Reborn to Strive

Fang Miyan woke up very early.

Her house is well built, and her parents are saving money. Her father was willing to work when he was not drinking heavily in his early years. The couple saved a lot of money, plus the bride price her eldest sister got when they got married, to make up for it. The current house was built in one piece.

The house has two floors, two big houses facing south and two big houses facing north.

The two large north-facing rooms on the ground floor were divided into four by walls, which were the firewood room, the sheepfold, the kitchen and her bedroom.

The two big rooms in front of the second floor are the bedrooms of her parents and her younger brother, and the two rooms in the back are used for raising silkworms. When the number of silkworms grows, the two rooms facing south on the ground floor will also be used for raising silkworms. Sericulture.

Sericulture is the main source of income for her family. Because they raise a lot, their own mulberry leaves are not enough, so they can only buy mulberry leaves from those in the village who do not raise silkworms or who raise few.

Fang Miyan's bedroom is on the northernmost side, and she has to enter from the kitchen, but there is also an advantage for her to live here.

Her bedroom had a door facing north, and she could have left without making a sound.

Her father and younger brother didn't have time to pay attention to her, and her mother didn't dare to say anything to her father when she saw that she was not there, so it made it easier for her to go out to work.

You can cook later today. After Fang Miyan woke up, he went outside to check the time in the main room, then went back to the kitchen, added rice and water to the pot, boiled it, made a pot of porridge, and then left through the back door.

She walked very fast, and sometimes she even started to run. It didn't take long before she arrived at the Guanjia Village that Shi Zhen mentioned.

It was only past six o'clock at this time, but the rural people got up early, and some people were already drinking porridge at the door and even working in the fields.

Fang Miyan asked someone, walked all the way, and saw the place Shi Zhen said.

The door was wide open, and there were various things inside, and a young man in old clothes was sorting bundles of sweaters, tying them with plastic string.

Fang Miyan walked over, looked at this poor man, and asked, "Hello, do you know where Shi Zhen lives?"

Shi Xingchao turned his head and was taken aback.

Since he came to Anshan Town, he has never seen...a young girl dressed like this.

In the rural areas of Anshan Town, there are also people with poor conditions, who are reluctant to eat meat and turn on the lights.

But most people still care about their clothes, and young girls don't wear tattered clothes.For example, Guan Guangguo lost money when raising chickens, and Guan Jinjin didn't fall to the point of wearing rags.

But this girl was wearing a patched men's shirt, and the liberation shoes on her feet didn't fit well...

Generally... the old men and women in the village, and middle-aged men and women who are about to go to the field, would they wear this way?

Oh, and he'll do that too.

He actually has new clothes, especially recently, his mother bought him new clothes, but he feels that the old ones can still be worn, and there is no need to wear new clothes.

"Are you Fang Miyan?" Shi Xingchao asked.

Shi Zhen told him that Fang Miyan would come over today, but he didn't expect Fang Miyan to be like this.

"En." Fang Miyan said.

"Shi Zhen lives in that hut, and Shi Daniu and the others live over there." Shi Xingchao pointed Fang Miyan the way.

Fang Miyan nodded and walked towards Shi Zhen.

When Fang Miyan passed by, Shi Zhen had already washed up and was eating noodles.

Fang Miyan asked: "Am I late?"

"It's not too late, I'm just hungry, so I made something to eat...well, you can just come over for lunch and dinner these two days." Shi Zhen said, if they don't have to work, they have simple breakfast and cook porridge by themselves That's fine, no need for Fang Miyan to cook breakfast.

"En." Fang Miyan nodded.

"I'll take you to Shi Daniu and the others to identify the door." Shi Zhen led Fang Miyan forward.

Fang Miyan didn't talk much, Shi Zhen thought she wouldn't take the initiative to talk to him, but after walking a few steps, Fang Miyan suddenly said: "Boss, if you don't work these two days, can the food expenses be reduced a little?"

"Oh... how to descend?" Shi Zhen asked.

Fang Miyan said seriously: "You can eat something cheap."

Shi Zhen laughed: "It would be great if you could save me money, but it shouldn't be too bad."

