Bai Fumei in the ’70s Chapter 57
Translated by Serena Love
She wanted to discuss with Tiezhu another time to discuss the issue of "cooperation", but because the whole village was upside down because of the landslide, Zhao Lanxiang was too busy to talk about it with Tiezhu.
Zhao Lanxiang walked to Liang Tiezhu, and Tiezhu said, "Looking for Brother Bai?"
"He's not here, he went to help me deliver the goods."
Zhao Lanxiang said, "I will make some pastries on the weekend for you to carry."
Tie Zhu said happily, "Good!"
He saw that the sun is also high, it is time to close the stall and eat. He took out his lunch box and looked at Zhao Lanxiang before he left. Tie Zhu quickly grabbed a mouthful of rice and said vaguely, "Do you know Jiangan Road? Brother Bai should be there, let him take you on the way. It's a hot day, don't squeeze in the cart."
Zhao Lanxiang followed Tiezhu's instructions and went to the place.
She soon saw He Songbai.
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She saw the tall and thin man against the scorching sun, and another sturdy man carrying a solid wooden bed. After moving it, he unloaded a large water tank and put it on his shoulders and walked slowly.
Zhao Lanxiang is both angry and distressed when she saw him. Didn't he come to deliver the goods? How come he is moving the house?
When Zhao Lanxiang came, the family's house is almost empty. He Songbai moved a tank and wiped his sweat, panting under the tree and taking money from the employer. The middle-aged man took the pride of some city people, and casually counted a banknote and threw it high up in the air.
"Thanks to you!"
A blue-indigo-colored banknote fell into He Songbai's thick and rough palms. He squeezed the money into his pocket without any problems, and squatted under the tree and chewed wild vegetables. When eating, his bushy eyebrows stretched out and his white teeth were exposed.
The five yuans banknote can also make him show up. Zhao Lanxiang stood under the eaves of the street corner and looked at him from afar. The oppressive sorrow in her chest feels like she is drowning.
Being poor is really the biggest burden in the world, a deep-rooted original sin. It will only make you painful and powerless if you can't wash it off.
She looked at him for a while and walked back to the black market in silence.
After Liang Tiezhu finished his meal, he was preparing to pack up the stalls and return to the countryside to collect food. He looked at the woman who has returned with a surprise.
"Why didn't you see Brother Bai?"
Zhao Lanxiang shook her head and explained, "No, I got lost, the sun is so hot and dizzy."
Liang Tiezhu patted his big golden deer bike's backseat, "Come up, I will take you to Brother Bai."
He murmured incomprehensiblely, even you can get lost.
He threw a scarf around Zhao Lanxiang's face, and after a ride, he quickly found He Songbai.
Liang Tiezhu asked, "Done shipping?"
He Songbai gasped and said, "Not yet."
"Why are you so slow?"
He Songbai glanced at the woman behind Tiezhu's bike. Even though she is covering her face, he glanced over and looked at the figure, which is his girlfriend.
He Songbai coughed and said, "After delivering the goods, the customers asked me to carry things. It took some time."
Otherwise, he would have gone home long ago.
He was also a customer of Tiezhu, so he couldn't offend him, so what else could He Songbai do? He simply has a lot of energy, and strength doesn't cost money, it just took some time.
Zhao Lanxiang said, "Go home."
She said that she jumped out of Tiezhu's bike, her face is wrapped in scarf and only showed only a pair of eyes, like a cool spring, bright and clear.
He Songbai was being stared at her until his face is hot, and he turned away in embarrassment.
"Wait for me, I'll come back to pick you up when I've finished—"
Before He Songbai's words were finished, he has more hands around his waist.
"I will go with you."
Zhao Lanxiang said, leaning her face on his back, holding his thin waist with her hand.
He Songbai only felt that his face warmed up suddenly and uncontrollably.
He slammed his feet on the ground, and holding the brakes firmly.
He Songbai is feverish and sweaty, and his voice said dryly, "Wait for me, I'll come back soon."
"It's dangerous if you ride in my bike."
He looked away and shouted to Liang Tiezhu, "Tiezhu, you take her to the restaurant to eat something, she has not eat."
He Songbai captured the man, and disappeared into the deep alley like fleeing.
The light and handy bicycle was like a lone geese, and disappeared without a sound.
Liang Tiezhu slapped his head and said in a naughty way, "Look at me, I didn't expect that you haven't eaten. Lets go eat a bowl of wontons, I will take you there. Brother Bai will be almost come back after we eat."
Zhao Lanxiang waved the indigo-colored five yuans bill in front of his eyes, shook her head, and took out a biscuit from her pocket and chewed it up.
It is dry and hard, but it is several times stronger than wild vegetable.
"No need."
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Her thin throat was so smokey that there was no water, and the crispy biscuit became extremely choking in the hot weather, but Zhao Lanxiang ate it bit by bit without leaving any crumbs.
"Okay, save fifty cents." She took out her handkerchief and wiped her mouth, her clear eyes became clearer.
Liang Tiezhu scratched his head and didn't quite understand why Zhao Lanxiang, who has a "thick waist pocket", is so willing to save money.
She has become diligent during this period of time, so that he has to go to He family's house to get the goods every other day, and every day he sells less than ten or twenty yuan. After half a month, she earned money that he couldn't make for three months.
Even Liang Tiezhu had to admire her skills, but now she actually started to "save money", which made Liang Tiezhu's eyes fall off.
