Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 215 The eldest mother dies

On the treasure boat, Yinglao and He Yuzhu negotiated terms. He Yuzhu invested 10 billion Hong Kong dollars to save the market and took the opportunity to buy large-scale real estate in Xiangjiang. Because of He Yuzhu's actions, many people died in Xiangjiang.

Among them, those who are most grateful to He Yuzhu should be the artists in the entertainment circle in Xiangjiang. You must know that in the 1980s, the real estate in Xiangjiang was very hot, so most of the artists in Xiangjiang were willing to buy properties.

But this time the stock market crash, coupled with the news that he was going back, made the property market in Xiangjiang really miserable.

Many artists will go bankrupt due to the plummeting property market. Fortunately, He Yuzhu turned the tide this time. He Yuzhu spent a total of 10 billion to purchase about 1,000 houses.

You must know that at this time, these houses cost 2000 yuan, but in ten or twenty years, the price can rise to million yuan, which is a very conservative increase.

If someone says it is true or false, I can tell you clearly that it is absolutely true.

If you had 1 million in assets at that time and put them in the real estate market in Xiangjiang, you would most likely get a return of about 250 billion today.

If you had about 10 billion in assets back then, you would have about 2500 billion in assets now.

This is the role of leverage. Lao Li once said a statistic, that is, in 1972, his Yangtze River Holdings was listed. Counting from 1972 to his retirement in 2018, if you had invested 1 yuan in Yangtze River Industries, then over the years, After that, plus the dividends and the increase in stock price, you can get a return of 5000 yuan.

In other words, if Mr. Li had 1 million in principal in Yangtze River Holdings back then, he would have received a return of 5000 billion by the time he retired.

This is because property values ​​continue to rise, resulting in rising wealth. But although everyone has money, in fact everyone's living conditions have not been greatly improved, especially in terms of living conditions.

So the value of the property you hold is increasing, but your cost of repurchasing is also increasing.

Take Lao Li as an example. The mansion at No. 79 Deep Water Bay where he lives today was bought in 1963 for only 60. But how much is this villa worth now? Worth at least 30 billion.

何在60年代买下了浅水湾1号的豪宅，当年花了不到100万，如今市值也是在30亿左右。郑裕彤在60年代末期花了98万买下了浅水湾的大宅，如今这套房子也是价值20亿左右。

Such a growth rate is unimaginable by many people, and it has also created one rich man after another. Of course, there are also many people who have liquidated their positions by speculating in properties in Xiangjiang in recent years.

For example, Liu's ex-girlfriend Lu recently encountered a financial crisis due to property speculation.

Lu has bought many properties in Xiangjiang in recent years, many of which were purchased with loans. But now that the property market is declining, her funds are also in crisis.

Lu eventually had to find Liu for help.

Lu sold properties worth more than 1 million to Liu, then cashed out the funds and returned them to the bank.

In fact, the Xiangjiang property market is also about times making heroes. Now this momentum has passed, and there will be no such money-making opportunities in the future. In the 80s, Lao Li judged that the Xiangjiang property market could not always be so profitable. As long as a certain regulation changed, everything would change.

So he began to expand overseas in the 80s, investing in diversified industries and diversifying risks.

On the other hand, in recent years, many people from Hong Kong have gone north to work and buy property.

Many celebrities choose to work and buy property in big cities such as Forty-Nine Cities and Magic City, because now the first-tier cities in the mainland have surpassed Xiangjiang in terms of urban construction, and at the same time, housing prices are much lower than Xiangjiang. On the other hand, there are many more job opportunities in the mainland than in Hong Kong, especially for entertainment stars.

Therefore, many people from Hong Kong are willing to come to the mainland to work and buy property.

In this way, they can earn more and at the same time pay less for home ownership, absolutely killing two birds with one stone.

Therefore, He Yuzhu had the right time, place and people. This kind of thing cannot be replicated. This time He Yuzhu spent money in Hong Kong and bought a thousand houses. Then he flew back to Sijiu with the rabies vaccines. city.

At the airport in Sijiu City, after He Yuzhu got off the plane, a special person came to thank He Yuzhu who was hungry and took away the vaccines. He Yuzhu's brother-in-law Zhou Qiang came with him. His visit this time actually brought a surprise to He Yuzhu. news.

The news is that the aunt died of a heart attack the day before yesterday.

This news made He Yuzhu slightly startled, and he quickly asked what was going on. To be honest, if there are good people in this courtyard, then even the aunt is one. You don’t know how hard He Yuzhu was back then. You must know that He Daqing wanted to At work, He Yuzhu does everything at home.

In order to reduce He Daqing's burden, He Yuzhu took the initiative to do some housework. Carrying water, cooking, and pounding coal were the housework tasks that He Yuzhu often did.

