My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 17 Is it so easy to make money?
This incident also became a topic of conversation in the city.

Everyone regarded this strong and brave country boy as a fool.

Those who are a little smarter would ask to work in a city unit at this time, even as a gatekeeper, or if they really like driving, they would ask to drive for a government unit. Wouldn't that be like making a leap over the dragon gate?

He actually chose to learn to drive at a transportation company, and didn't even ask for a permanent job to get a household registration. It was just a large collective ownership company, and people from rural areas would continue to be temporary workers.

Alas, as soon as smoke started to rise from the child’s ancestral grave, he extinguished it himself.

Little did he know that the only thing Weidong was interested in in this entire city was learning how to drive.

There are no driving schools these days, so you can only learn job skills while working.

Moreover, he only went to the transportation company to recognize his master, secretly stuffed a pack of Shancheng cigarettes into his pocket, and said that he would wait until the storm died down in a few days before coming back to learn how to drive.

I went back to the countryside and called Goudan, and reluctantly moved the few hundred kilograms of bacon I had recently collected to the provincial capital to do titanium ingot business!
No one knew that he sat in the corner of the construction site all night.

I can console myself for the past forty years that my revenge has finally been taken.

The rest is a completely different life.

The case was very simple. The man was the butcher from the meat processing plant. In his previous life, Weidong had suffered from disability for decades, but he still hadn't caught this guy.

His skilled knife skills and the fine steel pig-killing knife that allowed him to slaughter hundreds of pigs every day were simply invincible.

In the end, she was defeated by the crutches of her husband.

The whole city was watching the tick notice.

Rang Weidong was already on the train to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

That’s right, he brought Goudan with him, and the two strong guys personally carried the titanium ingots to deliver the goods.

We confirmed the address with the buyer from Jiangsu and Zhejiang over the phone, and went to the provincial capital store to ask clearly whether the lumps were sold in ten-kilogram pieces. We agreed to have the goods ready, and then the two of us would directly carry ten pieces to deliver the goods.

The excuse is that I will test the waters first, and if it really works, I will purchase a large amount of goods to sell.

The knitting lady was shocked but had nothing to say.

Because Weidong really paid 1,700 yuan to buy these ten titanium ingots and left, and he also asked for a receipt.

He bought some densely woven printed cloth from the printing and dyeing factory next door, tied it tightly into two pieces and wrapped them in a saddle bag, hung it around his neck and left.

Goudan silently and resolutely grabbed a saddlebag, hung six pieces of money on it, and was still able to walk briskly.

Because after getting off the boat, Weidong was asked to go directly to the train station to queue up to buy a ticket. He was so excited that he could hardly control his strength and had to use titanium ingots to suppress it.

Otherwise, you have to fly.

Rang Weidong, who only carried 80 kilograms on his back, weighed a kilogram of pork head, a bag of fried peanuts, and two bottles of wine at the braised meat stall in the factory area.

He had never been on a train, but he had seen the scene countless times in short videos.

You need to eat or drink something when you sit in a hard seat.

Very much looking forward to it.

It just so happened that he had casually bought a train timetable before and had calculated it repeatedly while waiting for Old Lady Shi to finish class countless times.

A hard seat train ticket costs 28.6 yuan, and a round trip for two people costs less than 120 yuan, so you can earn several thousand yuan.

Why not take a trip?
He knew that freight was not well developed at the moment, and he did not have the money to buy several tons to hire a whole truck, so he decided to try carrying 200 kilograms first.

Just make money to travel!
That's why he had to choose this kind of thing to do business.

Steel is also a hot commodity right now. Not only is it difficult to find sources, but sellers and buyers also roughly know the prices everywhere, so there is no huge profit.

What Weidong really knew was that titanium dioxide would become a big business in this area in more than ten or twenty years. He didn't know what it was specifically, but he remembered the word titanium.

When they were checking their tickets and getting on the bus, two young men from the countryside were checked for heavy objects hanging from flowered cloth.

Let Weidong calmly take out the letter of introduction from Jiangzhou Hongguang Nonferrous Metal Processing Plant.

"Comrade Weidong has been assigned by our department to be in charge of precious metal sales. Please contact us for cooperation. If you have any questions during the business period, please feel free to call us at any time. Best regards," official seal.

This thing is the get-out-of-jail-free card these days!

When a couple has sex in a hotel, their marriage certificate must be checked. However, if they have a letter of introduction, it can even be a higher level than a marriage certificate. As long as they are not caught in the act of performing soft hardening projects, their colleagues at work should be praised for saving accommodation expenses on the road.

In an era when there were no ID cards and only work permits were used, a letter of introduction was the only document that distinguished people from blind migrants.

If you wander around aimlessly and are caught, you will be detained and sent back to your hometown.

The old security guard would also look at this letter of introduction before opening the gate of the compound when dealing with matters.

So he understands a lot.

Even if he is just buying the ingots, he is helping the non-ferrous metal factory find a sales channel. It’s not too much to issue a letter of introduction, right?

It was no problem for the manufacturer. The aunt just found a blank sheet from the drawer and filled it out for him.

He also deliberately didn't ask them to write where they were going, let alone a specific time.

