A layman in the courtyard

Chapter 9 Billing

"Zhihua, get up and eat."

Cao Zhihua came to the middle of the yard and found that the sun was about to set. The sunset was getting redder and redder, and a few rays of golden light penetrated the clouds, as brilliant as fireworks.

As the sky is dyed red by the glow, the area becomes wider and wider, red and as delicate as fire.

He walked to the well and rinsed his face with the cool well water to wake up.

The meal is almost ready in the kitchen.

Three pots of classic steamed buns that are bigger than two fists put together, a bowl of braised pork vermicelli in an iron pot, and a plate of five-color leeks are very rich.

There are not as many rules for eating in the countryside as there are in the city.

But if the head of the family moves the chopsticks, others can move. This rule is basically followed by every household, otherwise it will be a beating.

"Come on, come on, everyone eat quickly. Zhihua, you too, eat more."

"Okay, uncle, you're welcome. Your home is my home. You don't need to greet me."

When everyone saw their uncle picking up chopsticks and eating, they all picked up bowls and chopsticks and stuffed vegetables into their mouths with chopsticks.

When the food reached his mouth, Xijue swallowed it whole. It seems that everyone is very hungry today!
In recent years, the people have been living a good life, and the prestige of the country and the party among the peasant masses is getting higher and higher day by day.

Nowadays, many places require you to pay homage to great people before eating.

Thank you to the Party for bringing us a good life without war, oppression by landlords, robbery of homes, bandits and bullies, and bossy officials.

Moreover, since the victory of the Northern War, the prestige of the party and the country at home and abroad has been unprecedentedly high.

The spirit of the people is different. Everyone is in high spirits when walking outside, full of hope for the future of the party and the country.

"Uncle, I want to wait a little later. There will be no one outside at 9 o'clock. Send a batch of grain back to the city. Come back in the middle of the night to deliver another batch. In this way, the grain collected today can be delivered tomorrow. I will bring the money back tomorrow, please. You and your uncle will go harvest wheat again."

The uncle thought for a while and said, "That's okay. It's not good if the time is prolonged. It's easy for things to happen if the time is prolonged."

Cao Zhihua was not afraid of any changes, and the time was indeed too tight.

You only have a few months to collect as much as you can. The more you collect, the more you will earn.

If he only delivers food once a day, it would be difficult for Cao Zhihua to deliver wheat into the space.

If the uncles and uncles purchase too little wheat, problems may arise if a large amount of wheat is collected into the space.

And now when capital turnover is most needed, it must be cashed out quickly, and the funds must be obtained and put into operation quickly.

In this era, the country did not use electricity on a large scale, and there was no such thing as light pollution.

By 9pm, it was already pitch dark, so we loaded up the oxcart.

Cao Zhihua told his uncle to go back and rest quickly, and he would go back again in the middle of the night, so he set off for Sijiu City.

This time, taking advantage of my uncle's blind spot, the space collected nearly 2.2 kilograms of wheat. Adding more than 6000 kilograms of wheat on the oxcart, the total was 2.8 kilograms. Adding yesterday's 1.23 kilograms, the total was a little more than 4 kilograms.

Not long after, Cao Zhihua drove the oxcart to a watermelon field 2 kilometers away from the village. There was a hut in the watermelon field where the owner kept the melons. Now that the watermelons have been harvested, the hut is empty.

Cao Zhihua puts everything into space.

The person entered the hut, lay down on the wooden bed, and his consciousness entered the space and began to grind flour.

It’s good to have space. In a short while, more than 3.4 kilograms of 85 powder were polished.Then control the flour to be bagged and tied with hemp rope.

The work was finished quickly, and Cao Zhihua slept all afternoon. He couldn't sleep now, and his thoughts began to spread.

The time interval between sending a batch of wheat should not be too short or too long. Every 5.6 hours is more suitable. If you make a round trip in 5.6 hours, your uncles will not think there is a problem.

We also need to quickly expand the amount of wheat purchased. The current wheat harvest is still too little. If we put too much into the space at once, even a fool will know that there is a problem.

If there are hundreds of thousands of kilograms of wheat in the uncle's room, and if he puts 3 to 5 kilograms of wheat into the space at one time, he won't be able to see much with the naked eye.

And the most important thing is to deliver a batch of wheat, which requires 5.6 hours of stay outside.

Fortunately, during the day, you can ride an ox cart to the village in the other direction to collect grain, and you can collect more or less.But I can't do anything at night.

It's a pity that I was a lazy person in my previous life and couldn't do anything.

