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Chapter 4 Collecting the Scrap

"Why is Lao Liu so happy today?" A young man asked, looking at Brother Liu's joyful look.

The sun is shining, with railroad tracks in front and a station building behind. Here is the platform, an ordinary freight platform.

Liu Ge was originally a farmer, but there was too little land in the village. On average, each household only received 5 or 6 acres of land. The farming area was definitely not enough to support the family, so Liu Ge found another part-time job.

This is the loading and unloading team.

Although the town has declined now, it was famous before liberation. It had developed transportation and a large population. From here to the east, more than 100 kilometers is the capital. From here to the west, more than 100 kilometers is the outside.

As a must-pass place from the capital to the outside world, many merchants gather here.

Although this place has declined now, there are still many mines on the mountains north of this place and there are also many agricultural products around it, so there is a special freight train station here for shipping goods.

If it were mechanized in the later generations, it would be mechanized, and now it is entirely dependent on manual labor. The loading and unloading team is to load the train leather.

Such goods are not available every day, and may not start work for a month, and may be exhausted as soon as it starts, such as two people loading a train leather for half a day, etc.

So I come here to sell coolies, and the only thing I want is a subsidy of 50 cents per month. Not bad, it is a 50 cents per month.

In the past, the production team earned work points, so it was good to make an extra 50 cents from here. But now it has been reformed and opened up, and this 50 cents is no longer important.

Therefore, everyone's enthusiasm for working is no longer high, and those who are flexible have already left. The rest of the people are the simplest and do not have that kind of colorful brain.

Every day, someone left, and a few years later, the remaining people were already in single digits. As a result, by that time, the remaining people suddenly became workers and the state was established. The people who left were extremely regretful and lamented that the world was impermanent, so why didn't they stayed there at the beginning?

Unfortunately, who can see the future path of life?

Now the sixth brother is sitting here, staring blankly at the railroad tracks in front of him and smiling foolishly.

Hearing the sound, Brother Six turned his head and saw a bronze face, which was his good friend Hood here.

In the loading and unloading team, Brother Six also met many good friends, such as Hood in front of him, and the sixth bicycle was bought by riding more than 80 kilometers with Hood and the other two.

"Third brother, your brother and sister have given birth to a son." The sixth brother said happily.

"Son?" Hud was also very happy to hear the sixth brother say this: "It's great, your family finally has a back."

"Yes, but now, I'm worried about something." said the sixth brother.

"What's the matter?" Hood asked.

"Money." said the sixth brother: "The child needs a lot of money to get married and get married in the future, but where can we get the money now?"

There is no need to worry about having a daughter. Anyway, the daughter belongs to someone else's family, but the son is different. Although in later generations, everyone knows that children are the same, and even daughters are even more filial, now everyone still likes to have sons.

With a son, even though he has just been born, he has to think about marrying a wife and having children when he grows up. How can he have no money?

What is enough to hold the 50 cent subsidy in the loading and unloading team?

When Hood heard the sixth brother's words, he frowned. That's right, in the loading and unloading team, everyone is talking about how to make money.

Turning around, I saw a mine in the north. Now some people in the village are very brave. They borrowed a lot of money from a credit union and went to the mine to start mines. They only started working last year and made a lot of money this year.

But who knows whether they will continue to cut off the tail of capitalism in the future? Will they continue to engage in criticism and controversy? Whoever has money will be in trouble? Since that era, everyone is actually still afraid. If they really want to do something big, they are all brave people.

The big ones dare not do it, but the small ones?

"Lao Liu, if you want to make money, I have an idea." Hood said.

"What do you think of the third brother?" asked the sixth brother.

"How about our bicycles hanging onto the frame and riding them to collect the rags?" Hood said to Brother Six.

Taking the junk? Brother Six frowned. This job doesn't sound very glorious.

"There is a purchase station in our town, and the price is pretty good. There is a lot of junk in the surrounding villages. They are willing to sell it as long as they are given money. If they do well, they may earn 50 cents a day." Hood said.

Broken wine bottles, rotten cotton, scrap copper and iron, you can collect anything and sell it for money. If you do it well, you can make money in the loading and unloading team.

Compared to mining, there is a great risk, it is always okay to collect junk and make small fuss.

"Okay, I got off work today, let's go and try it." Brother Six made up his mind and had to take this step bravely.

28 The bicycle is very strong, and it’s okay to carry five or six hundred pounds. After the bicycles are found in the village, they all think they are treasures.

There are many uses for bicycles.

For example, there can be a frame on each rear bicycle rack. This is not the plastic frame of later generations. You can only buy vegetables. This can be welded out of steel bars and can be loaded with 300 kilograms on one side. The 28 bicycle is also quite sturdy, equivalent to a small truck. This is the main means of transportation and transportation in the village.

Anyway, the loading and unloading team was fine today, so the two went out for a while early. There were frames hanging on both sides of the bicycle, and Brother Six and Hood went to collect the rags.

The first step is to go to the acquisition station first to see how to sell various junks, and then you can set off.

Of course, the farther you are, the better. The farther you are from the acquisition station, the more dilapidated the villages.

When it was dark, the two of them rode a load of bicycles to the acquisition station. They really gained a good harvest on that day. In addition to the borrowed capital, they also made more than 60 cents per person!

With this money, Brother Six couldn't believe it. It turned out that collecting junk is so profitable!

He felt a little embarrassed when he shouted the first time he collected the rag, but now he has no worries about the shame of having money to make.

After getting the money, Brother Six and Hood separated, rode their bicycles and pressed the snow on the ground and went home.

As soon as I got back to my door, I heard a sound coming from inside.

"It's too bullying people, they're too bullying people, go find them to judge." This is my mother's voice.

What happened? Brother Liu was surprised.

"Mom, I'm back, what happened?"

"You are back just in time. Let's go to the town to evaluate the manager. Your girl was fired by them. Where did the reason come from?" The old lady was extremely angry.

My mother has always been kind in the village and has never been blushed with others. She must be very angry this time.

"Mom, forget it, I won't do it there anyway." Fang said.

Fang didn't dare to tell the real reason, otherwise the sixth brother and sister-in-law would definitely feel uneasy, and how could her casual reason be accepted by her mother?

"No, this is not. You originally ate imperial grain. We have to talk about it." My mother said, "Although the head of the family is not here, we can't let them bully like this."
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