Siheyuan: Start with a big car

Chapter 493 The noisy Zhang Manzhi
Inside the Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Zhang Manzhi, who was originally feeling triumphant, had a frozen expression on his face, and his mouth was opened so wide that he could almost stuff an egg into it. He looked as funny as he could.

The lady in a soap blue cotton-padded jacket had already been scolded by Zhang Manzhi and cried. When she heard the voice, she stopped sobbing and turned her head in confusion.

I saw a young man wearing a gray tunic suit walking in the light outside.

The young man has a burly figure and strong facial lines. Just one look at him can make people feel good about him.

Behind him were two comrades, one of whom was a fat little black man with twinkling little eyes on his chubby cheeks.

The other one was a thin young man, also wearing a four-pocket Mao suit. There was a pen inserted in the coat pocket of the Mao suit, and he looked like a small leader.

These people may have good backgrounds, but they were not noticed by Zhang Manzhi.

The supply and marketing cooperative system in this era is unique, and even local leaders do not have to sell face.

Zhang Manzhi also calmed down at this moment, his eyes squinted as he stared at the young man at the head: "Who are you?"

"My name is Li Weidong, a foreigner. I originally wanted to visit your town today, but I didn't expect to see the excitement, so I came over." Li Weidong chuckled, but his eyes were looking up and down at the furnishings in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Unlike those large supply and marketing cooperatives in the capital, the Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative appears to be extremely crude.

The house was renovated from an old warehouse. There is a half-earth wall in the middle that divides the house into two halves. The front half is the receiving area, and the back half is supposed to be the warehouse and a resting place for the sales clerks.

The counter is made of red bricks with a layer of cement on it, which looks a bit rough. There are several large jars placed behind the counter. The jars are dirty and covered with dust, and they are used to plug the mouths of the jars. The wooden stopper had long since rotted away.

There is a wooden shelf behind the counter. The products on the shelf are messy and it looks like they haven't been put away for a long time.

"Li Weidong? I don't know him, and I haven't heard of this name either!"

Zhang Manzhi raised his eyelids and thought about it for a while. After confirming again and again that he did not recognize this young man, his face instantly darkened.

She put her hands on the counter and stared at Li Weidong with cold eyes: "I don't care who you are, you go out immediately, let's pretend that nothing happened."

Hearing this, Li Dengyun, who was standing behind Li Weidong, was startled.

Since the task of distributing food was assigned to Sun Yuhou, Li Weidong has been free.

Apart from occasionally practicing growing radishes with Sun Lanhua, his biggest hobby is wandering around.

The place with a big ass in Shuangshui Village was quickly transferred.

Seeing this situation, Li Dengyun took the initiative and asked Li Weidong to come to the Shige Festival to watch the excitement.

Shige Festival is the seat of the commune and a town. It can be regarded as a famous "big place" within a radius of dozens of miles.

Although supplies in this era were purchased and sold under a unified system, the agricultural products from the fields, the eggs of the commune members, and the bamboo baskets made by those skilled workers were not included.

Every time there is a big fair in the town, members from all over the country will come to the town with all kinds of goods, making it particularly lively.

After Li Weidong came to this era, he had not participated in a big show yet, so he agreed at that time.

Li Dengyun originally wanted to inform the comrades in Shigejie Commune, but was stopped by Li Weidong. He came to Shuangshui Village to support this time and had nothing to do with Shigejie Commune.

Besides, with a group of people following him, he felt a little uncomfortable.

As a local, Li Dengyun knew the virtues of the people in the supply and marketing cooperative very well. He was afraid that Zhang Manzhi would conflict with Li Weidong, so he wanted to stop Zhang Manzhi at that time.

But he was stopped by Li Weidong.

"Shout, there are helpers!" Zhang Manzhi became even angrier when he saw the two men's actions. He walked out of the counter and walked to Li Weidong.

She raised her head and squinted her eyes: "Young man, are you sure you want to wade into this muddy water?"

"Muddy Waters? There's no way, I just can't bear to see some people bullying the people." Li Weidong crossed his arms.

"Bullying, I'm warning you, don't talk nonsense, why did I bully others?!"

Zhang Manzhi pointed at Li Weidong and said, "If you don't make it clear to me today, don't even think about going out."

Zhang Manzhi was already fat, and with his dark skin, he now looked like a big fat pig.

It's just that the big fat pig is a little angry.

