Chapter 214 Small Changes
Cang Hai's deeds of playing with the little bear cub in front of the female bear were soon spread in Sijiaping Village through Shi Jie's big mouth.
However, the villagers' reaction was not enthusiastic. After seeing Cang Hai, several elders said something stupid and bold, they grinned and went to the village to continue to help Matsuda Akio work.
The Japanese are all without relatives in the town, and now they can trust the villagers in Sijiaping Village. So they are like looking at the yard and loading the trucks. Even if they are too busy, they will hand over the power to pick people and work to Hu Shijie to control it. What they really mean is trusting Youjia.
Hu Shijie showed good leadership and prestige in this matter. He managed a temporary freight yard in an orderly manner, waiting for the end of the matter. When the watermelons were loaded into the truck and transported them away, Matsuda Akio, who was good at doing business, paid everyone a penny a penny to the worker, and personally delivered it to everyone. Every time he gave a portion of money, he also thanked the workers for their hard work in a very sincere tone.
After doing this, let alone those who work, even the people in the town think that although the Japanese are a little bad, they are still more reliable in their work. Unlike the small bosses in the county town, when they pay their wages for him, they either deduct this or that, or they can do it if they can. The QQ is so unauthorized.
As a conscientious boss, Matsuda Akio at least suddenly gained a good reputation in the town. I have to say that the Japanese have done a pretty good job of winning people's hearts.
As soon as the matter was done, each of the villagers happily returned to the village with three or four thousand yuan in hand. Don’t underestimate these three or four thousand yuan. The couple in the family would be six or seven thousand yuan. This is equivalent to the total income of an old man and an old lady who had been digging food for one or two years in the past. So when they returned to the village, they naturally made everyone laugh and looked happy.
The villagers who returned to the village were not idle. The villagers who were stimulated by Shi Jie's 20,000 yuan were all out to fill the ground with lumps of soil, hugging the grass and trying to find another insect like Shi Jie. Even if they took a step back, they could find a 10,000 yuan. With the mentality of being a little rich man, there are almost no one in the village at home at dawn. Apart from Canghai, Shi Wei and Lu Shu, at most, Li Liren and his wife were left in the village, and one or two old dogs who were unhappy to run out of the village.
However, after four or five days, this enthusiasm has gone a little further. Not to mention the 20,000 crickets, even 200 crickets are not so easy to catch. I worked hard for a few days and nights and got one or two hundred yuan. The villagers naturally settled the account in their hearts.
Li Liren did not have this kind of trouble. With his skill as a chef, his task was to cook. Xu Sheng brought several couples to prepare for three meals a day, so he didn't have to try his luck. He had a net income of one or two hundred yuan a day around the stove, so how could he catch crickets?
One day, Canghai was pulled from the bed by Lu Shu, put on her sportswear and started running along the village in the morning. As a lazy person, Canghai was quite unwilling to exercise vigorously. Even if she moved, she had to be leisurely. She was holding a water cup in her hand and slowly slid around. This was what Canghai liked.
The helpless thing is that Lu Shu is her girlfriend. If she doesn’t run with her, she might have to sleep in the living room at night. There is a saying that goes, life is like that. If you can’t resist, then enjoy it!
The couple ran around and as soon as they returned to the village, they saw Li Liren unloading things from the three-wheeled motorcycle.
Seeing the work, Cang Hai and Lu Shu naturally had to go up and help. Li Liren and his wife politely made things happen and went with them.
"Hey, I said to Grandma Liu Er, why are your family buying so many instant noodles?" Cang Hai picked up a box of instant noodles and asked curiously.
"Those young men from the capital are so hungry that I think of making some instant noodles tonight and then cooking some braised eggs. If anyone wants to eat them, it will be enough to soak them in boiling water," Liu Aifen said with a smile.
"Are you going to open a convenience store?" Lu Shu saw a box of salt placed at the bottom of the tricycle box. She didn't know if she could use so much salt until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month. If she couldn't use it herself, she would naturally sell it.
Liu Aifen smiled and said, "What's the point of selling? I just make a small difference between the wholesale price and the retail price!"
"Your idea is OK, your vision is good," Cang Hai praised Grandma Liu Er.
Li Liren came out at this time and said with a stern face: "What's good? It's not embarrassing enough."
As soon as he heard this, he knew that Li Liren did not agree with his wife doing this. He might feel that it would be a bit unscrupulous to think of ways to make money from the villagers.
Canghai said a fair word to his second grandma: "Second Grandpa, I don't like to listen to what you said. In the past, the villagers had to borrow a bag of salt at home, and no one wanted to go to the town again because of a bag of salt. Now the second grandma has sold it here, so that's great. First, it's convenient for everyone, and second, your two elders can also make some money and be in a good place."
To be honest, Canghai looked down on the things that the second grandma entered because Canghai is very particular. The soy sauce that needs pure grains to brew soy sauce must be at least twenty or thirty yuan per bottle, and each bottle is only less than one pound. At the home of the villagers, you can buy more than two pounds of soy sauce for eight or nine yuan.
As for the wine, let alone the local sorghum wine is more than five yuan per bottle. In addition to the bottled ones, there are also bulk wines, and there are also cigarettes, but the amount is not large and the price is not high. Of course, there are some expensive ones, but there are only two or three pieces, and the soft water is soft. You can tell at a glance that it was sold to people like Xu Sheng and others.
As for other things, there is no need to mention them one by one. They are all affordable goods, and now they look like things that are completely close to rural life. So although the small shops sold by Grandma Liu Er can't get enough of Canghai's eyes, they are very good at other villagers.
"There are so many fakes on the market now, so don't let the villagers poke our backbone behind their backs," said Li Liren.
