Chapter 91 Suitable for Hairband

"Xiaoyuan, your father said he would not come back."

"Not coming back?" Tang Yuan looked up blankly at Aunt Qian standing in front of her, "Didn't he say that he would stay at home to take care of grandma for 16 months?"

Although she asked this question, she had a guess in her mind.

Nowadays, no one would give up a job for no reason. If someone did, it must be because of a bigger temptation. Tang Jianguo had been looking forward to coming back, but he suddenly chose not to come back at this time. It was probably because the textbooks and messages she sent back made his heart beat.

Sure enough, after a slightly awkward expression, Aunt Qian said in a soothing tone, "The news from the Liu family is that your father plans to stay at home to prepare for the college entrance examination, so... he should be suspended from work at the factory without pay."

It was just a suspension without pay. Tang Yuan thought that the factory would fire him after hearing the news about Tang Jianguo. However, with the Liu family's connections here, the factory would show him some mercy.

Thinking about this, Tang Yuan's expression changed, with a bit of excitement in his eyes: "My dad is so amazing that he can actually take the college entrance examination. If he passes, won't I have a dad who is a college student?"

Aunt Qian listened and her expression changed again.

The people nearby also heard her words and came over to ask, "Do you trust your father so much?"

"I just heard that college students are very good," Tang Yuan prepared himself and stood firmly on his father's side. "I really hope he can study hard and get into college."

“You really are…”

"Oh, you don't need to tell Xiaoyuan this, she can't make the decision," someone else came over while eating sunflower seeds, "If Xiaoyuan could keep her word, she wouldn't have been left at home for more than ten years. Tang Jianguo and Liu Hongmei are not very clear-headed. If they want to take the exam, then let them take it. They will regret it if they fail in the end."

"That's right, what can Xiaoyuan say? She doesn't understand anything." Another person came over. "Anyway, Xiaoyuan has a job now and can support herself. She doesn't have to rely on that couple. If things are delayed, it's their business and has nothing to do with Xiaoyuan."

"Yes, yes, I was distracted," Aunt Qian came back to her senses, "Xiao Yuan, don't bother with me, I just have nothing to say."

"I don't understand. My dad can decide what he wants to do," Tang Yuan said, and then talked about another thing, "Aunties, do you want cotton? My friend has some cotton..."

Before she finished speaking, the people around her nodded one after another: "Yes, yes, yes."

"Your friend is amazing. He actually has cotton in his hand."

"Is it the friend who gave you the cotton cloth?"

Although Tang Yuan stayed in the boiler room all the time, he actually did not bring much. He wanted to ask the ladies in the boiler room to do something several times, but thinking of all the news that the machinery factory could not hide, he gave up the idea.

Now that more than a year has passed since we returned with the cloth, it's still a good time to bring back some cotton.

In this matter, she is just a "middleman" and nothing will happen to her.

After a year of upgrades in the game space, the scale of the planting area is now much larger than before. Each upgrade now requires more and more gold coins, but it also causes qualitative changes through quantitative changes. In addition, she has deliberately planted cotton during this period, and now has 800 kilograms of stock.

At that time, the demand for cotton was great, especially in the Northeast. The 800 kilograms of cotton in her hands fell into the market, just like the batch of high school textbooks before, they were just pebbles falling into the lake.

All the people in the boiler room asked for a total of 50 kilograms of cotton. The four of them, the father-in-law and the aunt, asked for more than 20 kilograms. Shen Wenyu and the second aunt asked among their relatives and friends and also took more than 50 kilograms of cotton.

With more than 600 kilograms of cotton left, she went directly to Aunt Cao.

Aunt Cao's cooperation with her has always been smooth. In addition to the gossip groups around her, there are also all kinds of people that her son and daughter-in-law met at the train station.

Everyone knows that people who work at the railway station have extensive connections. Not only does she think so, but others also think so. She sells things through people at the station, and naturally there are people who buy things from people at the station.

