Chapter 484: Selling bacon and returning to the village
Half past four in the afternoon.
The snow in the sky began to become lighter at this time.
Su Mingzhe reluctantly sent Zheng Juan home and rushed to Chaoyang Hotel alone.
Wang Quan had arrived a long time ago and was chatting affectionately with his girlfriend.
This guy looks gentle and elegant, but he's actually a slut at heart.
Today when he came to the hotel, he not only wore a white shirt under his sweater, but his hair, which was originally a bit messy, was even combed into a bun with hairspray.
Since there were no customers in the hotel at the time, several other waiters also gathered together and commented on the somewhat coquettish Wang Quan.
"Sister Ling, I just heard from the manager that the thirty-two yuan banquet tonight was ordered by Wu Qian, my boyfriend. Is it true?"
"real."
"It's true that people can't be judged by their appearance. I didn't expect Wu Qian, a boyfriend who looks ordinary, to be so capable."
"There is a story here. I heard that Wu Qian's boyfriend was an educated youth who went to the countryside to join the queue. For some unknown reason, he came back."
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Su Mingzhe rushed to the hotel, opened the door curtain, pushed the door open and walked in. The inside and outside of the hotel were filled with ice and fire.
The temperature outside is so low that water can turn into ice, but people inside can keep warm by just wearing a sweater.
"Brother Su."
Wang Quan, who was chatting with his girlfriend, recounting his glorious deeds in White Ya Mountain, saw Su Mingzhe come in and quickly stood up to say hello.
"Wang Quan, is this your girlfriend? It's our first time meeting her. Let's take this watch as a meeting gift."
Su Mingzhe smiled and said hello. After saying this, he took out a women's watch from his pocket.
This Wu Qian's face looked very familiar to him. It looked very similar to the bearded Wu Qian in "The World". It looked like she was the Wu Qian.
Judging from the appearance and height, Wang Quan is a bit unworthy of Wu Qian.
However, considering that Wu Qian, as a woman, has a problem with growing a beard, it seems that Wang Quan is worthy of her.
"Brother Su, I can't accept such an expensive gift."
Wu Qian did not expect that Su Mingzhe would give him a watch as soon as they met. Judging from the style, it was a ladies' watch, and the value was at least thirty yuan, which was higher than her salary. She did not dare to ask for such an expensive meeting gift.
"Wang Quan, give the watch to your girlfriend."
Seeing that Wu Qian refused to accept it, Su Mingzhe didn't force it on him, but turned around and gave it to Wang Quan.
"Thank you, Brother Su."
Wang Quan is not polite. After all, he has long regarded himself as Su Mingzhe's subordinate. If Su Mingzhe is the eldest brother and gives gifts, then he can just take them. There is nothing to be embarrassed about.
Su Mingzhe then sat down and chatted casually with Wang Quan and Wu Qian.
The three of them chatted for a while, and when it was almost five o'clock, Gao Yaxuan brought the team driver over for the banquet.
This time, Su Mingzhe treated the guests to dinner mainly to build relationships with the drivers of the team.
The forest farm in Mulan County and the Mulan County Educated Youth Office are both under the jurisdiction of Mulan County, and Director Yang of the Educated Youth Office has a wide network of contacts and can easily mobilize the fleet to cooperate.
However, Su Mingzhe still wanted to build a good relationship with the team, so that Baiya Mountain Village and the forestry team could form a strong relationship of interest and personal connections.
After all, according to Su Mingzhe's budget, he would have to borrow the forest farm's fleet every one or two months.
If the relationship between the two parties is not strong, Su Mingzhe is afraid of delaying things.
Su Mingzhe was trying to win over everyone. When everyone sat down and the food and wine were served, Su Mingzhe took out the bone-strengthening wine that he had brewed for only half a year.
"Come on, Brother Gao, let's all have a try. This is the palace secret recipe I got from my master. It is a specially brewed 'bone-strengthening wine'. According to legend, the imperial guards in the Forbidden City often drink this to keep their energy."
abundant."
Su Mingzhe has long been accustomed to making up a "master" to cover up what he has learned.
Gao Yaxuan heard this and laughed: "Come on, let's all have a try."
Everyone didn’t take the ‘legendary thing’ seriously.
Who has never experienced the situation of Wang Po selling melons and boasting about herself?
However, after drinking for three rounds, the wine entered the stomach and began to emit a warm current. This heat did not make people feel heady, but after it traveled throughout the body, it made everyone feel relaxed and comfortable.
"Xiao Su, your bone-strengthening wine is really good. Does it have old ginseng in it?"
One of the team’s drivers, an older driver named Cai, was very experienced and finally couldn’t help but praise:
"I suffer from rheumatism. When winter comes, my bones all over my body feel uncomfortable. I usually drink two sips of soju made with old wild ginseng to relieve pain. I didn't expect that your bone-strengthening wine can also have this effect."
