Travel through 70 and take brothers and sisters to the countryside together

Chapter 68 Returning with a full load, the value of 1 meter of cloth

The handover at the machinery factory went smoothly. The team leader gave the stamped list to Zheng Xingren. The fish was weighed and the logistics settled directly. 50 kilograms of fish cost 20 yuan. The captain took the 20 yuan, his hands were shaking a little, Wen Lei didn't look at it, although she understood, she was unable to accept it.

It was only around nine o'clock in the morning after the negotiations between the two factories were completed. Captain Zhao waved his hand and told him to go back quickly. Wen Lei was dumbfounded. She followed her out in the middle of the night. She admitted that she didn't include rice. You can't help but buy it yourself! But the captain refused to let him go. He went back just in time to have lunch without wasting money.

On the way back to the captain, Wen Lei said angrily. "Captain, I won't come with you tomorrow. I won't come even if you give me twenty centimeters. Ten pounds of lobster and two meters of cloth. Thinking about it makes my heart bleed. Captain, you are such a pig teammate!"

The captain was still in a state of excitement and had no time to talk to her. Feng Tiezhu said to Wen Lei with a smile. "Sister! A child can catch ten pounds of lobster in one day, and two meters of cloth is much older. Few families in our village can pull out one meter of cloth to make new clothes all year round."

"But..." Wen Lei was about to speak, but the captain interrupted her directly. "Are you going to stop? I think Factory Manager Wang has something and wants to ask your dad for help, right? If it's someone else, I'd have to take all the lobsters back today. This time, the whole team is taking advantage of you."

"I don't agree with what you said. Didn't you try the lobster just now? Isn't it delicious? The lobster is obviously delicious, but Director Wang just keeps the price low." Wen Lei really can't pass this test. Later generations of lobsters are better than fish and meat. It’s much more expensive. No matter how cheap it is, it can’t be that much cheaper.

"Then let me ask you? If it were someone else today, do you think Factory Manager Wang would let you mess around? Will you let you in the kitchen casually? You're still cooking in their kitchen, and Factory Manager Wang would follow us around the factory. You can make some snacks! It's only a cent a pound, and you still think they've lowered the price. How much does the cloth cost for us? Go to the supply and marketing cooperative and see, you're making a lot of money inside and out." The captain broke it up, crushed it into pieces, and reasoned with Wen Lei. Seeing that Wen Lei still looked unconvinced, the captain knocked on the cigarette pole.

"Educated youth, I know you are kind-hearted and don't want to see our villagers suffer. Otherwise, you wouldn't have let your children catch lobsters last night. You must have seen them naked, right? But the least that those who caught lobsters could do last night was You have two new clothes, don’t you have any ideas?”

"What do you think?" Wen Lei asked puzzledly.

The captain hit her on the head with his pipe. "Silly girl! They haven't had new clothes for several years. You let them have two new clothes in one night. Do you still think the price is low?"

Feng Tiezhu also kept echoing. "Sister, you are a noble person in our village! Who can make new clothes? You can change two meters of cloth in a short time. Just wait and see! Will it be the children catching lobsters or the whole family going to work this afternoon?"

"That won't work! The factory can't ask for that many." The captain said decisively, and then fell into thought again.

Wen Lei stopped talking. At this time, she also fell into self-doubt. Depending on the difference in values, some things will deviate greatly. He was silent for a moment and then whispered. "I was still thinking about what to do all night, and I wanted the children to be able to exchange for a piece of cloth."

Her words made both the captain and Feng Tiezhu widen their eyes. The captain was speechless to her. Wen Lei lowered her head and stopped talking.

Back at the brigade headquarters, the brigade leader had a stern look on his face, and Wen Lei couldn't help but want to laugh. There were already children waiting at the brigade door, and the brigade leader told them to go and do whatever they were supposed to do.

Just as Wen Lei was about to return to the educated youth center, the brigade captain brought her a small bucket with five or six kilograms of small fish in it. "This kind of small fish doesn't grow big, and there aren't many of them. It's divided between the fishing team members and the village committee staff. You also have a share." He said and handed over two dead fish weighing half a kilogram skewered on branches. fish.

