhere except around you. I think I'm deliberately trying to spite you."
The aunt asked: "What are you going to do?"
"If you don't provoke me anymore, I will pretend that I don't know. If you dare to cause trouble for me, I will write to their boss and use my working time to buy red paper and a brush to write couplets."
Now the couplet business is good. After today's work, Zhang Xiaojun and his wife went back to settle the accounts. One day's work is equivalent to a week's work in the factory. They definitely want to sell couplets every day. An individual must take leave at that time.
This kind of thing is done by the people without officials being investigated. If the company receives Ye Fan's letter and investigates, the person who asked for leave for personal gain will be arrested.
Zhang Xiaojun cannot do business every day without a car, and without work he can only drink the northwest wind. Then he will be so angry that he will have more air and less air.
Ye Fanxin said, "How dare you give me trouble when your butt is not clean? What a fool you are."
The uncle and aunt were shocked when they heard this, and asked in unison: "Do they have jobs?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Zhang Xiaoming has been in the countryside for ten years, and his father thought it was not easy for him. Before he retired, he asked him to take over. When he retired, the second son said that Zhang Xiaoming didn't know anything after ten years of farming, and it would be difficult to adapt to the factory. Zhang Xiaoming is easy to talk to. Just give the job to his brother, otherwise he wouldn’t have to work early and late to sell vegetables.”
The uncle and aunt loved to listen to gossip the most, and it felt like Ye Fan was waiting for her to continue before she finished speaking.
Ye Fan added: "Uncle Zhang spent all his savings to buy a car with me. Zhang Xiaojun is getting married again. Xiao Ming feels that he has no partner, but his brother has a partner, so he should stay close to his brother first. No, Zhang Xiaojun is getting married. Wife, he is still a bachelor in his thirties.”
Among the relatives and neighbors of uncles and aunts, children as old as gay men who are going through life are all confused. The uncle and aunt couldn't help but sympathize with Zhang Xiaoming.
The uncle asked: "This Zhang Xiaojun sells couplets, does his father know?"
Ye Fan didn't hear Zhang Xiaoming mention this: "I don't know. He is not good at calligraphy. He asked someone else to write it. He should have taken it from someone else's house after breakfast."
The aunt asked curiously: "Can it be sold?"
Ye Fan nodded: "It can be sold."
The situation this year is similar to last year. People like Huihui, whose grandma's name is very good, still don't bother to show their faces. People who dare to sell couplets, except for Ye Fan's family, all others have half-baked handwriting, which can only be considered neat and beautiful. If there are many people writing Spring Festival couplets, the latter will have little business. But there is still the same problem. Many people can't help but feel ashamed, which leads to the fact that there are not many parks this year.
There are fewer people selling and more people buying, and when there are more people there are all kinds of things, so naturally there will be no shortage of those who are free.
Hearing this, the aunt couldn't help but said: "He's taking advantage of him! If it were me, I would definitely be embarrassed to be next to you." Then she added, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. He just said eight cents a pair. I wanted to take advantage of it, but I haven't done it yet." Well written."
Ye Fan said: "I taught Erbao how to calligraphy with a brush. I have been writing one or two pages almost every day for the past few years."
The uncle couldn't help but said: "No wonder. Now that I'm retired, I don't have time to practice every day. So I would rather buy two pairs from you than post what I wrote and embarrass myself."
The aunt asked: "Who wrote in your family before?"
"I wrote. But at that time, everyone looked ugly, and no one disliked anyone." The uncle glanced at the Spring Festival couplets in his hand, "I can't do it now. Walking down an alley, my Spring Festival couplets are the ugliest, and I can't stand it." br>
Geng Benben asked: "Auntie, should I go home and make a brand?"
Ye Fan shook his head slightly: "No need. I'm so angry!"
Geng Benben: "Then I went to play table tennis?"
"Can we play table tennis here?" Ye Fan asked.
The uncle said: "There are two table tennis tables in the park, maybe they were placed by the street."
Ye Fan asked Geng Benben if he had a table tennis racket. Geng Benben nodded and said he had brought the ones from home.
The table tennis racket thing started during the summer vacation. Geng Benben loved to play with others, but every time he would rub their racket and return it to them before he even started to sweat. When he was not happy, he discussed buying a racket with his grandma.
Yu Wentao asked him to play with it often after buying it like Dabao, and not to leave it to gather dust. Geng Benben agreed, and Yu Wentao bought him two pairs to use interchangeably, and also bought many balls, which he usually played at home.
