Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 493 492 Cheating
Tang Zhitong staggered to the surface of the river, and his conspicuous clothing made the other party recognize him at a glance.

From a distance, he started shouting, seemingly not afraid of being heard: "Comrade, please let us wait."

"Thank you for your hard work and for keeping you waiting." Tang Zhitong walked over and shook hands with the man, being polite.

One must always be on guard against others. Tang Zhitong used a cheat to quietly stuff two stones into the barrels of the two men's guns to prevent them from shooting him.

If you really want to harm yourself, just wait for your chest to explode.

"We are all family. It's okay to wait a little longer. Just you?" The other party waved his hand generously and looked behind Tang Zhitong.

"I arrived first, and someone else will come to pick up the goods soon." Tang Zhitong started talking nonsense.

"Oh, okay, okay. How about you go over and check the goods first?" Upon hearing what Tang Zhitong said, the other party smiled even more brightly and pointed in the direction of their sled and invited him warmly.

"Okay, let's go take a look." Where are the others? He had to do it himself. After inspecting the goods, he sent them away first. Tang Zhitong planned to do the rest by himself.

The man walked to the sled first, picked up the grain-checking spy and thrust it in. When he pulled it out, he brought out a handful of golden corn kernels.

The grain spy is a unique thing, mostly made of metal. It can not only be used to take grain, but also to stab people. The special opening can effectively expand the wound area.

Money can tempt people. Tang Zhitong glanced at the other two people, one on the left and one on the right, standing guard outside. After making sure that no one was pointing a gun at him, he walked over.

However, he did not dare to move too forward, but deliberately kept a distance away.

"They are all top-quality corn, this year's new grain." When Tang Zhitong came closer, the other party stretched out his hand and showed the corn kernels in his hand to Tang Zhitong.

Tang Zhitong reached out his hand, took it, fiddled with it for a few times, then picked up a piece and put it in his mouth. He bit it with his teeth and it was crisp and dry. "Very good, what about the others?"

"They're all the same." The other party answered simply, then casually poked at the other sacks a few more times, took out several handfuls of corn kernels and handed them over.

Tang Zhitong watched the other party take the food, taking it all without missing a single one. Then his hands were full. He held them in his hands, and it looked really good.

The other person looked at Tang Zhitong and smiled brightly.

Tang Zhitong was a little worried at this time, so he swept the two sleds with his hook.

Good guy!
The other party was not a good person. All the sacks, without exception, were filled with corn kernels mixed with sand!
In order to hide the secret, they took great pains to fill the middle with a small bag of sand, then stuffed it with corn husks, and finally the corn on the outermost layer.

No wonder the grain spies didn’t penetrate deeply enough, there’s an emotional reason here!
Although there is food if it is installed this way, the ratio of food output will be greatly reduced. It's definitely a rip-off!

No wonder Te Ma smiled so brightly, did he think he was being taken advantage of?
"Comrade, do you want to test the ones at the back? The more holes you poke, the more leaks there are. They are all the same." The other party was fearless and his smile was particularly bright.

"No need to check. You do business on the river every day. Honesty is the basis of business. You will definitely not cheat me." Tang Zhitong's mind was instantly filled with thoughts. The goods he wanted were in their hands. If he pointed it out, they would be at odds with him. Not only would he be at risk of not being able to buy the food, he might also be robbed.

Even if he manages to escape unscathed this time with the help of cheats, it will be difficult to clean up the mess later. Should he kill people to silence them?

Tang Zhitong was unwilling to do this and planned to finish the order first.

"Okay, then let's weigh it." When the other party heard what Tang Zhitong said, the corners of his mouth almost stretched to his back teeth.

"Okay." Tang Zhitong didn't want to alert the enemy, so he decided to follow the other party's rhythm and wait and see.

After getting Tang Zhitong's approval, the two people next to him took action, put away their guns, set up the scale, and unloaded the goods bag by bag.

The other party did not give Tang Zhitong anything and just let him hold the corn kernels like that.

Tang Zhitong felt that they did it on purpose because they knew that food was precious here and wanted to prevent him from scattering it or taking out weapons to do something bad.

After unloading the goods, they weighed them one by one, and found that there were a total of 2,700 kilograms.

"We are all comrades, so the extra ones are just given to you as a gift." The other party generously found a very reasonable excuse for himself.

"Thank you." Although he already knew what was going on, Tang Zhitong did not show it on his face.

"Come, I'll find you a bag. The bag is for you." Only at this time did the other party "generously" take out a small bag and give Tang Zhitong a handful of corn kernels.

