Five years of marriage, always separated [1970s]

At this point, Ye Fan couldn't refuse: "I don't know if he—" looking at Su Yuanhang, "has he ever told this comrade why I'm helping you?"

The clerk nodded, "Of course. The military and the people are one family. I came here for another matter. On behalf of the city and Xiao Su, I need to call Director Su and talk to Director Su and Captain Geng about this matter."

Ye Fan couldn't help but ask: "A verbal agreement?"

It's such a makeshift team.

The clerk laughed and said, "How can that be possible? The ancients knew that high-fives were a way of forming an alliance."

Ye Fan: "Then sign a five-year contract with him. The higher-ups won't let him stay here for too long."

When the commune director reported to his superiors, he either said "Ye Fan said" or "my son said", but the key point was not missed, including that Ye Fan said she was only responsible for five years.

When the Revolutionary Committee discussed this matter, they calculated that Su Yuanhang would go to the capital twice a year on average, and five years would be enough for him to take over the capital market. By then, it would not matter whether there was a line with Ye Fan or not.

Staff: "Captain Geng is not out, right?"

Ye Fan: "I didn't say I wouldn't be back at night."

The weather was hot and there was no guesthouse on the island. The staff did not want to stay at the secretary's home, but they were unhappy to see him being hesitant and stubborn, so they stood up and said goodbye.

Su Yuanhang was afraid that she didn't know the way, so he rode his bike to accompany her.

As soon as the two of them left, Dabao opened the door and stared at his mother.

Ye Fan waved at him.

Dabao didn't move: "You don't keep your word!"

Ye Fan: "You asked Mom if she wanted to do business, and she said no. It's still the same now."

"But, but——"

Ye Fan shook his head: "Going to work is not doing business. Su Yuanhang also said that I don't need to go to the vegetable market every day. Even if I don't go to work, I still have to buy vegetables. Besides, the vegetable market is so close to our home, isn't it the same as being at home there?"

"But you, you're an accountant. I heard that. Accountants are busy, I know."

Ye Fan went over and picked up his son: "Where's Erbao?"

"You said something else!"

Ye Fan carried him into the house: "Erbao is asleep? Is he hot? Dabao, come down first. Mommy will take your sister to sleep in the living room." He held his daughter in one hand and held his son's hand in the other. "Have you seen the supply and marketing cooperative here?"

Dabao saw Ye Fan when he went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy soda: "What are you going to say?"

Ye Fan put his daughter on a chair and covered her belly: "Isn't the supply and marketing cooperative here very small? Because there are not many people. With few people and few things, mom can't be busy even if she wants to."

"You said that when I was a kid."

Ye Fan was at a loss for words: "May I ask how old you are now?"

"Me, when I was as young as Erbao."

Ye Fanxin said that you didn't remember anything at that time: "Mom lied to you, so you asked Miaomiao to write a letter for you to tell grandma and grandma?"

Dabao's angry face deflated and he climbed onto her legs: "You said it."

"You lying little dog!" Ye Fan pinched his little face: "You're still barking!"

Dabao immediately reconciled with his mother.

Ye Fan: "Are you sleepy?"

Before Su Yuanhang came, Dabao took off his shoes and prepared to climb onto the chair to take a nap.

"I'm sleepy. Mom, will you leave if I fall asleep?"

Ye Fan: "The chair is so narrow, what if you two fall down and get hurt while sleeping? Mom is watching you two here, and I will write a letter to the director of the Capital Supply and Marketing Cooperative to tell him that this is settled, and also tell him what's here."

"Why?"

Ye Fan: "Kelp is good for the body, but there is no kelp in the capital. There is too much kelp here to eat. Su Yuanhang's factory transports the products here to the capital and sells them in the supply and marketing cooperative where mom used to work. Sleep well, mom really doesn't have to go to work every day."

Actually, there are kelp in the capital. However, the seafood from Bohai and Yellow Sea is not as cheap as the one from East China Sea after it is sent to Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Bohai has to use train cars to send dried seafood, which reduces the transportation cost, but too much in one train car is not easy to sell. Hengshan has dried bamboo shoots and oranges that cannot be eaten. The price is cheap, and they are scarce in the capital. They are sold out in a few days after being sent to the capital.

