For the next two months, Ji Yang would catch fish after work at night, and if he couldn't finish eating, he would keep them in the water tank.
When the bean sprouts grow, one piece is picked and sold in the town.
In the first two times, it only sold twenty catties a day, but later on, it gradually sold fifty or sixty catties a day.
No, today is another day of business prosperity.
"I buy two fish today, will I get bean sprouts?" A woman in blue overalls came to him.
These are old customers, Ji Yang smiled embarrassedly, "Sister, there is only one fish left today, and the bean sprouts are less than a catty. I will charge you fifty cents, and I will give you this small fish and these bean sprouts."
"Close up the stall and go home after selling."
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The woman looked at the fish, it might only be a little more than half a catty, but it was also cheap, and there were bean sprouts as a gift, so she readily took out the money and gave it to Ji Yang.
"Here you are." Ji Yang put on his clothes and handed it to her.
Afterwards, he slowed down for a while, picked up the bamboo basket, looked at the rising sun, and walked to the other side.
Today, I picked seventy catties of bean sprouts and a dozen catties of fish. After doing the math, I finally sold them for fifty-three yuan. Excluding the money for mung beans, I could earn about forty yuan.
One month's wages of an old worker.
Walking on the street, looking at the old farmer selling tofu, I remembered that Ye Jiao likes tofu, so I bought two yuan and spent 20 cents.
Went to the state-run store again, bought soap, brown sugar, and half a catty of pork, and finally saw candy on the shelf, red and green wrapping paper, he bought a small packet, thinking about going back to coax the family little daughter-in-law.
Being extravagant, he ended up buying pastries and snacks.
Go home along the path, knock on the door lightly, "I'm back."
Without waiting for the next move, the door has already been opened.
Ye Jiao's figure appeared in front of him, she opened the door wider, and reached out to pick up the bamboo basket on his shoulder, "It's all sold out today?"
"Which day is it not sold out?" Ji Yang rubbed his shoulders, very embarrassed.
"What did you buy?" Ye Jiao took out everything, and she was not surprised when she saw tofu, pork, and mung beans.
Ji Yang has a tricky mouth. He must eat good eggs and meat. Now that he is tired of eating fish, he will switch to pork and mutton.
"What do you buy brown sugar for? What are these? Don't spend money recklessly." Ye Jiao looked at those pastries and snacks, and was angered by him again.
This person goes to buy some snacks every day and comes back.
Some time ago, I bought some beef cubes for her. Even though they were delicious, she didn't dare to eat more, after all, they were not rich people.
"It takes money to make money." Ji Yang said slowly, and then took out a large handful of money tickets from his arms and handed them to her.
"Then keep a little." Ye Jiao took it and started counting.
He has a great advantage. Since he has made money to buy clothes and has surplus clothes, he will save them for her when he comes back.
"Isn't it saved? You said that you are so thin and study hard. I have to take good care of you." He said, washing mung beans and preparing to soak them.
Ye Jiao didn't know what to reply to what he said, and his reasons were open and aboveboard.
Thinking about it, it was indeed the case. She was hungry after reading in the middle of the night, and she could still eat snacks to satisfy her cravings. Her gaze returned to the money note in her hand.
He has twenty-two yuan and thirty cents left today.
After calculating the savings at home, her brows and eyes were frowned, "In the past two months, we have saved four hundred and fifty one yuan and forty cents."
"I want to eat braised pork." Ji Yang didn't focus on this.
"We have more than four hundred and fifty yuan." Ye Jiao walked quickly to his side again, looked at him who squatted down to wash mung beans, and emphasized again.
Now a sewing machine is only a few hundred dollars, and a family with a sewing machine is a good family in the village.
They can buy three!
"You are going to study in the future, and it will cost you a lot of money. Hurry up and save it, so that no one will find out." Ji Yang turned his head and reminded.
He was a little tanned after work during this period, and when he spoke like this, he was still a little bit admonishing. Ye Jiao smiled and looked at his handsome face, which was close at hand, and leaned forward.
Ji Yang's face softened, and the person concerned had already turned around and ran into the house.
Sneaking fast.
