The little guys were so fast that they ran back at 11 o'clock, everyone was sweating.
Adults may not know where there are things nearby, and where there are many things, but if you ask these little kids, no one is unclear, and they all have their own secret bases.
They all came back at noon, each carrying a small bucket.
It looked like it was almost full.
Good guy, Ma Teng was a little dumbfounded by this. Are there so many earthworms in the capital?
In the end, there was no way to count, so Ma Teng thought of a way to take out ten pieces to see how heavy they were, and then weighed all the earthworms, regardless of size, and finally added ten more candies. Of course the little ones agreed.
It started immediately.
When Ma Teng was raiding the black market's lair, he fished for a lot of things, including all sorts of things.
It was very good, the least one had 20 pieces of candies, and the most belonged to Wang Mengwu and the other three. This guy, with a younger brother and a sister, got three small buckets of candies and got 140 pieces of candies.
Soon, everyone weighed in, and no one had any objections. Everyone looked at Yu Yu and Ma Teng excitedly.
But many eyes were looking at the big bag of candy on the small table.
Wang Mengwu had the most, and he was also the eldest. He came first, but this guy tweaked and said, "Brother Ma Teng, can I not ask for candy? I want money, okay?"
"You want money? Okay, the supply and marketing cooperative costs 1 cent and 2 pieces of candy. You have 140 yuan here. I'll give you 7 cents. Then, I'll give you another 6 pieces of candy. Don't say that Brother Ma doesn't take care of you. Give the candy to your younger brothers and sisters. Bar."
"Hey, thank you, Brother Ma Teng." He said and took the candy and money.
7 cents. In today's era when children's pocket money is calculated in cents, 7 cents is a huge amount of money.
The other children were watching with helpless eyes, their eyes shining.
"Brother Ma Teng, can I also ask for money?" Zhao Xier said with her big, charming eyes.
Ma Teng has almost no immunity to such eyes.
"Okay, here's the money. Yours is 90 pieces of candy. I'll give you 4 cents and 5 cents. I'll give you another 4 pieces of candy." Ma Teng found 4 cents and 5 cents from the pile of change on the table and handed it to her, along with 4 cents. Candy.
"Thank you, brother Ma Teng." After Zhao Xier said this, he pulled his younger brother and trotted away.
The other children couldn't stand anymore. "Brother Ma Teng, can we all have money?"
Everyone's eyes are shining.
When a boy has money, he can't buy anything. After eating the candy, it will be gone. As long as he has money, he can buy 100 small hanging firecrackers for 1 cent, and then he will be the most handsome boy on the street.
Girls don’t think so. Can they buy the hair flower and red rubber band they saw? If their family won’t buy it for themselves, then if they have money, they can buy it themselves.
Although the little ones are young, they all know that money is more important than sugar.
Since they wanted money, Ma Teng exchanged it all for them. Anyway, it was 1 cent for two candies, which was the same price as the supply and marketing cooperative. After they got the money, they went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it at the same price. As for what else to buy, that is their business.
So many children have money in their hands, so of course they can't hide the matter, but they can't take money from the children.
There are also sensible children who keep one or two cents in their hands and give the rest to their parents, all they are waiting for is a compliment.
However, the Yan family members were embarrassed, why didn't they go in the morning? Otherwise, they would be judged more than Wang Mengwu.
The head of the family, Yan Bugui, spoke, "Second son, after lunch, go ask Rainwater and Ma Teng if he wants any more earthworms. I know a place where there are many earthworms. Let's dig them as a family."
"Dad, I won't go. I have some work over there in the afternoon." Yan Jiecheng said.
"Can you earn 30 cents for an afternoon's work?" Yan Bugui said, patting the table.
Yan Jiecheng's mouth was crooked and he stopped talking. It wasn't that he didn't have thirty cents, but that he didn't even know if he would survive.
"We'll all go in the afternoon, and your mother will stay at home. We'll get a few more small buckets, and we'll be able to fill them up."
"Yeah, dad, can you give me 20 cents after changing the money? It's time to change my notebook and pen." The third child, Yan Jiekuang, said.
“Well, it depends on how much we dig.
Don't talk about anything else, let's eat first. " Yan Bugui covered himself up and started eating with chopsticks.
Anyway, most of the children at home were beaming today, especially Wang Mengwu, who gave his mother 5 cents directly and kept the extra money for himself. During lunch, his mother gritted her teeth and boiled three eggs for each of the three of them. One, this is unprecedented.
"Brother Ma, do you want more this afternoon?" Yu Yue ate cabbage and pork stewed with vermicelli.
"Yes, you can talk to the little guys in the courtyard after dinner."
"OK."
It's nice to have someone to eat with. Whether it's a big beauty or a young beauty, it's just a meal partner. It's nice to have someone to talk to while eating.
