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Chapter 35 Li Changqing - Escaping from death

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    Li Changqing's head is not the same as that of the people in the village. He is only content to rely on this one-third of an acre of land, face to the loess and back to the sky for a lifetime, and just eat and wait for death to live comfortably in his old age.  He deeply knows that he has a family to support, and he has four daughters who are waiting for the money he earns to go to school and get out of the countryside.  Although the whole village is laughing at him for not having a son, he has never disliked his daughters, he loves them, no matter male or female, they are all his own flesh and blood.  He will do his best to give them all he can give in this world.

    Although it is not bad to do small business in the past few years, it is a bit sensual.  He has also been developing the market for himself, but the market is still too limited, and the profit is not high.  Although he could earn more money than pushing a small cart up the mountain, compared to his 10,000 yuan fine and Yang Yi's calculations for the study expenses of the next few children, it was a drop in the bucket.  Moreover, since the snail's accident, the newly bought donkey is still too small, and it will take at least two years before it can really be used.  After recovering, he was introduced by his old friend Manzi to help the pig farm to collect pigs from the lower villages.  It depends on luck, if you are not lucky, a day is wasted.  This kind of instability is too painful for his fine, and he must find a new way out.

    Recently, through the introduction of those friends he met in the process of doing business, he discovered a profitable craft again, making candles.  The electricity in rural areas has always been unstable, and there will be power outages at any time. Power outages are okay, but life is still manageable. At night, the light can still be seen.  Therefore, it must be promising to do this industry.  In this way, under the introduction of a friend, Li Changqing spent a lot of money to buy a candle-making machine, and then bought wax blanks to make candles.

    Li Changqing, who just started his career, learned some techniques from a factory that sold machines, but the technique was not unsophisticated, and he began to make a lot of defective products.  The wax made by others is straight, but half of his candles in a pack of ten are bent.  Although this does not affect the use of candles.  But because of the poor appearance, there are still a lot of goods at home.  Fortunately, his skills gradually caught up later, and his business gradually improved.

    In the beginning, Li Changqing made white wax, and the sales were very good.  But later, Li Changqing discovered that people in the city are more particular about not only white wax, but also red candles.  Moreover, according to the customs in the countryside, red candles have to be lit in case of a power outage during red events, and the same is true during Chinese New Year.  The market price of white candles is one yuan and fifty cents per pack, and the net profit is only about fifty cents.  But the red candle is different. The market price of the red candle is two yuan and fifty cents, and the net profit is a full one yuan.  And more importantly, the white candle is usually used for power outages, which can be prepared or not.  But red candles are different. For red events and Chinese New Year, poor people will prepare some, so that they can make profits.  And now it's the end of the new year, if you make it before the new year, even if you just sell it in a nearby village at a cheaper price, you can still make a fortune.

    "I'll go to T City in a few days to buy some red wax blanks, so I can make some red candles when I come back, and we can earn more before the Chinese New Year." Li Changqing and his wife discussed their grand plans for life. For this family,  He also tried all kinds of methods. Although he will work harder, he is the head of the family and he has the responsibility to work hard to make the family better.

    "Do you have to go? It's the twelfth lunar month now, and the Chinese New Year is almost here. I don't want you to go out again." Yang Yi was worried about her husband.  Rural people, what they pay attention to is a family reunion with enough food, clothing and warmth, especially in the big months of the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month. Nothing is more important than a family reunion with "wife and children on the kang".  And for Yang Yi, now that she is alone at home looking at these children, she feels somewhat uneasy. She is really afraid that her mother-in-law will find something at any time. No matter what, her husband has someone to rely on at home.  Besides, my husband has worked hard for a year, and she can see every bit of his hard work. She doesn't want him to work so hard. After a year of busy work, it's time to rest, so that he can work harder in the coming year.  to make money.

    "I've thought it all over, don't worry, I'll go and come back soon, the person I bought the white wax blanks for last time has already contacted me, he knows where there are red wax blanks, as long as I go over and pay the money  I can bring it back." Yang Yi has been with her husband for so many years, she knows her husband's temperament too well, as long as it is something he decides, ten cows will not be able to bring it back.

