Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 93: The Smart Second Uncle
It's not over yet! No matter what, it's not over yet!
The sister-in-law was not seriously injured, just had some skin scraped on her arm. Anyway, the car had already overturned, so she didn't care that the man could die!
She immediately asked if there was a hotel nearby so she could stay there for the night and then try to get a ride back along the provincial road the next morning.
The aunts and sisters-in-law who were watching the fun nearby were also very angry.
Who doesn’t have a family? Some people always scold their wives for supporting their parents, but they don’t think about the fact that before their wives got married, they were also their parents’ daughters.
As a daughter, is there anything wrong with worrying about and taking care of your parents?
Oh, once you get married you can only be filial to your parents-in-law and you can just ignore your own parents. How can this be justified in the world?
If this is true, who will raise a daughter well in the future? Since she is unreliable after being raised, it is better to just throw her away.
If the whole society is like this, in another twenty years, there will only be boys and no girls in the countryside. How will these boys find wives?
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Immediately, a helpful person said that one of her relatives owned a hotel and could take the girl there to stay first.
As for men? You can't bear to part with your car, right? Then you might as well live with your car forever.
The man was accusing his wife with a clear conscience, but in the blink of an eye, his wife ran away with another woman!
Now I can only stare blankly.
I didn't dare leave because there was a truckload of bananas waiting to be delivered to the boss.
Wait! It seems that there is no "one car" anymore.
Just now, the front of the truck ran off the road, and the two wheels were stuck in the ditch on the side of the road. The front half of the truck was upside down, and the two layers of unripe bananas loaded in the front flew out of the tarpaulin and fell into the nearby rice field that had just been harvested.
Just when the couple was arguing, some greedy villagers from nearby took advantage of the night and secretly picked up a lot of bananas and ran away.
These bananas are still green and will not be ripened in the warehouse until they are delivered to their destination. But it doesn’t matter, everyone knows how to do it - put the bananas in a plastic bag and put two apples in it, and they will be ripe in a few days.
The driver was horrified and only then did he think of defending his banana.
It’s a pity that he was injured. Because of his “heartless and ungrateful” crime towards his wife’s family, the aunts and sisters-in-law who were watching the fun, who were usually very kind-hearted, were now unwilling to go up and help.
There were a few people working nearby who offered to help him load the bananas back into the truck, but it was not free help and they had to pay two dollars each for their work.
This is another reason why Wang Chunjuan encouraged Hu Qiongfang to move to the provincial road.
As the saying goes, "If you want to be rich, build roads first." With wide roads and cars coming and going, you can often find various ways to make money.
For example, there has never been a car accident on the provincial road.
There aren’t any professional towing trucks these days, so if an accident happens, don’t we have to find someone nearby to turn the car over?
These workers must have been experienced in this business. When they heard that a truck had overturned, they knew that there was going to be business again, so they rushed over in a hurry. It was indeed a big deal.
When the driver heard that it would cost two yuan per person, he shook his head frantically: That's too much! My bananas are not worth that much.
In the end, there was really nothing we could do. The driver was too stingy and was unwilling to spend money to hire someone to load the truck. He even bargained with them, asking if fifty cents per person was okay.
As a result, the workers rolled their eyes and walked away.
Fifty cents? To send away beggars?
The driver was so helpless that he could only sell the fallen bananas to the onlookers at a low price.
Hu Qiongfang had never bought these unripe green-skinned bananas, but Wang Chunjuan knew that these bananas were good things and urged her to buy a few more bunches.
She also bought five strings for herself.
These bunches of bananas are not the ones sold in bunches at fruit stalls. There are more than a dozen bananas hanging on one stalk.
Wang Chunjuan asked her to buy them back, break them off one handful at a time, and cover the apples with plastic bags until they are ripe. Then, whether she eats them herself or sells them to others , it will be very cost-effective.
Hu Qiongfang thought about it. She had two children at home, and her brothers also had children. Even if she couldn't sell them, it would be nice to keep them for her family. She had never bought this kind of green-skinned bananas, but when she heard Wang Chunjuan say that this banana could be kept longer than those bought in the store, she carried two large bunches home without hesitation.
This thing is really heavy!
Halfway through the journey, he was carried over by Uncle Hu who came to pick him up.
When he got home and heard that the bananas were only five cents a pound, his second uncle Hu Jianjun was moved and pulled Hu Qiongfang aside to ask her:
"When you left, the boss hadn't sold out his bananas yet, right?"
Hu Qiongfang shook her head. "How can it be sold so quickly? I see that his big truck won't be able to pull up for a while. This man is very stingy with his wife, and he's not generous to outsiders. He only offered 50 cents per person to help tow the truck in the middle of the night."
Hu Jianjun was overjoyed. He went to the backyard, got two shoulder poles and two pieces of hemp rope, and said to his uncle Hu, "Let's go buy some, take them back and steam them, and ask our parents to set up a stall at the market to sell them. They're 1.5 cents per pound, and we can make a profit of 1 cent per pound."
Even if the mosquito's legs are small, they are still meat to dig! Although he doesn't make as much money from selling bananas as his sister does from selling lunch boxes, now Fuqiang noodles are only 20 cents per pound, and selling two pounds of bananas can buy one pound of Fuqiang noodles, so his parents must be happy.
The two brothers ran over and found that the boss had not left yet. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he raised the towing fee from 50 cents to one dollar.
Hu Jianjun was full of tricks. He was afraid that the driver would tow the truck up, so he refused to sell the bananas at a low price. He first spent five cents a pound to buy eight green bananas from the driver. After paying the money, he persuaded the driver to be more open-minded and not destroy a whole truck of bananas just to save a little money on hiring someone.
My second uncle looks down on this man.
Even though this guy can drive, you can tell at a glance that his wife must be the one who helps him take care of all the big and small things when he is out driving. Otherwise, how could he want to save even this little money for towing?
Is this a time to save money?
How much does a trailer cost? How much are these bananas worth?
What if there is a delay and the bananas get spoiled, and the boss doesn't want them when you deliver them to the destination, then wouldn't this whole truckload of bananas be a waste of time?
Anyway, if he were the boss of the banana shipping company, he would definitely make the man pay compensation at the original price.
Hearing him say this, the man became flustered.
"What should we do?"
"You can't just look for people. Look at your big truck. How many people do you need to hire to pull it out? How about this? You pay me twenty dollars, and my brother and I will go back and drive a tractor and use a rope to pull the truck out for you."
Hu Jianjun felt that the price he offered was really fair.
The driver felt a little nervous, but could only nod and agree.
Alas! These things were all handled by his wife before . She was good at everything. She could take care of the family, accompany him in sports cars, and take care of everything at home and outside. But even after getting married, she still liked to take care of her parents. He couldn't indulge this bad habit.
