Return to 1981 and start from breaking off the engagement

Chapter 21 Comparison
Yao Weijun went out to sell goods as usual the next day. He returned to Jiachang Village in the afternoon and went to find Lao Maitou.

"Guard, what do you want from me?"

Old Maitou was setting up beans in his family's private plot. When he saw Yao Weijun coming, he asked with a smile.

"Grandpa Mai, please do me a favor."

"Well, you said."

"I plan to borrow the bullock cart to make a trip. Don't worry, I won't delay you from picking up the students from school."

"Sure, I'll go back with you to set up the car. It won't be a problem, haha..."

Lao Maitou readily agreed and came. He rubbed the vegetable stains on his hands and took Yao Weijun home to hitch the ox cart.

Yao Weijun handed over a cigarette and drove the ox cart out of the village.

When we arrived at Da Liu Commune, we saw Xu Wenyuan squatting and smoking under the old tree from a distance.

"Brother Yao! Haha... I thought I couldn't come!"

"I never change what I promised. It's just that the oxcart is a little slow and kept you waiting for a long time."

"It's okay, it's okay, haha... Then don't be stunned and go to the weigh-in."

"Okay, let's go."

The two exchanged a few polite words, and Xu Wenyuan led the way, driving the ox cart to a secluded open space.

Xu Wenyuan's tricycle is parked here, with bags piled on it filled with dried peanuts in shells.

Whoa!

Xu Wenyuan took the scale off the tricycle and began to weigh the peanuts.

In fact, he had weighed everything before coming, but in order to reassure Yao Weijun, he had to go through the scene again.

"A total of 810 kilograms. The sacks are counted as one kilogram. There are only eight sacks here. The extra two kilograms will be given to you for free. Let's calculate the account according to eight hundred kilograms. Brother Yao, am I an interesting person? Haha..."

Xu Wenyuan laughed happily.

"Two cents per catty, eight hundred catties is 160 yuan. Wait a minute, I'll give it to you."

Yao Weijun took out the 160 yuan he had prepared long ago from his bag and handed it to Xu Wenyuan.

"Thank you, brother Yao, haha... If you need peanuts in the future, come to Da Liu Commune to find me at any time."

Xu Wenyuan was overjoyed and took the initiative to help. Together with Yao Weijun, he loaded [-] kilograms of peanuts onto the oxcart, and then drove away in a tricycle.

drive!
Yao Weijun had a full harvest, covered the sacks in the cart with hay, and drove the ox cart back to Jianchang Village.

After unloading the peanuts at the threshing floor and returning Lao Maitou's ox cart, he went to the village agency store to buy some food and drink. Together with the peanut oil he bought yesterday, he carried five kilograms and headed home.

As soon as he entered the door, grandma saw that he was carrying so many things in his hands, with a look of distress and scolding on his face.

"Grandma, I'm so old, I should spend money to buy you wine. Besides, it's autumn and the family is very tired. It's time to improve the food."

Yao Weijun explained with a smile and put everything he was carrying into the dining tent.

"You kid, you don't know how to spend the money you make. Let me ask you, where did you get the money this time? You don't want to do anything illegal!"

Grandma had a smile on her face and a hint of warning in her tone.

"Don't worry, I often go to Xiheba to work part-time recently. The wages are paid once a day. It's more free than working!"

Yao Weijun had to find an excuse to explain.

"Hey! Then don't talk nonsense in the village. If the team finds out, not only will your wages be deducted, but a meeting will be held to teach you not to do this!"

Upon hearing this, grandma quickly reminded anxiously.

Nowadays, the village still has a collective system, and people are not allowed to go out to work during the busy farming season. Even during the slack season, those who work outside the village must pay half of their wages to the village collective.

This is a rule, and everyone in the village must abide by it.Like Yao Weijun in the past, he didn't work well in the fields and saw Tian'er wandering around. The village had no other option but to deduct his work points from his family.

But if you go out to work to earn money, the nature is different.

Of course, Yao Weijun just explained this to his grandma. If it were anyone else, he would definitely not use excuses to get himself into trouble.

"Junzi, if your father asks you where you got the money later and it's still the same as before, just say I gave it to you!"

Grandma thought of a countermeasure for him again, "I collect cow dung to earn work points, and the little money I get in exchange is given to whoever I like, and no one can find fault with me!"

"Yes, grandma, you are the best, I completely listen to you!"

Yao Weijun washed his face with water from the pressure well and nodded with a smile.

"Don't follow me!" Grandma glared at him and turned around and entered the dining room.

It was getting dark.

The family members came back from working in the fields.

As soon as the second sister-in-law walked in, she frowned slightly and twitched her nose, "Is there some meat stewed at home?"

"Lao Wu, I haven't seen you going to the fields recently, and you still buy meat all day long. Are you trying to make a fortune outside?"

She asked half-jokingly when she saw Yao Weijun sitting on a stool drinking tea.

"Keep your voice down! Let people on the street hear it and think it's true!"

Mother Zhu Mei quickly reminded loudly, with a trace of panic on her face.

"Needless to say, it must have been money given by grandma again. Hey, the five fingers are just different lengths."

Seeing that Yao Weijun was too lazy to respond to her, the second sister-in-law sighed and went back to her room.

"Junzi, don't argue with your second sister-in-law, she just likes to be careless, hehe..."

The second brother Yao Weilin finished explaining in a low voice with a smile, and went to wash his face by the water well.

"Next Sunday, the fourth child will come back. You should come back early that day to discuss the separation of the family."

When his father Yao Xiangui passed by Yao Weijun, he dropped these words.

Yao Weijun was startled, but thinking about it, it was almost time. By next Sunday, it would be time for the village to allocate land.

The evening meal was plentiful.

There were two large bowls of potato stew, as well as a plate of bacon, a plate of spiced dried tofu, and a few vegetables.

When I hired matchmaker Ma Guangsheng, I could only buy bacon and dried tofu, but I couldn't bear to stew two big bowls of pork.

Now that Yao Weijun has money, he can buy food without hesitation.

"Lao Wu, I heard that Xin Bo, who was playing with you, is going to the south to join his uncle after autumn. And Zheng Yong is also planning to go to the county town with his father to do carpentry work after autumn."

The second sister-in-law ate the food and looked at Yao Weijun, "Don't think you are good buddies now, but it won't be long before someone gets rich, and that won't be easy."

"It's not my second sister-in-law. What you said makes me very confused. In your opinion, I will be poor for the rest of my life?"

Yao Weijun responded half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"I didn't say that. You see, we don't have any wealthy relatives, and you don't have much education. From now on, you will just be like your second brother, digging in the fields for food."

After Yan Suxia finished speaking, she also glanced at her man.

"Then what? What do you want to say? You can't leave it here for me to tell fortunes, can you?"

Yao Weijun was speechless. He didn't dare to say that he had too much money on him now, but he could still easily get it for two to three thousand yuan.

For this amount of money alone, few people in the village can match it!
(End of this chapter)