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Chapter 195 Depart Qin Nan

After the excitement was over, Li Wen looked at the tens of thousands of kilograms of cornmeal and flour in front of him and became worried. He didn't have that many flour bags in his warehouse to hold the flour.

Most of the sacks in the warehouse are hand-woven. They are very rough and have large gaps. They can contain some corn kernels and wheat kernels at most, but not flour.

Li Wen scanned the warehouse with his mental power, and finally found only six cloth bags. The capacity was not large, and they could hold up to thirty kilograms.

These white linen bags were bought at the black market in Weihe County last year. Each bag cost Li Wen a full one yuan.

"It seems that I have to find Uncle Sun tomorrow. The weaving factory in the city can weave sacks. The gap is very small and can hold flour." Li Wen said to himself, looking at the pile of flour in front of him that looked like a hill.

The three flour bags were filled, and Li Wen sent the remaining flour and cornmeal into the cave. Anyway, it was very dry inside, and under Li Wen's control, no small animals came in.

The strong wind rolled up the dark clouds, and in an instant, thousands of kilograms of bran formed a huge cloud with Li Wen's wave, and quickly floated towards the large reservoir.

In the large reservoir of more than 2,000 acres, there are fish, shrimp and other aquatic products collected by Li Wen together. The bran is used as feed.

After finishing these things, Li Wen went directly back to the warehouse and bedroom.

When he got up in the morning, Li Wen locked his bicycle in the house, closed all the doors and windows, and then walked out of the house with two bags of flour.

Li Wen bought twenty steamed buns when he passed by a breakfast stall. Today there was no oily stuffing, and they were all vegetarian. This made Li Wen very regretful.

Because he was carrying flour today, Li Wen did not go directly to the big office, but went to Sun Lianying's small office.

Sun Lianying gave Li Wen a key to his office so that any valuables Li Wen took in the future could be placed directly in his place.

Now Li Wen is directly responsible for the hygiene of Sun Lianying's office, and he does not need to take care of the big office.

At this time, Sun Lianying had not yet gone to work. Li Wen took a broom and cleaned the house, and then took a thermos bottle to the hot water room to get boiled water.

"Uncle Zhao just ate dry pancakes in the morning?" When he came to the boiler room, Li Wen saw old man Zhao, the stoker, holding a piece of corn pancake in his hand and drinking tea, eating with gusto.

"This month's salary has been sent to my comrades' homes. I can't afford breakfast, so I can only eat pancakes." Old man Zhao is missing three front teeth and has a strange smile.

"Your monthly salary of 38 yuan is sent to your comrades? You don't keep any for yourself. This is too miserable!" Li Wen looked at the dry cornmeal pancake and said in surprise.

"There are a lot of old men who were soldiers in the past. The times have been bad these past few years, and some of them have a difficult life in the countryside. If they can help a little, at least I will have enough food and clothing." The old man said with a smile.

For a moment, Li Wen felt that the old man in front of him was so great, and his whole body seemed to be emitting golden light.

"Uncle Zhao, please don't send money in the future. It's not of much use if they send money in the countryside."

"I have connections and can exchange the money for sweet potatoes. You can mail them some food when the time comes. This thing is better than anything else." After hearing what the old man said, Li Wen was ready to do his little bit.

"Xiao Wen, can you get food?" Old Man Zhao has been through hardships for most of his life and knows that food is more important than anything else.

"Um!"

"From now on, I will buy you 300 kilograms of sweet potatoes and 100 kilograms of potatoes every month. These only cost 17 yuan." Li Wen said with a smile.

Li Wen knew that it was unrealistic not to charge money, and the old man would certainly not feel at ease, so he still asked for the market price, but without food stamps, the price was already very affordable.

It's not that Li Wen didn't want to give more, but that giving too much would easily lead to detection. After all, all the food had to be mailed.

"You kid, this price is too low. The official price of 300 kilograms of coarse grains is 40 yuan, which is not too much. You will lose a lot." Old man Zhao hurriedly shook his head and refused.

"Uncle Zhao, you also know that we buyers all have our own channels. I will not make any money from these 300 kilograms of coarse grains. I will treat them as gifts to the older generation of soldiers.

Your generation is respectable. Without your bloodshed and sacrifice, there would be no stable life now. These things are not worth mentioning." Li Wen smiled and waved his hand.

"Thank you, Xiaowen." Old man Zhao heard Li Wen's respect for their soldiers and excitedly patted Li Wen on the shoulder.

"These are all within my ability. I am going on a business trip to Qinnan today, which may take two or three days.

