Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 556 The busiest months are August and September

Xu Damao didn't want to say it clearly, nor did he want to say more. When Aiguo and Feng Ming asked, he said casually:

"Hey, actually it's not for my own use. I recently met a big boss. He has a batch of goods to be shipped out and needs a truck. He's from outside and is not familiar with our four-nine cities. Please let me help."

When Xu Aiguo and Xu Fengming heard this, they became dubious.

Xu Damao is shrewd and smooth in dealing with things. He is not a person without any ability. This is known to them and the people in the compound.

In the past few years, many people from all over the country have flocked to the city.

It's something everyone knows.

It is normal for Xu Damao to make friends with several business owners from other places.

But Xu Damao's words were vague. He didn't say what kind of business the big boss was doing, nor what kind of goods he wanted to buy. There was nothing wrong with Aiguo and Feng Ming being suspicious.

Of course, it was Xu Qing’s decision whether to lend Xu Damao a truck or not, or whether to give Xu Damao a truck.

Aiguo and Fengming turned to look at their elder brother.

Liu Haizhong, Banggan, Qin Jingru and others also focused their gazes on Xu Qing.

But Xu Damao said:

However, Xu Damao didn't know who to bring to meet the big boss tomorrow afternoon, and he felt worried again.

I wanted to work with Xu Qing.

Xu Damao groaned, his heart skipping a beat, and he suddenly realized that his previous worries were simply nonsense.

When Xu Damao heard the sound, he nodded repeatedly and said:

"That's right, brother, I'm just asking you casually. You're busy with your own business, but if it doesn't work, I'll find someone else to get the car for you."

Xu Qing let go of his daughter in his arms and ran to his wife Jinghong. He refused to comment and turned a deaf ear to the conversation between Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao.

Xu Qing didn't want to get to know the big boss at all.

In any case, Xu Qing runs a meat factory and a grain station, and his business capabilities are stronger than him.

This is the matter that the country is most concerned about, and naturally it is also the goal that it wants to achieve as soon as possible.

Xu Damao is not a stubborn person, and he is even more dishonest. He just deliberately told Xu Qing that he wanted to borrow a truck just to test Xu Qing's attitude.

Besides, my meat factory and grain station warehouse have been so busy all day that I feel dizzy. This year’s wheat will come down soon. I have to keep an eye on the harvest. Brother, I really don’t have time to see you. "

"The big boss asked me to help him get a car before he told me."

The slogans on the wall still promote the realization of the "Four Presents".

After Xu Qing got up early, he pushed his bicycle out of the courtyard. As soon as he entered the alley, he raised his legs to cross the crossbar of the 28th bar and rode up the street to the suburbs.

So I came up with this idea to see what Xu Qing's reaction would be.

In recent years, more and more vendors have set up stalls to buy breakfast on the streets.

Xu Qing shook his head, "Brother Damao, you are doing business with others, what will I do?

But Xu Qing didn't ask any more questions or show any curiosity. He just told him that as long as the truck he just bought didn't go to the countryside, he could lend it to him.

The trees planted on both sides of the street are lush and green, and the leaves are all green.

Xu Damao looked at Liu Haizhong, the man in charge of the backyard, and cursed in his heart:

"Qingzi, come back early tomorrow afternoon," Xu Damao said thoughtfully: "Brother, I will take you to meet the big boss. We brothers will meet him. He is from Shanghai, a southerner, and very rich."

"Brother Damao, on what day do you need to use it?"

"Da Mao, you haven't said what the big boss does or what business he does?"

Liu Haizhong listened to Xu Qing and Xu Damao chatting for a long time, and he probably understood something. He took out the useless cattail leaf fan from his room, poked Xu Damao's right leg and said:

Xu Qing felt that what Xu Damao said was unclear and he couldn't tell the specific time. He thought for a moment and said:

"Brother Damao, since you can't decide the specific date and want the big boss to make the decision, then you can ask clearly at that time. If Er Mazi doesn't drive the truck I bought to go to the countryside to collect pigs and grain, I can lend it to you. , if he drives to the countryside, my brother and I will be busy collecting grain and pigs, so I guess you will have to help him hire another car from the city."

But Xu Damao was worried that if Xu Qing got to know the big boss through him, he would leave him alone and do business with him alone.

Seeing that Xu Damao refused to reveal anything, Liu Haizhong felt a little angry. He retracted his right hand and shook his cattail leaf fan to make up for it:

Such pleasure made Xu Damao suddenly feel that the temptation just now was really unnecessary.

It was cool and pleasant on a rainy night, and it was cooler than usual in the morning.

You said that your job in the movie theater is gone. What if the big boss is unreliable and deceives you? "

Nothing much has changed.

Xu Qing has no choice in how he behaves and is very righteous!

"Xu Damao, the people in our compound and I are not caring about you.

Xu Damao puffed on the smoke and said: "Second uncle, what are you curious about? You are not in business. I told you about business matters, but you don't understand. Just go to work."