After the meal, the rainwater was quickly cleaned up.
After finishing his work, he ran out in a hurry.
Then the sound of rain came again in the courtyard.
After a while, a large group of little guys ran out in a hurry.
Of course, there were also children from other courtyards who played well with the kids in Courtyard No. 95. They also heard the news and ran out.
The earthworms around here are completely in trouble.
A few smart people took the bus to the edge of the city for 3 cents. There were many garbage dumps here, and of course, there were even more earthworms.
Every time you shovel it down, there are earthworms scurrying out.
Fortunately, it is now November. In another half month, the temperature will drop, and it will be a bit difficult to dig up earthworms.
After a few shovels, there are twenty or thirty shovels. Basically, the older brothers and sisters at home dig the soil, and the younger brothers and sisters dig behind.
If you are lucky, you can dig a small bucket in a while.
This time, the buckets each little guy took were quite big. There were many people picking up the big buckets in the morning, but not the small buckets. Now it’s a good idea to pack them all, no matter how big or small.
Looking at the increasing number of earthworms in their buckets, all the little guys were smiling, but all they were thinking about was what delicious and fun things they could buy if they had money.
Today the courtyard suddenly became very deserted. Banggeng wanted to go in the morning, but Mrs. Jia and Zhang held her back and refused to let her go. In the afternoon, Mrs. Jia and Zhang would not let her go. She asked for money, and Mrs. Jia and Zhang kept picking at her. Give Banggeng 3 cents and let Banggeng save some money.
I heard about BangGeng, and several people made several cents in one morning.
I heard they were going to dig more in the afternoon.
There are only two children left in the courtyard: Bangge and Xiaodang.
That's not fun, so I can only hide at home.
Several aunties and aunts in the courtyard gathered together to do some household chores. They all talked about what happened today, and everyone was extremely happy.
It is really hard to imagine that children can make money by digging up earthworms.
Only Mrs. Jia Zhang was speaking sarcastically to the side, "Who knows what that bastard is doing with so many earthworms? I don't think he has any good intentions."
Several aunts and uncles looked at Jia Zhang, who was the fattest in the courtyard, and they didn't want to pay attention to her. If you pay attention to her, she might bother you.
After Jia Zhang finished speaking, she thought someone would agree with her, but in the end no one answered her, she snorted angrily and stopped talking.
The time slowly approached around 4 o'clock, and the children came back one after another. Yuyu told them that if they came back late, they would not come back.
The kid was really afraid that Ma Teng wouldn't want it anymore. It took a whole afternoon of digging.
That much was dug in one o'clock in the morning, and even more was dug in the afternoon.
And what they all took was no longer the small buckets they had in the morning, but the small iron pokes at home.
Several of them were carried back with sticks, and they dug too much.
Everyone came back with high spirits.
The rain opened the door to let the little ones into the yard.
Ma Teng looked at this and was a little satisfied. This time it was quite a lot.
What surprised Ma Teng was that Yan Jiefang was carrying a large bucket, which was full, and Yan Jiefang was also carrying a smaller one, which was also full.
This...couldn't this be the Yan family's entire family?
Ma Teng thought about it and realized that it was really possible.
But the more the merrier.
After slightly changing his strategy, Ma Teng did the math in the morning and found that the price was about 4 to 5 cents per pound.
Then don’t follow other rules in the afternoon, just charge 6 cents per pound.
Ma Teng counted the money and was very happy.
Because there are more than ten kilograms in each bucket, and most of them belong to the Yan Jiekuan brothers. It is estimated that they weigh forty or fifty kilograms.
Now that you agree, let's start weighing. However, when weighing, you must first pour out the earthworms and pull out the soil. A little is okay, but you can't have half earthworms and half soil. This is too much. Ma Teng is not a fool.
In the same way, after paying the money and then giving two pieces of candy, Ma Teng made the pie just like the foreman before.
Some of them were as little as one dollar, and those who got the money were at a loss. It was the first time they had so much money in their hands. The ones with more than one dollar were huge sums of money. I had only seen them but never touched them.
Finally touched it today.
Yan Jiefang and his wife had the most, weighing 62 kilograms in total. I don’t know where they found it, so Ma Teng directly gave them 3 yuan, 7 cents and 2 cents.
The same goes for Yan Jiefang. He has never touched more than one banknote, but today he touched three at once.
He happily carried the empty bucket out of Ma Teng's yard, and said thank you to Ma Teng before leaving.
Not to mention, the Yan family's children are still very polite.
Most of the others were worth more than one piece or two pieces. Soon, Ma Teng collected a lot. The big tank in the corner could hardly hold it, and that was the end.
Ma Teng spent a total of nearly 30 yuan today, but to Ma Teng, these are just small amounts of money. Things that can be solved with money are not problems.