Ye Jiao's face was red and she was still hot. She dragged the money ticket and walked to the bedside to get the locked iron box next to the bed.
"Still running." Ji Yang's voice suddenly came from behind her.
She turned around holding the iron box, and suddenly saw him behind him, very close, her heart was in her throat, and she kept backing away.
"Why don't you run away?" He pulled up his sleeves, his face was serious and serious, especially with a hint of aggression hidden in his eyes.
Ye Jiao looked at the sunlight coming in from the window, then at him, vowing to die, but was pulled over and pushed onto the bed.
This person has not changed his habit regardless of the time point. She is so ashamed that she hides directly in the bed in the afternoon, and it is impossible to leave work after work.
let him go!
However, Ji Yang wouldn't talk about her on this point, as if she was still willing to let her stay at home, the benefits of separating the family are increasing, and she feels happy watching the little chicks growing up.
In two months, these little chicks will be able to lay eggs, and Ji Yang won't have to spend money to buy eggs, which makes her feel distressed.
In the evening, he cooks more hearty meals, including scrambled eggs with leeks, spicy tofu, and his favorite braised pork.
Now their family no longer eats porridge or sweet potato rice, they only eat dry rice, and sometimes they eat dried noodles without coarse grains.
She could eat anything else, but Ji Yang was not happy.
Ye Jiao sat down to serve him a meal, feeling that her mouth would be spoiled, but a piece of spicy tofu was tender and refreshing, with endless aftertaste, making people drool.
"Eat more, this piece of meat is lean." Ji Yang picked up a piece of lean meat for her and urged her to eat more.
Just as Ye Jiao picked up a piece, there was a sound at the door, and the door of their yard was slammed several times.
"Ji Yang, open the door for me!" Sun Miaolan was cursing outside again, and kept saying, "Mom must have secretly given it to them, open the door for me!"
Ji Yang frowned, and Ye Jiao panicked, as if he had done something wrong.
If it was discovered that they ate so well, Sun Miaolan would definitely suspect that they had done something terrible.
"Stop making trouble." Ji Dachao's voice came from outside, as if he was stopping him, and there was Zhang Yan's voice of defense outside.
"Are you helping me or helping your mother? I worked so hard to give you two children, and that's how you treat me? Are you still human?" Sun Miaolan began to snark again.
"You still hit my son, Sun Miaolan, you're going to turn against me!" Zhang Yan saw it, so it's okay? Eyeballs stared and were about to step forward to tear them apart. At this moment, Ji Yang stretched out his hand and opened the door, and asked with a puzzled face, "Mom, what's the matter?"
"What else? Let's make trouble." Zhang Yan blackened his face and snorted at Sun Miaolan, "Your sister-in-law is making trouble!"
"If you didn't subsidize it secretly, would I be able to make trouble?" Sun Miaolan glared at Ji Yang fiercely, and let go of Ji Dachao to go inside.
That battle was like trying to steal a house.
Ji Yang directly reached out to stop her, and reminded, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? This is not your big tile house."
"Did Mom secretly bring the flour to you? Why are you so embarrassed? Are the two of you without arms and legs?" Sun Miaolan said sarcastically, "Mom doesn't admit it, so I'll search it and let her see what it is. no!"
As she spoke, she glanced at Ji Dachao out of the corner of her eye, insisting on showing him how eccentric that old man is.
"Did I tell you?" Zhang Yan was not the one to swallow his anger, and scolded, "Sun Miaolan, don't go too far."
"The last time you took the sweet potato, you also said no." Sun Miaolan sneered, reached out to push Ji Yang, and said disgustedly, "Let go!"
This little uncle is too lazy to do anything.
"This is my house, why do you let it go?" Ji Yang stood still, his words were slightly angry.
After Sun Miaolan gave birth to a child, she dared to boss Zhang Yan at Ji's house. She walked sideways, and when Ji Yang scolded her, she became anxious, "Aren't you guilty? Didn't you say nothing? Secretly ask mom to give you food , Shall I be ashamed? And your daughter-in-law, both of them are not good people. "
As she said that, she also shouted at Ye Jiao inside, "When I was an educated youth, I knew how to seduce men, every day..."