We built a coal stove at home, called a floor stove in Sijiucheng. Half of it was on the ground and half of it was underground. The one on the ground was in a square shape, surrounded by wooden boards on the outside and one or four in the middle.

Shaped stove mouth, under the stove mouth is a furnace bridge, which is built underground. On the furnace bridge is a burning carbon fire. The burned cinders fall into the cavity under the furnace bridge, and are then scooped out from the underground wind tunnel with a carbon scoop.

Every night, the fire must be sealed. Use muddy coal to seal the mouth of the fire. It will be higher than the stove mouth to form a turtle shell, and then open a small hole in it to allow air to flow and form an airway to prevent the coal from burning. destroy. After the moisture in the coal evaporates and becomes semi-dry, the underground wind tunnel is sealed.

Get up in the morning, open the wind tunnel, pick up the sealed coal, break it into small pieces, remove the cinders with a coal hook, and put the sealed coal into the stove. After a while, the coal will burn red and you can cook.

Seeing He Daqing operating every day, He Yuzhu observed carefully from the side and soon learned to seal the fire and fire it.

Coal pounding is a technical job, and it is also a hard job. First use a wooden pestle to mash the coal, then add an appropriate amount of loess, add water and stir, then pound with the pestle. The pestle is heavy and long, and it is very powerful to lift it with both hands. Keep pounding until the coal and loess are completely dissolved to form waxy coal. A rake is enough.

After a period of practice, He Yuzhu learned to pound coal, learn to seal fire, open fire, and learn to cook.

But even though He Yuzhu had learned it at that time, he was not very good at it. Most of the time, he didn’t quite understand how to seal fire or open fire. At that time, Auntie stood up and helped He Yuzhu deal with the aftermath. Auntie always did it secretly by herself. I hope He Yuzhu knows, but He Yuzhu knows it very well, so He Yuzhu is also grateful to Aunt Ma.

Yi Zhonghai is a bad guy. After He Daqing ran away, Yi Zhonghai secretly collected the ten yuan monthly alimony that He Daqing sent back to He Yuzhu and He Yuyu, and put it into his own pocket. You know At that time, He Yuzhu didn't even have a job.

He made a living by picking up loess for Yi Zhonghai and the bastards in the courtyard. In this way, these bastards in the courtyard even bullied He Yuzhu. Fortunately, at this time, the aunt secretly started to help He Yuzhu.

I don’t know if you all know about sweet potatoes?

In fact, there are many names, such as sweet potato, sweet potato, white taro, red potato and sweet potato. Different regions have different names. Sweet potatoes are not very picky about soil and can adapt to hillsides, flat land, sandy soil, and clay soil.

In the spring at that time, standing on the slope and looking from a distance, except for a few wheat fields, sweet potatoes were planted everywhere.

Because there are a lot of sweet potatoes.

As soon as spring begins, the production teams around Sijiucheng are busy raising sweet potato seedlings. When the seedlings grow to about half a foot high, they will be taken out and then planted in the fields.

The sweet potato seedlings are easy to plant. A handful of moon-leaf vines spread all over the ground in tender green, and there are many fibrous roots growing on the stems.

In order to ventilate the crops and prevent the fibrous roots from robbing the roots of nutrients, the village chief sent us children who were unable to do heavy work to turn over the sweet potato seedlings every Sunday.

The children lined up in a row, one person in two rows, and pulled up the sweet potato seedlings and turned them over, grabbing the fibrous roots on the ground and making a clicking sound.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, cracks appear on the roots of sweet potatoes, and some even reveal red potato pieces.

On the way home from school, as long as the children see no one in front or behind them, they run to the sweet potato field, pull open the potato seedlings, and when they see the arched roots, they kick them with their feet, and the sweet potatoes are exposed.

Afraid of being discovered, the children broke the sweet potatoes from the roots, buried them in the hole, straightened the seedlings, and ran to the ditch bank, dug a hole on the spot, found some dry firewood, lit it, threw the sweet potatoes into the fire, and arrived. I went to pick wild flowers by the ditch and river. After playing for a while, we used a small stick to pull out the sweet potato, squeezed it, and then peeled off the hard black scab on the outside, revealing the milky yellow flesh. We didn’t even bother to burn our mouths and devour it. It made my hands and face all black.

Then the two "cat faces" looked at each other, laughed, and continued to enjoy the delicious food.

Sometimes when adults pass by, they are discovered and scolded, saying they are a nuisance to the children.

Frost is plowing sweet potatoes, the children are cutting seedlings in front, and the adults are plowing behind. As soon as the grappling hook goes down, all the egg beaters come up with them. The little-footed old woman sat on the straw, pulled the soil off the sweet potatoes, and threw them into a pile.

