Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 42 Play Cotton, Play Cotton

With money, Wang Manyin naturally buys and buys.

In fact, there is nothing good to buy. The basic daily necessities are sold in their own consignment outlets, mainly grain and cooking oil.

Food is okay, but the key edible oil is not much that can be bought in the Pigeon Market every time.

These days, no matter in the city or in the countryside, basically every household is nervous about eating oil.

The non-agricultural household registration in the city is three taels of oil per month, which is not equal to the amount of oil that people in the future will eat in a day.

As for the countryside... There are large tracts of rapeseed planted here on the Loess Plateau, which can be pressed to produce high-quality rapeseed oil.However, the top government implements strict unified purchase and sales of grain and oil, and private transactions are not allowed.Therefore, the amount of rapeseed oil distributed to the members' homes is very limited every year, and one person can have two catties.

This is also the reason why many farmers do not cook at home.Generally, after the food is cooked, dip it in the oil bottle with chopsticks and stir it in the pot for a few times.

After finishing the work, I was afraid that the oil on the chopsticks would not be cleaned, so I would lick it twice with my tongue.

Only when there are guests at home, will the oil be poured to stir-fry.

It can be said that there is no one in Guanzi Village like Wang Manyin who eats almost every meal.

When he stepped into the pigeon market again, he saw the middle-aged woman soliciting business again.

For this situation, Wang Manyin is not surprised.

Although these people dress like ordinary people, in fact there is a lot of energy behind them.The amount of cotton wool stored in the dark is estimated to be beyond imagination.

Wang Manyin read a reminiscence article in later generations, saying that the pickets once caught a gang that dumped tickets, and found more than 600 catties of food stamps on the spot, as well as a large number of meat tickets, cloth tickets, and food subsidy tickets.

Seeing Wang Manyin appearing, the woman immediately recognized it.She froze for a moment, and approached him in a panic: "Big brother, what's wrong with the cotton wool?"

"Who are you? I don't know. I'm here to buy other things..." Wang Manyin responded dumbly.

Money and goods are cleared, and pretending not to know each other is the best protection.

"Oh, oh," the middle-aged woman breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to look for other targets.

Wang Manyin searched around, and soon got a signal with a rapeseed oil seller.

The rapeseed oil in the supply and marketing cooperative costs more than seven cents a catty, and it costs two yuan on the black market.

After buying oil, Wang Manyin was about to leave, but saw an old man selling piglets in the corner.It stands to reason that piglets are not worried about selling these days.

However, most people usually buy piglets in spring.Because piglets have poor resistance, they can easily get sick and die if the weather is too cold.

So the old man came early to sell the piglets, but no one cares about them until now.

In order to eat pork, Wang Manyin had the idea of ​​raising pigs a few months ago.

It’s just that the space had just been opened up at that time, and various conditions were not met, so I refrained from buying it all the time.

Now the environment inside has changed drastically, with grass growing everywhere and many grass seeds.Not to mention feeding one pig, even ten should not be a problem.

It is easy to do without grain bran and wheat bran... You can dig earthworms and feed them yourself, which is a high-quality protein source.

Wild boars and domestic pigs come from the same ancestor and are also omnivores.

In a stocking environment, they naturally eat whatever they encounter, such as bird eggs, mice, tree roots, insects, loaches, etc., all of which belong to the daily ration.

But when the rice planted in the space matures, it will be much easier to feed it.

After making up his mind, he walked over quickly and asked, "Master, how much is a piggy?"

"Ten yuan, ten yuan each." Finally came to ask the price, the old man hastily responded.

"I'll buy one,"

Seeing that the pigeon market was coming to an end, Wang Manyin didn't plan to raise the price, so he directly picked a slightly bigger one.

After paying the money, she hugged her and left.

When there is no one there, throw it into a deep pit in the space as usual.

After finishing everything, Wang Manyin did not continue to stay in Mijia Town, and immediately left with Rhubarb.

