A layman in the courtyard

Chapter 7

"Brother Zhihua, brother Zhihua, come and play with us."

Cao Zhihua, who was drowsily asleep, was woken up. When he opened his eyes, he saw his cousin lying on top of him and shaking vigorously.

"Okay, okay, eldest baby, second baby, and third girl, stop shaking, you will shake them to pieces."

"Brother Zhihua, come down and play with us."

Cao Zhihua put his hand into his pocket, took out 6 pieces of White Rabbit toffee from the space, took it out and spread it among his hands.

"I'm not playing with you little brats. Dang-dang-dang-dang, look at what this is."

"Wow, wow, wow, White Rabbit toffee, Brother Zhihua, is this for us?" The three little kids shouted very excitedly when they saw the White Rabbit toffee.

"Here, my brother gives this to you, two for each of you, take it and eat it."

"Wow, that's great, thank you, Brother Zhihua."

Cao Zhihua ignored the three excited little guys. He stood up and went outside the door to see his uncle and uncle chatting about today's meeting outside.

He walked over and said hello affectionately, "Uncle, uncle, you guys are back."

"Well, I heard from your aunt that you have something to do with us?"

"Yes, the neighbors know that I plan to come back to buy some cheap food, and they all hope that I can bring some for them."

"Why are you working so hard? It's thankless. If you're short of food, just take some from us." When the uncle heard this, he blamed Cao Zhihua for being nosy.

Cao Zhihua pulled the two of them into the room and said, "Uncle, uncle, come on, let's go into the room and chat." As he said this, he looked outside the yard to see if anyone was eavesdropping.

The three of them were sitting in the living room of their uncle's house. Cao Zhihua spent a whole day unpacking cigarettes and handing them to his uncle. He then picked up a small basin and filled a basin full of candies, and put it on the table next to his uncle for his uncle to eat.

When the uncle saw that Cao Zhihua had brought so many cigarettes and candies, he got angry and said, "You can go back as soon as you come back. Go back to your home. Why did you buy so many cigarettes and candies? Do you have too much money to burn?"

Cao Zhihua explained, “I bought these cigarette candies to harvest wheat.”

"Although the country has unified purchasing and marketing now, the price of food in Sijiu City is still very unstable. My neighbors heard that I can go back to the countryside to get cheap wheat, and they all asked me for help. The price I gave was okay and unified. The price I was given was 3.15 cents per catty to harvest wheat.”

"I thought that our Hongxing Village is a big village and we all have the habit of storing grain. The autumn harvest is coming soon, so I plan to buy the grain stocks from the folks' homes."

The uncle thought for a moment and asked, "What price do you plan to charge?"

"I plan to charge according to the national purchase price of 3 cents per catty, and we will earn 1.5 cents per catty for some hard work. We have 4000 households in Hongxing Village, and each family can earn 3.400 cents per catty. We can still make a lot of money, which is enough for us to spend. It has been sold for many years.”

The uncle was a little surprised, "It's not a big problem if I come to collect 400 kilograms of grain in stock for my family. This is more than 160 million kilograms. Are you sure you can eat it?"

Cao Zhihua calculated in his mind that he only had more than 3300 yuan left, and could only harvest 10 kilograms of wheat.

"I came over to two yards and more than 60 neighbors gathered 3150 yuan for me. As long as I send 10 kilograms of grain back, I can earn 150 yuan. I will have to go back to Sijiu City to be sure."

Hiss... After listening to Cao Zhihua's words, my uncle and uncle quickly settled the score in their hearts.

If the entire Hongxing Village finishes the autumn harvest, they can at least collect everyone’s surplus grain, and collect 200 million jins of wheat for 3000 yuan! ! !

They looked at each other, took a deep breath, and said excitedly:
"So much money?"

Cao Zhihua replied, "Yes, if you do it well, you can earn 150 yuan in a few days."

