Chapter 529 Raising Money
Director Liu and Secretary Fan were both very nervous. The first condition was confidentiality, which was common sense. The second condition was for their sister's future, so using some connections was understandable.
If Wang Tiedan's third condition was too excessive, they would have no choice but to give up the medicinal wine.
Wang Tiedan also noticed the changes in their expressions and extended a third finger.
"Don't worry, my third condition is very simple. I heard that you have a scrapped sidecar. Sell me one, as long as the engine is fine."
Director Liu and Secretary Fan met each other's eyes. They felt relieved but also had questions.
"Why do you want a sidecar? Even if it's fixed, you can't buy gasoline as a human being. It's a controlled item."
"I'm going to repair it and give it to my brother. Dawang Village is too far from the capital. It takes a whole day and night to get there, which is too much suffering. A sidecar tricycle can be faster. They can just ask the commune to apply for gasoline. It won't cost much." Wang Tiedan said truthfully.
Secretary Fan is in charge of scrapped vehicles. Generally, police cars are sent to repair shops. If they can be repaired, they will be repaired. If they cannot be repaired, the higher authorities will be requested to approve it. There are quotas every few years, so it is not a big deal.
"Don't scrap it. I'll sell you an old one for three thousand dollars. How about that?"
"Three thousand, so expensive?"
Even Wang Tiedan was surprised.
"It's not expensive at all. The ex-factory price of the Changjiang 750 is yuan. We only produce units a year. If you don't want it, we'll keep it. It's a treasure."
"Yes, I want it!"
Wang Tiedan quickly agreed, but only a fool would not agree.
It's just that the money seems to be a bit insufficient.
"Leave it to me. I need to scrape together some money."
"Row."
After things were settled, we just had a meal.
Director Liu and Secretary Fan mentioned the theft case in the compound from time to time, but Wang Tiedan was always thinking about how to raise the money and ignored them.
The money stolen from the compound cannot be seen in public for the time being.
As for the money that could be seen by the public, Wang Tiedan only had about a thousand yuan in his hand, which was used for emergencies for several families, so the hole was huge.
After the dinner, Director Liu and Secretary Fan walked us to the gate together.
Watching the car go away, Director Liu immediately started complaining.
"Old Fan, if you really want to give him a sidecar, the police station down there has already applied for it. It's a treasure, and they will have objections."
"You feel that he is related to the theft case, don't doubt him if he got the 3,000 yuan from a legitimate source. Besides, Mr. Li from the Xiangjiang Machinery Factory, I remember, seemed to have rheumatism. If he can get the medicinal wine, why would he be afraid of not having the quota?"
"Hey, three birds with one stone, I didn't expect that, Lao Fan, you are quite a cunning person!"
"Thank you so much~"
The two of them smiled at each other.
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After returning home, Wang Tiedan came up with a strategy to raise money: selling his workstation and medicine.
Forget hunting, going back and forth in the hot summer is too troublesome and too conspicuous, and the villagers may not support him buying a sidecar.
Selling gold and antiques is not feasible either, as it seems like they are all stolen.
Only the workstation was bought by Wang Tiedan with the money earned from the beasts, so it was legitimate.
I bought it for 1,000 yuan at that time. At a time when the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement was about to start, it was obviously appropriate to sell it for 1,100 or 12,000 yuan.
As for the medicine, I heard from Xu Damao that Yan Bugui once took the medicine to Deshoutang Pharmacy and heard that he sold it for 800 yuan, which was still too low.
Therefore, he would secretly sell a box and ask for twelve or thirteen thousand, which was probably not excessive.
It’s not that we don’t want to sell more, it’s just that selling too much will have a bad impact.
Things are rare.
Another person who was also thinking about raising money was the tired Liu Haizhong.
Unlike before, Liu Haizhong was full of energy after taking a shower and told Second Aunt about Li Huaide's arrangements for him.
"Can we really go back to the workshop?"
Second Aunt still didn't quite believe it.
"Of course, I work in the toilet, and I know when I can pay back the money to the factory. It's different in the workshop. I'm a level 7 worker, and I can pay back 70 every month."
"But it'll take ten years? You're already retired."
"What do you know? What if Director Li uses me again? When I was at my best, I could earn 120 yuan a month. If I do some work, I'll lose everything."
When Liu Haizhong talked about this, there was longing in his eyes again.
The second aunt grabbed Liu Haizhong's arm.
"Boss, have you forgotten what happened a few days ago? Didn't you say you would never be an official again? And you won't let your children be officials?
Think about what happened before. As soon as you fell into trouble, so many people took advantage of you.
If I go through this again, how can I live?"
Liu Haizhong swung his arms, thinking about what had happened in the past few days, his face full of anger.
“What do you know? They are bullying me now. If I don’t fight back, I’m not Liu Haizhong.
I want to let them know that I must get back what I lost.
No matter how badly they bully me, I will punish them twice as badly!"
"Head of the family, I..."
The second aunt wanted to persuade her further but was interrupted by Liu Haizhong.
"Okay, we have to collect the one thousand dollars!"
As he spoke, he reached out and picked up the stool, pulled it hard, and pulled off all four legs.
Then he took out a folded paper ball from the hole, and after unfolding it, there were five big unity pieces.
This was an idea that came to Liu Haizhong in a flash of inspiration.
No one would think that there are two hundred yuan hidden in the four legs of an ordinary stool.
Liu Haizhong did the same thing and took out another two hundred yuan from a stool, then looked up.
The legs of the stool are too thin and small, so it can only hold money.
Everything else, especially the gold bars, was scattered among the reeds under the tiles and was perfectly safe.
Even if they were to search the house, it would be impossible to climb so high to search for reeds.
This was the perfect treasure trove that he and his second aunt had worked so hard to find.
There is only over 400 yuan in cash at home, so I have to sell one or two small yellow croakers.
After some more trouble, Liu Haizhong successfully caught two small yellow croakers, which was a pleasant surprise.
"Boss, why don't you take them all down? From what you said, no one will come to search the house, right?"
The second aunt came down from the beam, still a little frightened.
The bangs are too fat and can't go up.
Liu Haizhong shook his head.
"Put it up there. Who knows what will happen in the future? Those are our last resorts."
"I can still climb now, but later on, I won't be able to climb any higher."
"We'll talk about the future later. Maybe the children will come back."
"Okay~"
noon the next day.
After dinner, Wang Tiedan went to the Temple of Heaven and sold his work station to his younger sister’s superior for 1,200 yuan.
Then he went to De Shou Tang and sold a box of medicine for fifteen hundred.
It went so smoothly that even he found it unbelievable.
Wang Tiedan just tried to call out the price and was ready for the other party to bargain. Unexpectedly, the old man surnamed Gu in the pharmacy agreed without saying a word, and even held the box and refused to let go, saying that he would never cheat anyone.
When Wang Tiedan got the money, he felt he had made a profit at first, but after counting it, he felt he had suffered a huge loss.
There must be something wrong here.