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In the next few days, Wang Manyin became really busy.He first sent the cotton to the home of a gardener in Shigejie Commune, and asked him to process two quilt covers.

"Stripping cotton, plucking cotton, half a catty pops eighty-two-eight, old cotton pops up new cotton, the girl who has plucked the cotton is going to get married..."

These days, it is very difficult to buy well-made quilt cores, and most people find bombers to make them.

Although it is a large group now, craftsmen such as gardeners, carpenters, stonemasons, and hoop potters can still take time off to do side jobs to earn money during slack.

However, if you ask for leave, you have to pay money to the team for work points every day, usually 80.00% of the salary you get.

In other words, if they earn two yuan a day, they have to pay one yuan and sixty yuan to the production team, and the remaining forty cents can be put in their pockets.

Even so, the opportunity to do a side job is not for everyone.

Spinning cotton is also hard work, and the tool used is a strangely shaped bow.Carry it on your body when you use it, and keep hitting it with a cotton hammer to make a rattling sound.

This kind of operation is very slow, and it takes at least five or six hours to make a quilt.Even the most skilled gardener can only make three beds a day.

Wang Manyin didn't have time to wait for a day, so he just handed over the cotton and left.

He wasn't afraid that the other party would secretly use old cotton to pass it off as good... These days, he was doing door-to-door business, and he paid more attention to integrity.Once the word of mouth is broken, it will soon spread throughout the ten miles and eight villages, and no one will come to the door by then.

After settling the quilt, Wang Manyin kept looking for someone to make doors and windows.

Wang Shuhai, who is of the same generation as him in the village, is a carpenter, which saves a lot of trouble.

You can't find someone to do things with empty hands, Wang Manyin thought about it, and came to the door with a bag of fruit candies.

It is said that since the opening of the consignment point, not many fruit candies have been sold, and most of them have been used as gifts by him.

Fortunately, this thing does not require a ticket, otherwise the monthly account will definitely not match.

In the countryside, as long as you have skills, you can earn some living money.

Although Wang Shuhai's family has raised four children, their life is better than ordinary families.

Wang Manyin didn't talk nonsense, and explained his purpose straight to the point.

"Okay, when you get the wood ready, let me know, and I'll go with the tools." Wang Shuhai agreed without hesitation.

"Brother Shuhai, I need to trouble you about the wood. You know a lot of people, so please ask someone nearby who sells wood. It doesn't have to be too good, acacia wood is fine... and then help me calculate how many square meters I need, doors and windows The style doesn’t need to be complicated.”

The cave dwellings on the Loess Plateau look very simple, but the doors and windows are quite exquisite. The various decorative patterns on them can be called works of art, and their meanings are also different.

For example, "Spearing Plum Blossoms", the style is a diagonal "ten" cross, with a "plum blossom" pattern inlaid in the middle, representing both civil and military skills, gifted scholars and beautiful ladies.

"Nine eggs on a snake plate" looks like a coiled intestine, enclosing it into nine independent rhombuses, which symbolizes more children, more blessings, and a thriving population.

In addition, there are ten children's reunion, Goulian Wanzi, gourd formation and so on.

In short, if you have money to fiddle with, it is normal for a carpenter to do half a month for a door and window.

Wang Manyin didn't have so many ideas, just keep it simple.

In this regard, Wang Shuhai expressed his understanding.

These days, many people don't even have enough to eat, so how can there be so many poor people.

"Well, I'll help you in these two days, and I'll let you know when I have news. When the arrangements are made, I'll ask for a few days off to help. I don't want the salary, so I'll help you."

Knowing what he said, Wang Manyin still shook his head and said: "Brother Shuhai, how much is the right amount. I can't let you suffer, it's not easy. You still have to pay the team..."

People rely on craftsmanship to make a living, how can they really not give money.At that time, I will charge a few cents less, which is considered as a favor.

(End of this chapter)