frightfiction Chapter 549: Zhou and Zhao's suggestions
Chapter 549: Zhou and Zhao's suggestions
In the evening, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao came to Liu Jingxue again.
After welcoming the two people in, Liu Jingxue was a little confused as to why these two people came again.
Could it be that he is bored because he doesn't have to go to town to discuss business? If he is bored, he can go to Grandpa Wu's class. Why does he have to go here?
Since the work in the fields was finished, the people in the cowshed no longer had to work and were completely idle.
The eldest aunt was fine with this free time, as she had to take care of three meals a day and make leather boots for Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao, so she was not bored. But the other three had nothing to do and became a little restless.
The three of them couldn't sit still, but they didn't want to listen to the radio all day long. Not only did it waste electricity, but sometimes there were no good programs to listen to. So they thought of teaching the three younger generations something.
Liu Jingxue didn't want to learn their things, so she avoided the job by saying that she wanted to make medicine for the village and make a batch of medicine for her elder brother and Grandpa Zhang, and send it out before the snow blocked the road.
Liu Jingxue could dodge it, but Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao couldn't.
However, these days, the two of them had to go out to discuss business, so they simply moved the evening class time forward and extended it a little bit, and did not let the two of them go during the day.
However, several elders have already said that after the heavy snow blocks the road and the villagers stop coming here, the two of them will have to stay in the cowshed during the day and receive education.
After Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao came in, they exchanged glances, urging the other to speak.
Seeing their interaction, Liu Jingxue became more curious about the purpose of their visit.
"What's wrong with you two? Say whatever you want to say now, why are you being so shy?
By the way, I haven’t asked you how much money you made from selling vegetables this time.”
After hearing Liu Jingxue's words, the two of them stopped pushing each other around, and Zhao Junhao spoke first, "It's not much to earn, each of us only got 110 yuan."
Although he said he didn't make much money, anyone could hear the pride in his words.
Liu Jingxue was surprised and said, "You have only been selling for less than half a month, and you have made so much money.
This vegetable is only one cent for two pounds. How can you make so much money by selling it so cheaply?"
Zhou Mingxuan coughed and said, "Although the food is indeed cheap, the quantity is not enough.
80% of the vegetables in our production team were sold by the two of us, and the remaining 20% were sold by other educated youth.
As for the vegetables from other production teams, almost all of them were sold by the two of us.
This way, we can earn more money.”
"Then the other educated youth didn't have any disagreements with you, right?" Liu Jingxue asked worriedly.
After all, we all went to the countryside to join the Red Star Production Team. Although we didn't live together, it was better not to have conflicts with other educated youth.
“There are so many government agencies and factories in the town, and we are not stealing their business. It is they who cannot get the orders, so why should they complain?
Sometimes we meet them in town, and if they want to go to the same store as us, we just give them the place and don’t compete with them.
But sometimes we would run after they gave up. But before that, we would ask them and make sure they really gave up before we did so. "Zhao Junhao explained.
"Don't worry, we really didn't steal their business. We even helped them with the orders they got, and they know that."
Liu Jingxue heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this, "That's good, I was just worried that you and them would have conflicts over this matter.
You two are not short of money, and you do this purely out of interest or hobby, but they are different, they have no money, so they rely on selling vegetables to earn some extra money, otherwise they can't even fill their stomachs.
Especially Zhou Wenbing and Zhou Zhiqing, they still need to support their families, so it would be better if we don’t cut off their path.”
"Don't worry, we understand."
"What's the matter with you guys just pushing each other around? Why are you too embarrassed to speak up?" Liu Jingxue asked directly.
Zhao Junhao pushed Zhou Mingxuan and said, "Mingxuan, you speak."
Zhou Mingxuan glared at Zhao Junhao, then turned to Liu Jingxue and said with a flattering smile, "Nothing much, I just wanted to ask Xiaoxue if you are interested in partnering with us to do something?"
"What kind of business should we do in partnership with you?" Liu Jingxue was a little curious.
Didn't they say that the three of them would sell medicine together when permission was given later? Could it be that two of them were planning to do it earlier, but the current situation doesn't allow it?
"When we went to the town to discuss business, many people asked us if we had any meat to sell them besides vegetables. It didn't matter what kind of meat it was, as long as it was meat.
I was thinking about the endless mountains, especially the deep mountains. I wondered how many animals and meat there were in them, and whether I could get some to sell to them.
It is definitely not possible to approach the production team about this matter. If the production team intervenes, not only will we not gain any benefits, but if this matter gets out, it will probably cause strong opposition from other production teams, and we may even be punished by the higher-ups.
The two of us discussed whether we could get some meat privately and sell it to make some money.
But given our current skills, we don’t dare go deep into the mountains, and it’s not good to hunt too many animals outside, lest other villagers lose their source of meat.
We were thinking about whether we could cooperate with you. You would be responsible for getting the prey, and Haozi and I would be responsible for selling it. You would take the lion's share of the money, and we would take the smaller share."
When Liu Jingxue heard this, she frowned. To be honest, if it wasn't really difficult to eat meat in this era, she would have gone into the mountains to hunt and get some meat for her family. She didn't want to hunt too many.
Think about how many animals have become extinct in later generations. Not only because the environment has been destroyed and the animals have no suitable space to survive, but also because of indiscriminate killing.
Her personal ability was limited and she could not change the course of events, but Liu Jingxue did not want to be part of the cause of that outcome in the future.
She kept many modern poultry in her space. If there was no suitable source, there would be absolutely no problem in supplying her people.
On the high mountains of the space, she also released many of the most common animals of this era.
Except for last year, when the meat she provided to the cowshed was hunted from the mountains outside, this year's meat was all bred in the space.
She had only gone hunting three times this year, for the production team, for those soldiers, and the times she took Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao into the mountains. Of course, she also caught some pheasants and rabbits for the children to snack on in the mountains, and also traded them with Sister Jin.
Liu Jingxue was thinking about how to convince the two to give up this matter.
She definitely couldn't say that she was worried that too much hunting would lead to the extinction of animals in the future, otherwise she would have to spend a lot of time explaining why she had such a speculation.
But if she didn't say that, how could she start? Liu Jingxue was lost in her own thoughts for a while and didn't say anything for a long time.
Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao remained silent, waiting for Liu Jingxue's reply.
The room fell into an eerie silence.