"Uncle and uncle, this is what I think. I want to ask you to help me collect grain. I will send the grain back to Sijiu City every morning in the morning and come back at noon the next day. This is a rare opportunity. Let's make some money together. I only take 4 OK, uncle and uncle, how about you each take [-]%?"

When the uncle heard that Cao Zhihua wanted to share the money, he waved his hand quickly.
"No, no, no, we are your elders, how can we take your money?"

Cao Zhihua insisted on
"Uncle, uncle, listen to me. If I didn't do this thing without you, I would definitely not be able to do it well. Since everyone contributes, the money must be taken by everyone together. If you don't take the money, then I will Don’t do it anymore”

The uncle saw Cao Zhihua's serious look and knew that Cao Zhihua was serious.A slap on the leg and a direct nod

"Okay, that's it. Your uncle and I will go harvest wheat after dinner later."

After Cao Zhihua saw that his uncle and uncle agreed, he was very happy and took out 3000 yuan from the space to give to his uncle.
"Uncle, this is 3000 yuan given to me by my neighbor. You can use it first to collect grain, only wheat and nothing else."

"Okay, we'll take action after dinner." The uncle took the money directly without being polite.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, uncle. Let's collect as much as we can today. I'll stay at my uncle's house at night, and I'll send a batch of grain away in the morning."

My uncle agreed with this plan, "Let's go, your aunt should have prepared dinner. Let's go eat. After dinner, you can rest at home for a while. You have to go on the road in the evening."

"Good uncle."

After dinner, his uncle went to collect grain from house to house. Cao Zhihua took the three little ones for a walk. After taking a rest, he went back to his uncle's house, lay down on the big baby's kang and fell asleep.

Cao Zhihua was woken up by his uncle.

When you go out and look up, the stars in the sky look chaotic, but if you look carefully, you will see that these stars form various patterns...these patterns make the night sky more beautiful!
The starry sky in the 50s, without smog, was so picturesque that it instantly calmed everyone down.

"Zhihua, come quickly and carry the food to the car."

"Okay, uncle, how much grain did you harvest today?"

“The time was so tight, we collected 2-30 households, more than 1.2 kilograms.”

Today's bullock carts can generally transport 5000-7000 kilograms of goods, but ordinary people don't know how much weight they can carry.

No one knows the exact number, which gives Cao Zhihua room for maneuver.

Cao Zhihua had space and quietly collected half of the grain in the blind spot of his uncle's vision. By the time the grain was tied up like a mountain loaded with oxcarts, more than 1.2 kilograms of grain had been evacuated from his uncle's house.

When my uncle saw the cart being loaded, he asked worriedly, "Do you know how to drive a bullock cart? Can you do it alone?"

"Uncle, don't worry. I've driven big cars in the steel rolling mill. What's more, I'm pushing a bicycle to lead the cows in front. It's no problem. You've worked hard all night. Go and rest quickly. I'll wait for my good news tomorrow."

"These are two pheasants caught by Mao Dayou from the militia. You can take them back and taste them."

Cao Zhihua took the pheasant smoothly

"Thank you, uncle, you are so kind."

After saying that, he pushed the bicycle and led the cow towards Sijiucheng without looking back.

After Cao Zhihua walked out of Hongxing Village, he looked back and saw that the entire Hongxing Village was dark and quiet.

After continuing to drive for a while, Cao Zhihua carefully observed both sides and sides before putting all the grain on the bicycle and the oxcart into the space.

Sitting on the bullock cart, driving the bullocks slowly towards Sijiucheng.

Cao Zhihua, who was on the bullock cart, did not rest. His consciousness entered the space, untied all the wheat and poured it into the space, and started grinding the noodles according to the standard of 85 noodles.

Not long after, the entire 1.23 kilograms of wheat was ground into 85 noodles, a total of 10455 kilograms.

The total cost is 369 yuan. According to the selling price of 1.3 cents per pound, you can get 1359.