Li Weidong smiled faintly, pointed to the matchbox in the hand of the old lady in a soap blue cotton-padded jacket and said, "You used the old matches as new matches and forcibly sold them to the old lady. Isn't that bullying the old lady?"

"Hahahaha. Just because of this! What a fuss." Zhang Manzhi said nonchalantly: "How do you know that this box of matches is an old match?"

"This is very simple." Li Weidong stretched his hand towards the old lady: "Auntie, can you let me have a look?"

The lady in soap blue cotton-padded jacket clutched the matchbox tightly and said with some worry: "Young man, these people are not easy to mess with. I'll just let this matter go."

Madam Zaolan Cotton Jacket just felt sorry for her eggs, but now that she saw Zhang Manzhi getting angry, she felt a little scared.

"Auntie, don't be afraid. This is not before liberation. We the people are the masters of the country, and no one can ride on us." Li Weidong said seriously.

The lady in soap blue cotton-padded jacket hesitated for a moment, then handed over the matchbox.

Li Weidong took the box, stretched out his hand to push the box open, pointed at the matches inside and said, "Generally, there are more than forty matches in a match box. Count them now. How many matches are there?"

Hearing this, Zhang Manzhi's expression changed drastically. Matches are something that everyone often uses, but most people would count how many matches there are in a box of matches.

That's why she dared to randomly pick up the matches on the counter and use them. After using them, she threw the matches on the counter and sold them as new matches.

Zhang Manzhi's confidence was low at that time, and he stiffened his neck and said: "You said there are forty matches, there are forty. Are you from a match factory?!"

It has to be said that Zhang Manzhi has mastered the working skills of a salesperson through many years of working as a salesperson.

That is being unreasonable and refusing to admit your fault. Even if someone catches you, you can't admit it.

In this way, those "troublesome customers" will stop because they are afraid of the supply and marketing cooperative behind them and are afraid of trouble.

It's just that Li Weidong didn't like her.

He pointed to the dozen boxes of matches on the shelf and said, "Comrade salesperson, you can open those match boxes now and count them to see how many matches are inside."

The old ladies saw that Li Weidong was speaking for them, and they had long been fed up with the salesmen of the supply and marketing cooperative, so they started talking behind them.

"That's right, when the match factory produces matches, the matches in each box are almost the same."

"As long as you find two boxes and count them carefully, you will know how many matches there are in the matchbox."

"Yes, yes, from the Old Wang family, you have met a noble person this time, so you don't have to suffer in vain!"

Hearing the discussion, Zhang Manzhi's face turned red visibly. “What a bunch of rubes”

She pulled up a chair, twisted her butt and sat on it, with her left leg on top of her right leg, her head tilted up, and her expression was quite pleading: "Who are you, you, you have to count if you say you have to? Besides, there are people here. If you open a new match, wouldn't it become an old match? How can I sell it then?"

As she spoke, she deliberately lengthened her tone and said in a weird voice: "Selling old matches to customers, I, Zhang Manzhi, can't do such a thing."

Good guy, now Zhang Manzhi is acting like an excellent salesperson.

Li Weidong chuckled and turned to look at Pengzi: "Pengzi, how many match tickets do you have with you."

Pengzi followed Li Weidong to Huangyuan this time, playing the role of Li Weidong's bodyguard and assistant.

After arriving in Huangyuan, Pengzi bought a lot of coupons for daily necessities through connections, such as candle tickets, shoe tickets, and socks. Of course, daily essential match tickets are also indispensable.

Hearing Li Weidong's words, Pengzi fumbled in his canvas pocket for a while, took out a few match tickets and handed them over: "Brother Wei Dong, I only have five match tickets here."

"Five is enough!" Li Weidong took the match tickets and counted them in his hand, then took out a dime from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Manzhi along with the match tickets.

"Comrade, I want to buy five boxes of matches now!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Manzhi's expression changed.

The reason why she was unwilling to open new matches was because she wanted to make Li Weidong quit. Unexpectedly, this man had a stubborn temper and was actually planning to buy the matches himself.

Zhang Manzhi sat on the chair, staring at the match tickets, not knowing what to do.

"Why, I have money and tickets, aren't you going to sell me matches?" Li Weidong's tone gradually increased, and his face darkened.

Zhang Manzhi had no choice but to stand up and take the money and tickets from Li Weidong's hand, turned around and went into the counter, took out five boxes of matches from the shelf, and handed them to Li Weidong.

