Siheyuan: I just want to live

Not long after, the monkey returned here with a middle-aged man in his forties.

Monkey walked up to Chen Feng, handed him the remaining 80 kilograms of meat coupons, and then said, "This is my eldest brother, the head of the third purchasing department. He heard that I purchased two goats from you, so he came here to get to know you and check the quality of the mutton."

"How can you be so speechless? Didn't I tell you long ago that you must use words commensurate with your position in the factory? Why don't you learn your lesson?"

Before Monkey finished speaking, his brother immediately scolded him. He first looked at the goat, then turned to look at Chen Feng and introduced himself: "My name is Hou Debang, and I am the head of the third purchasing department. What's your name, little brother?"

Chen Feng replied, "My name is Chen Feng, hello, Chief Hou!"

"Hey! Why call me Section Chief? Call me Brother Hou. You're quite capable, little bro! If you have any prey, just send it to the steel mill. I guarantee you'll be satisfied with the price!" Section Chief Hou saw that the goat was killed by other ferocious beasts, so he asked this question.

Seeing this, Chen Feng said, "Brother Hou, let's talk for a moment."

"Okay!" Section Chief Hou agreed with a smile.

After the two came to the corner of the wall, Chen Feng lowered his voice and said in a volume that only the two of them could hear: "We have three huge wild boars and several ferocious wolves outside the city. They are all freshly killed. Do you want them? However, if you want to get them, you need to exchange them with supplies!"

Hearing this, Section Chief Hou's eyes flashed with surprise, and he nodded quickly and said, "Of course! Our factory definitely needs these! What kind of supplies do you need? As long as our factory has them, I will do my best to help you get them."

Chen Feng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a sly smile, and responded softly: "Well... I need some things like gears, triangles, steel bars, iron sheets, water pipes and hoses, etc."

Chen Feng told Section Chief Hou in detail what he needed, then looked at him quietly, waiting for his reply.

Section Chief Hou pondered for a moment, then looked up and said confidently: "We have reserves of all the things you mentioned in our factory. I can prepare them all for you. So how do we conduct this transaction next?" Obviously, Section Chief Hou had doubts about the specific method of the transaction.

"Well, you use a truck with a scale to transport the supplies we need to the place outside the city where we hide the things. We will weigh the things there, and then you bring back the wild boar and wolf meat." Chen Feng explained the transaction method to Section Chief Hou.

"Okay! I'll take you to pick things up later, so we can finish the job early! Wait for me here, I'll call a car." Section Chief Hou readily agreed to Chen Feng's proposal, and after giving instructions, he turned around and left to call a taxi.

Monkey stood in the distance and witnessed the whole process of Chen Feng and his elder brother talking in the corner. After they talked for a while, his elder brother left in a hurry. When Chen Feng returned, Monkey hurried forward and asked curiously: "Brother Chen, what did you say to my brother? Why did he leave without even saying hello? Tell me quickly!"

Chen Feng raised the corner of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile, and responded lightly: "Well, it's still inconvenient for me to tell you about this. Wait until your brother comes back and ask him yourself."

"Hey! You are such a boring person!" The monkey complained helplessly, feeling a little disappointed with Chen Feng's answer.

Seeing that Chen Feng had no desire to talk to him, Monkey stood aside and took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

The two of them were smoking while waiting for the section chief to come back. Not long after, Chen Feng saw Section Chief Hou coming in a car with two people from the security department.

Chen Feng looked at the security officers standing in the train. Both of them were armed, with two 56-and-a-half pistols and full bullet bags on their waists. It seemed that Section Chief Hou and the driver in the carriage also had pistols.

Section Chief Hou got out of the car and saw Chen Feng looking at the security personnel in the car and said, "Brother Chen, don't mind. After all, we are going to the outskirts of the city to buy meat. If someone gets jealous when we come back, we can take care of them with two people. They can also help carry some things."

Section Chief Hou was afraid that Chen Feng might misunderstand him, so he quickly explained.

Chen Feng quickly waved his hand and said, "It's okay! I don't mind. After all, everyone is short of meat now, so it's good to bring two more people."

"Then I'll take you to pick out the supplies. Let's get things done sooner, so I can relax a little bit. To be honest, I'm worried about finding meat! It's almost New Year's Day, but I still can't get the benefits. It's really hard for me!"

Section Chief Hou started to complain to Chen Feng, but Chen Feng did not respond. Seeing that Chen Feng did not respond, Section Chief Hou did not say anything and asked the two men to carry the scale to the car.

"Come on, brother! Let's go pick up things." Section Chief Hou waved his hand enthusiastically, and Chen Feng hurriedly followed him and walked towards the large warehouse.

After arriving at the large warehouse, Chen Feng began to carefully select the items he needed. The two security guards were also very enthusiastic and took the initiative to help him move the selected items to the car. Chen Feng first selected a set of gears, which were used to make a windmill; then, he saw a pile of thin steel plates of one square meter in size, so he asked for 50 pieces; then, he selected two steel plates with a diameter of 35 cm and a thickness of 1.5 cm, as well as a screw with a length of meters and a diameter of cm and the corresponding large nut. In addition, he also moved some thin steel bars and angle irons, as well as a section of I-beam.

After Chen Feng had selected the items he needed, he cut off a three-meter-long thin hose and a ten-meter-long water pipe, and then said with satisfaction: "Okay, that's all, we can go!"

