Reborn to Strive

When the weather is hot in summer, people in the villages near Anshan Town don’t stay at home when the sun goes down, but go outside to enjoy the cool in the sun.

Everyone moved bamboo slabs, bamboo chairs, etc. to the concrete drying yard in front of the house, and took a cattail fan, and while fanning themselves, slapped their legs from time to time to drive away mosquitoes and flies.

Of course, there are those who are willing to spend money, just light a circle of mosquito coils at their feet.

At this time, even dinner, everyone likes to eat outside. The porridge cooked early, put bowls and bowls on the stove and let it cool. On the porridge surface, serve it and eat it on the drying ground.

There are also children who like to eat sweets, brown sugar will be sprinkled on top of the porridge.

Some young people simply walked or rode bicycles to the town.

Especially those who are in a relationship, after dinner, it is absolutely necessary to go out for a stroll.

People in the countryside are like this, and people in the town are similar. Everyone likes to stroll outside.

And this stroll often wanders to the vicinity of the cinema.

There is a small square here, which sells everything, even if you don't buy, you can still watch the fun.

And today... there is an extra stall here?

"Ice soda, ice coke, [-] cents a cup! Mung bean popsicles, red bean popsicles, [-] cents each!" Shi Zhen shouted from time to time.

The soda that Shi Zhen sells is produced by a nearby factory. It is packaged in glass bottles and costs thirty-five cents a bottle.

This kind of soda canteen usually sells a bottle for [-] cents, and the glass bottle costs [-] cents, which is equivalent to [-] cents for the soda inside.

Next to Shi Zhen was a box of soft drinks and a large bottle of Coke.

The ice soda and ice cola he mentioned are made by taking a disposable cup slightly larger than ordinary disposable cups, scooping up a few pieces of ice with a large spoon, and then pouring soda or cola into it.

A bottle of soda can probably pour two cups, and a large bottle of Coke can pour many cups. He sells [-] cents a cup, and the profit is very high.

But there are still many people who come to buy it.

After all, his is ice, which is especially refreshing.

Take your girlfriend to go shopping, and the girlfriend feels hot, why don't you buy a cup to cool off?

Of course, there are also people who think that fifty cents a glass of cold drink is a bit expensive, so they can buy sugar water popsicles for twenty cents, or red bean popsicles for thirty cents. The price is the same as that in the canteen.

Shi Zhen's business here is very good. Many people buy cold drinks after buying food like fried skewers, and people who watch movies are also willing to bring in a glass.

Now movie theaters only sell tickets, not popcorn and cola!

Some people just want to eat something cold, and they will ask for more ice cubes to save Shi Zhen's soda.

Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu sold one, and the other collected money. The two cooperated tacitly, and collected a pile of coins in a short while.

While selling, Zhao Qiujuan came, she came here to help, looked around and found that there was no place for her, so she stood there embarrassedly.

Taking advantage of his free time, Shi Zhen poured her a glass of Coke: "Sister, let's have an iced Coke." Zhao Qiujuan probably never drank this before.

With Zhao Qiujuan, Shi Zhen will not be left behind by Zhao Meiyun. Even Shi Dalin, he gave a glass with more ice and less coke.

Shi Dalin doesn't have diabetes yet, so it's hard for him not to drink.

Zhao Qiujuan took it and handed over two yuan to Shi Zhen.

"No need." Shi Zhen refused.

"Yes, Tingting said that this is not your business alone. You take money from her even if she eats popsicles. Why don't you want my money?" Zhao Qiujuan quickly put two yuan into Shi Zhen's cash box.

Shi Zhen didn't evade any more, and took out two more mung bean popsicles to Zhao Qiujuan.

Zhao Qiujuan gave two yuan, paid for Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun's cold drinks, and still had fifty cents left.

When Zhao Qiujuan got a popsicle, she gave each of Shi Dalin and Zhao Meiyun one.

Seeing this, Shi Zhen said: "Sister, my dad doesn't like sweets, so you and Aunt Zhao eat."

People with severe diabetes in the previous life who developed several complications in the later stage should not eat too much sweets.

Shi Dalin: "..." Who said he doesn't like sweets?He has always liked sweets!

He used to say that he doesn't like sweets, but he wanted to save the delicious ones for the children!

