After Ji Shijie and his son left, the family of three started discussing excitedly.
"Her father, you can make money by pickling cow hides, but a stone weighs 100 kilograms no matter what. If you press the four corners and move it up and down twice, it will be 800 kilograms. If you pickle five pieces of skin a day, it will be 4,000 kilograms. Your waist can
Can you bear it?"
Sun Huifang is worried about her husband.
"That's right, that's right, Dad, if we don't do this work, we'll be so tired that our waists are exhausted, what should we do?"
Qiao Jinling shook her father's hand and didn't want him to do it. She wanted to write more manuscripts to make money and not make her father too tired.
"Huifang, Lingling, don't worry about me. This is a big profit. I want to make money and build a brick-to-floor big house with tiles for everyone. Then we will also buy a TV set. Don't just buy a black and white one, just buy one with color."
There are also washing machines, refrigerators, and motorcycles. I must let you two live a good life."
Qiao Xiangqian's biggest wish is this. No matter how hard and tired he is, it's worth it.
He calculated that a large cowhide would cost 10 yuan and sell for 25 yuan. A calfskin would cost 6 yuan and sell for 15 yuan. If he mixed and marinated 5 pieces a day, it would be a conservative estimate of 50 yuan, which would be 1,500 yuan a month.
, it’s beautiful to think about.
Sun Huifang saw that her husband had made up his mind, so she no longer tried to dissuade her, and they just helped together when the time came.
Early the next morning, Qiao Xiangqian went out on his bike. He first discussed it with Niu Gensheng, then went to the city to find Ji Jijie, and went to the cowhide factory together. Ji Jijie also helped contact Ji Jijie to buy cement, coarse salt, and other raw materials.
Rulers and other things. The business was booming.
Qiao Jinling was helpless. Since her father insisted on this, she had no choice but to support it. She stepped up to write a few articles and received several remittance orders one after another, totaling more than 30 yuan. She saved everything in case her father was in need of money one day.
She can help.
These days, Qiao Xiangqian was busy using cement and sand to build a shallow pond of 3 meters by 3 meters in the yard, and dug a drainage ditch, otherwise the blood would flow everywhere when the cowhide was pickled.
Before the pond was completely dry, he planned to harvest the wheat in the fields first. Many people were already harvesting wheat, but he had not moved it since it was not growing well anyway, so he could only hand it over to the brigade.
Qiao Jinling was determined to go to the fields with her father, so Sun Huifang specially brought her a small straw hat, placed her in the shade at the edge of the field, took the sickle, and went to the fields with her husband.
Qiao bent forward, holding the wheat in his left hand, holding the sickle in his right hand, and cut the wheat to the right and back, "squeezing" into a large area. Sun Huifang half-crouched, her speed was slow, but she cut the wheat stubble low.
It's a little hot as soon as the sun comes out. The heat wave burns the skin. It takes the hottest weather to make the wheat ripe.
"Huifang, come forward, are you here?"
Qiao Jinling saw a woman looking up from the pile of golden wheat. It was her second aunt Qiao Xiangxiu. She was wearing a straw hat and a towel around her neck. Her face was red, and she was sweating. She wet her exposed hair and stuck it to her face.
"Second sister, why are you here so early? Where is my brother-in-law?"
Qiao Xiangqian felt sorry for her sister.
The land of his family and the land of the second sister's family are not far apart, and there is the land of Zhao Daju's family, which is also the land of Wang Xiaojiao's family, in between.
"Oh, your brother-in-law came home late yesterday. Let him sleep a little longer. It's okay. He will be here soon."
Qiao Xiangxiu didn't dare to continue talking, so she quickly lowered her head, click-click-click, and waved the sickle. Sweat flowed into her eyes, which were very hot. She wiped them with her dirty hands, and there were ridiculous and dirty circular marks.
Qiao Qianqian sighed. His second brother-in-law, Shi Quande, was busy and made some money by opening a shop in the city and selling pots. His second sister usually took care of it, so he acted as a hands-off shopkeeper and entertained cats and dogs outside without any formality.
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"Haha, Meihua, you are so unlucky. Didn't that big blocker take you away?"
