My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 8 You are so brave

But the next morning, it was just dawn.

Let Weidong go to the free market again.

Because when I looked around in the afternoon, including asking around the hospital with Goudan after dinner, there was no place like this with a black market feel to it.

Or it is said that you have to go to some markets in the suburbs to do business.

But wasn’t that how Weidong was captured in his previous life?

He thought about it countless times later. Besides the prohibition of speculation and profiteering in those days, and the need to cut off the tail, the more important thing is that if he sold things at a discount at the market, he would be robbing the business of the supply and marketing cooperatives. Of course, people would send people to arrest him.

Therefore, only this kind of underground market that is formed completely spontaneously is relatively safe.

In order to guard against those gangsters, Wei Dong had to "disguise himself".

At the wholesale clothing market at the dock, I bought a few sweatshirts for one dollar and two cents each. One for Goudan, one for my mom, and one for my dad who was lying in the hospital bed.

He put them on, wrapped his head with a towel, smeared some wall putty and mud on his face, and carried 60 kilograms of bacon in a backpack.

He squatted in the corner of the market with his head lowered and holding a backpack full of dirty clothes and newspapers. In the crowded and bustling dock vegetable market, he took out the clothes one by one and sold them all in half an hour!
There was still time to go back and send my father to the operating room.

Now I understand. When I went to the dock a few days ago, I saw that everything was closed. This is because most of the wholesale markets in this area only operate in the morning, so that vendors at five or six o'clock can get their goods and catch the earliest bus or boat to open for business.

Some people from surrounding areas have already started to venture into this kind of street vendor business, selling clothes, pots and pans.

The industrial products of the big city of Jiangzhou are in excess and are flowing into the market. If you have the courage, you can sell them.

The closer you are to a big city, the lower the chance of being caught.

So when you come in the afternoon, most of the stalls and shops are closed, and those idle and sneaky guys are more likely to roam around.

It was very crowded everywhere early in the morning. Their business was so prosperous that they didn't care about ordinary passers-by.

Sitting outside the operating room, Rang Weidong quietly explained his business philosophy to his mother: "Don't worry, I'll make a trip every few days. At worst, I can bring Goudan with me. He weighs over 100 kilograms and make 500 or 600 yuan. Once Dad recovers, we can slowly develop this business as a family and eventually become rich."

The thick stack of over 700 yuan in her hand frightened the country woman: "This... isn't this illegal? Didn't you cut off your tail?"

After letting Weidong pocket the money, he admitted, "It's a bit risky. If caught, I might still go to jail. That's why I didn't dare ask Goudan, Yaowa, and the others to follow me. What if I end up hurting others? But...it should be fine in two years. Let's save some money and start a business. Then our family will be better off."

At least at this point, this is all Wei Dong could think of.

He dared to break free from being confined to the land as a farmer and ventured between cities and towns to engage in speculation and profiteering, which had already surpassed almost the vast majority of people.

As long as you don't get caught, becoming a millionaire is just around the corner.

He didn't expect too much.

Maybe even if you follow the richest man and are in the limelight, you still can't sell bacon safely.

I remember the last and most amazing thing about the richest man. He was in jail for twenty years and everyone thought he was penniless, but it turned out that he still had more than two hundred houses in Pingjing!

Neighbors and colleagues in the compound were all talking about the more than 200 apartments, but what Weidong, who was sitting in the corner, noticed was the 20-year prison sentence.

You have never been to jail, so you don’t know the pain.

Therefore, the mentality of being content with a small fortune will definitely arise naturally.

I am very grateful to God for being able to pull my father back from the brink of disability.

Of course, looking down at his hands, Wei Dong must still be worried about this third big pitfall...

At this moment the operation ended.

The attending physician came out wearily, "The operation should be successful. The key is to see how his spinal nerves react after the anesthesia wears off. He will also need to remain in the hospital for a period of rest after the operation. He can only move after his lumbar spine injury has healed."

Many workers, peasants and soldiers who suffered from the disease could not wait to go to work, which left them with the root of the disease.

Weidong was not worried at all. He thanked the nurse repeatedly and sent his father back home under anesthesia.

Goudan, who had been guarding the door, hurried to help move the bed.

Rang Weidong also made up his mind: "Mom, you just stay in the hospital and take care of Dad. We'll go back and come back in a couple of days. It won't be tiring to run back and forth like this. Come, I'll teach you how to buy food outside."

His mother looked after them and still felt sorry for the money that the father and son had risked their lives to earn: "If there was a stove here, I could make a fire and cook by myself."

Because of the state-owned attitude at that time, even the hospital had no service awareness and did not provide meals for patients, and the meals had to be delivered by family members.

The city dwellers are fine, but these patients who come from all over the place to seek medical treatment can only find a way on their own.

On the contrary, I heard that the military hospital has a canteen where you can get food, but you need food coupons...

Wei Dong almost subconsciously said: "Then let's rent a house!"

