"Dad, taking advantage of the fact that the boiler hasn't been delivered in the past few days, you can go to the south to contact Sucrose." The father and son squatted on the chair, knocking melon seeds for a while, and chatting without a word.

"Okay," the old man spat out the melon seed skin in his mouth, "let your mother prepare it for me, and I'll leave the day after tomorrow." ”

In the 80s, land transportation was not very developed, and civil aviation did not need to think about it, and the people basically relied on the train to go out of a long way, so the crowding on the train can be imagined, and the density of its population is also a fight with canned food. Want to sit down? Forget it. However, there is one of the biggest advantages of having more people, that is, even if you fall asleep standing up, you definitely don't have to worry about falling, and the people around you are your strong backing, and they will never give you any chance to fall. Well, the words are ugly, the faces are ugly, and the things are difficult to do, which is the real face of the iron bosses.

There is a question that Zhang Lan has never understood, why no one cares about the overloading of the train to this extent, but desperately stuffs people on the train? Ordinary people are not allowed to drive a passenger car to run transportation, even if it is overloaded a little?

This year, it doesn't matter if you want to get a sleeper ticket? Zhang Lan repaid this with deep contempt: Brother, your old man hasn't woken up from a dream yet, are you?!

Those tickets are prepared for related households and scalpers, well, it is said that there have been quite a number of scalpers who have relied on reselling sleeper tickets to earn the first pot of gold to make a fortune, and embarked on the glorious road, for this, many scalpers have tears in their eyes, can not help themselves, and expressed their heartfelt thanks to the selfless, beloved, and lovely iron bosses!! Who said that the Iron Boss is selfless and doesn't recognize people? Who said the Iron Bosses are all selfish and think about themselves? It's all nonsense, look at how good the Iron Boss is to us!! Thanks to the great iron bosses for the sake of a scalper to help people, resolutely sacrifice the spirit of their innocent reputation, what kind of spirit is this? That's the great ** spirit!! This is the noble spirit of sacrificing one of me and becoming a family of thousands of people!!

Thanks to the great scalpers, it is your hard work and tireless squatting to protect that finally let our lovely Comrade Zhang Zongjun avoid the fate of becoming a canned food in advance, get a sleeper ticket at a high price, and become a member of the great sleeper family! Here, I salute you and I salute you as a result.

Mr. Lu Xun, a great writer, thinker and revolutionary in China, once spoke highly of the great work of scalpers: Heng Mei coldly pointed at thousands of people, bowed his head and was willing to be a son of a cow. It's about the great ** sentiment of the scalpers who sacrificed me and made thousands of happy families!!

Sitting on the train that is enough to kill the best tempered old cattle and the slowest tortoise, Zhang Zongjun finally came to Dongguan, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, Guangdong is an important sugarcane producing area in China, and the sucrose output accounts for about 37% of China's total sugar output, and the planting of sugarcane is mainly distributed in Guangzhou, Shunde, Zixiao, Jiangmen, Zhongshan, Dongguan and other places.

When I got off the train, it was already evening. Zhang Zongjun was a little at a loss: If you are not familiar with the place, where can you contact the source of goods? No matter what it is, it's true to find a hotel to stay in first.

Finding a "Xinglong Street Guest House" hotel, handing over the money and other good memorizations, Zhang Zongjun asked the waiter: "Comrade, do you know where there is a sugar factory near here?" ”

The little girl was very enthusiastic and replied in Mandarin with a strong Cantonese flavor, "Comrade, are you here to contact Bai Tang?" ”

"That's right! How do you know I'm here to contact White Sugar? "Zhang Zongjun is happy, it seems that he has found a warm-hearted person." You know, can you tell me? ”

"Many people come here to contact Bai Tang, what's so strange about this," the little girl pursed the corners of her lips, feeling very disdainful of Zhang Zongjun's ignorance, "You'll know if you hear more!" ”

"Oh," Zhang Zongjun felt a little blushing, too, what people hear and see every day are these people, and of course they know these things very well.

"But let me tell you first," said the little girl, "that sugar is in high demand now, and I have heard that many people can't afford it, so you must be prepared that you may have to stay here a few more days." ”

The little girl was a thief, and she didn't say that she would go back if she couldn't buy it, but persuaded Zhang Zongjun to stay for a few more days, and the business was done at this point, and I don't know if the boss would give more bonuses?

"It doesn't matter," Zhang Zongjun said, "you just need to tell me where to go to contact the source." ”

"Oh", the little girl didn't say anything more, which one came to buy something that wasn't like this? "There are a few others in the guest house who are also here to buy candy, I'll say hello to them, and you can go and see it tomorrow."

"Okay, thank you, little comrade."

"No thanks, old comrade." The little girl was very unhappy that she was called gay.

"Huh"? Zhang Zongjun was very stunned, why was the little girl very dissatisfied.

Early the next morning, Zhang Zongjun got up early to pack up, and then waited in the hall for a few cane sugar sellers to go out together.

