Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 129
"Master, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, but you were too impulsive just now. No matter how wrong he is, he is still your own brother. How can you be so impulsive?"

Niu Xiaoqiang curled his lips in disdain: "If he wasn't my own brother, I would have beaten him long ago."

Fang Dongping shook his head: "Aren't you afraid that your father will teach you a lesson after he finds out?"

Niu Xiaoqiang first showed fear, and then straightened his back: "As long as I behave well in the future, my dad will definitely like me more, and I'm not afraid of this white-eyed wolf."

"Haven't you reached that level yet? So you'd better not provoke your brother. To be honest, you can't compete with him now."

Niu Xiaoqiang couldn't refute this, so he could only nod his head: "This is reasonable, and I will pay attention to it in the future. If I don't get better results than him, I won't challenge him."

It is quite helpless to say that the relationship between brothers has become like this, but Fang Dongping, who is familiar with the inside story, knows that Niu Xiaoqiang cannot be blamed for this at all. It is only because Niu Xiaogang is too bad a person, so bad that even his own brother is right. He loathed it to the extreme.

After all, this is Niu Xiaoqiang's housework, Fang Dongping can't get involved too deeply, he waved his hand: "Xiaoqiang, you should go back quickly, and let your parents have fun."

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded, and was just about to turn around with his bag in hand, Fang Dongping took out three tickets from his pocket as if thinking of something, and handed them over: "I almost forgot to hand over the wages to you, you take these three tickets Well, you can spend the extra few dollars to buy some snacks, don't always worry about helping the family to share their worries, and take better care of yourself."

Of course Niu Xiaoqiang wanted to pocket the 30 yuan, but his face was not as thick as Niu Xiaogang's, so he declined, "Master, you spent more than 200 yuan to wipe my butt this time. How can I still ask for wages? Let’s forget it.”

Fang Dongping directly stuffed the money into Niu Xiaoqiang's pocket: "One yard is worth one yard, and it cannot be confused. Since you have promised to provide for Master in the old age, shouldn't Master help you solve your troubles?"

This is reasonable, Niu Xiaoqiang no longer refuses: "In this case, I will accept the wages, and when I earn a lot of money, I will definitely respect Master by smoking and drinking."

Fang Dongping laughed, and the unhappiness in his heart dissipated a lot: "Okay, okay, Master knows what you are, so you don't have to always show your loyalty to me."

Niu Xiaoqiang grinned: "Then I'm going back."

"Well, let's go."

When Niu Xiaoqiang left, Fang Dongping couldn't help laughing and said: "It's great to have such a sensible grandson. This kid is just liked by others. Unlike his brother, he is not a thing at all. It's all because of Da Zhuang. Xiao Gang has been spoiled, now that he is an adult, it is difficult to change his temper."

Niu Xiaoqiang's money increased from 46 yuan to 76 yuan. Seeing that the sun had not yet set, he changed direction halfway and planned to go to the vegetable market to buy some good food to take home and help his family improve their lives.

Usually, the vegetable market is very lively at this time, but today's situation is a bit abnormal.After Niu Xiaoqiang entered the vegetable market, he didn't even see a single person, neither a vendor selling nor a customer buying.The entire vegetable market was empty, and there was a strangeness in the silence.

"What's going on here?" Niu Xiaoqiang turned his head and looked around, his face full of confusion.

Turning his head, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a white note pasted on the door of the store next door. Curious, Niu Xiaoqiang walked up to him and took a closer look, and found that it was a seal with a bright red official seal, which read With the slogan "Severely crack down on speculation and dumping".

"No way, it has been more than two years since the reform and opening up, how can there be a crime of speculators? They are just vegetable sellers, so they have nothing to do with speculators?"

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some people hoarded and drove up market prices, which made life difficult for the people.This group of people was eventually punished by the relevant departments as "crime of speculation", and they were locked up and fined.To be honest, the country's handling of this is completely correct, and there is no problem.

But it's different now. According to Niu Xiaoqiang's memory, the store in front of him specializes in selling soy products such as tofu, dried seeds, and thousand sheets, and occasionally sells some jelly.These things are sold in accordance with the laws of the market, and have nothing to do with hoarding. Naturally, there is no mention of price gouging or speculation. Why did the relevant departments seal up other people's shops for this crime?Isn't this wronging others?

Niu Xiaoqiang turned his head to look at the shop next door with full of doubts, and found that the shop next door was also sealed up, and the same slogan was written on the seal, which made him even more puzzled.

Next, Niu Xiaoqiang walked through this not-so-long street, and found that most of the shops were seized, including Gao Desheng's fish shop, and only two shops were spared.The two surviving shops don't appear to be anything special, and it's not known how they escaped.

In order to clarify this question, Niu Xiaoqiang walked quickly to the intersection and asked an old lady who was sitting at the intersection enjoying the shade: "Grandma, I have something I want to ask you about."

The old lady turned her head and saw that Niu Xiaoqiang was carrying a cloth bag, with a dusty look on her face, she couldn't help but smiled slightly: "You just came back from outside, right?"

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded: "Well, I went out to visit relatives these few days, and I just came back by boat this afternoon. I originally wanted to buy something to take home, but when I walked into the vegetable market, I found that there was no one there. There were many shops. They were all sealed up, I don’t know what’s going on here?”

The old lady sighed while shaking the banana fan in her hand: "I heard that the shops were closed down to rectify the market discipline, but they rectified it. We ordinary people can't even buy vegetables, and we don't know what to do all day."

Niu Xiaoqiang then asked: "I saw that two shops have not been seized. Now that market discipline has been rectified, why should they be treated differently?"

"It's very simple to say, as long as the shops that were seized were purchased from private channels, the goods that were not seized were purchased from public channels. The owners of the shops with the best business in the past were all arrested. I'm leaving."

Niu Xiaoqiang has read a lot of extracurricular books, and he still has some understanding of the market economy. Hearing this, his first thought was that the direction of the wind has changed.

This is not the first time something like this has happened. Even after more than two years of reform and opening up, the debate on east wind and west wind has never stopped.Either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind.No matter which wind prevails, the unlucky ones are the business people who are at the forefront of the market.

(End of this chapter)