Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 34
During the days when the pumps of the hydropower station were pumping water, Father Jiang and Mother Jiang had already finished planting all the rice seedlings. After the harvest, not only Father Jiang was free, but others were also free.
Farmers who had not gone out to work would find ways to make some money.
It was still half a year before the Chinese New Year. In previous years, he would have taken Mother Jiang out to work, but it was not an option to keep moving bricks and doing hard work on the construction site.
After all, he graduated from high school and owed a lot of debt before, so he had no choice but to work hard to earn money. Since he had almost paid off the debt, he wanted to find a serious job.
Originally, he wanted to recruit a few small workers and be the foreman, but Mother Jiang was unwilling. Father Jiang saw that every household was building a house in the past few years. Building a house required stones, sand, and cement. They didn’t have a quarry nearby, so they all had to travel far. He wanted to open a quarry in his hometown and use boats to sell to faraway places.
Father Jiang hadn’t yet disclosed his plans about the quarry to Mother Jiang, fearing her disagreement. After all, buying equipment costs money.
With three children at home studying, it was not feasible for them to remain idle and not earn money. Therefore, Father Jiang thought about how to make money along the way.Â
Crayfish sales could sustain them until October at most, but there were still several more months ahead. Father Jiang couldn’t afford to be idle, whether or not the quarry venture would yield profits later on.
When Jiang Ning arrived home, Mother Jiang saw her coming back. The first thing she did was to ask her, “Let me see how much you made today.” As long as Mother Jiang sees it, the money belongs to her.
Jiang Ning understood that fact too well. She held a stack of books and said, “I spent it all to buy books.”
Father Jiang had seen a stack of books in her arms before and thought that what she bought was high school books to prepare her for high school. But when he saw one of the colorful covers of the books, he knew that they were not study books.
He reached for a book and said, “Let me take a look at what books you bought.”
Jiang Ning avoided his hand and turned back to the room.
Mother Jiang was worried. She didn’t even plan to let her study. It was a waste of money for her to buy books for leisure.
 She couldn’t help but mutter loudly, “The girl is not good at studying, but knows how to spend money. With so many crayfish sold, you would have got a lot of money.”
“You would have a few dozen yuan. I can’t believe there’s nothing left.” She walked over and knocked on the door. “Take the money out and I’ll keep it for you.”
Jiang Ning’s New Year’s money had been collected by her mother since she was a child, saying that it would be given to her when she grows up. Anyway, she had never seen a penny.
Jiang Ning said, “I bought the books with all of it.”
“Then give me all the money you get after the sale tomorrow, not a penny less.”
Jiang Ning remained silent.
After Mother Jiang went to take a shower, Father Jiang came over and knocked on her door, “Ning Ning.”
Jiang Ning opened the door, and he walked in and locked it behind him. Then he said to Jiang Ning, “Let me take a look at the books you bought today.”Â
Jiang Ning was reading one of them, studying the writing style.
Father Jiang saw it, frowning tightly. He lowered his voice and said, “I thought you would buy study books. Why did you buy these? Can you read them? I won’t say anything to you for wasting money. You finally got admitted to the No. 1 High School this time. If you don’t study hard, your grades will fall quickly.” Father Jiang continued, “Your grades are usually not very good. This time I was surprised you got into No. 1 High School. It was not easy to get into this good school. If you read these miscellaneous magazines, it will be a waste of time and money. You might as well listen to your mother and go to work.”
Jiang Ning’s usual grades in school were really average.
She didn’t live on campus in middle school. The school was far away. She got up at around four o’clock every morning and walked to school under the moon. When they came back from school, the dishes and chopsticks they had used were all placed on the table, waiting for her to come back and wash.
While others were reading in the morning and studying in the evening, she was rushing back and forth.
But what was very surprising was that in several major exams in her life, she performed exceptionally every time.
High school entrance examination, college entrance examination, and public examination.
Later, Father Jiang often felt miraculous about his daughter’s exams.
Every time relatives at home talked about her, they said she was lucky.
Jiang Ning took the book back from Father Jiang’s hand and looked at Father Jiang, saying, “I won’t go to work, I know what I’m doing, and I will study hard.”
Father Jiang looked at the books she bought, still worried. What Mother Jiang said to him kept echoing in his mind. He had three children in high school, the pressure was really high.
Seeing that his daughter was still reading these miscellaneous books, he said nothing more and went back to the kitchen to cook.
The room lights were very dim.
Jiang Ning sat at her desk, studying the writing style of the book in her hand under the dim light in the room.
She had some talent in writing. After she became the leader’s secretary, her work became busy, so she wrote less. However, she never gave up writing in her spare time. As a hobby, she had written some articles on and off, and they had been published. She also wrote an official article anonymously on the Internet. Unfortunately, it was censored because the subject matter was too popular and sensitive.
For her, the easiest ones were magazines such as Youth Digest and Reader. There was almost no need to adapt to the writing style. She could read a few novels to get a feel for it, and then write stories consistent with the style of these two magazines.
After finishing reading two short stories, Jiang Ning went for Zhiyin.
Zhiyin was a very interesting magazine. Its writing style was on the Internet in her previous life, and there was a special title Zhiyin style.
That was to say, when reading a book, she should read the cover first, and when reading a newspaper, she should read the title first. The Zhiyin Magazine could be said to take the idea of reading the title first to the extreme.
Jiang Ning opened the first page of Zhiyin, and the title was “Selling Wife: A Vicious Divorce Plot”. The second page showed the spiritual battle of love and hatred of a mother who killed her son for righteousness. It could be said that it had captured the reader’s psychology of reading strange stories. Not only was the title eye-catching, but the content of the story was also very exciting.
After reading a few stories, Jiang Ning finally found the feeling and directly used the shocking style of the previous life to conceive a story that fit the style of the Zhiyin Magazine.
The light bulb in her room only had 20 watts, and the light was very dim. Jiang Ning was afraid of affecting her eyesight and did not dare to write for too long. After conceiving the general outline of the story, she turned off the light and rested, and got up the next morning to continue writing.
Father Jiang thought she was going to sell crayfish, but he didn’t expect that she would stay in the house. When he asked her, and she said she wasn’t going, Father Jiang said, “Then I’ll go sell crayfish. There are so many crayfish in the house. They will go bad if they’re not sold.”
He was talking about the crayfish Jiang Ning caught the day before. Jiang Ning knew what he meant, so she turned around and said, “You can catch crayfish for me, and I’ll sell them all after two days.”Â
Father Jiang smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll catch more for you in two days.”Â
He also went to the neighboring market on the way. He would check to see if there were many crayfish in the ditch. If there were, he would catch them there on the way back.
Jiang Ning spent two days writing. Manuscripts were sent over to test the waters, to see which company could easily get the manuscript done and which company paid more for the manuscript.
The day before she was going to send the mail, Jiang Ning specifically reminded Father Jiang, “I’m going to sell crayfish tomorrow. Don’t forget to catch more crayfish today.”Â
It happened to be a market day, and Father Jiang asked, “Do you still want to go to the market to sell crayfish? Don’t go to the city to sell. The city is really far away, unlike going to the town, there is a boat, and it is easier.”
Jiang Ning said, “I’m going to the city.”
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