Reborn to Strive

When Shi Zhen returned home after selling the fried skewers that night, he found out what happened to Guan Kai's house.

He was a little taken aback, but not surprised.

In the lower-level rural areas, there are generally more men than women, and women are relatively rare.

From ancient times to the present, the real bottom has no women who cannot marry, only men who cannot marry wives.

In City J, after 20 years, due to the increase in the number of immigrants, local men, except for a very few, will not worry about not being able to marry a wife. Even an old man like Guan Kai's father can find a good old lady, but in this During this period, there were still more men than women.

The patriarchy here is not serious, but it still happens. Counting 30 to [-] years ago, it happened from time to time that girls could not be afforded to drown or be thrown away.

Also, many rural women marry into the town, but women from the town marry into the countryside... Anyway, Shi Zhen has never heard of it.

Generally, it is the rural men who find a good job, jump out of the farm and become a city man, and then marry a city man.

Before Shi Zhen set up a stall in the town, he heard people say that a certain family in the town married their stupid son a country wife, and the child they gave birth to was also stupid.

Shi Zhen quite sympathized with that woman, and he also understood why that woman made such a choice back then.

People who have never done farm work will not know how tiring it is, especially before the 90s, when almost all farm work was done by manpower, and the harvest in the field was still related to the belly of the whole family.

When planting rice seedlings, leeches wrapped around the legs, and the legs were still bleeding when they were torn off, so they had to continue working.

Moreover, ordinary people can't eat any good food at home.

People who have lived too hard can be coaxed away with just a little thing. It is quite normal for a young woman to be willing to marry a fool in order to have enough food and drink.

Due to various reasons, there are many people in rural areas who cannot marry a daughter-in-law. In the past few years, bachelors have bought a wave of daughter-in-laws, but in the past two years because of crackdowns and other such things, this opportunity has disappeared.

In such a big environment, it is really too easy for a woman to find a man who is willing to marry her, and it is normal to find a man who is a few years younger.

His stepmother was older than his father, and not as good-looking as his father.

However, his stepmother is a weak, obedient and dedicated woman in the traditional sense, but Guan Baiyu's aunt is obviously not.

"Brother, do you think they will divorce?" Guan Baiyu asked.

"Definitely." Shi Zhen said.

Just now Guan Baiyu was rambling, and also talked about his aunt's past.

She was oppressed by her mother-in-law in the first few years of her marriage, and she lived a very bad life. Later, she probably turned her back on everything, so she didn't take what her mother-in-law said seriously. Instead, she confronted her mother-in-law and scolded her every day at home.

But in the past two years, she has changed again. She does her own thing and only cares about her own happiness. She puts on make-up and goes out to play all day long.

Shi Zhendao: "Xiao Yu, do you know what kind of person can live well?"

"What kind of person?" Guan Baiyu asked.

"People who treat me well." Shi Zhen said.

If a person is good enough to himself and is ruthless, he can live well anywhere.

Guan Baiyu was at a loss.

Shi Zhen smiled and said, "Okay, go to bed early."

The affairs of the little grandma's house had nothing to do with Shi Zhen and Guan Baiyu, but Guan Guangguo, Guan Jianguo, Guan Xingguo and the others were all affected.

Because Guan Wenguo didn't want a divorce, he asked these cousins ​​to embolden him, and let this person accompany him to his wife's adulterer's house to make trouble.

But the adulterer is also a local, and has relatives, friends, and cousins!

There are more cousins ​​than him.

Moreover, Guan Wenguo had an average relationship with Guan Jianguo and the others. For the sake of being cousins, Guan Jianguo and the others were willing to embolden Guan Wenguo, but it was impossible to help Guan Wenguo fight.

Guan Wenguo didn't fight himself, so why should they fight?

It's not their wives who are going to run away!

Speaking of which, Guan Jianguo, Guan Xingguo, and Guan Baiyu's adoptive father, Guan Guangguo, no matter what kind of people they are, they are very good to their wives and take care of Xiaojia.

For example, when Guan Xingguo married his wife, he wanted to separate the family.

Guan Guangguo and Zhang Xiumei had no children in the early years, his mother had conflicts with Zhang Xiumei, and he also stood by Zhang Xiumei.

Guan Jianguo didn't have any major conflicts with his parents, but he was right-minded, and he didn't listen to his mother very much in daily life.

Before that, Guan Wenguo's mother said bad things about Guan Wenguo's wife everywhere, but Guan Wenguo still kept silent, and they also looked down on Guan Wenguo.

After going on like this for a few days, Shi Zhen got the news that Guan Wenguo and his wife divorced.

The Guan Wen country has no property, as for the house and the field... the foundation of the house and the field belong to the village collective and cannot be separated.

Even Guan Kai registered with the Guan family, and the Guan family would not allow anyone to take him away.

Guan Wenguo's wife finally left the house.

After the divorce, she returned to her natal family, and within a few days, set up a few tables of wine and married herself again.

The speed is jaw-dropping, and it also makes many women... quite envious.

During this period of time, the little grandma's family became the talk of the villagers. They basically said that the little grandma went too far and forced her daughter-in-law away. By the way, I would like to sympathize with their family-the two brothers don't even have wives.

