Reborn to Strive

Chapter 58

In the 90s, there were many petty thefts. Shi Zhen was very careful on the way back, for fear of being targeted.

Fortunately, he was a tall man with ordinary clothes, so he was safe all the way.

The bus stopped in the town, Shi Zhen got off the bus and was about to walk home.

Along the way home, he noticed that some low-lying places in the town were also flooded.

But because it happens every year, everyone takes it for granted, just a group of children in briefs playing in the water.

Shi Zhen went to Shi's house first.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Qiujuan were both at home, making dinner, but Shi Dalin was not there, he wanted to earn more, so he set up a stall outside.

As for Zhao Dongjuan... Shi Zhen didn't see her, and he didn't know where she went.

When Shi Zhen came over, he planned to give them the money Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Meiyun earned from embroidering clothes these days.

For this money, it is definitely better to give it earlier than later.

When Shi Zhen went to Changxi City to get money this time, he brought the ledger with him. Now he took out the ledger and settled the money earned by Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Dongjuan.

The two embroidered a total of 17 yuan and [-] cents. Shi Zhen didn't have loose banknotes, so he took out the whole money and asked them to find it.

Zhao Qiujuan immediately said: "Just give us three hundred!"

"Brothers will settle accounts clearly." Shi Zhen smiled, he had already decided to learn his lesson and settle things more clearly.

Zhao Qiujuan and Zhao Meiyun were a little embarrassed, but they still found money for Shi Zhen.

After Shi Zhen left, Zhao Qiujuan took out 120 to her mother, then grabbed the remaining banknotes, took out her passbook and said to Zhao Meiyun, "Mom, I'll go out and save some money."

Ever since Zhao Dongjuan flipped things over once, she has learned to be good.

All the money she earns now is locked up, and as long as she collects a hundred, she will go to the bank to deposit it.

She has been to the bank a lot, and everyone in the bank knows her!

Zhao Meiyun is old and lacks energy. Although Zhao Dongjuan is willing to embroider some clothes these days, she can't embroider two clothes in one day.

Usually, the clothes embroidered by Zhao Meiyun and Zhao Dongjuan are only half of Zhao Qiujuan's.

At this moment, Zhao Qiujuan gave her mother 120, and she actually earned the rest.

It turned out that her mother gave her private money, and said that she would also give her the money she earned from sewing clothes. She was very happy and thought that she could buy a house with her mother.

But in fact, these days, for the sake of the peace of the family, and to coax Zhao Dongjuan not to talk nonsense in front of Shi Ting and Shi Dalin, her mother gave Zhao Dongjuan money one after another, at least dozens of dollars.

She wanted to save money to buy a house, and she was reluctant to eat the rice balls she sold, but Zhao Qiujuan had the money to buy all kinds of snacks, and now she wanted to settle the accounts with her brothers.

Shi Zhen loves Shi Ting so much, Shi Ting wants to eat popsicles, Shi Zhen even asks her to spend money!

Why should she spend her hard-earned money on her younger sister?

Zhao Qiujuan saved money, and started reading Shi Ting's textbooks when she got home.

She went to learn Pinyin when she was an adult, and she felt that Pinyin was not difficult. She followed Shi Ting before and learned a rough idea.

Right now, she doesn't plan to learn mathematics and English, and she can't learn it, so she plans to read and write.

You can't understand anything in the future.

Zhao Qiujuan uses a stupid way to learn to read, that is, copying textbooks.

She didn't set any requirements for herself either. When she had work, she definitely had to do it. When she was free, she just took a primary school textbook and copied it.

How many can be remembered.

Speaking of it, Zhao Qiujuan sympathizes with Shi Ting a little bit. Shi Ting has to copy the texts every day and has to do a lot more questions than her. Shi Ting, work is a bit slow, and homework is also slow, plus she has to embroider to make money , she didn't even have time to go out to play.

On the other hand, Zhao Dongjuan was still in a strange mood, saying that they were tossing around, and no matter how hard they studied, they would not be able to enter the university.

She doesn't want to go to college!

Shi Zhen left Shi's house and went to see his father who was setting up a stall outside.

According to what he said, his father cleaned himself up and set up a booth at the entrance of the cinema. He was obviously very happy to see Shi Zhen.

He comes out at ten o'clock in the morning and goes back at ten o'clock in the evening. He doesn't go home for dinner in between, and asks Zhao Meiyun to bring the food over.

