Chapter 022 Partnership

"Dongzi, do we really have to listen to her and cooperate with her?"

"Think about it first, you should think about it too," Dongzi put away the cloth he had just received and picked up a bag of eggs that were temporarily placed on the ground, "Let's go back first."

"oh."

The two walked out of the alley and soon arrived at the bustling crowd. In such an environment, no one would sell things, and no one would do anything to them even if they had things in their hands.

Before I even walked out of the bustling street, I heard even busier noises coming from the front.

Out of curiosity, the two of them went over to take a look, but unexpectedly they saw a scene that made their pupils tremble.

"Dongzi...Dongzi..."

Dongzi covered Afeng's mouth with his hand: "Shut up, keep your voice down, do you want them to notice us?"

A Feng nodded repeatedly and signaled him with his eyes to let go of his hand.

Without waiting for him to ask any more questions, Dongzi led him out of the crowd.

Because of what happened over there, many people on this street came to see the excitement. After walking a few more steps, there were not many people around. Only then did Ah Feng have the opportunity to speak again: "They... they are not selling pigs over there? Didn't you say that they must have a background?"

Selling pigs is different from selling chickens. Raising dozens of chickens only requires a small area, but raising pigs requires a large area, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

The two were in the black market for a while, and in the early stage they mainly sold eggs, at most 20 to 30 eggs a day, and left after selling them all. But they also noticed the man selling pigs, and would occasionally talk to him. Both of them felt that the man selling pigs must have a very powerful background to dare to do so.

Who would have thought that at this moment I would see the scene of those pig sellers being arrested.

This made the two of them feel particularly uneasy, and when they looked at each other, they saw intent in each other's eyes.

You will really get caught if you sell things!

"I...we...let's not do it anymore," A Feng stuttered. "What if...what if something happens...what will happen to my dad? If...if we get caught, my grandma...will be furious."

Dongzi's face was also very unhappy. Although they had felt that they might be caught for selling things before, they were able to escape almost every time someone came to chase them. Over time, they became less afraid of being caught.

Having just seen someone being arrested, they began to feel scared.

"Let's go find her and cooperate with her," Dongzi said immediately. "Each egg is five cents, and we can still make some money. She is willing to help us sell them, and she is taking the risk. Let's go find her!"

"now?"

"Yes, go find her now and tell her we are willing to cooperate with her!"

That being said, the two walked around for a long time without seeing anyone, so they could only go home with regret. They didn't even dare to sell the bag of eggs in their hands, for fear that someone would target them and wait for them to take action.

At this moment, Tang Yuan actually did not return to the game space. She took a small bag of candy and found the little girl who helped her at the beginning.

When she found out that someone was watching the black market, she was worried that those people were there to catch people. She couldn't go in by herself and had no way to notify anyone, so she could only walk around thinking of a solution until she saw a group of children having fun and mentioned the black market.

Of course, the black market was not mentioned directly, but one of the children mentioned that his family did not allow him to open the window.

Based on the children's conversation, she knew that the window the child was talking about was the location of the black market.

She didn't go directly to the child, but found a little girl who was sitting by the door pasting matchboxes. The little girl, who looked only seven or eight years old, was pasting matchboxes very seriously, and it was obvious that her life would not be very good.

In addition, the way she carefully pastes each matchbox shows that she is a meticulous and careful person.

She found the other party and asked her to hand the stone wrapped with a note saying "go" to the person whose window faced the black market, and exchanged it for candy, so that the child did it.

The child ate the candy but was afraid of being blamed by his family, so he naturally kept it a secret.

In addition to this, she also learned the location of the dog hole, went to wait for the two men in advance, and led them to escape.

When we returned to the alley, the other children had gone to play somewhere else. Only the little girl who had been the messenger was still sitting at the door pasting matchboxes, and each time she made them neatly and steadily.

Tang Yuan appeared, and the little girl looked up: "Sister."

"Here," Tang Yuan gave the whole bag of candy to the little girl, "This is your reward."

The little girl took the whole bag of candy, squeezed it gently, and then looked at her in surprise: "So many."

"You did a great job. You deserve it." Tang Yuan raised his hand and rubbed the little girl's head. "I'm leaving now. We'll meet again in the future if we're lucky."

"Thank you, sister," the little girl said happily, "I will remember you all my life."

"I hope you will have better things to remember in the future, so I don't need that." Tang Yuan said with a smile, patted her head gently, turned around and left the alley.

The little girl watched her leave until she was far away, then she turned around, pushed the door open and went inside, waving at the skinny child huddled in the corner: "Sister, come quickly."

The child knelt down and walked to the door step by step. Just as he was about to ask something, something sweet was stuffed into his mouth.

"Sister, it's candy." The younger sister's eyes lit up.

"Yes, it's candy." My sister happily took out a candy for herself, and then wrapped up the whole bag of candy. "I'll go exchange the rest of the candy for something else to eat. You can go back."

