Chapter 9 Wants the Door to Door Delivery Service?

In this day and age when the transactions of grains were done sneakily, there’s even such a service as delivery to one’s house?

Mei Xiaoran’s proposal made the man very happy. “You can even help me send it to my home? Will have to trouble the big brother then. “

Even the daughter had already said so, what else is there for Mei Zhonghua to refuse then? Anyway, all the wheat flour that he had brought out has been sold, and the rest of the grain is not as profitable as the wheat flour. The most expensive food at that time was wheat flour, followed by rice, millet and corn flour. When doing a grain business, the most important thing is purchasing and selling wheat flour. The others are only supplementary, only a few people will buy it.

Mei Zhonghua pushed the cart together with her daughter and sent the grain to the family compound of the geological team. It turns out that this man belongs to the geological team.

The geological team is the best unit in the local area, and the local government has no right to interfere. It is under the unified and standardized management of the Ministry. The treatment and welfare are even better. It’s no wonder that this man can buy fifty jin of wheat flour at once. If it was replaced with a common laborer, afraid he has to even weigh up all the ten jin of flour when purchasing.

“Uncle, let my dad carry it upstairs for you. Which room do you live in?”

In that era, the workers from the geological team lived in the dormitories off a long corridor. The doors and the neighbors were very close to each other. For them to move the fifty jin of flour upstairs, they had to go through a long corridor. Mei Zhonghua was originally born in the farmer’s village and didn’t hesitate to work hard, but he didn’t understand why his daughter was so enthusiastic out of the blue?

As soon as Mei Zhonghua helped the man move fifty jin of flour into the house, the voice of someone speaking in a Southern Mandarin accent was heard asking, “Older Brother Zhang, where did you get the wheat flour from? Why have you never said anything about having a way? “

The man who bought the wheat flour was named Zhang Liang.

Zhang Liang’s face blushed and he whispered softly, “It’s not like that. We only happened to meet on the street. When they saw that I had bought a lot, they just helped me to send it back here.”

“There is such a good thing like this?”

The inquiring young man seemed very excited and went straight over Zhang Liang to chat up with Mei Zhonghua. “Comrade, my name is Li Hui and Zhang Liang is my colleague. If you still have other good stuff, do you mind telling me?”

Mei Zhonghua was feeling a little guilty and didn’t dare to say anything. Mei Xiaoran immediately asked with a smile, “Uncle Li, where are you from? The way you talked was different from us.”

The geological team is not an ordinary unit. Its employees come from all corners of the country. Although there are also local people, most of them are outsiders.

Li Hui, who spoke in Mandarin, was from Jiangnan. He, as a Jiangnan’s resident that had been assigned to work in Kangping city, the Central Plains province, can forego other things, but the food is the only one that he can’t get used to……Jiangnan’s residents like to eat rice, although the local wheat is abundant, it’s still hard to get to eat rice all year round here. It’s only this thing that makes Li Hui suffer the most, so he dared to ask boldly.

Mei Xiaoran understood as soon as she heard this.

“Uncle Li, my dad also brought some rice and corn flour. I wonder if you would like it?”

Li Hui’s eyes brightened once he heard this and said, “This is great. How many rice you have brought, I’ll take it all!”

Mei Zhonghua was dumbfounded and never imagined that business can also be done this way. What’s the difference between this one and the one that directly came to them then?

Mei Xiaoran’s eyes flashed a trace of cunningness and said with a smile, “Uncle Li, my brother and I have both passed the junior high school entrance examination. My dad worked so hard to get the grains only to collect tuition fees for us. Today, he only brought ten jin of rice. If you want it again, I’ll ask my dad to bring more to you next time.”

Li Hui was very happy, “It’s settled this way then. Just leave today’s ten jin of rice first, and if you have more, deliver it next time.”

“But…… there’s still ten jin of corn flour!”