I have to say it's a coincidence. If I change to another province, Ye Fan wouldn't dare to promise five years, because the specialties from the north are not rare in the capital, and the journey to the south is too long and not cost-effective, and there is no direct bus.

Geng Zhiye came back as soon as it got dark.

Ye Fan was making dinner while Dabao and Erbao were squatting in the yard counting ants.

Geng Zhiye went to the kitchen to take a look. Ye Fan was cooking noodles on the stove and didn't need his help, so he went out and woke up the two children to wash their hands.

Dabao took the opportunity to ask his father if he knew that his mother had to go to work.

Geng Zhiye nodded: "Su Yuanhang told me. Don't you want your mother to go to work?"

"Mom is so busy." Dabao doesn't want his mother to be too busy to come home.

Geng Zhiye: "There's not much to do on the island, your mother has nothing to do."

Dabao's eyes lit up, and his father said the same thing, it seemed that his mother did not lie to him this time.

The Su family, seven or eight miles away, is not as harmonious as the Ye Fan family.

Su Yuanhang is two years older than Ye Fan, but he didn't start school earlier than Ye Fan. Also, there was no high school on the island, and his father was worried that he would learn bad things from others due to his unstable mind, so he asked him to repeat a grade in elementary school. As a result, just like Ye Fan, the college entrance examination was suspended that year.

No one expected this, Su Yuanhang couldn't blame his father.

Now that he has another chance to make a name for himself, his father is worried about this and that. Su Yuanhang couldn't help but argue with his father. His father got stubborn and the two almost came to blows.

The neighbors heard the noise and came over to pull the father and son apart, asking Su Yuanhang why he couldn't just talk things out calmly and why he had to quarrel with his father.

Su Yuanhang told his neighbors about the food factory.

When the neighbors heard that this was a great thing, they complained that the old secretary shouldn't have scolded his son. Su Yuanhang not only had a job, but was also a formal employee, so he should be happy. The commune secretary asked the neighbors what would happen if they couldn't sell the goods and took them back.

Before Su Yuanhang could speak, the neighbor said that there was no such thing as a guaranteed profit in business. At least you could know if it would work after trying it. Besides, the Revolutionary Committee was not afraid to pay Su Yuanhang and Ye Fan, so what were they afraid of?

Even if it didn't work out, it wouldn't be a big loss. I didn't spend any money on the bamboo shoots I dug from the mountains, the oranges I picked, and the things I found at the beach. I just thought they were blown away by the typhoon.

The commune secretary was speechless and said disappointedly: "It's up to you. I don't care."

The neighbor took Su Yuanhang out and asked when they would go to the capital.

Facing the earnest hopes of his neighbors, Su Yuanhang did not dare to brag - we will meet again if we lie now, and he will be too embarrassed to go out in the future. Su Yuanhang said that the relevant procedures have not been completed yet, the food factory does not even have a sign, and he still needs to clean the office. Now there are only him and Ye Fan in the food factory, and Ye Fan has to take care of the children -

The neighbor interrupted and asked Su Yuanhang to come to them early tomorrow morning and they could work together to find a solution if there was anything they needed.

The next day, Su Yuanhang's neighbors were waiting for him at the door before he had dinner.

The captain of the brigade where the Su family was even drove out a hand tractor and took Su Yuanhang and his neighbors to the vegetable market.

The full name of the vegetable market is the agricultural and sideline products market. There are three empty rooms. The team leader suggested using wooden boards to separate one room as an office and two rooms as warehouses. There is a lot of rain in Jiangnan, so the roofs and walls need to be repaired, and the ground is covered with stones and wooden boards to prevent water accumulation and moisture. Almost every household has these things, and the neighbors talked about it and decided for Su Yuanhang.

The neighbors were so enthusiastic not only because they had no money, but also because Su Yuanhang said last night that if they were short of manpower in the future, they would recruit from various teams, and half of the money earned would be handed over, and the other half would be divided equally among everyone.

