Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

After confirming that the buyer was not the buyer of their steel mill, Lin Geng immediately pretended to be angry and said: "How could that person do this? Isn't this trying to cheat you? Fortunately, I came, otherwise, you would have been cheated by them this time!"

"Who said it wasn't? Those people are so bad. Our lives are so difficult, but they still cheat us and suppress the prices of our mountain products! They are so cruel! Don't say anything. Our mountain products are given to you. No one can come to take away a pheasant from us in the future! We will keep them all for you!" Village Chief Zhao said angrily.

Lin Geng bowed and said, "Then I would like to thank Village Chief Zhao! From now on, the price is set. I will come to collect them every once in a while. You just keep them for me! It would be best if you could keep more alive, so that I can report them better when I take them back!"

Village chief Zhao nodded repeatedly and agreed, saying that they would try their best to set traps and catch them alive in the future. The two sides then reached a friendly cooperation agreement.

In fact, the villagers of this era are still very simple and honest. They can tell who is good to them and who is deceiving them. They have their own judgment. As long as you are good to them, they will recognize you and then repay you tenfold or a hundredfold. Today, Lin Geng's performance after arriving in the village has won the recognition of Village Chief Zhao and the villagers.

After Lin Geng quoted the price, he immediately gained the trust of Village Chief Zhao.

After agreeing on the price of the mountain products with Lin Geng, Village Chief Zhao immediately poured Lin Geng a cup of boiling water with a smile. However, there was no tea in the village, so he made some bamboo leaf tea for Lin Geng and asked Lin Geng to drink some hot water to warm his body. He then immediately ran out and shouted, asking the villagers to notify each other and send all the mountain products stored in their homes to the village branch.

Someone tried to ask about the price of the mountain products that Lin Geng collected, but was glared at by Village Chief Zhao and scolded: "Why are you asking? Comrade Xiao Lin will not cheat us. He is a good man and will not let you suffer! If I ask you to prepare them, go quickly. If you don't hurry up and get them, you can keep them for yourself!"

It was obvious that Village Chief Zhao had a very high prestige in the village and was absolutely respected by the people. His words were final in the village, so no one dared to say anything more. Some villagers who were watching outside the village branch immediately dispersed and ran back home to prepare, and also notified the neighbors who were not present.

While Lin Geng was drinking a bowl of hot water, it became lively outside. Village chief Zhao shouted loudly outside, asking the villagers to line up, and asked someone to call the third boy from Zhao Shitou's family to help keep the accounts.

Lin Geng walked out and saw that Village Chief Zhao had already called two villagers, brought a scale, and had someone put a broken table aside. He began to call on the villagers who came with various mountain products to trade, and asked them to line up and wait for the products to be weighed.

Lin Geng wanted to go over to help, but Village Chief Zhao said with a big smile on his face: "Comrade Xiao Lin, just stay in the house and warm yourself by the fire. I'm here. I'll help you check and make sure you don't lose money!"

Lin Geng smiled and said: "I trust you, I just want to help!"

"No, no, you've run so far, how can I ask you to work? You should take a good rest first. My husband will prepare the meal soon. Wait for me for a while, I will help you pack these mountain products and then have dinner with you!" Village Chief Zhao now likes Lin Geng more and more. He will not let Lin Geng help no matter what and must let Lin Geng go into the house to warm himself by the fire and rest.

Lin Geng was not worried at all that Village Chief Zhao would cheat him. Seeing that Village Chief Zhao was so persistent, the villagers around him also smiled and encouraged him to stop worrying about it and go into the house to warm himself by the fire and take a rest.

Lin Geng simply took out his cigarettes and began to distribute them to the men present one by one. He also struck a match to help them light up the cigarettes so that they could taste the taste of the cigarettes. These villagers lived a hard life and certainly would not be willing to spend money to buy cigarettes.

When they smoke, they usually grow a few tobacco leaves at home, then dry them or sun-dry them, cut them into shreds, and smoke them with a homemade pipe. They usually don't even have paper to roll the pipe, so let alone good cigarettes like Daqianmen, even the cheapest economical cigarettes that cost only one cent are rare for them.

