"Li Huan, this time I'm sending you a quilt, a cotton-padded jacket, and some food. I also wrote a letter and put it in the pocket of the cotton-padded jacket."
"Well, you take a nap first. I'll go find Shouhou and ask him to get some national food coupons or something."
"Okay, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy a few sacks. These clothes need to be packed in sacks before they can be mailed."
Li Huan nodded and left. Three hours later, Li Huan came in with Shou Hou and Qiu Min. When Qiu Min saw Cheng Qiao lying on the hospital bed, she hurriedly asked about her health.
"It's okay. The doctor said my fetus is unstable, so I need to stay in bed more."
"Okay, I see. The supply and marketing cooperative just happened to have malted milk and canned fruit. I bought some. You can eat a little every day to increase your nutrition."
"I see, Sister Qiu Min, thank you. When are you going to marry Shou Hou?"
"Cheng Qiao, why have you become bad?"
Qiu Min's face turned red, and Shouhou quickly took out a large stack of money and bills from a cloth bag and handed them to Li Huan. Li Huan handed it to Cheng Qiao without even counting.
Skinny Monkey smiled. In his mind, the powerful Brother Huan was like a little lamb in front of his wife and was very obedient. He would learn from Brother Huan in the future and love his wife well.
Qiu Min raised her head in response, and the two looked at each other with red faces. Qiu Min turned around and sat beside Cheng Qiao's bed and explained:
"Cheng Qiao, the things you provided this time sold very well. We sold more than 5,000 yuan in total. This was the first time in my life that I touched so much money. I was so scared that I tossed and turned at night and couldn't sleep. In the end, I had to give the money to Shou Hou to feel at ease."
Cheng Qiao smiled. She put nearly 2,000 kilograms of rice and flour, more than 200 kilograms of pork, mutton, sausages, eggs, milk powder, brown sugar, white sugar, etc. in the house.
There were dozens of sets of bedding, cotton-padded clothes and trousers, as well as towels, soap and other daily necessities, which were indeed enough to cover the number.
"Brother Huan, the Chinese New Year is just over a month away. Should we do it again before the Chinese New Year?"
Li Huan nodded. His wife was pregnant and his father-in-law was sent to Gansu to suffer hardships, so money and tickets were essential things and he had to do it.
"Shouhou, go find out what the market needs most and how much is needed. We'll go big this time."
"Okay, I'll go right away."
"Wait a minute. After deducting the principal, we made a net profit of about a thousand yuan. You were supposed to take 20%. Wife, give Skinny Monkey 200 yuan."
Li Huan calculated the net profit based on his previous business experience, which showed that the purchase price of these things was at least around 4,000 yuan.
"Thank you, Brother Huan. Next time, the principal should be at least this amount."
Based on his experience, the skinny monkey stretched out his thumb and index finger and made a sign of eight. Li Huan nodded. Although it was a no-cost business, Li Huan always felt that there was no free lunch in the world, so he still had to be prepared.
The skinny monkey shrank his neck. He seemed to see that their future was infinitely brighter and he was closer to marrying Qiu Min and taking her home.
Cheng Qiao took out two hundred yuan and handed it to Shouhou. Shouhou shook his hand, pointed at Qiu Min, and motioned Cheng Qiao to give it to her. Qiu Min's face turned even redder.
Last time, I earned some money, and with the savings of Shouhou, I have paid off the 500 yuan I owed for buying a job. This time I have another 200 yuan, so I can buy a small house soon and then get married.
"Skinny Monkey, how much did those tickets cost?"
"The market is tight right now, and you want a national ticket, so you spent four hundred and twenty yuan. The money has been deducted, so you should count it."
The skinny monkey pointed at the stack of money in Cheng Qiao's hand and looked a little depressed. He loved counting money the most, but Brother Huan didn't like it, and even Cheng Qiao didn't seem to like counting money. Qiu Min snatched the money from Cheng Qiao's hand and started counting it in front of them.
The total amount was 5,043 yuan. After deducting the 200 yuan from Skinny Monkey and the 420 yuan for buying the bills, there was 4,420 yuan left. Cheng Qiao gave Li Huan another 200 yuan.
Li Huan was surprised, he didn't put in any effort this time, how come he could make money? The skinny guy smiled, brother Huan finally became a person of the same level as himself and lived on commissions.
When Li Huan saw the skinny monkey smile, he also understood what Cheng Qiao meant. He had said before that the family would be managed by his wife, so it was right for her to give him money.
After taking the money readily, Cheng Qiao wrapped all the remaining money and the bills exchanged by Li Huan in newspaper, then placed them in the middle of the cotton-padded jacket and tied it tightly with a rope.
Li Huan immediately went over to help, as he was reluctant to let his wife use her strength.
"Brother Huan, what are you doing..."
"Send the principal to the original owner."
The skinny monkey nodded as if he understood. It turned out that all these things were not obtained by Brother Huan, but by Cheng Qiao's family. Since Brother Huan was unwilling to say more, he didn't ask more questions.
"Wife, is everything done? I'm going to the post office now. If I'm any later they'll be closing."
Cheng Qiao nodded, Li Huan asked Shouhou to volunteer, and Qiu Min sat in the ward waiting, and at the same time she could chat with Cheng Qiao.
Seeing people leaving, Cheng Qiao quickly took out a sweater from a package and said to Qiu Min with a smile: "Sister Qiu Min, I want to take apart this sweater and knit a sweater for Li Huan."
"Can you?"
"Yeah, a little bit."
"You are amazing. Next time if the supply and marketing cooperative has wool, I will buy some. Then you can teach me how to knit a sweater."
"Okay, come on, let's unpack it first, and you help me roll it."
One of them was unrolling the sweater while the other was rolling it up. Soon they finished unrolling the sweater and had to wash it next. But it was not convenient in the hospital now, so Cheng Qiao decided to wash it when she got home.
When Li Huan and Shouhou returned to the ward, Chen Weidang looked at Cheng Qiao and Qiu Min with some embarrassment. He came here to act as a lobbyist, but he was really Miao Qing's father, Fenqiu, a very difficult person to deal with.
"Second rate guy, no, Li Huan, you're back."
"Why is the village chief here?"
"Your mother came to me and said that Miao Qing pushed Cheng Qiao down, causing her daughter-in-law to be hospitalized, so she went to Miao Qing's house and demanded compensation for medical expenses and nutrition expenses, a total of 20 yuan."
Li Huan was stunned. His honest mother actually learned to ask for compensation. This was a great improvement. He must praise her when he returned.
"Fenqiu refused and said he would give her fifty cents at most. Then the two of them started arguing. Then Fenqiu pushed your mother down, and she came to find me."
Li Huan's face darkened and he looked at Chen Weidang sharply. Chen Weidang's eyes narrowed. He felt that Li Huan had really become a different person.
Thinking of the photo of the dead person I saw at the Public Security Bureau, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on my back. A terrible thought came to my mind: this person might have been killed intentionally by a scoundrel.