Chapter 77 The boss is not the boss you imagine
"Brother Ziyi!"
"Brother Ziyi!"
"Brother Ziyi!"
"Brother Ziyi!"
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About two hours later, Ziyi, Yike and Du Qingcang all heard shouting outside the cave. It turned out that the young man named Ma Shoucai came with the man he called Brother Tang.
The door to the cave opened and the shouting became clearer and louder.
Yike woke up after hearing the shouting. Ziyi helped Yike up, straightened his clothes and walked out.
"Brother Tang!" Ziyi greeted.
"Haha! You're a good boy. You know what your brother needs and you send him what he needs. You solved my urgent need." The man called Brother Tang patted Ziyi on the shoulder affectionately.
"Godfather, this is my friend, Tang Jianguo. This is my godfather, Du Qingcang." Ziyi introduced his godfather.
"Hello! Uncle Du!" Tang Jianguo greeted him first.
"Hello! Comrade Xiao Tang." Du Qingcang greeted politely.
Ziyi took Yike's hand and said to Tang Jianguo, "This is my wife, Yike." He then said to Yike, "This is Brother Tang's younger brother, Tang Jianguo. You can just call him Brother Tang."
Yike had a guess in his mind from the beginning that maybe this Brother Tang was the elusive black market boss, and it turned out that his guess was the truth.
This is a handsome man with a slender figure, delicate features, a straight nose, and polite manners. He is wearing a light green suit.
"Isn't he the boss of the black market? Shouldn't a black market boss be big and strong, strong and good at fighting? This image is completely the opposite, and it's a far cry from the past." Yi Ke secretly complained in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face. He called out sweetly, "Hello, Brother Tang!"
"Hello, sister-in-law! Ziyi is so mean. He brought your sister-in-law here without telling me, and I didn't even prepare a gift. Well, sister-in-law, I will make up the gift when I go back." Tang Jianguo looked at Xia Ke carefully and found that although the girl was young, she would definitely be a beauty when she grew up. Look at those big watery eyes and delicate facial features, but he is still a little short.
"Ziyi, you should feed your sister-in-law more good food so that she can grow taller and become a beauty in the future." Tang Jianguo said to Ziyi meaningfully.
"Haha! Brother Tang, you should find me a sister-in-law as soon as possible." Ziyi pushed Yike behind him and said, "Remember to give your sister-in-law a good gift. Don't just give her something casual."
"It's not the value of a gift that counts, don't you know? How can you ask for a gift and put in conditions? Sister-in-law, right?"
“…” Yikecai would not answer such an embarrassing question.
"Hello, sister-in-law! My name is Ma Shouze. I am Brother Tang's younger brother, and also Brother Ziyi's younger brother." A boy of about seventeen or eighteen suddenly walked out from behind Jianguo and introduced himself enthusiastically.
The boy was not tall, with messy and greasy hair, rough and dark skin, thin cheeks, and a pair of bright eyes.
I felt embarrassed by his glowing eyes, so I stepped back and said, "Hello!"
"Go away, get out of the way, you are such a sly bastard." Tang Jianguo stepped aside, and the guys behind him were revealed. "You guys should get to know each other, the skinny guy is Wang Feng, the sturdy guy is Dong Guoqing, and this one is Liu Bing, sister-in-law."
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
"Hello, sister-in-law!"
"Sister-in-law, you are so cute!"
Several young men greeted enthusiastically.
"Puchi!" Yi Ke couldn't help laughing.
"You want to be beaten, don't you? You dare to joke with your sister-in-law." Tang Jianguo patted several young men on the head.
"This is your brother Yi's godfather. Call him!"
"Hello, godfather!" All the young men said in unison.
"Hahahaha!" Yike couldn't hold back his laughter any longer. Are these funny people sent by monkeys? How funny.
"Why call him godfather? He is Ziyi's godfather, only you shameless people can call him that. Change your words and call him something else." Several young men were hit on the head by Tang Jianguo again.
"Hello, uncle!" Several guys touched their heads, seeming to feel embarrassed.
"Hello!" The godfather was also amused.
"Now that we know everyone, we can start working." Tang Jianguo waved his hand, and his younger brothers immediately rushed into the cave, carried out the wheelbarrow, and pushed it away in groups of two. Seeing so much meat, the smiles on their faces were brighter than the sun in the sky and could not be hidden.
People who have younger brothers are different. The younger brothers are pushing the carts hard, while the big brothers are walking with empty hands and chatting.
"Is the damage outside serious this flood?" Ziyi asked.
"It's serious, but there are soldiers helping, and there is relief food. But the affected area is too large..." Tang Jianguo sighed.
Yi Ke didn't pay attention to what they said. His brain was trying hard to recall that there seemed to be three years of natural disasters in his previous life. He was not very clear about the exact years, but he seemed to have the impression that it was from 1959 to 1961, three consecutive years of natural disasters. However, the natural disasters did not seem to be floods, but droughts. There was no news of floods after the drought. Was my memory wrong, or was this not a parallel world, but an imaginary world? Would the historical development be the same in the future?
