On July 15th, Xiao Fei and his brother embarked on the road to the county seat early.

Today, they are going to sell the first batch of dried turtles. This batch of turtles totaled about 90 kilograms, and it was the harvest of the brothers on the first night. The brothers each rode a bicycle, each carrying a bulging sack in the back seat, which was firmly tied with a rope.

Xiao Fei's family also has a tattered bicycle, which Xiao Fei used to ride when he was in school, and the other one was borrowed by Xiao Yang from someone else's house.

When I went out, my mother told me a lot.

Be careful on the road, don't ride too fast, and always pay attention to the sack behind you, don't forget if you don't fall off.

After selling the turtle, he hurried home.

Because it's not safe to carry so much money on your body, don't let the thief remember that it was stolen.

All the way through the village, naturally encountered the envy and jealousy of the villagers, everyone knows that the brothers went to the city to sell turtles.

Two sacks of dried turtles can be calculated by anyone.

A sack must be forty or fifty kilograms (a dried turtle is much lighter than a live one, but it has not shrunk in size.) Many people know what the price of a kilogram of dried turtle is at the purchase point in the city. The more they calculated, the more they went crazy with jealousy.

Xiao Fei's brother and his wife loaded more than 3,000 yuan in their car!

And, that's not all. Many people in the village went to Xiao Fei's house in the past two days, knowing that Xiao Fei's backyard was full of turtles, and it would cost tens of thousands of dollars if they were all sold, right?

By the end of the 90s, even in a poor place like Xili Village, 10,000 yuan households were not a rare thing (in terms of all the realizable assets owned by the family, there were very few bank deposits that could reach 10,000 yuan), but no one in the village could see tens of thousands of yuan in cash at one time.

Especially in the year of the catastrophe in 96, when every household in the village was so poor that it was even more eye-catching.

Passing through the village street and through the pass of Tugang, the brothers walked on the main road and took an hour and a half to reach the county seat.

Xiao Fei led the way and found the Chinese herbal medicine acquisition point located on East Street.

The door of this acquisition point is not small, it is the width of three houses, there is a large parasol at the door, and a bamboo recliner is placed under the umbrella, and an obese middle-aged man is wearing a trouser all over his body, like a fat pig with a fat head and a strong body, he is lying on the chair with a fat head and shaking a fan, even so, he is still covered with oil and sweat, like a red and oily big hoof.

This fat man has 300 pounds up, and the recliner under him is crunched and has a tendency to fall apart at any time.

Xiao Fei supported the ground with his feet and stopped, and a strong smell of Chinese medicinal materials came from the room.

The big fat man saw Xiao Fei and his brothers stop at the door, and then looked at the ** bag behind their car, and jumped up very quickly, with a Maitreya Buddha-like smile on his face, and the flesh on his chin was folded one by one, like the Hengduan Mountains.

His eyes always stayed on the ** bag on the back seat of Xiao Fei's car, his nose twitched, and he stretched out his chubby hand and touched it.

He knew what was inside.

"Brother is here to sell turtles?" The fat man asked.

"Hmmm! Are you the owner of this shop? Xiao Fei nodded. Xiao Yang pursed his lips beside him and didn't say anything, he rarely came to the county seat when he was so big, he hadn't seen much of the world, and he didn't know how to deal with strangers.

"Yes, my name is Hong Dajun, there are so many Chinese medicinal materials in the county, my old Hong is the best, you take off the sack, I'll take a look at the goods."

"No problem."

The brothers parked the car, untied the rope, and removed the sack from the car.

Hong Dajun opened the sack and looked at it, and even reached out and grabbed a dried turtle, put it in his mouth, chewed it carefully for a while, and swallowed it into his stomach.

His movements made Xiao Fei's cold hair stand on end.

Damn, can turtles also be used as snacks?

Hong Dajun patted the salt on his hand and said: "Brother, this turtle is in good condition, brother will give you 36 yuan per kilogram, Lao Hong is not bullied here, and he is never short of catties or two, how about it, sell it to me?" ”

The price is right, Xiao Fei thought to himself, it seems that the purchase price of dried turtles is quite transparent.

looks at the fat man and is quite honest.