But everyone wouldn't say it in front of the little grandma, and the little grandma...she would go up and talk to someone when she saw someone, saying how ugly her ex-daughter-in-law was and how miserable her son was.

Then she dropped by and revealed all the bad things about her family.

Shi Zhen didn't even know what she was thinking.

Normal people know that family ugliness should not be publicized, but she... likes to show her family ugliness to the outside world.

For example, she often proudly talked about how she taught Guan Kai not to kiss his mother, so Guan Kai's mother wanted a divorce, and Guan Kai rushed to beat his mother.

Then within a few minutes, she started to say that Guan Kai is fucking cold-blooded and doesn't care about her son.

According to her own statement, when Guan Kai was a child, she didn't bring Guan Kai to her own mother, and taught Guan Kai to scold his mother. Now Guan Kai has grown to beat his own mother... In this case, Guan Kai It's strange that Guan Kai can be taken seriously.

Shi Zhen suspected that Guan Kai's mother's decision to divorce had a lot to do with being heartbroken by her son.

Guan Kai has been scolding his mother in the village recently, and his mouth is full of obscene language, which makes people bored.

But none of this has anything to do with Shi Zhen, he is busy setting up his own stall, and it has been a little empty lately——after Shi Xinghuo helped him do more preparations, he will do more and more things!

Shi Zhen originally planned to let him continue to go out to do small jobs, but now that he can do most of the preparation work, Shi Zhen let him stay at home to help.

The main reason is that there is no suitable job for him outside.

In his previous life, Shi Xinghuo was crushed to death, which left a little psychological shadow on Shi Zhen. He was not afraid of anything else, but Shi Xinghuo was afraid of accidents on the construction site.

Digging river mud was fine, but he wouldn't dare to ask Shi Xinghuo to build a house.

Since Shi Xinghuo took over most of the preparation work, Shi Zhen has free time to do other things, and Guan Baiyu can also concentrate on studying.

Shi Zhen raised wages for both Shi Xinghuo and Qian Qiqi. He raised the salary to 15 yuan a day, and Shi Xinghuo gave him [-] yuan a day.

At the same time, with the help of Shi Xinghuo, he added some new products to the cooked food stall.

The new products are braised chicken wing tips and braised chicken feet.

These two are very suitable for drinking, and many people buy them.

This is the current situation... Shi Zhen found out that he needs a freezer.

When the weather is hot, things are easy to spoil, so that he can only go to Zhu Butcher's house early in the morning to get fresh pig heads and cook them at home, which is a bit too tiring.

If he had a fridge freezer, some prep work, he could have prepared it in advance.

But freezers and refrigerators are not cheap.

He plans to rent a shop to open a shop... Shi Zhen really feels that there are many places to spend money every time he makes some money.

Thinking about these things, Shi Zhen got up at four o'clock this morning, and then rode a tricycle to the next village to find butcher Zhu to get a pig's head.

When it was cold, butcher Zhu killed the pigs the night before and sold them in the town the next day, but now it is hot, if the slaughtered pigs are left overnight, they will be sticky by the next afternoon. It's mushy, and the meat doesn't look right.

So butcher Zhu now makes appointments with people to kill pigs at one o'clock in the morning, take him home and deal with them, and go to the town to set up a stall after four o'clock in the morning.

Zhu Tuhu's life is upside down day and night, and it is obviously hard work, but if he wants to make money, he can only do so.

When Shi Zhen arrived at Zhu Tuhu's house, the door of a main room downstairs in Zhu Tuhu's house was open, and the light was on inside. Shi Zhen went in and saw Zhu Tuhu dividing pork.

Every day, he goes to slaughter pigs with other people, and then he will give Shi Zhen the pig's head and the pig's head that he bought with other people.

Shi Zhen would also buy large chunks of lean meat from him, cook them at home, and bring them to the town for salad.

In fact, cold beef should be more suitable, but in Anshan Town right now, you can't buy raw beef at all. After all, people here don't raise cattle.

"Uncle, I'll get the pig's head." Shi Zhen said when he saw Butcher Zhu.

Butcher Zhu quickly weighed the pig's head and calculated the price with a dirty calculator.

Shi Zhen took out money to pay the bill on the spot.

Butcher Zhu likes to do business with Shi Zhen very much, because Shi Zhen never owes money and always pays off on the spot.

People who do small business like him the most.

After Shi Zhen paid the money, he said to Butcher Zhu, "Uncle, please help me split it."

"Okay." Butcher Zhu agreed, picked up the bone chopping knife, and started chopping from the chin of the pig's head. First, he took out the pig's tongue completely, and then took out the pig's brain.

Pork tongue Shi Zhen is required, and he still sells cold pork tongue.

But he didn't want the pig's brain, and gave it to Butcher Zhu every time.

Many people now believe that pig brains make up the brain, and Zhu Tuhu can sell pig brains.

After buying something, Shi Zhen hurried home to deal with it, and then went to the town to set up a stall...

There are a lot of products in the deli stall, and they stand all day every day, earning at least [-] a day.

