Chapter 12: The Snake Swallows the Elephant

  "Little old fellow, you're saying that you're a worker at the Red Star Fertilizer Plant, and your friend got government approval to open a store, so this time you came to Haishang City just to help him find suppliers?" The middle-aged fat man suddenly grabbed Piao's hand.

  Hongxing Fertilizer Factory is a star enterprise in Yicheng area, and even three-year-old children in Yicheng have heard of it.

  "Yes, Lin Ge, what's wrong?" Fu Xin asked in puzzlement.

  From previous conversations, Fu Xin already knew that the middle-aged fat man in front of him was named Lin Jianyun, from Xijiang Yicheng, and now worked as the sales department head at a factory in this coastal city.

  For Lin Jianyun, Fu Xin was willing to chat with him for a few more sentences. Not only because he was an old acquaintance who was hard to come by in a foreign land, but also because of his identity as the head of the sales department, which gave Fu Xin quite a few surprises. So at this moment, he wasn't in a hurry to leave either. As for Fan's family, all he could say was sorry.

  "Hmm, didn't I just become the sales department head? At home, many relatives can't buy fertilizer and they all think that since I'm the sales department head, I must be selling chemical fertilizers. One by one, they're writing letters to ask me for help, it's hard for me to refuse... Lin Jianyun explained, then suddenly he blurted out: "Little countryman, can you help me get some? Not much, just a few hundred kilograms..." The previous words were probably just nonsense, maybe this is the real point!"

  "Oh, right! Didn't you say you came to this seaside city to find a supplier? I can help you with that, brother!" Lin Jianyun suddenly thought of something and added immediately.

  Fu Xin thought for a moment, "Several hundred kilograms, anyway, it's spending money to buy. Normally, it can be obtained, but just now, after the storm has passed, the situation is tense and not easy to handle." After closing his eyes to think about it, Fu Xin said: "Lin Ge, I won't hide from you, this time I came out, also to avoid some trouble. The factory just had some issues with fertilizer, now it's really not easy to handle..."

  Lin Jianyun listened, somewhat disappointed, but didn't blame him. He just wanted to buy some small items, which seemed to have fallen through. Lin said with a hint of disappointment: "Never mind, thanks for helping me fix my bike. I live nearby, come visit me when you're free. I'll head home first."

  It's clear that this is goodbye, without mentioning anything about helping to find new sources of goods.

  "Wait a minute, Lin Ge, let me think of a solution for you first, I'll give you an answer tomorrow, okay?" Fu Xin went out.

  He couldn't think of a better way, so he had to open the blank check first and think of other ways later. He didn't believe it, just relying on Jiang Haiyang, the factory director, and Fu Zhenbang, the deputy factory director, would make it difficult to get several hundred kilograms of fertilizer.

  Lin Jianyun was indeed a smiling tiger, as soon as he heard the news, his face changed immediately and he shamelessly smiled at Fu Xin: "Good, I'll wait for your news, little fellow villager."

  After finishing speaking, he also took out paper and pen from his chest pocket and wrote a new address for Fu Xin.

  That's about it, the crowd that had gathered to watch also dispersed, Lin Jianyun was ready to leave and said to Xing Dao: "I'll go back first then, wait for your news!"

  Before leaving, he still reminded me of this, it seems that he really lacks these few hundred kilograms of fertilizer.

  ……

  Back at the Fan's house, when they saw Fu Xin bringing back a basket of eggs, they were somewhat "unhappy" and blamed Fu Xin for a while. After much evasion, they finally accepted it.

  After dinner, the Fan family watched TV. After a while, it was already eight o'clock. Xiaofeng was tired and wanted to go to sleep. The whole family slowly got up from the warm sofa, some were ready to take the children to bed, and others were ready to watch more TV.

  Fu Xin didn't like the shows on this old black and white TV, seeing someone move, he who had been wanting to go to sleep for a while immediately suggested going to sleep.

  A night of silence...

  "Fu Xin, want to go out for a walk with me?" Old Fan was very particular about his health. Nowadays, he had nothing better to do at home and would go out every morning to exercise, even though it seemed abnormal to others. This early morning, Fu Xin had just washed up when Old Fan suggested taking him out for a stroll.

  Because Fu Xin accompanied him to exercise early yesterday morning, he rarely found a kindred spirit, and regardless of whether it was a May-December friendship, he called on Fu Xin.

  In big cities, firewood cannot be found, so they don't burn firewood but instead burn coal.

  Lao Fan's family had an iron coal stove in a cylindrical shape, consisting of the bottom and body of the stove. The body was hollow to hold coal, with a wind door at the front and a smoke passage connected to the chimney at the back. This was considered good, as some families still used columnar coal stoves made of clay, which were leftovers from the early days of liberation.

  After morning exercise, Old Fan's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fan Changhe, had already prepared breakfast on the coal stove at home, which was a pot of porridge, plus several fried dough sticks bought outside, a plate of peanuts, and no dried radish, because they didn't eat this thing in their family. The breakfast was already very rich!

  A few people happily finished their breakfast, and those who worked went to work. Today, Fuxin went out alone without anyone to accompany him. Originally, Lao Fan did not allow it, but Fuxin insisted, so he let him go...

  Fu Xin went out today, not without a purpose. He had already thought it through, to go find Lin Jian and that fat guy, first agree on the deal, then bring up the matter of goods, take the goods and head back home. He can't stay here for too long!

