Zhou Yiding dropped off the satisfied villagers in the grove. When the two of them got home, the old man and Zhou's father came out to greet them. The old man gently stroked the brand new four-wheel tractor, smiling from ear to ear.
Although this tractor was bought with money pooled from everyone's shares, most of the money was paid by the children in the family.
When I think about how I can afford a small four-wheeled vehicle that costs several thousand yuan, and how my children can buy several pieces of land that cost several thousand yuan each, I sometimes feel like I am dreaming.
Zhou Jiaming, Zhou Jialiang, and Zhou Jiakang climbed up quickly on the tires, stood on the truck bed and looked out of the village. "It's so comfortable. We can see so far from here!"
Zhou Xiaoqian and her sisters also climbed up. Zhou Xiaolin climbed on tiptoe for a few times, but couldn't even get on the wheel. She anxiously pulled Zhou Huaian and said, "Dad, I want to go up and ride in the car too."
Zhou Huaian picked her up and said to Zhou Jiaming, "Pull your sister up."
"Oh oh!" Several children pulled her up and stood on it one by one, looking as proud as generals who had won a battle.
Zhou Jiakang put his hands on his waist and said proudly: "Brother, such a big tractor doesn't even have a square field!"
Zhou Jialiang also looked proud, "Of course, I heard from my father and grandfather that four-wheel tractors are hard to buy even in the county, so this one was bought by a big boss in the provincial capital and brought back with a big Dongfeng."
After hearing this, Zhou Jiakang recalled the last time he climbed a Dongfeng. "The Dongfeng last time was taller and bigger. When will my father ask his boss to buy a Dongfeng in the provincial capital?"
Zhou Xiaoqian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Dad just bought a four-wheel tractor and has run out of money. It will probably be around next year!"
Zhou Jiakang corrected her, "Sister, it wasn't bought by my father. It was bought by a boss in the provincial capital."
Zhou Xiaoqian rolled her eyes at him and said, "Yes, the boss bought it."
Several children were talking animatedly up there. Zhou Yiding and Zhou Huaian accompanied the elders to take a look around. "Second Grandpa, Second Dad, Second Mom, get on up there and I'll take you for a run."
The old man waved his hands repeatedly, "No, we need to burn oil. When you come to the city next time, we can just take a ride once."
Zhou's father also said: "Diesel is very expensive, we ride the same one all the time." Thinking that those few barrels of oil would cost a lot of money, they felt that every time they started the tractor, they were burning money.
Zhou Huairong asked Zhou Huaian worriedly, "Has the Fang family's purchase price come out?"
Zhou Huaian: "They came out, they are just like us..."
Zhao Huifang frowned after hearing this and said, "Chunyan said Xiaoxue said that day that they only accept 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade tickets, not special or last grade tickets!"
Zhou Huaian: "Maybe they made adjustments after asking around."
Zhou Huairong and his friends felt relieved when they heard that the purchase price was the same. "It's easy if the price is the same. It depends on which company those people are willing to sell it to."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "I'm afraid it will be like what happened when I bought yellow eels before. You raised the price by five cents, and I raised it by ten cents. We kept raising the price back and forth, and in the end, there was no profit at all."
Zhou Yiding: "Now we are the only two companies receiving goods. It would be foolish to start a price war, unless they don't want to make money."
Yang Chunyan came out of the yard holding the child and said to Zhou Huaian, "Secretary Xu and Uncle Datian came here and said they will go to the purchasing point tomorrow and deliver the share money in the afternoon."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Huairong and the others, "We collected the money this afternoon and evenly distributed it to several locations. Yiding and I will send you to the purchasing locations tomorrow. You can start work after you pack up."
Zhou Huairong nodded and said, "Let's go back and clean up the house first." After they left, the burden on the shoulders of the elderly became heavier. There were several pigs, chickens and ducks in the house, and they all had to rely on the help of the elderly to take care of them.
The brothers went back to pack their things. Zhou Yiding handed the bag he was carrying to Zhou Huaian, "Put it away. I won't bring it back this afternoon."
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment and said, "I'd better take it back first. Then Uncle Xu and the others can bring it to me this afternoon!"
Zhou Yiding put on his bag after hearing this and said, "Okay! I'll go back first."
Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan went back and untied their waist bags. "I kept 10,000 yuan as a share, and saved the rest. It was not in vain to wait for more than half a month. The price of Coriolus versicolor has risen to the previous price, and the price of Ganoderma lucidum has increased by ten yuan per catty.
Yi Ding got 1900 yuan from the money we earned this time, and we made a net profit of more than 17000 yuan. Li Wu and Lao Xu followed us in fear, so I thought I would give them a red envelope of 200 yuan each in addition to their wages. What do you think?"
"Okay, I'll put the money away and get you the red paper." Yang Chunyan put the purse away, took out two pieces of red paper from the drawer, counted the money and started to wrap the red envelopes.
Zhou Huaian lay on the bed with his head in his arms, "I'm going to be busy again starting the day after tomorrow. My brother and the others are gone this time, and I'm worried that you're exhausted."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "They left. We invited more people this time than last year!"
"Outsiders are not as caring as family members!" Zhou Huaian said, "Mina and the others haven't had their holiday yet. Will they go up the mountain this time?"
