Chapter 33: The Spring Festival
Li Zhengyi wanted to hide his face when he heard this, what is the difference between Nima 300 receiving this transformer and not giving money to cut off the beard? Adding a zero is the real waste value of this transformer, and the net profit is as high as 1,000%.
Li Zhengyi was angry in his heart, do you really have to be ruthless to make a fortune?
Scarface didn't care what Li Zhengyi said, he picked up the burden and said with some hesitation: "The steel ring at home is not easy to handle, and it can't be carried, do you see if you can come to buy it, or help me carry it over?" ”
Li Zhengyi asked casually, "Does your family have no one to help?"
Scarface was silent for a long time before replying: "Just an old man." ”
Li Zhengyi agreed, but after he went, he found that the two of them couldn't move at all, and they weighed at least two hundred and five to three hundred catties. In the end, he had to call a tricycle to pull it back to the acquisition station, but Scarface didn't want to come over again, so he directly sold it to Li Zhengyi according to the estimated weight of 100 kilograms.
Before leaving, Scarface told Li Zhengyi about yesterday's incident, saying that Chen Xiangming had found another gangster, and at the same time found him and asked him to take over, but he didn't agree.
Li Zhengyi smiled and said, "If I don't come to buy your steel ring today, aren't you going to tell me?"
Scarface ignored him and said expressionlessly: "It's chaotic here in the shantytown, and it's a bit useful for me to talk here, but it's not absolutely safe." But I don't take the job, and other bastards generally don't take it. Chen Xiangming's family is rich, and they are more open in the old industrial area, and there are also bastards who want money and don't want to die, I don't know the gangsters I found yesterday, and I was scared away, and I don't look like people on the road. ”
Scarface usually cherishes words like gold, but today it is rare to say a lot of words, which makes Li Zhengyi feel that he did not put the wrong person at the beginning, this person is worth dating, not a ruthless person.
Li Zhengyi asked, "Why don't you pick it up?"
Scarface said, "I don't want to take it." ”
Scarface told the truth, but Li Zhengyi wanted to ask why Scarface didn't want to take it, but unfortunately Scarface didn't say it.
Li Zhengyi looked at Scarface and said sincerely: "Thank you, you helped me prevent a disaster, I owe you a favor." ”
On January 22, 2001, several large waste recycling companies in Xiangning City began to collect goods, and the waste collection station of the Li family was naturally in the receiving route.
The backlog of waste at the Li family acquisition station is very large, so that the waste recycling company's truck driver and settlement staff are completely unbelievable, and after loading the settlement of funds, the settlement officer found that this acquisition station alone has a collection volume of more than 30,000 yuan. Compared with the tens of thousands of receipts at other acquisition stations, it is completely different.
Li's father and mother calculated the profit afterwards and found that the profit was as high as more than 12,000 yuan. For fear of miscalculation, I started to report the number and press the calculator again, and I found that it was right, and the profit was really as high as more than 12,000 yuan.
Later, Li Zhengyi said something to clear up the doubts of the two elders, saying that the month of the year before was the peak period for scrap purchases, and several other purchasing stations in the shantytown did not accept low-profit scrap metal, resulting in retail investors not even selling high-profit scrap metal to them. As soon as the purchase station of his own home was opened, he picked up a bargain at the right time, and there will be no such good things in the future.
The Li family was overjoyed and full of confidence in the future. However, if you want to say that the happiest person, I am afraid that there is not only Li's father and Li's mother, but also Cui Xingfa. Cui Xingfa, who joined to help halfway, won the favor of Li's father and mother, and his label was to work hard and hardworking. After settling the accounts at the end of the year, Li's father gave Cui Xing 300 yuan on the spot and asked him to arrange it independently. At first, Cui Xingfa was reluctant to accept it, after all, he was given less than 300 yuan in half a month, which is equivalent to a salary of seven or eight hundred a month, and this salary level jumped to the forefront of Xiangning City. In the end, he couldn't resist Li's mother, so he had to accept it, and specially let him rest for a day, and asked Li Zheng to take him to Xiangning City to change out of a few clothes on his body.
