The news of Grandma Zhao's visit to Xishan spread like wildfire. Men, women, and children from Xishantun came from all directions carrying sacks, baskets on their backs, and baskets of earth.

"Everyone is queuing up!" Li Baoyu and Jiechen not only act as security guards, but also maintain order on site.

"Grandma Zhao!" Standing at the front was Wu Dalin's family. Wu Dalin's daughter-in-law, Lin Wenqin, took off the basket from her shoulders and took out parcels in torn sacks.

Wu Dalin's two children also took off a sack roll from their backs.

As for Wu Dalin, he took off the air gun he was carrying on his shoulder, put it on the table, took out the receipt from his pocket, and said to Wang Meilan with a smile: "Grandma Zhao, our family wants this gun."

"Ouch." Wang Meilan smiled when she heard this: "It seems that the recent gains have been good."

Wu Dalin smiled and saw his two children unrolling the sacks. Wu Dalin walked over, first took out a stack of fox skins, and then took four leather tubes and placed them on the table one by one.

When mountain runners peel off gray skins, large skins and yellow leaves, they habitually peel the skins into tubes. The four leather tubes Wu Dalin took out just now are all gray skins, that is, squirrel skins.

As an accountant, Li Tongyun only manages the accounts and money bags. Wang Meilan is the boss, sitting there and presiding over the overall situation.

On both sides, Jin Xiaomei, Xu Chunyan, Xie Sunshi and Li Ruhai started to open the skin tubes one by one and inspected the condition of the skins from beginning to end.

After the four people inspected them, they reported the condition of the four squirrel skins to Wang Meilan, and then they went to examine the fox skins.

Wang Meilan pressed the squirrel skin with one hand, raised her head and said to Wu Dalin: "Two males and two females, the mother's and son's one has an eye, count it for you as thirty-eight. The other mother's and son's one is forty-two, and the son's one is forty-three.

Two are eighty-six."

While Wang Meilan was talking, Li Tongyun used the abacus he brought to type out the total, and then reported: "One hundred and sixty-six."

As soon as Li Tongyun finished speaking, Li Ru, who was checking the fox skins, counted the posters and said: "Four fox skins, three gray and one white. The white fox skin will not hurt much."

Listening to Li Ruhai's words, Wang Meilan said to Wu Dalin: "If the white fox skin is damaged, it will be calculated as ten yuan. After finishing these four, it will be forty yuan."

"Sure, sure, no problem." After Wu Dalin finished speaking, Lin Wenqin next to him finally took out all the things in the basket on his back.

"Grandma Zhao." Lin Wenqin opened the torn sacks one by one, revealing the contents inside.

Hooligans are in poor conditions and need to save money in everything in their lives. Therefore, they do not wrap things in butter paper. Instead, they cut open sacks that are too damaged to be mended and use sack pieces to wrap things.

Wang Meilan took a look and saw that there were fungus, mushroom, dried eggplant, and a little dried sweet potato.

"Xiaomei!" Wang Meilan greeted, Jin Xiaomei and Xu Chunyan went over and weighed the dry goods brought by Lin Wenqin one by one using a plate scale.

These things are even more expensive than fungus. They are also good things. In ancient times, emperors would even use them to reward princes and ministers.

One pound and two taels of fungus, which are wild dried goods, were picked up by the Wu family from spring to autumn.

Wang Meilan paid one yuan and eighty one catty according to the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative.

As for the mushrooms, dried eggplants, and dried sweet potatoes, Wang Meilan looked at the things, then looked at Lin Wenqin and said, "Don't you keep these things for your own consumption?"

Wang Meilan said this tactfully, but in fact these three items are not valuable, and even the supply and marketing cooperative will not accept them.

"Grandma Zhao, just give it to me." Lin Wenqin's words showed that her attitude was to ask for money.

Hearing what she said, Wang Meilan waved her hand aside and said, "Build a scale."

Jin Xiaomei took a sack, hung it on a scale and weighed it, then put the mushrooms on the table into the bag.

This thing doesn't weigh on the scale, and the amount of mushrooms that fills half a table weighs just over eight kilograms.

Next to her, Xu Chunyan weighed dried eggplant and dried sweet potato. The dried eggplant weighed six kilograms and two taels, while the dried sweet potato weighed five kilograms and four taels.

Together, these three items weighed almost twenty kilograms. Wang Meilan directly asked Li Tongyun to charge four yuan to the Wu family's account.

Although Wang Meilan only charges 20 cents per catty for these things, Wu Dalin and Lin Wenqin are already grateful to Wang Meilan. These worthless things, let alone sent to the supply and marketing cooperative, no one will spend money even if they get them.

purchase.

Seeing that Wang Meilan had even collected these, many of the people in line behind him ran home to pick up these agricultural and sideline products.

The items brought by the Wu family were sold for a total of 210 yuan. As for the air gun, there was a deposit. After Wu Dalin gave the deposit note to Li Tongyun, the air gun belonged to him.

Lin Wenqin almost shed tears after taking the money. The four members of the Wu family thanked Wang Meilan again and again, and then walked home happily, carrying their own air guns and empty baskets.

Wang Meilan continued to take people to collect the goods. There were as many fox skins and squirrel skins as they wanted, as well as mountain products such as mushrooms and fungus. Even things like shredded beans, dried cucumbers, and dried eggplants, Wang Meilan also made concessions.

The price that Xishantun people are satisfied with.

These dried vegetables are not valuable, but they are gone in the Zhao family. The family eats and drinks together every day, and the dried vegetables dried in the autumn have long been eaten.