"The three siblings came this morning. The two sisters asked for a month's leave from their teacher in order to go up the mountain to dig truffles. They also promised the teacher that their final exam results would not drop. Sometimes we are not even as good as these three children."
Zhou Huaian thought of his past self and Cai Ermei, "There are many people who are not as good as these three children."
"That's right, many people are not as good as them." Yang Chunyan handed him the red envelope, "Okay, send it quickly and come back for dinner."
Zhou Huaian took the red envelope and put it in his pocket, then he smiled and stretched out his hand to her, "I can't get up, help me!"
"Lazy dog!" Yang Chunyan stretched out her hand in a scolding tone, but he pulled her over and threw her body on top of her. She slapped him with a red face, "You're acting weird again in broad daylight! Mom will see you later."
Zhou Huaian hugged her, tilted his head back and kissed her, "I just want to hug you, I won't do anything else."
Yang Chunyan felt his voice was a little strange, so she stood up and looked at him worriedly, "What's wrong with you? Are you too tired?"
"Not tired!" Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smirk, "If you don't believe me, try to see if I'm tired or not?"
"I don't want to bother with you!" Yang Chunyan pushed him away and sat up, "Hurry up and give the red envelope!"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian stood up and put on his coat. "Let's go and give the money!"
When Zhou's mother saw him pushing his bicycle and leaving, she shouted, "Youngest, it's almost time for dinner, where are you going?"
"I'll be back soon." Zhou Huaian got on his bike and was about to leave. Xiao Jiuer cried and reached out to him for a hug.
Mother Zhou hurriedly carried him to the kitchen, "Yaoyao, don't go. The wind is very strong. If you are exposed to the cold wind, you will have a stomachache later."
Not long after lunch, Secretary Xu and Zhou Datian brought this year's share money.
The two men looked at the newly purchased four-wheel tractor outside the yard for a while before entering the yard.
After Zhou Huaian welcomed the two men in and sat them down, he asked Yang Chunyan to call Zhou Huairong and Zhou Yiding and others, and everyone handed him the money that had been prepared long ago.
There are more acquisition points this season than before. Zhou Huaian set a share capital of 2,500 yuan per share, plus 5,000 yuan remitted from the provincial capital, a total of 30,000 yuan in start-up capital.
The money for buying a four-wheel tractor and building a new oven had already been shared by everyone, so there was no need to pay this time.
After Zhou Huaian collected the money, he recorded it in the account and distributed the money. "This time, the total start-up capital is 30,000 yuan. Each of the six purchasing points will get 5,000 yuan. Take it."
Several people took the money and put it in their bags. Secretary Xu asked, "Youngest, did you find out where the company that just came to has another purchasing point besides Fangtian's purchasing point?"
Zhou Huaian: "My eldest brother-in-law sent a letter saying that they have set up one in Hengshan and one in Pulin Town. Both points are located opposite my eldest brother-in-law's purchasing point."
Zhou Datian shook his head after hearing this and said, "From this point of view, this family is a bit dishonest!"
Zhou Huaian nodded and said to Secretary Xu and Zhou Datian, "I originally thought they would go to your two locations, but I didn't expect them to choose Hengshan and Pulin as the purchasing locations. This will make things more difficult for my brother-in-law, since his sources of goods are all along that line."
Secretary Xu: "In fact, I also thought they would go to the flower market, because this time when I went there to collect red mushrooms, I heard from villagers from Yunnan Province who came to sell red mushrooms that there were also a lot of truffles there. It seems that they did not do enough preparation before coming."
Zhou Huaian: "Wang Zhen and I guess that these preparations may be done by Dr. Fang from the pharmacy. They may not know where the truffles are more abundant."
Zhou Yiding said with disgust, "That guy from the big pharmacy is the same. He doesn't want to go to a place with more supplies, but insists on competing with me for business here! These bastards are here just to disgust us."
Secretary Xu smiled and shook his head. "Yiding, Fang Sihai's character is not very good. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. In the end, they will definitely not disgust us, but only those people in the provincial capital."
Before coming here, he and Zhou Datian went to Fangtian to take a look for a while. People gradually went to Fang Sihai's house to check their purchase price.
From what those people said, Fang Sihai's family and Zhou Laoyao's family offered the same price. It would be better to sell it to Zhou's family than to Fang's family. At least the people in his family had better character than him.
The most important thing is that last year they sold truffles and this year they sold red mushrooms, and their scales never failed.
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "Uncle Xu is right, let's wait and see the show!"
Next, everyone discussed what to do tomorrow.
Zhou Datian said, "Secretary Xu has to pass by me when he goes to the flower market. Huai Qing and I will go with the old couple tomorrow and ride on Xu Laosan's tractor."
Zhou Huaian: "Okay, my brother and the others will be escorted over by Yiding and I."
After the arrangements were made, everyone discussed some issues and then prepared to go home and prepare.
Zhou Huaian stood up and put his hand in the middle of the eight-immortal table, smiling at everyone, "Work will start the day after tomorrow, everyone should work together and strive to have a prosperous new year by the end of the year!"
Zhou Yiding was the first to understand and immediately put his hand up, followed by Secretary Xu, Zhou Datian, and Zhou Huairong. Finally, everyone said in unison: "Work hard and have a great year." (End of this chapter)
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