On the afternoon after the car repair shop opened, after Ding Hongxing came home from school, he saw Ding Yuejin and Shen Shuzhen sitting opposite each other in the hall, both with sad faces, looking at several large bags of towels on the table.

Ding Hongxing asked strangely, "Dad, Mom, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shen Shuzhen said: "Oh, look at it, this is your father's salary this month." ”

Ding Hongxing looked at the large bags of towels, he was actually not surprised, after the state-owned enterprises fell into business difficulties in the 80s and 90s, it was common to use this kind of goods instead of cash to pay wages to employees, some of these goods are the products of their own enterprises, and some are things recovered from debt collection outside.

Ding Hongxing remembered that in a movie, the protagonist was an employee of a hot water bottle factory, and the salary he was paid by the factory for a month was a lot of hot water bottles, and he had no choice but to carry the hot water bottle on his back and sell the hot water bottle door to door, otherwise he would have no salary.

Hongxing Machinery Factory has no way to use its own products to pay wages to employees, after all, their products are bulky iron lumps, so most of this towel is also something recovered from debt collection, which is used to pay employees as wages.

Sure enough, Ding Yuejin sighed: "Alas, the situation of the factory is getting worse and worse, although it was always a loss before, but the monthly salary still has to be paid, although it is a little less, although sometimes it is a little later, but it has never been paid." Now I'm finally starting to pay these things as a salary. ”

Ding Hongxing understands Ding Yuejin's mood, he is not too annoyed that he can't get cash wages, because the family's economic situation is much better than before, Ding Hongxing takes home the money from the stamp store every month, which is enough for the family to live a superior life. Finally, he began to replace wages with in-kind, which proved that the situation of the factory was very bad, and he had a very deep affection for the Red Star Factory, which made him emotionally unacceptable.

Ding Hongxing walked to the table, opened a pack of towels, took out a few and looked at them, the towels had the label of Jiangcheng Towel Factory on them, the quality of the towels was quite good, he smiled and said to his father: "Dad, the quality of this towel is not bad." ”

Ding Yuejin snorted and said: "The quality of the towel is good, and the factory recovered it from the Jiangcheng towel factory to offset the payment, but no matter how good the quality of the towel is, it is not money!" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "It's okay, Dad, I have a way to help you sell these towels." ”

Shen Shuzhen said: "Do you really have a way to sell it?" ”

Although life at home is better now, Shen Shuzhen still hopes that these towels can be turned into money, after all, so many towels are worth a month's salary, and there are more than 200 yuan, for Shen Shuzhen, who is used to living a hard life, she never wants to see it wasted. Therefore, she was still very happy to hear her son say that there was a way to sell it.

Ding Hongxing said: "There are only two or three hundred of these towels, aren't we open a store?" Take them to the store, put a table at the door, and sell them on it, and sell them cheaper, and you can sell them for a dollar, I guess they will be sold out in a few days. ”

Shen Shuzhen said happily: "Your method is good, but you are not a store that sells groceries, can you sell it?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "What can't be sold?" Our own store will be sold for a few days temporarily, and it's fine. ”

Shen Shuzhen said: "Okay, then I'll ask your dad to find a tricycle tomorrow to drag these towels to the store and sell them." ”

Ding Hongxing said: "What kind of tricycle are you looking for, Dad is very tired when he comes back from work every day, tomorrow at noon, I will get out of school and find a friend of Brother Chang to use the side tricycle to pull these towels away, very fast." ”

Shen Shuzhen said: "It's not troublesome, right?" ”

Ding Hongxing said: "It's not troublesome." ”

Shen Shuzhen nodded and said, "Okay, then you will pull it tomorrow." ”

Ding Yuejin listened for a long time, and then asked: "Red Star, you see that the wages paid by the workers in our factory this month are all towels, can you find a way to help them sell these towels too?" ”

Shen Shuzhen raised her eyebrows and said, "Yuejin, who do you think Hongxing is?" There are thousands of workers in your factory, and each person is given hundreds of towels, how many towels are there for thousands of people? Hundreds of thousands, right? So many towels for Red Star to sell alone? You can figure it out! It would be nice to be able to sell our own towels. ”

What Shen Shuzhen said was the truth and reasonable, Ding Yuejin knew that he was a little anxious to speak, he stopped talking, and just buried his head in silence and smoked.

Ding Hongxing frowned and groaned for a while before he said to his father: "Dad, I'll try my best to sell our towels and help them sell some more." ”

Ding Yuejin knew that just relying on his son's shop to sell like this, it wouldn't sell much, it was tens of millions of towels, but his son was still very relieved when he spoke like this, and he nodded.

Suddenly, Ding Yuejin remembered something, and he said to Ding Hongxing: "You can't manage so many people, but you must help sell a few of them, the first one is your Uncle Gong, his salary this month is also a towel, he is an honest official, and he has no other income except salary, and he points to this salary every month, and you have to sell it; The second is Uncle Zhu of Sandong, he is old and young, his parents and wife are not in good health, and life is difficult, and this month's salary is broken; The third ......"

Ding Yuejin said the names of four or five people in a row, Ding Hongxing is very familiar with them, these are all people whose family situation is not very good, and they are all workers in Ding Yuejin's workshop, this is indeed Ding Yuejin's style of life, as long as he has some ability, he wants to help those who are more difficult than himself.

So many towels add up to one or two thousand, and it is not so easy to sell them, but this is a piece of kindness from his father, Ding Hongxing has to fulfill it no matter what, he nodded without hesitation and said, "Okay, I'll go tell them." ”

Ding Yuejin said to Ding Hongxing again: "Son, there is one more thing, I don't know if you can promise me?" ”

Ding Hongxing smiled: "Dad, can't you tell me anything yet?" ”

Ding Yuejin said: "A few of their towels, can you take a sum of money from the store and give them the money first, their family is really difficult." ”

Shen Shuzhen couldn't help it: "Yuejin, there is no such reason, things haven't been sold yet, let's put the money on first, what's the matter?" What should I do if the towels don't sell? What about one or two thousand towels, how long will our family have to use them? You can't be a good person and ignore our family's own situation, right? We've just just been lifted out of poverty. ”