"Brother Cai, you are still smart. I did put old ginseng here."
Su Mingzhe first praised, then smiled and said:
"This wine not only contains old ginseng, but also more than 20 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine. It also uses tiger bones and deer blood as the medicine's primer. Just the raw materials alone cost about ten yuan for a pound of wine."
It is said that the best seller knows the right person.
These drivers are obviously not knowledgeable people.
However, Su Mingzhe praised his medicinal wine in front of them not to sell the medicinal wine to them, but to let them help promote it.
In modern society, it has long been out of fashion that "the smell of wine is not afraid of the depth of the alley".
Counterfeit goods and high imitation goods have become popular.
In order to advertise his medicinal wine, Su Mingzhe even spared drivers such as Gao Yaxuan, so he spared no effort.
It doesn't matter whether these drivers believe it or not.
Later, Su Mingzhe also gave these drivers some benefits.
For example, in order to live a prosperous year, Su Mingzhe planned to sell the bacon that he had prepared by Wang Quan while hunting.
Since there are no formal channels, the price of bacon is not expensive, only 40 cents per pound, and no meat stamps are required.
When the twelve drivers heard that there was such a good thing, they all immediately agreed to buy more than ten kilograms to eat during the New Year.
Su Mingzhe asked them to help publicize it among their forest farm colleagues.
These drivers are soft-spoken and short-handed, so they naturally spare no effort to help publicize this matter.
By the time the banquet was over, more than a dozen people were satisfied and went back to rest.
The next day came, Saturday.
Originally, according to the plan, the old village chief would go to the county town today to pick up Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan back to Baiyashan Village.
However, this heavy snowfall continued all day and night, shattering everyone's plans.
When Su Mingzhe got up from the bed, his younger brother was already up and reciting the text.
After washing his face, Su Mingzhe began to eat the breakfast left by Jiang Cuiping.
Su Mingxue waited for his eldest brother to finish breakfast, then put down his textbook and complained: "Brother, our school has been in chaos recently. Even the principal was arrested a few days ago. How about I take our place and go to work in the factory?"
"Don't worry about everyone else, just do what you should do. If you really want to go to work, you have to get your high school diploma first."
Su Mingzhe saw the pain on his younger brother's face, so he could only patiently persuade him:
"You are just a junior high school student now, and you can only be an ordinary worker when you enter the factory. But it will be different after you get your high school diploma. At that time, you will become a key training target in the factory, and you may even become a technician.
Then you don’t have to work hard.”
"Brother, don't worry, I won't let you and our mother down."
Su Mingxue was taught a lesson by Su Mingzhe, and he settled down to study again.
This kid is worthy of his name. Although he is not a nerd, he really loves learning.
At around nine o'clock, Su Mingzhe went to Zheng's house again on the pretext of having a class reunion.
After today's silver needle crossing acupoint, half of the first course of treatment has passed, and most of the 'toxins' in Zheng Guangming's eyeballs have been removed.
Although Zheng Guangming's vision has not recovered at this time, he already has a 'light perception'.
In other words, he can already feel day and night.
For this good news, the Zheng family is particularly grateful to Su Mingzhe.
We had a meal at Zheng's house at noon. Zheng's mother was going to take her son out to make room for Su Mingzhe and her daughter.
However, Su Mingzhe insisted on taking Zheng Juan out for shopping.
Although the Zheng family's fire pit is warm, the wooden beds in the guest house also have a special charm.
It's Monday in the blink of an eye.
Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan rested in the guest house for a long time, and then sent Zheng Juan home.
When he got home, he saw Wang Quan waiting for him.
"Brother Su, Captain Gao called the Educated Youth Affairs Office today and said the train can leave tomorrow."
"So fast?"
Su Mingzhe was a little surprised. When he and Zheng Juan separated just now, they had made an appointment to go out to play together tomorrow.
After sending away Wang Quan who came to report the news, Su Mingzhe told his brother and asked him and his mother not to wait for him to have dinner.
After talking, Su Mingzhe turned around and went back to Zheng's house.
At this time, Zheng Juan had just entered the house, still carrying the cold air from outside.
Zheng Juan was also pleasantly surprised to see Su Mingzhe come back:
"Why are you back? Did you forget to get something?"
"No, it was informed by the motorcade that we will return to Mulan County tomorrow."
Su Mingzhe and Mother Zheng also said hello:
"Auntie, after I leave, the next time I come back will be at the end of the year. I will prepare the medicine for Guangming in Mulan County and then find someone to deliver it."
"It's not urgent. You and Juanzi chat first, and I'll go cook."
Mother Zheng is also very reluctant to leave Su Mingzhe tomorrow.
These days, because of Su Mingzhe, the life of the Zheng family has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Needless to say, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation have undergone tremendous changes.
