At 9 o'clock in the evening, the well-fed and well-fed crowd gradually dispersed, and Battalion Commander Wang, Zhang Zongjun and the two soldiers boarded the car.

"Wait a minute", Yang Zhi shouted, rushed into the bedroom and took out a quilt and sent it into the car, "It's cold at night." Note". After speaking, he was not at ease and advised: "Be careful on the road."

After speaking, he smiled embarrassedly at the two drivers: "I'm sorry for you two." ”

The two soldiers hurriedly replied: "You can rest assured, sister-in-law." ”

At night, Zhang Lan found that her mother had not fallen asleep all night, she should be worried, Zhang Lan thought, too, there is no possibility not to worry, borrowed a loan of thousands of yuan, and the payment for apples is still on credit, for a rural woman in her 20s who has little knowledge, this night is really spent in anxiety, worried about the safety of people, worried that the fruit will not be sold at a good price and will be lost, worried about all the things that should be worried and should not be worried. Zhang Lan understands this mood.

Early in the morning, my mother got up with a pair of cute panda eyes, Zhang Lan didn't dare to make her mother unhappy, and obediently got up to continue her daily morning exercises.

The mother and son waited anxiously until 4 o'clock in the afternoon - in fact, it was mainly Zhang Lan's mother who was anxious, to be honest, Zhang Lan was not in a hurry - and finally saw Zhang Zongjun coming back in a Beijing 212 jeep, and pulled the driver into the house when he got out of the car, and the driver said that he would not come in, and the two pulled for a while, and the driver took advantage of Yang Zhi's distraction to get into the car and run away.

Looking at Zhang Zongjun's smiling face that was almost about to bloom with a smile that could not be concealed, Yang Zhi's heart that had been pounding for a day finally settled down, no need to ask, he must have made some money this time.

When the couple came to the house, Yang Zhi hurriedly poured a glass of water for Zhang Zongjun, and immediately made a bowl of poached egg noodles, and the old man sat on the chair with a big thorn and enjoyed it with peace of mind. Zhang Lan pursed the corners of her mouth: As for it, just go out to make a little money like this, and the tail will be proudly cocked to the sky? If you earn more in the future, where will you put your tail?

Watching the old man gobble up half a pot of noodles, Zhang Lan was really startled, good guy, it seems that he is really hungry, "Dad, I see that the car that sent you here is Camp Commander Wang, why didn't he keep you to eat?" ”

Swallowing the last bite of noodles, Zhang Zongjun put down the bowl heavily, "Why didn't you keep it?" Aren't I worried that you two are worried at home, and you rushed back without eating, or did you eat something this morning, and you haven't eaten yet, but I'm starving. ”

Well, you can see it, just like the wolf you haven't eaten in the past three days, who can't see it?

"Tell me, what's going on?" Mom finally couldn't hold it anymore.

"Guess how much you're earning?" The old man sold Guan Zi proudly, with a lewd smile on his face, he was very bad, what a shame, Zhang Lan looked at the cheap smile on his old man's face and wanted to go up and kick his feet very much, shameful.

“100？” Yang Zhi was very cooperative.

"No, guess again."

“200？” Yang Zhi's voice trembled a little.

"Can't you guess?" Zhang Zongjun felt that his efforts had been insulted and a little annoyed.

"Tell me, how much did you earn?" Mom couldn't stand Zhang Zongjun's betrayal, and there were signs of madness.

The old man immediately recklessly: "Excluding the payment for goods and the money for renting a car, I will earn a net of 1,205 yuan." This, the husband at home is a little sluggish. Zhang Lan sighed secretly.

"How can it be so much? Tell me about it. "Mom is a bit stupid.

This is not to blame her, in 85 years, the average monthly income of workers was only 27.5 yuan, and the higher wages such as doctors were only a little more than 30 yuan, and the income of farmers was even less pitiful, and it would not exceed 100 yuan all year round. At the beginning, guessing 100 was already towards more guesses, as for thousands? I didn't dare to think about it at all.

"After we left last night, the next day, that is, at 5 o'clock this morning, we arrived in Jinan." Zhang Zongjun honestly confessed and told everything that happened this morning.

In the morning, Zhang Zongjun and his entourage rushed to the fruit wholesale place on Dikou Road, thinking of what his genius baby son had said before getting into the car, he hurriedly told the two comrades of the People's Liberation Army to wait a little on the side, and went down to ask about the wholesale price. The carriage was covered, and Welch was a military vehicle, so no one thought that this was a car that came to wholesale fruits, and it also saved himself a little trouble, which was also what Zhang Zongjun thought of later.

Walking a few steps in front of a group of people, Zhang Zongjun asked a middle-aged man in his thirties: "Big brother, are you here to batch fruits?" ”

The man's face was slightly hostile, and he looked at Zhang Zongjun twice: "What?" You're also a fruit seller? ”

"No, our unit is going to hold a party, let me buy some fruit." Zhang Zongjun was heartfelt and didn't tell the truth.

"Oh", the man breathed a sigh of relief, and his tone became enthusiastic; "Brother, what unit are you from?"

"From the Armed Forces Department", Zhang Zongjun couldn't think of how to make it up for a while, so he reported the unit he was most familiar with.

The man didn't suspect that Zhang Zongjun was wearing a green military uniform, and he still had a bit of military ability, and it was really not easy to make people suspicious when he said that he was in the armed forces. "Brother, you're right to ask me. You're lucky to have met someone like me, and if you ask someone they won't necessarily tell you. The middle-aged man was obviously enthusiastic, "Now the wholesale price of apples is 1 mao 5, pineapples are 1 mao 4, and you can't buy southern fruits such as oranges directly, and there is no market for them." ”

"It's so expensive!" Zhang Zongjun sighed that it was not possible to sell things that no one at home could sell for such a high price here.

