Chapter 3 Big pit

Zhao's mother said: Your grandmother said it was too tiring to see the stall, so she didn't want the stalls in Confucius Temple. I wanted to buy them, but the factory just happened to collapse. I went to see the stalls for nothing, which was better than working for others!

Zhao Jiangbo said: Grandpa, that stingy guy, must he ask you for money, right?How many Ah?

Zhao's mother said: How can you speak if you die?It was a transfer fee. I asked me to pay 10,000 yuan, so I transferred the stall to me!

Old Mrs. Zhao said: Is it your brother who thinks your mother is embarrassed by watching the stall?Just check out the stalls on holidays. I’m not as old as me, so I’m tired!Since that's the case, you put down the stall and let the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law look at it. When your grandfather comes back, I will tell him!

Zhao Jiangbo said: Just ten thousand yuan Ah?I might have Ah!You guys wait!As he spoke, he ran to the room where he lived.

Old Mrs. Zhao and mother Zhao were confused.

Old Mrs. Zhao said: This kid has only worked for three or four months. At first, he got 180 yuan a month, and only got 200 yuan this month. How could he have 10,000 yuan?

Soon, Zhao Jiangbo came back, holding a shoe box in his hand, walked to the dining table, and turned the box upside down, including one hundred, fifty, twenty, ten, five, and one piece.

Zhao's mother said: The day before yesterday, I saw that the shoe box was dirty, but fortunately I didn't throw it away for you. I was so dead. Tell my mom, where did you get the money?

Zhao Jiangbo said: I picked up the stones!

Zhao's mother said: Don't coax me!Your grandmother has sold the Yuhua Stone for decades, but how many days have you picked the stone?How could it be that much money?

Zhao Jiangbo said: I have been playing at my grandmother’s stall since I was a child. Like her, how can I make money by selling small stones that cost one dollar at a time?Moreover, she sold really stones, and she also asked someone to buy goods, so she was considered a second-hand dealer.I picked it myself, all of them were real rain agate.The dozens of Confucius Temple shops are all the same for one dollar each. The big ones sell raw stones, and they are opaque and have no technical content at all. In this way, after mom takes them down, don’t buy the so-called Yuhua stones after they are sold out, and sell the real Yuhua stones I picked!

Old Mrs. Zhao said: Everyone says you are a fool, how many can you choose yourself?How can it be done as a business?What agate you are talking about?Take it out and let me take a look?

Zhao Jiangbo took out a string of bracelets from his pocket. The two old women in the Zhao family didn't want to let go when they held it in their hands. It was a string of transparent rain agate, of different colors, composed of eight Maitreya, and the beads in the middle were also transparent agate, with lifelike carvings.

Old Mrs. Zhao said: Didn’t Manager Zhou say you are stupid?I don’t want to pass on your skills, but grandma sees that your skills are so good. Manager Zhou has a very high vision!

Zhao Jiangbo giggled foolishly. That old ghost was shaking his eyes and could no longer carve anything. With Kunwu's sword in his hand, even when the old ghost was in his prime, he might not be able to compare himself.

However, craftsmanship depends on people's support. Without big names, even if you have the skills of a top master, your works will not be sold for much money.

Zhao's mother said: I think this thing is good, but if we really sell it, how much does it cost?

Zhao Jiangbo said: You want two hundred and one string, don’t you bargain?

two hundred?Are you a stingy guy?Zhao's mother said: Is this worth my mother's turnover on a few Sundays?Are you sure you sell for 200?

Zhao Jiangbomumu said: Yes!If you don’t open for three years, you will have to eat for three years, and you will be offered five at a time, so don’t take out more!Of course, it is not just a bracelet. It has pendants, handles, ornaments. Bracelets are relatively cheap, and the smallest ornaments cost 2,000 yuan!

Old Mrs. Zhao said: What's the weird thing about this?Does anyone want it if it is so expensive?Also, isn’t it good to sell more?

Zhao Jiangbo finished the rice for a few sips, wiped his mouth and said: Do you think the riverside is full of agate stones?There are a lot of five at a time. Okay, I'll finish eating. You guys put the food in, and I'll go and serve my grandfather!You count the money, if it is not enough, I will not have it!

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It was the weather in October, and snow was already flying in the north, but Nanjing was still wearing a shirt. Xiao Li followed Sun Baolin and came to a barber shop called Zhanwang.

