Reborn in 78, I made my fortune by working in the mountains, supporting three families on my own.

Zhao Lei carried the bag and walked south along the main street.

After asking two people along the way, they finally found an old pharmacy in town.

The store was small, and behind the counter sat an old man wearing reading glasses, weighing herbs on a tray.

Boom!

Zhao Lei placed the bag on the counter. "Boss, do you buy gastrodia elata?"

"Sure, how much do you have?"

"This whole bag is full!"

"What? Young man, do you even know what 'wild' means? You didn't dig up a whole bag of ginger, did you?"

The old man adjusted his glasses, picked up a tree, and examined it closely.

I looked at it over and over for a while, and then I put it under my nose and smelled it.

"Wild?"

"I dug it up in the mountains last night; it's very fresh."

The old man picked up a few more plants and examined them one by one. The more he looked, the more relaxed his brow became. Finally, he weighed the largest gastrodia elata in his hand.

"The quality is good, and the size is uniform... Okay, I won't haggle with you, I'll give you twenty-two per pound. You can weigh it and see how much you have."

Zhao Lei did the math in his head; it was two yuan more than the twenty Qin Dashan had mentioned, and immediately nodded: "Okay."

The old man brought out a scale from behind the counter, and Zhao Lei stacked the gastrodia elata plants one by one onto the scale pan, and the scale rods rose and fell.

The old man fiddled with the abacus beads for a while, then looked up and said, "Forty-nine jin and three liang, I'll give you forty-nine jin, at twenty-two per jin, that's a total of 1078 yuan... I'll round it up for you, here's 1080 yuan!"

"no problem!"

The old man counted out a stack of bills from the drawer and handed them over; there were eight ten-yuan bills, and the rest were small change.

"Young people, send me whatever you want from now on, I'll accept it all!"

"no problem."

Zhao Lei took the money and counted it twice to make sure the amount was correct before folding it and putting it into his pocket.

As I stepped out of the pharmacy, the sun was already high in the sky, and the streets were gradually becoming more crowded.

As Zhao Lei walked back, he saw a crowd gathered around the oxcart, more than twice as lively as before.

Only when you get closer can you see clearly that Wang Zongbao is standing on the cart floor, shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Only a few pounds left! Once they're gone, that's it! Who knows when we'll have fresh wild boar meat again!"

"Hey, sell it to me! Sell it to me!"

"I want it! I want it!"

Upon hearing this, several middle-aged women nearby grabbed their baskets and desperately tried to squeeze in.

On the other side, Qin Bowen's knife never stopped cutting meat, while Qin Dashan was sweating profusely as he counted money.

Zhao Lei seized the opportunity and squeezed in.

When Qin Dashan saw him return, he asked while collecting the money, "Did you sell anything?"

"Yes, they've all been sold."

After working for nearly another hour, the wild boar meat on the cart was finally gone.

The last small piece of pork leg was bought by an old man who was late to the market, and the job was done perfectly.

Wang Zongbao jumped off the cart, let out a long breath, and plopped down on the ground.

"Ugh! I'm exhausted, my voice is hoarse from shouting."

Qin Bowen wiped the blood off the machete, put it in his cloth bag, and turned to Qin Dashan: "Brother, how much did you get in total?"

Qin Dashan squatted beside the oxcart and took out a stack of bills from his pocket.

A thick stack of colorful and vibrant items!

Qin Dashan squatted on the ground for a long time, counting the items twice more.

"One thousand six hundred and seventy-three yuan and eight mao."

Wang Zongbao sat bolt upright on the ground: "How much?"

"One thousand six hundred and seventy-three yuan and eight mao!"

Qin Dashan read out the numbers again.

The group of people looked at each other, bewildered.

1673.8! !!

That would be a huge sum of money nowadays!

None of them could imagine that they had earned almost a lifetime's worth of money in just one night!

If we were to exchange work points, how long would it take to finish?

Zhao Lei looked around and pulled his brothers into a deserted alley.

"Let's keep our wealth hidden and split the profits here!"

Qin Dashan then realized what was happening.

Indeed, I almost forgot about security.

Zhao Lei then took out the money from selling gastrodia elata from his inner pocket and put it together with the money from selling wild boar meat.

"I just bought the gastrodia elata, it cost 1080 yuan in total!"

Suddenly, a pile of bills was spread out on the car floor, a small heap of bills of different denominations and colors!

The brothers had never seen so much money before; their eyes widened in disbelief!

Qin Dashan looked at the pile of money, then at Zhao Lei: "Leizi, you decide how to divide the money."

This deal was initiated and spearheaded by Zhao Lei from the very beginning.

Since Zhao Lei was a key member of the team, the task of dividing the profits naturally fell to him.

Zhao Lei is now everyone's backbone, and everyone follows his lead.

Just as Zhao Lei was about to speak, "I think we should be fair with everyone regarding this first payment..."

Suddenly, Qin Dashan pulled out a wad of cash and interrupted, saying, "Wait, we can't take any of Lei Zi's money for the gastrodia elata. You dug it yourself, we can't accept it!"

Qin Bowen and Wang Zongbao then realized what was happening and immediately echoed their agreement.

"Yes, brother-in-law, the money for the gastrodia elata is yours, we'll just split the money for the wild boar."

"Yeah, Brother Lei, let's keep things separate. You can't let yourself suffer just because I'm taking care of us. We'd feel guilty about it."

Zhao Lei paused for a moment, then said, "Alright, I'll keep the money for the gastrodia elata. The wild boar meat was hunted by four people together, so how about we split it according to our contribution?"

"Okay, that's more like it."

"Can."

"I have no objection."

Zhao Lei paused for a moment, then said, "Although I was the main hunter of the wild boar, I didn't contribute to the sale of the boar just now. So, I'll take 40% of the money for the boar meat, and you can each take 20% of the remaining three portions. Is that alright?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately understood.

It turns out that Zhao Lei deliberately didn't participate in buying the wild boar meat, so as to share the credit with them.

Otherwise, based on the effort they put in, Zhao Lei would have been responsible for killing four out of the five adult wild boars.

It can be said that of the approximately 1,500 jin of pork, 1,200 jin were beaten by Zhao Lei.

Qin Dashan managed to kill one adult wild boar and one half-grown wild boar.

Wang Zongbao and Qin Bowen each managed to hunt down a wild boar weighing just over 30 kilograms.

They would have been lucky to get 100 yuan each, but now that they get 20%, that's over 300 yuan!

Qin Dashan was the first to speak: "It's perfectly reasonable, I have no objection."

Qin Bowen nodded repeatedly: "It's only right that my brother-in-law takes 40%. If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have even gotten a single head."

Wang Zongbao chimed in, "Brother Lei... isn't taking 20% ​​a bit too much? After all, I didn't even catch much prey..."

"Zongbao, although you didn't catch much prey, you put in a lot of effort selling the pork just now, so you should take your 20% cut."

Zhao Lei looked down and calculated, then counted the bills on his fingers: "Wild boar meat is 1,673.8 yuan. 40% is 669.52 yuan. You each get 20%, so that's 334.76 yuan each."

Zhao Lei divided the money into four piles.

Some piles were large, others small, all neatly stacked on the cart.

The three people each reached out and took their share.

Qin Bowen patted the wad of bills he was holding, then suddenly burst out laughing: "Over three hundred yuan! This is the first time in my life I've held so much money in my hands!"