kvmb Chapter 176 Horseshoe
Chapter 176 Horseshoe
Xinxing Middle School had more and more students who wanted to live on campus, and the dormitories were overcrowded. So the school leaders asked each class to hold a class meeting and call on students who lived on the same street to go home and discuss with their parents to vacate some rooms for students who wanted to live on campus.
Zhan Mengyan went home and discussed with Zhan Yu and Yun Qing to vacate the west room for Zhan Mengyan's classmates to stay.
After school, Zhan Mengyan took her classmates Yan Jixia and An Hongmei home and arranged for them to stay, so that after evening self-study, the three of them would go home together to rest. The three of them also formed a deep friendship.
Zhan Mengyan is worried that her father is reluctant to spend some money on electricity, and that her father Zhan Yu will be unhappy because of the two classmates learning to use electricity to light the lamps.
On Sunday, the school was on holiday, Yan Jixia and An Hongmei went home, and Zhan Mengyan found Yunqing to discuss the electricity problem.
"Mom, Yan Jixia and An Hongmei are my classmates. They pay rent to live in our house. You have agreed with dad that you can't control my classmates' use of electricity for studying and lighting. I don't want my classmates to know that I have a 'stingy' dad. Also, my classmates rent our house, and we get rent, and our family has more income. Can you also relax a little bit when I'm studying? After the high school entrance examination, I will work harder in the summer vacation and pick more horseshoe crabs. I can take the big ones to the supply and marketing cooperative to sell for money, and the small ones can be used as fertilizer for your flowers." Zhan Mengyan said.
Yunqing was about to answer Zhan Mengyan, but Zhan Yu stood behind them and heard their conversation. He said first, "Zhan Mengyan, why are you so mean? Can't you talk to your classmates and ask them to pay for the electricity themselves? And your stinginess makes me angry. Last time you picked up so many horseshoes at the blacksmith shop, I asked you to leave some for me and not sell them all to the supply and marketing cooperative, but you only left me a few small pieces. Don't try to coax me with nice words now. If you want to study at night and use electricity, you should go to school for evening self-study. Now I don't need you to go to the blacksmith shop to pick up horseshoes. The farm implement factory where my friend Zhang the blacksmith worked was disbanded, and he opened his own blacksmith shop. There are so many people who go to his house to shoe their horses. I can collect half a bag of horseshoes cut off in a day."
"Dad, you are using so many horseshoe shells as fertilizer for the flowers. Won't they burn the flowers to death? Our agriculture teacher said that too much plant fertilizer is like the person you mentioned who ate ginseng for a tonic, but ended up eating too much and had a nosebleed. The flowers don't need that much fertilizer, so give it to me. I'll sell it to the supply and marketing cooperative for some money." Zhan Mengyan said.
"You are so good, Zhan Mengyan. Not only are you stingy, but you also want to plot against your dad!" Zhan Yu said jokingly.
"I am stingy, and I learned this from my father. It's called 'Birds of a feather flock together.' I am stingy and calculating, and that's called 'the disciple surpasses the master.'" Zhan Mengyan said.
Yunqing watched the father and daughter bickering, and she giggled and played with cotton, preparing to make new bedding for Zhan Zian.
"Mengyan, you only know that horseshoes can be sold and used as fertilizer for flowers, but you don't know that they are Chinese medicinal materials, right? If they can be burned into ashes, they can be used to treat metrorrhagia. At the same time, they also have certain effects on the treatment of tooth caries, alopecia, scabies, impetigo and other diseases. In addition to external use, they can also be taken orally and made into pills. They are Chinese patent medicines for clearing away heat and detoxifying. A few months ago, someone in Fangjiazhuang suffered from scabies, so I burned horseshoes into ashes, and then mixed them with oil to make medicine. I applied it to the affected area and cured his scabies..." Zhan Yu was talking excitedly when a boy about seventeen or eighteen years old walked in with half a plastic bag of horseshoes.