Tang Zhitong put the corn in and knew it was time to pay. He took out the yellow croaker from his arms and handed it to the other party: "Check it."

"We are all comrades. I trust you." The other party took it with a grin. Although he said this, he still weighed it skillfully, looked at the mark on it, and then put it into his mouth.

After checking that everything was correct, the other party put the yellow croaker into the box on the sled in front of the other two people and locked it.

He turned around, held up two fingers, and said to Tang Zhitong in a "generous" tone: "I think your lighter is very good, can I exchange it? I'll give you 20 kilograms of rice!"

"I'm afraid that won't work. The lighter was captured by a senior of mine from the battlefield in the east two years ago. It's very commemorative." Tang Zhitong didn't know where Wu Haiyang got the lighter, but that didn't stop him from taking this opportunity to light it for him. They are all comrades who have helped you before. Is it appropriate for you to let them down like this?

"That's such a pity. Where are the 20 kilograms of rice?" Hearing that Tang Zhitong was unwilling to exchange, the man's face suddenly fell, and he didn't seem to remember the past at all.

At this time, a person next to him said something in a gibberish, probably because he was afraid that the night would be too long and he urged his companions to go back quickly.

Sure enough, after he finished speaking, the man immediately said to Tang Zhitong: "It's getting late, we have to go back."

"Well, have a safe trip and take care." Tang Zhitong waved and said goodbye to the other party.

Tang Zhitong didn't move. He watched the three people pack up their sled and go away.

In the silent winter night, the cold wind carried the contents of their conversation to Tang Zhitong's ears. Tang Zhitong guessed that they said nothing nice because there was a lot of "Xiba" in their words, and they might even be scolding him.

Even so, two of them were still driving, and the remaining one was facing Tang Zhitong with a gun in hand, looking alert, fearing that Tang Zhitong would cause trouble.

He didn't turn around until he was fifty meters away.

At this time, Tang Zhitong used a plug-in to take out the stones in their gun barrels. At the same time, he sensed the big yellow croaker and pulled it into the space.

Damn it, I wanted to make a good deal, but they didn’t cherish the opportunity!
What good can come from pushing an honest person into a corner?

As for whether they could trade again in the future, it was not even within Tang Zhitong's consideration.

With these 2,000 kilograms of corn as a foundation, we will have no problem lasting a year. As for the future, there are so many ports. Why should we hang ourselves on this crooked tree?

The opponent's sled quickly disappeared into the night. Tang Zhitong waved his hand to collect all the sacks into the space, and then separated the corn and sand.

The sand weighed a thousand kilograms, and the hearts of these people were extremely evil. If the big goldfish had not been brought back, the corn would have cost nearly 1.5 yuan per kilogram, but if it had been brought back, it would have cost more than 1.8 yuan per kilogram, which was still a good deal.

Tang Zhitong did not throw away the sand, but temporarily stored it in the space so that he could use it when building something at home in the future.

On the way back, Tang Zhitong finally figured it out.

The buying and selling of grain is so blatant because both sides turn a blind eye.

On the one hand, it was to keep more people alive, and on the other hand, it was to advertise that they had food and make some hard money.

As for any help or favor, I guess there wasn't much, after all, the other side even smashed the mausoleum and kept jumping back and forth.

In this regard, Bayang does much better.

In his previous life, Tang Zhitong had a friend who worked in infrastructure construction. He went to the west to provide construction assistance, and the people on the other side treated him very warmly.

Accompanying a student to study is nothing. All I can say is that many things can break away from belief. Of course, there is no coercion.

As he walked, Tang Zhitong's eyes were fixed on the ice surface, and he thought of the scene of the ice man working when he went ice skating with his classmate Xiao Wang last year.

The history of icemen is very long, and it is said that they existed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Getting ice is a physical labor. First, people use manpower to chisel it into an "ice boat". The so-called ice boat is the ice that the workers in the ice cellar chisel into ice blocks as big as the area of ​​a room.

The ice boat is then pushed from a distance to the conveyor belt on the shore, and then the ice is chiseled into one-meter square blocks and sent to trucks on the shore via a conveyor belt.

There are still people taking ice in Sijiu City.

In the past few years, ice could be harvested from every lake, moat, and river in the old city.

Later, as more factories were built in the city, the water quality was polluted and there were fewer places to get ice in the city, so the ice-getting locations were changed to the Jishuitan, Taiping Lake and the lake area near the Summer Palace.

