Chapter 19

In addition to jealousy, there is also a kind of “confidence” that bullies the weak and fears the strong.

There are people in the village who have made a lot of money, been admitted to university, and have a stable job. Most people are jealous of these people, but they dare not say anything.

Zhou Sen’s family is an orphan and a widow, and they are the vulnerable group in the village. What’s wrong with saying a few words? Can you really fight with them?

As a result, when he met the damn guy Zhou Apple, he actually beat someone up.

It seems that this is not really “soft”. Let’s say less in the follow-up. Zhou Pingguo’s appearance is really scary.

Zhou Pingguo achieved his goal, so it didn’t matter who said bad things about them. Killing a chicken to scare the monkeys is enough, killing more is meaningless.

So if Goudan wants to say it, then say it; if he doesn’t want to, then forget it.

Zhou Pingguo knew what was going on.

They will have to live in the village for quite some time before buying a house in the county town and moving out completely.

As long as it can save face, that’s fine.

“Candy, don’t think about it for the time being. Go catch some loaches for me!” Zhou Pingguo said.

“What a stingy guy, just like Zhou Sen in your family.” Goudan stuck out his tongue at Zhou Pingguo.

“Your candy is still here with me, so be careful with what you say.” Zhou Pingguo scolded with a smile.

Goudaner immediately stood up and said, “Good sister-in-law, good sister-in-law, wait for me, when the loaches are fat, I will catch them for you.”

“That’s right, go and do your thing.”

Half a month later, Zhou Pingguo went to the county town to get her ID card and visited Tao Zaishan.

Tao Zaishan said to her, “As for earthworms, I have a friend who collects them, but his requirements are quite high. He wrote them down on paper. Can you understand them?”

Zhou Pingguo took the carton, looked at it for a while, and scratched his head. “I don’t recognize some of the words, but I can roughly understand the meaning. I’ll go back and study it. When the finished product is ready, I’ll have to trouble Manager Tao to ask the other party if they want it.”

“Okay, it’s just a small favor. I often travel between here and the provincial capital. Our hotel is going to open another one in Dongzhou City soon. If I’m not here, you can just leave it in the lobby.”

Zhou Pingguo often came to the store in winter, and many people recognized her.

After leaving the Red Star Hotel, it was still quite early. Zhou Pingguo rode her bicycle and looked for telephone poles everywhere. Nowadays, many house transfer and sale information is written by the owner himself on paper and then posted on the telephone pole.

Zhou Pingguo took a pen and paper and wrote them down one by one. At noon, she found a small stall to eat noodles and asked the owner while eating.

She has a local accent, which is fine, people are happy to speak to her. If she could only speak Mandarin, no one would be willing to speak to her. The county has also attracted many outsiders, and their living habits and customs are not compatible. In addition, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a job in the county, and many large factories are unable to pay wages. The migrant workers are willing to take less money, which further squeezes the jobs of local people, and the contradiction is getting deeper and deeper.

After eating noodles, Zhou Pingguo wandered around. People ignored her when she looked at houses because she looked young. But Zhou Pingguo was not interested in any of the houses today. In the afternoon, she had to go home.

Buying a house is not something that can be done overnight, especially in the absence of real estate agents. Zhou Pingguo worked as a real estate agent in her previous life. Although this profession is very controversial, it cannot be denied that it has indeed brought a lot of convenience to people’s lives.

The plum rain season is about to come. Zhou Pingguo had been asking about grain prices at the grain station. Later, he went to the county town more often and often had meals there. As a result, he got to know many people who set up stalls to do business.

If Zhou Pingguo was willing to sell the grain to them, the price would be higher than that at the grain station. Zhou Pingguo discussed with Zhou Sen and decided that it would be good to sell to them, so Zhou Pingguo became a middleman again, selling not only his own grain but also the surplus grain in the village.

But after only one or two weeks of selling, the sky suddenly broke and it rained every day.

Half of the road from their village to the county town is a dirt road, which is usually bumpy and even more so when it rains, it is completely muddy and impossible for cars to pass.

Zhou Pingguo was too lazy to go out anymore, so she stayed at home every day collecting earthworms that the wild boys in the village brought to her.

Following the instructions on the paper given by Tao Zaishan, she has saved up half a pound of finished products, and will sell them when there is more and the weather is better.

Time passed quickly, and in May, Goudan took the lead and caught loaches that made Zhou Pingguo very satisfied.

First, he put the loaches in a large vat at home to spit out the sand. After two days, Zhou Pingguo put the loaches into a bucket, took the local eggs and dried earthworms he had collected during this period, and set off early in the morning for the county town.

She was lucky. This time, Tao Zaishan was at the restaurant. He looked at her loach and gave her a thumbs up. “Not bad, not bad, fresh!”

“It’s 2.3 yuan per pound. If you have more, I’ll give it to you based on the real-time price,” said Tao Zaishan.

“Okay.” Zhou Pingguo nodded with satisfaction.

“I’d like to trouble you to take this bag of dried earthworms to the provincial capital for me.”

Tao Zaishan accepted the package and said, “I’ll take it to you this time. If it’s okay, I’ll tell you then.”

“Thank you so much, Manager Tao.” Zhou Pingguo took out her thank-you gift from the backpack. “This is a wild rabbit that the villagers hunted. It’s not worth much. Please accept it and make it into a snack.”

This time Tao Zaishan did not refuse, “Thank you for your thoughtfulness.”

This time, Zhou Pingguo brought ten kilograms of loaches and sold them for more than 20 yuan. The Red Star Hotel didn’t need the local eggs, so she took them to a small restaurant she often went to. She only earned 1 yuan from 50 eggs, which was not easy to earn, but every little bit counts. She came all the way from the village, and if she didn’t bring anything to sell, she would feel that the trip was in vain.

After giving the eggs to Sister Wang, Zhou Pingguo asked her for a bowl of water and chatted with Sister Wang to learn about the recent situation in the county.

Zhou Pingguo doesn’t talk much, but Zhou Ping is very talkative. As a real estate agent, if you don’t talk much, you won’t be able to make deals.

At first, Zhou Pingguo was just chatting with Sister Wang about the house. When they got to the backstage, they ran away. Sister Wang spat, “The people from the bed sheet factory looked down on us educated youth who returned to the countryside. They laughed at us for being mud-legged people. Even after entering the city, we couldn’t wash off the smell of dirt on our bodies. We could only do some business to barely support our families.”

“Now, they haven’t paid wages for half a year. I heard that some state-owned factories in the north have closed down and gone bankrupt.”