The familiar waitress in the state-owned restaurant was off today, but maybe because today was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the state-owned restaurant served mutton dumplings. Chu Tian paid the money and ticket and ordered four pounds of mutton dumplings.

Yao Xiuli tugged at Yao Xiujuan's sleeve in surprise, "Sister, isn't brother-in-law too much? There are only five of us plus Wu Ya, less than six people. Will we not be able to finish four pounds of dumplings?"

Yao Xiujuan patted Yao Xiuli's hand soothingly, "It's okay, you can finish it. Even if you can't finish it, we can take it away."

The dumplings were served. Yao Xiuli looked at Sun Weiguo and her brother who were sitting opposite her. They were eating so fast, stuffing the dumplings into their mouths one by one. Yao Xiuli was stunned and thought to herself, she was worrying too early. The dumplings would definitely be finished, and there might not even be enough.

Yao Xiujuan touched Yao Xiuli's arm and asked, "Xiuli, why don't you eat?"

Yao Xiuli came back to her senses and quickly picked up a dumpling and said, "Eat, I'll eat now."

After dinner, standing in front of the state-owned restaurant, Chu Tian took out thirty yuan and a stack of receipts from his pocket and stuffed them all into Yao Xiujuan's hands. "Xiujuan, take your sister-in-law and Wu Ya to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some things for the family. I'll take Wei Guo to do some errands and will be back soon."

"Um."

Yao Xiujuan knew that they were going to arrange an apprenticeship for Yao Youjun, so she nodded and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative with her brothers and sisters.

On the way to Xu Fei's house, Sun Weiguo kept stealing glances at Chu Tian, ​​looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Chu Tian frowned helplessly, "Weiguo, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask!"

Sun Weiguo chuckled, "I'm just curious, Brother Tian, ​​why don't you bring your allies along!"

Chu Tian sighed, "I haven't made an appointment with the director of the coal mine yet, why would I let the friendly forces meet Brother Li Gang?"

Sun Weiguo was stunned for a moment, not understanding why they couldn't meet without an agreed time?

"Hey, I thought you might come over today, but I didn't expect you to actually come."

Li Gang greeted Chu Tian and Sun Weiguo as they walked into the main hall.

Chu Tian just smiled and didn't respond.

Li Gang asked them to sit down before continuing to ask, "How is it going? Have you talked to your wife's brother?"

Chu Tian nodded, "It was agreed that he would come back with me today."

Li Gang understood, "Then I'll go to Director Liu's house this afternoon."

"By the way, Director Liu is the one who's selling the apprenticeship quota. He's the director of the third production workshop at the steel plant, managing over a thousand people. If you can become good friends with him, it will only benefit your brother-in-law in the future!"

"Yes, yes, then I'll trouble Brother Li Gang to make another trip."

Chu Tian was surprised, thinking that as the director of a large workshop, he really had a lot of power. No wonder he could sell quotas. No wonder he could say with certainty that he could guarantee to find the best master and guarantee a permanent position. It turned out that he had the confidence!

Li Gang waved his hands proudly, "Hey, these are just small matters, small matters!"

After he finished speaking, he paused, then looked at Chu Tian with a smile on his face, "As long as Brother Chu can produce more goods in the future, hehe, that would be great."

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Sure enough, there is no good thing without reason. If there is anything good, it is because of what one has the strength to ask for. However, on second thought, this is also quite good. He has what Li Gang wants, so if he has any difficulties in his daily life, as long as Li Gang can help, he will definitely try his best.

"Except for the two hundred kilograms of fine grains for Director Liu, they may be out of stock in the next few days. However, I can find a shipment of brown sugar and bananas. Would you mind taking them?"

Li Gang's jaw dropped in shock. "What? You can get brown sugar and bananas?"

"Forget about brown sugar, but bananas are a southern fruit, right? Even though I manage this black market, I only saw them once in the city many years ago. How could you actually get bananas?"

Chu Tian shook his head, "Brother Li Gang, you are wrong. It's not me who can get the bananas, it's my boss who can get them."

Li Gang still found it hard to believe. "I know bananas, but they don't keep as long as apples and pears. From our northwest to the south, even by train, it takes more than ten days, and driving takes even longer. How could the bananas have been transported here intact for such a long time?"

Chu Tian patiently explained (nonsense), "If you get ripe bananas from the place of production, they definitely won't be able to be transported here. However, he got green bananas. By the time they're shipped from the south, they'll be almost ripe by the time they get here. Even if they're not ripe, there's no need to worry. They'll be fine after a few days."

"A few days ago, he sent someone to tell me that it would arrive tomorrow. If I wanted it, he could give me a portion of the sales. If not, he would take it all to the local commune to sell..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Gang shouted anxiously, "We want it, we want it, we want it as much as we can. Why are we selling it locally? Do the local members have the money and food that our members of the Corps have?"

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To be honest, he still doesn't know who is richer, the local members or the members of the Corps. However, a few decades later, the Corps will indeed be richer than the local farmers, and their welfare and lives will be better than those of the locals.

"Brother Li Gang, you don't know, if we want all those bananas, I don't think we can afford them on the black market in our regiment."

Li Gang raised his eyebrows, looking very confident. "What? Brother Chu, you still look down on our industry? Didn't I tell you? We manage quite a few black markets. Not to mention other places, there are several large black markets in Wushi! Whether you bring 1,000 kilograms, 2,000 kilograms, or 3,000 kilograms of bananas, we can eat them all!"

Chu Tian was just waiting for this sentence. Upon hearing it, he immediately clapped his hands together and said, "Okay, since Brother Li Gang said so, I'll go back and tell my boss to deliver the goods to me tomorrow!"

Li Gang's face lit up with joy. "Then it's settled. I'll go talk to Director Liu and arrange a meeting time for tomorrow. How about ten o'clock in the morning?"

Chu Tian nodded, "Okay, ten o'clock is neither too early nor too late, and there aren't many people on the road, so it's safe for us to deliver the bananas."

After a pause, he continued, "However, those bananas may not be delivered all at once. They are too conspicuous. They will be delivered later in the middle of the night. Brother Li Gang, don't forget to remind Xu Fei to listen for knocks on the door!"

Li Gang waved his hand. "Xu Fei went to his grandmother's house. I guess he won't be back for a few days. I've been staying here recently."

"good."

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, wondering if Xu Fei had a grandmother? Then why was he living here alone? But he quickly put it out of his mind, thinking, what does that have to do with him?