Braised pork, steamed buns, stir-fried liver, fried dough sticks, bean juice, tofu curd, you can find them everywhere.

Xu Qing hugged his daughter Qiaoxin and said calmly:

"Second uncle, it's okay. I know what's going on, so you don't need to worry about it."

The big boss asked him to do business as a partner, but he felt that he couldn't win it alone.

Then he will be busy inside and outside in vain.

Xu Damao scratched his hair and said thoughtfully:

"Bah! Old guy, care about me, where is the liar?"

Xu Qing, wearing a long-sleeved white Doliang shirt and bell-bottom pants, walked slowly out of the city and went straight to his own meat factory in the suburbs.

As for what kind of big boss Xu Damao mentioned last night, he was not interested at all and had no time to think about it.

It's been more than seven months. For him, July, August, and September are three months of busy harvesting grain and pigs.

I don't have the energy to think about anything else.

Towards the end of July, Er Mazi went to the countryside and rarely came back. Xu Qing communicated with Er Mazi, who lived in the township commune, on the phone every now and then about the situation of grain and pig collection.

He did not go to the countryside this year, leaving all the power to Er Mazi.

When you are a boss, how can you go to the countryside every year?

Moreover, this year is already the third year.

In the past two years, he took Er Mazi to the countryside frequently, and Er Mazi already knew the countryside very well.

Which township secretary is who? There are several villages, who is the village leader, and how many brigades there are, all of them are well known!

Xu Qing stayed at the meat factory in the suburbs to deal with the grain station warehouse and the meat factory, as well as the grain station opened near the Dongdan vegetable market in the city.

Xu Qing was busy throughout August and September.

Er Mazi harvested a cart of wheat this year and took it back to the city without day or night.

Xu Qingzi was also too busy and had no idea of ​​time.

After two months, the grain harvest situation is even more optimistic than last year.

More than 200,000 catties of wheat were harvested.

Three hundred thousand catties of corn.

There is also a lot of mung beans and millet, more than five tons each.

And this is naturally the result of going to the countryside to collect grain and pigs in recent years and establishing a reputation in the countryside.

Everyone knows that Xu Qing is very trustworthy, and Er Mazi is also quick and cheerful in doing things.

Villagers in various towns and villages were willing to sell their own grain to Xu Qing and Er Mazi, except for the grain that had to be handed over to the state.

Compared with others who waited and watched for a year and only started harvesting grain last year, Xu Qing was one of the first to seize the opportunity. Secondly, Xu Qing has been dealing with several commune secretaries for more than two years, and the road that should be paved has been paved ahead of schedule.

Even at the same purchase price, the villagers would rather sell to Xu Qing than anyone else.

Even if Xu Qing was not believed, the commune came forward to negotiate.

For villagers with little education, there is no need to worry that Xu Qing and Er Mazi will not be able to find anyone after collecting the grain.

This also made it impossible for Xu Qing to pay off the food payment for everyone for a while, but it gave him more room for turnover and maneuver.

However, Xu Qing will not default on farmers’ food payments.

As soon as he recovered the payment for the meat factory in the third quarter, he took all the money earned from the Dongdan Grain Station with him to the countryside during the National Day in early October, and paid the farmers who sold him the grain one by one.

Xu Qing will harvest grain and pigs this year.

Not only did I not borrow money,

And also bought a truck.

Compared with last year, it is a big step forward.

After finishing the matter, Xu Qing sat in the passenger seat and said to Er Mazi, who had dark arms:

"Brother Mazi, go to my hometown village and I'll take the opportunity to visit my grandparents and my second father."

Er Mazi hugged the steering wheel and said:

"Okay, Qingzi, I'll stop the car on the side of the road, fill up the gas, and we'll go there."

Xu Qing nodded.

Three minutes later, the Jiefang truck, which was pulling half a load of corn, stopped on a relatively spacious dirt road.

Er Mazi jumped out of the car, carried a plastic oil drum, opened the truck's fuel tank cap, and filled the car with gas on the roadside.

These days, gas stations are not available everywhere, not to mention towns, even some small counties have no gas stations.

Drivers often bring their own plastic oil barrels in case the car breaks down due to lack of oil on the road.

Xu Qing also got out of the car, moved his hands and feet, and breathed in the fresh air of the late autumn mountains.

The advantage of the countryside is that the sky is always blue and the water is always clear.

The wind is also cooler than in a crowded city.

It's just autumn, and when the wind blows, it makes people feel chilly all over.

After Er Mazi filled up the gas, he twisted the cap of the empty oil drum, wiped his diesel-stained hands casually in the dirt on the roadside, took out the economy cigarettes on his body, shook out two cigarettes, let Xu Qing take them first, and then he He brought the corner of his mouth to the cigarette case, took out one and said:

"Qingzi, let's go, get in the car, we're going to your hometown right now."

Soon the truck started, making a rumbling sound, and continued to drive on the dirt road that was as wide as the car body.

It was almost evening when Xu Qing and Er Mazi arrived at the entrance to their hometown village.

At this time, people in the countryside had almost finished dinner at various houses, and heard cars coming from the village.