Ye Fan heard this and asked with a smile: "Who helped you get it? Why didn't I see it?"
"Two treasures."
Ye Fan: "It's no wonder."
Erbao and Dabao ran out first. Ye Fan came out with his wallet and Spring Festival couplets, and the two little guys were almost at the park.
Speaking of which, Ye Fan considered that there were many people learning to write Spring Festival couplets from her in Xicheng, and it was estimated that there were two or three in each park, so Ye Fan told her mother-in-law that when Zhang Xiaoming came back from selling vegetables, she asked him to go to Dongcheng to sell couplets.
Zhang Xiaoming never doubted Ye Fan's decision. Around ten o'clock, he came back, cleaned the car, and loaded the Spring Festival couplets that Ye Fan had put in the box into the car.
This box was also a wooden box for storing popsicles in summer. Ye Fan took out the quilt inside, washed it, dried it, and put it away. A pair of Spring Festival couplets were tied with hemp rope and placed in the box.
Zhang Xiaoming put the sign that read "Couplets for Sale" on the car and asked: "Aunt Yu, who wrote these?"
Yu Wentao: "Everyone has it. What's wrong?"
"Then who will I give the money to after I sell it?"
Yu Wentao was just as curious as him a few days ago about how to calculate the accounts after putting all the Spring Festival couplets together, "Fengfan said that he had already bought them with a few children. You can sell them with confidence, they cost 20 cents a pair. The more they sell, the less they sell, they are all yours." ”
Zhang Xiaoming was a little embarrassed to make money from his children, but he was used to being obedient, so he drove out.
Last year, Ye Fan became famous in Dongcheng. People there also knew Zhang Xiaoming's car. When he saw his car, he went over. When he got there, he was disappointed to see that it was a Spring Festival couplet.
Zhang Xiaoming explained with a smile that the pork was sold out. If there were more people in need, he would ask the villagers to catch pigs at a relative's house tomorrow. Because there was limited food in the village to feed the pigs, almost all the big pigs raised this year were killed.
I learned this kind of half-truth from Ye Fan. The citizens believed it - they subconsciously believed that no one would be willing to feed pigs with grain. And indeed it is. However, there are many things that can be fed to pigs in the village, such as sweet potato seedlings in summer and crushed wheat straw in winter. Add a little wheat bran and stir with pot water, and pigs can also grow meat.
Perhaps Zhang Xiaoming is a pleasant-looking person who looks honest and honest, and the citizens who are overjoyed for nothing are not angry. Those who have not bought red paper yet and think that his calligraphy is not good come to him to buy one or two couplets.
The citizens got the couplets and opened them, and found that one was given with four words of auspiciousness. It was an unexpected surprise for those who bought the couplets, so they were very happy.
Zhang Xiaoming didn't expect any surprises, but after working in business for a year, he didn't hesitate. When he heard the buyer praising him for his business skills, he smiled and nodded, and he didn't say stupidly, "I don't know how to buy things either." One for one”.
In the past, Zhang Xiaoming was too embarrassed to go into a crowd and ask people if they wanted it. Now when you see a lot of people, you park your car. The car went very fast and we covered a lot of places in more than an hour. All the Spring Festival couplets were sold.
Zhang Xiaoming arrived at Ye Fan's house, and Ye Fan had just arrived home. He saw that he came back before lunch time: "Sold out?"
"Sold out." Zhang Xiaoming smiled and nodded vigorously.
Ye Fan: "Then at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, take another hundred pairs and try them around Zhengyangmen?"
Zhang Xiaoming thinks it’s okay: “Many people in Dongcheng want pork.”
Ye Fan: "Do you want to sell pork this afternoon?"
Zhang Xiaoming felt that selling pork and selling couplets would not be delayed. If he wanted to sell good vegetables in the morning, he would go back to the village with the people in Yujia Village, and then go back to sell pork at noon and sell couplets in the afternoon.
Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Ye Fan asked, "Is Hongwei back from vacation?"
Zhang Xiaoming didn't understand why she asked this, but he nodded obediently.
"Ask Hongwei to collect pigs from a relative's village. It's only one cent or five cents more than the price of the meat factory. If it's more, you won't make any money. When someone asked why they wanted live pigs, they said they needed them for weddings. We can't admit that they killed them and brought them in to sell. , it is easy to be regarded as a speculator by jealous people.”
