Chapter 153 [153] The Importance of a Cattle (2000)

The students did not start school until the 16th day of the first lunar month. From the 7th to the 16th day of the first lunar month, they took turns making tofu at home, wanting the sisters-in-law to take a good rest, and even volunteered to do more and go to various villages to sell.

Children of this era have a strong sense of responsibility. They are poor children who have become family members early, without comparing, no self-esteem, and do not think selling tofu is embarrassing. They even come to buy it when they meet a classmate's family and give it more.

Two or three brothers went out together, pushing and shouting, which were also an indispensable good memory in childhood.

Sometimes Zhuo Lin would go with her brothers.

Now the two companies have raised fifteen or sixteen hens in total. The yield is low in winter, but they can save at least ten eggs every day. If the eggs are sold at the supply and marketing cooperative, the small ones are two cents per one and the large ones are three cents per one. I heard that people in the city can’t buy eggs because there are not many rural people who can afford chickens.

Not everyone can have such good luck in their family. Both men have formal imperial grain jobs, and women can still sell tofu at home to make money. Who has no elderly and children? If you want to do such a business, you have to be someone to do it, not to mention that you don’t even have the skills?

As the number of bean dregs at home increases, animals will take advantage of it. Because people who eat too much bean dregs will get tired of it, and no one wants to eat this thing every day, so they feed chickens and pigs. Although they can be eaten at one time in the supply and marketing cooperative, the price is still too cheap. If my father sells it at the entrance of the furniture factory, the small ones cost four cents and the big ones cost five cents, because their eggs only cost money and they don’t need the kind of food tickets issued in the factory.

The country is in a difficult period, and as long as the supply exceeds demand, they will be limited to bills. However, it is different from her era. They need tickets for everything and are not allowed to buy and sell privately. It can only be said that in comparison, it is obviously more humane here because it is more elastic and wider.

Whether it is my uncle or my parents, I am very concerned about the health of my children at home. I am reluctant to eat any of the eggs saved by others. When I was sold for money, my nine children in their family could get one every day. Even my elder brother and second brother who was in junior high school could bring a few pickled salted eggs every week.

Because children need to study, when they grow up, physical care is more important than anything else.

And it is not easy to make this decision.

So although there are more than a dozen eggs every day, not many of them saved, and every time the eggs saved are taken to the factory by my father to exchange for money for meal expenses, on average, you can bring about ten eggs in a week. When the weather is warmer, there are twenty or thirty. This is determined by the frequency of egg laying of chickens. For example, in winter, it is good to save about ten eggs in a week.

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The Deng family waited until the brothers started school, but there was no news. It seemed that Deng Tingting had never come back after being scared away. This time, their Deng family's intention to rely on Deng Tingting to get some bride price was completely hopeless.

After the brothers all started school, the sister-in-law and Tao Yi made the tofu in the morning and rented a ox cart from the village committee for five cents a day. Ah Niang took Zhuo Jian to sell tofu at home. Tao Yi drove the ox cart and carried the uncle and Zhuo Lin to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, Houttuynia cordata, and various wild vegetables.

Because there is a ox cart, they can come back before dark.

On the last weekend before the school year, Zhuo Dajun took the children and brought back a lot of Artemisia anthracite, Houttuynia cordata, and winter bamboo shoots. Because these ingredients are more seasonal, the aunt felt that she could not waste this stage in vain and rented a ox cart to pick it. Zhuo Lin hadn't been there yet. Besides, she is five or six years old now, and she can do some digging wild vegetables, so she brought her here too.

When the eldest aunt sat in the ox cart, she mentioned it several times.

"No, our family also buys a donkey this year? Like this car, your father will do it. It's not difficult,"

Cows are definitely not affordable. In this era, cows are equivalent to harvesters in later generations. They are experts in strengthening labor and reclaiming fields.

A cow with thirty acres of land is equivalent to the life and roots of an old farmer, so you will see that in ancient times, the Republic of China, and even in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was almost no beef. Even if you could eat it, it was a cow that died of old age and illness. No one would kill the cow to obtain benefits.

If there is no mine at home, I will kill the cattle that plows the fields at home to eat meat and sell them for money. I will not be drowned by the elderly or the villagers in the village and break their legs. I will lose.

Later generations of cattle were sold at 15 yuan per catty. A bull about one year old could sell for tens of thousands of yuan, and almost all cows were not sold because they had to keep their cubs.

Then look at this era, she doesn’t know how much the price of raw cattle is, but it is said that buying a calf costs at least 70 or 80 or even 100 yuan. The livestock in this era are far less eating than later generations, and it is slow to grow meat and pounds.

One hundred yuan in the 1950s and 1960s was equivalent to one hundred thousand yuan in later generations. After all, the gap between the era of 30 yuan and the era of 3000 yuan was 100 times.

It’s impossible for anyone to buy a cow with a hundred yuan?

Even a donkey costs at least forty or fifty yuan, which is equivalent to the 5,000 yuan in later generations. Not everyone can buy it or dare to buy it.

So, as soon as the eldest uncle came up, he was ruthlessly attacked by Tao Yi.

"My aunt, it's best not to buy it. If you buy it, it may be convenient for us, but it also facilitates others. People's relationships are not good. If you borrow this or not, you will have a headache. It will also make others feel that our family has made a lot of money. So not only can't buy it, but our family's current scale should not be expanded. Whether it's raising chickens, pigs, or tofu, it's enough to stabilize the current amount."

Chen Qiuxia originally said something sighingly, but she didn't expect Tao Yi to be serious, but when you listened carefully, you found that what she said was right.

"Xiaoyi, your parents are really amazing. This has trained you so well, right?"

Tao Yi scratched his head and smiled straightforwardly: "No, I've seen it a lot, I've experienced it a lot. Although I'm young, my grandfather told me some of the tricks since I was a child. After hearing it too much, I can naturally combine it with reality. Later I found that this kind of human nature is actually the most difficult thing to get along with, because there are too many people in this world who can't stand you, and even brothers and sisters are sometimes jealous, let alone those irrelevant outsiders?"

The eldest uncle had a deep understanding of this, and she sighed and touched Zhuo Lin's head.

"Yes, there are always more people who can't stand you, than people who see you. This is the heart of the people. It's okay, my aunt is just talking about it. I also know the truth that wealth is not exposed. We have money, so we have to hide it and use it for you to study in the future. If there are too many places to spend money in the future, we should not waste it on these irrelevant things!"
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