Section Chief Hou checked the items that Chen Feng had selected and felt that there was no problem. He then arranged for the security personnel to place Chen Feng's bicycle in the car and invited Chen Feng to get on the car. The car started slowly and drove out of the factory. When passing the scale, they weighed the weight of the purchased steel and found that it was a little over one and a half tons.

After exiting the steel mill gate, Section Chief Chen Fenghou sat in the front carriage giving directions, while two security guards were squatting in the carriage.

Instead of entering the city, we went around Ditan Park and went to Andingmen, then walked north from Andingmen for about ten miles.

Chen Feng pointed to a dense forest on the side of the road and said, "Stop the car in front. Our people are waiting in the woods."

Upon hearing this, the driver parked the car steadily on the side of the road next to the dense forest. Chen Feng turned to Section Chief Hou and said, "Wait here for me. I'll go over to check the situation and talk to them so that there won't be any unnecessary trouble."

Section Chief Hou replied, "Okay! Hurry up! Don't make me wait too long!"

Chen Feng replied that it was no problem, then got out of the car and went into the woods. He walked for a while and stopped when he saw that there was no truck outside.

Flashing into the space, Chen Feng skinned and gutted the wolf, and then got the wild boar out of the space.

After placing the wild boar and wolf meat under a tree and covering them with some dead leaves, Chen Feng started to walk back.

However, when the security guards in the car saw Chen Feng get out of the car and go into the woods, they quickly loaded their guns and prepared for battle, fearing that this was a trap and Chen Feng would bring people back to attack them.

After waiting for a while, I was relieved to see Chen Feng coming out alone.

Chen Feng walked straight to the carriage and said to Section Chief Hou, "My friends don't want to see you, so they asked us to move by ourselves."

Section Chief Hou thought for a moment and said, "Okay! Then we can move it ourselves."

He then asked two security guards to follow Chen Feng into the dense forest, while the driver stayed in the car to watch over it.

Section Chief Hou and his companions followed Chen Feng to the place where the wild boars were hidden. They watched Chen Feng pull away the dead leaves, revealing three wild boars and five skinned, fat wild wolves.

Chen Feng and the other three people each grabbed a pig leg and carried it out. It took them four trips to get all the things back to the side of the road.

After weighing, the wild boar weighed 1351 kilograms and the wolf meat weighed 363 kilograms. Section Chief Hou took the numbers written in the notebook and began to calculate. While calculating, he said to Chen Feng:

"One thousand three hundred and fifty-one catties of wild boar, at seventy cents a catty, nine hundred and forty-five yuan and seventy cents. Three hundred and sixty-three catties of wolf meat, at sixty cents a catty, two hundred and seventeen yuan and eighty cents. Wolf meat and firewood are sold at a lower price. Do you think the price is okay?"

Chen Feng thought about it and said, "I'll go with the price you said, Brother Hou. You won't cheat me!"

Hearing Chen Feng's compliment, Section Chief Hou shook his head and smiled and continued, "Let's say it's one and a half tons of steel, and those water pipes and hoses are my gifts to you. One and a half tons of steel is nine hundred yuan, and I'll give you two hundred and sixty-three and a half yuan, making it a round number of two hundred and seventy yuan."

As he said this, he took out a stack of big unity notes, counted out twenty-seven of them, and handed them to Chen Feng.

Chen Feng took it without counting it, and put it directly into his arms, then threw it into the space under the cover of his cotton coat.

Section Chief Hou asked, "Why don't you count them? Aren't you afraid that I won't give you a few less?"

Chen Feng smiled and replied to him, "I just believe that Brother Hou will not lie to me!"

In fact, Chen Feng saw clearly when Section Chief Hou was counting the money just now, and not a single bill was missing from the 27 bills.

Section Chief Hou smiled and said nothing more but asked, "Where should the steel in this carriage be unloaded?"

Chen Feng pointed to the road and said, "Just unload it on the side of the road, and someone will come to move it later."

So Section Chief Hou ordered the others to unload the steel and load the wolf meat and wild boar onto the truck, while he handed Chen Feng a cigarette. The two chatted on the side.

Suddenly Chen Feng asked, "Brother Hou, do you know anyone who makes tanning leather?"

Section Chief Hou looked at Chen Feng strangely and asked curiously, "Do you need to use saltpeter for those wolf skins that have been beaten into honeycombs?"

Seeing Chen Feng looking at him strangely, Section Chief Hou continued, "I was also on the battlefield and touched a gun. I shot with a submachine gun, right? I'll buy all this meat from you and pick out two pounds of bullets!"

Chen Feng felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. Section Chief Hou then said, "There is an old man named Zhao in the courtyard of No. 35 Xiaojia Hutong in front of Andingmen. He used to be a hunter and he knows how to tan leather."

Section Chief Hou still told Chen Feng the place where leather could be tanned.

At this time, the car was ready, and Section Chief Hou asked Chen Feng, "Brother Chen, do you want me to take you back to the city?"

"No need for me to stay here and watch things. After my friend comes, I will ride back by myself." Chen Feng rejected his kindness.

Seeing this, Section Chief Hou got into the car without saying anything more. The driver started the truck and headed towards the steel mill.

Chen Feng watched them walk away, put the steel into the space, and rode his bicycle to Sijiu City.