Siheyuan: Master of the Fire, Eating Watermelons Online

Chapter 85 Buying a watch, preparing for a rainy day in the pigeon market

"Dongxu, stop hitting me! If you keep hitting me, my stick will be broken..."

After finally persuading him, Qin Huairu was so anxious that tears came out of her eyes when she saw Jia Dongxu beating the child again. She held on to the stick tightly and begged Jia Dongxu.

"Forget it, Dongxu, why are you always angry with your own son?"

"If you don't teach me normally, what's the point of beating me so hard at this time?"

"Jia Dongxu, if you want to beat the child, go back and do it. We are not in the mood to watch you beat the child here!"

"This Jia Dongxu..."

"Let's go, there's nothing to see!"

"..."

Originally, everyone was quite happy to see Bang Geng getting beaten, but they were really scared when Jia Dongxu beat the child without any care.

If something really happened, it would be bad if it got out.

Seeing that everyone left with little interest, Jia Dongxu lost interest in beating the child and glared at Wang Weiguo hatefully.

Seeing this, Wang Weiguo shrugged indifferently.

It's true that he was the one who secretly instigated this matter, but he also needed Bang Geng's cooperation.

Moreover, Wang Weiguo did not expect that Jia Dongxu would be so cruel when beating the child.

It’s as if Banggeng is not his own child.

If you don’t know, you might think Banggeng is the child of Qin Huairu and someone else.

"Bang Geng, Uncle Wang has gone home. Take these two candies. Don't hate your father. He is doing this for your own good. Don't smash other people's windows anymore."

Before leaving, Wang Weiguo left the two fruit candies to Banggeng, gave Banggeng a lecture that seemed to be comforting but was actually a warning, and put some eye drops on Jia Dongxu.

After the incident of Banggeng smashing his own glass, Wang Weiguo felt relieved.

Without having to do anything himself, Banggeng got a bloody lesson, and the Jia family didn't even get a chance to cause trouble for him.

Cool!
Perhaps he was scared by being beaten by Jia Dongxu. When he saw the two fruit candies stuffed into his hands by Wang Weiguo, Banggeng did not say thank you but gave him a grateful look.

This made Wang Weiguo sigh.

Banggeng is a simple kid.

Unlike him, a pure bad uncle.

I only spent a few pieces of fruit candies to watch the "Dongxu training his son" drama for free, and in the end, Banggeng even thought of me as a good person and was very grateful.

Even Wang Weiguo felt that he had done a great job today!

If you mess with him, you'll be in big trouble.

……

The next day.

Wang Weiguo got up very early.

I don't know why, but I slept so soundly.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel refreshed.

As luck would have it, when Wang Weiguo came to the yard to wash up, he ran into Yan Bugui, the scheming man.

"Good morning, Third Uncle!"

Wang Weiguo greeted him with a smile and took the initiative to say hello.

Although some unpleasant things happened in the past two days, the one who suffered was the old man Yan Bugui, so Wang Weiguo didn't mind it.

"Good morning, Weiguo. What delicious food are you going to make this morning?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Bugui responded with a word and even tried to get close to the man and chatted with him.

We have to look forward.

Even though he had suffered a setback and lost face at the hands of Wang Weiguo, after all, they lived in the same courtyard and their two families were opposite each other. They saw each other every day, so there was no need to make it like a life-and-death feud.

Just because Wang Weiguo gave him a 99% discount when he sold the sewing machine to him yesterday, Yan Bugui could not hold a grudge against Wang Weiguo.

It’s not because of the 99% discount.

Even at the original price, buying a sewing machine from them is a bargain.

Moreover, Wang Weiguo's future days will only get better and better. Yan Bugui is still thinking about establishing a good relationship with Wang Weiguo so that he can take advantage of him in the future.

Not to mention anything else, if I really need to use a bicycle urgently in the future, I have to borrow it from Wang Weiguo, right?

After all, apart from Xu Damao, only Wang Weiguo's family has bicycles in the courtyard.

Moreover, Xu Damao's bicycle belonged to someone else's factory, and was given to him so that he could show movies in the countryside more conveniently.

But if you don’t prepare in advance, how can you get anything for free?

"Oh! What else can I eat? I'll just have two steamed buns and some pickled cabbage. That's all I need."

Wang Weiguo said with a smile.

"This can't be done!"

Yan Bugui didn't believe it at all, and said enviously: "The help everyone gave you yesterday totaled more than twenty dollars.

Add to that the fifty that Lao Yi paid back to you on behalf of Dongxu, and the seventy you got from selling the sewing machine, that’s a total of one hundred and forty.

With the conditions like this, why are you still eating steamed bread with pickled vegetables?"

When he got home last night, Yan Bugui directly helped Wang Weiguo settle the bill, which made him very envious.

This does not include the two hundred and one hundred that Xu Damao had previously compensated Wang Weiguo, and the bicycle ticket that Yi Zhonghai gave him.

In just a few days, Wang Weiguo gained a lot.

When Wang Weiguo heard this, he immediately laughed.

He hadn't even thought about these things, but Yan Bugui helped him calculate them clearly.

After discovering this situation, Wang Weiguo became more aware that his previous attitude of keeping a low profile was correct.

The entire courtyard is so small that everyone can see exactly what each family eats from morning to night.