"Yeah." My sister nodded obediently, and moved back step by step in the same way she came here.

It wasn't that she was in poor health, but the two sisters only had two tops and one pair of pants. The elder sister was sitting at the door pasting matchboxes, so she had to put on her top and pants, and the younger sister was left with only one top. She could only cover her whole body with her top and huddle in the corner.

After she went back and tucked it in, she felt the sweetness in her mouth and a happy smile appeared on her face.

My sister sat at the door, put down a bag of candy, and continued to paste the matchboxes.

On the other hand, after seeing the two sisters, Tang Yuan did not go to any busy places, but went straight to the "temporary residence" and planned to return to the game space.

She had already sold all the cloth she had today, and $12.50 was not a bad price, so there was no need to go out and take the risk.

As a result, she naturally missed the two people who were looking for her.

But even if she knew, she would not take the initiative to look for them. It is not good to rush into business. She felt that she was taking risks, and the two people felt that they had suffered losses, and they would eventually fall apart.

Unless one party deeply realizes that it is taking advantage, they can only cooperate well.

…

Dongzi and Afeng carried the eggs to the village. As soon as they arrived in the village, they went to the team leader's house.

The captain is Afeng's father. Because he has some family relationship with Dongzi's family and Dongzi did have difficulties in his early years, he turned a blind eye to his behavior.

Later, something happened to his family, and at first he had no intention of letting Afeng follow Dongzi, but as the family's money was running out and they were about to have no money to buy medicine, he reluctantly agreed.

The worst that could happen is that he would be arrested and lose his position as captain, which is better than watching his loved ones die.

The captain's house was not small, but it was still made of adobe. The three of them sat on the kang in the adobe house and talked.

The experienced captain immediately noticed something was wrong with the two men: "What's wrong with you two? Why are you both so depressed?"

"Dad, we've run into trouble," Ah Feng said in a low voice, explaining the whole story. "We tried to find her before we came back, but we couldn't find her. But we've agreed to meet in three days."

The captain frowned, took a puff of tobacco, and exhaled: "So you guys are still planning to continue?"

"Dad, you...you don't agree?"

"You have seen today the risks of continuing this. Others will be arrested, and you will be arrested too. Even if you hand everything over to that girl, the risk is still not small," the captain tapped the cigarette holder. "You have earned a lot in the past two years. Even if you do some work in the village and earn some work points, you can still make a living."

"But..." Afeng looked at Dongzi.

"Dongzi, what do you think?" The captain had always made decisions about their affairs. His son was just a helper and had no opinion at all. "You have made a lot of money in the past two years. Even if you stop now, it won't be a loss."

"Uncle, take a look at this," Dongzi did not answer directly, but opened the things he had brought back along the way, "These two pieces of cloth, a total of thirty feet, cost twelve and a half yuan. Afeng said that he wanted to be filial to grandma and let her wear new clothes before she passed away."

The captain's hand holding the pipe trembled, and his cracked and dark hand fell on the cloth, but finally did not fall.

"It's my fault that I'm unfilial..." the captain sighed.

The old lady took medicine for a year and managed to hold on for a year, but now she is still not in good condition and may die at any time. This is what he thought, so he hopes his son will stop.

But when he saw the cloth, he knew he couldn't say anything more.

Seeing the captain's hesitation, Dongzi continued, "Uncle, she is actually smarter than us. If she hadn't asked someone to remind us today, we might have been arrested now. It's better to let her sell it than for us to sell it ourselves, except that the price is cheaper."

"The price is so cheap, but the risk is not small," the captain frowned and looked at the two people, "Besides, after what happened today, do you two still dare to go to the black market?"

Both of them lowered their heads.

They were really scared today. They didn't expect that someone would actually be arrested, and they didn't know how many years they would be sentenced to after being arrested.

"Five cents is not cheap. Someone will help you transfer, and you can concentrate on working in the fields," the captain looked at the two people, "someone in the village has been eyeing you for the past two months. If you go out to the black market like before, even if the black market doesn't care, someone in the village will report you. I was planning to talk to you today, and now that this has happened, it's just right to deal with it all at once."

"Who is staring at us?" Dongzi looked up and asked angrily.

"Why, you still want to make trouble?" The captain knocked on his cigarette holder, "Who has the problem?"

Dongzi lowered his head with a guilty conscience: "It's better to be more stable. Go out less in the future. If we give it to her, we can just hand the things to her and come back, and we can still work in the fields."

The captain looked at his son.

Ah Feng nodded: "I'll listen to Dongzi."

Really have no opinion at all.

The captain glared at him and started to drive them away: "Okay, you guys go out now. Leave the fabric behind. There is enough fabric to make clothes. Dongzi, leave your fabric too. Let your aunt make two sets of clothes for you."

"Okay, then I'll go and thank Auntie." Dongzi said with a smile.