Qiao Jinling heard the shrill female voice and looked up to see Liu Meihua and Zhao Daju walking over with sickles, followed by Wang Xiaojiao.
"What's more, it was all your instigation, otherwise why would I be so embarrassed?! The entire Beiheyan Village is laughing at me!"
Liu Meihua was angry.
Just as Zhao Daju was about to speak, she felt a slight tug on the corner of her clothes. She wanted to scold her daughter, but she happened to see Qiao Qianqian and Sun Huifang in the field.
She rolled her eyes and said to Liu Meihua: "Sister-in-law, you go to the fields first. Let's do it again at noon. Otherwise, someone with serious intentions will hear about it and call the police to arrest us and put us in jail."
Liu Meihua agreed, shook her hips, and walked away as if she didn't see Qiao moving forward.
"Ah, Xiaojiao, look at how thick our wheat is, and people can sleep on it on a mattress. That's how crops are, if you are good to them, they will be good to you. Unlike some people, if people are not good, even the wheat will be good to you.
Don’t be afraid of growing up.”
Zhao Daju glanced at Sun Huifang with a strange look.
Sun Huifang didn't bother to talk to her and continued to cut wheat. Seeing that Zhao Daju couldn't make any noise, she just went about her own work.
Wang Xiaojiao glared at Qiao Jinling and found a place to sit down in the shade. But within a few minutes, she heard Zhao Daju yelling: "Xiaojiao, are you a dead person? Why don't you come over and hug me? You don't have a pampered body like others. You have a delicate body."
Meat is expensive, you don’t have a father anymore, you still want to tire your mother to death?!"
Wang Xiaojiao sighed, said nothing, and stood up to pick up the wheat. In fact, the wheat was tied into a bundle and brought to the field so that it could be easily transported to the wheat field for threshing.
She was a little painful from being pricked by the wheat straw, and the wheat awns scratched her face from time to time. Because Zhao Daju had tied her loosely, when Wang Xiaojiao almost reached the end of the field, the wheat was almost falling apart.
Wang Xiaojiao looked at Qiao Jinling playing on the ground, wearing a floral dress, bow-tie sandals, a small straw hat, pink and jade carvings, and a surge of anger boiled up.
She stared at the awns, thinking that it would be nice if she could prick Qiao Jinling's eyes out. The smelly girl's eyes were so dark and darting around that it was annoying to look at them.
With this thought in mind, a strange idea came up.
She deliberately walked up to Qiao Jinling, pretended to trip, and loosened her hand, causing the whole piece of wheat to fall loosely to the ground.
Before Wang Xiaojiao had time to be proud, she saw Qiao Jinling jumping up and running to the end of the field, waving to Qiao and the others: "Dad, Mom, come and drink mung bean soup!"
Seeing Wang Xiaojiao's deflated look, Qiao Jinling thought to herself: "I know you are not well-intentioned, so I have already pretended to be staring at you with eight eyes!"
"Wang Xiaojiao! You bastard! I managed to tie you up. Do you have weak hands or a weak brain? You little bitch, I think you just need to be dealt with!"
Zhao Daju dropped the sickle, ran over, and pinched Wang Xiaojiao's face with her hands, causing her to cry in pain.
"Pick them all up and tie them up for me! You can't see anything all day long, and you have no father. If you make me mad to death, you won't be able to eat even if you go to the street to pick up garbage! You won't be able to count your farts! Hurry up!"
Zhao Daju cursed and drank half a bowl of water. Instead of going back to work, she simply sat under the shade of a tree and watched Wang Xiaojiao work.
"Sister-in-law, the child is young and probably doesn't have the strength."
Qiao Xiangxiu couldn't help but persuade him.
"It's none of your mother's business that I discipline my children. You don't have any children. Wait until you lay the eggs before you teach me a lesson. You don't even care. How can you tie up your man's heart like this?"
Zhao Daju has always looked down on Qiao Xiangxiu. How could he be so dejected that he could meet a good and profitable man like Shi Quande?
"Sister-in-law, why do you talk like this?"
Qiao Xiangxiu groaned, holding the corners of her clothes with her hands. Zhao Daju was right, her husband Shi Quande said that everything about her was shriveled, like a Japanese melon that had taken out its seedlings.