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Chapter 28
Chapter 28
Jiang Yao quickly recovered from the great joy of receiving a large order. To complete this order, they faced a very serious problem, that is, the procurement of raw materials.
Half a catty of glutinous rice flour, half a catty of glutinous rice flour, three liang Cheng flour, and half a catty of red beans and three taels of white sugar can make 30 snowskin moon cakes, and the amount of one thousand pieces requires seventeen catties of glutinous rice flour and seventeen catties of sticky rice flour. , 10 catties of plain flour, 17 catties of red beans, and 17 catties of white sugar.
If in the future, just go to the supermarket or the market and you will have it, but now the supplies are in short supply, and they don't have so many tickets, where should they buy so many raw materials?
"We can still grind this sticky rice flour ourselves, but we need to buy glutinous rice flour, plain flour, red beans, and white sugar. Where can we buy it?" Jiang Yao asked Lu Che in a low voice, "Can you secretly get the ticket back?"
"No." Lu Che said, "I don't want to say whether I can get it or not. Even if I can get it, I don't dare to get it. If you buy so much grain and beans at one time, unless you buy it from a factory. But there are only a few factories in the county. People in the supply and marketing agency must remember whoever goes to buy, and if we rush to buy, others must be suspicious.”
"Then what should we do?" Jiang Yao frowned and said, "This is an excellent opportunity for us to make a name for ourselves. Today there is a machinery factory, and tomorrow there will be a bamboo ware factory, a powder factory, etc. to order with me... No, a powder factory. ..." Her eyes lit up suddenly, and La Luche said, "Do you usually send firewood to the powder factory? Can you order some goods from the factory?"
"It should be possible, but the goods that can be obtained are likely to be stolen by thieves. If one day they are found to be irritated, it is better to buy them directly through special channels." Lu Che said.
"What is a special channel..." Jiang Yao just asked the exit, and immediately realized what this special channel was.
"That's ok, it's easier for people to find out that we are taking private jobs than buying it outside." Jiang Yao asked, "Can you find a special channel?"
"Yes, didn't I tell you last time? Purchasing in the factory cafeteria is not easy. In order to ensure the food for the employees, they often buy it through special channels. When I deliver firewood, I also meet delivery people. I'm quite familiar with two or three of them." Lu Che said.
"That's great." Jiang Yao said, "Then you can buy it back as soon as possible. After confirming the delivery date with the machinery factory, I will start preparing."
"Okay." Lu Che nodded, "I'll go directly to the county town after I get off work. You all have dinner tonight, so you don't have to wait for me."
"Go without eating?" Jiang Yao felt distressed when she heard this, "You walk back and forth, and you have to run a few places. You won't be able to eat until nine o'clock tonight."
"It's alright." Lu Che raised his hand and touched the top of her hair, and said, "I'm full at noon today, and it doesn't matter if I'm late at night. Well, go to bed quickly, I'll be too late if I don't go out."
After Lu Che went out, Jiang Yao went to sleep, but she didn't fall asleep and got up at four o'clock in the afternoon to cook.
She was reluctant to let him eat a hot meal at nine o'clock tonight. He said that he was very full at noon. In fact, he ate a few more pieces of sweet potatoes, and only one or two pieces of sweet and sour fish, and gave them to Zhou Yang. Zhou Xin ate it.
After eating the fish at noon, there is no meat at home, but fortunately there are a lot of eggs. Jiang Yao boiled eight hard-boiled eggs, peeled them and put them in the boiled brine to let them taste slowly.
At five o'clock, she took out the lunch box, packed a large bowl of sweet potato rice and three brined eggs, and went to the field to deliver meals to Lu Che.
He went to the ground in the rice field today, which is a little far from Lu's house. Jiang Yao estimated the time, and she almost finished work when she sent it there. Lu Che was able to eat quickly and then go to the county seat.
Lu Che has always been very serious about his work. Others work foreign workers and start to be lazy and wait for get off work before five o'clock. He is different. He is ready to leave until he is ready to leave. Even if he will go to the county town later, he is no exception.
