Early the next morning, Qian Shulan took Wang Shouren and drove a tractor directly to the countryside.
The grain is placed in the tractor's carriage.
Maybe because they have been harvesting rice recently, there are no militia guarding the road here.
Qian Shulan asked Wang Shouren to drive the tractor directly into the village.
This time she was transporting corn. If someone were to find out, they would only think that she bought the corn from Li Shirong, and would not think that it came from her space.
When the people in the production team saw the tractors, they all stared at their vehicles with curiosity.
Qian Shulan jumped out of the car and said to the leading man, "Captain, this is the corn I brought, about 800 kilograms. Where are your dragon fruits?"
The captain didn't expect them to be so quick and come so early, so he said hurriedly, "They are all in the warehouse of the brigade. Because you asked us to go to the mountains to pick them yesterday afternoon."
There were 1,100 kilograms of dragon fruit in total. Qian Shulan directly exchanged 800 kilograms with them.
After loading the things in the car, he declined their invitation to stay for dinner and headed straight to the city.
Arriving at the China Foreign Trade Center, Qian Shulan asked Director Xu to help her contact Li Shirong. She couldn't go directly to the hotel where Li Shirong was staying because there were armed soldiers standing guard there.
Although Director Xu is extremely busy now, he is still happy to help contact people.
He was very happy that they could sign so many contracts this time. He asked her to wait in the reception room and immediately asked his men to call her.
Half an hour later, Li Shirong came over.
Qian Shulan was sitting in the reception room. When she saw him coming, she stood up from the stool and invited him to sit down.
She pushed the plate of dragon fruit in front of her that had been cut into pieces by her.
“Please try it!”
Li Shirong took a look at the colorful fruit, sat down and tasted it, and gave his evaluation, "The taste of the dragon fruit here is still a little worse."
When he said that, Qian Shulan's heart skipped a beat. "Have you tested the ingredients of this dragon fruit?"
Li Shirong nodded, "Of course I have tested it! We have tested dragon fruits from all over the country! In fact, in terms of nutritional content, the ones here are better, but they have not been improved, so the taste is still a little worse!"
Qian Shulan immediately understood that the dragon fruit could not be sold at a high price today, so she said, "I have more than a thousand kilograms here, can you see if you can buy them?"
Li Shirong raised his eyebrows and agreed without saying anything, "Okay!"
Qian Shulan smiled and asked, "How much is this dragon fruit per pound?"
"We only sell it in Hong Kong..." Li Shirong paused, "It's 90 cents per pound when converted into RMB."
She secretly calculated that the price was not cheap! It seemed that he knew it was nutritious, so he still gave a high price! Qian Shulan nodded, "Then I'll sell it all to you."
Li Shirong agreed generously. It was only a little over a thousand pounds, so he was not so stingy.
Thinking that he didn't bring much food this time, Qian Shulan reminded him again, "We have to deliver the pigs at the end of the year. By then, I want to exchange all the pork for food."
Li Shirong didn't expect that she would need so much food. Fifteen tons of food before, it's only been a few days! She couldn't have eaten it all! Maybe the situation in the country is worse than he thought!
Although he is from Hong Kong, his ancestral home is in Guangdong. He has a paternal sentiment towards this place and still hopes that his hometown can develop so that he can move his grandfather's grave in the future and not let him be buried in a foreign country!
He sighed and explained, "The grain harvest has just begun in many places. It took a lot of effort for me to get these 15 tons of grain."
Qian Shulan also thought of his dilemma, "Can you get all the food for the second half of the year?"
Li Shirong calculated that 20,000 kilograms of pork, at 4.8 yuan per kilogram, would cost 96,000 yuan. If all the money was used to buy corn, it would be 340,000 kilograms, which was not impossible. However, he looked at her with amusement, "How many chickens and pigs do you want to raise?"
When he spoke, he stared at her closely, his eyes were sharp, and his words were full of meaning. It seemed that he had guessed it. Qian Shulan folded her hands and reminded him implicitly, "Seeing through but not saying it out loud, this is the way adults think."
This is an admission! Li Shirong felt very uncomfortable! He pinched his eyebrows and waved his hands, "Okay! Okay! I won't say it!"
He tutted his words and said, "It would be even better if you could help me raise more pigs next year."
Qian Shulan didn't comment, "Let's talk about it later."
Because her dragon fruit was in stock, Li Shirong gave her cash this time.
Although Qian Shulan sold it in the name of the collective, she had spent her own money to get it, so she still kept it for herself.
After returning, she pulled Wang Shouquan out and asked him to sign.
Wang Shouquan was still confused. Dragon fruit? Where could they find it in their village? Thinking of the bag that Third Aunt brought back, he vaguely guessed it.
After coming out of the Huaguo Foreign Trade Center, Qian Shulan explained to Wang Shouquan, "I sold this dragon fruit for the production team in the countryside. I'll give them the money directly, is that ok?"
Wang Shouquan nodded, "Okay!"
I reported this matter to everyone when I got back, otherwise there would have been a big fight if this extra money had disappeared.
It's hard to say anything about eating this dragon fruit.
Only Wang Shouren thought his mother was really bold! He took her to a place where no one was around and expressed his concerns.
They are openly trading! What if someone comes to investigate
Qian Shulan spread her hands and said, "Don't worry! If I don't tell you, no one will know! Besides, I have already told their production team leader that I will sell it for them!"
Only then did Wang Shouren feel relieved.