In two days, the three offices were renovated. There was a plaque at the door of the office, which was written by Su Yuanhang and the two office tables and chairs were sponsored by two large ship owners.

A dozen men who participated in the renovation looked at it carefully and made sure that everything was ready, so they asked Su Yuanhang to invite Ye Fan.

Ye Fan's home was not far from the vegetable market, but it took more than ten minutes to go back and forth, so the team leader drove him there and then drove Ye Fan's mother and two daughters over.

When Dabao saw the desk, he glared at his mother and said, "Is this what you mean by different?"

Su Yuanhang was puzzled: "What happened to Dabao?"

Dabao was very angry: "I don't want to talk to you!"

The little kid who was not even as tall as everyone else's waist said this, which made people laugh. Everyone couldn't help laughing. Dabao was so angry that his face turned red.

Ye Fan quickly put Erbao down and squatted down to coax him: "Dabao is worried that I will be too busy to take care of him and Erbao. Dabao, mommy promises you that no matter how busy or not, we will go to grandma's house when you have winter vacation. Okay?"

Dabao asked: "This year?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Are you relieved now? You can tell grandma in person that mom lied to you."

Dabao loudly clarified: "I'm not a snitch!"

The child wanted to save face in front of everyone, and Ye Fan nodded: "Mom knows. Dabao is the most reasonable."

Dabao nodded, saying that his mother finally understood him.

Ye Fan stood up and said, "Play with your sister at the door for a while. Mommy, can you talk to the uncles?"

Su Yuanhang's distant cousin said, "I'll go outside and watch them."

Su Yuanhang introduced him to Ye Fan: "He is the son of one of my uncles, named Su Yuncheng, he is 21 years old and not married yet. If you need him, you can look after the warehouse here." Pointing to the two rooms next to the office, "This is the warehouse I told you about. Is it enough?"

Ye Fan nodded: "It's enough to fill a train car. I can stay in the office and watch. You take care of the outside. He can follow the train, but one person is too few. Even if we leave today and arrive tomorrow, it's not safe on the train."

The captain who drove to pick up Ye Fan asked, "Who do you think is suitable among us?"

Ye Fan: "It's hard to convince others if we only use our own people."

Su Yuncheng stumbled back and hit the wall outside the door. The pain sobered him up. After hesitating for a long time, he walked to the door and said, "Well, forget it. Anyone can see the warehouse."

Ye Fan was surprised. Not bad, he is a good young man. Ye Fan smiled and said, "I haven't finished yet. I went to find Secretary Su at the beginning. If it weren't for your brother's intervention, this matter would not have been done. Based on this, he should be given a quota." He asked the captain and others, "You don't know yet?"

Su Yuanhang's neighbor laughed and said, "How could I not know? The old secretary said that you two are too young to accomplish anything. The two of you almost had a fight because of this. If I hadn't sensed something was wrong and ran away quickly, he would still be lying in the hospital." Looking at Su Yuanhang, he asked, "You didn't dare tell Ye, Accountant Ye, right?"

Ye Fan: "There is still this matter? What about now?"

The captain shook his head: "The old secretary is stubborn. He still thinks it won't work. He came to take a look a few days ago, and found that the sign hadn't been put up yet, and the tables and chairs were all outside. He said that we were just a makeshift team."

Su Yuanhang felt embarrassed that his father was so disrespectful to him. His face gradually turned red, and he felt as upset as he had eight years ago when he heard that the college entrance examination would be cancelled.

Seeing him like this, Ye Fan was angry at the old secretary. "I originally planned to take it slow, but it seems that we have to hurry up. Your father has been badmouthing us every day, and everyone's enthusiasm has been lost before we even start. I will write a letter to the capital when I go back, and rush to ship out a batch of goods before August 15th." Seeing what the captain wanted to say, "Don't worry, we need transport vehicles to ship goods, and we have to find a transport factory or fleet. This place is close to the dock, so we can use the island's vehicles. We use people from the island for loading and unloading. The salary has hardly increased in recent years. It was paid the same amount a day for loading and unloading before, and we are told to be temporary workers. Don't pay the ship yet, I'll write it down and collect the money and give it to the team. Are all the big ships public now?"

