As for the staple food, Wan Feng was in a dilemma. Staple food required food coupons, so no matter how much money he had, it would be of no use.
A steamed bun costs four cents and requires two taels of food coupons.
A bowl of rice costs five cents and also requires food coupons. There are more than twenty of them, and each person needs at least four or five kilograms of food coupons for a bowl. Where can they get them?
Wan Feng brought up this issue, and then everyone started to collect food coupons. The two teachers had the most food coupons, and they probably collected more than two kilograms of local food coupons. Hua Wanrong had more than half a kilogram of food coupons.
Wan Feng cashed these food coupons at the black market price.
At that time, the local food coupons on the black market were 1.5 to 2.0 yuan per catty, and the national food coupons were 2.0 to 2.5 yuan per catty. Wan Feng paid them all at 3.0 yuan per catty.
But these food coupons were still not enough.
But this was the only way, Wan Feng used all the food coupons to buy rice.
Fortunately, the amount of rice in a bowl at that time was quite substantial. It was a large bowl, and the pointed bowl was enough to be divided into two flat bowls.
The restaurant was very fast and they served two tables of food within half an hour!
Now we can finally eat.
Before the meal started, Wan Feng said a few words, asking the athletes not to eat too much, as it would be a waste if they got a stomach upset in the afternoon and couldn't participate in the competition.
This possibility is very likely to happen. These rural children are lucky to have enough to eat at home on weekdays, and the food at home is not oily. It would be strange if they didn't eat a lot during this big meal.
For children in rural areas, even during the Chinese New Year, their families do not have such a sumptuous meal. If their stomachs, which usually do not have much oil and water, are suddenly filled with so much oil and water, they may really get a stomachache.
There was an extra pack of cigarettes at Wan Feng's table, after all, there were many adults. As for the wine, Wan Feng didn't order it, because the driver and the teacher would drink whatever wine they wanted.
There are no drinks, so if you are thirsty you can only drink boiled water.
"Auntie Hua, will you come this afternoon?" Wan Feng asked Hua Wanrong while eating.
"Can I still sell it in the afternoon?" Hua Wanrong was unsure.
"Well, three thousand is no problem. I'm not sure about more than that."
Hua Wanrong thought for a moment and said, "If we can sell 3,000, we'll come back. But we won't give you the whole afternoon. We have to sell some too."
They came out to sell popsicles and the factory gave each of them a subsidy of 30 cents. If they didn't come in the afternoon, they could only get 15 cents.
This was not because Hua Wanrong was interested in the additional 15 cents, but because she quickly discovered the business opportunity after seeing how Wan Feng and the others were selling popsicles.
If they also sell it themselves and only quote the factory price, then the extra profit will be theirs.
Wan Feng naturally knew what Hua Wanrong was thinking and laughed, "That's not a problem. You guys sell yours and we sell ours. Even if I have a project this afternoon, I can't keep selling this."
The meal was so delicious that it was like the wind and clouds turning pale and the sun and moon losing their luster. It would not be an exaggeration to say that everything was swept away by whirlwind. However, the scene at the end was extremely ugly. All the plates were clean as if they were new.
Wan Feng was sure that the waiters could even skip the job of washing dishes.
The students' faces were flushed and their lips were shiny from eating.
Fortunately, there were not enough food coupons to buy enough staple food, otherwise these students would have been overeating.
It was just past twelve o'clock when we finished our meal.
Hua Wanrong and his team went back to transport the goods.
Yang Hong used a tractor to pull the students back to school, and the students each found a shady place to rest.
They also have an hour's break.
Wan Feng, Tan Chun, Xu Bin and Jiang Jun gathered under a big tree on the main road to settle accounts. After the meal, any remaining money had to be divided up. This was the result of their hard work, and Wan Feng didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Of course, in order to avoid being envied by others, they hid in a place far away from the school.
"This meal had fourteen dishes per table, and the cost, from the cheapest at eight cents to the most expensive at fifty cents, was eight yuan and twenty cents. Thirteen bowls of rice cost sixty-five cents, plus Pegasus cigarettes at twenty-eight cents, for a total of a little over nine yuan and ten cents. After dinner, we bought each teacher a box of cigarettes for another fifty-six cents, bringing the total to nine yuan and seven cents. We made twenty-two yuan selling popsicles this morning, and we still have twelve yuan and thirty cents left. Let's divide the money now, three yuan and ten cents each."
Wan Feng gave each person three yuan and a dime.
Tan Chun, Jiang Jun and Xu Bin were all ecstatic. They had never had so much money of their own in their lives.
"I never thought that business could be so profitable. I want to do business in the future." Jiang Jun made a bold statement while lying on the ground.
Has this guy finally found his life goal?
This is good. Doing business honestly is better than stealing in the future.
Wan Feng felt very relieved. He never thought that he had saved someone accidentally.
"I also think doing business is quite interesting." Tan Chun also shared his own experience.
"External conditions aren't mature yet, but they will be in three or four years. Various policies will be in place to support business. By then, you'll have graduated from high school, so you can start a business. Once you've accumulated a certain amount of capital, you can start your own business and become your own boss. By then, you'll be awesome."
Wan Feng painted a beautiful blueprint for them.
"How awesome can it be?" Xu Bin asked from the side.
"Haha, you guys can't imagine that even if you rack your brains now. By then, every family will have a house, a motorcycle, a car, and a TV. We won't have to pick up relatives' hand-me-downs or wear patched clothes anymore. Even the sight of meat will make you feel disgusted."
Buildings, cars, and television are too abstract for these people, but the feeling of disgust and nausea at the sight of meat is something they cannot understand.
"Why is it so disgusting?"
"Everything becomes disgusting if you eat too much. Don't you get sick of meat?"
"I won't get tired of it. I won't get tired of it even if I eat it every day." Xu Bin answered in a very cowardly manner.
"Us too." Tan Chun and Jiang Jun were unwilling to lag behind and were eager to express their opinions.
That's because you haven't lived that kind of life yet. Once you do, you'll know I'm not kidding you.
Just like the tortillas that everyone hates now, forty years from now, many people will love them more than their own parents.
Wan Feng did not explain further because it was not clear.
The one-hour break passed quickly.
Among the people in Wan Feng's circle, Jiang Jun has finished one competition, and Xu Bin still has two, namely 200 meters and 400 meters. He has the 200-meter preliminaries and finals in the afternoon.
Wan Feng and Tan Chun both participated in the 800-meter race in the afternoon.
It was around 1 p.m. when Hua Wanrong and his friends came again with a cart of popsicles. The afternoon competition on the first day of the sports meet had already begun.
The morning competitions are all for the school group, and in the afternoon the middle school competitions will also begin, and people from the sports school will also appear.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