In recent years, hair washing is popular in society, and the price is more expensive than haircuts. Men cut their hair, which costs two yuan, but they charge ten yuan for hair washing. Of course, hair washing girls are young and beautiful. Looking forward to being an old barber shop, I didn’t think much about it back then. Other shops have beautiful girls to wash their hair for customers, so their shops also have to recruit them, and they can’t be left behind.

Xiao Li had two hair-washing girls before, both from Anhui nearby, both of whom were sixteen or seventeen years old, but her height and appearance were incomparable to Xiao Li, who was already twenty-four years old.

Sun Baolin popped up a cigarette and handed it to Zhang Youwang and said: Brother!This is my relative in Northeast China. I am twenty years old this year and have no place to make money at home. I will follow me to Nanjing to find some food. Brother, aren’t you recruiting people in your store?See if this girl is OK?

Although Nanjing is a golden land of the Six Dynasties, it is very rare for people with a figure and appearance like Xiao Li. They are obviously Chinese but have a bit of exotic style, beautiful and wild, and bright.

Old Man Zhang couldn't help swallowing and said: You can try it, wash one hair and get two yuan commission, and keep it if you are away!

Back then, I went to the city to work, so it would be nice to have a place to take in. Where would I get five insurances and one fund?Where is the basic salary?There is nothing, everyone is like this, so they don’t think anything.

Sun Baolin said to Xiao Li: Boss Zhang agreed, don’t you thank me yet?

Although Xiao Li is a girl in the mountains, she is very clever. She has learned a lot of things with Sun Baolin. Of course, on the train these days, Old Man Sun has to touch and pinch it. Hearing this, he immediately bent down and bowed: Thank you Boss Zhang!

An old man happened to come in, and Zhang Youwang immediately came up and said: Is it a haircut or a game?

The old man who came in pointed at Xiao Li and said: Wash your hair!It's her!

Zhang Youwang said embarrassedly: She has just arrived and hasn't put down her things and can't wash them. You'd better look for someone else, right?

The old man said: This is Ah!It doesn't matter!He pointed to an Anhui girl standing next to him and said: Then let her!When he spoke, his eyes still glanced at Xiao Li.

Zhang Youwang smiled and called a master to come over and asked him to teach Xiao Li how to wash her hair. If she is smart, she would also teach her to shave, repair her face, and clean her ears. These projects are very popular among male customers. As for haircuts, they are a bit technical. They can't be learned without three or five months.

He pulled Sun Baolin up and said: Let's go out to eat something!

Zhang Youwang’s store is at the No. 7 Road in Nanhu. To the north, there are small restaurants and all kinds of delicacies. The two were classmates from Mochouhu Primary School. After thirty years of friendship, they both stopped after elementary school. Zhang Youwang’s son inherited his father’s business and picked up a haircut. Sun Baolin’s family originally went to the Northeast to collect mountain goods, so after graduating from elementary school, he also followed his father to the Northeast to collect mountain goods.

The two found a quiet seat and sat down, asked the shop owner to serve a plate of fried peanuts worth 50 cents, a few pairs of goose four pieces, a plate of duck intestines, a plate of pork head meat, and took a bottle of Yanghe Daqu.

After two glasses of wine, Zhang Youwang said: Sun Houzi!That little Panxi from Northeast China could not be your relative, right?If you don’t say secret words in front of a wise man, what do you want to do without hiding it?

Sun Baolin laughed and said: I didn’t want to hide it from you. Do you still remember what Old Man Zhao said?

Old man Zhao?Zhao Chushi?What have you said?Zhang Youwang said.

Sun Baolin said: His grandson, Dadie Zhao, wanted to get a wife. If you like him, it would be a 50,000 yuan bride price, so I was careful. Didn’t Mr. Zhao come to cut his hair these two days?

Zhang Youwang said: His old shopkeeper is sick and a man in his 80s. If he doesn’t do it well, it may not be a big deal. Old man Zhao has been with him in the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital these days!This old man scratched his bald head once a month, and it’s time to come these two days!

In Nanjing, men shaved their hair after they were forty, formed a bald head, left a mustache, and repaired it regularly. Generally, they shave their heads, repaired beards, repaired faces, cleaned their ears, cut their nose hair, shaved tongue, etc.

Sun Baolin said: When Old Man Zhao comes, you bring Xiao Li to him. If this happens, I will treat you to a big meal!

Zhang Youwang smiled and said: Actually, the grandson of the old man Zhao’s family is very handsome after taking care of it. He is also a classmate of your family, so you might as well accept this marriage. It’s easy to get 50,000 yuan!

