The Era of Hard Work

   Chapter 97 The market is empty (please subscribe)

The   yellow incandescent light passed through the slightly blackened glass cover and fell on the mottled wall. The wall was slightly worn, but it was cleaned thoroughly. Even in the corners, there was not a single spider web to be seen.

   Lu Dong leaned on the head of the bed, opened the envelope, and took out the letter inside.

  This is a letter from Liu Zhaodi from Qinghua University.

   Lu Dong can't remember, he hasn't received a letter for many years.

   Of course, emails that used to be full of emails selling insurance, financial management, credit card processing, and winning prizes can’t be counted.

  Especially the latter, the sum of the winning amounts together has already become a multi-millionaire.

  The letter is not long, there is only one piece of letter paper.

   "Student Lu Dong:

  Hello, is everything going well in Qingzhao recently? In a strange environment, I always think of my old classmates.

  I came to a strange city alone, and I often miss my alma mater, my class and my classmates. I think of your help to me, and it is you who constantly encouraged me.

   I'm sorry to write to you now. Since I entered the university, everything is full of novelty. When I see the gap with my classmates, I can only seize every minute and every second, enrich myself with learning and shorten the gap. You told me to be independent and mature, I am trying hard, I was not strong enough in the past, and I want to face it bravely in the future.

   When I came to the university, I turned my head to recall the six years of my classmates. I saw many precious qualities in you: people should be independent, just like you.

   When I was at home, I heard that you have a brother who works in the Qingzhao public security system. Can you help me with the name change? When I go back from winter vacation, I want to change my name.

   Let me tell you something happy, a classmate in the same dormitory recommended me an anti-teasing ointment, which works very well for me..."

  patta——

   Something seemed to fall off the roof and land on the edge of the bed next to it.

  Lu Dong put down the letter paper, looked over there, and couldn't help baring his teeth!

   It was a soil scorpion three or four centimeters long!

   "Are you playing with delicious food from the sky?" Lu Dong muttered: "I don't have the cooking skills of Uncle Seven, so I dare to bake anything..."

   An old house with blue bricks and blue tiles. There is no ceiling. You can see the beams when you look up. The ghost knows how much fun there is under the blue tiles.

   While the scorpion didn't move, Lu Dong stretched out his hand and took a long tea box containing coins from the window sill, opened it and poured out the coins.

   The weather is getting cold, and the scorpion also wants to get warm under the quilt?

   is not a long bug, no preferential treatment!

   Lu Dong directly closed the lid of the box.

   Maybe one day, the scorpions that fell from the roof of the old house will be able to make up a plate of vegetables.

  Seventh Uncle once said that the most delicious dish he had eaten when he was a child was all the specialties of the old houses in the old street - fried scorpion centipede stewed with long worms.

   Put the box back on the window sill, Lu Dong picked up the letter again, there was no actual content below, so he simply put it back in the envelope.

  Received the letter, and the reply was polite. He found the leftover writing text from the old bookbox, picked up the pen and tapped his head.

With    people in front of him, let Lu Dong talk to people, he can say a lot, write down on paper, and play ball!

  Tear off several pieces of paper over and over again, and simply bring the trash can near the bed to facilitate throwing the paper.

   After tossing and turning for a long time, Lu Dong only wrote about 300 words on the cushion.

   is even more difficult than writing essays in the college entrance examination.

   After all, the composition is written for strangers who are reading the papers, and it’s all nonsense.

The letter    was written to an old classmate.

   Lv Dong's letter mainly wrote three points: I asked Liu Zhaodi's study and life there, and told her that everything was fine in Qingzhao, and she would help her to inquire about changing her name.

   changed his name, Liu Zhaodi was thinking about it, and he changed it to Liu Linlin in private in high school.

   But it is not changed on the household registration book and ID card, it is still called Liu Zhaodi.

   I don't know what her father would think.

   Lu Dong suddenly thought of the layout of Liu Mingquan's courtyard. The pomegranate entering the door should mean more children and more blessings. The things near the jujube tree clearly give birth to precious children early.

   Too lazy to think about it, find an envelope to wrap the letter, lie down and sleep.