The captain nodded and said, "Our team's big ship belongs to us. Anyone who wants to use it can pay some rent."

Ye Fan: "We'll probably need five or six loaders and unloaders, as well as people who can pick and sort the goods. We'll also need one or two people to go to the paper mill to buy cartons and paper. But we're just starting out, so Su Yuanhang, I'll leave the purchase of cartons to you. By the way, ask the city's supply and marketing cooperative if they want the capital's specialty products. Ask the director to sign a contract with you for as many as you need, and pay the full amount upon delivery. No credit! Otherwise, you'll be working for them."

Su Yuanhang nodded: "Anything else?"

Ye Fan said to the team leader, "In addition to Su Yuncheng, recruit ten more temporary workers, one for each village. You can find women to pack and select the goods. Do you know how to choose the candidates?"

The captain of the Lotus Brigade where Su Yuanhang was was also here today. When Ye Fan heard that the commune secretary had made things difficult for his son, he instantly became angry. This was in line with his temper, so the captain who had not dared to show off for eight years could not help but say, "Pick the poor ones first."

Ye Fan: "Just like that?"

The big ship owner was stumped.

Ye Fan: "There are many kinds of poverty. Some people become poor because of laziness, some people lose their property because of causing trouble. Some people become poor because of illness. If there is a strong laborer who can go out to sea to fish, such families will not be considered. The elderly, the weak, women and children have the hardest time. The elderly and women cannot move goods, so they come here to watch the warehouse and pick goods." Remind Su Yuanhang, "Select people like this in the future. But you can't recruit everyone just because of sympathy."

The team leader agreed: "Every household will get a share of the money after the goods are sold, and then life will be better. Besides, there is the team headquarters. Even if the team headquarters has no money, we will not starve to death because we are located in the mountains and by the sea."

Ye Fan: "Su Yuanhang, you have no experience, take your time. It takes ten days for an express letter to come and go. By the way, the people following the car -" looking at the big ship owner, "you and Su Yuncheng."

The big ship owner couldn't believe it, and his eyes were full of stars: "Me?" Ye Fan explained to the captain and others: "Su Yuncheng is young and can last a whole day and a night without sleep. When the train arrives at the station at night, he can come down to see if there is anyone riding on the train. Although it is different now than before, business is still business. We must find someone who is knowledgeable and experienced to go to the capital with him. If it's not this comrade, it will be someone else."

Everyone suddenly realized it. But some people still said: "You can learn it."

The team leader said: "Where can we learn? No one is running around for business now. Besides, we are going to the capital with a trainload of stuff. If something goes wrong, how can we explain it to the villagers? The old secretary will be scolded by himself."

Ye Fan nodded, "Su Yuanhang, you should go there for the first time, and you should talk to the secretary about the money and goods. I will write down the prices of seafood, dried bamboo shoots and oranges sold by the supply and marketing cooperative last year. You can memorize them when you have time so that you will have a good idea when you negotiate. Also, you can only take a deposit for the first time. The supply and marketing cooperative where I used to work has money, so don't hesitate if the director asks you to pay the full amount. If the director says he can't handle so much goods and takes the opportunity to lower the price, just say it's okay and you can ask other supply and marketing cooperatives. I will write down the addresses of the supply and marketing cooperatives in Dongcheng and Xicheng for you in a while. If you are asked who introduced you, just say Ye Fan. Don't panic if these two cooperatives ignore you, there is still Shencheng."

Chen Xiaohui was so kind to remind her that Geng Zhiye had someone in his heart and had stayed in the countryside for seven years for her, so she should also show some appreciation.

Ye Fan looked confident and calm, and Su Yuanhang seemed to have found a backbone. "You are familiar with that place, I will listen to you. I will go to the transport team tomorrow. Yuncheng can read, he can communicate with him, this one is called Su Duofu, he is also our relative."

The big ship owner smiled and said, "Thank you, Accountant Ye..."