Zhang Xiaoming nodded and waited for Ye Fan to continue.
Ye Fan: "We will join the business of selling pork in a week. I have calculated that at the current rate, the Spring Festival couplets will be sold out in a week. If you do it now and run three times a day in the morning, noon and afternoon, your body will not be able to bear it and you will easily get into accidents while driving. ”
Zhang Xiaoming said: "If we are like Hongwei and others, two people in the morning and two people in the afternoon will take turns."
Ye Fan: "If we make money, we share it with two families, and if they make money, we share it with four families."
Zhang Xiaoming woke up from a dream.
Ye Fan was speechless and wanted to laugh: "Forgot?"
Zhang Xiaoming smiled sheepishly and gave Ye Fan his wallet.
Ye Fan directly counted twenty yuan to him, "You don't have any money of your own in the bag, right?" He saw Zhang Xiaoming shaking his head, "Those are all mine."
Zhang Xiaoming felt embarrassed, "How about I get a commission of 10 cents from selling a pair in the future?"
Ye Fan: "The ink and brushes I bought are all cheap. The cost is so low that you can't even imagine. Go home and rest, we have to go to Zhengyangmen in the afternoon."
Zhang Xiaoming instinctively turned around, then stopped and gave Ye Fan ten dollars, "Keep it for me."
Ye Fan took it and Zhang Xiaoming took ten of them home. Yu Wentao was picking vegetables in the yard. When he saw this scene, he asked: "Have you learned how to hide money?"
Ye Fan: "Zhang Xiaojun asked him to borrow money and he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he asked me to keep it for him."
Yu Wentao nodded: "If it were Zhang Xiaojun, the money would have to be given to his partner. You said Zhang Xiaojun was stupid, but he knew how to ask his brother and his father for money, and you said he was smart and gave money to outsiders."
Geng Zhiqin couldn't help but retort: "Zhang Xiaojun is married, is he still dating an outsider?"
Ye Fan: "Zhang Xiaojun can figure out who he is, so he can give her the money. If the money comes into her hands and she gives it to her mother-in-law's family, Zhang Xiaojun will be a long-term employee of his mother-in-law's family."
Geng Zhiqin couldn't help but think of Zhang Xiaojun's wedding day, when his partner asked for two hundred yuan. If the Zhang family had to eat cabbage and radishes every day because they spent two hundred yuan, she and Zhang Xiaojun would also have to eat it.
Geng Zhiqin couldn't help but say: "It seems that Zhang Xiaojun's wife is too smart."
Ye Fan counted the money, and as expected, it turned out to be a lot: "It's better to cooperate with Zhang Xiaoming to save worry."
Yu Wentao saw her counting money and understood why she said this: "If Xiao Ming keeps doing this, I will take him with me if I have a profitable business in the future. You don't have to work so hard."
"Let's talk about it. We know that he doesn't understand Dong Ying. Being honest in the first half of his life does not mean that he is honest after marrying a wife. The person beside him has a great influence." After Ye Fan finished speaking, he returned to the house and saw Dabao and Erbao lying on the Arhat bed. A few days ago, "What are you doing?"
Dabao: "Sister Huihui bought it."
Ye Fan didn't see it clearly. He walked up to it and saw a pocket watch: "No wonder she asked her to go to the park with me this morning and she said she had something to do. Did you go buy it with Leilei?"
Dabao nodded: "But it's broken. I'll try to see if I can fix it."
Ye Fan wanted to say that clockwork is a delicate job. But when she thought about it, it was all broken anyway, no matter how bad it was, it couldn't be any worse, "Do you have any tools?"
Erbao: "Brother Zhang has tools at home, and we asked him to borrow them. He said they were used by Uncle Zhang before."
Ye Fan said: "Then you two can fix it. By the way, where is Huihui? Did you leave your things at home and go out again?"
Dabao looked north, "Placing furniture at Brother Leilei's house."
More than a month ago, Geng Leilei heard that Dabao Erbao did not need to go out to sell couplets in person. They wrote a pair for 30 cents, so Geng Leilei wanted to write couplets.
Geng Leilei made twenty or thirty yuan even though he couldn't come back often to write. The school subsidy was enough for him, and the pocket money Ye Fan gave him remained untouched. In addition, he earned more than 100 yuan, and from today onwards they were not required to write Spring Festival couplets. Geng Leilei had some free time to buy furniture and decorate the house.
