After removing the vigilance in his heart, Song Wenjing relaxed.
From the bottom of his heart, if it weren't for his cousin Yi Ping's factors, he might not have bothered with this matter.
He has nothing to do with him, and he may face retaliation from others, which will do him no good. But his cousin is a policeman, and from another perspective, he still hopes to help Yiping Ping.
After leaving the police station, Song Wenjing pulled the cart and embarked on his journey again.
It was still early in the afternoon, so he decided to continue wandering around the city for a while. When the cart was almost fully loaded, it would not be too late to go back.
Generally speaking, the harvest from collecting rags in the city is slightly better than that in the countryside.
In the countryside, the main thing is some scrap iron or other messy things that don't have much profit. But in the city, there are often other materials that can be received. For example, copper, scrap bicycles, and useless iron stoves
, and even received a large chimney, the kind made of iron.
Moreover, it is very likely that you will receive newspapers and old books in the city. In terms of literacy rate, there are definitely more in the city. In the countryside, except for some old newspapers, the rest are textbooks that children do not use.
But in the city, just today, Song Wenjing actually received more than ten useful books. There are Laozi's "Tao Te Ching", Mr. Lao She's "Luotuo Xiangzi", and even a thread-bound version of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Although
It already looks worn, but it does not affect reading.
In rural areas where cultural life is relatively scarce, if you have nothing to do, if you read a few books, you can cultivate your own sentiment and pass the time.
Therefore, Song Wenjing did not plan to sell these books next time, but planned to keep them and put them on his bedside for reading in his free time.
When he returned to Songjia Village in the evening, it was very late again. This time there was no one to send him back like last time. Instead, Song Wenjing pulled the heavy cart back one step at a time.
Song Wenjing himself did not expect such a harvest today. When he was about to leave, he happened to meet a family who had saved more than a hundred kilograms of pig iron from an unknown source.
Originally, the family planned to send it to the purchasing station to sell it, but the pig iron was of different lengths and they did not have a tricycle. Song Wenjing happened to be shouting there, and the two parties negotiated the price, and finally settled on cents.
The transaction was completed at a price of five cents.
This is equivalent to letting Song Wenjing earn 5 cents per catty, because if he sends it to the recycling station, the maximum payment there will be only 12 cents. What they don't know is that Song Wenjing will not do this. He plans to smash all the scrap copper.
The iron is sent to the steel factory together. There, the purchase price is at least 13 cents, or even higher.
Shuzhou City itself does not have any mineral resources. It purchases ore from outside or purchases scrap copper and iron for secondary processing. Therefore, the demand there has always been huge.
More than one hundred kilograms. From this business alone, Song Wenjing can earn more than one yuan today. If other things are included, the daily harvest must be more than three yuan. Where can I find such a good thing?
In the end, the entire cart was loaded with more than three hundred kilograms of junk. It took Song Wenjing nearly four hours to walk before he finally reached home.
And the moment he walked into the courtyard gate, he relaxed and fell down.
He was exhausted and couldn't use any strength in his body.
Fortunately, we arrived home, otherwise, if we were in the dark and fell down halfway, there might really have been an accident.
Seeing how hard their son was working, Song Jianguo and his wife couldn't stop crying. They struggled to lift Song Wenjing to the bed, then ran to the chicken coop and took out four eggs to make poached egg supplements for their son.
repair.
But before Zhou Lijuan could do anything, Song Wenjing had already fallen asleep. He was too tired, his whole body was weak, he didn't want to move at all, he just wanted to have a good sleep.
Perhaps God realized Song Wenjing's hard work. In the middle of the night, the weather suddenly changed. A burst of heavy rain suddenly arrived, disrupting his rhythm.
When I woke up the next day, I saw that the road outside the house was full of mud. Not to mention pulling a cart, even walking alone was quite troublesome.
Therefore, Song Wenjing had no choice but to give up going out and planned to rest at home for a day. He would wait until the road cleared tomorrow before continuing to work.