He has always had a belief in his heart that even if his background is not good, he is a hard-working person. The captain gave him ten centimeters, and he had to make the ten centimeters worthy of his name and not let anyone criticize him.
"Lu Che, don't do it, your daughter-in-law is here to find you..."
Just as he was working hard, Lu Che suddenly heard someone shouting. He didn't take it seriously. After the person shouted a few more times, he realized what he was shouting.
Why did his wife come suddenly? Could it be that something happened at home?
A bad premonition came to mind, and Lu Che immediately put down his farm tools and got out of the paddy field.
As soon as he climbed up from the field, he saw Jiang Yao walking towards him from a distance. He didn't know what she was carrying, but seeing that she was not in a hurry or slow, there should be no sudden incident. My heart dropped in half.
"Why did you come here?" Lu Che was happy when he saw his daughter-in-law, and the expression on his face softened unconsciously.
Jiang Yao handed over the lunch box in her hand and said, "I'll bring you a meal, and then go to the county town after eating."
"I can go back to eat at night, it's such a hassle to make a trip."
"I can't bear it." Jiang Yao muttered softly, but it was enough for Lu Che to hear clearly.
Suddenly, his body was not tired after a long day. He opened the lunch box and said, "Okay, I'll eat now."
Now that it is close to the end of work, the big guys are sitting on the edge of the field to rest in twos and threes. Seeing Jiang Yao come to deliver meals, feel sour and envious.
"I'm going home from work. I'm here to deliver food, who should I show it to?" someone said sourly.
Lu Che pulled Jiang Yao to sit down, ignoring the man's words directly.
Stimulating the law will not work, but the heart of gossip will not die, and someone asks: "Jiang Yao, Lu Che can go back to eat after a while, don't you get tired from running on purpose?"
"Jiang Yao is definitely not tired. She stays at home and does handicrafts every day. Do you think that you go to the fields every day to do farm work like us?"
Before everyone called Jiang Yao "Jiang Zhiqing", now he married Lu Che and became the daughter-in-law of the Qingyuan production team, and everyone called her by her first name. Jiang Yao didn't mind, and said to the woman who was questioning, "Lu Che will go to the county town to pick up firewood. I'll be back late tonight. I'll let him eat first."
Everyone knows that Lu Che went to pick up firewood. After all, he often pays the production team. Someone asked, "It's dark when I go to the county seat. It's not easy to pick up firewood at night. Why don't you go in the morning?"
Before Jiang Yao could speak out, someone rushed to say, "I couldn't get up in the morning in the cave/room last night, so I have to ask."
As soon as the words fell, everyone burst into laughter.
These women, who were married and had several children, dared to say anything, and Jiang Yao's face immediately turned red. Lu Che couldn't get used to others teasing his daughter-in-law. He raised his face from the lunch box and glanced at the surrounding villagers. The warning was full of warnings, and everyone didn't dare to say anything.
Lu Che had only eaten half of it, and it was time to get off work.
The villagers left one after another, and Lu Che speeded up his meal and ripped out the lunch box within two minutes.
Jiang Yao saw that he looked like a hungry ghost reincarnated, and said, "Look at how hungry you are, and he said that you won't eat until nine o'clock tonight."
"I eat so fast because I'm not hungry." Lu Che pulled her up, handed her the lunch box, and said, "You hurry up and go home with the army, it's getting dark early, I'm not worried about letting you go back alone. "
Jiang Yao's heart warmed, and she stopped talking to him, saying, "Then be careful on the road, I'll wait for you to come back."
She just wanted to express the literal meaning of the five words "I'll wait for you to come back", but someone thought crookedly, looking for her, and said, "If you make trouble tonight, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it."
"..." Jiang Yao glared at him angrily, "You think too much, I just want to wait for you to come back, and I don't agree if you want to make trouble tonight."
Lu Che's trip to the county this time went smoothly, and he confirmed with Director Fang of the machinery factory that the delivery will be delivered before 8:00 in the morning in five days. He ran several special channels and brought back nearly 100 catties of raw materials that night.