It turned out that the roof was leaking a little. Geng Zhiye took advantage of the summer vacation at home and asked Yu Hongwei to go to the village to recruit a few people. He watched the villagers tidy up the houses of his niece and nephew.
The bricklayers in the village felt that they were taking advantage of the two yuan a day for a meal, and they would be sorry if they didn't fix it, so they inspected it carefully and even painted the walls. Otherwise, Geng Leilei would not be able to put the furniture in now.
Ye Fan asked: "Isn't what Leilei bought new furniture?"
Dabao nodded: "I bought it at the flea market. That's why Sister Huihui came across the pocket watch. Mom, don't worry, Sister Huihui bought it very cheaply. People told her it was an antique, but Sister Huihui said she didn't understand antiques and just looked at them. It looks good, but I don’t want to sell it for 50 cents.”
Ye Fan looked at the pocket watch. It didn't look like gold, and it didn't have colored gems. It was broken. "It's worth fifty cents if it's repaired. If it's not repaired, it's just a piece of scrap copper."
Dabao: "So I want to fix it."
Ye Fan didn't know where his confidence came from. Seeing that he was very confident, he stopped disturbing him.
Ye Fan went to the kitchen to see that there was not much rice and noodles left, and asked her mother-in-law where the grain book was.
Geng Zhiqin went to Yu Wentao's room and took it out and asked: "Sister-in-law, we will buy a few kilograms of suet from the village another day. Let's boil the lard and fry the fruits."
Ye Fan stuffed the food book into his pocket: "Just tell Xiao Ming about this. I'll drive to buy rice and noodles, will you go?"
Yu Wentao wanted to cook cabbage noodles, noodles or dried noodles on the stove. She didn't need Geng Zhiqin's help, so she put on a scarf and hat and carried a pony and got into the car.
Next door, Aunt Li was free to throw the snow on both sides of the road at the intersection, one shovel at a time, and she didn't mind it. Seeing Ye Fan driving out, Aunt Li retreated to the wall: "Why are you going, Dabao?"
Ye Fan: "Buying rice and noodles. Did your family buy it? If not, I will carry it for you."
Aunt Li said with a smile: "My family bought them all a few days ago."
Ye Fan wanted to say something, but he instinctively turned his head when he heard the footsteps. Zhang Xiaojun's wife Wang Aihe ran out: "Sister Ye Fan, are you going to the vegetable market? I just want to buy something, let's go with you."
Neighbors should live in harmony with each other. After all, if you don't see each other with your head down, it won't look good if there is a quarrel.
However, Ye Fan was not included. "I am not good at driving, so I can't afford to pay for knocking you over."
Wang Aihe was stunned. He didn't expect Ye Fan to be so careless in front of Aunt Li. Then he smiled and said, "It's okay."
"I have something to do!" Ye Fan said, started the car and left.
Wang Aihe was speechless, and after a while he came back to his senses and said to Aunt Li: "Why is she so narrow-minded?"
Aunt Li said to herself, you are not welcome. "As you said, she can use her car however she wants."
Wang Aihe sneered: "That car is half as big as mine?"
Zhang Xiaodi didn't know when he came out, and leaned against the door frame and asked leisurely: "So you not only want to be my second sister-in-law, but also want to be my eldest brother's family?" Wang Aihe's head buzzed, and his eyes turned black with anger: "You—— Fart! Zhang Xiaoguo, don’t think that the whole family loves you!”
Zhang Xiaoming ran out: "What do you want to do?"
There was no chance of winning in a one-on-one fight. Wang Aihe did not dare to move forward and turned back to the house with a grunt.
Aunt Li said: "Xiao Ming, don't worry, otherwise I will piss you off."
If Zhang Xiaoming wouldn't be angry in the past, he would comfort both sides with a few words.
Not long ago, Zhang Xiaoming heard from a neighbor who took his children to the park to say that his second brother was selling couplets next to Ye Fan.
When Zhang Xiaoming got home, he asked Zhang Xiaojun if it was true. Zhang Xiaojun admitted without hesitation and said that the park did not belong to Ye Fan and he could sell it wherever he wanted.
Zhang Xiaoming still stubbornly believed that he was led astray by his younger siblings. Zhang Xiaoming was angry and felt that the eldest brother should not care about his younger siblings, so he swallowed his anger.
