Chapter 614: Tao Daqiang is different, Huang Siping is still the same

Tao Daqiang went to the Li family to hand over the fish.

This afternoon, he, his big brother, and his brother-in-law caught twenty-one kilograms of big fish in three ice holes, which Li Long said was more than what they had caught.

Tao Daqiang wasn't too proud. Getting twenty-one yuan in his hands, according to what they discussed earlier, he took nine yuan himself, and his brother Tao Dayong and younger brother-in-law Yang Yong each took six yuan.

Plus the five yuan he got in the morning, he got fifteen in his hands today, not bad.

A bit tired. Actually, he had long been thinking about separating from his older brother and just taking his younger brother-in-law. After all, his younger brother-in-law couldn't work alone in Little Haizi, and the team wouldn't allow it either.

But his older brother Tao Dayong wouldn't do it, and wanted to combine.

Tao Daqiang had no choice, so he just took him along.

Fortunately, whatever he said, his older brother would do, without so many broken things.

Including dividing the money.

He had heard that his sister-in-law Ma Chunhong disagreed with this way of dividing dividends, but was slapped back by his older brother.

Money is a man's courage. Tao Dayong could now bring money home every day. Even if Ma Chunhong was unwilling, she didn't dare to say much else.

At most, she complained, and there was nothing else.

In this day and age, being able to earn money and bring it home, letting the wife and children live a slightly better life, and being able to eat meat every few days, was already a very good man.

Tao Dayong's change was quite surprising to quite a few idlers in the team. They would also go to ask Tao Dayong, why work so hard? It's winter, just staying in the winter is comfortable, isn't it? Why suffer that cold?

Tao Dayong, who had already tasted the sweetness, thought to himself, what do you know? Earning money, with a bulging wallet, the voice of speaking at home is louder.

People are also more confident. To say something more private, after the children sleep at night, letting the wife change a posture is incomparably smooth.

In the past, the wife would scold, where are there so many farts?

Now, that service is incomparably comfortable!

Moreover, earning money is addictive!

In winter, it doesn't cost much money every day. Give the wife some pocket money to buy soy sauce and vinegar, occasionally give the children a few mao as pocket money.

The rest is put in the pocket, really called a fulfillment!

Tao Daqiang is like this because the change before and after is too big.

Tao Daqiang isn't like this, he has been earning money non-stop.

Since following Li Long two years ago, Tao Daqiang's pace of earning money almost never stopped.

From the beginning of helping Li Long catch fish, earning five or ten yuan a day, to later weaving broom grass, earning hundreds at a time.

Then later Tao Daqiang could follow Li Qinxia, and at this time he earned even more.

He changed from a "spoon" looked down upon by many in the team to a capable person envied by young people, and Tao Daqiang got used to the envious, even looking-up gazes of everyone.

But Tao Daqiang himself was clear that without Li Long, he was nothing, still that spoon looked down upon by others.

Without Li Long, he couldn't touch any of these ways to earn money.

Fortunately, although Li Long didn't take him along now, at least the ways left behind could let him live very well.

Moreover, he was told about the harvester matter, which made Tao Daqiang know Li Long's power even more.

No one knew Li Long's awesomeness better than him. Thinking of a method casually could earn money that others couldn't imagine.

Returning home, Tao Daqiang first went to greet his father, and then spoke to Yang Pingping through the door, and then went to wash his hands and change clothes.

After baking his body hot at the fire wall, he only then entered his own room to see his wife and child.

"How is it today, did you cry, are you obedient?" Tao Daqiang sat by the bed, watched his wife teasing the child, and asked.

"It's alright, pooped twice." Yang Pingping went to turn on the light, letting the child see the father, and the child immediately shouted "yi-ya-yi-ya."

Tao Daqiang still touched his body, felt it was warm, and then went to pick up the child. Although it had been a few months, his technique for holding the child was still not very good.

Didn't practice it.

Just wanting to say a few words to his wife and then eat, he heard someone knocking on the door outside.

"Daqiang, is Brother Daqiang in?"

Hearing the human voice, Tao Daqiang frowned, but still put the child down, and then said to Yang Pingping:

"You watch the baby, I'll go see."

"Don't make noise." Yang Pingping knew her own man's temper and said.

"Alright."

After leaving the room and closing the door, this person had already pushed the door and entered.

Huang Siping, a young man in the team.

He originally played with Li Long, Xu Haijun, and the others. At that time, Tao Daqiang followed Li Long, and Huang Siping followed Xu Haijun and the others. When Li Long wasn't there, Tao Daqiang was often the object of their teasing.