Ye Jiao's face became embarrassing, and Sun Miaolan continued to yell in a sharp voice, but Ji Yang interrupted sharply, "Where is the mad dog? Why are you barking?"
Zhang Miaolan was choked, and his tone was so cold that ice shards dropped, "This stinky mouth is spraying dung everywhere, my elder brother doesn't care about you, let you mess around, you really don't know what your last name is?"
Ji Dachao's complexion changed, he was a little embarrassed.
To be honest, if he had stopped her at home, Sun Miaolan would not have come here, but he did not stop her.
"I..." Zhang Miaolan was about to jump up.
"Mom, she said how much flour did you bring?" Ji Yang looked at Zhang Yan.
"Half a catty!" Sun Miaolan gritted her teeth with hatred, "Who will Mom get it for you? I used to secretly take eggs, don't think I don't know."
"Did I tell you?" Zhang Yan was also so angry that his chest heaved, and he pointed at Ji Dachao and scolded him.
"Daughter-in-law, go and bring a catty of flour and two catties of rice." Ji Yang turned his head to look at Ye Jiao, and said word by word, "Sister-in-law gave birth to the incense of our Ji family. If it’s not enough, we’ll have some blood, so please pity her, lest she scream like crazy and let the whole village know that we are cruel.”
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Sun Miaolan thought they had to pay back so much, but she was not happy when she heard Ji Yang's next words, her face twisted and she shouted.
Ji Dachao panicked with embarrassment. .
"Who doesn't have half a catty of flour, so why should my sister-in-law care about it like this? Sure enough, as my sister-in-law said last time, parents follow you to raise two children. I don't know how hard it is. I'm afraid there is nothing to eat. The extra two catties of rice, Just treat me as a filial piety to my parents."
After he finished speaking, Ye Jiao had already packed the rice and took it out. Sun Miaolan was still looking at it, and was about to speak up to explain herself. Ji Dachao took her hand and left, "Don't embarrass me here!"
The two struggled all the way, Zhang Miaolan hit and scratched, and said everything out of her mouth:
"Ji Dachao, let me go, you coward will protect your mother and that useless brother."
"I'm really blind, you deserve it!"
…
Before reaching the door of the house, people kept coming out to watch the show, Ji Dachao took a good face, and slapped him, "Shut up!"
"You dare to hit me, I will fight you." Sun Miaolan cried and shouted, and the two scuffled together.
the other end.
Zhang Yan looked at the little son, feeling sad and helpless, "Your sister-in-law started making trouble yesterday, she ate all the flour, and she didn't remember, so she said that mom sent it to you."
As she said that, she looked at the rice and flour in Ji Yang's hands, and said eagerly, "You don't have children yet, both of you are working, if there is a lot of food, send some to the elder brother, and the two younger ones need milk , All the food has been exchanged for milk tickets, and milk is not easy to buy now."
Ye Jiao looked at Ji Yang, who was expressionless, and handed over the food, "You and Dad don't starve yourself."
"Yoko, you've grown up." Zhang Yan took it over, her eyes moistened, "It's not easy for your elder brother. Brothers should help each other a little bit."
Ji Yang turned his head away and didn't speak.
"I don't know what's going on with your elder brother and sister-in-law. Mom has to go back and have a look. Your father hasn't come back yet." Zhang Yan hurried away with food.
Before she had gone far, Ji Yang closed the door with a "slap", his lips were tight, and he didn't speak.
Ye Jiao looked at him, feeling uneasy. Zhang Yan had already said that, and the food was given, so she could only say, "Just treat it as a filial piety to our parents. There are still some dried noodles at home, which are not enough for us to buy."
"Four adults are raising two children, and my parents are still at work. Isn't it enough to put them all upside down?" He picked up the bowl again and continued to eat, "Brother just thinks that my parents loved me before, but now I don't want to eat." Should have blood on his child."
Ye Jiao looked at him talking and eating, feeling sorry for him for no reason. Sun Miaolan was very stingy and calculated carefully.
The benefits are all taken.
"We have money now, and we won't go hungry without the subsidy from our parents. Besides, we are free without our parents." Ye Jiao comforted him, and finally added, "We will live better and better."
