novelraw 174. Career of a miser
174. Career of a miser
"Did the trip go well?"
There were a lot of things to pack later, so Lu Aihua didn't worry about the electricity bill anymore and turned on the lights in her room.
This small courtyard is not big, with a total of two bedrooms. Except for the one where Yan Chu and his wife lived before, there is only one bedroom where the old lady lives.
Fortunately, people here are used to sleeping on the kang, and people in the city are no exception. When they first slept on the kang, they made it longer. The five girls now sleep in the same room with the old lady. They are only two years old and are still little babies. Younger son.
But the children were getting older, and it was impossible to live like this forever. There were six children and one old man, seven mouths to feed, plus money to build a house, so I gritted my teeth and paid 200 yuan for my job. I sold it for 1 yuan, and then I became a dealer and made a lot of money.
The sound of Yan Chu carrying things into the house was loud, and several girls were chirping without lowering their voices. The little son, who was lying on the kang and was chubby, was soon woken up by the noise. The corners of his mouth dropped down, and he was about to cry. Howled.
It was the older girl who would coax her younger brother. Seeing the younger brother pouting and looking aggrieved, she held him in her arms and rocked him until he finally fell asleep before he cried.
"Pearl Jade, please keep your voice down, don't wake your brother up again."
Yan Jin glared at the four younger sisters and said in a low voice, although she didn't say clearly that Yan Chu was her real father, she was also complaining in her heart just by looking at her complaining eyes.
Complaining that they have no sense of propriety, if they wake up Yan Yuanbao, the devil, the whole family will not have to sleep tonight.
Speaking of which, the name of this family is quite random. When the eldest daughter was born, she thought of having a son in the next child, so she named her eldest daughter Yan Jin. In the future, the son would be called Yuan Bao. The combination would be Jin Yuan Bao.
But who knew that Yan Zhen, Yan Zhu, Yan Fei, and Yan Cui were born one after another, and then the sixth child was born, a son Yan Yuanbao.
This era is like this. If you don’t have a son, you have to have one child after another. Otherwise, even if you don’t care, other people’s spit will drown you. Most of them are scolded by women, thinking that women are not living up to expectations. I can give my husband a baby boy.
The original wife is such a sensitive woman, and her mother is patriarchal. She has always believed that the most important thing for a woman in her life is to have a son, but she ended up risking her own life for the sake of her son. .
She was obviously only 28 when she gave birth to her sixth child. She had also given birth to a child before, but she was destined to have this disaster. When the baby was in the wrong fetal position, she barely managed to deliver the baby when she was sent to the hospital, and he suffered from severe bleeding. died.
Before, the original wife worked as a temporary worker in the factory cafeteria, and the couple could barely make ends meet with their wages to support their five daughters. But now that the wife is dead, and there is another child waiting to be fed, if the original person doesn't find a way to make money, the whole family will have to make ends meet. I can barely survive.
"Sister, we will keep our voices down."
The little girls covered their mouths and said softly, winked at the eldest sister Yan Jin, smiled flatteringly, and then turned their heads to look at the two big packages brought by their biological father, wanting to see what his father had brought them. Something.
"Dajin, you take your younger brothers and sisters to sleep in dad's room tonight. Dad and your baby still have some things to sort out tonight."
From the current point of view, Yan Chu thinks that the original child's children are quite well-behaved, and the relationship between the sisters is good. However, they will become such people who fall out for money. In addition to their own reasons, it may also be due to the original child's education. not open.
"Dad, I'm very good, let me keep it."
Four-year-old twins Yan Fei and Yan Cui, each hugging one of their father's legs, never took their eyes off the package.
Before dad left, he said he would bring them beautiful little dresses. They had been looking forward to it for a month, how could they want to miss this day.
"Jade, don't mess with daddy."
Yan Jin was the eldest sister with the calmest personality. Although she was also a little disappointed that she could not watch her father and grandmother unpacking the packages, she still held her sleeping brother in her arms sensibly and urged her younger sisters to follow her to the next door room.
"Hurry up and go to the next room with the quilt in your arms. Whoever moves slowly will have no eggs to eat tomorrow."
The old lady's threat was more effective than Yan Jin's words. Compared with the beautiful dress she had never seen before, the fragrant eggs were more attractive.
Yan Fei and Yan Cui let go of their hands on their father's thighs, hugged their own quilts and pillows and left slowly, closing the door behind them.
"Have you spent all your money after bringing so many things?"
The old lady watched her son open the nylon bag, take out a large bag of flour from under a pile of seafood and a change of clothes, then unbutton the flour bag, reach directly into the flour bag, and take out several boxes wrapped in yellow paper, all of them These are relatively rare watches and radios nowadays.
In addition, my son rummaged through it again and sorted out forty or fifty pieces of beautiful children's clothes. The styles were not available here. Just by looking at them, you can imagine how beautiful these clothes would be on you.
Most of these clothes are for children, and there are not many clothes for adults.
The old lady helped her son sort things into piles, including the most expensive watches and radios, new clothes, and dried seafood and scallops.
