"To give you the simplest example, I am alone now. If my business gets bigger, I will naturally need helpers. I can manage one person, two can make do, and three are barely enough, but no more will do. People compare
I have more knowledge than I do, so why should you listen to me? This is a huge knowledge."
"But..." Gu Xingping still wanted to stick to her own idea.
"I can understand your desire to make money. If you like it, I can help you tell your mother that I am planning to rent a house in the town and need some manpower. You can do it with me during this holiday. But after the experience, you can
You must go back to school and if you can pass into high school, I will take you to travel to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai."
Beijing Shanghai?
That was a place that Gu Xingping had only seen in books and maps and never dared to think about.
"Sister-in-law, can you really take me there?"
Chen Lishu nodded: "I will take you there when you are admitted to high school."
Gu Xingping hesitated: "What if I don't pass the exam even though I study?"
Chen Lishu said firmly: "Then you just didn't study hard. If you study hard, I don't believe you can't pass the exam."
Gu Xingping hesitated for a long time, but finally could not bear the temptation of Beijing and Shanghai, so she nodded and agreed.
Chen Lishu didn't give her a chance to go back on her word. As soon as she agreed, she immediately pulled her out of the room to find Li Xiulan and Gu Shoufu to testify for her.
"Lishu, how did you do it? I said and shouted, but I almost got beaten. How did it take you so long to convince this stubborn girl?" Li Xiulan knew that Gu Xingping agreed to go back to study.
Not to mention how happy I am, I admire Chen Lishu even more.
"Mom, my third sister-in-law said she wants to take me to make money together during this holiday, so you can't stop her."
Li Xiulan said repeatedly: "Don't stop it, don't stop it."
Gu Shoufu looked pleased when his daughter agreed to go to school.
On the contrary, Liu Yuemin, who had been peeking out from the crack in the door, saw several people with smiling faces, especially Chen Lishu, who showed her face in front of the second elder. She couldn't help but sigh in secret, and saw people walking towards this end, bang.
Pushing the door open at once, Chen Lishu might have been hit if she hadn't stopped her feet in time.
"Sold out?" Liu Yuemin looked at her and sneered: "Third brother and sister, you are really good. You went to the provincial capital and brought things for everyone, why did you only leave them at our house? And you secretly sent them from house to house to avoid people knowing.
How? Don't tell me you forgot!"
Some people are really shameless if you want to save some face for them.
Chen Lishu sneered: "Second sister-in-law, which of your eyes saw me sneaking around? I obviously gave it to you openly. Also, it's not that I forgot to bring it to you, I just deliberately didn't want to bring it to you. As for why, you know it in your heart
."
"I don't know." Liu Yuemin said with a sullen expression, "You are in charge of personnel affairs? Everyone has brought things, but they won't be brought to me, and I won't make people laugh if I tell you."
Chen Lishu took two steps forward and looked at her condescendingly: "Who are you laughing at? If I want to laugh, I'm afraid I'm laughing at you too? I've been sitting around all day either staring at this or calculating that, quacking around like a duck all day long, you
Do you think you are annoying? Don’t think that the mischief you caused when you went to the clothing factory last time is over. Believe it or not, all the hairpins I asked you to do will be thrown into your hands."
Liu Yuemin was taken aback by her and took a long time to react before she said, "You, please stop scaring people."
"If I hadn't thought that I couldn't write two characters in one stroke, why would I have let you dance around in front of me for so long? There is a limit to human patience. You'd better be more honest and stop bothering me. We can still live in harmony.
It's okay, otherwise don't blame me for being rude."
Seeing her serious expression, Liu Yuemin felt inexplicably frightened. This sister-in-law was no more soft-tempered than her sister-in-law Zhang Qin. Suddenly thinking of the time she wanted to burn her fabric and hair, Liu Yuemin really didn't dare to offend anyone.
"Hey, it's just a broken silk scarf and a box of broken powder. Who really cares about it? I don't even want it if it's given to me for free."
"That's great. Fortunately, I didn't take your part. Since I don't care, why are you blocking the road here? I don't know if a good dog doesn't block the road?"
After saying that, she stretched out her hand and swung Liu Yuemin aside and then returned to her room. As soon as she entered the room, she heard the door next door being slammed shut.
Chen Lishu didn't take it seriously and pretended she didn't hear anything. She packed up the things she bought for her parents' family and got up and went to Chen's house.
As soon as they entered the courtyard, they saw Chen Mandun and Wu Chunmei dragging bricks. On one side of the yard were high adobe bricks that had been dragged and piled up. It was estimated that there were thousands of bricks.
"Mom and dad, why are you still working so late? We need to build a house at home?"
The couple looked up and were surprised to see her back. Wu Chunmei stopped what she was doing and wiped the sweat from her forehead: "How come you came back so soon after you've only been away for a few days?"
"Xingdong only has three days off. It's not interesting for me to stay there, so I came back."
Chen Mandun saw her looking at the man behind him and replied: "It's been raining recently and the house has been exposed too much. Sooner or later, I have to build a house, so I thought it would be better to do it sooner. Didn't the team send people over and already paid a thousand dollars?"
Damn, your mother and I are thinking of working harder. If we don’t have anything to do after dinner, we can do more."
The good thing about this is that the affairs of the members' families are collective affairs. Whether you are digging a well or building a house or building a courtyard wall, the team will send laborers to help you at any time, and then the team will calculate the work points according to the work done.
"Your father and I did some calculations. Although the money we have is not enough to build a big brick house, it would be good to build a spacious mud house so that we can still have some leftover."
Nowadays, apart from the beams, doors and windows, you need to spend money to build a house, and there is no money required for labor to build the adobe, so the total cost is less than 200 yuan.
Chen Lishu nodded, thinking this was not bad.
"The mud is all alive. I'll finish this. You two go back to the house first."
After hearing what he said, Wu Chunmei put down the things in her hands, washed her hands and went into the house with Chen Lishu.
Chen Liyuan and Chen Lifei were reading and studying, and several other children were playing. They were very happy to see her come in: "Sister, you are back."
"Yes." Chen Lishu nodded and took out the gifts she had brought for them: "Fourth sister is going to school in the fall, and the eldest sister also bought you a schoolbag. Look at the military green one with five-pointed stars on it."
"Eldest sister, mom said that the second and third sisters have already spent a lot of money studying, so she asked me to delay going to school for two years." Chen Liwan touched her schoolbag curiously and said a little aggrievedly.
Seeing Chen Lishu's frown, Wu Chunmei quickly explained: "That's one thing. The sixth and seventh children are still young. I'm thinking of letting her stay at home for two years. After two years, let the second child come down and then the fourth child go."
Chen Liyuan was anxious: "Mom, I studied well, why did I have to drop out? I still want to go to high school."