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As soon as he opened the telegram, he saw a short line of words: "2,000 tons of coal have arrived. The other 5,000 tons will be dispatched as soon as possible.”It was signed by Qin Shi's chief.
"Looks like the bureau is going to make a killing this time!”He thought for a moment and said,"Our unit hopes that you can send another 5000 tons as soon as possible. Shall we go to the office?"”
"Alright, I'll go right away." The coal mine leader was very happy. The Beijing customer was so generous. He could keep a lot of money for his small vault.
While they were talking, the long-distance call had already been hung up.
Two hours later, everything was settled, and the phone call went through. The news of the 2000 tons of coal being transported had been made known to the district material supply bureau. They had contacted the city material supply bureau directly, hoping to support a few sister counties. The price was negotiable.
As for the next wire transfer, it would arrive around November 25th. It would be at least 10,000 tons.
The 2000 tons of coal was not going to be given to them. The city was in urgent need of it. However, the rest of the coal could be discussed. They had even sharpened the knife and prepared it.
This was because Brother City was waiting for the coal to start firing. If they could do it quickly, efficiency would be money.
Since they were in a hurry, Qin Shi gave two more spots to the supplier under the pretext of borrowing some coal from other coal mines. The coal mine promised to deliver the goods tomorrow.
After a busy day, the coal mine accountant came to Qin Shi's room at night and handed him a cloth bag." Jin Province's specialty, apples. Mine Manager Deng and Mine Manager Hua bought them with their own money.”
He accepted it with a smile and immediately opened his pocket after he left.
The apples were all big, red, and round. They were super quality! However, the main point was not the apple, but the thick envelope inside. There were two stacks of " Great Unity ", two thousand!
He still got benefits, enough to sentence him to a few years. However, the other party's finance department had already said that it was " privately bought," which meant that there was no such thing on the books at all. It was still relatively safe.
Forget it, I'll keep it.
At 7 p. m. the next day, he watched the second heavy-duty coal train of the day leave smoothly at Wutai freight station. It had already been sent out in the afternoon, and it was a train directly borrowed from other coal mines.
Together with the coal mine leader, he treated the people from the railway branch to a meal. The three parties had a pleasant cooperation, and the coal mine paid for it.
On the way back to the mine, he said to Manager Deng,""Mine manager, the next payment will arrive in eight or nine days. It's too cold here. I plan to go to Zhengding in Beihe Province to visit a friend and come back in six or seven days.”
"No problem. I'll leave the room for you. Do you plan to drive or take a car? If you drive yourself, you can use the jeep as you wish. Later, you can go to my place to get a few military gas tickets. It'll be more convenient when you reach Northern River. If they were to take the train, they could ask Old Li, who had just eaten, to help them. They could even take the train.”
"I can drive myself. It's less than 200 kilometers away. With the military ticket, he could bring his friends around Northern River for a few days.”
Gasoline was not for sale in the provinces. It was all allocated according to the plan. There was no place to buy it even if you had money. Gas stations generally only recognized gas tickets from the province. Some gas tickets were even issued by the county and could only be used at the gas station in the county.
Therefore, the gas tickets that were commonly used in the province were very popular.
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On December 3rd, the Shanghai train station in the cold wind was as crowded as ever. Two men were on the platform, watching a train enter the platform.
One of them was at least 1.85 meters tall and about 27 or 28 years old. He stood like a javelin and was extremely eye-catching on the platform. Not only was this person tall, but his eyes also seemed emotionless and abnormally cold! It made people panic. Even the station staff did not dare to look at him!
The other was much more normal. He was about 1.80 meters tall and was about 30 years old.
The older one was Brother Han. A few days ago, after receiving a call from Qin Shi, he had asked for leave and borrowed the jeep from the office to pick him up.
In the end, because he was the hero who came to take over the coal purchase of the Material Bureau, the bureau chief waved his pen when he learned about it. Official business.
In the soft berth car, Qin Shi got out of the car with many bags.
"Brother Han, why are you directly on the platform?”
"Platform tickets."
As he spoke, he took the big box from Qin Shi's hands. Another man came forward to take off Qin Shi's backpack.
"Brother Long!" When she saw who it was, she was pleasantly surprised. This person was Brother Han's old subordinate." Why are you here?”
Long Zhixi, a native of Jiaojiang, Southwest Province, was an old subordinate of Brother Han. After Brother Han had changed jobs, every time he went home to visit his family, he would stay at Brother Han's place for a few days and even teach Qin Shi martial arts.
Sometimes, the world was just that small! That was why Long Zhixi could speak in a dialect that wasn't considered authentic.
Logically speaking, he should still be serving in the army.），Therefore, Qin Shi was a little surprised.
"We'll talk about it later. This isn't the place to talk.”
Qin Shi didn't stand on ceremony and handed the backpack to Brother Long. Seeing him pick it up so easily, she was secretly shocked!
In fact, although Long Zhixi was relaxed, he was also shocked by the weight of the backpack."At least 120 pounds!"
As soon as they got into the jeep in the parking lot, Long Zhixi sat in the driver's seat while Qin Shi and Brother Han sat in the backseat.
"Qin Shi, Zhi Xi has recovered due to an accident. This time, you called to say that you have a lot of things and you want to find a reliable person to do something. I asked Zhi Xi to come over.”
"Oh." If he didn't ask any questions, there was no need to ask. As for the reliable manpower he needed, Brother Long was absolutely trustworthy!