After walking for an hour with a weight of almost 100 pounds, he was already sweating when he got home.
Jiang Yao looked distressed again, "Why are you so stupid, won't you drive an ox cart to pull it back tomorrow morning?"
"Such a big bag of things is very conspicuous, and it is not easy for people to find it when you get it back at night." Lu Che said, "If you drive an ox cart, you need to borrow cattle, and even if you go to the market, it is easy to be suspicious if you borrow it suddenly."
"It seems to be the truth." Judging from Lu Che's careful observation, it's really not easy to do some private work these days. Fortunately, she has him. If she was allowed to do it alone, she would have been discovered long ago.
Soon it was the day before delivery. Jiang Yao soaked the red beans in the afternoon, got up at twelve o'clock in the morning, boiled the red beans into a soft red bean filling, and then began to knead the flour.
It is impossible for her to make a thousand snowskin mooncakes by herself before dawn tomorrow, so Lu Che and Lu Qing also came to help.
Especially the work of rubbing powder must be handed over to Lu Che. If it was a kilo or two of powder, Jiang Yao would have no problem rubbing it, but now she has no strength for dozens of pounds of powder.
When making snowskin mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were no impressions. Jiang Yao only kneaded them into round shapes. This time, he asked Lu Che to make three wooden impressions in advance. You knock out the mooncakes one by one from the impressions. The speed is also very nice.
Although Director Fang requested that it be delivered to the machinery factory before eight o'clock, in order to hide from the public, Lu Che carried two bamboo baskets on a pole at five o'clock, ready to go to the county for delivery.
Jiang Yao originally wanted to follow, but Lu Che disagreed, saying that she had been tired all night and told her to go to bed quickly.
She couldn't hold him back, so she only said, "You go to sleep when you come back. Don't go to work today, this is an order."
"Okay, I will definitely listen to my daughter-in-law's order. You go to sleep alone first, and I will hug you when I come back." Lu Che raised his eyebrows and said.
"Who wants you to hug me?" Jiang Yao was obviously not confident when she said this, because she slept on top of him like a sloth every day.
Lu Che listened without piercing her, and followed her words: "Well, you don't have to hold me, but I need you to hold me."
When Lu Che returned after delivering the goods, he was very obedient and didn't go to work. In fact, staying all night is nothing to him. He is not particularly tired, but it is true that he wants to sleep with his daughter-in-law.
In the past, he often listened to the men of the production team talking about dirty things in the fields. At that time, he despised them for indulging in beauty and not thinking about progress. It was only now that he married his daughter-in-law that he fully realized that as long as he could hug his daughter-in-law and not get up, it didn't matter if he didn't eat.
He has completely fallen, but he is willing to fall into Jiang Yao's gentle village.
His daughter-in-law was tired all night. Lu Che was reluctant to wake her up, so he climbed onto the bed lightly. Unexpectedly, just as he lay down, Jiang Yao seemed to smell him and hugged him automatically.
He thought she was pretending to be asleep, but he shouted twice in her ear and breathed again, and she was still sleeping sweetly, only then did he realize that this was her subconscious behavior. Seeing his daughter-in-law relying on him so much, he kissed her forehead contentedly, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.
In this sleep, they slept directly until noon.
Although Jiang Yao didn't get enough sleep, she was hungry and had to get up to cook.
"Lie down for a while, grandma said in the morning that she would make lunch." Lu Che hugged him back, and then handed her the money bag on the bedside table, "moon cake money, you order."
As soon as Jiang Yao saw the purse, she was instantly refreshed. She sat up and opened the purse, and counted the money carefully.
The profit of this snowskin mooncake was set at about a penny, almost not as good as a tea egg, but it was better in large quantity, small profits but quick turnover, and finally made ten yuan.
It's not bad to earn ten yuan overnight, and she also wants to leave a good impression on Director Fang of high quality and low price. The factories in the county are very close together. Today is the machinery factory giving out benefits, maybe tomorrow it will be the nitrogen fertilizer factory’s turn to deliver. If Director Fang recommends it, the business will come one after another.