Ji Yang is not active when he is off work, but he is very active and hard-working in other periods.
She is still full of confidence in the future.
"Yes, we have money, so what is that little food? Mad dog!" Ji Yang cursed in a low voice, "You disturb the whole family, shrew!"
His appearance made Ye Jiao smile, and she picked up the bowl and continued to eat.
that night.
Ye Jiao also took out their money and counted it, and sighed with Ji Yang that they have a lot of money now, what can the money do, secretly a little happy.
"How much money is there?" Ji Yang looked at her on the bed and opened his hands, "Hurry up and go to bed."
"I still want to read." She looked at him and became shy.
"Hurry up, don't let me go down and catch you, I won't be able to spare you then." Ji Yang pretended to be angry.
A picture appeared in Ye Jiao's mind, she was even more embarrassed, she closed the book, and walked over awkwardly.
As soon as he got to the bed, Ji Yang dragged her into the bed, hugged her delicate and soft body, and there was a sound of playfulness.
At the critical moment of the righteous way, a flash of lightning first flashed, startling Ye Jiao, and she hugged him, followed by a deafening thunder.
She shrank back and hid in Ji Yang's arms.
"Small things." He touched her head, patted her lightly, and went to kiss her again.
There was the sound of "cracking" rain outside, constantly hitting the roof, and something fell to the ground in the yard, and there was a lot of movement.
"Won't the chicken get wet?" Ye Jiao worried.
It hasn't rained for a long time, and this time it's raining heavily.
"Will run into the cage, is this the time to worry about it?" Ji Yang raised his head slightly, speaking a lesson.
Ye Jiao looked at him, her brows slowly curved, and her clean and bright eyes looked at him, making one's heart tingle.
Unfortunately.
In the end it didn't work.
The chick was not showered, and the two of them were going to be drowned.
There were five or six buckets in the small room, and Ye Jiao hugged him and hid in the corner of the only bed that did not leak.
The two looked at the dripping water from the roof, and looked at each other. Ji Yang's eyes were so aggrieved that his teeth might be crushed.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the floor of the house was soaked. Ye Jiao shivered a little from the cold, and leaned against him desperately.
The temperature on his body kept rising, hopelessly looked up, then at the little daughter-in-law on his body, and stretched out his hand to embrace her.
It rained all night and didn't stop until early in the morning. The basins placed on the ground were filled with water, and the small basins were still overflowing and flowing out.
Ye Jiao opened her eyes, feeling sore all over her body, she got up and saw that she was sleeping in Ji Yang's arms, and Ji Yang was sitting, leaning his head against the wall, and stretched out his arms to hug her waist.
Their quilts were wet, the cabinet was wet, and there was a basin on the bed, and the water splashed half wet the mat.
No one is more pitiful than them.
Ye Jiao hurriedly got out of bed to read her book, which she hurriedly picked up in the cabinet yesterday, and was relieved to see that she was not wet.
Ji Yang also opened his eyes, wrinkled his face immediately, and slowly stretched out his hand to cover his right shoulder.
"Is it numb?" Ye Jiao was a little embarrassed. She probably slept all night yesterday, so she wanted to go and have a look.
"Don't come here." Ji Yang moved slowly, then slowly moved his two unconscious legs, and said, "Daughter-in-law, you must have gained a lot of weight, and your legs are numb from your pressure."
Squeeze numbness, why do you say she gained weight? Ye Jiao was outraged, so she walked over and patted him on purpose.
"Hiss..." Ji Yang's face wrinkled together, and he leaned against the wall, almost crying.
Ye Jiao was amused by him and crawled onto the bed.
"Don't come over." Ji Yang said to stop her, his face was full of resistance.
"You think you're talking ironic." She caught a rare opportunity, suddenly became playful, and slowly approached him.
"Daughter-in-law, don't make trouble." Ji Yang was afraid of her, and begged for mercy.
Where had Ye Jiao seen him like this
She was the one who begged for mercy most of the time, she got more and more aggressive, and decided to take this opportunity to take revenge.