At that time, Huang Siping teased Tao Daqiang quite a bit. To say there was no knot in his heart, that was impossible.

However, after Xu Haijun went to the army and Tao Daqiang followed Li Long and became famous, the attitude of the people in the team toward him slowly changed.

People like Huang Siping changed the slowest. It was very difficult for them to change the little awkwardness in their hearts. The person who used to let them call and drink, how did he suddenly become a rich household in the team, not only buying a bicycle and marrying a wife, but also hearing he was preparing to buy a tractor?

Young people in the team basically greeted Tao Daqiang actively when they met him, and Huang Siping slowly became no exception.

"Daqiang, are you back from fishing?" Huang Siping was quite enthusiastic.

"Hmm." Tao Daqiang only responded with one sound.

He had chatted with Li Long about the personality and character of these people. This Huang Siping, hmm, could be considered average, a little bit better than Gu Ermao, limitedly a little bit.

So he didn't plan to chat much with Huang Siping.

Huang Siping wanted to go into Tao Daqiang's room, but Tao Daqiang blocked the door:

"Go to my father's side, the child is small, can't stand the cold wind."

Huang Siping followed with a smirk.

Tao Jian She was smoking, saw Huang Siping come over, and nodded with a smile.

The light bulb in the room was 25 watts. In this time when every household generally used 10-watt or 15-watt, or even 5-watt light bulbs, the room in the Tao family was clearly much brighter.

Tao Jian She was unwilling at first, but Tao Daqiang didn't listen to him. He listened to Li Long. Li Long said using low-wattage light bulbs was bad for the eyes, so Tao Daqiang bought 25-watt ones.

After getting used to this night being the same as the day, Tao Jian She didn't say anything either. People are old, and their eyes are slowly not very good, so it's quite good to be bright at night.

"How was the fishing today, Daqiang?" Huang Siping sat on the kang. "Did you make another twenty or thirty yuan?"

"No, just ten or so yuan." Tao Daqiang said, "There aren't that many fish."

"That's not bad either, it's ten days' wages for an apprentice." Huang Siping was truly envious. To say let him do it, he wasn't willing to go, but he could still be envious.

Tao Daqiang didn't pick up the conversation, and Huang Siping found words himself, a bit awkward.

Finally, he had to say his intention:

"Daqiang, I'm dating a partner, thinking about getting married in the spring, and I'm short of some money now, look..."

He actually didn't want to say this in front of Tao Jian She, but there was no way, Tao Daqiang's side couldn't be entered, and it was too cold to talk outside.

Tao Jian She heard this, took the pipe down, placed it on the edge of the heated brick bed, and coughed lightly.

Tao Daqiang looked at Huang Siping and asked:

"Getting married in the spring? That's still two or three months away, right? How much money are you short of?"

Tao Jian She coughed again.

Huang Siping only heard Tao Daqiang ask this, thinking Tao Daqiang should be willing to lend, and hurriedly said:

"Short of three or five hundred. I know your foundation is thick. If it's loose, lend me five hundred. If it's not loose... three hundred is fine."

Tao Jian She coughed two more times, saw Tao Daqiang didn't look at him, and simply knocked the ash in the pipe on the heated brick bed, and put it heavily on the table.

"As for money, I won't lend it to you." Tao Daqiang went to get the broom, swept away the smoke ash his father knocked down, and then continued to say:

"However, I can point you to a path."

Huang Siping's face pulled down immediately upon hearing Tao Daqiang wouldn't lend, but hearing him say he could point to a path, he endured and asked:

"What path?"

"Going to Little Haizi to fish," Tao Daqiang said. "In two or three months, if I fish like this every day, making ten yuan or so, I can make six or seven hundred yuan in two months. Even if there are fewer fish after the New Year, if we count it as one month, it's enough."

"That's freezing, and I don't know how." Huang Siping definitely didn't want to go.

"Then you come to borrow my money, I ask you, where did my money come from?" Tao Daqiang still said unhurriedly.

"Then... wasn't that money earned from fishing?" "That's right. Don't I know that fishing at Little Haizi is freezing? Don't I know that staying on the kang is comfortable? Do you think I go to Little Haizi to freeze and fish just to lend money to you, who stays idle at home every day?"

Huang Siping was so angry his face turned red, but he couldn't say anything.

Tao Jian She let out a long breath, his second son, he had skills in his mouth now.

