Chapter 8
"Eighth set of broadcast gymnastics, first session, standing still, preparing: one-two-three-four, two-two-three-four......"
Early in the morning, Chen Tianlang was woken up by the loud noise of his neighbor's tape recorder.
Since Uncle Zhang's son next door bought him this Sanyo dual-card tape recorder, Uncle Zhang forgot the sadness of the aluminum alloy cooking pot being stolen and began to learn to tinker with this fashionable appliance. Then Chen Tianlang's "sadness" began.
Uncle Zhang is a man who wants to save face, the boss is not small, but he has a super fashionable heart. Every morning at dawn, he would place the tape recorder in the center of the window, then turn up the volume of the tape recorder, and learn the sound inside to do the "eighth set of radio gymnastics".
Anyone who walked by the door of his house would see the old man shaking his neck and legs, so he greeted him, "Oh, uncle is practicing!"
Uncle Zhang would show his big yellow teeth, which symbolized the working class, and said with a smile: "Yes, my son gave me a new tape recorder, this thing is good." ”
Then, in the envious eyes of the other party, finish the day's morning workout, and then go to the kitchen to stew a chicken cake to treat yourself. Anyway, without his wife and his son in the field, he is very free.
Chen Tianlang was woken up by the eighth set of radio gymnastics, so he put on big trousers, took an enamel tea jar, connected the water, and squatted at the pressurized water well to brush his teeth.
When his mother Liu Yuping saw him like this, she kicked him, "Put on your pants, your sister is at home." ”
Chen Tianlang's mouth was full of white foam and muttered: "She's sleeping at this moment, and it's the same whether I wear it or not." After saying that, he spat at the mouth on the ground, drank another sip of water from the teapot, gurgled in his throat, and squirted out again.
Liu Yuping had no choice but to go to the kitchen to make breakfast with this precious son.
After Chen Tianlang finished brushing his teeth and washing his face, he was worried about the big thing of speculation, so he hurriedly put on his school uniform, carefully hid the money he stole last night, and then pushed out the 28 permanent bicycles, the largest in the family, from the back room, and said to Liu Yuping: "Mom, don't cook my food, I'm going to school!" Without waiting for Liu Yuping to come out of the kitchen, he pushed the bicycle out.
Liu Yuping ran out with a spatula and complained: "This kid, what's the hurry, I'll spread a pancake for you......"
Chen Tianlang went out and wiped the bicycle up and down with a rag stuffed under the saddle, I have to say that the dead father maintained it well, and the car was as good as new after wiping.
Chen Tianlang flew into the car, kicked his feet, and the car flew out.
Do you go to school?
Of course not.
Chen Tianlang walked out of the alley where he lived, pinched his hands, stopped the car, and then quickly took off the school uniform, revealing the white shirt inside, stuffed the school uniform in the basket casually, and then tied his waist to tuck the shirt well, and re-got into the car in good spirits.
In the early morning, there are not many pedestrians on the road, unlike the many private cars in the previous life, and there are basically no vehicles on the whole road except for sparse bicycles.
There is a steep slope not far away, and several children wearing red scarves and white sneakers are hanging snot, carrying school bags, and pushing hula "iron rings" in their hands. The hoop spun happily under the push of the putt, and a few children giggled and competed, and the hoop rolled faster and faster in the steep slope, and finally jumped up and ran through the afterglow of the early morning sun on the old road.
For some reason, looking at this familiar picture, Chen Tianlang wanted to scream, so he let go of the handlebars of the bicycle, spread his hands, and let the big bicycle speed down with both handlebars.
The morning breeze blew on his face, and the morning sun reflected his face.
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In about fifteen or sixteen minutes, Chen Tianlang arrived at the steel market in Beicheng.
Look at the door of the steel market, it hasn't opened yet. Near the gate are some men pulling goods for people. Behind them were all sorts of truck-pullers, rack trucks, tricycles, tractor-converted pallet trucks, and the most advanced was the BJ "130" light truck parked in the shade of a tree not far away.
The blue body, the left and right double sets of headlights, and the black grille are integrated with the bumper. In fact, its prototype was from the famous Toyota Dina at that time. The emergence of BAIC 130 made up for the gap of two-door light trucks at that time.
Chen Tianlang couldn't help but take a closer look at this truck, he was not a fan, but he knew that if he wanted to haul the three-ton steel bar, it was best to use such a vehicle, which was fast and had a large loading capacity, and could be done at one time, so as not to delay time.
didn't take the initiative to go forward to talk to these men who were pulling goods, Chen Tianlang saw that there was a Hu spicy soup shop next to him, and many people gathered there for breakfast. I felt a little hungry and walked over.