They all ran out one by one, standing in a wide field of view and looking towards the entrance of the village.

When Er Mazi drove the Jiefang truck into the village, he and Xu Qing jumped out of the truck.

The men, women, and children in the village were all frightened all of a sudden, and kept swirling around Xu Qing and Er Mazi.

"Xiao Qing, I heard from people in the town's commune that you bought a car. Oh, it's true. Such a big guy deserves a lot of money, right?"

Xu Qing smiled and said to the fifth grandfather who had been the village party secretary:

"It's not bad. In the past two years, I always hired other people's cars. Sometimes they were busy and didn't have time to help me go to the countryside to collect food. This year I gritted my teeth and bought one."

"Yes, now that I have it, it will be convenient for whatever I do."

When Xu Qing heard Fifth Grandpa's words, he hummed, and then he took out a Peony cigarette from the things he bought at the state-owned store in the city and handed it to him:

"Fifth Grandpa, just take it and smoke it."

Then he took out the unpacked cigarettes and circulated around the village to other people. After chatting for a while, Xu Qingcai took Er Mazi to his grandparents' house.

There were no big changes in the village. It was almost the same as last year. Xu Qing stood at the door of his grandparents’ house, carrying something and shouting, then opened the door and walked in.

Xu Qing saw his grandparents' yard under the still-dark night, but nothing changed.

It's still the same as before, but the yard is very clean.

It must be because grandpa and grandma clean it every day.

"Xiao Qing, when did you come back? Come in quickly."

The two old men, who needed crutches to walk, staggered outside the house, but their legs and feet were inconvenient and they moved very slowly.

But the wrinkled face showed an indescribable joy, and the joy in his voice was also evident.

"Grandpa, grandma, I just returned to the village."

Xu Qing hurriedly took three steps and then two steps to walk to his grandparents.

Er Mazi helped Xu Qing hold the things and followed behind.

Ten minutes later, Xu Qing drank the hot water his grandma poured for him. When he tasted the hot water, he knew it contained sugar. He drank it in one go, put the bowl down and said:

"Grandma, last year our meat factory killed a few sheep and peeled off the sheepskin. I found someone in the city to make a sheepskin jacket and sheepskin trousers for you and my grandfather. It's autumn and the weather is getting cold. , you can wear it in the future."

After Xu Qing finished speaking, he took out two pairs of sheepskin clothes and handed them to his grandparents.

Just at this moment, Xu Guangjin came with his two sons, Xu Jianguo and Xu Qingjun.

Xu Qing called his second dad and said hello to his two cousins.

After having dinner prepared by Grandma Zhangluo, he and Er Mazi stayed with their grandparents, second dad, and two cousins, chatting until about ten o'clock in the evening.

Under the dark night, Xu Qing and Er Mazi walked out of the compound of their grandparents' house and prepared to get on the truck and return to the city.

Two gray-haired old men kept chanting:

"Grandson, it's so dark, you two, don't go back to the city. It's hard to walk at night."

Xu Qing also wanted to stay one night and spend more time with his grandparents, but he had a lot to do. There was still half a truck of corn on the truck. Tomorrow morning he would take the pigs raised by Sanhuzi back to the meat factory.

He also arranged for people to watch and deliver food to several branches of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill before the National Day holiday.

I can only politely refuse my grandparents’ attempts to stay.

Xu Guangjin, who spoke very little, smoked a cigarette and helped Xu Qing to reassure the two old people:

"Dad, Mom, Xiaoqing is busy with business now. When he came back this time, you also heard what he said. He was paying the people who sold the grain. He has something to do tomorrow. If he doesn't go back overnight, things will be delayed tomorrow. "

The two old men sighed, reluctant to give up, but also did not want their eldest grandson to miss the important matter. With the support of Jianguo and Qingjun, they stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched Xu Qing and Er Mazi leave.

It was quiet late at night. Accompanied by his second father, Xu Guangjin, Xu Qing and Er Mazi went out to the alley. At the same time, he turned to wave to his grandparents and two cousins:

"Grandpa, grandma, it's cold at night, you should go back to the house.

Jianguo, Qingjun, help our grandparents to their house quickly. "

Xu Jianguo and Xu Qingjun had bitter expressions on their faces. They wanted to, but their grandparents refused, so what could they do?

It wasn't until Xu Qing and Er Mazi got into the car and the rumble of the truck gradually left the village and got farther and farther away that the two old people allowed Jianguo and Qingjun to help them back to the house.

At this time, Xu Qing and Er Mazi were already heading back to the city under the dark night.

On the road in the countryside at night, everything was silent. Xu Qing and Er Mazi smoked all the way to relieve fatigue and refresh themselves.

At around three o'clock in the morning, they returned to the meat factory and spent the whole night fighting in the office.

Early the next morning, Xu Qing rubbed his sleepy eyes and saw that it was already half past seven in the morning. He said to Er Mazi who was still sleeping soundly:

"Brother Mazi, wake up."

(End of this chapter)