Chapter 71: : Zhou Cheng missed an appointment
Chapter 71: : Zhou Cheng missed an appointment
Xia Xiaolan scanned two large pockets of goods.
Bai Zhenzhu was very strong, and helped her carry it to the guest house. Xia Xiaolan appeared to be full of sweaters and trousers on the first day. She did not dare to buy too many coats. Good coats are expensive. Winter in southern Henan Province is also colder than in Yangcheng. A thin coat is not worth it, and Xia Xiaolan is ready to enter a thick coat next time.
She brought out 900 yuan and spent more than 500 in one go.
Excluding the round-trip fare and board and lodging, she can still spend no more than 300 yuan. For the rest of the money, Xia Xiaolan is going to buy two better woolen coats. Although the cost is expensive, each piece of clothing makes a lot of money.
Xia Xiaolan wanted to invite White Pearl to dinner. The girl didn't agree at first, but Xia Xiaolan insisted on the treat, and White Pearl ate cheap rice rolls. She was going to share a room with Xia Xiaolan at night, and she also explained two sentences:
"Yangcheng is also very messy at night. If you don't like living with others, I will go to the next room to sleep."
Before Zhou Cheng came, White Pearl had to accompany Xia Xiaolan.
How could Xia Xiaolan drive people away, "Sister Bai, you can just stay with me to talk."
Xia Xiaolan was also very tired after visiting the wholesale stalls. The conditions of the guest house are so-so, you can take a hot bath, Xia Xiaolan feels very relaxed. She was also curious about how Bai Pearl knew Zhou Cheng, but Bai Pearl had never heard of "Zhou Cheng" before.
"My brother asked me to pick you up and take care of you, then I will come."
In the old society, Bai Zhenzhu's family opened a martial arts hall. Her brother joined the army in the north. She was the only one in the family to support the door. Now Chinese people do not practice martial arts but pursue qigong. Bai Zhenzhu has no way to make a living, so he sells fruit instead.
She didn't say that she looked down on self-employed people, because she also did it.
"Sister Bai, you are amazing!"
Bai Pearl felt that it didn't matter, "Whoever makes trouble with me, I will beat them, and whoever has a hard fist makes sense."
Xia Xiaolan wanted to sell clothes, but White Pearl felt that she couldn't help much. If Xia Xiaolan was willing to sell fruit, White Pearl would dare to say that he could get the cheapest goods. White Pearl has not been reborn and traveled through. People are just girls born and raised in Yangcheng. The atmosphere in Yangcheng is more open than that in southern Henan. There are too many self-employed people like White Pearl.
The money in the 1980s was so easy to make. As long as you don't get cheated, you can work hard and have a little brainpower. There is really no loss.
However, no matter how good the fruit business of Bai Zhenzhu is, she is still proud of her eldest brother who joined the army: "Thanks to it, find me a sister-in-law, what else is missing in my brother's life? I will work hard to make money and wait for my brother to get married. , Dont let my future sister-in-law be taken lightly at home!"
Yes, she is also a dedicated girl.
The limitations of the times made Xia Xiaolan unable to explain. Xia Xiaolan's idea is that people must first live for themselves, Bai Zhuzhu feels that it is happier to give to her brother, Xia Xiaolan has no intention of correcting her... The two chatted, Xia Xiaolan slowly fell asleep.
The next day, accompanied by White Pearl, Xia Xiaolan visited several wholesale markets in Yangcheng.
A dazzling array of products, electronic products are more profitable than clothing, ranging from watches and calculators to radios and televisions. Everything you can think of can be found in Yangcheng. The restrictions on purchase by ticket almost no longer exist in Yangcheng. The market here is full of various "parallel imports". Every day, ships smuggle goods from Hong Kong. Customs seizes most of them, but there are still fish that slip through the net.
If it matters, you can buy anything at a low price in the warehouse of the customs inspection office.