Ye Fan shook his head: "You're welcome. You just happened to be here. Instead of thanking me, you might as well say you're lucky."

Su Duofu: "Yes, yes, thank you too much. Accountant Ye, don't worry, go to Yuncheng to check the car when you go, and I will check the car when you come back."

Ye Fan: "Put the money away."

Su Duofu nodded: "As long as the money is here, I am here. Even if I am not here, the money is still here."

How poor! Ye Fan smiled and shook his head, asking if there was any paper and pen in Su Yuanhang's office.

The office is clean and there is nothing in it except tables and chairs.

Seeing his apologetic look, Ye Fan said nonchalantly, "Come to my house some other day to get it. Count the goods first. If you need cartons, go out to sea. If you need wooden boxes, find craftsmen on the island. I'll pay you what you deserve. If you don't have money, come to me and I'll pay for it first. It includes the travel expenses to the capital and food expenses. I'll take 500 first."

Su Yuanhang said hurriedly: "Not so much."

Su Duofu: "Accountant Ye said this because he was afraid that you would not dare to ask for the price when you come back. Go to the fleet first and ask how much it will cost to get from the dock to the train station. It won't be too late to ask Accountant Ye for the money before you leave."

Ye Fan nodded: "If there is nothing else, I will go back first?"

The captain wanted to drive her home, and Ye Fan didn't hesitate.

When Ye Fan got home, he asked Dabao, "Did mom lie to you?"

Dabao: "Is mom off work?"

Ye Fan nodded: "Mom went to work seven days ago."

A week ago, Ye Fan became a formal employee of the food factory. His salary started seven days ago, and he will get this month's salary in a few days. Seven or eight yuan, enough money to buy groceries next month.

"Xiaoye, are you at home?"

Ye Fan: "Is it Miaomiao's mother?"

Dabao ran to the door, looked around, and turned back to say, "Yes." Then he shouted outside, "Aunt Zhuang, my mother is at home, please come in."

When Zhuang Qiuyue came in, Dabao saw that there was someone behind her, "Mom, and Aunt Hua."

Ye Fan took out two glasses, poured two glasses of water, and asked the two to sit down.

Liu Guihua was straightforward and spoke quickly: "Did you know we were coming?"

Ye Fan smiled and said, "I just got home and you came here before I even had time to warm up my chair. You must be staring at me. Why are you staring at me for no reason?"

Seeing that she was not angry, Liu Guihua asked with confidence: "I heard that a new food factory has opened next to the vegetable market. Are you an accountant?"

Ye Fan: "It's called a food factory, but it's actually a trading company."

The company was too impressive for the two of them, so they couldn't help but sit up straight and listen to her detailed explanation.

Ye Fan: "Food factories need to process food, so they have their own food, right? We don't. We get the goods from villagers and sell them to the supply and marketing cooperatives. To put it bluntly, we are middlemen."

Liu Guihua was shocked: "Can we do this now?"

Ye Fan smiled and shook his head: "Of course not. That's why it's called a food factory. The middlemen keep the money they earn for themselves. The factory director Su Yuanhang and I get paid, and the money we earn is divided equally among all the fishermen. You two must be wondering why I'm asked to be an accountant if it's Hengshan Commune's business. Because they don't have any connections, and they need my connections to transport the goods to the capital."

Liu Guihua blurted out: "Isn't it because of Captain Geng?"

Ye Fan: "Is that what people say outside?"

Zhuang Qiuyue was surprised: "You know?"

How could Ye Fan not know this? He smiled and said, "Who doesn't have people talking behind their backs? I also know that some people are jealous of me. Because if you are not envied, you are a mediocre person!"

Liu Guihua was so shocked that she couldn't sit still and leaned back: "You, you're not angry at all?"

Ye Fan: "Dabao was just worried that I had a job and didn't have time to accompany him and Erbao. How could I have time to be angry? Besides, why would I be angry with a group of people who are not as good as me? When I get my salary, I will ask my colleagues who deliver goods to the capital to buy roast duck and braised chicken for me. Dabao, Erbao, from now on, you two hold the chicken leg in your left hand and the duck leg in your right hand, and go to where there are many people to eat."

