In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

Wang Xingguo temporarily gave up his work at the two hospitals. Next, he needed to trade goods with other people in the black market. Many supplies were already available through others, so he and his three uncles traded them for fish and eels. Two of his cousins ​​were skilled in masonry and built a pond in the yard to raise fish and eels.

They mainly sell live seafood, since frozen seafood isn't worth as much.

After three days of hard work, we finally managed to arrange some goods and reached an agreement with several black market dealers on future cooperation.

They lack poultry and meat, as well as fish and eels, so they are quite happy to cooperate with Wang Xingguo's side in this way.

On October 18th, the Wang family courtyard was bustling with activity, as it was the auspicious day for Wang Xingbang to marry Shen Qingqing.

There are now twelve clansmen in the city. The two retired clansmen have returned to the capital and came to the city a few days ago to help. Five uncles came to help, while the clansmen stayed in the courtyard to continue their various tasks. Wang Xingguo did not prepare an extravagant banquet; a decent enough one would suffice.

However, the Shen family was quite satisfied with the dishes, feeling that the Wang family valued them very much. They even set up five tables, with one table of former neighbors and even Jin Baorong coming to the wedding banquet.

Grandma Jin was probably lucky to have someone to take care of her in her final days, so she treated this nephew with all her heart. She gave him money to give to the person who arranged the job, and now he is a fitter apprentice at the steel rolling mill.

Although he hasn't become a full-time employee, people are already willing to arrange blind dates for him.

A decent job is really in high demand.

Wang Xingguo's childhood friends, including Li Zhengang, also took leave to come and help. They were the main force in the work, helping to borrow things from Quanfu's family, whom they knew.

Of course, Wang Xingbang also has many friends, which is why he needed to set up five tables.

After the lively wedding banquet, everyone was busy returning things in the afternoon. These days, people don't pay for borrowed items, but they'll bring a big bowl of "leftovers."

There were hardly any leftovers on the table. These days, things are hard to buy, and most of the food is eaten up. These leftovers were actually leftovers prepared by cooking extra dishes specifically for returning gifts.

After finishing all that, my uncles and the others went back to the courtyard to continue their various tasks.

If they needed shelves to display their goods but couldn't find suitable ones, the uncles in the clan, who were skilled in carpentry, simply spent money to buy boards and make their own shelves.

Wang Xingguo informed his peers that his venue was about to open, and told Er Gouzi not to bring his underlings, only his clients.

Because the location of his venue was too sensitive, the fact that Wang Xingguo dared to open such a venue proved that his connections were incredibly strong. Qian Sihai would have to be out of his mind to use him to elevate his status!

If there's any commotion here, he'll end up in jail, so Wang Xingguo no longer needs to worry about anyone coming to cause trouble.

Wang Yongchang looked at the old almanac for a long time and finally decided to officially open the business the day after tomorrow, because this was the only auspicious day for opening a business in the next ten days.

Tomorrow he will go to the village to bring back the poultry and livestock, and then slaughter a pig, a sheep, and two dogs to sell.

The entire three-courtyard complex had a front courtyard selling groceries and grains, and a middle courtyard selling cigarettes, alcohol, cloth, sugar, tea, meat, poultry, eggs, and live fish.

The main building in the middle courtyard served as the cashier and a place to receive goods. A back room in the front and back courtyards was used for living, making it easy to find someone knocking on the door. The warehouse was entirely located in the back courtyard.

The meat vendors were in one room, the tobacco and alcohol vendors were in another, and the live fish and eel ponds were in two side rooms. There were several ponds, all connected to taps with a constant flow of water.

Because they can't be kept too densely, and the water can't be too deep, otherwise the flowing water alone won't be enough to guarantee oxygen supply, which can easily lead to fish dying from lack of oxygen.

There are still not enough people. This time when we go back, we need to get a few more helpers to go into the city. We need someone to be in charge of selling goods and someone to take customers to pay. It's impossible to sell goods and collect money at the same time. That would be too chaotic. Wang Xingguo doesn't want to cause unpleasantness because of discrepancies in the money.

Wang Xingguo had been too busy these past few days to pick Li Xiuping up from get off work. He brought three lunchboxes of leftovers to pick Li Xiuping up, and they went back to her home together.

After greeting the Li family, Wang Xingguo sat down and said to Li Laishun, "Uncle Li, I still have some things to take care of. Once I've sorted them out in a week, I'll come to propose marriage. Please agree to my marriage with Xiuping."

Upon hearing this, Li Laishun happily said, "Alright, I agree to your marriage."

Today, Li Xiuping, as Wang Xingguo's girlfriend, also went to the Wang family's banquet at noon. Because of this, Li Laishun and his son had to take the bus to and from get off work because she requisitioned their bicycles.

The Li father and son could only lament that daughters grow up and leave home, and it was better for them to get married early, so that this girl wouldn't keep stabbing them in the heart with a knife.

The next morning, Wang Xingguo rushed to the brewery.

He came up with a solution: he asked the brewery to issue a certificate proving that the goods transported by the Gaobeidian production brigade were delivered to the brewery.

Wang Xingguo wouldn't allow any specific details to be written down. Basically, he just wanted them to provide proof so that the clansmen could transport a small portion of their poultry and livestock into the city and then bring them to their own farm.

Wang Xingguo brought most of the poultry and livestock into the city using the space available, and he also had enough space to temporarily raise these poultry and livestock.

The brewery manager was actually reluctant to issue the certificate, but Wang Xingguo said to him, "Managers, I'm just picking up some poultry on the side. It won't cause you any trouble. If you don't issue me this certificate, I can't bring the ten pigs I prepared for you into the city."

It was this statement about ten pigs that completely dispelled the concerns of the factory managers, allowing Wang Xingguo to obtain the certificate.

During this period, the clan not only bought back ten pigs with money, but also reached a cooperation agreement with the village of Liu, the village secretary's son-in-law. They transported ten pigs to the Wang family, and the Wang family gave them the money for four pigs, making up their own ten pigs. The other six pigs needed Wang Xingguo's help to exchange for grain.

Wang Xingguo had already reached an agreement with Er Gouzi and Jin Sanye: six pigs each, based on Er Gouzi's grain-for-pigs ratio. Jin Sanye readily agreed, and the two of them had already prepared their grain, just waiting for Wang Xingguo to deliver the pigs to complete the transaction.

Meanwhile, the He family, the maternal family of the twenty-first concubine, had already prepared ten pigs, meaning that there were now twenty-six fat pigs weighing over 150 jin each.

However, of the ten pigs delivered to the brewery, and the twelve pigs that Jin Sanye and Er Gouzi combined, Wang Xingguo only had four pigs that could be slaughtered and sold. The village still needed to get more pigs.

It's just that the temperature isn't low enough right now, otherwise Wang Xingguo could have made ice blocks to create an ice cellar in the space, freezing the pork and taking some out to sell each day would have been the most suitable approach.

As soon as he left the brewery, Wang Xingguo headed to Gaobeidian. By the time he arrived, it was already past nine in the morning.