"Then I'm going back! I have to come back later to grind the beans with a stone mill?" Wen Lei said and ran away with the fish.

Back at the educated youth spot, Ding Yanyu and Yu Ying had already prepared lunch, and everyone came back one after another. During the meal, she saw that they had made lobster again. Wen Lei thought to herself, no matter how delicious the food is, we can't eat it every day? If you continue to eat, everyone will vomit.

Thinking about Wen Lei, she asked. "You've been eating lobster for three days in a row, aren't you tired of it?"

"What are you thinking about? We all decided unanimously in the morning that we still want to eat at night? Didn't you see that your bucket is still full? Let me tell you, last night they filled it directly with the water jar. I was almost scared to cook in the morning. It kills me, all the water we used at noon today was freshly picked.”

Wen Lei was speechless. This was a rhythm of eating without money and not finishing until you ate and vomited.

After lunch, Zhu Ping returned to the room and asked Wen Lei cautiously. "Wen Lei, can I catch some lobsters in exchange for a meter of cloth?"

Wen Lei's mind suddenly exploded. She had never thought of these people from the educated youth spots. Except for three or four female educated youths, the situation of the old educated youths was slightly better, but the lives of the others were not easy. After thinking about it, he raised his head and said to Zhu Ping. "I'll ask the captain later if he can let our educated youth change some cloth if necessary."

Zhao Changzheng, who walked to the door of the female educated youth's room, heard this and was silent for a moment before turning back to the room.

Wen Lei didn't take a nap with everyone at noon, and the team leader didn't ask her to work in the afternoon. She thought it would be better to wait until everyone left and go to the space to rest.

Wen Lei took the soaked beans and went to the brigade headquarters. There is a very large stone mill in the open space of the brigade headquarters. People in the village grind flour and other things here.

At this time, in the open space at the entrance of the brigade, many villagers were standing or sitting in twos and threes, and many villagers gathered there.

Wen Lei carried the soaked beans and passed by them. Several middle-aged women greeted her very enthusiastically, and Wen Lei nodded in response with a smile. When I walked to the stone mill to clean it, two middle-aged women in their 40s came over to help.

"Wen Lei, my surname is Li, you can just call me Aunt Li." Aunt Li helped Wen Lei with her very enthusiastically.

"Aunt Li, thank you!"

"Thank you, aunt. Tiger Head is my grandson. I just heard from the captain that he can change three meters of cloth!" Aunt Li looked excited, and Wen Lei asked her to add beans and water.

Wen Lei smiled and pushed hard, trying to hide the embarrassing situation that she didn't know how to deal with. Another middle-aged woman wanted to help Wen Lei, but found that she couldn't use her strength at all.

"You're such a strong girl! I can't even help you." She said and stepped aside in embarrassment.

"Her surname is Ding. You can just call her Aunt Ding. Zhang Tiedan is his youngest son. That's her home over there." Wen Leishun's Aunt Li looked in the direction of her finger. It was just to the west of the brigade headquarters. When coming from the village, all the educated youth would pass by her house.

More than three kilograms of beans were ground in a short time. Just as Wen Lei was about to carry them away, the captain came over.

"Are you grinding beans to make tofu?" The captain glanced at the ground soy milk in the bucket, and then looked at her with a look of distrust. Just when Wen Lei wanted to say that she really knew how to make tofu, she heard what the captain said. "Tiedan Niang, take the bucket to your house and help Wen Lei make the tofu."

"Okay, I'll do it. Sister-in-law, go help me." Aunt Ding quickly took away Wen Lei's bucket, and then called Aunt Li away. Wen Lei couldn't stop her.

"Okay, don't be polite. She is an expert at making tofu in our village. You gave me the cloth and everyone waited here after lunch. The noise made my head hurt and I couldn't even take a nap. "As the captain said, he walked into the brigade headquarters, had someone move a table out, and took out four pieces of cloth from the warehouse.

Wen Lei cut the cloth for everyone while recording the data. After a while, the cloth was almost cut, but more people gathered around.

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