He was later, Zhang Zongjun consciously handed these cigarettes very consciously, "A few comrades, how about tasting this cigarette?" Local specialty. ”

"Thank you, brother." One of them, who was in his forties and seemed to be a leader, smiled and took it, "Listening to my brother's accent, my brother seems to be from Shandong, right?" ”

"Brother has good eyesight," Zhang Zongjun gave a thumbs up, "I don't know where my brother is?" ”

"I'll hold it up," the middle-aged man in his forties lit a fire and took a puff, "This smoke is good, mellow, and not choking." After a pause, "I'm from Henan, and my brother plans to sell some cane sugar?" ”

"I'm not going to get a lot of it, just a little." Zhang Zongjun smiled and didn't tell the truth. If you are away from home and are not familiar with life, it is better to be careful when you talk and do things.

"These are all friends who do business together," the middle-aged man pointed to everyone, and everyone nodded, "There are people from all over the world." ”

Zhang Zongjun felt that these people were not so simple, and the capable style and neat movements revealed by several people could only be seen in the bodies of those who came out of the army, "How many have been soldiers?" Zhang Zongjun asked.

"Brothers have good eyesight," the middle-aged man was a little curious, "The brothers are all from the army, and there is nothing to do, and the big guy is discussing pouring something to subsidize the family." Brother, you were also a soldier? I see you have a bit of a military flavor in you, too. ”

"Not really," Zhang Zongjun said, "at home is a militia company commander." It's half a soldier. ”

Hearing that Zhang Zongjun was the commander of the militia company, the few people who had vaguely rejected Zhang Zongjun from their small circle at the beginning suddenly became enthusiastic. Some enthusiastically introduced the situation here to Zhang Zongjun, and some complained that things are not easy to get now, everything is missing, and there is no relationship and no goods can be obtained at all.

"Brothers," seeing that the scene was a little chaotic, the middle-aged man spoke, "It's not early, let's go out and find it quickly." ”

The group said that they had come to the station and got on the shuttle bus to the township below.

It was disappointing that after a whole day of running, none of the sugar factories had any surplus products to supply them. The owners of several sugar factories said very clearly: "We are not short of buyers now, if you want the goods, you will either let the above give you a batch of slips; Either give US dollars, as long as you meet any of the requirements, I will give you the goods to others first! ”

In the evening, the group found nothing and returned to the guest house with heavy steps. Lying on the bed, Zhang Zongjun couldn't fall asleep over and over, although he thought that it might be in short supply before he came, he didn't expect it to be in short supply to this extent. The canning factory at home is still waiting for the sugar to go back to the pot, what now?

For three days, Zhang Zongjun didn't gain anything, thinking that his family was still waiting for the results of his trip, Zhang Zongjun was so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night, his whole body was on fire, and his mouth was full of bubbles. But after a few days, I got acquainted with those few people, and gradually understood the origin of several people, the leading middle-aged man was named Wang Jianguo, several people came out of the 38th Group Army, and they were all discharged from the army and demobilized, because their temper was too straight to offend the leaders of the unit, and they were put in small shoes all day long. The people who couldn't stand this bird's anger got together to discuss it, and simply put a leave of absence without pay, and everyone got together to do some business.

As the trump card unit in our first team, the construction of the 38th Group Army has always been the top priority in the construction of our first team, and military training and ideological and political consciousness are in the forefront of all armies. It is very reasonable to talk to Zhang Zongjun, a militiaman, and several people told Zhang Zongjun that he said that he was in short supply of sugar now, and he planned to sell it to the army by relying on his previous relationship in the army. Since everyone already knew each other and had the right temper, Zhang Zongjun didn't hide it from them, telling them that he had opened a cannery and planned to buy some cane sugar for his own use.

Several people heard Zhang Zongjun say that he had a canning factory, and joked: "Brother, yes, I opened my own factory at a young age, if the brothers can't eat that day, they will go to mess with you." ”

"That's a good dare, but I'm afraid that my small temple is too small, and you gods don't want to deign to come." Zhang Zongjun smiled, his heart was also moved, it is also good to recruit some veterans in the future, although the soldiers are upright, but they are easy to manage, and they are not afraid that someone will come to make trouble when the time comes.

On this day, the clueless Zhang Zongjun was wandering aimlessly on the road, and a voice suddenly approached his ears: "You say, now these rich bosses are getting more and more powerful, winning and losing are tens of thousands, it's really fucking rich, the money people win overnight has caught up with us who have been working tirelessly for several years." ”

"What is this?" Another person took over, "Of course the ones who win are good, but don't those who lose their pants properly?" I heard that there was a boss who opened a sugar factory, and his factory could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which was rich enough, but he had to brush up on the money if he didn't do anything, and as a result, he lost all the money, and borrowed a lot of usury. I heard that I am planning to sell the sugar factory to pay off the loan shark these days? You say he's having a good life, but why is this happening? ”

"There's a lot of money, and it's burning." It turned out that the man took it.

"Huh? Want to sell a sugar mill? Zhang Zongjun, who didn't take the conversation between the two very seriously, just regarded it as a boring person's chatter, suddenly heard the word "sugar factory", and suddenly felt excited: he was worried about how to buy sugar, and now this is a good opportunity.