Rebirth to the Eighties to Get Rich

After Aunt Li went back, Ji Jianhe’s wife immediately greeted her and said with a smile, “Mother, how did it go? What did third uncle say? Did he promise to let Jianhe work with him?”

Ji Jianhe was also waiting for the news.

As for Uncle Ji, he went to the orchard again after dinner. Compared to the rest of his family, he preferred to stay in the orchard. The only reason why he came back was for a meal and a bath.

“He said he didn’t plan to recruit people for the reservoir,” Aunt Li said.

“What do you mean he won’t recruit people? How can he keep fish in such a large reservoir without people guarding it?” Ji Jianhe questioned immediately.

The smile on his wife’s face also disappeared. “Mother, did you hear it wrong? Did third uncle make you leave?”

How could a reservoir for raising fish not need someone guarding it? If they didn’t have someone, then the fish in the reservoir would be stolen!

“I found out Jianyun really has no money right now. I have seen Danhong work on embroidery in the past, but she has not done it in a long time and started again,” Aunt Li said.

Ji Jianhe and his wife were a little concerned about this.

Aunt Li continued, “Don’t worry, you two. Although a job for the reservoir isn’t possible, Jianyun promised me that if he has a new orchard in the future, he will definitely give you a long term worker spot for you, Jianhe.”

This made Ji Jianhe and his wife happy.

“Third uncle wants to run another orchard?” Ji Jianhe’s wife asked quickly.

“Isn’t there still two families who own one in the village? He is leaning towards it, but now he has no money. I don’t know when he will do it,” Aunt Li frowned and said.

Ji Jianhe was happy at first, but when he heard this, he was also a little dissatisfied. Was Ji Jianyun making an unrealistic promise to him?

“It is also easy to set up another orchard with how third uncle makes money,” Ji Jianhe’s wife said quickly.

“He owes a lot of money,” Ji Jianhe said.

Ji Jianyuan still owed more than 2,000 yuan from contracting the reservoir. Ji JIanhe had never seen that much money in his life.

“It’s only 2,000 yuan. It’s a huge sum for us, but it’s nothing for third uncle,” Ji Jianhe’s wife said.

After that, she recounted Ji Jianyun’s income, “I heard from father that the pigs all grew well. When they are sold, aside from the tripe, it’ll definitely be 140-150 jin of meat. Now the price of pork is 20 cents higher than before. One jin is 83 cents. Some good parts are more than that.”

At one jin for 83 cents and one pig at 140 jin, it would cost more than 110 yuan. There were 21 pigs in the orchard, which is more than 2,000 yuan! *∞:｡.｡ ?????? ???? ?? ?????????.??? ｡.｡:∞*

As soon as the total amount was said by Ji Jianhe’s wife, Aunt Li and Ji Jianhe both took a breath.

They knew that 21 pigs would sell for a lot of money, but they didn’t expect the profit to be this much!

More than 2,000 yuan. That’s what Ji Jianyun owed earlier. Wouldn’t he just pay it off in one go?

“That’s why I said that if third uncle wants to run another orchard soon, we don’t have to worry about Jianhe. He can just go and work there,” Ji Jianhe’s wife said.

“Why don’t we raise pigs?” Ji Jianhe asked.

He was a bit greedy. The market for pigs was very good, and meat was so easy to sell. If his family had four or five pigs, it would be better than working for Ji Jianyun and helping him raise pigs!

“You think pigs are so easy to raise?! Especially that many? You will smell like pig poop when you go to sleep if you raise a few pigs! And what if they don’t live?” Aunt Li was extremely annoyed.

Ji Jianhe’s wife obviously didn’t want to raise pigs at home. It was already a lot for her to clean up after the chickens in the backyard. If she raised pigs, wouldn’t that task fall on her? How could she expect her mother-in-law or husband to do it?

More importantly, the pigs would be raised and sold for money, but the money wouldn’t go into her pockets!

“What I mean is, Jianhe, don’t think too much about it. The salary is 30 yuan a month. I heard that it will increase next year. It will be a lot more money. You’ll be getting about 200 yuan in half a year. It takes a lot of food and work to raise a pig for half a year, then be sold for about 100 yuan. If you go to work, it will be equivalent to raising two pigs.”

Ji Jianhe’s wife was worried about being called lazy, so she immediately continued, “Third uncle seems to have made a lot of money selling pigs this time. But mother, Jianhe, just think about it. How much money did third uncle give out in wages during the past six months? There are four people on the mountain. The salary is 120 yuan a month. So for six months, that’s 720 yuan right there. And the money to purchase the sweet potatoes from the villagers must have been several hundred yuan, right? I heard that some people got 70 yuan, and many families got 40-60 yuan. With that calculated, how much did they receive from the 21 pigs in half a year? It won’t work if you have to hire someone. If you raise the pigs yourself, and they die, you would have spent all your days there for nothing.”

After hearing her analysis, Ji Jianhe’s thoughts were the same. After deducting the labor cost, there was really not much left.

Moreover, if he had a permanent job, it would surely catch up with raising two pigs.

“We don’t need to raise too many, let’s just raise two pigs. Wouldn’t that be doable?” As Ji Jianhe spoke, his wife was relieved.

“Then let’s raise them,” Aunt Li also exclaimed.

Although the cost was not small, she was also greedy. Now a pig could be raised for half a year and sold. Two pigs would be 200 yuan, and 400 yuan could be made in a year.

In addition to that, Aunt Li’s husband had a long term job, and her second son was going to have one too. As for the eldest son, he was separated. He never sent any money over, so she couldn’t expect much from that unfilial son.

But even so, almost a thousand yuan in  income could be earned by the end of the year!

Aunt Li was a little excited when she thought about it. She said to Ji Jianhe’s wife, “In the next few days, ask your father to bring two pigs. After that, you have to take care of them!”

Ji Jianhe’s wife lost all hope.

If she had known that these two were only thinking about themselves, why should she have made those calculations? Wasn’t it ultimately her own fault? The best days of her life were when she did not have work to do!

Uncle Ji didn’t know what’s going on at home. He was cooking for the pigs. Especially since they would be sold soon. They couldn’t let the pigs be hungry at all these days.

After cooking the pig food, he poured it out while it was still hot to let them eat it. He was also happy to see that they had a good appetite and grunted as they enjoyed the meal.

But the pigs were not his own, it was his nephew’s.

Ji Jianyun brought up a hot canteen of red dates and wolfberry soup, which was made by Su Danhong. He started bringing it up about two weeks ago. It was colder now. Su Danhong also boiled a pot for Father Ji and Mother Ji, and she also sent some to Uncle Ji.

Although she didn’t have a good opinion about Aunt Li, Su Danhong still respected Uncle Ji because he regarded Jianyun as his nephew.

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“There is no need for you to bring this. There is hot water in my canteen,” Uncle Ji said and smiled when he saw his nephew sending him hot soup.

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