Chapter 485 Selling bacon and returning to the village
Half past four in the afternoon.

The snow in the sky began to get smaller at this time.

Su Mingzhe reluctantly sent Zheng Juan back home and rushed to Chaoyang Hotel alone.

Wang Quan had arrived a long time ago and was chatting sweetly with his girlfriend.

This guy looks gentle and refined, but he is actually a show-off at heart.

When he came to the hotel today, he not only wore a white shirt under his sweater, but he also used hairspray to comb his originally messy hair into a big backcombed bun.

Because there were no customers in the restaurant at that time, several other waiters also gathered together and commented on the somewhat showy Wang Quan.

"Sister Ling, I just heard from the manager that the thirty-two yuan banquet tonight was booked by Wu Qian's boyfriend. Is that true?"

"real."

"You can't judge a person by his appearance. I didn't expect Wu Qian's boyfriend to look ordinary, but he is so capable."

"There's a story behind this. I heard that Wu Qian's boyfriend was an educated youth who went to the countryside to work in the fields. I don't know why he came back."

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Su Mingzhe rushed to the hotel, lifted the door curtain, pushed the door open and went in. The scene inside and outside the hotel was like heaven and hell.

The temperature outside the door was so low that water could freeze into ice, but people inside the house only needed to wear a sweater to keep warm.

"Brother Su."

Wang Quan was chatting with his girlfriend about his glorious deeds in Baiya Mountain. When he saw Su Mingzhe come in, he quickly stood up and greeted him.

"Wang Quan, is this your girlfriend? This is our first meeting, so consider this watch as a gift."

Su Mingzhe greeted him with a smile, and then took out a ladies' watch from his pocket.

He thought this Wu Qian had a very familiar face, very similar to the bearded Wu Qian in “The World”, and it looked like that Wu Qian.

Judging from appearance and height, Wang Quan is not worthy of Wu Qian.

However, considering that Wu Qian, as a woman, actually has the problem of growing a beard, it seems that Wang Quan is worthy of her.

"Brother Su, I can't accept such an expensive gift."

Wu Qian didn't expect that Su Mingzhe would give her a watch as a gift as soon as they met. Judging from the style, it was a women's watch, and it was worth at least thirty yuan, which was more than her salary. She didn't dare to accept such an expensive gift.

"Wang Quan, give the watch to your girlfriend."

Seeing that Wu Qian refused to accept it, Su Mingzhe did not force it on her, but turned around and gave it to Wang Quan.

"Thank you, Sugo."

Wang Quan was not polite. After all, he had long regarded himself as Su Mingzhe's subordinate. If Su Mingzhe, as the big brother, gave him a gift, he would just take it. There was nothing to be embarrassed about.

Su Mingzhe then sat down and chatted casually with Wang Quan and Wu Qian.

The three of them chatted for a while, and when it was almost five o'clock, Gao Yaxuan came with the drivers of the fleet to attend the banquet.

This time, Su Mingzhe treated everyone to a meal mainly to build relationships with the drivers of the fleet.

The forest farm and the Youth League Office of Mulan County are both under the jurisdiction of Mulan County. Director Yang of the Youth League Office has extensive connections and can easily mobilize a fleet for cooperation.

However, Su Mingzhe still wanted to establish a good relationship with the team so that Baiyashan Village and the forest farm team could form a solid network of interests.

After all, according to Su Mingzhe's budget, he would have to borrow the forest farm's fleet every one or two months.

Su Mingzhe was afraid that things would be delayed if the relationship between the two parties was not solid.

Su Mingzhe wanted to win them over, so when everyone was seated and the food and wine were served, Su Mingzhe took out the bone-strengthening wine he had brewed only half a year ago.

"Come on, Brother Gao, everyone come and have a taste. This is a palace secret recipe I got from my master. It's a specially brewed 'bone strengthening wine'. Legend has it that the imperial guards in the Forbidden City often drink this to keep their energy up."

Su Mingzhe had long been accustomed to inventing a "master" to conceal what he had learned.

Gao Yaxuan laughed and said, "Come on, everyone try it."

People didn't take the "legend" seriously.

Who hasn't experienced Wang Po selling melons and bragging about herself?

However, after three rounds of drinking, the wine entered the stomach and began to emit a warm current. This warm current did not make people drunk. Instead, after traveling through the body, it made everyone feel relaxed and comfortable.

"Xiao Su, your bone strengthening wine is really good. Did you put old ginseng in it?"

An older and experienced driver named Cai couldn't help but praise:
"I have rheumatism. When winter comes, my bones all over my body feel uncomfortable. I usually drink a few sips of shochu soaked with old mountain ginseng to relieve the pain. I didn't expect that your bone-strengthening wine also has this effect."

"Brother Cai, you are smart. I did put some old ginseng here."

