In a college in the provincial capital, Meng Zhehan came out of class and met Uncle Zhu in the communication room, holding a stack of newly arrived magazines, newspapers and letters in his hand, and when he saw Meng Zhehan, Uncle Zhu greeted: "Teacher Meng, wait, there are your letters." ”

Meng Zhehan stopped: "Thank you, Uncle Zhu." ”

Uncle Zhu handed over three letters, Meng Zhehan took them and looked at them, a smile appeared on his flat face, he tore open one of the letters, pulled out a thin piece of stationery, looked at the three or four lines on it, his smile expanded, and he shook his head helplessly.

Back in the office, there was a person sitting in his seat, Meng Zhehan: "Came so early." ”

Shen Yu: "Lunch time." ”

"Don't eat hospitality meals, eat our school canteen every day, don't you get tired?"

"With you."

"You have it, you don't want to eat with those people, you have to run to me."

Shen Yu watched Meng Zhehan put a stack of teaching materials on the table, along with three letters, one of which was unsealed, and he recognized the handwriting on it, and promised to send oranges to the address:

"Sister Peach Blossom has sent a letter?"

"Well, this little lazy worm, there are only a few words in total to send a letter: Big brother, I arrived home, the journey was safe and smooth, thank you eldest brother and Comrade Shen Yu for buying me something, I will repay you."

Meng Zhehan couldn't help laughing: "I don't know what kind of repayment method she wants, I'll just wait to eat oranges." ”

The corners of Shen Yu's mouth tugged, and he stood up: "Go to the hotel, I'll treat you." ”

Meng Zhehan: "......" said that he would carry forward the spirit of hard work and simplicity, and eat enough with him for a week in the school canteen, but he couldn't hold on to it on the third day and wanted to go to the restaurant?

In Linshui Village, after finishing work in the evening, Meng Tao followed the members to return the farm tools to the brigade warehouse keeper, slipped into the brigade office by the way, and asked the captain Bao Shunfeng to open a certificate.

Bao Shunfeng glared: "What kind of proof?" Where are you going? I see that when you come back from a trip to the provincial capital, your heart and eyes have grown a lot, and you are not practical in your work, you do not obey the assignment, and you have learned to pick and choose the light and the heavy. I can tell you, learn from those educated youth, and there is no interest. ”

Meng Tao: "Uncle ......, I just want a proof, you are so long-winded."

"Uncle, you can open one for me."

"What are you going to buy in the county?"

"Go to the county local product company and look at buying some local products from our side."

"What are you buying that for?"

"Uncle, you also know, I met a godbrother in the provincial capital last time, and when I came back, he bought me sausages, beef jerky and candy, I have to repay the favor, right? We don't have any good things in the countryside here, so we just have some vegetables to do or something, and other communes have better ones, all of which are purchased and sold by local product companies, and you can buy more diverse ones in the county. But if you can't come back at night after going to the county, you have to open a certificate to stay in a hostel. ”

When Bao Shunfeng heard this, he nodded: "You are right, you should return the favor." Then let's go, when are you going? ”

Meng Tao knew that there was a time limit for opening the certificate, and her eyes rolled: "I'm still busy in the past two days, uncle, or you leave the time empty, and I'll fill it in by myself when the time comes." ”

Bao Shunfeng is old-fashioned, but he will not rely on Meng Tao, he feels that Meng Tao has no relatives and no reason in the county, and he has to come back if he goes to stay for one night, and if he is greedy for fun, it will be three days at most, so he set her five days.

Meng Tao is helpless, this is limited time, if there is an accident outside and you can't come back, it's okay if people don't look at the date, if it's more serious, it's troublesome.

I had to say again: "Uncle, don't deduct and write to the county seat, just write 'Comrade Meng Taohua from my village is ...... going out on business'." ”

Bao Shunfeng was happy: "You are a small farmer, and you are still going out on business, what are you doing on business?" ”

However, according to Meng Tao's meaning, he wrote "Comrade Meng Taohua went to your place to do business", and he acquiesced to what Meng Tao said, if you can't buy desirable local products in the county, then go to the area to see.