Even if Wang Weiguo had a system, money and other means to get all kinds of good things, he couldn't eat and drink wantonly. If he wasn't careful, he might be targeted. Fortunately, he only had this morning meal in the yard, and the rest of the time he had it in the kitchen.

"Uncle, you can't say that."

Facing Yan Bugui's words, Wang Weiguo shook his head and responded: "The debt we got back from the Jia family yesterday originally belonged to our family. Now I just paid it back, and I didn't make any profit.

I just spent a lot of money on a bicycle, and now I need to renovate the house and make furniture. There are so many places to spend money, so I have to be frugal, right? "

As the saying goes, wealth should not be shown off. Since you have already shown your wealth, you should arrange a place for your wealth so that no one will be concerned about it.

Hearing Wang Weiguo say this, Yan Bugui did not dare to refute anything. He hurriedly washed his face, packed up and left, for fear that Wang Weiguo would take the opportunity to cry poor and ask for his help.

It’s hard for others to say about this, but Wang Weiguo is definitely capable of doing it. After all, he did it once yesterday.

Seeing that Yan Bugui was "scared" away by him, Wang Weiguo was speechless.

Is he that scary?

After washing up, Wang Weiguo went back to make some simple food, and then, amid the envy of the people in the courtyard, he rode his bicycle out of the courtyard and went to work in Fengze Garden.

Time flies.

A simple but fulfilling day's work ends.

After get off work, Wang Weiguo did not return to the courtyard immediately, but came to Beixinqiao Trust Store.

In the 1950s and 1960s, there were many shops called trust shops, also called commission shops, or trust banks and commission banks on the streets of New Taipei City.

There are four most well-known trust stores nowadays, namely Dongdan, Xisi, Beixinqiao and Caishikou.

In this era when goods are scarce and tickets are required to buy everything, a trust store is obviously a good place to go, equivalent to an offline second-hand Taobao store.

Because no tickets are required, some people who have money but don't have tickets will come here.

The items in the trust store are mostly daily necessities in people's homes, such as old clothes, old furniture, bicycles, clocks, etc., almost everything is included, including antiques.

However, due to the special nature of the trust store industry, it is directly supervised by the public security department. If they encounter someone with unknown origin, the police will arrive immediately after just one phone call.

If you want to consign a large item like a bicycle for sale, all the necessary documents and certificates are required.

Wang Weiguo came here today mainly to buy a watch.

It was inconvenient to check the time without a watch, which made Wang Weiguo very uncomfortable.

Nowadays, watch tickets are even harder to buy than bicycle tickets.

The development of domestically produced watches is currently in its infancy. For example, the well-known Modou brand watches, although they had already produced prototypes as early as 1956, the official factory was not established until this year, and it will not enter the public's field of vision until the second half of the year.

"Comrade, what do you want?"

"Do you have any watches? I want to see a watch."

"Yes, come with me."

"..."

As soon as Wang Weiguo came in, a salesperson immediately asked him questions.

People say that sales clerks are very powerful, but nowadays they are referring more to this job. Although there are some with bad attitudes, the overall service attitude was still acceptable in the first decade after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Moreover, I just saw Wang Weiguo riding a brand new bicycle. It was obvious that he was capable. He would not be deliberately arrogant or make things difficult for no reason.

soon.

The two of them came to the counter where watches were displayed.

"Can I see this watch?"

"Comrade, you have a good eye. This is Vacheron Constantin, a famous imported brand from abroad."

"how much is it?"

"eighty."

"can it be cheaper?"

"Comrade, look at this watch. It is so well preserved and has almost no wear and tear. It looks just like a new one. The price is not expensive."

"And if it wasn't the original owner of this watch..."

"..."

After looking around, Wang Weiguo finally picked one he liked and started bargaining with the other party.

Trust store transactions take two forms.

One is entrustment, where the original owner of the goods entrusts the store to sell it. After the items are sold, the store charges a handling fee, usually within ten points.

Another way is to sell it directly to the store. After the trust store estimates the price, you can just take the money and leave. However, the price will definitely be lower, after all, the store bears the risk of not being able to sell it.

Therefore, in a trust store, you can bargain according to the circumstances, unlike the supply and marketing cooperatives where prices are clearly marked and what is the price is what it is.

But Wang Weiguo still didn't finish his speech.

Because this watch was indeed in good condition and style on the counter, and I really liked it, so I bought it at the original price.

After paying the money and collecting the receipts, Wang Weiguo checked the time on the watch, put it directly on his wrist, and admired it with satisfaction.

After buying the watch, Wang Weiguo took another look around and happened to see some woodworking tools that someone was consigning to sell, so he bought them.

Wang Weiguo has not forgotten the intermediate carpentry skill that he defeated instantly yesterday.

After this trip, most of the debt that Wang Weiguo had collected from the Jia family yesterday and the "help" he had obtained through moral blackmail were gone.

But Wang Weiguo didn't care.

Money, it's meant to be spent.

What's more, he has a lot of money himself.

With just the inheritance left by Wang's father and mother before they went to the Northwest to help with construction, the money they sent back in the past two years, and Wang Weiguo's own apprenticeship salary, his wife had already saved enough.

Next.

Wang Weiguo still did not rush back to the courtyard, but came to the nearby Pigeon Market.

There is only one purpose - to buy food.

Although the three-year difficult period will start next year, some signs will soon appear this year, so Wang Weiguo needs to make preparations in advance.

(End of this chapter)