Liang Tiezhu is a little bit blindsided and said, "It's only fifty cents. If you are not willing, I will treat you to it. Brother Bai will be back to see you, maybe he will think that I have treated you badly!"
If he didn't know, he would thought that she is short of money and anxious.
But Liang Tiezhu knew that Brother Bai is short of money and desperate. He was busy working, so he had not has time to ask, so he simply asked Zhao Lanxiang.
"Is Brother Bai lacking money recently?"
"At first glance, he can do all the work, but he still has to go to the pig farm to kill pigs, can his body survive? "
Zhao Lanxiang swallowed and asked, "Do all the work?"
"You said he is working everywhere?"
When Liang Tiezhu saw her look worse than him, he fell silent.
Zhao Lanxiang said calmly and restrained, "I know about this, and I will ask him later, thank you for not hiding from me."
However, the sparks splashing in her eyes revealed the emotions surging under her calm appearance.
In the blink of an eye, she was anxious to pull He Songbai out and scold him. After making a little money, he started to ruin himself.
She has money, so will he come to help her take the job?
"I will tell you something while there is time."
Liang Tiezhu nodded, thinking she wanted to tell him to persuade Brother Bai. Liang Tiezhu had already thought about it and nodded immediately.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Lanxiang said, "Don't do your work anymore, come and work for me. I will find someone to collect and deliver food for you."
"You can stare at the transportation for me, do some things up and down, and just greet the customers."
Liang Tiezhu was dumbfounded.
Zhao Lanxiang's greet customers and stare at transportation are simply too easy to work. The snacks she made is so delicious, and it looks good at a reasonable price, and it doesn't take much effort to sell it. The customers who bought snacks from him in the past are basically repeat customers, and they don't have to worry about selling the snacks every time.
He stopped doing his own work and went to do it, which was tantamount to turning the mountain on his back into a light feather. Is there such a good thing in the world?
Liang Tiezhu shook his head suddenly, "No, no, you exaggerated too much."
"What kind of work is this, I can do it for you easily."
Zhao Lanxiang continued, "I can make a 10-pound snack or food every day, and you can see how much money I will earn these days."
"I will give you 30% of my profits, but I have a condition."
"You give Brother Bai a hand and share some of his work. He works too hard in the pig farm. If someone can help him, it will make me relax."
Liang Tiezhu's heart is quite complicated, he really lost the pie today!
The result is this exchange condition...
He thought he is really jealous of Brother Bai, his eyes are dead.
If his future wife is distressed for him so much, he will take out his heart and gave it to her, and the whole life will be sweet. He knew that if Zhao Lanxiang is going to make snacks and food, at least she has to get up at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, and she would give it to him while it is still dark at four o'clock. Because the snack was so hot, it is delicious and sold very fast.
It's just okay to do it every three days, but to do it every day, it will kill people.
Although Brother Bai also worked at two o'clock, he is a man who was used to rough work and knew how to arrange his rest time. The body is definitely stronger than a woman.
How could the white and clean young wife from this city withstand such suffering? He thought she might have never carried a hundred pounds in her life, nor she has tasted of staying up for days and nights.
Liang Tiezhu was so jealous that he didn't want to agree to Zhao Lanxiang's attractive condition!
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Zhao Lanxiang paused and said, "Just...I hope you won't tell him about it. I just want to make his life easier."
"At that time, you tell him that you want to work with him and do pork work with him, because selling food does not make money. As for my side...what I do is almost the same as before, and Brother Bai will not pay much attention. Think about it deeply."
After listening to it, he felt a sour taste. He is so sad for these two people who loved each other, and for their love they ignored their disparity in status!
Liang Tiezhu could clearly feel her carefully caring heart at this moment.
He decided to help her keep a secret, never reveal a word, let that stupid brother "be in the blessing and not know the blessing"!
Liang Tiezhu wiped his face and sighed silently in his heart.
"Alright, no problem."
"Follow Brother Bai to make money and earn more money from you. I'm earning money. It's a great deal!"
It's just that Liang Tiezhu will get up before the chickens sing, and get up earlier than usual. Although he used to get up at more than three o'clock before, he was not tired from delivering goods. He could still squint for a while when he was tired. Going to the pig farm was simply tiring.
Fortunately, he... presumably... don't need to split the pig?
Liang Tiezhu coughed and said, "I have listened you, so you have to listen to me."
Zhao Lanxiang nodded.
Liang Tiezhu said, "Let's go, after eating wonton, what biscuit can top it? Eat wontons and get home by bike!"
Zhao Lanxiang did not refute, she followed Liang Tiezhu to the state-run restaurant, and had a bowl of hot wonton, stuffed with meat.
Five cents with vegetarian stuffing.
Tiezhu handed in half a pound of food stamps and a yuan, and the waiter quickly found a change and gave it to him.
The food these days is very real. Although expensive, a bowl of wontons is as big as a sea bowl, enough for an adult man to eat. She took a small bowl and gave half of it to Tie Zhu.
"Eat, I can't finish it all by myself."
She smiled and sucked on the delicate and thin skin of wontons, and her dry throat was moisturized. She curled her eyebrows and said with a smile, "I can also make wontons. I will let you taste it next time. I guarantee it will be delicious!"
Tie Zhu nodded, and was busy eating wontons. The meat is thin and the skin is also thin. He likes this kind of hearty food the most!
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