Era: 1979 From mountain man to richest man

Chapter 37: Lost Money and the Provincial Capital Supply and Marketing Cooperative
"Third brother, a lot of money!"

The little girl was startled.

After finishing speaking, she quickly looked around and found someone looking at her. She quickly lowered her voice:

"Third brother, why do you have so much money?"

Song Chaoyang was also a little surprised. He didn't expect to find such a large amount of money on the street.

Although this is a branch of the market and there are not many people, but there were several people passing by just now, and this envelope was left here and no one picked it up.

He looked around. At this time, several people had already looked over, and some even stretched their necks to get a closer look.

"Young man, how much do you have?" Someone still couldn't help asking.

"It's not money." Song Chaoyang returned.

As a result, three or five people came up and talked all over the place:
"Let's take a look!"

"I'm afraid it's fake money. Let me help you check if it's fake!"

"Everyone who meets you has a share, and everyone divides it!"

"Young man, please open it and let me see it!"

"You can't eat alone. Everyone has seen it. Share it."

As he said that, someone was about to take action.

"Get away!" Song Chaoyang yelled immediately.

This scared several people away.

These people were all elderly or thin and weak, and they were really frightened by him.

Everyone was afraid that the tall and powerful Song Chaoyang would take action, so they reluctantly backed away.

"It's none of your business to rush to the gathering of the bastards!" Song Chaoyang said angrily.

The mountain people in this place can't speak well. Only by being fiercer than them can they hold up the scene. If they are cowardly, they will definitely take advantage of it.

Several people saw that Song Chaoyang was young and not easy to bully, so they had no choice but to curse and leave.

Someone also said: "There shouldn't be much money."

"If there are too many, someone will definitely report it to the official. When the time comes to report the idiot, I will see him eating alone."

Others nodded repeatedly:
"That's it."

After these people left.

Song Chaoyang counted the money carefully.

Hmm... sixty pictures, six hundred in total!
It's all brand new Ten Dollar Unity.

Six hundred is not a small amount, it is enough for a family to work for a long time.

He frowned.

People who can carry so much money with them these days are probably not ordinary people.

Although Song Chaoyang asked himself that he was not a saint, this money was different from Mrs. Jia's money after all.

The person who dropped the money doesn't owe him anything.

Then Song Chaoyang took out the envelope again, wanting to see if there was anything else inside that could prove the identity of the owner.

As a result, I also took out several blank receipts.

The signature above turned out to be the Provincial Capital Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Is the owner from the provincial supply and marketing cooperative?
It seems like it really has some background!

After thinking about it, Song Chaoyang put the money into his pocket first, and then said to the little girl:
"Let's wait here for half an hour."

"If no one comes after half an hour, I'll take the money and hand it over to the government."

Many people saw them picking up this money, and they thought it would be impossible to hack it. These people were watching.

The little girl nodded, she definitely had no objection to the third brother's arrangement.

No matter what the third brother wants to do, she will support him unconditionally.

So the two of them waited here.

There were not many pedestrians here. Song Chaoyang estimated that after more than ten minutes, there were only about thirty people passing by.

They were all passing by, no one was even looking around.

After a while, when Song Chaoyang was about to get up and leave, he finally saw a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt, looking east and west along the street.

One look at him and I knew he was looking for something.

The other party happened to see Song Chaoyang at this moment, and his eyes met Song Chaoyang's.

The middle-aged man was startled for a moment, and then he just thought that Song Chaoyang was a mountain man resting here, and continued to look around.

Song Chaoyang looked up and down at this middle-aged man. He looked fair and well-dressed, with a pen on his chest. The first impression reminded people of what kind of cadre this man was.

He looked carefully along the street, and stopped when he reached Song Chaoyang.

He scratched his head and looked around, finding nothing, which made his face look anxious.

Then he set his eyes on Song Chaoyang. After thinking for a moment, he took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled out one and handed it to Song Chaoyang and said:

"Little brother, can I ask you something?"

Song Chaoyang waved his hand:

"I don't smoke, can you just tell me anything?"

"While you were resting here, did you see someone picking up an envelope wrapped in a newspaper?" the other party asked after hesitating.

But judging from his expression, he didn't have much hope anymore.

"Is this it?" Song Chaoyang took out the envelope that the little girl picked up.

The middle-aged man's eyes widened when he saw the envelope for the first time.

"Yes, yes, that's it!" "I dropped this one!" As he said this, he had already stretched out his hand.

He had given up hope just now, but he didn't expect that there would be another bright future.

But Song Chaoyang didn't give it to him, but said:

"Do you know what's in this? I can't give it to you until I tell you."

