Chapter 40
Hua Qiang heard the sound and walked out of the house.
He didn't know Mrs. Zhang and Sun Chunying either. The Zhang family hadn't visited the house since he came back, probably because they were afraid that he would deal with them.
Hua Zhao is his granddaughter and the grandson of the Zhang family. Since he was away before, the Zhang family had to take care of Hua Zhao to some extent.
But no, according to the villagers, they threw Hua Zhao at the door of the Zhang family in the middle of winter, but the Zhang family didn't even keep her when they saw she was about to freeze to death, and then threw her back.
In the end, Hua Zhao was forced into Huashan's house by the then captain, otherwise he would have been frozen to death by the two families that day.
Huashan's house is not a thing, and this house is not much better.
Hua Qiang looked at the two of them silently and did not speak.
"Okay, come in and talk." Hua Zhao actually let the two of them in politely.
After all, it was my grandma and aunt who refused to let her in. The whole village was really pissed off.
But once his aura was turned on, two village women could not bear it. Mrs. Zhang and Sun Chunying immediately became honest, and the invisible arrogance around them was extinguished.
"Xiaohua, grandma is thirsty, can you give me a drink of water?" Old Mrs. Zhang suddenly said pitifully.
It just so happened that she was also curious about what they wanted from her.
Aunt Ma and Hua Zhao have been friends for a long time, and they did not avoid suspicion. They went into the house and sat aside to watch.
They have never suffered from her, and they must like to persuade her to be kind.
And if she wants to create a good image, she has to suffer some losses.
When I arrived, I was empty-handed, and when I left, I had a lot of bags.
After entering the house, Sun Chunying's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw the sewing machine on the floor and the cotton cloth on the kang.
She was afraid that Hua Zhao would suffer. If the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Zhang family came, it would definitely be bad!
She remembered that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came here frequently when Hua Zhao's parents were still alive!
The refusal was not sincere at all.
Aunt Ma curled her lips. Such shameless families were actually quite rare. There were not even one or two families in a village, and these two families just happened to be together, and Hua Zhao took care of them.
"Oh my God! What is this! This is a sewing machine!" Sun Chunying shouted in surprise: "I heard that this thing sews clothes very quickly, and it's just one piece! You just happen to have so much cloth, give it to you quickly
Grandma makes one. Let aunt see how it works."
"No, no, no," Mrs. Zhang sat on the kang and whispered.
Hua Zhao didn't say anything, it was just two fishes, nothing to be reluctant to part with.
"Tell me, what are you here for?" Hua Qiang finally spoke.
"I'm going to cook, I don't have time." Hua Zhao also had no intention of performing.
"Then go quickly, go quickly." Sun Chunying said again: "I just saw you catch a fish? What a coincidence. Your grandma likes to eat fish the most. You caught it today. The old lady is very lucky."
The more Mrs. Zhang spoke, the more confident she became.
Hua Qiang didn't talk to her about it. If she thought she could just leave it alone after giving her some money, there was no love in her eyes, so what else could she say?
Old Mrs. Zhang got off the kang, stood on the ground, looked at Hua Qiang, and said with a tearful voice: "Xiao Hua, I'm sorry. There was something wrong with my family back then, but I also had difficulties. My daughter was still
She was so young and only had a daughter. I couldn't let her live alone for the rest of her life, right? So I forced her to get married.
"Xiao Hua, it's not that we don't want to raise her, but her surname is Hua, right? It's not like there is no one in the Hua family, and our family provided us with a house and alimony, but in the end we failed to take good care of Xiao Hua. That's the Huashan family's business!
You can’t blame us.”
It's such a short distance and they haven't been here in 10 years! Hua Qiang was even more angry.
Mrs. Zhang and Sun Chunying looked at each other. Under the old man's nose, they couldn't hold on any longer.
"Ignoring the past, I just want to ask you what are you here for today? If you really came to see Xiaohua, you've finished reading it now, so let's go."
Hua Qiang said: "The two villages are not far away. It only takes an hour to walk there. If you go back now, you can still get home in time for lunch."
Because for rural people, when they settle accounts after autumn every year, a labor force that works almost every day cannot earn thirty or fifty yuan a year!
Because not only do you earn work points, you also have to spend them.
"We just heard that your production team is selling bean sprouts to the county recently?" Sun Chunying asked with bright eyes: "I heard that you can earn more than 10 yuan a day! Is it true?"
1 day, more than 10 yuan! Lucky 20 yuan! What is this? This is simply a dream!
If you ask for leave during busy farming periods, your work points will be deducted.
If your family builds a house and cuts down trees, your work points will be deducted.
Is 365 kilograms of rations given to you for free? Corresponding work points will be deducted!
Will the cabbage, potatoes, and radishes grown in the fields be given to you for free? Work points will also be deducted!
Some families have a small labor force. For example, if a man raises a family and earns no work points just for eating, then the few work points he earns will definitely not be enough to deduct the rations. In the end, he will have to owe the production team money!
Return next year.
Etc., etc.
Some families have a large labor force. If the work points of the whole family are added up and there is still some left after deducting deductions, the family can get a share of the money. In total, the family can only get a few dozen yuan.
For some families, until the 1980s when the distribution of property was distributed to each household and the production team was disbanded, the repayment was not completed.
But there is no need to pay it back at that time, and the debt will be lost.
If you don't pay next year, you won't have to pay it back the year after.
I won’t be able to continue the year after next.
Hua Qiang said nothing.
Sun Chunying looked at Aunt Ma.
So a little over 10 yuan a day, including those who failed, comes to about 300 yuan a month, which is an astronomical figure for rural people.
When the Zhang family heard about it, they couldn't wait a day and came immediately to find out the truth.
But it can't be hidden at all.
Most of the wives in the village were married from outside the village. They could not hide for a few days before they all went home and told their parents and brothers.
Aunt Ma snorted noncommittally.
Well, originally the village wanted to keep this matter a secret. With such a great good thing, they were afraid that other villages would take it away, so they kept it hidden.
Even if the daughter-in-law from Shantun Village goes home to give birth in person, without any intervention from her mother-in-law, the bean sprouts she produces are vastly different from those in her village, and people from other supply and marketing cooperatives don't want them at all.
This is really both joyful and sad news.
Including herself.
But something evil happened, and the bean sprouts grown in other villages were not as good as those in their village!
But since then, the secret of bean sprouts has spread.
Silence is the default!
Mrs. Zhang said to Hua Qiang: "My dear, we are here today to ask you something. Can you speak to the team and let us move to your backing village?"
The water in Kaoshantun is good, and only the water here can produce good bean sprouts. The county only accepts bean sprouts from Kuoshantun. They also know this news, so if they want to make money, moving to Kaoshantun is the best way.
Chapter completed!