Lin Xiuqing looked over in confusion and saw Ye Chenghu running to the firewood pile behind her and taking one out of the sack.
She poked his arm twice with the branch in her hand, "Don't eat it secretly. Do your homework carefully."
"I know, I'll feed it to dad."
Lin Xiuqing looked at his attentive behavior suspiciously, and when she saw that he was indeed giving it to Ye Yaodong, she looked away and stopped paying attention to him.
Ye Chenghu's little eyes kept peeking at his mother and looking at his father fawningly.
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips and said angrily: "Write it to me quickly, don't be lazy."
"Yeah." Ye Chenghu nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and breathed a sigh of relief.
Only then did Ye Yaodong notice that the mandarin in his hand was a bitter orange, not an orange.
He asked Lin Xiuqing, who was lighting the fire: "Dad brought bitter oranges over today? Didn't I say that I would wait until I have enough time to ride over there for the next two days?"
"He said that he saw that oranges were selling well yesterday, so he wanted to make more money from selling them. He planned to push a cart of oranges and sell them every day, so he brought them to us today by the way. Anyway, these bitter oranges can last for ten days.
It’ll be fine for half a month.”
"Our father is not bad at hawking in the streets!"
Lin Xiuqing smiled, "Isn't it all just to make more money and make ends meet?"
"You are already old, so just let your eldest and second brothers do it."
"He can't sit still. He broke his foot last year and told him not to go to the ground. How can he listen to others? He is limping and still has to carry a hoe to work in the fields."
"How about asking him to go to the city next year to show us the shops? It would be easy to sit there without going to the ground."
Ye Yaodong originally just said it casually, but after thinking about it, he suddenly thought it was feasible?
It happened that there were shops in the city and he didn't know who to look for. He was worried about looking for outsiders. He also planned to collect more dried fish and sell them to shops in the market after he got the shop.
It doesn't matter if you don't speak Mandarin, as long as you understand it, it's fine. It's okay for chickens and ducks to make gestures. Nowadays, there are many people who can't speak Mandarin.
When Lin Xiuqing heard this, her mouth opened in surprise, "My father has only been to the county town once in his life. How can you ask him to go to the city to look at shops? He can't even speak Mandarin.
explain."
"Why is it inappropriate? He can already hawk in the streets. At least dealing with strangers and selling things shouldn't be a problem, right? Anyway, set the price. If people want it, just weigh it. If they don't want it, just pull it down. Open the door on time and arrive at the right time.
close the door."
"But he doesn't speak Mandarin. The language spoken in the city is different from the language spoken here."
"It's nothing. Just make gestures. Besides, who can't speak? It's just that I can't open my mouth for a while. He just needs to practice. I will also get a radio for him to put in the shop.
Listening more and studying can also pass the time."
Lin Xiuqing was confused by his sudden idea. She actually thought of asking her father to go to the city to look at shops?
She really didn't dare to think about it.
The more Ye Yaodong talked about it, the more he thought it was feasible. Anyway, his father-in-law was almost 60 years old. He could just leave the work in the mountains and fields to his two brothers-in-law. Otherwise, he could ask his mother-in-law to go to the city to look after the shop together, and he could still take care of his father-in-law.
Diet and daily life.
"Well, I think it will work. When I deliver the goods, I can just replace them, and then they will take the return tractor to rest for two days."
Lin Xiuqing was confused, "Have you thought about this?"
"I just thought about it! This is not a hasty comment, but it seems okay? Before, we were worried about whether the store would hire people and who to hire? We also thought that if there was no one to rent, we would just keep it there and wait for me to come over and sell it a few times.
.It’s fine now, Dad has a ready candidate!”
She blinked her eyes twice and said, "Why do I think you are so out-of-the-box? Doesn't my father just go around the streets selling oranges for a few days? You actually thought of...asking him to go to the city to check out the stores? He's not the only one.
People who have never traveled far..."
"I've never traveled far, so why should I be afraid? He's 60 years old, he eats more salt than I eat rice, and he can go around the streets shouting. Is he afraid of interacting with people?"
"I will stay with him for two or three days, and I won't need him to help me attract business with his words. He will just sit there and look at the store. At worst, I will write a few more price signs and stand there, and people will ask
How much does it cost? He just needs to show the sign to others without having to make any gestures. Most people don’t know how to read, how can they still recognize how many cents or cents it costs?”