She crawled in front of him, before she stretched out her hand, she was pulled over by someone, and her body was easily turned over. Ji Yang hugged her tightly, pressed her with his legs, and hooked his lips and said with a wicked smile , "It's so early in the morning, what are you doing?"
"You..." Ye Jiao was stunned.
"The roof is leaking. I still have work to do this morning. Don't worry about what's left." Ji Yang let go of her, got out of bed, and said, "Hurry up and dry the quilt."
"I didn't think about it!" Ye Jiao sat on the bed to defend herself, if there was a pillow, she would have thrown it at him.
Ji Yang chuckled softly, leaving a chic back.
The wind was so strong last night that the kitchen, which had no door, was blown into a mess, and two walls that were already crumbling were about to collapse.
Ye Jiao only felt that they were living a good life yesterday, but looking at the house and kitchen today, she wanted to cry without tears.
Ji Yang went to pick up all the unused bricks in the corner, and there were some behind the next room, so he went to carry them back.
Taking a hammer, he demolished the other two walls that were randomly built with wood, and planned to build a wall with mud and bricks.
The kitchen is very small, and the wall is only two meters high. Ye Jiao can mix the soil, and he can build it up.
He was busy with these things all morning, and in the afternoon he went to borrow a bamboo ladder, Ye Jiao was holding it up, and he wanted to go up to the roof to repair it.
"Be careful." She ordered below.
"It's okay, put the tiles and mud in the bamboo basket, and I'll pull them up." Ji Yang stood on it and said to her.
Ye Jiao hurriedly followed his orders.
"This tile is broken." Ji Yang pulled it up and walked aside, saying to her from time to time.
This is an old house. Although it is simple, it is also a tile-roofed house. There are still many people living in mud houses.
He stands tall and his words spread far.
A group of educated youths who came back from picking wild vegetables heard the voice and looked over there.
"Isn't that Ye Jiao's husband?" Mu Weiwei looked over and saw Ji Yang on the roof.
Xu Qijie also looked over, with contempt all over his face.
"Is this building a house?" Mu Weiwei asked.
"They live in an old house. It rained heavily yesterday. It probably knocked off the roof. They are repairing it." Another female educated youth said, still laughing.
Most of them are from good families, and they live in high-rise buildings in the city, so it is natural to make fun of them.
"This is too pitiful." With sympathy in Mu Weiwei's eyes, she turned to look at Xu Qijie, who was sullen, "It's her own fault!"
"Isn't it?" Mu Weiwei looked at the old house not far away, and there were still piles of weeds beside her, she pursed her lips.
A few more people answered.
"She must regret it. Chen Zhen is crying now, but after giving birth to a child, what can I do?"
"Ye Jiao doesn't know what to think, she will cry later."
Xu Qijie didn't say anything, he felt the same in his heart, and at the same time implied a trace of unwillingness.
And at this moment, Ye Jiao walked from the backyard to the front, pointed at the head and said, "Are you an idiot? Over there, not here."
There was a smile in her words.
Ji Yang turned around again, her feet slipped suddenly, her complexion turned pale, her heartache almost stopped, she was about to exclaim, but saw him standing still again, raised his eyebrows to look at her, and said with a smile, "It's so fierce! what?"
Ye Jiao was so angry with him that if she had a bad temper, she would jump on the spot, "Hurry up, I'm going to be angry."
"Get angry again." Ji Yang lowered his head, stepped aside without complaint, and coaxed her, "Fix it right away, don't be angry."
Ye Jiao laughed again, and said softly, "It's getting dark, you should be careful."
The few people unconsciously slowed down and listened to the voice not far away. Ye Jiao's behavior was undoubtedly a slap in the face of what they just said.
At least now, it seems that she is not so miserable.
"What's so good about having muddy legs? We're going back to the city, so she can only stay in this valley." Mu Weiwei couldn't get used to Ye Jiao's laughter, so she said angrily.
"They all belong to the same educated youth academy, and Ye Jiao is also married, why can't you hope for her good?" Another female educated youth said to her lightly.
Mu Weiwei was startled, not knowing how to refute.
The rest of the educated youths were also not good at speaking, and felt that their inner darkness had been exposed.