Later, the families of patients who went to other places for medical treatment all did the same thing, as it was cheaper than staying in a hotel.

Although this is rare, it does happen. For example, some people who run food stalls or sell fruit are not from the city, so they rent accommodation from nearby residents.

Following the introduction, I rented a tool room in a dormitory building near the hospital. Not only could I use the coal stove to cook and stew soup, but my mother, who had to sleep in a companion chair in the hospital, could at least sleep more peacefully.

Now Weidong has the idea of ​​spending some money to make his parents live a more comfortable life.

Besides, it’s just a few dollars.

Only fifteen dollars a month to rent!

So let the mother go to rest, and let Weidong and Goudan take care of the father who woke up after the operation in the hospital.

Lao Rang couldn't feel much physical feedback at the moment.

Asking Weidong to relax, the two guys worked hard to massage his leg muscles.

Lao Rang almost jumped up in pain!
I have multiple fractures!

In fact, Weidong is very good at massage, which makes him smile happily. It’s good as long as he feels pain.

But someone stopped Goudan from working so hard. He felt that it was not worth it to eat meat every day without doing any work, so he filled up all the thermos bottles in the ward.

The next morning, before dawn, the two men carried the remaining seventy or eighty kilograms of bacon over.

My childhood friend squatted in the corner behind the wall, holding the backpack, so that he could run away through the alley behind at any time if the situation turned out to be bad.

Let Weidong sell the meat on the roadside for two or three yuan at a time, which makes it convenient for him to pick up the meat and run away at any time.

And sell all the bacon easily and conveniently.

One of the canteens directly asked for 40 kilograms of food at 5 yuan per kilogram, but gave 20 kilograms of food coupons, which were very precious national food coupons.

Finally, he pointed Weidong in the direction and told him that next time he could deliver it directly to the factory on the other side of the river. There were many factories like this over there and it would be easy to sell.

Helping to load the items onto the ferry, Weidong felt that he had figured out this business and should carefully keep the money and food.

Taking Goudan, who was completely confused and had no idea where to go, they bought some fashionable goods at the wholesale market, which was no longer as busy, and filled their backpacks and new knapsacks.

He also bought some grain, oil, meat and vegetables and brought them back to the hospital, left some money and food coupons for his mother, and helped his father massage and rub his wound until the evening before taking the ferry back to Shangzhou.

Before leaving, he asked Weidong to buy two yuan worth of braised vegetables and meat outside the hospital, plus a bottle of white wine for fifty cents.

Xide Goudan was so happy that he kept circling around him with his nose sticking out.

After much difficulty, the two of them found a sheltered corner on the deck of the boat, spread out their mats, and happily began to enjoy the wine and food.

Let Weidong just taste a little bit of the food, and let Goudan eat and drink by himself. He didn't dare to slack off at all now.

Because there were six hundred yuan tied on each side of his inner thighs!
1983 yuan in 1200.

The purchasing power is almost equivalent to 70,000 or 80,000 in forty years... No, in Rang Weidong's memory, in a few years, this amount can buy half a house near the tax compound!
And it’s the kind of indigenous tile house with a foundation!
He suddenly realized something.

Small businesses and ant movers make money, and then in two years they will be allowed to buy these old street houses. After they are renovated, demolished and refurbished, sooner or later their thousands or tens of thousands will turn into hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Not to mention the far-away places, he still knows which houses around the tax compound have been renovated.

As a result, when he wanted to think more deeply, Goudan kept interrupting him.

While ordering dishes, this guy was more excited about seeing the provincial capital on a summer night. He gesticulated and described the Western scenes. What were those two braids on the big car? What were those things that looked like two steamed buns hanging on the shop?
Normally, he couldn't even make a fart with three sticks, but now he spent several hours slowly finishing the half pound of white wine.

I still have half a lotus leaf wrapped in meat left, and I want to take it back for my parents to eat.

Leaning against the corner of the anchor chain and cable, letting Weidong look at the silly and happy guy, he felt comfortable too.

Of course, your legs must be kept together at all times, and you should sit sideways like a woman.

They arrived in Shangzhou early the next morning, and Weidong finally took Goudan to the tax compound.

After all, he has stayed here for forty years without moving. Even though the situation is very different now than in the past, it does not prevent Weidong from arriving accurately with his military backpack on his back.

But there is nothing much to see in the tax compound. Many of my "colleagues" have been replaced over the past forty years, and the tax office building, dormitory building, and service hall that are under construction will need to be rebuilt two or three times.

Weidong walked along the street to see the construction site, and it was exactly the same as he remembered when he was released from prison and started working moving bricks.

Let’s focus our attention on the “Wanshang Trading Company” on the street.

From the provincial capital to the prefecture-level city, then to the county, countryside and town, and even in the next forty years of life.

Weidong had never seen such a shop before.

He wanted to say, "You are so brave!"

(End of this chapter)