After Li Weidong took the matches, he gave them directly to the old ladies: "Auntie, I need you to help me count them."

When those ladies saw that Li Weidong was willing to spend money to buy matches in order to help them vent their anger, of course they would not refuse.

Several people gathered around, opened the matchbox, and started counting carefully.

Perhaps in order to avoid counting mistakes, several people have to count again every time they finish counting.

Then he also counted the box of matches that Zaolan Cotton Jacket bought.

After confirming the number, the ladies suddenly became energetic and stared at Zhang Manzhi: "These new match boxes contain more than forty matches, but the matches bought by the old Wang family only have thirty in the box. How do you do that?" explain?"

"Explanation?" Zhang Manzhi also panicked at this moment and hesitated for a long time without giving an explanation.

In the end, she could only use her usual weapon - being unreasonable!

Zhang Manzhi pinched his waist with his hands, his nostrils shot up, and said in a cold voice: "I am a salesperson, not a matchmaker. Is there any explanation? You are simply making trouble unreasonably."

Today is the big fair of the Shige Festival, and the quarrel that broke out in the supply and marketing cooperative has already alarmed the people going to the fair.

The door of the supply and marketing cooperative was surrounded by ordinary people.

The guys didn't have any other ideas. As long as Zhang Manzhi admitted his mistake, he would give the old lady a new box of matches.

But Zhang Manzhi acted rogue.

The big guy couldn't bear it anymore and pointed at Zhang Manzhi.

"Oh, take a look, is this salesperson still being unreasonable?"

"Being reasonable? Let me tell you, our salesperson at Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative has never been reasonable."

"Yeah, last time I went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy half a catty of wine, and I was going to invite my children and their parents to drink.

Who would have thought that the wine was actually mixed with water, and my parents-in-law thought I was dishonest, and my son's marriage was ruined.I'm sorry that my son has been busy for two years just to marry this wife.

I was so angry that I brought my wine jar to Zhang Manzhi to settle the score.

Instead of admitting it, she scolded me for not being able to drink and wanted to blackmail me. "

"And me, last time I bought a bottle of soy sauce to use for cooking during the Chinese New Year. Who knew that after a few months of storage, the soy sauce actually became lint-free. You tell me, if the soy sauce is not mixed with water, how could it become lint-free?"

There is only one supply and marketing cooperative in Shige Festival, where people buy daily necessities. Zhang Manzhi has been bullied by Zhang Manzhi a lot in the past few years, but no one has tried to confront her.

Now seeing Li Weidong taking the lead, they naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity.

At this time, a lesbian wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket and a white shirt, with black hair pulled high, was carrying a canvas bag and was going to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy salt. She saw so many people gathered outside the supply and marketing cooperative, and there were many people. Everyone was filled with indignation. She sensed that something was wrong, so she leaned over and asked, "Master, what happened?"

"Oh, girl, you may not know that the salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative is so bad that he even sold used matches to the old lady and refused to admit it. Now the comrade from out of town is confronting him!"

In a few words, the old man recounted what had just happened in the supply and marketing cooperative.

This lesbian didn't care at first. After all, the supply and marketing cooperative had a bad attitude towards customers. It only happened in a day or two. What big trouble could it cause?

But when she heard that there were comrades from other places, she realized something was wrong.

"Give me a little bit, please give me a little bit."

When it became clear that the non-local comrade was Li Weidong, the director of the steel rolling mill who came to help Shuangshui Village, he was immediately frightened to death.

He turned around quickly and staggered towards Shuangshui Village.

The reason why this lesbian was so panicked was because she was Yao Shufen, Jin Guangming's newly married daughter-in-law.

At this time, Jin Guangming had not been promoted to the county supply and marketing cooperative, but was only the deputy director of the Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Recently, the superiors are considering transferring Jin Guangming to work in the county. If there is a problem with the Shigejie Supply and Marketing Cooperative, Jin Guangming's promotion will be missed.

How could Yao Shufen not be anxious?

She trotted all the way back to Shuangshui Village and opened the door to her home.

Jin Guangming was hiding in the house, drinking wine and eating peanuts, humming a tune, feeling very proud.

Jin Guangming is actually the most skilled person in Shuangshui Village.

He is a landowner, and his father once occupied nearly two-thirds of the land in Shuangshui Village, causing many people to sleep quietly on the yellow soil after living like cattle.

After liberation, Jin Guangming could not hold his head high in Shuangshui Village for a long time.

(End of this chapter)