Zheng Shengli looked at Zhou Bingchen's back with helplessness on his face.
Zhou Bingchen ran really fast. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with his health. He was discharged from the hospital two days earlier, so there shouldn't be any big problems.
The headache is from Doctor Zhang.
Doctor Zhang is a good doctor but he has a bad mouth.
Forget it, forget it. Considering that Zhou Bingchen returned home this time to win back his wife, he, as his old leader, can only bear Dr. Zhang’s “poisonous tongue” on behalf of Zhou Bingchen.
Zhao Zhenzhu didn't know that Zhou Bingchen was going home, and she had been focusing on her hair flower business these days.
He Bo was quite capable. The next morning, he brought back a bag of rags from the county garment factory, weighing about sixty or seventy kilograms.
"Sister, can you see if these can be used?" He Bo asked with a smile on his face.
He Bo no longer calls Zhao Zhenzhu "Sister Zhenzhu", but simply calls her "Sister".
He Bo felt that Zhao Zhenzhu was his biological sister, no, closer than his biological sister.
This time, He Bo sold all thirty watches and made more than six hundred yuan.
Adding the more than two hundred he earned last time, He Bo has earned nearly nine hundred in just three or four days.
In the past, He Bo didn't even dare to think about such a good thing. In the past, all the assets of the He family were not worth more than 100 yuan.
Zhao Zhenzhu grabbed a handful of cloth from the bag that He Bo had opened and was stunned.
The scraps of cloth in the bag were of different sizes, the big ones were about one foot long, while the small ones were only as wide as the tip of a finger.
Didn't she tell He Bo before that he needed a piece of cloth at least as wide as a palm? Didn't He Bo listen?
Zhao Zhenzhu poured out all the rags in the bag, and after sorting them out, she found that only one third of them were usable.
Zhao Zhenzhu was very upset.
She had just praised He Bo for being reliable yesterday, but she didn't expect that he would do such an unreliable thing for her today.
"Sister, can't these be used? I...I saw that the other day that your hair ornament was made of floral cloth, and there are quite a few floral cloths in here too." Seeing that Zhao Zhenzhu looked unhappy, He Bo's smile froze on his face.
"This one can be used, but that one can't." Zhao Zhenzhu pointed to the two "small hills" she had just picked out and said.
"Ah? So many that can't be used?" He Bo was anxious.
“The pile of scraps on the left are too small. Although they can be made into hair bands after splicing them together, it is time-consuming and wastes thread, and they are not beautiful. The pile on the right is okay. However, some of them are too dark in color, so they may not be easy to sell after being made into hair bands.” Zhao Zhenzhu shook her head and said.
"I was also confused. I should have fallen out and taken a look." He Bo raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat off his forehead.
"Xiaobo, why did you buy them without even looking at them? By the way, how much did you spend on these scraps of cloth?" Zhao Zhenzhu was unhappy.
Obviously, she had already told He Bo what kind of rags to choose.
"Sister, this bag of rags was given to me by Liangzi's aunt. It was free." He Bo lowered his head, feeling a little ashamed.
He Bo felt that he was still too petty.
When he heard that it was given for free, He Bo was so excited that he completely forgot what Zhao Zhenzhu had said before about how to choose the fabric.
"For free?" Zhao Zhenzhu was surprised.
"Aunt Liangzi said that there are a lot of such leftovers in clothing factories, and they usually use them for fuel." He Bo nodded and said.
Qingshan County Garment Factory is a large state-owned enterprise with more than 500 workers.
The production workshop operates in two shifts, from 8 am to 12 pm, and the machines are roaring all year round. Some of the clothes produced are supplied to the big shopping malls in Haishi, and some are exported.
Large factories of this era are like large communities, with not only production workshops, dormitories and canteens, but also kindergartens and bathhouses.
The bathhouse needs to use a boiler to provide hot water 24 hours a day.
You need to buy coal to burn the boiler, which costs a lot of money throughout the year.
Garment factories have a lot of rags, and burning them together with coal is also a good fuel. In a year, it can save a lot of money on buying coal.
Therefore, many of the scraps of cloth in the clothing factory's waste warehouse were burned in the boiler. Only the scraps of cloth over one foot long were picked out and sold cheaply to the factory's employees.
Yu Mingliang's aunt Yu Hongying is the deputy director of the Qingshan County Garment Factory, and her husband works in the government. Among the watches that He Bo sent to the county to sell this time, there were two from Yu Hongying's family.
When Yu Hongying went to Yu Mingliang's house to pick up the goods, He Bo asked Yu Mingliang to help ask, as he wanted to go to the garment factory to buy some scraps of cloth.
Yu Hongying said directly: "You have such a close relationship with my Liangzi, how can I ask you for money if you want some scraps of cloth? Come on, follow me and move."
After He Bo followed Yu Hongying to the factory, Yu Hongying asked the warehouse manager of the rag warehouse to directly drag out a bag of rags and let He Bo take it away.
He Bo thought that since the cloth was free, there was no need to look at it, so he took it home and let Zhao Zhenzhu see it first.
After listening to He Bo's explanation, Zhao Zhenzhu was speechless.
The scraps of cloth that were too small could be placed in the garment factory's warehouse and used as fuel for the boiler. He Bo brought them back, which was not only useless but also a waste of effort.
"He Bo, go to the county town the day after tomorrow and ask your friend's aunt if you can spend some money to buy the scraps of cloth in the garment factory warehouse. We will pick out the useful ones and transport them back, and leave the useless ones for them to use as fuel." Zhao Zhenzhu thought about it and immediately came up with an idea.
"Sister, Liangzi's aunt told me that next time I need it, I can just ask her to move it. It's free." He Bo said weakly.
He Bo couldn't understand why Zhao Zhenzhu had to buy the rags when she could have gotten them for free. It wasn't like she had too much money to burn.
"Xiaobo, you think I'm wasting money, right?" Zhao Zhenzhu saw through He Bo's thoughts at a glance and asked.
He Bo nodded vigorously.
"Xiaobo, some money cannot be saved. Now, our hair bands are not on sale yet. You can go to the garment factory and ask your friend's aunt for one or two bags of rags. You can get them. After our hair bands are sold, will you still be able to get them?" Zhao Zhenzhu saw a thoughtful look on He Bo's face and continued to teach him:
"Sometimes, the free things are the most expensive. Picking out a bag of usable rags only costs two or three dollars at most. You ask your friend's aunt for it for free. Do you owe her a favor? If she asks you for help in the future, you can't refuse to help, right?"
He Bo understood this time and nodded vigorously.
Yu Hongying was willing to give He Bo the rags for free because she wanted He Bo to think of her next time he had any popular goods to sell, and it would be best if he could give her a heads up, to avoid the same mistake as this time, where she was a step late and almost missed the watch.
He Bo was thinking, he was selling things anyway, so it didn't matter who he sold to. If Yu Hongying wanted to buy, he could have another customer!
After Zhao Zhenzhu's analysis, He Bo felt that he was still superficial.
Indeed, it is easy to owe money, just pay it back. But it is hard to pay back a favor owed to someone.
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