Liu Dayong waved his hand and said: "I didn't do anything, you don't have to thank me, as long as someone bullies you, you quickly ask Xiaojian to run to me, remember?" ”

Xiaoru nodded: "Got it." ”

Liu Dayong then left and continued to go back to his stall to sell his salted peanuts.

After this trouble, many people sympathized with Xiao Ru, and the price of Xiao Ru's clothes was lower than the price of other clothing stalls, so everyone also bought it, and I also bought it, Xiao Ru's clothes were quickly sold nearly ten pieces!

From yesterday to now, more than half of the clothes have been sold, and Xiaoru feels a lot more relaxed.

At about eleven o'clock, Xiao Chu came back from the county, and after sending the things he brought back to the rental house, he came to see Xiao Ru's sister and brother and asked, "How is the business?" ”

Xiaoru said with a smile on her face: "I have sold fifteen pieces of clothing, and I have earned a total of seventy or eighty yuan!" ”

Xiao Chu was pleasantly surprised: "It's really profitable to buy clothes!" ”

He also longed: "If I sell six or seven more pieces in the afternoon, I will make a net profit of about 100 yuan a day today, and I don't have to go out of the stall at night." ”

"Hmm!" Xiaoru nodded, she didn't want to come out to set up a stall at night, it was too cold, and then touched the bag of vegetables behind her with her foot, "This is what Aunt Jiang asked Brother Liu to bring us to eat, you bring it back to make lunch." ”

Glancing at Liu Dayong not far away, Xiao Ru said again: "Be one more person to cook and bring a meal to Brother Liu." ”

Xiao Chu waved his hand again and again: "Spare me, how can I cook?" You go back and cook, and I'll help you sell your clothes. ”

There are few people who buy clothes at noon, so it's okay to let Xiao Chu guard the stall, Xiaoru nodded: "Then I'll go back to cook, you know the purchase price of these clothes, right?" Add ten yuan to the purchase price to the selling price, and you can sell it if you earn five yuan for a dress and three yuan for a pair of pants. ”

"Got it, you can go back to cooking." Xiao Chu waved at her.

Xiao Ru carried the snakeskin bag of green vegetables, led Xiao Jian to his home, and when he passed Liu Dayong's stall, he said to him: "Brother Dayong, don't buy food at noon, I'll cook and bring you one." ”

Liu Dayong immediately got up embarrassed: "Your sisters and brothers spend a lot of money in the city, how can you give me an extra pair of chopsticks?" I'll just buy a few steamed buns outside and eat them.

"It's okay, you brought us vegetables for me." Xiao Ru finished speaking and left Xiao Jian.

Cooking on a stove was much more troublesome than cooking on an earthen stove, but in those days, gas stoves and gas stoves were not easy to use, and it seemed that only employees in state-owned units could be allocated gas.

You have to steam the rice first, and then stir-fry the vegetables.

When steaming rice, Xiaoru steamed four washed salted duck eggs by the way, and then fried three green vegetables, she and Xiaojian ate first, and then went to do business, and by the way, sent rice to Liu Dayong, Xiaochu's rice was hot on the stove, let him come back to eat hot.

Liu Dayong was embarrassed to take a big bowl of rice and a small half bowl of vegetables and ate them.

Xiao Ru asked Xiao Chu how many clothes he had sold, and Xiao Chu scratched his head embarrassedly: "None of them have been sold." ”

Xiaoru asked him to hurry home for dinner, don't forget to change the coal on the stove, don't let the stove go out, and make dinner at night.

Xiao Chu answered and left.

Xiao Ru took Xiao Jian to stand in the cold wind for nearly four hours and sold seven or eight pieces of clothes, and made more than forty yuan, it was already more than five o'clock, the sun had already set, the wind was colder, and it was time to go home.

Xiao Ru took off the few unsold clothes on the shelves, wrapped them all in plastic sheeting, tied them with ropes, and then dismantled the shelves.

Xiao Ru saw that they were not good, and her heart was in her throat, a little strange, she had closed the stall, even if her peers came to find her, it seemed that the time was not right.

What kind of weirdness are these people? What sunglasses do you wear in the middle of winter, and it's dark?

The big men stopped in front of Xiao Ru, and one of them put his arm on her shelf, holding a cigarette in his mouth, and looked at her for a while before asking, "Are you setting up a stall here?" ”

Xiaoru nodded hesitantly: "Yes." ”

The big man flicked the ashes of his cigarette and asked, "Do you put it for a long time, or only for a few days?" ”

There are many peers who have not closed their stalls to Xiaoru.

Xiao Ru noticed that the two colleagues who were looking for her stubble in the morning were all looking at her gloatingly, and thought, could these big men be called by them?

I don't think it's like it, these big men look a little crazy on the outside, but they are not particularly fierce when they speak.

If these big men were really the thugs found by the two peers, they should have come up and ripped up her stall, beaten her people, and asked her long-winded questions, why are they doing this?

I don't know if it's better to pretend to be well-behaved, Xiaoru replied honestly: "I will probably sell it for a while, at least until the Chinese New Year." ”

The big man with a cigarette in his mouth nodded: "Now there is still half a month before the New Year, then you can pay a protection fee of one hundred and fifty yuan." ”

Xiao Ru finally understood, these big men are collecting protection money, and they just set up a stall here to collect protection money, it is estimated that the hands and feet of those two peers were done, otherwise why would they laugh so insidiously?

In the 80s, there were protection fees, and Xiaoru also knew about them in her previous life, but this protection fee collector was not as terrifying as she imagined, but the protection fee was really high!

Xiaoru didn't take it lightly because people were kind to her, and said respectfully: "I've also heard that you have to pay protection money to set up a stall on this street, but I'm afraid that you will pay the wrong person, if a few of you are pretending to collect protection money, I handed over such a large sum of money to you, and the real protection money is collected on the back foot, then I am not a loss?" It's not easy for me to make some money, and the protection fee should be paid, but I'm afraid that I will make the wrong person. ”

Those few who collect protection money are willing to pay protection money, and they are more kind to her, and the obedient children are likable.

The big man with a cigarette in his mouth was estimated to be the leader of these protection money, and he took out a business card from his pocket: "This is my business card, it has my phone number on it, if someone finds your fault and asks you to pay protection money, you can call my number." ”

Xiaoru took the business card and looked at it, it was printed with the words "Yang Guoqiang", raised his head and said, "Brother Yang, I'm afraid that the few people who found fault when I called you would have already run away, so what should I do?" ”

Yang Guoqiang said: "You directly show my business card to those who want to collect protection money, they don't dare to collect your protection money when they see my name, if you still dare to forcibly collect it, you tell me, even if they run to the edge of the sky, I can find them, and give you the money to get it back." ”

Xiao Ru reluctantly put his mind at ease and took out one hundred and ten yuan from his pocket. With a little pleading, he said: "This is all the money I have, when I sell it for another day tomorrow, you come at this time tomorrow, and I will make up another forty yuan." ”

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