According to Zheng's mother's estimation, in this short period of less than ten days, Su Mingzhe spent at least one or two thousand on the Zheng family.
In this era, if a man is willing to spend so much money on a woman, even if it is just for beauty, it is definitely considered sincere.
Su Mingzhe stayed at Zheng's house for another dinner, and then said goodbye to Zheng Juan who was reluctant to leave.
Of course, before leaving, Su Mingzhe told Zheng Juan that she was not allowed to see him off at the Educated Youth Office tomorrow.
The temperature has dropped sharply in the past few days, with the temperature in the morning being more than 20 degrees below zero. Su Mingzhe was not willing to let Zheng Juan brave the severe cold just to send him some dry food.
On the second day.
Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan arrived at the Educated Youth Office at seven o'clock.
The motorcade led by Gao Yaxuan arrived at just after eight o'clock.
The heavy snowfall in the past two days was all frozen, and the road was so slippery that the truck couldn't drive fast at all.
In order to prevent slipping, Gao Yaxuan and others also added chains to the wheels of six trucks.
When Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan saw the truck arriving, they quickly greeted everyone and helped lift the two machines onto the truck.
At half past eight, the motorcade set off slowly.
Along the way, because of the delay of several days, the drivers were very energetic.
Despite being so careful, the car skidded on several hills and almost caused an accident.
By the time the convoy returned to the countryside of Mulan County, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.
By this time, the Educated Youth Office had closed its doors.
Everyone can only unload the machine at the door of the Educated Youth Office.
Su Mingzhe asked Wang Quan to stay in a guest house, while he rushed back to White Ya Mountain overnight.
According to Su Mingzhe's method, it only takes minutes to get from Mulan County to White Ya Mountain.
However, in order not to arouse suspicion, Su Mingzhe returned to the mountains at a speed that was one or two times faster than ordinary people.
By the time he returned to White Tooth Mountain, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and the villagers had already gone to bed.
Su Mingzhe first knocked on the door of the old village chief's house and told him about his return with the machine. Then he asked him to help find some more spiritual hounds in the village.
This time the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, and the snow on the road was as deep as the calves. The carriage would definitely not be able to get out.
Su Mingzhe wanted to pull the two machines back. Without using the system space, he had to find another way and find some hounds to put on the sled to pull the things back.
After listening to Su Mingzhe's words, the old village chief ignored the fact that it was already midnight. He lit a lantern and went to several hunters who had hounds all night to discuss borrowing hounds.
When Su Mingzhe returned to school alone, the three women Wang Yafang, Xu Kai, and Yu Hong, who had already gone to bed, heard the noise and did not dare to open the door.
It wasn't until Su Mingzhe shouted loudly that they opened the school door regardless of image and invited Su Mingzhe to sit down in their girls' dormitory.
"Brother Su, why did you come back so late?"
Wang Yafang was the most pleasantly surprised. Despite her usual chatter, she was actually the timidest.
This time, Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan were gone for ten days.
The three women often heard the sound of night owls and howling wolves in the middle of the night, which scared them so much that they could not sleep all night long.
Wang Yafang was the most severely frightened. When teaching children during the day, she often had dark circles under her eyes.
It was only after this experience that the three girls finally understood the importance of having a man by their side.
"Brother Su, where is Wang Quan?"
Yu Hong waited for Su Mingzhe to welcome him into the girls' dormitory, and looked outside for a while, but found no trace of Wang Quan, which was a bit strange.
Two people went out, but only one person came back.
"The convoy arrived at the county seat at six o'clock in the evening. The mountain roads were covered with ice and snow, so I asked him to stay in the county town guest house temporarily."
As Su Mingzhe said that, he took off his cold-proof equipment.
Yu Hong quickly took it and put it on the kang, then went to light the fire kang in the boys' dormitory for Su Mingzhe.
Xu Kai was not idle either. He picked up his water vat and went to make a vat of hot tea for Su Mingzhe to help Su Mingzhe ward off the cold.
"Is it difficult to walk on the national highway? It doesn't even arrive at the county seat until six o'clock?"
Wang Yafang was surprised at the speed of the truck.
Xu Kai next to him was thinking about something else:
"Brother Su, it's so late, why don't you stay in the county with Wang Quan?"
"I'm rough-skinned and thick-skinned. I'm used to wind and snow."
Su Mingzhe chatted with Xu Kai and Wang Yafang for a while.
On the other side, Yu Hong lit the stove, and the temperature in the boys' dormitory slowly climbed up.
Su Mingzhe took a few sips of tea, took out the letters from the three female educated youths in his pocket, handed them to them, and then prepared to go back to the boys' dormitory to rest.
When Xu Kai saw it, he didn't care about reading the family letter and quickly stopped the man:
"Brother Su, the big kang won't heat up so quickly. You can sit in our room for a while longer."