A small amount of ice is also harvested in Shichahai. The iron-tooth conveyor belt is set up on the shore facing Ma Liang's compound to the west of Jinding Bridge. Only a relatively small area on the eastern edge of Qianhai is used because there is a ski resort to the west.

Although the natural ice obtained in winter is not so clean, it is still in short supply. However, most people buy it back to use for cooling down or chilling drinks and fruits.

The summer in Beijing is very hot, and the people's demand for ice is increasing, and the contradiction between supply and demand is very prominent.

However, there are not many manufacturers with freezers. The Sijiucheng Ice Factory only has one 100-horsepower freezer, which is mostly used to produce Arctic Ocean popsicles. Working three shifts a year, it can only produce 1.65 cubic meters of ice, which is far from meeting market demand.

Due to the low output of artificial ice, we often have to rely on natural ice temporarily. Natural ice once occupied more than 90% of the ice market. This situation was not reversed until the s and s, when the output of domestic refrigerators and refrigeration machines increased.

Emm...By the way, refrigerators are actually already available in China, the Snow Flake brand.

In 1956, Sijiucheng Medical Equipment Factory, a company that mainly produces medical refrigeration equipment, produced my country's first civilian refrigerator. However, due to price and production capacity issues, it still had a long way to go before it could enter thousands of households.

Anyway, Tang Zhitong was not looking forward to it anymore. Instead of looking forward to the refrigerator, he might as well take the opportunity to grab more ice.

Tang Zhitong did it right away. He slid down along the river bank, and after standing up, he did not forget to use the hook to smooth out the traces of his descent.

Then walk north along the river, collecting as you go.

It's cold here, the river surface is frozen solid, the ice is more than fifty centimeters thick!
The surface ice was gone and the river water suddenly surged up. It's so cold, I believe there will be a layer of solid ice again by tomorrow.

The natural ice in Sijiu City cannot be eaten directly because there is very little running water in the lake.

Tang Zhitong remembers that when he was a child, he used a bamboo pole to knock icicles off the eaves, then picked them up and put them into his mouth.

Friends jokingly call it "free ice cream".

If icicles can be eaten, then the natural ice in front of us, which has been filtered through layers of tributaries, might also be edible.

Whether it can be eaten or not will be verified later.

Tang Zhitong didn't stop until he reached the vicinity of his secret base.

As the fifteenth day approaches, the white moonlight shines on the river. If there is a drone taking aerial photos at this moment, you will definitely see a strange sight.

A group of fish and shrimps appeared on the ice with the small house as the center, jumped twice and then were frozen, and then disappeared immediately after a while, and then another group of lively fish and shrimps appeared, and the cycle repeated...

Tang Zhitong was not idle in the house either, continuing to do handicrafts.

The comb prepared for Xiao Wang has been completed, and Tang Zhitong is now making a hairpin.

Xiao Wang's beautiful long hair can be tied up with a hairpin. When she takes out the hairpin at night, her black, shiny and fine hair will cascade down like a waterfall. If she shakes her head at this time, waves will appear.

It’s beautiful just thinking about it!

Tang Zhitong's side was good, but the three people on the opposite side were miserable.

After returning from the river, the three men unloaded the sled, prepared some food, opened a bottle of sake, and drank it with grins.

Alcohol makes cowards bolder, and after a few sips of sake, they chatted more happily, talking about how much money they had made in the past few days and how happy they were at making a fortune today. There was laughter all around.

After having a good meal and a drink, they opened the wooden box, but the two big yellow croakers inside were nowhere to be found.

The man who served the master sobered up instantly and broke out in a cold sweat.

The other two people didn't care about the superiors and subordinates at this time, and shouted loudly: "Shit! Did you steal it?!"

"Kai Za Xi Ga! How can you talk to your senior like that? That guy must have deceived us!" The one who was the leader would definitely not take the blame, and he also replied loudly.

"We saw you take the gold bars, verify them and put them into the box. If that guy was cheating, I would have killed him right then and there!" The other two did not accept this statement at all. Apart from the fact that they had not personally checked them, everything else happened right under their noses.

The gold bars must have been brought back, so why were they gone? The problem must be with the person in front of him. From the river surface to now, he was the only one who had come into contact with the gold bars and the box.

"Shit! I didn't steal it! I don't know why it's gone!" Faced with his teammates' doubts, he was almost going crazy. Where did the gold bars go? He turned over the box and looked, but there was no hole. How could it be gone?

Could it be that I really didn't put it in?

(End of this chapter)