Zhuang Qiuyue laughed: "You are so annoying!"

Liu Guihua asked: "Does it take someone to deliver the goods?"

Ye Fan: "Don't even think about it. There are tens of thousands of people on the island waiting for their food to be cooked."

Liu Guihua had heard too many rumors and thought that Geng Zhiye had helped Ye Fan run the food factory: "Fishermen will not fish anymore?"

Ye Fan: "To tell you the truth, there is only one quota for the factory director's family. We haven't dared to give it to a close relative. The others will get one quota per brigade. Including me, there are thirteen of us. Fifty percent are elderly and children, forty percent are fishermen out at sea, and the remaining ten percent are at home, which is more than a thousand people."

Zhuang Qiuyue patted Liu Guihua's hand and said, "It's not easy for people to rely on the weather for their livelihood. Our family still has a salary no matter how difficult it is."

Liu Guihua smiled embarrassedly: "Xiaoye, I'm sorry to make you laugh."

Ye Fan: "I understand. If it were my own factory, I would definitely give priority to our own people."

Liu Guihua nodded: "Do you want to know how we know this?"

Ye Fan shook his head decisively: "No!"

Liu Guihua choked.

Ye Fan said: "I know that when I want to piss them off, I still have to act in front of them. Isn't that just asking for trouble?"

They were both speechless.

Dabao couldn't help but ask, "Mom, aren't you going to write a letter?"

Zhuang Qiuyue subconsciously asked: "What letter?"

Ye Fan: "I told Director Su at the food factory that I would write to the Capital Supply and Marketing Cooperative when I got back, and telegraph them before shipping, so that they would pay to rent a car to pick up the goods at the train station."

Zhuang Qiuyue stood up: "This is an important matter. You go ahead and do your work. Come another day - you don't have to go to work tomorrow, right?"

Ye Fan shook his head: "The salary is low, they need me to help sell it, and they also need me to manage the accounts. Director Su was afraid that I didn't want to do it, so he asked me to work from home."

Zhuang Qiuyue said "very good" and took Liu Guihua away.

Ye Fan rubbed his son's little head: "If Dabao hadn't told me, Mom would have forgotten it."

Dabao actually didn't want to listen to the two people's chatter: "Mom, you said roast duck, is that true?"

"Of course! But not now." Ye Fan stood up: "Erbao, don't sit on the ground, the ground is dirty."

Dabao pulled her up and helped his sister climb onto the chair, and the brother and sister read the picture book side by side.

Ye Fan came out with the letter paper and saw the books in the hands of the two children. He decided to write another letter to his sister-in-law, asking her to pick out a few picture books and ask Su Yuanhang to bring them over.

Ye Fan's letter to the director was simple, just saying that a batch of goods could be shipped in early August of the lunar calendar, and asking him to reply as soon as possible if there was any need.

The supply and marketing cooperative has not been doing well recently.

After Ye Fan left, Geng Zhiqin went to the purchasing station to grab goods.

The purchasing station had suffered from "Ye" for a long time. When they heard that Ye Fan had left, they thought that the other people in the supply and marketing cooperative were not to be feared. So when Geng Zhiqin arrived, they would send people to cause trouble.

Geng Zhiqin was good at talking, but she was young and thin-skinned after all. Because her elder brother, second brother and father-in-law were suppressed, she was not as confident as Ye Fan. She did not receive anything and was so angry that she cried.

Geng Zhiqin didn't tell anyone about this embarrassing thing. When her tears dried up at the supply and marketing cooperative, no one knew she had cried. Seeing that her car was clean and her face was not good, everyone guessed that the girl had been wronged, so they sent someone else the second time.

This guy is powerful, but his parents are ordinary workers. They don’t have the confidence to confront Geng Zhiqin head-on, so naturally he returned empty-handed.

Chen Xiaohui finally found out the accounts of the supply and marketing cooperative and said she would go. But she thought that in those days when revolution was going on everywhere, no one dared to be unreasonable.

