Chapter 69 Golden Age (3)
The captain warmly invited Han Guishan to stay for dinner and overnight. Han Guishan accepted the invitation, and the two of them never mentioned the goods in the snakeskin bag.
The villagers gathered around to watch, having seen enough of the excitement. When they saw that the salesman had been retained by the captain, they all dispersed. Those who went to the fields went to the fields, those who went home to do housework did housework, those who played in the mud continued to play in the mud, and Han Guishan was taken by the team leader to his house to drink.
When it comes to drinking, one person only has a small cup, which can be finished in half a mouthful. There is a small plate of peanuts on the table that can be counted with the naked eye. The captain asked his wife and daughter-in-law to cook some good dishes in the kitchen, and he dragged Han Guishan into the house to argue.
"Where is Mr. Han from?" The captain ate a peanut and narrowed his eyes because of the beauty.
"I'm from Shencheng." Han Guishan said.
The captain was shocked and sat upright: "It's not easy to come to our small and broken place in Shencheng. It's not easy. Mr. Han, what did you bring?"
"Just some gadgets, nothing expensive." Han Guishan said, "Captain, I didn't seem to see the supply and marketing cooperative in the village just now. I came from the provincial capital. There is a department store in the provincial capital, and there is also a supply and marketing cooperative in County Y. , you guys..."
"Young man, Han, are from a big city like Shencheng. You have never been to a small and broken place like ours. Our mountainous road is difficult for people to walk on, let alone a car. Every year, we have to carry food on people's backs." , the fields are all terraced, hey, even if you tell me, you don’t understand. There are no supply and marketing cooperatives in the seven or eight villages near us. The nearest supply and marketing cooperative is a day’s walk away, and we send a few every year. Qingzhuang found some time to buy all the things he wanted to buy at once, but the supply and marketing cooperative over there is still out of stock, hey..." The captain frowned as soon as he reached the road, "We are here, deep in the mountains. I am starving and have no money. Girls from other places are not willing to marry except in the famine years. They are getting married from several nearby villages. My little son, hey..."
"By the way, Mr. Han, how did you come here? Are you from x county?"
"I came from Y County." Han Guishan said.
"Y County? Sorry, you're not allowed to walk for two or three days, Mr. Han. You're really lucky. If you go to Anhe Brigade, you'll have to walk for a long time. That's a difficult road. Why don't you look... Han salesman, are you guys like this?" Captain Tu Qian saw the dagger.
After the conversation reached this point, Han Guishan stopped hiding it, opened the snakeskin bag, and showed the contents to the captain.
The captain's eyes widened when he saw it. He felt that his hands were dirty and he didn't dare to touch them. He couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, this towel is so soft. This toothbrush comes from Shenzhen. It can be used for at least ten years. This towel is so soft." It looks very soft. Oh, this clothes, what is this, what..."
"Sea Soul Shirt." Han Guishan said.
"Yes, yes, the sea soul shirt! Only people in big cities wear it!" The captain looked at it with wonder, "This cup, oh, and there are pants, these pants, this is..."
"Bell-bottom pants."
"It must be popular in big cities, right?" The captain couldn't put it down for Han Guishan Road's goods.
"Yes, it's the kind worn by celebrities in Hong Kong cities." Han Guishan lied with his eyes wide open. Bell bottoms were popular a few years ago, but now they are already a common commodity. Not to mention the people in Shenzhen and provincial cities, they don't think they are rare anymore.
After looking at the goods, the captain became even more determined not to let Han Guishan go.
Han Guishan's goods are not available in the supply and marketing cooperative. The only things that can be bought are toothbrushes and cups. However, Han Guishan's toothbrush bristles are softer than those in the supply and marketing cooperative, and the cups are more fashionable and better-looking than the enamel cups sold by the supply and marketing cooperative. The enamel cups from the supply and marketing cooperative are sold at a premium, and only the captain and accountant in the village own them. Villagers who drink from them will look at them with envy.
The more he compared it with the stuff from the supply and marketing cooperative, the more the team leader thought Han Guishan's stuff was better, and the less he dared to ask about the price.
Can he afford such a good thing?
The captain hesitated.
"Which, Korean salesman, how do you sell this toothbrush?" The captain did not dare to ask about clothes and cups that looked very expensive at first sight, and pointed at the toothbrush carefully.
The captain felt that if the price was the same as that of the supply and marketing cooperative, he would buy one for his younger son and his wife. The bristles of the supply and marketing cooperative's toothbrushes were too hard, and the two of them would accidentally brush their mouths with blood.
"A dime." Han Guishan said. He bought these toothbrushes in Shencheng for less than 5 cents each.
A toothbrush in the provincial capital costs 7 cents, and a toothbrush in County Y costs 8 cents. Han Guishan bets that the supply and marketing society near the barley production team, which is more remote than County Y, sells it more expensive than County Y.
The captain was moved.
Toothbrushes from the supply and marketing cooperative cost 1 to 2 cents each.
"I want 2... no, I want 12!" The captain gritted his teeth and decided to buy one for everyone in the family, including his 2-year-old grandson.
"Towels cost 4 cents and 6 cents, sea shirts cost 19 cents, bell bottoms cost 23 cents, enamel cups cost 4 cents and 7 cents, and tin frogs cost 3 cents and 3 cents." Han Guishan compared the prices of Y County Supply and Marketing Cooperative and began to quote.
The captain felt like he could hardly breathe. He wanted everything, even the tin frog that he had never heard of. He didn't even know what it was, but he actually wanted it.
He doesn't care if a frog costs 3 yuan. That's a frog from Shenzhen. Maybe the frogs in Shenzhen cost 3 yuan!