  Lin Jianyun gave Fu Xin a new address, which should be his workplace. Because when Fu Xin arrived at the door of a factory, he was stopped by the security guard and asked to wait for further instructions.

  Maybe Lin Jian and the fat man really had something to do, or maybe Lin Jian Yun deliberately wanted to keep Fu Xin waiting. Fu Xin stood in the cold wind at the door for nearly half an hour, while the guard who went to report back had already returned. Only then did Lin Jian Yun slowly come out.

  Seeing Fu Xin, he seemed to feel something was wrong and quickened his pace.

  "Dean Lin, are you okay?" Fu Xin asked with a somewhat sarcastic tone, clearly venting his discontent.

  Lin Pangzi didn't seem to be embarrassed at all, saying "Sorry" with a smile: "I'm really sorry, I had a bad stomach yesterday and suddenly felt an urge to go to the bathroom, so I made you wait for such a long time."

  Feng Xin understood that this was just an excuse. Even if it was an emergency, couldn't the security guard have let him in first? Instead, he had to stand in the cold wind for over half an hour. But since Feng Xin needed something from him now, he didn't want to make a scene.

  "Well, it's nothing. Can I go in now?" Fu Xin asked with restraint, suppressing the dissatisfaction in his heart. Everyone had arrived at the factory gate and was not allowed to enter, which was too fake!

  "Ah, okay, okay! Please follow me..." Lin Pangzi also didn't bother to care about Fu Xin's obvious dissatisfaction and said with a "passionate" face.

  Entering this factory, it can be found that it is a small-scale match factory. The whole factory has only more than 100 employees, which is far less than the Hongxing Chemical Fertilizer Factory where Fu Xin is located.

  Nor did he know where this dead fat man's office was located, and he actually had to pass through the workshop of this match factory.

  Inside the match factory workshop, it is a busy scene, wood being cut into small matchsticks, and the matchsticks passing through the roaring machines are wearing "little red hats".

  In addition, it can be seen that this match factory is predominantly female workers. This made Fu Xin take a look at Lin Jianyun, this dead fat man, absolutely not a good thing, Lin Fatzi gave Fu Xin a lot of bad feelings, and Fu Xin had already made up his mind.

  A group of women workers, skillfully put the finished matches into boxes. After packaging, these matches will go to thousands of households that need them, warming or lighting up someone's life.

  In the boxing process, manual production accounts for about half of the total output, so match factories are labor-intensive enterprises. This match factory with a scale of over 100 people is actually not large.

  This factory is really too small, evaluated with new eyes, it's no different from a rural unlicensed workshop. It's just that now, lighters haven't become widespread yet, and even buying a box of matches is very difficult, so at this moment they're the big shots, if you want to ask for something, you'll still be left standing at the door, shivering in the cold wind.

  "Hmm, little fellow villager, have you thought it through?" Walking into the office of this dead fatty, closing the door behind him, he directly asked Pei Xun.

  "Hmm, I've thought about it, my dad is the deputy director of the factory, I think getting a few hundred kilograms of fertilizer shouldn't be a problem." Looking at this dead fat guy with a sly face, Fu Xin decided to use Fu Zhenbang's identity to put some pressure on him and give him a reassurance pill.

  As expected, this dead fat man changed his attitude a lot as soon as he heard that Pei Xin's father was the deputy director of Hongxing Fertilizer Factory. He immediately poured a cup of water from the thermos bottle next to him and asked enthusiastically: "Your dad is the deputy director, why don't you ask him if he can get some more?"

  Indeed, it is the case of a snake swallowing an elephant due to human greed.

  "Alright, I see that your factory only produces matches, Brother Lin. Is there a way to get some other things in?" asked Fu Xin "innocently".

  Fu Xin is not the kind of person who swallows his losses. He would also issue a bad check, and Lin Pangzi had already given him quite a few bad feelings, so what if he cheats him this time?

  Hurry up and get a handful of benefits from him, that's the right way. If you can't do it later, you can drag it out. Just for that dead fat guy who made himself blow in the cold wind for half an hour, he must be avenged.

  Lin Jianyun perhaps thought Pei Xing was young and naive, so he believed him immediately. He grasped Pei Xing's hand, which was still cold from the wind, and said enthusiastically: "Yes, I know a few people from other factories, I can help you get toothbrushes, soap, flashlights, etc., only..."

  When he said that, the dead fat man let go of Fu Xin's hand and rubbed his own hands together, obviously asking for benefits!

  Fu Xin no longer hesitated, and wrote another blank check, saying: "As long as Brother Lin can help me get these small items, I guarantee that your relatives will get fertilizer from our Red Star Fertilizer Factory at a price lower than the ex-factory price. And I guarantee that I can get about one ton of fertilizer quota!"

  "This blank check is written a bit too large. Lin Jianyu seems to be somewhat skeptical, looked at Fu Xin with a questioning gaze and asked: 'Are you serious?'"

  "It's absolutely true!" Fu Xin said "seriously".

  PS: Thanks to the author of "Little Fate" from Female Frequency for helping me create a new cover, and here's another recommendation to express my gratitude!

  The Buddha said, "Great causes and conditions give rise to great effects, small causes and conditions give rise to small effects."

  In her previous life: she crossed into another country and became someone else's wife.

  Alone in an empty room, crying, resentful of not getting true love.

  Having an illicit relationship with her brother-in-law, she was drowned in a pig cage.

  Reborn Again: With flesh and passion, with abuse and slapping in the face.

  Carefully go through life, and cherish the fate in your destiny.

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