A doctor who travels through two eras

Chapter 23 Gifts That Touch the Heart

Shen Guomin shook his head and said earnestly:
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, you are wrong. You can successfully join the work, first of all, you should thank the country. This is the welfare given to your Lin family by the country, not given to you by me, Shen. Secondly, you should thank your mother. It was she who sacrificed herself to make you successful.

These grains are very precious. Every household is hungry now. Your Lin family must be having a hard time, so take the grains back. I appreciate your kindness. Thank you for remembering an old man like me, haha."

Lin Sanqi became anxious when he heard this. This was the first time he gave gifts to his leader to flatter him, so how could he fail?
"Don't worry, Dean. Although food is precious, I still have ways to get it. Look at you. You are so thin that you are just a bag of bones. If you collapse, what will happen to our Chinese medicine hospital? So your body does not belong to you alone, but to our entire hospital."

Wang Huiqin couldn't help asking:

"Old Shen, this young man is..."

"Oh, this is the youngest son of Dr. Lin Kucan in our hospital. He got lost when he first arrived in the capital, but now he's been found. He just got a job this morning and is going to work in the purchasing department of our hospital."

Lin Sanqi quickly bowed and said, "Hello, Auntie!"

Wang Huiqin agreed with a smile:
"Okay, okay, your father has been looking for you for 10 years, and he finally found you this time. It's not easy. By the way, Xiaolin, you said you know someone in the black market? Is the food safe?"

Lin Sanqi thought that these grains were all taken from my mother's store. They are my own things, and nothing can be safer than this. No one can find out except Mazu.

"Don't worry, Auntie. The food is absolutely safe. Besides, things on the black market are not accounted for. Once they leave the black market, no one will care where the things go, and there is no way to check."

At this point, Lin Sanqi pretended to be mysterious and said:

"Besides, I've been in the black market for so many years, I know a lot of secrets. Not all the well-known people go to the black market to buy food and meat. But this is something that can only be done but not said. No one will admit it if you tell others."

Wang Huiqin rolled her eyes at her husband and said, "Look, you're just an old stubborn person."

Seeing that his deception was effective, Lin Sanqi added fuel to the fire:

"And Dean Shen, think about it, Auntie, why has the black market never been eliminated after so many years? Why is it even more prosperous this year? How could the higher authorities not know about this? This can only mean that the higher authorities are also turning a blind eye. After all, you can't let people starve to death, right?"

After listening to this, Shen Guomin seemed to be thinking about something, and in his heart he believed Lin Sanqi to some extent.

Intellectuals all understand a philosophical truth: existence is reasonable.

As Lin Sanqi said, the black market is really extremely harmful and has long been banned by superiors with an iron fist.

Wang Huiqin didn't care about that and smiled even more kindly. Now that the rice had come through the door, she had no intention of letting it go.

"Xiao Lin, your bag of rice is really heavy. How many kilograms does it weigh?"

"100 jin, not one jin more, not one jin less."

When they heard about 100 kilograms of rice, Shen Guomin and Wang Huiqin's hearts started beating wildly. It was really too tempting.

Wang Huiqin rolled her eyes and made up her mind:
"Xiao Lin, Auntie, I like rice very much, but Dean Shen is a leading cadre, so it is definitely not okay for him to take your rice for free. We can't do this. So, we buy it according to the rules of the black market."

Lin Sanqi was anxious. A bag of rice was worth less than 300 yuan to him. His store was a wholesaler, so the cost price was 200 yuan.

If you send a bag of rice and charge for it, you will be laughed at. "President Shen, this rice is a gift to you as a gift, how can I charge for it?"

Wang Huiqin still had a smile on her face. She touched the rice and advised:
"Xiao Lin, listen to me. Food coupons alone cost 3 or 4 yuan per pound on the black market. Rice is even rarer in this city. So I'm very grateful that you can think of us. You don't even have a job, so how can we ask you to pay?
This kind of good rice is probably going to cost at least 5 yuan per pound on the black market. So, you do me a favor and I will buy this rice from you at 3 yuan per pound. That’s it, we are taking advantage of you.”

Lin Sanqi blushed: "This, this, how can you give gifts and receive money?"

Shen Guomin was not a conservative person. He just wanted to eat the delicious white rice, so he agreed with his wife's plan:

"Comrade Lin Sanqi, I definitely won't take it for free. If you are willing to sell it to us at 3 yuan per pound, I will be very grateful."

Wang Huiqin also repeatedly advised:

"Yes, Comrade Xiao Lin, you don't want Dean Shen to make a mistake, do you? If the superiors find out, not only will he lose his job as Dean, but he will also have to go to Beijing Xiao for labor reform. Then you will turn a good thing into a bad thing."

Lin Sanqi wanted the favor of the dean, and it would be fine as long as the favor was done. Besides, he was really short of money, so he had no choice but to agree:
"Okay, then we'll listen to the dean and auntie, and we'll charge 3 yuan per pound. Don't worry, if others can't get food, I'll definitely find a way. If you need food in the future, tell me and I'll take care of it."

Wang Huiqin thought that she could get in touch with the black market through a middleman without having to take any risks herself, which was definitely a good thing.

"Okay, okay, Comrade Xiaolin, I'll definitely trouble you in the future."

After saying that, Wang Huiqin took out a stack of banknotes from the inner room and stuffed it into Lin Sanqi's hand:
"Here, Xiaolin, this is 300 yuan, no more, no less, please count it."

Lin Sanqi stuffed it into his pocket domineeringly, "No, no, I don't worry about anyone, and no one will worry about their own dean. I'll leave the rice here. Dean Shen, Auntie, I'm leaving first."

Shen Guomin looked at the bag full of rice, and the smile on his face never stopped:

"Okay, Comrade Xiaolin, if you have any difficulties in the unit in the future, tell me. As long as you are not committing crimes, no one in the unit will be able to bully you in the future."

"Look at what Dean Shen said. I am a junior, so I will definitely ask you for advice in the future."

Lin Sanqi was waiting for these words. His goal achieved. He covered his head with the towel again and left quickly.

After Lin Sanqi left, Shen Guomin and Wang Huiqin excitedly lifted up the sacks.

No matter how heavy it was or whether he was afraid of hurting his old waist, he quickly carried it to the bedroom, opened the closet and took out all the clothes. Then he hid the rice in the innermost part and covered it with clothes.

After hiding the rice, the two of them sat on the kang and started laughing foolishly.

"Old Shen, this much rice will last us a few months if we save it. That's great. I almost forgot the taste of rice."

"Yes, I didn't expect that the Lin family would be blessed in disguise. We can also benefit from it. Old woman, we must eat rice in the evening."

"Okay, let's have rice tonight and rice porridge tomorrow. Let's be extravagant for once..."

(End of this chapter)