Back to the 1990s: Holding the spiritual spring and striving for a well-off life

Chapter 439 Grave Sweeping
With so much money, Hua Xiali no longer has much psychological pressure. Moreover, she will continue to make money during the holidays in the future. It is not like she will stop there.

On the last day when she was returning from setting up the stall, Hua Xiali took out some New Year goods from her space so that her mother wouldn't have to buy any more. Besides, her father had a good job and a high salary, so their family's life should have been better than everyone else's, so everyone could understand why she took out these things.

During the days of setting up the stall, Hua Xiali walked around the town and had a clearer understanding of the town. He also saw some houses with signs for rent and for sale.

Hua Xiali was quite tempted, but as a high school student, she would definitely be ripped off when she went to inquire about houses, so she called her cousin Jia Yuxia over and asked Jia Yuxia to accompany her to buy a shop. When the shop was opened, Jia Yuxia would have a job, and her status in her husband's family would also rise.

After a few days of walking around, the two of them bought a house on the roadside not far from the high school. The road was in front of the door, so it could be used as a storefront.

"Xia Li, you are a high school student, where did you get so much money to buy a shop?" Jia Yuxia asked curiously. It would take a long time to earn 1,800 yuan!
Hua Xiali said that he would pay her a salary of fifty yuan a month, six hundred yuan a year, and she would have to go without food and drink for three years to save up one thousand eight hundred yuan!

"Cousin, I borrowed this money from the bank. Please don't tell anyone!" Hua Xiali said in a low voice.

This shop is a bungalow. The main hall is right at the door, which can be turned into a shop. There are only two large iron pots in the kitchen at the back. If business is good, there will not be enough time to make spicy snails. So Hua Xiali asked his fourth uncle to come and help build a kitchen in the back yard, and then built five stoves to accommodate five large iron pots.

Several one-meter-high pools were built in the yard with blue bricks and cement, so the snails can be temporarily raised in them. This way, she doesn't have to come and deliver the snails every day.

Although there were also small snails that she had stockpiled decades later in the space, this was the thing that was most in demand in the waters of the countryside right now, so she could keep the ones in the space for emergency use.

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Hua Xiali and Jia Yuxia finally managed to set up the Soluo Snail Shop. Customers could dine in or take away the food to eat at home.

Hua Xiali asked Jia Yuxia to go home for the New Year and come back after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when the snail shop would be officially open.

After Jia Yuxia went home, Hua Xiali also locked the shop door and rode his bicycle home.

Hua Xiali did not rest immediately after returning home. Instead, he put on his boots, carried a wooden bucket and went to the canal to catch snails. He started business on the 16th day of the first lunar month, but now he hasn't collected any snails. How can he keep the shop open?
When Hua Xiali was bending over and concentrating on finding snails in the canal, she suddenly heard footsteps approaching from afar. She looked up curiously, and unexpectedly it was Lu Xiaozhi.

The most handsome boy in their flower village is also the most homeless child in everyone's eyes. He wanders around the fields all day long and is unwilling to go home.

"Sister Xia Li, what are you doing here?" Lu Xiaozhi came over and squatted on the shore, asking curiously. Seeing so many small snails in Hua Xia Li's wooden barrel, Lu Xiaozhi continued to ask, "Sister Xia Li, are you feeding the ducks?"

Hua Xiali smiled awkwardly, "Yes, I'm picking snails to feed the ducks at home!"

"Sister Xia Li, let me help you!" Lu Xiaozhi said as he was about to jump down. Hua Xia Li hurriedly reached out to stop him and said, "Okay, help me pick the snails, I'll give you one cent per pound, but you have to go back and change into your boots. If you go straight into the water like this, what if you catch a cold? By then, the money we get from the snails won't be enough to buy you medicine!" "Okay, then I'll go home and change my boots." Lu Xiaozhi nodded excitedly, then got up and left.

Lu Xiaozhi is ten years old this year, but he is quite tall, so it is no problem for him to go down the shallow ditch.

Looking at the well-behaved and sensible appearance of this child, Hua Xiali knew that he was not the same as the rumors said. He must have his reasons for not going home and hanging around outside all day.

It’s just that they are not familiar with each other, and Hua Xiali doesn’t want to ask about his private affairs. He can ask him when they become familiar with each other.

She also remembered that there was a message in the message she left her decades later, asking her to train Lu Xiaozhi into a talent she could use, so that she would feel more relaxed when she had to ask him to do something in the future.

After Lu Xiaozhi changed into wide boots and came over carrying the wooden barrel, the two of them bent over in the canal, back to back, and slowly groped their way towards both ends of the canal.

If both of them touch the middle, the water in the middle will be muddied and nothing will be visible.

Hua Xiali fumbled around while collecting the small snails into the space. If she put them all into the wooden barrel, how would she transport so many to the store?
When the bucket was filled with small snails, Hua Xiali went ashore, took the small snails home, poured them into a wooden basin, and kept them with well water. Then he went to the canal to fish for them, and repeated this cycle over and over again.

In order to give her cousins ​​from her third and fourth uncles some pocket money, Hua Xiali asked them to help catch snails. It was winter now and the water was shallow, only reaching the ankles or calves, so she dared to let them catch them. When spring came and the water was deeper, she would definitely not let them catch them.

Even on the morning of New Year's Eve, Hua Xiali went to catch snails. Her mother, elder sister and younger sister were at home, and there was no need for her, so she just did her own thing.

This year, my third and fourth uncles' families earned several thousand yuan from Hua's mother, so they were a little more generous this year. On the morning of New Year's Eve, they directly stewed a large pot of meat, including old hen meat, ribs, and big bones...

In the morning, the smell of meat wafted from every household. When Hua Xiali was picking snails in the canal, she could hear her fourth aunt calling her over to eat meat, but Hua Xiali refused because she was not craving for meat at all.

In her space there are hot and fragrant roast duck, roast chicken, braised chicken legs... Although there may be a time difference of several decades, these things are always steaming hot and can be eaten as soon as they are taken out.

On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, everyone followed my third and fourth uncles to the cemetery to sweep the graves of my grandparents and some elders.

The custom here is that people with different surnames don't need to go. People with different surnames mean women who marry into the family from outside, such as daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law. These people don't need to go, so Hua's mother doesn't go every year, and her three children just go with her.

The cousins ​​got pocket money from Hua Xiali, and they were very happy when they saw Hua Xiali.