"Mom, you'd better not go sell grain. It's too dangerous!" During the day, when Qian Shulan went out to sell grain, he was always uneasy, fearing that his mother would be caught by the police!
Looking at his extremely worried face, Qian Shulan was still very moved. After thinking for a long time, she finally agreed, "Mom won't go for the time being!"
Hearing his mother say this, Wang Shouren looked at her in disbelief.
Qian Shulan was a little amused and reminded him, "We have to sell goods tomorrow. I will be exhausted to death! How can I have the energy to get up early?"
Wang Shouren thought so too!
The next morning, they started to go to the exhibition. They had replaced the flowers last night. They were still bright and beautiful!
Those who were unable to buy at the Spring Fair in the first half of the year came early in the morning to place orders.
Qian Shulan was still wearing the clothes she had ordered last time. This time, Qian Weihan didn't come, so Zhang Zhaodi took over. She spoke Cantonese more fluently than Qian Shulan.
Zhang Zhaodi had memorized all the prices last night! Now she was entertaining guests in a proper manner.
Everyone else was very happy, after all, Zhang Zhaodi was also a member of their village!
When the two were too busy, Wang Shouquan would come to help. As for the others, Qian Shulan asked them to pick flowers in the countryside.
Because the weather here is too hot, the fresh flowers used for decoration in the back dry up in a day and have to be replaced every day. They can only pick them one day in advance, put them in water when they come back, and replace them early the next morning.
For seven consecutive days, everyone was working in this tense and busy state.
Finally, on the last day, all their goods were sold out. This time their quantity was four times that of before. They had already bought up the rattan and bamboo from the surrounding production teams.
As soon as the exhibition was over, everyone else went back, but Qian Shulan stayed behind. She had to help others set up the exhibition hall, so she would be back a day late.
"Keep this urea phosphate fertilizer and wait for the rattan baskets to arrive before taking it back! Lock it in the room and let Qi Huimei help look after it." Qian Shulan suggested.
This is all Wang Shouquan can do!
"As for the remaining diesel, the boss and I will take it back when we return."
They bought a lot of diesel this time. Originally, others wanted to buy more urea and phosphate fertilizer, but Qian Shulan felt that buying diesel was more important.
During famine, the ground cracked and no matter how much urea and phosphate fertilizer you spread, it was useless. It would be better to buy diesel, and maybe you could even transport water and buy food from farther places.
In the end, Wang Shouquan was actually persuaded by her, and after explaining everything to everyone, he still bought 100 barrels of diesel. One truck could not transport all of them, so there were 14 barrels left, so he had to wait until they returned and transport them back using a tractor.
As soon as the others left, Qian Shulan, apart from helping to set up the exhibition hall on the first day, began to wander around, sometimes selling food, sometimes collecting water resources, and she was very busy.
Wang Shouren was bored to death. Except for driving a tractor to help Qian Shulan transport goods and keep watch early in the morning, he was abandoned by Qian Shulan the rest of the time.
So he went for a walk around the neighborhood, and unexpectedly he saw someone in the alley doing the same business as his mother.
Why did he recognize him at first sight? Because the other side also had a lookout, and when that person saw Wang Shouren, he became particularly alert!
Wang Shouren wanted to turn around and leave, but the other party had no intention of letting him go and stopped him from the front and back.
Both of them were tall and strong, and it was difficult for Wang Shouren to deal with one, let alone two.
"Brother? Are you leaving so soon? Are you rushing to inform the police?" The man in blue held Wang Shouren's neck with one hand and slapped his face with the other, saying with a strange look on his face.
Wang Shouren was so frightened that he quickly shook his head, "I didn't!"
The man in black looked around and shouted at the man, "Why waste your time talking to him! Take him back and give him to my brother!"
Wang Shouren was so scared that he struggled desperately, but the man in blue was obviously prepared. He chopped him down with a wind and Wang Shouren fainted.
When Wang Shouren woke up, he found himself in a dark room with only an oil lamp and very dim lighting.
"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"Is anyone there?"
…
After he shouted for more than ten minutes, his voice became hoarse and his body became stiff. Because he was tied up with his hands behind his back, he couldn't even stand up from the ground and could only move his body like a bug.
Soon someone came in. It was a young girl, dressed very simply and covered in patches.
"Who are you?" Wang Shouren didn't know how he got here.
"Should I be the one asking you this?" The young girl laughed.
"My name is Wang Shouren, and I don't know you. Why did you arrest me?"
"You saw the third and fourth brothers making a deal, so they brought you back." The young girl said as a matter of course.
Wang Shouren felt very aggrieved. "So what if I saw it? I didn't intend to report them. Why did they arrest me?"
The young girl squatted beside him, holding her chin up to look at him, and said as a matter of course, "Haven't you heard of this saying? It's better to kill the wrong person than to let him go!"
Wang Shouren's struggling body suddenly stopped. He felt as if his brain had gone mad. He actually heard someone trying to kill him? "You are too cruel!"
Wang Shouren cried so hard that his face was covered with tears and snot.
The young girl stood up in disgust and took a few steps back, "How dare you! You are not scared at all!"
"Xiao Ba! Stop bullying him!" A male voice came from outside.
The young girl stomped her feet and said, "How come you're back so soon? I haven't even finished the interrogation yet!"
When the man came in, she glared at him and walked out.
The author has something to say: I met a real black marketeer. At that time, those who were in the black market were not soft characters!