Wang Aihe actually wanted to start a fight with his younger brother. Putting the two things together, an honest person would also like to argue: "Aunt Li, you don't know what's going on here." It's rare to tell everything Zhang Xiaojun and his wife did in a quick word.
Zhang Xiaodi doesn’t know about this yet: “When?”
Zhang Xiaoming: "I went there after breakfast."
Aunt Li frowned: "How can this be true?"
Wang Aihe came out again: "Do the Spring Festival couplets belong to Ye Fan's family, or does the park belong to her family? Why can't I sell it?"
Zhang Xiaoming was speechless. As expected of a couple, they said exactly the same thing.
Brother Zhang: "Who said you can't sell? No one can stop you when you go to the roadside to sell."
Wang Aihe has nothing in his hands. What can he sell on the roadside? Wang Aihe thought about it for a moment and his face turned red with anger, "You speak so harshly, did you read into the dog's belly?"
Zhang Xiaodi didn't want to be so dirty. He said that nothing else hurt Wang Aihe, but he still made himself half angry: "Yes. It's a pity that you are worse than a dog."
Wang Aihe raised his hand and pointed at Little Brother Zhang. Zhang Xiaoming stared at her, "What do you want to do again?" Wang Aihe put down his hand and shouted into the room: "Xiaojun, your brother and your brother are bullying me, do you still care?"
Even though Aunt Li had already experienced her power, her eyes were opened at this moment.
Zhang Xiaojun ran out, and Aunt Li immediately said: "Your wife is going to beat my little brother!"
Wang Aihe turned to her suddenly and said directly, "You old man, what's wrong with you?"
Aunt Li shoveled a shovel of snow and walked towards the alley entrance, pretending that this little girl didn't exist.
Wang Aihe stamped his feet in anger when he saw this.
Zhang Xiaojun was afraid of his younger brother, so he grabbed his wife's arm and coaxed him back into the house.
Zhang Xiaoming whispered: "Stay away from her in the future."
"You can't beat me." Zhang Xiaodi returned to the house. Seeing his brother following him, Zhang Xiaodi asked: "Did Sister Ye say anything about the second brother selling couplets?"
Zhang Xiaoming shook his head.
Zhang Xiaodi was surprised: "Are you you and he? Sister Ye is still very reasonable." Thinking of his brother's soft heart, he said, "Don't promise the second brother anything. He has an iron rice bowl, and he can go to work if the business is not profitable. You because of him Being left aside by Sister Ye, I still have to do odd jobs here and there.”
"I'm not stupid." Zhang Xiaoming looked outside and saw that no one was coming, so he took out a dollar and said, "I'll leave you to buy candies."
Brother Zhang was speechless. I'm not Geng Erbao, a kid who thinks about eating sweets every day.
Zhang Xiaoming thought his brother didn't want it, so he stuffed it into his hand: "Put it away quickly, don't let your second brother see it."
There are a lot of trouble-free people in the house, so Zhang Xiaodi didn't dare to put the money away casually, so he opened the bedside table and looked for a small lockable box inside to put the money in.
Speaking of Ye Fan, when she got home and heard her mother-in-law talking about the liveliness of the Zhang family after she left, she was speechless and wanted to laugh: "This is just the beginning. There will be more trouble in the future."
Yu Wentao: "If it were anyone else, I would have to go out and take a look. Zhang Xiaojun and his wife, I get annoyed every time I see them."
Ye Fan gave her the braised pork: "Cut it and put it in a noodle bowl."
Yu Wentao took it and said, "If I had known it would be so troublesome, I would have just - Fanfan, we don't have to live here after you graduate in two years, so we can transfer to Dabao Erbao."
Ye Fan laughed and said, "It's not necessary. If you bear with me for a few more years, I'll buy two pieces of land and build two buildings if I make a lot of money. I'll have all the toilet water heaters, heaters, and air conditioners in the TV. Where do you want to live in the future?" Which way.”
Yu Wentao asked: "Aren't air-conditioned toilets expensive?"
Ye Fan: "Wouldn't it be expensive now that we have money? There is no need for us to move back in two years and live in the same living environment as now. If you are annoying Wang Aihe, just ignore her."
Geng Benben couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, your family of four only counts grandma and aunt, so why build two buildings?"
Ye Fan raised his eyebrows: "What do you think?"
Geng Benben smiled and said: "There must be a room for us, Leilei and Brother Sensen."
Yu Wentao also hoped to live with the child she had raised, but when she saw his proud appearance, she couldn't help but say: "You are so smart."
