He only has a small business. He can eat more than 500 kilograms of grain at once, which is a small amount of 1,000 yuan. He spent nearly 200 yuan on collecting pork before, and he has spent all his money on it.
I really don't dare.
Chen Lishu understood and said happily: "It's okay, Brother Liu, you can take as much as you want, and I'll find another home for the rest."
Liu Yong felt a little embarrassed when she said this, so he laughed twice before going to look at the food.
The grain harvested by Gu Shoufu and the others was relatively mixed, including corn, sorghum, millet, rice, white flour, soybeans, etc. In the end, Liu Yong chose fifty kilograms of corn, thirty kilograms of white flour, forty kilograms of rice, and twenty kilograms of soybeans. It cost a total of
One hundred and ninety dollars.
"Third sister-in-law, my father, my eldest brother, and I were not much more expensive than the purchasing station when they collected the food. How could it be doubled immediately?" Seeing Liu Yong happily paying the money and leaving with the food, Gu
Xingye was completely shocked.
"After all, it's still a planned economy. You see, city people are very prosperous now eating supplied grain. In fact, their monthly supply is rationed. Heavy manual workers forty five kilograms of grain per month, but not manual labor workers.
The ration is only twenty-six kilograms per month."
Chen Lishu patiently explained to him: "If you do the math, the average day is less than a kilogram of grain, and it is even more difficult to cope with the number of children in the family. We are different in rural areas. Even if there is no salary, you can still eat from a big pot. At worst, your work points will be deducted. Anyway,
Pay it back together at the end of the year.”
Chen Lishu paused and continued: "The national quota of rice is only 1.46 per pound, but in the free market it can be as much as one yuan per pound. Food stamps are actually money. One pound of food stamps can be sold for one pound."
Much money."
Chen Lishu knew that there were people who specialized in ticket scalping because she had been to the black market several times.
After her detailed explanation, Gu Xingye finally understood. He immediately felt that rural areas were pretty good, at least he didn't have to worry about food.
"Third sister-in-law, what should I do with the rest of the food?"
Chen Lishu thought for a moment and said, "Let's take part of it to the black market tomorrow. I'll take you on two trips. You can go there by yourself after you figure out the way."
Gu Xingye nodded: "Okay, I will listen to the third sister-in-law."
Early the next morning, Chen Lishu and Gu Xingye went out with fifty kilograms of grain and went all the way to the black market.
Grain is a hot commodity no matter where it is at any time. In the middle of the morning, the two of them sold all fifty kilograms of grain, earning a total of sixty-five yuan.
Chen Lishu didn't take Gu Xingye to the black market in the afternoon. After all, you can't always go to that kind of place. It would be a big trouble if you were targeted.
The two of them took another fifty kilograms and went to a factory farther away. Near the end of the year, the grain was very easy to sell, and soon they exchanged fifty kilograms of grain for more than sixty yuan.
Half of the items were sold in two days. In the next few days, Chen Lishu did not go with Gu Xingye again, but asked him to go out and exercise by himself.
In addition to making clothes, she also goes to Ding's house to learn English on weekends, and she also has to set aside time to read alone every day. Although her life is very busy, it is very fulfilling.
Gu Xingping was at home during the holidays. In addition to studying, she would occasionally go out with Gu Xingye to sell food.
In the following period, Gu Shoufu and the others sent food over twice more. By the time all the food was sold out, it was already the 26th of the twelfth lunar month.
The surplus grain harvest near the village was almost finished, so Chen Lishu decided to suspend grain collection, and the three of them went home together, just in time to share the money earned during this period with everyone, so that everyone in the family could have a prosperous New Year.
The three of them returned home all the way. After dinner, Chen Lishu took out her accounting book and started to settle the accounts for everyone.
"This time, the family collected a total of 1,324 kilograms of grain, and received 1,763 yuan and 84 cents. According to each family's 20% share, each family can get 350 yuan.
Twelve dollars and seventy-seven cents."
Chen Lishu said and motioned to Gu Xingping to share the money with everyone.
Everyone was shocked when they heard the number she said. In just a short period of time, she made more money than she made in one year of working on the team.
"There are also more than 200 kilograms of dry goods. I haven't had time to sell this yet, so the money can't be divided yet."
Chen Lishu explained, and then started talking about the commission for making clothes. She and Zhang Qin completed more than 140 sets a year ago. Although they have not yet settled with Nan Haitao, Chen Lishu decided to pay the commission to everyone first.
Seeing the New Year coming, everyone is happy.
"Mom has sixty-two yuan, and sister-in-law has seventy-five yuan." Chen Lishu said, counting the money and dividing it between the two of them.
"Hey, I never dreamed that I would be able to see so much money at this old age." Li Xiulan looked at the more than 400 yuan in her hand and couldn't help but smile happily.
Everyone was very happy when they got the money.
"Mom and Dad, did you forget something?" Liu Yuemin carefully put the money into her pocket and then said with a smile.
Li Xiulan was puzzled: "What did you forget?"
"Didn't Dad agree at the beginning that the money from selling pork will be distributed to everyone at the end of the year?"
"I said it." Gu Shoufu nodded: "The old lady went to take out the money and share it with everyone."
Previously, I got a total of 183 yuan from selling pork, which was divided equally among the four families. Each family received 45 yuan and 70 cents.
This year is definitely a good year for the Gu family.
With money in hand, Gu Xingye made an appointment with Zhang Xiaoju to go to the department store in the town the next day. All kinds of tickets were indispensable for shopping. Gu Xingdong would come over and mail some tickets to Chen Lishu every month. He was a soldier.
The tickets issued were all military tickets, which were used throughout the country. Chen Lishu did not hesitate to give Gu Xingye some other tickets besides the cloth tickets.
Liu Yuemin and Zhang Qin also went to town, thinking of buying some cloth to make new clothes for their children before the end of the year.
Widow Liu, who was only separated by a wall, hated the Gu family to death when she saw the lively scene.
Liu Dabao turned 20 at the beginning of the new year and it was time to propose marriage. However, her reputation was not good and her son was not doing a serious job. No one was willing to marry her. As a result, the Gu family sent her to a labor camp for two months not long ago.
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Even if the people who come from that place have stains on their bodies, it is even less likely that anyone will be willing to marry their daughter over.
Widow Liu has no choice. Now if she wants to marry her daughter-in-law, she can only find a way to 'buy' one at a high price.
But how could she, a widowed mother with two sons, have so much money? Widow Liu's eyes fell on Chen Lishu, who was feeding chickens in the Gu family's yard, and her eyes lit up.
At night, Zhang Laiwang, a man from the next village she had recently hooked up with, secretly came to the house. After the two had a fierce fight, Widow Liu got up, lit the kerosene lamp, and put the hot food and wine cups in the pot on the kang table.
"Lai Wang, what do you think of me treating you?" Widow Liu said in a pinched voice, while giving Zhang Lai Wang a wink with her small mouse eyes.