The old Chinese doctor in the courtyard

Chapter 19

Led by Xiao Changgong, they turned to the backyard of the trust store. The three of them waited for a while before waiting for Section Chief Zhang and Accountant Sun to come to the logistics.

Seeing the two people coming, Xiao Changgong turned around and left without saying a word.

I don't know if he is just like this usually, or because he is afraid that his eyes will be stained by Li Shengli who went through the back door.

Regarding Xiao Changgong's aloofness, the two people who came here had obviously experienced it before, and the three of them passed by indifferently, without saying hello to each other.

Seeing that the Zhao family brothers beside him were also in a daze, Li Shengli could only speak helplessly.

"Section Chief Zhang and Accountant Sun, what a coincidence, this time the family asked me to bring some local products.

This is a big pumpkin growing in the mountains, so sweet!
This is dried melon and bacon.

These things are all produced in the mountains, they are not worth much money, they are just a little thought of our village.

The things from last time were of great help.

You may not know that the mountains are poor, and the quilts covered are full of reed flowers.

When I go to bed at night, my upper teeth knock my lower teeth, and I dare not eat when I wake up in the morning, for fear of toothache. "

Seeing my uncle Li Shengli, he was boasting and giving things.

The honest and honest Zhao Youfang didn't understand that the family was not poor, not only was there enough to eat and warm clothes, but also meat to eat every now and then.

Let my uncle say this, their family is not much better than a beggar.

"Old Zhang, look at how pitiful these children are, their clothes are all in tatters, should they open warehouse No. [-]?"

For the things in the warehouse, the most clear ones should be the accountants and warehouse management.

Accountant Sun, a middle-aged woman, felt somewhat sympathetic after hearing Li Shengli's cry of poverty.

Her family's children are also at this age, not to mention starving and freezing, and they have never worn even patched clothes.

As the warehouse manager, Lao Zhang gave Accountant Sun a helpless look, secretly thinking that this girl is busy.

But Accountant Sun had already opened his mouth, so he didn't have much to say. The three of them just drove a carriage, and they couldn't pull much.

Warehouse Manager Zhang reluctantly unlocked the No. [-] warehouse.

Section Chief Zhang and Accountant Sun are both familiar with the job. After opening the warehouse door together, they retreated.

As soon as the warehouse door was opened, an old musty smell came to the nostrils.

Only Li Shengli and the three ignorant ones were left, standing at the door of the warehouse, breathing in the old air.

"Boss, how much did Master Hai give you?"

It took time to dissipate the smell. Seeing that the two were hiding far away, Li Shengli asked Boss Zhao how much money he had in his pocket.

"A total of more than 35 yuan, 30 yuan is used to collect junk.

For the remaining five yuan, I have to go to the hardware store to buy some farm tools. "

Seeing the uncle talking in a low voice, Boss Zhao also answered in a low voice, but his eyes were obviously blank.

"Give me two dollars, the whole ticket is required, just take it out, I'll take it in your pocket."

Hearing his uncle's request, the loyal boss Zhao did not hesitate. He lowered his head and groped for a bit, and a corner of green banknotes appeared in his side pocket.

Li Shengli glanced at Accountant Sun, seeing that she was covered by the flapping ledger in front of her.

Then he turned around and took out the green turner from Boss Zhao's pocket, and held it quietly in his hand.

"Captain Zhang, how do we load the car, can you tell me?"

Seeing that Accountant Sun was still retreating in disgust, Li Shengli said to Zhang, who was standing on the other side.

"Old rules, two yuan a pack, a pack of one hundred catties, you just take it next to each other."

As soon as the warehouse door was opened, not only did it smell pungent, but it would also itch after touching it for a long time. Chief Zhang was also somewhat resistant to entering the warehouse.

He just stood by the door and guided Li Shengli a bit, without any intention of entering the warehouse.

After walking a few steps, he looked at the dark warehouse and saw light bulbs hanging above the warehouse, so Li Shengli spoke again.

"Chief Zhang, I can't find the light wire, can you tell me?"

