Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
No! My mother has no money for medical treatment, my father has to take medicine all year round, and my younger brothers and sisters are still in school.
Go! She hasn't even left Longjiang, and now she's running to Beiliao?
How to adapt to a place you are not familiar with?
To go to Beiliao, you have to take a leave of absence without pay, which will probably take one or two months to process. If you apply for a leave of absence without pay, you can work in Beiliao for one to half a year. What if they don't need you anymore?
Alas! For a moment, Liang Bingyu was in a state of confusion.
"You can work here for two years. If you do well, you'll receive a generous bonus at the end of the year. After two years, if you'd like to come back to Heihe to work, you can come and go freely. If you don't want to come back, I'll find you a job, but it won't have much to do with your major. Russian will be of little use except along the border with the Soviet Union, so the job I'll find you won't have anything to do with your major."
Liang Bingyu thought about it for a minute and said, "I'll go! I'll go back right away and go through the procedures for unpaid leave."
She had to go because she needed the money. Although two years was not a long time, at least she didn't have to worry about the family's financial problems during these two years.
As for two years later, we’ll talk about it later.
"Boss, I have another request."
"Speak!"
"Can you give me some money first? I need money!"
Wan Feng looked at Liang Bingyu in surprise. "Although you only worked for me for three months last year, your salary plus bonus was fifteen thousand. You spent it all so quickly? Did you buy furniture for your wedding?"
Liang Bingyu blushed: "I don't have a partner yet, who should I marry?"
"Then why did you spend so much money? Gambling? It's not good for a woman to gamble..."
"My mother was hospitalized and just got discharged." Liang Bingyu quickly interrupted Wan Feng and revealed the truth.
This boss is very good at imagination. She has known him for several months. Not only is he outspoken, but his ideas are also very imaginative. If you follow his ideas, who knows how many strange and bizarre things he will come up with.
"Is this why you haven't been here since the 15th?"
Liang Bingyu nodded silently.
So that's what happened. This woman was late because she was taking care of me and she didn't intend to explain.
Wan Feng has a good impression of filial people.
Wan Feng pulled out a bundle of unopened ten-yuan bills from his pocket and threw them to Liang Bingyu: "Is it enough? If it's not enough, talk."
"That's enough! That's enough! Thank you, boss. Just deduct this money from my future salary."
"Take this money for now. It won't be deducted from your salary. It will be deducted from your bonus at the end of the year. Hurry up and get your work done. I might have to bring some Soviet technicians back to Beiliao in mid-April. You can come with me then."
"Okay, boss! I'm leaving now."
Wan Feng used the phrase "after one thing happened after another, a person who was shitting was beaten away and a person who was farting appeared" to describe one thing after another.
Just as Liang Bingyu was sent away, Jiang Ming came happily.
"The goods have arrived, give me the money!"
Wan Feng rolled his eyes and said, "I'll pay you when the goods are where you are."
"We'll be there soon."
"How can I pay you if the account is not cleared? Will you do it if I give you a thousand yuan? If you agree, I will pay you immediately, in cash."
"You've learned bad habits again, you even dare to play tricks on me, Uncle Jiang. I have goods worth over 200,000 yuan, and you give me 1,000 yuan. Do you think I'll do it?"
"Over 200,000? You shipped quite a bit of goods this time. Last year, you only shipped over 100,000 in one trip."
"We have some new goods this time. I've even sent over five carloads of instant noodles. I hired over fifty trucks in Long Town, and they'll be arriving soon."
Jiang Ming had just finished speaking when a car horn sounded and a brand new Jiefang 141 truck with a roof drove into the yard.
Chen Dao, who was the manager even when he never went out, immediately got busy. After asking what was loaded on the car, he immediately directed the car to stop at the door of a warehouse.
Then more cars continued to enter the base.
There are currently fourteen idle warehouses at the base, which can accommodate fourteen vehicles at a time.
The people who were squatting outside doing odd jobs immediately became excited when they saw another convoy coming.
The base is paid a lot for unloading goods, so there are more than a hundred odd-job workers gathered in this small street.
After several months of loading and unloading, these people became famous and spontaneously formed four loading and unloading teams.
When a job comes, the boss just comes out to talk to him, takes the job, and then he goes back to assign it and it's done.
The advantage of doing this is that it avoids vicious competition and fights for work. Secondly, the work of the base is basically taken care of, and outsiders have no chance of getting involved.
It's basically a monopoly.
Han Meng shouted as he stood at the gate of the base.
"Sixty-four people, old rules."
The four loading and unloading team leaders got together and divided the work, and then sixty-four people came in.
Unloading these goods does not make as much money as unloading goods from the Russians. The fertilizers and steel from the Russians are one yuan per ton, and a truck usually carries ten tons.
The goods in the base are all light industrial products. A truckload of goods may look like a lot, but sometimes it may not weigh more than five tons.
Therefore, a fixed price of five dollars per truck was set.
The stevedores came in, and Chen Dao began to explain the rules: "You all work here regularly, so I won't say too much about the rules. Handle it with care, safety first, and stealing is strictly prohibited. You have half an hour to get it down for me. Okay, let's get to work."
The warehouse door was opened, the rear of the truck was parked at the door, and the loaders got on the truck and started unloading the goods.
The truck unloaded three more items at a time and carried them to the warehouse. The speed was so fast that in less than half an hour, all the fourteen trucks that came in were unloaded.
As this batch of cars drove out, the second batch of cars drove in.
By 11 o'clock in the morning, all the goods were in the warehouse.
Chen Dao wrote a note and the captain of the loading and unloading team went to Zhang Zhiyuan to collect the loading and unloading fees.
After the goods landed, it was natural for Jiang Ming to settle the bill. After Jiang Ming and Chen Dao finished counting the goods, Jiang Ming took the data to Zhang Zhiyuan to report the bill.
Jiang Ming's payment for the goods was as high as 230,000, which was not something Zhang Zhiyuan could pay. He had to get Wan Feng's signature before he could write a check to Jiang Ming.
Jiang Ming carefully checked the number on the check and put it away carefully.
"How much money did you make from me this time?"
"Hey, it's not much. After deducting all the expenses, it's less than 30,000."
Wan Feng gave him a public price, so there was no need for him to hide it, so he told the truth.
"Thirty thousand isn't a lot? If I'm not mistaken, you arrived at the wadi on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, and it's only been more than half a month, and you've already made thirty thousand. That's not enough! Hey! You're moving fast. You've managed to sell so much stuff in just over half a month. How did you do it? Tell me so I can learn."
The goods are gathered at the train station and then taken on a train to Longzhen, where they are dropped off and then transferred to another bus here.
Wan Feng had to admire Jiang Ming's ability to tinker. Even if he had done it himself, he wouldn't have the confidence to get it here in less than 20 days.