"Brother, it's so delicious!" Gao Yigong said to Baosheng while eating the miscellaneous liver soup.

"If it's delicious, just eat more. These two bowls are yours. You can't leave until you finish them." Gao Baosheng said deliberately.

"I can finish it!" Gao Yigong kept the food in his mouth.

The three of them were sweating profusely after eating. Gao Baosheng and Gao Guoming finished two bowls of liver soup. They even drank up the soup and two cakes. They sat aside with bloated stomachs and waited for the volunteers to eat.

over.

"I can't finish the soup!" Gao Yigong said after eating all the cakes and meat, leaving a bowl of soup behind. He tried several times but couldn't finish it.

"Forget it if you can't finish it! Let's come back when we have the opportunity. This liver soup is very good, tastes good and is plentiful." Gao Baosheng said.

"Baosheng, what should we do next?" Gao Guoming asked.

"Let's buy the tools for the autumn harvest first, let's go!" Gao Baosheng paid the money and the three of them got in the car. They went all the way to the farmer's market, and then Gao Baosheng came down.

"Boss, how do you sell this bucket?" Gao Baosheng asked, pointing to a 500-liter large iron bucket.

"That's 45 yuan. You can take this plastic one, which can also hold oil. It's only 18 yuan." The boss saw Gao Baosheng driving a car and thought he bought the bucket to hold oil.

"I want to buy 4 barrels. Can it be cheaper?" Gao Baosheng asked.

"A bucket will be cheaper for you by up to two yuan," the boss said.

"How do you sell this water pump?" Gao Baosheng asked, pointing to the water pump at the door.

Yuyang County only has electricity in the county seat, so water pumps are not common. Everyone uses this kind of water pump, which is driven by human power. At least it is much easier than fetching water from the lake with a bucket. Gao Guoliang has always wanted to buy one for his family.

But I never gave up.

"Do you want a water pipe?" the boss asked.

"Of course, 5 meters of 60-caliber, and 20 meters of 15-caliber plastic pipe." Gao Baosheng said.

"The water pump will be counted as 68 for you, and the water pipe will be counted as 35!" the boss said.

"How about 270 together? This price is not low!" Baosheng bargained.

"I can't make money by selling like this...Okay!" The boss said and went to cut the pipe for Baosheng. Gao Guoming and Gao Baosheng carried the iron bucket to the carriage.

After buying a bucket, Gao Baosheng drove west, where there was a sand and gravel factory.

"Brother, why are we going to the sand and gravel factory?" Gao Yigong asked when he saw Gao Baosheng stopping the car at the gate of the sand and gravel factory.

"We have a car, so we can't buy a luqi (a stone mill used for grinding and peeling wheat in rural areas). This year, we can use a car to grind wheat. This will save a lot of effort." Gao Baosheng said.

Entering the gravel plant, a 600-pound tractor only cost 45 yuan. Gao Baosheng said it was cheap. He had a hoist on his car and hoisted the tractor into the carriage. After paying the price, he was about to leave when he saw a lot of tractors here.

Sand and stones are being hauled.

Because Yuyang County is located on the edge of the desert, there are several sand and gravel factories. Almost all the sand and gravel in Suicheng City comes out from here. Gao Baosheng came to the window of the prefabricated room in the sand and gravel factory to learn about the sand and gravel market.

"Boss, how do you sell this sand and stone?" Gao Baosheng asked.

"It depends on where you send it. The farther the journey is, the more expensive it will be." The boss looked up at him thinking that there was business.

"Gaojiawan Village, Luojiawan Township!" Gao Baosheng said.

"It's 65 yuan per meal for more than four tons, 80 yuan for less than four tons, and no free meal for less than two tons," said the person selling sand and gravel.

"What if I pull it by myself?" Gao Baosheng asked.

"Pull it yourself for 20 yuan per ton." The boss of Shashi replied, lowered his head and went to deal with his own affairs. Obviously, he didn't make much money by pulling him.

"Thank you!" Gao Baosheng left, and the boss secretly gave him a look.

Gao Baosheng has been thinking about how to make money. He has a car and space. There is a floor slab factory in Yuyang County, which must require a lot of sand and gravel.

The price of sand and gravel will be lower when the time comes, so I take over the job of transporting sand and gravel from the floor slab factory. This is a good way to make money. Moreover, there is countless sand in his space. He can pour sand from the space for only 20 yuan.

Save it.

After getting in the car, Gao Baosheng thought about it and decided to forget it. It's okay to use space occasionally to save effort. If he regards it as a regular means of making money, his secret may be discovered one day, and he won't be able to explain it to others.

After buying Luqi Baosheng, he drove east. There was a village in the east of the county that specialized in carpentry work. When he drove into the village, he heard the sound of chainsaws and hammers being hammered throughout the village. A man blocked their way.

way out.

"What are you doing?" This man was neatly dressed, and he could tell at a glance that this village was richer than his own.

In the 1992s, many villages in China still had a collective economy, especially in many backward mountain villages in the north, where many people lived in big pots.

However, those who still maintain the collective economic model near the county seat are basically very wealthy. In the future, most of them will establish village collective companies, which are an indispensable part of China's private economy.

"We are here to buy desks!" Gao Baosheng replied as he stuck his head out.