Under the autumn sun, piles of sweet potatoes glow red, filled with the joy of harvest. When taking a break, those who have good teeth will pick a piece of bright sweet potato, use a branch or a tile to scrape off the skin, take a bite, and it will make a crunching sound, and the corners of the mouth will be filled with glycolic lotion, which will quench thirst and satisfy hunger.

After a piece of land was planed, the accountant held an account book with an abacus under his arm, and the custodian pushed a large scale, divided the sweet potatoes and sweet potato seedlings into piles according to the head, and pressed paper with names on them. At noon, adults and children Carry it on your back, lift it up, and get your share home.

If there are families with limited manpower, everyone will help send them back. Although rural people cannot say the word "thank you", gratitude is always on their faces.

But the sweet potatoes are difficult to dig clean. At this time, Auntie will sneak into the field with He Yuzhu and He Yuyu to continue digging. Although the sweet potatoes left in the soil are very small, they are still edible.

After digging in the field for a long time, you can dig out ten or twenty kilograms. That is really too clean, but these two or twenty kilograms are also good.

As soon as school was over, He Yuzhu threw off his schoolbag and went to get a steamer. Soon the steamer was able to steam the sweet potatoes thoroughly, waiting for He Yuzhu to come back steaming hot.

He grabbed a piece of hot sweet potato and rolled it in his hand. When he ate it, his tongue rolled around in his mouth and there was no place to put it, and he huffed and puffed.

Sometimes a mouthful of dry noodle sweet potato gets stuck in the esophagus, unable to come up or go down, causing the pressure to gurgling and white eyes. He Yuzhu still remembers that He Yuzhu likes to eat the kind of purple, slender sweet potatoes that are soft and squishy the most. , sweet and smooth to swallow.

In order to facilitate storage, every family has a sweet potato cellar, hides the sweet potatoes in the cellar, and seals the mouth with soil. Whenever you eat it, it will be as fresh as when it was dug out. You will eat it until the next spring and summer, and the stored sweet potatoes will be under control. Moisture, soft and sweet.

But He Yuzhu's family didn't have such a sweet potato cellar, so the aunt here told He Yuzhu that he could use a bed to rub the sweet potatoes into thin slices and dry them on the roof, on the chicken coop, on the pig pen, or even on the window sill, as long as it was as big as a palm. On the flat land, you can get a few sunbathing patches.

The aunt told He Yuzhu that the dried sweet potato slices can be boiled, ground into noodles, and steamed into steamed buns. The steamed steamed buns are bright and sweet, and are much more delicious than the colored steamed buns in supermarkets now. .

At that time, the "Black Donkey Rolling" was considered to have improved life. A thin layer of wheat noodles and a thick layer of sweet potato noodles were stacked up and down, rolled up, cut into buns, and steamed in a basket.

After it's steamed, when you open the lid, it's steaming hot, white and red, and it really looks like a black donkey rolling in the white flour.

He Yuzhu was reluctant to eat the white layer first. He always opened the black layer and ate it first, leaving the white layer for He Yuzhu, who would bite it bit by bit with his teeth.

At that time, housewives would make coarse grains and cook them finely. They would use sweet potato noodles to bake them into cakes or use a glutinous rice flour to press them into noodles. Because sweet potato noodles were not as strong as white noodles, the pressed noodles were very short, about the size of a tadpole. People in my hometown called them "Toads." tadpole".

It's a pity that He Yuzhu's family doesn't have a mother. Although the aunt wants to help He Yuzhu and He Yuyu, Yi Zhonghai is very careful, so the aunt can only do some small things secretly.

Fortunately, He Yuzhu and He Yuyu had good appetites. Although they ate sweet potatoes every day, they never vomited sour water.

He Yuzhu also often said that He Yuzhu was raised by sweet potatoes. The baked sweet potatoes look ugly, like a shriveled old man, but if you break them gently and spread them out slowly, they will turn golden and stretch, and when you take a bite, they will taste sweet. , I really don’t know what to say.

In that era, sweet potatoes were God and life-saving food. Although many people vomit acidic water after eating sweet potatoes, they will starve without sweet potatoes. "Sweet potato rice, sweet potato steamed buns, you can't live without sweet potatoes." This folk proverb became a symbol of the famine era.

At that time, anyone who could eat a whole basket of noodles or pancakes (wheat noodles without leaving any gluten) was considered a great person.

When He Yuzhu thought of this, he would think of Aunt Ma, but He Yuzhu did not expect that Aunt Ma would leave like this. To be honest, He Yuzhu felt a little sad at this time.

Looking at his brother-in-law Zhou Qiang, He Yuzhu asked: "Is she leaving well?"

"Very comfortable." Zhou Qiang nodded.

"That's good!" He Yuzhu smiled slightly, but He Yuzhu didn't know that this aunt was actually killed, and the person who killed the aunt was Li Chaoqun.

(End of this chapter)