Qin Shi trusted Sister Ping and Brother Han, and he knew that if Brother Han had to choose who he trusted the most, Sister Ping would be ranked first, while he would be ranked third. This Long Zhixi would definitely be ranked second!
Brother Han was not only Long Zhixi's former class monitor, but also his fellow countryman. He had also saved Long Zhixi's life on a foreign battlefield. That was a friendship of steel established through blood and fire! Moreover, Qin Shi knew that Long Zhixi would remember the favor of saving his life decades later.
Furthermore, Long Zhixi's father had passed away early, and he only had an old mother in his family. He didn't even have any close relatives. Two years ago, when he was on a mission at the southwestern border, his mother broke her leg. It was Sister Ping and Brother Han who went to the hospital. Later, they even brought her to their home in Beijing to recuperate for half a year.
This person valued relationships, was tight-lipped, and looked down on money. He was reliable!
"Brother Long, don't rush to the guest house. Let's go to Jiefang Road. I want to buy something.”He said to Long Zhixi who was driving.
"Yes."
Long Zhixi looked at the map of Beijing City in the car and didn't say much.
"Didn't you say you were going to do something near Jiefang Road? Now?" Brother Han frowned.
"No, I want to go there first to collect some national food stamps, old RMB, and silver dollars. It would be inconvenient to do something big tonight or tomorrow.”
As he spoke, he took out a small satchel from his backpack and stuffed two dozen bundles of Unity into the inner pocket of his jacket. There were still ten bundles in the bag!
"Why are there so many?" Brother Han asked him.
"The coal mine gave me a commission. At first, it was 2000 yuan for 5000 tons, but I gave two more points for the last 10,000 tons. A total of 14,000 yuan. He had already spent some of it.”
Everyone in the car was on the same side, so there was no need to hide.
"The director gave you 20 points of autonomy, but you've only used half of it.”Knowing that there was something fishy going on, these buyers were each bolder than the other. However, this time, it was a rare encounter for his brother-in-law, so he was a little ruthless.
"Is it clean from head to tail?"”
If the 10,000 yuan commission was exposed and someone investigated, it would be enough to sentence Qin Shi to more than ten years in prison!
"It shouldn't be a problem. They're experienced and probably don't have any records. They're not stupid.”
At this moment, Long Zhixi, who had been acting like a dull melon, spoke up. The moment he opened his mouth, Qin Shi was shocked.
"Class monitor, do you want me to go to the coal mine in a few days to deal with it?”
"Don't, Brother Long! There will be another 100,000 tons next year. I still want to rely on this to make a fortune!”
"Pretend I didn't say anything." A muffled voice came from the front.
"Let's talk about it next year."
"What is this? I only got some benefits, and here I am, shouting and killing.”
One of them was going to settle the matter once and for all, while the other was saying that he would talk about it next year. Both of them spoke in a relaxed tone. Qin Shi felt that this was not the harmonious society he belonged to at all.
"Is this still Brother Han?"
Brother Long was a ruthless person. He remembered that he should have been discharged at the end of the 1980s. After that, he gave up the job he was assigned to and ran off to do smuggling business. His path was very wild!
"I've brought you your money. Honestly, when did you save so much? And you hid it so well."
Qin Shi sealed the 30,000 yuan in a plastic bag, put it in charcoal as a drying agent, and buried it under the living room floor tiles. On top of it was an eight-square table.
Why not deposit it in the bank? He had already deposited 50,000 yuan in the bank to avoid shocking others.
"Sister Ping doesn't know, right?"
"What do you think?" Brother Han glanced at Qin Shi." I didn't tell her so that she wouldn't worry for nothing." You're not afraid of getting moldy even if you bury it underground!"
Qin Shi didn't ask about the source of the money, but he still decided to tell her a half-truth.""Last year, I bought a wooden Buddha statue that weighed 40 to 50 pounds for 5 yuan. In the end, I realized that the back of the Buddha statue seemed to have been tampered with before. I thought it was strange and pried it open. In the end, I took out three large yellow croakers. I went to the bank and sold two of them. It was more than 50,000 yuan in total. I still kept one that I couldn't bear to sell.
"Don't sell it. Keep it. This is my family's wealth.”
"Keep it for Sister Ping as a dowry, hehe!”
"Why would a boy want a big yellow croaker? It's not like he's marrying his daughter off to keep his secret.”
Brother Han wasn't jealous because he knew what a " big yellow croaker " was. It was just a gold bar weighing ten taels, which was equivalent to 325.5 grams today.
Xiang Weirong didn't want to ask more. Everyone had their own secrets, so he didn't bother to explain. The third entry in his " password book " was the Buddha statue. However, he didn't buy it. Instead, he rode his bicycle for more than an hour and moved it from an abandoned temple in the neighboring county. Otherwise, when the temple was rebuilt a few years later, this secret would be discovered.
And it wasn't just three, it was six, two different types of " big yellow croakers "! In one go, he sold four commonly seen gold bars made by the Central Mint before the Liberation of China at a price of more than 80 gold bars. If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to keep them as a memento and that the remaining two were rare old European gold bars, he would have sold them all long ago!
The gold bars cast by the Central Mint in the capital before the liberation might be worth money 30 years later, but they were not as practical as selling them now. In just a few decades, the price of gold had increased by three to four times. Even if the value of the collection was added, it would not be as good as cash.
It wasn't like Qin Shi was going to deposit the money in the bank to earn interest. Just the two yuan of "Lathe Work" alone had been exchanged for 50,000 yuan! It would be worth more than half a billion in the future!
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