Quick travel to save a miserable life

After the National Day, it became colder every day. Single clothes were no longer enough, and autumn clothes and long trousers were added under the coat. Li Min, who was afraid of the cold, even put on a sweater and woolen trousers one day.

Lin Hui dug out the sweater and pants from her original bag, and when she put them on, she realized that they were already a little too small.

What a mistake. I just thought the sweater and woolen pants looked good, so I didn't buy them again. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be tight and short when I put them on. I had to take them off, add some wool, and knit them again.

Fortunately, Lin Hui can knit. Even if she hasn't done it for a long time, she regained her usual fast hand speed after getting familiar with it for a while.

Thanks to Lin Hui's last purchase, she saw the unrestricted items and didn't let them go. There was half a kilogram of wool in stock.

The original sweater and woolen pants were also spliced ​​several times and contained several types of wool. Lin Hui thought the colors were too complicated, so she reassembled them. Lin Hui used the extra variegated wool to knit two pairs of gloves with split fingers and exposed fingertips. She can wear them during class without affecting blackboard writing. Lin Hui gave Li Min a pair, and Li Min was so happy that she praised Lin Hui for her cleverness.

In fact, Li Min was not short of gloves, and she even had a pair of sheepskin gloves. It was just that this was a gift from a friend that made Li Min feel happy.

After working in school for so long, Li Min has no other closer friends except Lin Hui.

The current atmosphere is conservative. Even among colleagues, men and women must keep a certain distance and avoid excessive contact. Before Lin Hui came, there were only two female teachers in the school besides Li Min, but Li Min had a very average relationship with them.

Li Min's family is well off, and her food and clothing are considered to be of the highest quality at the moment. She talks about high-end goods from some department stores, and the two female teachers are both older and younger, although their lives are not bad. , but it is absolutely incomparable with the life of Li Min's family.

The two female teachers felt that Li Min was trying to show off and be arrogant, but in Li Min's opinion, it was because they had low self-esteem and felt sorry for themselves, so the two became increasingly estranged. The two female teachers traveled together, while Li Min walked alone.

When Lin Hui first came, Li Min also started to contact Lin Hui with the attitude of giving it a try. Fortunately, Lin Hui was not the kind of person who hated the rich. She neither eagerly followed her because she had good conditions nor alienated her because she felt that her conditions were not as good as hers. Li Min finds it very rare for people to interact with each other as equals.

In fact, the same was true for Lin Hui. Before Lin Hui had time to come into contact with the other two female teachers, Li Min took the initiative to make friends, and then the two of them went in and out together. Seeing this, the two female teachers no longer took the initiative to approach Lin Hui. Later, although Lin Hui knew the reason, she had no intention of arguing with them, so she became an acquaintance in the office.

After knowing each other for a long time, Lin Hui also knew something about Li Min's family. Li Min was an only child. Her father and mother both worked in the area. Her mother-in-law died young. Her father-in-law was the director of the Ku County Grain Station, and Li Min's husband worked in the Education Bureau. , except for Li Min’s son, who is in the fifth grade of elementary school, all the family members are paid.

Li Min has lived a comfortable life since she was a child. Her husband is her classmate in normal school. She got married after graduation. She does not have a mother-in-law, and her father-in-law is an open-minded person who never meddles in things. Since Li Min's parents were transferred from the county to work in the district a few years ago, her father-in-law has become even more kind to her.

Life has been smooth sailing from childhood to adulthood, and Li Min's life has rarely had setbacks. Originally, his biggest worry was that he didn't have a companion he could talk to at school. Since Lin Hui came, this problem has disappeared.

In the blink of an eye, November has arrived. According to the lunar calendar, it is already October. Sweaters and trousers are no longer enough to withstand the cold winter. Lin Hui’s newly made cotton clothes and trousers are on her upper body. At her feet are a pair of handmade cotton shoes, also made by Aunt Lin.

Lin Hui went to Bo City again at the end of October and sold part of the flour, rice and cotton in her hands, and got back more than a thousand yuan and a bunch of various bills. In order to prevent the bills from becoming invalid, Lin Hui took After receiving the tickets, I used them promptly and replaced them with various items to put in the space.

Lin Hui took advantage of the fact that the weather hadn't completely cooled down yet, so she bought dozens of chicks in several villages on the outskirts of Bo City and raised them in a space. After they were raised, the roosters could eat meat while the hens were kept to lay eggs.

