"Okay. Oh, Dad, I'll be back to town later, and I'll send some of the dishes back tomorrow. I, I'll be back on the morning of the 16th. Qi Jingtao said to his father with a twist.

"What do you have to come back on the 16th, can't you stay at home tomorrow when you come back from delivering food? Qi Zhengming looked at his son puzzled, and couldn't help but blame his son in his tone.

"Dad, that's the case, I'm going to bring someone back for dinner, people come to my house for the first time, I don't know the way, let's come together on the morning of the 16th. Qi Jingtao hurriedly explained his reasons to his father.

"Hahaha...... Ahem...... Hahaha, you kid will finally bring someone home, hahaha...... Go, go, we are at home, you don't have to worry about it. Qi Zhengming, who was smoking a hookah, was choked by the surprise of the sudden arrival, and he didn't even smoke the hookah, so he leaned the hookah against the wall, laughed and stood up, urging his son to hurry back to the city.

Qi Jingtao put more learning tasks on the sad and poor Qi Lin, and said goodbye to his grandmother and mother who were smiling when he heard that he was going to take someone home, and then went out on a motorcycle.

Qi Jingtao left home early in the evening, planning to go to Xiaoxinzhai and Guanyintang in the northwest of the dam to order the chickens and ducks to be ordered, and then go over tomorrow to get the goods. Otherwise, the chickens and ducks that are stocked in the tea garden pond are full of wildness, and it is not easy to catch them when they buy them in the middle of the day. The communication conditions in the countryside are poor, there is no telephone in those places, and it still takes some effort to eat good food, so I personally go to greet and place an order, so that the boss can prepare the chickens and ducks needed in advance.

Riding a bicycle onto the road, I hadn't gone far when I encountered a sudden shower. On a June day, the child's face changes when it is said. After entering the rainy season in June every year, the weather in the Caiyun Plateau area changes rapidly, and a burst of sun and rain alternates frequently. Especially in the plateau basin area of central Yunnan, local showers come quickly, which is also one of the reasons why there are many kinds of fungi and special tastes in the Caiyun area.

Fortunately, there is a car repair shop on the side of the highway for passers-by to shelter from the rain, and as soon as I drove my motorcycle to the canopy set up by the repair shop, I saw my distant cousin Shi Lei and several young men also sheltering from the rain here. Before he could speak, Shi Lei, who had already seen him, greeted him happily: "Old watch, are you here to hide from the rain?"

"Hehehe, the stone is here, too. When he met Shi Lei, Qi Jingtao was also very happy. Shi Lei is the cousin and nephew of Qi Jingtao's grandmother's mother's family, Qi Jingtao's grandmother only has three sisters, and her mother's family has no brothers. Shi Lei's family is the closest family to his grandmother's hometown, and the two families have always been very close.

Qi Jingtao immediately took out a cigarette and distributed cigarettes to his cousin, who was one year younger than him, and to the few young people who seemed to be in the same group as Shi Lei, "Come on, come on, everyone smoke and smoke." Stone, what are you doing here?"

Shi Lei happily took the cigarette, pointed to the basket next to it, and replied, "Collect wild mushrooms." Old watch, where are you going in this direction?"

"I planned to go to Xiaoxinzhai to buy a few small chickens in their tea garden, and I also planned to go to Guanyintang to buy a few old hemp ducks, but I didn't expect to encounter rain. Hehe, where are the wild mushrooms you collect to sell? Is this business good?" Qi Jingtao looked at the wild mushrooms that Shi Lei and the others bought with great interest, the unique fragrance of wild mushrooms smelled very good, very special.

"If you don't collect much, you sell it in the state city, and if you collect more, sometimes you send it directly to the spring city to sell. Hehehe, in our business, it is enough to have a few thousand dollars to do cost turnover. Shi Lei said casually, took out a lighter and lit a cigarette.

Qi Jingtao looked at Shi Lei and their fresh wild mushrooms and said, "Spring City has a large population, so it should be more cost-effective to bring more goods to Spring City to sell at a time, right?"

Shi Lei smoked a cigarette, looked at the rain outside the canopy, which was getting bigger and bigger, and said happily: "Hehehe, there are more than 100 kilometers to go to Spring City, and it takes a day to go back and forth." It's inconvenient to take the shuttle, it's not cost-effective to bring less, and it's inconvenient to take the shuttle bus with too much, and it's very troublesome to run a trip. It is worth a special trip to meet a large amount of fungi, and it is cost-effective to rent a truck directly. ”

"I remember that you have a car license, so why don't you sell a miniature car and run to Spring City? If you can't collect a truckload of goods yourself, you can gather the fungi collected by others and run together. The road to Spring City is not far, you can run once a day, and if you want to sell it yourself, you can leave a few people to set up a stall in Spring City. Qi Jingtao went to school in Chuncheng a few years ago, and when he learned about the madness and consumption power of those foodies in Chuncheng, he couldn't help but give Shi Lei advice.

"Hehehe, old watch, it costs forty or fifty thousand yuan to sell a miniature car, and a few of us have just started to do it, and we don't have so much capital. We'll run the goods on motorcycles first, and then we'll make plans for a few years. Shi Lei said with a grin.

Qi Jingtao pointed to a few other young men who were giggling, smoking, and bragging, and asked, "If you want to, do it step by step." How many of them are your friends?"

"Yes, they are all companions of our village, and they all come out to pour wild mushrooms to buy. Hehehe, our Shijiatang is the dam people whose ancestors moved from the dam to the mountains to live, there are few mountains, and there is usually less work at home, unlike Miluo Village, where you can grow some fruits and sell them. We buy a motorcycle to run the mountain goods, which is also a good way. Shi Lei said open-mindedly.

Qi Jingtao studied since he was a child, until he worked, and he spent a lot of time outside, so he didn't know what Shi Lei said about running mountain goods, so he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Stone, what kind of mountain goods do you usually run?"

"What's going out of the mountains and in the dam, what's running. Oh, in January, February and March, strawberries are mainly harvested, cherries, spring peaches, plums are harvested in April and May, and the fungi are out on the mountain in these months, and the mushrooms are mainly harvested, and chestnuts and vegetable peas are harvested after September. The motorcycle can only pull 100 kilograms of cargo at a time, and it can be mixed up casually. Shi Lei calmly said about the business he was engaged in.

"Yes, yes, those mountain goods are not worth a few dollars on the mountain, and they are only worth selling when they are sold. You also have an income of 100 or 200 yuan a day for running mountain goods, and you have your own place. ”

"Hehehe, it's more fun to run the mountain than to go out to help others work, and buy your own work for yourself. When business is good, run more, and when there is no business, rest at home and be free. Hehe, by the way, old watch, why did you go to Xiaoxinzhai to buy chickens? Do you want to go to Guanyintang to buy ducks? Shi Lei didn't want to continue to talk about his mountain goods, and began to care about Qi Jingtao's going to buy chickens and ducks at this time.

"Hahaha, you're dizzy from running around the mountains? The day after tomorrow is your aunt's birthday, don't forget to come over for dinner. "Qi Jingtao is happy, and the most important guests don't know that his grandmother is going to have a birthday, and she will have a treat the day after tomorrow!