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Lao Zhou recently discovered that the method of using walnuts to offset wages is really great. On the one hand, it can stimulate enthusiasm. On the other hand, many people earn walnuts and don’t spend them right away. Resell the walnuts.

This thing is almost like issuing bonds.That is to say, how many walnuts are still out there that have not been exchanged, how much wages Lao Zhou owes and has not been paid, and there is no need to pay interest, and no one is asking for debts.

As for the ice cream from Lao Zhou’s house, ordinary people are really reluctant to eat it often. Before Lao Zhou asked people to dig trees for him, and the walnuts at that time were still easy to earn. If you have strength and experience, plus good luck One point, all the trees I encountered were relatively easy to dig. Two or three people went up the mountain and earned more than a dozen walnuts a day.

But now there is no more tree-digging work. Occasionally, there are children from the town who work at Lao Zhou's place. A day of hard work is about one walnut, and few earn two. If this walnut is sold at the bridge For foreign tourists, it costs about 35 yuan a piece. Most of them are willing to spend money when they go out to travel. The ice cream made by Lao Zhou’s is really delicious, and it’s not wrong to spend 35 yuan.

The money is hard earned, and many children in the town don’t like to go there. In addition, this walnut can be bought from others now. Some children from better families would rather spend money to buy it. Save a little pocket money.

But there are also a few who go every weekend, rain or shine, like a boy named Sun Wenzhong on the old street. .

Now his old mother opened a small sewing shop downstairs of her own house, selling some needles and thread gadgets by the way.His father used to go out to work as a construction worker. Before he was 50 years old, his back was a little bent and his hair was gray. It seemed that he was in poor health.In the past two years, he got a buffalo from Lao Zhou, drove the ox cart every day, and helped people deliver goods. The work was much easier than before, and he ate and slept regularly. In the past two years, he looked younger.

On Saturday morning, Sun’s mother went to the morning market to set up a stall, and Sun’s father also drove the ox cart to go out early. Sun Wenzhong got up, lifted the lid of the pot, and ate a bowl of boiled noodles that Sun’s mother had left for him. After a long time, the noodles were lumpy, but Sun Wenzhong ate very deliciously. He is 15 years old this year, and it is time to grow his body.

After breakfast, I went to the backyard to drive the ducks out, all the way to the creek. Their house is not directly next to the stream. It is a bit troublesome to drive in and out of the ducks every day, but the price of duck eggs is not bad. Now it can usually be sold for about two yuan. If you make salted duck eggs yourself, you can sell them for a few cents more.

When grandparents and grandparents went out in the morning, it was still dark and the ducks hadn't woken up yet, so they didn't bother them. Grandma said, give them enough sleep so that they can lay a few more eggs.She mixed the feed with rice bran and vegetable leaves, and after a while the ducks woke up to eat by themselves, and then Sun Wen got up again before releasing them.

Fortunately, no matter how their family was called for debts, they insisted on not selling this old house. Otherwise, they would have no place to raise ducks, no place to sew and mend the shop, and no place to put it. ox cart.

While driving the duck, Sun Wenzhong secretly rejoiced in his heart.After driving these ducks into the creek, Sun Wenzhong did not go home, but walked upstream along the streets by the stream. This weekend, he was going to work in Niuwangzhuang.

I don’t even take a car, the bullock cart is too slow, and it costs two yuan for one ride, and one yuan for [-]% off by swiping the card, two eight yuan for one round trip, and five yuan for two days on weekends. I don’t even want to eat fried dough sticks that cost one yuan.

After walking along the side of the road for a while, he saw a three-wheeled motorcycle coming towards him. He knew the man on the car, so he smiled and waved at him: "Old Chen!"

"Wen Zhong!" A young man in his late thirties called Lao Chen parked his car next to Sun Wenzhong, waved to him with a smile, and beckoned him to get in the car.

Sun Wenzhong dexterously got on the back of the three-way car, and was dragged by Lao Chen all the way to the town. When he drove to the place where there were special baskets made by Lao Zhou's family, he stopped the tricycle and filled the bottle with the one on the side of the road. The baskets of bottles and cans were moved to the car, and the contents in the baskets were a bit heavy. Sun Wenzhong went down to help Lao Chen, and then placed a clean empty basket under the roadside tree.

The baskets on the side of the road are filled with milk bottles, soy milk bottles, thorn rose juice bottles and the like that are waiting to be recycled by the old Zhou family. Occasionally, one or two ice cream can be seen.

Lao Chen is in charge of this recycling work today. This job is very good. It does not require heavy physical strength, and you can also drive around on a three-wheeled motorcycle.It's just that the winding mountain road in Buffalo Town is not very easy to drive. Generally, those who are not very experienced will not be given this job.

The tricycle collected these bottles and cans all the way in the town, and when the back bucket of the tricycle was almost full, it turned around and headed to Niuwangzhuang.

When passing by the front of the Buffalo Pavilion, Lin Kuo also came out from the small square on a three-wheeled motorcycle. Lin Kuo saw that the back of the car on their side was fully loaded, and Sun Wenzhong was squatting on the side fender. He waved his hand and signaled him to get into his car, and Sun Wenzhong was not polite, and walked over with a smile.

Lin Kuo is sending the stone frog to the Buffalo Pavilion. He is sending it here now. When the Buffalo Pavilion opens, patients and their families can queue up to receive it. The stone frog in Niuwangzhuang is not included in the free medical program. , and as many as you need, you will pay after the order is issued, and just come and pick it up on time every day.