"Yes." Fang Miyan agreed.

Shi Zhen still gave Fang Miyan thirty food expenses, and asked her to buy vegetables and cook. As for the money, there should be more... Tomorrow, it will be enough to refund more and make up less.

Shi Zhen thought that after Fang Miyan proposed to cut food expenses, the quality of their lunch and dinner would drop a lot, but it didn't.

Their lunch at noon today looks even better than usual.

The locals don’t like to eat pork lungs. Fang Miyan bought two for [-] cents, rinsed them with water, boiled them, cut them open, added leek hearts and stir-fried them, and the whole pot was full.

She also spent two yuan to buy a lot of saury, all braised in soy sauce.

Plus a mustard tomato soup... The three dishes only cost three yuan, but they look very rich and the quantity is also large.

Worthy of being a small money saver.

Speaking of which, Shi Zhen used to give her 30 yuan to buy vegetables every day before, but she had never spent so much. Basically, she spent more than [-] yuan a day.

Now... don't need to make breakfast, she can probably feed the seven of them for ten yuan a day.

Shi Zhen had a good idea. The next day, Fang Miyan bought a pig's head with its ears and tongue cut off.

Although the price of the pig's head has risen now, it is still cheap to be honest. The most important thing is that there is a lot of meat. She stewed a pig's head and divided it into two meals for Shi Daniu and the others. She also added some cheap salted fish and stir-fried vegetables... Everyone loves it.

When Shi Zhen went to Shi Xingchao's side, he took the time to tell Shi Xingchao about Fang Miyan.

Shi Xing's eyes lit up: "Then she is very good at living!"

"He is very good at living." Shi Zhen said.

It should be said that, like Shi Xingchao, he feels uncomfortable without money, so he is stingy.

In fact, there are quite a lot of such people in rural areas, mainly because they were too poor before and couldn't change.

A similar problem is hoarding. Some people are reluctant to throw away everything, and they pick things up and go home.

Shi Zhen didn't intentionally introduce Shi Xingchao and Fang Miyan, let alone Shi Xingchao, he didn't know Fang Miyan that well.

But the two soon made contact.

After Fang Miyan learned that embroidering sweaters could make money, he took a sweater from Shi Xingchao to embroider.

After Shi Zhen and the others changed construction sites, Fang Miyan embroidered sweaters in addition to cooking for them. That was serious, but she didn't have much time, and she could only embroider for four or five yuan a day.

Shi Zhen was not surprised by this, but Shi Daniu and the others were a little surprised.

Shi Daniu also privately told Liang Dawen and Liang Weiguo that this is a good girl, let them take good care of her.

But Liang Weiguo was worried about Shi Xingxing, and Mi Yan was not interested.

As for Liang Dawen, he also flatly refused: "Brother Big Niu, I don't have any money now, how can I marry a wife!" The girls here want much more gifts than theirs.

Of course, there are also girls who don't want a bride price, but can people fall in love with him?

He just thought, when his younger brother and sister grow up and the house is built, he can save money, and then he will talk about a daughter-in-law.

Entering November, Shi Zhen started to finish work one after another. Of course, he also took on new jobs.

In the past, many masons and others came to work with him as part-time jobs. Later, when he had a lot of work, they simply followed him.

Although his work here is heavier and does not include food, but if he does it quickly, he will get paid quickly!

He earns [-] yuan a month elsewhere, but here he can earn [-] yuan a month!

There are more and more people under Shi Zhen's command.

Shi Zhen thought, when he goes back for the new year, if there are still people willing to follow him out of his hometown, then he can find a few more people to join his team.

In addition, he also wants to cultivate some people who can take care of things. Now he is in charge of every aspect of the work place. He is too busy, so he will definitely not be able to keep doing this in the future.

Shi Zhen's first choice is Liang Weiguo and Liang Dawen, both young and malleable.

But there is no rush.

Shi Zhen has built a lot of houses for others, and he has become famous in the local area. At the same time, there is a big problem - when people want to find him, they often can't contact him for a while.

