After this time, Yang Lina secretly made up her mind that she would never easily step into the Yang family again.
In the afternoon, neighbors came to buy tofu one after another. The most they bought at one time was three kilograms.
Before dinner time in the afternoon, more than ten kilograms of tofu were sold out.
Five pounds of soybeans made fifteen pounds of tofu, which sold for a total of four and a half yuan.
Four and a half yuan, this is Li Jingxuan’s food expenses for a month.
Yang Lina took out a notebook to keep accounts, and then wrote a diary to write down her true feelings.
When she first arrived, this was her first pot of gold in 1980.
On the way to change her character, Yang Lina firmly believes that her business will become more and more prosperous.
Sure enough, in the following days, I made more and more tofu day by day and earned more and more money every day.
During the fair, Yang Lina made sixty kilograms of tofu. Before the fair even ended, her tofu was sold out.
Wang San, on the other hand, was arrogant and felt that he could not make a lot of money by making tofu. It happened that no one bought his own tofu, so he simply stopped doing it and switched to other businesses.
In the whole town, Yang Lina's family is the only one making tofu.
Yang Lina's tofu business is getting bigger and bigger, and she receives orders every day. Even restaurants in the town buy her tofu.
In her spare time, Yang Lina planted vegetables in her yard. There were several large pink roses next to the yard wall. Yang Lina cut the branches and inserted them in the vacant places, thinking that the pink roses would cover the entire yard wall, leaving a meter wide in the middle of the yard.
On the way, Yang Lina picked up smooth and well-proportioned pebbles from the stream, and buried them in the soil one by one with her own hands. Half of them came out, and they looked neat and tidy.
Under her care, the original earthen house, wooden doors and windows, and the huge yard gave it a feeling of a paradise.
A month later, Yang Lina used three bags of soybeans.
After doing the math, one hundred and eighty kilograms of soybeans equals five hundred and forty kilograms of tofu, which is sold for a full one hundred and sixty-two yuan a month. After the cost, it is about one hundred and forty yuan.
One hundred and forty yuan is the annual income of a wealthy family in the village.
Yang Lina lost weight, and her clothes hung loosely on her body. The weather was getting hotter and she stood next to the stove when making tofu. She sweated easily. She cut her waist-length hair to shoulder length and cut her thin bangs.
It looks more than half smaller than before, and the whole person looks much lighter.
On the other side, Li Jingming, who had just come out of the mine, had a dirty face. He didn't bother to wash his face and hands. He took two tortillas from the basin, picked up half a bowl of shredded cabbage and sat on the stone nearby to devour it.
This is physical work, and every meal is plentiful and plentiful, regardless of whether you are full. The hard and sour tortillas feel like wood in your mouth and are difficult to swallow.
Suddenly, he remembered the cakes made by Yang Lina, which were soft, sweet and delicious.
"Why, do you miss your wife?"
Zhang Kai saw that Li Jingming was in a daze, moved his butt and leaned towards him, and lightly touched Li Jingming with his elbow.
Who are you thinking of? Yang Lina?
Li Jingming was stunned for a moment, why did he think of her?
"It's nothing, don't talk nonsense."
"Tch, let's not let anyone talk about it. We grew up wearing the same pair of trousers.
Let me tell you, the mother-in-law has to use her fists to treat it.
Look at my family, they gave me four daughters after five years of marriage. Although they were not the first ones, they gave birth to my children after all.
Look at you, you’ve been married for half a year and your wife’s belly still hasn’t grown. Is it because you’re not good enough?”
"Screw you, stop talking nonsense, hurry up and eat, we'll go down there after you finish."
Li Jingming came to his senses, took a few mouthfuls of cabbage into his mouth, and took a big bite of corn tortilla with the cabbage.
Mining can indeed make money, but it is hard-earned money.
This mine is a coal mine, and it takes half an hour to walk in and out of the cave without carrying coal.
The workers carried a pound of coal out of the cave for five cents, while others carried up to twenty or thirty pounds at a time. Li Jingming carried 40 pounds a trip without his life, which cost two yuan. When he came out, he hadn't finished his meal yet, so he rushed him again.
Open and lower the hole.
"If you don't want to go, you can go.
Your waist is almost broken, please take it easy, your wife is still waiting for you at home."
Zhang Kaikai complained dissatisfiedly. The brother in front of him was someone he had worked with before. If his leg hadn't been injured, his future would have been bright.
Although he didn't say it, his legs were so painful that he was sweating at night. He saw all this. No matter how he tried to persuade him, this guy rushed forward as if he had been given blood. He was really taking advantage of his legs.
Legs, take your own life instead of fate.
"Now that I'm here, how can I go back if I don't earn more? Besides, I can only earn for half a month. The rapeseed at home is almost ripe. If I want to come, I can only wait until the wheat is harvested."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Kaikai felt that Li Jingming was right. There were three elderly people in the family and four children below. The two married sisters were even worse off than him. They couldn't help him, so they had to rely on themselves for everything.
In the dark mine, two people held flashlights in their hands, and one of them limped toward the deepest part of the mine.
The weather turned hot in April. Yang Lina sold out her tofu early at the market and pulled some pink floral chiffon for herself, planning to go back and make a skirt. She also pulled several meters of navy blue cloth to make a Zhongshan suit for Li Jingming.
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That guy is almost 190 in height. He must be so handsome in Zhongshan uniform.
Yang Lina thought of Li Jingming wearing Zhongshan uniform and smiled like a nymphomaniac.
On the way back, she met her mother-in-law Wang Ying, and Yang Lina called her mom.
During this time, she saw with her own eyes that Yang Lina's tofu business was getting more and more prosperous, and she was happy for her son from the bottom of her heart. When she saw Yang Lina, her face was full of surprise.
The person in front of me is a lot thinner than before, her clothes are hanging loosely on her body, and her pants are too wide, as if they will fall off at any time. She also looks a lot taller, and she looks much better than her. If it weren't for her
Even after calling her mom, she never thought that the person in front of her was the same person as Yang Lina.
Wang Ying hummed, slowed down, and waited for Yang Lina to catch up.
"Has Jing Ming sent a message back and when will he be back?"
"No."
Yang Lina had no idea where he went in the mines.
"The rapeseed at home is about to ripen in a few days. Don't just make tofu. If Jingming can't come back on time, just go pick it up. Don't let people say you are lazy."
Wang Ying actually wanted to ask why she had lost so much weight, but her words of concern were so deep in her throat that she couldn't even utter them.
"knew."
Yang Lina was very calm. She really didn't retort like before. Her voice was vague and light.
"After Jingming earns money, don't spend it arbitrarily. You don't have children yet, and there will be a long time to come. Jingming will have to spend money to treat his legs. We can't let him be lame for the rest of his life."
Wang Ying thought that the young couple still had a long time ahead, so it would be okay to make arrangements early, but she forgot that she asked Yang Lina to leave her son more than a month ago.
Yang Lina didn't want to say it at first, but Wang Ying said it as if she had spent a lot of money on his son. She felt uncomfortable and couldn't help but tell the truth.