The next day, Zhou Bin immediately wrote the notice and started purchasing soapberry rice and peach gum.

The purchase price of sapodilla rice is 100 catties at 2 yuan per catty, and the purchase price of peach gum is 200 catties at 3 yuan per catty.

The first person to see the notice was Wang Quanwa, and he was immediately overjoyed.

Because he remembered that his second uncle who lived in the mountains had stored a lot of soap nuts, which were used for washing clothes.

He just needed to peel the soapberry seeds and dry them. So without saying anything, he pulled the cart to find his second uncle.

When my second uncle heard this, he wanted to buy his own soap beans and refused immediately.

He said he wanted to keep the soap nuts for washing clothes. Wang Quanwa tried to persuade him and agreed to give him fifty cents per pound, and then his second uncle reluctantly agreed.

Wang Quanwa immediately peeled the soapberry seeds at his second uncle's house and weighed them, finding a total of 45 kilograms.

He happily pulled the soapberry seeds back home and started drying them.

Zhou Dexing secretly felt fortunate that he had picked some soapberries from the ditch last winter and kept them at home. He never expected that he could exchange them for money.

At the same time, the villagers flocked to the ditch on the east side of the village because there was a wild peach forest there with plenty of peach gum on the trees.

Aunt Zhao, Liu Fen'e, Wang Quanwa, Zhao Haiquan and others all set out to Taohuagou to pick peach gum.

As they were picking, everyone sighed and said that they had never seen such a thing before.

The gum on the peach tree can be sold for money, but they used to not even look at it.

On the other hand, Zhou Bin found Aniu, Li Jun, Wang Haichao, Zheng Deming, Liu Junyi and five other young men in the village, a total of ten people, and hired them to help him pick almonds at the price of eight yuan a day.

The picking method is to pick the apricots, take out the apricot kernels directly, then put them into bags and carry them to the ditch.

In a day, they can pick a thousand kilograms of apricot kernels.

Zhou Bin, his father and Li Nan were buying things while they cracked open apricot kernels, peeled out the almonds and placed them in the yard to dry.

In this way, ten days later, all the apricot kernels in the ditch were picked, totaling about 10,000 pounds.

Zhou Bin filled up all the earthen kilns in his home and placed a large number of them in the backyard, and only then could he barely fit them all.

During this process, Zhou Bin had already purchased all the soapberry rice and peach gum that Hou Tianhai needed.

The villagers all made some money by picking peach gum. Aunt Zhao picked ten kilograms of peach gum and earned thirty yuan, while Liu Fen'e picked fifteen kilograms of peach gum and earned forty-five yuan.

Wang Quanwa was even more amazing, earning more than 80 yuan from just a handful of soapberry rice, while Zhou Dexing earned more than 50 yuan from soapberry rice.

Others also earned more than ten yuan by selling some soapberry rice and peach gum.

The 700 kilograms of almonds have been dried and are waiting to be delivered to the county.

After finishing all this, Zhang Hongwei came over at the agreed time.

When he saw what was in Zhou Bin's yard, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth: "Brother Zhou, you have done something big!"

Zhou Bin smiled and said, "These are what Mr. Hou and Mr. Zhang want. You've made the trip."

Zhang Hongwei waved his hands and said with a smile: "Hey, Brother Zhou, you are being polite. I am so happy!"

He could also make a lot of money by delivering goods, so of course he was very happy about it.

So Zhou Bin and his father helped Zhang Hongwei load the goods, and Zhang Hongwei drove the tricycle straight to the county.

In the afternoon, Zhang Hongwei came back with a rosy face.

As soon as he entered the door, he shouted, "Brother Zhou, are you home?"

Zhou Bin had just put the dried almonds into a bag and was about to take a break when he heard the sound and immediately came out.

As soon as he came out, he saw Zhang Hongwei holding a bag in his hand with a happy look on his face.

Zhou Bin smiled and asked, "Brother Zhang, what are you talking about?"

Zhang Hongwei chuckled: "I bought you a tape recorder and some tapes so you can listen to operas when you have nothing to do."

Zhou Bin said with a hint of annoyance: "Hey, Brother Zhang, why are you buying things again?"

Zhang Hongwei grinned and said, "I have benefited greatly from you this time, so I have to show my appreciation!"

As he said that, he handed the thing to Zhou Bin without saying anything. Zhou Bin had no choice but to accept it.

Then he took out a wad of money and said, "Brother Zhou, count it and see if the amount is right. They offered 10 yuan for 200 kilograms of peach gum, and you gave me 8 yuan, which is 1,600 yuan. They offered 7 yuan for 100 kilograms of soapberry rice, and you gave me 6 yuan, which is 600 yuan. And they offered 3 yuan for 700 kilograms of almonds, and you gave me 2 yuan, which is 1,400 yuan."

As he said this, he handed the money to Zhou Bin. Zhou Bin calculated that the total amount was 3,600 yuan, so he handed it to Li Nan immediately.

He calculated in his mind again. Zhang Hongwei also earned 1,200 yuan this time, so it wasn't too expensive for him to buy a tape recorder.

Then he asked with a smile: "Then how did you give Mr. Zhang the almonds?"

Zhang Hongwei smiled and said, "Boss Zhang sent someone to take it away by car."

Zhou Bin nodded and smiled, "That's all right, Brother Zhang, thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Hongwei grinned and said, "Brother Zhou, you are so polite. I should thank you very much! That's it. If you are free that day, let my wife roll noodles for you and eat spicy soup noodles."

Zhou Bin smiled and said, "No problem, I will definitely go when the time comes."

Zhang Hongwei drank a glass of water, then turned around and went home. He could finally take a break from Zhou Bin's matter.

He walked into the house and saw Li Nan lying on the kang with a mysterious look on his face.

"Xiao Nan, what are you doing?" Zhou Bin asked.

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