"Spending money, everyone knows how. As for earning money, the path is right there. If you are willing to go, then I'll teach you. If you are unwilling, then don't say I won't lend you money. My money was exchanged for hard work." Tao Daqiang put the broom and dustpan aside and said, "Can't lend it to you, I still need to use it myself."

Huang Siping finally couldn't say anything and left.

Tao Jian She took the pipe, put on his overcoat, and went out. Before going out, he let Tao Daqiang go to the pot to serve his own rice.

Tao Daqiang knew what his father was doing.

Huang Siping didn't borrow the money, he didn't know how he would talk about himself. Father was going to say the matter out first. By then, others would know what the situation was, and wouldn't misunderstand himself.

Actually, Tao Daqiang didn't care whether others misunderstood him or not. He sometimes learned from Li Long. Would Li Long care about the team people misunderstanding him? He wouldn't care.

It was that sentence, said in the storytelling, how can the swallows know the ambition of the swan?

Yang Pingping listened to what Tao Daqiang said to others in the next room. After Tao Daqiang carried the bowl in, she said with a smile:

"Hey, you've grown skills, you can really talk. If it were me, I wouldn't know how to say that."

"Then if it were you, how would you reply to him?" Tao Daqiang asked casually.

"I would scold him back, just say no money..."

"That's impossible. Our family has money, everyone knows." Tao Daqiang had long thought about this problem, this answer people wouldn't recognize.

"Then..."

"Then you say the money is in a fixed deposit and can't be taken out. Brother Long said, lending money to others is for emergencies, not for poverty.

If there's a sudden illness or an emergency, then you have to lend it. Like him, who is lazy and gluttonous, you can't lend it. If you lend it, you won't get it back."

"Fine, your Brother Long is right." Yang Pingping was sometimes a bit jealous. Her own man would say "Brother Long said" or "How is Brother Long" from time to time. Although she knew it was Li Long who made this family rich, this frequent saying was not conducive to family harmony.

Li Long didn't know that his image in Tao Daqiang's mind had caused some dissatisfaction from Yang Pingping (just kidding). The next day after breakfast, he sent Gu Xiaoxia to the Education Bureau. When he came back, he tidied up the courtyard, and after starting the tractor, he drove it to the team.

Li Jianguo knew Li Long was coming, so he didn't go to Little Haizi today. Li Qinxia didn't want to get involved in those things, so he took the net and iron shovel himself and went over, followed by Li Qiang.

Li Jianguo waited for Li Long to arrive, looked at those sheep offal, felt there was no problem, and rode his bicycle to Xu Chengjun's house.

Xu Chengjun was listening to the radio. Seeing Li Jianguo come over, he hurriedly let him into the room and asked:

"Old Brother Li, what's the matter?"

"Little Long got some sheep offal back from the mountains, twenty-plus sets. He thought quite a few people in the team like to eat this, so selling it out isn't as good as asking if anyone in the team wants it first. I want to use your large loudspeaker."

"Good, good, good. How much is a set?"

"Bigger than the year before last, and the price of meat has also risen this year, eight yuan a set."

"Good, I'll shout for you." Xu Chengjun said, "Leave me a set... two sets."

"Hey, fine." Li Jianguo smiled, and then left.

Not long after leaving Xu Chengjun's house, he heard the large loudspeaker shouting:

"Pu-pu, pu-pu, can you hear? If you can hear, I'll notify, I'll notify, this Li Long from Li Jianguo's family got some sheep offal back from the mountains.

Everyone knows this is a good thing. This time it's bigger than the year before last, eight yuan a platter, one kilogram is about one yuan. If you want it, hurry to the Li family to buy it, cash! If you're late, there won't be any... Alright, I'll notify again, everyone listen well..."

When Li Jianguo went to Xu Chengjun's house, Li Long had already sent a platter of sheep offal to the old horse number for Uncle Luo.

Uncle Luo was listening to the large loudspeaker, and before the notification was finished, Li Long had come over.

"Giving it to me for what? Not keeping it to sell for money?" Uncle Luo said.

"Selling for money is what's left over, we have to eat it ourselves first." Li Long smiled and said, "Uncle Luo, do you want the sheep heads and sheep hooves? If you want them, I'll get you some. This thing hasn't been burnt, it's troublesome."

"Then you get me a few sets, I'm not afraid of trouble." Uncle Luo had plenty of time in winter, smiled and said, "It's delicious when cleaned well."

Li Long promised to send them over later.

