Chapter 272 Purchase of dried bamboo shoots

Working early in the morning and staying up late didn't seem like a problem when you were young, but the disadvantages will become apparent when you get older.

It seems that I still have to listen to Xiang Yisen and submit the application early to change departments. It is not good for girls to stay up late often, as it will affect their beauty and beauty too much.

Now that you're awake, get up and cook.

In fact, when she was alone at home, Yu Qing always used the rice cooker in the studio to cook. In order to hide her cooking from others, she only cooked on the wood stove outside in the kitchen.

It’s very difficult to cook meals for one person. If you don’t cook enough, just cook a little more at once, and then eat the same meal for the next few meals.

Although you can't change the taste of every meal, it is convenient and practical.

At noon, I fried fried chicken with pickled peppers, and then fried spinach. Both dishes were quite large. After frying, I divided them into portions for lunch, and put the rest into the studio kitchen for dinner.

The spicy and heavy taste whetted Yu Qing's appetite. After finishing a bowl of rice, she was still unsatisfied, but she did not dare to eat more.

The kitchen was almost tidied up, and the anxious family members of the employees came over in twos and threes carrying baskets.

Seeing Yu Qing's kitchen door open, they all rushed in happily.

"Comrade Yu, you just woke up, have you eaten?"

"After eating, everyone should sit down and take a rest. I will go to the room over there to get some and weigh them."

Yu Qing brought the scale she had prepared earlier, checked that the dried bamboo shoots were ok, weighed them all, and then calculated the money for them.

For this acquisition, she specially prepared a lot of change.

Zhu Mei heard the commotion here and hurried over to help.

Not to mention, driven by profit, motivation is unlimited.

There are only dozens or hundreds of households in the small residential area, so Yu Qing was busy for several hours, collecting four to five hundred kilograms of dried bamboo shoots.

Including dried mushrooms, the dry goods collected this time amounted to nearly 600 kilograms.

What is this concept?

Yu Qing paid nearly 1,400 yuan in cash for the acquisition alone. The salary of their power station employees is considered high, equivalent to the salary of eighteen people.

On average, each household earns fifteen or six yuan a week. Ordinary workers in urban factories earn only thirty or forty yuan a month.

The only drawback is that mountain products are not available in every season.

After everyone handed over the goods, took the money and left, Yu Qing sat on a stool to rest. She had been weighed all afternoon and her arms were numb.

Zhu Mei poured her a glass of warm water and said, "You rest for a while, and I'll help you clean up these dried bamboo shoots."

Hundreds of kilograms of dried bamboo shoots were packed into ten sacks, and the open space in the kitchen was filled with them.

Yu Qing took a sip of warm water, breathed a sigh of relief, and asked: "Sister Zhu, you have been helping here this afternoon. Your dried bamboo shoots haven't been brought over yet."

"I'm not in a hurry. Seal your sacks first." Zhu Mei found the rope and tied the mouth of each sack tightly.

"Put these here. I'll pack them up later. You go and pick up your dry goods first and weigh them."

"Okay." Zhu Mei thought about it and mentioned it sooner or later. It doesn't make much difference if it was later or earlier.

On the way home, all she could think about was the money Yu Qing had sent out this afternoon. There was such a large pile of bills, and only a dozen or so were left after the final settlement.

I feel a little worried for her. Will she be able to sell this batch of goods in the end?

If you can't sell it and get it in your hands, it's a thousand to a few hundred dollars. How many years will it take you to save so much?

The two families were just two steps away, and soon Zhu Mei brought over her own dried bamboo shoots.

Yu Qing helped her weigh it. The dried bamboo shoots were six pounds and the dried mushrooms were one and a half pounds.

Six pounds of dried bamboo shoots cost twelve yuan, and one pound of dried mushrooms cost five yuan and seventy-five yuan. The total is nineteen yuan and five cents.

Yu Qing gave her two big unity coins. Zhu Mei wanted to find fifty cents, but she didn't have any change.

"Sister Zhu, forget it for fifty cents. You helped me all afternoon and I didn't even treat you to a meal, so don't be polite to me."

"But...it's as much as you need. It's hard for you to keep accounts like this."

"Sister Zhu helped me for a long time in the afternoon. How about you have dinner at my house in the afternoon?"

"How can this be done? It's such a small thing to do a favor between neighbors. How can I ask you to treat me to dinner? Stop talking. You want to embarrass me to death."

"Yeah, it's easy for neighbors to help. Don't mention this fifty cent thing, Zhu Mei. Otherwise, you just want to embarrass me to death."

At the end of the conversation, the two of them looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing about the other.

When Zhu Mei returned home, her two children had returned from school and were sitting at the table doing homework. Ji Daming was sitting next to them to supervise them, and rice was cooking on the stove.

Seeing her coming back, Ji Daming just looked up at the basket in her hand and asked, "Are you willing to come back?"

Zhu Mei sold dried bamboo shoots for money today. She was so happy that she didn't care about his attitude and hummed softly.

Ji Daming saw that she didn't plan to tell him in detail, so he asked again: "It took a week, how much did you sell those dry goods?"

Zhu Mei put the basket in the corner, walked excitedly to the back of the table, sat down, and took out two folded large bags from her pocket.

He smoothed the money and said, "I sold it for nineteen and a half yuan, and the last fifty cents Qingqing didn't let me change, so the dry goods were sold for a total of twenty. This summer, the children can each make an extra set of clothes, and so can I."

Save some money."

Ji Daming was surprised that the price could be sold for so much, "She bought it at such a high price, how can she make money by reselling it?"

I still feel a little unfavorable about Yu Qing's business.

This was also Zhu Mei's worry, but she didn't want to show it in front of the man, so she put the money back into her pocket and said: "Mess Qing is a successful person, so don't worry about these things that shouldn't be yours to worry about. Besides,

, even if something happens, there is still work to do at home, so what are you afraid of?"

"There is still the last crop of spring bamboo shoots. I will get up early and go up the mountain tomorrow. I will leave the breakfast for the children at home to you. After breakfast, they will go to school, and then you will go to work."

"I got it." Ji Daming didn't say sarcastic words this time, but looked at the rice pot on the stove, "The rice is almost ready, hurry up and prepare the dishes for tonight."

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Yu Qing sent Zhu Mei away and took all the sacks back to the studio. After a busy afternoon, she gained a lot, but it was really tiring.

She didn't want to heat hot water anymore. Both of her arms were sore, so she locked the kitchen directly, walked to the door, looked next door, and heard faint voices, which should be Zhu Mei and her husband.

Yu Qing unlocked the door and entered her small living room. It was empty except for the sewing machine she bought when she got engaged. There was nothing else, and the table was placed back in the kitchen next door.

Thinking of something, she pushed her women's bicycle out of the studio and placed it next to the corner.

Pushing open the bedroom door and closing the small curtains, the light in the room suddenly dimmed.

He found a change of pajamas from the wooden box on the ground and ducked into the studio.

After a busy afternoon, everything felt wrong and uncomfortable. Yu Qing deliberately raised the temperature of the water heater. When the slightly higher hot water washed over her body, the pores all over her body opened instantly, and all the fatigue in her body was washed away.

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Chapter completed!