"What's expensive", the middle-aged man took it over, and said with a big smile, "If you batch it back here, you can sell it for 2 cents if you change hands, and at this price, it's not like you can buy it if you want to." There are not many goods in a day, you say that such a large provincial city, with a population of more than 4.8 million, plus 5 million in the army, just such a small thing, you can't even make a splash if you throw it away. ”

"Uh-huh", Zhang Zongjun was a little daze when he heard what the middle-aged man said, if he brought all the fruits in the town by himself, wouldn't he make a fortune?

"By the way, brother", the enthusiastic middle-aged man asked, "you work in the Ministry of Armed Forces, right?" My boy is 19 years old this year, and I plan to send him to the army, and our brothers know each other, so you will have to help me then. ”

"Okay", Zhang Zongjun responded a little, turned around and walked towards the car.

"Brother, when the time comes, you will definitely have to help my son when he becomes a soldier." The middle-aged man shouted in the back.

"Got it". Zhang Zongjun replied loudly and quickly slipped away.

When the car drove in front of the people, Zhang Zongjun shouted: "I have apples here, who wants them?" ”

"Coaxing", people instantly came up, "I'll give me a dime and a thousand catties." "This is looking at Zhang Zongjun's eyes and trying to get a little cheap, Zhang Zongjun secretly wiped a cold sweat, or is his son smart, if you don't inquire about the news first, maybe it will be sold at this price, then it will be a big loss?

"Get out of the way, it's all a dime, and the poor ghosts who can't afford it go aside. The eldest brother sold me 2,000 pounds for a dime and a half. One shouted who refused to let others take advantage.

"I want 3,000 pounds!"

"Give me 500 pounds!"

"Give me ......"

The crowd was noisy like a boiler boiling water.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man muttered on the side, "Isn't this the one who asked me about the price just now?" Thinking of this, he hurriedly shouted: "Big brother, we are so familiar, you have to leave me 2,000 pounds!" ”

Seeing that things were not good, Zhang Zongjun hurriedly stood on the roof of the car and shouted: "Don't worry, everyone, I have transported 24,000 catties this time, everyone line up one by one, as long as the cash is not credited!" ”

Seeing that the boss spoke, everyone instantly lined up, and the rapid action made the soldiers hit the wall with shame.

With one hand to pay and one hand to deliver, a truck of goods was sold in just one and a half hours, which was a full half less than the loading time.

Pinching the thick stack of RMB in his hand, Zhang Zongjun was extremely excited. shouted that the two PLA comrades found a place and spent 5 yuan for a meal, and the group of three hurried back.

Speaking of this, Zhang Zongjun let out a long breath and calmed down his excited mood, "I really didn't expect the money to be so easy to make, I made money in one day that I couldn't earn for 10 years, even if I put it aside the day before yesterday, I can't think of it." ”

Where is this? Zhang Lan was very unimpressed with his old man's appearance.

"Quickly take the money out and give me some money." Yang Zhi was very excited and urged.

Zhang Zongjun laboriously sold a thick stack of money from the pocket of the most hidden part of the clothes, and handed it to Yang Zhi with great pride, "Here, take care of it." ”

"Ten pieces, twenty ...... Two hundred, two hundred and ten...... One Thousand Twelve ...... Three thousand five hundred and two. Yang Zhi trembled and counted the thick stack of money in his hand, still not quite believing that this amount of money was his own.

"Of this money, 2,320 is the payment, and the remaining 1,200 is our own." The old man said.

Yang Zhi hugged the money and smirked, it's good to have money.

"By the way, did you send fruit to Battalion Commander Wang and their troops?" Zhang Lan asked.

"Why didn't you send it?" Zhang Zongjun said with a smile, "Last night, when we sent Camp Commander Wang to the station, we unloaded 500 catties for them, you don't know, but Camp Commander Wang and the soldiers were so happy, they didn't let go of their hands when they grabbed me, that enthusiasm, hehe, it's really unbearable." As soon as we arrived at the garrison at noon today, Battalion Commander Wang and the soldiers insisted on keeping me drinking, and if I hadn't been worried about you two of you, I would have come back, and maybe I would have drunk them. Camp Commander Wang had no choice, so he asked me to be his car and ask the driver to send me back. ”

"That is, there is no shortage of food and clothing for the troops now, but they really don't have these fruits and the like." Zhang Lan said with a smile. "Look, your 500 pounds of apples worked, how enthusiastic the soldiers are about you, it's better to talk to them in the future."

Zhang Zongjun smirked, very proud that he had given birth to a genius son.

"That's right, Dad, since it's so easy to sell, then we have to hurry up and organize the next batch of goods, and tomorrow you will go to talk to Camp Chief Wang about our long-term cooperation." In addition, our family has to send the money to the villagers quickly, and don't let people say anything about us. Zhang Lan added.

"Well, yes, I will go to the county seat early tomorrow morning to discuss this matter with Camp Chief Wang, and in the afternoon I will go to talk to Li Mingjiang and them about the next batch of goods, and by the way, I will pay them for the goods." Zhang Zongjun responded.

"You have carefully collected the money, you will send the money to the villagers in a while, and by the way, cut two catties of pork and come back." Zhang Zongjun waved his hand and said loudly to Yang Zhi. When you have money, you are tough to talk about.