When I come back, I will get a hundred pounds of potatoes first, and these will be my gifts to the veterans." Li Wen took out two buns from his pocket and put them into the old man's hands, and left with a smile.

In the past, Li Wen had a relatively small space and did not have much food to use to help others. But now that he has a small world to support him, his style of doing things has to be appropriately changed.

The poor can only take care of themselves, and the prosperous can help the world. This has been the virtue of Daxia since ancient times.

As a young man who has received higher education, Li Wen's wish is to repay the society after he develops.

"Xiaowen, you came very early!"

Sun Lianying was packing things in the office when he saw Li Wen walking in with a thermos bottle and asked with a smile.

"I just came here not long ago, and I just came back from fetching water." Li Wen smiled and put the hot water bottle on the table.

"Okay, let's pack our things, and we'll go to the Storage and Transportation Department to take the bus later." Sun Lianying picked up the hot water bottle and poured himself a cup of tea.

"I've packed it up!"

"Uncle Sun, this is the flour I got from my friend. Please take a look at the goods." Li Wen brought two flour bags over from the corner.

"Hey! It's pretty fast." Sun Lianying put down the tea cup that was warming his hands and took the dough bag with a smile.

"Not bad, not bad! It's really good."

Sun Lianying looked at the two bags of cornmeal and flour with a hint of surprise on his face.

This was as expected by Li Wen, because the cornmeal he made was fine cornmeal similar to that of later generations, and could be called fine grain.

As for the flour yield, Li Wen even controlled it to only 70%, which is the Fuqiang flour of this era, as white as snow.

"Your friend didn't say at what price he would exchange it for, or how much he could provide?" Sun Lianying grabbed a handful of flour, and he was shocked by how delicate it was.

"My friend said to exchange it according to the market price, which is easier to calculate.

However, the quantity provided gave him a problem, because they used to trade corn kernels and wheat directly, and there were not so many fine sacks for flour.

He said that if we provide fine sacks, we can exchange four thousand kilograms of cornmeal and two thousand kilograms of flour for tea." Li Wen said with a wry smile.

"Our unit can handle fine sacks, and there are still many in the unit warehouse. However, it would take more than 1,500 kilograms to convert such a large amount of grain into tea, which is too much." Sun Lianying rubbed his head and said.

"Uncle, if you turn it into brick tea, you won't be able to exchange it for much. A pound of ordinary brick tea costs 70 cents."

"Okay then! Anyway, the quality of this food is really good, I believe Lao Hu will relent and give it to Cha Zhuan.

But the price of our sacks is not low, so you have to ask your friend to exchange for grain. How about two pounds of fine cornmeal for one sack?" Sun Lianying chuckled.

"Uncle Sun, you are such a big talker! The black market price of a pound of cornmeal is one yuan.

Okay! You write a note quickly, ask for a thousand first, and I will send them over quickly. As for the food, we can settle the accounts together when we come back." Li Wen said with a wry smile.

"How about some more?" Sun Lianying tasted the sweetness and felt happy.

In fact, Li Wen also knew that the price was high. As a buyer, he could go directly to the knitting factory to purchase. Two kilograms of cornmeal could be exchanged for two linen bags.

However, if the fertilizer is not going to other people's fields, it is better to enrich your own unit! In the end, these cheap grains will contribute to the country, so Li Wen doesn't care about it.

Sun Lianying opened the note, and Li Wen hurried to the unit's warehouse to get a thousand sacks, and borrowed the unit's pedal tricycle to transport them out.

After completing the whole show, Li Wen rode a tricycle out of the city, found a small forest, and put all the sacks into the warehouse space.

After lingering outside for a while, I rushed back to the unit at almost ten o'clock.

"Be quick, I'll wait for you alone." Li Wen hurried to the storage and transportation department. At this time, Sun Lianying and the truck driver were already waiting.

"I'm so tired of riding this way!" Li Wen quickly took out a cigarette and handed it over to the two of them to apologize.

"Okay, no more words, get in the car quickly." Sun Lianying took the cigarette and clamped it to his ear.

"Master Zhang, you have worked hard on this journey." After getting in the car, Li Wen smiled and threw the cigarette he had just opened to the driver Zhang Junqiang.

The driver Zhang Junqiang happily took the cigarette and quickly put it into his pocket. It seemed that he had done this a lot.

"It takes more than six hours to get to Qinnan. The mountain road is bumpy and difficult to walk on. Section Chief Sun, you and Xiao Li sit tight." After the two of them were seated, Zhang Junqiang got out of the truck and started the truck with the crank.
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