The weather is getting warmer. Life has returned to calm after experiencing this turbulent incident of Xiaoyu.

I still often accompany Uncle Wang to go out to sea to fish, and when I am not at sea, I tend to work in my vegetable garden in the yard. By the time March comes, it's already green.

I also planted a few vines in the middle of the yard, and then built a square trellis out of bamboo, so that the vines could climb up the four corners, and I hoped that it would not be long before the vines would climb all over the roof, and it would probably be nice to cool down below.

Such a peaceful life allowed me to experience a serenity that I had never experienced before, and sometimes, I even heard the sound of my own inner wound scabbing over.

I thought that such days would go on forever, I thought that this kind of life was what the old monk called a new life, but apparently I was wrong again this time, and what happened later let me know. My so-called new life is much more than that.

It was the day when the seafood merchant came to the village again to receive the goods, and the seafood of this village has always been sold to this regular merchant. At least he's been here for the whole time I've been here.

He was a middle-aged man, tall and burly, with a sophisticated manner of speech and demeanor, and was clearly a very shrewd businessman.

Every time he came, he would bring a porter to help him load and unload the goods, but this time he was the only one who came, and according to his own words, the worker's wife was going to give birth, so he took leave and returned to his hometown.

After loading the goods, he needed a helper to go with him to the county seat to unload the goods, saying that he could give a hundred yuan for labor fees. So Uncle Wang recommended me, and I naturally went with him without objection.

I sat in his truck and went with him to a food factory in the county seat, and I carried baskets of seafood to the designated place according to the classification, although it was full of small trucks, but it only took me more than an hour to unload them all and transport them to the cold storage of the factory.

The seafood merchant gave me a hundred dollars after settling the bill and said he could take me to the station, so I got into his car again.

He put a slip in a notebook and put it on the platform in front of the car, and was just about to leave, when he suddenly asked me to wait and say that he was going to the bathroom, and then jumped out of the car.

I sat in the passenger seat and waited for him, and in my boredom I accidentally caught a glimpse of the slip, and took it and looked at it, which I couldn't help but be secretly surprised by.

The document is the payment receipt issued by the manufacturer for this batch of goods, which clearly lists the weight and unit price of various seafood products. What surprised me was the unit price, I knew very well what the price was when he bought these seafood from the villagers, but I didn't expect that he could sell these seafood for several times the price just by pouring it down! This is beyond my realization.

I did a rough calculation, and he could earn more than 10,000 yuan on this trip alone. Surprised, I glanced at the notebook, which recorded the quantity and price of each delivery, as well as the location of the delivery.

Only then did I realize that the price of the goods he received elsewhere was much higher than the price of the goods he received in Wangcun. Probably Wangcun is located in a remote area, the transportation is not very convenient, and it is far away from the county seat, and the most critical point is that the information there is closed and the people are simple, and no one will feel that there is anything wrong with this price, let alone know that others can increase it several times just by changing things

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Price.

When I saw this, I immediately had no good impression of this seemingly good-looking businessman, who was so treacherous as to take advantage of the weakness of the villagers to treat them like this!

Although it seems that everyone is free to buy and sell, he does not force anyone, and it seems that it is not wrong for a merchant to use all resources to grab the maximum profit.

But his differentiated approach still made me a little unacceptable, and at the same time I felt resentful of the kind villagers, whose hard work was so cheap for the merchants!

The merchant dropped me off at the station and left, and he even generously bought me a ticket, but I can't thank him anymore.

On the bus back I was thinking about it, thinking if I should do something to help them, they are kind people, and I can't watch them suffer and be indifferent.

When I returned to the village, I discussed this matter with Uncle Wang, and I wanted to hear his opinion. Uncle Wang was also very angry after hearing what I said, and scolded the black-hearted businessman.

I stabilized his emotions and told him not to tell anyone else yet, so I told Uncle Wang what I thought. I told him we could go directly to the food factory and not have to go to the middleman.

Uncle Wang nodded after hearing this, and agreed with my idea, but he immediately frowned again and said, "How can we transport seafood over so far from the county seat?" ”

I told him it wasn't a problem, that I could drive and that I still had some money, which wasn't much, but it wouldn't be difficult to scrape together enough money to buy a second-hand pickup truck.