The smuggled items that have been seized will not be destroyed, but will be dealt with at a low price... Electronic watches and other things are sold box by box, washing machines, TVs, and refrigerators are also a lot, and the money is a little more, even Can buy seized smuggled cars.
Xia Xiaolan is courageous, and she dares to sell anything others dare to sell.
But she lacks capital!
Seeing Yangcheng, which is full of business opportunities, and Yangcheng, which is more prosperous and open than the commercial city, Xia Xiaolan's heart is bleeding.
She doesn't want to stay in Yangcheng anymore. The goods have been selected. The hostel is full of money every night, just to meet Zhou Cheng in Yangcheng? She could go back to Anqing County and wait for Zhou Cheng.
It's a pity that there is no mobile phone at this time, and there is no "Big Brother". Pagers are just emerging in the Shanghai stock market. Fixed phones are the fastest communication tool, followed by telegrams... No matter what, one party must not be able to move.
Who knows where Zhou Cheng drove to?
...
Zhou Cheng is in trouble.
The car between him and Kang Wei was stopped. Zhou Cheng shot without hesitation, winning the two men alive, and then he found a familiar person on the side of the road. Kang Wei's eyes were almost staring out:
"Isn't this sister-in-law her uncle?"
The clothes on Liu Yong were soaked in blood.
Most of it was other people's blood, and a small part was his blood. It looked terrifying, and someone had a big cut on his back, and the blood was really rushing. Zhou Cheng asked someone to treat Liu Yong's injuries. Liu Yong's fever is not retiring. He and Kang Wei can't leave them in a half-way hospital, right?
Liu Yong should have been beaten like this by the same gang who wanted to rob him and Kang Wei. Xia Xiaolan said that her uncle went to work as a mason... Zhou Cheng had no choice but to contact another person and called the guest house in Yangcheng:
"Xiaolan, I can't go to Yangcheng this time. You will go back to Anqing by yourself and see you when I return."
"Good!"
It's refreshing for his unscrupulous future daughter-in-law to hang up!
Zhou Cheng couldn't laugh or cry.
But what luck did he say that Xia Xiaolan was not destined to be his wife? Although Liu Yong was just an uncle, his position in Xia Xiaolan's mind was obviously more important than that of Xia Dajun. Zhou Cheng saved Liu Yong, didn't he save the life of the'old man'? !
"Uncle, you are really..."
Kang Wei feels that Chengzi's smile is too irritating, and the weasel who succeeded in stealing a chicken is nothing more than that.
On the hospital bed, Liu Yong moved his body restlessly in his lethargy.
...
Xia Xiaolan didn't know anything about Zhou Cheng's situation, and she didn't know that she was doing her filial piety for her.
Shengmi fights against the rice, if the kindness is far more than a bucket of rice, or it becomes the enemy of life and death, or it can only be a family... White Pearl tried his best to send Xia Xiaolan into the car, and Xia Xiaolan carried three bags of clothes and sat down again. The train back to Shangdu.
These three bags of women's clothing have already weighed on all her current capital, as well as the 300 yuan borrowed by Li Fengmei. If there is a mistake in the goods, Xia Xiaolan will be beaten back to the prototype again.
Xia Xiaolan ran to Yangcheng and spent most of the four or five days on the train.
On the other side, Xia Hongxia stared at the door of a lieutenant colonel every day, and finally asked her to wait until Chen Qing.
Chen Qing has not been home for two weekends. Xia Xiaolan came to school a few days ago and gave him some English materials that she summarized. Chen Qing followed Xia Xiaolan's method to study, not to mention making rapid progress, but also found some feeling.
Chen Qing was very surprised, and finally decided to go home this week, looking for an opportunity to ask Xia Xiaolan again.
But as soon as he left the school gate, he was caught by Xia Hongxia.
"Are you Xia Xiaolan's object?"
Chen Qing's ears were hot, and Xia Hongxia knew from his appearance that she had guessed right.
Xia Hongxia is like a successful hunter, desperately suppressing her pride:
"...I want to tell you something about Xia Xiaolan."