But Shi Dalin was embarrassed to say that he likes sweets, so he had no choice but to keep quiet, Zhao Meiyun tore the popsicle and asked him to take a bite, and he took a small bite out of face.

Shi Zhen also poured a cup of Coke for Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu handed it to his mouth, wanting him to drink it, but he refused: "I don't like sweet things."

After finishing speaking, Shi Zhen scooped up half a cup of ice for himself, added cold water, and took a sip.

Guan Baiyu could only drink by himself, and then glanced at Shi Zhen from time to time.

He never tires of watching his brother work.

Shi Zhen collected money here at fifty cents, secretly feeling a little pity.

If he has a storefront, get some tables and chairs, and some beautiful cups... At that time, he can get all the milk tea and shaved ice, and he can also launch some more expensive products.

There are still quite a few rich people in the town, such as shaved ice, which sells for three yuan a bowl, and some people probably want it.

Of course, it's fine now.

Shi Zhen's cold drink stand, together with the fried skewer stand, was open until ten o'clock in the evening.

By this time, the ice cubes in the refrigerator had melted a bit.

He went out at five o'clock, and now it's been more than four hours. It's pretty good that the freezer can last for so long... Shi Zhen greeted his parents, pushed the stall home, and immediately connected the freezer to the power supply. I took another shower and went to bed after eleven o'clock.

There was no need to sell rice balls in the morning, so Shi Zhen slept until after seven o'clock, and he was full of energy.

It was already July [-]th, and he had only been away from school for thirty or forty days. These days, Shi Zhen had already made plans to send and receive sweaters in the village during the day, and go to the town to sell cold drink popsicles at night.

Well, when sending and receiving sweaters during the day, he would also sell popsicles in the village by the way, as for cold drinks.

The cold drink business is really profitable. Shi Zhen has added some types of beverages one after another, such as iced milk and iced orange water. Selling one cup can earn at least 100 cents. It is no problem to sell more than [-] cups in one night, plus popsicles and frozen bottled drinks What the hell... He can earn hundreds of dollars a day.

In addition, sending and receiving sweaters can earn more than 100 a day... Shi Zhen finally felt relieved and did not worry about the tuition fees of Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting.

However, Shi Ting's study is still very worrying.

Her grades are too bad, and her foundation is also poor.

Shi Zhen gave up on treating her a little bit.

If you want Shi Ting to go to university, then really don't think about it, but in a few years, the technical secondary school will be better, find a way to let Shi Ting go to the technical secondary school, and she should be a nurse or kindergarten teacher in the future, it should be no problem.

There is a shortage of people in these professions now, and the score line will be a little lower...Nowadays, if you graduate from a technical secondary school, you can become a doctor directly!

As for Shi Ting's love of spending money... Shi Zhen doesn't talk to her about anything else now, he just talks about being alive and never owes money.

Shi Zhen also told a few scary stories about owed money.

For example, some people owe usury and are dragged to sell into black coal mines, where they dig coal day and night.

Another example is that some people have their hands chopped off and their hamstrings broken because they don't pay their debts.

What he said was so vivid that Shi Ting almost cried in fright.

Guan Baiyu was also a little confused when he saw it, why did his brother scare his sister?

Before Guan Baiyu, he had a bit of a grudge against Shi Ting. This is Shi Zhen's biological sister who grew up dependent on each other. He was very afraid that after Shi Ting appeared, his brother would hang around Shi Ting and not care about him.

However, such a thing did not happen.

Sometimes he can even clearly feel that his brother is far less close to Shi Ting than his brother is to him.

In this way, he has no grudge against Shi Ting.

These days, he taught Shi Ting to read, but he couldn't teach it anyway, and he felt a little sympathetic to Shi Ting.

Seeing that Shi Ting was intimidated, Guan Baiyu specially opened a bottle of soda for her and gave her a drink for free.

"Brother Bai Yu, thank you." Shi Ting was recently overcharged by Shi Zhen, and she was embarrassed to be treated by someone, so she gave half of this bottle of soda to Guan Baiyu.

Cough cough, her brother is doing business with Guan Baiyu in partnership, now Guan Baiyu drinks Guan Baiyu's share, she drinks her brother's share, just right.

Guan Baiyu quite likes popsicles, so he added some ice cubes and drank slowly.

