Brother Wang’s name is Wang Chuan. He is a middle-aged man in his mid-thirties. He is tall and strong with a muscular body. At first glance, he looks like someone who is not to be trifled with.
He used to work in the black market, but now he is the owner of a dry goods store in the provincial capital.
He said drinking was just talk.
After the goods were loaded, the two sides agreed on the weight and price, and after settling the bill, he immediately said goodbye to Meng Sheng: "Let's go, drive back tonight, and we can load the goods and make money tomorrow morning!"
Meng Sheng came with a bag of payment and tried to persuade him to stay: "Brother Wang, you said you wanted to drink.
Let’s go, it’s not too late to go back after having a drink!”
"Hey, my wife is very strict at home and won't let me drive after drinking. I'll remember this and talk about it next time when I have time!"
As Wang Chuan was speaking, he climbed into the driver's seat, stepped on the accelerator, and the car started to puff out black smoke and soon disappeared.
After Meng Sheng sent the money donor away, he went to the courtyard with Meng Chao, who was staring at the money bag beside him.
Shen Baojia, Chen Nian, and Wu Liuye were all cleaning the house.
Seeing Meng Sheng coming back, Shen Baojia hurriedly handed over the account book: "Brother Sheng, you haven't been here these days, and we have collected more than 5,000 kilograms of dried goods in total, mostly common ones such as dried bamboo shoots, dried beans, and dried eggplants.
I sold some goods before. A long-distance truck driver who was passing by came to our door on his own. I saw that he didn't want a lot of goods, and the price was a little higher than what Boss Wang offered. In addition, you didn't have much reserved payment for the goods, so I sold some to him on my own initiative.
Every single account was recorded in the notebook."
Chen Nian took the notebook and walked forward: "Brother Sheng, the dry goods nearby have been almost harvested recently, and fewer villagers are coming here to sell their goods.
These days I have been traveling to several townships below me, and asked people in the townships to help collect the dry goods and then deliver them to me.
We gave them a profit of 50 cents per 100 catties on the original purchase price, and more than half of the 5,000 catties this time were sent by the villages below."
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Liuye, who was sweeping the floor, came over and said, "Brother Sheng, when I was cleaning the yard today, I took out the mats, sheets, and pillows from your room, washed them, and dried them in the sun. I'll put them away in the afternoon when they're dry. I'll make sure they're spotless!"
Meng Sheng looked at several pairs of eyes of different sizes, all filled with expectation and affirmation, and smiled and praised them back.
“I’ve known for a long time that Baojia and Chen Nian are both smart and capable, otherwise I wouldn’t have stayed home for so long and pushed everything onto you.
I just didn't expect you to do so well.
Keep up the good work in the future. As long as it’s beneficial to the shop, just do it with confidence!
Liu Ye is so diligent, but from now on, just clean the yard. The mats and mattresses in my room are too big and too heavy for you, so just take them out and dry them for me occasionally. Don't wash them anymore."
The room where he hid the treasure was open to everyone, just like the other rooms in the courtyard. No one would have thought that there was something buried under the bed if he did it openly. If he hid it, others would probably become suspicious.
These words made the three teenagers, who were obviously stronger, blush. Meng Sheng shook his head with amusement, took a look at the account book, checked the accounts, paid them wages and bonuses, and let them go home.
Meng Chao watched the entire process. When he saw the half-grown children leave the courtyard, he frowned and approached Meng Sheng and said, "You casually handed over such a large stall to a few people who haven't even grown their hair yet. They don't come back for ten days or half a month. Aren't you afraid of something happening?
Aren't you afraid they'll gang up on you?"
This is a business for money laundering, so Meng Sheng is certainly not afraid, but he can't say that.
He smiled and said to his elder brother: "What could happen?
Don't look at their small size, but each of them is a local resident. They may be more useful to ordinary thugs on the street than me guarding here.
As for cheating me, why should I be afraid? If they leave me, which boss would want them?
Why pay them such high salaries?"
Meng Chao felt that the fact that Meng Sheng was able to make a lot of money with the help of his few half-grown children and was not cheated to death was simply a blessing from his ancestors' graves.
He and his father used to go to the quarry to mine stones, sell fat pigs in the village to pay the public grain tax, and buy some things needed for the family at the market.
He has seen workers slacking off while working, encountered people collecting protection money when selling fat pigs, and even people who wanted to take things for free. He has also seen salespeople shortchanging people to make a profit when buying things. He has heard and seen all of this, not to mention paying public grain, and there are even more tricks involved.
But this made him more confident that he could make money.
Touching the two hundred and fifty yuan in his pocket, and looking at the darkening sky, Meng Chao didn't even bother to watch Meng Sheng count the money he had just received. He said impatiently, "Second brother, I'm going to go shopping in the city.
I guess you'll be back a little late, so you don't have to wait for me for dinner."
"Okay, take the key with you, otherwise you might not be able to get into the yard!" Meng Sheng continued counting the money and replied without raising his head.
As soon as Meng Chao walked out of the yard, the man quickly stood up, collected the money, and followed him out the door.
The destination was very clear, which was the snack street where I had come across Feng Yijia's house twice.
At this time, Feng Yijia was not thinking about eating. After booking a room in the guesthouse where he usually stayed to store his things, he was wandering around the street.
This time I saved up some medicinal herbs for half a month and sold them for nearly three hundred yuan.
She wanted to see the bicycle she had been longing for for a long time.
Don’t even think about the ones in state-owned stores. Without a bicycle ticket, it’s useless to look at them.
I can only look for private sellers of this thing, second-hand is also fine.
Unfortunately, I wandered around until dark and found nothing.
People nowadays are still not very courageous. Among private transactions, the largest proportion is low-cost, low-risk food and various daily necessities.
Meng Sheng didn't find anyone at the old place, so he went to the guesthouse to ask. He found out that the person had already come and booked a room, so he found a restaurant nearby to wait.
As time went by, I went from feeling relieved and expectant to feeling worried and anxious. I played out several scenes of women being murdered and disappearing in my mind before I saw someone appear in my sight.
I looked him up and down and felt relieved that he was fine.
After leaving the restaurant, I ran over and asked, "Where have you been?"
We have been waiting for you to eat for a long time!"
Feng Yijia really didn't expect Meng Sheng and the others to be waiting for him to eat. Upon hearing this, he replied a little embarrassedly, "I just looked around and thought about buying a bicycle to make it more convenient to go out of the mountain.
Just eat it yourself, why are you waiting for me?"
"If you want to buy a bicycle, come to me. I have several bicycle tickets lying around for free!"
Meng Sheng replied with the truth, and then lied without changing his expression: "We all came here together, just wanting to have dinner together.
But after waiting for a long time, you didn't show up, so the two of them ate some and went back.
I was afraid something might happen to you, so I've been waiting here!"
After saying that, he stepped forward to pull the person away: "Hurry up and leave, I ordered the food a long time ago, it will not taste good if you wait any longer!"
Feng Yijia was thinking about the steamed sea bass and rice crust pork that he had eaten last time, so he had been resisting the urge to buy something to fill his stomach and was already hungry.
He didn't refuse and just walked along with the person, and asked with concern: "What dishes did you order?"
Meng Sheng achieved his goal, and with a smile in his eyes, he replied: "Dongpo pork elbow, steamed lion's head, boiled pork slices, and a refreshing smashed cucumber."
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