Shi Zhen was worried that Qian Qiqi would start a new business, but he didn't. Qian Qiqi has been working hard, earning his wages in a safe and sound manner.

After Shi Zhen asked him why, he found out that he thought the preparation work was too troublesome and he didn't want to do it, so he didn't set up a stall by himself.

Thinking about it carefully, it is normal for money to make such a choice.

Qian Qi is only 16 years old. He is already very good if he can calm down and set up a stall in the town all day. Let him do other things after setting up a stall...he is too busy.

Moreover, if you show others the stall to ensure the income in drought and flood, you will be responsible for the profit and loss of the stall yourself, and there is a lot of cost.

In terms of money, it is indeed better to be diligent and earn more than 400 yuan a day than to set up a stall by yourself.

Now Shi Zhen sells more rice balls than before.

But these are not scattered customers, but orders from some small factories and workshops nearby.

Nowadays, most of the factories in the town work in three shifts. The female workers have a shift from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm, which is called the day shift, and a shift from [-]:[-] pm to midnight is called the night shift, which is called the evening shift, which runs from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am. There is another shift at [-]:[-], called the late night shift.

According to regulations, the day shift has lunch, the evening shift has dinner, and the late night shift has breakfast.

The breakfasts given to female workers in those factories are usually not made by themselves, but bought in the town. The factory owners want to save costs, so rice balls with a large amount of [-] cents each are a good choice.

Sometimes Shi Zhen received so many orders that he had to cook an extra pot of rice with soy sauce and lard, and then asked Shi Xinghuo to help him knead the rice balls.

Although Shi Xinghuo was slow in making rice balls, he still knew how to make them, and it didn't matter if the rice balls were not good-looking, they were about the same size, as long as there were enough ingredients in them.

Such an order would allow Shi Zhen to earn an extra five or ten yuan a day.

Don't underestimate this money. At this time, some people want to earn it but can't earn it.

After setting up his stall this morning, Shi Zhen didn't go home right away, but started strolling around the town.

He wants to rent a house.

It won't be long before Guan Baiyu will take the high school entrance examination, and he plans to bring his parents and sisters after Guan Baiyu takes the high school entrance examination.

Guan Baiyu's house is now full of things, and Guan Jianguo's house that he and Shi Xinghuo rented is also full of things. His family will definitely not be able to live with them here.

He also didn't want them to live in the village, because it was too close to Guan Baiyu, he was afraid that Guan Baiyu would be bullied, and secondly, the village was far from the town, so it was inconvenient to go back and forth.

In fact, if it wasn't for Guan Baiyu, he would definitely rent a house in the town instead of in the village.

Of course, renting a house in the town will be more expensive, that's for sure.

Moreover, the rent at this time, relative to the income, is higher than that in later generations.

The main reason is that there are too few houses at this time, and people in the town generally don't have enough houses to live in, so there are fewer houses that will be rented out.

These days, who doesn't live in a crowded house?

Shi Zhen had already inquired about it before, so this time he went directly to look at the house.

There are two houses in the town that are going to be rented out.

One is the former collective dormitory of the silk factory.

The toilets in this house are shared, and the kitchens are all set up on the balcony. As for the place to live...it is a house of about twenty square meters, which can be divided into two rooms, one for eating and one for sleeping.

The people who live here have moved to another place because they have children at home. The house is furnished and rented out for 50 yuan a month, excluding water and electricity bills.

As for the other house, it is an old two-story building.

This building is in an old alley, with the same small buildings on both sides. It says it has two floors, but the upper floor is actually an attic.

The house is not big, there are only two rooms at the bottom, about fifty or sixty square meters in total, the upper attic is slightly smaller, about thirty or forty square meters, and there is a very small one at the back of the house, only five or six. A small square patio where you can hang some clothes or something.

This house has not been lived in for a long time, the roof needs to be repaired, and there is no furniture yet. The rent is [-] a year.

The main reason is that the homeowner lives in Changxi City now, doesn't live here, and is not very short of money, so he doesn't bother to charge dozens of yuan a month for rent, so he simply collects it on an annual basis.

Because of this, the rent is cheaper.

If it was when he first came to Anshan Town, Shi Zhen could only rent the first set.

After all, the set is furnished, which can save him a lot of work, and the rent that needs to be paid out at one time is not much.

But now, he has saved a lot of household belongings in bits and pieces, has money to repair the roof, and can pay a year's rent at a time...

Shi Zhen chose the second house without hesitation, and discussed renting with the person who showed him the house

It was a retired teacher in her 60s who lived in the next house.

Shi Zhen was sure that he wanted to rent a house, so he took out a piece of paper and wrote a receipt to Shi Zhen, which stated that he rented the house to Shi Zhen for one year and received [-] yuan.

After finishing writing, the retired teacher said some things to pay attention to when renting a house, such as not making the house more dilapidated than it is now, and not making too much noise at night to affect the surrounding people.

While talking, he also said something about the original homeowner.

Shi Zhen had no interest in the original owner, he had heard about it, but when he learned the original owner's name, he couldn't help being taken aback.

The original owner... was Guan Baiyu's grandfather, his own grandfather.