Shi Zhen had to admit that he needed a lot of things to run a good business.

He used to think that what he needed most was a van, but now he felt... what he needed most was a mobile phone.

If he builds a self-built house for those bosses, including decoration, Shi Zhen can earn tens of thousands of dollars for a house.

His deposit has soared in recent months and is now more than 4.

During this period, rural families had so much savings that they were already considered rich. The money was not saved little by little, but earned in a few months, which was even more difficult.

But the money really needs to be spent, and it is indeed not spent... Now it costs more than 1 to buy a mobile phone!

Well, at this moment, everyone doesn't call it a mobile phone, but a big brother.

You can buy it at this price, because the price of the big brother has come down recently... In the early years, the big brother sold for [-] to [-].

Of course, the current mobile phones are also different from those of previous years. Although today's mobile phones still have antennas, they are smaller and already have the prototype of a mobile phone.

Shi Zhen thought about it, and finally went to buy one.

In fact, it is also possible to install a telephone, but it is still more convenient to use a mobile phone.

Speaking of telephones... Now most people don't have telephones, but there are more and more people who need to use phones...

After Shi Zhen bought a mobile phone, he went to find Shi Dalin.

Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun opened the shop every day and made a lot of money in the past few months. Both of them were very happy. Not only did they repay the money they borrowed from Zhao Qiujuan, but they also gave Shi Zhen [-] in private, saying it was for the refrigerator and tricycle. money.

A few days ago, Zhao Meiyun also bought a bicycle. She called her bicycle a treasure.

In addition, not long after Shi Ting started wearing underwear, Zhao Qiujuan also wore underwear, but Zhao Meiyun did not change much.

When Shi Zhen arrived, just in time for elementary school to finish school, a group of children poured into Shi Dalin's shop.

Some people bought stationery and snacks, others bought tea egg vermicelli soup with Zhao Meiyun, and instant noodles in cups were also popular.

Seeing this, Shi Zhen helped to collect the money.

Although he didn't come here very often, he still knew the prices of most of the items in the store.

After an hour of busy work, the children dispersed.

Zhao Meiyun and the others had already had dinner in advance, now they asked Shi Zhen: "Ah Zhen, have you eaten?"

"Not yet." Shi Zhen said.

"Then I'll fry an egg and fried rice for you?" Zhao Meiyun asked.

"Okay." Shi Zhen agreed.

Zhao Meiyun quickly fried an egg fried rice for Shi Zhen. There were at least two eggs and ham sausage in it. Zhao Qiujuan brought out vermicelli soup and a plate of fried peanuts for Shi Zhen.

Shi Zhen started to eat, and while eating, he said: "Dad, Aunt Zhao, I bought a big brother. If you have anything to do in the future, you can call me."

"What? Brother?" Shi Dalin was stunned.

Shi Zhen took out his big brother and showed him.

In Shi Dalin's small shop, there is a toy that sells well, which is a fake Big Brother.

The fake big brother is made just like the real thing, and it also has buttons, and the sound it makes when the buttons are pressed can also be fake.

Children especially like this kind of toy. Recently, there have been news in the newspapers that someone cheated money with a fake Big Brother.

But it was a fake after all, the big brother in Shi Zhen's hand is real.

Shi Dalin didn't dare to touch it at all.

Zhao Meiyun also gasped, looking at the toy brother who was smaller than the toy brother in their store and asked: "How much does it cost!"

"More than 1." Shi Zhen said.

"Just such a thing is too expensive..." Zhao Meiyun felt incredible.

Zhao Qiujuan was relatively calm: "Mom, this is nothing. Those big bosses all have big brothers. Ah Zhen is also a boss now, so there should be one."

However, having said that, she didn't dare to touch Shi Zhen's eldest brother.

This thing is too precious!

With all her belongings now, she might be able to buy a big brother.

Zhao Qiujuan has been helping in the store every day recently, and Shi Dalin told Zhao Meiyun not to charge her food expenses anymore. In addition, there is no place for her to spend money at home, so she saved money very quickly, and now has 1 taels thousand.

