Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 239

The children of Second Brother Gu were too noisy. Lin Shu disliked the noise, so he said goodbye to Wang Suzhen and Gu Changsheng after lunch.

"Dad, Mom, let's go back first."

"Why don't you go back now? Why don't you sit for a while?" Wang Suzhen stood up and teased Dabao and Erbao with a little reluctance.

Lin Shu smiled and said, "No need to sit down. Dabao and Erbao should take a nap soon."

"Okay, be careful when riding your bike on the road." Wang Suzhen wanted to bring some snacks back for the two children, but unfortunately all the snacks she bought last time were eaten by the children in her second child's family.

Lin Shu said something to the two elders and found Gu Youhui surrounded by children outside the villa.

"Yuhui, come here for a moment."

Gu Youhui was being pestered by the grandchildren of the second house and couldn't get away. When he heard Lin Shu calling him, it was like hearing the sound of nature.

He trotted over to Lin Shu and asked with a smile, "Aunt, are you looking for me?"

Lin Shu walked into the bicycle shed, pointed at the bicycle next to him and said, "You can ride your bicycle with us. When I was cooking at noon, I found that there was not much rice at home. You can come with us and carry two bags of rice."

"Okay, it just so happens that I don't want to take care of the children." Gu Youhui was really scared by these children.

Gu Jiu and Lin Shu each carried a child in a sling, and Gu Youhui followed beside them, chatting with them from time to time along the way.

When they got home, Lin Shu asked Gu Jiu to go to his own small supermarket to pick out two 50-kilogram bags of rice to take back.

My second brother's family is staying at the old house recently, so the food will definitely be consumed quickly. Two bags of rice should be able to last for a few days.

"Aunt, luckily you don't need tickets to buy food in this supermarket now. If we use food coupons to buy food at the grain station, our family will be left with nothing when my second uncle and his family come."

Gu Youhui placed two bags of rice on the back seat and tied them up with ropes.

Gu Jiu said: "Don't let your second uncle hear this, otherwise, he will take his family away overnight."

"Uncle, I'm just talking to you. It's just a joke, don't take it seriously." Gu Youhui naturally knew that he couldn't let his second uncle and his family hear this.

Otherwise, if grandpa finds out, he will beat him with a belt.

After Gu Youhui left, Gu Jiu and Lin Shu parked their bicycles in the stairwell. When they got home, Lin Shu asked Gu Jiu to take the two babies to take a nap.

She cooked a lot of dishes at noon and smelled of cooking oil, so she had to take a shower and change clothes first.

"Are the children asleep?"

When Lin Shu came out of the bath, the two children were lying on their backs, sleeping with their limbs spread out and their bellies bulging.

"Well, you must be tired from cooking at noon today. Come here and I will hold you in my arms to sleep." Gu Jiu patted the place beside him while lying on the bed.

Lin Shu rubbed her temples. She wasn’t too tired from working today. It was mainly because there were too many children and they were so noisy that it gave her a headache.

"What's the situation with your second brother and the others now? Are they planning to stay in the provincial capital, or will they go back?"

Gu Jiu smoothed her hair and said, "I didn't hear them mention it today. They have a home in the countryside and they should go back. Don't forget that their three daughters-in-law are still in the countryside."

Lin Shu hugged Gu Jiu's waist and buried her head in his chest. "I feel like the old house will be very lively in the future, but I'm afraid my parents won't be able to handle it."

Gu Jiu also saw how noisy the second wife's children were. He rubbed his brows with a headache, "Second brother and his family didn't separate when they were in the countryside. I don't know what he was thinking. Such a big family gathered together and lived in chaos every day. How can there be any quality of life?"

Lin Shu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Come on, having money is called living, and having no money is called survival. They can't even reach the poverty line, so how can they care about the quality of life?"

The next day, Lin Shu went to the hotel. The weather had gradually become warmer during this period, and more people from other places came to the provincial capital, so the hotel business was pretty good.

The occupancy rate has been gradually increasing and now has reached 80% to 90%.

The renovation of the fifth, sixth and seventh floors is also coming to an end. Once the sanitary ware is installed, the furniture is moved in, and the house is cleaned up, it will be gradually opened to welcome guests.

"Mr. Lin." As soon as I entered the fifth floor of the hotel, Manager Long Yi came to greet me.

Lin Shu looked at the decoration of the room and said, "Manager Long, the sanitary ware and furniture have been stored in the warehouse. You can ask them to speed up. The installation of sanitary ware should be very fast. After installing a room, have someone clean it up, and then move in the furniture."

Long Yi asked, "Boss Lin, are the linens ready? The last batch we received was only enough for the rooms on the second, third and fourth floors."

"I have restocked the linens, which are enough for the hotel. However, you cannot bring them all at once. The warehouse over there will also be the hotel's warehouse. If there is anything missing here, just make an order and go to the warehouse to get it."

