Siheyuan: I just want to live

Chen Feng slowly walked back to the backyard, gently pushed open the door, and carefully pushed the bicycle into the main room.

He did not check the room carefully, but just looked around quickly. Fortunately, it seemed that no one had broken in.

Chen Feng cleaned the stove carefully, then skillfully picked up a piece of honeycomb coal and walked out of the house.

When he looked up, he noticed that there was still a bright light in Xu Damao's house. He hesitated for a moment, but finally walked towards the door of Xu's house and knocked gently.

"Who is it? Why are you knocking on the door so late? Can't we talk about it tomorrow?" Xu Damao's voice came from inside the house, with a hint of dissatisfaction and irritability in his tone.

Chen Feng stood at the door and shouted loudly: "Xu Damao, it's me, Chen Feng! The stove in my house is out, I want to come and exchange it for a piece of honeycomb coal from you!"

Hearing Chen Feng's voice, Xu Damao in the room immediately responded: "Chen Feng, wait a moment, I will open the door for you right away!"

Then there were footsteps in the room, and then Xu Damao opened the door.

As soon as Xu Damao saw Chen Feng, he couldn't wait to ask, "Chen Feng, why haven't I seen you at home these few days? Where have you been?"

Chen Feng looked relaxed and answered casually, "Oh, I went to the mountainous area to help the company with procurement. So, you haven't seen me these few days, right?"

When Xu Damao heard the word "procurement", his eyes immediately shot out two sharp rays of light that seemed to be able to turn into substance.

His mouth was like a machine gun, and he immediately asked excitedly: "Chen Feng, did you go shopping? Then you must have made a lot of money, right?"

When Chen Feng heard what he said, he knew everything in his mind - this guy is thinking about how to make money again!

However, he still patiently explained to him: "I am purchasing for the company, not doing business for myself, how can I make money!"

Besides, I just agreed with them on the quantity and price. They will deliver the goods to our company tomorrow, and the company's finance department will pay them directly. How can I have the opportunity to make money from it?"

After Xu Damao heard Chen Feng's explanation, the light in his eyes dimmed instantly. However, he still held on to a glimmer of hope and asked:

"Chen Feng, why don't you transport these things to your company yourself? In this way, you can secretly increase the price during the transportation process, and your company will have no way of knowing it! In this way, won't you be able to make more money?"

When Chen Feng heard Xu Damao's words, he couldn't help but widen his eyes and looked at Xu Damao as if he were a fool. His tone was a little sarcastic, and he responded slowly:

"Xu Damao, do you know? There is a crime in our country now called 'speculation and profiteering'. And the behavior you just described is exactly in line with this crime!"

I didn't expect Chen Feng to say that, and I was stunned for a moment. Then I thought about it carefully, and realized that if I followed what I just said, it would really become speculation.

Seeing that Xu Damao didn't respond for a long time, Chen Feng gently pushed him and said, "Xu Damao, wake up! Stop being dazed!"

Xu Damao finally came to his senses and asked Chen Feng, "So, you made a wasted trip and didn't make any money, did you?"

Chen Feng really didn't want to argue with Xu Damao about this issue any further, so he changed the subject and said, "Xu Damao, is the fire in your coal stove still burning well? Help me change the coal briquettes!"

As Chen Feng was talking, he lifted up the honeycomb coal in his hand. Seeing this, Xu Damao knew that Chen Feng did not want to continue discussing that topic, so he stopped asking.

He then said, "The fire in my house is still burning brightly. Please go in and change the coal balls!"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Damao stepped aside to make way for him, and Chen Feng walked into the kitchen without hesitation and quickly replaced the coal briquettes. Afterwards, he thanked Xu Damao and turned back to his home.

However, Xu Damao was still thinking about the purchase. In his opinion, Chen Feng was too honest and lacked the necessary flexibility in some matters.

If Xu Damao went out to purchase by himself, he would definitely lower the purchase price to the lowest, and then sell a unit at the highest price. By then, he would make a lot of money.

Xu Damao felt a little regretful. If he wasn't an official projectionist now, he would definitely become a buyer.

In Xu Damao's opinion, being a projectionist has more face than being a purchasing agent.

After returning home, Chen Feng replaced the stove, locked the door and returned to the bedroom, turned off the light and lay down on the bed. Chen Feng did not go to sleep immediately, but entered the space.

After arriving at the space, Chen Feng had a simple meal first, and then made two large baskets with pine wood to prepare for the rabbits tomorrow.

Chen Feng then prepared to catch 50 rabbits weighing three or four pounds and send them to the scrap yard, as a benefit for the Lantern Festival.

