Instead of driving back to the brigade, Lu Yuan took a pheasant to the agricultural machinery station and borrowed a truck from Zhang Hongxi again.
He planned to deliver Monkey Three and Big Pancake Brother's goods there, and also pick up a truckload of goods to take back to the brigade.
The commune's supply and marketing cooperative provided them with a limited quantity of goods, and many varieties were also lacking. He planned to replenish the supplies himself.
For example, they were only given fruit candies, not White Rabbit milk candies. They also didn't have cigarettes, alcohol, tea, stationery, supplies, medicine, or other similar items.
There are quite a few of these wives in the space. Some can be taken out and sold in bulk after the packaging is removed, while others have packaging similar to that of this era and can be taken out directly.
He left the jeep at the agricultural machinery station and drove the truck to the county town.
They prepared a truckload of supplies for Monkey Three and Big Pancake Brother, and earned back 40,000 to 50,000 yuan and a bunch of receipts, plus Monkey Three's 20,000 yuan IOU.
After glancing at the receipts, I found receipts for large items such as bicycles, radios, and sewing machines. I decided to go directly to the county supply and marketing cooperative to exchange them for the items, since the commune's supply and marketing cooperative hadn't allocated such large items to their brigade.
However, it's already late today, so I'll have to go to the county supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow.
They found a secluded spot and took the truck into the space.
Inside the space, Wen Moxue was already waiting.
When he threw the money he earned from Monkey Three and Big Pancake Brother into his space, Wen Moxue sensed it. That night, after returning to her room and locking the door, she took her three children into the space.
As soon as Lu Yuan entered the space, he saw his wife sitting on the ground counting money and sorting out receipts, Da Bao sitting cross-legged by the fountain as usual practicing his kung fu, and Da Bao and Er Bao playing with a group of wolf cubs and tiger cubs.
He sat down behind Wen Moxue and wrapped his arms around her from behind, saying, "Wife, I'm here."
Wen Moxue glanced at him sideways and lightly patted his hand wrapped around her waist. "Being interrupted like that, I forgot where I was counting."
"It's okay, we'll count them slowly."
Lu Yuan nuzzled her ear.
Wen Moxue was ticklish and instinctively shrank her neck. "Ouch, stop it, it tickles, hee hee..."
Since the three children were still awake, Lu Yuan didn't dare to go too far and stopped his next move.
"Wife, let's count together."
Actually, there's no need to count the money. Monkey Three and Big Pancake Brother wouldn't dare to take advantage of him and not pay him enough. What the two of them should mainly do is sort out the receipts.
There were hundreds of receipts, all kinds of receipts.
Lu Yuan said, "Tomorrow I will spend all these receipts in the county and city, exchange them all for goods, keep the ones we need, and take the rest to the brigade's supply and marketing cooperative."
"Is it being sold at the original price?" Wen Muxue asked.
"I never intended to make money off everyone. If there are tickets, I'll sell them at the original price; if there aren't, I'll add a little extra."
The main purpose of setting up this supply and marketing cooperative was to make things convenient for the people in the brigade. He never thought about making much profit from it. Besides, he had plenty of ways to make money, and he really didn't care about the small profits from the supply and marketing cooperative.
After sorting out the money and tickets, the two went to sort out a lot of goods, including 300 catties each of rapeseed oil and soybean oil, as well as a lot of seasonings such as salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.
There are also bulk liquor, candies and pastries, and dried vegetables such as wood ear mushrooms, but the most common items are dried vermicelli and rice noodles.
In addition, there are daily necessities such as fabrics, towels, soap, laundry detergent, candles, toilet paper, etc.
Finally, there were some stationery and medicines.
The couple worked hard and ended up filling the car to almost full.
If it weren't for the fact that they still had some goods to buy tomorrow and needed space to load them, the two of them could probably have filled the car to the brim.
Lu Yuan rested in the space for one night, and drove to the city early the next morning.
Then he went to several supply and marketing cooperatives in the city, spending almost all of his coupons. The remaining coupons were also used up when he returned to the county.
At this point, the truck was finally fully loaded.
In addition to a lot of extra small items, there were also two old-fashioned bicycles, a sewing machine, two radios, and watches, one for men and one for women.
The large items weren't limited to what was on the vehicle; there were also three bicycles, two sewing machines, two radios, and a men's watch stored in the storage space, ready to be replenished at any time.
Lu Yuan was busy all day and it was already evening when he returned to the Changhe Brigade. He delivered the truckload of goods to the brigade's supply and marketing cooperative the next day.
Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan couldn't stop smiling as they looked at the truckload of supplies.
Now their brigade's supply and marketing cooperative probably has a more abundant and complete selection of goods than the commune's supply and marketing cooperative.
Hong Xia registered and put the items into the warehouse one by one, feeling shocked. Lu Yuan was really capable, managing to get such a large truckload of supplies.
She knew that this truckload of supplies was obtained by Lu Yuan through his own efforts, and these things had to be accounted for separately.
"Captain, let's pick a good day to open for business," Lu Yuan said.
"Yes, yes, let's pick a good day to open for business." Lu Guoan rubbed his hands together with a smile.
Lu Yuan reminded them, "Once the date is set, we also need to invite Director Qian, Cadre Lin, Secretary Feng, and the leaders of the commune's supply and marketing cooperative."
Lu Guoan said, "Don't worry, I'll let you know as soon as the date is set. You said you would call to invite me personally."
Lu Yuan retorted, "I only said that to Director Qian."
"By the way, you can invite them all at the same time."
Lu Guoan thought that Lu Yuan had much more influence than him, and if he went to invite those leaders, they would definitely be even happier.
"Alright," Lu Yuan agreed.
Zhang Yong'an said, "Once the date is chosen, we'll distribute the dividends to the commune members first."
"I think we should distribute the grain as well."
"Okay, let's do it this way."
Lu Guoan and Zhang Yongan secretly consulted the old almanac and finally decided to open for business three days later.
"Hello, hello, hello, members, please pay attention. We are about to announce a notice."
"Our brigade's supply and marketing cooperative will officially open in three days, and we will distribute money and grain the day after tomorrow. Please be prepared, all members."
The announcement was played three times, and the entire brigade erupted in cheers as everyone ran out of the house.
"Hahahaha, good, good!"
Groups of three or five students gathered together to share this joy.
"This is wonderful! Finally, it's time to distribute the money and grain."
"The supply and marketing cooperative is finally opening soon, and our lives are getting better and better."
"Who can argue with that? It's all thanks to our A-Yuan."
"His wife also deserves credit. Ever since he got married, he's changed completely. Life has become better, and our whole brigade has benefited from it."
"I think his wife is a lucky star..."
"Oh dear, you can't say that, it'll cause trouble if it gets out."
The idea of a lucky star is a feudal superstition; if someone is caught doing so, they will be taken in for education, criticism, or even reformation.
"I was just saying it in front of you guys, I won't say it again."
Even if they didn't say it, everyone thought so in their hearts, believing that Wen Moxue was a lucky star.
It brought prosperity not only to Lu Yuan, but also to their entire brigade.
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