Lin Shu said, looking back at Long Yi: "From now on, the hotel must follow the formal process to get supplies and issue an order to get the goods. If you don't issue an order, Lin Gan from the warehouse will not ship the goods to you in the future."

When the hotel was first renovated, there were no formalities in dragging the goods over from the warehouse and it was a bit messy.

In the future, we need to be stricter in the management of consumables such as supplies, linens, cleaning supplies, etc. taken from the warehouse.

Long Yi nodded and said, "I will have a meeting with the foremen later and make some forms. I will ask them to fill out the forms and sign them when they receive the supplies."

"Well, you need to gradually improve the hotel's rules and regulations. Once the entire hotel is renovated and officially opened, I want the hotel staff to return to normal working conditions."

"Okay, give me a few days."

The decoration of the hotel is very fashionable. Even if we push it back ten or twenty years, the decoration of the hotel will not be outdated.

It’s just that it’s newly renovated, and the smell inside isn’t that good.

Coming out of the hotel, Lin Shu saw a tractor parked on the side of the road. What attracted her was not the tractor, but the fish in the tractor's bucket.

"Comrade, do you want to buy some fish?"

The middle-aged man standing on the truck bed noticed Lin Shu and asked her while holding up a lively fish.

Lin Shu walked over and found that the tractor's bucket was covered with a tarp and half filled with water. There were still about 20 to 30 fish, mainly bighead carp and grass carp.

"Are these fish raised by your team?"

The middle-aged man smiled and nodded: "Yes, our team raises fish. Before the summer rains come, the team members want to renovate the reservoir. This time, we took advantage of the renovation to net some fish and plan to exchange them for some money."

“Is this fish raised in the reservoir?”

Lin Shu knew that there was no feed for fish farming in this era, and it was all done by mixed farming, that is, raising grass carp, bighead carp, silver carp, etc.

Each type of fish must be raised in proportion. Otherwise, if too much of one type of fish is raised, it will cause ecological imbalance and the large number of fish will not grow large.

Of course, the fish of this era are not comparable to the fish raised with feed in later generations.

The young man sitting in the driver's seat of the tractor also came over. Seeing Lin Shu, who was beautiful and fashionable, he felt a little embarrassed.

"The water in our reservoir is very clear, and the fish in it are tastier than the fish in the ponds. They don't have as strong an earthy smell as the fish in the ponds."

Lin Shu smiled knowingly. Nowadays, there is no need to worry about excessive amounts of antibiotics in fish.

She pointed to the restaurant and said to the young man, "You are nimble, go to the restaurant and call their manager and tell him there are fish here."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You and we are thinking the same thing. We stopped here to ask the restaurant if they want fish."

As he said that, he waved his hand at the young man and said, "Zhu Zi, go and ask quickly."

"Hey!"

After hearing Lin Shu's request that he go to the restaurant to ask, Zhuzi seemed not as timid as he was at the beginning.

The middle-aged man washed his hands in the truck bed and asked, "Comrade, do you want to buy two fish to eat?"

Lin Shu: "No hurry, let's wait until the people from the restaurant arrive."

"Comrades and restaurants go together?"

"Well, wait for them to come over and weigh them together."

While the two were talking, the restaurant manager Xu Lizhong soon followed Zhuzi out.

He trotted to the side of the road and greeted Lin Shu first: "Mr. Lin."

Lin Shu pointed to the truck bed and said, "The quality of their fish is pretty good. Move them to the water tank in the restaurant while they're still alive."

Some of the fish in the truck bed are already turning white. If they are not moved to an oxygen tank as soon as possible, they will soon die.

The two men, one old and one young, who were selling fish, looked at Lin Shu in surprise. They never expected that Lin Shu was the owner of the restaurant.

Who would believe this young and beautiful boss if I told others about it?

After the fish was weighed, it was moved to the restaurant's water tank. Xu Lizhong and the middle-aged man paid the bill and walked up to Lin Shu.

He looked at the fish in the water tank in front of him and said, "Boss Lin, some of them have turned white. They won't survive long even if they are put into the water tank."

Lin Shu had someone fish out the blanched fish. "Send two to the noodle shop next door, and another two to my eldest brother's noodle shop. I'll send a few to the old house later. The blanched fish will be almost done."

The fish that are still alive and well are enough for the restaurant to use for several days.

Lin Shu thought that there were many people in the old house, so he had five installed.

Xu Lizhong helped tie the fish to the back seat of the bicycle and said, "Boss Lin, this snakeskin bag of fish probably weighs about 20 kilograms. If Uncle Gu and his friends can't finish it all at once, you can fry it and dry it."

Lin Shu leaned on his bicycle and smiled, "Twenty pounds is enough for two meals at most."

"what?"