The captain felt that he needed to discuss it with his wife. After all, it was his wife who was always in charge of the money in the family.
"Well, Mr. Han, you eat the peanuts. Eat the peanuts. I'll make it easier." The captain chose to escape.
Jiang Feng didn't believe that he was going to the latrine like this and followed him.
The captain closed the door and ran to the kitchen.
The captain's wife was instructing the two daughters-in-law to wash vegetables and light the fire. The rare aroma of meat was exuding from the pot. When she saw the captain coming, she asked, "Aren't you in the house with the salesman? It's not time for dinner yet, by the way. What does the vendor sell? Brown sugar? Do you have any scissors?"
The two daughters-in-law secretly pricked up their ears and listened.
"What kind of brown sugar cloth? Don't all supply and marketing cooperatives have that stuff? You want the boss to walk two steps to buy it, can't you? That Korean salesman is from Shenzhen. I've seen it, and it's all good stuff. It's a big city. What are the popular clothes, pants, toothbrushes and towels, the soft ones, and the enamel cups, which are a full two yuan cheaper than those from the supply and marketing cooperative and look better!" the captain said hurriedly, "What about bell-bottom pants? They are popular in big cities! Didn't the third child want to go to high school in the county? Didn't we say we would buy him a pair of leather shoes at the beginning? Leather shoes from the supply and marketing cooperative cost 35 yuan, and bell-bottom pants only cost 23 yuan. How about wearing that? It’s more fashionable than leather shoes. And the youngest is going to get married next year. Buy her a sea soul shirt so that her husband’s family won’t dare to bully her.”
"Buy an enamel cup for the eldest brother and the second son, as well as towels and toothbrushes, and buy them for the wife as well." The captain's wife looked at the two wives calmly.
"Here... Okay, that's it. If there are any other frogs there, I'll go ask what kind of frog they are. Hey, what's in this pot?" The captain originally wanted to say that one towel would be enough for each of his two sons, but when he saw two The daughter-in-law immediately changed her tune.
"Bacon, my second brother, go kill a chicken! Treat the salesman well and ask him to come back next year. It's best to bring some candles. The kerosene lamp is too smokey. It would be nice if you could bring a sewing machine."
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"Also a sewing machine. We can knock off all the knots on the railroad tracks here. How can we have a sewing machine? Don't worry, when the third child becomes successful, we can go to the town, and maybe even to the county. I didn’t buy whatever I wanted at that time,” the captain said comfortingly.
"Dad." The eldest daughter-in-law, who had been silent all this time, said, "Can you talk to the salesman and ask him to bring some floral cloth next time."
"Yes, yes, there is also a thermos bottle. When I went back to my parents' house, my sister-in-law said that the thermos bottle is very useful." The second daughter-in-law followed suit.
"You guys from the second brother's house, kill the chickens for me and return the thermos bottle. The cold water can kill you. It's so precious. You, go and accompany the salesman. We haven't had a salesman in our village for more than ten years. If he can We come here every year, and we don’t have to spend more than ten days traveling to the town or county to buy things,” the captain’s wife gave the order.
After receiving the order, the captain returned to the room and continued to practice Tai Chi with Han Guishan.
As soon as he entered the room, the captain smiled and said: "Han seller, my daughter will be married next year, and I want to buy her a more fashionable dress. You sea soul shirt, see if you can... ”
"Captain, my price is already very cheap. Maybe even the county town won't be able to sell it. I'm going all the way..."
"I know, but as you can see, we are poor, and these 19 yuan can buy a lot of cloth. Look, can you, this..."
The two began to complain to each other and practice Tai Chi.
One wants to bargain, the other is determined not to bargain.
Jiang Feng looked on in shock.
This mountain walk also has the function of consecrating the brain?
When Han Guishan was selling goods in the provincial capital a few days ago, he still opened his mouth and said, "Mom, this is a defective product I bought from the factory." Now he actually looks a bit like a street vendor.
Jiang Feng couldn't help but sigh, the boss is the boss, this kind of inhuman learning ability is really beyond the reach of ordinary people.
The two of them were having a rough time like this, with some chatting in between, until dinner time. Han Guishan finally gave in and was willing to sell the sea soul shirt to the captain for 18 yuan and 2 cents. He could also give him 2 toothbrushes, but it could only be the captain, and no one else decided.
The captain happily greeted Han Guishan to go to dinner.
He would never know that Han Guishan bought these outdated Haihun shirts for 10 yuan and 30 cents.
The dinner was quite sumptuous, including white rice, stewed old hens, roasted bacon with potatoes, stir-fried wild vegetables, and sweet potatoes roasted with taro. Looking at the performance of the captain's two grandsons and one granddaughter, you knew that this was definitely a rare feast.
"Mr. Han, what's the deep city like?" As soon as the captain's eldest son said this, everyone at the table looked at Han Guishan. The captain's six-year-old granddaughter stopped eating bacon secretly and her hands were all wet. Received it back.
Han Guishan began to tell everyone about Shen City.
Different from the previous lectures with Wang Jing, Han Guishan chose the best to speak this time. Hotels for foreign guests, department stores, cars, elevators, TVs, ships, records, posters and CDs, etc., these people who have never been out of the mountains of the county in their lives were stunned, and everyone was yearning for it.
I didn't even eat, I was so mesmerized by what I heard.
Before he finished speaking, someone came to the door.
He was one of the onlookers at the entrance of the village this morning.
"Captain, is the Korean salesman here?" The villager put his hands in his pockets, smiled and approached the captain and asked softly, "Do you know what the Korean salesman is selling?"
Jiang Feng noticed that Han Guishan glanced outside the door and smiled.
The second half of the previous chapter has been changed
(End of chapter)