The life of a villain in a courtyard

"Brother Wang."

Today Wang Ming is going to the countryside to purchase goods, and Su Yun is going to follow him to learn about the purchasing process.

"Brother Wang, where are we going today?"

"Let's go to Qinjia Village, which is on the outskirts of Sijiu City. We are lucky today. The factory's convoy happens to pass by there today. We can take a ride there, so we don't have to walk there."

The two men stood at the factory gate, shivering in the cold morning wind. Grandpa Li couldn't bear it anymore and invited them into his gatehouse. There was a stove in the room, and the two men chatted with Grandpa Li while warming themselves by the fire. After an unknown amount of time, a car horn was finally heard outside the gate, and the two men came out of the room and got in the car.

"Xiao Wang, who is this?"

The driver was a middle-aged man in his thirties.

"Brother Liu, this is Su Yun, our department's new purchaser. This time he came with me to the countryside to learn the work process."

"Su Yun, this is Liu Minghui, from our factory team."

"Brother Liu."

Su Yun took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed one to Liu Minghui. Nine out of ten of these drivers are addicted to smoking.

As expected, Liu Minghui's face immediately lit up when he saw the cigarettes, and he became talkative instead of being taciturn.

When Liu Minghui took the matches, Su Yun discovered that he actually carried a gun with him! Su Yun had always lived in an era of gun prohibition, but this was the first time he had faced such a thing.

"Brother Liu, why are you still carrying a gun?"

"You said this, this is for self-defense."

“Is our team’s work so risky?”

Su Yun looked incredulous. In his impression, a driver just drives a car, so why does he have to carry a gun?

"Yes, there are many bandits along the way. If you don't bring this thing with you, you might be robbed. Our convoy sometimes transports some confidential documents, and these guns are given to us by the factory to prevent us from being robbed."

At this point, Liu Minghui opened up and began to tell the two about his experiences in the team over the years. The content was so rich that it was enough to write a novel.

"The old man in our team once told me about an experience he had. They were driving on the road late at night, and suddenly a stone flew from nowhere and hit the car window. Fortunately, the car was driving slowly, otherwise he would not have been able to get back."

When Liu Minghui said this, he had an expression on his face that said, "Thank goodness I didn't encounter this." After listening to the story, Su Yun also had a better understanding of this era.

Soon the two of them arrived at Qinjia Village outside Sijiu City.

"Brother Liu, here you go."

Wang Ming threw two boxes of cigarettes to Liu Minghui before taking Su Yun out of the car. These drivers at the steel rolling mill usually liked to give people from the purchasing department a ride because they were generous.

The two of them walked quickly and soon arrived at the village.

After walking through the village, you will soon arrive at a red wooden door in the village.

"Bang bang bang..."

Wang Ming knocked on the gate.

A woman in her thirties ran out of the house in a hurry.

When he saw that it was Wang Ming, his face lit up: "Purchasing Wang, you are here..."

"Um...Aunt Liu, you haven't been here for more than a week, how many eggs are there at home?"

Wang Ming looked at the woman in front of him and asked.

Aunt Liu nodded. "You came at the right time. We have gathered exactly twenty people today."

As he was talking, he invited Wang Ming into the house and asked him to take out the eggs.

Aunt Liu is Wang Ming's old solution. All of their buyers have this solution in the countryside. Every time they go to the countryside to purchase, they go directly to these places, which saves time and effort.

Soon Aunt Liu came back with a small basket. Wang Ming took a quick look and saw exactly twenty baskets. He calculated that if he went to a few more houses, he might be able to go back early. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

"An egg is five cents, twenty eggs are a dollar."

The purchase price given by the steel rolling mill was one cent per piece, and Wang Ming made one dollar from the first one. No wonder everyone said that the buyers had a lot of money.

Wang Ming took out a dollar from his pocket and put it in front of Aunt Liu. Aunt Liu was very happy to be able to buy so much money.