There are people who dare to take revenge on their own. It's nothing to be a rogue. Chen Xiaohui almost fainted when she tried to reason with them. She went to the supply and marketing cooperative and scolded those people. When she got tired of scolding, she went to Geng Zhiqin and asked Ye Fan what he would do if he encountered such a thing.

Geng Zhiqin said calmly, "They said my sister-in-law was unreasonable, so she told them to go to the Revolutionary Committee. They didn't dare to do anything, so they threatened the people who sold things to my sister-in-law, saying that she was breaking the law. My sister-in-law said she would be responsible if anything happened. Later, they reported it to the higher authorities, saying that my sister-in-law was disrupting the market. People from higher authorities came to verify it, and my sister-in-law said that the people were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, so they would have to eat at your house from now on."

Chen Xiaohui was shocked: "Isn't this just playing rogue?"

Geng Zhiqin: "The comrades above also said the same thing. As long as people have enough food to eat, then a scoundrel is a scoundrel. She is not afraid of being scolded. If you have the ability, arrest her. She also wants to know which law or regulation she has violated. If not, then make suggestions to the higher-ups, prohibiting the supply and marketing cooperatives from sympathizing with the people who cannot get food. Prohibit the supply and marketing cooperatives from buying things that the purchasing stations don't want. The purchasing stations have the ability, so they buy everything."

When Chen Xiaohui saw the director coming out, she asked him, "Can't the purchasing station accept it and sell it to us?"

Director: "We have to pay for gas and labor to get the things from the purchasing station, right? Even at the cheapest price, it's still not as cheap as buying directly from farmers. If we buy things from the purchasing station, they're expensive and we can't get a special price. So we can't buy that much."

Chen Xiaohui: "Can't the purchasing stations be divided into different levels?"

The director nodded: "It usually takes an hour, but if we select them separately, we will need half a day."

Geng Zhiqin: "The purchasing stations don't get bonuses if they don't sell anything. Unless you give them bonuses."

The director nodded.

Chen Xiaohui wondered: "We often buy from farmers and also from purchasing stations."

Geng Zhiqin: "How should I put it? It's embarrassing. Another thing is that I feel my sister-in-law is deliberately provoking me."

Director: "Before when they came to deliver goods, we had to be polite and serve tea, water and cigarettes. Otherwise, the neighbors would be angry and curse when they couldn't eat their food. They said the car broke down, and we couldn't say anything even if we knew they did it on purpose."

Chen Xiaohui imagined that they were working as bosses in other supply and marketing cooperatives, and now they were working as deliverymen here. This gap was really uncomfortable.

The director sat down and said, "I don't know how Ye Fan is doing. With abalone and prawns, as well as kelp and seaweed, and oranges in the coldest winter, who would go to the purchasing station?"

At this time, the lady selling floral water and vanishing cream came running over and said, "Accountant Ye has sent a letter." Seeing that Chen Xiaohui had not returned to the office, she suddenly stopped and said, "Ye Fan, Ye Fan has sent a letter."

The director took over and said, "Accountant Chen is not such a stingy person. Go ahead and do your work."

The eldest sister reminded: "Two letters. One is written to Xiaoqin."

The director took a closer look and almost tore up Geng Zhiqin's letter: "Read it here." He opened the letter from Ye Fan and smiled after reading the beginning. "Okay! I'll go to Ye - Xiaoqin, what did your sister-in-law say in the letter?"

Geng Zhiqin: "Dabao's comic books are getting patinated, so he asked me to pick a few more for Dabao."

Director: "You go now. Xiao Chen, are you free this afternoon?"

Chen Xiaohui was busy all night last night in order to go out today: "It's okay."

Director: "Your family - I mean the Ye family, isn't it far from the supply and marketing cooperative in Xicheng? You leave work early and tell them that I have a trainload of southern seafood and ask them if they want it. Then you can give them half."

Geng Zhiqin: "It's Mid-Autumn Festival next month, and we can't sell all the products ourselves?"

The director nodded and said, "Young man, you have a narrow mind. Now think about them. If we can't sell all the goods one day, they will be willing to help us. If we eat alone now, they will applaud us later."

(End of this chapter)