Chapter 122

Dongming, Mingzhi, and Xinhua had just put down their things when they got home, and before the fire started, the neighbors on the left and right came to the door one after another, exchanged a few words, and asked directly with burning eyes, "How much money have you made in these few months?"

Well, the people in the village have always been very direct and aboveboard when asking about private issues like your income. The same question, a few of them used to ask those girls and boys who worked outside.

Now it's their turn, so they feel a little uncomfortable? But of course I still said roughly, "It's only a thousand dollars!"

Immediately, the uncle smoking a pipe did some calculations, "That is, after excluding food, drink, and round-trip fares, you can still earn more than three hundred per month, tsk tsk!"

The eyes of the people around were more enthusiastic, and they didn't ask a word about how big the provincial capital is or how tall the buildings are. In this way, the topics they were about to show off were all eagerly focused on business.

Not long after Feng Zhenchang put down his things, he was dragged to dinner by Feng Zhicheng who owns a workshop. Just after he left, there was an endless stream of people asking him to eat. Some people simply asked the three of them to eat together. I should still go to a few houses, and wait a day or two until the house is cleaned up before going.

Feng Yuxuan couldn't adapt to this kind of enthusiasm for a while, and said to her mother, "It's really different from before."

It's really different. During the Spring Festival before she went out to work, there was an endless stream of people coming to the house at this time, but they all had to pay for it. My parents cooked table after table of dishes that they could get at home. Good words One basket after another said, now, all of them have been turned over at once.

The second uncle, the third uncle, and the fourth uncle all sent pork that was specially left behind. The total amount was fifty or sixty catties. into bacon.

"It's okay, isn't there me? I like to eat meat. If I can't finish it, I will take it to the village." Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"You all come with me to eat at home. Knowing that Dongming will come back with you today, he has already prepared the meal and is waiting." The second uncle said.

They are all a family, so there is no need to refuse. The reception after returning home is actually quite tiring.

Feng Zhenchang came back very late. He didn't come back until after eleven o'clock. He smelled of alcohol and staggered a little when he walked, "I came back so late and drank so much. Have you ever drunk?"

Feng Zhenchang was very happy, "Yiping and the others are all asleep? I didn't stay at Zhicheng's house for a while, and then I was called over by other families. I went to three houses in total at night."

Mei Qiuping was fetching water to wash his face, so she asked, "You didn't take advantage of the wine to make random promises, did you? There are also many people going to other places, if everyone rushes past, who can make money? Then look at your old face when you come back to meet people like this."

"I still need to ask you to say these words," Feng Zhenchang covered his face with a hot towel, "Didn't our family all agree on the same caliber before we came back, and we will all be close to our brothers first, and next year at most one family will take two families out, and other things we want to do For this, you can go to the county or city, if you go to the province by yourself, don’t blame us if you can’t make money.”

"I'm afraid that if you drink a few glasses of wine, if someone says a few good things, you will agree to it. Yiping also said, drink less, if you can drink half a catty, it is best to drink only three or two. What about you? Drink three or two, didn't you drink half a catty that time?" Looking at Feng Zhenchang, who was flushed and reeking of alcohol, Mei Qiuping habitually babbled.

For the next few days, the morning was okay, but Feng Zhenchang didn’t have a meal at home for lunch or dinner, and Mei Qiuping had to go to several appointments. As for Feng Yiping, he didn’t go to any of them, or An Sheng who eats at home.

In the past few days since he came back, the sun has not been out for a day. He is lying on the edge of the brazier, flipping through "Money and Finance", and heard his sister who took the clothes to the pond in front of him to clean up, talking to someone, "Yuxuan, You are in a terrible situation now, I heard that you are also opening a store in the provincial capital?"

"No, it's still under renovation. It's estimated that it won't open until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

"I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money to open a store in the provincial capital?"

"Not much, thirty to forty thousand."

"30,000 to 40,000, that's a big deal, so you must earn more, right?"

"It's not much. After rent, utilities, and wages, I can't earn a few thousand yuan a month on average."

Hearing her answer, Feng Yiping heard that the mother who was busy in the main room immediately stopped what she was doing, and when Feng Yuxuan came in with a bucket of clean clothes, Mei Qiuping went up and grabbed her ear, "Mom, mom, what are you doing?"

Feng Yuxuan yelled while tilting her head, but Mei Qiuping ignored her and dragged her to the innermost room to complain, "How many times have I told you not to talk big when you come back, why didn't you listen, what thirty or forty thousand, what Can't you earn a few thousand a month?"

Feng Yuxuan called Qu, "Isn't it thirty or forty thousand, can't you make a few thousand a month? Where am I talking big?"

"You're still reasonable, you still have something to say, right? Why are you saying this in front of people? If you make a little money, you'll be cocky. You think you're Shen Wansan!"

It seemed that Mei Qiuping beat her with something again, Feng Yuxuan hid in the room.

"Good lesson!" Feng Yiping said heartily.

In a sense, people in the village can be divided into two types, those who like to show off and those who don’t.

Those who love to show off, talk about trivial matters to everyone, obviously just an ordinary worker in the factory, he must boast that he is irreplaceable, as if the factory will close down if he leaves the factory. If you finally went to a small restaurant to have dinner, listening to what he said, those who didn't know would really think that he had eaten a full banquet.

If you ask him about his income, he will definitely say indifferently, "It's not much, but I'm always extravagant. Even if you give me thousands of dollars a month, I can't keep much."

These words are actually very ambiguous, but when others listen to them, they will preconceive that he really made a lot of money.

Those who don't like to show off are on the contrary. They will only tell their close ones when they have something to do. Even if they make money, they must at least make a 50% discount, and then tell the outside after making a 50% discount, for fear of irritating others.

Feng Yiping's family, if divided according to this, he and his mother don't like to show off. to the heap.

Of course, there is nothing right or wrong about this, it's just that people behave differently.

Next, many of the people who came to the door came to borrow money, not only people from the village, but also many from the village. Most of them were for the tuition fees of their children after the new year, and some of them were met by family members. For example, someone in the family got sick, got a lot of debts, and the end of the year was sad.

This is also a nerve-wracking thing, and to Feng Zhenchang and the others, it is also painful and joyful.

The situation of many families is similar to his family's one or two years ago, and they all feel the same way. The debts owed in the past, even for migrant workers with children who have gone out, can't fill the holes left in the past in just one or two years.

Agree to them all, even if it is not enough to sell them, let's refuse them all, and then, how many people may poke their backs in the future.

Fortunately, they have a standard of reference, take out the book of borrowing in the past, and the account of receiving gifts when building the house as a reference, and those who helped them before, but now they ask for it at the door, of course they cannot refuse, those casual acquaintances, some They politely declined, and they really don't have much money left to prepare for the opening of a new store after the Chinese New Year.

Of course, it's not all rejection. As for those who are really difficult, I help some as appropriate. Although it can't solve the big problem, it is more or less a heart.

Even so, nearly a thousand dollars were thrown out back and forth.