When we came out today, we all discussed collecting some in Xishantun and bringing them back to eat. Everyone ate it, so it happened to be the government's account.

Wang Meilan and her men were busy working in full swing.

The cooks, cooks, and helpers in the cafeteria of Yongan Forest Farm are also extremely busy.

Only Zhao Youcai sat alone in front of the window, smoking Shilin cigarettes and looking out the window with melancholy eyes.

"Either you don't go to work, or you don't work when you go to work." Suddenly, a voice interrupted Mr. Zhao's random thoughts.

In this cafeteria, the only one who dared to talk to Zhao Youcai like this was the cafeteria director Zhang Guoqing.

Zhao Youcai was slightly startled, then turned around and rolled his eyes at Zhang Guoqing.

Zhang Guoqing didn't care. He reached for the cigarette case that Zhao Youcai put on the table, took out a Shilin cigarette and stuffed it into his mouth.

Lighting the cigarette and taking a nice puff, Zhang Guoqing put out the match and asked Zhao Youcai, "Where have you been showing off since you haven't been to work these days?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Sao lao is a dialect here, which has a derogatory color and means running around.

Zhao Youcai didn't answer but asked: "Old Zhang, if I transfer my job, can you agree?"

"What?" Zhang Guoqing, who was sitting on the table, quickly came down. He looked at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "What are you doing? Transferring posts? You are a cook, how can you transfer chicken feather posts?"

Zhang Guoqing misunderstood. He thought Zhao Youcai was being transferred to another forest farm just like Fan Zhisheng and Li Dazhi.

This kind of thing is very common in the forestry system. Not only the cadres at the field director level will be transferred, but even the technicians below will have this situation.

But Zhao Youcai transferred a cook to another job, which was something Zhang Guoqing had never heard of.

"No." Zhao Youcai said, "I want to be transferred to the security side."

After saying this, Zhao Youcai added: "We will protect the place."

"We are guarding the place?" Zhang Guoqing was even more surprised. He frowned and asked Zhao Youcai, "How old are you? Do you still work as a guard? The security guards have to work shifts, and they have to patrol in the middle of the night. Are you able to do it?"

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"No, just listen to what I have to say." Zhao Youcai said, "I want to work as a camp guard."

"Forest guard? Ah..." Zhang Guoqing understood this time, but he immediately said: "You have money, are you not happy that you are not the director of this canteen? Can you allow me for one year? I will give it to you next year.

Go up and I'll give you the director."

Previously, Zhang Guoqing asked Zhao Youcai to help him catch wild boars and give him gifts, just to work hard. At that time, Zhang Guoqing promised that if he went up, the vacated canteen director would belong to Zhao Youcai.

As a result, Zhang Guoqing was not promoted, and Zhao Youcai was not promoted.

"Lao Zhang, that's not what I meant." Zhao Youcai said, "I've really had enough of working as a back cook. One day there was so much oil and smoke that I was killing myself."

"Oh!" After hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhang Guoqing sighed, and then said: "Okay, then you can go."

"Ah?" Zhao Youcai was startled. He didn't expect Zhang Guoqing to agree so happily.

"Why are you looking at me?" Zhang Guoqing asked: "Do you want to leave or not? Are you going to make trouble with me?"

"No, no." Zhao Youcai quickly waved his hand and said, "I wonder if you can't agree."

"Why do I disagree?" Zhang Guoqing asked, and Zhao Youcai said: "I'm leaving. There are no masters in the two canteens. Who will take care of the apprentices? Who will take over the small stove?"

Zhang Guoqing was amused by Zhao Youcai's words. Zhang Guoqing smiled and walked up to Zhao Youcai and asked, "Don't you realize (jiǎo) that you are doing something terrible to yourself?"

"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was startled, feeling that what Zhang Guoqing said was not a good thing.

At this time, Zhang Guoqing turned his face and said to Zhao Youcai: "If you want to leave, just go. I won't keep you."

In Zhao Youcai's astonished eyes, Zhang Guoqing continued: "How many days have you been working this month? Today I went hunting tigers, and tomorrow I went hunting bears. I asked for leave every two days. I have to work for you.

I've done a great job on my own!"

After saying these words, Zhang Guoqing stood up and left. Within two steps, Zhang Guoqing came back. He took out a Shilin cigarette from Zhao Youcai's cigarette case and pinned it to his ear, then pointed at Zhao Youcai and said: "You have to leave.

, I will let you go. But before you leave, you must stand guard for the last time!"

After saying that, Zhang Guoqing walked away.

Looking at Zhang Guoqing's leaving figure, Zhao Youcai clicked his little eyes, feeling that things should not develop like this.

…

Near noon, the jeep drove into the Shanhe Forestry Bureau.

The car stopped in front of the office building. Zhao Jun and Zhou Chunming got out of the car and walked inside.

After entering the building and walking upstairs along the steps, Zhao Jun couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Zhao Jun had been to this building in his previous life. At that time, he was a wealthy boss, and his brother-in-law Zhou Jianjun was the deputy production section chief of the Forestry Bureau.

In my memory, that time he came to the Forestry Bureau, he took Zhou Jianjun back to the village with him in his newly bought Daben.

But facing a rich brother-in-law like him, Zhou Jianjun's nose is not his nose, and his face is not his face.

After getting in the car, Zhou Jianjun scolded him, saying that he was so stupid that he broke up the family and lost his job. How could a rich person listen to this? Zhao Jun was very angry at that time, because he was looking at his eldest sister.

To save face, I didn’t quarrel with Zhou Jianjun.
To be continued...