When Li Long and Li Jianguo returned to the courtyard, Lu Yingming and Sister-in-law Lu had already come over to look at the sheep offal.

They picked a platter, gave the money to Li Long, and took the offal back to prepare to clean it.

There weren't many days left before the New Year, so they had to prepare slowly now.

People came to buy one after another, and Xu Chengjun rode his bicycle and really picked two platters to take back.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that Liang Dacheng's mother and Tao Jian She both came over to take a platter back, but thinking about it, it was normal. After all, the family wasn't short of money, so they had to get something delicious.

By noon, more than half of the twenty-plus platters of sheep offal had been sold.

Li Long left two platters in the large courtyard in the county seat, left two platters at the older brother's place, and sent one to Uncle Luo.

Originally, fifty-three platters were hauled down from the mountains, twenty platters were given to the woodworking factory, and of the remaining thirty-three platters, after removing what the family kept, there were twenty-eight platters to be sold.

Some people who came to buy sheep offal also looked at the sheep heads and sheep hooves, and bought some to take away. Li Long still had that price, sheep heads three yuan, sheep hooves five mao.

Li Long also brought back two wolves, but most people asked and didn't buy. There were a few who wanted to buy, and they just bought a leg to take back to taste.

It was normal that wolf meat didn't sell well in the Fourth Team.

However, in the afternoon, a surprise came.

People from the Third Team ran over to look at the sheep offal, and after looking at the sheep offal, they saw the wolf meat and sheep heads and sheep hooves. Then they asked for the price.

Knowing that wolf meat and sheep offal were the same price, they decisively chose wolf meat.

"Old Li, your family can still get wolf meat, amazing." The person was familiar with Li Jianguo, not very familiar, but could call the name, and knew roughly the background.

"Yeah, my younger brother has herdsmen friends in the mountains. A few days ago, they killed a few wolves, didn't eat them, so they let us haul them back." Li Jianguo said vaguely.

But he also said it in detail:

"This wolf meat is wild, after all, the taste is heavy, it must be pressed with star anise, otherwise it won't taste good..."

"No matter how bad it tastes, it's still meat, and it's still better than cabbage and radishes." The person surnamed Wang smiled and said, "Take it back and clean it slowly, it can always be made to taste good."

Fine, people knew, so there was no need to say much.

Next, more people from the Third Team came over, which made quite a few people from the Fourth Team a bit nervous.

In one day, more than twenty platters of sheep offal were sold out, and one and a half wolves were sold.

Li Long kindly reminded those who bought wolf hind legs to remember to take out that wolf bone; after all, wolf bones really weren't cheap later.

When the sun was still a pole high, Li Long drove the tractor back. He didn't plan to eat dinner here.

Mainly because it was getting colder day by day, he had to hurry back to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.

Before going back, he specifically went to Gu Bo Yuan's courtyard to add some coal to the stove.

When he reached the county seat, Li Long parked the tractor in the courtyard, drained the water, and went to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.

He planned to haul the remaining wolf meat back to the team tomorrow. If it could be sold out in the village, he wouldn't go to Shicheng. He thought that going to Shicheng was best for selling fish alone, not bringing other things.

Not only hauling wolf meat, but also hauling wolf heads and wolf claws, to see if anyone wanted them.

Anyway, sell them a bit cheaper, don't waste them.

On this day, there was not only the news gossip about Li Long selling meat in the village, but also the news about Huang Siping going to Tao's house to borrow money and being educated by Tao Daqiang.

Tao Daqiang could educate people, this was really news. Who could have imagined that a person who was looked down upon as a spoon two years ago could now educate people?

And those words were very right. I earned the money with hard work, why should I lend it to you who are idle and have nothing to do? Wanting to earn money but not wanting to work hard, that's wanting to eat shit.

Those who spread gossip didn't care who you were. Without interest relations, this matter soon spread throughout the village.

Huang Siping originally thought that since he didn't borrow the money, he would go and smear Tao Daqiang, ruining his reputation.

Didn't expect Tao Jian She to take the matter out first. This was good, he became the representative of being lazy and gluttonous!

Huang Siping was very angry but had no other way. He had the heart to go to Little Haizi to break ice holes and catch fish, but he didn't expect that after going once, breaking an ice hole, and fishing for a whole morning, he only caught a few small crucian carp.

Tao Daqiang told him to come back in the afternoon, but when he came in the afternoon, he didn't catch anything again, so he simply quit.

This reputation was thus implemented. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 615 =====