Chu Tian frowned, "Then Director Ma, why did you stop me?"
Director Ma nodded quickly, "Yes, I also want fine grains, noodles, rice, white flour are all fine!"
Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "This time we can only get instant noodles!"
Director Ma was not picky and waved his hand, "Noodles are fine too!"
Chu Tian nodded, "How many pounds do you want?"
Director Ma was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, can I just ask for as many kilograms as I want?
After thinking for a moment, he tentatively extended three fingers, paused, and then immediately changed to four fingers, "I want four pounds."
"Okay, where shall we trade?"
Chu Tian thought he wanted 40 kilograms, but he only wanted 4 kilograms...
Director Ma pointed to the back of the alley and said, "I'm going home to get the money. You must be going to get the goods. How about we meet here in two hours?"
Chu Tian looked at the alley and nodded slightly, "Okay."
Director Ma walked a few steps toward the alley entrance, thought for a moment, and then came back to warn Chu Tian, "Brother, you must come. I'm really not a liar!"
"····good."
After he had been gone for two minutes, Chu Tian quickly put the bicycle into the space, and then followed Director Ma quietly. He saw him walking towards a place similar to the coal mine family compound, and greeting passers-by from time to time. Until he saw him from a distance take out a bunch of keys from his pocket, open the gate of a yard and walk in, Chu Tian turned around and walked towards the box they had just agreed to meet.
When Director Ma arrived, Chu Tian had already filled most of the sacks with goods and tied them to the back seat of the bicycle in a pretentious manner.
"Oh, brother, you're here really early. I thought you'd be here for a while."
Director Ma raised his hand and looked at the time, and saw that there were still more than ten minutes before the time they agreed on.
Chu Tian just curled the corners of his lips slightly, "It just so happens that the place where I need to pick up the goods is not far away, so it will be faster."
Director Ma nodded disapprovingly, but his eyes were fixed on the sack tied to the back seat of Chu Tian's bicycle. "Brother, did you bring the noodles?"
Chu Tian followed his gaze and exclaimed "Ah!", then unloaded the sack from the back seat of the car, took out four pounds of noodles wrapped in newspaper from the sack and handed it to Director Ma.
Director Ma took it and casually placed it in the basket he had brought. Then, looking at the sack, which was not very empty, he eagerly asked, "Brother, it seems you brought something else?"
Chu Tian nodded slightly, "There are also two kilograms of Hotan dates, two kilograms of walnuts and about ten kilograms of lamb legs."
Director Ma was startled. The noodles in the basket were no longer attractive. He put the basket on the ground and asked eagerly, "Brother, can you, hey, sell me some?"
Chu Tianxin thought this was prepared for you, but he pretended to be embarrassed and said, "But, but this is something I brought for someone else..."
Director Ma eagerly pulled Chu Tian's arm and said, "Brother, can you give it to me first? The supply and marketing cooperative at our coal mine hasn't sold mutton for a long time..."
"I, I can beat that guy's price!"
After much persuasion, Chu Tian reluctantly agreed, "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you first. I'll figure out a way to get him later!"
Director Ma was delighted and quickly asked, "How much is it? Oh, and I like these dates and walnuts, too."
Chu Tian, "The first time is strange, the second time is familiar, so we are now acquaintances. Since we are acquaintances, I will not ask for an exorbitant price."
"Generally speaking, the prices of items on the black market are more than double what they are at the supply and marketing cooperatives. Some are even double or triple! I won't charge according to those prices. I'll just charge double the price, okay?"
"Noodles are 90 cents at the supply and marketing cooperative, so I'll charge you 1.8 yuan per pound. Mutton is 1 yuan at the supply and marketing cooperative, so I'll charge you 2 yuan. Jujubes and walnuts are both over 40 cents at the supply and marketing cooperative, so I'll charge you 80 cents. How about that?"
"You, you..."
Director Ma was shocked. This price was really too cheap. If he resold the mutton or noodles according to Chu Tian's price, he could earn another RMB 80 per pound.
Chu Tian smiled and said, "Director Ma, since you can recognize me at a glance, I won't lie to you. I'm giving you such a low price not for anything else, but because you just said you are the director of the coal mining department."
Director Ma was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Do you want to come to the coal mine to work? Our mining department is often short of people, but we are short of temporary workers. You..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Tian interrupted him, "Director Ma, you misunderstood. It's not me who's going to work, it's my brother. I came to the coal mine today just to send him to work."
Director Ma exclaimed, "Ah!", remembering that the factory had only recently recruited a group of temporary workers to work underground in the past two days.
So he asked, "Are you a temporary worker?"
Chu Tian nodded, "Yes."
Director Ma thought for a moment and frowned, "Do you want me to make him a regular employee? But the factory has no quotas recently, I..."
Chu Tian waved his hand. "No, I know how difficult it is for a temporary worker to become a regular employee. I just want to ask you to take care of my brother and not let him go down the well so often. After all, you know that the air in the well is not very good. I'm afraid..."
"Hey, is that all? That's easy! By the way, can he write?"
If it was something else, Director Ma might not be able to do it, but if it was just a matter of not letting him go down the mine often, it wouldn't be a big deal. After all, he was the boss of the entire mining department, and no one would say anything if he specifically asked a temporary worker who went down the mine to do something else.
Chu Tian nodded quickly, "Yes, my brother has graduated from junior high school."
Director Ma nodded and said, "Okay, I'll transfer him to the ground as a temporary recorder when the time comes."
Chu Tian was pleasantly surprised and said quickly, "Thank you so much, then these things..."
Director Ma stopped Chu Tian before he could finish his words. "Let's put things in perspective. This is business, and work is work. Once the price is agreed upon, there's no reason to lower it. Besides, assigning people to work is a matter of a single word, so I won't take advantage of that."
As he spoke, Director Ma counted the money and handed it to Chu Tian.
Chu Tian took it with a smile without hesitation. However, when he turned his back to take something out of the bag for him, he took out a large piece of sheep tail oil from the space while he was not looking, and handed it to Director Ma together with the lamb leg in the bag.
"Director Ma, please don't be so polite with this sheep tail oil. Just consider it as my thanks for taking care of my brother..."
Director Ma saw that Chu Tian was serious, so he thought about it and took it over. "What's your brother's name?"
"Chu Jie."
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