Seeing that Li Shengli was eloquent and had many problems, Section Chief Zhang walked into the warehouse with some disgust.

Pointing to the light wire on the wall, he said impatiently.

"Isn't it there?

What are you looking at..."

Before Section Chief Zhang finished speaking, Li Shengli took a step back and stuffed the two yuan turner into his pocket.

"Chief Zhang, it's not easy, take care of him?"

After listening to what Li Shengli said, Section Chief Zhang looked at the green turner. Although his face was still impatient, his eyes softened a lot.

"Hurry up, you two, don't stand at the door and act dumb.

This pile, and this pile, pick up the top ones.

The ones over there are all bedding, not worth it.

Want cotton, Curry Six has cheap ones. "

Section Chief Zhang was still yelling loudly in the first two sentences, but the last two sentences were inaudible. Only Li Shengli beside him could hear clearly.

After asking the Zhao brothers to pick up ten bags of relatively dry clothes, Li Shengli led the two of them out of the warehouse.

On the other side, Section Chief Zhang was talking to Accountant Sun about something.

After a few words, seeing Accountant Sun nodded happily, the two must have reached an agreement.

"Come over here. There are two piles of rotten cotton in warehouse No. [-]. Let's see if you can get them. This time, we will estimate the piles."

Accountant Sun was more sympathetic to Li Shengli and the other three, and spoke much softer than Chief Zhang.

After the two of them worked together to open warehouse No. [-], two piles of worn-out bedding appeared in front of them.

"There are two piles in total, three yuan a pile, do you want it?"

Seeing Boss Zhao nodding in a hurry, Li Shengli, who didn't understand the market, also nodded at Accountant Sun, as if he wanted these two piles of junk.

The old quilts were not easy to load into the car, and the three of them unloaded the clothes bags that had just been loaded into the car. After a lot of effort, they loaded the two piles of rotten quilts into the car.

Seeing that the three of them were struggling to pack, Section Chief Zhang also took a small bundle of hemp rope for packing from the warehouse.

After asking the three of them to circle around and seal the car, they managed to put ten bags of clothes on top of the carriage.

Boss Zhao paid the money with Accountant Sun and looked at the seriously overloaded carriage with melancholy in his eyes.

"The car is all installed, let's go quickly, and I will get off work later."

Although he took Li Shengli's money, Chief Zhang's attitude was still a little indifferent.

In Li Shengli's view, the loss of materials in trust stores is also a deep pool of water.

Driven by Chief Zhang, the three of them drove the trembling carriage to the gate guarded by Xiao Changgong.

Accountant Sun, who came with him, roughly told Xiao Changgong that the things were in compliance with the regulations.

Xiao Changgong, who had a black and blue face, let it go without finding any problems after inspection.

"Uncle, you are still amazing.

These two dollars are worth the money, my grandfather and father will come here.

For 30 yuan, you can buy the pile of torn cotton in the truck.

The above ten packs of clothes can be unpacked and picked out, and then go back to wash them. It’s no problem to sell one or two pieces. "

After leaving the backyard of the trust store, the boss Zhao Youfang gave Li Shengli a thumbs up.

The horse-drawn carts in the village can pull two to three thousand catties, but now it is very difficult to pull the horses, and the rags on the carts are at least three thousand catties.

The packed clothes cost one hundred catties, and the two piles of torn bedding weighed at least two thousand catties.

In Zhao Youfang's view, buying these rags for six dollars is the same as picking them up for nothing.

Nowadays, food and living materials are in short supply. To buy food, you need food coupons, and to buy cloth, you need cloth coupons. Cotton coupons are even rarer than the former two.

It is not possible for a worker's family who can normally receive various vouchers to save the cloth and cotton needed for a set of bedding in one or two years.

The suburbs of Beijing are not cotton-growing areas, and it is even more difficult to grow cotton in the already difficult rural areas.

The cotton in many people's cotton-padded clothes and quilts, if you look back, it might be an old object from the Qing Dynasty.

Although the warmth retention property of the old cotton is not as good as that of the new cotton, it is still much better than the reed flowers that Li Shengli talked about.