The world is so big that he can go wherever he wants and he has so much time to travel around!
Oh oh oh, of course there is an issuance date on the official seal, so it cannot be used for too long, more than a year or two.

Just the red five-star logo of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry at the top of the letter of introduction was enough to make the conductor let the person pass without asking any more questions.

Goudan happily spread out the wine and meat on his seat and started eating and drinking.

Weidong only had a taste of the wine, not much to drink, because he had at least brought two thousand yuan with him. He had spent seventeen thousand on the ingots, and earned another five hundred from the bacon, leaving him with a little over eight hundred. Looking at the crowds of people on the bus, he decided to be careful.

When I set off, I was shocked by the dense crowd in the square of Jiangzhou Railway Station in the provincial capital.

The waiting room was filled with people sitting, lying and sleeping on the floor.

In a society that has never allowed people to move around, countless people are actually on the move.

The focus is just on going to eastern Guangdong.

Weidong stood at the window of the waiting room and witnessed with his own eyes the train to Guangdong East. People were climbing in through the window, and no matter how hard people from outside pushed, there was no room left!

The carriage was packed like a can of sardines.

City dwellers and country folks in all kinds of clothes rushed south like crazy.

Because I heard that the place is very open and there are opportunities to work and earn money, and you won't be arrested if you don't do anything.

Even though no one knew where that place was, they all still crowded there.

That’s why the train to Shanghai is not that crowded, at least there are seats when you get on.

But as more people got on the bus, it was still full.

Only by going out and seeing the world can you realize that the world has changed.

Weidong looked greedily at every station, town and village passing by outside the car window, and compared them with the map in his hand.

Goudan just ate and ate, taking a few bites, and then felt embarrassed and insisted that Weidong take some too.

It was not until Weidong reminded him that this would be eaten for two days that he hurriedly wrapped the lotus leaves with reluctance.

Then he watched the conductor pass by with his mouth watering, put his feet away, and ate sunflower seeds, peanuts, and lunch boxes...

Ah, Weidong guessed there were no instant noodles, but he didn’t expect there were boxed lunches.

Then let’s get two, even if it’s only 80 cents a box, I’ll eat them.

Goudan even put every grain of rice into his mouth carefully. It’s too expensive!
This foam box is great, use it to store pig heads!
Sleep when you are tired. Ten titanium ingots are piled under the seat and no one can move them away.

This thing is not as dense as a block of iron, but it is also a lump of metal. You can stack it up and sleep on it without worry.

A little over fifty hours later, after passing the provincial capitals of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it was just before noon when the two young men got off the bus in a small place with heavy bags hanging on their backs.

However, it presents a completely different atmosphere from a prefecture-level city like Shangzhou, which is surrounded by mountainous areas.

There was a lot of traffic with people riding bicycles, and most of the people on the streets were dressed fashionably with their shirts tucked into their trousers. It was nothing like Shangzhou, no, even the provincial capital was full of country bumpkins.

The streets are clean, tidy and flat, the shops are spacious and bright, and the signs are dazzling. Oh, yes, it is just after National Day, and there is joyful laughter everywhere.

Goudan was stunned by the sight of the 120 kilograms of weight hanging on his body.

When he got off the car, he wanted to grab a saddlebag, but he couldn't because it was too heavy.

In fact, you don’t have to go far.

From Jiangzhou, I took the bus out of the house, then got on another bus in the waiting room of the train station. The main thing was to transfer the transportation and carry the load.

It's like hanging two barbell plates on your shoulders, which is nothing for a country kid.

Now I take the bus twice and arrive at another small town, which is just as lively and prosperous.

Let Weidong find a snack bar and order some food, and don't let Goudan drink.

I slowly finished my meal and asked the shop owner if there really was such a small collective factory that had been operating for several years.

I'm just thanking them for leaving my dog ​​eggs and the goods at the door of the store.

I strolled over empty-handed for a few hundred meters and observed for at least half an hour. Everyone else had gone to work in the afternoon. After confirming that they did not look like a den of thieves or scammers, I took the letter of introduction and went to hand a cigarette to the security guard.

He experienced these details thousands of times while sitting in the guard room.

You can tell in a few words that this old man is a good person.

In the 1980s, countless people disappeared in this disorderly flow.

Fortunately, most people are not bad, especially in the wealthy areas of the land of fish and rice, where ordinary people don’t need to take risks.

Besides, let Weidong leave immediately after the transaction is completed.

The overjoyed manufacturer went directly to the restaurant door to open the cloth bag and conduct an inspection.

The magnets they carried with them didn't react, so they burned them with a lighter, and they immediately changed from silver-white to yellow, purple, red, and green, in the correct order.

Then use the corners to draw a black line like burnt charcoal on the tiles at the entrance of the restaurant next door. The darker the line, the higher the purity.

Originally, the security department came on a yellow fish cart and weighed and towed away the 200-pound item, which made Weidong smile and let them pay first.

Six thousand six hundred yuan was withdrawn from the savings bank, and the finance department also had the receipt and contract stamp.

But I would like to ask for the contact information of Hongguang Factory on the official seal. Thank you. I will call you in advance next time.

I immediately turned around and took the bus. Two hours later I was on the train. It was only a three-hour drive from here to Shanghai.

Now that he's here, Weidong actually doesn't understand anything.

(End of this chapter)