Geng Benben smiled and went back to the house to watch his cousins repair their pocket watches.
Yu Wentao prepared the vegetables and hot water, and she would cook noodles when Huihui and Leilei came back.
After taking a half-hour break after lunch, Ye Fan took the Spring Festival couplets to the park and asked the children to do their homework at home. Geng Zhi graduated diligently. She did not plan to go to graduate school. Since her classes were easy this semester, she went with Ye Fan.
Ye Fan asked her to buy couplets and get the same two cent commission as Xiao Ming. Geng Zhiqin was also embarrassed: "Sister-in-law, you don't need to help me like this."
Ye Fan took out the wool from his bag and said, "I will knit hats for Dabao and Erbao."
Ye Fan didn't have this skill in his previous life. Now wearing gloves will not delay her flying stitches. Seeing that her sister-in-law really had something to do, Geng Zhiqin accepted the offer.
The uncle and aunt had nothing to do, and the parents in the east and west were short of family, so that what Ye Fan said in the morning was known to many people in the afternoon. Grandpas and aunts who didn't like to come out in the cold weather also came to the park to watch Ye Fan sell couplets. Actually, they mainly wanted to see if Zhang Xiaojun would come.
Zhang Xiaojun didn't show up, but the uncles and aunties sent back one or two couplets. But it’s still not as fast as Zhang Xiaoming’s selling in the streets.
Ye Fan and Geng Zhiqin arrived home at four o'clock. Zhang Xiaoming came back early and planned to go to the village in half an hour. When they arrived in the village, it was getting dark, and Yu's brother-in-law's house prepared a meal.
Since the capital is not a special economic zone, not many people dare to become second-rate dealers. Even if Uncle Yu wanted to find someone to buy live pigs, he would not dare to do so. Zhang Xiaoming told Uncle Yu what Ye Fan had told him, and said that as long as he did not admit that the pigs were bought from others, the relevant departments would not pursue him. Uncle Yu felt relieved and bold.
In the morning, two pigs were killed, one each for Zhang Xiaoming and the Yu family, and vegetables and eggs and duck eggs bought by the villagers were brought into the city. Zhang Xiaoming went home after selling, and after a rest, he took the Spring Festival couplets out. When Yu Hongwei arrived home, his cousin brought the pig over. There was a big shortage of pork, so Yu Wentao's family came to the city three times a day, and they brought two pigs in each of the last two times.
The sale lasted until the afternoon of the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, when Zhang Xiaoming and his family were painting the car. Ye Fan and Yu Hongwei were settling accounts at their respective homes.
In addition to the money to buy the car, each of the Yu family shared nearly a thousand dollars. Since the money was kept by the woman in the family, Uncle Yu didn't know how much he earned. When he heard that he had made more than 900 yuan this year, he was instantly shocked.
Uncle Yu was silent for a long time and said: "Let's buy another car next year."
Yu Wentao's cousin nodded without hesitation.
Yu Hongwei; "I have to ask Sister-in-law Ye Fan about this."
When Ye Fan asked them to buy a car, they had no idea, and they thought Ye Fan was too pushy. It’s not that Yu Wentao thought they didn’t know how to pick up the money when they came, so they couldn’t buy this car.
Uncle Yu heard his nephew's words: "We have to ask her. We can only see the immediate point, others have a long-term vision."
Worried that he wouldn't be able to meet Ye Fan during the Chinese New Year, uncle Yu went to Ye Fan's house on the sixth day of the new year.
Fortunately, we went on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, because Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye went to his uncle's house on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.
Uncle Yu's eldest son drove him here. Uncle Yu brought a lot of things, and even gave one child two yuan as a new year's gift, including Geng Leilei and Geng Huihui. The two college students were too embarrassed to ask for it, so Uncle Yu gave it to them: "You are not married, so you are not an adult."
Because he is not a biological uncle, Uncle Yu has never thought of giving his children lucky money before. Geng Zhiye raised his eyebrows at Ye Fan when he saw this. He must be so polite to you.
After dinner, Uncle Yu asked Ye Fan if he could buy another car. Ye Fan said yes, but business will definitely not be as good as this year. However, the village is a big place, so you can grow a variety of things and raise a lot of things. People can take a break from driving, and you can make money from driving after the summer vacation.