In addition, everyone is preparing for the college entrance examination during this period and needs a sufficiently warm environment. Many frugal families have taken out their savings in the hope of providing their children with better conditions for preparing for the exam.

We need cotton and food.

"My son said that the station was doing well in the past few years, and bacon was distributed almost every year. But this year, there is none. No matter how much money is given, bacon is not distributed," Aunt Cao gossiped to Tang Yuan in a low voice. "He said that the market is in a rush for meat, and the meat tickets on the black market have risen to a high price."

"There is also a black market?" Tang Yuan was surprised.

Aunt Cao glanced at her.

Tang Yuan chuckled: "I have connections, so let's just do business this way. We won't expand outwards, and safety is the priority. But the black market at this time is just exchanging some bills privately, right?"

"You don't know about the black market, but you know this?" Now it was Aunt Cao's turn to be surprised.

Tang Yuan thought that all the people selling meat and eggs in the black market nearby were around her. After Guo Weiqiang and Liu Zhiqiang got into trouble, the rest of the people who had divided their property withdrew one after another, leaving only Zhao Zhiqiang still working.

And if the pork from Zhao Zhiqiang is really going to flow out, it will most likely go through her hands.

This was even more true for eggs. Ever since Sun Dong hooked up with her, he had never sold eggs on the black market again. In his words, although the eggs earned her less, they were safer. Not only had he made a lot of money in the past year, he also ate well, slept well, and gained several pounds.

What's more, Sun Dong may not have earned less. If the extra eggs laid every winter are taken into account, the money he earns in a year is still about the same as in previous years.

Faced with such a comparison, even a fool would know what to choose.

However, the pigs that Zhao Zhiqiang has raised for a year are now ready to be shipped out. He raised a few more pigs this year, so there is a lot of pork. If someone wants it now, he can take this opportunity to sell some.

Thinking of this, she told Sun Dong about this idea when she met him again.

Sun Dong nodded quickly and said that he had discussed it with Zhao Zhiqiang, and the two of them also thought that it would be more appropriate to sell pork at this time. After returning, they quickly killed a pig.

On Tang Yuan's side, he also found some trustworthy families through Aunt Cao, who had college entrance examination candidates and some financial resources. He collected money on the pretext of "helping to look for the child" and then Tang Yuan delivered the pork to their homes.

In this way, Tang Yuan, who came to the door, did not accept the money on the spot, and Aunt Cao, who accepted the money, did not give anything, thus avoiding the risk very well.

However, the two were still cautious. They would not approach those people who were not very reliable in their daily dealings, even if they wanted to buy pork. It was already a high-risk business, and with high-risk people involved, it was clear that it was heading for losses.

The two parties cooperated in this way and soon sold a pig.

For Tang Yuan, this business was not as profitable as selling cotton, but he did make a lot of scraps. The pork bones and offal left over from selling the pork could all be shared. When combined with the money from selling the pork, it was not a small amount at that time.

During this process, Sun Dong and Zhao Zhiqiang killed the second pig. Before Tang Yuan could continue looking for people, Aunt Cao brought good news, saying that someone from her son's side had asked him for it.

After confirmation, the person who wanted the pork was the same person who had previously spent a thousand dollars to buy the watch, which provided a basic level of protection.

However, Tang Yuan still kept it in mind. After making an agreement with the other party, he found Sun Dong and asked him to deliver the pork to the vicinity of the railway station in the early morning so that the other party could find someone to take it away.

This way, the people collecting the money and delivering the pork are not the same group of people.

The transaction of the second pig was completed. Tang Yuan waited for a few days and did not hear any bad news before he moved on to the third pig.

At this time, the first group of people who bought pork had already finished eating, so this group of people just caught up with them. They made money here, and got pork that they couldn’t buy without tickets. It was the best of both worlds.

During this process, Tang Yuan also learned from Aunt Cao's son about the situation of buying pork from him. The other party did not sell it in large quantities after buying it back. Several families distributed hundreds of kilograms of pork, not only to take care of the children who were taking the college entrance examination, but also to stock up on New Year's goods.