Su Mingzhe first praised, then laughed and said:
"This wine contains not only old ginseng, but also more than 20 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine, and tiger bones and deer blood are used as medicine guides. Just the raw materials alone, this kilogram of wine costs about ten yuan."

It is said that the seller knows the goods.

These drivers are obviously not connoisseurs of what they do.

However, Su Mingzhe praised his medicinal wine in front of them not in order to sell it to them, but to ask them to help promote it.

In modern society, the saying "Good wine needs no bush" is no longer popular.

Counterfeit and high-quality imitation goods have become very popular.

In order to advertise his medicinal wine, Su Mingzhe even spared no effort even to take care of drivers like Gao Yaxuan.

As for whether these drivers believe it or not, it doesn’t matter.

Afterwards, Su Mingzhe also gave these drivers some benefits.

For example, in order to have a prosperous New Year, Su Mingzhe planned to sell the bacon that Wang Quan had prepared for him by hunting.

Since there is no formal channel, the price of bacon is not expensive, 40 cents per pound, and no meat ticket is required.

When the twelve drivers heard about this good thing, they all agreed immediately and bought more than ten kilograms of food to eat during the New Year.

Su Mingzhe also asked them to help spread the word among their colleagues in the forest farm.

These drivers are grateful for the favors they receive, so naturally they spared no effort in helping to promote this matter.

After the banquet was over, more than a dozen people went back to rest, feeling satisfied.

The next day, Saturday.

According to the original plan, the old village chief would go to the county town today to pick up Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan to take them back to Baiyashan Village.

However, this heavy snow continued for a whole day and night, disrupting everyone's plans.

When Su Mingzhe got up from the bed, his younger brother had already gotten up and was reciting the text.

After washing his face, Su Mingzhe began to eat the breakfast left by Jiang Cuiping.

Su Mingxue waited for his elder brother to finish breakfast before he put down his textbook and complained, "Brother, our school has been very chaotic recently. A few days ago, even the principal was arrested. How about I take our place and go to work in the factory?"

"Don't worry about other people. Just do what you need to do. If you really want to go to work, you have to get your high school diploma first."

Seeing his brother's miserable expression, Su Mingzhe could only patiently advise him:

"You are just a junior high school student now. You can only be an ordinary worker in the factory. But it will be different after you get your high school diploma. At that time, you will become a key training target in the factory. Maybe you can even become a technician, and you don't have to be a hard laborer anymore."

"Brother, don't worry, I won't let you and our mother down."

After being taught a lesson by Su Mingzhe, Su Mingxue calmed down and focused on studying again.

This kid lives up to his name. Although he is not a nerd, he really loves learning.

At around nine o'clock, Su Mingzhe went to Zheng's house again under the pretext of meeting up with classmates.

After today's silver needle acupuncture, the first course of treatment is already halfway through, and the "toxins" in Zheng Guangming's eyes have been mostly removed.

Although Zheng Guangming's eyesight had not recovered at this time, he already had a "light sense". In other words, he could already feel the difference between day and night.

The Zheng family was particularly grateful to Su Mingzhe for this good news.

After having lunch at Zheng's house at noon, Zheng's mother originally wanted to take her son out to make room for Su Mingzhe and her daughter.

However, Su Mingzhe insisted on taking Zheng Juan out shopping.

Although the Zheng family’s fire pit is warm, the wooden bed in the guesthouse also has its own charm.

Monday came in a blink of an eye.

Su Mingzhe and Zheng Juan rested in the guesthouse for half a day, and then Su Mingzhe sent Zheng Juan home.

When he returned home, he saw Wang Quan waiting for him.

"Brother Su, Captain Gao called the Youth Office today and said the bus can leave tomorrow."

"So fast?"

Su Mingzhe was a little surprised. When he and Zheng Juan separated just now, they had made an appointment to go out and play together tomorrow.

After sending off Wang Quan who came to report the news, Su Mingzhe told his younger brother and his mother not to wait for him for dinner.

After saying this, Su Mingzhe turned around and went back to the Zheng family.

At this time, Zheng Juan had just entered the house and was still feeling the cold from outside.

Zheng Juan was also quite surprised to see Su Mingzhe come back:
"Why are you back? Did you forget to get something?"

"No, the team informed us that we will be returning to Mulan County tomorrow."

Su Mingzhe and Zheng's mother also greeted him:
"Auntie, when I leave, it will be the end of the year before I come back. I will prepare the medicine for Guangming in Mulan County and then have someone send it over."

"There's no rush. You and Juanzi can chat first. I'll go cook."

Zheng's mother is also very reluctant to see Su Mingzhe leave tomorrow.

These days, because of Su Mingzhe, the Zheng family's life has undergone earth-shaking changes.

There is no need to say much about things like firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

There have been tremendous changes in food, clothing, housing and transportation.