With Ye Fan, uncle would feel confident. When I got home, uncle Yu told his brothers that they could buy it, and uncle Yu had to bring his daughter and son-in-law with him. However, the daughter-in-law and son-in-law have a brother. When he wants to bring his brother with him, will he have to buy another car?
If the uncle's daughter-in-law knows this, she will follow suit. In the end, the eldest aunt made the decision and did not bring her daughter and son-in-law. The daughter's family had no money, so they looked for opportunities to give her money. The son-in-law can do whatever he wants without them stopping him, and he can tell him where to sell what he wants.
Everyone thinks this method will work. In a few days, we will go to the city and ask someone who knows about cars to estimate the price. The uncle and uncle will take down the current car, and the two cousins will get the money from selling the car and the money they earned last year to buy one. New car.
The people at the motorcycle factory knew Ye Fan, so Ye Fan went to try it first. If it didn't work, he asked the director of the supply and marketing cooperative to come forward. The result was the same, the price was the same as last year.
On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, three cars entered the city selling pork, mutton, vegetables, eggs and duck eggs.
Zhang Xiaoming worked for a long time and had a lot of family members. When he got home at noon, someone else came over, and the family made a net profit of 20 yuan a day.
On the evening of the Lantern Festival, several families brought home-cooked dishes and steamed buns and glutinous rice balls to dinner at uncle Yu’s house. Talking about the money they made yesterday, they said with emotion, “I never knew money was so easy to make.”
Yu Hongwei received his ticket for tomorrow and was at home today. Hearing this, he said: "We have the upper hand. There were vegetable and egg sellers in the city yesterday, but we couldn't pick them up by ourselves, and the poles didn't bend as much as we did."
These words made the people in Yujiacun feel a sense of urgency. When Hongwei went to school, several families gathered together. The elderly went to Shiliba Village to receive goods, and the young people set up stalls, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. However, Zhang Xiaoming was still only busy for half a day in the morning.
Dong Ying was also worried that he would be exhausted, and supported him to work for half a day and rest for half a day.
On the weekend of May 30th in the Gregorian calendar, Zhang Xiaoming took his parents to meet Dong Ying's parents at the hotel. Zhang Xiaoming, a member of the Dong family, did not make any excessive demands. The only thing he wanted was to move out after marriage.
Uncle Zhang expected his eldest son to take care of him in old age, and his face dropped when he heard this.
Zhang Xiaoming quickly explained that he was not barging in the door upside down. He would move to Dong Ying's place first and move out after he bought a house and renovated it. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang only knew that their son wanted to buy a house. They thought it was their daughter-in-law who was instigating it, and they looked at Dong Ying in a bad way.
Dong Ying said: "The house belongs to both of us. I will buy it after getting the marriage certificate. I am not trying to defraud Xiao Ming of his money."
Zhang Xiaoming nodded: "Dad, that house is a good deal. It cost more than 10,000 yuan before Sister Ye didn't buy it, but now you can get it for 9,120 yuan."
Uncle Zhang: "Ye Fan also knows that you bought a house?"
Zhang Xiaoming nodded honestly: "She didn't say she could buy it. How could we dare to buy a house that is so expensive?"
Uncle Zhang: "Since Ye Fan also supports you, then buy it."
Aunt Zhang couldn't help but ask: "How can you have so much money?"
Zhang Xiaoming never said that his mother was partial, but Dong Ying heard it and suspected that her mother-in-law wanted to leave the money to the second child: "Just borrow some from my brother."
Zhang Xiaoming: "Sister Ye helped us calculate it and we can pay it off by the end of the year."
There is no need for Aunt Zhang to add a penny, so Aunt Zhang has no reason to refuse. Dong Ying was worried about the long nights and dreamy dreams. When she saw Zhang Xiaoming the next morning, she asked him to send a telegram to the homeowner. I received the certificate from Zhang Xiaoming on June 1st and took over the house three days later. No one except the Ye Fan family and the Dong family knew about the acquisition of the house, including Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang.
On weekends, Zhang Xiaojun and Wang Aihe had time to chat with their families. They learned from Aunt Zhang that Zhang Xiaoming wanted to buy a house. Wang Aihe was so angry that she yelled that she also had a share of the old man's money.
Ye Fan was so frightened by her sharp voice that he dropped his shoes.
Dabao and Erbao ran out of the house in a hurry and asked: "Mom, who's wrong?"
Geng Zhiye waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with you."
