Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

Chapter 409 Purchasing Agency

Looking at these chattering, running and noisy children, Liu Guozheng couldn't help but sigh that the best time in life is childhood. One can be carefree all day long, with food and drink provided by his parents. He doesn't have to go to work and can just look for his parents when he is hungry.

Before Liu Guozheng traveled through time, he would watch videos from time to time. Whenever he watched videos from the 1970s and 1980s, there would be many comments below expressing the wish to go back to that era. Every time, he would not be able to help but comment on other people's comments: It is easiest to be a child of your parents.

I collected my thoughts, tidied up a bit, opened the door and prepared to open for business.

Today is Tuesday, the day off for the office staff. Huang Qiuxia and Zheng Jiandong both went to the village to reunite with the children. At the beginning, the two took turns to rest, but after the last incident, the office's business was not very good, so they just let the two of them rest together. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, Liu Guozheng is on duty alone.

Although they were on duty, most of the time it was Xu Fang and Jiang Ping who acted as sales clerks, while Liu Guozheng moved the lounge chair under the sun and lay down to bask in the sun.

The winter sun is exceptionally warm, and Liu Guozheng likes this feeling very much. It feels like he is half asleep and half asleep under the sun, which is very intoxicating.

"Liu Guozheng, Liu Guozheng, let me tell you something."

The voice sounded familiar. I squinted and saw that it was Wu Airong, Liu Haizhong's wife.

"explain."

"Liu Guozheng, didn't your office cancel the ticket-based purchase policy? Why do your people still need tickets?"

Wu Airong was simply pretending to be ignorant even though she knew the truth. She knew everything that Liu Haizhong and his son had done.

"Why? Go back and ask Captain Liu and Vice Captain Liu and you'll know."

"I don't care. If you discriminate against us, we will never buy anything from you again."

"Okay, buy it if you want."

Liu Guo was lying on the recliner, not moving at all.

Wu Airong continued to insist, "Liu Guozheng, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but why don't you have any regard for our friendship?"

Liu Guozheng asked back: "Nostalgia? What kind of relationship do our two families have?"

"Liu Guozheng, can you please tell me if we can exempt you from the meat ticket?"

"No."

"Not even for the sake of broad daylight?"

"Oh, you thought of Liu Guangtian now? When Liu Haizhong brought people to the office to cause trouble, why didn't he think of Liu Guangtian's face? Okay, I don't want to talk too much with you. Without the vote, no one can do anything."

"You, huh, just wait and see, when no one comes to your office to buy things, let's see what you're going to do?"

"Haha, you don't have to worry about that."

Liu Guozheng continued to squinted his eyes and bask in the sun.

Wu Airong left angrily. She came here with a lucky mentality. Everyone in the alley knew about the notice posted on the wall of the office. The rule of requiring tickets was specifically for the steel rolling mill workers and their families.

"Liu Guozheng, don't you want a ticket for the big bone?"

Not long after he left, Wu Airong came back. There was nothing he could do. There were three people with broken legs in his family who needed nutrition. Since he couldn't buy meat, it would be nice to get some big bones to make soup.

Also, the big bones provided by the office have a lot of meat on them, which are much better than the big bones sold in the vegetable market. Those whose family conditions are not very good basically come to the office to buy them.

It was because of this that Wu Airong came back to the office.

"Big bones are out of stock."

"Out of stock? Liu Guozheng, are you doing this on purpose? Others have it when they buy it, but why is it that I don't have it when I come to buy it?"

"You came at an unfortunate time."

"So when do you think it will be available?"

Wu Airong was unwilling to accept this. Since the office opened, every family in the alley had taken all the meat coupons they had saved to the black market and exchanged them for money. Now they wanted to eat meat, but they had no meat coupons.

"uncertain."

"You, Liu Guozheng, I understand clearly that your office will close sooner or later."

Wu Airong left again, still angry and with strong dissatisfaction.

After lying in the sun until noon, Liu Guozheng got up to prepare food for himself. Xu Fang and Jiang Ping were robots and did not need to eat, but Liu Guozheng could not, as he would get hungry at a certain time.

Now that he is alone, it is even easier to prepare food. He just makes some pickled cabbage leaves, cuts a plate of braised beef, washes two apples, and warms up a pot of wine. It is a very simple lunch.

After dinner, we took a short rest and then lay down in the sun again to continue enjoying this relaxing time.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, it was almost dark, and Liu Guozheng prepared to go home. Jiang Ping was enough during the evening business hours. When Xu Damao got off work, he would also come to the office to help. That was the time when there were the most people.

As soon as I walked out of the office door, I heard Yan Bugui's voice: "Liu Guozheng, you came out just in time. I bought so many things, you have to give me a discount, right?"

"Teacher Yan, aren't the things in our office cheap enough?"

To be honest, Liu Guozheng really didn't want to pay any attention to Yan Bugui. He would haggle over the price for some big bones for half a day. It was really unfortunate this time that he was seen by Yan Bugui as soon as he went out.

"Liu Guozheng, I bought twenty yuan worth of stuff this time. Even at the supply and marketing cooperative, they would give me two candies. This employee of your office is too rigid. In the long run, the reputation of your office will get worse and worse."

"Okay, Teacher Yan, come here, I'll give you two candies, is that okay?"

Liu Guozheng was in a hurry to return to the village and really didn't want to get entangled with Yan Bugui here.

"This feeling is good."

Yan Bugui happily took the two candies and put them in his pocket.

Before getting on the bus, Liu Guozheng said, "Teacher Yan, let me give you a piece of advice. If you engage in speculation and profiteering, you will be criticized."

"Liu Guozheng, please stop talking nonsense. Who is speculating?"

There was a flash of panic in Yan Bugui's eyes. If he was reported for doing this, he would have no way to explain himself.

"Hehehe."

Smiling and waving his hand, Liu Guozheng got into the car and left.

Standing there, watching the car driving away, Yan Bugui couldn't help but praise in his heart: Liu Guozheng is really smart.

What Yan Bugui is doing now is called purchasing on behalf of others in later generations.

Didn't the workers and their families at the steel mill need tickets when they came to the office to buy things? Yan Bugui thought of buying things for them himself, collecting two cents from each family each time.

As it turned out, Yan Bugui really made a lot of money. There were many employees of steel rolling mills living in alleys like Nanluoguxiang. Others did not dare to do the job of purchasing on behalf of others, but Yan Bugui did, as long as he could make money.

So when Yan Bugui said that he bought things worth twenty yuan at one time, Liu Guozheng understood that he was buying them for someone else.

This matter would basically be fine in peaceful times.

It’s not possible now. We are in the middle of a storm. If anyone makes a wrong comment or reports it, they will be arrested and criticized.

By then, you won’t be able to explain yourself.

When Liu Guozheng left, he was also reminding Yan Bugui in a disguised way, telling him not to be too complacent, as some money is not easy to earn.

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