Peach Blossom ran back and forth to the provincial capital by herself, so Bao Shunfeng was not worried that she would be deceived on the road, but only told her to go back quickly, don't spend money extravagantly, the few hundred yuan she got back from Tian Zhigao must be collected, and she will get married when she finds a suitable partner in the future, and she will need the money when she gets married.

Meng Tao nodded obediently in agreement.

The next day, Meng Tao temporarily decided to go far away and told everyone that he was going to the county seat.

Several female intellectuals asked her to buy some small things, Zhou Cuiling wanted to go out with Meng Tao, but she still had to go to work, pouting that the boss was unhappy and complained that Meng Tao picked the wrong time.

Meng Tao laughed in her heart: I just want to leave when you are not free, if you follow, it will be difficult to do things, and I will bring you a gift when I come back.

Meng Tao took the village ox cart to the commune early, and then took the morning shuttle, but did not buy a direct ticket to the county seat, but got off at Fenghe Commune.

I heard Zhou Cuiling say that there is an orchard in Fenghe Commune.

Fenghe Commune is in the direction of going to the county seat, just along the way, saving a lot of trouble, Meng Tao plans to go to the orchard of Fenghe Commune to buy some fruits, and then take the afternoon shuttle bus to the county seat.

After inquiring about passers-by, the orchard was not far from the commune, and it took about 30 minutes to walk, Meng Tao stopped a sturdy young man riding a bicycle on the street and asked him if he would like to take her to the orchard to find relatives, she gave a dollar for the fare, and the young man readily agreed.

The road leading to the orchard was a gravel-paved machine ploughing road, relatively gentle, the young man stepped on the pedal, and soon arrived at the orchard, paid a dollar, and Meng Tao walked towards the fence gate of the orchard.

Just when the fence door opened, a middle-aged man came out, Meng Tao hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, and the middle-aged man asked her what she was doing?

Meng Tao said that he wanted to buy some fruit, and the middle-aged man waved his hand: "The collective orchard is purchased and sold by the top fruit company, and the whole vehicle is pulled away, and the private bits and pieces are not sold!" ”

"I can buy more, it's okay if it's more expensive." Meng Tao said.

The middle-aged man listened, looked at her carefully, looked around again, and lowered his voice: "How much can you buy?" ”

"What fruit are in the garden?"

"At present, there are oranges, navel oranges, sugar pears, and late-maturing peaches, and the county fruit company just pulled away two large trucks yesterday."

"What's the price?"

"Oranges, oranges and pears, 6 cents, new varieties of peaches, big and sweet, 8 cents."

Meng Tao visited the store department of the provincial fruit company and knew that this price was high in terms of wholesale price.

"Can't you have less?"

"I can't."

"How much can you sell me?"

"Three or five hundred pounds, I can call the shots."

"Okay, I want five hundred pounds."

After saying this, Meng Tao also paused in his heart: his current property is only more than 300 yuan, so he just threw it out, it was too risky, what if he couldn't come back?

Think about the wealth and wealth again, don't take some risks, what kind of small money do you make?

So he made a heart and followed the middle-aged man into the orchard to pick fruits, and the middle-aged man called out a woman from the thatched hut guarding the garden to help pick the fruits together, oranges, navel oranges, pears totaling 480 catties, and late-ripening peaches 100 catties, a total of 580 catties.

After paying, Meng Tao didn't have a car to transport away, the middle-aged man hurriedly went to a nearby village and called an ox cart to come over, and sent Meng Tao and five sacks of fruit to the commune, Meng Tao did not go to the commune bus station, and looked at a corner place on the side of the highway, asked the uncle who drove the car to help, unloaded the sack, gave the uncle two yuan, and she waited for the shuttle here.