Lin Guoqing is barely 180cm tall. He sat in the back of a tricycle with his three children, hugging his legs, feeling very cramped.
As soon as he arrived at Lin Fuqiang's house, he jumped out of the car. Captain Lin's door was open, and his wife was holding her baby son's hand, going out to take him to school. Lin Fuqiang followed behind, pushing his bicycle, apparently on his way to the team, and they happened to meet.
"Guoqing, you're visiting me so early in the morning!" Lin Fuqiang greeted with a smile. He glanced at Liang Shengdi riding a tricycle full of dolls and asked, "Hey, where did you get that tricycle?"
Sihe Village wasn't small, but these days, if a household imported something large, word would spread quickly throughout the village. As the head of the Sihe Production Brigade, he couldn't have been unaware of this. And so far, besides him, who had a bicycle, the only other households in Sihe Village had at most an oxcart. And look at this tricycle...it was still quite new.
Lin Guoqing had been to Minglu before, and he grinned, "I bought a new one in the city yesterday. It will be more convenient for me to go to the provincial capital in the future. Although the tricycle is not as high-end as a bicycle, it can hold a lot of things! If you have other things you want me to bring over in the future, you can throw them on it."
He was just that good at Kung Fu, and the people around him gathered around and talked a lot.
"It's National Day, how much does this tricycle cost?"
"Two hundred and eighty, Aunt Li." The discount given by Ye Juncai cannot be told to others, otherwise it will cause trouble for him.
"That's so expensive! It's more expensive than a bicycle!"
"Bicycles require a ticket, but tricycles don't. So it's normal that they're a bit more expensive."
"That's over a hundred bucks! How much food can you buy with that? Even if you sell me, I'm not worth that much..."
"That's right!" Everyone sighed. These days, everyone's family financial situation is similar. Having a savings of two or three hundred yuan is already considered good. The only difference is how many mouths to feed in the family. Those with more can save more, and those with less can save less.
"National Day's mom, you really are willing to let go of National Day! You don't even tell him about it!"
Liang Shengdi was still sitting on the tricycle, her feet touching the ground, one hand pressing down on the wrench in the middle to prevent the tricycle from sliding. "Ah? What am I going to say? This is great! It saves me some energy when I go out to dig bamboo shoots and carry them back."
Lin Fuqiang circled the tricycle and said it was great. "Then I won't be able to lend my bicycle anymore, hahaha!"
"I just don't know where the money for this car came from..." Ma Fengjuan stood at the door of her house with a mean and contemptuous look on her face.
"They said they were helping everyone get to the food station to exchange for money. Who knows how much they took in the process? Otherwise, with only two people working in your family, how could you afford a three-wheeled vehicle worth 280 yuan?"
As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly became quiet again. Lin Fuqiang glared at her, "Ma Fengjuan! Are you itching for trouble again?"
This woman really has no memory at all. If she is not punished for three days, she will make a fuss. I scolded her just yesterday, and she started making trouble again today!
Ma Fengjuan shrank her neck slightly, but then she thought again and felt that she must have said the right thing today, so she straightened her back and spoke again.
"What did I say wrong? He deducted his own work points and rode for hours just to help everyone sell things for free? Do you really think he's a sucker? Suckers can't afford to buy a bike! That's 180! You thought it was 18!"
As she said this, she stared at Liang Shengdi intently. The old woman had let her down so much yesterday, and today she was determined to tear off the skin of this family and throw it on the ground! She wanted the whole village to see the true face of this family!
The surrounding villagers were silent. Although what Ma Fengjuan said was unpleasant, but... when you think about it carefully, there seems to be nothing wrong with it. Everyone asked Lin Guoqing to take the eggs to the provincial capital because they didn't want to make a trip themselves or have their work points deducted!
But if he really made some money from it...
"You're speculating! You should be arrested and paraded through the streets!"
"Ma Fengjuan, shut the fuck up!"
Seeing that his wife was getting more and more outrageous, Lin Fuqiang stepped forward and slapped her again. This time Ma Fengjuan was completely crazy, she sat down on the ground and started to act crazy.
"What did I say wrong? You hit me every day for a few outsiders! You can either beat me to death or I'll report them to the higher authorities! The whole village is watching! He's just profiteering!"
Lin Erniu had been standing next to his mother, but because of Ma Fengjuan's actions, he was accidentally kicked several times. He held onto the door frame, not knowing where to hide. On one side, his mother was going crazy and his father was beating her. On the other side, there were his classmates on the tricycle. He suddenly felt like crying.
The 6-year-old child could not hold back his emotions, and when he thought of this he actually burst into tears, and the scene instantly became more chaotic.
Lin Fuqiang's mother rushed out of the house to coax her grandson, but no one in the group of men, women, young and old outside spoke. They all looked at each other, and their eyes finally fell on Lin Guoqing and the tricycle.
Lin Guoqing stood at the gate and sneered, and Chunhua guessed it right.
Chunhua said that once you start bringing things over for the villagers, people will start to suspect you're taking advantage of the difference whenever you buy something. Even if it's just a few cents, people will think you're taking advantage.
So from the very beginning, they said it directly and clearly. They act uprightly and stand tall. Why would they be afraid of you making trouble?
"Whoever questions it must provide evidence! If you don't believe me, go to the provincial capital's food station and ask about the prices yourself." Lin Guoqing's face was so gloomy that water could drip from it.
"From the first day I came back from the provincial capital, I told every household that the food station was selling eggs at 75 cents per pound, which was not only 5 cents higher than the price at our supply and marketing cooperative, but they also gave 2 taels of food coupons per pound.
My family only has a few chickens and so few eggs. It is not cost-effective to make a special trip to the provincial capital. It doesn't matter if I carry one kilogram, two kilograms, or ten or twenty kilograms.
As for the errand fee, I also told you door to door when I collected the eggs that I would not try to make money from you, but the reward of food coupons will belong to our family. Did I tell everyone this?"
Lin Guoqing stood there with his hands on his hips and asked everyone, full of energy and not at all guilty. The people around him also began to whisper to each other.
"Every time I go to his house to deliver eggs the day before leaving for the provincial capital for National Day, he always tells me this again. I used to think he was too nagging!"
"Yes, two taels of food coupons only buy one bowl of rice. It's really not worth it to go to the provincial capital by yourself. I agreed when he said it."
"But if we save up enough, it's a lot. If we get 20 to 30 kilograms of eggs each time, that's 5 to 6 kilograms of food coupons! He goes there twice a month..."
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