Sun Baolin rolled his eyes: My girl is a college student, how could she be so stupid?

Zhang Youwang said: Aren’t you talking about that little kanzi?Why do you look down on others so much behind your back?

Sun Baolin said: This matter is a long story. This kid has been running around with my three girls since he was a child. Later, he saw a white broken bowl in my house. I joked that I asked for twenty yuan, but he actually gave it to me. What's the point of not being a fool?

Zhang Youwang said: Old man Zhao used to be a young man from Gongjidian, but later he learned a good stone cutting technique. Maybe the bowl in your house is an antique?

antique?Where do so many antiques come from?Do you think I don’t understand?It is all porcelain worth a little money, and there is a symbol at the bottom. There is no symbol around the white bowl. I have read it repeatedly, and it is no different from a bowl that costs one cent per cent in the vegetable market!Sun Baolin said confidently.

Zhang Youwang gnawed the goose wings: OK, okay, you understand, you understand!

Sun Baolin said: When I came back from Northeast China this time, I charged some copper coins at the price of scrap copper. I had to talk to that kid and cheated him of some money to drink!

Do evil!You still lie to others even though you know that he has a problem with his mind?It’s not your fault that you don’t have a son!Zhang Youwang said.

Let me mention my son again, do you believe it or not?Sun Baolin said that this is his heart disease. If he had to say that he had a lot of women, he just couldn't get a son, so he only had three daughters at home.

Zhang Youwang said: OK OK OK OK OK OK OK Don’t mention it if you don’t mention it, why are you anxious?Since you brought that woman in Northeast China, why not bring it directly to the Zhao family?Anyway, you know the old and young Zhao family, so why bother to get them to my store?

If you bring Xiao Li directly to his house, the intention to cheat money is too obvious. Do you understand this strategy?It is necessary for the Zhao family to pay voluntarily!People who travel around the world know what a roundabout way is. Everything is too direct and often cannot be done.

Sun Baolin threw a peanut into his mouth and chewed it, and continued: If the old man of the Zhao family is interested and asks, you say that it was found by Xiao Li himself, don’t mention me!

Zhang Youwang said: There must be something strange about it. You have to tell me a brief moment, otherwise I won’t accept anyone!

Sun Baolin didn't hide it from him, and whispered the whole story and the consequences, and finally said: Xiao Li is going to run away in the end, so I can't take her to find the Zhao family. You originally opened a store, and you are all from other people. You are not a public security officer, and you will not check other people's household registration. You are all the ones who work to get money for a day. When Xiao Li runs away, you can give it one, two, six, five!

Zhang Youwang laughed: I said Sun Houzi, if this matter is done, it will not be possible to just eat a big meal for you, you will have to make some blood!

Sun Baolin said: If I had known you would have said this, Xiao Li would give me 20,000 yuan, and you and I would each have 10,000 yuan!

Zhang Youwang raised his wine glass and ran into Sun Baolin for a moment and said: This is almost the same. Don’t worry, I will arrange Xiao Li’s residence and keep it seamlessly!

After the two of them finished drinking, it was already seven o'clock in the evening. Sun Baolin walked home in a car. His family lived in Cheer Lane, and he was really a neighbor of the Zhao family. He stopped by to go home and turned to the Zhao family, standing at the door and shouting: Is Dad Zhao at home?

As soon as the house entered the yard, the 13th generation of Zhao Chu family lived in Zhao Chu. After all, Zhao Jiangbo had a class to attend, so he couldn't stay at home every day, so he called him, but it was not easy to call him Zhao Jiangbo, as that was obvious that he wanted to deceive people.

After the Zhao family had dinner, the old lady Zhao was preparing a food box and asked Zhao Jiangbo to go to the Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital to deliver food to her grandfather. When someone shouted, she replied in the room: His grandfather is not here, Sun Baolin, right?

Sun Baolin replied: It’s me!Is Xiao Zhao at home?

Zhao's mother said to her mother-in-law: Mom!This old slip-on is clearly looking for Xiaobo. Xiaobo, don’t go, be careful of being cheated of money again!

Zhao Jiangbo giggled: How many people can be cheated of neighbors?I'll go out and have a look!

Don't go out!Zhao's mother shouted.

Zhao Jiangbo just pretended that he didn't hear it, and rushed to the door a few steps and saw Sun Baolin smiling foolishly: What's the matter with me?