After all, setting up a stall really makes a lot of money.

He spends the whole day like this, and can save 50 yuan from his capital every day.

"Dad, don't be too tired." Shi Zhen said.

"What's so tiring?" Shi Dalin looked at Shi Zhen seriously.

Also... Shi Zhen looked at Shi Dalin, who had only been looking better for a month, and didn't stop him.

He stood there for a while, and then heard Shi Dalin talking about going back to build a house.

Shi Zhen: "..." Shi Zhen didn't know what to say, because in his previous life, after earning money outside, he also wanted to go back and build a house.

Homecoming!

At that time, everyone in their village did this.

But in fact, it is meaningless at all. Building a house in the mountains costs more than building a house outside. After all, the materials are not transported in easily.

Afterwards, no one lived there at all.

But Shi Zhen didn't use these to persuade Shi Dalin, instead he said: "Dad, we are renting a house now, and we have to pay the rent. When we have money, we can buy here first, so that we can save the rent. Later, I will go to my hometown to build a house."

"This……"

"Dad, my sister and I can't go back to the mountains. Do you still want to marry my sister in the mountains?"

That's definitely not what I want.

Shi Dalin was particularly fond of Shi Zhen's mother, she was a great beauty, even if he was not in good health and couldn't work, he didn't mind at all, he wanted to hold her in his arms.

He also loves Shi Ting, a mother-like daughter.

But he didn't know how it would hurt, so he could only ask Zhao Meiyun to cook some delicious food every day - his son wouldn't let his daughter eat more fried skewers, even if he wanted to stuff his daughter with fried skewers, alas!

Shi Zhen chatted with his father and went home.

Some sections of the road are not flooded, and it is quite easy to walk, but some sections of the road are flooded, and the water will pass.

Shi Zhen was walking when he suddenly saw a child walking in front of him suddenly tilted and fell into the water.

He quickly stepped forward and scooped the child out of the water with his hands.

The water in this section of the road was a little deep, past his knees, but the child would be submerged not because of the water on the road, but because she accidentally stepped on the air and stepped on the side of the road.

On one side of this road is the river, which is deep there!

The child picked up by Shi Zhen looked five or six years old and was from the village. She was a little dazed at first, but then started crying.

Shi Zhen held her in his arms and weighed her: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll take you home."

Shi Zhen didn't send him home either. When he got to the drying yard in front of the house, he put down the child and left.

He walked a little further, and saw Guan Baiyu's house, as well as Shi Ting and Shi Xinghuo, holding a net and fishing.

The net is stretched with bamboo poles, and if you hold the net and scoop it out of the water in one direction, you will have a chance to scoop fish.

Shi Xinghuo has great strength, so he did this very smoothly. Shi Zhen noticed that in the small bucket that Shi Ting was carrying, there were already five or six small fish, either a small crucian carp the size of two fingers, or a white striped fish the size of a finger. .

In the river in front of their door, someone has contracted fish farming, but the black carp, grass carp and silver carp raised by others will not run to the shallow water on the road, only the small white crucian carp will swim up. If everyone catches it, then the contract The people of the river don't care either.

"Where did this net come from?" Shi Zhen asked.

"I borrowed it from Uncle Jianguo," Shi Ting said, "Brother, I have dinner here. I want to eat fish!"

Just a few small fish, enough to eat?Shi Zhendao: "If you don't go back home, people will wait for you. If you like this fish, you can take it home and ask my sister to cook it for you. You tell her that this kind of small fish tastes better if it is fried more."

Zhao Meiyun cooks in the same old way, and she is not willing to boil anything with light and water. If she really wants to cook something delicious, it is Zhao Qiujuan who does it well.

Of course, when it comes to Zhao Qiujuan's culinary skills, even he can't compare.

Fortunately, Shi Ting is not picky at the moment, as long as it is meat, she likes to eat it.

"That's fine!" Thinking that the food at home is often richer than Shi Zhen's, Shi Ting has no objection.

As for Shi Xinghuo, when the Shi family first came here, he always ate at the Shi family for a while.

But later Shi Zhen felt that he was a big man and it was inconvenient to eat at Shi's house every day, so he let him eat at his own.

Shi Xinghuo's current income is still kept by Shi Zhen.But it's not a problem for him to always subsidize Shi Xinghuo, and now he charges Shi Xinghuo [-] yuan a month, which is counted as food expenses, accommodation expenses, water and electricity expenses, etc.

