Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart-Chapter 62 - 61 First Transaction
62: Chapter 61 First Transaction
62 -61 First Transaction
The cave was still the same cave, and even the scattered firewood inside remained.
Lin Nianhe arrived there just at seven o’clock, today she wasn’t dressed in sportswear but still in her usual work attire.
She collected all the scattered items on the ground into her space, then went to the edge of the cave and threw all the garbage out in one go.
Quick and efficient.
The ordinary apples she stored in her space were packed in sacks.
Her space couldn’t contain living things and was not under pressure, so stacking in sacks was more space-efficient than using cardboard boxes.
One sack weighed a hundred jin, already weighed by the fruit farmers when selling.
Lin Nianhe took out twenty sacks of apples and piled them up.
Looking at each relatively clean sack, she smacked her lips.
A close shave, she had almost overlooked it.
She casually took out a small utility knife, picked a few lucky sacks at random, and made some not too damaging cuts, tearing the cut areas a bit to make them look worse.
Then she sprinkled some sand from her space onto the sacks, only content when they all looked dirty and grubby.
Finally, she placed a few mouse traps near the apples, to prevent her beloved little apples from being harmed by unseen creatures.
After doing all that, she cleaned her hands with a wet wipe, took out the pulley and hemp ropes that she had worn out over two nights, put on a headlamp and gloves, and went out to install the cargo-lifting equipment for them.
This technical job was quite difficult, Lin Nianhe had to climb more than a dozen trees to finish it.
Fortunately, she had a ladder and was not short of installation tools, thus she made it back to the Educated Youth Corps before nine o’clock.
She tidied herself up under the wall, then climbed over into the backyard.
Sure enough, as soon as she got on top of the wall, she saw Wang Shumei.
Lin Nianhe jumped down without a sound, waved to Wang Shumei, and then pushed open the door of the small house.
Wang Shumei followed her in, unable to hide her surprise: “You always seem so delicate, but you’re pretty nimble at climbing walls.”
Lin Nianhe replied as if she were dying of thirst, only after gulping down a jar of boiled water: “I picked it up as a kid running around with my brothers…
The stuff is over there, when is your cousin coming?”
“It’ll be after ten,” whispered Wang Shumei, “I’ll go and meet him later.”
“Uh-huh, okay.”
Lin Nianhe sat down, took out paper and pen, and said, “Just right, let me tell you…”
“The apples are packed in sacks, with mouse traps placed beside them.
There are hooks on the rope connected to the pulley.
Hang them on the sacks and slide down…”
As she was explaining, Lin Nianhe was also drawing, showing Wang Shumei how to use the pulley system.
Wang Shumei listened intensely, asking again and again wherever she did not understand, until she fully comprehended.
Lin Nianhe tore off the paper sketching the pulley assembly and handed it to her: “Take this with you, just look at it again if you don’t understand something.”
Wang Shumei looked at the paper with complex eyes, shaking her head: “Forget it, honestly…
Nianhe, actually, if you hadn’t drawn the diagram, I would have understood just by your explanation.”
Lin Nianhe: “…?”
Suddenly, she lost a little bit of her desire to make money.
But not making money was impossible, absolutely impossible.
Wang Shumei climbed over the wall and left at ten o’clock, taking with her twenty jin of red dates and Lin Nianhe’s flashlight.
Watching her go over the wall, Lin Nianhe began to worry.
Wang Shumei was not like her; she had little ability to protect herself.
In the dead of night, nothing would happen, right…?
Lin Nianhe frowned slightly, considering following to check.
Just then, there was the sound of a door opening from the front yard, footsteps dragging lazily toward the outhouse.
Lin Nianhe quickly turned and went back into the house.
With Wang Shumei not present, she must be; this way, if the absence of Wang Shumei from the house was discovered, she could still help cover for her.
After being restless for three nights straight, Lin Nianhe felt a terrible pain in her back and legs.
But she couldn’t fall asleep at all; even the slightest noise from outside made her think Wang Shumei might have returned.
Staring at the pitch-black curtains, Lin Nianhe sighed softly, “When a child travels a thousand miles, the mother’s worries grow…”
“Achoo—”
By the dark roadside, Wang Shumei squatted in a ditch, sneezing.
She rubbed her arms, unable to stop herself from murmuring, “Hei Province is so cold, it’s June and still freezing.”
She had no idea that someone might be talking about her at this very moment.
Above her head was exactly what Lin Nianhe had described: the rope and pulley system she had just managed to locate after pacing back and forth three times.
The thing was really inconspicuous, hidden among the tree canopy; if it weren’t because Lin Nianhe had mentioned a red string on the branch, she would have definitely missed it.
After more than twenty minutes, there was finally a light on the road.
A large truck approached slowly, not moving very fast.
But Wang Shumei didn’t rush out directly; she waited until the truck was close enough and saw the hand resting on the truck window.
Only then she stood up straight.
The hand was holding a red cloth, shaking it three times, pausing for two seconds, and then shaking three more times.
“Zhuzi bro!”
Wang Shumei climbed out of the ditch, waving at the truck.
The truck stopped right in front of her, and two strong young men jumped down.
Qian Guozhu, with his bushy eyebrows and big eyes, smiled and sized up Wang Shumei before nodding: “Not bad, you’ve gained weight.”
Gaining weight is good, it means she hasn’t had a hard time.
Wang Shumei smiled and greeted the other person: “Cangzi bro.”
“Hey, sister.” Sun ManCang was short and thin, looking very slick.
Wang Shumei dragged the backpack out of the ditch and said to the two of them: “These are my findings; the black market around here is strictly managed, so I can’t go next time.
But I found another way—”
Wang Shumei said with excitement, pointing behind her: “Up on the mountain, two thousand kilos of apples.”
Qian Guozhu and Sun ManCang were initially a little disappointed only to see about twenty kilos of red dates, but the moment they heard two thousand kilos of apples, both of their eyes widened incredulously, staring at Wang Shumei.
“Big sister, what did you say?” Qian Guozhu rubbed his ears, “How many apples?” frёewebηovel.cѳm
“Two thousand kilos,” Wang Shumei unconsciously lifted her chin.
“Wow, sister’s got skills, these are in high demand,” Sun ManCang swallowed, “How much did you pay for them?”
Wang Shumei stretched out four fingers: “Forty cents!”
Qian Guozhu felt his brain buzz, unable to utter even a coherent sentence.
Sun ManCang’s jaw dropped in shock as well.
Wang Shumei enjoyed their stunned expressions for a moment before saying, “I’ve calculated, selling the apples for too much won’t be good.
Zhuzi bro, you flip them for fifty-five cents, and the three of us could make three hundred!”
If they sold them piece by piece, they could earn even more, but Qian Guozhu and the other man had a task to complete; they couldn’t just sell at the black market, they had to flip them to the market boss.
Qian Guozhu was still a bit stunned, but the thought of money instantly energized him: “Where are they?
Big sister, watch the truck for me, Cangzi and I will go up and carry them down!”
Just two thousand kilos of apples, he could handle it!
But Wang Shumei said, “No need to carry, they’ve set up a pulley system for it, and—”
“That person said, this is the first time working together so he can’t give us too much, but if we collaborate well in the future, there will be even more!”
Qian Guozhu and Sun ManCang turned into two stone statues.
They really couldn’t believe their ears.
The moon, unnoticeably, had peeked its head out, silently watching the people below with a gleeful chuckle.
Suddenly, Qian Guozhu grabbed Wang Shumei, his already dark face now looked even darker: “Big sister, tell me the truth, what exactly have you been up to recently?”
Wang Shumei: “…?”
