Chapter 126: Cui Xiaotao
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Due to the increase in Weiguo's salary and the balance from Dongmei's previous drug sales, she felt that the pressure on her life was much lighter.
Coupled with the money that Dongmei lent to her relatives, the current Dongmei Weiguo couple has been promoted to the ranks of 10,000 households.
In this small diamond family, Wei Guo and Dongmei have unconsciously brought their small lives to the front through continuous efforts and frugality.
It can even be said that the family wealth of Weiguo and Dongmei has surpassed that of most of the workers.
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When the children went to school, Dongmei and Hongxia, Wang Xue'e, Song Nian's daughter-in-law, and the four of them walked leisurely in the compound.
Due to the hot weather, several people stopped in front of Gong Peng's mother's freezer, ready to buy a bottle of drink for each person to satisfy their hunger.
Hongxia is a big fan of Coke, so she bought a bottle of Coke, went down in one go, drank half of it, and almost choked.
Wang Xue'e had a bad stomach and didn't like to drink sweet things, so she bought a popsicle for a dime and ate it to cool off.
Song Nian's daughter-in-law is a very greedy person, she saw that Hongxia was drinking Coke very refreshingly, so she also asked for a bottle of Coke.
But she only took a sip, then spit it out, and said in surprise: "This drink, why is it full of gas, it doesn't taste good at all."
And Dongmei, after reading all the drinks, became interested in a bottle of liquid that was transparent all over her body.
She looked at the wahaha mineral water and said to herself, what is this?
Before this, there had never been mineral water in the base of the town in northern Shaanxi, so Dongmei had never seen mineral water packaged in plastic bottles.
She can't imagine that ordinary water can be sold and drunk without sugar, coloring, or any taste, and if she puts ordinary water in a bottle, it can be sold and drunk?
Curiosity drove Dongmei to take the Wahaha mineral water and say to Gong Peng's mother: "I'll just drink a bottle of mineral water." “
Gong Peng's mother was also surprised when she heard that Dongmei wanted to buy mineral water, this was the first bottle of mineral water she had sold since she bought it.
Dongmei's heart was full of curiosity, she gently unscrewed the cap of the bottle, then put her nose on it and sniffed it, took a closer look again, and finally took a sip of mineral water.
When Dongmei drank the mineral water, she looked at Gong Peng's mother with a frightened face and said, "Isn't this boiled water?
Dongmei didn't expect that boiled water in a bottle could be sold, if this is the case, she bought a bottle and directly filled the water in the faucet, isn't it also possible to sell it as a drink?
Gong Peng's mother is also confused, when she buys goods, she usually listens to the opinions of the boss of the wholesale department.
And today, the boss told Gong Peng's mother that this thing is a new thing, mineral water, and in foreign countries and big cities, everyone will drink this when they are thirsty, and they will not drink drinks.
Gong Peng's mother, who was convinced of the boss, went into the mineral water.
But she didn't expect that the mineral water was really boiled water, or even cold water.
Gong Peng's mother took the mineral water in Dongmei's hand, raised her head to the back, poured a big sip into her mouth and drank it.
Gong Peng's mother, who drank the mineral water, stared at Dongmei with wide eyes, looked at Dongmei and said: "It's really cold water, the owner of the wholesale store on the dog day, he dares to lie to me, see if I don't go to him to ask for an explanation." “
Hearing this, Wang Xue'e and Song Nian's daughter-in-law next to her curiously took the mineral water in Dongmei's hand and took a sip of it alone.
couldn't help it, both of them looked at Dongmei and said, "Don't say it, it's really cold water." “
Facing the surprise of the four women, Hongxia next to her, she was obviously a person who had seen the world, she suddenly laughed, and then told Dongmei, Wang Xue'e, Song Nian's daughter-in-law, Gong Peng's mother, mineral water is boiled water, but it was put into a bottle, and then it was given a more elegant name.
Moreover, the boss of the wholesale department did not lie to Gong Peng's mother, mineral water is really sold better in big cities.
Think about it, if you are sweating and your mouth is dry, will you choose to drink a bottle of drink, or choose to drink a bottle of mineral water?
Dongmei immediately said: "I will choose to bring my own water." “
Hongxia said: "Now people in big cities, who are still like us, when they go out, carry a military kettle with them, ugly to death, people are empty-handed, if thirsty, buy a bottle of mineral water on the street to drink, more thirst, how convenient." “
Although Hongxia's words are convincing enough, Dongmei still can't understand it, thinking to herself, people in big cities are panicked with a lot of money, and they spend money to buy cold water to drink, if they put it to themselves, they won't drink this kind of tasteless and not cheap water at all.