The number of stone frogs raised in Niuwangzhuang is limited, and there are many patients who are willing to spend money to buy them. The doctors who sit in the hall are also saving and saving, and try to save this resource for patients who need it more. That's why there are still stone frogs now. Otherwise it would have been sold out.

Lin Kuo had a good impression of Sun Wenzhong, a child from a poor family. He is precocious, sensible, hardworking, and has good academic performance. He can help his family share the burden at a young age. Few people would dislike such a child.

Many people in Buffalo Town are very optimistic about this child, and some far-sighted parents have already begun to think about the possibility of their own daughter and Sun Wenzhong.

The creditors of the Sun family have not pressed so hard in the past few years. Once the child of the Sun family is likely to become famous in the future, all the money has been borrowed. There is a favor here, and the relationship has become tense. What good would that do?

Secondly, the economy in Buffalo Town has been developing well in recent years. Every household has some income. If anyone needs money, there is a place for turnover. It is not as tight as it used to be, and there is no need to press the debt.

The car left the town and drove along the Panshan Highway to Niuwangzhuang. The morning market was almost gone at this moment. Some stalls sold out early, so they closed their stalls in advance, and some stalls were in good business at this time.

When passing through this morning market, the three-wheeled motorcycles drove slowly. When Sun Wenzhong passed his old lady's stall, he saw that she was not there. There were still those needles and thread brains on the stall, and he wrote a one-yuan piece Cardboard, put a change jar there, customers just take things by themselves, and then throw a dollar into the jar. The stall owner who sells children's shoes next to him has a good relationship with Sun Ma, so he will help to look at it a little bit.

Walking a little further, I saw her old lady collecting vegetable leaves by the side of the road with a sack. The duck food that their ducks eat basically comes from this way. City here.

"Mom." Sun Wenzhong called to her from the back of the car.

"Hey, Wen Zhong." His old lady smiled at him, and quickly turned her head to go to her own business.

There is also competition in collecting vegetables and leaves in the morning market. Many families in Buffalo Town who have chickens and ducks come here to get feed. There are some old men and women here, and some are younger.

At the beginning, everyone was reluctant to let go, and they were timid. Later, more people came, and the atmosphere formed, and everyone got used to it, just like when everyone brought their own bowls to buy breakfast at the beginning. .

The morning market is very noisy with people coming and going. The weather has turned cold this season. Mama Sun is wearing a white flannelette jacket, but she has a relaxed expression on her face and a bright smile. She is not as sad as she used to be. .

She filled a sack full of vegetable leaves and dragged them to her stall. This is not over yet, and she has to collect several sacks of vegetable leaves every morning.When her man drives an ox cart past here, he can let him take it home by the way.

Take these vegetable leaves to the stream, wash them, put them in the sun for a little while, chop them up and mix them with rice bran and the like. Ducks love to eat them.

Among the neighbors of their family, there are ducks at home, but they are not ashamed to come to the morning market to collect vegetable leaves. Mama Sun asked them to come to their own house to get them. If they want some money, they give them one yuan or two, and Mama Sun can give them a big bag of vegetable leaves.

Don't look at the one that costs one or two yuan, if you sell a lot, you can earn a few tens of dollars a day. This income is more stable than her sewing. Helping people does not necessarily have a business every day. Those who have ducks in their homes Yes, but we need vegetable leaves every day.

Two three-wheeled motorcycles passed through the morning market slowly, and drove all the way to Niuwangzhuang. As soon as the car entered Niuwangzhuang and turned two turns, the surrounding environment immediately became much cleaner, listening to the sound of running water and birdsong , it feels like time has slowed down.

After entering the courtyard, Sun Wenzhong thanked Lin Kuo, got out of his car, ran to help Lao Chen unload the car, and moved down the baskets containing bottles and cans in the car.

In a corner of the courtyard, there were many large water basins, and several water pipes were brought over. Some old people who had arrived early were sitting there doing cleaning work.

When I get older, I feel lighter. Many old people wake up at four or five o’clock in the morning. They don’t have much to do when they stay at home. Working, chatting when there is no work, a group of old people can have something to say when they get together.

In late autumn, the water was a little cold, but everyone was working with gloves on, so it didn't feel cold.The production tools and labor insurance supplies on Niuwangzhuang are all stored in the same warehouse, and anyone can go in and get them without any restrictions.

Originally, this kind of loose management was more prone to problems. In the beginning, Chen Jianhua was very uncomfortable when he first took over, but later he also discovered that in Niuwangzhuang, there is basically no need to worry about extravagance and waste. Regardless of other people's situation, these old men and old ladies in the yard almost feel distressed about the old Zhou's things as their own.

Now while Sun Wenzhong was moving the baskets, he was listening to some old men and women chatting there. One of the old men was very proud of his skill in mending gloves.

"Well, this glove looks like new, right?"

"It's really good."

"Let's talk about this pair of gloves. There is only one finger tip that is particularly easy to break. Once it breaks here, the whole pair of gloves will be useless. Use my professional glue to cut a piece of material from the broken gloves that you don't need. Post it on the top, hey, this pair of gloves can be used as two pairs..."

"Hey, Lao Li, what kind of glue is this? I'll keep a bottle at home tomorrow."

"What are you getting ready for? Bring your gloves some other day. I'll help you glue them together and you'll be done. It just so happens that Lao Zhou also has ready-made materials here. Just cut a piece from those old gloves that you don't need."

"Then I'll bring it over tomorrow."

"Bring it here, why are you polite?"

"Oh, if only I knew before, I don't know how many pairs of gloves I can buy less."

"That's not!"

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