There were too many people, and before it was his turn, Chen Tianlang took the time to go to the commissary next to him and bought a box of soft yellow plums for three yuan and five.
When I came back, I sat down and lit a cigarette without taking two puffs, and the spicy soup was served, with a large slice of beef, black sweet potato noodles, and Hu spicy soup condiments, which was fragrant.
Seeing that the spicy soup was served, Chen Tianlang extinguished the cigarette that he had not smoked a few puffs and threw it on the ground.
Suddenly, a dirty black hand picked up the cigarette butt.
Chen Tianlang looked up and saw a man with fluffy hair, shirtless, and clothes on his shoulders, baring his blackened teeth and laughing at himself: "Good smoke, don't waste it!" As he spoke, he took out a match and lit the cigarette butt and took a puff.
Chen Tianlang was stunned for a moment, the man in front of him was very similar to the movie star Huang Bo in his previous life, he couldn't help but look at him more, and made sure that the two just looked alike, so he took out a cigarette and handed it to him and said, "Don't smoke that, it's too dirty!"
"It's not dirty! I'm used to picking up cigarette butts and smoking!" The black-faced man took the cigarette, put it on his ear, and then pulled over a bench and sat on it, "Smoking costs money, and I have a big addiction to smoking, so if I don't pick up cigarette butts and smoke a family, I will drink the northwest wind." ”
Seeing that the man was talking interestingly, Chen Tianlang asked, "What are you doing?"
The black-faced man slapped his bare shoulders with his clothes and said with a smile: "Coolie seller." He took a puff of cigarette, squinted his eyes, and said: "Rely on the steel market to eat, and move goods and pull goods for others." I know all those people---"
Chen Tianlang glanced at the men gathered at the gate of the steel market, "Who is that 130 light truck?"
"Li Gangban's. What's the matter, do you have a job?" the black-faced man came to his senses.
Chen Tianlang nodded, "There are three tons of steel bars to pull." ”
"Heh, that's good to say, you hire me, I'll find Li Gangban to give you a discount. By the way, my name is the black sixth, you can call me the black six or the sixth. Seeing that there was business, the black-faced man seemed very active.
"Sixth brother, is it, my steel bar is not here. To be precise, to find a car to pull here from somewhere else. Chen Tianlang explained.
"What are you talking about, not pulling the steel bar out from here, pulling it from somewhere else?" The black-skinned old man pointed to the steel market, looking a little surprised.
Chen Tianlang smiled, "That's right, it's from somewhere else to this steel market!"
According to Chen Tianlang's plan, if Fan Aiguo and Deng Jianjun cannot be contacted, or the two of them do not plan to buy this batch of steel bars after seeing the goods, then they can directly pull the steel bars into the steel market and sell them to the big bosses who do building materials business at a low price.
Seeing that Chen Tianlang looked serious, not like a joke, the black-skinned sixth man scratched his head vigorously, and finally said: "No matter! By the way, where's the goods?"
"At the cotton mill, it's a bit far from here. ”
"It's far from it, you want you to add money. The black-skinned sixth said, "We are a group of coolies, and we are not afraid of far, but we are afraid of near...... If you get too close, you'll be able to do your whole rack car tricycle, what else do you want us to do? So the farther the better, and we can earn more. ”
Chen Tianlang said, it seems that every line is not easy.
Next, the two negotiated the approximate price of the goods, and the black-skinned old man gambled on the world, saying that his price was the lowest, and no one else could cover it, and then swore to his seventy-year-old lady that 40 yuan was really not much, and if it was more, he would have Chen Tianlang's surname.
Chen Tianlang is a teenager on the surface, but he is an adult at heart, so he didn't immediately agree to the black skin, saying that he would see other people pulling goods later, and finally left a sentence of "shop around".
The black-skinned sixth man twitched with a black face, as if he didn't expect Chen Tianlang to be so difficult, if he let him go over, what could he do if he didn't open his eyes. So he gritted his teeth, and he didn't care if he would change his surname to Chen, so he lost another 10 yuan and said that 30 yuan would be covered.
When Chen Tianlang saw this, he high-fived him and said, "Deal!"
Looking at Chen Tianlang's bright smile on his face, the black-skinned sixth man couldn't think of such a sunny boy, why was he so old.