Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 41: Scheming Brother
This small grass shrimp is troublesome to pick and clean, but it tastes very delicious.
However, rural people seldom catch these grass shrimps to eat during the busy farming season because they simply don't have time to pick them.
Jiang Tian chuckled and said, "I scooped it up with a dustpan in a small puddle next to Grandma Hongxia's rice field."
Both mother and daughter had a lot of things to do and had no time to pick these little grass shrimps. After thinking about it, they simply gave the job to Jiang Cheng who was "recuperating" at home.
"Why is it my job again?" Jiang Cheng wailed.
Jiang Tian glanced at him and said, "Do you still want to eat river shrimp noodles?"
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"If you want to eat them, pick out the shrimp quickly."
Jiang Cheng came over with a vegetable bowl and picked out the shrimps with a wronged look on his face.
This kind of grass shrimp is not big and likes to hide in water plants. Its color is almost exactly the same as the water plants, so it is really troublesome to pick them out from the water plants one by one.
After picking for a while, Jiang Cheng became impatient and poured all the grass shrimps, water plants and mud into the dustpan. Then he took it to the ditch at the back, washed it twice, and then picked out the water plants floating on the surface and threw them away.
When washing, the silt inside also flows away with the water.
Now, the remaining grass shrimps had nowhere to hide, and picking them up was much faster.
While Jiang Cheng was picking shrimps, Hu Qiongfang was discussing the land lease with her eldest daughter.
"I have asked the villagers about the current market price of leasing land. One mu of land is required to pay one year's public grain, and we will also receive 100 kilograms of rice and 100 kilograms of wheat."
"I calculated that there are only three people in my family. With three mu of paddy fields, we can produce 300 kilograms of rice and 300 kilograms of wheat every year, which is enough for our family to eat."
"We won't rent out the dry land anymore. We can grow some sweet potatoes and other things ourselves so we don't have to spend money to buy them."
In the past, Hu Qiongfang would "report" these things to her husband or mother-in-law. Now that there was no one at home to listen to her reports, Hu Qiongfang was a little uncomfortable for a moment, so she continued to nag her daughter.
Jiang Tian was very happy.
What she feared most was that Hu Qiongfang always treated her like a child and didn't tell her anything. If that was true, then it would be a lot more troublesome for her to get involved in the family business.
Fortunately, Hu Qiongfang had been accustomed to letting others make decisions for her in the first half of her life.
Now that her mother-in-law and husband are both gone, although she is trying to get used to making her own decisions, how can a person change a habit that has been formed for more than ten years all at once?
Jiang Tian listened to Hu Qiongfang's analysis very carefully. She also agreed with her mother's arrangement for the dry land at home, and also gave some additional suggestions -
In addition to sweet potatoes, it is best to also plant some mung beans or red beans.
"When it's hot in the summer, we make some mung bean soup and put it in the store. When customers come to eat noodles, we give them a bowl of mung bean soup to cool them down."
"In the winter when it's cold, we make red bean soup instead. It's not a big deal to make a big pot anyway. The beans are all grown at home, so it just costs some firewood and sugar."
Hu Qiongfang nodded and asked her daughter to add "free soup" as well.
After talking about opening the store, Hu Qiongfang looked at the clock on the high cabinet in the main room and stood up.
"Last time I saw that many families like to buy loaches to eat. You and Chengcheng can cook at home at noon today. I will go to the riverbank to dig some loaches."
Seeing her mother happily going out with a bucket of water and a big shovel, Jiang Tian was secretly shocked.
No wonder people in later generations like to say that “environment changes people”.
Ever since she discovered that selling aquatic products could make money, her timid mother has completely disappeared.
Now, the only lacks is a motorcycle. Otherwise, Ms. Hu would have ridden her motorcycle to the countryside to collect river fish long ago, right?
This is incredible! Does she still have a chance to become a rich second generation?
Jiang Tian imagined it happily and began to knead the dough and prepare the toppings for the noodles.
Jiang Cheng was ordered around by his sister the entire morning.
As soon as he picked out the shrimps, his sister sent him to the vegetable garden to pick, wash and cut vegetables.
After cutting the vegetables, I was sent to the fishermen’s house in the village to see if I could find any bargains.
At this time, the fishermen in the village must have returned from the market. During the busy farming season, there are fewer people going to the market. Jiang Tian specially gave Jiang Cheng ten more yuan and told him that if he saw a bigger silver carp, he should buy two more.
Jiang Cheng went out muttering to himself.
Halfway through the walk he remembered that according to the script his sister had given him, his leg injury should have healed just recently. With a roll of his eyes, Jiang Cheng immediately limped and walked slowly.
When he met an acquaintance on the road, he limped even more severely and had to hold on to a telephone pole to rest after walking a few steps.
Don't ask, the answer is that I was bullied by several male classmates at school, and I haven't recovered after staying at home for several days.
But there was nothing we could do, as there was no one at home, so we could only send him out to buy two fish to cook.
Halfway through the journey, he was carried by an acquaintance passing by and sat on a large cart carrying grain.
It was delivered all the way to the fish seller's house and almost scared the fisherman.
There was no way out. The fisherman had two sons, and each one was more naughty than the other at school. The teacher called their parents every few days, which made the fisherman almost think that his two sons had beaten up their classmates at school again, and the other party brought the victims to his house to complain.
When the fisherman heard that Jiang Cheng was here to buy fish, he breathed a sigh of relief and enthusiastically carried Jiang Cheng down from the cart.
He also waved to the villagers who were pulling the cart to transport grain, asking him to hurry up and load the rice to the fields. Then he would ride his bicycle to take Jiang Cheng back.
Jiang Cheng limped around the village and not only caught two discounted silver carp and half a basin of free small crucian carp (a gift from the fisherman for him to make soup) , but also caused the reputation of those classmates who beat him up to be ruined once again.
When the villagers heard that Jiang Cheng was beaten by those boys and had to lie in bed for several days, and now he was walking with a limp, and was standing at the door eating with a bowl in his hand, they couldn't help gossiping.
"You're so cruel at such a young age, what will happen to you when you grow up?"
"These brats have no family supervision. They dared to break their classmates' legs at such a young age. Will they kill people with knives when they get out into society ?"
"Isn't it? When they are young, they steal needles. When they grow up, they steal gold. I think these kids, if their families don't take care of them, they might really get into trouble in the future."
"The school is really incompetent. Look at how badly Jiang Cheng was beaten. He even limps when he walks. We don't know if he will become disabled. I heard that those naughty boys took some things to Jiang Cheng's house? The school doesn't even dare to say a word. Ugh!"
"In the final analysis, the Jiang family still has no man to back them up. Even the dogs in the village dare to bark at their door."
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The topic shifted from Jiang Cheng's legs to the popular post about whether Hu Qiongfang would marry again.
