Chapter 142 141: Unfriendly Eyes
"It's best if you have it, so I don't have to buy it from a vendor." Huang Yongcai said with disgust, "You don't know, after I buy the chickens sold by those chicken vendors and kill them, the chicken feed in the chicken's stomach weighs a pound!"
Zhou Huaian looked at him in surprise, "A pound of chicken feed? How can a chicken eat it?"
Huang Yongcai curled his lips, "Just open your mouth and stuff the konjac tofu in! That stuff is very heavy!"
"This is too unethical!" Zhou Huaian shook his head repeatedly, "Brother Huang, don't worry, our family will never use that kind of thing to deceive people."
Huang Yongcai smiled and patted his shoulder, "Don't you still believe it?"
Zhou Huaian patted his chest and said, "Of course, you can rest assured that I will do the job. I will never let Brother Huang suffer any loss!"
As they were talking, they had already reached a fork in the road. Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "Brother Huang, I'll go to the Second Hotel first to deliver the yellow eel to Brother He."
Huang Yongcai waved his hand, "Go ahead! I'm going to buy groceries too."
"Yes, Brother Huang, take care!"
Zhou Huaian went straight to the Second Hotel, delivered the goods to several canteens, and then went back to the vegetable market without stopping, got the money for the eels, and then returned to Deshengtang.
When they went to the backyard, they saw Wang Zhen weighing someone. After the two greeted each other, Zhou Huaian stepped forward to help Wang Zhen weigh the item.
The man who came to sell medicine today was a man in his fifties. The medicine he sold included Bletilla striata, Achyranthes bidentata, Polygonatum sibiricum, some Plantain, Cistanche deserticola, and Polygonum multiflorum.
Zhou Huaian found that the herb called Bletilla striata was quite expensive, with wet goods selling for more than two yuan per pound. He thought about asking Chunyan to take him to the mountains to look for more of this thing when he returned.
After Wang Zhen paid the money, he pointed to the half-new 28-inch truck painted in postal green parked against the wall on the steps and said, "Brother Zhou, take a look. Are you satisfied?"
Zhou Huaian walked forward and touched the handlebars, then touched everywhere else, unable to let go. "Thank you, Dr. Wang, it's great, I love it so much! Didn't you say they were selling a used car? How come it's still so new?"
He thought that the old car that was discarded should be just like the broken car that Ma Changgui rode, missing some things.
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "Old cars can be good or bad. Some have broken seats, bells, or locks, and they cost 60 or 70 yuan. I thought I only needed 20 yuan, so I picked one that looked better."
"Thank you, thank you!" Zhou Huaian thanked him repeatedly and looked at Wang Zhen with a smile, "I'll give you the money."
Wang Zhen took out a receipt and a list from his pocket and handed them to him. "The car is 90 yuan, and the medicine is 35 yuan in total. You just need to give me another 55 yuan. Also, I asked the person who bought the steel bars for you. He asked you how much you want per ton."
Zhou Huaian gave Wang Zhen the money, looked at him and said, "I've never sold this before, and I don't know how much it should be sold for. Doctor Wang, do you know?"
"I asked around and found out that those with quotas are selling for 700 yuan a ton, while those without quotas are selling for 950 yuan a ton. You have to wait for the stock to be available before you can buy it."
Zhou Huaian looked at him with shining eyes after hearing this, "I have a quota of 10 tons. If I sell it, will there be a price difference of 250 yuan per ton?"
"Yes!" Wang Zhen looked at him with a smile, "How much do you plan to sell the indicators for per ton?"
"I'll sell it at the price you mentioned. The difference in price for 10 tons of steel bars is only 2,500 yuan. Will the person you found buy it?"
"They should want it. They are in a hurry to get it!"
"They? Yes, one person definitely can't eat such expensive food!" He made 250 yuan per ton, and 10 tons would be 2,500 yuan. When Zhou Huaian calculated this, his heart beat faster.
He suddenly felt that the Xu family deliberately gave the quota to their family just to let them make a profit.
"Some brothers on South Street are renovating their house, and they want to buy it."
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and said, "I can sell it at the price you mentioned, but I want to keep 500 kilograms for myself."
"Okay, then I'll take you there and we can talk face to face."
Zhou Huaian nodded, and the two of them went out together to say hello to Dr. Wang, then walked towards South Street.
About half an hour later, Wang Zhen took him to a courtyard house. "That's their old house. Their surname is Li. The owner of this house is Li Guanghua. His son and I are classmates."
Zhou Huaian poked his head out and glanced at the yard. "It's still covered with tiles. It would be a shame to tear it down."
"Their yard faces the street, so the brothers borrowed some money and wanted to build a two-story building, and turn the lower floor into a storefront so they can do some small business."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian followed him into the yard.
The two walked into the yard, and a tall, thin man who looked to be in his forties came out of the house. Seeing Wang Zhen, he smiled and said, "How come you have time to come here at this time today?"
"I'm here to run errands." Wang Zhen pointed at Zhou Huaian and said, "Uncle Li, this is Brother Zhou who sells quotas!"
"Oh!" Li Guanghua smiled and led the two to the main hall, "Please come in and have a seat. I'll go call Lao Er and the others."
"Uncle Li, go get someone, I'll call Brother Zhou."
Zhou Huaian and Wang Zhen sat in the house for about two minutes before Li Guanghua and four other men came in. After a few words, the two families agreed to the price Wang Zhen had agreed on.
It was also agreed that after the Li family went to Huacheng to buy the steel bars, they would send 500 kilograms to Deshengtang.
Zhou Huaian and Wang Zhen sat in Li's house for a while, waiting for Li Guanghua to get the money. The two handed over the money with one hand and the indicators with the other.
Zhou Huaian borrowed a place to put the money into the purse, tied it up, and then calmed his heart which was pounding with excitement. He left the Li family with Wang Zhen, and followed him back to Deshengtang like a wandering soul.
Wang Zhen looked at him, a little worried about how he could walk such a long distance by himself. "Brother Zhou, you have to be more natural. If you hadn't followed me just now, three hands would have been on you."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian rubbed his hot face, took a deep breath and looked at Wang Zhen, "Am I feeling better now?" The money was a bit too much and it came too easily. He still feels like he is dreaming and a bit floating!
"If you come with me, people will think you have some serious illness, otherwise..." Wang Zhen said, looking at the purse tied around his waist, "If you go out and are spotted by some scoundrels on the street, and a group of them follow you and rob you, even a tiger can't stand up to a pack of wolves!"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian thought about it and felt more and more unsafe. "Doctor Xiao Wang, I am also worried that it would be uneconomical if one person carries so much money back home and something happens on the way. Can I leave the money and the bicycle with you first and come back to pick them up in two days?"
Wang Zhen nodded readily, "Okay!"
Zhou Huaian untied the purse and handed it to Wang Zhen, "Thank you for your help, Doctor Wang. I'm going to the hospital to see my third dad first, and then I'll come back to push the chicken bus."
"It's just a small favor, it's no big deal." Wang Zhen said and walked into the house with the purse.
Zhou Huaian weighed two kilograms of egg cakes, put half of them in a bamboo basket, and took the rest to the Chinese medicine hospital across the street. Seeing that Zhou Dahe was in much better spirits than the day before, he sat down and exchanged a few words, then said goodbye and pushed the chicken cart to Caishi Street to buy a piece of meat before walking back.
When he was about to reach the second intersection, he always felt that someone was staring at him with ill intentions from behind.
He took a few quick steps, turned back suddenly, and saw only a few passers-by. The feeling he had just had was gone.
(End of this chapter)
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