"I'm afraid that my father is an honest man and can't speak..."
"He doesn't speak Mandarin. What should he say? If he knows how to sell things by looking at a scale, it would be great. What's more, if you sell goods and people want you to be cheaper, that's just because they want to say good things. If you can sell, just sell.
If you can't sell it, just shake your head and don't sell it. You don't need to be good at talking, and you're not begging others to buy it?"
Lin Xiuqing listened and felt that what he said seemed to make sense.
"This... this is too sudden. Let's talk about it in a few days. He may have to sell oranges and grapefruits for a long time recently. When he delivered it today, there was only a sack of bitter oranges specially left for us.
, everything else is sold out.”
"Don't worry, we'll wait until the shop is handed over. Then he won't have to push a cart around to sell. He can just bring the grapefruits and oranges to the shops in the city to sell them. They are very easy to sell around the market."
"Let's talk about it! Who knows if my father is willing to do it? He is a stranger to this place. If you let him stay in the city, he will probably feel uncomfortable. He has never been to the city a few times in his life."
"Well……"
It would be hard to say if it makes you feel uncomfortable all over!
The plot of Old Man’s Land is indeed very heavy…
"Then let's talk in a few days. If I meet him in a few days, or if we have a past, I will ask him again and talk to him."
Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look, "You have such a mouth, you can talk about life and death, my father probably won't be able to handle it."
"What are you talking about? If you want to praise me, praise me well. Can I still force your father?"
"You can't force him, but my father will definitely refuse because of what you say, and he might bite the bullet."
"Let's talk about it! If your father sells oranges for a few more days, he may be able to train to a higher level. When I tell him, he will feel that he is old and has a place to use, and he will be happy to do it immediately.
Where is it?"
Lin Xiuqing amused him.
"That's my real dad!"
"He's my dad too!"
"What's wrong with you?" Mother Ye called the two aunts over at this moment, "Where's the fish? Why isn't it in the yard?"
Lin Xiuqing smiled and narrowed her eyes, "I pulled it to the back door. The front door is full of hangings, so it's not easy to dry them. Today, I might as well dry them at the back door."
"Will it be stolen if it is hung outside at night? There are so many thieves, but there is nothing that people do not want. It is safer to hang it in the yard."
"The yard is already full..."
"It's OK to hang it lower later. Hang one layer of high ones and one layer of low ones."
"Okay, then let's kill them through the back door first, and then take them to the front to dry out. Otherwise, there will only be one road in the open space in front, and it will be inconvenient to kill."
"Yes." Ye Mu responded and then asked her two sisters to go to the back door to kill the fish.
The wealth does not go to outsiders. Ever since Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye started to kill their own fish and couldn't spare any money to earn their wages, Ye's mother gave the work to her sisters.
Lin Xiuqing saw her aunt and two aunts coming in with their own knives. She quickly took out two bitter oranges from the sack next to the firewood pile and stuffed them into their arms. Seeing that they didn't have any spare hands, she
Stuff them into the pockets of their cotton-padded jackets.
"Aunties, try it. My father grew it himself."
"Haha, you don't have to give this to us, we don't have time to eat it, we are going to kill the fish soon."
"Yes, I don't have time to eat. You can save it for the two children at home. You don't have to be so polite."
"They have enough to eat. You can work after eating."
Mother Ye also smiled and said: "Try it, it's grown by my relatives. It's quite sweet and has a lot of water."
"Hey, okay..."
With such words on their lips, they were reluctant to eat it. They put it in their pockets without touching it. As soon as they got to the back door, they sat down and killed the fish, preparing to keep it for their grandson at home.
After Ye Yaodong and others went to the back, he said again: "I just said it seriously. If your father comes over tomorrow, you can tell him and see if he is willing?"
"I guess I won't be hawking here again tomorrow. I'll probably go to other villages. I've been selling here for two days in a row. I guess I'll have to change my route tomorrow."
"That's true. Then I'll take the time to ask in a few days. By the way, have you gotten any money for your father? This 100 kilograms is quite a lot of money, several yuan."
"I gave it to him, but he insisted on not wanting it. I gave it to him, but he even threw it back before going out."
"In the next few days, I'll leave a sack of dried fish and carry it over to him."
"I thought so too."
Chapter completed!