In late November, the cabbage grown in the school's "test field" began to be harvested. Although it is less than three months old, the frost will be serious in a while and the cabbage will be frozen, so it needs to be harvested in advance.

As early as half a month ago, the school teachers started to deal with the cabbages in their respective fields. They tied each cabbage with a rope made of wheat straw from the top to the bottom one-third. It can make the cabbage core more solid without affecting its continued growth.

On the day of harvest, Li Min, Lin Hui, and Teacher Liu went to the fields after lunch. Lin Hui thought she would need tools such as shovels, but the strange thing was that they didn't use any tools.

Lin Hui was very curious, how to harvest cabbage without tools?

After Li Min and Teacher Liu demonstrated it twice, Lin Hui understood. He bent down, hugged the cabbage with his upper hand, and gently rotated it. While turning, he lifted the cabbage up. After a few turns, the cabbage was uprooted.

In this way, it didn't take the three people long to pull up all the cabbages in the field and place them neatly in the ground.

Lin Hui originally thought that the cabbage would be divided today, but Li Min said that the cabbage should be left like this for now. The weather is not bad for the past two days, so it can be dried for two days, and then weighed and distributed after two days.

Lin Hui asked the reason in confusion, and Li Min couldn't explain it at all. Forget it, he didn't need a few cabbage to eat, so it didn't matter when.

After waiting for another two days, the logistics office notified the teachers to bring sacks and divide the cabbage.

Although the cabbage had insufficient growth time, the school's cabbage harvest was still more than 400 kilograms. After calculation, each faculty member can receive nearly [-] kilograms.

Cabbage at the vegetable market costs one penny per pound, and the cabbage you receive is 4 yuan when converted into money. It is not a lot of money, but some teachers’ families have rural household registration and have many children. The burden is heavy, so these cabbage can be regarded as a small sum. household allowance.

Lin Hui was rich in supplies and didn't think much of these cabbages, just because they were grown with his own hands, so the meaning was naturally different.

The cabbages distributed by other teachers were either carried home on bicycles or brought back all at once on a borrowed cart. Lin Hui lived in the school, so there was no need for such trouble. She just used a cart from the logistics office to pull it back to the dormitory. At the door, they were placed together with the briquettes.

After dividing the cabbage, at the end of the month, Lin Hui went to Bo City again.

During this trip, in addition to selling rice, flour and cotton, Lin Hui also approached Director Wen of the meat factory and offered to buy three more pigs.

Meeting Lin Hui this time, Director Wen was more enthusiastic than last time.

Of course, Lin Hui did not disappoint him. In addition to the pork payment, Lin Hui privately gave Director Wen 20 kilograms of rice. Director Wen also did not mention a word about the reason why Lin Hui came to buy pork this time, as if she had already known it in her heart. There are countless.

As the weather gets colder, Lin Hui likes to go out less and less. When she stays in the dormitory, she can hide in the space. The temperature is suitable and the light is bright, making it convenient to read, write, and answer questions.

Speaking of writing articles, what is gratifying is that the two manuscripts Lin Hui sent for the first time received replies in mid-October. One of the two manuscripts was selected and published on a supplementary page of the provincial newspaper. There are also sample reports and remittance orders.

Lin Hui's article was more than 6 words long, and the editorial fee was 14 yuan per [-] words. This time, she received a total of [-] yuan, which was half a month's salary for Lin Hui.

Lin Hui's published articles and manuscript fees caused a small sensation in the office. Even Principal Zhang praised her by name during the meeting, calling on the school teachers to learn from Lin Hui and bring glory to the school.

The published article gave Lin Hui the confidence to continue writing. Since then, she has taken some time every day to read and read newspapers to learn about current events while also accumulating material for writing.

Facts have proved that Lin Hui's continuous writing practice and regular writing practice every day are effective. Since then, two articles have been published in the provincial newspaper. Although not every manuscript sent can be selected, the rejection rate is not low. , the royalties received several times add up to a lot.

These are all seen in the eyes of school colleagues, and it’s not like no one said harsh words, saying that as a teacher, you should teach and educate people well instead of focusing on other places. However, Lin Hui teaches seriously every day, corrects homework, and writes lesson plans. Not bad, your job is impeccable, and there is nothing wrong with using your spare time to create text.

In addition, Principal Zhang appreciated this very much and praised it more than once at the meeting, and gradually no one made any irresponsible remarks.

It was also because of this that Lin Hui's brand-new cotton-padded clothes did not attract more criticism. After all, she was a single girl with a high salary and additional income from royalties. It was normal for her to have better food and clothing.