Life is like that, with the emergence of new things, constantly impacting people's lifestyles and outdated ideas.
After a period of time, Dongmei's judgment on the popsicle market came true.
Originally, there were seven or eight freezers that sold popsicles, and in the end, only three freezers that sold freezers were eliminated.
One is located at the entrance of the school, and always occupies the place where the traffic is relatively concentrated at the school gate.
The second is located on a main road in the courtyard of the base, where people come and go more frequently.
The third is Gong Peng's mother's house, and her freezer is mainly placed on the asphalt road between several family buildings, which occupies a prime position in the living area.
Every evening, the three family members would push the freezer into the floodlit stadium for all the people who played basketball, goalball, soccer, and sports.
And those family members who were eliminated because of competition could only lose money to push the freezer back home and use it as a refrigerator.
Through this incident, Hongxia admired Dongmei very much, and felt that Dongmei must have come to the correct foresight through market research.
Actually, to be honest, Dongmei didn't do any market research, all these judgments were made by her casually, which can be said to be talent.
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The children's summer vacation is coming soon, and Dongmei still hasn't found a suitable job.
Dongmei, who is bored, tidies up the room of the two children.
However, what Dongmei didn't expect was that ten yuan was found in Taotao's clothes pocket.
At that time, at least for Dongmei, ten yuan was not a small amount, and she earned ten yuan by selling popsicles for a hard day.
Dongmei wondered, this Taotao, where did he get so much money, he and Wei Guo didn't seem to have given him New Year's money, right?
So, Dongmei suspects Taotao of stealing her money.
However, Dongmei is a very meticulous person, and she will use a small notebook to record almost every expenditure.
Dongmei opened the small notebook, took out the change she hid under the bed, counted it well, calculated it well, and found that her money was a lot of money, not much for a penny, just right.
However, where did this Tao Tao money come from, Dongmei's heart was full of doubts.
As for how Taotao's money came from, the time has to be pushed back to a week ago.
One day, Tao Tao and Fan Wei, Cui Xiaotao, Liu Tao, Pi Dong, and a few friends had a lot of fun.
But while playing, a few friends completely forgot the time to go home for dinner.
They missed their meals, they didn't dare to go home, and everyone was hungry.
At this time, Cui Xiaotao suddenly took out a dollar from his pocket and led everyone to the store in the compound.
At that time, the purchasing power of a dollar was still quite powerful.
Cui Xiaotao took a dollar, bought a lot of snacks, and took everyone to the lawn.
A few children sat around the lawn, put snacks in the middle, and ate happily.
With this money, five children actually had enough to eat four.
Fan Wei, who was relatively fat, didn't eat enough, he looked at Cui Xiaotao and said, "Xiaotao, when your father was on a business trip, he didn't leave you much money, and then took out a dollar to make me full." “
Cui Xiaotao took out the canteen meal ticket from his pocket, and told Fan Wei: "Fan Wei, when my dad left, all he left for me was a meal ticket, let me eat in the canteen, and never left me cash." “
Hearing this, a few friends around were curious.
Pi Dong was the tallest and thinnest, and he asked curiously, "Then where did you get this money from?"
Hearing this, Cui Xiaotao smiled mysteriously, but he didn't answer Pi Dong's question.
Liu Tao next to him said for Cui Xiaotao: "He must have sold the meal ticket cheaply, so he has cash." “
Cui Xiaotao retorted to Liu Tao and said: "A one-dollar meal ticket can be exchanged for five cents in cash, so I'm not so stupid?"
Hearing that Cui Xiaotao's money was not obtained by selling meal tickets, Taotao thought for a while and said: "Cui Xiaotao, since your money is not obtained by selling meal tickets, it must be you who stole your father's money." “
Cui Xiaotao said disdainfully: "I don't steal the family's money, who is like you." “
Fan Wei was curious, Cui Xiaotao's money was neither stolen nor obtained from selling meal tickets, where did it come from?
So, Fan Wei asked Cui Xiaotao and said, "Then where did your money come from, tell me, and I'll also get some money." “
In the compound of the drill base, only the children of dual-income workers have pocket money, and the children in front of them are all single-income families, so there is usually no pocket money at all.
And Fan Wei's elder brother Fan Rong, because he had kidney disease when he was a child, spent all his family's savings, so Fan Wei's economic conditions are the worst compared to a few friends, and he is eager to know Cui Xiaotao's way to make money.
Cui Xiaotao sold everyone a pass and said: "My money, one does not steal, and the other does not rob, it is earned by hard work." “
Hearing this, several friends were even more surprised, thinking, is there a place to recruit child labor nearby, otherwise, how did Cui Xiaotao's money come from?