Li Zhengyi and Cui Xingfa, who were ordered to go, wandered around Xiangning City for most of the day, buying a complete set from head to toe, so that Cui Xingfa had a new look. Cui Xingfa was happy to grin all the time on the way home, so that Li Zhengyi had to keep a certain distance from him, so as not to bear the contempt or curiosity or inquisitive gaze of others.
Back at the acquisition station, the Li family packed their luggage together and prepared to go back to their hometown Mogong Township for the Spring Festival. After the first Spring Festival after rebirth, next year is the most important year for primitive accumulation.
There are four people in the Li family this Spring Festival, including Cui Xingfa, who has been working at the scrap yard. During the Spring Festival in previous years, Cui Xingfa either had nowhere to go, or he would spend a day at any gangster's house. During the Spring Festival this year, Cui Xingfa was happier than ever, carrying the thick red envelope that Li's mother gave him separately in his pocket, and wearing a new New Year's dress all over his body. The orphans, who have been lonely all along, finally found the feeling of home they have been looking for in this Spring Festival of the Li family.
After the New Year, the interaction in the Spring Festival is nothing more than relatives and friends visiting each other to greet each other for the New Year. Li Zhengyi did not go anywhere except for his uncle's house and his grandmother's house to worship the New Year. The rest of the aunts, aunts, etc., all looked down on the poor Li family, and came to visit the New Year, basically sending their faces to the door to give people a beating, so why bother to be boring.
It is worth mentioning that during the Spring Festival this year, his uncle Song Feizhang came to Li's house for the first time and said that he wanted to pay New Year's greetings to his second brother and sister-in-law, but he was instructed by Li's father to let Li Zhengyi go out directly.
Li Zhengyi was clear about Seinfeld's intentions, but he didn't want to have anything to do with the other party, so after Father Li's signal, he didn't save face for the other party at all.
During the Spring Festival, there were two other things that touched Li Zhengyi deeply, and once again realized the importance of money.
The first thing is that he was idle at home during the Spring Festival, and Li's mother began to give him a match again. Li Zhengyi didn't want to go, he felt that the blind date was unreliable, and then he couldn't resist Li's mother's horizontal eyebrows, so he had to go once. Unexpectedly, the only blind date was ridiculed by the woman, and the other party said that she didn't care what the Li family did, but Li Zhengyi couldn't be a rag, this was not a proper job. The woman brushed her sleeves away, and Li Zhengyi was also happy to be quiet, and went home.
The second thing is that Li Zhengyi and Cui Xingfa went to the streets of Mogong Township after the festival and got together with Lin Wenxing and Li Yong once, and the four of them smoked, drank and bragged as before. However, Li Zhengyi found that Lin Wenxing and Li Yong, who were high-spirited before, showed a trace of envy when Cui Xingfa smoked, staring at the boutique cigarettes. When it was their turn to smoke again, they were hesitant to hide their hesitation, obviously feeling that the miscellaneous cigarettes at hand made them lose face. Cui Xingfa's boutique is a happy red hibiscus specially bought for the New Year, not intended to show off, but in the eyes of the two gangsters, the feeling is completely different, they feel that Cui Laosi, who once relied on them to mess around, has only been mixed with Brother Li for a month, but he has mixed much better than them, and he can't help but carefully consider the suggestion that Li Zhengyi once made again.
In addition, Li Zhengyi deliberately found Luo Wei during the Spring Festival and asked him if he was willing to go to Xiangning City to live a mixed life after the New Year. Luo Wei didn't agree immediately, he only said it later, Li Zhengyi knew that it was impossible to subdue Luo Wei with just a few words, and this matter had to be considered in the long run. After the two drank two bottles of beer together, Li Zhengyi stopped drinking, left 500 yuan when he left, and told Luo Wei at the same time that he must come to Xiangning City to find him before the tenth day of the new year, and ask him for help if there is something, and this money is a deposit.