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Chapter 9 The first meeting with Liang Ladi

 Cao Weidong met Liang Ladi at the door of the machine repair shop.

She was wearing a machine shop uniform and had a military green tool bag slung over her shoulder, which contained a variety of machine repair tools.

As Liang Ladi approached, a fierce temperament hit her face.

She is truly a woman who cannot be compared to other women.

Cao Weidong sighed in his heart. He walked over and introduced himself, "Hello, Comrade Liang Ladi, I am the buyer of Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill, and I am also the neighbor of Teacher Yan. I was introduced by him."

Liang Ladi replied cheerfully: "It turns out we are from a brother unit. Hello, Comrade Cao Weidong."

Cao Weidong looked at Liang Ladi secretly.

If Liang Ladi is given a score of 100, then Liang Ladi can score at least 80 points.

Even though she had given birth to four children, she had nothing to do with the yellow-faced woman. Even on Liang Ladi's body, there were no traces of childbirth. She was dressed in dusty work clothes, neat and straight, but could not hide them.

Even her bumps and bumps cannot hide her ability and heroic spirit.

Of course, there are still shortcomings.

Liang Ladi's complexion is frighteningly white, and her mental outlook is also very poor.

Cao Weidong could tell at a glance that he was hungry.

Thinking about it, Liang Ladi will definitely have a hard time raising four children under the background of the national planned economy.

Liang Ladi has a good impression of Cao Weidong.

She stretched out her hand to tuck the scattered hair on her forehead, and said with a smile: "I heard that you want to know about the situation of the Shiwei Township production team?"

"Yes, our factory plans to purchase a batch of materials in the near future, and I have been assigned to the Shiwei Township production team."

"Actually, I have had contact with buyers from the Shiwei Township production team before, but a smooth cooperation channel has never been established. I also want to give it a try."

"After all, stable procurement channels are a good thing for both us and the Shiwei Township production team."

Cao Weidong's frankness won Liang Ladi's trust, and she agreed: "It is true that only by selling excess materials can we bring benefits to the villagers. I am very grateful for your efforts."

These days the production team implements a work point system.

Production team cadres and team members are not paid, they all earn work points. When dividends are distributed at the end of the year, according to the production team's income, in addition to setting aside some capital expenses for next year, they are evenly distributed according to the number of cents per work unit.

Those with a large labor force can still get some money, while those with a small labor force even owe the production team money for food. These debts are put on the production team's account and repaid slowly.

Therefore, if farmers want to make money, they can only sell the agricultural and sideline products they keep at home.

Or if the factory run by the team has a surplus, dividends and wages are distributed to everyone.

Cao Weidong nodded and emphasized: "So I have always believed that procurement is a win-win situation for Shiwei Township. Of course, I have a note from the factory leader."

His subtext is, I am a member of the regular army.

Liang Ladi nodded.

She talked to Cao Weidong about the situation of the Shiwei Township production team.

Shiwei Township is far away from the outskirts of Beijing. The village is not big. There are more than 70 households in total, ranging from white-haired old men to nursing children. There are about 300 people in the village. There are two big surnames in the village, plus several small surnames formed by settled settlements.<

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The village secretary is the captain of the production team.

The surname Wei is one of the common surnames.

There are three leaders in the production team, and the first one is naturally the captain of the guard.

He is the biggest official in the village. Every month he rides an ox cart to the county commune for meetings and brings back the latest instructions.

The second leader is the accountant who holds financial power.

Sometimes team members want to buy something but don't have money or tickets, so they have to borrow it from the production team. Even if the team leader agrees, it's not enough. They have to ask the accountant.

The accountant disagrees, and the bank notes cannot be borrowed.

In addition, the accountant has a great say in the distribution of the production team's year-end final accounts.

The surname of the secretary of the production team in Shiwei Township is Liang, which comes from another popular surname in Shiwei Township. He is also a member of the same clan as Liang Ladi. The two are still uncle-nephew.

The last leader of the production team, who should not be offended on weekdays, is the scorekeeper of the production team.

The scorekeeper has the right to record work points, and the tilt of his pen can also determine whether a family's year-end dividends are distributed or owed money.

Strong men working in the fields are not afraid of scorekeepers, but older girls and older women have to be careful about fawning over them.

The scorekeeper of the Shiwei Township production team is named Xu, who was selected by several people with small surnames who settled down.

Cao Weidong was amazed when he heard this.

He did not expect that a small production team could actually create a three-legged situation.

At the same time, I am secretly glad.

If Liang Ladi hadn't been there and he had gone there on his own, there was a high probability that he would have returned without success like the previous buyers.

Liang Ladi sighed quietly at this time.

"Actually, the products of Shiwei Township are very rich. We are backed by mountains, and the mountains are full of wild birds and wild vegetables... There are also many sweet potatoes. Although I have a stomachache after eating too much, I will never starve to death."<

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"It's just..."

Liang Ladi's words were filled with bitterness.

Listening carefully, Cao Weidong understood the reason why Liang Ladi was worried.

As the leader said, things always have two sides and need to be viewed with dialectical thinking.

Shiwei Township is backed by mountains, and the villagers are very hardworking. They have cultivated large grain fields on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain. After paying the public grain every year, there is still a lot of good stuff left.

But Shiweixiang has a fatal flaw.

It is surrounded by mountains. The only road leading to the outside world from the village is a mountain road. It usually takes an hour to walk here, but it takes half a day to walk here.

Moreover, the mountain road is so rugged that tractors cannot drive through it, and only ox-carts can move slowly.

Liang Ladi said as she and Cao Weidong walked out, "I'm asking for leave in the afternoon and want to go back to my parents' home. I'll go back with you. Then I can introduce you to my uncle."

[Ding, talking to Liang Ladi can trigger a mission (rare).]

Rare mission?

Cao Weidong's eyes lit up.

He felt that Liang Ladi's return to the village this time was related to the mission, so he asked tentatively. However, his previous unfailing male charm had failed. Liang Ladi didn't want to say anything, so she always dealt with it perfunctorily.

Although the contact time was not long, Cao Weidong could feel that Liang Ladi was a strong-natured person. She didn't want to say anything, and it was useless no matter what others asked.

Forget it, let’s wait.

Cao Weidong knew that some things could not be forced, so he had to put them on hold temporarily.

The two agreed to meet at the state-owned store an hour later and then parted ways.

Cao Weidong walked back to the courtyard to pick up his luggage, and happened to meet Jia Zhang who was guarding the door.

Seeing Cao Weidong, Jia Zhang's old face was like a blooming flower, and the wrinkles of her smile seemed a bit smoother, "Brother Xiao Cao, how are you? Have you bought any painkillers?"

"Yes, I bought it. Dr. Wang at the health station has a good relationship with me, so he gave me two more tablets."

The so-called Dr. Wang was just made up casually by Cao Weidong.

He said this purely because he wanted to increase his favorability and see if he could get hidden rewards.

It's a pity that he was disappointed.

[Ding, you completed Jia Zhang’s commission and received the reward: Shopping Point 10.]

[Comment: I asked you to buy painkillers just because I wanted to prostitute you for nothing.]

Looking at the mission reward, Cao Weidong's face darkened, and at the same time he made up his mind that if he helped Jia Zhang with painkillers again, he would have to take one-third less painkillers.


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