It would be great if he could hunt and set traps like many of the protagonists of the Siheyuan, so that all the prey he hunted could be put in space.

When the time comes, you can trade yellow croakers on the black market, which will be a great time.

After lying down for a while, Cao Zhihua felt bored. It was dark and empty outside, so he started to calculate the accounts.

Later in the middle of the night, I will go to my uncle's house to deliver grain again. This time I will collect 30000 jins of wheat into the space, which is 7 jins of wheat.It can produce 6 kilograms of flour and sell it all to the steel rolling mill during the day. It costs 1.3 cents per kilogram, which is 7800 yuan.

In the afternoon, I went back to the village and gave 6000 yuan to my uncle to harvest wheat, which would allow me to harvest 20 jins.

Then I took out 90 yuan to share with my uncle and uncle, which is 45 yuan per person.

You can use the remaining money to buy wheat from other villages, so that time and funds can be maximized.

Unknowingly, Cao Zhihua watched the night sky gradually reveal a blurry halo.

After calculating the time, I felt it was almost time, so I put out the bullock cart, got on it and walked to my uncle's house.

Dong Dong Dong, Cao Zhihua knocked on the door of his uncle and aunt's room and said hello.
"Uncle, I'm back. You can continue to rest while I move the wheat myself."

Nowadays, people wake up very much at night. As soon as Cao Zhihua entered the granary and lit the oil lamp, his uncle came in wearing a coat.

Seeing this, Cao Zhihua stepped forward and pushed his uncle to sleep.
"Uncle, go to bed quickly. You have to work tomorrow. I can be alone here."

"It's okay, the two of you can work faster."

"Hurry up and go to bed. Things are going very smoothly. I will send this cart of grain back to Sijiu City. You can get the money to come down tomorrow. You go and have a rest. I am young and can finish this work in one go. I will not do it later. I said hello to you, I packed the wheat and left directly."

Cao Zhihua pushed his uncle into the room, closed the door, and went directly to the grain room.

Collect the wheat in the granary directly into the space.

After a while, Cao Zhihua saw that there were about 3 kilograms of wheat left.

After thinking about it, I collected another 5000 kilograms, then walked to the oxcart and started stacking grain.

The granary is next to the kitchen, at the far end of the yard, and cannot be seen from the windows of my uncle's house.

But if the whole show is done, if the uncle sees Cao Zhihua pulling an empty truck out of the window, it will be a bit of a problem.

So Cao Zhihua directly loaded the bags of wheat onto the bullock cart from inside the space.

After loading the ox cart, Cao Zhihua hid at the door and counted the time. He estimated that in more than half an hour, he turned off the lights, pulled the ox cart and started to set off.

It's the same old routine of collecting wheat into the warehouse, grinding flour, and riding an ox cart back to Sijiu City.

When the sky was still bright, Cao Zhihua arrived not far from the gate of Sijiu City.

Taking advantage of the early opportunity, I put 7000 kilograms of flour out of the space and stacked it on the oxcart, and led the oxen to Lou's Steel Rolling Mill.

When we arrived at the steel rolling mill, the steel rolling mill was already at work.

Cao Zhihua put the bullock cart in front of the office building of the steel rolling mill, took out 2 kilograms of White Rabbit toffee from the space, and entered the property room.
"Hello, Manager Huang!"

Huang Jingwen stopped the pen in her hand and squinted her eyes at Cao Zhihua, "You are the young man introduced by Director Lou yesterday, right?"

Cao Zhihua smiled politely and said, "Yes, my name is Cao Zhihua. Manager Huang, you have a really good memory."

Then he placed the White Rabbit toffee at the foot of Huang Jingwen’s table.

"This is not the first time I've come here. I bought some candies. Please share them with everyone so they can taste the sweetness."

Huang Jingwen glanced at the bag of candy and said politely
"Did you bring flour here today?"

"Yes, you have to work hard today."

"Where are the things?"

"Just park under the office building."

Huang Jingwen stood up as soon as the goods arrived.

"Then I'll call Lao Luo from the Purchasing Department. Let's get on the scale and settle the bill later."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Manager Huang."

"It's okay. By the way, how did Mr. Lou find you guys to meet you?"

Cao Zhihua thought for a while, so that the subsequent transactions could be carried out more smoothly, so
"Uncle Lou watched me grow up, and it was Uncle Lou who helped me this time."

After hearing this, Huang Jingwen's face remained calm, but in fact, her heart began to stir. No wonder she could let Director Lou take action in person.

The next step was very smooth, weighing, entering the warehouse, issuing orders, and checking out, everything went smoothly.

(End of this chapter)