Sun Baolin said: I don’t know if I call someone!Forget it, I don’t care about you. I have some copper coins, do you want them?

Zhao Jiangbo immediately walked out: OK!Go to your house!

Zhao's mother shouted: Xiaobo!Stop for me, don’t you go to the hospital to deliver food to your grandpa?

Zhao Jiangbo said: Give Ah!It doesn't matter how many minutes later!

stop!You little cannon, why is this like this?Where did the ears grow?Zhao's mother was so angry that she was itchy.

Sun Baolin stopped Zhao's mother who was about to rush out of the door and said: Brother and sister, I said brother and sister, it only takes a few minutes, and it will not be delayed. Why are you anxious?I won’t eat your Xiao Zhao anymore!

Zhao's mother said: "Old sloppy, do you think my Xiaobo is stupid?"Tell you, don’t cheat on him anymore. Will cheating children from money damage morality?

Sun Baolin said: What are your brother and sister saying?How could I cheat children of money?OK OK, neighbors, don’t hurt your relationship!

Seeing that Zhao Jiangbo had already run into the Cheer Lane, Sun Baolin pulled out and left.

The Sun family's house lived in several houses. Except for the original resident, the other houses moved in after the liberation. The government did not dare not to live in other people's houses, otherwise it would have been a counter-revolutionary at that time.

But he was the original resident after all, living in the main building. The jars collected from Xiao Li's house are placed next to the pillars under the dripping eaves of the main building, and they are not afraid of others taking them. As for mountain goods, he owns his own warehouse in the Nanjing West Station freight yard and does not drag them home.

Zhao Jiangbo's eyes lit up undetectedly. He walked to the jar casually and gently stroked it, as if touching a woman's slippery skin.

Sun Ting, the second daughter of the Sun family, happened to walk out of the house. She accidentally saw Zhao Jiangbo's actions and curled her mouth: Oh!I was so angry that I was dead!dad!Have you recruited this brain-related problem again?

Sun Baolin laughed and leaned close to Sun Ting and whispered: What else do you know if there is a problem with his brain?Biao quarreled, he will leave in a while!

Sun Ting stopped talking and stood there to see the situation.

Zhao Jiangbo poured all the copper coins out of the jar and asked blankly: How much does it cost?

Sun Baolin smiled: It costs fifty yuan, even the jar!

oh!Zhao Jiangbo responded, put the copper coins into the jar, stood up, and took the money from his pocket. It was full of wrinkled money, including ten, five, one, and one cent. He got it together and took it to Sun Baolin: Do you think it's enough?

Sun Baolin had already counted the money when he counted it, and took it and said: Forty-two yuan, three cents, forget it, I won’t bother with you, take it away!

oh!Zhao Jiangbo said: I’m still a few dollars short of money to pay back you in the future!

Sun Baolin said: What did you say, neighbors, don’t you pay it back?I hurt my feelings for no reason!I don’t want the eight yuan I don’t have to pay any more. I’ll have the opportunity to invite me to Qijiawan for a few taels of pot stickers in the future!

Sun Ting suddenly said: Let’s wait!

Zhao Jiangbo looked at her blankly.

Sun Ting pointed at him with her finger and said: Big fool!How did you know that copper coins are placed in the jar at the door!

Zhao Jiangbo said: I knew, I also knew that you had a birthmark on you, and Sun Hui also had it...

Shut up!Sun Ting is about to go wild, and the birthmark is growing on the edge of the buttocks. As for Sun Hui's birthmark, it grows in the middle of the cleavage, as small as a crescent moon.

Sun Baolin shook his hand: Xiaoting, stop flirting with him. When he was a child, he saw three of you sisters taking a bath. Xiaoning also took him to take a shower...

dad!Sun Ting stopped talking and turned around and said to Zhao Jiangbo again: Xiaobo!Are there any time tomorrow?

Zhao Jiangbo nodded and said slowly: It's time to get off work in the evening!

Sun Ting said: It’s better if you don’t go to your class, it’s too unreliable. It’s just evening. You ride a bike to Diaoyutai for me and give me some things to my elder sister!

oh!Zhao Jiangbo replied: But I don’t have a car, my grandfather rode my bicycle to the hospital!

Then run!Sun Ting said.

oh!Zhao Jiangbo said.

Sun Baolin whispered: Xiaoting!You are bullying, you know he will not refuse!

Sun Ting raised her mouth and went back to the room.