Subtracting 369's cost of purchasing wheat, and then subtracting a total of 11 yuan in dividends from uncles and uncles, the net profit is 979 yuan, a profit of 2.5 times.

Hehe, this business is really successful, Cao Zhihua is very satisfied, it is not illegal, and it is quite profitable.

It’s just that the time to do it is a little short, and the company will soon be jointly operated.

The ox cart slowly arrived not far from Lou's Steel Rolling Mill in Sijiucheng. Cao Zhihua put the ox cart into a space where no one was around.

Space is a static space, and living things will only be suspended in time and will not die if they enter.

Taking out his bicycle, Cao Zhihua quickly rode to the steel rolling mill.

When we arrived at the steel rolling mill, as a child of the steel rolling mill, the guard naturally knew him. He stopped at the gate and shouted loudly to the security room.

"Uncle Peng, is Uncle Lou here today? I have something to do with him."

The security guard's name was Peng Haifeng. He knew that Cao Zhihua's family had a good relationship with Lou Bancheng's family. When he saw it was Cao Zhihua, he opened the door and let him go.
"Director Lou is in the factory today. You can go directly to his office to find him."

Cao Zhihua rode his bicycle directly to the downstairs of Lou Dong's office building and locked his car.

I looked around to see if there was no one there, and took out two pheasants brought back from my uncle's home from the space.
After a while, I found the door of Lou Bancheng’s office on the third floor and clicked, “Come in.”

Cao Zhihua opened the door and put his head in to take a look inside.

When Lou Bancheng saw Cao Zhihua acting like a ghost, he yelled and cursed,
"Little bastard, you know how to come to my place, come in quickly"

Cao Zhihua came in, closed the door, and smiled silly at Lou Bancheng:
"Uncle Lou, I just came back from my hometown in Hongxing Village. Look what I brought you."

"Assuming you have a conscience, I won't be polite to you anymore. Leave it alone."

"Your kid came here today with the intention of taking over, right?"

"Hey, Uncle Lou, I plan to come back to work after the Chinese New Year. You have to arrange a lighter job for me."

"Looking at how you can be blown away by a gust of wind, I definitely can't let you leave the workshop. Which department do you want to go to?"

Cao Zhihua is also welcome

"Uncle Lou, do you think the warehouse in the factory is still short of custodians? Or data clerks, accountants, or cashiers."

Lou Bancheng thought for a while,

"The warehouse keeper doesn't have much potential. You are also a junior high school student with a pretty good education. Although you have not graduated, I don't care about the certificate. I will leave you an accounting position and you will come to work after the New Year."

Cao Zhihua thought about it and decided that next year it would be a public-private partnership.

Being an accountant during the Lou Bancheng era was very risky, and it was not a good position. I was targeted and transferred every minute. I had better fight with Lou Bancheng again.

"Uncle Lou, you see that I am still relatively young and have weak bones. I still want to be a warehouse manager first so that I can have time to exercise my body. If I am an accountant and sit in the office every day, my body will collapse easily. Anyway, it is As for what you just said, I will trouble you to change my position when I am healthy, do you think that's okay?"

Lou Bancheng thinks it makes sense.

"Okay, that's it, you'll come to work after the Chinese New Year."

Cao Zhihua is happy
"Thank you, Uncle Lou, you look after me."

Lou Bancheng was also very happy to see Cao Zhihua grinning happily.
"You haven't played with Xiao'e for a while. Xiao'e doesn't have many friends. She talks about you every day. Recently, you have spent more time to accompany her."

Cao Zhihua looked at Lou Bancheng with a twist of his head.

"Uncle Lou, I miss Xiao'e too. We are childhood sweethearts, but we really don't have much time recently."

"What can happen to you little brat? We don't have time yet."

"Uncle Lou, I just told you that I am going to my hometown in the countryside soon."

"what happened?"

(End of this chapter)