    So on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Yang Yi made Laba porridge for her husband.  Yang Yi's culinary skills have always been excellent, and this is what makes her husband most proud. He is not good at kitchen things.  The family made money.  I have eaten Laba porridge made by my daughter-in-law.Luan Qing took one thousand yuan in gray-black one-hundred-yuan bills, and dozens of loose change, and set out on the road.  This is the money he made selling white wax for a year.  He believes in his own judgment, the more he invests, the more he earns.

    Li Changqing bought the cheapest train ticket and came to City T, and found a seller who sold red wax blanks according to the address.  Unfortunately, due to the good business this year, the red wax blanks have already been snapped up, and there is no room for Li Changqing.  But Li Changqing didn't give up. He didn't allow himself to go home with nothing. Besides, he had already spent so much money to go to the city. He had to search hard. If he could find it, he would have a lot of money to earn.  .  He went to several markets, but he couldn't find a red wax billet with a suitable price. When he returned to the train station to buy a ticket, he was told that there was no ticket.  He wasn't discouraged, maybe it was just for him to continue looking for it tomorrow, maybe he could find it tomorrow.  With such comfort, Li Changqing bought a ticket for the next afternoon, called his third uncle's house at the station and asked him to help report Yang Yi's safety. Now he is looking for a place to stay.  Looking around for a long time, there are many small hotels next to the station soliciting customers, and the prices are relatively cheap, so he decided to find a cheap hotel near the station to stay for a night.

    "Hotel, hotel, cheap, cheap, 10 yuan a night (one night), free hot water supply."

    "Hotel, hotel, five minutes near the station, 25 yuan per night (one night)."

    "30 a night (one night), 30 a night (one night)."

    The shouts near the station have never stopped, and the prices vary.  Li Changqing has been tossing around all day, and now he is tired, cold and hungry. He really wants to find a warm place to rest for a while, but, thinking about his family, he is not willing to spend so much money to stay in a hotel for one night.  , so his choice has only one requirement: the cheapest one.

    "Is it 10 yuan a night (one night) over there?"

    The young man glanced at Li Changqing, and was immediately attracted by the wallet on his waist.  It was a black wallet, the kind with a push-knock door, and inside it was the money Li Changqing was going to buy for the red wax billet.  Li Changqing always puts the wallet on his belt when he goes out.  His large belt was made by himself out of black leather, strong and practical.  Only when he can see the wallet is there at any time can he feel at ease.  Over the years, because of his small business, he only ran to a few villages. The people in the village are simple, and he has never lost money.  Slowly, his vigilance also let go, but he forgot that he is now away from home.  Going out, fish and dragons are mixed.  After the young man looked at Li Changqing, he knew that he must have gone out alone, and the young man who was questioned immediately ignited boundless enthusiasm.

    "Yes, yes, come with me. Our hotel is cheap and warm, and there is also free hot water supply. Brother, you are also here, so the most important thing is to find a place to stay. If there are too many people in a while, maybe  There are no such cheap places anymore." The young man dragged Li Changqing to his hotel as he spoke.

    "Brother, don't listen to those people bragging about how good it is. It's so expensive. In fact, it's almost the same as ours when you go in. They are just too black-hearted." Li Changqing was very grateful for these words. He felt that he had met a good person this time.  , and importantly, he can save at least 20 dollars.  Those people in the expensive hotel are really too black-hearted.  However, what the innocent Li Changqing didn't know was that these two people were essentially a group.

    "Little brother, thank you very much. I met a good person when I went out in the twelfth lunar month." For Li Changqing, the person who can save him more than 20 yuan a night is a great benefactor.

    "Brother, look at what you said. Everyone is away from home for the sake of making a living. It's not easy. Today, it's also fate for us. Let's go, it's cold to look at you." Li Changqing said by the young man  Not only was he grateful, but he even had the feeling of a stranger living in a foreign land who was "the same degenerate person in the end of the world".

    "Okay." Li Changqing shivered in the cold wind with his shivering body, and the wind at this moment was really bitingly cold.  There are snack sellers all around the station, and the hot steam coming out is really touching. If you can buy a hot steamed stuffed bun or a bowl of hot Laba porridge at this moment, it is really a happiness in life.  If it doesn't work, it's good to have a sip of hot water.  However, when he thought of money, he stopped thinking about it.  There will be hot water when he arrives at the hotel. With endless expectations for hot water and gratitude for meeting good people when he goes out, he walks to the hotel that costs 10 yuan a night.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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