60s: I have a store

Chapter 319 Buying Coal
Zhou Dazhong wondered if he should buy some coal. The weather was getting colder, and coal was consumed quickly.

Not only him, but also his sister.

Zhou Yimin took out ten yuan and handed it over: "This is for buying coal."

"Uncle Sixteen, no need. I have money." Zhou Dazhong said quickly.

Zhou Yimin helped him a lot in normal times, and coal was not expensive. It didn't cost ten yuan to buy coal. It was only one or two yuan at most. Now coal costs only ten cents for ten kilograms.

One dollar of coal contains 100 kilograms, which can burn for a long time, let alone ten dollars, which is simply not enough.

However, Zhou Yimin ignored him and just stuffed the money and tickets into Zhou Dazhong's hands, then pushed Zhou Dazhong out: "I'm sleepy and want to sleep. I don't want to talk to you anymore."

Zhou Dazhong had no choice but to go home with the coal ticket.

In the afternoon, Huang was about to cook, but was stopped by Zhou Dazhong: "Mom, let's go eat roast duck."

"Dazhong, are you asking your sixteenth uncle for the roast duck ticket?" Huang looked at Zhou Dazhong seriously.

I don't know when he held a cane in his hand, as if he would beat Huang with the cane if the answer did not satisfy him.

Zhou Daguo was also a man who dared to take responsibility for his actions. He admitted directly: "Mom, I asked Uncle Sixteen for it. If you want to hit me, go ahead!"

"Mom, this roast duck ticket is a thank-you gift from Uncle Sixteen. He asked me to help buy coal, and it would be bad to help for free, so he gave me this roast duck ticket as a thank-you gift." Zhou Dazhong also spoke up.

Since his mother had finally come to the city, he wanted to let her eat some good food.

Huang said helplessly: "This will not happen again. Dazhong, you must do what your sixteenth uncle asked you to do."

After the three of them packed up, they headed towards Quanjude.

However, Zhou Dazhong did not say that a roast duck cost eight dollars, otherwise Huang would definitely not go.

After we sat down at Quanjude, we ordered a roast duck.

Huang was shocked when he saw the price.

A roast duck costs eight dollars. You know, a duck only costs one or two dollars. It costs so much just for roasting. I wanted to refuse it.

However, he did not leave because Zhou Daguo and Zhou Dazhong tried their best to stop him.

The roast duck was served quickly. When all the slices were ready, Zhou Daguo couldn't help himself and directly wrapped the roast duck slices with lotus leaf pancakes and ate them. He took a bite and said, "It's delicious!"

Huang thought it was a bit exaggerated. She also wanted to see how delicious a duck that cost eight yuan was. After taking a bite, she couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's really delicious!"

Three people ate one roast duck, and two of them were adults, so one roast duck was indeed not enough. The three of them were a little reluctant to leave, but there were no more tickets, so they had to leave.

"When I return to the village, I will tell others that I have also eaten roast duck!" Zhou Daguo looked proud.

The next day, Huang took Zhou Daguo back to the village, as there were still a lot of things to do in the village.

Zhou Dazhong originally wanted to let his mother stay for two more days, but was rejected by his mother. Seeing his mother's tough attitude, Zhou Dazhong knew that it was useless to say anything, so he did not continue to try to keep her.

"Give some vegetables to your sister." Huang reminded Zhou Dazhong.

Zhou Dazhong nodded: "Got it."

After seeing his mother off, he also had to queue up to buy coal. He had already promised his uncle Sixteenth, and there wasn't much coal left at home, so they could buy all the coal together.

Zhou Dazhong had gone there so early, so he shouldn't have to queue. However, when he got there, he found that he still had to queue. Fortunately, there weren't many people in front of him.

If the residents were not queuing up to buy cabbage, there would probably be even more people here.

Throughout the north, the two most important things for winter are to buy enough cabbage and enough coal to get through the entire winter.

The price of coal is not fixed, it will fluctuate, and if you wait until winter to buy it, the price will definitely be higher. So many people will buy enough coal at one time, which is cost-effective after all.

After waiting for less than an hour, it was Zhou Dazhong's turn.

Zhou Dazhong directly handed over the coal ticket, and the staff took it and looked at it: "It's five yuan in total. Do you want help to pull it back? If you do, it will cost an extra fifty cents!"

"We need to help pull it back!" Zhou Dazhong replied quickly.

After saying that, he handed the money he had prepared in advance to the staff.

After receiving the money, the staff gave Zhou Dazhong a receipt.

After Zhou Dazhong got the receipt, he went to the side to collect the coal, where a rickshaw driver was waiting.

The rickshaw driver put the items Zhou Dazhong bought on the rickshaw, and then asked Zhou Dazhong to lead the way.

Zhou Dazhong rode his bicycle in front to lead the way, but he was afraid that the rickshaw could not keep up, so he did not dare to ride too fast.

The rickshaw driver looked at Zhou Dazhong riding a bicycle with envy on his face! Bicycles are only for the rich.

After riding for more than half an hour, Zhou Dazhong asked, "Master, do you want to take a break?"

The rickshaw driver was pulling hundreds of kilograms of coal and had been walking for such a long time.

"No need, we're just getting there." The rickshaw driver looked relaxed.

This is just a warm-up. Sometimes you have to pull something much heavier than this, but you still have to pull it anyway, right?

"Master, that's awesome!" Zhou Dazhong gave a thumbs up.

After riding for another ten minutes, we finally returned to the courtyard.

They first moved the coal to Zhou Dazhong's house. Since the space inside was not large, if so much coal was piled up, there would not be much room to move around, so almost everyone gathered at the door.

Only some people who are suspicious and afraid that others will take their coal will move into the house, while others will stay aside.

Uncle Niu said, "Dazhong, why did you buy so much coal?"

He looked at the rickshaw outside the gate. There was still a lot of coal, at least a few hundred kilograms.

"Some of them belonged to my sixteenth uncle. I happened to go shopping there, so I bought some of them back as well," Zhou Dazhong explained.

"Master, the remaining ones need to be moved to another place."

He was also a good man. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one over.

When the rickshaw driver saw that it was Daqianmen, he had some complaints at first, but they disappeared in an instant. You know, Daqianmen is the best cigarettes that ordinary people can smoke.

Then he brought the rickshaw driver to Zhou Yimin's home and said, "Master, just put the remaining coal here."

The two of them worked together to move the coal in, and it took them more than ten minutes to finish.

Zhou Dazhong was not a stingy person, so he directly gave the package of Daqianmen to the rickshaw driver. When the rickshaw driver received it, he was a little bit hesitant to believe it, as he did not expect Zhou Dazhong to be so generous.

"Thank you. Next time you need this kind of work, you can contact me directly."

"Okay, I'll definitely look for you next time!" Zhou Dazhong nodded.

Finally finished moving, can have a good rest!
After an unknown amount of time, there was a knock on the door, and Zhou Dazhong, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened: "Who?"

"Dazhong, has your mother returned to Zhoujiazhuang?" Zhou Yimin's voice came from outside the door.

(End of this chapter)