According to Zheng's mother's estimation, in just less than ten days, Su Mingzhe spent at least one or two thousand yuan on the Zheng family.

In this day and age, if a man is willing to spend so much money on a woman, even if it is purely for her beauty, it is definitely a sign of his sincerity.

Su Mingzhe stayed at Zheng's house and had another dinner before saying goodbye to Zheng Juan who was reluctant to leave.

Of course, before leaving, Su Mingzhe told Zheng Juan not to go to the Youth League Office to see him off tomorrow.

The temperature has dropped sharply in the past few days, with the morning temperature being over 20 degrees below zero. Su Mingzhe was reluctant to let Zheng Juan brave the cold just to bring him some dry food.

On the second day.

Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan arrived at the Youth League Office at seven o'clock.

The convoy led by Gao Yaxuan did not arrive until after eight o'clock.

The heavy snow from the past two days has all frozen over, making the roads very slippery and trucks unable to drive fast at all.

In order to prevent slipping, Gao Yaxuan and others added iron chains to the wheels of the six trucks.

When Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan saw the truck arriving, they quickly called everyone to help lift the two machines onto the truck.

At half past eight, the convoy slowly set off.

Along the way, because the journey was delayed for several days, the drivers were very alert.

Even with such caution, the car skidded on several hillsides and almost caused an accident.

By the time the convoy returned to Mulan County, it was already past six o'clock in the evening.

At this time, the Youth League Office had already closed.

Everyone had no choice but to unload the machines in front of the Youth League Office.

Su Mingzhe asked Wang Quan to stay in the guesthouse, while he rushed back to Baiyashan overnight.

According to Su Mingzhe's method, it would only take a few minutes to get from Mulan County to Baiya Mountain.

However, in order not to arouse suspicion, Su Mingzhe returned to the mountains at a speed one or two times faster than an ordinary person.

When he returned to Baiya Mountain, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening and the villagers had already gone to bed.

Su Mingzhe first knocked on the door of the old village chief's house and told him that he had brought the machine back. Then he asked him to help find some more intelligent hunting dogs in the village.

This time the mountain was blocked by heavy snow, and the snow on the road was as deep as calves, so the carriage definitely couldn't get out.

Su Mingzhe wanted to pull the two machines back, but without using the system space, he had to find another way and find some hunting dogs to harness to the sled to pull the things back.

After hearing what Su Mingzhe said, the old village chief didn't care that it was already late at night. He took a lantern and went to several hunters who had hunting dogs to discuss borrowing hunting dogs.

Su Mingzhe returned to school alone. Wang Yafang, Xu Kai and Yu Hong, three women who had already gone to bed, heard the noise but did not dare to open the door.

It was not until Su Mingzhe shouted loudly that they opened the school gate regardless of their image and invited Su Mingzhe to sit in their girls' dormitory.

"Brother Su, why did you come back so late?"

Wang Yafang was the biggest surprise. Although she was always chattering, she was actually the most timid.

This time, Su Mingzhe and Wang Quan were gone for ten days.

The three women often heard the cries of night owls and the howling of wolves in the middle of the night, which frightened them so much that they could not sleep all night.

Wang Yafang was the most frightened and often had dark circles under her eyes when she taught children during the day.

It was after this experience that the three girls realized the importance of having a man by their side on a daily basis.

"Brother Su, where is Wang Quan?"

Yu Hong and others welcomed Su Mingzhe into the girls' dormitory. They looked outside for a while, but did not see Wang Quan, which was a bit strange.

Two people went out, but only one came back.

"The convoy didn't arrive in the county until six in the evening. The mountain roads were covered with ice and snow, so I let him stay in the county guesthouse temporarily."

As Su Mingzhe spoke, he took off his cold-proof gear.

Yu Hong quickly took it and put it on the kang, then went to light the kang in the boys' dormitory for Su Mingzhe.

Xu Kai was not idle either. He picked up his water jar and made a jar of hot tea for Su Mingzhe to help him drive away the cold.

"Is the national highway also difficult to travel on? It takes until six o'clock to reach the county town?"

Wang Yafang was surprised at the speed of the truck.

Xu Kai next to him was thinking about something else:
"Brother Su, it's so late now, why don't you stay in the county with Wang Quan?"

"I have thick skin and am used to going out in the wind and snow."

Su Mingzhe chatted with Xu Kai and Wang Yafang for a while.

On the other side, Yu Hong lit the stove, and the temperature in the boys' dormitory slowly rose.

Su Mingzhe took a few sips of tea, then took out the letters from the three female educated youth from his pocket, handed them to the three girls, and then prepared to go back to the boys' dormitory to rest.

When Xu Kai saw this, he stopped the man without even bothering to read the letter.
"Brother Su, the kang won't heat up that quickly. Please sit in our room for a while."

(End of this chapter)