vrcanaries Chapter 478 1 Early in the morning to ask for money
Chapter 478 1 Early in the morning to ask for money
Zhou Guo finished talking after eating and drinking, yawned, and said to Wu Jiang and the others: "Let's squeeze in here tonight, we will be busy tomorrow."
Li smiled and said, "We have already arranged the sleeping places for them. Go to sleep. Poor you, you haven't slept well these days. You can catch up on the two hours of sleep you still have. The villagers will come to visit early tomorrow morning."
Sure enough, Zhou Guo was still asleep when he vaguely heard someone coming to the yard and shouting in a hoarse voice: "Guoguo's mother, Guoguo's mother, is your Guoguo back? Can we get the money today?"
"Yes, the old man has been back for a few days. Why does she need to be gone for so long? We are still waiting for the money to make thick clothes for the family. My husband just got the news from the head of the village that the government will conscript people for labor service next month to repair the dam. It will take a month. I have to prepare thicker clothes for my head of the family, otherwise he will freeze. Your family can only let Zhou Gu go. He must be over fifteen years old."
When Zhou Guo heard this, he opened his eyes. He thought, "You have to do corvée labor when you turn 15. How can you endure such heavy physical work?"
The weather will be cold next month. I don’t know what the government is thinking. They don’t go now, but insist on waiting until the weather gets cooler. It seems like there is something wrong with their brains. If they can use the money, they would rather pay it.
She couldn't lie still anymore. More and more people had come to the yard. If she didn't go out, the villagers would think that she had run away with the goods and money and would never come back.
When she opened the door and went out, a group of people's eyes lit up when they saw her coming out.
He patted his thigh and laughed, "Oh, my little ancestor, you are finally back. We have been looking forward to seeing you back for so long. How are you? You didn't suffer during the past two days outside, did you? I saw that you have gained some weight, so you must have eaten delicious food, right?"
Zhou Guo rubbed his eyes and said, "Aunts, you came so early, are you impatient to get the money?"
The other woman laughed and said, "That's right. We came to you, the God of Wealth, early in the morning to collect our money. We are waiting for you to give us the money. Look at you. Have you sold all the mushrooms? When will you give us the money?"
"Yes, yes. When will the money be distributed?"
A group of people surrounded her like hungry wolves surrounding a fat rabbit, with their eyes shining as if they wanted to eat her.
Zhou Guo said helplessly, "Aunts, you guys should have come later. I didn't get back until midnight last night. I only slept for more than an hour and you woke me up. Besides, creditors won't come to collect debts so early in the morning. It's unlucky! The money will be paid in the afternoon. If you have time, hurry up and go to the mountains to pick mushrooms. After the money is paid, I will start collecting mushrooms again. Whoever picks more can sell more for more money! Ah, go quickly and come back in the afternoon!"
After saying that, he waved his hand and told them to hurry up the mountain.
When the women heard this, they were hesitant. "Then...then, let's come back in the afternoon? Are you really here and really going to pay in the afternoon?"
"Yeah, you're not lying to us, are you? We didn't make any money from the sale, or was the money stolen by someone?"
Zhou Guo said, "Don't worry. I said I'll give you the money in the afternoon, so I'll give you the money in the afternoon. Why would I lie to you? Even if the whole village blocked this place for a whole morning, I won't give you a penny. It's useless for you to block this place. You might as well go up the mountain to pick some mushrooms and earn some money. If you make me unhappy, I'll come back and block the most people's mushrooms, and I won't give them to you."
When everyone heard this, they looked at each other and then at Zhou Guo, knowing that she was a man of her word.
"Okay, then we'll come back in the afternoon. Let's go into the mountains. Yesterday, all five of us went up the mountain and picked up two backpacks, weighing more than 50 or 60 kilograms."
"That's pretty good. Our family of three only picked up half of the basket. Now there are more people going into the mountains to pick mushrooms, and it's harder to pick them."
Everyone dispersed in a hurry, and in a few moments, the crowded yard was cleared away.
Mrs. Li was unhappy and said, "I told them to come in the afternoon but they didn't listen. They came to our house early in the morning to collect the debt. They can't bear to see our family doing well."
Zhou Guo sat in the yard, basking in the warm autumn sunshine, looking at the wild pear trees and the water hyacinth planted in the yard last year. The renovation of the house also made room for them. The trees were lush and leafy in the summer, but now the leaves were beginning to dry and fall off.
There were no fruits from the scale vine this year. Thinking of this, she got up, went into the house, took out a pair of scissors, and started cutting the messy wild vines. The originally messy vines were finally straightened out and looked neater.
Li came out and took a look, then said with a smile, "The old man was talking about when to trim this vine, and you finished it in a few clicks."
In such a short while, Wu Jiang and the others had already gotten up. They did not rest at all and were busy looking for work to do. They fed and watered the livestock in the backyard, cleaned the house, helped Li and Zhou Xing prepare breakfast, and even carried a hoe to weed the vegetable garden.
Zhou Guo didn't care when he saw this.
Zhou Xing came over and whispered, "Isn't this too bad? We asked them to stop working, but they didn't listen. They just couldn't rest. Not only that, they even collected our clothes and washed them."
Zhou Guo said, "Let them do it. If they are not allowed to do it, they will feel uneasy. It would be good to find something to do to calm their minds. By the way, sister, I brought you something when I came back this time. Wait for me to show it to you."
After a moment, he found a red-painted wooden abacus from the house and handed it to her, "Yes."
Zhou Xing looked at the wooden abacus, the beads were shiny red, small and exquisite, and said in astonishment: "Is this for me? I don't know how to use it, why are you giving it to me?"
Zhou Guo said, "It's okay, Master knows how to do it. I'll ask him to teach you later. Our family has been doing business every day these days, and the amount of money coming in and out each time is not small. Sister, take this opportunity to learn how to do the accounting."
Zhou Xing was a little bit unbelievable, and her hand holding the abacus was shaking slightly, "I, I can learn to count?"
If she knows how to do accounting, she can become an accountant, and then she won't have to work in the fields for a living. Can she also find a job in the county town like her brothers?
Zhou Guo said, "Why not? Learning to do accounting is very useful. Even if you get married in the future, if your husband secretly hides money or spends it without your knowledge, you won't have to be kept in the dark. You can even be a female accountant in the future."
Zhou Xing nodded heavily. She couldn't read or write, her brain wasn't as flexible as Zhou Guo's, and she couldn't do math. She really couldn't find any strengths at all. She was worrying about her life after getting married, and suddenly she was told that she could learn to use an abacus and do accounting. She was really overjoyed.
In fact, she was already a good student, but the only one in her family was either Zhou Guo or Zhou Su, not to mention Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi. The only one who could compare with them was Zhou Gu.