"Our village does not allow cars to enter. Please park your car on the side of the road and go to the first yard on Third Street." The man said.

Gao Guoming took the initiative to stay and watch the car. Baosheng and Yi Gong followed the man's instructions and entered a small courtyard. An old man in his fifties was teaching crafts to his apprentices. When they saw the guests, they came over.

"Are you buying tables and chairs? Tables and chairs are the second yard." The old man said.

"We will customize student desks and stools!" Mr. Gao Yigong replied.

The old man was very surprised. The desks were usually made by the Education Bureau. Today, two young people came. The younger one looked like a junior high school student.

"How much do you want?" the old man asked.

"Thirty sets." Gao Baosheng replied.

“Should the chair be a bench or a single square stool?”

"Square one!"

"What materials are needed to make it together? A set of paulownia wood costs 32 yuan, poplar wood costs 36 yuan, acacia wood costs 42 yuan, and catalpa wood costs 45 yuan. Most schools use paulownia and poplar wood," the old man said.

"Acacia wood! Paulownia and poplar wood are too light and not durable!" Gao Baosheng said.

"Do you want to paint? It costs two yuan for a set of paint?" the old man asked carefully.

"Paint, paint with yellow paint, can it be cheaper?" Baosheng said.

"If you don't invoice randomly, I'll give you three yuan cheaper." The old man could say this, and Gao Baosheng felt that he was still an upright person.

"We sell it to the school in our own village. We don't need an invoice." Gao Baosheng looked at the serious old man and thought he was quite cute.

"Which township and village are you from?" The old man raised his head and glanced at the two brothers.

"Gaojiawan Village, Mengjiawan Township!" Gao Yigong replied.

"Thirty sets of tables and chairs, made of acacia wood, cost 33 yuan a set. Pay half of the deposit and pick up the goods in half a month." The old man said.

"Okay, here's the deposit of 500 yuan!" Gao Baosheng took out the money from his pocket, counted five hundred and handed it to the old man. The old man filled out a deposit form and gave it to Baosheng.

After leaving the village, Gao Baosheng got into the car. Gao Yigong was still thinking about what happened to the old man just now.

"Brother, that old man looks fierce. He is not bad. He gave us 5 yuan cheaper per set." Gao Yigong said.

"So, there are still many good people in this world... Let's go buy some rice flour! The fuel tank is half full of diesel, and we need to fill it up later!"

Gao Baosheng drove back to the county town and went to the grain and oil store. He bought five bags of rice and five bags of white flour, each bag weighing 25 kilograms. He spent 150 yuan and bought 10 kilograms of cooking oil, 20 kilograms of pork, 56

The dollar is missing.

He went to a gas station to fill up the car again and spent 115 yuan. Today he spent a total of 1,128 yuan, and he only had 210 yuan left.

"Baosheng, you spent more than a thousand yuan today. Even if you have money, you can't stop spending like this." Seeing Gao Baosheng start the car and go home, Gao Guoming couldn't help but remind him.

"Just use money wisely, and if you don't have it, we'll make more money. Only when you can spend money can you make money!" Gao Baosheng said with a smile.

"Well said!" Gao Yigong looked at Baosheng with admiration, obviously agreeing with what he said.

"False!" Gao Guoming turned around and said.

The three of them talked and laughed along the way. When they returned to Mengjiawan Township, they saw that the wheat fields in the villages on both sides of the road were still quiet. They came back late to prevent sand grass. At this time, they were still busy planting sand grass!

In this way, the villagers may not have a day to rest in the next month. Gaojiawan sand control grass was planted early, and they can still wait for the wheat to mature in the village.

Driving back to the village, Gao Baosheng drove all the way to the wheat field in the east of the village. Every household in the village transports wheat here every year for grinding and drying. Each family is allocated 2 pieces of land here, and every household's wheat straw is also piled here every year.

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There are basically people busy in every wheat field. The autumn harvest is not sloppy. The autumn harvest at this time is not as simple as in later generations. The combine harvester can be used once and the work can be completed in one day by truck to the collection station. Now it takes at least more than a week.

time.

The first step is to level the wheat field. Clean up all the weeds and garbage in the wheat field first, and then soak the wheat field completely with water.

Because there are no carts in the village, the villagers need to carry water with shoulder poles, water the wheat fields in buckets more than three times in a row, and then use piling stones to level the wheat field.

If it is not compacted, the ground is soft and the wheat grains will be ground into the ground. Isn't this a waste of grain?

This work takes at least three days, and then everyone grinds the sickle to harvest the wheat, carries all the wheat straw to the wheat field, pinches the wheat ears with hands, beats them with canes until they are threshed, and then cleans the impurities in the wheat grains.

items and finally dried.

After drying, arrange the wheat straw, and wait until all the wheat straw is placed neatly before the wheat is harvested. In the past, what Gao Baosheng was most afraid of was the autumn harvest, which was more tiring than planting sand control grass.

"Baosheng, Guoming is back!" Before Gao Baosheng's car arrived at his wheat field, the villagers greeted them when they saw him.

The children were playing in the wheat field. When they saw the car approaching, they all ran to chase it. Gao Baosheng did not dare to drive too fast, so he slowed down the car, and several teenage children got behind his car. They were frightened.

He could only slow down further.
To be continued...