Geng Huihui glanced east: "Xiao Ming's house. Fortunately, Xiao Ming hasn't come back from selling vegetables, otherwise that bitch could scratch Hua Xiao Ming's face."
Dabao and Erbao were not interested in what Wang Aihe was doing and went back to study the pocket watch.
The pocket watch Geng Huihui bought last year was repaired by Dabao, but Dabao himself didn't know how. Geng Zhiye didn't understand the internal mechanical structure of the pocket watch. Geng's second brother came back from vacation. Geng Zhiye asked his second brother to find some books for Dabao.
Geng Benben is not interested in engineering. The normal school where Geng Huihui studied means to Geng Zhihui, "There are peaches and plums all over the world, but my own family has bitter melons." It was rare for his nephew to be interested, so Geng Zhihui immediately found friends, colleagues and classmates to send hundreds of millions to Dabao. book.
Dabao thought that a pocket watch was so complicated, so he opened it and looked at the black line on his forehead. They were books on weapons manufacturing research, many of which were university textbooks. Fortunately, there are still several books related to clocks and watches.
Dabao studied those books, and Geng Huihui used her pocket money to buy broken clocks, repaired two and gave one to her cousin as a repair fee.
The two siblings will continue to cooperate as long as they are happy together. Geng Dabao was worried that his grades would decline and he didn't dare to use the class time to fiddle with it, but he still had to do homework and could only repair it on weekends.
Erbao likes to be with her brother. If she is not interested in clocks, she will help him.
Geng Huihui asked her aunt again, "Should I wait for Xiao Ming at the intersection, ask him to go to Dong Ying, and go directly to the village in the evening?"
Ye Fan nodded.
Zhang Xiaoming cannot be called shrewd, but with his understanding of Geng Huihui, he will not prevent him from returning home without reason. Not wanting to be upset, Xiao Ming didn't ask what happened at home.
Dong Ying was interested in making money. After lunch, she and Xiao Ming went to the popsicle factory to pick up a box of popsicles - it was not too hot now, so they could only sell a little more than one box in half a day. Xiao Ming rested in the car in a crowded place while Dong Ying sold popsicles. The money earned is still shared equally between the two families.
The next morning, Zhang Xiaoming found out what had happened when he got home. It turned out that he had not used his parents' money and Wang Aihe was not satisfied and wanted his parents-in-law to pay for the house.
What Aunt Zhang meant was that her eldest son wanted to buy a house because her daughter-in-law made a big fuss yesterday. Zhang Xiaoming was too lazy to deal with his eccentric mother, so he hid at Ye Fan's house.
Ye Fan is at school, and Yu Wentao is the only one at home. Yu Wentao said: "Your mother is illiterate and your father saved the money. It is useless for the second daughter-in-law to make trouble every day. Your father will not give it to her."
"But my little brother is taking the college entrance examination this year. By the way, is Benben the same as my little brother? He makes trouble every day, so how can Benben and my little brother have the time to review."
Yu Wentao subconsciously said: "Benben is only in the second year of high school -" Leng Buding thought of the two-year system in high school in the past few years, "It's broken, I forgot. Leave me a few ribs tomorrow and dozens of eggs." , I will give him a good patch.”
When Zhang Xiaoming heard "replenishing the body", he immediately couldn't worry about his mother's attitude. When he arrived in the village at night, he asked Uncle Yu to kill the pig.
The Yu family has two big fat pigs every day this year - they buy them from others. If the citizens need it, they will kill the pigs early the next day. The pig offal and pig head meat are braised by oneself and sold out in the afternoon. It is cheaper than state-run restaurants and sells well.
Zhang Xiaodi saw his elder brother coming back with meat for several days in a row, so he asked him what was wrong. Zhang Xiaoming said: "You will take the college entrance examination next month and take good care of yourself." Then he looked annoyed and said, "Aunt Yu reminded me." After that, he went out to drive and sell vegetables.
Zhang Xiaodi has recently been confused about his college entrance examination application. He doesn't want to leave home and is worried that his second sister-in-law will bully his parents and eldest brother and second sister. However, he has stayed at home enough and wants to take the exam far away.
Brother Zhang didn't know who to ask. Because of Zhang Xiaoming's words, Zhang Xiaodi thought of Geng Benben who was in the same grade. Counting the time for Geng Benben to go out, Zhang Xiaodi came out from home and went to school with him and Dabao.
Halfway through, Zhang Xiaodi casually asked Geng Benben which school he wanted to attend.
(End of chapter)