Uncle Wang was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said that he was willing to help me with some money, and I could also borrow some from the villagers.

He said to me: "You can't do this in vain, our goods will be given to you in the future, as long as the price you give to everyone is fairer than that black-hearted boss, as for the price, you set it yourself!" ”

Uncle Wang's strong approval encouraged me, but I didn't want to make money from the villagers, I just wanted to help them get back some rewards for their hard work, but Uncle Wang's words gave me some inspiration, if I just help them transport goods, I am afraid that there will be unnecessary bits and pieces of trouble, it is better to be as Uncle Wang said, but I will definitely not make too much money from them like the previous businessman.

The next day, I took the tens of thousands of yuan that Uncle Wang raised for me to the second-hand car market in the county, of course, before I visited several food factories specializing in processing seafood products, and after negotiation, they all agreed that I would supply them.

From their positive attitude, I can probably guess that they have a great demand for supplies, not to mention the goods of farmers in my village, even if there are more, they can swallow them.

And the prices were not very different from what I had seen yesterday on the merchant's receipt. With this layer of security, it has increased my confidence even more.

The second-hand car market is also very smooth, I just entered and met a car owner who was about to sell the car, and after several negotiations, it was finalized.

As I drove back to the road, I felt happy for no reason, thinking that I could do something good for these kind villagers, and thinking of the happy expressions they would show when they found out, I laughed unconsciously.

When I arrived at the village, Uncle Wang saw that I really drove a car back.

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Immediately there was an uproar, and he immediately went to gather the whole village to his courtyard and announced the matter.

The villagers were excited to learn that their own seafood could be sold at a much higher price than before, and this excitement had already covered up the emotions of being cheated by the black-hearted businessman before.

They all showed gratitude on my faces, which made me feel like I was going to take on a big responsibility, and at the same time, I was secretly telling myself that I must not lose myself in the interests and always remember my original intention!

A few days later, I went to the county for the first time with a cart of seafood, and I was both excited and apprehensive, this was the first time in my life to do business, although my original intention had nothing to do with business, but this experience was the first time in my life, and excitement was inevitable.

As for the money for collecting seafood, I haven't paid the villagers yet, and I don't have much money after buying the car, so I wrote down the type and weight of each family's goods in a notebook, saying that I will give them when I come back after selling the goods. Of course, the villagers were not suspicious, I had been here for a while, and I had known most of them well, and I could feel that they trusted me as a non-verbal but helpful outsider.

I pulled the goods to a food factory that was negotiated last time, and the manufacturer immediately gave the money after acceptance, and the price was higher than what we said before, and the person in charge of the manufacturer said that this is because the goods in our village are better than those in other places, which makes me even more happy.

With a thick stack of cash, I settled down, and after a simple bite to eat in the county seat, I hurried back to the village.

In Uncle Wang's yard, I counted the money for them one by one according to the records in the book, and when the villagers got more than twice as much money as before, they were no less excited than me! A lot of people praised me in vague earthy Mandarin. I could tell from their expressions that they had fully accepted and liked me as an outsider, and it made me feel a joy of satisfaction that I had never felt before!

After giving all the money, I still have more than 2,000 yuan left in my hand, although I don't plan to use this matter for my own benefit, but I think it is probably not against my original intention to keep this money, after all, I have to repay the money that Uncle Wang borrowed for me to buy a car.

I did a rough calculation, according to the previous pattern of sending goods four times a month, then I can probably use four or five months to repay the money. As for what happened after that, I didn't think about it that much, and being able to do a little welfare for these ordinary villagers can be regarded as living up to their acceptance and trust.

But then something happened that made me realize that I was a little too optimistic about what was going on.

It was the second time I went to the county seat to make a delivery, and not long after the car drove out of the town, when I reached a mountain col, the front wheel of the car was suddenly punctured by something, and the air of the wheel was instantly deflated.

This sudden situation made the car suddenly lose its balance, and almost rushed into the ditch on the side of the road, fortunately, the road conditions here are not very good, to avoid those potholes, so the speed is not very fast, otherwise, the consequences may be unimaginable.

Sweating profusely, I had just opened the car door and got out of the car to check, when suddenly a few people walked over from the turn in front of me. The moment I saw their expressions, I understood that this accident was not an accident, but a trap that someone had carefully designed for me!

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