Shi Zhen poured the already frozen ice cubes into the basin, then poured the ice cubes into the plastic grid, and continued to freeze the ice cubes.

The scene of Guan Baiyu and Shi Ting drinking soda together made him a little dazed.

After a few months, Guan Baiyu has grown a lot taller and looks better.

And his sister, although a bit dark and silly, is also a little beauty.

Boys and girls, this is also a childhood sweetheart, right?

At this time, Guan Baiyu was asking Shi Ting about Shi Zhen in a low voice.

Shi Ting talked about a lot of things about her brother's childhood, in a mess, and talked about wherever she thought.

"My brother once showed me the tail of a little snake, but the little snake rolled up and bit him. Fortunately, it was not poisonous..."

"My brother climbed a tree and fell from a tree. His eyes were full of blood. I was very afraid that he would go blind. Luckily, he only hurt his eyelids. He still has scars on his eyelids."

"Once he thought he could jump from one rock to another, but the pants he was wearing were too tight, and he tripped him, so he didn't jump up, and knocked on the rock..."

……

Guan Baiyu: "..." Sister, you remember, it's all your brother's bad luck.

However, it was really hard to imagine that his brother would be so unstable before.

What Shi Ting remembers, of course, is not all Shi Zhen's bad luck: "My brother has a big appetite. I am too embarrassed to eat too much when I eat at home. I am afraid that I will eat up all the rice in the pot, so I always go out to find something to eat. What a mess. , can be found, and he told me to feel the hard times, and took me to peel the bark to make dumplings, which were quite delicious, but the tree was peeled by him and died."

"My brother can also weave straw sandals, which is much better than my dad's. He also weaves straw curtains to help me surround my bed!"

"He can also swing back and forth on the vines, from one tree to another. He is also good at climbing trees. He can climb up such a tall jujube tree in two or three strokes. Unfortunately, the tree is so tall. Many of the jujubes have worms, and I am so mad."

"My brother is very popular in our village. The older sisters in the village all like him and want to be my sister-in-law."

In the end, Shi Ting was very proud.

Guan Baiyu was very unhappy, he didn't even know why he was unhappy, probably because... he didn't want his brother to get married.

"Then how are they doing now?"

"It's okay," Shi Ting said in a low voice, "When we came out this time, they even sent my brother something, but my brother didn't even want it."

Guan Baiyu was even more unhappy.

Shi Ting said again: "I think my brother is not the same after he came out. He didn't laugh like this before, he didn't walk like this, he didn't talk like this. When I see him now, I'm really a little scared... yes Isn't it too hard outside? Well, my brother said before that he would definitely bring me a gift when he got home, but he didn't bring anything."

Shi Ting felt a little depressed.

Guan Baiyu said: "Brother should have grown up, you have to be considerate of him."

"En." Shi Ting nodded seriously.

After selling cold drinks for a few days, Shi Zhen met Guan Wenguo's wife.

It was a short, fat woman with an ordinary appearance. She was about thirty years old, also surnamed Li, and her name was Li Xiangwen.

Li Xiangwen was very diligent, she helped Guan Wenguo's family wash clothes when she first arrived, and even took clothes from Shi Zhen to embroider.

Shi Zhen didn't like Guan Kai's family, but he generally didn't target people, whether it was the little grandma or Li Xiangwen who came to him to pick up sweaters, he would give them all.

But the little grandma wanted to ask him for more beads, so he refused to give them.

He didn't understand, this kind of plastic beads, what does the little grandma want more, and it's useless, right?

The little grandma can't take advantage of it, but she still likes to come and chat with people.

At first, she praised Li Xiangwen vigorously, saying that Li Xiangwen was better than Li Ahui.

However, it didn't take long for her to start to dislike Li Xiangwen, saying that she treated Guan Kai badly, that Guan Kai cried when she cooked dishes that Guan Kai didn't like.Anyway, she thought it was something she shouldn't have done, and the people around her felt that Li Xiangwen had nothing wrong with it.

Just... Li Xiangwen has only been here for a few days, how does she know what Guan Kai doesn't like to eat?Isn't it normal to cook something that Guan Kai doesn't like?

Shi Zhen understood why Guan Wenguo could not find his wife in his previous life...

Sure enough, Li Xiangwen couldn't take it anymore after living in Guan Wen Country for half a month, and left Guan Wen Country directly.

