Back to 1980: Please Love Me Again

Chapter 9 Sun Daqing Comes to Collect Debt

Zhao Wenguang didn't expect my younger brother to stay in the back kitchen of a state-run restaurant for so long.

He waited outside for more than two hours.

The restaurant is magnificent, and the back kitchen must be very clean and tidy. He was worried that his feet would be dirty, so he refused to go in anyway.

Li Guofu arranged for a waiter to take Zhao Wenguang to the lobby to rest for a while.

So Zhao Wenguang drank tea for two hours in the state-run restaurant.

But as the morning passed, he was not so restrained.

After Zhao Wenmu came out of the state-run restaurant, the two hurried straight to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Some small things can be bought without a ticket, but the price will be much more expensive.Zhao Wenmu thought about it, and it would be more cost-effective to find someone to count the votes instead.

When buying large items in the future, it is impossible to buy them without a ticket.

In this day and age, tickets are better than money.

But snakes have their way, and rats have their way. There will always be people who have money but no tickets, so they need to buy tickets.

As long as the market demand exists, someone will find ways to do this business.

Therefore, ticket dealers naturally also exist.

Zhao Wenmu even thinks highly of these people, although most people have a bad impression of ticket dealers, thinking that these are problematic youths, a typical example of not doing business properly.

Zhao Wenmu knew in his heart that these people are the most flexible and most daring group of people in the whole society.

Many of the future all-powerful figures came from this group.

These people usually wander around supply and marketing cooperatives, state-run restaurants, guest houses, and bus stations, selling various tickets to those in need.

Zhao Wenmu scanned the surroundings casually, and soon found a possible ticket dealer.

It was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, with his hands in his pockets, standing crookedly, his eyes glanced at the passers-by on the road from time to time, especially those who looked like they were going to buy something from a supply and marketing agency.

He glanced at both ends of the street from time to time, looking furtive.

There is no other way. When the police catch me, I will be locked up for a few days at least.

It should be the person I'm looking for.

He asked his second brother to wait for him at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative, and then walked straight towards the young man.

If he hadn't walked too fast, the young man would have run away in fright, almost thinking that it was the police who came to arrest him.

What made him even more dumbfounded was that when the man came to him, he asked directly:
"Comrade, do you have a ticket? What ticket?"

"Yes, yes, there are cloth tickets, food tickets, and industrial vouchers."

"I want 100 catties of noodle tickets, oil tickets for 20 people, 6 catties each of soy sauce, vinegar, and salt, 10 catties of sugar, and cotton cloth for 10 people. How much is the total?"

"Uh, bro, say it again, I didn't remember it."

I really don't blame him, Zhao Wenmu has too many things to buy, and there are only a few servings at every turn.

You must know that one serving is a yearly quota for one person!

Of course, one year's quota isn't much.

Zhao Wenmu said it again.

The young man memorized it carefully.

"Brother, the total is 11 yuan and 8 cents. I don't have so many here. If you can wait a moment, I can get it for you."

After finishing speaking, the young man gestured with his eyes, meaning that he had to go to a few colleagues next to him to purchase.

"Okay, I'll wait for you for 10 minutes."

In less than 10 minutes, the young man ran over panting.

This is a big deal, so naturally I dare not neglect it.

Although the young man seemed to be doing nothing, he was still quite reliable in his work, and all the tickets he needed were prepared to perfection.

Zhao Wenmu paid the money readily, and then asked:

"A ticket with three turns and one ring?"

The four major items of bicycles, sewing machines, watches, and radios are commonly known as "three turns and one sound", and they are the most important industrial products of this era.

It would be a great event if someone could get all the dowry gifts for three rounds and one ring.

As far as Shanqian Village is concerned, if there is one thing, it is a family with a good family background.

To buy these things, industrial coupons alone are not enough, and separate tickets are also required.

"Brother, I don't have it on hand, but I can get it. Give me a few days."

"Okay, you can search first. If you have any news, go to the state-run hotel to find Wang Youming and ask him to tell me."

"Okay!"

After getting the receipts, Zhao Wenmu turned around and walked into the supply and marketing cooperative.

It has to be said that Zhao Wenmu's act of serving dozens of people at every turn not only frightened Zhao Wenguang, but even the salesmen of the supply and marketing agency were frightened!

There is no customer-oriented service concept in this era.

The state-run supply and marketing cooperative is a very sacred place, and the salesmen don't say they look at people with their nostrils, but at least they look condescending.

Even the walls are posted with the slogan "Don't beat customers at will".

At this moment, the attitude of the salesperson towards Zhao Wenmu has also become very kind and positive, which can definitely be called sunny service and smiling face service.

There is a reason for Zhao Wenmu to buy so many things. First of all, these things are not many, because the ration per person is very small.

Secondly, Zhao Wenmu's family has a lot of people. He bought these things not only for his own family, but also for his elder brother, second brother, and parents.

When I earn some more money, I bought a bicycle, which is more convenient, and I have to send some things to my eldest sister and second sister.

There is no way, adding Zhao Jing, the Zhao family has seven brothers and sisters!
Only the younger sister, Zhao Wenqiu, is still in high school, and everyone else has married.

Zhao Wenmu also bought 5 friendship creams and 10 clam oil.

The cream is a good thing. When you rub it on your hands and face, it not only keeps it moist, but also smells delicious, which is very warm.

Rural people are generally reluctant to use creams. They usually use clam oil that costs 1 cents each, and one can be used for more than half a year. The moisturizing effect is also great, especially suitable for people with dry hands and feet in winter.

With the ticket, it is much cheaper to buy so many things, and it cost a total of 43 yuan6.

Zhao Wenguang tried his best to restrain the urge to drag the younger brother out.

