"Is there no meat at home?"

As he spoke, Chu Tian walked towards the big vat where the family stored meat in winter. He opened the straw cover and saw only two skinned rabbits in the vat. He was stunned and turned back to ask in the direction of the kitchen.

"Grandma, there's no meat at home? There's no meat in the ice cellar either?"

Old Mrs. Chu put two pieces of meat in a basin in the kitchen to thaw. When she heard Chu Tian's voice, she turned and walked out of the kitchen, looked at Chu Tian and smiled.

"No more. Xinxin and Pingping both love to eat meat. We always have to stew a pot at home, so the meat you left behind is eaten quickly. It wasn't long after winter started, and they ate almost all of it. These three pounds of meat from these two rabbits were distributed by the team some time ago..."

Chu Tian thought to himself that they ate it really fast. He had left behind quite a lot of meat. After thinking for a moment, he asked in disbelief, "Then if I don't come back before the New Year, will you just eat this little bit of meat for the New Year?"

Old Mrs. Chu laughed and stepped forward to pat Chu Tian on the shoulder. "What do you mean you're only going to eat this little bit of meat? This is a lot of meat. Two rabbits weigh over three pounds of meat. There aren't many families in the brigade that have as much meat as we do!"

"I think you've had too many good days and have forgotten what life is like for most people these days!"

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing. Old Mrs. Chu was right. He had been living a good life for too long and had forgotten that except for those who had jobs, most other people couldn't eat meat for ten days, half a month, or even longer...

"But, I remember I left Xiujuan some meat coupons. Why didn't she go buy some meat?"

"It's too cold. It takes two or three hours to go to the regiment and back. Besides, there's food at home, and it's okay to skip meat for a meal, so I didn't go..."

Chu Tian said "Oh" after hearing this, and scratched his head after thinking for a while, "It's okay to eat it when there's nothing, but if I have the ability to eat meat, there's no need to be so frugal!"

"I'll get some meat tomorrow morning."

Old Mrs. Chu just smiled when she heard this. She was old and didn't like eating meat very much, but her children loved it, so she didn't express any opinion.

The Sun Weiguo brothers came back soon. Sun Baoguo pulled the two carriages back to the stable, while Sun Weiguo returned to Chu Tian's house.

"Grandma Chu..."

"Brother Tian..."

Old Mrs. Chu stood up and said with a smile, "Weiguo is here, then you can chat with Xiaotian."

Chu Tian looked at Old Lady Chu, "Grandma, what are you going to do?"

Mrs. Chu pointed to Uncle Chu's house and said, "Xinxin has been taking Pingping and Lele to your uncle's house for a long time. I'll go and take a look."

After saying this, he picked up the cotton jacket on the back of the chair, put it on and walked out.

Chu Tian poured a cup of hot water for Sun Weiguo and asked, "Is there anything wrong, Brother Li Gang?"

Sun Weiguo took a few sips of water and said, "Well, what he meant is that business is booming these days before the New Year, so he asked me if you could make a few more deliveries a day?"

Chu Tian nodded, "I have no problem, it depends on whether you and Brother Baoguo have any problems!"

Sun Weiguo was a little confused, and said "Ah" foolishly, confused, "Why are you looking at me and my brother?"

Chu Tian tapped the table with his fingers and laughed, "It's you and Brother Baoguo who are sending it, but doesn't it depend on whether you two are willing?"

Sun Weiguo exclaimed, "What am I thinking? My brother and I are definitely willing to run! Let alone running a few more times, we're willing to run all day and night without stopping!"

What a joke! Who can't get along with money? Before, Chu Tian gave him three yuan per trip, and his brother one yuan. A few years ago, Chu Tian changed the price, and now he and his brother each get four yuan per trip!

If you can run three or four times a day, and there are still three days until New Year's Eve, then each person can earn at least 40 yuan...

Chu Tian nodded, "Okay, then have you made an appointment with Brother Li Gang?"

"We've agreed. It'll take him about four hours to get to Urumqi and he'll be back. He means if you agree, then in four hours, you can bring two more trucks of goods and go back to the same place where we met at noon..."

In the following days, until the morning of New Year's Eve, Sun Weiguo and Sun Baoguo were still delivering supplies to Li Gang, but Chu Tian also went with them on the last trip. When they were unloading the supplies into Xu Fei's cellar, Li Gang was in the house planning to settle the money for the goods in recent days with Chu Tian.

Chu Tian was surprised, "Are these all mine?"

Chu Tian watched Li Gang put bundles of ten-yuan, five-yuan and even one-yuan bills in front of him one after another. He stopped only when the bills fell very high. He was a little surprised. To be honest, he had forgotten how many kilograms of goods he had delivered recently.

Li Gang laughed, "What else? Count them quickly. A stack of ten yuan is one thousand, a five yuan bed is five hundred, and a one yuan bed is one hundred. The total here is thirty-one thousand."

"Thirty-one?"

Chu Tian was surprised. He had only sold a quarter of the things he had acquired. He thought it would be just over 20,000 at most, but he didn't expect it to be more than 30,000... Does that mean that if he sold all the materials in his space, he would still have nearly 100,000 left?

"Well, actually it's thirty-nine hundred and ninety-nine. I rounded it up for you! Come on, count quickly. I can hear the noise outside and it's almost done..."

Li Gang was not able to handle these 30,000-plus supplies by himself, so he took them to the black market in Urumqi and divided them with several other black market managers. He definitely did not give them the purchase price. He added another 20 cents to each pound. In total, he made a lot of money. Giving Chu Tian a few dollars as compensation was really just a drizzle!

Chu Tian was not embarrassed. Even brothers settle accounts clearly, let alone partners. It was normal to count the goods and money in person. So after listening to Li Gang's words, Chu Tian really sat aside and counted them one by one. He put the counted ones on the table beside him. After counting them all, he asked Li Gang for a sack.

Chu Tian put all his money in it, complaining in his heart as he put it in. When will there be a 100-yuan denomination? If it were a 100-yuan denomination, 31,000 yuan would only be three stacks of money, which could fit in my pocket. Unlike now, the largest denomination is 10 yuan, and more than 30,000 yuan needs to be carried in a sack...

Li Gang stood up after seeing Chu Tian tie up the money bag and said, "On the fifth day of the New Year, I will bring my wife and children to pay you New Year's greetings!"

Chu Tian nodded, "Well, let's invite Xiao Fei along when the time comes. After all, doesn't he only go to his grandma's house on the second day of the Chinese New Year every year? Isn't he usually with you guys?"

Li Gang nodded, "Yes, I will take him with me."

After leaving Li Gang's house and getting away from the regiment, Chu Tian sat in the carriage driven by Sun Weiguo. He took out the money he had calculated in advance from his pocket and handed a wad to Sun Weiguo first. "This is the money for your fourteen visits, a total of fifty-six."

"Thank you, Brother Tian!"