The things in the two nylon bags were mixed and messy. They were also clothes. There was a lot in both nylon bags. The top layer was placed on the top layer, and another layer was placed in the middle with seafood in it, so that the things were kept separately. At first glance, it seems that there are not many of each type, but when they are sorted out and piled together, the number will be quite large.
Lu Aihua looked at these things and felt that she had spent a lot of money. Her son had almost taken away all the family's money on this trip, and she didn't know if they would be able to sell them by then.
"It doesn't cost much."
Yan Chu smiled, lifted up his clothes, and took out his wallet from the mezzanine: "I brought a thousand yuan with me on this trip, and now I still have more than three hundred yuan left."
"Is this how much money these things cost?"
The old lady asked in surprise. The neighbor next door bought a radio for 110 yuan. The radio her son bought was a little smaller than that family's. She thought the price might not be much less, so she pressed a button. Counting a hundred yuan each, the three in front of her now must be at least three hundred yuan.
"Many small workshops have opened in Shenzhen, and some state-owned factories have begun to accept private orders. This kind of radio does not require a ticket in Shenzhen and can be bought for only 70 yuan. There are also these watches, which are not of any brand, but The advantage is that the price is cheap. I bought twenty of them, and the purchase price is only fifteen yuan each. The same type of watch can be sold for at least thirty or forty dollars here. "
Yan Chu took those watches and radios and explained to the old lady: "There are also these clothes. The price in Shencheng is about the same as that of Baizhai. That is to say, I bought less and the price is a bit higher. On average, each piece of clothes is less than ten yuan." money."
"Less than ten dollars?"
Lu Aihua's mouth opened wide. Nowadays, supply and marketing cooperatives still require coupons to buy things. Making clothes by yourself, apart from the difficulty of getting cloth coupons, will cost at least ten yuan, and the style is not as exquisite as the clothes in front of her.
Especially some of the small skirts were trimmed with lace. The old lady had never seen such beautiful clothes in her life. If they were placed in their big shopping mall, they would have sold for at least fifty or sixty yuan.
No wonder so many people are willing to take risks and become bad guys. This is a huge profit.
The old lady calculated in her mind that these two big bags could conservatively earn six to seven hundred, which was as much as her son's income for more than half a year when he was a worker.
“But the risks in this business are quite high.”
Yan Chu told the story about how he was almost caught by the police when he came back, and he also mentioned the unlucky guy who had been stolen by the police. The old lady was so frightened that she grabbed his hand and said: Amitabha.
"It's so dangerous. Let's stop doing it in the future. We'll stop after selling what we've earned from this trip."
Of course, his son is more important than money, the old lady said with trembling heart and soul, holding his hand.
"How can I not do it? The work has been delegated to my second cousin. If I really stop, the whole family will starve to death."
Yan Chu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Mom, don't worry, I know it in my heart. Those police officers are just going through the motions in a hurry. As long as I have a strong heart, it will be fine."
His comfort was ineffective at all. The old lady felt uneasy just thinking about being caught doing this and having to go to jail. But what her son said was right. Now that her job is gone, what if? If you don't do the job of being a bad guy, you still have six children at home. What will you do in the future?
"Mom, go get me a bowl of noodles. In order to save money these days, I am willing to eat three buns a day on the train, but it makes me starved."
Yan Chu rubbed his belly and handed the bag of flour used to hold watches and radios to the old lady.
The watch and radio were wrapped in clean yellow paper and placed in a flour bag. They were not dirty at all.
"You, a grown man, eat three buns a day?"
The old lady raised her voice, and her heart became even more aching. She immediately got off the kang and carried a three-inch golden lotus to her son.
After eating a bowl of noodles and taking a shower, the mother and son began to sort out the things that had been sorted on the kang. The old lady locked all the valuables such as watches in the cabinet, and she felt relieved.
It was just the pile of clothes that caused a little dispute between mother and son.
"Before we left, we agreed to buy beautiful dresses for Dajin and his sisters. How many days have the little girls been looking forward to it?"
When the old lady heard that those clothes had to be sold for money, she couldn't help but speak for her granddaughters.
"Mom, seeing as Dajin and the others are getting older, they must have more houses at home. Dajin and Erzhen are also old enough to go to school. There are places to spend money everywhere. It's my fault as a father. It’s useless and can’t give them a good life.”
The wish maker said that only necessary expenses would be given to the children until they are eighteen years old. In this way, beautiful little dresses will definitely not be included in necessary expenses.
Studying is different. No one can say that studying is not a necessary expense. Yan Chu feels that the original owner suffered a loss in his previous life because he gave a few children good economic conditions but did not enrich their spiritual world. In this case, they will not be able to enrich their spiritual world in this life. Do it the other way around.
When Yan Chu heard these words from the old lady, he immediately softened his heart.
How difficult it is for her son. He eats three steamed buns a day just to save money. Isn’t it for the future of his children? In this case, it’s okay for the granddaughters to wear less beautiful clothes. When the time comes, the family’s life will be better. , will be made up.
In this way, in the sleep of several children, they missed the beautiful little dress they thought about day and night.