Xu Lizhong didn’t know that the Gu family had found their second son, and thought that the old house was occupied by the old couple.

Lin Shu didn't explain much, just waved to him and rode away on his bike.

"Dog, if you use a stick to poke the chicken coop again, I'll break your legs. If you scare the hens so much that they don't lay eggs today, you'll have no eggs to eat tomorrow."

Aunt Gu had just finished teaching her second grandson a lesson, and the eldest son was making the third son howl in agony. The sound of his crying was so piercing that it was like a devil's sound.

Wang Suzhen heard the crying, came out of the house, and gave each of them a candy, which made them stop crying.

We had just coaxed the older one, and the other two younger ones were picking up stones in the yard and stuffing them into their mouths.

Wang Suzhen was so scared that she quickly stepped forward, snatched the stones from their hands, and stuffed a candy into each of their hands.

"The second child's kids always like to pick up things from the ground and put them in their mouths. We need to teach them to be more clean in the future."

Second Aunt Gu felt aggrieved.

"Mom, I want to teach them, too. I don't know how many times I've spanked them, but they just don't learn their lesson. You know, I have to do housework and take care of a bunch of kids at home alone, how can I manage them all?"

Wang Suzhen personally experienced what it was like to take care of several children by herself. She was constantly busy and still not be able to manage them well, and finally she had a mental breakdown.

Now, seeing my second daughter-in-law in front of me who looks even more haggard than myself, I can't say a word of criticism.

"Don't their mothers usually care?"

Aunt Gu looked worried: "The daughters-in-law at home have to work during the day, and at night they have to do housework and mend clothes, so they don't have extra time to take care of the children. Besides, our rural children are not as precious as those in the city, so we have to let them run wild."

Wang Suzhen got a headache looking at the rude and uneducated daughter-in-law in front of her.

"No matter how busy you are, you should not neglect disciplining your children. Children are the hope of a family. If you can't even discipline your children, what hope is there for the family?"

"I don't understand the thoughts of you city people, but in our countryside, food is more important to the family. No matter how well you discipline your children, if they don't earn enough work points in a year and don't get enough food in autumn, the family will go hungry."

Then, Aunt Gu asked with a smile, "Mom, you have been enjoying life in the city, so you may not have experienced what it's like to be hungry, right?"

Wang Suzhen looked helplessly at the wrinkled face in front of her. When she was young and hungry, she was still a child wearing open-crotch pants.

"Wow! Sugar, my sugar!"

The two were chatting when the dog suddenly started crying and rolled on the ground with extremely skillful movements.

Aunt Gu knew without even looking that it must be the older child who stole his candy.

She picked up the broom next to her and swung it at her eldest grandson, "I'm going to beat you to death, you greedy devil, why are you snatching your brother's candy for no reason?"

The eldest grandson nimbly dodged the broom she swung at him, dodged to the side, and retorted: "I didn't steal it, he gave it to me himself."

Second Aunt Gu didn't care why he robbed it. As long as he made his brother cry, he should be beaten: "I told you not to be stubborn. I robbed it, and you still dare to quibble!"

When the eldest grandson saw the broom coming again, he hurried to the gate of the yard.

Just as Lin Shu was pushing her bicycle into the yard, she almost bumped into a child rushing towards her from the opposite side, which gave her a big scare.

Fortunately, the child was quite agile and dodged slightly and rushed past her.

Lin Shu just dodged the child. Before he could recover from the shock, a broom came towards him and hit the front wheel of the bicycle.

"What are you doing? You're waving a broom towards me. Are you welcoming me back?" Lin Shu held his breath and waved away the dust in front of him.

Second Aunt Gu never expected that a broom would slip out of her hand and almost hit Lin Shu.

"Oh, sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't expect you to come back, I almost hit you, are you okay?"

Second Aunt Gu hurried to greet him. They had eaten together last time, and she had someone send two bags of rice when she returned.

It was initially concluded that Lin Shu was a generous person.

In other words, they are stupid and have a lot of money.

Lin Shu pushed his bicycle into the yard and said, "I'm fine, sister-in-law. If a child makes a mistake, just discipline him properly. Why are you shouting and calling for killing?"

"Oh, sister-in-law, you don't know how naughty that boy is. If he's not punished for a day, he'll go up to the roof and tear down the tiles."

"You beat him, but it's not even a discipline. He ran away first." Lin Shu shook his head in disapproval.

"Why is Shushu here today?" Wang Suzhen asked.

"Mom, I happened to meet the production team selling fish outside today, so I bought a few extra and brought some to you."

Lin Shu parked the bicycle and started to untie the rope on the back seat.

When Aunt Gu heard it was fish, her eyes lit up immediately and she stepped forward to take over Lin Shu's job. "It's fish, sister-in-law, I'm familiar with this job. I'll do it. Sister-in-law, you're really filial. You always think of mom when you have something delicious."