"You get distracted even when you're walking," Ziyi grabbed Yike who was about to stumble, "What are you thinking about?"
Yi Ke really wanted to ask, but was afraid of being exposed, so he decided to ask in a different way, "Brother Tang, you sound so serious, is it as serious as the drought?"
"Are you talking about the drought in the past few years?" Brother Tang said, "That wasn't that serious. This time, only most of our province was flooded, and other provinces were fine. The drought in the past few years was a large-scale drought across the country. How can this time be compared?"
"I don't know. I just know that there was nothing to eat and I was hungry, very hungry. Every household in the village was hungry." She tried to cover it up by saying that she was young and ignorant.
"How old were you then? You definitely can't remember." Tang Jianguo automatically found an excuse for Yike.
"I'm fourteen years old." Yike said shyly. ”
"You are so hungry that you don't know what's going on outside. It's normal not to know." Brother Tang sighed, "There have been continuous droughts in the past few years. It is said that food is extremely scarce in the whole country and people are starving. One of my uncles works in a coal mine. At first, his food ration was 60 kilograms, but later it kept decreasing, down to 45 kilograms, and that was coarse grains. Hunger, fleeing famine, edema, etc. are getting worse every year. Corn root powder, chlorella and other food substitutes are in short supply. To be honest, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I'm tinkering in the black market because I'm hungry in the past few years. Haha!"
Yike finally realized that his memory was correct and the natural disaster was over. I came here just in time for the drought. Thinking about it, the original body was really lucky as he didn't die in the face of such a disaster. But the original body was also very unlucky as he died after the disaster year.
Yike tried hard to look through the original body's memory. The original body's grandfather died the year before last. He remembered that the original body's grandfather often secretly left food for the original body to eat. The original body did not starve to death because of the care of the original body's grandfather. It seems that I will have a chance to burn incense to my original grandfather in the future.
"Why is there a green train?" Ziyi's puzzled voice interrupted her recollections.
Sure enough, in the distance, on a dirt road that was only one lane wide, there was a green car parked, and behind it was a ox cart.
"You have so much meat that only the green train can sell it all at once. Meat is hard to buy here now, so when they heard that there was so much meat, they followed without saying a word. Besides, this is the meat from the mountains, and it comes from a clean source, so they agreed so readily." Tang Jianguo had an expression of surprise, which pleased Yi Ke, who smiled secretly.
Ziyi glanced at Yike and saw Yike's snickering smile. He spoke to Tang Jianguo with a blank expression as usual, "If I had known you could sell them all, I would have brought them all out."
"There's more! Tell me, how many are there?" Tang Jianguo's eyes widened.
"We still have more than 200 kilograms of pork, which we originally kept for ourselves; and about 1,000 kilograms of wolf meat. We originally wanted to ship it out, but we were afraid that the wolf meat would not sell well, so we did not ship it out."
"With so much wolf meat, did you raid the wolf's den?"
"No, they came to me on their own."
"Tell me about the details."
So Ziyi briefly told the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
"You and Uncle Hao are really good at archery. You must teach me someday if you have the chance. I won't learn everything, but if you can learn 50% of it, I'll be lucky."
Yi Ke, who was listening in, couldn't help but complain in his heart: "As expected of the black market boss, he talks about whether he can make money or not."
"We're here. The wheelbarrow can't go down, so we'll go help carry a bag."
"Brother Tang, are we going to carry it directly onto the car?" Ma Shouze asked as he walked down the hillside carrying a bag.
"Yes, put all the wolf meat on the green cart, put two bags of pork on the ox cart, and the same with the snake meat." Tang Jianguo arranged.
"Brothers, this must be the first time you have seen such a big snake. We won't sell it. We will keep it for you to enjoy as a snack." Ziyi said.
"Okay, thank you, Brother Ziyi." Ma Shouze shouted happily, "Brothers, did you hear that? There's meat to eat. Move quickly, finish the work quickly and eat the meat sooner."
"Okay!" Several young men ran down the mountain very fast. Yike was worried about them. The hillside road was not only bumpy, but also slippery because it had rained some time ago. What would they do if they fell down?
Ziyi was the last one to carry the bag, but he was the first to reach the green car. Then comes Tang Jianguo, and third is godfather. I guessed the beginning but not the end. I thought that a man with Tang Jianguo's physique would not be completely powerless, but his strength would probably be very limited. It turned out that he was second only to Ziyi and even inferior to his godfather. As the saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its cover," this is exactly what it means for people like Tang Jianguo.
"Comrade, you are so strong. My surname is Xue, what is your name?" A man in green clothes got off the green car and asked Ziyi with a smile.
"Just call me Ziyi." Ziyi said and returned to the hillside without looking back, walking slowly down the hill. Ziyi came forward and held her hand and walked...
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