Before Hua Zhao got home, he saw his grandfather standing outside the fence, waiting eagerly.
Seeing Hua Zhao carrying two big baskets full of things, Hua Qiang was more surprised than anyone else, because he was the one who knew best how lazy Hua Zhao was.
But his granddaughter said it, and she changed it!
Hua Qiang went up to her excitedly and wanted to help her carry the pole.
"Grandpa, please leave me alone!" Hua Zhao avoided his hand: "I am so strong, I don't need you to help me work. You got used to me being so lazy before, don't get used to it in the future."
"Hey, good!" Hua Qiang responded with a smile.
Hua Zhao directly carried the two baskets into the house, then removed the grass on them, revealing the sweet potatoes and pumpkins inside.
Hua Qiang was stunned: "Where did it come from?"
"The long one at the hot spring." Hua Zhao compiled: "It's really a Feng Shui treasure place. It's like spring all year round. I didn't expect that there are sweet potatoes and pumpkins in this season. I don't have time today. I'll go there later and have a look.
Are there any other vegetables?”
Is that so?
Hua Qiang was a little confused. After so many years, this was the first time he heard that pumpkins could be grown at the hot springs at this time.
But it is indeed warm there, and it is normal for the season to change. And it may have formed in the past, but the person who picked it didn't say anything.
"My little Hua is very lucky!" Hua Qiang praised with a smile.
He didn't think about it at all. The sweet potatoes and pumpkins looked fresh at first glance. They were just picked. If they didn't grow in hot springs, who else's kang could grow them?
Hua Zhao put down his things and started to finish cooking.
Still no craftsmanship is used, all depends on the pumpkin itself.
Hua Qiang still thinks this is a delicacy in the world.
The more he ate, the happier he became. His little flower finally had something special to offer! Ye Shen wouldn't be so disgusted with such a good meal, right?...
"Grandpa, I just told Liu Laosan's family that I will go to his house to catch a pig tomorrow," Hua Zhao said.
Will everyone be able to live their lives?
Hua Qiang is even happier.
"Go, grandpa will go tomorrow morning! In the past two days, I have found that my body has become stronger. It is no problem to raise a pig!"
"You don't need to raise them. You can just catch them and bring them back. I won't pick them." Hua Zhao asked again, "Do we still have enough money?"
"Enough!" Hua Qiang waved his hand: "You don't have to worry about money. Give him 2 yuan first. I'll give it to him after I pay my salary in a few days. He won't be afraid of me defaulting on the debt if he doesn't miss it for a few days."
Hua Qiang has never been a defaulter.
Hua Zhao was stunned. She had forgotten that she was in the countryside now, and there were people here. When it came to credit, it was not the time when she could not pay even if she paid a penny less.
Then there is no rush to go to the city to sell these big pumpkins, and these things don't actually sell for much money.
Then go another way!
"Master, I want to make money." Hua Zhao said.
Hua Qiang was startled and suspected that he had heard wrongly.
"Make money?" Hua Qiang said happily: "Okay! I will go to town tomorrow to see if I can get you a job!"
In his opinion, the only way for a person to make money is to work as a worker and earn wages.
He had thought about this path in the past, and mentioned it to Hua Zhao. Hua Zhao was very happy at first, but after working for a long time, he said he was exhausted and quit.
Now his granddaughter has really grown up, become sensible, knows how to think about things, and is an adult.
"No, no, no!" Hua Zhao said immediately: "I can only earn a few bucks from working, but it's not even enough for me to feed myself. Besides, I have to leave home to go to work. I don't worry about you being alone at home."
Hua Qiang was so moved that he almost cried.
"I want to sell something myself." Hua Zhao said directly.
Hua Qiang forgot to cry for a moment and was so shocked that he almost jumped up from the kang. He waved his hands repeatedly and looked out the window nervously. When he saw that there was no one in the front and back yards, he sat back with a sigh of relief.
"What are you selling? Don't you know that private buying and selling of things is not allowed? That's a capitalist idea! Poaching socialist corners!" He lowered his voice and taught, this is a major matter that cannot be taken lightly!
Selling things is something that can only be done by the public! If a private person buys it and then sells it, that is called speculation! If it is light, he will be caught and educated, but if it is serious, it is not easy to say.
"Grandpa, you're overthinking it. If I don't sell anything, I'll sell some farm products, mountain products, vegetables, etc." She studied law, how could she not know the dangers of "speculation" at this time.
She didn't dare to get involved in speculation, but selling some surplus agricultural and sideline products from farmers, in small quantities, was still okay.
Of course it has to be a small amount, and it's best to do it secretly.
Because it is only 1976, Mengmeng has just ended, the order is a bit chaotic, and the people above do not know where the future is and how to go.
"It's okay to sell some wild vegetables." Hua Qiang felt relieved. But he was stunned the next second: "But we don't have wild vegetables, so we can sell vegetables."
Not to mention that now during the lean season, there is no extra food at home. Even in the summer when other people's houses cannot eat fresh vegetables, their family cannot eat them casually. They have to dry them and save them for autumn and winter, otherwise his granddaughter will be hungry.
Thin.
Hua Zhao said: "I plan to grow bean sprouts myself and sell them."
Hua Qiang blinked and picked his ears, suspecting that he had heard wrongly.
Hua Zhao lowered his head and whispered: "My mother gave birth to bean sprouts before. I watched from the side and remembered it."
Hua Qiang stopped asking immediately.
When Hua Zhao was 5 years old, her father went up the mountain and passed away in an accident. When she was 6 years old, her grandmother's family found a new home for her mother Zhang Guilan's husband's family. That family did not allow Zhang Guilan to take the child there, so she was left at Huashan's house.
She just lost her mother, not her mother died.
Zhang Guilan married into a worker's family in a county 100 miles away. Later, she heard that the man had been transferred to the provincial capital.
It was the news that came from people in her grandmother's village.
After Zhang Guilan left, in the first two years, she even asked her parents to come and see her, but then there was no news again.
Hua Zhao spent a year as a maid at Huashan's house.
At that time, she was thin, small, and timid, and anyone who saw her wanted to give her a beating.
Until Hua Qiang came back.
Someone loved, pampered, and doted on her, but Hua Zhao suddenly exploded. Her weight, temper, and courage increased at the same time. She wanted to punch anyone she saw!
Thinking of the scene when he came back to see his granddaughter for the first time, Hua Qiang felt heartbroken again.
After pretending to be pitiful, Hua Zhao continued: "Grandpa, take the pumpkin to someone's house and exchange it for a few kilograms of mung beans. I will grow bean sprouts and sell them in the county."
It can't be sold in rural areas. There are few people in mountainous areas. There are more than 30 households in the villages they rely on. Even if they eat bean sprouts every day, they can't make a few cents.
"Okay, Grandpa, let's go now, let's go now!" Hua Qiang walked away without saying a word.
It doesn’t matter whether it can make money, whether it can produce bean sprouts, whatever the little flower wants to do, it can do whatever it is.
Hua Zhao did not let him go alone. Instead, he left a pumpkin and a few sweet potatoes, put the rest in a basket, and followed him, going from house to house to exchange for mung beans.
She is really good at growing mung bean sprouts!
Can she do such an interesting thing?
Outside of work, her favorite thing to do is these mindless physical and manual tasks.