On the other hand, Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun, although they are making decent money, but because they have to pay back the money, they only have two or three thousand in their hands now.

"I heard that this big brother costs 1 cents a minute to make a phone call," Zhao Meiyun said again, "If it were me, I wouldn't even dare to use it."

"To pick up business, it's much more convenient to have a big brother meeting... By the way, Dad, Aunt Zhao, you can install a telephone in the store."

"Installing a telephone? Why do you want that thing? This is for money." Shi Dalin said.

"It's much more convenient to have a telephone. You can also put up a 'public telephone' sign, and you will be charged when others call." Shi Zhen said.

At this time, many households in the town already had telephones, and more households in rural areas had telephones, but there were still many people who did not have telephones at home.

Installing a telephone is not only convenient for yourself, but also allows people around you to call and collect money.

The most important thing is that he had inquired about it before, and it is cheaper to install a phone now than before.

A few years ago, it cost [-] yuan to install a telephone. Now, in the town, it only costs [-] to [-] yuan to install one. It is more expensive in rural areas, but [-] yuan is enough.

Over the years, this country has undergone great changes every year.

He remembered that at the beginning of 2000, many places in Anshan Town built public telephone booths to make it easier for everyone to make calls. As a result, within a few years when mobile phones became popular, all the public telephone booths were abandoned.

Many families in the town have telephones, and it must be a lie to say that Shi Dalin doesn't want a telephone.

Not long after Shi Zhen suggested it to him, he installed a telephone in his canteen.

Afterwards, there were quite a lot of people who paid to make calls, and Shi Daniu and the others contributed a lot of money.

Now that Shi Zhen has a mobile phone, it is convenient for him to contact Guan Baiyu.

Entering December, Shi Daniu and the others had to call it a day.

This is a self-built house for a pair of brothers. Now that the house has been built, the painting and tiling are almost done. Next, it is time for carpenters and painters to come in. Shi Daniu and the others are going to change places. .

Also because it was time to call it a day and there were a lot of things to do, Shi Zhen stayed here for a long time.

At noon, Fang Miyan made roasted pork with dried plums and vegetables, one bowl for each person, Shi Zhen filled a bowl of rice, poured half of the meat and soup in, and started eating.

As for the bland stir-fried vegetables... He didn't even want to drop his chopsticks.

Like Shi Zhen, the others also ate rice with broth. While eating, Fang Miyan suddenly asked Shi Zhen, "Boss, why don't you buy a motorcycle?"

"No money." Shi Zhen laughed.

Now, he actually has the money to buy a motorcycle, but it is better to buy a car than a motorcycle.

"There is no money to borrow." Fang Miyan said.

"Why borrow money to buy a motorcycle? Do you drive a motorcycle?" Shi Zhen asked with a smile.

Speaking of which, just this year, it has become popular to buy motorcycles in rural areas.

Many well-to-do families bought motorcycles for their sons this year.

And a young man with a motorcycle...that's really cool, and it's easy to talk about kissing.

These young people who bought motorcycles, some of them know how to drive motorcycles and drive girls around, while others are different. They will go to town to solicit customers to earn money and become "motorcycle drivers".

Do well and earn a lot of money.

Fang Miyan ate with his head down and stopped talking.

When she got home, she saw her younger brother making a fuss again: "They all have motorcycles, but I don't!"

"It's available everywhere, many people don't have it..." Father Fang said.None of the ten families in their village bought motorcycles.

That's right!Are there motorcycles everywhere?Her boss doesn't even have one!Fang Mi slandered.

"Old Qi Ermao has it all!"

"Xiao Liang, their family is rich..." Fang Mu muttered.

"Our family is not very poor. Haven't you all saved more than 2 yuan?" Fang Miliang said.

Fang Miliang clamored to buy a motorcycle, and he wanted to buy the more expensive one, which cost [-] in total.

Fang's father and mother couldn't hold back their son.Neither of them knew a few words, and they usually went to nearby towns at most. They had never been to the city, and they didn't know how to buy a motorcycle... They borrowed 3 yuan from others, and pooled [-] yuan. I gave it to my son and asked him to buy it himself.