   After breakfast at dawn, Lu Dong rode to the university town, passed by the gate of Uncle Tie's chicken farm, and heard the quarrel between Uncle Tie and Aunt Tie.

   Lu Dong went to Ji Street, in front of the brigade's yard, the third grandfather, Lu Zhenlin, stood at the door, his two bushy eyebrows were as sharp as swords.

   "Three grandpas." Lu Dong took the initiative to stop and say hello: "When did you come back?"

   Lu Zhenlin replied, "Last night." His eyebrows were thick as swords: "I heard about it. Dongzi, you did a good job and saved a great disaster for our Lujiazhuang!"

   Lu Dong told the truth: "I just happened to run into it."

  Lu Jianwu came out of the yard, saw Lu Dong, and said, "When are you free today, come and tell me what happened."

   "Uncle Eight." Lu Dong shouted, "Is it half past nine?"

   Lu Jianwu said: "Okay, I'm here all day today."

   Lu Dong asked, "Can you claim compensation?"

   "You have to try." Lu Jianwu looked at Cheng Lifeng's old shop: "If you don't do it, how will you know if it will work or not."

   He paused for a while, and then said, "The matter with Gu Minglang has been resolved, and the insurance company has paid 20,000 yuan in compensation, which is the limit."

  Lu Dong understands that this is not easy: "It's better to have something than nothing."

   Lu Zhenlin waved at Lu Dong: "Okay, let's go do your work."

   Lu Dong didn't say more, and rushed to the university town, and things came one after another. Just after setting up a booth with Qiao Weiguo, Jiao Shougui played the latest pop songs.

   "When the peaks have no edges and corners, when the river stops flowing, when the time stops, the sun and the moon do not differentiate..."

   This song is too familiar.

   "Han Zhu Gege" aired first? This TV series is too popular, and Lu Dong has a vague impression, as if it was broadcast on Mango Channel first.

   "Brother Jiao, what song is this?" Zhao Juanjuan was very interested.

   Jiao Shougui said: "The new song of the power train, the new album just released last month, the theme song of Qiong Yao's new TV series."

   Zhao Juanjuan came interested: "What TV series?"

   "The braid show." Jiao Shougui thought about it for a while, but didn't remember: "I forgot the name, you watch Mango TV at night, there is a preview, it seems to be broadcast this month."

  People came to the market to have breakfast one after another. Lu Dong was busy, and when he was free around 8 o'clock, Zhao Juanjuan, who was finished, leaned on the front of his small Jialing car and glanced at the sidewalk south of the market from time to time.

   Lu Dong changed his clothes and said to Qiao Weiguo, "I'll go to the county seat and come back before noon."

  Qiao Weiguo responded, and got together with Jiao Sanhei to discuss martial arts plans. The names of Lin Huaibu, Xiaodao Yang Fan, and Zhang Xiaolin came out of their mouths one after another.

   Lu Dong rode on the car and went to the county to mail letters and save money at the same time.

   A postbox had already been erected at the central intersection of the university town, but Lu Dong had no stamps, so he had to go to the post office, and after mailing the letter, he happened to go to the industrial and commercial bank next door to deposit money.

   Probably there are relatively few employees in the small bank in the county town. This time, it was the female employee who received Lu Dong.

   As for the client Lu Dong, the female employee remembered clearly that she had saved a lot of change the last two times.

  The last time I rented a camera, I took out 5,000 yuan, plus two bounties and the income of these days, Lu Dong saved another 20,000 yuan.

  Lv Dong is the same as the previous few times, except for necessary words, not much to say, the deposit in the bank card has increased to 80,000.

   I don’t know the price of the shops under construction at the construction site, but buying a house in the community is enough to buy a set of more than 100 square meters in full.

   Lu Dong asked the business manager about the loan more carefully. It would be best if he could buy a loan.

   With the current speed of making money, he doesn't have to worry about paying back the money at all.

  University Town missed the initial downturn, and it would be difficult to buy shops at a lower price.

  Now, the major schools and the local government are stumbling, and they are in a new stage of running-in. There is no clear statement on whether the affiliated primary and secondary schools will recruit foreign students.

  Like Lalang's husband and wife, it always takes a period of adaptation.

