In the Shibi Festival Supply and Marketing Cooperative.

Zhang Manzhi, who was already triumphant, had a fixed expression on his face, his mouth was wide open, and he could almost stuff an egg into it, how funny and funny it looked.

The lady in the soap blue cotton jacket had already been scolded and cried by Zhang Manzhi, but when she heard the voice, she stopped sobbing and turned her head in a daze.

I saw a young man in a gray tunic, walking in in the light outside.

The young man is burly and has a tough facial line, and just by looking at it, he can make people feel good.

He was followed by two comrades, one was a little black fat man, and on his chubby cheeks, those small eyes were blinking.

The other was a thin young man, also wearing a tunico with four pockets, and a pen in the pocket of his tunic, which looked like a small leader.

These people may have good backgrounds, but they were not seen by Zhang Manzhi.

The supply and marketing cooperative system in this era is self-contained, and even if it is a local leader, there is no need to sell face.

Zhang Manzhi also eased up, his eyes slanted, staring at the young man at the head: "Who are you?" ”

"A foreigner, named Li Weidong, originally wanted to go shopping in your town today, but I didn't expect to have a lively look, so I came over." Li Weidong smiled, but his eyes were looking up and down at the furnishings in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Different from those large supply and marketing cooperatives in the capital, the Shibijie supply and marketing cooperatives are particularly simple.

The house is a renovated old warehouse, with a half-earthen wall divided into two halves, the front half is the receiving area, and the second half is supposed to be the warehouse and the rest of the salespeople.

The counter is made of red bricks, with a layer of cement on top, which looks a little rough, and behind the counter are placed several large jars, which are dirty and dusty, and the wooden stoppers used to plug the mouth of the jar have long since rotted.

There is a wooden shelf behind the counter, and the shelves are cluttered with goods, and it looks like they haven't been cleaned up for a long time.

"Li Weidong? I didn't know and I hadn't heard of the name! ”

Zhang Manzhi thought about it for a while on his eyelids, and after repeatedly confirming that he didn't know this young man, his face instantly darkened.

She propped her hands on the counter and stared at Li Weidong with cold eyes: "I don't care who you are, you go out now, nothing has happened to us." ”

Hearing this, Li Dengyun, who was standing behind Li Weidong, was startled.

Since the task of distributing grain was assigned to Sun Yuhou, Li Weidong has been at leisure.

In addition to occasionally practicing growing radishes with Sun Orchid, his biggest hobby is to walk around.

The big butt of Shuangshui Village was quickly turned over.

Seeing this situation, Li Dengyun took the initiative to come up with an idea and invited Li Weidong to the Shibi Festival to watch the excitement.

The Shibi Festival is the seat of the commune and a town, which is a famous 'big place' within a radius of dozens of miles.

Although the materials of this era were purchased and sold in a unified manner, the agricultural products in the field, the eggs of the members, and the bamboo baskets made by those skillful people were not among them.

Every time there is a big market in the town, the members of the ten miles and eight townships will bring all kinds of goods to the town, which is particularly lively.

After Li Weidong came to this era, he had not participated in the big set, so he agreed at that time.

Li Dengyun originally wanted to inform the comrades in the Shibijie Commune, but was stopped by Li Weidong, and he came to Shuangshui Village to support him this time, which had nothing to do with the Shibijie Commune.

Besides, a group of people were somewhat uncomfortable following him.

As a local, Li Dengyun knew too well the virtues of the group of people in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and he was afraid that Zhang Manzhi would have a conflict with Li Weidong, so he wanted to step forward to stop Zhang Manzhi at that time.

was stopped by Li Weidong.

"Shout, and helpers!" Seeing the movements of the two, Zhang Manzhi suddenly became even more angry, walked out of the counter, and walked to Li Weidong.

She raised her head and squinted: "Young man, are you sure you want to wade into this troubled water?" ”

"Muddy waters? There's no way, I just can't see some people bullying the people. Li Weidong hugged his hands.

"Bully, I warn you, you must not talk nonsense, how can I bully people?!"

Zhang Manzhi pointed at Li Weidong and said, "If you don't make it clear to me today, don't think of going out of this door." ”

Zhang Manzhi was already fat, coupled with dark skin, and now he looks like a big fat pig.

It's just that the big fat pig is a little angry.

