Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 5
Now that the policy has been relaxed, buying vegetables from the countryside and selling them in the market is also a way to make money.

"Brother!" Wang Weidong stood up and shouted.

The elder brother from the countryside stopped his bicycle on the ten-meter-long wooden bridge and looked back at Wang Weidong.

Wang Weidong ran up the wooden bridge and said to the elder brother in the village: "Brother, how much did you sell in the market this time?"

"A few handfuls of radishes, beans, persimmons, and a little coriander. I made [-] cents in two hours!" The rural elder brother was actually a little proud when he said this.

"Brother, I'm an educated youth. I just came back from the countryside and I don't even have a job. I'll wait for you here tomorrow. You can sell me vegetables at a lower price, so how about I sell them in the market? You can't easily earn [-] cents from growing vegetables. , I earn a dime by running errands!" Wang Weidong said while passing another cigarette.

The big brother in the village looked at Wang Weidong's face and asked: "Brother, I sell some food because I can't eat at home. How can you do this at such a young age?"

After more than 20 years of education, almost everyone feels that doing small business is not something serious people do.

"Besides, ten cents is only enough to buy two steamed buns, plus food stamps, and it's not enough for you to live on." said the rural elder brother.

"In a few months, my parents will send me to serve as a soldier. In these few months, I can't just eat my parents' food at home. I earn a little bit. When you go back to work and rest, talk to other people, and take the money from several families. Sell ​​the vegetables to me together, and you can make some money." Wang Weidong said.

Hearing Wang Weidong's words, the big brother in the countryside looked embarrassed and embarrassed. Is it still human to earn money from relatives and friends?

"You're not earning their money but helping them. If you have money to buy soy sauce and vinegar, don't you think it's okay to buy snacks for your children?" Wang Weidong persuaded.

Doing so is doing others a favor and serving the people.I feel much more comfortable when I make money under the hat of morality.

"Since this is the case, I will go back and tell them that it is not easy for you. I will help you! You will wait for me here at five o'clock tomorrow morning!" said the rural elder brother very generously.

Watching the big brother from the countryside go away on his bicycle, Wang Weidong also rushed to the county market immediately. More than 100 vegetable sellers set up stalls along the street to form a simple farmer's market. He pushed a bicycle and asked the prices of various vegetables from stall to stall to know what he knew.

When he was about to reach the three-way intersection, a black shadow fell on his head, Wang Weidong shrank his head subconsciously, and a few round objects hit his head, and a sticky liquid flowed out instantly.The black shadow hit the bicycle seat and fell to the ground. It turned out to be a basket from which a few yolk eggs rolled out.

Wang Weidong touched his hair, and an egg shell fell to the ground with his sticky fingers.

Just when he was still dazed and didn't know what happened, an old lady in her 60s sat down on the ground and patted her thigh and burst into tears.

"I'm missing eight lifetimes of virtue, and broke my eggs!" the old lady said while crying.

"Old man, can't you see, I'm the only one who sells eggs in the whole market!" A young man shouted, just cursing and still not relieved, he raised his foot as if to kick the old lady, but he didn't do it after all. .

The best location of the market is at the intersection of Sancha Road. Now there are two earthen baskets with two or three hundred eggs in them, and no one sells eggs in other places in the whole market. It seems that the eggs in the farmers’ market in the county The business was completely dominated by the young man.

"It's easy to negotiate and let you sell me the eggs for four cents each, but you just don't want to. Now you can't make any money, and you have to pay back!" The young man said fiercely.

Everyone in the farmer's market stared blankly, but no one dared to stand up.

"What are you looking at!" The young man shouted at Wang Weidong with his eyes wide open.

He couldn't hit the old lady with his hands, so he was going to turn his anger on Wang Weidong.

"Did you throw the egg just now?" Wang Weidong asked, pointing at his sticky hair.

"I threw it, what do you want?" the young man stared at Wang Weidong and asked.

This is a naked provocation. If you are a man in front of everyone, come and beat me, if you are a coward, get out!

Any vigorous young man would not shrink back under such a provocation, he could lose everything but not lose face.

Accompanied by the crying of the old lady, Wang Weidong let go of the bicycle and let the bicycle fall directly to the ground, then clenched his fists and rushed towards the young man.

He punched the young man in the chest. This was a sign of cowardice—a sign of not daring to kill him. Why didn't he hit the young man directly in the face?
Regardless of Wang Weidong's fist, the young man kicked Wang Weidong's stomach.

Wang Weidong fell to the ground on his back, and this kick made him grow instantly.

He lay on the ground and kicked the young man's leg. The young man yelled in pain and threw himself on Wang Weidong.Both lay on the ground and fought each other.

Sometimes Wang Weidong rolled over on top, and sometimes the young man rode on Wang Weidong.

After a while, both of them had torn clothes and nosebleeds.

No one came out to fight, and they all watched helplessly. The two of them were exhausted and unable to fight until the end.

"You bastard, wait!" the young man gasped.

Wang Weidong, with a bruised nose and swollen face, stared silently at the young man with a bruised nose and swollen face like a dog that couldn't bark.

"Wait, kid!" The young man gritted his teeth after struggling to get up.

Wang Weidong also got up, picked up his bicycle and walked out of the market.

Wang Weidong went to the county supply and marketing cooperative to buy a steelyard and a butcher's knife before riding back to Xiangyang Chemical Factory.

He bought a few steamed buns in a state-run restaurant and returned home.

Grandma Huang Guiying said while eating the buns: "I eat restaurants every day, and I don't know how much money you make."

"You wait for me to make a lot of money and let you eat well every day." Wang Weidong said.

At night, under the light, Wang Weidong was sewing where his clothes were torn.Grandma couldn't see, so she couldn't see Wang Weidong's swollen nose and swollen face and his tattered clothes.

At five o'clock the next day, Wang Weidong got up to buy fried dough sticks and soy milk and arranged for grandma to eat. He took two fried dough sticks and ate while riding a bicycle to the wooden bridge five miles away.

By the time he arrived at the bridge, the rural elder brother was already waiting there.

"That's it, no need to weigh it. Every family quoted the price when they handed over the vegetables to me. The total is three yuan or forty cents." said the elder brother in the village.

"This is four yuan, don't need to change it." Wang Weidong handed over the money and said.

What he gambled on was the honesty of the big brother in the countryside.

"What an embarrassment, sixty cents is too much." The rural elder brother said shyly.

"It will be like this in the future, I will give you [-]% of the reward." Wang Weidong replied.

He took out the sacks he brought, packed the vegetables into the sacks by type, put them on the back seat of the bicycle, tied them with ropes, and rode to the county seat.

"Brother, let's change to a basket next time." The rural elder brother shouted from behind.

(End of this chapter)