Fan Wei is the boss of several friends because he fights more powerfully.
He was a little impatient, and said to Cui Xiaotao in a threatening tone: "Xiaotao, how did you get the money, tell me quickly, otherwise I will be unkind to you." “
Cui Xiaotao is the youngest of several friends, and he has absolutely no resistance when facing the physically strong Fan Wei.
So he immediately beckoned and said, "Let me tell you the truth, my money was obtained by picking up scrap iron yesterday, and then handing it over to Baokui's mother, going to the peasant village, and selling it to the old woman who collects scrap iron." “
Bao Kui is also Taotao's classmate, but because Bao Kui loves cleanliness, he doesn't play with a few friends.
Hearing this, several friends finally understood Cui Xiaotao's way of getting money.
Everyone couldn't help but look at Cui Xiaotao with envy, and they also wanted to follow him to pick up scrap iron, and then exchange it for some pocket money.
And Fan Wei was the most excited, he said directly: "When did you start picking up scrap iron, why don't you take us to pick up scrap iron now, exchange some money, and buy food." “
Cui Xiaotao has no mother since he was a child because his parents are divorced, and his father Cui Dongbei is more careless and negligent in disciplining Cui Xiaotao, so Cui Xiaotao is basically in a state of free-range and unsupervised.
One day, Cui Xiaotao was playing alone near the small convoy.
He suddenly saw that several children of local villagers had sneaked into the small convoy.
There are a large number of scrap cars and repair parts and other metal solids parked in the small fleet.
After a while, several villagers' children came out of the small convoy with iron blocks of various sizes.
Cui Xiaotao was very curious about what these children were doing stealing these scrap irons.
Cui Xiaotao, who had no parents when he went home anyway, secretly followed the children of these villagers into a nearby peasant village.
In the end, Cui Xiaotao found that the children of these villagers sold scrap iron to an old woman who collected scrap iron near the entrance of the village, and walked out with the money.
Cui Xiaotao, who was inspired, also started stealing scrap iron.
Cui Xiaotao, who tasted the sweetness, didn't know whether what he was doing was good or bad, so he was out of control.
He stole everything from scrap iron, to good iron, parts, etc., as long as it was metal that could be sold, and metal that he could move, he stole everything.
At the beginning, Cui Xiaotao stole the metal and went to the farmer's village to sell it.
However, the good times did not last long, and Cui Xiaotao's behavior was soon discovered by several children in the peasant village who also stole scrap iron.
They stopped Cui Xiaotao, blacked out, and robbed Cui Xiaotao several times.
Cui Xiaotao, who suffered a loss, did not go to the farmer's village to sell scrap iron.
By chance, Cui Xiaotao went to Bao Kui's house to play, and when he gave the scrap iron to Bao Kui to play, he found that Bao Kui's mother actually sold the scrap iron and gave Bao Kui pocket money.
Cui Xiaotao, who got the revelation, often went to Baokui's house with scrap iron.
He gave the scrap iron to Bao Kui, and after Bao Kui's mother sold the scrap iron, she would give Bao Kui pocket money, and Bao Kui would give half of the pocket money to Cui Xiaotao.
In this way, a complete chain of interests emerges.
Cui Xiaotao heard that Fan Wei wanted to follow him to pick up scrap iron, so he asked the other children if they were willing to pick up scrap iron with him.
As a result, except for Liu Tao, several other children were willing to follow Cui Xiaotao to steal scrap iron.
In this way, Liu Tao returned home without revealing secrets.
And Pi Dong, Fan Wei, and Cui Tao followed Cui Xiaotao to the small convoy.
After entering the small convoy, Tao Tao realized that where was this picking up scrap iron, it was obviously stealing scrap iron.
When a few children stole scrap iron from the small convoy, they went to Baokui's house as soon as possible.
And Baokui's mother, thinking that children are small, it is nothing to steal some scrap iron, anyway, single workers are poor, and the children of single workers have no pocket money, so they help sell scrap iron.
As for the money from the sale, Bao Kui's mother left a part for Bao Kui, and gave the rest to Cui Xiaotao.
And Cui Xiaotao immediately handed over the money to the boss Fan Wei after getting the money.
Fan Wei divided the money equally by calculating whose credit was greater and whose credit was less.
Although Tao Tao knew that it was wrong to steal things, in front of interests and money, Tao Tao, who had no sense of discrimination, actually followed Cui Xiaotao to steal all over the small fleet, machine repair station, boiler team, and pipe station in the drill base......
The money received also ranged from two cents, five cents, one piece, five dollars, to the highest ten dollars.
And all this that Taotao did, Dongmei was still in the dark, and she didn't know it.