Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

"I'll pay ten yuan per person per hour for unloading!"

As soon as Chen Dong spoke, the off-get off work workers who were watching exclaimed "Holy crap!" and rushed forward, raising their hands and shouting, "Comrade, I'm willing!"

"Comrade, I work at the flour mill specifically unloading goods; I'm strong!"

"Hey! You fucking stop pushing! You stepped on my shoes and they fell off! Where the hell are my shoes?!"

"Comrade, five yuan is fine with me, choose me!"

"Yeah, I'd do it for five yuan!"

The crowd surged towards Chen Dong. Afraid Chen Dong would be knocked over, Xu Caikun quickly took out a brass whistle from the duty room, put it in his mouth, and blew it loudly, shouting, "Don't push! Don't push! One at a time! The warehouse space is limited; we only need fifty people to help!"

"Pick me! I raised my hand first, comrade, pick me!" a square-faced man in gray overalls shouted at Xu Caikun.

Xu Caikun pointed at the square-faced man and said, "Okay, you're the one. Go get the number plate first. Xiao Xu, write a number plate for him using our hospital's form, so it'll be easy to identify him after the job is done!"

"Okay, sure!"

The square-faced man, called by Xu Caikun, smiled and followed Xiao Xu from the security department to the duty room to get his number. Seeing this, the others shouted even more enthusiastically to Xu Caikun, "Comrade, I'm strong! I'll pay five yuan an hour!"

"Me too, five yuan is fine with me!"

With more people than opportunities, even five yuan an hour is a windfall for workers who only earn forty or fifty yuan a month.

Didn't you see the dozen or so Jiefang trucks parked outside the hospital? It would take two or three hours to unload all of them. Even if it takes the fastest two hours, that's ten yuan, which is equivalent to ten days' wages for them.

Only a fool wouldn't rush to do it!

"What's going on? Everyone disperse, why are you all gathered at the hospital gate?" Several police officers arrived on bicycles from the periphery of the crowd. Seeing the crowd about to surge into the county hospital gate, the police officers, fearing a stampede, quickly reprimanded them.

When Chen Dong saw the police arrive, he quickly said to the older policeman leading the group, "Comrade, it's like this, the supplies I donated to the county hospital have arrived. There are fourteen truckloads of goods, and the hospital is short-staffed, so I was thinking of asking these onlookers to help unload them."

"Of course I'm paying for it, it's not voluntary!"

The old policeman glanced at Chen Dong and knew that this was the overseas Chinese who Wang had specifically mentioned needing to take care of. Since the man was willing to pay for someone to help unload the goods, they couldn't say anything.

The old policeman then asked the other policemen who had come with him to maintain order at the scene. With the arrival of several policemen to maintain order, it was finally no longer as chaotic as before.

These police officers knew the workers in the nearby area, and many of them were their neighbors. When the older officer saw his neighbor raising his hand in the crowd, he whispered to Xu Caikun, "Let that person help unload too. He has a large family and relies on him to support them. Life is tough for him."

Xu Caikun nodded and shouted to the person squeezed in the crowd, "It's you! Come out, come out!"

The person whose name was called smiled broadly. Because there were many people, he couldn't thank the old policeman directly, lest others say he got in through connections. He just smiled and nodded at the old policeman.

Xu Caikun had seen the old policeman talking to him the whole time, and he knew that the old policeman was speaking up for him so that he could get this good opportunity to earn extra money.

Chen Dong noticed the interaction between the old policeman and Xu Caikun, so he walked over and said to the old policeman, "Comrade, you know this area better. Please point out those families that are struggling financially, and we'll prioritize having them help with unloading. As for the pay, it will remain ten yuan per hour, no change!"

"Okay," the old policeman said with a smile, then pointed to a few other people and told them to go and get their numbers. The old policeman only called out six or seven people, and then stopped calling out numbers.

At this moment, those "lucky ones" who had been selected with their number plates were being led by the hospital's security patrolmen towards the hospital's warehouse. The Jiefang trucks parked on the side of the road by the gate were slowly backing up towards the warehouse entrance.

Some of the people holding license plates spontaneously started directing the reversing Jiefang trucks, "Reverse! Reverse! It's okay, keep reversing!"

"good!"

With a shout of "Good!", the Jiefang truck came to a stop. The driver turned off the engine, took the key, and walked to the back of the truck. He first lifted the tarpaulin, then unlocked the hanging lock, and then gestured to the patrolmen from the hospital's security department, asking them to come forward and check the seal.

The seal was affixed by the Tuogang Customs Office, and it also had an official seal. In China, apart from a few major ports such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Tianjin, which are equipped with tractor-trailers to load containers, relatively backward ports like Tuogang have their containers loaded onto large trucks at the dock after inspection and then transported in bulk to their destination.

Besides locking the car and affixing seals, once you arrive at the destination, as long as the seals are intact, if any goods are missing, you can contact the port authorities; the driver will not be held responsible.

After the security patrolmen checked the seal and confirmed it was intact, the driver ripped open the truck door. The workers waiting to unload the goods were curious to see several strange pieces of equipment at the front of the truck.

The driver pulled out a list and said to the patrolman, "Here are six electrocardiogram machines, one ultrasound machine, and medicines in the back. Go check them out first, is that correct?"

The workers gathered at the train carriage door initially didn't understand what an electrocardiogram machine was. It wasn't until the doctors and nurses who had just arrived exclaimed in surprise that someone asked a nurse. The nurse explained it to the workers with a smile, and the workers finally understood.

It turned out to be an internationally advanced medical device purchased from Japan. When the patrolman told Director Zhu that an electrocardiograph on the list cost three thousand US dollars, the workers were speechless.

"Great, great, excellent!" Director Zhu looked at the cardboard box of the electrocardiograph machine that the worker was carrying down and said to the worker as if it were a precious treasure, "Comrade, be careful, put it here first, I'll open it and take a look."

The nurse next to him took scissors and cut open the plastic packing straps on the cardboard box. Director Zhu looked as if he had seen a long-lost treasure. He carefully lifted the box and saw the electrocardiograph machine inside, which was tightly fixed in the center with foam. His mouth stretched to his ears.

"Move all these electrocardiogram machines to the neurosurgery department," Director Zhu said, his face beaming. His neurosurgery department was now in line with international advanced medical standards!

Look at this electrocardiograph machine! Even the cardboard box it's packaged in is so sturdy. It really lives up to its reputation as a high-quality device costing three thousand US dollars!

"Old Zhu, why did you move this to your neurosurgery department? What, are you robbing me?!"