Chapter 66 I don’t have money to fight
Chapter 66 I don’t have money to fight
"Yes, I heard that the lame man's grandfather worked as a cemetery keeper in Wanwan, and he saved up so much money. People like my grandma and my cousin have no money even if they live frugally all their lives."
"It's different. Others work to earn wages and receive money every month, but we work to earn work points. We have to earn work points to get the food we grow. We are thankful that we don't starve."
Li Changle and Awei chatted idly, and soon they had picked out all the jars in the corner of the room and filled the four sacks they brought with them.
He picked up the kettle, unscrewed it, gulped down a few gulps, wiped his mouth and said, "Awei, don't use the bad ones."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei picked up the last few and put them in a sack. "Brother, there are so many of them, they take up too much space. We will definitely not be able to get on the minibus."
"It will be fine if we put them on the roof." Li Changle picked up the two bags, walked out and said to Old Zhang, "Uncle, this is all we have, weigh it."
Old Zhang asked Li Changle to hang the sacks on the scale hook to weigh them. There were about four hundred plastic cans in the four bags, and they only cost three dollars and fifty cents in total.
Old Zhang took the money and did not forget to solicit business, "Young man, if you want to buy a bicycle, you can buy it from my house. If there are any problems with the bicycle in the future, it will be covered by warranty."
Li Changle smiled and said, "Do you know how much it costs?"
Old Zhang nodded. "It depends on the quality. A good one costs 80, a bad one costs 70. Even though it's assembled, it feels just like a new one."
Li Changle thought that the current price of a 28-bar is at least 150 or 160 yuan, and the assembled one is much cheaper, "We will go to your house to take a look when we get back."
"Goodbye!" Old Zhang turned around and went to the backyard to clean up.
Chen Yongwei poured the plastic cans in the sack into the backpack and tied some on the backpack. The two of them went out and waited on the side of the road for more than ten minutes before a minibus arrived.
After stopping the car and putting the things on the roof, Li Changle got on the car and bought a ticket. He said to A Wei, "Do you want to get off with me at Shuilu Zhang, or do you want to go back first?"
"I'll go back first. There's still a crab pot I haven't found. I want to go back and see if I can find it."
"That's fine. I'll go see if they have any tricycles for sale. Those tricycles can carry a lot of things. When there's a lot of catch, they can bring it all over in one go."
"You mean the three-wheeled cart with a bucket at the back that the supply and marketing cooperatives ride when they come to collect the goods?"
"Yes, that kind. Which one do you think is better to buy?"
"Three wheels are good, they can hold more!"
Ten minutes later, they arrived at Zhangqiaotou of the waterway. Li Changle got out of the car carrying a bucket of water and saw the tall four-story building on the side of the road with a sign at the door.
It says: Repair bicycles and collect old bicycles.
Li Changle went over and saw a large vat at the door with a ladle on the bamboo lid. A man was squatting in the dam repairing a tire.
"Master, the old man at the Tuxiaqiao scrapyard said you have assembled old bicycles for sale. I want to take a look."
Boss Zhang looked up and said, "You came at an unfortunate time. One of my cars has just been sold, and I'm still short of a few spare parts. I can only assemble it after my father sends them back."
"Then can you assemble a tricycle with a cargo box?"
"Tricycle," Boss Zhang frowned and thought for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, but the price is different from a bicycle."
"How much does it cost?"
"One more wheel and one more truck bed, at least one hundred and sixty."
"It's too expensive. One hundred and sixty is enough for me to buy two bicycles. I'll order one if it's cheaper." Li Changle didn't know how much a tricycle cost these days, but he was so poor now that he wished he could spend every penny carefully!
"The parts of a tricycle are different from those of a bicycle. The wheel hub of the horizontal bar needs to be thicker, and the carriage needs to be welded. Even if you want to buy one, I won't be able to give you one for the time being."
"I'm not in a hurry." Li Changle thought for a moment, "How about this, one hundred and four, if it's okay, I'll order one, if not, you can assemble a bicycle for me."
Boss Zhang thought about assembling the parts of the tricycle by himself. Except for the brakes, bell and chain, which were purchased, the rest were collected from scrap. He could make a lot of profit by selling them for 140 yuan each.
"One hundred and fourteen is one hundred and fourteen. You pay a deposit of twenty dollars first, and come back in half a month to pick up the car."
"Okay." Li Changle took out the money and paid the deposit, took the receipt written by Zhang Lao Da and put it in his pocket, went out with the bucket, waited on the side of the road for a while, and took a minibus back to Shatou Village.
After getting off the bus, he took out a cigarette and found that there was only one left. He lit it and took a puff, then strolled to the village committee with the bucket in his hand. He saw a big red notice on the wall next to the door of the brigade meeting room.
When I walked over and took a look, I saw that it was about the contracting of tidal flats. Ten acres of tidal flats were contracted, from the area connecting Shaji Village to the rocky beach at the east end.
The contract fee is not high, one yuan per mu, and the contract period is fifteen years. After the expiration, the original contractor can have priority to renew the contract...
Li Changle had no idea about this tidal flat. He just wanted to wait until he had money and then contract the saline-alkali land. The contract period would be 50 to 60 years. He would make a fortune when the government built an industrial park and transformed the land.
Thinking happily, he went to Accountant Chen's store not far from the village committee.
Most of the families in Shatou Village have the surname Li, and most have the surname Chen. There are also many intermarriages between the two families, so they are all relatives in the end.
Accountant Chen's daughter Chen Liping married Li Changqing. Considering their relationship, she was quite caring towards Li Changle's family.
Li Changle stood in front of the sales window, which was two feet larger than the doors and windows, and handed Accountant Chen two dimes, "Uncle Dong, give me a pack of Red Eagles."
"Big Red Eagle is 1.3 cents a pack, I'll give you 7 cents." Accountant Chen handed him the cigarette, then leaned against the window and said:
"Ah Le, I heard that you've made a lot of money mining these days. The village is going to contract out the tidal flats. Don't you plan to sign up to contract a piece for aquaculture?"
He saw that this child was a little different from before, and thinking that his in-laws had the best relationship with his father, he said something more.
"I'm doing a contract?" Li Changle put away the money, unpacked a cigarette and handed it to him with a smile, "I can't even get the contract fee together, so stop teasing me."
"One yuan per mu, ten mu is only ten yuan, and you can't even make that?" Accountant Chen glanced at him, "You made more than ten yuan that night when you turned over the pond."
"I do have ten dollars. Whether you are raising blue crabs or dragonflies, you need seedlings, right? Where can I find the money to buy the seedlings?"
"Ask your sister, aunt, and uncles for help. If you do the right thing, they will still support you."
"Forget it. I'm afraid I won't be able to respond when the time comes. If I fail, I won't even have any relatives."
A society is a kind of mutual aid among the people. In some places, it is called a bidding society or a mutual aid society. Legally, it is a cooperative association.
It is a form of private small-amount credit loan that has the functions of earning interest and raising funds.
Most of the time it is done among relatives and friends, and most of the time it is raised when building a new house or raising funds for business.
The founder of a mutual aid association is called the association head (or association leader), and the other people who participate in the mutual aid association are called members (or association members).
(End of this chapter)