Shi Xinghuo's job of digging holes for the waterworks has been temporarily stopped because of too much water, and he has been idle at home these days.

Shi Zhen was also very rarely... free.

Shi Zhen was not used to this, and even cleaned the house thoroughly two days ago.

But today he has something to do... Shi Zhen released the news that people who have embroidered flowers before can come to him to collect money.

Usually, you only need to tell one or two people about this kind of thing, and they will yell around, and by tomorrow, everyone around you will know about it.

This is how gossip is passed on.

Shi Zhen lived in Guan Jian country, and the first to get the news was naturally the people near Guan Jian country.

Zhang Xiumei is at home, serving her chickens.

She hasn't taken care of these chickens for some days. Before, she was busy embroidering clothes every day, so how could she have time to take care of these little ancestors!

But there was no clothes to embroider for the past few days, and the continuous rain was too humid, which made the chickens very depressed. Together with her husband, she moved the dry straw from upstairs to replace the chickens with bedding, so as to prevent the chickens from getting sick.

While she was changing, someone came: "Xiumei, we have money to sew woolen sweaters, go and get it!"

Zhang Xiumei paused, overjoyed and said: "Can I get the money? I'll go right away!"

She wanted to go out immediately, but suddenly realized that she was wearing overshoes covered with chicken manure, and she was wearing dirty clothes, so she could only say: "Hey, I'll go there later, go change clothes first !"

While Zhang Xiumei was changing clothes, Shi Zhen was already distributing money to Guan Jianguo's mother.

This old lady is not fast at work, and she can probably embroider six or seven pieces in one day. Shi Zhen counts for her, and the total is more than 140 yuan.

He gave the money to the old lady, and the old lady was very happy, and gave Shi Zhen a dollar to buy popsicles.

One red bean, one mung bean, and two sugar water ones, she ordered four at one go, and then shared two with her granddaughter.

It's really rare, this stingy old lady has never bought anything from Shi Zhen before, and she is always reluctant to buy cooked food for her son or popsicles for her daughter.

But if you think about it carefully, a person of her age has planted land all her life and has no savings at all. Now that she is old, she can only rely on her son to give her a few hundred dollars a year, and she has no money. How can she be generous?

Moreover, Guan Jianguo bought popsicles for his daughter from time to time these days, but he didn't buy them himself, nor would he think of buying them for the old lady... It's not easy for the old lady.

After Guan Jianguo's mother received the money, many people came to collect the money one after another.

And after these people received the money, almost all of them went to Shi Zhen's side and bought popsicles or soft drinks to eat.

At this time, no one controls sugar and does not eat sweets, because everyone usually has no snacks, and sweets are still very attractive to them.

The most important thing is...they used to come to Shi Zhen to pick up sweaters, and they have long been greedy for these things!

Shi Zhen bought a lot of goods before, especially soda water. After he made an agreement with the soda water factory, they directly packed a car for him.

And now... these things are selling fast.

Even the large bottle of Coke that he kept at home was bought by someone, saying that he wanted the whole family to celebrate together.

Among those who came to get money, those who got less, only a few dozen yuan, but those who got more...

Among all the people, Zhang Xiumei took the most. Shi Zhen's account book was recorded, and she embroidered clothes worth more than 500 yuan!

Although some of them were made by Guan Jinjin, but the bulk is definitely her... Her hands and feet are really fast.

Zhang Xiumei was really happy after taking the money, and bought three red bean popsicles to take home.

Shi Zhen was busy when suddenly someone came over with a bucket. Shi Zhen looked over and realized that it was the father of the child he had saved earlier.

The child's father brought him a bucket of small fish: "Shi Zhen, thank you for picking up my daughter. This is the fish I caught with rice grains this afternoon. You fry it and eat it."

Most of these fish are white striped fish, and there are some other small fish.

There are quite a lot of white striped fish in the river here, and usually people don't think about catching them, but recently there was a flood, and many people had nothing to do, so they went to catch them.

Some people use fishing nets directly, and some people put some rice grains in the basket, and when the white fish comes in to eat, they pick up the basket.

This person probably wanted to give something to thank Shi Zhen, but he had nothing to give, so he gave him the fish he just caught.

Shi Zhen didn't refuse the kindness and took the fish.