Li Weidong smiled faintly, pointed to the matchbox in the hand of the old lady in the soap blue cotton jacket and said: "If you treat the old matches as new matches and sell them to the old lady, isn't that bullying the old lady?" ”

"Hahahaha.... That's because of this! What a fuss. Zhang Manzhi said nonchalantly: "How do you know that this box of matches is an old match?" ”

"It's easy." Li Weidong stretched out his hand towards the old lady: "Auntie, can you let me take a look?" ”

The lady in the soap blue cotton jacket clutched the match box tightly, and said with some worry: "Young man, these people are not easy to mess with, I think this matter will be forgotten..."

The lady in the soap blue cotton jacket was just distressed about her eggs just now, but now when she saw Zhang Manzhi getting angry, she was a little scared in her heart.

"Auntie, don't be afraid. Now is not the time before liberation, we people are the masters of our own country, and no one can ride on our heads. Li Weidong said with a serious expression.

The lady in the soap blue padded jacket hesitated for a moment, but still put the matchbox over.

Li Weidong took the box, stretched out his hand to push the box open, pointed to the matches inside and said: "Generally, there are more than forty matches in the match box, you count them now, how many matches are there in it?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Manzhi's face changed greatly, matches are often used by big guys, but ordinary people who would count how many matches are in a box of matches.

Therefore, she dared to pick up the matches on the counter at random and use them, and after using them, she threw the matches on the counter and sold them as new matches.

Zhang Manzhi's confidence was insufficient at that time, and he stiffened his neck and said: "You said that there are forty matches, you are from the match factory?!" ”

I have to say that the perennial career as a salesperson has also allowed Zhang Manzhi to control the work skills of a salesperson.

That is quite unreasonable, and he will not admit it, even if he is caught, he can't admit it.

In this way, those "trouble-seeking customers" will stop because they are afraid of the supply and marketing cooperatives behind her, and because they are afraid of trouble.

It's just that Li Weidong doesn't eat her.

He pointed to the dozen or so boxes of matches on the shelves and said, "Comrade salesman, you can now open those match boxes and count them and see how many matches there are." ”

The old ladies saw that Li Weidong was talking for them, and they had long been fed up with the anger of the salesman of the supply and marketing cooperative, so they were also talking about it at this time.

"That is, when the match factory produces matches, each box contains almost the same number of matches."

"Just look for two boxes and count them carefully, and you will know how many matches are in the matchbox."

"Yes, yes, Lao Wang's family, you can be regarded as meeting a noble person this time, so you don't have to suffer in vain!"

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Hearing the discussion, Zhang Manzhi's face turned red visibly.

"What a bunch of dirt buns..."

She pulled over a chair, twisted her ass and sat up, her left leg on her right leg, her head tilted, and her expression was quite trembling: "Who are you, you, you have to count if you say you want to count?" Besides, it's all new matches, and if you open them, won't they be old matches? How can I sell it then! ”

As she spoke, she deliberately lengthened her tone, and said in a weird voice: "Selling old matches to customers, I can't do this kind of thing." ”

Good guy, at this time, Zhang Manzhi put on the face of an excellent salesperson.

Li Weidong smiled and turned his head to look at Pengzi: "Pengzi, how many match tickets did you have on you." ”

Pengzi followed Li Weidong to Huangyuan this time, playing the role of Li Weidong's bodyguard, plus an assistant.

After coming to Huangyuan, Pengzi bought a lot of tickets for daily commodities through connections, such as candle tickets, shoe tickets, and sock tickets..... Of course, the match ticket is also indispensable for daily use.

Pengzi heard Li Weidong's words, fumbled in the canvas pocket for a while, took out a few match tickets from it and handed them over: "Brother Weidong, I only have five match tickets here." ”

"Five is enough!" Li Weidong took the match ticket and counted it in his hand, then took out a dime from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Manzhi with the match ticket.

"Comrade, I'm going to buy five boxes of matches now!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Manzhi's face changed.

The reason why she was reluctant to open the new match was because she thought that Li Weidong would be able to retreat from the difficulty, who would have thought that this person had a stubborn temper and was ready to buy matches by herself.

Zhang Manzhi sat on the chair, his eyes fixed on the match tickets, not knowing what to do.

"Why, I have money, I have tickets, aren't you going to sell me matches?" Li Weidong's voice gradually increased, and his face became gloomy.

Zhang Manzhi had no choice but to stand up and take the money and tickets in Li Weidong's hand, turned around and went into the counter, took out five boxes of matches from the shelf, and handed them to Li Weidong.

After Li Weidong took the match, he directly gave it to the old ladies: "Auntie, I have to trouble you to help count them." ”

Those ladies saw that Li Weidong was willing to spend money to buy matches in order to help them get angry, so of course they would not refuse.