Liu Aifen was immediately unhappy when she heard this: "I am such a person? I have entered the place where I am serious. Look at the production date and the manufacturer has a shelf life. It is not a three-no product that comes in a crooked door and slant..."
Cang Hai couldn't help but feel happy when he heard Grandma Liu's argument. He didn't expect Grandma Liu to have done his homework.
There were so many things on a small three-wheeler. Four people and the five masters driving the motorcycle went back and forth two or three times each, and they moved all the things into the house.
When he rested, Canghai realized that a kiln in Grandpa Liu Er's house had been changed into a simple small shop, and there was definitely nothing on the counter, and the shelves were just a few wooden boards with horizontal boards.
Now Grandma Li is squatting happily on the ground and dismantling the boxes of goods, then takes out the things in the boxes and puts them on wooden shelves. Each thing is facing a price list with a price tag on it, and there are actually two tags on it, one is WeChat Pay and one is Alipay Pay, which is really catching up with the times.
Although Li Liren said unhappy, he still squatted on the ground to help his wife. The old couple was very quick to do it together, and soon filled a board.
"No need for you, we two can do it. You can go back quickly. It's still a little cold in the morning. You're sweating all over. Don't catch a cold." Li Liren said immediately when he saw the couple Canghai and were about to help.
Cang Hai pulled Lu Shu for a moment after hearing this: "Okay, let's go back. This body is so sticky and uncomfortable."
He pulled Lu Shu out of the kiln, Canghai passed through the kiln of Hu Shijie's house, and prepared to go to his home from the slope next to Wei Wenkui.
When I passed by the entrance of the kiln of Uncle Wei Wenkui, I saw Wei Wenkui coming out with a shovel, and the bodies of seven or eight big rats were lying on the shovel.
"Oh, Uncle Wei, are you the monster who is making trouble?" Cang Hai asked curiously.
Lu Shu was curious when she saw this and asked, "So many mice belong to your family?"
Wei Wenkui was amused and laughed: "Not our family's place? I guess the mice in the whole village are here. I have thrown them away three times this week."
Seeing the young couple in Canghai, they looked at him in question.
Wei Wenkui said again: "The two Huang Daxians brought them to me, maybe they were repaying me. The two Huang Daxians were completely healed. Now the village is wandering around. As long as the mice they could catch were bitten to death, they were sent to my table. They didn't understand after saying it a few times, but it was a good thing. At least the village is no longer the same as before."
"You didn't pay attention if you didn't say it. You could see a mouse jumping past your eyes anytime before. I haven't seen one of them during this period. These two weasels have made great contributions to the village." Cang Hai thought for a moment, and immediately nodded and said in response.
"Why does it sound more effective than cats?" Lu Shu felt a little strange. In her impression, weasels were a little expert in stealing chickens. Why did the chickens in the village catch mice instead of stealing chickens?
Lu Shu has never seen the fierceness of free chickens in the village. She grew up like this and didn’t know that there are big roosters in the village besides local dogs and big gooses. It is not easy for a weasel to really want to hold the chickens in the flock.
Wei Wenkui said: "It's more effective than cats. Several cats in the village are lazy and become insects. Apart from eating, they sleep until now, there are only a few who catch mice. They are two Huang Daxian diligent."
The village used to be poor and there was nothing to steal, so there were not many rats. After having food, there were more rats and brought in cats. However, the village was getting poor and the cats had food. Naturally, they didn’t like to catch mice when they were full.
Even if the cats are not fed, the cats can steal some food from other people's houses, such as fish. Even if they can't steal, it's easier to catch fish in the stream than to squat at the entrance of the mouse cave to keep the mouse. Therefore, in addition to the ability of "thieves", the cats in the village are also good at catching fish and shrimps, and they all become second-rate cats who are not doing their jobs.
This is a bit like the Australians were originally planning to introduce foxes to catch rabbits. Who knew that when the fox arrived in Australia, he stopped catching rabbits, and instead caught things that were native to Australia, because these Australian indigenous animals were so stupid that they were much easier to catch than rabbits. In the end, Australia shot itself in the foot. The rabbits were not controlled and the foxes began to flood again.
"I didn't expect that you were just a mistake and gave the village a big harm!" Cang Hai praised Uncle Wei with a smile.
"Okay, I'll bury this thing deep." Wei Wenkui didn't pull it with the couple Canghai, and went to the woods next to him with his iron head.
Canghai and Lu Shu continued to go up the slope and go home.
Lu Shu asked, "Why didn't weasel steal chickens?"
"..." Cang Hai was speechless: "It's not good not to steal chickens? Although weasels have a bad reputation, they are a real beneficial beast. The staple food is actually rats and not chickens. Stealing chickens is an occasional thing. The things in the book are not correct. It can be said that weasels have a bad reputation in this regard."
When the two returned home, Shi Wei and Ping'an had already started preparing breakfast. The ones who chose vegetables and the ones who were cleaning rice. As a new demon city, Lu Shu liked to eat rice. She felt that she was not used to eating steamed buns and couldn't eat enough. So now Canghai's family's three meals a day are mainly rice, and pasta is just a supporting role.
After taking a shower, Canghai started to make breakfast. After finishing breakfast, Lu Shu began to pack her luggage. In a blink of an eye, Lu Shu lived in the village for half a month. When the holiday was almost over, she had to return to the Magic City to continue working.
Canghai prepared two packs of things for Lu Shu, which Canghai was about to take for Lu Shu, and the remaining things were to be taken by Canghai when he went to the Demon City.
There was not much, and after packing it up, Cang Hai hugged Lu Shu and the others squatted in the room while watching movies while enjoying the rare world of two people.
Chapter completed!