"What's wrong with the white edges of our shoes? The edges of our shoes are all quite white... Oops!"
Li Mengjiao lowered her head and saw that the off-white sneakers on her feet were already stained with yellow mud. These shoes were replaced before going out in the morning. Li Mengjiao swore that the shoes were still clean before she got off the car.
Seeing this, Li Mengjiao came back to her senses.
"The edges of his shoes are so white, doesn't it mean he never steps in the mud?"
In the countryside, the three words "not stepping on the mud" can be equated with "not working". The villagers who dug the ponds really didn't blame Dengjuan and her brother. Even though this kid lives in the countryside, his family is really pampered.
If you don't work, you won't work. People are willing to let outsiders control them.
The bigger problem is that I only scored over 200 points in the final semester of my senior year of high school. The tuition and living expenses were all money sent home by Deng Juan. This score is not worthy of Deng Juan’s efforts!
Seeing that Li Mengjiao had understood, Wen Ying watched Deng Juan's younger brother walk towards the entrance of the village. The villagers digging the pond sneered: "I must be going to the Internet cafe in the town again. I play games online every day. No wonder I got those few points in the exam."
When Li Mengjiao heard this, she clenched her fists.
Internet access costs money. Even if you don't study seriously, you still have to spend Deng Juan's salary in an Internet cafe. Li Mengjiao really wants to hit her!
Wen Ying and Qin Jiao stopped Nuxia Li on the left and right: "You can't hit people!"
"Who do you want to hit?"
A voice came from behind, but it was Wang Shuang.
Wang Shuang, who has been a childhood sweetheart for many years, knows Li Mengjiao very well. Seeing her red face and clenched fists, she is so angry!
He fell behind in kungfu for just such a short time, and this fool was bullied by the villagers?
Wang Shuang rolled up his sleeves and asked again: "Who do you want to hit?"
His eyes quickly scanned around, trying to find the person who bullied Li Mengjiao.
Wen Ying had a headache: "Mengjiao doesn't want to hit anyone, Wang Shuang, please stop causing trouble!"
"I want to...well, I don't want to."
Once Wen Ying became serious, Li Mengjiao was still a little confused and reluctantly changed her tune.
Qin Jiao laughed: "You said you don't want to hit anyone, but you should loosen your fist."
Wang Shuang looked at the three of them and became more and more confused: "What's wrong with you guys? I wanted to ask you in the car, is there any secret that I can't know?"
For this reason, Wang Shuang even had a conflict with Li Mengjiao in the car. As soon as his father Wang Jun enlightened him, Wang Shuang's anger disappeared long ago.
——Only the wrong name and not the wrong nickname. He and Li Hanhan are just asking for trouble.
However, it was okay to hide it from him before. Now Wang Shuang officially asked, if Wen Ying and the others still kept it from him, Wang Shuang's glass heart would really be shattered into pieces.
Wen Ying briefly explained what happened in a few words, and Wang Shuang really couldn't relate to her: "That's why? The money is in Deng Juan's hands. She doesn't want to give it to her, and others can't take it from her!"
If you don't like reading, don't read.
After working for two years, you know how difficult it is to make money.
If Deng Juan doesn't want to send money home, Wang Shuang thinks there are many ways.
In the past, I was afraid that the Deng family would find Rongcheng and cause trouble. Now that Deng Juan is working in the capital, once she changes her phone number, the Deng family will have no way to contact her!
But if Deng Juan wants to give money herself, it is useless to delay the payment of year-end bonuses. "Shrimp King" cannot always default on employees' year-end payments. The money will be sent to Deng Juan sooner or later. Will she be asked to leave sooner or later?
What's the difference? Wang Shuang looked at the dilapidated house of the Deng family and muttered: "The salary plus the year-end bonus is not enough to build a building for the Deng family."
This question involves Wen Ying’s knowledge blind spot.