"Okay! Then sell it to Brother Hong. Xiao Fei is also very refreshing.

Hong Dajun called two of his own people to carry the two ** bags into the house and weighed them.

Xiao Yang's eyes widened, standing next to the scales and staring at him deadly, and he said: "Boss, we have already been weighed at home, you can't give us a small scale." ”

Hong Dajun took out a box of Hongtashan and handed the two brothers cigarettes, and smiled: "Brother, don't worry, my brother is a person who has been doing business for a long time, no matter what, he can't smash his signboard, right?" ”

As a result, the two sacks were 93 kilograms in total, and of course, the weight of the two sacks had to be removed by 2 kilograms, and the dried turtles they sold this time were 91 kilograms.

Hong Dajun pulled the abacus twice, and said to Xiao Fei: "It's a total of 3,276 yuan, brother, isn't this the number?" ”

Xiao Fei had already calculated in his mind just now and nodded.

Xiao Yang squatted on the ground, used his fingers to list the equation on the ground, and calculated it over and over again, lest the numbers be miscalculated. His body was trembling, and his face was as red as if he had been covered with a red cloth.

It's all exciting.

Growing so big, Xiao Yang has never seen so much money.

It's no wonder if you're not excited.

Xiao Fei saw his brother wearing tattered clothes, muttering in his mouth, his fingers slowly scratching on the ground, and somehow, his heart was sour again.

In order to provide for his education, the family has not added new clothes for several years.

Xiao Yang worked in the fields all day long, and it was expensive to wear clothes, so that every one of his clothes was worn. This time when he came to the county seat, Xiao Yang also deliberately changed his neatest and cleanest clothes, but it was also a hole here and a patch there.

I'll have to buy two sets of clothes for my family in a while. Xiao Fei thought to himself.

Hong Dajun happily held a stack of RMB in his hand, and watched Xiao Yang persistently write numbers on the ground, write and erase, and did not even urge.

"Brother, I've calculated everything, and Boss Hong's calculations are accurate." Xiao Fei wiped his eyes and said to Xiao Yang that his throat was a little astringent.

"I also calculated it, it is 3276 yuan." Xiao Yang stood up from the ground.

"Here's the money! Brother dotted. Boss Hong handed the stack of money in his hand to Xiao Fei.

Xiao Fei turned to Xiao Yang and handed it to Xiao Yang: "Brother, come and get some." ”

Xiao Fei felt that he should let his brother find a sense of accomplishment again.

This money was earned by him by breaking eight petals with a bead of sweat, and every cent and every cent was full of the value of his brother's labor. Well, in the countryside at this time, farmers like my brother always felt that their labor was the cheapest, and they never counted the value of their labor when calculating their annual income.

"This ...... Fly, let's do it, I'm afraid I don't know. Xiao Yang excused.

His eyes were fixed on the pile of money.

As the eldest of the Xiao family, his brother only went to the third grade of primary school before returning home to work with his father, and he almost sacrificed the best thing in his life for this family.

Xiao Fei didn't speak, and stuffed the money into his brother's hand.

As a result, Xiao Yang's 1510 money counting sound sounded in Hong Dajun's Chinese herbal medicine acquisition station, nodding his head while counting, like a believer kowtowing to a long head, so pious that it was moving.

"Boss Hong, I won't tell you, my family still has 3 or 4 hundred kilograms of dried turtles, and there are many people in our village who catch turtles, if you have time, you can drive to our village in two days, I believe there will be a lot of gains." Xiao Fei chatted with Hong Dajun.

"Really?" Hong Dajun's eyes lit up.

"I won't lie to you." Xiao Fei said.

"Which village are you? Thank you so much brother for giving me this news. Hong Dajun looked grateful.

Xiao Fei told him the location of his village and the location of his family in the village, and Hong Dajun took the note, and thanked him repeatedly.

When the brothers left, Hong Dajun stuffed a bag of Hongta Mountain into one of them.