In addition to the rabbits, Chen Feng sewed six cloth bags. Two hundred kilograms of flour were put into two bags, each weighing one hundred kilograms. He also put four hundred kilograms of cornmeal in the bags.

After finishing all this, Chen Feng started to pick up leaves again. The pine needles he had just harvested were enough for all the rabbits to eat until spring.

Moreover, this time Chen Feng caught almost all the newly adult rabbits in the rabbit herd. The rabbit herd is now full of small rabbits, and the rabbit herd should not increase in large numbers in the short term.

Chen Feng spent another boring night pulling leaves.

The next day, Chen Feng did not go to work at the scrap yard early as usual, but slept until almost ten o'clock.

Then he washed up and went to the scrap station. After arriving at the scrap station, Chen Feng did not stay in the message room, but went to the stationmaster's office to find Li Guotao.

Arriving at the office door, Chen Feng knocked politely. After hearing Li Guotao shouting "Come in", Chen Feng entered the office.

Li Guotao, who was sitting behind his desk, saw that it was Chen Feng and immediately asked with concern, "How was your trip to the mountains? Are you injured?"

Chen Feng walked to the desk, pulled over a chair, and sat down on it carelessly.

Then he replied to Li Guotao, "No injuries, everything is fine."

Seeing Chen Feng's heartless look, Li Guotao asked, "What did you gain from going into the mountains this time?"

Chen Feng sighed lightly and said with regret, "This time we went into the mountains and wandered around for several days, but we didn't encounter any large prey. We only caught some rabbits weighing three or four pounds. I left 50 of them for our scrap yard, and they were all alive."

"I also bought 200 kilograms of flour and 400 kilograms of cornmeal from my fellow villagers in the mountains. I harvested these things in the past few days."

After listening to Chen Feng's narration, Li Guotao nodded with satisfaction, and then encouraged Chen Feng, "This is already very good. It is not easy to get so many things in the first purchase."

Then he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, where is the thing now? Did you bring it back?"

When Chen Feng saw Li Guotao asking where the supplies were, Chen Feng quickly replied, "The supplies are outside the city. Wait for me and I will ride my tricycle to get them back."

"But Stationmaster, the rabbit is still alive. Should we send it out today? If not, will our scrap yard have anything to feed it?"

Li Guotao thought for a moment, then said, "Don't worry about this issue. Just come back and forth later. I will arrange it myself."

Li Guotao had already said it, so Chen Feng didn't say anything more. So Chen Feng stood up from the chair and said to Li Guotao, "Stationmaster, I will go drive a tricycle to get the things now."

After Chen Feng finished speaking, he prepared to go out.

"Chen Feng, don't leave in a hurry, I still have something to ask you!"

But before Chen Feng could move, Li Guotao called him first.

Chen Fengwen also stood there, looking at Li Guotao to see what he was going to say.

Li Guotao saw that Chen Feng did not leave, but looked at him, so he said

"Chen Feng! During the few days you were in the mountains, Director Wang from the Nanluoguxiang Subdistrict Office called me. He asked me about your whereabouts and your guns. What's going on? Didn't the people in your yard know that you were in the mountains?"

Chen Feng listened to Li Guotao's question, so he said, "Stationmaster, the thing is this, on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, the manager of our hospital saw my gun and told me to leave it at work and not take it home, but I didn't agree."

"The next morning, I went straight to the mountainous area from the scrap yard and didn't go home. People in the yard didn't know where I went. The old man in charge probably went to the street office after he couldn't find me."

"I guess his purpose is to get Director Wang to confiscate my gun, right? But the subdistrict office probably didn't agree with his suggestion, otherwise they would have talked to me this morning."

After listening to Chen Feng's statement, Li Guotao touched his chin and asked, "Chen Feng, does that manager have a conflict with you? Why do I feel like he is targeting you?"

In response to this question, Chen Feng shrugged and said, "There are some contradictions. He always wants to be my elder. After we had a quarrel, he always makes trouble for me."

Li Guotao nodded and said, "Okay, I got it! Go get the supplies!"

Chen Feng nodded and left the stationmaster's office.

After Chen Feng walked out of the office, he went to the warehouse next door. He opened the door and saw Zhou Ping inside, so he said, "Brother Ping, you're here! I just happened to need you for something! Help me drive a tricycle, I'm going to go out and get some supplies back."

Zhou Ping heard that Chen Feng was going to get supplies, so he asked curiously, "Chen Feng, what supplies are you going to get?"

Chen Feng smiled slightly, then said mysteriously, "'Keep it secret for now! Won't you know when I come back?'"

After hearing this, Zhou Ping curled his lips and said nothing more. He just opened a tricycle at random.

Chen Feng rode his tricycle out of the scrap yard.