"A total of six hundred, all of which are 10 yuan each! By the way... there are also a few bills, which are on the letterhead of the Provincial City Supply and Marketing Cooperative." The middle-aged man responded directly.

Seeing that what he said was correct, Song Chaoyang didn't hesitate at all and handed the envelope directly into his hand.

The other party opened the envelope and took a look. Sure enough, all the money was still there.

His face was flushed with excitement at this moment, he held Song Chaoyang's hand and thanked him repeatedly:

"Little brother, thank you so much!"

"You are such a good person!"

"If it weren't for you, I would have really suffered a big loss this time!"

"I really don't know how to thank you."

Song Chaoyang shook his head and said:

"It's okay. It's too unsafe for you to carry so much money alone in an envelope. Please be careful in the future."

The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly:

"Well, I will definitely not be so careless in the future!"

This six hundred yuan is not a small amount of money for him.

Just now, he was mentally prepared that he would never get his money back.

Although I often see people in newspapers missing out on money.

But those were all reported in newspapers, and most of them just picked up the money and quietly pretended to do it.

The people here in Hongqi Commune are not rich, so who wouldn’t be tempted to pick up these six hundred?
Even if he picked up the six hundred yuan himself, he would be tempted.

It was a miracle for him to get it back.

So he was particularly grateful to Song Chaoyang at this moment. He never expected that there were such kind-hearted mountain people here.

I picked up six hundred and didn't keep it myself. I was even waiting here for him to come back.

He admired Song Chaoyang's character to the extreme!

At this time, Song Chaoyang didn't feel sorry for the money. If he had planned to swallow it just now, there were so many witnesses and he would definitely be found.

Coupled with the fact that the amount was really large and the note, this made him choose to pick up the money.

If it had been any other time, he might have actually stolen the money without conscience.

Six hundred yuan was really a lot of money. When Song Chaofei was admitted to college, the old lady only gave him five hundred yuan.

"Brother, don't leave in such a hurry!"

"You helped me a lot today, I must thank you!" The middle-aged man grabbed Song Chaoyang.

Song Chaoyang glanced at him and then said:

"No need to thank me, this money is not mine in the first place."

The other party took a look at the basket Song Chaoyang was carrying and found that there were a lot of medicinal materials in it. In addition to a small amount of Ligusticum chuanxiong and Angelica sinensis, there was also a large amount of Gastrodia elata.

The middle-aged man said quickly:

"Are you going to sell mountain goods?"

"You sell it directly to me, and I am the one who comes from the provincial capital supply and marketing cooperative to collect the mountain goods."

Song Chaoyang was startled and looked at the middle-aged man in surprise.

Why do the supply and marketing cooperatives in the provincial capital come to this mountain nook to collect mountain goods?
It wasn't until the other party took out his work permit and letter of introduction that Song Chaoyang was sure that this was really someone from the provincial capital, and he was indeed from the supply and marketing cooperative, but the mountain goods he collected were not the medicinal materials here in Song Chaoyang.

The letter of introduction stated that he was here to collect fur goods.

That is, people who collect various animal skins.

This man's name is Chen Jiangtao, and he is the deputy section chief of the Provincial City Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Unexpectedly, he was still a minor official in a provincial capital.

Song Chaoyang remembered that in the past few years, the provincial government would always send people to various villages to purchase various fur goods, including leopard skins, weasel skins, and bear skins.

This person actually came down to collect this.

"But all the medicinal materials I have here are not leather goods." Song Chaoyang said to Chen Jiangtao.

Chen Jiangtao waved his hands and didn't care:

"Oh, it's okay, it's all on the acquisition list."

"I'll just write it down when the time comes. The price I'll give you will definitely be higher than the purchase price here. Then I'll charge you all as special items."

The purchase of mountain goods is also graded. The higher the grade, the higher the price.

Chen Jiangtao still has this right.

Now he just wanted to quickly express his gratitude to Song Chaoyang.

When Song Chaoyang heard that he could offer such a high price, he immediately stopped talking nonsense. Although the Gastrodia elata here was quite good, it could not all be special grade.

There can only be a small part of the special products, and the rest are first-class and second-class products.

If all were considered special products, the price would be much higher.

Originally, this backpack could be sold for more than 90 yuan. If calculated as a special product, it would be at least more than 100 yuan.

The most important thing is that this person is from the Provincial Capital Supply and Marketing Cooperative, so he can get a lot of things that are not available here!
Song Chaoyang thought of this, so he nodded. Even if the other party didn't thank him for accepting this basket of mountain goods, that would be good.

Seeing Song Chaoyang nodding, Chen Jiangtao happily pulled him and said:
"Let's go, I'll take you to the food station first, collect the goods in your backpack, and then get you something delicious."

(End of this chapter)