Chapter 175 Working at Night

Chapter 175 Working at Night

The sun was scorching outside the car window, but the air conditioner was on inside the RV, so it was very cool.

Lin Zisu stood up and stretched her body, rubbing her sore right shoulder and hand. It was too tiring, so she might as well just do it as a part-time job.

"dong dong dong~"

Lin Youcai knocked on the gate and shouted at the top of his voice: "Children, open the door!"

When Dahei heard the noise, he ran to the gate of the yard first, wagging his tail.

"Coming, coming~" Lin Xianwen walked quickly towards the gate.

Lin Zisu looked at the time. It was 16:24 in the afternoon. She opened the car door, leaned out and said to the gate, "Dad, Mom, come in the car and cool down~"

Lin Youcai came in leading a mule cart. Shen Xianglan carried a basket of vegetables in her left hand and a small bucket in her right hand.

Lin Xianwen took the bucket and opened the lid. "Is this a shrimp? Small fish?"

"I also bought crabs." Shen Xianglan said as she quickly got into the car. The oncoming cold air made her whole body instantly cool and comfortable.

Lin Zisu took the basket, which contained a bunch of leafy vegetables and a few crabs tied up with straw ropes. "There really are crabs! Blue crabs, swimming crabs, orchid crabs, red flower crabs... How come there are so many varieties..."

Shen Xianglan washed her hands and face in the bathroom, and came out saying, "The vegetables we bought before we came back this afternoon were out of pork and chicken. Someone was selling pheasants and wild birds, but there wasn't much meat on them, and you had to clean them yourself, so I didn't buy any. I saw a fisherman selling seafood, and these were all he had left, so I asked the boss to give me a discount, and I bought them all."

Lin Zisu took out a large bottle of water from the refrigerator, poured water for her mother and father, and picked up a glass of water and handed it to her mother who came out of the bathroom.

Shen Xianglan took the cup of water and drank it all in one gulp.

After Lin Youcai settled the mule into the RV, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands and face, then came out and turned the sofa on the passenger seat around and sat down. He picked up the water in the cup and drank it all in one gulp.

Lin Zisu filled the two people's cups with water again, "Is it so hot outside?"

"I didn't expect Xinghai City to be so hot in June. It feels much hotter than Qingshui City!" Lin Youcai drank enough water and sat on the sofa to rest.

Lin Zisu: "It is indeed very hot. It feels obviously hotter than Qingshui City."

Lin Xianwen: "It's so hot, people working outside will get heat stroke, or even worse, heat stroke!"

Lin Youcai: "On the construction site, work stopped after 10 a.m. and resumed in the evening."

Shen Xianglan: "It's quite humane. When I asked the locals about the situation, they all praised me."

"Did you get any news from the Xinghai City Government today?" Lin Xianwen asked, looking up at the blue crabs blowing bubbles in the vegetable basket.

Shen Xianglan smiled and said, "I have heard a lot of news. Xinghai City was just occupied for more than a month. However, Xinghai City is just one of the places that was captured in this war. It was originally just a small county town, covering a small area. The county town was shabby and had a small population. But one thing is that it has good geographical conditions!"

Lin Zisu: "Good geographical conditions? Close to the sea? Coastal city?"

Lin Youcai: "The geographical location is not good, and those in power will not invest in developing this place."

Lin Xianwen: "So what are your plans?"

"There is a civil service exam at the end of every month. I plan to take the exam at the end of the month, but I'll go to work first." Lin Youcai looked at his children, "It's a pity that you are still too young. You must be at least 16 years old to take the civil service exam."

Lin Zisu: "Even if you travel through time, you can't escape the civil service exam!"

"It should be said that even if you travel through time, you can't escape the civil service exam and work!" Lin Xianwen looked at his parents and said, "Are you both going to take the civil service exam at the end of the month?"

Shen Xianglan shook her head firmly and said, "I won't go. I've worked enough in my last life!"

Lin Zisu: "I don't want to go to work either. If it weren't for safety issues, I wouldn't want to learn martial arts."

Lin Xianwen: "You sound like no one likes going to work."

Lin Youcai: "...I don't want to go to work either. What else can I do if I don't work? You need capital to run a business!"

Lin Zisu: "My second uncle has returned to his old business. How about we sell goods? I have an RV, but it can't carry much goods."

Lin Xianwen: "Salt and sugar, your car can hold a lot of them. If you are a smuggler, you can also carry a lot of goods. The laws of the country clearly stipulate that smuggling is prohibited. You want to go mining coal."

"It has never been allowed in any dynasty! In modern times, sugar is a strategic material. In ancient times, selling salt privately was a capital crime!" Lin Youcai took a sip of water and continued, "I'll take the civil service exam first. Your mother wants to open a pharmaceutical factory. She found a suitable place today. I'll go with her tomorrow to take a look."

Lin Zisu: "I want to go too. I don't want to train at all..."

"...Me too." Lin Xianwen looked at the fish in the bucket, "The fish turned white..."

"He just died. He's fine. He can eat. After dinner, I'm going to ask everyone what happened today. I'm new here and I feel like I'm completely in the dark. Let's make dinner and eat~" Lin Youcai stood up and got off the car carrying a basket of vegetables and a bucket of water.

The family of four went to the kitchen to cook dinner, dividing the work and cooperating, and half an hour later, a table of seafood was served, including boiled shrimp, stir-fried vegetables, spicy crab, fried small fish, and a bowl of rice for each person.

Lin Zisu: "Aren't you going to send food to grandma's house or grandma's house?"

"It's far away and the food isn't much. I'll send you good food next time." Lin Youcai picked up half a spicy crab and stuffed it into his mouth, his mouth full of the spicy taste, and then he took a mouthful of rice.

"I feel like Qingshui City is far away and it's inconvenient for everyone to move around." Shen Xianglan peeled the shrimp shells and put the shrimp meat into her daughter's bowl.

"It would be great if we could just build houses, plan the land, and build them all in one go." Lin Xianwen said this, but it did not affect the speed at which he ate.

After dinner, before it was completely dark, the two siblings cleaned up the kitchen. The couple rode their electric donkeys to their parents' yards.

As soon as Lin Youcai and Shen Xianglan arrived at the gate of the yard, they saw their brothers and sisters-in-law carrying small baskets out of the house.

Lin Youcai was stunned and asked quickly: "Where are you going so late at night?"

"My fourth brother and his wife are here. We can't study tonight. The young and strong have to go to work." Lin Youfu opened the door to the yard. "My parents and the children are at home. You can go in."

Lin Youcai: "Where are you going to work? You can't even see at night."

"After school today, we went to the Information Square to find work. The most common jobs are building houses, walls, and docks, and the wages are the highest." Lin Youxiang walked out of the courtyard gate, stood next to his fourth brother and continued, "I heard that it is too hot during the day, and the government is afraid of people dying of heat, so they turn on the headlights at night and let the people build houses at night. For those of us who don't have a junior diploma, we only work until midnight. Let us go home to sleep and go to school the next day."

Lin Yougui looked at his fourth brother and his wife and asked, "Is there anything you want to tell us?"

Lin Youcai: "It's nothing serious, so go and do your work! That is to say, everyone is at home in the afternoon during the day?"

Lin Youfu: "Yeah! There's nothing to do! There's only house-building work to do at night. There aren't many decent shops here, and the notices posted by the government are all recruiting people to build houses."

Lin Youcai: "Okay, then you guys be careful, go together, and come back together."