"Purchaser Wang, I don't know how to count or calculate, but I trust you. It's that money. Can you just give me the food coupons?"

"Row."

Wang Ming had no objection, since whatever he spent was from the factory, he could just go back and ask the factory to reimburse him.

In this era, you really needed tickets to buy things. You needed grain tickets to buy grain, meat tickets to buy meat, and even radio tickets to buy a radio. Without tickets, you couldn’t spend your money, so all kinds of tickets were also hard currency.

Wang Ming took out three catties of food coupons from his pocket and handed them over. Then he saw the hens in Aunt Liu's chicken coop and thought of his pregnant wife, so he started to think: "Aunt Liu, are you selling your chickens?"

"Do not sell!"

Aunt Liu's face darkened and she immediately refused, "That's a hen that lays eggs. How can we sell it..."

Wang Ming knew it was unlikely, and he just asked casually.

Everyone is having a hard time these days. Ordinary people are reluctant to sell their hens, which can lay eggs. To put it bluntly, a farmer's chickens can sometimes earn more than a person.

Qin Huairu earned 27.5 yuan a month in the courtyard house, and had to support six people in her family. She could hardly make ends meet.

That was in the city. The income in the village was even lower, so low that it was pitifully low. Sometimes it was not uncommon for people to starve to death. Su Yun knew all this because of his experience in the Northeast.

But his wife really needs some nutritional supplements. If he could bring back some chicken, duck, fish, or even a rooster, that would be fine too!

"Didn't I sell all the roosters to you? I don't have any more at home."

Wang Ming was still not giving up. "Aunt Liu, do you know who wants to sell it?"

Aunt Liu thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "The Wang family in the village is sick. I heard they don't have money to buy medicine. I'll go ask for you."

"Okay, okay..."

Just as the two were about to go to the next house, a dirty yellow dog came running from a distance. When the dog saw Su Yun and Wang Ming, it circled around them as if trying to please them.

"Aunt Liu, what's wrong with this dog?"

Aunt Liu took a look and said: "This dog is a stray dog ​​from our village. I don't know what happened to it. Maybe it's hungry."

"It's just a wild dog. Let's go."

Wang Ming pulled Su Yun to leave, when the dog suddenly stood up, bowed with both hands and looked at them with pleading eyes. Su Yun found that although the dog was very thin, its belly was very big, and it looked like it was either sick or pregnant.

Finally, Su Yun couldn't bear the dog's pleading anymore and put it in his bag. He planned to take the dog home and raise it.

Wang Ming took Su Yun to visit several more houses. More than an hour later, an ox cart slowly drove out of the village. Su Yun and Wang Ming were sitting on the cart. Next to them was a small basket with dozens of eggs and a few pieces of bacon in it. Next to the basket was an old hen that looked very thin.

The local dog in Su Yun's bag came out. Perhaps it smelled the bacon in the basket and kept circling around it. Su Yun was afraid that the dog would ruin the eggs in the basket, so he quickly stuffed the dog back into the bag to prevent it from coming out.

It was noon when the two returned to Sijiu City. Wang Ming gave Su Yun two eggs as a reward for helping him move things, and then took the things to the factory to report. Su Yun returned to Siheyuan. According to the rules of the Purchasing Department, buyers who go to the countryside to purchase goods do not have to go to work today. This is similar to the projectionist of the Propaganda Department.

After returning to the courtyard, Su Yun boiled some water and let the dog out of the bag. Su Yun washed it thoroughly from head to toe. The local dog was very well-behaved. During the bath, it was always quiet and let Su Yun play with it. Unlike some dogs, the mention of a bath was like a death sentence for them.

After cleaning, Su Yun gave the local dog some leftovers. When the local dog saw it, it immediately ran over and started eating it in big mouthfuls, obviously very hungry.

Only then did Su Yun have the energy to pay attention to its belly. Su Yun touched it with his hand and found that its belly was moving. The thing inside was obviously alive. It seemed that it was pregnant. It risked coming to Su Yun in order to let its child survive.