Mei Xiaoran showed an embarrassed expression as if she was a little sad, “On such a hot day, my dad and I still have to go out and sell the corn flour to raise the tuition fee……” She suddenly looked up and stared at Li Hui with her bright eyes, “Uncle Li, what if you also take this ten jin corn flour, just consider it as helping us.”

After all, Li Hui still couldn’t resist the temptation of the ten jin rice and ended up taking in ten jin of corn flour. But he also repeatedly told Mei Zhonghua that he must send the rice here if he had it again. There’s many colleagues who wanted to eat rice so much that they had been crazily thinking about it!

Walking out from the family compound of the geological team, Mei Zhonghua, who was pulling an empty rack, was very happy.

Ten jin of rice earned seventy cents, ten jin of corn flour earned thirty cents, plus the three Yuan earned from selling the wheat flour. With only this one trip had earned him four Yuan, which was more than what he can earn with his usual two to three times of trip!

When he came back to his senses, he asked Mei Xiaoran curiously, “Daughter, how did you come up with the idea for Dad to deliver the wheat flour to his home?”

“Dad, you also saw the way that uncle was dressed up. It seems that he is a worker with good qualifications. He can buy fifty jin of wheat flour in one go, which shows that he has this financial capability. I let you help him deliver the wheat flour to his home, that was just trying to find out which unit he works in. If it’s a decent unit, there’s definitely someone who will ask for it too. If we can get through with this approach, we won’t have to be scared to sell things on the black market in the future. Delivering the grains directly to their house and saving us from troubles.”

Mei Zhonghua narrowed his eyes, thought for a while and said, “Daughter, when you asked me to lower the price by one cent for him, did you also think about it like this?”

“Of course, even though it’s one cent cheaper, on the surface it seems like we make less money, but we sold everything out, and we don’t make less money overall.”

Mei Zhonghua immediately slapped his thigh happily. “Great, my daughter is so smart, not even a bit stupid at all. Going to school was really not a waste of time. You don’t have to worry, even though dad have to eat rice bran and wild vegetables* in the future, I definitely must provide for you to study well in school.”

“Dad, you don’t have to think so badly about the future. Now, the policy is better day by day. There will be a time for us to live a better life in the future.”

Mei Xiaoran said so while peeling the fruit candy she bought, and stuffed one towards her father’s mouth, “Dad, try it, this candy is so sweet.”

“You eat it by yourself. Dad doesn’t like candy.”

How come Mei Zhonghua doesn’t like candy. It was obviously because he was reluctant to eat it. Life in recent years is slightly better than in previous years, though they can finally manage to fill their stomach, but to give the children sweets to eat occasionally, it is still not that easy!

He didn’t know that this fruit candy really didn’t have that much of an attraction for Mei Xiaoran.

In the future, there will be countless varieties of milk candy, chocolate, biscuits, desserts and snacks that even the people who eat it are bored of. These couple of fruit candies really didn’t get into Mei Xiaoran’s eyes. However, she saw that her dad was so pleased and secretly made up her mind to help her parents earn money in the future, and no longer being looked down by others.

In the previous life, her parent’s whole life was only spent as poor people that lived in the county. They usually live on selling small things. In their entire life they never earned much money and lived a very tight life. In order to change the fate of her previous life, Mei Xiaoran naturally has to start now. Changing her parent’s ideology and consciousness, strive to let them lead a prosperous life as soon as possible.

Mei Zhonghua is delighted because of the grain’s business today and adding the admittance of his two children into junior high school, he then very happily bought two Jin of meat and planned to roast it at noon for the children to eat.

It was almost noon when they arrived home and Li Mingyun had not returned. Just as Mei Xiaoran prepared to get busy with the cooking, she was stopped by his father. “Ranran, let dad show off my skill today for you. You just go and have a rest.”

When Li Mingyun returned home, the smell of meat in the kitchen filled the entire courtyard. Mei Zhonghua very happily brought out the food. “Ming Yun, quickly wash your hands and eat. Our lunch today is braised pork.”