He has never been in contact with this family in his previous life, and he doesn't know what happened to his daughter, but today is indeed a bit dangerous, and it is nothing to accept a bucket of fish.

The people who came to get the money came one after another, Shi Zhen asked Guan Baiyu to collect the money, and he handled the fish himself.

"Brother, let me come." Guan Baiyu said.

"I'm here, I'm fast." Shi Zhen smiled, compared to killing fish, it must be easier to collect money.

When Shi Zhen finished handling the fish, it was already six o'clock in the evening, and no one came to take the money, so Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu went back, set up an oil pan, and fried all the finger-sized fish.

After frying, it is braised with soy sauce, sugar and other condiments. The taste is very good, and you can chew it with the bones.

That's what they did, time passed for a long time, it was already seven o'clock for dinner, Shi Xinghuo was so hungry that he kept walking around the stove.

After eating, Shi Xinghuo went out for a walk, while Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu settled accounts at home.

This month's sweater business, he can earn about [-].

At this time, in some open coastal cities, foreign-funded enterprises come to China to invest and build factories, and the wages paid to workers can be three to four thousand a month.

But there are also inland cities where many workers earn only over 100 per month.

In some local small workshops, a husband and wife lead a few or a dozen workers to work day and night, earning tens of thousands a month.

In some remote places, water and electricity are still not connected.

Shi Zhen doesn't compare himself with rich people, he is very satisfied with his income, at least now, Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting don't have to worry about tuition fees.

If he wants to make more money in the future, he plans to buy some daily necessities while saving his own business capital.

Shi Zhen thought about his future.

There are not many paths he can take in the future.

After all, he didn't have any diploma, so it was impossible for him to study again.

Studying at this time is much more difficult than later generations. He will never find a school to accept him now. As for adult education...

He saw Guan Baiyu pass the exam in his previous life, and this kind of diploma is still valuable at this time, correspondingly, it is difficult to pass the exam.

It is safer for him to continue in business.

It is possible to do business... it is possible to do catering. This period is a period of vigorous development of the catering industry.

But to be honest, he doesn't understand a lot, he can't guarantee that he can make it bigger, and he doesn't have a delicious formula.

In contrast, he is already familiar with the path he walked in his previous life.

As a contractor, sometimes you will encounter a lot of bad things. For example, after the death of Shi Xinghuo in his previous life, he especially hated some behaviors that did not have proper safety measures on the construction site.

But when he was in this line of work, he was not a big boss, but just a helper... He often found helplessly that if he really wanted to pass everything, he might lose money instead of earning money in the end.

Because the first [-] yuan project was taken over by others, [-] yuan was directly taken or managed by others, then [-] yuan was bought for materials, and finally [-] yuan was given to him to do it.

Fortunately, he has been very careful, and there have been no accidents at his construction site.

He is too familiar with this line of work, he knows which people are pitfalls to avoid, and which people are relatively better, so he can still do it.

Shi Zhen doesn't expect how much money he will make in this life, he thinks it's about the same as in his previous life, so that's fine.

With his wealth in his previous life, Guan Baiyu can buy him a house and a car no matter which city he settles in in the future.

As for himself, he doesn't have a strong material desire and doesn't have high requirements for life. He doesn't mind living in Changxi City at all.

That being the case, he still followed the original path.

It's just that in his previous life, he started with Shi Xinghuo's death compensation bit by bit. Not to mention that the money was uncomfortable for him, but it was actually stretched at the beginning. In this life, he can keep his feet on the ground and save money by himself.

After Shi Zhen fried the bucket of small fish, he divided them into three portions. He and Shi Xinghuo had already finished their portion, but Guan Baiyu hadn’t finished his portion. He was still holding a small fish, bit by bit Eat slowly.

Weirdly cute.

Seeing that he was healthy and healthy, Shi Zhen was very happy. Thinking that he would be free for the next few days, he said, "Xiao Yu, there should be many people coming here to take money tomorrow. You go to Changxi City, and I will buy you some things you need to start school."

I haven't bought Guan Baiyu's schoolbag or anything yet. I still need to buy a watch for Guan Baiyu and some clothes...

Shi Zhen was thinking about what Guan Baiyu could use, when he heard Guan Baiyu say: "Call Tingting, brother, you want to buy it for her too?"

Shi Zhen was taken aback for a moment, but finally smiled: "Well, call her."