At this time, the little grandma stopped talking badly about Li Xiangwen, and began to miss Li Xiangwen, thinking that Li Xiangwen was quite good.

Shi Zhen: "..."

However, the gossip about the little grandma's family is no longer what the villagers pay the most attention to.

Recently, there was a man in the next village who made some money in business, fell in love with a woman in the town, and wanted to divorce. His son and his father kicked him out with the latch. This is the breaking news.

This man is not young anymore, the women he is dating are all grandmothers, and his son is almost twenty, and everyone in the village thinks there is something wrong with him, so he wants to run out if he doesn't want a good home.

I also feel that his son is too reckless, driving people away like this, the money is gone!

However, the man's girlfriend is gone, and the money is probably his son's in the end.

July passed like this, and at the beginning of August, an unexpected incident happened suddenly, which seriously affected Shi Zhen's business.

Once it rained, Shi Zhen couldn't go out to sell cold drinks, but in early August, a typhoon blew up.

The typhoon knocked down the jujube trees of Guan Jianguo. This was a trivial matter, but the more troublesome thing was that it rained for two consecutive days, and then... the river in front of Guan Baiyu's house became more and more full of water. The concrete road by the river was submerged. Guan Baiyu's house was next to the road, and the door was full of water.

If Guan Baiyu's house hadn't been elevated, the house would definitely be full of water!

The water on the cement road probably reached Shi Zhen's knees, and some children went up to their thighs when they walked.

The location is not high, but Shi Zhen would definitely not be able to push the freezer to the town, and it would be difficult to push the freezer on a tricycle.

Even the truck loaded with woolen sweaters couldn’t drive Guan Jianguo—the engine had to be turned off when it was flooded. Shi Zhen saw a motorbike driving past their house and turned off the engine. The person who drove the motorcycle could only push the motorcycle away dejectedly.

People in the village took it for granted when they saw the water, and the children even went directly to the road to play in the water.

Shi Zhen knew why this happened.

In the 90s, the construction of national water conservancy projects was not as good as it was later. For example, in Anshan Town, some rivers were filled in to repair roads.

The largest road in Anshan Town was actually a river in the early days.

Adding all these things together... Every summer, some low-lying places in the local area will be flooded.

However, it is usually just a flood, which is not considered a flood and will not cause too much damage to them, so everyone calmed down. Shi Zhen also saw that Guan Jianguo took a big net and took his daughter to the cement road to catch fish.

Unexpectedly... it was really possible to get it.

The matter of the flooded road was not paid attention to until a major flood occurred later, and finally resolved. After 2000, this side has never been flooded again.

But now... Shi Zhen communicated with the woolen sweater factory, and they decided to take away his woolen sweaters. As for the later ones, they will be delivered in a few days.

According to the general situation, after a few days, the water will recede.

The most important thing is that the woolen sweater factory is not in a hurry to deliver goods recently, so it doesn't mind taking a few days off.

Shi Zhen carried all the completed woolen sweaters to the town with a pole, and when the truck arrived, he followed the truck to Changxi City.

He has helped process a lot of woolen sweaters here, and it's time to settle the money.

The woolen sweater factory settled Shi Zhen's wages very readily, and the settlement amount was also very large, even tens of thousands more than several hundred.

This is definitely the most money that Shi Zhen has received after his rebirth!But most of it doesn't belong to him.

Shi Zhen agreed with Mr. Zhou that after getting the money, he would give Mr. Zhou a tenth rebate.

It is reasonable to give one thousand, but Shi Zhen directly gave one thousand and two: "These days, thank you for taking care of Mr. Zhou."

Mr. Zhou is not short of money, and his monthly salary is one or two thousand, but the extra money of more than 1000 makes him very happy. He told Shi Zhen that he will send woolen sweaters to Shi Zhen in a few days, and said that there are no other people around them. Some of the woolen sweater factories in China are also looking for someone to do this. Shi Zhen can ask them to see if they can do more work.

Shi Zhen thanked him, and gave another hundred to the driver who always delivered goods to him, asking him to buy cigarettes.

After giving it like this, there will be nine thousand money left, but it is still a thick stack.

When he returns to Anshan Town, he can give "salaries" to the women in the village.

He will also have a large amount of money in his account!