Anyway, the weather is cold now, so the pork can be stored.

In this way, there will naturally be no risk.

There was still a month before the college entrance examination. Zhao Zhiqiang slaughtered another pig, but Tang Yuan was not in a hurry to sell it and still asked Sun Feng's mother to make it into bacon.

Compared to pork, she can make more money selling bacon, so she starts making it now, just in time for the Chinese New Year to sell a batch.

During this process, she sold the cotton on hand bit by bit, at 1.5 yuan per pound. In less than a month, she had sold all 800 pounds and earned 1,200 yuan.

With her RMB savings increasing again, she relaxed a little about the tea purchasing business next year. The money she had saved during this period was enough for her to purchase one season of tea, even if the amount was twice as much as this year.

In the afternoon, after delivering five pounds of pork, she returned to her residence, looked at the coal stove in the middle of the road, took the teapot on it, added new coal to it to keep it hot, and continued to add water to the kettle.

The weather is cold in the Northeast. If you open the kettle for a while, the water temperature will drop quickly. There is no hot water kettle in the house. If you want to drink hot water at any time, you have to keep it boiling.

After changing the coal cakes, she went into the house, closed the door, and walked through the game space toward Xiangjiang.

When you go out, carry a large bag of small wallets that you have prepared in advance.

When we arrived at the nearby market, we soon saw Zheng Man who had been waiting there since early morning. There were three bags of rags next to her bicycle. The two of us had agreed that whoever had time would go to the garment factory to buy rags. Zheng Man had more time to run around, so sometimes she could bring back rags from farther garment factories on the way.

The two of them completed the handover. Before Tang Yuan said he was leaving, Zheng Man spoke first: "Take a look at this thing and see if you can sell it. My sister was a little bored at home, so she made this using your scraps of cloth."

Tang Yuan lowered his head, saw what was in Zheng Man's hand, and subconsciously patted his head.

I have been thinking about recycling waste materials recently, and I was thinking about other things. How come I forgot about hair ties? Aren’t scraps of fabric the most suitable for making hair ties?

"I'm so sorry." Zheng Man said in a low voice.

"No, don't be embarrassed, this gave me an idea," Tang Yuan said immediately, "Can you sell these things by the way?"

"Is it okay?" Zheng Man raised her head.

"Sure, but your sister can only make a few by herself, and the materials you bring back may not be suitable for making headwear," Tang Yuan said, and quickly thought of a solution. "How about this? I'll buy a batch of suitable materials, and you can take them back and give them to your sister to make. Then I'll find someone else to make another batch, and you can sell them. The materials you give to your sister can be considered as gifts to her. When she makes the products and earns the money, let her take the flowers herself, and we'll settle the bill separately. Is that okay?"

"This is taking advantage of you." Zheng Man hesitated.

"You know that scraps of fabric are worthless, and your sister probably can't make much either," Tang Yuan said, his eyes rolling. "How about this, you do something else to make up for it. When you go out, check if there are any factories that make rubber bands that are suitable for making hair ties. We can directly wholesale rubber bands to make hair ties. In exchange for this, I can provide your sister with a batch of scraps of fabric that are suitable for making hair ties from time to time. Is that okay?"

Zheng Man wanted to say something, but Tang Yuan looked at her and said, "Or do you think it's too much trouble to go out and look for a factory?"

"No trouble," Zheng Man immediately shook her head, looked into Tang Yuan's eyes, and nodded, "Okay, then I'll thank you on behalf of my sister. She's bored at home alone. If she can make money, she won't have to go out to set up a stall, and she'll feel more at ease."

Although she had always wanted to wait for her sister to recover and let her set up a stall out, she still felt uneasy. Now that there was a second option, she would definitely choose the safer and more secure path.

"It's settled then." Tang Yuan held out his hand.

Zheng Man raised her hand and high-fived her: "It's really right to cooperate with you!"