In addition, the tomatoes in the vegetable garden can be harvested in about ten days, and Director Fang is also one of the key customers to develop.
"How is it, right?" Lu Che asked when she finished counting.
"Yes." Jiang Yao smiled, then took out three yuan from it and said, "Give this to Sister Qing."
"Okay, you'll give it to her later." Lu Che said nonchalantly, then pulled the man back into his arms, and said, "It takes half an hour to get up."
"Okay." Jiang Yao rubbed against him and asked, "Have you mentioned the tomatoes to Director Fang today?"
"I mentioned it, he is very happy. When it comes time to show him the goods, if they are good goods, the price is right." Lu Che said.
Jiang Yao: "I'm going to price this tomato at 8 cents a pound, what do you think?"
"Eight cents?" Lu Che disagreed. "Vegetables are generally two cents a pound, and rarely more than three cents. Although our tomatoes are scarce, the price is four times that of other vegetables. The director doesn't buy it."
"Eight cents is not expensive at all." Jiang Yao said, "Anyway, I have a way to make him feel that our tomatoes are worth the money. Instead, I feel that there is still a problem that needs to be solved urgently."
Lu Che: "What's the problem?"
Jiang Yao: "The problem of transportation is that you can't borrow ox carts. You often run to the county town, and it takes at least two hours to go back and forth, and it's not worth it once or twice. It's not worth spending time on the road. I want to buy a bicycle, in fact, I saw you often go to pick up firewood before, and I had this idea at the time."
"I want to buy it too, but now I can get a ticket back through a special channel. It's been a long time since the bicycles are available for sale. Even if there is stock, it's hard to rank us." Lu Che sighed, "Also I don't know when my sister-in-law will come back, and she didn't say she would come back in the letter she sent to my grandma some time ago."
"There is too much uncertainty on my sister's side." Jiang Yao said: "How about I send a telegram to my brother and ask him to ask the old leaders of the provincial capital to help buy one. Anyway, we have to go back to the provincial capital to move a sewing machine. Those, ride back directly when the time comes."
"Will it be...too troublesome for our brother?"
"No." Jiang Yao said, "My brother saved the old leader. He was transferred to the provincial capital because of his injury. He can help me arrange work. A bicycle is a trivial matter. If you agree, I will give it to my brother. Take a telegram and let him arrange it."
"Okay." Now, there is really no better way than this.
"Then let's go to the county town to shoot telegrams in the afternoon." Jiang Yao said, raised his hand to touch his face, and said, "You don't need to feel that you are incompetent, before everyone succeeds, they will need help and support from others. Just drink water and think of the source.”
"Well." Lu Che smiled and put his hand on the back of her hand.
The two were tired and crooked for a while, then got up to wash and eat.
After the meal, Lu Che washed the dishes, Jiang Yao took Lu Qing aside and handed her three dollars, "Sister, this is the money earned from moon cakes, you can take it."
"No need." Lu Qing pushed back and said, "Actually, I didn't do much, it was you and Lu Che who were busy."
"After staying up all night, why didn't you contribute?" Jiang Yao stuffed it back again, but Lu Qing insisted not to accept it. She said, "I can see that you and Lu Che are so good now, so I'm relieved. I have given Yangyang to him. Dad wrote a letter and said that he was going to join the army. If it goes well, he is expected to leave at the end of the year. I only have Lu Che, the younger brother, and I won't be able to help him much in the future. "
Although he knew that Lu Qing would go back to join the army sooner or later, Jiang Yao was still reluctant to hear the news at this moment, "Sister, I can't bear to part with you."
"I can't bear you, my grandma, and Lu Che." Lu Qing grabbed her hand and said, "But I owe Zhou Jin too much. I can't accommodate me unconditionally because of him, so I accept it with peace of mind."
The man who saved her in a crisis, and then insisted on marrying her regardless of her background, and then let her live in her parents' home to support her after marriage, now it's time for her to run to him.