When paying, it felt like cutting his flesh with a knife.

It's not his fault. Zhao Wenguang has lived for more than 20 years, and he has never spent so much money once.

There is no experience of spending 5 yuan at a time!

Seeing the great unity go away from them is as uncomfortable as losing a loved one.

No, he couldn't take it anymore, so he turned his head and walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Hey, second brother, where are you going? Quickly help me move things!"

Zhao Wenmu hurriedly stopped him, and with the help of two comrades from the supply and marketing cooperative, the two brothers loaded the things into the bullock cart and rushed home.

Back to Shanqian Village.

The people who were digging wild vegetables on the mountain were also a little worried when they saw that the two brothers hadn't come back for a long time.

Came back around ten o'clock.

It was almost twelve o'clock, and there was still no one there.

I guess they couldn't sell it, and my eldest brother and sister-in-law regretted it a bit. They shouldn't have packed that big basket of wild vegetables for them in the morning.

The main reason is that Zhao Wenlin went to sell wild vegetables with Zhao Wenmu last night, and was really shocked by the hot scene.

In the morning, he couldn't sleep, so he dragged his wife up to dig wild vegetables in the mountains.

"The second and third children probably haven't been sold, and they will come back later, so let's go home and have dinner first!"

Seeing that it was almost noon, sister-in-law Liu Xiumei greeted everyone to go home.

Who knew that as soon as they got back to Zhao Wenmu's house, six or seven people walked in before the fire was lit for cooking.

Zhao Jing's face changed immediately.

She could recognize that most of these people were Zhao Wenmu's drinking buddies and poker buddies, and two others were Song Wenyuan and Qian Erniu who liked to follow Zhao Wenmu to fish for fish and get into fights.

Song Wenyuan is Song Yun's cousin, Qian Erniu is from Shandongtou Village, Zhao Wenmu's eldest sister is married in Shandongtou Village, and he often goes there to play.

She looked at the other five with fire in her eyes.

She recognized these people, including Li Ergou and Zhao Wenbao from this village, and the latter was still from Zhao Wenmu's family.These two people called Zhao Wenmu brothers on the surface, but in fact they lied to Zhao Wenmu, purely to make Zhao Wenmu take advantage of him.

The money that Zhao Wenmu took from her was cheated by his "good brother" under various guises or cheated to eat and drink the money.

Zhao Wenmu was instigated by them to get into fights many times, but he didn't know that it was these two people who slandered him from the very beginning!

At the beginning, I tried hard to persuade Zhao Wenmu, but after being severely injured several times, I didn't dare to speak again.

The other three belonged to Sanlizhuang, headed by Sun Daqing, coaxed Zhao Wenmu to gamble, and Zhao Wenmu would lose everything every time.

If you think about it, you will know that there is something tricky in it.

Every time Zhao Wenmu loses money, he will make faces and temper with her when he returns home!

How hurtful the cold words are, she can't remember how many times she secretly hid and cried.

Before Zhao Jing could speak, Sun Daqing shouted:

"Where is Zhao Wenmu? He owes me 17 yuan, and he agreed to pay it back within five days. Does he want to renege on his debt!"

"That's right, if you want to renege on your debts, you can't do it!"

Several other people also made a fuss.

Hearing this, Zhao Jing's head exploded with a buzz, and the younger brother actually went to gamble again!

She no longer knew what was said in the yard, and only repeated one sentence in her head:

Little brother is going to gamble again!He is still lying to me!

This is what Brother Zhao Wenmu saw when he entered the door:
The two groups of people in the yard were facing each other with swords at their swords. One group looked familiar. They seemed to be people who used to fool around together. They were cursing and saying something like, "It's only natural to pay off debts!"

On the other side were the eldest brother, sister-in-law, second sister-in-law and two young people. He looked carefully and found that they were Song Wenyuan and Qian Erniu.

After I left home in my previous life, and in the days before my parents passed away, these two little brothers helped me take care of my parents and take care of the funeral, and they helped me fulfill my responsibility as a son of man.

After he developed himself, he brought the two of them with him and worked together for decades before he was able to recognize the two of them at once.

The two groups of people were arguing fiercely, and the second sister-in-law Song Yun was still holding a wooden branch for beating the field and stacking grass.

There was only one person, standing aside in a daze. It was obviously a very lively courtyard, but there was a sense of loneliness and desolation.

Zhao Wenmu pushed Sun Daqing away at once. Although he didn't remember who this person was, he was the most rampant in the yard.

He reached out to pull Zhao Jing, but was thrown away by the other party.

Zhao Jing stared at him fiercely, her eyes were full of disappointment and despair.

Sun Daqing rushed over again:

"Zhao Wenmu, you kid still haven't paid back the money?"

"What money?"

"What's the matter, don't you admit it? You promised to pay back the money within five days, and you still want to deny it?"

Zhao Wenmu really doesn't remember this incident, after all, it was already 40 years ago for him.

In these years, from earning a hard living to mastering the shopping malls, every time he recalls the past, it is also the miss and remorse for Zhao Jing and the little girl, and the apology to his relatives. How can he remember such a number one person?
He glanced at Song Wenyuan and Qian Erniu, and Song Wenyuan nodded slightly.

It seems to be true.

Zhao Wenmu took out 17 yuan and threw it to Sun Daqing.

"It's still five yuan short, and the interest is one yuan a day!"

He tossed another five dollars.

"Get out! Get out of here immediately!"

Zhao Wenmu just felt that he couldn't bear it for a second, and he wanted to kill Sun Daqing right now.

Sun Daqing wanted to say a few more harsh words, but looking at Zhao Wenmu's red eyes, he opened his mouth and said nothing after all.

Several people left angrily.

(End of this chapter)