She knew how much it cost to buy a house in Chengdu, and even knew about the housing prices in first-tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but Wen Ying didn't really know how much it would cost to build a house in the countryside - this was why
Xie Qian persuaded her to come and see for herself, as not all the details of her life would be written in the book.
Fortunately, there was someone on site who could answer Wen Ying's doubts.
The villagers who dug the pond finally noticed that these kids from the city were very curious about everything.
"Building a house? It depends on what kind of house you build and which year you built it."
He pointed in the direction of his house: "Isn't that my house? It was built in 1990. It used prefabricated boards for the floors and painted the exterior walls with white ash. It cost more than 5,000 yuan at that time."
In 1990, spending more than 5,000 yuan to build a house was already expensive.
At that time, even Chen Ru and Wen Dongrong's wages were still very low, and there were not many ways to make money in the countryside. To be able to build such a small second-story building more than ten years ago was a first-class sight in the village!
Even though they borrowed all their relatives' houses in order to build a house, and it took several years to pay it off, the villagers who dug the ponds will never forget the joy and pride they felt when the house was built and the beams were installed.
Such emotions infected Wen Ying, and she said sincerely: "Your house is still very beautiful even after more than ten years!"
The exterior wall painted with white ash has become discolored and yellowed due to wind and rain, and the black tiles on the roof are no longer as shiny as they used to be. Time has left traces on this small building. The cactus tree with almost one person standing next to the wall is very lush, and the time has passed.
Traces are the breath of life. This family kept the house very clean.
"Hey, all the beautiful things are old. When we built the house, we only spent a few thousand yuan. In 2000, it would have cost at least 40,000 to 50,000 yuan to build such a house. Now it is even more expensive, and the labor and material costs have increased a lot!
"
The villagers counted on their fingers for Wen Ying to listen to.
In the past, white plaster was used to plaster the walls, but later ceramic tiles were used to decorate the exterior walls.
Building a house is more expensive now, and more discerning people will tile the floor of their house.
Wen Ying simply took out the small book she carried with her and wrote down every detail what the villagers said. She squatted on the roadside and chatted with the villagers while taking notes. Li Mengjiao didn't know what to do, so she whispered: "We are not here.
Are you asking about Sister Dengjuan's family? Why are Wen Ying asking?"
Qin Jiao was helpless: "Why are you so stupid? Do you think anyone who writes books can make as much money as Wen Ying? Without life experience, a writer cannot write good works."
In fact, not only Wen Ying, Qin Jiao also wanted to chat with the villagers.
The villagers are willing to follow Deng Shangwei in raising fish, but do they want to raise crayfish?
With the development speed of the "King of Shrimp", wild crayfish has basically been eliminated from the raw material supply chain.
The supply of wild crayfish is unstable, and the water quality environment in which crayfish grow is not guaranteed. Some crayfish may have hidden dangers of excessive heavy metals. Qin Jiao actually doesn't understand why so many people like to eat game, but Qin Jiao herself knows best.
For crayfish, crayfish grown in smelly ditches have an earthy smell no matter how they are cooked.
It’s better to breed on a large scale!
The supply of goods is stable when purchasing, and the crayfish you get are relatively clean, don’t have much earthy smell when cooked, and there are no hidden dangers of excessive heavy metals.
In Beijing, "Shrimp King" uses farmed shrimp from Hubei Province.
In Chengcheng, wild crayfish and farmed shrimp from other provinces account for half each.
People in Hubei Province can raise crayfish, but why can’t people in Sichuan Province? No matter how remote this village is, the transportation cost cannot be higher than in other provinces!
Seeing Wenying squatting on the field ridge chatting with people like an old farmer, Qin Jiao hesitated for a moment.
This gesture is a bit unsightly.
But Wen Ying can squat down, why can’t he squat down?
The ridges of the fields are relatively high, so if you don't squat down and talk to the villagers digging the ponds, you will feel condescending and arrogant.