The villagers were excited to smoke the cigarettes Lin Geng gave them. They were all smiling and asking how much a box of cigarettes cost. When they heard that Daqianmen cigarettes cost 32 cents a box, they were shocked and said that it was too expensive and they couldn't afford it. They really couldn't afford it! When they smoked, they burned their fingers, but they were reluctant to throw away the cigarette butts. They carefully put them out and carefully collected the cigarette butts.

When Lin Geng watched them carefully put away the cigarette butts, he couldn't help feeling a little sad. The villagers in these mountains had such a hard life. He even felt a little guilty for lowering the factory's purchase price by 20 to 30 percent.

But after all, this is the industry rule, the unspoken rule of their profession, and he has to abide by it. Otherwise, once the news gets out, he can forget about making a living in this industry. However, Lin Geng has made up his mind. He will make some money in this regard, but he can help these poor villagers make up for it in other ways in the future. After all, he cannot let them suffer any loss.

Village Chief Zhao was very skillful and carefully counted the mountain products from each household. Some pheasants and rabbits looked a little small, so Lin Geng had no objection even if they were sold at the price of larger ones. However, Village Chief Zhao did not want to let Lin Geng suffer any loss and insisted on charging according to the small ones.

As for the mountain products that were calculated by kilogram, they tried to raise the scale bar as high as possible, for fear that Lin would suffer a loss. After weighing, they carefully classified the goods, and the literate young man next to them carefully wrote down the weight of the mountain products brought by each family.

The villagers were also quiet, queuing up without fighting for the count or weighing. No one raised any objections to the village chief counting some smaller pheasants and rabbits as smaller ones, or raising the scale bar high when weighing mountain products. Everyone was smiling, and everything went on in an orderly manner. The children also gathered around and watched the excitement.

The village is relatively small and there are not many people there. It didn't take long before all the mountain products brought by each family were weighed and sorted by Village Chief Zhao. The young man who kept the accounts also calculated the total price. After the statistics, the whole village sent more than 20 pheasants and smoked chickens of various sizes, a dozen wild rabbits and smoked rabbits, as well as dozens of kilograms of dried mushrooms and dried black fungus, and dozens of kilograms of dried wild vegetables.

Lin Geng didn't need to settle the bill with them one by one. Village chief Zhao asked the accountant to calculate the total price. After calculating it several times, the total price was 62.3 yuan.

Village Chief Zhao said to Lin Geng generously: "Comrade Xiao Lin, I know you won't cheat us. The total is 62.3 yuan, just give me 60 yuan!"

Lin Geng took out the money and shook his head, saying, "How can that be possible? Whatever happens, how can I let you suffer a loss? I want to keep fighting with you for a few more years! I can't let you suffer a loss all the time! Here, this is sixty-five yuan, you keep it, and the extra money can be used as candy for the children in the village!"

When Village Chief Zhao saw that Lin Geng actually wanted to give more money, he refused to do anything and pulled Lin Geng, refusing to agree. After a long time of arguing, he still couldn't give the extra dollar to Lin Geng. In the end, he found that Lin Geng's hands were really strong. Lin Geng actually held his hands and he had no ability to struggle at all. Only then did he believe that Lin Geng was not bragging before and he really did have a lot of strength.

Seeing that Lin Geng insisted on giving more, Village Chief Zhao's eyes became a little moist. Finally, he sighed and said, "That's fine! I won't be polite to you. From now on, when you come to our Zhaojia Village, you will be our honored guest! If you have any problems, just tell us. We don't have any other skills, but as long as we can help you, don't say anything, we will definitely do our best to help you!"

After saying this, Village Chief Zhao ordered the villagers to put the goods into the village branch office first, and cursed at him and asked him to ask his wife why the meal was not ready yet.

As they were talking, they saw a ragged woman carrying a large tray. On the tray was a coarse porcelain bowl filled with steaming cured chicken stewed with mushrooms and some dried radish. Next to it was a small basket filled with a few mixed flour cakes. A dark and thin little boy about ten years old followed her with a black pottery jar filled with hot cornmeal and wild vegetable porridge, which he delivered to the village branch.