Jiang Yao and Lu Qing chatted for a while, and when Lu Che finished washing the dishes, they set off to the county town to send a telegram.
After sending the telegram, they will go back to Qingyuan directly.
It was still early when we left, and the members had not yet come out to work. Now that they have returned, everyone has already worked in the fields.
As a "model worker", Lu Che still insisted on going to work on the second day of his marriage. Everyone was still surprised that he suddenly didn't go to work today. Now that he and Jiang Yao were walking on the road, they finally understood what was going on.
"This Lu Che is still a man after all, he was able to hold on yesterday, but today he is too lazy to work with his daughter-in-law." Wife A had such an expression as expected.
Madam B said, "Isn't this normal? When you and your man first got married, didn't you even want to go out the door?"
Wife C said, "That's right, not to mention that Lu Che didn't seek a wife until he was in his twenties. She is very beautiful, and she wants to keep people on the bed all the time."
A group of women talked more and more vigorously, and from time to time they let out meaningful laughter. Zhu Xia and several female educated youths were working with them, and they were so blushing that they wanted to cover their ears.
"Da Du Zhiqing, why are you blushing?" Wife A joked: "Zhu Zhiqing is normal without a partner, but you have been with Zhao Zhiqing for so long, and you live under the same roof..."
Wife A didn't finish her sentence, but everyone knew what it meant.
Du Yuejia blushed even more ashamed. She opened her mouth to explain, but she didn't know how to explain it, so she just said, "Auntie, it's not what you think."
"Da Du Zhiqing, why are you, someone who has a relationship with you, more shy than someone your sister doesn't have a relationship with?" Madam A said.
Du Yuejiao, who was named, heard the sound and hummed, "Auntie, I have a fiancé now."
"Fiancé?" The lady-in-law seemed to have heard explosive news, so they all gathered around and asked Du Yuejiao, "Little Du Zhiqing, I heard that you went back to the provincial capital a few days ago to go on a blind date?"
"Can you go back to the city after you get married?"
"What kind of person is your fiancé? Is he a worker?"
"It's good to go back to the city."
"It's good to marry a worker, eat commercial grain, and don't have to go to the ground."
Du Yuejiao, who was besieged, didn't feel impatient at all. She smiled and let the women ask questions. After they asked, she said, "My fiancé is indeed from the city. After I get married, I can go back to the provincial capital. By the way. , he is not a worker, he is the director of the revolutionary committee."
With that last sentence, Du Yuejiao's tail was about to go up.
Zhu Xia and the others didn't like her, so they all left and went to work on the other side.
Jiang Yao didn't know that she became someone else's talking point again, but she didn't care either.
On the fifth day after the telegram was sent, she received a reply from Jiang Zhen, saying that he had sent a telegram to the old leader, and the old leader also agreed to help them buy bicycles and let them prepare the money and tickets.
Lu Che is an activist. The day after receiving the telegram, he received a bicycle ticket from a special channel.
Jiang Yao took the bicycle ticket, as if seeing a black and gold card, and said cheerfully: "It's better to hit the day if you choose a day. We will go back to the provincial capital tomorrow, buy a bicycle first, and then bring back all the sewing machines."
"Okay." Seeing her so happy, Lu Che laughed himself, but with some emotion, he said, "Yaoyao, I married you, I really married a treasure. You are very smart, there are many ways to make money, and you too I’m very rich, and I don’t say anything about helping me buy a bicycle, but I even gave me a sewing machine. In fact, I don’t care what people outside say about me, but I’m really embarrassed.”
"We are husband and wife now, what's the embarrassment." Jiang Yao said: "This is only temporary, you will have to pay me back many times in the future. I am an early investment, waiting for you to repay me in the future. "
Compared with the future business empire of the boss, she is just a drop in the bucket.
"What do you mean by investment?" Big Brother Lu didn't understand, he said, "But I think there is a good way to repay you now."
Jiang Yao asked curiously, "In what way?"
"Of course I promise you, come on, daughter-in-law, I'll repay you now."
"..."