Although it is a bit nonsense to use reed cattail cotton-padded bedding, it is not uncommon in rural areas to use scattered cattail sticks to cotton-padded bedding.

As for old bedding and old clothes, which are unclean and unhygienic, and basic shelter and warmth cannot be done, who dares to ask for this?
Two thousand catties of broken quilts, after unpacking and washing, can still have about one thousand catties of old cotton.

According to the amount of flowers used for a thick quilt of six or seven catties, after careful calculation, the harvest is indeed very large.

The two brothers of the Zhao family were still immersed in the joy of picking up the big leak, but Li Shengli, who was following the side of the carriage, looked worriedly at the shaft horse pulling the cart.

"You Fang, I think the horse's legs are trembling, are we pretending too much?

Can this work? "

The tattered quilts in stock were already damp. In order to fill the car with porcelain, the brothers of the Zhao family stepped on it several times in the bucket.

Even if it was all stepped on, plus ten bags of clothes, the height of the carriage now exceeds 1.7 meters, eight.

The Zhao family brothers are also good at loading cars, and the two people packed a car full of goods in an even and stable manner.

It's just that there is a limit to animal power. Although the goods are loaded according to the rules, the weight has exceeded the load of the shaft horse.

If the shaft horse pulling the cart is injured, the two brothers of the Zhao family will turn into a loss-making business.

"It's okay, I can still pull it for a while, and we will unload the bundled clothes on it when we find a place where there is no one.

Uncle Xiao lived in a courtyard in Banqiao Hutong, and there was a row of empty houses.

There is a lot of trash collected, my grandfather and the others will dump it at Uncle Xiao's house. "

The words of Zhao Youfang, the boss of the Zhao family, made Li Shengli look at him differently.

This seemingly loyal Boss Zhao is just like his name, with a loyal face and a strategy, he is a character.

"Brother, I see that there are a lot of silk goods among the bundled clothes.

Let's not leave tonight, just make do at Uncle Xiao's house and pick up the good clothes inside.

Otherwise, if we pull back to the village, we can still have our share? "

The second child, Zhao Youfa, who had been silent all this time, also rolled his eyes and opened his mouth.

Usually, after collecting the junk at the trust store, after returning to the village, the villagers who want it will gather together.

When everyone has collected enough money and food for the tatters, as well as the round-trip transportation expenses, they will weigh the things and divide them equally.

This time the harvest was great, and Zhao Lao Er obviously had other ideas.

"As long as you have a lot of thought, push the cart behind.

Uncle, the second child has a lot of crooked minds, do you think what he said will work? "

The Zhao family in Wali has a lot of rules. Master Hai at home has the final say, Zhao Mankui in the village has the final say, and between brothers, the boss, Zhao Youfang, has the final say.

In Li Shengli's opinion, Zhao Youfa, the clever second child, is not as good as the loyal boss Zhao Youfang.

With a calm face and a rough heart, he looks a bit like doing big things.

If he stayed in the village all the time, Zhao Youfang's burden might be Zhao Mankui's in the future.

The second brother Zhao Youfa's cleverness is all on his face, but the eldest Zhao Youfang's cleverness is in his heart. For example, the questions he asks now are very clever.

"Boss, if we unload the ten bags of clothes in the car, and go back and buy those old bedding for 30 yuan, will it work?"

Li Shengli knew what Zhao's second child was thinking, and he just wanted to make a profit.

In later generations, this is completely fine, but at this time, it is not just a matter of whether there is a problem.

Private business is called speculation, and if it is serious, it can be shot.

But there is always a way to work around everything. As long as it is not a big fanfare, there are still many ways for Li Shengli.

"Uncle, isn't this bad?

It's not easy for the folks in the village. We earn so much at once, and if people know it, it will poke the spine. "

Li Shengli's idea failed on the side of the boss, Zhao Youfang.

Although he was clever, Zhao Youfang still had principles. Li Shengli's statement obviously did not conform to Boss Zhao's principles.

(End of this chapter)