Several people gathered around, opened the matchbox, and counted them carefully.

Perhaps for fear of counting mistakes, several people have to count again every time they finish counting.

Then he counted the box of matches that he had bought.

After determining the number, several eldest ladies suddenly came to their senses, and their eyes stared at Zhang Manzhi: "The matches in these new match boxes are more than forty, and the matches bought by the old Wang family are only thirty in the box, how do you explain?" ”

"Explain?" Zhang Manzhi also panicked at this time, and hesitated for a long time, but did not say why.

In the end, she can only take out her usual weapon - unreasonable!

Zhang Manzhi pinched his waist with both hands, his nostrils soared to the sky, and said in a cold voice: "I am a salesperson, and I am not a matchmaker, what is there to explain, you are simply unreasonable." ”

Today is the big gathering of the Shibi Festival, and the quarrel that occurred in the supply and marketing cooperatives has already alarmed the people who rushed to the market.

The door of the supply and marketing cooperatives was surrounded by the people.

The big guy didn't have any other ideas, as long as Zhang Manzhi admitted his mistake, he would change the old lady with a new box of matches.

But Zhang Manzhi played a scoundrel.

The big guy couldn't hold back anymore and pointed at Zhang Manzhi.

"Oh, look, this salesman is still unreasonable?"

"Reasonable? Let me tell you, the salesman of our Shibijie Supply and Marketing Cooperative, has never been reasonable. ”

"Yes, I went to the supply and marketing cooperatives last time to get half a catty of wine, and I was going to invite my children to drink.

Who would have thought that the wine was mixed with water, and my sons and daughters' relatives thought that I was not honest, and my son's relatives would be yellow. Poor my son has been busy for two years in order to marry this daughter-in-law.

I couldn't be angry, so I brought the wine jar to Zhang Manzhi to settle accounts.

Instead of admitting it, she scolded me for not being able to drink and wanted to slander people. ”

"And me, I bought a bottle of soy sauce last time, ready to be used for stir-fry for the New Year, who knows that after a few months, the soy sauce actually came out of the hair, you say, the soy sauce is not mixed with water, how can it be hairy?"

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There is only such a supply and marketing cooperative, and the masses buy daily necessities here, and they have been bullied by Zhang Manzhi all these years, but no one has a hard time with her.

Now that Li Weidong is taking the lead, they naturally can't let go of this opportunity.

At this time, a lesbian wearing a floral cotton jacket, a white shirt inside, and black hair pulled up high, carrying a canvas bag and preparing to enter the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy salt, saw so many people surrounded outside the supply and marketing cooperatives, and all of them were full of righteous indignation, she felt that something was wrong, leaned over and asked: "Uncle, what's wrong?" ”

"Oh, girl, you may not know that the salesman in the supply and marketing cooperatives is so bad that he actually sells used matches to the old lady, and he still refuses to admit it, and now the comrade from other places is confronting him!"

The old man said three or two sentences, and told him what happened in the supply and marketing cooperatives just now.

This lesbian didn't care about it, after all, the supply and marketing cooperatives treated customers badly, and it wasn't a matter of a day or two, so what big trouble could happen?

But when she heard that there were comrades from other places, she realized that something was wrong.

"Let's let go, let's get in trouble."

When it became clear that the comrade from other places was Li Weidong, the director of the rolling mill who had come to help Shuangshui Village, he was immediately frightened.

Hurriedly turned around and staggered towards Shuangshui Village.

The reason why this female comrade is so panicked is because she is Yao Shufen, the daughter-in-law of Jin Guangming who has just passed through the door.

In these years, Jin Guangming has not been promoted to the county supply and marketing cooperative, but is only the deputy director of the Shibijie supply and marketing cooperative.

Recently, the above is considering that Jin Guangming will be transferred to work in the county, if there is a problem with the Shibijie Supply and Marketing Cooperative, then Jin Guangming's promotion will be blind.

How could Yao Shufen not be in a hurry.

She trotted all the way back to Shuangshui Village and pushed open the door of her house directly.

Jin Guangming was hiding in the house, drinking wine and eating peanuts, humming a little song in his mouth, so unpleasant.

Jin Guangming is actually the person who is the best at camping in Shuangshui Village.

He was a landlord, and his father once occupied nearly two-thirds of the land in Shuangshui Village, causing many people to sleep quietly on the yellow earth after living like cattle and horses.

After the liberation, for a long time, Jin Guangming could not raise his head in Shuangshui Village.

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