"Dad, my cousin gave me some pork tickets yesterday. Our family ate meat during the Chinese New Year last year. Why don't you go buy two kilograms of meat and bring it back, and I'll give you the money."
Song Wenjing sat lazily on the chair, not wanting to move.
Anyway, Song Jianguo didn't have to go to the fields today, so he just went to the town to buy some meat to satisfy his craving.
Especially the younger brothers and sisters, they haven’t seen Rouxingzi for who knows how long. Now that I have made a little money, let’s reward the whole family.
Song Jianguo, who was used to saving, wanted to say something, but seeing that his son's fatigue had not faded away and his face was even a little pale, he couldn't bear to say anything about saving.
Instead, he happily took the money and the pork ticket and went out. At this time, you still need a ticket to buy pork. And the pork also costs 1.5 yuan a pound, which is more than two pounds of pork, which is equivalent to what Song Wenjing spent yesterday.
reward.
Song Wenming on the side almost jumped up with joy when he heard that there was meat to eat today.
But Song Wenjing was a little sad. In addition to the food grown in his own land, most of the family's daily meals consisted of corn porridge or pimple porridge. If he wanted to eat rice, he could not always eat it.
This made him want to make money as quickly as possible and improve his family's conditions so that the whole family could eat meat regularly.
The sky was gloomy, and it seemed like it was going to rain later. Song Wenjing, who was bored, lifted off the oilcloth on the trolley, and then found a few books that he thought were pretty good, intending to read and kill some time.
The books all looked very worn, especially the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which was obviously old and was still a thread-bound book.
When Song Wenjing picked up the thick "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he looked at the publication date on it and found that it was published by Tongren Bookstore in 1930. It has a history of more than 50 years, so no wonder it is so shabby.
Although the book was written more than 50 years ago, it is not worth a lot of money now. Song Wenjing has no intention of selling it because it is not worth it. He still plans to collect it and wait for the cultural relics market to flourish in the future, and then try the situation again.
Depends.
He took out a chair from the room and placed it at the door. The line of sight here was good, so he could read a book leisurely for a while.
When Song Wenjing sat down and flipped through the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", intending to see if it was torn or missing pages, unexpectedly, a large unity page jumped into his eyes.
Someone actually put ten dollars in the book. This was really an unexpected windfall.
Song Wenjing did not take out the banknote immediately, but continued to turn over it. Sure enough, as expected, nine banknotes were turned out again.
And not only that, there is actually a thin deposit certificate sandwiched in the last part.
In the 1980s, there were two main forms of savings certificates, one was a deposit certificate, and the other was a notebook-style passbook.
The so-called deposit certificate is a kind of certificate for banks to handle savings business. It is generally used for one-time deposits and withdrawals. The passbook is much more flexible and can be used multiple times.
At this time, the deposit certificate in Song Wenjing's hand clearly read: Shuzhou Construction Bank Fixed Savings Deposit Certificate;
The date of deposit is May 22, 1987; Account name: Li Jianhua;
The deposit amount is: four hundred yuan (handwritten);
The redemption date is May 21st, which is two years after depositing.
The others are just two seals. Apart from knowing that the head of the household is Li Jianhua, there is no extra information provided.
According to normal procedures, the head of the household can go to the bank to complete the procedures with his ID card and deposit receipt. However, the deposit receipt does not have the ID number of the household head.
Song Wenjing had never handled the business of deposit certificates before, and he did not know that the current deposit certificates were all like this. The first generation of ID cards in our country was only issued in 1984. It was not until a few years later that everyone had their own ID card.
Number.
Therefore, it is normal that there is no ID number on the deposit receipt at this time.
Looking at the total cash of 100 yuan and the deposit certificate of 400 yuan in front of him, Song Wenjing felt a little hesitant. It was not that he had other ideas, but that he simply could not remember which company had taken the book back.