   Lu Dong remembers one thing clearly, in order to promote the construction of the new city in the east, Quannan later made a super move - the city government moved eastward, and the Qingzhao county government moved westward!

   In China's economic system, the importance of a certain location is not only determined by the degree of commercial prosperity, but also closely related to the location of the government.

  The liquidity in hand is sufficient, and the 80,000 can be used as the down payment for the loan.

   Guarantors don't have to worry.

   Lu Dong asked carefully about the loan policy of shops, which is different from housing.

   The regulations here are that the minimum down payment for shops is 50%, and the loan period is up to ten years.

  Unfortunately, there is no entrepreneurial support for small businesses in this era, and good policies will have to wait for a few more years.

   On the way back to Lujia Village, Lu Dong thought about another thing, waiting for the old lady to free up her hands before starting a new business?

   Hu Chunlan said it when he was in the brine, and he said it many times later, and Lu Dong also thought about it.

   asked Hu Chunlan to sell relatively easy daily necessities, and he and Qiao Weiguo freed up their hands to plan a new business.

   He was thinking of Mala Tang, which is also one of the development directions for opening a store in the future. The investment is relatively low, the profit is high when done, and the advanced version can be developed.

  The other is a copycat fried chicken restaurant that he once opened. At that time, he opened it called Waukes, and the profit was also very high.

   This line of Kentucky and McDonald's is an insurmountable mountain.

   Limited by the conditions, the two can only develop the same first.

   These also have to be carefully planned. Lu Dong has recently considered that when the weather is really stable and cool, the old lady will have enough rest after finishing the orchard and start the malatang.

   After saving the money, Lu Dong went back to Lujia Village and found Lu Jianwu in the yard of the brigade. The two got together and talked about Cheng Lifeng in detail.

   Lu Dong also used his mobile phone to call Team Zhang and introduce Lu Jianwu to Team Zhang. What to do in the future depends on Lu Jianwu's performance.

   Going to the office to drink water, the only two people in the group are discussing.

   is not about Cheng Lifeng, but the development of Lujia Village.

"Going to the south this time will be an eye-opener." Lu Zhenlin pulled out some photos, gave it to the accountant, and then gave it to Lu Dong: "There are some wealthy villages in the south, not only beautifully built, but also highly developed. Our Song family and other iron dealers The wealthy villages are simply incomparable to others.”

  Lü Dong looked at the photos and had to say that some villages are indeed ahead of the country.

   Lv Zhenlin added: "Our Lvjia Village is poor and poor. Apart from that, there is no other income. The dilapidated house in the primary school has been in danger for more than ten years, and it has not been solved until now."

   Lv Jianwu was worried that Lv Zhenlin was too radical, and said, "Dad, we have to do each job one by one."

   "I can't wait, if you don't catch up, you will get old, and if you don't develop, it will be too late!" Lu Zhenlin's eyebrows trembled: "Everyone says that being an official will benefit one party..."

   He looked at the accountant: "Old Li, we must leave some foundation for Lujia Village."

  Lv Dong understood that Lu Zhenlin had been painstaking, put down the photo, and said tentatively, "Our village is good at stewing a lot. Cheng Lifeng is finished, and there is a large piece of the market. Should we organize people in the village to try it? There is a market foundation."

Lu Zhenlin was silent for a while, then said: "Your mother's craftsmanship is the best on the street, and the things you make are widely recognized." With decades of experience in life, he naturally understands that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry: "No hurry, let's investigate, and then talk about it. Cheng Lifeng's bad influence must be dissipated first."

   Lu Dong nodded: "Yes."

   Lujia Village is best at two things, masons and brine, but in the village's situation, if you want to get people to take over the project, you can't afford the money.

   Brine is a craft handed down by the ancestors of Lujia Village a hundred years ago.

   When Lu Dong and Lu Jianwu left, Lao Li said, "Third brother, we have no funds!"

  Lv Zhenlin looked at the yard of the brigade: "After the autumn, we will start selling green onions. After the village is done, we will decide what to do. All the trees in the elementary school and the yard of the brigade will be cut down."

  There are hundreds of trees in the two yards, especially in schools, there are dozens of trees that adults can't carry, and most of them are elm and locust trees.

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